Steve put a hand over Sher's body protectively and looked her over for cuts then he took a step forward, he looked around for some sort of makeshift weapon as he was unprepared and didn't have his suit or his shield, the man that seemed to be the leader of the group drew his sword and pointed it at the blonde's chest.

"Let us just do our jobs Blondie." The man's lip curled into a crude smirk, but Steve held his ground as a soldier.

"If you want to kill her you have to kill me." Steve stated as he took a deep breath, just as the man was about to stab him there was a 'wering' sound and the sword shattered as it was hit by a blue light, Steve and the intruders turned to see Tony in his Iron man armour as he stepped into the room loudly and the elevator pinged.

"How come you never invite me to your parties cap'?" Tony pulled his vizer up and faked looking offended as Steve smirked.

"Bit short notice, Stark." The blonde retorted as he picked up the chair next to him and hit one of the men upside the head with it while Tony put his mask back on and blasted at them with his repulsors; soon Thor and Loki burst into the room, Thor with his hammer raised and Loki ready to cast a spell.

"What in Odin's name is going on?!" Thor boomed as a three masked men ran towards the two step brothers.

"Just play 'whack a mole', point-break! Loki do whatever you want, I don't care!" Tony yelled as JARVIS confirmed more agents intruding on other floors, Thor nodded as Steve and Tony protected Sher and the two demi-gods stopped anyone else getting into the room.


Meanwhile, Clint was on the higher levels, shooting anyone that tried to jump from a helicopter that had appeared and get into Sher's room; he pressed his ear piece and talked over the comm.

"Anyone copy? What is this?" He asked as he shot down as many intruders as he could until some landed on the roof and he had to do hand to hand combat.

"Vortex, they're trying to kill Sherlock here!" Tony said as Natasha was on the lower levels stopping the overtaking of the building, after a good twenty minutes everything fell silent.


"We need you to wake up Sher." Bruce muttered as he stood in the corner (since no one wanted him to 'hulk' out) and prepared grab Sher and run; suddenly an agent jumped in through the window with an arrow lodged in his shoulder and was about to stab Sher when he stopped in mid-air and was suddenly flung back out the window at extreme speed, everyone stopped as they stared, even the intruders were shocked.

Tony smirked as the intruders looked at each other, feeling cocky he walked over to the window and shielded his eyes while whistling.

"I think he might hit the helicarrier if he goes a little northward." He mused as Thor and Loki rounded up the remaining intruders and kept them tied up in a cupboard.

"What the hell was that?" Clint asked over the comm.

"This over or what?" Natasha spoke as Tony told everyone to make sure no one was in the building and to meet up on floor 5.

As everyone sat around the room Clint asked how the hell that man was flung back out the window and 100mph and the reason why vortex would want to kill Sher, at first everyone thought it was Loki who had protected Sher and flung the man into oblivion, but when he denied it Bruce hovered a hand over Sher, only to have it bounce back in his face.

"It's some sort of force field." He announced as Tony smiled.

"This kid is awesome; still have no idea why they want to kill her..." Everyone agreed as he then sighed and looked around at the mess before them and scratched the back of his neck worryingly at all the over turned equipment and the smashed monitor in the corner.

"Who's gonna tidy all this up?" He muttered, only to have everyone slowly leave the room, Tony turned around and huffed, not noticing Sher's hand twitch.


"We are vortex, and Sherlock here is owed a 'fall'." Luka and Sher stopped talking in the darkness as they listened to the voices around them.

"W-What's going on out there?" Sher moved to stand up but Luka grabbed her arm.

"Be quiet…" Luka murmured as her sister nodded, she heard the man say vortex as she tensed up, what was going on out there? If only she'd wake up!

"If you want to kill her you have to kill me." Sher became panicked as she heard Steve's voice.

"Someone's trying to kill me?!" She yelled as Luka went wide eyed, the two stood back up as they listened to the clashing and firing, along with the cocky comments of Tony Stark.

"I have to help them!" Sher yelled as she lashed out at the darkness, almost as if there would be a doorknob somewhere in the abyss; Luka sighed and helped her search.

"I doubt there's gonna be a way out Sherlock, unless you set that mind of yours to work." Sher's eyes widened in realization, it was her mind, everything here was.

"That's it!" Sher jumped and began pacing while Luka stared at her, Sher sighed and stopped.

"Luka, that's exactly it, this, everything here is my mind…" Sher waved her hands about then paused for a second as her eyes darkened.

"Including you…" Luka nodded, well aware of that fact.

"So what you're saying is you need to wish to be back." Sher nodded.

"If a door appeared it might lead back, as stupid as it sounds." Luka smiled.

"Look at you, all smart." Both the sisters laughed but it came to an end as Sher looked at the floor.

"If this works then it's goodbye…" Sher muttered as Luka hugged her.

"For now." Sher shut her eyes tightly as she focused on that door in her mind, the one that would lead back to her new life, her new family, and the new her. She saw the door, it was hazy, but she saw it none the less, as she reached out to grab it she actually felt the cold metal under her fingers and she smiled, suddenly her head began to throb and her knees buckled.

"Damn…what was that?" Luka was by her side as she rubbed Sher's shoulders.

"You alright" Sher nodded as she stood back up.

"We need you to wake up Sher." She groaned at Bruce's voice.

"I need to get back now, I'll try again." Again, Sher stood up and thought about the door, This time she could see it clearer than before and she was about to force through when a hand pulled her backwards, it wasn't Luka…

"What are you doing? Do you really wanna leave?" This wasn't Luka at all; It was herself, but six years younger, and covered in blood.