Sorry the last chapter was short and bad... I wrote it at like 2:00 am... Don't judge. Also, it was just to fill in a few things...
Quick recap:
The good guys have the Lost Sceptre
The bad guys have Loki's sceptre
Natasha has control over the Lost Sceptre
Tony is alive
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Chapter 9?
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This chapter contains swearing
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Loki's Sceptre was cradled in a glass cabinet, 6 other empty cabinets stood side by side. The room was barely lit, there was a hanging lightbulb that flickered every so often. Symbols had been carved across the walls, door frame and the glass cabinets, around the cabinets an aura of symbols crowded. A low whine filled the air, shattering the eerie silence... And as the pitch highered, the cabinet cracked into broken glass. The gem began to glow on Loki's Sceptre, and throbbed as they noise's dynamics grew louder. Symbols ignited, the ones nearest to Loki's sceptre were bursting with light. The light faded about a metre out. Of course, these power levels set of an alarm. The room suddenly blared with flashing red lights, an alarm shrieked, making a harmony with the Sceptre. Soon Sanguine burst into the room, squinting in the light, he stepped closer to the Sceptre, curious. His foot stepped into the aura of symbols, his head reeled back and he roared, eyes wide open. His body rigid as the light blinded him from existence for a moment. Suddenly everything was quiet, Sanguine had sunk to his knees, panting, sweat beading from his forehead, hair hanging in strands. The doors burst open and 6 men clad in black armour ran in, they hurried over to sanguine, worried about the hit-Man who was kneeling, defeated on the floor. Sanguine waved them away, a trickle of blood running from his nose, and staining his lips.
"I know..." Rasped Sanguine, he groaned and stumbled to his feet. "I know where the sceptre is..."
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"Honestly, this defies the point of leaving" Skulduggery commented
"Yeah, couldn't we have this boring meeting over phone or something, then I could hang up" Valkyrie agreed
"We needed to get the Sceptre to SHIELD" Fury argued
"So, you called back the team that didn't have the Sceptre?" Banner spoke up.
"A meeting was needed-" Fury began.
"Wow, haven't you guy ever heard of phones?" Tony snorted.
"Some of us have." Barton rolled his eyes.
"SHIELD were only doing what was best" Natasha insisted
"Always sided with SHIELD aren't you?" Tony snarked.
"Well, it's my job isn't it?" Natasha said.
"You job is being an Avenger" Steve said.
"See, Capsicle is actually making sense, for once" Tony teased. His arming leaning on Steve's shoulder.
Steve shrugged off Tony's arm. Valkyrie sighed as the two shot glares at each other. "Guys, honestly? Are you the team that saved New York cause I'm not so sure now?" Valkyrie huffed.
"Well, we were fine before you and your skeleton friend-" Fury began.
"Are you forgetting that it was you who asked us for help?" Skulduggery said.
"This is worse than shopping with Erskine" Valkyrie shuddered.
"That guy has the IQ of-" Tony was cut off mid-sentence.
"Nothing compared to you, I expect, Stark?" Natasha said.
"Natashalie, for a spy your not the smartest-" Tony began.
Suddenly a crack of lightning sounded, a purple portal appeared, a figure standing in a bellowing cape stood. The portal shut off.
"What is this Erskine you speaketh of?" The figure said, everyone blinked back the light and squinted.
"Uh, hey Thor buddy" Barton said, uncertainly.
"Bit late for the party" Tony joked, earning a raised eyebrow from Cap, Tony shrugged and grinned. Their arguing forgotten.
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With the arrival of Thor, Valkyrie had soon realised that she and nothing to do, after spending an hour wandering the corridors of the helicarrier looking for someone to spar with, she'd soon given up and literally died of boredom, then she'd unhappily gone up to the runway part of the helicarrier and sat near the edge. Where she had sulked. Valkyrie sat hunched with her head in her hands, a million thoughts on the previous day and today buzzing around in her head, like bees, so like bees, she ignored them. Valkyrie felt the wind whip against her face, she sat up. Her hands combing away loose strands of hair. In the end she tied her hair back in a ponytail. Valkyrie sighed as the sun beat down on her, she soon felt like a spider on a ho plate so she stumbled to her feet and turned to leave. Then, she stopped in her tracks. Something didn't feel... Right. Valkyrie turned around, the sky was windier then it was before, and her jacket was flapping in the wind. A large shadow was looming over part of the ship, blotching out the sunlight. Valkyrie looked up. And there was the biggest motherfucking ship she had ever seen. It was a mesh of metal, two rotors, and a jet at the back, a small windscreen at the front. Valkyrie stood, mouth gaping, legs trembling as she took a step back. And, one other thing, that ship was pointing all weapons at her. Fuck.
She sprinted, that was the first thing that had come to her mind to do, a spray of bullets was following her and picking up dust behind. She jumped to the left to avoid being shot in the head, and rolled. Then she scrambled to her feet as the next round begun, Valkyrie saw the door and bounded to it, she slammed it behind her when she had jumped in, bullets hitting the door. Valkyrie rode down in the lift, and by the commotion in the bridge, she wasn't the only one who had noticed the large killer ship coming to blow them up. She could hear hill shouting the loudest, and she spotted a red and gold glinting object flying towards the ship. Ironman. Valkyrie gasped and remembered her comlink, she placed it in here at and immediately wished she hadn't. "Shit!" She gasped as her eardrum was burst by hill shouting. Valkyrie, fitted the earpiece in, Hill seemed to of gone, Fury was doing the shouting now.
"We have an incoming attack, does anyone copy? Stark?" Fury shouted, Valkyrie opened her mouth to answer when the window smashed open, a dozen of people that had swung in from the other ships landed in the bridge. "We have an armed person heading for the lab, does anyone copy,Romanov?" Fury shouted.
"I copy" Natasha's voice said.
"Hey, can someone help out with this motherfucking ship?" Tony asked.
Before she knew what she was doing, she was answering "I copy... Uh," Valkyrie said, unsurely.
She ran back to the lift and rode up, opened the doors and stepped out into sunlight. Valkyrie squinted in the bright light, and then, she saw the ship. And Tony's Ironman suit flying around it trying to kill it. "Tony? What should I do?" Valkyrie asked.
"Jump" Stark replied.
"Uh, sorry, but, I'm not suicidal" Valkyrie said.
"Gothica,Jump onto the ship, like, now" Stark said.
"Great, I got a nickname now" Valkyrie scowled.
"There's a guy behind you who really wants to kill you, I advise jumping" Stark said.
Valkyrie looked behind, sure enough there was, there was Dusk. "Shit" Valkyrie cursed. She took off running towards the rooters, jumped over them and pushed herself using air. Her hair flapped into her face, for a few seconds, she couldn't see anything. And then the hull of the ship was 2 metres away. Suddenly, Stark swooped up and carried her to the flat top of the ship. She rolled, and then scrambled to her feet. "Thanks" she thanked into her com.
"No problem, Emo-Brain" Stark said. He scanned the ship quickly before speaking to her again. "I need you to get to the control room"
"Ok, why?" Valkyrie asked.
"To shut down this ship" Stark replied.
"How am I going to do that?" Valkyrie asked.
"I'll tell you along the way" Stark said.
"Be prepared for this plan to fail" Valkyrie rolled her eyes.
"I don't fail, but you can" Tony said, as he blasted a hole through the ship beside Valkyrie, coughed as the dust cleared, she looked into the hallway below.
"Thanks," she coughed and waved away the dust. "So, I need to get to the Control Room? Got it." Valkyrie assured herself.
She jumped down the hole, cushioning her self with the air. She dropped to the ground and rolled. Valkyrie lifted a hand to her com, Stark's voice rung. "Take the corridor in the middle" He instructed.
She nodded, and ran down the corridor. Valkyrie skidded to a stop by a turning. "Which way?" She asked.
"Go to your right"
Valkyrie turned the corner and ran onwards, feet slapping against the ground as she did so. Valkyrie saw another turning up ahead. And a lift down the straight corridor opposite her, another leading off to her right.
"Stop" Tony warned.
Valkyrie skidded to a halt, flattening herself against the wall as she did so. "Why?" Valkyrie whispered.
"3 guys, heavily armed, coming towards you from the lift" Tony informed.
Valkyrie sprinted to the lift, she flattened herself to the wall, waiting.
Ding
The elevator doors pinged open, the first man stepped out, chatting to the other two.
Valkyrie launched a kick to his knee, the first staggered into the wall. The others grabbed their guns, too slow. She splayed her hand and they hit the metal wall, with a metallic bang, their bodies crumpled to the floor. The first grabbed his gun, and loaded. Valkyrie sent out a tendril of shadows, the tendril snatched the gun and threw it against the wall. She stepped in, kneed the man in the stomach, he bent down, winded, she jabbed an elbow into his back and flipped him to the floor. Valkyrie stepped back. She lifted a hand to her com.
"What next?" Valkyrie asked.
"Uh, get to the second floor." Stark said. He paused.
Valkyrie looked towards the lift, and stepped in.
"But... Don't go in the lift" He warned.
Valkyrie gulped, the lift moved up.
"Uh..." She said.
"This is why I'm solo" Stark muttered.
"So... What's so bad about-" Valkyrie cut herself off when she saw what was behind the doors. A corridor of heavily armed soldiers, silence filled the air.
"Damn, If I was here, they would all be a pool of blood, riiiiiggghhht now" Stark said.
"Yeah, uh... Do we have a plan B?" Valkyrie asked hopefully.
Stark coughed. "Plan B died, along with your hopes of survival"
"Your soooo optimistic" Valkyrie said through her teeth.
"It was nice knowing you, nicer for you knowing me, but..."
The guns clicked.
"Stand back" Stark said.
"Wha-" Valkyrie began.
Suddenly, outside the lift. The wall to her right exploded, debris flew. A familiar red and gold armour crashed through, they skidded to a halt.
"What was that?" Valkyrie asked.
"Plan C" Tony replied.
"You had a Plan C?" Valkyrie asked.
"Nope"
She stepped out of the lift. "That's just grand"
The hallway erupted with gun fire, the pang of metal and curses.
Seconds later.
The smell of gunfire and carnage lingered in the air. Valkyrie lowered her arms from covering her face, the invisible wall of air vanished.
"Nice try fellas" Stark gloated, "Now it's my turn" He raised his left arm, the repulser began to glow white.
Seconds later.
The guards lay dead or unconscious on the floor. Smoke sizzling through the air.
"Without me, that would never of happened" Valkyrie grinned.
"Now, to the control room." Tony announced.
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Tanith strode briskly along the corridor, sword in hand. She got to the window and caught sight if the lab, she smiled.
Suddenly a heel landed at the back of her skull. She staggered and whipped around, sword out. A red haired woman in Shield uniform.
Natasha Romanov. A.K.A Black Widow.
Tanith bit her lip. She needs a cool Codename like that. Maybe, 'Blade', or 'Dark Shadow', or 'Killer Whale'... No, 'Killer Whale' made her sound fat. Hmmm... What is a merciless killer? Aha! A Jellyfish! It kills with no mercy! One sting and your dead! Perfect... 'Jelly-'
Tanith staggered. A kick landed on her shoulder.
"Wow, how do you-" Tanith was cut off.
A kick to the stomach. She gagged.
"Just tryin' to make conversation" Tanith said.
A punch.
"If that's how it's gonna be" Tanith nodded.
Romanov punched again, Tanith blocked.
"I like your shoes" Tanith smiled.
...like a jellyfish...
Tanith attacked, she stabbed with her sword, Natasha dodged back, and then kicked Tanith again. Tanith swiped with her sword, Natasha ducked low. The spy swiped Tanith's feet from under her, and then charged her 'Widow's Bite'. Natasha dove at Tanith, hands going for the neck. Tanith rolled to her left, grabbing her sword as she did. Natasha realised that Tanith had moved, flipped forwards, using her momentum of the dive. Tanith was still crouched, she swiped at Natasha with the blade. The spy stepped back and sent a kick to Tanith's side. Tanith stumbled and kicked Natasha in the face. The spy took the blow, and charged her 'Widow's Bite'. Tanith jabbed with the hilt of her sword, while Natasha dodged and sent a kick to Tanith's stomach. Tanith caught the kick, the spy used Tanith's hold as a lift and unbalanced the remnant. They fell, Natasha on top. The spy landed a kick to Tanith's chest and straddled her. Tanith fumbled for her sword and swore. Natasha's hands jabbed for Tanith's neck. Tanith tucked her chin and punched the spy in the face. Natasha reeled back, her 'Widow's Bite' failed. Tanith spied her sword, flipped Natasha to the ground and scrambled for her blade. Tanith crawled to her sword, grabbed the hilt. The spy landed a kick on Tanith's back. Tanith growled and the blade swished through the air, drawing blood from Natasha. The spy staggered back, Tanith twisted to her front and scrambled to her feet. She jabbed with her blade again. Natasha dodged and jumped, and then kicked with two feet into Tanith. They both hit the ground. Natasha rolled while Tanith fell onto her back. The spy went for Tanith's neck, her 'Widow's Bite" charged. And electric shock charged through Tanith.
Suddenly, Hulk crashed through the lab window.