Avengers and the Book of the Dead is the direct follow up of The Mummy: The Book of the Dead. I was planning on doing this later on when ParaNorman and the Nightmare of Halloween was nearly finished but I thought against and I was also planning on doing after a Transformers fanfiction but decided against. This may be the biggest fanfiction that I have done up to date. It will involve more characters and more minor plots that link the stories that have been done already and to the ones that are just getting the final plans done. It will also link the Mummy: The Book of the Dead to Captain America: The Night Wars.
Seth with help has been freed from his prison deep within the Tower of London and he is now after one thing: The Book of the Dead. It is going to take all the Avengers to keep the book and Earth safe from him.
Chapter 1: The Mummy
Hatred! Confusion! Rage! Hope! Determination!
That was all he felt for 3000 years as he waited. 3000 years he had been in the black box condemned for a crime that he did not commit. A crime that had been committed by Seth and Anck-Su-Namun. Thinking of the two star-crossed lovers caused more rage to course through his body. He had been through too much already and he had not even begun. He had vowed to himself a hundred years after he was buried that no matter what he was going to get revenge! Revenge was all he could think about and he soon lost himself as he waited. But it was only until he had been imprisoned for 2000 years that he began to mellow. He remembered that he had a mission that had been given to him by Osirus and Horus.
He had a mission. He had to save the earth. He had to stop Seth before he could do anything worse than cause a few earthquakes and storms that brought down citites and temples. He needed to find the Book of the Dead and keep it away from the Wereset, but that was impossible to do when he was trapped in a box that was designed to keep the Undead in and the living out. He needed to find the beings that Horus had spoken about before he was mummified alive.
He felt his body being flung arond. For 3000 he had been still now he was being flung around with little care. He would have shouted if he could, but he couldn't. A scarab scuttled into what remained of his chest. The flesh eaters where running out of meat to eat. He was nothing more than a corpse held together by bandages. He let out a grunt as his coffin was dropped the ground.
"Nightshade did you hear that?" he heard a man ask with an acent he was not familiar with. "I think there is someone in there!" the man spoke out again this time closer than before.
"That's impossible, Rogers! There is no way someone can slip into a sealed sarcophagus!" the one called Nightshade replied. "Not unless! Rogers get back! Edward open it!" Nightshade shouted. Nightshade and Rogers went away their voices got quiter. He was only again, that was until a purple axe blade smashed through the coffin like a knife through butter. The axe was whipped out and five green fingers came into view. With a strength that he had not seen the lid of the coffin was ripped off of its hinges. For the first time in 3000 years he was seeing the world once again. His eyes that had been use to the darkness readjusted to the light and he looked into the red eyes of a green corpse with huge tusk like teeth jutting out of its botton jaw. Half its brain was in view as the other half was still covered in the hard skull.
"Nightshade, it's alive!" the corpse said looking over its shoulder at someone he could not see. He spoke in a language he was not familiar with and soon he was out of sight. A second later a women wearing a hat came into view. "Why do you think it is? One of Seth's followers from back in the day?" the green skinned corspe asked from the sidelines.
The girl leaned in closer. She was not afraid of him at all and she didn't show any signs of being effected by the smell of rotten flesh. She pulled back and started talking to the other two that he could not see. "Edward help him up and out! We'll see if he is with Seth!" she spoke. She walked away with her head held high. A second later the one known as Edward came back into view.
Edward reached in with one hand and with the same strength tugged him out of his prison of 3000. He was dropped onto the ground and landed on his backside with a loud grunt. He looked up as Edward walked away and the girl came back into view. At her side she carried a sword that hung from a strange material he had never seen before.
She bent down and came eye level with him once again. Edward kept close to her back and his axe that he had used to open the coffin was still in his hand ready to defend Nightshade. "Who are you?" she asked narrowing her eyes.
He just stared at her and before he knew it Edward was shouting, "I'd answer her if I were you!" he snarled. He reached for his axe and was ready to jump to Nightshade's defence.
"My name is Imhotep! I am the High Priest of Osirus!" he introduced himself. He did not expect for Nightshade to growl at him. He wacthed as she turned her attention back to Edward and the man in a strange kind of blue armour.
"Edward take the Book of the Dead back to the Tower and lock it up!" Nightshade ordered Edward as she stood her. "Rogers, we need to take this thing out of here!" she said to the man in blue armour. The man in blue armour walked out of the room and disappeared.
Imothep wacthed as Edward took the Book of the Dead. The green skinned corpse was then swallowed by a blue vortex that had sprang to life before collapsing on itself. He was roughly helped to his feet by Nightshade and shoved in a direction he was hoping was not to his end. He hoped that these people were not Seth's supporters. He triped on his own feet but Nightshade kept a grip on the bandages on his back. Sharp nails dug deep into what remained of his flesh a few times and had nipped at his bones. He was shoved from room to room as Nightshade took him to where it was she was taking him. She kept to more quite routes as she followed a map in her mind as she got closer to where it was she was taking him. The man in blue armour had not come with them and Imhotep hoped that was because Nightshade was going to kill him.
Two strange doors were firmly looked in place but a strange noise tht sounded like whistling that came from Nightshade thedoors swung open. A gust of air drove into the room and Imhotep for the first time in three thousand years was able to see the sun light. His remaining skin screamed at the sudden warmth and Nightshade did not help. She kept pushing him towards a strange looking peice of metal.
The metal had been forged into such a way that it looked like a strange bird. Its silver and blue body reminded him of a night sky lit up only by the moon. Nightshade spun him around before slamming him into the metal of the strange bird. Groaning he opened what remained of his eyes as Nightshade grabbed his throat.
"Who are you really?" she snarled leaning in closer to him. The sound of popping bones was loud and a few times Nightshade's grip on his throat tightened. "From my knowledge that I have gathered of this world the only High Priest Imhotep died as a subject of Seth! So tell me the truth or beg to whoever you work for that I don't snap your neck like a branch!" she hissed once again tightening her grip and smashing him against the metal bird.
Grunting again he looked into ruby red eyes. Fingers had become claws that could easily dig through his flesh. Her arms had gotten slightly longer and the strain of not snapping his neck was growing bigger by the second. "So who are you really?" she asked leaning in once again.
"I told you! My name is Imhotep and I have to get the Book of the Dead! I have to before the man with the skull face gets it!" he replied. He was once again slammed into the metal bird with greater strength. He was beginning to be glad that he had been cursed the undead. He was sure that Nightshade was going to crack his skull, but it did not happen. Nightshade pulled back and released her grip on his throat.
A hiss escaped her as she studied Imhotep. "You don't work for Seth?" she asked. Her left hand hovered over her sword at her side ready to whip it out. She kept a stance that told Imhotep that if he made any sudden moves he would end up with a sword in his chest.
"I don't work with Seth!" he replied and found himself once again being flung into the side of the metal bird. Grunting as an instinct he felt something pick at the back of his mind. Memories came flooding to his mind eye until it was all done. He slumped in Nightshade's grip as she released him.
Nightshade stepped away from the Mummy and rubbed her face with a gloved hand. She looked at the Moonray which she had used to pin the Mummy against. She had to be weary of things that concerned Seth. He was one of the biggest threats that the Avengers were facing and had followers all around the universe now thanks to the Dalek fleet that he had gotten from Dalek X after the Dalek Devil was killed by Dalek Sec in the belly of his own flagship. He was after the Book of the Dead which in itself had been hard to find, but to find a sarcophagus with links to both Seth and the Book of the Dead that had caused Nightshade to be on edge more than ever. Looking back at the Mummy who was still trying to find his feet after being dead for 3000 years she had to think of how much he knew about Seth. He could help them come up with a plan to bring Seth down.
"I believe you! My name is Nightshade-" she started but was stopped when the sound of a door opening caused her to turn around. She reached for her sword as the door swung open and she spun towards th door that had just opened. Keeping Imhotep behind her and with the Moonray shimmering out of sight she was happy that she could explain that the two of them were staff dressed up as a pirate and a mummy.
Into the room walked a man wearing a black suit and sunglasses. A smile came onto his face as he walked towards Nightshadewho snarled and put her sword away. "Stark, your lucky that I didn't impale you!" she snapped as the man walked towards her. "And why aren't you in your armour?" she asked folding her arms across her chest as the Moonray came back into view.
"Come on Nightshade! It's not just you and Galvatron who can pick a disguise!" he said with a smile as he removed the sunglasses from his face. "Anyway I came to tell you the museum will be opening up again in twenty minutes!" he said before he turned on his heel. Before walking out he looked over his shoulder at Nightshade. "Do you think I would make a good museum boss? You know getting new exhibits and running a museum?" he asked her.
Nightshade growled and looked to the floor. "No I don't! You already run a business and to put it simple Stark your more a child than anything else!" she snapped back at him when she once again made eye contact with Tony Stark. He bore a childish smile on his face causing Nightshade to sigh. "And why couldn't you have told me about the museum closing over the com. system?" she asked him as she started pushing the Mummy into the Moonray.
"Not as fun as you getting ready to impale little old me!" he replied before walking away.
Nightshade wacthes him leave and could have sworn that Howard's son was trying tonrun her into an early grave. Shaking her head she got Imhotep into the Moonray.
"Like I said before I was interrupted by Tony-" she started but once again she was stopped. Snarling Nightshade stared at Imhotep. The Mummy said everything that she was going to say. He knew what she was going to say before she was going ti say.
Before Imhotep knew what was happening he was pinned under a clawed paw. The sound of popping and cracking loud in his sensative ears. The clawed foot scrapped the floor of the ground as the creature kept him pinned. Red orbs glared down at him and he was afraid that he was going to be dragged back to the Underworld again. He got a good look at the creature and was reminded of the shadows that Horus had shown of him of all the heroes that would be needed to bring Seth down.
"Alright, pal! Start talking!" Nightshade growled as she leaned in closer to Imhotep's face. Her sharp teeth clicking against each other as she brought her snout down. The dragon alien put on more pressure down on Imhotep.
"Now is that a way to treat your allies?" asked a voice from behind. Imothep could not see who it was from Nightshade's opend wings. "If it is I would not like to be an enemy!" the voice said. With a growl Nightshade raised her clawed paw off of Imothep's chest.
"Who are you?" Nightshade asked shifting on her four paws. Her tail slammed down onto the ground and Imhotep was afraid that the spike at its tip was going to impale him.
The man came into view. He wore jeans and old converse along with a bright blue t-shirt that had a hawk on it. His arms were showing from below the shoulders showing a tattoo of the eye of Horus. His brown hair was in every direction and it looked like a birds nest. His nose was bent and came to point that it looked like a birds beak.
Nightshade let out another growl. This growl a warning. They were face to face with another Egyptian god. The tattoos that Seth had was the same tattoos that the bird beaked man had.
"My name is Horus! But I think you already knew that Imhotep?" he asked looking at the Mummy who bowed his head. "Well done on not going insane! There was a few times there tht I thought Nightshade here was going to crush your skull!" Horus continued and was rewarded with a revving engine from Nightshade. "Now the reason for my visit!" Horus declared clapping his hands together.
Horus looked back at Imhotep. "You know what to do! Stop Seth with the aid of the heroes that are no doubt getting rallied up to stop him! Nightshade, learn to trust a bit more! I will be back once again when every hero who can help with this Wereset crisis that we are facing is brought together!" Horus said before vanishing in a blight light.
Nightshade snarled before looking back at Imhotep. With a crack of every bone she returned to her hunan form. "It looks like we have a lot to talk about High Priest Imhotep!" she said to him as she headed for the open door on the Moonray's side.
"That we do!" Imhotep replied as he followed Nightshade into her ship. He hoped that Horus was right about this team. If he was wrong earth was in trouble and from what he had gathered about the one called Dalek Sec the universe that had just gotten a lot bigger than what he had first thought it.
He walked into the Moonray and stopped dead in his tracks. This could not be possible. His mind that had been touched by the gods themselves tried to make sense of what he was seeing. The inside of the metal bird was a lot bigger than the outside. He knew it was not because of Nightshade using space wisely but because of a combination of a science that the gods where not familiar with and magic that was beyond the spells that they could master. His eyes looked at everything in the ship. It could only be described as a ship for its size. He could see stairs and corridors leading to different parts of the jet.
Nightshade headed for the controls of the Moonray and sat on one of the leather chairs. A smirk came to her face as she found Imhotep staring at the Moonray. Spinning around she found him looking at everything he could study.
"What is this?" Imhotep asked as a ball of bright blue energy sparked to life.
Nightshade rose from the seat tht she had sat down as the engines hummed to life. "This is the Moonray! My ship that has allowed me to get to places on time and has been able to keep me and my team alive for nearly two centuries!" she explained to Imhotep before looking back at the ball of energy. "Moonray what have you got for me?" she asked the AI that controlled the Moonray.
"A dig in the outskirts of Thebes has found another sarcophagus that is from the same time period of Imothep's burial! Historians of the London Museum have find that the name is Anck-Su-Namun! And from the records that I have been able to dig up is that since this sarcophagus was brought to London a lot of strange things have been happening!" the Moonray explained. It nor Nightshade noticed the growing rage that was consuming Imhotep. "I have already plotted the quickest course back to London and will notify Kate that we are coming back!" the Moonray finished as its body lifted off of the ground.
Nightshade finally noticed the anger in Imothep's face. She could see that the tendons were tightened as he skinless face scrunched up. His fists had balled up and were close to snapping. "Moonray don't take us to London just yet! Me and Rogers want to have a word with Imhotep before we do anything. Have a couple of agents keep an eye on things there and advise them to alert me as to what is happening!" she ordered the AI.
"Understood Nightshade! Alerting JARVIS to send agents Romanove and Barton to London Museum! Diverting course to the new Avengers facility!" the Moonray replied. A second later the two passengers could feel the push of gravity as the Moonray headed for its destination.