Sorry I have not been working on this story for a long time. I got focused on another story that I was working on. I will be focusing on this work along with another that I have just started to work on. I have had to reread the first chapter to remember what this was about along with look at the planning for the story but as you know stories change even with all the planning that has been done as new ideas will always come about that was not thought of during the planning. So enough of me talking I will continue with the story.

Chapter 2

The New Avengers Facility. The new base for the Avengers had started being developed after Loki and his army of aliens had attacked New York City. The Facility had been built to house all of the Avengers and their gear. It was also their main library other than the Black Archives for many things from science right to magic. For many of the Avengers it had become their home expect for a few. Thor always returned to Asgard for a few occasions as he kept an eye on his brother and helped his father with his kingdom, but his heart was more focused on defending Earth. Nightshade could not stay in one place at a time and many times Galvatron found it hard to keep up with the young Dragonoid. Dalek Sec hardly made a trip to the Facility. He was too busy guarding the Black Archives like a terrifying guard dog and making sure that no one got to Unicron and freed him. None of the Avengers had seen the fights that had taken place between the Choas Bringer and Galvatron but a lot of the time it was Galvatron having to face up to his past as he learned that everyone deserved a second chance. The only time that Dalek Sec came to the Facility was if he was needed to aid Bruce Banner and Tony Stark in science matters.

While many of the Avengers can come and go as they pleased there was two Avengers who could not leave its walls. For Wanda the New Avengers Facility had become both her home and her prison. Stark had made it clear that she could not leave the walls, but that did not stop her taken a drive with Nightshade to clear her mind. She had to watch as all the Avengers walked freely with agents who had once been with SHEILD before it had collapsed because of HYDRAS return.

Looking out the window with her book on her lap, Wanda could only look out at the garden that she helped Wasp maintain. She could sense the Shadow Men stalking about on the perimeters of the Facility. A hidden guard to all but her. She should have been terrified that there was ghosts surrounding her but she felt safe in knowing that Nightshade's magic was always present even if the Dragonoid was no longer in America. Wanda since her brother had died had the hands of Ultron in Sokovia had turned to Nightshade more than Wasp as grief eat away at her heart. Nightshade had taken her under her wing. She was the ears that she needed as she screamed into the world for what had been taken from her. She had been the shoulder for her two cry with wings that kept her privacy as she mourned for her twin brother. It had been Nightshade who kept her sanity in check and also started her training. Nightshade had taught her a few calming techniques that she also used if she felt that she was losing control of her powers. Then she began to teach her more about the world around.

Taken a deep breathe in through her noise she cleared her mind as she placed her hand on the book that she was reading. The book that she had bought from once outside the Facility trip with Nightshade to Stirling. She closed her eyes and allowed her mind to see the world arond. This had been scary for her at first as she found that there was a lot of power that came from nature. But as time went on, she learned that nature was scary. It was peaceful. It meant life and it meant death. But what it meant for Wanda was away to see the world. Stark might have trapped her psychically in the Facility but her mind always looked out to the world. She would find scenes of beauty and things that were so horrible that she had to turn away. But these were what got in her journal.

Wanda had started to write a journal at the idea of Wasp to keep her mind entertained. The journey was filled with stories that she had made up in her mind. Other works were images that she had seen with her mind through the eyes of others. There was also a few peices of information about creatures that she had once thought belonged in a story book done by the Brothers Grim. The journal was not much to look at. It was a large book that was already showing the signs of age after being used fot two months.

It had been two months since she had joined the Avengers. Two weeks since she had ripped out Ultron's heart, or Spark as Galvatron called it with her growing powers that growed with her pent up anger. Anger that nature calmed. She just couldn't believe it. In those two weeks she had mourned her brother and her city that had been destroyed and then rebuilt rather quickly with science and magic. She could go back and continue her life before HYDRA and the Avengers, but that meant without her brother. Her new life was all that she had left.

The sudden rumbling of the Moonray's massive turbine engines caused her too open her eyes. The trees that surrounded the Facility danced in the wind as the Moonray shimmered into view. The massive silver and blue jets landing pads came into view as the Moonray landed on the landing pad that was under her window. Wanda watched the Avenger jets come and go all day. She had listened in to what the pilots were saying as they brought the massive jets up and down. The Moonray clanked down onto the ground with its wings folding back together. Wanda was fast to get out of her room and pass Vision as he walked to her room. The Android watched her as she ran towards the hanger to meet with the Avengers who had went to New York City.

Imhotep was shoved out of the Moonray by Edward. He caught his balance as he stepped off the last step to glare at the green skinned Ghoul who had managed to break in out of his prison for 3000 years. "What are you looking at?" Edward snapped at him. Imhotep kept glaring at Edward who only snarled more as he reached for his axe. Imhotep did not move in fear of the Ghoul. He had faced down the horrors of the Underworld for 3000 years. He had fought against his own madness as he plotted to take revenge on Seth for what he had done.

"Edward enough!" shouted Nightshade as she walked out of the Moonray followed by Captain America. "Take him to the interrogation room and leave! Me and Rogers want to have a word with him!" she said as she walked past Edward.

"But Deathwalker, we don't know if this guy is tell us the truth!" Edward snapped back pointing his axe at Imhotep but he kept his attention on Nightshade. "I mean one Ancient Egyptian god is bad enough but another one who has planned on raising a team to fight Seth is something that we have never dealt with!" he snapped as he lowered his axe to focus solely on Nightshade.

Nightshade shock her head and placed a gloved hand on her face. Her optics were already showing fatigue after hours of being online. The smoke from Sokovia that had just been destroyed was still lingering in her optics. It would take a few hours for them to repair, but a few hours were nothing compared to the months of repairs that Galvatron had to go through to repair the damage done to his Spark at the hands of Unicron. She knew that he was still awkward around the other Avengers. But Rogers had told her that that wont last long. She just hoped that was the case. Galvatron had been through to much in facing Unicron face to face twice in such a sort amount of time. "I understand what you are saying Edward! But Imhotep here is an eyewitness to Seth! He knows how he gest his powers. He knows how his mind works! And with that we can learn how to fight him in the war rather than fighting small battles like we have been doing since the War!" Nightshade said to Edward before walking into the Facility.

"We all share your doubts, Edward!" Captain America said as he placed a hand on Edward's shoulder. "But we need all the information and help we can get if we want to fight Seth while at the same time dealing with other matters that the Avengers will need to face!" the super solider continued to say as he removed his hand from Edward's shoulder. He followed Nightshade into the Facility with Iron Man behind them. He smirked at Edward who had been dropped down to guard duty.

Snarling Edward turned back to the face the Mummy. The Mummy who was nothing but a rotten corpse held together by the bandages that he was wrapped in when he was mummified alive at the orders of Pharaoh Seti 1st. A few scarabs scuttled about his exposed ribs trying to find any flesh that was still eatable on the corpse, but there was nothing. They had already eaten all his flesh that they could eat as it decomposed. With one eyeball leaning upwards in the eye socket and another eyeball staring right at him Edward felt revolted at the sight of the corpse who had once been human much like Steve Rogers and Tony Stark. Now Imhotep had been reduced to nothing but a corpse that was Undead. Pushing Imhotep in the same direction that Nightshade and Rogers had taken he started to march towards the interrogation room.

"I can walk myself, Pit Crawler!" Imhotep snarled as he stared at Edward before he continued to the room that Nightshade and Captain America wanted to continue speaking to him. He could sense that those two were the ones that he wanted to speak to. Edward was just a brute who used his muscles to get the work done. Captain America, one of the heroes that Osiris and Horus wanted him to work with used both his muscles and his mind. He was a leader while Edward was just a soldier. Nightshade, a supernatural being like him and Edward was another hero he wanted to work with was like Captain America in using her mind and her strength. She also used her forms allowing animalistic personalities to come through.

Edward snorted again as he lead Imhotep to the room that Nightshade was talking about. Former SHEILD agents watched the two corpses as they walked through the corridors. Some of them kept a good distance from the Mummy. This was a creature that they were unsure about and even with Edward, an Avenger who had the strength to rival that of the Hulk they allowed their fear to show. Imhotep kept his head up and his eyes forward as he walked through the corridors of class and metal. He had never seen so much metal in one place. Only the wealthy and the army was able to have so much metal as there was in this building. Glass had been rare when he was still a mortal. He had used glass only a few times for his ceremonies, but here in this new world that he found himself in glass was everywhere.

Imhotep had to stop as he took in everything. The new world he was in was something that he thought would never rival that of his Egypt. He had lived and died in a world had been built out of stone and marble. The world that he had found himself dumped in was made out of metal and glass. It was something that should have caused him to rethink everything, but he couldn't do that. In his time of being trapped he had been advised by the gods about the world he would find himself in. He had been told about the heroes he would be working with and the world that they fought to defend. He had learned the history of this world. His academic mind had taken every little bit of information that he was given and stored as he suffered the nibbles from the scarabs as they picked at his rotten flesh. He had thought the grey and silver of the building that he found himself in would be boring, but he was wrong. The silver was a colour that he was very familiar with. He was use to gold, blue, red and other bright colours. That had been for temples and the only place that he and Osiris could plan their war against Seth and his growing supporters. This was a base that held soldiers and superhumans who had powers who could rival that of the gods.

"Never seen anything like this?" Edward asked as he saw Imhotep's open mouth.

Imhotep looked at the Ghoul. He had not realised that his mouth had been opened. He had been told about the world that he found himself in. Osiris had made sure of that. He had been told that the people looked to science rather than magic. "I never thought that we would advance like this in 3000 years!" he said looking back at the Ghoul. He noticed that the Ghoul had relaxed since the silent flight from the museum to the Avengers New Facility as it had been called a few times by the craft Moonray. Even though he had relaxed there was still a hint that the Ghoul did not trust him. No doubt he had bad experiences with Seth and his supporters. He would have to earn all the Avengers trusts if they wanted to take Seth down for what he had done to him. He hoped that the information that he was going to give to Nightshade and Captain America was enough to start winning them over.

"3000 years is a long time though!" Edward said as he began to walk again. He had to get the Mummy to the interrogation room to speak with Nightshade and Rogers. He knew that Nightshade did not like to be kept waiting, but Rogers he was not too sure. He had not seen the supersoldier in seventy years and people change over years and during wars.

Imhotep started walking with him towards the room that Nightshade and Captain America was not doubt waiting for them already. "It is! Even longer when you are in a box all those years being told everything by a god!" he replied to Edward as the Ghoul opened a door that lead to a room that only had a table with three chairs in the middle of the room and a TV mounted on the far away wall of the room. Imhotep walked in without thinking as he watched Nightshade and Captain America file through parchments. The two heroes spoke in hushed tones as they worked through the paperwork. He was too busy watching the two heroes that he did not notice that Edward had not come into the room with him and had closed the door behind him. He watched the two talk together as they planned with the knowledge that they had of Seth along with the Book of the Dead.

"You can sit down!" Captain America spoke without looking up at him. He was too busy trying to decipher Nightshade's Victorian stilled writing to look up at the Mummy. Nightshade however was watching him like a hawk.

Imhotep took the seat across from Nightshade and Captain America. His eyes fell onto the papers on the desk that the two of them were studying. He looked at the strange symbols that were printed onto the paper. There was some languages that he recognised like the Old Greece and Roman words, but there was symbols that he did not understand. His heart soared when he noticed a work that he had done on Seth. The work was how to fight Seth, how to contain his powers and how the Book of the Dead fitted into everything. The Book of the Dead was the main source of information of Seth and the other Gods. It was filled with their spells and magic. It was what allowed him to take Seth's powers in the first place. It was only he who could read the Book of the Dead, not unless in the 3000 years someone had learned the words of the Gods.

Nightshade picked up the work that was done in his hand. Her gloved hands picking up the scroll with little difficulty as her strange coloured eyes studied the work.

"How did you find that?" Imhotep asked as he pointed at the scroll. The scroll that only he had been allowed to touch. It was his findings on how to fight Seth. The weapons that had been used to fight Seth off when he had first tried to put Egypt at his feet. The story on how man and beasts had worked together. He had been there. He had been the one who read from the Book and forced Seth to start loosing his powers until he was nothing more than black smoke. Being of black smoke Seth could not harm anyone. He could not use his powers. He was just a ball of anger that he had stopped before Seth even knew what had happened.

Nightshade handed Imhotep the old scroll. The scroll that had seen a lot over the years. Imhotep took the scroll in his hands. His hands that were nothing but bones covered in remnants of flesh. He had thought that he would never see his work again. "We found it in a book case in Rome a few years back. Historians have not been able to understand the writing on it and thought that it was written a code of some form! But I have a feeling that you know this much better than anyone alive and dead!" she said as she watched Imhotep study the scroll. The scroll that she nor the Moonray could get their heads around what it was saying.

"You could say that! I was the one to write the work!" Imhotep replied as he placed the parchment down onto the desk. He looked at Nightshade and Captain America who were both studying him closely. They were no doubt waiting for him to make a move against them. "It is a document about Seth. His weaknesses along with his strengths. You see we found out that silver that was enchanted with a spell of Death and Life from the Book of the Dead was all that was needed to harm his body. Without it the blade does nothing but slice through flesh that heals instantly on contact. The scroll was written before Seth and Anck-Su-Namun had framed me for the murder of Seti and after I had preformed a spell that Seth had only found out too late!" Imhotep explained to the two Avengers.

Captain America looked at Nightshade who was leaning in closer to The Mummy. "What spell did you use? I have encountered many Gods and Goddesses in my time and in all those years I have always I have never known that there was a spell!" Nightshade admitted as she looked at the scroll that was written in a language that Osiris had taught Imhotep.

"The spell was taken from the Book of the Dead! It was what was used to kill Seth's body. His original body and make him nothing more than black smoke that could cause no harm as he escaped the grasp of the other Gods!" he explained. He remembered reading out the spell and feeling the world around him shake as the God lost his power. His body and his sanity.

Captain America rose up from his seat. "Black smoke? That cant be? For seventy years Seth has been showing up in a body with a German accent!" he said as he looked at all the documents that he and Nightshade had gathered over the years. He looked over at the shapeshifter to see she too was deep in thought. He then started to shift through the papers that they had brought together. Works that had been taken from the Ancient World up to the modern time from works that were covered the Grimms through the years and the British Men of Letters. He had found the world that these men and women lived in to be very much like when he had first became Captain America and meet Nightshade for the first time. He had read something about black smoke. He found it. Tapping the paper he shoved in Nightshade face who took the paper as she looked at him startled.

"Possession?" she asked as she looked back at Captain America.

"Think about it, Nightshade! Seth's original body was damaged when Imhotep had used the Book of the Dead! So the man that we have been seeing for seventy years-" he began to explain before Nightshade spoke up.

"Is just a innocent man who got in the way when he had first meet Seth during the war with HYDRA! Rogers if we take Seth out of the body that he is in just now we don't know if the man will survive!"

Captain America looked back at Imhotep after Nightshade had butted in. "Do you know where the Book of the Dead is?" he asked the Mummy. He was not startled by the corspe that was watching him and Nightshade discuss Seth and the way they could defeat him. He could put it down to spending a good amount of time with Edward and Nightshade. He had learned how to adapt in the new world that he found himself after being in ice since he haf stopped HYDRA for destroying the world.

"The last time I saw it was the last time that I used. I am sorry but I don't know where the Book of the Dead has been placed!" Imhotep responded to Captain America's question. He then looked at the papers on the desk and pulled out a map of Egypt from his time. He had helped develop the map for his Pharaoh before he was betrayed by Anck-Su-Namun. "But Seth in order to reverse the spell that was placed on him 3000 years ago he needs to be at a specific place for the spell to take effect and for him to regain all his powers along with the other powers of the other Gods!" he started to explain as he looked at the map of the Egypt that he knew.

"Where?" Nightshade asked.

"Hamunaptra!"