Underestimated
Chapter 2
Luke sits in a jet, flying to base. He can feel Phil's eyes on him when he's not looking. He knows that Phil loves Captain America and was devastated that Steve has died. It was actually a miracle that Phil is even alive. He was stabbed in the chest by Loki's staff far back. When the reunion happened, he made a special appearance to the group. Now he's here again, where he started.
"You have such a resemblance to your dad," Phil says has he takes off his headphones after hearing they're 40 minutes away from base.
Luke turns his attention away from the mission details and looks at Phil. He knew he strangely looked like his dad, which was odd since Steve wasn't his dad. "It's surprising, assuming he's not really my dad," Luke says as he puts the Stark technology down.
Phil nods understandingly. Taking on the role of a super hero, especially Captain America is a big deal. "You'll make a great Captain. I have no doubt about it."
Luke smiles at the comment. Coming from Phil, it was very reassuring. "Thanks I really hope I do well."
"So about this team," Luke starts. "We have an actually hulk?"
"Yeah when Benji was born, somehow the gamma radiation spread from Bruce and went to Benji. From there Benji just took on Bruce's legacy," Phil explained to Luke.
Luke nods.
"You know, it's a huge honour to be working with Captain America again. Maybe not the original but it makes no difference," Phil tells Luke looking at the cockpit. "We've also made some modifications to your suit."
"What do you mean by that? Did you change it?" Luke asks worriedly. He wanted to truly live on the legacy, and not to be some guy that was handed this position.
"We've just made it a better fit for you. Also the shield is replaced with Iridium which was funded by Starks industry."
"Did the Stark's make you say that?" Luke chuckles out.
Phil laughed at the comment. Maybe the new Captain America isn't so bad.
"Beca, we were supposed to be on the jet an hour ago!" Chloe urgently tells Beca.
Beca turns her head to Chloe. "I'm just making final adjustments to the new suit."
"Final adjustments don't take an hour Beca," Chloe says sternly as she walks over to Beca who continues wielding some parts together.
"It'll be done soon. Making bullet proof titanium armour isn't as easy as you think it is," Beca shoots back as she lifts her wielding mask.
Chloe moves closer to Beca and kisses her cheek. "C'mon we need to get going."
"We're not taking the jet," Beca says once again the mask dropping and more wielding.
Chloe looks at her confusingly. "What do you mean?"
"You can take mark – 22. It's the safest for travel," Beca says taking off her wielding mask. "And I will take this suit."
Beca puts her fist up and extends her other arm straight. The pieces of armour lying around, comes flying towards her and assemble on her. She does the same to the other arm until all her arms are covered. Chloe steps back and smiles at the sight of her fiancée enjoying her toys.
Beca lifts up her leg and the piece of metal flies at her and attaches to her leg. Another one came and it started hitting her very hard. She dodged one which lodged itself into the wall. "JARVIS turn the kick down a bit. It's packing heat."
"It is done," JARVIS responds.
Soon all the armour is on her. She walks around a bit to get a feel for the new armour and surprisingly it isn't as stiff as she thought it would be. She starts walking to Chloe and the mask lifts up. With the armour, she's taller than Chloe by a couple of inches. "Go put on the suit," Beca commands.
Chloe frowns and walks into the suit at the side. It's usually the suit she'd wear when they go traveling, but she must admit, it is thrill to be in a suit. She enjoys controlling the armour and flying around in the sky, getting a thrill though she'd never admit it since she gives Beca such a hard time about it. "Let's go babe," Beca says and the roof opens above them and they both shoot up for the sky.
While flying over the waters with Chloe, Beca found something on her radar. Nothing is supposed to be flying around over these waters but an aircraft is. She discreetly flies under it and notices S.H.I.E.L.D's symbol on the bottom of it. She turns to see Chloe right behind her. "Chloe, go around," Beca speaks through the suit to Chloe.
Chloe nods and flies out of sight. Beca takes a deep breath while waiting for Nick to pick up. "Is that you Stark?" He says through the line.
"Did you dispatch any aircrafts over the pacific today?" Beca gets to the point still making sure she was still out of sight of the aircraft.
Nick takes a second to check through their computer system. Nothing was found. "No I have not. Why do you ask Stark?"
"I am looking at one right now. I think it might be Barton," Beca informs everyone.
Stacie freezes in her spot. "Beca get him back."
Beca waits for Nick's confirmation. "Beca the Tesseract might be in there. I need you to do your best to take it back in our possession."
"I need backup. Where are Phil and Luke?" Beca asks recalling the avengers' reunion and meeting the new avengers.
"Flying to you now," Luke responds.
"How much longer until we get there Jesse?" Bumper asks watching them past the water.
Jesse fiddles around with the controls and looks at the radar to see if enemies are near. There is no one on the radar or in sight so he proceeds to answer Bumper. "About twenty minutes, sir."
Bumper nods and starts tighten his grip on his staff with excitement. He's going to fulfill his father's undying wish. Maybe finally he'll be recognized and treated well by his father. Finally Bumper will be more than an object to his father.
"Is Amy there with the Tesseract yet?" Bumper asks.
"Yes sir."
So they don't have the Tesseract. Beca says to herself. She sighs and reports to Nick. "Nick, they don't have the Tesseract with them. Should I leave them?"
"Follow them and make sure they don't see you or everything will go to crap," Nick replies after a moment of thinking. "Phil, come to base instead."
"Yes sir," Phil says.
Her private line starts to ring and she picks up, "Stacie?"
"Please tell me Jesse is okay," Stacie says calmly but Beca could hear her desperation. "Is my brother okay?"
"From what I heard he is."
"Please don't hurt-"
"I understand," Beca didn't want her to finish the sentence but she knows exactly what Stacie was going to say.
Now she needs to strategies on how and what she's going to do. If she keeps following them, her power is going to deplete to a point where she can't fight anymore and that'd be a safety problem. Then she remembers that Chloe is in the suit that is used for especially these missions.
Mark – 22: used for stealth missions. It creates absolutely no sound when flying and walking due to new Stark technology. It is safest to travel in since it is stealthy enough to stay off military and S.H.I.E.L.D's radar. Well she built it for the soul purpose of spying on S.H.I.E.L.D and the military. It also runs on very low energy, making it the most energy saving suit.
And right now the person who is controlling the suit is Chloe. She thinks about it for a second. She doesn't need to. She knows Chloe is more than capable of doing this. On doing this Chloe might be able to finally be a part of the avengers somehow.
"Babe," Beca calls out over the suit's communication system. "I have something I need you to do."
"If it's go home I am not-"
"It's not that. I need you to come back and discreetly."
Chloe checks the radar and sees Beca to her left. She slowly eases towards her and behind the jet. She eases to Beca's side. She waits until she's caught up on the subject.
"I need you to follow them. Do not approach, just follow. Can you do that for me?" Beca asks.
Chloe slightly nods and Beca flies away leaving her all alone. She just hopes that nothing goes wrong.
Two minutes later, it starts storm. Lightning strike down from the dark skies above and thunder roars through the city. Though the weird thing is, there is no rain.
Bumper looks up through the cockpit's window and knows he's in trouble. He's either in trouble by his cousin or he's in trouble by the king of Asgard himself. Either way, it's not going to be pretty.
Jesse notices Bumper's concern and quickly acts on it. "What's wrong?"
"Something horrible is coming," Is all Bumper replies with and there's a loud crash noise above them.
Finally the jet's tail is ripped, leaving the jet to start plummeting towards earth. "Fuck," Jesse replies unstrapping himself and already loading his arrow. As he starts aiming, he sees nothing. Bumper is gone and the attacker is gone. He mentally punches himself and he puts on a parachute and jumps off into the water.
Just before he reaches the water, he is grabbed and being pulled towards land. He starts flailing around and he notices he is hitting metal. Without a thought he knows he's being carried away by Stark. He switches to his explosive tip. Suddenly he takes the arrow and attaches the arrow to Beca's armor. Before she can react it explodes.
Oh my god! What do I do now?! Chloe screams to herself as she continues to follow the figure taking Bumper away. "Beca where are you?" Chloe calls out.
"Ma'am, Beca is in a situation. She cannot answer," JARVIS answers her.
Her face floods with horror and desperation. All the questions start coming to her. Is Beca okay? Is Beca trapped? Is she dead? She pushes those thoughts away knowing she needs to complete her assigned task.
With one loud crash, Aubrey sent them into a mountain. Being midday you can see everything which is a large city below the mountains. Trees surround the mountain and it runs on for miles. She looks down at her cousin in disgust.
"WHY DID YOU TAKE THE TESSERACT? DID YOUR DAD TEACH YOU ANYTHING?" Aubrey asks angrily pushing Bumper down.
Bumper just laughs. "I'm sorry I didn't come from a royal family. Not all of us are treated properly so SHUT UP!"
Aubrey smashes her hammer to the ground beside Bumper. "You're so stupid. How do you think he'll treat you after this?"
"My father or yours?" Bumper spits out.
"Listen here…" Aubrey was swept away by an unknown figure leaving Bumper on the mountains alone.
He smiles, "This is just a rerun of last time."
They didn't go far as they crashed again into the forest's ground. Taking two huge hits just left Aubrey in the dirt as she tries to suppress the pain before attacking her attacker.
Chloe starts to get up and looks down at Aubrey. "Fuck," Chloe says and steps back.
Aubrey starts rising, her knuckles becoming white from her tight grip on Mjölnir. Mjölnir was handed down to her when she was announced the descendant of the demi-god. Now Aubrey rises and strikes Chloe in the stomach with Mjölnir. Chloe flies backwards hitting several trees and due to the thin armour she can feel the impact.
"Ugh that hurt," Chloe says getting up again. When she looks up she sees Aubrey flying towards her with Mjölnir. She swiftly dodges it and holds up her hands activating the repulsors, shooting Aubrey and sending her backwards.
Aubrey quickly stands and starts to create lightning by holding Mjölnir to the skies. Lightning shoots everywhere around her and on Mjölnir which create extremely loud thunder. Chloe's eyes widen and she freezes. JARVIS quickly reacts by putting all the power onto the thrusters and sending her upwards.
Beca steps down and activates her glowing repulsors. All together the lightning energy and the Arc Reactor's power it creates a huge explosion. Trees closer to them burn and the others fly out of their place. If anyone in the mile radius must have been severely injured by now.
Chloe looks down at the blast being just outside the radius and gasps.
