"You're hurt!"
Wanda supported Pietro, the red staining his clothes painfully conspicuous.
"I'll kill them!" "Wait."
Pietro stopped Wanda and shook his head. "I'm fine. I just need a little rest."
Pietro swallowed the metallic sweetness in his mouth. He really had been overconfident this time. He hadn't expected the Avengers to bring so many Superpowered People, or for that Yellow-haired guy to be able to hurt him. Under these circumstances, he absolutely wouldn't let Wanda risk going alone.
"But..."
Wanda looked worried.
"I'm really fine," Pietro reassured her. "I seriously underestimated them. Good thing I ran fast."
Still shaken by how close he'd come to dying, Pietro looked at Wanda and warned her, "Don't act rashly. Wait for the right moment."
Despite the flames of hatred blazing in her eyes, Wanda restrained herself and nodded at Pietro's words. Biting her lip, she agreed, then tenderly helped him somewhere he could rest.
"Stark, we need to get inside."
The little incident involving Xiao and Wanderer ended quietly, and everyone continued forward.
Steve took down the last Hydra agent blocking his path, retrieved his shield, and pressed his earpiece. "You're not there yet?"
"Almost, almost."
Tony dropped the guards with several blasts from his palm lasers. He accelerated to full speed, only to slam into something as he approached the heart of the fortress, leaving him dizzy.
Thud.
"Shit!"
(Damn it!)
"Language!"
(No swearing.)
Steve had just joined Lin Ze and the youngsters when a dull metallic impact came through his earpiece, immediately followed by Tony's "inappropriate language."
Steve felt a little awkward with the children right there. Never mind that, as Avengers, they had always been heroes in children's eyes-even ordinary adults felt uncomfortable when their peers heard them swear.
"Ahem. Tony, watch your image. There are kids on this