Avengers of the Future

Laura had just finished with bandaging up the wounded when Bruce walked up to her. Laura turned her back to him and gathered the extra supplies up to take to the medical wing. “Laura…” Bruce began and she ignored him. He followed her around until they got back to her lab and then he grasped her upper arm. “Don’t touch me!” She snapped and shoved him away; her glasses bounced off her nose and fell only to be caught by the glasses string around her neck. Bruce was taken aback and stepped away from her. “Laura…” Bruce said again and sighed. “Why are you acting like this?” He asked and Laura turned the tables on him. “Why did you abandon me?! I was a toddler and you just left me in a trashed lab with no one around! If My Dad had not have showed up then I would have died! I’ve found signs that you are still out there and you haven’t even tried to find me and see if I was all right! You abandoned me! There is nothing you can say or do to fix this!” Laura shouted, her eyes turning green before she took in deep breaths to calm herself. James was in a similar situation with his own parents. “You are married and have a 5 year old child at 21? What were you thinking, James?” Steve asked him and James was doing everything he could not to shout at them. “I married and had a child with Laura because I love her unlike you two! All you two did was have a one-night stand that ended with me. Tony told me he heard you two fighting on if you should keep me or not. You voted to have me put up for adoption if she wouldn’t have an abortion because it was against your Christian Beliefs and you said that you didn’t even want to have a kid and if you kept me, that I would be sent off to a Russian Orphanage to toughen me up! Some how someone convinced you both to not do any of that and try and raise me together but all I remember is the disapproving look on my parent’s faces for the good portion of my childhood before you two died. Tony and Pepper were more like parents then you two were.” He said before James heard Laura shouting and rushed to her lab to see her yelling at Bruce. He saw that Laura was close to tears, which made James run up to her and hug her tightly to him after shoving Bruce away. Bruce, Steve and Natasha were all in shock about hearing what they had done to their own children and they were ashamed. Then a skinny blonde haired boy climbed his way down from the rafters in the ceiling and landed in front of the lab. “Hey! Mr. and Mrs.! Nice to see you got back alive! I need you two to come look at this because I do not know what to think of it.” He said and James and Laura turned to him. “Alright, Hawkeye.” James said and the two followed the skinny boy who climbed up into the rafters easily. Laura’s eyes flickered green before she jumped up and grabbed onto on of the rafters near the ceiling. “Show off!” James shouted after his wife before climbing his way up the slow way. His parents and Hawkeye followed in suit after James. When the group got up to the rafters, the teen went over to one of the out posts looking outside. “Look.” He said and Laura looked out the opening to see a few robots outside, scanning the outside of the disguised bunker. The bunker was under a very large warehouse so it was a suitable disguise for the rebellion. “What are they looking for?” Laura asked and furrowed her eyebrows. Sophia looked up from the ground at her parents, holding a small doll. Bruce looked at the tiny girl and asked. “What are you doing out here, Sweetie?” he knelt down to her height. “I want my mommy because I’m hungry but she is up there.” Sophia said and pointed upwards. Bruce furrowed his eyebrows and looked at the girls’ face. Sophia had Laura’s face and eyes but James’ hair. “Is your mommy, Dr. Stark?” Bruce asked softly. Sophia nodded. “My Papa is IronMan and he said when I get big enough that he would build me a suit like his but in blue!” she smiled softly. Bruce’s heart rate elevated as he put two and two together. This little girl was his granddaughter and she didn’t even know who he was. She thought Tony was her grandfather. He needed to figure out why he left his daughter alone and never returned to raise her. “How about I get you something to eat? Can you take me to the kitchen so I can get you something to eat?” Bruce said to her and Sophia nodded and took his hand, leading him to the kitchen area. Bruce picked the small girl up and placed her on a chair. “What would you like to eat?” He asked and Sophia said. “I would like chicken noodle soup in the can with the little stars in them. Mommy always makes a grilled cheese for me too and carves a smilie face in it.” Sophia said and Bruce grinned slightly. “I’ll try my best with that.” He said and made her some soup. He noticed that there had to be millions of cans of food stacked in a storage room and just off to the side was an indoor garden. Bruce placed the food in front of the little girl and she began to eat happily. “Who all live here?” Bruce asked Sophia. “The Avengers’ families and the people being trained to go out to other bunkers. Papa said that there are a lot of bunkers around the world.” She looked at Bruce. “Does your Papa tell you stories about The Avengers?” He asked. “He tells me about one that turned into a giant green man from a tiny skinny man when he got angry or upset but he was one of the smartest people he ever met.” Sophia said and munched on her sandwich. Laura and James looked at each other before James asked. “Are you thinking that they are scanning for any signs of life?” Laura nodded. “They might be but all I know is, I have never seen them this close before.” She replied before both Hawkeyes were looking at each other. “Dad!” Francis said and smiled. Clint looked at his son and asked. “Pardon?”. “You and Mockingbird did the due and 9 months later I popped out! I thought you knew how the reproduction process worked.” Francis said and Laura snorted slightly before explaining. “Clint, you raised Francis after Mockingbird died up in the mountains before you found Tony again. You died not too long ago when we had to go on a rescue mission.” The group then headed back down from the rafters before Natasha and Steve started to harass James again with questions. “You had a child at 16 years old? What were you thinking? Is that why you married Laura? Because you felt an obligation?” Steve yelled at James. James then snapped and punched Steve right in the jaw, sending his father backwards. “Do not EVER disrespect my wife like that! We had a child because we loved each other! We got married because we love each other! My daughter will know what it is like to have loving parents and not have the memory of disapproving looks on their faces!” James shouted and Steve’s temper got the best of him. Soon the Father and Son were in a fight, making Francis grab and hold back Laura from interfering. “James! Stop it! Dad! DAD!” Laura shouted, getting the attention of Tony in the Control room. Tony ran out and pulled the two apart. “What is wrong with you two?!” Tony said loudly and James wiped some blood off of his chin.. “I was putting this son of a bitch in his place”! James shouted before Laura held him back. “James, calm down…” she said and made him look at her. “Calm down and lets get you cleaned up.” She said and led him over to her lab. Steve looked at Tony before saying. “I screwed up in raising my son and he thinks I didn’t want him in the first place.” Steve looked down before using his shirt to wipe the blood off of his face. Laura made James sit in a chair as she worked on cleaning his face up. “James, you shouldn’t have punched him.” She said and James looked at her. “He deserved it, Laura. He deserves worse. I have an eidetic memory; I remember everything since I was a year old. I remember the looks on their faces when I did something I thought they would be proud of me for, all I saw was a scowl and a look of disappointment. I wanted to do anything and everything to make them proud of me and no matter what I did I was never good enough in their eyes. Then when they didn’t come home for a month and Clint found me and brought me here, I knew they were gone and that I would never see those looks again. Then I met you and everything fell into place. I’ve loved you since we were 8 years old and I will never stop loving you. You never gave me a look of disappointment.” James said and Laura kissed him softly. She knew this psychologically damaged him and she did everything she could to help try and heal him. She ran her hand through James’ red hair as he held her to him, resting his head on her stomach. James then said. “ I hope one day we can have another kid, maybe this time we can have a boy.” Laura smiled softly and pointed out. “You know how much I struggled when I was pregnant with Sophia. She was lucky not to have gotten the ‘Hulk’ passed on to her.” She said and James sighed. “Where is Sophia? It is about time for her to be put to bed.” James stood up and went to search for his daughter. He found her in the kitchen with Bruce and walked up to her. “Time for bed Sophia.” He said and picked his daughter up. “Wait, James. How badly does Laura hate me?” Bruce asked and James sighed. “She hates you because she found evidence you are out there right now and you have not come back for her. You left to all alone when she was a toddler.” He replied before walking out of the kitchen and towards the housing bunkers.