Reunion Time
It was Natasha's idea to go to Tony.
Wanda was a mess the second Vision had suddenly disappeared from her fingertips. He used to be right in front her, kissing her passionately as they stole minutes away from reality. His face used to be in her hands, his hands gently caressing her face.
And now he was gone. Stolen right from the same fingertips that used to marvel in his features.
It all happened so fast that when the outcome slapped her in the face, it was too much for her. She completely and utterly broke down, her heart shattered by a girl who appeared in her life just a few minutes prior. She didn't know if the love of her life was simply somewhere else or… or dead.
When it was quickly proved that Wanda couldn't go outside without destroying something in her furious sadness, and the Secret Avengers had already lost one of their heaviest hitters. So, with Falcon consoling Wanda, Natasha and Steve held their own emergency meeting.
"This is bad, Steve." Natasha mumbled underneath her breath, her eyes flicking to the swirling red magic that floated around the room Wanda was having a mental breakdown in. "Very, very bad."
"Yeah." The former Captain America replied, his chin resting in his hands, thinking.
"The base is compromised." She continued, pacing back and forth through the Quinjet, her attention now focused on the door, as if a SWAT team could appear at any given moment. "We need to get out of here."
"And go where?" Steve croaked, he himself still trying to figure out how he could be so stupid. How he let one of his friends go so easily, hardly putting up a fight. But most of all, how he himself felt like he knew the girl. There was just something about her that bugged him, something familiar.
The infamous Black Widow simply paused by the window, her eyes glazing over her surroundings. It was a couple of minutes before she spoke. "Stark. He need his help to find Vision."
At the mention of his old friend's name, Steve's head snapped up. "You know we can't do that. He's not ready." He hasn't even bothered to call yet.
"Well we're out of time." Natasha snapped at him and took a few strides towards him. "Vision is gone, he's probably getting his stone knocked out of his head, and I don't think that I need to remind you just how dangerous that stone is."
Steve shut his eyes, his thoughts flickering to Loki and the Invasion of New York. Though the topic is certainly still up for debate, those were much simpler times. Just some team created to help defend the world, not like now, now when they can't even bother establishing communication with one another. He continued thinking about the attack as Natasha continued. "We need to alert him, Rogers. Now. He's our best shot to help defend Earth when she comes back again with the mind stone."
"How do you know she'll come back?"
Natasha only glances briefly at the door, her ears faintly hearing Wanda's sobs, her last words not directed at anyone in-particular.
"They always come back."
"HANDS IN THE AIR!" A voice screamed at the Black Widow and former Captain America, his voice muffled by the heavy gear that's required for the SWAT team. The two were casually standing in front of a building where they assumed Stark was located in, hands hung loosely at their sides rather than in the air. Neither bothered to even attempt to get dressed in casual wear and were both simply standing in the same gear they use to fight, making them look a little like the cos-players who dress up in Vegas or LA. In fact, dressing up like this almost seemed to fool the world a little more that they weren't truly the vigilantes that was on the top of most wanted lists. Someone even asked if they could snap a picture.
"Still think we should've left Wanda at the Quinjet." Steve mumbled underneath his breath as Natasha simply shot him a look.
"You know we couldn't risk it." At least, not when she's in such a fragile state of mind.
"I SAID HANDS IN THE AIR, TRAITORS!" The voice continued as Natasha's eyes flickered from the men and women beginning to seem to practically double up before she mumbled underneath her breath.
"Come on Tony…" She whispered, and as if the legend had heard her prayers, a man in a suit wearing sunglasses walked out of the building, his eyes only briefly flickering to Steve and Natasha before he looked at the small army of soldiers with guns at the ready, as well as the few helicopters flying in. Followed closely by the billionaire, lied a man with a red cloak.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I got this." Tony Stark shouted, his hands raised as his eyes flashed at Cap. "Why don't you all take five for us to sort this out?!"
Unfortunately, Stark didn't exactly hold much authority in this kind of field, which was only made even more obvious when not a single soldier made a move to walk away. This caused Stark to sigh and turned to the two criminals, as if the large group of armed forces didn't exist. "I didn't remember picking up a phone anytime soon." He mumbled as Natasha immediately spoke up with no gestures of an apology nor a hello, her tone all business.
"We have a problem, Tony." Natasha stated, her voice cold as Tony gestured the large amount of people surrounding them more by the dozen.
"You don't say…" He replied before Cap spoke up.
"It's Vision. He was taken."
It was then when the Sorcerer spoke up, suddenly intrigued in the conversation. "By whom?"
"A girl." Natasha responded, ignoring the cries of officers threatening to shoot them if they don't immediately surrender. "Blond hair, blue eyes, pale skin-"
"Alright, come with me." Strange replied and immediately opened a portal, letting the two fugitives enter in first before he went in as well. Stark moved to enter the portal when a sudden shout caused him to pause.
"TONY STARK! IF YOU GO IN THAT MAGICAL HOLE, YOU'LL OFFICIALLY BE AN ENEMY OF THE COUNTRY AND WILL BE BREAKING THE ACCORDS BY HARBOURING A-"
He didn't stick around to hear the rest of it.
Once Tony entered the portal, he stepped out into the room that he saw from the picture of the girl-Rose Waters he said? Strange opened another portal and snatched out the same picture of the girl before he casually gave it to the two fugitives.
"Is this her?" He mumbled as both of them nodded.
"Yes. She teleported with Vision once she attacked our base."
"…And you just let her escape like that?" Stark questioned after a moment as Natasha took an intimidating step forward to see him eye to eye.
"We panicked and didn't know what the hell was happening. Tell me just exactly how you would procede the situation, Stark."
When Tony couldn't think of a good answer to her question, he gave her a simple nod and took a step back, ignoring the hot tension between the two. "Okay, okay." He replied and crossed his arms before looking at the three of them, pretending not to feel as if the situation was as awkward as it truly was. "So now what?"
"Now we wait for her to come back for the Time Stone, which is in my possession." Strange stated as Steve Rogers took a step forward, a look of shock on his face.
"Wait… There's a Time Stone and a Mind Stone?"
"And a reality, soul, space, and power stone." Strange finished, leaving the rest of the scattered Avengers in a complete starstruck position as he casually scratched his goatee. "And she did mention something about someone having the Power Stone beforehand…"
"Wait, I'm confused, how did you meet her?" Steve questioned Tony as he simple shrugged.
"You know, it's a big city…"
"Which makes the chances even smaller for one person to run into another." Natasha concluded as Tony held his hands up, a look of disbelief on his face.
"Wait, are you thinking that I sent her after Vision?" Tony questioned, his eyes wide with a certain tinge of betrayal as Cap only shrugged.
"Well, it just seemed odd that we all-" He began, but before he could finish, Strange interrupted him.
"You idiots, shut up!" Strange screamed, causing everyone to stare at him.
"You're talking to them, right?" Stark questioned while pointed to the two outlaws. However, the Doctor simply ignored him as he spoke up.
"She said someone already obtained the Power Stone…" He mumbled, seeming to have a mental breakdown as he quickly whispered something into his cloak, causing it to fly away.
"So? Big whoop." Tony spoke, his hands casually resting in his pockets as Strange only took a step forward to truly give him a death stare.
"The Power Stone destroys entire planets, Mr. Stark." He hissed, his final words grabbing the attention of the rest of the three heroes who immediately stared at him with wide eyes.
"Why didn't you tell us about this earlier?" Steve immediately asked as Strange threw his shaky hands in the air.
"I met two of you two minutes ago!" Strange exclaimed before he continued in a much smaller voice. "And besides, I thought she was just fibbing to get my attention."
"Yeah, well, your uncertainty of her words may have just granted Earth it's death wish." Steve hissed at the magician's face as Natasha mumbled words into her communications ear piece to a variety of people as a chubby man of Asian complexity came running over followed closely by the Doctor's red cape.
"You called?" the magician asked as Tony pointed at him, completely confused onto how many people were getting invited to this little party.
"Who is he?"
"My name is Wong." Replied the man as he turned to Strange. "You know, this better be important, the cosmos doesn't protect itse-"
"Someone has possession of the Power Stone." Strange mumbled underneath his breath, which didn't even seem to faze the Wong.
"And their funeral is when?" He questioned, which only made Strange snap at him even more.
"And has control over it!" At his words, Wong's face considerably pales.
"Impossible." He mumbled as Tony raised a hand.
"I'm sorry, but I'm confused onto what's going on around here."
As Wong gathered the Avengers around to explain the making of the Stones via a cool hologram, Strange walked off and sank into his astro-form before quickly taking off for the city, desperate to find out where exactly Rose Waters was located. Her words bounced back into his mind as he searched for what felt like an hour, only to find absolutely nothing.
He wants to destroy half of the universe!
Her now haunting words plagues Strange's skull as he heads back to the New York Sanction only to find that the lecture about the Infinity Stones Origins were now over.
"So, she only has the Mind Stone… That means that she can't be that powerful, right?" Steve Rogers questions as Strange took a couple of wobbly strides towards them.
"Actually, she has the Mind and Space stones, which, the latter is, how you would call, the Tesseract." He replies as Tony shuts his eyes and rubs at his temples.
"Wait, wasn't the Tesseract located in Asgard?" Natasha questions, her hands placed on her hips as Strange nods.
"Yes, she mentioned that she had… contacts." He continued as Tony put his hands up.
"I'm calling it now, Loki gave it to her." Tony spoke as he walked away when Wong spoke up.
"Why don't you ask her yourself?"
At his haunting words, the five heroes turned around only to find a girl with lightening blond hair, pale, barely freckled skin, and crisp bright blue eyes staring at the odd group, as if she found their bickering amusing. When she received the attention of all five was when she finally spoke up.
"We need to talk."
A/N: OUUUUUUUUUUUU
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~Emily