Enhanced Weirdo

“I’ve barely touched it, Pietro.” She looked at him coldly, unamused. “Besides I am only curious.” She felt his hand on her arm and was tempted to mentally push him back. “3-D printer?”

“3-D printer. Total prototype - jacked it from the CIA. It can make stuff out of cheap plastic. Anything you can think of! Pretty cool, right?” he asked, patting the huge machine fondly, “Wanna test it out?”

“You stole it…from the CIA?” Wanda frowned, less than impressed with what he was saying. “Is that not illegal? No I do not wish to test it out. We need to take it back.”:

“No, we don’t! They probably don’t even realize it’s gone! Funding and all that went out so they haven’t really developed it any further,” he replied, “And… well, this was the only one they had and I stole the blueprints. Woops!”

“Yes we DO. I am not getting caught with a government agency’s property. Do you know how much jail time that would be?” She said in frustration, hoping for once that he would listen to her but she fully doubted that would happen. “You have to take it back.”

“That’s why I prefer women.”

“Do you now? Was that flirting?”

“It can be.” Mina smirked a little.

“Hmm, I can tell you aren’t lying.” She couldn’t help but play along anyhow, intrigued by her.

“And how can you tell that?” Mina frowned, looking her over. She had heard of enhanced or mutant beings who could read minds but normally she read as dead to them.

“Instinct.” Wanda lied with a small smirk. She couldn’t help herself. This woman looked like she could take a little teasing after all. “And do you usually flirt?’

“I’ve barely touched it, Pietro.” She looked at him coldly, unamused. “Besides I am only curious.” She felt his hand on her arm and was tempted to mentally push him back. “3-D printer?”

“3-D printer. Total prototype - jacked it from the CIA. It can make stuff out of cheap plastic. Anything you can think of! Pretty cool, right?” he asked, patting the huge machine fondly, “Wanna test it out?”

“You stole it…from the CIA?” Wanda frowned, less than impressed with what he was saying. “Is that not illegal? No I do not wish to test it out. We need to take it back.”:

“No, we don’t! They probably don’t even realize it’s gone! Funding and all that went out so they haven’t really developed it any further,” he replied, “And… well, this was the only one they had and I stole the blueprints. Woops!”

“Pietro, you’re going to get in trouble...AGAIN if you keep this here. You know I can’t allow you to hold this in the house especially since the cops have already been watching. Come on, man, why do you do this anyway?” Wanda said, quite frustrated at the presence of such a useless thing before her.

“For now. Of course I wish to return but for now I want to explore, to see other worlds. Perhaps I can help you still further, Rocket. I think we make a good team.” She said with an easy smile. She was nervous certainly about the idea of leaving Earth but she wasn’t going to tell him that. In fact she rather welcomed the challenge. “Is it all right with you?”

“All right. Three days in space doesn’t seem too bad. Perhaps by then I may wish to be back home after all.” Or what was left of home anyhow. “You are a good friend, Rocket. I am grateful for you.”

“That’s why I prefer women.”

“Do you now? Was that flirting?”

“It can be.” Mina smirked a little.

“Hmm, I can tell you aren’t lying.” She couldn’t help but play along anyhow, intrigued by her.

“No I do not but I would not mind braving it. You see I don’t really have a home, not since my brother…”She sighed deeply and looked back to him, not willing to go into it. “And besides it’s the least I could do seeing as you got us out of there.”

“For now. Of course I wish to return but for now I want to explore, to see other worlds. Perhaps I can help you still further, Rocket. I think we make a good team.” She said with an easy smile. She was nervous certainly about the idea of leaving Earth but she wasn’t going to tell him that. In fact she rather welcomed the challenge. “Is it all right with you?”

“They aren’t that bad.” Pietro shrugged and smiled at Wanda again, as he walked along with her until they reached the centre.

She smelled something wonderful in a nearby cafe, following her nose to the little building. “Come on, I think this is the place, not too many people here either.”

Pietro followed along beside her. He was glad the cafe was small and not too packed, that meant it would be safer and of course, less attention being drawn to them. “It looks nice.” He commented quietly as they walked inside.

She shrugged, just happy they had found some place that didn’t seem to o frightening to begin with. Maybe it was almost casual and she could feel the atmosphere around them as well, “I wouldn’t mind trying a hot dog, what about you? Think we can stand to stay here for a while?”

“I was going to ask YOU that very same question.”

“and maybe they do and you are more than you realize. Who are you?”

“Hmmph, clearly no one can and I do not intend to try.”

“Well I suppose we women can sustain ourselves.”

“Exactly. Men are extra baggage as it is.”

“That’s why I prefer women.”

“Do you now? Was that flirting?”

Wand was shaking which only made her tumultuous mind all the worse. She looked up at him, tears in her eyes and red energy playing on her fingers. “Mother and Father...they’re gone-they’re-Where do we go, Pietro? Where else is there to go?” She said, her emotions leaving her a wreck and the uncertainty of things only making her power all the more treacherous.

“Hmmph, clearly no one can and I do not intend to try.”

“Well I suppose we women can sustain ourselves.”

“Exactly. Men are extra baggage as it is.”

Wanda could see his power and it made her wary and alert all at once, her own energy sparking in her fingers. “A monster? Perhaps I am.” She spit back at him, knowing her own regrets and sin as well as the back of her hand. “Stand down, Loki. I have not lost my touch but it seems that you have lost your sanity if you think you can simply flirt and play with me.”

“Hmmph, clearly no one can and I do not intend to try.”