Robin's Cousin

chapter five

Pietro's POV

Jason and I were sent out to do some reconnaissance on the Scarlet Witch's team, and unfortunately, we had to take a senior Shadow with us. So of course, we chose Chesire because she is the best of the best and also Tigress' sister.

"Did I tell you two that I am a mother? I have a daughter with a rogue 'hero', a clone of Roy Harper. Her name is Lian." Cheshire mused mostly to herself on the helicopter flight over to Mount Justice. "This one time, Artemis' boyfriend Wally was babysitting Lian-she loves him, don't ask me why- anyways, Lian is two right? So she is at the stage where everything is her friend. At this point, a watermelon Roy bought was her bestfriend so anything she did, the watermelon had to do."

"I thought you normally didn't talk?" Jason raised a brow under his red and black mask, his voice muffled.

"Shut it before I slit your throat, I am telling a story. Anyways, Wally and I were at my apartment with Lian when my father attacked with a dud smoke bomb, lighting my sink on fire and scaring the crap out of my daughter. I go into mama bear mode and attack my father while Wally is holding Lian and her watermelon, on the phone with Artemis trying to pretend nothing is going on so that she wouldn't come over to see what a disaster everything was."

I stared blankly at the female assassin. "You are kind of a wreck of a mother."

She snorted, shaking her head and slipping her mask on as we reached the drop zone. "I'm the worst."

The three of us jumped out of the helicopter, gliding down to the bushes below and sticking the landing silently. We immediately checked our comm units, splitting up and going to our designated positions around the mountain.

I pulled out my x-ray vision goggles, nestling in to watch the young heroes train. It looked like they were doing some form of ambush training, and my target was training right now. I watched as the red haired woman in the black jumpsuit taunted her verbally, the blonde woman going at her with blitz attacks and Batman being held back by Scarlet Witch's powers.

"Cheshire, can you get audio?"

"On it, gimme one minute."

I heard some static before my ears were bombarded with the taunts of the woman inside the mountain, hearing her call the Scarlet Witch a monster. Interesting way to train, I'll give them that.

What really struck me was when she revealed that the Witch had murdered a world leader under Hydra orders. That was intriguing, I thought she was a goody goody, yet here she was working for Hydra.

Suddenly, I was thrown back by a wave of red energy, toppling down the mountain and hitting my head on a few rocks on the way. When I stood up, I was dizzy and disoriented. I immediately took to the comms, contacting Jason and Cheshire. "Are you two still alive? Did you feel that?"

"All good. Go to the rendezvous point."

"Roger that."

"Copy." I started to run to the rendezvous point but I was met with a metal wall instead. Looking up, I saw a gold and red metal man looking down at me. The face lifted up to reveal a human man who looked like he had seen a ghost.

"I can't believe it. Pietro?" He whispered with disbelief.

I growled, zipping around the suit and hitting at all the weak points I could see, disabling it quickly. The man fell to the ground, stuck. I stood above him, glowering. "Then don't believe it." I stomped on his head, knocking him out cold before continuing en route to Cheshire and Jason. When I finally reached them, they asked me what took me so long. Something told me I shouldn't tell them about the man in the forrest, so I didn't. "I took the scenic route, sue me."