(Disclaimer: this story says that it's a crossover between Guardians of the Galaxy and the Avengers, but it contains references to other characters that are important to the story, ie, Doctor Doom, Sinthea Shmitt and references to Eric, Jane and Darcy. These references and characters are essential to the story background, so don't flame me. Also, in this story, there will be some references to torture. if you don't like it, don't read it).
LATVARIA- 7/3/14, OPERATION DOOM.
0026 HOURS.
She jammed another magazine into her assault rifle and gritted her teeth as she pulled the trigger. She crouch-ran forward to another concrete pylon as her last one exploded in a puff of dust. She coughed for a second as the ceiling lurched. She grabbed a grenade out of her combat webbing and tore the pin out with her teeth, "cover me Hawk!"
"On it, Speedy."
She tossed the grenade and dashed back across the hall. A line of bullets forced her to the ground, but she continued moving in an impressive slide. She knelt by Hawkeye with her rifle at the ready. She checked her magazine; she was almost out of ammo, again.
"I'll kill you, Stark."
"Get in line, birdbrain."
"You take his left, I'll take his right," Hawkeye narrowed his eyes as he quick fired another three arrows.
"Stab him until he's mushy and dead."
"Good plan."
The reason why they wanted to kill Tony Stark because he had sent them into a firefight with the Bat Utility Bow with matching pleather quiver and a plastic army gun that jammed every three hundred or so rounds. Bella smacked the gun against the pylon as she knelt down. The damn thing was jammed again. Sometimes having the newest equipment really sucked, nobody ever conquered the world using a beta version.
"I could be home," Bella hissed as she aimed the rifle again and squeezed the trigger, firing at the troops, "I could be home, I could be snuggled up with my husband, watching a bad horror movie."
Hawkeye growled and narrowed his eyes as he loosed a few arrows, "I need to fix the tractor."
Bella reloaded as quickly as possible, "Oh, Deere."
"Funny," he shot at her, "how can you joke at a time like this?"
She gritted her teeth as she fired the rifle, "I only stop joking long enough to jest," She hissed, "that's how I stay sane."
Hawkeye sighed at her remark, "can we go?"
LATVARIA- 0028
Three or four months ago, Jane's lab had been broken into, nothing had been taken, but the window had been forced. Considering that this was a twenty fourth story floor, something was definitely hinkey. The Avengers and what was left of SHIELD were both investigating, granted, one in a far more clandestine way.
The Avengers, while working as a small team, had hired a whole organization of analysts and highly trained soldiers to support them and to do the jobs that the Avengers couldn't do because they were too visible. And besides, they had to obey international law, and Latvaria was a really nasty place to break the law. That was where the information ended up, Latvaria, the land of the iron-clad dictator, Doom, and jagged, black mountains reaching into the sky. And they weren't fans of the Avengers, or Americans for that matter.
That was why Hawkeye and Bella were sent in here. Out of all the Avengers, he was the least well known, and wasn't half bad at disguises. Bella, on the other hand was a disaffected Marine, former SHIELD, fired from her job because of an egomaniacal and possibly psychotic boss, leaving her with a kid and a crazy ex and a dwindling cash supply. Unless they were captured and tortured, neither Hydra nor Doom would know the truth, and if that happened, then the Avengers as well as the American government could claim plausible deniability.
In this compound, captured intelligence said, Hydra and Doom were building a Bifrost prototype, a beta version of the rainbow bridge. It was their job to get in, blow the Bifrost and all related research so they would have to start again. The mission was supposed to be covert, owing to the deactivation of electronic and human security systems as quietly as possible, but the codes that Tony had given them for the security system was wrong, and the alarm system was tripped, leading to a full scale firefight.
They were going to stab Tony as soon as they got back, that was, if they got back.
LATVARIA, 0031 HOURS
Doom faced off with the Hydra commander, a young redhead woman with an evil though clever face and a large gun in her hands. She was scarred down the left side of her face, she had been burned, the skin around her left eye bubbly. She didn't care about the scars, she didn't care that the Bifrost generator was building behind her.
"Stop there," she ordered him, "I am not afraid to kill you, Doom."
"Ah, Sinthea," Doom said, showing no hint of fear behind his iron mask. He walked around her, dark green cape flapping as he walked. Sinthea didn't move a muscle, but her eyes followed him as he walked around her with an air of superiority.
"Sinthea Shmitt," she could almost hear Doom smiling, "I should have expected that you would double cross me. Fortunately I did."
"Clever," Sinthea said. Her slight German accent was a little more pronounced now, "If you wish to gloat, please find someone that is impressed by your limited intellect."
"How dare you, woman."
"Do not forget who I am," Sinthea Shmitt narrowed her eyes.
The Bifrost was building. She never took her eyes off Doom.
"This device is mine, Shmitt!"
As the gunfire from the two sides reached the Bifrost chamber, Sinthea looked to the side, "the Avengers are here," she hissed, and pointed the gun away from Doom, straight up into the Bifrost generator.
"No!"
She fired.
The Latvarian night sky was lit up by incredible rainbow light. From this far north it was very likely to see the aurora borealis, but it was the wrong time of year, and the light was far too intense. The compound in the mountains was filled with rubble as it collapsed into dust. No one heard the isolated mountain fall, and no one would know that this was not a natural event.