Till the End of Time-

Chapter 3: Four Years Later

"ENOUGH ALREADY!", I yell at the same time that I shatter a window in the gym with my mind.

"We've been at this for hours, I need a break I can't keep doing this", I breathe heavily as I'm on all fours on the floor, sweat dripping off my face.

I look up at Wanda and Tony as they relax, and Wanda puts down the boxing bag she was just about to hurl at me.

Every single day since I've been back we've been training, and trying to get me to harness my powers more. My energy blasters are the ones that take the most energy out of me. Which I find ironic considering the fact that I'm harnessing energy.

But since I can't seem to figure it out its taking more out of me than it should.

I can send blasters out of my hands that look sort of like Iron man's but mine are a yellow gold color. They can spilt through most things thrown at me, which is a good thing for me because Wanda tends to throw the nearest object at me when we train.

I'm also still working on using my telekinesis and energy powers at the same time.

"Yeah we can take a break you did good kid. But if you are going to keep that temper up, I'm going to have to start charging you window repair fees", Tony says with a smirk.

He turns and looks up at my aunt watching from one of the higher gym levels.

"We good here Maria? I got a lunch date I can't miss", he calls up.

"Yes I'll see you later Tony, and we can discuss what we talked about earlier. Rosie get cleaned up and we will go get some well deserved lunch!", my aunt calls down before turning to head down the stairs to our level.

So here's what happened over those four years.

After what happened in New York my aunt discovered I was missing and searched relentlessly for me over those years. When she finally did find me 5 months ago, I was found in an old Hydra compound in Turkey. I was in an empty room lying on the floor in a coma. It took some time but with the help of Dr. Banner I was able to wake up.

The last thing I remember was leaving the hospital when something hit me hard on the back of the head. After that the next memory I had was waking up again in a private hospital surrounded by Dr. Banner, and my aunt. Other than that, I have absolutely no idea what happened for those years.

My aunt filled me in as to how long I've been missing and what happened in New York. Over the months that I've been back we soon discovered that I have more powers now than when I left. Which confirms that I wasn't in a coma during that whole time, something had happened to me, but we still have no real idea what.

I became a thing of interest at Shield since they don't know what happened to me, and assume it's linked to Hydra, which is why they've kept me at their compound. I've been going over a series of  tests and training not only physically but mentally as well.

Wanda has been trying to break through the blockage in my mind that is hiding the memories of those years, but that hasn't been successful so far.

Tony, Wanda, Natasha and more recently Vision have been trying to help me control my new powers more, and keep my fighting abilities up to date.

Before I left, the powers I had were premonitions and telekinesis.

Now my telekinesis has greatly advanced considerably. A new power that we discovered once I came back is that I now have the ability of kinetic absorption. Or at least that's what Tony and Bruce call it. I like to refer to it as my super blasters.

But basically, I can absorb energy from things and use it to create energy blasts that I can shoot out of my hands or simply my being.

It all feels familiar to me, but it's as though I've just forgotten how to use them. This makes sense since I probably have used and was able to control my powers during the missing years.

For now I just have to relearn everything, which is very frustrating to me.

"Would you like a hand up?", Wanda asks breaking me out of my thoughts of what's happened.

"Oh so we're friends now? You throwing me across the room didn't feel that way", I joke as I take her hand to stand up.

"What? I do that to all my friends, you should see what I do to the people I don't like", she laughs as we walk over to grab our waters and hydrate.

Wanda and I have become good friends ever since we started working together. She was about my age and it was nice having someone who could relate to my powers and what I'm going through.

After I say my goodbyes to Tony and Wanda, I head to the gym bathrooms to take a quick shower.

After I get out of the shower, I freely walk to the mirrors to look at myself before getting dressed.  As far as appearances go, I didn't think I looked bad if I do say so myself.

I've always loved the contrast between my dark hair, light olive skin and amber eyes. I scrunched my freckled nose in the mirror examining my body shape.

With all the working out I've done I could see my toned form developing more each week; however, I know my love for sweets is slowing those results a bit, but I can't help my sweet tooth.

The gym bathrooms are always empty whenever Tony books them, which made me feel comfortable walking around with nothing on. However, I snap out of my musings about my figure when I notice someone behind me in the mirror. 

I gasp and turn around so fast to try to confirm what I saw in the mirror. But to my horror my eyes weren't playing tricks on me because staring back at me with the same look of horror on his face was none other than Captain America himself.

"OHMYGOSH!" I yell as I grab the towel off the floor at the same time, he covers his eyes and shouts back, "I AM SO SORRY" as he runs out of the bathroom.

I stand there for a minute dying inside over what just happened. My first time meeting Steve Rogers had to be one where I was stark ass naked.

I've been dying to meet Steve for years ever since I saw that premonition about him in the ice. But out of the countless times I've imagined meeting him for the first time, this wasn't one of them...

Not that I haven't imagined him seeing me naked, but those were in very different circumstances.

Well that should leave an impression!