Ello to one and all! I know I was writing a story called 'Unforeseen Foretold' yet unfortunately the Plot Bunny for that story had been given a proper funeral. *tear* Yet for you lovely readers I have this story which is going to be a crossover between Avengers and Captain America. Since it starts during Winter Soldier then transitions into Age of Ultron it should be a good long story, and also I intend to continue writing into Civil War and Infinity Wars. So sit back, grab a snack and enjoy! 3
Prelude~
Washington DC hadn't been her first choice to escape to and hide away, start over and try to blend into the millions to hopefully be invisible. She didn't want to go anywhere near the nation's capital but after receiving an extremely cryptic message she jumped and took a wild chance. With a new name, new look and apartment she mostly kept to herself trying to be as simple as she could. Not drawing attention to herself in any way shape or form. It was easy since with her new appearance literally no one seemed to care who she was or want anything to do with her. Contacts and hair dye is a wonderful thing, change of clothes and you have a whole new person. She had just left work and was walking from her building towards a coffee shop nearby, listening to music and simply humming along. Nothing was out of the ordinary and everything seemed totally normal. Every once in a while she would glance around to see if anyone was overtly interested in her or following her, yet as always no one was. It wasn't until she noticed a police car speeding towards a black SUV that she stopped watching the car slam into the driver side. Like something out of a horror movie three other police cars came out of nowhere and rammed into every other side of the car making her jump back and duck behind a car nearby.
"What the hell, is it crazy taxi day?!" she snapped as she continued to watch a swarm of police surround the now beaten up SUV. Narrowing her eyes, she pulled out her cell phone and after a moment realized—these weren't police. Looking back up she bit her lip when she watched the wannabe police shooting at the car, aiming for the driver side so clearly trying to kill whoever was inside. It wasn't until she watched with amazement that from inside the SUV gunfire appeared and began returning to shoot the wannabe police that she smirked.
"This day just got interesting." she muttered to herself as she made a face of mockery so that when an explosion rocked a police car sending it flying she knew she had to do something. Despite knowing who these men probably were, whoever they were attacking clearly needed help. So going over to the driver side of the car she was hiding behind she slammed her elbow into the window. Unlocking the door, she hopped inside and after a short hotwire session got it started as the SUV sped away. Following behind, she knew the person would most likely think she was part of the wannabe police trying to kill them so drove up and alongside the driver side window.
"Want help?" she shouted at the man inside wearing all black and an eyepatch over one eye who turned to see her. Upon seeing her the man looked like he was staring either at a monster or someone who wasn't supposed to be there. Turning back to the road she saw a car up ahead and shouted,
"LOOK OUT!" as she slammed on the breaks watching his car slam into the one she had to avoid creating a wonderful road block for not just the wannabe police—but for her too. Rolling her eyes, she watched him speed away as she got out of the car hearing men shouting behind her to get on the ground. Just shaking her head and slowly raising her hands as if in defeat, when she began to turn around—she fired four blasts of swirling purple crystal energy at the men who had to jump to get out of the way. By the time they stood up she had already leapt over the road block and had managed to steal a guy's motorcycle since apparently a chick with superpowers doesn't always attack police every day. On the sidewalk she pushed the bike to top speed to catch up to the black SUV knowing if they were following behind they probably had some sort of horrible present up ahead. Seeing the wannabe police starting to shoot at the black SUV through a bus caused her to not only get annoyed but made her give into her powers. Allowing the swirling purple energy to encase the motorcycle, she let go of the handlebars and began firing at anyone firing at the SUV. Each blast was wonderfully aimed sending only those with guns either falling onto the ground or ducking for cover. When she had to grab back onto the handlebars to make a hard banking turn, she continued to follow behind the three police cars chasing the now literally Swiss cheese SUV.
"When will they learn to play nice?" she muttered getting as close as she could to one of the cars to jump on top of the hood sending the motorcycle flying off into a building. Holding onto the police lights as it began to weave and turn trying to force her off, she put a hand into the driver side and blasted the driver sending the third car out of control. As it went aiming for the side of a building she jumped off landing on top of the roof of yet another car that was trying to get out of the way. Kicking the passenger side window and sliding into the seat, she gave the driver a grin saying to them,
"Either join the party or leave the party." so that as the business man who was probably on his way home opened the door to tumble out she grabbed the wheel and slid into the driver seat. Continuing after the SUV she felt a car ram into the back of hers and frowned seeing a police car in the rear view mirror.
"Now you figure it out?!" she groaned turning to send a blast at the car causing the back windshield to shatter and after two more blasts managed to hit the car's hood which caught fire. As smoke and flames sprang from the police car she turned back around continuing to give chase muttering,
"I need a paycheck after this." so that upon spying a yellow truck entering the intersection the SUV and two police cars on either side were coming to she sped up. With a hit on the rear bumper she managed to turn the Swiss cheese car so that it was able to make the turn while the two police cars got slammed. Fighting to stay in control of the wheel since it wanted so badly to just spin in her hands, she in the end lost and the car ended up slamming into a telephone pole. As sparks flew from overhead onto the car's hood, she hopped out before it could catch fire and started to run knowing she'd only have so much energy left after this. Upon seeing someone up ahead just standing in the middle of the road however she stood to watch the figure raise a gun at the Swiss cheese car. Even before she could act the figure had fired a disk that went flying under the car causing it to burst into an explosion and flip onto its top. Jumping backwards at the impact, she watched the car come to a skidding halt before running to the driver side of the car. Not caring about freaky crazy guy who had played chicken in the street, she knelt down by the car saying to the man inside,
"Are you ok?"
"Get the hell out of here kid!"
"Right and let them kill you because that would be too damn easy." she snapped watching him take out what looked like a tiny blow torch. Raising an eyebrow at him the man made eye contact with her before saying,
"I don't know how the hell you're alive Cory, but you have to get the hell out of here now!" blinking at the name as if he had gone bat shit crazy, and since his car was lying flat on the roof having been turned to Swiss cheese maybe he had.
"Go find Steve and Natasha or do something other than get yourself killed!" he hissed at her before she was grabbed on the shoulder and flung backwards from the car. Rolling a few times on the ground and able to land in a crouch, she slowly stood up to look at the figure in front of her. With shoulder length hair and wearing all black, the figure was clearly a man—with a metal arm. Something inside her realized two very dangerous things; one, who this man was with she had been running from for seemingly ever and two, she knew exactly who he was. Taking a few steps back away from him she called out,
"Did he steal your lunch money again?" and watched the man who had been examining the car freeze—before slowly standing to turn and see her. Wearing a half mask over their face and dark goggles, the man turned fully around to see who had called out to him since the voice—it was so familiar. Yet when he looked there was no one in the street, not a single person was anywhere near the area or a single sign of there ever have been. As the figure with the metal arm stormed down the street towards a waiting black van he never noticed the person who had slid underneath a truck parked just feet from him. Holding her breath and a hand covering her mouth, she watched his combat boots storm by but pause to see the note she left. Written on a torn piece of newspaper the man read in purple ink 'You need to learn to play nice with the other children on the playground'. A smirk came to her lips when she watched the metal armed man tuck the note into a pocket before finally he got into the van which sped away and down the street. Waiting two minutes before getting out from her hiding spot, she allowed herself to pant for air before realizing she only had her cell phone on her and wallet. Her purse was long gone but that didn't bother her so much as the fact the people she'd been running from had to choose the one place she had settled in.
"Damn it." she muttered running a hand through her dark brown hair before starting to call her roommate to pick her up. It was while she was on the phone with her roommate Nikki who was freaking out having watched the news of a crazy-ass car chase that she noticed something inside the car. Confused, she went over and bending down saw it was a folded piece of paper inside the visor. Taking it out and opening it, she felt her breath stolen from her lungs when she saw what it was. There staring back up at her was a picture of herself with the name 'Cory' underneath though the last name had been blacked out. Yet what made her stare was the bright red letters over the picture reading 'Deceased'. Turning the picture over she noticed a quick note written in shaky handwriting reading 'Whatever you think is true is wrong. Whatever is wrong you know is right. The truth you can find out if you want to pay the price'.
"Really? One Eye knows how to rhyme now?" she smirked before tucking the paper into her pocket before walking two blocks and when Nikki appeared got into her car. As Nikki rattled away about what she had seen on the news her roommate just sat in silence.
"Kate, are you ok? I mean besides looking like hell that is." Nikki asked so that Kate turned to her and giving her a smile as they appeared before their apartment building she told her,
"I've never been better." upon entering the safety of the apartment, Kate went straight to her computer to look up the address of someone who either could help her or kill her. After scribbling it down on a sticky note she told Nikki she was going out having changed. She had to find Steve Rogers.