And Then I Wrote Marvel

Show Me Light (Part 4) (Avengers x Reader) *

"Everybody, get out of the way!" you shouted urgently.

You could feel adrenaline coursing through your veins as soon as you saw the first Hydra agent, and then the switch of your body into your powers. You were going to make a mess, and you knew it.

You curled up into a ball, waiting to lose control, but it didn't happen. You were very much aware of what you wanted to do, but you felt so...powerful.

You stood up quickly and aimed an explosion right under an agent's feet, and the results were nearly deafening. Your arms flew up to shield your face from debris in the air at the same time that your mouth dropped open in shock.

Never before had you been able to control your powers like that.

"(Y/N)!" Steve called through the comms. "Can you hear me? Are you still in control?" When you didn't respond right away, he began to direct orders. "We've lost (Y/N). We have to find him/her, then--"

"I'm fine!" you yelled as soon as you had the sense to. "I'm still me, Captain, don't worry."

"How?" he asked, just as stunned as you.

"I don't know, but we'd better take advantage of this while it lasts," you stated. "Where do you need me?"

"You could just take out the whole base," Natasha suggested nonchalantly. "That would probably be the most helpful."

"Nat, we have three people in there, one of them being you," Steve pointed out.

"Your husband being another," Bucky reminded."

"And your best friend," Sam concluded.

"Wanda's in here?" Nat asked. You could practically hear her smirking from where she was.

"That's cold, Tasha," Sam said.

"I love you, too, Natasha," Wanda giggled.

"Do you usually banter this much on missions?" you asked, a little overwhelmed.

"We're really good at multitasking," Sam answered. "How are things going outside?"

You blew up another Hydra guard. "Well enough, I suppose," you replied. "Steve's kicking butt, Wanda's levitating butt, I'm exploding butt, and Tony...what are you doing, Tony?"

He appeared to be making rounds around the top of the building. "I'm looking for leverage from above," he justified.

"Right. Tony's flying in circles," you simplified.

"Hey!" Tony protested. Everyone else laughed.

"You're literally flying in circles," you reiterated. "You could be reading bad fanfiction about yourself, for all we know."

"It was one time!"

"You actually read bad fanfiction about yourself?" Natasha giggled. "You said just last week that you were weirded out by people writing you wrong."

"That was after I read some bad fanfiction on accident," Tony whined. "I've sworn it off since then."

Sam rushed out of the building just as you blew up another couple of enemy agents. Following him were about a half dozen of people that you didn't recognize. "I found the prisoners! Winter Widow, get out of there so that (Y/N) can blow this place sky high," he said through the comms.

"Did you just call Bucky and Natasha Winter Widow? That is so cute!" you squealed, wrinkling your nose and grinning. "That makes me so happy!" Happy? Were you really happy?

Yes! Yes, you were! You were feeling emotion for the first time in so long, and you were elated!

You began to laugh gleefully with your new realization. "I'm happy!" you giggled. "I'm really happy!" Tears streamed down your cheeks as you experienced pure joy.

Everyone else was too shocked to speak. You were no longer unfeeling and standoffish, too scared of yourself to speak. You were (Y/N), warm, welcoming, and fully in control of yourself. There was light in your eyes again, and it was so beautiful.

Two black-clothed figures dashed out of the enemy base. You thought that they were Bucky and Natasha, but you couldn't quite tell. "Winter Widow, is that you coming out?"

"Yeah, we're out. Nat and I are out," Bucky confirmed. "Light the place up, (Y/N)."

"It would be my genuine pleasure," you smiled. You waited for them to clear the blast radius, then you stepped out of the shadows and aimed a blast for the base.

It was as if someone had placed a bomb directly in the center of the building. That's how perfectly placed your shot was. It was deafening and blinding and satisfying. You felt that, finally, you had done something to tear away the part of your past that you actually wanted to erase.

You were admiring your handiwork when, suddenly, you were almost tackled to the ground by Wanda. "That was amazing!" she praised.

You were taken aback at her willingness to touch you like you were a normal person. You hadn't been hugged in so long. You hugged her back, but not so quickly. You felt normal again, but you weren't exactly used to being that way.

Joy overcame you, and tears slipped from the corners of your eyes.

"I haven't felt this way in so long," you said softly, your voice a warbling mess. You didn't really care about that though; you were feeling. You had once again joined the ranks of humans in your own eyes. Truly, this, intelligence and emotion, was what is was to be human.

Bucky wrapped his arms around the both of you, calling out, "Group hug!"

"Oh my gosh, Barnes," Natasha scoffed. "I married the biggest dork in the universe."

He met her eyes with his puppy-dog face. "But, you married him, like you said, so, you love him, right?"

She groaned. "Yes, of course, you gigantic--you know what? Never mind." She joined in with the group-hug, closely followed by almost everyone else.

"You--you guys do this often?" you choked out.

"No, why?" Steve questioned.

"Too tight," you complained, gasping for air. "Can't breathe."

Everyone released all at once, muttering their apologies. "Wouldn't want to suffocate you, now would we?" Tony chuckled.

"I feel like that might be a little detrimental to my health," you shrugged. "Just a guess, though, so..."

"I gotcha," he nodded. "Suffocating people may or may not kill them."

"Nah," Natasha dismissed. "I've choked out this guy plenty of times, and he ain't dead yet." She elbowed her husband lightly in the stomach.

"Look, Nat, that's nice, but we don't need to know what goes on with you two when you're," Tony cleared his throat, "all alone."

"No, no, no, no, not like that," Bucky said hastily, running a hand through his messy brown hair. "For sparring, we have a little game for when we get, like, insanely bored. First one to pass out loses. She always wins."

"We only actually do it because I did it on accident, once--"

"Accident," Sam huffed.

"Shut up, Birdman Jr. Anyway, I think that Buck wants his pride back, so he keeps challenging me," she finished.

"He gets close sometimes," Wanda remarked. "They're fun to watch."

"You know what else is fun to watch?" an unfamiliar voice asked. Everyone turned to face it, as the bearer of the voice grabbed you around the neck and held you to gunpoint. "That flash of fear on someone's face when you're right about to kill someone they love."

Is it weird that I imagine Hydra agents as Team Rocket Grunts from the Pokémon games?