What Heroes Do -- [Male Reader x Wanda Maximoff]

Book 2: Chapter #7

Natasha was sitting in her office talking to FRIDAY, catching up with the AI on Y/N's condition during his two month long exile in space.

"I'm sorry Ma'am. But I cannot betray Y/N's trust." FRIDAY said as Natasha groaned.

"Don't give me that crap FRI, he's my son and I'm worried about his health. Tell me." Natasha said in a stern tone.

"You already know how he is otherwise you wouldn't have pulled rank. But if you insist, he hasn't been out of the armour for the whole two months other than to eat, shower and use the bathroom. He's slept in his armour, he's also been mostly neglecting eating, and sleeping." FRIDAY answered as Natasha nodded.

"He, do anything in his spare time or was it non-stop missions?" Natasha said as FRIDAY paused a beat.

"You know the answer to that one already, Ma'am." FRIDAY said as Nat hummed in agreement.

Natasha nodded to FRIDAY who transferred to her chip in Y/N's armour helmet. Y/N was laying on his bed in his room looking at the ceiling, he closed his eyes and his breaths slowed.

"Come on, Y/N." Wanda said as she reached out to Y/N.

Y/N woke up with a jump, he looked over to the photo on the desk in his room, it was him and Wanda together in the park at Christmas, they were happy, she was alive back then. He sat on the edge of his bed and began to think to himself.

He tried to avoid remembering the good times, it only made Wanda's death hurt more, it was silent and the room was dark until FRIDAY projected herself onto the bedside table in her miniature form.

"Hey, Boss. C'mon, time to move, sooner we finish this fight, the sooner we can find a way to bring her back."  FRIDAY said as she watched Y/N. He stood up and held out her data chip to her, she tapped the chip and transferred to it.

"Status report." Y/N said in a resigned voice as FRIDAY merged with his helmets HUD.

"Your mother is in the War Room, she asked to see you when you woke up." FRIDAY answered as Y/N gave a slight nod.

He headed through the facility that was now bustling with volunteers, they all looked up at him in astonishment as he walked through the corridors, though he didn't know why they all looked so amazed.

When he entered the War Room, Natasha was in a meeting with everyone, Y/N stood to one side and waited, he held his hand out flat and palm side up, FRIDAY appeared in the palm of his hand.

"What's the situation?" Y/N asked as FRIDAY projected an image into his helmet HUD. It showed that the Covenant were getting closer to Earth, at the rate they were going, the Covenant would arrive in a 12 hours.

"Boss, this doesn't seem like the odds are in our favour, our chances aren't looking like we could turn this around the way we usually do." FRIDAY stated as Y/N paused for a beat.

"We'll make it, we have to." Y/N said calmly as Natasha finished up her meeting and turned to look at Y/N, FRIDAY disappeared from Y/N's hand.

"How'd you sleep?" Natasha said as Y/N looked at the war table.

"About the same as usual." Y/N answered bluntly before inserting the FRIDAY chip into the war table. "from the rate they're going, we don't have long left to prepare for attack."

"Then we best get to work, we've set up every nuke on earth and have them all set to aim at the covenant supercarrier if it enters range." Natasha said as Y/N nodded.

"Good plan, make sure to keep it for the supercarrier though, no sense wasting what ballistics we have on the small ships." Y/N said as Steve walked in.

"Evacuation ships are prepped, give the word and they'll start going."

"Understood. Remember to keep them prepped and the instant the exfil order is given the evac ships take priority. We protect them with everything we have." Y/N said as Steve nodded, Banner walked in.

"Medical centres have been set up around the world, they've began to prepare for the listed injuries." Bruce said as Y/N nodded. Tony walked in with a bunch of cases he placed them on the table and opened them.

"Here you go Six, matching weapons." Tony quipped as Y/N nodded to him and picked up the weapons.

"How long were you planning on making these for?" FRIDAY asked as Y/N picked up the assault rifle, the shotgun and a pistol. "Here's hoping that the pistol is the same as the one in combat evolved."

Y/N was smirking under his helmet at FRIDAY's jokes, it was the closest he'd gotten to a smile since he found out Wanda had died, though it quickly faded when he remembered the current circumstances.

"How many have you made?" Y/N asked as Tony smirked.

"Enough to arm SHIELD, I've distributed them out to any surviving members that have volunteered to fight." Tony answered as Y/N nodded.

"I thought you said you were done with the weapons manufacturing industry." Steve said calmly.

"I am, I only make equipment for the Avengers and in this rare circumstance, SHIELD." Tony answered as Y/N turned back to the war table.

"Suit up, intel suggests that they're going to land on Earth in under twelve hours, get prepped, any last minute stuff you have, now's your last chance to do it before we go to war." Y/N said as he took the FRIDAY chip from the table and headed to the weapons testing range and got himself accustomed to his new weaponry.

He was just finishing up when he received an alert that the Covenant had arrived early, it was go time.

"If we don't make it through this..." FRIDAY began.

"We'll make it. Now come on, let's get to work." Y/N said as he grabbed his weapons and ammo, heading to join the fight...