So, I've had this chapter written since Thursday, and I just realized that I never posted it...so...sorry about that.
Disclaimer- I do not own the Avengers, all rights go to their proper owners.
"Spoken out loud."
"Spoken in thoughts"
Their first test came right at the entrance. It was protected by a computerized lock, and seemed to have an excess of security measures. Everyone immediately turned to Shay.
"Outta my way bitches, this is my specialty." She said, cracking her knuckles dramatically when she stepped up to the door. She opened up a small compartment on her armor, and pulled out a small computer chip, she stuck it onto the number pad, and a holographic computer appeared in front of her.
Everybody merely watched as she did her computer nerd thing, typing too fast for any of their eyes to even try to keep up, mumbling to herself.
It only took 30 seconds before they heard a small click and the door opened, revealing a dark hallway.
"One of the best security systems on Earth my ass." Shay muttered smugly, packing away the computer. She turned toward the others. "Ladies first." She gestured Iris and Belle to the door, they immediately stepped inside, followed by the boys, and Shay following in the back.
The next test, was finding a computer that they could access without anybody seeing them, but of course, they had another solution to that.
Iris clicked a button on one of her computerized gloves, and a holographic map of the helicarrier popped up in front of them.
"Alright...the best way would be to check the main computer lab, it's right here," Archer said, pointing to the map. "And the lights were off in that area when we drove past it, so nobody should be in there." He finished, getting a nod of agreement from Iris.
"The best way to get there would be the vent system." Ethan muttered, tracing a path with his finger. "We won't run into anybody." He continued.
"And considering they have spies in this ship most of the time, the vents should be large enough for a person to climb in." Belle said. "Even somebody...Alek's size." They all looked over at the guy in question, 6'0 and 170 lbs of pure muscle...he was huge, to say the least.
"Well then," Shay said, and pointed to the air duct on the other side of the room they were in, which wasn't really a room, more like a hallway. "There's our way in."
"Perfect." Iris muttered, and went to work, pulling a screwdriver from her belt.
It wasn't long before the vent fell out of it's socket, and Iris caught it to keep it from making any noise. True to Belle's word, it was a huge vent, easily big enough for Alek.
Iris and Archer shared a look, and seemed to decide something with mental telepathy that they didn't have, because Iris nodded and climbed into the vent, followed by Belle, Shay, Ethan, Alek, and Archer, who re-attached the vent to the passage.
Iris kept the holographic map up, which provided the main light source in the vent, along with knowledge of where they were going.
They were silent as they crawled through the vents, old stealth exercises being very helpful in this situation, but all of them held their breaths as they passed over a lit up room.
They couldn't help but look down at all of the light rooms that they passed, very curious about the people in the helicarrier.
They passed a meeting room that several people were seated in, but that wasn't what caught their attention. What caught their attention, was the word Cyclone.
"...Unreasonable..."
"They have...something planned."
"It's going to be..."
They could only hear bits and pieces of their conversation, which frustrated them, they wanted to know why they were talking about Cyclone Industries. But they had something else to do, so Iris waved them forward, and kept moving toward the computer lab.
They finally got over the lab, and quickly kicked the vent cover out of the way, before all climbing down.
The room was big and cold, what you'd normally expect from a computer lab, and had several holographic computers spread around the room.
"Perfect." Shay muttered. "Come on Nerd-Brother, let's do our thing." She said, and pulled Ethan toward the biggest computer in the room, and turned it on.
They quickly got through the security walls, and managed to hack into the systems. "So," Shay turned to the others. "What info are we looking for exactly?" She asked.
"Personal files on the Avengers, according to the mission file Geoff gave us." Iris told her.
Shay raised an eyebrow, but shrugged. "Easy enough." She said, turning back to the computer. Selecting a file titled "Avengers Initiative."
She pulled a memory drive out of her glove, inserted it into the computer, and began copying the info.
~~~~~Alek's Pov~~~~~
The rest of the team and I watched while Shanelle and Ethan used their computer knowledge to acquire the information we needed. I was still slightly in awe of how they did it, my foster father, Nicholas, wasn't very big on technology, so I was never around it often growing up, but it looked like using computers was as easy as breathing to the two of them.
They were nearly finished when my vision began to get blurry, which had happened only once before when I had been knocked out, so I could only hope I wasn't about to faint.
But I didn't pass out, instead, the seen around me changed, and I no longer saw my team, I saw a different team, the Avengers.
The first thing that I noticed was that I couldn't hear them, the second thing I noticed was that they couldn't see or hear me. But I watched as the helicarrier appeared in sight of the ship, and I noticed Iron Man's rockets flying ahead of the ship.
"They aren't supposed to be back until tomorrow night."
The scene shifted, and I found myself in the computer lab once again. I looked around, no one seemed to notice what had just happened.
"Was I the only one to see that?"
"Uh...did any of you see that?" I asked. They all turned to me, confused looks on their faces.
"See what?" Archer asked.
"The...The Avengers, the Avengers are almost back." I told them, starting to panic.
"The Avengers aren't supposed to be back until tomorrow night." Belle said, looking extremely confused.
"I know, but...I just-I just know that they're almost back." I said, trying desperately to get them to believe me.
They all looked at each other.
"Do you think he's right?" Archer asked.
"There is a chance that they finished their mission early," Iris said. "It's better to not take the chance." She said, and all of us agreed, if the Avengers found us, we would not get out easily.
"Alright, so we need to hurry." Ethan said as he finished copying the files. He pulled the memory drive out of the computer, and handed it back to Shanelle.
"So, we need to be fast," Shanelle said, pulling a security feed up on the screen. "That sucks, I won't be able to cover our tracks as well as I'd like to." She said, already erasing the footage from this room for all the time we'd been in here, and started putting it on loop. "It's on loop for the next 10 minutes." She said, turning back to us.
"We don't have time to erase the audio, that would take 5 minutes that we might not have." Ethan told us.
"We never used names did we?" Belle asked.
"...No, not that I know of." Iris answered.
"Then we don't need the audio, come on, let's get out of here." Belle said, and waved all of us to the vent.
We all climbed through, moving quickly but silently through the helicarrier, only pausing once when we passed over the meeting room once more. The room had more people in it this time, 6 more people, the Avengers. They were clearly worn out and tired from the mission they had just returned from, but they were still Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
What annoyed me was that I couldn't really see them very well through the vent, I could make out the bright blue on Captain America's uniform, and the gold on Iron Man's suit, but that was pretty much it.
We all slowed down and very quietly made our way over the room, and only when we passed, did any of us breath again. We then quickly made it back into the hallway, and back out of the vents.
Iris started pushing buttons on her computerized-glove, she was calling the jet back.
It took about 30 seconds, but then we heard the familiar whirring noise of the engine, and the outline of the camouflaged jet appeared next to the helicarrier.
Shanelle flew Belle back over, I grabbed Ethan and took him over, and Archer and Iris grappled back across. We made it back aboard and closed the doors behind us.
Iris quickly made her way to the pilot's seat and grabbed the controls, Archer taking the co-pilot's seat next to her.
We were speeding away when the security alarms went off behind us.
So, remember when I mentioned that Alek's powers were still changing and getting stronger? Well, that's his new power, premonition.
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