You GUYS! You were so AWESOME in the reviews for the last chapter! They made me so so so happy! My family doesn't know I write fanfiction, and the day I posted the chapter, I kept getting the reviews on my phone when I was around them. And I would get this huge stupid grin on my face, and they would be like, "Whoa, what are YOU so happy about?" And I was all like, "ahahahaha NOTHING! NOTHING! I just like smiling, smiling is my favorite! :D :D :D" So THANK YOU! Keep it up! Promise I will not be fake killing anyone in this installment- Maybe! Oh and
RebeccaHindle- Black Widow is my favorite too! Believe it or not, before I began this story I was a bit lukewarm about Captain America. But he is SO fun to write, I now kind of love him too! Not as much as my precious "Widow" though!
Sandy-wmd. - Haha, yeah I felt kind of sorry for him after writing that, but I couldn't resist ;) Hopefully by the end of this story he won't be having "I killed my teammate nightmares" for a while! Or will he? CLIFFHANGER!
And guys, for real. It means so much that you were upset when I said I wouldn't continue this story for much longer Thank you!
Enough of my blabbering, on with the story!
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The air ship was flying- somewhere. Not aiming for any destination, just continuously moving, and everyone was on high alert. Because the Avengers were coming. It was very exciting for those who had never seen them before, nerve wracking for those had been present last time the team was together on one of these ships. When Agent Barton had gone rogue, and tried to kill everyone on the ship. You know, right before aliens came down and killed everyone that they could in NYC. Few people knew about Agents Romanoff and Barton being individually compromised, no one knew why the team was coming together. But it was all that anyone was talking about.
Rumors were spreading like wildfire- A new superhero was being inducted in the team, an atomic bomb was threatening to destroy the planet, Shield was firing the team, Shield was firing all the agents to replace them with the superheroes. Bigfoot was found and they want Thor to communicate with him, Atlantis was discovered only everyone living there wanted to kill earth. They found Superman and wanted him to join the team, the Avengers were going into outer space. So yes, the rumor mill was having quite a busy day. Only a couple dozen people actually knew the truth, almost all of them knew if they did tell the truth they wouldn't be believed anyway. Why should the mighty Avengers assemble, just because of two agents? Just so that in case one died, the other could say goodbye? Besides, it was much more fun to speculate that the team was assembling to star in a new reality TV show.
Of course, Thor was the first one to arrive. When all you need is a hammer to fly, travel is really quite easy. He was even faster than Tony in the sky- In spite of all his inventions Tony just couldn't match magical speed. The sky was perfectly clear one minute, so when a thunderstorm materialized out of nowhere, everyone knew exactly who was coming. Thor arrived with surprisingly little fan fair, using his hammer to fly towards the ship. He simply landed on the roof, and knocked on the nearest door. Loudly. He didn't think that anyone could hear him, so he continued to knock louder and harder. It was purely accidental that he happened to break down the door. He still wasn't totally used to living in this realm, and would forget his own strength at times.
And it was an even bigger accident that two agents were walking towards the door when it flew off its hinges sucking them out with it- at least Thor managed to catch them as they went flying out the door and off the air ship. Most everyone agreed it really could have been much worse than it was. At least the agents were huge Thor fans, they were just excited they got to meet him! Let alone be SAVED by him! How awesome! Still, it was decided the decks would be watched carefully until Stark arrived. They didn't need him burning a laser hole through the wall to enter, not that anyone would put it past him. He did like making a grand entrance.
Thor wanted to immediately see Lady Natasha, and was happy to hear his friend Steve was aboard the ship. He requested to see either of the two, but was refused. Instead a woman who felt like the luckiest agent on the ship, escorted Thor to the cafeteria. Having skipped breakfast with Jane and flown many hours through lunch, he was starving. He was eating through his third pizza and thirteenth "snack sized" bag of chips when Bruce arrived.
Luckily the aircraft was not too far from India, so the small plane picking Bruce up did not have a very long journey. A small crew manned the plane, everyone had had to volunteer for this pick up. The slight possibility of Bruce hulking out when on a confined flying plane was a rather large liability for Shield. Still, everything went smoothly. The flight was calm and once the staff got over their unease, they found Banner to be surprisingly nice. Except that when a new agent asked for his autograph, he outright refused to give it. Quite bluntly. Nervous, no one talked to him much after that.
Last time Bruce arrived at an air ship, he had almost no clue what was going on and did not even have anyone to greet his plane. THAT had been an unfortunate mistake! They thought he was arriving at a different deck, he just felt lucky he had not gotten- "upset" then. At least Steve and Natasha had found him that time. This time he again had almost zero clue what was happening, but at least an agent greeted him when he disembarked.
He was a large burly man, something Bruce found grimly amusing. As if size and bulk could do anything against the hu- The Other Guy. Just look at one of the only people to ever escape his counterpart unharmed. That would be Natasha. She was slight and small, and most importantly fast. He hated to think what could have happened if anyone else had been trapped with him during that unfortunate experience. It was horribly lucky it had been her.
The bulky Agent was all business, Bruce tried to be friendly but was bluntly ignored. He asked, "So, do you enjoy this job? Must be pretty interesting!" The man had not even glanced at him. "That is confidential. Follow me please." So, irritated, Bruce silently followed him through empty rooms and hidden hallways. He was deposited in a very nice laboratory, given a file to read. Within minutes Bruce had processed the information and started tracking Barton's location.
As for Tony- well, he was utterly Tony. He refused to tell Shield at what time he would be arriving, also declining an exact location of the Ship. He mentioned something about testing out a new tracking system, and only asked for the number of the ship. Maria was extremely irritated at the entire situation, and ordered that small planes circle the ships perimeter so they could pick up Stark when he inevitably got lost.
So why didn't they see him? He was supposed to be here hours ago, but no one had seen him yet. They had tried calling him, he refused to answer. Or if he did, pretended to be his own Answering Machine. It was really extremely annoying. Especially once he started making up naughty songs about why he couldn't answer. It was getting late, some of the young agents were getting nervous. What if something happened to the mighty Iron Man? Why wouldn't he answer the phone?
One newbie agent was not too worried about Stark. Not because she knew anything, because she simply didn't care. She was extremely efficient, and (like Agent Hill not all that long ago) thought the nonsense of a "superhero" team was a waste of time. She could care less about why the team was assembling, she just wished they could assemble quickly so they could leave her ship and her operation could go back to normal.
She was working hard, and went to her office. A small room, with no decorations. Just walls of file cabinets. She walked in, sat at her desk. Wait- she didn't leave that file out. Why wasn't this drawer locked? Had someone- had someone been snooping in her office?
"Hey, how are you doing." The agent looked up and screamed. Tony Starks face was floating in midair in front of her. No body, no head, just a face. She screamed again. He spoke. "Hey! Hey! Calm down woman. Yeah, it's me. I understand you must be excited- I mean how many people have THE Tony Stark in their offi-"
The poor woman found her voice. "What the HELL! What the HELL are you DOING in my OFFICE?" Why are you a HEAD? WHERE IS YOUR BODY?"
Tony frowned. "Hey, my body is right here! I'm not some kind of freak who can just detach my head you know... See, this is a new suit and I'm still trying to work the bugs out. It's stealth mode, you know? It can go invisible and I can be invisible to anything trying to detect me. I got the idea from a, close friend. Unfortunately I stupidly added a feature that-" The Agent was losing patience. "Get to the point!" He quickly continued. "I have a lockdown mode on the suit, so if needed I won't move or be found. Clearly it went haywire. And so I have been invisible and unable to use internet or call anyone- I'm stuck. You have a really isolated office, no one even heard me yelling! If you hadn't come in I don't kn-"
The agent interrupted again. "WHY were you in my OFFICE!" They both knew the answer, Stark was famous for snooping in every personal place he shouldn't. Especially at Shield. Still, Tony didn't answer- Instead he smirked and asked, "Hey, babe, do you know if Banner is on the ship? I kind of need help getting out of this thing. Tell him to bring a laptop, and a crowbar."
Steve was still in Maria's office, he had been for the entire day. He thought it would be awkward, and was surprised when it wasn't. After his nightmare he was too scared to spend the day in the room adjoining Natasha's. Scared his dream might come true. Neither was he in the mood to be anywhere other agents could crowd around him. Fawning over him, asking for autographs, asking mundane questions- He just couldn't deal with it. Not today.
Actually he probably would have ended up back in the hospital room anyway, except a doctor came every hour or so to give them updates on Romanoff's condition. He had not known Maria requested these updates, it touched him that she cared enough to ask for them. Steve didn't see the point of going back to the place of his nightmares, he knew if anything changed he would be informed.
Maria worked all day, arranging the travels of the Avengers and, well, usually doing busy work to distract herself. Natasha was in the same condition. Stably unstable. Hill hated to think of it, and whenever she stopped working her imagination would conjure up dozens of horrible scenarios. So, she did her best to stay busy and immerse herself in files and paperwork.
Meanwhile, Steve drew. He started with a few small doodles, as he got more and more into it though, more and more drawings began creeping over Maria's desk. At first she was a bit annoyed, wanted to ask Steve to go back to his room. Then she began really looking at his drawings, and better yet started to watch him draw them. She would never admit it and never let Steve know, but soon she was actually enjoying watching him. No one had ever drawn anything before her eyes like this. It was almost like she had her own personal artist.
Finally, near the end of the day, Maria received a message that confirmed the final Avenger had arrived- had been found to be more specific. Maria couldn't help but wonder how long Stark had been here. She just hoped that he hadn't been able to do much snooping before his suit went into lockdown mode. She should tell Steve his team had arrived- but she wanted to see him finish this drawing first.
I hope you like this! I thought of so many things Steve could be drawing in the last paragraph, but it seems nicer to let you all imagine what he is drawing ;) I really hope you are still enjoying this story! I accept suggestions, ideas, story's you want me to write (I have a list of all ideas suggested to me, I am not forgetting you guys!) and even criticisms. Please review! Turns out Marvel fans are waaaaaaaaay nicer than Frozen fans ;) At least when it comes to reviews, hahaha!
AS OF 2018 THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED
