Chapter 1

Tony raised the throttle to full thrust, they could get there this time, they could catch whoever was doing this. "C'mon," he muttered, "faster, faster, we gotta get there, we gotta stop this monster.", there it was, west city. "No, not again!", he was confronted by a barren pile of rubble, not a single survivor.

Three weeks earlier.

"Okay listen up, we've had reports that something, supposedly some alien life force, has been sweeping through towns and villages, completely obliterating them. Shield hasn't got anything on this, no signs of explosives or millitary forces used, zero survivors, this seems nothing like the chitaru, or any other known beings. Shield's got nothing." Fury leant over the table as the avengers listened intently. Well, except Tony, who was finding his phone about a thousand times more interesting, besides, he'd had his usual daily hack of shield's database and read all there was on the matter. He only perked up at the end of the brief.

"Wow what a suprise, Cap'n Fury and his mighty crew of shield agents haven't been able to sort out a problem, it's not like that's ever happened before." Everyone glared with intesity that anyone but Tony would be intimidated by. Then Natasha smiled sweetly.

"Tony, shut up, this is serious, unless you want me to break another fifteen of your bones." This made even Tony wince, although he quickly picked up the slack

"So Steve, has the mighty Captain America got another one of his amazing plans?", for a second the room was silent as the captain thought.

"We tail this thing."

Easier said than done, three weeks in and they had found nothing but the rubble and craters left behind by the chaos. No matter how quickly they travelled, no matter how ready they were, this thing, whatever it was, was always faster.

What sort of monster does this? Tony thought as he gazed at the ruins of west city, what evil monster wipes out entire cities. It was then that the fury sent the message "I want you all to get your asses to shield headquarters this instant, we may have found a lead on this monster."