A/N- Yes! I finally updated! And sorry! This is more than just a two-part. I'm so evil!
"We're here for you, Toa Terra."
Emma felt the room temperature drop a few degrees. "Wha…?"
Steve sighed, "You are the Toa, are you not?"
Emma snorted, "Us? The Toa? You have to be joking!" Internally, she was panicking.
Steve put up a serious face. "I'm not."
Emma felt scared. Not for herself, but for her friends and teammates. "But, we are all just teenagers. We can't be heroes, let alone predecessors of fictional characters!"
Steve kept up his serous face. "We have evidence."
"And that is?" Emma knew that she was treading on thin ice, but she needed to get them off their tails. Avengers or not, she didn't trust them.
"Well, first off, your band name."
"Seriously? We've had that name loooong before the Toa showed up."
"The town the Toa first showed up in was this one."
"So? It's probably just a coincidence."
"Your genders."
"Are you serious?! That is just sexist!"
"Sorry. Ahem. You act like siblings."
"All friends do. Are you that serious?"
"Yes."
"Any other evidence?"
"Uhh…" Steve realized that he really had no more evidence. "Um…"
"See!" Emma huffed, "You don't have any."
Tony jumped in. "How do you know that they are based on fictional characters?"
Seriously? "Because we've seen the movies."
"But why did you watch them?"
"Because we were curious."
"But how did you know about their predecessors?"
Really?! "Because they were on the TV."
"Really?"
"They were also in books."
"So?"
Emma groaned. "They were also LEGOS! LEGOS that me and my friends found."
"Where did you find them?"
"Are you serious?! The toy store! Where else?!"
"A magic portal?"
That got the billionaire eight incredulous stares. "Seriously?!"
"What? I flew through a portal!"
Emma ignored Tony, and threw her hands in the air. "This has been a complete waste of time! Come on guys!"
With that, the teens, lead by an exasperated Emma, left the room.
Steve sighed. "That went well." Not.
The group didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they were a good distance.
"That was close." Alana sighed.
"I know." Jack breathed. "They almost had us."
Hank clapped a hand on Emma's shoulder, nearly knocking the poor girl over. "If it hadn't been for Em, we really would have been done for!"
Emma, after catching her balance ("Hank!"), gently pushed off his hand. "I just did my job. After all, it's my job to protect you all. You guys would have done the same for me."
"Emma's right guys." Rebecca spoke up. "But we also have a big problem. The Avengers are looking for us. We may have gotten out of this now, but what about later? Or during a battle? We are in serious danger."
"But 'Becca!" Emily piped up, "Emma threw them off our tail by telling the truth. Mostly."
"Even so," Hannah interrupted, "Rebecca's right. What do we do now?"
"Right now," Emma turned to the team, "we act as though nothing happened. After school, we head for base. Nuju is going to need to hear about this."
Emma had a gut feeling however, that this was just the beginning.
After school, the disguised Toa got on their bikes. Each of their bikes, surprisingly, matched their Toa colours. Forming a half-line-half-group with Emma in the lead, and Jack in the back, the group pedalled towards the edge of town.
The unmarked van slowly moved, and began to follow the team.
Jack felt a small tingle in the back of his neck. Turning his head slightly, he spotted a simple black van a few cars behind them. The tingling grew when he spotted it. Un oh! "Em!"
The lead Toa turned slightly. "I see it!" When the team had to stop at an intersection, Emma closed her eyes, and stretched out her senses.
Another neat thing that the Toa had gotten was the ability to stretch their senses. They could 'sense' each other's unique elemental energies, as well as heat signatures of other humans. Unknown to humans, each one had a unique heat signature.
Emma scanned the vehicle, and if her eyes had been opened they would have widened. "We're being followed."
Hannah frowned. "Who?"
Emma scowled. "By Tony Stark and his friend Steve. I recognize their signatures from earlier. There are also three other unknown heat signatures in the vehicle."
"What do we do?" Emily asked, keeping her eyes on the crosswalk sign. So far, it said STOP.
"Easy," Emma ordered, opening her eyes, "we split up, and meet back at base. Plan A style." The light turned green, and the crosswalk sign said GO. "Now!"
With that, they split up. Alana, Hannah, and Jack went straight ahead, while Emma and the others went right.
"Damn it! They split up!" Tony cursed.
"What now?" Clint asked.
"Easy soldier." Steve put on his motorcycle helmet. "We also split up. Tony, you, Bruce and Clint take the ones that went right. Natasha and I will take the others."
"Got it Cap!"
"Good." Steve hopped onto his bike, which they had brought with them. Natasha climbed on behind him.
The back of the van opened, and Steve revved the engine. The motorcycle tore out of the van, and took off after Jack's group.
The unmarked van's back closed, and the rest of the Avengers peeled right, taking off after Emma's group.
Alana glanced behind her, and yelped. "We've got incoming!"
"I see 'em!" Jack growled, and looked around. His face suddenly lit up slightly. "Quickly, into the park!"
The three teenagers veered right, and biked into the park.
"Shoot!" Steve cursed. "Hang on Natasha!"
The bike's engine revved as Steve turned sharply. People yelled and jumped out of the way of the incoming motorcycle. Steve winced, but quickly focused back on the teens.
"They're still on our tails!" Hannah yelled.
"I know!" Jack yelled back, "Quickly, left!"
The teens skidded to the left, leaving marks on the pavement. Putting literal petal to the metal, the group sped into the bike park.
Steve quickly pulled a left, leaving an even bigger skid mark on the pavement. He roared after them, but quickly pulled to a stop.
The bike park was filled with cyclists!
In other words, they had lost the Toa.
"Shoot!"
"Petal to the metal guys!"
"Don't need to tell us twice!"
Emma, Hank, Rebecca, and Emily raced down the sidewalk, managing to keep a good distance from the van. The van, being driven by Tony, stayed hard on their tails.
"Em! Light!" Emily yelled.
Emma spotted the blinking traffic light. "C'mon!"
The group beelined for the intersection. If they could cross the street before the light changed, they stood a chance of losing their pursuers.
Tony also spotted the now blinking light. "Shit…!"
Sweat beaded on Emma's face. Almost…!
"Now!"
With a yell, the group barrelled ahead. Car horns honked as the teens tore across the intersection, just as the light changed.
The black van was forced to skid to a halt.
"Damnit!"
Some time later, the group reunited at an abandoned road that lead into the nearby hills.
"You guys are alright!"
"You're here!"
"Mata Nui! That was close!"
"You got away!"
"We left them in the dust!"
"We showed them!"
"Guys!" The group turned to Emma, who was panting slightly like the rest of them. "Celebrate later. We need to get to Nuju!"
"Right!"
Tony banged his head on the steering wheel, making the van's horn release a long honk. Steve sighed as the group sat in an empty parking lot. The Avengers, Earth's Mightiest Heroes, outwitted by teenagers!
It was embarrassing to say the least.
"What do we do now?" Bruce asked.
"Easy." Clint answered, "We wait at the school tomorrow for them to show up." He propped his feet up on the dashboard.
"That would work," Natasha spoke up, "but tomorrow's Saturday."
"Damnit!" Clint snarled. "Now what?!"
"We wait," Steve sighed, "for them to make the first move."
"Turaga Nuju!"
Nuju looked up from where he was at the console. "What is it Toa?" He asked.
The disguised Toa skidded to a halt a metre from the Turaga. All seven of them were panting, and they hadn't taken off their helmets. Behind them, their bikes lay in a pile.
"I think we've been found out!" Emily gasped out.
Nuju's eyes widened. "What?!" He blurted out.
Rebecca smacked Emily on the back of the head. "We've haven't been completely found out yet kohlii head!"
Emma pushed herself between the two. "Both of you cut it out!" She growled, "Let me explain, then you can go off on each other!"
The girl then turned to the Turaga. "Two men came into the school today." The disguised Toa of Storms started.
By the time she had finished telling Nuju about what happened, the Turaga had a calculating look on his face. "This is alarming news." He said at last.
Turaga Nuju was about to say something else, when a klaxon went off. The eight Bionicle turned to the computer as red lights began to flash. Nuju quickly hobbled over and began to type something on the console.
"What is it Turaga?" Hannah asked.
The Ice Turaga's face turned into an almost snarl. "Makuta." He spat.
Emma immediately went into leader mode. "Where?" She asked.
"In the warehouse district." Nuju replied. "Surprisingly an abandoned one."
The Toa were flabbergasted. "Makuta usually attacks the public." Rebecca spoke up, "Why is he in a warehouse? An abandoned one at that?"
"I don't know," Nuju said, "but I am getting some strange energy readings inside." He turned to the teenagers. "Be careful Toa. I have a bad feeling about this."
Emma nodded. "We will Turaga. Come on Team!"
With that, the disguised Toa grabbed their bikes and raced out of the base. Nuju watched as they peeled off.
"Good luck, Toa Terra."
The Avengers were parked on the side of a road. While Captain sat at the wheel, keeping a vigilant watch out for the teens, Tony sat sulking in the passenger seat. The billionaire couldn't believe that one, he had been outsmarted by a bunch of teenagers, and two, that they had turned down a free internship at Stark Industries! He couldn't believe it!
As Iron Man fumed, Clint was working on his arrows. The archer was fiddling with the mechanism on his net arrow, only to trigger it, and get a net to the face. "Damnit!"
Natasha, who was working on a laptop, snorted as Hawkeye tried to detangle himself from his net. The spy was looking through the teenagers backgrounds, trying to figure out if they really were connected to the Terra. So far, she had read five of the seven of their profiles. At the moment, she was reading Emily Rogers' profile. She had not yet read their apparent leader, Emma McFord's, profile.
"Anything Natasha?" Bruce asked. The scientist was monitoring some traffic cameras that Tony had hacked into ("Don't ask." The billionaire had said).
"Nothing yet. You?"
Bruce sighed. "No sign of them."
"Damn." She muttered.
Steve quietly listened to his teammates as he kept an eye out for the teenagers. So far, he hadn't seen any sign of them. Captain went to turn back to ask Natasha if she had gotten to Emma's profile yet, when seven different coloured blurs raced past. The WWII hero blinked, then yelped.
"What the-!" Tony yelled as Steve stepped on the gas.
"There they go!"
Tony blinked, before looking out the front window. He stared at the seven cyclists that were pedalling in front of them.
"Well I'll be damned!" He whistled.
"Language!"
The Toa were barely sweating when they reached the 'abandoned' warehouse. Panting, yes, tired, no. Dismounting, Emma took the lead as the team headed inside.
Behind them the Avengers pulled up. Exiting the van, Steve took the lead. The Avengers crept up to the warehouse, and peeked inside.
What they saw however, was not what they had expected. At all.
"Makuta!" Emma yelled as the disguised Toa entered the building. "Show yourself!"
The Toa knew that Terridax could sense then as soon as they entered. Hidden or not, he would be able to sense Emma's light powers.
"Toa…" the team tensed as the shadows on the other side of the room shifted. Two blood red eyes manifested as the Makuta stared down at the teens.
A/N- Longest-puff-chapter-huff-yet! Puff!
Yes, I did another cliff hanger! I'm so evil!
Next chapter- The Fight