Over in a Flash
Chapter 9: Short retirement
Well here it is, chapter 9 and the Civil War is in motion, hopefully the airport battle will be in the next two chapters (Ant-Man might be getting a whole flashback chapter (See what I did there ;) ) with Barry and Sam. Anyhow Chapter 9 is my longest chapter so far so enjoy!
After what felt like an eternity in silence the quinjet finally set down. Steve left first, followed by Natasha and Sam at his heels. Last out was Barry carrying the now sleeping Wanda in his arms.
"Barry, put her to bed then meet us in the briefing room" Said Nat to him, she seemed worried and scared for Steve. He'd never seemed so silent and remorseful before to either Barry or Natasha from the look on her face. Barry quickly flashed in and out of Wanda's room having tucked her into her bed and zoomed off to the meeting room.
Despite having to had put Wanda down, Barry was still the first person there. Well the Vision was most likely here but was probably invisibly waiting for more people to show up. Vision whilst at first may have seemed like a friend had quickly done everything he could to have stayed away from Barry. Barry didn't really mind though he'd found the Vision rather odd and socially awkward, if he didn't want anything to do with Barry then Barry excepted that.
Eventually the whole team walked in bar Wanda who was most likely fast asleep in her bed. Pietro had walked over to Barry having noticed his sister's absence but before he could begin to think the worst possible situation had occurred and that Wanda was dead, Barry interrupted him. "She's sleeping." Barry said simply, to which Pietro nodded. Before they could talk anymore Steve spoke up.
"The mission didn't go to plan as we all know but there is nothing we can do about it tonight. Tomorrow Tony's coming to talk to us about something but until then there is nothing we can do but get a good night's sleep everyone." Steve said attempting to show a warm smile, but Barry could see through it and he imagined most of the other people in the room could too.
Whilst Steve was a great man, he was not a good liar. Barry doubted any of them would be getting much sleep tonight. Shortly after Steve's debriefing everyone had headed to bed. No one really seemed to fancy hanging around and talking for a bit. Barry walked into his room and quickly changed into his pyjamas before getting into bed. It had been a long day.
Barry awoke the next morning with familiar brown hair in his face. Wanda had developed a habit of doing this in the last few weeks, Barry had noticed. Whenever she felt scared or upset she'd seem to walk down the hallway from her bedroom and climb into Barry's bed with him, cuddling herself up to him. Barry really didn't mind, if it comforted her he was fine with it, even though he'd like a warning, it didn't matter too much.
Barry looked over at his clock it was gone 11 O'clock, Tony normally tended to arrive at around 12 or 1 which gave Barry an hour alone with Wanda. He had no doubt that Wanda was most likely blaming herself and it pained Barry inside, he knew that feeling all too well. "Wands, wake up." Said Barry gently shaking her awake.
"Pietro, I'm trying to sleep come back later." She muttered half asleep.
"No it's me Barry." He replied.
"Barry!" She exclaimed realising her surroundings looking slightly embarrassed.
"Anyways no time to talk. We're going out!" He exclaimed quickly scooping her out of bed and running off at top speed placing Wanda in a street at Sokovia.
"Barry!" She shouted, this time angrily. "Why are we here? I'm still in my night clothes."
"Well I know you're blaming yourself about yesterday Wanda and it's not your fault alright. You stopped so many more people from dying like you did here. You're a hero and we all fail sometimes but we pick ourselves back up so that we can protect more people out there. So don't let it get to you because as long as you know you're a hero that's all that matters." He said stopping for a long breath at the end of it. His breath was cut off by Wanda running into him engulfing him in a big hug. Barry looked down at her seeing tears streaming down her eyes, so he wrapped his arms around her.
"Thank you Barry. You're my hero." She said to him. After a while they broke their embrace. "How long until we need to head back?" She asked him.
"We've got about 40 minutes" Barry said smiling.
"Let me show you around Sokovia then." Said Wanda as she took his hand in hers and walked off down the street, her night clothes no longer bothering her.
After a while the two had returned to the Avengers Facility having cheered up massively. Upon arriving Tony was already there and it appeared he had bought a friend. Barry didn't know the man with Tony but he seemed to be some sort of established military general. Wanda quickly left to change into some decent clothes whilst Barry sat down. Once everyone had sat down in the room the meeting started.
"The world owes the Avengers a great debt, you have fought for us, you have protected us." He said and begun to go on into detail about the incidents in New York, Washington DC, Sokovia and the other day. Only two of those events hit home for Barry but he could see everyone else tense up around the room at various events mentioned. Eventually the man and Stark got onto talking about the Sokovia accord. Various countries around the world had agreed that the Avengers and other "vigilantes" sign their identity and right to act over to the UN.
Of course Steve was opposed to it as were Sam, Wanda and Pietro. In the end only Rhodey, Tony and the Vision had agreed to sign it there and then, meaning the rest of them had retired until they agreed to sign. The next few days passed slowly for Barry as the Avengers slowly dissolved. Steve and Sam had gone off to the funeral of Steve's old world war two girlfriend Peggy Carter. Tony, Rhodey and Nat had gone off to Germany for the UN's Sokovia agreement signing. This had left Barry alone with Wanda and the Vision as Pietro had decided to go spend a few days until all this tension blew over at Clint's farm.
Overall the experience hadn't been great with the Vision there but Barry and Wanda had had a decent time alone. They'd played a lot of games together and spent a reasonable amount of time in each other's comfort. On the day of the Sokovia accord however tragedy had struck, the building of the agreement had been bombed by Bucky Barnes. Steve's former best friend, of course as Barry and Wanda had thought; Steve had gone rouge to track him down. This theory had been confirmed by the news the following day as Captain America, the falcon and an unknown assailant were in pursuit of Barnes.
"Barry, we need to get there and help." Said Wanda turning to him. Barry nodded and walked over to her to carry her to Germany; suddenly the Vision phased through the floor in between them. "I am afraid that it would be a poor decision to leave the house Miss Maximoff." Barry looked at the android from behind, nice to see he was just ignoring him.
"I need to go and help Steve." Said Wanda, going to walk past the Vision towards Barry but he stayed blocking her path. "I am afraid I can't let you do that. Mr Stark has instructed me to not let you leave." He said. Barry had had enough of this and was about to run over to Wanda when she stopped him. "Barry, you need to go now, go help Steve. I am fine here; go!" She shouted. Barry remorsefully turned around and ran off into his room equipping his Flash suit before running out of the building.
Barry arrived in Germany a few minutes later, catching up with the chase in a tunnel. He began running alongside Steve in a truck. "Barry!" Said Steve "Stop the Cat-Man." With that Barry ran forward towards the stranger clad in black and rugby tackling him from behind at a high speed knocking him into the wall of the tunnel.
To Barry's surprise the Cat-Man jumped up off the floor appearing unharmed and continued his chase of Barnes. Barry was having none of that and he too jumped up, easily catching up with the Cat-man to tackle him again, however this time the Cat-Man saw it coming somehow spinning himself over Barry slicing at his face with his claws as he did so. He then propelled himself off of Barry towards Barnes clipping the back wheel of his bike sending Barnes flying forwards. As Barry fell to the floor from the push, Steve appeared running out of his moving car and slamming his shield into the chest of the Car-Man before he could pounce on Barnes.
The sound of police cars could then be heard filling the area as lines of cars surrounded them. Barry stood up, ready to take Steve out of there when he was hit by an ear wrenching wave of sound to his ears causing him to fall down to his knees. Rhodey then descended from the sky in his War Machine armour. His sonic wave gun being fired at Barry. Barry could see Rhodes talking to Steve and the stranger removing his mask to the shock of everyone around them but Barry could not hear or move with the sonic device on him and Rhodes knew this. He was stopping Barry escaping because Barry like Steve and Sam had not signed the accord and were therefore classed right now as criminals.
Chapter 10 will be coming Friday as will a new fanfiction by me, it will be Star Wars though not the Flash, so sorry if it's not your thing.
