Iron Assassin

Chapter 20: Distraction

"Don't you think you have been hitting that punching bag long enough." I looked towards the voice and there was Pietro leaning on the door frame.

"Probably not." I picked up the towel that was sitting next to me and whipped the sweat off of my forehead.

"Don't overwork you self."

"Yes, mom." He walked over to me tapping the punching bag as he walked pass.

"That would be weird."

"Yep, it totally would." He lifted up his hand and tucked a stray piece of hair behind my ear. "So why did you come here anyway."

"What, I can't come and train with you."

"Well I did beat you the last time we trained. If you want to lose again then be my guest."

"Is everything a competition."

"Um, yeah and I always win."

"I am going to have to knock the cockiness out of you."

"Good luck with that one. My mom has been trying to since I was born. So what's the competition this time?"

"Why not do what we did the first time. Maybe you could actually hit me this time."

"Well I call that an easy challenge to beat since I am faster than you." He started to laugh hysterically at what I said. That's rude.

"Sure let's see."

"Ok, on your marks." Just like the first time we spread apart and got into position. This might be supposed to be a little game but we were both going to take this seriously.

"Get set." I gave him a little wink. Maybe that would throw him of his game but by the look on his face it looked like he actually enjoyed it and not psych him out like I wanted.

"Go." Immediately he ran at my call. Sadly, for him I ran right after him. He tried to escape by making as many turns as possible. I was always right next to him. I tried the hexing powers to grab him with no use. He knows Wanda's powers to well. He made a sharp turn around one of the workout equipment as I charged up my hand for some electricity. As I made the turn I saw a banana peel on the floor and quickly went around it.

"Did you actually think you could get me-" My sentence was cut off by a face full of padding. I don't even know what happen so I just laid there with padding in my mouth, not even opening my eyes. I felt a pressure to my right.

"Didn't think that would actually work." There he was the smartass Pietro. I lifted up my head to see him above me trying not to laugh but not succeeding at all. I blew hair out of my face and smile up at him.

"You didn't see that coming." I had to say that, when around Pietro how could you not. He lowered a hand down to me so he could help me up.

"It looks like you tripped over the gymnastic pad as you were yelling at me for putting down that banana."

"That makes sense." I went to reach for his hand but thought of something amazing. Thank you Nat for all the training. I swiped my legs quickly to knock Pietro on his butt. I quickly went on top of him and clamped his limbs down. If I wanted to win I couldn't let him go now.

"You know what they say, never turn you back on your enemy," I said as I felt so happy that I actually kinda won even with that epic failure.

"I am totally okay with this. We could stay like this forever if you want." I didn't get what he said but whatever it meant was giving him a huge smirk on his face. Then a light bulb went off and I knew what he meant.

"You perv," I said as I got off of him.

"Awww but I was enjoying that." I got up and reached my hand to him helping him up. He grabbed my hand and with no funny business I easily brought him up. I am actually surprised that Pietro didn't do anything being that he did the same for me and I completely stabbed him in the back.

"You should be happy I didn't kick you out after that."

"Sorry about that. Really didn't think that banana would work. I still train with you, right?" Then I saw a weight lift behind Pietro. A red aura was around it which meant the hex powers but I definitely wasn't doing it, I think. I followed the aura with my eyes which lead into the girls' locker room.

"Yeah I guess you can stay but let me go into the locker room a second." The weight slowly went down to the ground which probably meant that I was right to want to go to the locker room. I started walking but got interrupted by Pietro.

"Um... you will be back right?" That seemed a little strange for him to say.

"Yeah, of course, don't go and be missing me after two seconds. Okay?"

"I will try not to." He turned around a walked to one of the treadmills. I turned back around not wanting to question what Pietro was doing. Plus, I really want to know why Wanda wanted me.

I walked into the locker room to nothing. No one was in there. Ok I am for sure I saw her red. I walked in further, maybe she was back a few ways. You know what I probably did imagine that. I am just going to turn around and walk back. Then I was grabbed by the collar and dragged away. I turned around to see the culprit to the dragging was Wanda. Cool I'm not insane.

"Hey, Wanda you can stop dragging me now." She let go of me with a surprised face.

"Sorry, I just don't want Pietro or anyone for that matter to hear us." Her saying that definitely means something is going down.

"Why don't you want anyone to hear?" I don't have a good feeling about this. Well I don't have a good feeling about anything.

"Was Pietro weird when he first got in here?" Her eyes kept darting towards the door trying to see if anyone would walk in. She looks like she is going to jail if someone catches her. Maybe that's why she doesn't want anyone to hear. Wanda going to jail, though, I would never believe it.

"Weirder than normal, I guess yeah. Why? You seem like you did something horrible."

"I went against Steve's order." Wow Wanda not listening to Cap. That is actually a first for her.

"Wait really, it must be something super important. Tell me what happened."

"They told me not to talk to you." Did I actually hear that?

"Wait, not talk to me, what are you talking about?"

"Pietro came here to distract you." Um excuse me Pietro is supposed to distract me. Just saying that with no context I don't like the way that sounds.

"What do you mean distract me? Distract me from what?"

"You might want to sit down for this one." She motioned towards the bench and taking her advice I sat down. All I really wanted to do was run. I epically wanted to run to Pietro and ask why Wanda wants to talk to me. Wanda sat down next to me and couldn't even look at me.

"We found Nicole and before you do anything I am not even close to be finished. We had a meeting to come up with a plan and as you can tell no one told you about it. Then everyone decided to send Pietro to distract you while everyone else gets ready to go after her." I could feel my face burn with anger. Did they actually think they could do this? I got up from sitting without even looking at Wanda.

"Wanda, tell me where Cap and my dad are." Man, did I sound angry.

"Why would you want to know where they are?"

"Wanda, please don't play dumb."

"They are only trying to keep you safe. That's all we want."

"Wanda, I understand that but I need to go talk to them."

"Fine... they are still in the plan room."

"Thanks." Now I am on a mission. I walked out of the locker room and towards the exit of the training room.

"Nicole, where are you going?" There was Pietro trying to stop me again like he has been doing this whole time. Without turning back, I walked out of the door towards my loving father and Cap.