How was it always them that the weird stuff happened to? Tony pushed another low pine branch out of his way. He heard a sharp yelp from Clint as the branch swung back and hit him across the face. He saw Bruce suppress a shiver as a cold wind whipped by as he was only dressed in the Hulk's stretchy pants and Tony was instantly grateful for his suits temperature regulation. Oh and the day had started out so nice.

-o0O0o-

12 hours earlier

The sun trickled pleasantly into the room, even though it was reaching close to 12:00 in the afternoon, do to JARVIS regulating the shading of the windows.

"Good morning sir." The AI greeted

" mornin' JARV" The inventor mumbled as he shuffled out of the bedroom.

The kitchen was quiet as Tony began brewing some coffee with most of the Avengers having started their day at least five hours earlier. Clint and Natasha were probably training or on mission or doing whatever the hell they did on their time off, Tony realized he never really knew what the assassins were doing when they weren't in his line of sight. Cap was probably out running or doing charity work or something. Tony took a sip of the glorious brown liquid and settled himself against the counter. He mused that he couldn't really think of what Thor would be up to but vaguely remembered something about SHIELD wanting his input on something but couldn't remember what. Maybe Banner was down in the labs.

Tony spent most of the rest of the day with Bruce down in the labs jut being science bros. It was around 6 when the alarm sounded and JARVIS informed them both that a HYDRA base, that seemed to mainly be a storage place for high tech weaponry and alien artifacts, had been located in Iceland.

"Isn't that kind of a long way?" Bruce questioned the AI

"The activity in the aria is beginning to heat up, SHIELD believes that they may be beginning to put a plan into action."

"Right" Bruce mumbles as Tony tells JARVIS to have his newest suit, the mark XLVII, ready at the gantry when he gets there.

"The rest of the team returned to the tower during the duration of your time in the labs, they are now currently heading to the jet and will most likely be waiting for Dr. Banner."

"Right!" Bruce jogs out of the lab as Tony heads to the gantry.

-o0O0o-

The flight to Iceland takes four hours and Cap takes that time to explain their game plan so that when they get there everything goes smoothly. Hawkeye and Black widow sneak in so they can have people to attack from the rear as well as to find out what HYDRA has been keeping here; the rest of them circle the base. Once they get the signal they all rush in guns blazing. The battle doesn't take long and the base is pretty much just smoldering wreckage by the end (though it had really stood no chance against the combined wrecking abilities of both Hulk and Thor). After the last of the HYDRA agents had been shot down and or apprehended Tony landed next to his teammates as they sifted through the rubble.

"Find anything cool?"

"Just a bunch of guns and things in containment jars," Hawkeye answered as he poked the side of an at least three foot long energy blaster rifle and Widow held up a clear box with a gold 3D star like object inside.

"We should really go get Bruce," Cap states as he holds up two sheets of glass with several metal disks held between them.

"I'll do it," Nat says putting the box back down and heading for the trees that the Hulk ran off into. It's not long till they return Natasha supporting a weak Banner as they rejoin the group.

Tony looked around and spots a colorfully braided cord attached to a silver disk pendent with vertically crisscrossing lines carved into it.

"Hey guys," Tony calls as he scoops up the necklace, "guess HYDRAs all into jewelry now." He holds it out for the rest of them to see.

"Heh, hey that's actually kind of pretty," Clint says as he makes his way over for a better look.

"Tony you probably shouldn't be touching things that aren't in containment jars." The captain chides.

"Ay my friend," Thor says thoughtfully as he regards the object in the container he's holding. "I do not recognize many of these objects, but the ones I do most defiantly should not be in the hands of those such as HYDRA."

"Ah, come on, it's just a necklace" Tony wines holding the necklace up and shoving it in Cap's direction as he wiggled it back and forth.

"Oh god! Come on dude, you totally just jinxed it!" Clint says frantically as he stops in his tracks. "Ug, that's like rule number one in our line of work, never say something is just something! It's like a 'What could wrong?'!"

Tony then hears a sound like jingling bells. He glances up at the necklace that's begun to glow.

"Crap," Tony mutters as the sound of a gong vibrates around the demolished base and the pendant lets lose a shockwave that knocks them all clean off their feet.

A/N

this is the symbol on the pendent

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I'll actually really try to update mildly consistently, I swear

I swear upon my obsession