Chapter 1
"Watch out!"
I ducked right before i got shot by a HYDRA agent who snuck up behind me. Sneaky bastard! He tried to take me out from the back! "Oh you are so going to regret that." I muttered while creating a portal. A second later a dark purple portal appeared behind the dude that almost killed me and I jumped out. I knocked him out quickly. "Told you." I remarked to the now unconscious man with a smirk. I nodded my head towards Hawkeye as a silent thanks for the warning.
I had changed a lot since I was rescued. It had been a year. I was eighteen now. My scars were fading away and I finally looked healthy again. I was no longer the damsel in distress I used to be. Today, I had my purple hair in a high pony tail with my bangs clipped up. I had an all-black outfit on. It consisted of a tank top and leggings for flexibility with black knee high combat boots. I wore black fingerless gloves on both hands to have a good grip on the pitch black polearm I was wielding that has two spear-like blades on both sides of the pole. It can detach into two parts if I wanted it to. It is covered in intricate silver designs. I also have two guns secured in a holster around my waist.
I looked pretty badass if you asked me.
"Shit!" Tony Stark cursed through the intercom. Almost immediately he got reprimanded by the Captain saying "Language." in a tone that a mother uses to scold her child. I snickered. I knew that one would be used against him for a while. "There is some type of energy shield surrounding the main building." Jarvis informed us. "Oh great. That just makes getting the scepter twice as hard!" I complained while sidestepping to the right and whipping out my guns, taking out another 5 people.
Seriously, why couldn't my life be easy for once?
"Wait a second. Is no one else going to deal with the fact that the Cap' just said language?" Iron Man questioned. "I know. It just slipped out." Steve replied with a sigh. Ha! I knew that was coming. I bet the whole team will have fun with this. The poor guy will never hear the end of it.
I went back to assisting the Avengers by creating portals for them to jump through and taking out more people by myself. It was pretty cool. Too bad the main building is way too far away though. Otherwise I could've created a portal to take me or someone else into there. It would have been way easier. I can't create portals over long distances for some reason. I end up getting a massive headache and my nose bleeds. I don't think that's good news for my brain so I try to refrain from doing that. By the time I get there I'm pretty sure Jarvis would have infiltrated the building so I'm just going to stick to fighting down here.
"We must retrieve the scepter!" Thor declared when Tony finally got through the defense. Crack! I knocked another 2 HYDRA agents down with my polearm while the Black Widow was covering my back shooting at the others in rapid succession. The Hulk was nearby smashing everything in sight. "Do me a favor and kick their asses for me." I told the iron clad billionaire. I had a score to settle with these people and I'm not going to rest until all of them were gone. I can't let anyone else get hurt like I did, as cliche as that sounds.
"I was waiting for you to ask."
I opened a portal taking me to Hawkeye. He didn't look the least bit fazed by my sudden appearance. I guess he got used to it. He was trying to blow up a base that was firing at us at the moment. I got him a little closer via portal behind a tree so he could shoot one of his explosive arrows at it while taking cover from the bullets at the same time. I never understood how those arrows worked. Technology really did come a long way. God, now I sound like Captain America.
He shot an arrow and both of us took cover behind one of the trees there so we wouldn't get shredded by the resulting shrapnel from the blast. We waited for a second and nothing happened. That arrow should've exploded by now. Even if it missed, which is highly unlikely, it would have still exploded anyway. So, what the hell happened?
As Hawkeye turned around and took aim again, I decided to watch closely. I saw a blur of blue and silver go by really fast and then I hear Hawkeye on the ground groaning. Before I even had time to react, the world began to spin violently as I flew through the air. I landed with a thud on my stomach next to the talented archer. Thank god there was snow. Otherwise, that would have hurt a lot. "Ughhhh." I groaned while rolling over onto my back. That was when I heard the sound of a deep, gruff voice with an accent that made me weak in the knees.
"What, you didn't see that coming?"