Chapter 3
Avengers Assemble
14:00 hours, 02 March 2025
"We are on our way now in my new T-Stark 47 jet right now. Watch out! Here comes trouble..." Tony Stark says dramatically before hanging up the phone.
Thor chuckles under his breath as he puts down the phone on the table.
"I hate to admit it, but I really missed that guy. He never fails to make me laugh," Thor says, nodding his head from side to side.
"Agreed," answers Loki. He had to admit Stark was hilarious.
Thor, Cheyenne, and Papá are sitting in lawn chairs on the porch of the Apodaca house. They are awaiting the arrival of the other Avengers. It is time for the Avengers to assemble once again!
About ten minutes passed by when they saw the first glimpse of the T-Stark 47 jet hurtling through the sky toward them.
The jet has a sleek and refined design, and the jet seems to float on air rather than fly through it.
Loki remembered something. "Oh heavens, there is no jet landing pad here! Where are they going to land?"
Thor burst into action. He made hand signals in the jet's direction hoping Stark would get his message. Thor signaled for the jet to land in the huge grassy clearing near the house. Stark seemed to get the message and steered the jet in that direction, but changed his mind halfway through and ended up landing in the parking lot next to the clearing. His jet surprisingly only took up ten parking spaces.
A little old man hobbled out of his house across the street. He crossed the street as the Avengers made their way out of the jet. First, Steve Rogers lifted himself out of the jet; he was always punctual. Then, Tony Stark stepped out of the jet. They were the only two in the jet.
The little old man started to scream in Spanish at the two arriving Avengers with all his might. Actually, he wasn't screaming at them like he thought he was; the old man was yelling at the air behind Steve and Tony. He shook his cane at the air, and in broken English said, "You not supposed to park here, you hooligans!"
The old man started to hobble back to his home, but stopped to say one more thing. "It not Halloween yet!" Then, off he went back to his home.
Tony's jaw dropped, and so did Steve's. "Well, that was a rare encounter. You don't see that every day." Thor said.
Tony started to chuckle, then he burst in to laughter completely. Steve laughed too, and soon they were all laughing.
"It's good to see you again." Tony said to Thor.
"What do you think of my T-Stark 47?" Tony asked Thor.
"I think it is incredible! Why did you name it T-Stark 47?" Thor asked.
"It took me 47 tries to get the design right, so I decided what the heck. I'll name it after all my failed attempts! I'm still improving it. So, who are your friends? And what is HE doing here?" Tony asked pointing at Loki and glaring.
"We will explain that later, but right now we need to get you inside and settled." Thor explained. He introduced Steve and Tony to Cheyenne and her papá. Once the introductions were done, Loki asked, "Where is Dr. Banner?"
"Yes, where might he be?" Thor wondered aloud.
Thor heard the rumble of an engine outside the house. He ran outside and found Dr. Banner cruising down the street on his beat-up scooter. Wow, was he moving slow. Dr. Banner was moving so slow a snail could have passed him by now.
Thor waved in Dr. Banner's direction. Dr. Banner decided to just get off the scooter and walk because it was faster. Once he reached the porch he said, "Wow, my scooter is low on juice. Do you happen to have refills for a nitrogen-based engine?"
"I have no idea what you are talking about." Thor answered quizzically.
"But I do!" said Tony. He hugged Dr. Banner and so did Steve. "Finally, someone who speaks my language!" exclaimed Tony.
With all the Avengers there (minus Black Widow and Hawkeye who meanwhile were hard at work preparing for their wedding), a meeting was commenced.
Cheyenne set up a round table in her living room where the Avengers sat around. Cheyenne and her father sat away from the table because they did not want to get in the way.
"Loki, would you like to start the meeting? Besides, it is you who got us into this mess in the first place." Thor said to Loki.
"What?! It was me? Why brother I believe you had something to do with it too." Loki answered.
"Who? ME?" Thor said, acting cluelessly.
"You imbecile." Loki said. He continued on and explained the situation that the Tesseract was gone and they had no idea where it ended up. They needed the Avengers help to act as a search party for the Tesseract. If the Tesseract were to fall into the wrong hands that could mean the end of the world.
"Okay, okay, let me get this straight." Steve said.
"So, Loki you are on our side now. Does that mean that you saw the error of your ways and you are good now?" he asked.
"Well, yes I suppose so." Loki asked
"Hm, somehow that does not seem believable."
Tony stood up from his chair. He wanted to start trouble whenever he did that.
"Well, maybe he had a moment of truth and realized he wants to be a hero now." Tony added.
"Well, I don't think he will change after what he did to us." Steve answered, gritting his teeth.
"Well, I think you are WRONG." Tony sneered. He was starting to get on Steve's nerves.
"Okay, that's it. Time to suit up!" Steve said. Steve walked into the hallway and came back as Captain America. Tony did the same and came back in his Iron Man suit.
"Bring it on, punk." Tony said, grinning with delight.
They began to fight. Iron Man fired a laser at Captain America who dodged it. The laser almost destroyed Cheyenne's china doll. Then, Captain America threw his shield with one swift motion and knocked down Iron Man. The shield almost broke a vase. Iron Man got right back up on his feet and threw reckless punches at Captain America.
Cheyenne stepped in to try to break up the fight. "Whoa, guys! Stop! You are going to break something! Or worse hurt someone!"
"I'll take the pain!" Iron Man said while kicking Captain America in the face. Captain America grabbed hold of Iron Man's foot and Iron Man lost his footing and fell again.
"Captain America is clearly the best fighter here." Thor said, laughing.
"Well, CLEARLY you haven't seen all my moves yet!" Iron Man shouted as he threw more punches at Captain America. Eventually Loki and Thor were enthralled in the fight and forgot all about the meeting and the serious matter at hand. Cheyenne and her papá sighed because they had no idea what to do about the fight.
Dr. Banner, his anger boiling, turned into the Hulk and ripped off the roof while he was transforming. The Avengers stopped mid-fight and stared at him.
The Hulk picked up Captain America and Iron Man with his fingertips and moved them into chairs in separate corners of the room. He moved Thor and Loki back to their seats. Cheyenne and her father smiled at him. The Hulk knew how to handle things the best and get things done.
"Now, who is going to pay for a new roof?" Cheyenne said once everyone was settled back into their seats. Iron Man was still brooding over his loss to Captain America, but he offered to pay for the repairs. The Hulk pitched in too because he was the one who caused the damage in the first place. He shrank back into Dr. Banner.
"Wow, I haven't seen you transform in so long Dr. Banner! I almost forgot how big and GREEN you get when you turn into The Hulk! You are like the green giant from that vegetable commercial!" Tony exclaimed.
"Um, thanks? I think?" Dr. Banner answered.
"By the way, Thor and Loki, we are here to help. No matter how much I don't trust Loki..." Steve said, smiling.
"Oh!" Cheyenne exclaimed, "I forgot I invited some of my friends over to come help us with the search party. You don't mind that they are girls right?" Cheyenne smiled.
"Not at ALL," Iron Man said, the notorious ladies-man.
Ding, dong!
"There they are now!" Cheyenne yelled. She ran over to the door and opened it. Five girls stepped out of the doorway and into the room.
Cheyenne introduced them all to the Avengers.
First, there was Angelica who was a tall, cheerful girl with short curly hair. Cheyenne described her as the brains of the group because she could crack any code that was given to her.
"Oh yeah, can you crack this code?" Iron Man asked Angelica, handing her a paper with symbols on it. In less than a second, Angelica had figured out what the symbols meant and she wrote down the message in two minutes.
"Wow, she is fast!" Iron Man exclaimed, obviously impressed.
"Why did you write a code for your grocery list?" Angelica asked.
"Well, one can never be TOO careful." Iron Man cooed.
"Don't mind him, he's an idiot, but he is my best friend. Lucky me." Captain America said.
"He is, but I see why you two could be best friends. You compliment each other." Angelica answered blushing.
"Very observant of you. I think you're right." Captain America answered before his cheeks began to turn red too.
"What?! Did you hear her, dude? She called me an IDIOT indirectly. You are siding with her? Wow, what a great best friend I have." Iron Man said feeling offended.
Next, was Leslee who was a transfer student from Japan that Cheyenne had met in college. Leslee knew thirteen languages including Japanese, Spanish, English, and Korean. She was a great communicator and Cheyenne thought she could be a great asset when they needed to find out some information. Leslee was good at getting things out of people. She was also a tae kwon doe master.
Iron Man, of course the curious one, tested her strength by suiting up and challenging her to try to hit him.
She found the weak spot in his design in the middle of the chest, and Iron Man had to admit she was an amazing fighter. Of course, he didn't admit it out loud; that would ruin his reputation as a macho man.
The third girl was Fiona who had long, blonde hair that she used in fighting. She was a master swordsman, and archer. Fiona was very athletic and she was also a great negotiator like Leslee. She brought her bow and arrows with her, so she went outside and shot at targets. She made the bulls-eye on all the targets and there were five targets. Fiona definitely had her accuracy down to a T.
The fourth girl was named Emily. Thor and Loki remembered seeing her before when they were on the boat. They greeted her, and Thor began to ask her a lot of questions about surfing, and Spanish. Whatever came to his mind. He was curious about this girl because she made him miss his Jane so much. She even walked like her, but she did not look like her. She was not his Jane Foster, but he felt so happy around Emily.
Emily was a short girl, but she was also very athletic and she has tried all the sports in the world. She can master any sport in less than a week if she put her mind to it. Since she is so light, Emily can jump high and fit into small spaces easily. She was also a good asset to the team.
The last girl was Yazmin. Yazmin's eyes were enchanting. They gleamed green-yellow like cat's eyes glowing in the night. She was average height, average weight, with tan skin, but there was something not average about her as well. She had this glow to her that did not seem natural, the Avengers noticed. Maybe it was her aura; they had no idea what it was. Cheyenne told them that Yazmin was a fortune-teller and adventurer. Yazmin also had some sort of sixth sense where she could sense whether or not a person has good or bad intentions.
Yazmin placed her hand on Loki's arm and closed her eyes. After a short while, she opened her eyes and said, "Loki has good intentions, but being the god of mischief, he is still having internal struggles with the mischief that is a part of him still."
"Ah, so he can't be trusted. See!" Captain America screamed.
"Ugh, do we have to go over this again?" Iron Man asked, pulling up his sleeves as if he were ready to start another fight.
"No need for that boys." Dr. Banner said, glaring at them and threatening them with his eyes. If they ticked him off again, he would throw them into the ocean next time.
"I think we are ready to rumble!" Cheyenne yelled.
Before the group split up to search different parts of the city, Yazmin shared something with them. She had just come back from an expedition in the Costa Rican rain forest, and she had come across something peculiar when she came back. She had found a blue, glowing cube in a ditch by the side of the road and she didn't know what to do with it. Yazmin explained that she left it in a locked trunk in her room, but yesterday she came home to find her apartment broken in to and the glowing cube was gone. There was no trace of who the robber could have been.
When Cheyenne described the Tesseract to Yazmin, she had known from the start that the cube that she found was no ordinary stone.
It was the Tesseract.
Now it was gone again.
That's when they devised a plan. A brilliant plan that would bring them closer to the Tesseract. Yazmin gave them a list of potential suspects and they split up to see what they could find out.
First on the list was Astrid Saldäna who was the daughter of her neighbor Ms. Saldäna.
Meanwhile at the Hawkeye and Black Widow residence...
Black Widow is bringing her wedding dress into the house. It is long and white, but beaded with black gems around the edges. It is beautiful, but Black Widow doesn't want Hawkeye to see it before the wedding. It is bad luck for the groom to see the wedding dress before the wedding.
Black Widow decides to cut a secret hole on the side of the house that connects to the walk-in-closet. She does this and finds herself in the empty closet where she hides the dress in a corner of the closet. When she turns around, she is face-to-face with Hawkeye who is looking at her with a strange look on his face.
"Honey, you have to stop doing that. You are going to destroy the house if you keep doing that. Why can't you use the door like a normal person?" Hawkeye asked Black Widow.
Black Widow feels relief. "Where is the fun in using the normal, plain door when you can use your spy training instead?" Black Widow asks Hawkeye. Hawkeye smiles at her.
"I'm so glad I am marrying you. Now no one will ever be able to get into our house without permission."
"You've got that right. I've installed lasers everywhere in the house so we are safe." Black Widow winked.