Hi! Um I am so glad that some of you liked the story so far and I would like to apologise for forgeting to put paragraghs in. :/ In this chapter the Avengers go into battle. Oooooooooh what's going to happen? How about I shut up then you guys can find out.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Avengers nor do I own Marvel, they belong to Stan Lee and any other rightful owners.
Summary: The Avengers team get hit with an enemy blast whilst in the middle of battle and all except Steve get sent back in time to watch his past.
WARNING!) This story contains child abuse, violence, torture and strong language so if you do not want to read something with any of that in then it is absolutely fine if you want to turn back and for those of you who are sticking around then please ENJOY! XD
"Avengers assemble!" As soon as those words left Steve's lips, Tony ran down to his lab to get his suit, Clint and Natasha ran off to get their uniforms and weapons while Thor went to get his armour and hammer. Bruce looked at Steve for instructions. "Bruce you can stay here and keep us updated. Be our eyes and ears. Join in when you think it's necessary, ok? I don't think we are going to need the Other Guy for this one. Not yet anyway." Steve informed Bruce with a smile, showing him that it was going to be ok.
Bruce smiled back before hugging Steve, wispering, "Be careful." Before pulling away and giving Steve a mock salute. Once he saw him smirk at him in amusement, Bruce turned away and started marching like a soldier to his lab, where he could keep an eye on everything. Steve went to his room, changing into his Captain America uniform and grabbing his shield. When that was done, he ran down to the garage, hopped onto his motorbike and rode off. "So Captain Spangles, what's the plan, old man?" Tony's voice cut through the communicators as he flew through the sky with Thor. Clint and Natasha were flying in the Quinjet.
"Well Tin Man, you and Thor take them from the sky, Hawkeye find a high vantage point, keep an eye on them and tell us if they are trying to get away. Go crazy with the arrows. Me and Black Widow will take them from the ground and try to get to whoever is doing this." Steve replied, smirking slightly when he heard Tony splutter at being called 'Tin Man' while Natasha and Clint were trying to smother their laughter. "You did NOT just call me 'Tin Man'! I just got called 'Tin Man' by Captain Frickin' America!? Is that even legal?!" Tony's yell caused the dam to break for Natasha and Clint, causing them to burst out laughing. Thor was just looking around confused as to what he had missed that had made two of his teammates clutch their sides. Steve just sighed, "Ok team. Enough funny business, we've got a job to do, remember?" Steve's reminder as to why they were actually out here immediately caused them to sober and put their game faces on.
Finally they arrived to a scene of destruction. Tv's, computer's, streetlamps and mail boxes were walking around, some running around and some terrorising civillians. There were cars overturned, glass windows were smashed, fire was burning and consuming everything it touched. Children were screaming for their parents while parents screamed for their children, worrying about their safety. But somehow this chaos wasn't as bad as when Loki decided to pay a visit.
Natasha quickly landed the jet on the ground as Steve stopped his motorbike, skidding slightly on the charred ground. Tony landed a few feet away with Thor, waiting for Clint to get his ass out of the goddamn jet. He flipped his faceplate up when the archer walked over to him. Their Captian turned to them, "Ok remember the plan? Hawkeye, Iron Man and Thor attack from somewhere high, tell us if they're trying to get away and where the crazy loon making these things is. Black Widow, you and me will take them from the ground; draw them away from the people. Bruce, you keep an eye on things and feel free to join when you think we are going to need the Hulk. Also try and find out who this guy is." Captain America gave his team their orders and in return recieved nods from the two assassins while Tony gave him a salute.
Tony turned to Clint flipping his faceplate down before grabbing him in a secure grip, making sure he wont fall. Natasha took out her guns and Steve put his shield on his arm. "Ready Cap?" Natasha asked smirking at being able to take out bad guys. "I was made ready." Steve replied with that boyish grin that Natasha adored because it made him look young, happy and carefree. She secretly wished that he would smile like that more often. In all honesty she loved Steve, not in the romantic way of course, it was more sisterly. Steve was her little brother and all she wants is for him to be happy. She had tried to set him up on dates but he always managed to politely decline because he just wasn't ready for love yet; he was still learning this strange new century he had woken up in and while she respected his choice that didn't mean she would stop trying to make him happy.
Snapping herself out of her thoughts, Natasha pulled her guns out and started to shoot the evil that was known as mailboxes as her Captain threw his shield, cutting the streetlamps in half, causing them to let out sparks and explode. Tony shot the, somehow, flying laptops with his repulsers, making sure that they didn't fly away and cause chaos somewhere else. Clint shot various types of arrows at anything that had managed to sneak behind his teammates while also keeping an eye on where the previously inanimate objects were and what they were going to do and Thor called down thunder and lightening to fry their circuits. Bruce and J.A.R.V.I.S were busy trying to find out who was doing this as well as analyzing the debris, trying to find out how excactly this guy managed to bring lifeless things to life and how, exactly they could reverse it.
The battle was almost over when suddenly, from nowhere a beam of blue light shot out towards Steve, hitting him square in the chest. Everything froze as the Avengers watched their Captain fall to the ground and scream in agony. The blue rippled like water, from his chest to his fingertips and all the way down to his toes before moving up towards his head and melting into his skull causing him to, again scream in agony as his head felt like it was being ripped apart and squeezed at the same time. Finally the pain had gotten to much for Steve and he willingly let the darkness pull him into it's dark, comforting embrace. Steve falling unconsious seemed to snap everyone out of their shocked daze and finally allowed them all to hear the manic laughter coming from the direction of where the beam had come from. They turned to see a short, plump around the middle, man in his late forties wearing what looked to be a purple bee keepers suit but without the protective headwear. The suit had a big, packed utility belt and seemed to have little rockets on the boots. The man himself was balding with a red moustache and goatee. He had small squinty green eyes that seemed as though they could see inside their souls, his grinning mouth was full of rotting teeth and some were even missing. His nose was crooked as though it had been broken one too many and healed awkwardly. He lifted one of his stubby hands and pressed a button on what, appeared to be a remote and as he did the animate objects were suddenly inanimate again.
The Avengers immediatly aimed their weapons at him as they all stood around their hurt and unconsious Captain protectively, which, caused the man to chuckle. Before anyone could say anything or blow someones head off, the ground started to rumble, making them stumble and look around, searching for what was causing the mini earthquake. They didn't have to look far though as the reason came charging at the mysterious man in a giant, angry, green blur of rage; The Hulk was here and he was absolutely pis- he was furious. The Hulk grabbed the man in his fist and roared, before throwing him into a wall. Hulk turned towards the other Avengers and caught sight of Steve, well he was going to kill the bastard who did this to HIS Cap-cap and Bruce's brother. Before he could get the chance though, the man had stood up and was dusting himself off while walking towards them. Tony immediatly aimed his repulser at him, making him freeze and put his hands in the air. "Alright. Who the Hell are you? And what did you do to our Captain!?" Clint yelled, aiming an arrow at the guy's head, ready to shoot his brain out for what he did to his best friend and that was the only why he didn't end this bastard's life; Steve, they needed to know what the man did to him.
The man cleared his throat, "My name is Gary." He spoke with a slight Scottish accent. Suddenly a shot rang out and Gary fell to his knees as he yelled out in pain from the gunshot to his thigh. Natasha walked forward, tense, guarded and above all murderous. Her gun was aimed at Gary's head, her eyes were cold and angry, her face pale, her lips a thin white line and her jaw clenched. "What did you do to Steve?" She growled, sounding deadly calm. She wanted nothing more than to give this the slowest and most painful death she could for hurting her little brother. NO ONE hurt her Steve and got away with it alive.
Gary looked up at her with fear clouding his eyes but with a strange sadistic grin on his face, almost like he was actually enjoying this. "Well my dear, I am afraid you are going to have to that out on your own. HAHAHAHA!" He said before laughing manically. Before Natasha could get rid of his ability to reproduce, he hit a button that was in the middle of his utility belt, which caused him to vanish in a beam of static-ly blue light. Hulk roared in anger, Clint started firing arrows at random mailboxes, Thor was slamming his hammer at the tv's, Natasha was sitting on the ground with Steve's head in her lap, rocking back and forth, humming a little tune she had heard Steve hum while he was drawing, gently carding her fingers threw his hair, thinking of ways she could torture Gary in the most painful way and Tony was on the ground by Steve as well, muttering to himself and J.A.R.V.I.S was analyzing Steve's vital signs, trying to see what Gary had done to Captain Rogers.
"Sir, I am sorry to interupt your mutterings, but you need to get Captain Rogers back to the Tower so I can run diagnostics to see what damage has been done to him." J.A.R.V.I.S' robotic voice gently cut through the worried silence. Hulk had calmed down somewhat a while ago and was sitting, staring at Steve as though he was trying to will him to open his baby blue eyes and say he was ok. Clint and Thor had stopped attacking defenceless mailboxes and tv's and were gathered around Steve hoping against hope that he would wake up. Tony had finally snapped out of muttering like a mad man. Natasha was the only one that hadn't moved and hadn't stopped humming and carding her fingers through Steve's blonde locks.
Tony looked at them all before turning to the Hulk. "Hey big guy, we need to get Steve to the Tower so then we can see what that mean man did to him. But to do that we need Bruce back. Do you think we can have Bruce? Can you calm down big guy? For Steve?" Tony said, in a soft, comforting tone that made him sound like he was talking to a little child. Which he was really, except this 'child' was a big, green, mean machine that had a massive temper. Hulk gave Tony a little glance before putting his attention back on Steve. "Hulk calm, for Cap-cap." He grumbled, giving a determind nod. Hulk closed his eyes and started to take deep calming breaths, as the others looked on in amasment as the giant green rage monster purposely calmed himself; something they have never seen him do before.
His green skin started to warp and his muscles began to contort slightly. The green colour of his skin started to disappear as his whole body began to shrink. Before long there was Bruce, sitting in a pair of giant tattered pants, looking a little tired, confused and dazed. He opened his eyes and looked around him. "What happened? How did I get here? It was the Other Guy wasn't it? Oh God. Is anyone hurt? Did something happen? What happened?" Bruce threw all these questions at everyone, a slight slur in his voice. And that was when he saw Steve. His face grew pale as he stared at his little brother, laying there, unconsious. "S-S-Steve?" He stuttered in disbelief and shock before crawling over to him. "STEVE! Come on Steve wake up! Steve!" Bruce begged as tears streamed down his face.
"WHAT HAPPENED?!" Bruce screamed as grief and anger overtook, although suprisingly the Other Guy didn't try to take over; in fact he was hiding in a little corner of Bruce's mind, refusing to even move. His scream caused everyone to jump before they all snapped into a little bit of action. Natasha, still not looking up from Steve's face, told Bruce excactly what happened. "We need to get him to the Tower." Clint's said, his voice breaking from the effort of trying to keep his tears at bay. Bruce simply nodded his head before turning to Thor. "Uh Thor, could you, um get Steve onto the, um the Quinjet, please."
Thor looked at Bruce with his big, sad puppy dog eyes, before nodding and crouched next to his brother in arms. Natasha however refused to let go. It took Clint gently injecting her with a small dosage of tranquiliser from one of his arrows to get her to loosen her grip enough that Thor could carefully pick Steve up bridal style and carry him to the jet. While he did that, Tony went to the jet to get Bruce's spare clothes and Clint gently picked Natasha up of the ground as it looked like she wasn't going to move anytime soon. Once they were all aboard the Quinjet; Steve laying on one of the pull out medical beds with Natasha curled up into his side, her head on his chest, Tony sitting in one of the seats, staring at the wall infront of him with unfocased eyes, Thor standing at the back of the jet with his arms crossed over his chest and his head down, Bruce sitting by Steve, holding one of his hands and Clint flying the Quinjet, trying to not let thoughts of his Captain distract him and cause him to accidentley crash the flying vessel; they immediately flew to the Tower, wanting to know what happened to their teammate and friend.
Chapter Two. YAY! Um i'm sorry it took me awhile, I had a little bit of writer's bloke when it came to how the battle would actually pan out. I want to thank those of you who not only left a review but also favourited and followed. That really made my day cause I didn't really think anybody would actually like the story let alone leave a review, favourite and follow so thank you guy's. I hope you guy's liked this chapter and LOOK PARAGRAPHS! X-D I remembered to put them in. Ya proud of me? Please leave a review and remember to be honest and blunt.
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