My date was late

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It was Wanda who noticed it first.

"Shouldn't they be here by now?"

It was no surprise that she had been the one to point it out, she was always incredibly conscious of the timing of things, and wasn't one for waiting either.

"It's nearly seven, what time were they supposed to get here?" She continued, and Robyn glanced at the clock.

"Sixish I think — maybe just before. Vision, any word or...?"

The tall man shook his head, and Robyn and Bucky quickly reached for the downturned phones spread on the counter top. Nothing.

"Fasz, fasz, fasz..." Robyn was muttering under her breath, feeling Bucky tapping his foot repeatedly on the floor as she pulled open a laptop.

"Stark has his suit on him right, Bryn? He said he was going to meet Steve and Nat and the airport, then they'd all head here." Bucky squashed in beside her.

"You think we could track— There! Cica, you are a genius!" She pulled up a tab on the screen, just as the small red dot flickered off. Muttering under her breath, the others crowded around her, she pulled the screen onto the wall, projecting it, and tapped on where the dot had disappeared.

"Okay, umm, what do we—" and then she saw their faces. All three of them were standing, spread around her, watching. And scared. And Robyn knew this was her call.

She spun back around, and stuck a marker to the spot. "Okay. You know what, this is a nightmare. But we know where they were, at least a few minutes ago. Now, we have three options:

1. We can try track something else, but Natasha's stuff will be untraceable, at least for my skill level, Steve won't have anything traceable on him, and Tony's reactor is probably the only thing I could have tracked anyway.

2. We go to their last known location, by the look of things it may take us about half an hour, if Vision and Wanda fly, and carry me and Bucky I guess. Try pick up their tracks.

3. Order a takeaway and forget we ever knew about any other Avengers, and if anyone asks about them, just say 'what Avengers'...."

The three stared at her.

"Okay, scrap the last one, I was trying the lighten the mood." Robyn hissed grumpily back.

"I say we try find them. Go to the last known location. Whoever and whatever happened to them, can't have gotten far." Vision nodded, and his normal clothes faded away, replaced by his suit.

Bucky nodded along, and ran to get his stuff.

Robyn turned to Wanda. "You up for this, witching?"

Wanda stared at the ground, then back at her. "I'm an Avenger. This is what we do."

And Robyn smiled.

"Meet on the roof in 2 minutes."

***

Bucky ran up to where they were waiting, gun at his back.

"No."

"No what?" Robyn glanced back at him, though her cheeks darkened slightly.

"No I am not letting you come. You aren't well enough, you'll just get hurt!" He strode across the roof towards them.

Robyn stared at him. "What do you mean, 'No'? You don't get to decide what I do and don't do!!!"

"Well I'm making This decision Now! You are Staying!"

"Guys I think we should—" Wanda tried to cut in, but was drown out by Robyn's next shout.

She'd stalked up to Bucky, and was now face to face, glaring. "You don't control me. You don't—"

"Actually, Miss Jarvis, I think it would be a good idea for you to remain out of the fighting, be there any. We don't want your injuries to—"

"SCREW MY INJURIES !!!" Robyn yelled at the red skinned man, and Wanda stepped in front of him, placing her arm on Robyn's shoulder.

"Please Robyn. We can't have you getting injured again."

Robyn shook off her hand, and nodded, before turning away slightly.

"Alright. I'll wait where we land, and use my watch to keep an eye from the skies."

The others agreed, and Vision held out his hand to Bucky, who was standing at the edge of the tower, looking down with fear. Robyn walked over.

"He won't let you fall." She muttered stiffly. Bucky gave a mute nod at her words, and let the robot pull him into the skies. Robyn couldn't help but chuckle at Bucky clinging to Vision, and the faint discomfort on Visions face was enough to make Wanda smirk as Well. Wanda grabbed her by the wrist, positioning her hands on her shoulder, an almost piggyback style as they jerked into the sky.

If anyone had looked up at the late hours of the day, they would have seen a tall red skinned man carrying a metal armed guy like a baby, and two red heads, rather more majestically soaring behind them.

They made good progress though, and landing softly in the precise spot that the rest of the team had disappeared, about halfway between the tower and the airport, a local park, Wanda set Robyn down, and gestured to the nearby bench. "You keep us safe from there."

Robyn frowned her way over to the bench, pulling up some holograms as she did so. The watch she held on her wrist was a gift from Tony, from a few Christmas's ago, and was basically a slightly adapted Apple Watch. By which I mean it also doubled as a weapon. And projected holograms. And memes.

Wanda and Vision activated their head sets, and started off into the undergrowth, searching. Bucky stood back a second, before starting off after them, but a shout called him back.

"You weren't just worried my wounds would reopen, were you?" Robyn quizzed him, staring him down.

Bucky just shook his head, and slipped away.

Robyn sighed angrily, and turned back to the screens. She was fiddling with the buttons when something happened that she hadn't seen yet. The screen changed to shades of blue, with bits of reddish yellow dotted amongst it. It took her a minute to recognize the way the heat vision looked, and settled to watch the screen.

And looked.

And looked again.

She could see where Bucky, Wanda and Vision were, accompanied by the smaller green tracker of the earpiece. But that was only three of the many figures dotted around the trees.

And the largest group, in a circle, around three other figures, one with a chest of blue. And burning white in the centre.

"Tony."

And then she heard the shouts.

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