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America, the Colonies?
Chapter 2: The Captain Gets Caught
Natasha stared at the so-called pirate disappearing to the night with her mouth hanging open. The rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. weren't doing any better and even Tony seemed to be lost in thought. Natasha snapped out of her thoughts and glared at Clint and the others. "DON'T JUST STAND THERE! GO AFTER HIM!" she ordered, successfully snapping the rest out of their thoughts. She then looked at Tony in anger.
"Stark! This is all your fault! If it wasn't for you and your arguing, we would have the pirate already!" Natasha snapped at the billionaire, who just smiled at her playfully.
"Oh, it's we now, Natalie! You proceed fast", Tony said, earning a cold stare from the agent.
"Just stay out of my way, Stark!" Natasha mumbled, pushing past Tony and running off after the pirate.
She shouldn't let Tony under her skin so easily.
Jack was running and jumping from roof to roof. He couldn't let these S.H.I.E.L.D. people get the compass. He glanced behind him and was surprised to see some of them already catching up. One of them was about to tackle him when he saw his exit: some kind of flag was hanging from the roof all the way down to the ground. Thinking fast, Jack jumped from the roof and grabbed the flag, making it swing a little. His chasers were surprised but followed none the less. Jack had almost slid to the ground when a ripping sound was heard. Jack glanced up and saw the flag ripping from the weight hanging from it. He tried to go down faster, but to no avail as the flag fell down and Jack with it with a scream. Luckily for him, he landed on a dumpster.
"Not th' worst place I've been", he mumbled and got up from the dumpster, falling face first to the ground. The Captain sat up with a groan and rubbed his throbbing face. He then took the compass out of his pocket, trying his best to think of something where he could hide, but came up with blank, making the arrow spin. Pocketing the compass, he got up, only to be met with the face of an angry female S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Jack grinned and was about to take off, when someone knocked him out from behind.
The last thing he heard was someone saying: "The Director will be pleased."
Tony smacked the steering wheel of his Acura. He had been too late to get the pirate before the S.H.I.E.L.D. came.
"Oh well, no one can win all the time", he said to himself and took out some kind of device. "But luckily, I'm not no one", he finished with a smirk as the device spun to life, revealing it to be a tracking device. He had planted it on Natasha when she'd left after the pirate.
Tony Stark wasn't one to give up.
"Sir, Agents Romanoff and Barton are here to report their mission", some random S.H.I.E.L.D agent called out to Nick Fury's office. The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. glanced up from his paperwork just in time to see the two agents enter his office.
"Report", he said simply, looking down to his paperwork again. Natasha took a step forward and cleared her throat with a cough.
"Mission successful. We captured the man alive, as ordered. Just before Tony Stark", she said, making Fury look at her with narrowed eyes.
"Tony Stark is after the pirate?" he asked with a serious voice that clearly said he didn't want to hear any nonsense.
'"Yes, he arrived at the scene just before we did, sir", Clint supplied, earning a nod from Fury.
"Where is the pirate now?" the Director asked while getting up from his seat.
"He's held in one of the interrogation rooms, sir", Clint answered, earning a nod again.
"I'll see him myself."
Captain Jack Sparrow woke up in a dark room, seated on a chair. He tried to get up, but found his hands tied up behind his back. Luckily, his legs were free. He had been in this kind of situations before, the last time being when Elizabeth had left him tied up to the mast of his ship. Jack tried to work his hands out of the bindings, but to no avail. These captors were better than he'd initially thought. After a few more tries, he finally succeeded in loosening the bindings a little, when a door to the room opened, revealing a one-eyed, dark-skinned bald man dressed in black clothes. The man sat down on the chair in front of Jack and dropped a file on the table between them.
"So, Jack Sparrow. It has come-", he started, only to be interrupted by the said pirate.
"Captain Jack Sparrow", Jack corrected, making the man's stare harden.
"Captain it is, then. Tell me, how did you crash your ship to the Battery Park? To my knowledge, the ocean is too far away from the park for a boat or a ship to crash on it", the man continued, opening the file one of his researchers had gathered information on the situation to. Jack stared the man for a while, before frowning.
"Ye tell me. I was fightin' this Kraken, when I suddenly found myself in this 'park'", he said with a shrug. The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. glanced at the man with a raised eyebrow.
"Kraken? As in the legendary sea monster Davy Jones controlled Kraken?" As he said that, Jack snapped his eyes to the man in a second.
"How do you know about Davy Jones?" Jack asked in a cold voice. His plan was to wait for the man to reveal what he wanted, but now he had other plans.
Nick Fury smirked a little and looked down to his file. "I was hoping for you to tell me", he said and turned the file towards Jack, who went wide-eyed from what he saw: there was a poorly drawn picture of him fighting Davy Jones at the mast of the Flying Dutchman, with the Kraken on the background. The description read: "The two legendary pirates, Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones in a battle of life and death."
"They forgot th' Captain part", Jack mumbled in a quiet voice, but still loud enough for Fury to hear it.
Nick Fury chuckled a little, bringing Jack's attention to him again. "You're a legend here, Captain Jack Sparrow. I was surprised myself when I heard your name. Now, care to tell me how you got here?" He asked, making Jack look thoughtful. Nick Fury waited for a while, but when the man didn't answer, he let out an annoyed sigh and got up from his chair. "You have till tomorrow to think about it. I'll send someone to keep you company. And remember: don't try to escape."
With that, Nick Fury left the Captain on his own.
Tony Stark was listening to the conversation between Fury and Jack with wide eyes. He had hacked to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s security system and was now watching the conversation through a security camera. When the pirate had said his name in his little speech earlier, he had thought the name sounded familiar, but had thought none of it.
"God, I'm so stupid!" the billionaire said and smacked his steering wheel again. "I'm supposed to be a genius and I miss something as simple as a name", he continued to himself and brought a hand to his face. "Oh well. Time to bail the pirate out", he said and hacked the door of the pirate's room open.
"Now it's up to you, Captain", Tony said with a smirk.
Jack had just gotten his bindings off, when he saw the door open again. He froze and waited for someone to get in and try to stop his escape, but when no one came in, he shrugged and continued walking. When he got out of the room, he came to a hallway, with two ways out. He chose the one on the right and continued walking. He would run only on emergency.
Then suddenly, he heard a voice call out from behind him: "What are you doing?" Jack was startled and fell on his face for the second time that night. He groaned, before looking up from the ground to see the woman who had been chasing him earlier now staring at him with a raised eyebrow. Jack smirked and picked himself up from the ground.
"Listen here, lady. If ye would excuse me and let me be on my way, I would be pleased. So, what do ye say?" Jack asked with a smirk and took a step closer to the woman before taking her hands to his, seemingly startling the woman at the invasion of her private space. Jack thought he had won, only for the reality to hit him as he got smacked in the face.
"I deserved that", he said to himself as he fell.
Natasha tried to calm herself as she dragged the pirate back to the room. She could swear she'd heard him say something like "I deserved that" before he fell. It wasn't her fault, though. He had invaded her private space. "I need to train more; first Tony and now this pirate gets under my skin," she mumbled to herself as she stepped into the room where they'd held the pirate and dropped him on one of the chairs.
She had been on her way to her house when Nick Fury had ordered her to keep company to the pirate. Natasha had tried to argue, but the man had said it was final, so she couldn't help but do as she was told. She had been surprised when she'd found the room empty, but had immediately went to search for the pirate, managing to find him in a couple of minutes. She was impressed that the man had managed to escape his bindings, as they were Clint's best work.
There was a file on the table that caught her attention. Fury had probably forgotten it there. She shrugged, deciding to read it to get the time go faster. When she opened the file, she was in for a surprise when she read about all the adventures the pirate, Jack Sparrow, had gone through. What surprised her more was the fact that the stories weren't new to her, since her mother had read them to her before being killed. Jack Sparrow had been her idol, and now the same man was unconscious on a chair in front of her.
Natasha was brought out of her thoughts when the door opened. She turned to look at the door, only to frown when she saw the one and only Tony Stark standing there, his sunglasses reflecting the light.
"Hello there, Natalie! Miss me?" he asked with a smirk.
Heimdall walked towards Odin's throne with serious expression. He had sensed disorder in time and that could mean only one thing: time travel. The gatekeeper never left his post, except in situations like this.
When Odin saw him walk into the room, he instantly turned serious. Thor was also in the room, holding a conversation with his father.
"Heimdall, old friend. What brings you here today?" Odin asked with a smile, but the seriousness never left him. Thor also turned to look at the Gatekeeper.
"It has come to my information that there has been time traveling on Midgard", Heimdall said, making Odin gasp and Thor raise an eyebrow in surprise.
"Of what does he speak, father? Time travel?" Thor asked his father, who nodded and turned to his son.
"Thor, my son. I want you to investigate this event. You are to go to Midgard", Odin told his son, who looked at his father in confusion.
"To Midgard? But the bridge was destroyed! How am I able to go there?" Thor asked, making a small smile appear on Odin's face.
"Heimdall will show you. Now go, my son."
With that said, Heimdall left the room with Thor following close behind.
