S U P E R N O V A - MARVEL

Chapter 25: Fear

The Avengers arrived at Ulysses Klaue's base, just in time to catch Ultron in the middle of some breakdown about how he was nothing like Tony Stark.

"Don't compare me with Stark! It's a thing with me. Stark is, he's a sickness!" Ultron said in disgust.

"Ah, junior..." Tony said, as he let the presence of the avengers known. Thor, Steve, Tony and Nova stood in-front of Ultron. "You're gonna break your old man's heart." Tony said, Nova looked down and smiled at her dad's remark.

"If I have to." Ultron said.

"Ah, this is funny, Mr. Stark. It's what, comfortable? Like old times?" Pietro Maximoff spoke.

Nova finally noticed them, she surveyed them. She was full of intrigue. Pietro had silver hair, in his old photos he appeared to have normal brown hair, Nova wondered how the hair change applied to him too. She looked at Wanda, she reminded her of herself, the rage inside of her, the only difference was that Nova was better at hiding it. The twins didn't look at her, as pathetic as it may seem, Nova wanted them to. She wanted to know them. She wanted the circumstances to change, for them to be on her side.

"This was never my life." Tony said, breaking Nova out of her thoughts.

"You two can still walk away from this. I know you've suffered." Steve said to the twins.

"Ugh! Captain America. God's righteous man, pretending you could live without a war." Ultron spoke, "I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but..."

Nova frowned, "Dad, did you mean to make him this sassy and annoying or—" She complained.

"No I think he picked that up himself. Sassy and annoying, two things I am definitely not." Tony said and looked back at Nova, she could tell he was smirking under that mask. "What's the Vibranium for?" Tony asked Ultron.

"I'm glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan--" Ultron launched towards Tony.

The fighting commenced. Two drones headed towards Steve and Thor, Klaue's men started shooting. Pietro ran off. Leaving Nova with none other than Wanda.

"You." Nova squinted her eyes at Wanda, as they both prepared themselves for combat. "You're like me." Nova said. Wanda smirked.
They both flew up, throwing energy surges at each other and dodging them. "You know, I think you should be on our side." Nova said as she dodged Wanda. "Come on, think about it, the two of us together, we would be so powerful." Nova joked.

"No, thank you!" Wanda said as she headed towards Nova, missing her.

Nova flew behind Wanda. Wanda turned around, they were too close, catching Wanda off guard. Nova looked deep into her eyes. "You know," Nova started, "Powers are fun and all, but, at the end of the day," Nova punched Wanda, causing her to fall to the ground. Nova descended to the ground, next to Wanda's lying body, "You really need to know how to throw a punch." She finished.

Wanda grunted, she looked at Nova with rage, and waved her hands close to her. Nova looked at Wanda confused, she knew what she was doing, unfortunately, she didn't feel anything, maybe she was immune, she casually got up and walked away. But then she closed her eyes.

"Open your eyes birthday girl!" Nat's voice ringed through. Nova opened her eyes. Instantly met with the view of all of the avengers, sitting around at a dinner table. She looked around, there was a birthday cake in-front of her, and birthday decorations on the wall.

Nova smiled, and blew out her candles. "What did you wish for?" Steve asked smiling.

"Well, everything I want, I have in this very room." Nova said.

Everyone smiled. Nova smiled back. They kept smiling. No one said anything. They didn't blink. They looked at her blankly, and kept smiling. Nova's eyebrows furrowed and her smile faded, "Uh, guys—"

"You can't hide anymore." Natasha said, cutting off Nova. Her voice was monotoned.

"What?"

"You can't hide anymore." They all repeated.

Suddenly, the setting changed, she was at the dinner table, but sat across from her was Rick, her stepfather. He looked angry. he kept jamming his fork into his food, Nova looked to her side, her mother was there, smoking a cigarette, not paying attention to anything, lost in her own world. Nova's heart started beating faster.

"Typical. So typical." Rick said. "SO FUCKING TYPICAL!" He screamed, making Nova flinch.

She stayed quiet for a moment, tears started welding up in her eyes. She looked to her mother, "Mom?" She whispered. Her mother didn't reply. "Mom?" She repeated. No reply. She didn't even look at her. "Mom!" Nothing.

"Mom?"

"Mom?"

"Mom?"