An Age of Metal

In The Training Room

While the Avengers were sorting through piles of information, the New Avengers were in the Training Room. It was a good place to release any frustrations from the previous night. Plus, their training room was amazing. It was like a gym to the most intense extreme. There was plenty of room to spar and test powers. Targets and simulations of every shape, size and difficulty were made available.The team spent most  days here, after getting tutored by the Avengers. 

Peggy was the one who spent the most amount of time with them. She said it reminded her of her army days, except with better equipment and company. Steve was a close second, and no matter what every Avenger came in sometime. Even Bruce.

"I gotta say, Robert," Leo said, lighting up targets "I'm a little shocked your father didn't tell you about the murder robot."

"I'm not. He and Bruce didn't tell any of us." Nico droned, turning rocks into magma and back again.

"Maybe it's not a murder robot." Percy said, shrugging.

"And maybe Peggy is the queen of England. It tried to kill us." Thalia retorted.

"I'm surprised I didn't see any of this." Frank thought out loud. He had recently developed a sense of pre-cognition. But it was spotty and unpredictable. He only got glimpses of the future.    

Hazel flexed her claws in deep thought. "Me too. But I'm sure they had a good reason."

Robert rolled his eyes at her from his weight machine. "Yeah. My old man always has a 'good reason.' They don't always hold up." 

Piper lazily levitated a punching bag. "I have such a respect for your mom." She stated.

Noor nodded in agreement. "I hate to say it, babe, but he's right about eighty percent of the time."  She pointed out to Robert.

"Yeah."

"True."

"I'd say seventy percent."

"You know what I was thinking?" Percy asked. He shot water at Leo's targets, like it was some strange competition.

"What? That you wish you could live in the ocean and bring us with?" Annabeth questioned. Her voice was distorted from being in her diamond form.

"No. That it's weird how that thing, Ultron, whatever, could be in our phones. Like, what does he know?"

 "You're right that is weird. And a little scary." Jason said, hovering in mid air next to Piper. 

"He probably only knows as much as Charlotte. She's in every thing." Reyna added, making her boxing gloves appear invisible. 

"Speaking of Charlotte," Noor said, "is it strange to anyone else how she's kinda obsessed with those enhanced guys she met on the mission? Like, she seems to have read every file on them, watched every video, it's like she's obsessed." 

"Well, she did rant to me about how their parents died and they wanted to protect their country  and how they 'shouldn't be bad'. Even thought she still wanted to punch the guy for knocking her over." Reyna said. 

"I caught her drooling over a picture of him the other day." Leo added. 

Everyone laughed.

"Aww, Charlotte has a crush!" Hazel giggled.

"I propose that their ship name should be Zippy and Zappy." Noor suggested.

"I second that." Robert said, wrapping his arm around her waist.

"For your sake, I hope she never finds out you said that. " Thalia warned.

"Well, she called us Norbert so...I think it's fair." Noor responded.

"And I need to get her back for messing with my suit." Robert added.

"Speaking of names..." Piper started "we still haven't decided on what Peggy's superhero alias should be."

"I think we were down to Lady Liberty, Miss Union Jack and Agent Carter." Frank said.

"Lady Liberty is the best." Leo said.

"Wrong. Miss Union Jack is better." Nico stated.

"No, it's Agent Carter. Simple and to the point." Annabeth argued.

The three started arguing amongst each other, and Percy had to separate them.

"Guys, guys, no need to start a war." 

"Yeah, yeah."

"I know."

"Miss Union Jack is still better." 

"We could just ask Peggy what her favourite one is." Thalia said.

"That works." Jason agreed.

At that moment, Charlotte ran into the room with her hair flying behind her, panting heavily.

"Ultron...lead...twins...Strucker..." she gasped.

Percy got her some water as she caught her breath.

"Strucker's dead." She began. "And we think we know where Ultron's headed. Wakanda. He's needs metal." She explained. "Tony wants us to go. All of us."

The teenagers rarely went on real missions, since the Avengers didn't want them getting hurt. So they knew this was serious. They looked at each other, with excitement and nervousness. What would they find?

"Well, you heard her." Robert finally broke the silence.

"Suit up."