Disclaimer: I do not (unfortunately) own any of the Marvel characters or story lines, I only own my OC's and whatever changes I make to the story. There. I disclaimed it.
"Director Fury?" Coulson said into his comm link, after watching the million dollar faclity, that took months to build, sink into the ground in under 5 seconds.
"What do we do?" Coulson asked his leader for orders, hoping that he had a solution for this new monstrosity that had tainted the earth.
"We get ready." Fury said seriously, walking away from the helicopter wreckage behind him, knowing that there wasn't any survivors.
"How?" Hill asked, climbing out of her crashed Jeep that had gotten caught in the tunnel collapse, when the facility sank.
"The Avengers Initiative." Fury said brushing off his coat.
"Coulson, get Romanoff, I want her on Banner and bring in Stark." The older man ordered.
"On it sir." The agent replied, already pulling out his cell phone to make the arrangements.
"Hill, I want you to get a team ready."
"What for sir?" The brunette asked, already dreading the answer.
"I want Erica Farraday on the Helicarrier in the next 24 hours. Alive preferably." Fury answered the young womans query with a smirk.
"Great." Agent Hill murmured to herself before making her way out of the tunnel.
Erica Farraday is a difficult person to locate. Well, 'difficult' is an understatement. It was damn near impossible, as Maria Hill came to discover. She felt that she got lucky with the information from the Taiwanese hot dog vendor, who had sold Farraday a hot dog every single day for the past year or so. This was the longest she had stayed in one location, which was a break of her 8 year streak of not staying anywhere for more than 3 days. Maria was dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, trying not to attract attention to herself as she and a group of S.H.I.E.L.D agents made their way through the sub way station trying to close in on their target. Erica Farraday. Erica stood there in some denim shorts, a cut off tee, sneakers and sunglasses. If she knew they were there, she didn't let on. Instead, she was staring up at the different train times, working out what platform she needed to be on. Hill nodded to the surrounding agents and they started to close in on her, when a large group of tourists flooded the station. This was the distraction Erica needed, she followed the flow of the crowd, slipping on a baseball cap to hide her hair. Once Maria and the other agents had forced their way through the crowd to where their target had last been seen, the found that she had gone, train ticket and sunglasses discarded on the floor. Hill cursed tourists and ordered half the team to search the subway and check the surveillance whilst she led the other half after that group of tourists.
Erica let the tourists lead her for 5 blocks before she peeled off from the crowd, pulling off her cap and walking down a deserted alley way, shoving her hands into her pockets. Hill spotted the pink haired target taking off from the tourists they had been tailing and followed her down the alley. It was empty. Hill whipped her head around, there were no exits out of this alley way. It was a dead end. She turned to address her team and found most of them on the floor, unconscious, with Erica standing over one of them, checking their pulse. She looked up when Hill clicked the safety off her gun, aiming it at her pink haired head.
"Put it away, I don't want to kill you." Erica said, standing so that she was facing Maria.
"That's rich, coming from someone who's unarmed." The brunette was soon eating her words as the gun was kicked from her hand and flew up into the air, she didn't recover quickly enough as Erica placed a kick in her chest and Maria went flying backwards. Erica caught the gun and pointed it at the floored agent.
"Look who's talking." The pink haired girl eyes suddenly rolled back into her head and she collapsed. The agent she had been checking the pulse of before had hit her in the back of the head. He walked over to Hill and offered her a hand, she took it and allowed herself to be pulled up. She brushed her jeans off and walked over to an unconscious Erica, kneeled down and handcuffed her hands and feet. She gagged her to be on the safe side.
"Get her in the car," Maria told the agent, "Fury's expecting her."
A/N: Okay, it's not my longest chapter ever, but I promise that the next one will be longer...ish :D