This was supposed to be an ordinary day. But somehow a pesky sorceress managed to ruin it by just being there and doing her voodoo thing.

We thought she was another petty villain who became one because of their issues. Luckily, she wasn't like that and she, unlike some other villains had some actual powers.

There are so many powerless villain wannabes that generally just annoy everyone with their overblown dramas. For example a guy who shot acid everywhere because her girlfriend left him. He also claimed that his girlfriend liked dating villains.

And because of her, all of the Avengers are currently at least a little bit freaked out.

********* 2 hours ago**********

The Avengers were all in the common room. Thor was eating pop tarts and watching a horrible TV show with Steve. Clint had his hearing aids on and listening to the show from the vents. Even though Clint said the show was terrible he secretly loved it.

Natasha was reading a book on the loveseat and Tony was on his tablet, looking over some stuff for SI.

Tony had also been feeling a bit off today so he was a bit grumpy. But because he couldn't go to his workshop he was on his tablet. The reason Tony couldn't (or wouldn't) go to his natural habitat was because on Team Bonding Day (TBD, as he called it), the day prior AND the day after someone *read Nat and Steve* would send a glare at his way when he wanted to go and tinker in his workshop or make him sleep. And for some unknown reason JARVIS sided with them.

Today was the day after TBD so at least he didn't have to cook or play board games or something equally terrible with the team. They didn't even accept his and Clint's idea - a pissing contest. (It was probably declined because of Nat's lack of a dick.) Luckily he could still keep his beloved tablet so he could at least have something to do and not die of boredom.

Everyone was comfortable when suddenly an alarm sounded. It was the Avengers alarm. Someone thought it would raise the morale of heroes if the alarm was a too-happy voice yelling "Avengers Assemble".

It clearly wasn't working because Clint grumbled: "We should really change that damned alarm. Or make it less happy because it actually means that at least one of us may come home mutated."

"If you get mutated there will be even less ladies around you Birdbrain. Which is already zero" said Tony while calling his armor.

"You're an ass Stark. Doesn't Natasha count as a lady? "

Suddenly Natasha cut in: "Clint, I am an independent woman not a lady. And I am around you because I have to. So that means Tony is right," she said smugly

Steve, already in his Captain America costume stopped their bickering saying: „Cut the chatter, all of you. We need to focus on the problem."

"Aye, aye Captain. There's a situation in Queens. Apparently there's some woman there destroying buildings. She's using some kind of energy blasts and she's flying." replied Tony, already in his Iron Man armor.

Steve, after being informed, started giving out orders.

"Hawkeye, Widow, Thor - come to the quinjet with me. Banner, you too. We'll inform you if there's a need for the Hulk. Iron Man, fly ahead of us and inform us about her."

Thankfully, this time everyone obeyed the orders and did as the Captain said.

Iron Man, being faster than a quinjet, flew all the way to Queens and saw a woman tearing down buildings.

As soon as he saw the sorceress, he contacted Cap.

"I've got eyes on her, she's just hitting buildings with some kind of dark purple blasts of energy. The buildings she hit are collapsing and shining a lighter purple. She is wearing an armor of some sort, but that's not probably helping her fly like mine because she has big wings sticking out of it."

"Wings? Like that weird guy we fought like, two months ago? Let's hope this one is not his mommy or girlfriend. I really don't want to be covered in that smelly slime again. Was a bitch to get out of my quiver. And hair. I think I can still smell it in my quiver," asked Clint, now afraid of everyone with wings, because of one shitty encounter.

"I don't think so Barton, she has bird wings instead of these bat wings. And she looks mainly human to me, not like that scaly and bald guy. Maybe she's your relative or something. You should ask her on a date after we beat her."

"No thanks, I can find girls on my own"

"Now can you? The Avengers don't need another male Artemis running around, it's bad publicity. By the way birdy, if your quiver gets dirty, you don't wash it and kiss its boo-boos and tuck it in, you get another one. Why do you think my armor doesn't smell like a dumpster?"

"It's my holy qui-" started Clint, clearly annoyed by the quip, but was cut off by Steve.

"We don't need to start chatting. Iron Man, don't engage before we come unless she starts to do serious damage or if she notices you. We'll be there in five minutes. Inform us of any changes."

Tony landed on the ground not far from the woman. He hid behind a building and observed her, hoping she wouldn't notice him or destroy his Super-Secret Hiding Place (Yes, he knew this was a stupid name, but he wasn't feeling that great today. If he was a little better, he would have named it a better thing). Weirdo Woman (Again, he wasn't as good as he would have been on any other day. The days he had been awake for four days are exceptions as well) was lifting the destroyed buildings up and gathering some kind of glowing thing from them, making the buildings crumble to tiny dust piles.

WW was also muttering something under her breath, but he couldn't hear it, so he turned the volume up. The woman was speaking in a weird language. (He'll record this and let Thor translate it later.) He listened to her muttering and realized that he could almost understand some of it. She seemed to be angry at something (someone?). He could tell that "berectan" was some kind of verb and "tek" meant "I". Suddenly he felt dizzy and when his head cleared, her speaking was complete gibberish to him. He forgot everything about the words he understood when he saw the quinjet in the air.

Unfortunately for him this was the moment Weirdo Woman decided to send a blast at his building, which collapsed like the other ones (Goodbye, Super-Secret Hiding Place, you'll never be forgotten). To protect himself from the building, he flew away, but doing so he revealed himself to the sorceress. Tony sighed and flew to the sorceress, informing the Avengers during it.

The rest of the Avengers put on their gear. Natasha put on her new (Stark made) uniform and took her weapons, hiding them in the uniform with her spy magic. Clint gave up on trying to save his stinky quiver a long time ago, so he had been using a new and improved one ever since. He was also happy that he had new and awesome arrows like the EMP arrow or Screamer arrow (which needed earplugs to protect others from the high-pitched sound). Bruce just put on his super stretchy pants and ran to the quinjet. Thor used his magic to summon his Asgardian armor and took his beloved hammer Mjolnir (Darcy insists its Myuh-Myuh). He didn't want to fly with the quinjet, so he twirled his hammer and just flew beside it. Steve dressed himself in a bulletproof flag and armed himself with a very strong Frisbee.

Clint, Natasha, Steve and Bruce went and sat in the quinjet. Clint flew it towards Queens, Cap was getting more information about the subject and Natasha was loading her guns.

Then Thor thought it was a good idea to start talking. "Even though the Man of Iron's talk was devoid of much knowledge, this villain reminds me of a race far away from the Nine Realms. These people also carried the wings of birds on their backs and used them to fly with the same grace as birds. What also troubles me is that the fair lady Friend Anthony told us about seems to have the same power as this noble race. If she truly is one of them and she is here without Lady Alicia's orders, we need to capture her."

"Who is this race you're talking about Thor? Even if she isn't one of them, maybe she and they have similar or the same weaknesses," asked Steve, interested in the subject.

"This noble race is called the Da'Foren. To know the weaknesses of one, thou must know the color of one's magic and know what that means. Their people wandering on Midgard might be a sign of trouble."

"What kind of trouble do you mean, Thor?"

"Da'Forens rarely comes to Midgard. If these people are here, they may be looking for something or wanting to announce us of a coming war. But I believe they would not choose Midgard for it." Suddenly Thor stopped and said, "Havelin, of course…"

"What do you mean Thor?"

"I believe it is nothing. This lady is probably not even a Da'Foren. Do not worry, Friend Steven!" said Thor, ending with a joyous tone, which was obviously fake.

Steve was suspicious, but dropped the subject and didn't argue further.

"We're almost there, team. I'll land on that patch of grass over there" said Clint.

Bruce, who had been silent the whole time, said: "Clint, that's a football – "

"Yeah, yeah whatever."

"Call me if it's code green. I wouldn't want to not be called when you actually need me because of your pride."

"THAT WAS ONE TIME BRUCE!"

The Avengers were starting to land the quinjet, when they heard Tony speaking from the com line.

"She's taking something glowing out of the destroyed buildings and she made them turn into dust. Try not to get hit with her blasts. OH SHIT, she's got me. Here we go then."

Thor spun his hammer and flew off to help his friend while the other just ran towards the sorceress after they landed their jet. Bruce stayed in the quinjet, took a book from the tiny storage room and started reading.

Clint had to be high, so he climbed on top of a building that he could jump off of if his building was shot with a Blast of Evil.

Tony knew that if he wanted to be alive by the time his team arrived, he needed to annoy WW and dodge any of the blasts she may shoot at him. He flew closer to her and saw that her hands were already glowing, indicating that she was ready to shoot. But then she stopped and he could see the confusion on her face. She started to speak to him, but he didn't know what any of that meant. But then Tony thought it was a good idea to open his mouth and say: "Hey, would you stop destroying our buildings, people live there!" He hoped that whoever this woman was, she would at least know a little bit of English.

No such luck. The sorceress looked disappointed and said "Elzevir" with so much disgust that it could power the Avengers Tower. Her hand started to glow and she flicked it at his way. Tony felt air around him vibrate and he was launched against a house. He fell to the ground, feeling terrible. The skin and muscle around the arc reactor hurt, he felt dizzy and his head pounded.

Then, JARVIS started talking:"Sir, you need medical attention. You have elevated heart rate and a broken arm. Your temperature is also slightly higher. I'll inform the team.

"No Jay, don't, I'll go to medical after the battle. I can do this."

Tony was saved by Thor, who flew to the sorceress and landed on the ground. The God of Thunder yelled something at the woman, who started to land. She closed her wings, which were dark purple on the bottom of the wings and turned gradually lighter on the top. She had a look of horror and realization on her face and she crossed her arms in a strange manner, as if she was saluting to Thor. Then she started talking, but Tony was too far away to hear and still had a headache, so he couldn't concentrate on what they were saying. The Iron Man stood up and walked towards her, but Thor turned and told him: "Stay away, Man of Iron. I'll have a talk with her."

Apparently he had told everyone else this, because the Black widow and Captain America, who he had seen in the corner of his eyes, stopped and backed away. He didn't see Hawkeye, but he thought he was on a still standing building. Bruce was hopefully still in the quinjet, seeing that he wasn't around.

Finally Thor and Weirdo Woman had stopped talking and Tony could Thor speaking in the com line.

"You can come here now. Hide your weapons away; we do not want to scare her with our Midgardian inventions. Man of Iron, I believe it would be best if you step out of your glorious armor."

Sighing, Tony stepped out of his armor, feeling a bit naked without it. He felt another wave of sickness, but he didn't show it. He saw the others coming the sorceress's way and he calmed down a bit. He was surrounded with his team; they wouldn't let anything happen to him.

He stepped towards Thor, but he was still a little wary about the woman.

When all of the Avengers were there, Natasha started to speak: "Who is she and why did she crush all these buildings?"

Thor immediately answered: "Calm down Lady Widow, she is a Da'Foren. Her name is Zekata and she does not mean any harm to us. She was sent here by Lady Alicia herself, but there was some kind of an accident, so she was sent to the wrong place. She is using her remarkable powers to drain energy from the very buildings."

"Drain energy? For what exactly? A Death Star?" asked Tony.

"I do not know what a Star of Death is, but Lady Zekata is planning to use the energy to go back so she can be sent to the right location."

Zekata started talking in her own language again so Thor translated: "Man of Iron, she says that she loves your wonderful armor and thought you were a Da'Foren at first. She also wants to apologize that she threw you at a house."

"Thanks, I guess? This is the first time anyone has ever apologized to me for throwing me at a building."

Thor translated his words to Zekata and then she extended her hand towards Tony.

"Shake her hand, Friend Tony. This is a sign of gratitude."

Tony took her hand and shook it. Suddenly her face twisted to grimace and she yelled something that sounded like:"HAVELIN?! Tarth katgakpa tarr jaf polots!"

She let go of his hand and shot another, a bit redder blast at his way, making him fall backwards.

His whole body burned and his arc reactor seemed to be the center of it. Then his back started to burn, somehow even worse than his chest. He couldn't hear anything and he had closed his eyes long ago. Then the darkness consumed him.