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Now I must say I don't own the Avengers or any branch of Marvel. I only own the Original Characters.
She was in so much trouble.
How the hell was she going to go back to base and face her father and her failure. Actually scratch that, she wasn't going to go home, not ever again. Her father made it very clear if she was to fuck up another mission she might as well put a bullet in her head.
"Officer Irvine, I'm giving you this last chance to redeem yourself, if you mess this up I can't help you. I can't lose anymore men to your foolish mistakes. Every person here is valuable and I can't lose anymore people because of your incompetence. Your two goals in this mission are to bring back supplies and anyone of use you find out there and make sure no one I assign to you dies. It's a simple mission look for supplies and don't get killed I hope you can handle that. Because if you can't and one of ours dies, it's best you don't come back yourself."
"I wont let you down father." Emotion thick in her voice.
"I sure hope you don't. You not coming back after another failure would be a better fate than what the rest of the group would do to you. So, please, Juliane, as a father talking to his daughter, don't come back if you fail." The look of compassion for his daughter disappears just as fast as it appeared. "I am giving you two officers to go with you. We recently detected a surge of energy come from the old Avengers base, don't know what it is, but if the defenses are no longer running there I want you to grab as much supplies, ammo, tech; hell anything that looks to be useful, I want you and your men to grab."
"And if it was nothing and we can't get near the base?"
"Just get my men back safely. You are going through deep Chitauri territory so watch your step. You know as well as I do that the Chitauri are just waiting for those defenses to drop so they can get their hands on Avenger tech too, so watch your back and go in quiet. Is that understood?"
"Sir, yes, sir."
"Good, you're dismissed and Juliane, please, don't mess this up again."
How could she have made such a stupid mistake. At first everything was going smoothly, they made it across no man's land and through the boarder without running into or seeing a single Chitauri. That should have been a damn give away that shit was about to hit the fan. There was always patrols on the boarder at this exact spot there was always at least two Chitauri at the corner of this side street. They weren't there today.
The two men with me had their own theories of where the guards might be. Carter thought we got lucky and it was a shift change, Pence thought they could have been called back to investigate the energy surge at the Avengers base. I agreed with Pence and we proceeded with caution, never did it cross my mind that it could have been an ambush. I should have know that the Chitauri figured that if they could detect the energy surge than the humans would too. So they hid and waited for us to arrive so that they could use us to see if the defenses for the Avenger base were down. We traveled with caution to the Avengers base always looking behind us, but not seeing anything. We moved together as a well oiled machine, I thought being all together would give us more eyes to see trouble coming. That was a big mistake, I should have told them to hold back and watch for the enemy, to let me, the fastest and lightest on my feet go ahead and scout it out, while they watched my back. But I didn't do that and because of my foolishness Carter and Pence are dead.
Carter threw a rock to see if the shield was still up around the base. As soon as the rock went flying through the air, where the shield was suppose to be, and hit the ground all hell broke lose. There wasn't many of them four of them altogether, but they got the jump on us. While Carter was still in shock from just obtaining the knowledge that the shield was down he got a bullet through the neck, blood went spraying everywhere. Pence and I ducked for cover behind an old concert barricade that was used in the old days to block traffic from going near the Avengers base. They must of only saw Carter and not us because Pence pulled out his beat up, antique Combine 9mm rifle, taking down the first two each with a bullet through the head with ease while I readied an arrow for my compound bow . The last two, now noticing we were there, now concentrated their firepower on our position.
Pence, becoming frustrated about being ambushed and pinned down starts to take over the situation, "Irvine, your fast, run over to the next barricade and draw their fire while I take them out."
"Huh, yeah...I'll do that." Reading all my courage, I sprint with all my might across the twelve foot gap that's between me and the next barricade. A bullet flies by me nicking the bridge of my nose as I roll into clover pop back up and send an arrow to one of the enemies impaling it in the chest. It drops to the ground as I drop back down into cover. While the enemy is distracted by me Pence takes aim and the last Chitauri standing between me and absolute failure goes down. I give a sigh of relief " Damn, I lost Carter."
Pence comes running up to me after he checks to make sure there are no more Chitauri heading our way. "Well there doesn't seem to be any more in the immediate facility." He looks down at me noticing the tense look in my eyes. "What's wrong?"
I give a nervous laugh and shake my head, "Carter's gone."
"Well I'm still here and I bet there is a load of useful shit on the Chitauri and in the base that will make up for the death of Carter. So cheer up, we got some looting to do." Smiling like it was Christmas morning he helps me up and we walk over to the Chitauri. I go over to the one I took down with an arrow to find it's still breathing, holding something in it's hand. "Huh, this one's still alive Pence, better put him out of his misery." I reach for my bow.
Pence looks up at us only for his eyes to widen as he gets up and runs over to us yelling for me to get down. I a second look to see that the thing in it's hand is an active grenade. There's not enough time to get away so I say a prayer to anyone who will listen that it will be a quick death. Only to find Pence jumping and laying over the Chitauri and the grenade right before it goes off. Pence's body takes the blunt of the explosion sending pieces of him and the Chitauri flying everywhere while the force of the explosion that reaches me sends me flying into an an ancient, rusty car on the other side of the street. I hurt everywhere not believing I can still be alive. I am covered with splatters of blood, dirt, and tears as I look over to where the remains of Officer Pence and the Chitauri are and lose it. I failed that's all I think of, I failed Carter, Pence, and my father. So I cry knowing I can't go back home and I don't know what to do. If I return home now even with the tech that might not even be there in the first place they would still execute me. I've fucked up too many times and caused the deaths of too many Officers for some ancient tech to save my ass. I sit there for a while and think about what I could do. I could put a bullet in my head and end it all, but I am too much of a damn coward to take my own life. My best bet is to venture north and find another group. I'm a woman, it'll be easy for me to gain entrance into another group. I know it's a crap shot, but it's all I got left now, I don't care if I have to become a brood mare to stay alive.
As I contemplate my situation I hear voices off in the distance. I know it's not the Chitauri so who is it? Is it another squad my father sent out to make sure I didn't fuck up? Did he send them because he knew I would mess this up? Is it another group that also noticed the energy surge and sent their own people? As they come closer I notice that the direction they are coming from is the Avengers base. That's odd, unless they came from another direction and have already ransacked the base, but why didn't they just leave the way they came. This makes no sense, so I sneak over to where the voices are coming from. I peek through a pile of rubble to find two men walking with what looks to be no purpose. Why are they so calm and relaxed? Don't they know they are in Chitauri territory? One does not just stroll through Chitauri territory without a care in the world. I know it's a risk to expose myself, but I can't just let these idiots be killed. If they're from a small group maybe I can convince them to join up with our group. If they joined up with us my father would almost certainly forgive this failure in exchange for more man power and whatever is in the Avengers base. So I stand up and out of cover readying myself just in case they are hostel and give a friendly shout.
"Hey!"
So next week there should be another chapter. I am trying not to make Juliane into a Mary sue so if she starts to sound like one, tell me so I can make sure it doesn't happen. I want her, with some guidance, to grow into a strong and confident woman. So tell me what you think of the story so far.