The Avengers suited up in each others suits and met up in the jet. Clint was in the pilot's seat with Natasha sitting shotgun.
"So Tasha, where are we heading?" Clint asked as he started the engines.
"Surprisingly Waverly, Iowa." Natasha smirked. "I'm positive that they want to end this once and for all. And I don't blame them."
"How much longer?" Tony asked. Everyone could tell he was nervous. For Pepper's own life. "Can this jet go any faster? If I was in my Iron Man suit, I would be there by now."
"Shut up, Stark." Steve commanded. "Besides Pepper, there are hundreds of other civilians out there with their lives at risk. This is where we end it for good."
"And our powers?" Bruce asked.
"We'll find out when we get there."
"We're here." Clint said as he landed the jet a mile away. "Scan the building Thor."
"I shall, Friend Clint." Thor replied as he allowed Jarvis to scan the area. "Many nuclear bombs in sight. Total of three floors with many guards on all. Top floor is what we want."
"Steve?" Tony asked. "What are we going to do? The second we step in there, they'll let the bombs go against us."
"We're going in." Steve confirmed as he started walking towards the building. The group stayed behind giving him a look. "What's wrong?"
"You heard Tony." Bruce told him. "If we go in, many people will die if we go in."
"And a lot more will die if we just ignore it." Steve continued walking followed by Natasha, Clint, Thor flying close, with Tony and Bruce who joined eventually. "Just bust through and avoid causing the alarms to go."
"What about me?" Natasha asked. "Don't you think they would do something if they saw, you know, The Hulk?"
"Stay with us." Clint demanded. "If we don't make it out alive, I want to die beside you. Try not to be provoked and the beast won't come out."
"Cap?" Tony asked. "Since you make it sound like we're going to die in there, just say it one more time. For the team."
"Ok then." Steve replied. A smile grew on his face as he said the two words, "Avengers Assemble."
As they arrived, Thor blasted the doors down. Many guards were giving them evil looks.
"What?" Natasha asked rhetorically as she casually stepped in. "You all knew we were coming. So, let's finish this once and for all."
As she ran through the crowd, the guards were shooting non-stop. Avoiding the hulk to burst, Natasha ran over to the control panel and started working out how to disable the alarms.
Bruce raised his shield causing the bullets to ricochet off. Steve pulled out both of the guns and started shooting back. Tony ducked behind a metal pole shooting arrows. One of them snuck up behind him. Tony turned around in an instant and whacked him over with his bow. Thor was blasting non-stop.
"Thor!" Bruce yelled. "How many people?!"
"There seems to be about 35." Thor replied as he blasted a group of them.
"Tasha!" Clint exclaimed as he slammed one of them with the Hammer. "Hurry up with the alarms!"
"Don't rush me, Barton!" Natasha yelled back. "You try doing this under pressure!" She heard the sound of a gun being cocked. She slowly turned around and saw a gun pointed at her head.
"Step away from the control panel." One of the men said.
"No thanks." Natasha replied as she continued to rummage through the wires.
"I will shoot."
"Look around you. If you see the other Avengers, you would know that one aspect is missing. That is the big enormous rage monster known as The Hulk. And for your information, it is inside me as we speak. So the one who should step away is you." Natasha's smile turned into an evil glare. "Or I will smash you myself."
He took one step back and received an arrow through his chest. As he fell to the ground, Natasha saw a smiling Tony Stark.
"Thanks for the distraction, Romanoff." Tony said as he pulled out another arrow.
"Anything to disable the alarms easier." She smiled. "Look behind you."
Tony turned around and shot one of them. Which was the last one. For that floor.
"Area's clear." Steve told them as he refilled his guns. "You all alright?"
"Fine." Clint, Tony, Thor and Bruce replied in unison.
"You done Natasha?" Bruce asked the Redhead. "With the alarm system?"
Natasha popped her head up. "Yeah. Let's go up."
"Wait..." Clint said as he twirled the hammer. "Why don't we make a different entrance."
Many of the Chinese workers were working as if nothing happened the floor beneath. But that changed as soon as Clint and Thor busted through the windows. Majority of them pointed their guns. Clint held his hammer high as Thor had the repulsive rays up.
"For those of you here who actually have a brain." Clint threatened as thunder clouds started rumbling outside the building. "Just put down your gun and run. If you make it in time."
Thor and Clint smiled as a few of them put down their guns and ran for their dear lives. They scrambled towards the elevator and pushed the button frantically. As the doors opened, they backed away when they saw Steve, Bruce, Natasha and Tony with their weapons pointed at them.
"You can run." Steve cocked his guns. "But you can't hide."
Tony started shooting arrows along with Steve shooting his guns as Bruce started punching people to their wits. As Natasha was walking somewhere, one of them pulled her against a wall with a gun to her forehead. Natasha was gasping for breath as the man cocked his gun.
"You just made a bad mistake..." Natasha said. The man looked at her with confusion as her eyes turned a bright shade of green.
"Dude..." Tony muttered to Clint who just slammed someone out of the window. "Shit just got real..."
Natasha turned into her temporary green alter-ego and slammed the man to his doom. Her bright red curls bounced wildly as she proceeded to someone else to kill.
Steve was shooting non-stop until he realized he was out of ammo on both guns. He put them back in the holsters. He looked at his hands and forgot about the 'Widow Bites'.
"Might as well try this out." He said. Steve jumped on one of them sending them to the ground. As he wrestled against Steve, he placed the glove on his neck sending too many volts into him. "So that's what it does..."
Thor blasted a couple of them with his repulsive rays.
"Mr. Odinson." Jarvis called. "Power at 25%"
"Ok..." Thor muttered. Truth be told, he had no clue what that meant. "What does that mean?"
"It means that there is 13 minutes and 36 seconds of usage of the suit."
"Thank you." He blasted a ray from his arc reactor against Bruce's shield to hit a cluster of them.
Bruce kicked one of them over as he threw his shield at another. His shield bounced off the wall before landing back in his hands.
"Bruce!" Tony called. "Last one behind you!"
In an instant reaction, Bruce turned around and punched him in the jaw.
"You could of done that to me in training." Steve said as he patted his shoulder.
"What I'm wondering is why this all went down so fast." Bruce stated. "I assume that they would have at least made a challenge."
As they all pondered for a second, they heard Natasha's hulk yell. They all turned around and saw a needle in her arm making her shrink back to Natasha and fall to the ground.
"Tasha!" Clint exclaimed as he ran over. He dropped the hammer on the ground and ran over to her. "Slight pulse. Just tranquilized." He pulled out the needle and threw it on the ground.
"Could be invisible." Tony suggested. "Thor, ask Jarvis to scan the area."
"I shall." Thor bellowed. "Jarvis, scan the area." After Jarvis did so, Thor was shocked. "Friend Steve! Behind you!"
Before Steve could process that, someone knocked him over. Tony, Bruce and Thor had their weapons all around them. Before Thor could say where it was, his suit got short-circuited and he fell over. Someone got Tony's bow and whacked him with it along with Bruce's shield.
The invisible person unprogrammed her suit and it revealed to be a young girl with an Asian descent. She pressed a button in her earpiece, "Get me the remaining workers who are alive."
One Day Later - March 8
Everyone minus Natasha woke up. They saw the woman in front of them with an evil grin plastered on her face. "Morning."
"Who the hell are you?!" Bruce exclaimed as he pulled against his restraints. They all looked around them and saw a bunch of computers with the command to do anything they wanted. Neither of them had their weapons on them.
"The names Lucy. If you think we're that close, then Lucy Chen."
"Why did you do this to us?" Thor demanded.
"Everyone has their reasons. What I thought was that I could do what I wanted. So I switched your powers for my benefit. For your loss. What you already know is that I made The Chinese Dragon to get close to you and my nuclear shipment."
"But you have no clear statement about this whole thing." Tony told her. "Why don't you tell us why you switched our powers. I mean, you're smart enough to find a way to kill us. Even the hulk. Why didn't you just murder us on the spot?"
Lucy remained silent as if she had no respond.
"I know." Steve smiled.
"Really?" Lucy asked. "Do you Captain."
"You could have killed us. But you didn't. The reason you switched our powers is because you thought that we would die during this fight. You wanted us to die our own ways."
"What are you saying?"
"You. Can't. Kill." Lucy was giving Steve a death stare. "That's why you wanted us to fight here. You thought that we would just die here so you won't have to kill us. That is why you have those nuclear bombs to kill those people. Just so you won't have to do it yourself."
Lucy smiled. "I guess that's why you're the Captain. Smart. Strategic. And certainly knows how to save lives. But how can you save these people when you're tied up here? I might not kill you by ending your life, but how can you go back home knowing that you let millions of people die right under your nose. That's right. I can kill you mentally."
"You would not dare..." Thor muttered.
She smiled at them. "Start the launch. Missile number 23432. Target, Waverly, Iowa."
"No!" Tony exclaimed. "Pepper!"
Haha! Left you at a cliffhanger! Don't get mad at me, mainly because I'm actually a nice person and today is my birthday! Did you see the Coulson reference there? I promise the next chapter will be possibly the best one in the whole story...