Thread:Phineas Flash/@comment-25692211-20151206005139/@comment-25692211-20151225220107

Your story idea is great. Also, the first comment on this discussion explains most of your questions, but I'll explain them now.

In the Secret Avengers story, QS keeps his Hawkeye style smartass personality, often talking in a humorous way about how he never worries about anything, though he still acts somewhat controlling over Wanda, to her annoyance. But at the end of the second act, he fails to save Wanda and Barton as they are captured by Taskmaster. Though he is visibly disturbed by this burden, Pietro rallies the remaining members to rescue their teammates.

After Taskmaster's defeat, Barton expresses how proud he is of Pietro for his leadership, and(being inspired by an earlier conversation with T'Challa) suggests he go for a three month training exercise where he learns the merits of leadership, this being a trip to Iceland, Portugal, Mongolia, Japan and Wakanda.

Pietro leaves a few days later, but after his three months of training, he feels that he has failed to learn anything. Therefore, he decides to stay in the jungles of Wakanda and help the people there from the shadows. At the time he returns, his training period has been over for a year, and Wanda, having felt abandoned by Pietro, has grown to resent him in her frustrations and is working as Darkhawk.

And when he returns, he does not share his worries or self-doubt, this resulting in Hawkeye, who is planning to spend more time with his now-teenage daughter, revealing that when he retires from the team, he wants Pietro to be his successor as leader. Because of this, Pietro, not being entirely sure how to lead yet, acts from his experiences of working under Captain America, and Wanda, who dislikes the idea of being "inferior" to her brother, is angry at Barton's decision due to her assumption that now Pietro would be even more controlling than before.