So, to any of my viewers who read my other stories, remember how I said in "Dead and Gone" how I was going to post a new story? Welp, here it is...
Enjoy!
~CreatureHanstran~
Chapter 1: A life for a life
"Help!" I heard an innocent child cry from inside a building, "Steve!" I struggled against a robot,
"I'm on it." He ran into the building.
I kicked the head off of the robot and threw it to the side, "Tony this is like the fifth time someone has stolen your technology!" I growled,
"Not true, Ultron wasn't-"
"Yes he was." Nat intervened,
"Thank you Nat." I flew up and tackled a robot onto a rooftop. It kicked me down then shot smoke at me. I coughed and went to shoot fire at it, but nothing happened, "My powers!" The robot ran at me and we both fell off over the side. I punched the robot it the face then kicked it off of me. I turned over so that I was going to face plant the pavement, "Someone help me!" I screamed and closed my eyes.
Just when I thought I was going to hit the pavement, my landing was softened, "Does this make us even?" A familiar accented man said, I opened my eyes to see I was in Pietro's arms, the city blurring around us as he ran,
"It doesn't beat bringing you back to life but I think it makes us pretty even."
He slowed to a stop and put me on my feet, "Can you still fight?" He asked,
"Not with my powers, but I do have Tony's backup plan." I pressed a button on my watch and armor started encasing my body until I was in my own Iron Man like suit,
"That's a good look on you." Pietro smirked,
"Hey, I wore it first." Tony whined, "And besides, I thought my tech was rogue."
"Not the tech that I helped invent."
"Could you guys stop bickering for a minute and help me, I can't destroy these things on my own." Clint said,
"Hang on, I'm coming." I said and looked at Pietro, "You good?" I asked,
"I can handle myself, you should go."
"Right." I nodded and flew off to help Clint.
Clint was on a rooftop trying to defend himself and get robots out of the sky, I could see he was almost out of arrows, "Man you do need help." I used my repulsers to get the ones out of the sky,
"Took you long enough." Clint said,
"Sorry, I figured you were man enough to hold your own but apparently not."
He sneered at me, I smirked but I realized he couldn't see it, "Just be quicker next time."
"If you wanted fast you should have personally asked for Quicksilver."
He shrugged, "I have my preferences."
"We all do." I flew off.
A bolt of lightning missed me by a few inches, "Woah! Thor! It's just me!" I said to the Asgardian,
"My apologies, I thought you were a metal abomination."
"No, they're a different color than I am."
"Again, my apologies." I flew off.
Below me Banner was code greening the ground armies, "How much more is left?" I asked,
"You can't be getting tired already, we just started the fight." Pietro said,
"Not true, I've been here at least an hour."
"Somebody missed her lunch time." Tony snickered,
"You're damn right I did."
"Ooh Steve, she said a bad word." Nat said in fake astonishment,
"That was one time! Let it go already!" Tony exclaimed,
"One time is all it takes." I laughed.
I landed next to Steve and Nat, Steve didn't notice it was me and threw his shield at me, I caught it, "Are you colorblind?" I asked as my suit retracted back into my watch,
"I'm sorry but in this lighting the metallic pink looks silver."
"Uh-huh." I said in disbelief. Robots flew overhead, I used my firepower to blast them out of the sky, "Hey, I've got my powers back!"
"Great, now you can do your job." Tony said,
"Watch it Stark or I'll blast you out of the sky too."
"I'd love to see you try."
"Not now you two, we need to work together." Steve interrupted,
"Fine." I huffed.
While I fought I couldn't help but think about what a dick Tony has been, and how gorgeous Pietro is... Mostly the second one... But that didn't make me lose any focus. Soon I was standing next to the others in a mess of robot parts, "So ah... Who's on cleanup crew?" Steve asked,
"Nose goes!" I shouted and threw my hands to my face. Everyone did the same before Steve understood what was going on, "What?" He asked,
"Dude you're on cleanup." Clint said,
"Now wait a minute-" We all ran off/flew off.
I watched Pietro run, (or I guess in his case it was more of a leisurely jog) around the track, he was shirtless and his body was sweaty. I could feel myself practically drool over him, he was too damn hot! He looked over and must have seen me staring at him because he smirked. I quickly looked down at my phone and texted my cousin, "You should be more discreet when you're checking me out." Pietro appeared in front of me,
I blushed, "I was not checking you out, I just happened to glance at you while you were looking at me."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah."
He smirked again, "How about a race?"
You kidding me? I knew I couldn't beat Pietro in a race, "Okay." I got up,
"First one to three laps wins."
"Got it." I went out on the track,
"Don't worry, I'll go easy on you." We started the race. Pietro wasn't going full speed so I was keeping up with him the first lap, "You're pretty fast, but I'm faster." He took off,
"You can run but you can't fly." I flew up behind him,
"Hey that's cheating."
"You never said any rules, all's fair in love and war." I flew ahead of him starting lap two.
He was right next to me, "I'm gonna win." He said,
"No you're not!" I did a nosedive into him just as we got to the finish line, we tumbled for a few feet then stopped, Pietro was on top of me, "Uh..." I was speechless,
"Oh sorry." He got up, "I'll give that win to you." He grabbed my hand and helped me up, but he didn't let go of it,
"Nah, I feel we both won equally."
"So we tied?"
"Yup." I grinned. My phone buzzed, "It's Tony... I gotta go." He nodded and let go of my hand, I walked out of the gym.
I opened the door to Tony's lab, papers and tools were scattered about, I didn't think much about the mess, it was usual of Tony, but what was unusual was that Tony was slumped at his desk, his hands on the back of his head, "Tony...?" I stepped forward,
"This doesn't make sense!" He said,
"What doesn't?" He sat up and toward me,
"This." He slid his finger on his phone and in between us was a wall of files, with a familiar story on it,
"No... It can't be... He was destroyed!" I said,
"Apparently not." Tony stood up, "All of my tech being stolen in the last few weeks..." He walked toward the holographic was, "It was because of Ultron, he's back."