Iron Assassin

Chapter 3: Backstory

Nicole

Age 21 (After Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie)

"WAKE UP!!!!!" I heard a voice scream in my head. I jumped up. I was all sweaty and gross. I must have had a nightmare because I only get screams in my head when I do. I don't normally remember my dreams but when I do it is always nightmares. It sucks, I mean what if I had an amazing dream but it wasn't a nightmare so I didn't remember it. Yep this is the stuff I think about.

"I had the nightmare again." I said turning to the person that was the owner of that voice. It was Wanda Maximoff, of course. She is one of my best friends. We have one of those really close relationships where outside perspectives would think we were dating but we are not. She is dating Vision if you didn't know and I ship them so hard. If he breaks her heart, though, I will rip the mind gem out of his skull. That might be a little much but it's fine. I don't really care, this is Wanda I'm talking about, I have to take care of her. I pretty sure that she can take care of herself, she is probably the strongest person on the team. Well besides the hulk of course.

"Yeah I noticed. It took forever to wake you." She looked so worried, I feel really bad about it. She can't do anything about these dreams. Well she might, we don't know the extent of her powers, but it seems like see can do a lot more then show people what they fear.

You know I don't even know why I have nightmares all the time. It seems like every night (well I usually sleep all morning) now, that I have a nightmare. Maybe it's because I have died once or twice in my life already. Maybe it's because of everything going on in my life, with the whole Ultron thing that happened. I may never find out.

"Hey, I tell you every time stop worrying. You have bigger things to worry about." She gave me a look. She hates it when I say there are bigger things to worry about. She knows I am talking about her powers. She also hates that I say it because it seems like I don't care about my personal well-being. Thing is, I care about myself but I am not the top priority. I hate to see others in pain but when it comes to me I'm fine. She hates that I don't care about things that deal with me as much as I probably should. If something is wrong with me but doesn't affect anyone I just let the problem be. Other people need help before myself. Especially Wanda, with her powers and all. Ever since the Battle of Sokovia, her powers have gotten out of control, not to the point where it's super dangerous but still. Everyone knows the reason why her powers are crazy. It's hard to talk about it. The battle scared everyone at least a little. It even scared me and I wasn't even there. It's not the time to think about it anyway.

"Anyway, you need to get up. Today is moving day, which I hate." She gave me the puppy dog face. It almost works but I can't change my mind now.

"I won't be too far, only a few hours." Her puppy dog face intensified. I know she could use her powers to change my mind but she never does. She knows I need to leave. I am moving to the great city of Chicago.

"Well you better get ready. We have a visitor." She was smiling and skipping towards the door.

"Visitor?" I asked but she left before I could get an answer. Well I guess I can't go in sweat pants then.

"Chloe can you change the color to... gold." My arc reactor slowly changes to a gold color. I have had this arc for a while and have updated it a lot. I died when I first tried to update the technology but as you can tell still alive. I unhooked my original arc to put in the new one, not realizing that my heart can't last too long without it. My dad was the one to save me. It just added to the list of the times I have died and came back.