AN: This is my first CapX story so please bare with me. I've never written the Avengers so hopefully I get better at it.
Ps: This story is dedicated to FBDarkAngel for introducing this pairing to me
Pairing: Laura Kinney/Steve Rogers
Rating: T/M for violence and maybe more later on.
Notes: Movie Universe. Takes place a year after Avengers. Laura's history has been altered slightly and she's never meet Captain America but does know S.H.E.I.L.D. had been looking for her. Plus original villain group.
Plot: Nick Fury is met with a new group trying to enslave Earth that is calling themselves, The Ogdoad. The Egyptian word for a group of deities. He calls upon the Avengers to help once again, when this group starts to kill people in unusual ways, which start to show they may be more then human but that's not all the help he's getting. A young mutant has agreed to help, but will this new addiction to the team help or be the Avengers downfall?
Sitting behind his desk, Nick Fury actually let out a chuckle at the report that was laid out in front of him. He couldn't believe what he was reading. After five years, living on the run, keeping off the radar, a bar fight was what brought this one down. Maybe they weren't as good as previously thought. "And we're sure this is the right person?"
Agent Maria Hill nodded to her superior officer out of respect before speaking. "Yes sir, there are pictures of the damage and victims in the folder as well," She had seen the aftermath with her own eyes and she couldn't believe how much blood there'd been. The individual had been very precise about their attacks. Knew exactly where to cut to cause the most pain and panic, but keep their victims alive and conscious. "The local authorities arrived around 2300 hours to find the assailant sitting at the bar with a half bottle of alcohol, having a drink. The mutant didn't fight when brought in for questioning, but my source says they haven't said a word or asked for council,"
"That's unusual," Fury stated flipping through the photos. The work that was projected in the photographs matched his records but there were slight changes. One; everyone injured was male and two; they were all alive. From past knowledge, no one would be spared. There had to be something they were missing. "I think this would be the perfect time to have a chat," He placed the pictures back into the folder, closing it before looking back at Agent Hill. "Wouldn't you agree?"
Nodding, Hill gave the proper salute before exiting Fury's office to make the arrangements. Why he wanted to speak to a murder in a time like this was a mystery, but she'd learned a year ago with the Avengers he did everything for a reason. Heading to her nice pristine, nothing out of place, office she grabbed the receiver to her phone first before even sitting down. Dialing her contacts number, she waited for him to pick up. To be able to apprehend the prisoner S.H.E.I.L.D. was going to need inside information.
Several hours later, S.H.E.I.L.D. had the mutant in custody, handcuffed, shackled feet, and black bagged so they were unable to see where they were being taken. When the black van pulled up, Agent Hill and Fury stood outside the building waiting for their guest. Fury made his way inside as Hill went up to the van, making the transfer, before leading the mutant into the building and placing them in the empty chair. She then stood off to the side behind the mutant, waiting for further instructions.
The room was darkened with the only light coming from the lamp sitting on a table that had two chairs placed at it. One holding the suspect in question, the other holding Fury. The man looked at the young mutant with his one eye curiously. It amazed him how well of an operative the individual was considering their age. "Agent Hill, please remove the hood," Hill did as she was asked, revealing a young woman looking no more then twenty years old, with flowing raven black hair, and gorgeous emerald eyes. "Good evening Ms. Kinney,"
Laura looked around the room taking in everything around her. Even though the room was almost pitch black, she could see as if it was bright as day. They had tried so hard to conceal their location and keep her in the dark, but she'd been trained for this. She knew exactly where they were and now knew where all the exits were if need be. Only thing she didn't know was who had her, but given the man in front of her, she had a pretty good guess. She remained silent.
Fury took a note of her silence before looking at the inch to two inch folder in front of him. He flipped it open and began to skim through the contents. "You've a very talented young woman," Fury stated seeing if he was going to get any reaction from the girl, which there was none. "A record here that might even out shine Logan,"
"What do you want?" Laura was in no mood to sit and discuss her whole history. From the look of the file the man was flipping through, he knew enough about her already. Probably too much from her liking.
"Oh, I want a lot of things, but I only want a few from you," Laura was not looking forward to where this was going. "First I want you to tell me, what happened at the bar,"
Seriously? All this effort to get her alone and to potentially scare her into giving them what they wanted, when she would have willingly given them the information at the police station if they'd ask. Laura actually let out a light chuckle and a small closed mouth grin. "A group of guys came into the bar, they offered me a job with people I'd never head of, and when I declined they attacked me," She leaned back in the chair as her smile faded away. "I didn't start amputating limbs till they upgraded they're own weaponry,"
This caused Fury and Hill to exchange a puzzling look before looking back at Laura. "What sort of weaponry?"
"I'm not sure," Truth be told, she hadn't seen what had hit her, only felt the after effects. "if I didn't have a healing factor, I wouldn't be here right now though," She hadn't felt the blast, she'd only felt the rebuilding of her burnt tissue and bone. There had been a six inch hole, straight throw her just barley missing her heart that had actually knocked her out for a couple minutes.
Hill jumped in now. "Why didn't you kill them? If they attacked you-"
"I have enough of a body count in my wake, I don't add to it unless needed," Laura had been trying for almost a year now, not to take human life. She wasn't apart of the X-men or X-force anymore and she trying her hardest to understand what a normal twenty year old girl did.
"Well, from what you described, I believe you were propositioned by the same people we're trying to stop," Fury stated closing Laura''s folder. "What would you say, if I told you I'd like to discuss the Avenger Initiative with you?"
"I hear we're got new baddies in town," Tony Stark stated walking into the briefing room holding a Starbucks coffee in one hand and removing his red shades with the other as he placed them in his jacket. Steve Rogers rolled his eyes at the billionaire as he continued to read the briefing folder in front of him. "You got one of those for me, boy scout?" He asked Rogers as he took a seat across from him.
Steve looked up with a stern look about to say something when Natasha entered the room with multiple briefing folders and handed one to Tony who instantly dropped it on the table. "There you go," She smirked at the man knowing how much he hated being handed things before taking a seat herself next to Steve. "Anyone seen Banner or Clint?" They all knew Thor was in Asgard at the moment.
"Clint is on another assignment at the moment and Banner should be arriving shortly," Fury announced as he walked into the room followed by Agent Hill. "I trust you've all read the briefing or at least have the material in front of you," He looked to Tony who slowly pulled the folder to him, flipping it open to the first page as he took a sip of his latte. "There is a new threat on earth who are calling themselves, The Ogdoad,"
"Ogdoad? What is that?" Steve asked, getting a chuckle from Tony in the process causing everyone to look at the playboy.
"They were a group of gods and goddess from ancient egypt " Tony responded, having been tortured in watching the discovery channel with Pepper one night a few weeks ago.
"You're right, Stark," Fury agreed pulling out a remote and pushing the button to reveal digital holograms of the leaders they had record of. "I've had someone on the inside for almost two months and in that time they've sent us these, along with blue prints of weapons the group is currently developing,"
There where four individuals. Four men and a woman. The men where dressed in a type of modernized ancient golden armor with a black contrast and hoods concealing their identities. The woman was in a similar outfit with a dark red armor and gold contrast with a hood as well. Each had their own symbol on their backs and on the outside of their hand. A ankh, egyptian symbol for life, was on the woman. One of the men had a black jackal. Another had the Eye Of Ra and the last had the Eye of Horus.
"Who's the informant?" The russian asked secretly wondering if it was Clint. It wasn't unusual for her to work missions without him, but it was unusual for him not to say anything to her before he left.
"Someone that wishes to remain anonymous," Laura had only agreed to work with S.H.E.I.L.D if her involvement was remained secret from Logan and the people she was running from. A deal he had gladly made for her services. Bruce Banner walked into the room silently taking a seat while Fury continued to fill them in on what they'd be doing. "Our contact was only able to get inside due to the fact, the leaders are recruiting. Mainly mutants, but some are humans,"
"Willing or mind control?" Steve asked, wondering if this was another thing like what happened with Loki. That was all they needed.
Bruce jumped in now. "It actually starts out willingly, but then the group starts using drugs to keep everyone in control," He'd been doing tests on the samples Fury had received for several hours now. "I'm working on breaking down the compound right now,"
"Anything special about the compound?" Tony flipped through the pages to see if there was anything else on the drug.
He didn't know if it was special, but Bruce did find out there was something interesting about the drug. "The only thing I've found so far that's unusual, as it tends to have a very addictive property. More then any drug on file. The higher the dosage, the more dangerous to the system," Bruce shared with the rest. "I'm still running tests though,"
"I'm confused, why is this an Avengers matter?" Tony asked not having been told anything special about this new group that would make them an immediate threat. "All you've shown us so far is basically a cult, and if we're gonna start going after cults we're gonna be very busy,"
Fury ended up giving Tony his unimpressed face before reaching into his mater folder and throwing down around a dozen to two dozen pictures Laura had taken of the mutants or humans that didn't join. "Because the cults you're use to don't usually do this,"
Everyone around the table leaned forward to look at the photos and all of them cringed at what was in front of them. Some of the pictures had six inch burnt holes all the way through them with the embers still glowing inside them. While another group, had decaying, gruesome looking corpses that would make anyone sick. From the look of the bodies, the smell would have actually made them hurl if they were there.
Tony leaned back and took a deep breath before looking to Fury and in his own way telling him, he was onboard. "So, where we going sweetheart?"