The fortress stood all be itself surrounded by the desert. A small oasis of life in this dead land. A heavily, heavily guarded oasis.
Virgo smiled. Despite all that security, there would be no problems with him getting in. His prize was just inside and his revenge was only moments away. No more death will be caused by that monster.
Taking a deep breath Virgo summoned his magic to him. A puddle formed at his feet. Virgo sank into the puddle and came out of it inside the fortress. The fortress felt more like a space ship to him than anything else. The walls and floor where made almost completely of metal that looked as if they had just been polished. Every step one took seemed to echo off of the floors and walls.
This would work in Virgo's favor. Anyone who came this way would be easily detected.
No sooner had that thought came to his mind when Virgo heard the sound of two guards making their way up the hall. Virgo pressed himself up against the wall as they walked by. The guards pay him no mind; Virgo's cloak had done its work. As the guards walked past him Virgo fall into step behind them. Magic could only get him so far. It had taken him months to locate this place, but he had been unable to find out where his target was in this fortress. Which made stealth all the more important. He hoped that by following these two he could find his target quicker.
The less time he spent here the better.
He followed the two guards down two more halls, till he heard voices coming from a room to the side.
"You know what your problem is, you take everything a little to seriously," said one of the voices.
"Tony your failure to think things through nearly got you and Bruce killed," said another voice.
"That is an exaggeration, I had everything perfectly under control," said the first voice.
"That was under control," said the other voice.
"Bruce started to turn green," the second voice said.
"Yes, but he did not hulk out, so for all we know he could have simply had eaten some expired tuna," the first voice said.
Virgo took a moment to look into the room. Standing in the middle of the room was a man dress in red and gold armor with his helmet sitting on the table next to him. The man standing next to him was wearing a red, white and blue jumpsuit, with an expression on his face that simply talking to the man in the armor was aging him ten years.
"While I agree that Tony did not have this thought through, does he ever really have anything thought out," said a third voice that Virgo hadn't noticed. The owner of the voice was hidden behind the door, so Virgo could not get a look at him. "We did manage to get an idea on where they are keeping the specter."
This really got Virgo's attention, that specter had one of the Infinity Stones in it. He stepped closer without thinking.
The owner of the third voice came into view. He unlike his companions he was dressed in clothes that Virgo had seen others on this world wear, a simple shirt and jeans.
"There someone out there," he said.
The man in the armor pulled open the door, Virgo having barely gotten out of the way from being hit by it.
"There is no one there," he said.
"The other guy can sense him," the man in jeans said.
"Bruce I think you may just be a little whined up, I'm telling you there is no one there," the man in the armor said swigging his arms around. He caught both himself and Virgo by surprise when his arm hit Virgo in the stomach.
The man in the armor reacted quickly, grapping Virgo's shirt and smashing him into the wall beside him. The focus of the hit caused Virgo's cloaking spell to drop making him visible to everyone in the room. Virgo noticed that there were three other people in the room as well. A red headed woman in a black jumpsuit, a man in a sleeveless jumpsuit with a bow and arrow across his back and a blond haired man dressed as an Asgardian.
Wasting no time Virgo sent a blast at the armored man holding him. The sent him across the room and through a window on the far side of the room. Virgo than waved his hand turning the arrow that had been sent his way into a flower.
This was not a fight that Virgo wanted. He had hoped to get in and take the prisoner, completely unnoticed. It appeared that that was not going to be how things played out. All because he couldn't ignore one conversation.
Before Virgo could do anything else he was kicked in the gut. The woman in black had made it across the room. She did not leave it at a hit in the gut, she kept going. Virgo never thought he would fight against a woman this strong, but she held her own a lot better than most men. Virgo however, was fast and throw her across the room as well.
These people were not giving him any wiggle room. Defiantly some of the finest warriors, Virgo fought. Only moments ago they had been arguing with each other and than when a threat appeared out of seemly nowhere, they fought together almost as if they were one being. This was a group of warriors that knew each other well.
And the only reason that Virgo was in a fight with them was because he allowed himself to get distracted.
The fight tore through not only the room that the warriors were having their discussion in, but also through most of the compound.
Virgo magic kept him from being easily defeated, but it would not protect him for long.
Virgo took a hit in the chest from the Asgardian with his hammer. The hit made Virgo have to stop and take a breath. Because of this he did not notice the man behind, until he felt a shock going through his back.
Virgo collapsed holding on to conscious long enough to see a man in an eye patch walk around him.
Fury looked down at the man laying on the floor.
"Who will like to tell me, how one man managed to not only get around my security unnoticed but was also able to cause this much damage?"
"He is one of the most powerful sorcerers I have ever seen, powerful enough to challenge both my brother and mother together," Thor said as he watched guards run in to take the intruder in.
"Take him to the prison ward," Fury said and than turned back to his team. "That does not answer my questions."
"Whatever, it was he only failed because of a moment of careless," Captain America said. "We didn't even know he was there until the Hulk sensed him."
"Well, I want to know why he was here," Fury said. "Thor, Cap when he wakes up he I want you to find out why he was here and what he was after."
"Well have fun talking with the crazy man," Tony said.
"Stark, you and Miss Romanoff can look into how he had managed to get past security," Fury said turning to Tony after he spoke.
"Doesn't sound like much fun," Tony said.
"Does it look like I care," Fury said, "I don't find it have to have another one of my bases destroyed because some lunatic thinks that is the best thing to do with his time."
"Figures, we'revstill cleaning up the mess that Loki left when we get a new magical crazy to deal with," Clint says.
