Hey Guys! Guess who is back! This chapter is due, but I procrastinated (Ie. role-playing on new forum, working on a new SYOC, recovering from illness, etc.), but it is here now! There is going to be a lot of action this chapter, so I am pumped! Ok, lets start this thing!
SOUNDTRACK FOR CHAPTER: "Running with the wolves'" by Aurora.
Go row the boat to safer grounds
But don't you know we're stronger now
My heart still beats and my skin still feels
My lungs still breathe, my mind still fears
June 5th, 2015
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
9:15 PM
Alaina sat in her room. She held a small rubber ball in her hand, and she threw it against the wall. She caught it, and repeated the cycle again.
Detention was so very boring.
She has 'accidently' made a portal out of the Helicarrier, escaping to New York, before she was apprehended once more.
Her escape attempts weren't working so far.
Fury had equipped her room with reverse gravity technology, ensuring that if she made a portal out of the Helicarrier, the portal would slip with the loss of gravity, and dissipate. It was quite annoying when she tried.
She soon heard the loud knocking on her door, and grumbled as she jerked it open to see Luke standing there, a grin on his face. He was wearing a black t-shirt, and a pair of gray pajama pants. He smirked and leaned on the doorframe, while her brain started to think.
Great, Movie night.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. handlers (Mostly Leif) had decided that the Defenders would watch a movie with eachother every other day, to help encourage 'friendliness' with the members of the Defenders. On Wednesday, Vincent choose Resident Evil to watch, and Beverly had been upset at the attempts to override the Red Queen saying, "It was perfectly logical what she did!"
Today, Friday, was Luke's choice in a movie.
Alaina groaned at the thought of having contact with humans, but grudgingly slipped on a tank-top and shorts, and pulled a robe off her dresser. She pushed past Luke, and walked into the commons, where the rest of the team was set up.
Beverly was in the kitchen, roasting popcorn with some new gadget she and Nathaniel had been testing, her hair pulled back in a pony-tail and in an oversized gray shirt with blue pajama pants. Vincent and Nathaniel were talking, a bowl of popcorn mostly full of burnt pieces lay at their feet, while Dean and Luke were chuckling loudly, and quickly stopped when any of the girls looked in their direction.
Demetra was in fact taking a nap due to the stress her twins were putting on her body, but had expressed her sympathy. Koden was sitting in the corner, snacking on a small bag of popcorn, watching the group. Raven was sitting in an egg-chair, legs crossed under her, as she hesitantly looked at the door when Alaina pushed it open.
Alaina waved off the conversation as she grabbed a bag of popcorn off the counter, and hopped up to her usual place, up in the rafters of the room.
She had found she liked high places, and it was easier to watch everyone and keep an eye out for threats.
It had been two years since she was in HYDRA's captivity, yet she still looked over her shoulder, threw knives, and still checked her bed for any hidden explosives.
She leaned back against a beam as Luke put The Godfather. Alaina was soon lost in the world of Mafia lingo, and found herself closely watching the interactions of the Mafia between eachother.
Luke, Dean, Vincent, and Raven suprisingly were watching intently while the others looked down when gunfire erupted, bringing up memories of HYDRA and past missions.
That was when Alaina finally had to look away, and she leaned back against the beam as she placed her hands on her temples, forcing the memories to retreat.
The movie soon ended with Kay watching the door close, and Luke immediatly got up to put the second one in. They soon noticed that the clock read 10:45, and with early training the next day, they decided to hit the hay, the group laughing as Luke mentioned that he had a favorite horse back in Germany.
Alaina retired to her room, and lastly checking the bed for any severed horse-heads, she finally went to sleep.
But the nightmares reached her first.
The girl silently walked into the ballroom. A white dress hung loosely on her frame, her pure white hair piled high on her head. A pistol lay cold on her thigh, and her hands twitched with yearning to use it.
She watched as the dancers glided in between eachother, trapped in a deadly dance, moving, spinning, twirling from the strings that attached them to the sky, that trapped them in a state of limbo.
She was here to save them, to save them from the monsters.
She silently walked over to the band, and watched as she saw a man play the violin low and sweet. The music floated across the room, like a cloud of oppression that kept the people trapped in their eternal dancing.
She would kill him first.
She suddenly reacted, ripping the violin from his hands. He looked at her, astonished, as she flung it to the ground, shattering into pieces of wood and string. She took a deep breath, and snatched the violin's bow and snapped it in her hands, and let the broken halves drop to the ground. The music came to a screeching halt, and the crowd looked at her in shock.
She looked back at the crowd, smoothing down her dress. She would be a saviour, she would be a saint.
She slipped a dainty hand under her dress and snatched the gun from its holster, and fired warning shots into the air. The crowd let out screams, as they collected themselves into a cluster in the middle of the dance floor.
She was curious at why they screamed. Wouldn't they be happy? Wouldn't they praise her from freeing them from oppression, and to settle the world into balance?
She held her hands out, her fingers in the shape of claws, as she squeezed her eyes shut, and her mind slipped back into the base. Two swirling vortexes opened up at the expanse of her hands, and soldiers clambered out, filing into lines by her side.
She smiled and waved, and let her hands fall.
Chaos reigned across the room as screams echoed across the ballroom, red staining the once-pristine floors.
The girl picked her way across the ballroom, avoiding a couple in a matching white-and-gold suit and dress, stopping to look at a necklace on the young lady's neck.
It was a crystal heart, hanging in the depth of her neck, and sparkling with diamonds.
The girl's eyes filled with longing, and she bent down to snap the necklace off the lady's neck, and slipped it into a small portal, telling herself to get it later.
She stood up once more, and looking around, she walked out confident, until a man emerged in her view. He held a syringe in his hand and jabbed it into her neck.
"We can't have you escape on our watch now, can we?" the man said as the girl fell to the ground, her limbs convulsing on the ground. She felt explosive with pain, and she forced herself to bite the scream that lodged itself in her throat.
She opened a portal underneath her, and she fell, and fell, and fell, in a downward spiral as the ballroom faded into a small spot in the sky, and she felt herself fade, and her eyes flutter close as her body hit the ground.
She heard the sounds of gunshots above her, and someone holding her down. The testings? Please, not the testings...
There's blood on your lies
The sky's open wide
There is nowhere for you to hide
The hunter's moon is shining
June 5th, 2015
Secret Defect Base, Siberia
9:15 PM
Peter stood in the base room. The black walls held computers, the center of the room showing a small table, where the Defects were gathered. Helena was standing next to Derek, smiling with bright red lipstick, while Derek tried to ignore her and focus on Rumlow's talking.
This was their first mission.
He tucked his tanned hands into his hoodie's muff and listened.
"Defects," Thomas said, adressing the group standing before the handlers. "This is a high-risk operation, but I am sure you already know how to handle those."
"We will have Helena, Sarah, Lloyd, and Derek go undercover at the ball, with Lordessa and me accompanying them. The rest of you will wait for the signal to inflitrate S.H.I.E.L.D.'s storage facility, and recover the lost data on The Winter Soldier," Leonardo finished, looking at the people in question.
"Let's begin."
Helena, when hearing that she would go to a ball, was estatic, and gave a big kiss on the cheek to Leo, even though he wiped it off a few minutes later. She had designated herself as the official wardrobe artist, and did the make-up and hair of all the Defects who were attending.
Helena wore a long, red dress with a slit up the side, and her usual heavy amount of dark red lipstick on her lips. She had her long black hair wavy, and a pair of long gloves on her hands. Helena had actually thought the outfit looked too fat on her, but Sarah shushed her while she worked through her unruly red hair.
Sarah had finally finished her hair, leaving it wavy and red, paired with a short, lacy dress. She had finally decided on a small amount of lip-gloss at Helena's urging, and a pair of fingerless black gloves on her hands, to help conceal the small flames that escaped her hands every once in a while.
Lloyd hac cleaned up well, as Helena had stated, wearing a formal black suit, with matching bowtie and shoes. He wore cufflinks that, as Sarah had noted, looked like HYDRA's symbol (Some of the Defects did nothing to hide their scowls at the reminder) His rusty hair was neatly combed, and Helena had stated that 'her handiwork was complete'.
Derek was wearing a simple tuxedo jacket and a pale blue shirt, paired with black pants and leather shoes. Helena had sneakily slipped her hand in his, and they were a couple going to the ball to see the sights. Sarah and Lloyd accompanied Maja Remme (Aka Lordessa) as her 'children'.
The party-goers left on the jet, Helena giving everyone a kiss on the cheek with bright red lipstick as they departed, her waving like the queen.
Their mission began now.
Sergey Gerasimov's Private Mansion, Russia
11:00 PM
Helena glided across the floor. Her black heels did little to stumble her, as she waltzed with Derek.
After they had departed on the jet for the party, they would wait until 11:05, where it would be the perfect time to strike.
The party was far a Russian man, who cared about his name, but S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were hidden in the crowd. Just what they needed for the distraction.
There, they would get the attention of the group that dared to call themselves Defenders.
Oh yeah, It was going to be a fun night.
She drummed her fingers on Derek's shoulder, becoming restless. What time was it? She looked back at the slender watch on her arm. 11:01.
She was going to die of anticipation even before they arrived!
She bit back a groan of annoyance and instead lightly scanned the room for Sarah and Lloyd. Sarah and Lloyd had gone first to the party, as to not raise suspiscion, and they had arrived an half-hour ago. Lordessa (Well, Maja if you want to be realistic) had slipped into dancing as well, flirting with another party-goer.
She soon spotted the two, dancing, Sarah dreamily flirting with Lloyd, while he had tried to play along.
She concentrated and instead led Derek off the dance floor, moving to the outskirts of the room, and pulled her trusty red lipstick out of her small purse, and reapplied it. She looked at Derek and smiled widely, giggling at his confused expression.
She snatched a pastila off a passing platter, and bit into the tasty sweet. As she brought a napkin to wipe the crumbs away from her mouth, the watchface showed a pleasant number.
11:05.
She smiled broadly, and nonchalantly showed Derek the time. He nodded in understanding, and he teleported away, going back to the base to get himself and Llyod their weapons.
Helena strode into the center of the ballroom, not afraid to push anyone in her way.
She looked around for Sarah, and soon saw Derek reappear next to Lloyd, handing him a small pistol.
At this, Lloyd grabbed the gun and fired it up into the air, hitting the ceiling. The party-goer's screamed in fear as they skirted out of the way of Lloyd, rushing to the edge of the ballroom. Lordessa soon arrived next to him, her fingernails long and dripping red. "Hello, people. We are the Defects. We have a question," she soon took the gun from Lloyd's hands and pointed it at a man in a tuxedo.
"Who wants to die first?"
I'm running with the wolves tonight
I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the wolves tonight
I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the . . .
June 5th, 2015
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
11:10 PM
Beverly looked around the weaponry. After barely any sleep (Her fragile parts needed at least 8 hours), they had been rudely awakened by the handlers. They had said there was some kind of attack at a party, a man named Sergey Gerasimov (A quick scan of the internet revealed him to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. sympathizer, supplying weapons to them), had been captured by 'rebel forces'.
Lets see about that, shall we?
The handlers looked at the Defenders gathered, most still rubbing their eyes or yawning, and Raven Montgomery finally spoke.
"This is a fragile situation, Defenders. We will have five of you inflitrate the party and eliminate the threat," she said, looking at the crowd.
"The rest of you will remain on stand-by, just in case the situation goes south. Alaina, Luke, Koden, Raven, and Dean will carry the mission out. The rest of you will stay here, and await further commands," Jackson stated.
Raven pulled a handgun out of the wall of weapons and soon responded to Jackson's answer with, "Me and Leif will accompany you."
The other Defenders (Demetra, Vincent, Beverly, and Nathaniel), left the room, Vincent loudly yawning, and the rest snickering behind his back. Jackson had soon sheperded them all back to their rooms, and went back to his own room to go back to sleep.
The remaining looked at the handlers. Alaina crossed her arms and glared at Raven Montgomery. "So what are we supposed to do? Run in happily throwing sparkles everywhere?" Alaina sarcastically retorted, crossing her arms and running a hand through her hair.
Raven Montgomery smirked and loaded the gun, handing it to Leif. "We're going to inflitarte the party. Just like you used too."
Dean looked at the mirror. After being given some weapons (Everyone knows you can trust teenagers with high-assualt rifles!), they were handed some kind of 'stealth suit' or something and told to get ready quickly. His was skintight and black, and he made a pose in front of the mirror.
Oh yeah, he pulled this off.
He sped out of the room, meeting the others in the weapons room. Alaina had her hair in a ponytail, and glared when Dean entered the room. "Oh great, I was just enjoying myself," she deadpanned, pulling a shiny knife from out of her pocket. The rest of The Defenders soon entered the room, Koden wearing his armor and shield. Luke and Dean soon high-fived when they saw eachother, and waited for the handlers to appear.
Raven and Leif entered the room, Leif wearing some kind of cloak that looked like it was covered in blood, strangely enough, and Raven was wearing a navy catsuit.
Dean chuckled and sped torwards the center of the room.
"Let's crash a party!"
Trick or treat, what would it be?
I walk alone, I'm everything
My ears can hear and my mouth can speak
My spirit talks, I know my soul believes
June 5th, 2015
11:46 PM
Sergey Gerasimov's Private Mansion, Russia
Sarah lounged on the chair. A gun was in her daintly lap, and she yawned. How long does it take heroes to get here!? The party-goers had already been disposed of phones, jewelry, and earpieces, and now they were mumbling fearfully, huddled in the corners of the ballroom. It had been quite easy to get rid of the extra guards, a simple little trick from Lordessa and Helena and they were dead as a doornail.
That was, until, the windows broke into a million pieces.
A girl with white hair tumbled through the window, next to her a boy in black armor. Sarah quirked her head and stood up, feeling her hands strat to tingle as the fire danced underneath her skin. Three more people leaped through, and one sped across the room like lightning. He stopped in front of Helena and raised an eyebrow. Helena smiled flirtatiously and went to place a kiss on his cheek when he suddenly fell through a swirling vortex, and landed next to the girl with white hair.
Huh, they looked familiar.
Sarah smiled and waved, walking up to the heroes.
"Finally! I have been wanting to have this fight for awhile!" She said, standing next to Helena and grinning madly. The boy in the black armor narrowed his eyes and hefted a shield onto his arm.
And that was when the chaos started.
Sarah burst into flame, a fire whip of sorts materializing near her, and she flung it at the boy in black armor. It wrapped around his leg, and he fell to the ground. Lloyd started to fire round after round of bullets at a boy who was launching electricty at him, barely dodging the bullets. The girl with white hair ran to the party goers, and a portal suddenly opened near her.
"GO! GET IN THE PORTAL!" she yelled over the noise. The civilians seemed to get the idea and they started to file in.
Sarah was knocked to the ground by a flying black shield, and the black armor ran torwards her, free from the flame whip. Lordessa was slashing at the air, growling as the speedster cackled and ran across the room, mostly around her.
A girl was engaging in battle with Derek, a black cloak on her head and a tendril of black wrapped around her arm. He was fighting her off with dual katana blades, fighting off the knives she threw at him.
Sarah felt a shield at her throat as black armor boy stood over her, threatening her. She smirked and threw her leg up, kicking him in the back of the shins. He fell over, and she snatched the shield from him. He glared and kicked her back with a covered foot, throwing her back into the wall of the palace wall. She groaned.
What kind of steriods was this guy on?! She had only known one guy who had strength like him, and black armor. He was in The Children Of War program..
Dear god, she was fighting her fellow children.
They were fighting Children Of War.
June 6th, 2015
Undisclosed S.H.I.E.L.D. Bunker
12:02 AM
Peter waited outside the door. He looked back at David, and nodded. David placed his hands on the door, and his eyes slowly turned to red. David quickly teleported into the room, and looked around. The two agents standing in the room were dead, eyes closed. Peter reched over and grabbed one of the agent's hands, and placed it on the scanner. The door opened, and the rest of his companions filed in.
David looked around, a hand on the pistol attached to his belt, and Caithlyn held a book in her hand, walking in carefully past the dead body lying on the ground. Flora simply walked past the bodies, and screamed. She put a hand up when David went to continue and she quickly whispered, "Three guards ahead."
Just as she had said the words, three men walked into the room. They looked casual, until they saw the three kids and the two dead bodies. One went to pull his gun out when Flora screamed in their direction, disorienting them. Peter quickly teleported behind them, and punched one in the back, and the guard crumpled to the ground.
Annaleise simply walked by one of the soldiers, and hit him in the head with the cutlass she held. Soon, the guards were on the ground, unconscience, and one was dead because of an 'accidental brain rupture'. The group walked down the halls, Flora screaming occasionally to pinpoint their location.
They disposed of the people who stood in their way easily, quickly, and effienciently, just like they had always been trained to do.
They soon found the main room, a collection of computers and generators. A few scientists in suits were in the room, but they were soon unconscience and easily ignored.
Peter walked over to the main computer, and sat down. His fingers flew across the keyboard as the rest stood by and guarded the door (As they had shot the security camera to make sure no one could track them).
Flora screamed and soon looked in Peter's direction. "You have 5 minutes until they get here."
He mumbled an, "Yes," under his breath as his green eyes scanned the code across the screen, bypassing the firewalls and sneaking past the coding.
MIT really does help you get a job.
He soon found what he was looking for, apparently, A captain Steve Rogers was trying to track down The Winter Soldier as well. There was a whole file on it in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s database. He smirked when he pulled the flashdrive out of his pocket and plugged it in, downloading the contents.
5%, 7%, 12%...
"2 minutes," Flora stated, the others prepping themselves and David silently stepping outside the door, his eyes changing to blood red.
17%, 22%, 35%...
But we're running out of time,
All the echoes in my mind cry. . .
June 6th, 2015
12:07 Am
Sergey Gerasimov's Private Mansion, Russia
Koden deflected a flaming hand, blocking it with his black shield. Fire girl had been distracting him, so he was only able to fight her, while the rest of his teammates were fighting for their lives.
Alaina had opened a portal for the civilians to escape through, and the stress was clearly getting to her. Her brow was beaded with sweat and her hands were shaky.
Raven had been fighting off the boy with two swords. She was still wearing her cloak, but none of her knives could reach him.
Dean had been fighting a lady in a skintight dress, a pair of claws over her fingers. She had been slashing at the air in anger, and Dean had been cackling like a hyena. She was gaining on him though, and she nearly slashed through his arm.
Luke had been fighting a boy who had one too many bullets, he was cold and silent as he fired bullet after bullet at Luke. One had grazed him in the shoulder, and red stained his shirt.
Koden was about to run to disarm the boy with the guns when he felt heat brush against his face. He raised his shield in defense, and it was a good idea too. Fire girl had unleashed a wave of heat across him, hoping to burn him alive.
He blocked the onslaught of flames, and hit her in the jaw with his shield throwing her to the ground. She put a hand to touch the wound and she smiled.
"Don't you remember me, Child of Soldiers?"
The memories hit him like a freight train, and he faltered. This, this wasn't..
"Yes, sweetie. Sarah's back," the girl laughed as she stood up, her hair and eyes in white flames. She pulled her fist back, and punched him in the chest, the fire seeping through the cracks in his armor.
He flew back and landed on the ground. The world spun around him, and he got up, unsteadily. She was full in flames, laughing, and she walked away, running instead to the boy in the swords. She mumbled something in his ears, and he nodded, suddenly disappearing.
What were they up to?
Alaina groaned as she held the portal open. This was, by far, the longest time she had held a portal, and the stress of holding it so wide and in such a far location was getting to her. She was starting to see double, or was it triple?
"Dean, get over here and make sure everyone is in the damn portal!" she said through the comms on her ear. Dean better make sure they all get in there, or so help her..
Dean sped over, panting, a light scratch on his outfit. He made a thumbs up and sped around, collecting any of the other partygoers stranded or too scared to leave.
Alaina wiped a droplet of sweat off her forehead with her elbow, and steadied her ground. A few more minutes...
"Got em'" Dean finally said, appearing next to her. Alaina mumbled a thanks and closed the portal, leaning against the wall. Dean sped away, probably to help Koden, who was on the ground, when she felt something touch her shoulder. It was a boy, holding to katana swords. She went to punch him in the nose when he suddenly disappeared, appearing then next to the girl on fire.
A portal suddenly opened near him, and he held it open, while the girl on fire stood by. Soon, the lady with metal claws jumped through, followed by the boy with the guns. Soon, fire girl and crazy lipstick lady jumped through, lipstick blowing a kiss to the air.
She turned to Luke, who was on the ground. Oh no.
Alaina ran torwards Luke, and looked at him. His skin was clammy and sweaty, a blood-red lipstick kiss on his cheek.
Lipstick lady.
She growled and opened a portal, much to her body's dismay. Dean sped over and looked at Luke. "Did a girl kiss him?" he said, pointing at the stain.
Alaina groaned and pointed at Luke. Dean luckily got the message and slung Luke's body over his shoulder, speeding through the portal. Koden was solemn, more solemn than usual, and walked through the portal. The rest followed suit, leaving behind an abadoned party room stained with red and broken glass.
Just like her dream.
Forcing off other memories, she walked through, ignoring the blood on the windows and the bodies on the corner.
A gift and curse
They track and hurt
Say can you dream
In nightmares seems
A million voices, silent dreams
Where hope is left so incomplete
June 6th, 2015
1:17 AM
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
Nick Fury sighed. He looked back up at the handlers. Files of the party attackers were spread before him, 4 Children Of War and one HYDRA Agent.
"It was a ploy," Raven Montgomery said, standing up and looking back out the window. "They attacked the party, knowing we would be there, and were able to hack into our database, and steal the information we have on James Buchanan Barnes."
Nick Fury simply put the files back in the folder, and looked back at them.
"They called themselves The Defects," Leif said, leaning on the chair rest. "At least, that was what witnesses said."
Fury looked back up at them. "We will find these Defects, and we are going to make sure they pay."
"They may have won this battle, but we will win the war."
I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the wolves tonight
I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the...
Ok guys! Here it is! The long awaited, Chapter Four! If you don't understand what in the world happened, I have been terribly sick for two weeks, and I finished this at midnight, so I can't see straight. So...Woohoo! What happened with Luke? How will both teams react now that they know who eachother are? What is going on through my head as I write this? No one knows! Well, I am going to go cure myself from disease and work on Phoenix Iniative, so bye!
- Rain