STARK TOWER
CHAPTER 2
AVENGERS MANSION
PART 2
After the foul Scorpion had burst into the dining room and spoilt everyone's evening, the Avengers and split into pairs to search the mansion vast hallways to find the beast. Iron man and Captain America had chosen to wander the higher levels, Thor and Bruce explored the common areas on the ground floor, and Hawkeye and the Black Widow searched the labs and basements.
As Steve and Tony searched the darkened attic, ready for anything, a thought struck the Golden Avenger.
"Hey, Steve. Why don't we turn the lights on?" asked Tony.
Steve stopped.
"Why didn't we think of that earlier?" he replied, rhetorically.
Tony told JARVIS to turn on the lights, and their mission became much simpler.
"Barton," the Captain said into his communicator half an hour later, "Anything to report?"
"Nope noth…" the archer began, "What the hell was that? Thor?"
About five minutes earlier, Clint and Natasha began to search Tony's workshop. Clint had his bow outstretched, armed with an electric arrow.
"What is this thing anyway?" Clint asked.
"I don't know, but I saw something similar last month, when I went undercover at OsCorp." replied the ginger assassin, "Except it was less of a Scorpion, more of a Rhino."
"What is wrong with these people?"
"We've spent the last six months living with Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, you should know by now that scientists are weird."
"Right, so, anyway. I was thinking. Maybe once we've locked up the freaky illegal mutated Scorpion, we could maybe get dinner or something?"
Natasha paused, but the silence was ended by a transmission from the team leader.
"Barton. Anything to report?" he asked.
"Nope, noth…" Clint stopped mid-sentence as a loud cry echoed through the building. "What the hell was that? Thor?"
The assassins ran through the building and found Thor and Bruce unconscious in the kitchen. Thor had massive scars along his right arm, and Bruce had stabbed a tranquilizer into his leg.
"What could do this to a god?" Natasha pondered.
"Heads up," Clint said into his earpiece, "This thing is stronger than we thought."
"How much stronger" Iron man asked.
"Thor is unconscious with severe burns."
"And Banner?" asked the Captain.
"He tranquilized himself before the other guy could wake up." commented Natasha.
A roar sounded from behind them.
"Sounds like we might need the other guy." Hawkeye said, before firing several arrows at the beast.
"You think that will stop it?" critiqued Natasha.
"No," the archer replied, "but this will."
Hawkeye pressed a button on his bow and the arrows impaled in the Scorpion released strong electrical charges. It screamed, and then pulled the arrows out.
"Then again, I have been wrong before."
Iron man burst through the roof above it and punched its face into the ground. The Scorpion fired a corrosive acid from its tail and all over Iron man. Parts of his armour melted all over the floor, exposing and damaging many critical systems. Tony fell to the ground, unable to move his heavily damaged suit. Captain America fell through the hole left in the roof, and began to show Scorpion that not all ninety-year-olds are as weak as they seem. The Scorpion swiped at Steve with its tail, and threw him through the wall. Black Widow and Hawkeye began firing off as many rounds/arrows as they could, but the beast would not give in. Then, instead of shooting the Scorpion, Natasha shot Bruce (in the leg). He gasped in pain as he awoke, and then roared in fury as the Hulk was unleashed. He grabbed Scorpion by the tail, swung him around a few times, and then just let go. He roared, and then leaped after the Scorpion.
"We're gonna hafta move back into Stark Tower, aren't we." Hawkeye rhetorically asked, looking around at the wreckage.
"Yep." Replied Natasha.
"I look forward to it," Tony added from across the room, "Now can somebody please help me take off this armour before it melds itself with my body."