Chapter 9

The Battle

Sharon got out of her car and walked up to Steve. He had parked an old, small VW.

"Not sure you understand the concept of a getaway car." Sharon greeted him.

"It's low profile." Steve argued.

"Good," Sharon walked back to her car and opened the trunk. "Because this stuff tends to draw a crowd." She opened the trunk to reveal Steve's shield and Sam's equipment.

"I owe you again." Steve said.

"Keeping a list." Sharon replied, glancing at Bucky. "You know, he kinda tried to kill me." They watched as Bucky scooted to the middle of the back seat, clearly uncomfortable sitting behind Sam.

"Sorry, I'll put it on the list, too." Steve said. "They're going to come look for you."

Sharon nodded. "I know."

"Thank you, Sharon." Steve said. He took a moment and leaned down to give Sharon a kiss. She placed a hand on the back of his neck and returned the kiss. Once Steve pulled away, Sharon smiled.

"That was…"

"Late." Steve finished.

"Damn right," Sharon smiled again. She took a deep breath. "I should go."

"Okay." Steve said. He looked over to the VW. Sam nodded his head at him in approval. Bucky smiled proudly at him.

Once they had gotten their things, Steve drove through the parking lot at the airport. He parked nearby a white van and the three men got out of the car.

"Cap." Clint greeted, walking around the van. Wanda opened the door to the passenger side.

Steve walked up to him and shook his hand. "You know, I wouldn't have called if I had any other choice."

"Hey man, you're doing me a favor." Clint reassured, as Wanda walked up to them. "Besides, I owe a debt."

"Thanks for having my back." Steve turned to Wanda.

"It was time to get off my ass." Wanda said.

"What about our other recruit?" Steve asked.

"Recruits." Clint corrected. "They're rarin' to go." He turned to the van and opened the door. Steve saw a young woman with bright orange hair, and brown eyes that looked bright in the sun. She stepped down and shook Steve's hand. Her hand felt warm- almost burning- against his skin.

"Hey, I'm Summer Skye." She said. Her layered hair blew in the wind. She wore a red tank-top and black leggings, with blood-red leather boots.

"Steve Rogers." He replied.

"I know who you are." Summer smiled.

"I had to put a little coffee in the other one." Clint raised his voice. "But he should be good."

The man asleep in the back seat jumped. Steve and Sam glanced at each other. The man stepped out of the van.

"What time zone is this?" He asked.

"Come on, come on." Clint urged.

The man walked up to Steve, eyes filled with awe. "Captain America!" He greeted, shaking his hand.

"Mr. Lang." Steve replied.

"Call me Scott. It's an honor!" The man continued, still shaking his hand. "I'm shaking your hand too long." He observed. "Wow! This is awesome! Captain America!" He turned to Wanda. "I know you too, you're great!" He turned back to Steve and grabbed at his shoulders. "Jeez!" He took a step back. "Ah, look, I wanna say, I know you know a lot of super people so… thinks for thanking of me." He turned to Sam. "Hey, man!"

"What's up, Tic Tac?" Sam replied.

"Uh, good to see you. Look, what happened last time when I…"

"It was a great audition," Sam interrupted. "But it will never happen again. They tell you what we're up against?"

"Something about psycho-assassins?" Scott asked.

Steve nodded. "We're outside of the law on this one. So, if you come with us, you're a wanted man."

"Yeah, well, what else is new?" Scott replied.

"We should get moving." Bucky said.

"We got a chopper lined up." Clint reported.

A voice called over the intercom. "They're evacuating the airport." Bucky informed.

"Stark." Sam said.

"Stark?" Scott repeated.

"Suit up." Steve ordered.

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Steve ran out into the clearing. He rushed toward the helicopter that was waiting. He was in his suit, including his mask. His shield on his right arm.

As he neared the helicopter, something stuck onto it and electricity shot into it.

Steve paused, looking up at the helicopter. He looked up to see Tony in his suit, flying through the air. He flew toward Steve, Rhodey following right behind him.

"Wow, it's so weird how you run into people at the airport." Tony said before the mask was removed. "Don't you think that's weird?" He turned to Rhodey.

"Definitely weird." Rhodey agreed.

"Hear me out, Tony." Steve said. "That doctor, the psychiatrist, he's behind all of this."

A figure jumped into the scene. Steve recognized T'Challa in his suit.

"Captain." He greeted.

"Your Highness." Steve nodded to him.

"Anyway," Tony said. "Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?"

"You're after the wrong guy." Steve said.

"Your judgement is askew." Tony retorted. "Your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday."

"And there are five more super soldiers just like him." Steve reasoned. "I can't let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can't."

"Steve," Natasha walked up to him. "You know what's about to happen. Do you really wanna punch your way out of this one?"

Steve didn't answer. Instead, he turned back to Tony.

"All right," Tony said. "I've run out of patience." He raised his hands. "Underoos!" He shouted.

Suddenly, Steve's shield was snatched from his arms and his hand became bound by a strange, sticky substance…almost what appeared to be webs.

A man in a red and blue bodysuit landed nearby, holding Steve's shield. Steve couldn't see his face. Two white slits seemed to glare at him. Steve looked at him in surprise.

"Nice job, kid." Tony praised.

Steve looked at the kid in awe.

"Thanks," Spider-Man said. "I could have stuck the landing a little better, it's just…New suit…It's nothing Mr. Stark. It's perfect. Thank you!"

"Yeah, we don't really need to start a conversation." Tony assured him.

"Don't worry Spidey!" Jenny jumped into the scene, wearing her helmet and full armor. "That was a good landing."

"Please," Steve pleaded, looking at Jenny.

"Sorry Cap." Jenny replied. "I've got people to protect."

"Hey Cap- Captain." Spider-Man saluted Steve. "Big fan. I'm Spider-Man."

"Yeah, we'll talk about it later." Tony said.

"Hey everyone!" Spider-Man waved to everyone.

"Good job." Tony said again. Jenny couldn't help but smile. She knew what this kid was going through. She went through the same thing when she first met the Avengers. At first, she only stayed close by Thor and hardly spoke. After a while, she began to mingle with everyone else and quickly got Natasha to warm up to her by asking about how many languages she knew, and how much Jenny wanted to learn how to speak Russian.

"You've been busy." Steve said to Tony, pulling Jenny out of her thoughts.

"And you've been a complete idiot." Tony retorted again. "Dragging in Clint… 'rescuing' Wanda from a place she doesn't even want to leave, a safe place. I'm trying to keep…" He paused and took a deep breath. "I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."

"You did that when you signed." Steve said.

"All right, we're done." Tony said, looking taken aback. He raised his voice. "You're gonna turn Barnes over, and you're gonna come with us, now, because it's us, or a squad of J-SOC guys with no compunction about being impolite… Come on…"

Steve paused for a moment, then raised his hands above his head. An arrow flew and cut the webbing away. Tony's mask reappeared.

"All right, Lang." Steve said.

"Hey guys, something-" Spider-Man began but was quickly interrupted when a man seemed to appear literally out of nowhere and kicked Spidey away. The man grabbed the shield from him.

"What the hell was that?" Rhodey gasped.

"I believe this is yours, Captain America." Lang said, handing him the shield.

"Oh, great." Tony grumbled. "All right, there's two on the parking deck. One of them is Maximoff, I'm gonna grab her. Rhodey, do you wanna take Cap?" Tony asked as he and his friend began to take off.

"Got two in the terminal, Wilson and Barnes." Rhodey replied.

"Barnes is mine!" T'Challa said, taking off.

Steve threw his shield at Rhodey.

"Mr. Stark, what should I do?" Spidey asked.

"What we discussed. Keep your distance, web them up!"

"Okay, copy that!" Spidey and Jenny took off.

Steve threw his shield at T'Challa, stopping him from entering the terminal.

"Move, Captain." T'Challa said. "I won't ask a second time." The two were caught in battle.

"Look, I really don't want to hurt you." Lang said to Natasha.

"I wouldn't stress about it." Natasha replied. She kicked him in the leg and was ready to flip him. But he suddenly shrunk and flipped her instead. He pinned her arm behind her back, but she shot something out from one of her gauntlets and sent the tiny man flying.

Spider-Man and Jenny were climbing on the windows, following Bucky and Sam.

"What the hell is that?" Sam asked. "The Painter's ninja-twin?!"

"Everyone's got a gimmick now." Bucky replied. Spider-Man crashed through the windows and kicked down Sam.

Before Jenny could approach Bucky, Summer appeared, flying on fire, and grabbing Jenny's arm, pulling her away. Jenny turned and kicked her in the face and then gasped.

"Summer?! What are you doing here?" Jenny demanded. Now the two stood face-to-face in the terminal.

"More important question, what are you doing here?!" Summer demanded. "Are you an Avenger now?"

"What's going on?" Jenny asked.

"I did some digging at the Avengers tower." Summer said. "I didn't think you were going to turn in your resume there…but I was wrong…I was so wrong about you. I thought you cared about us!"

"You said you wanted to focus on your studies!" Jenny defended. "Everyone said that. I thought the team needed the break."

"But you didn't take a break, did you?" Summer asked. "You back-stabber."

"I'm trying to protect you, idiot!" Jenny said. "And all my friends! Now, you're putting them all in danger by coming here and doing this!"

"I'm trying to protect everyone too." Summer said. "I'm done hiding in the shadows. If no one can accept me for who I am…they can taste my flames!" She shot fire at Jenny, knocking her back.

Meanwhile, Bucky ran to punch Spider-Man, who easily blocked it.

"You have a metal arm? That is awesome, dude!" Spidey said excitedly before Sam ran into him. "You have the right to remain silent!" Spidey shouted at him.

Iron Man continued his chase after Wanda and Clint. He shot at them, surrounding them in ruble and cutting off escape.

"Wanda, I think you hurt Vision's feelings." Tony said.

"You locked me in my room." Wanda retorted.

"Okay, first, that's an exaggeration." Tony defended. "Second, I did it to protect you. Hey, Clint."

"Hey, man." Clint replied.

"Clearly, retirement doesn't suit you." Tony stated. "You got tired of shooting golf?"

"Well, I played 18, shot 18…Just can't seem to miss." Clint shrugged, before shooting an arrow at Tony, who quickly dodged and shot back.

"First time for everything." Tony teased.

"Made you look." Clint replied.

Suddenly, car flew out of the parking lot, aimed at Tony, who flew to dodge them. Wanda was using her magic to throw cars at Tony and succeeded by nearly burying him under them.

Meanwhile, Spider-Man continued chasing after Sam and Bucky. He was able to knock both of them down, webbing Sam's arms to his side and Bucky's metal fist to the ground.

"Look, I'd love to keep this up, but I've only got one job here today…" Spider-Man said. "And I've gotta impress Mr. Stark, so, I'm really sorry." He shot out another web, only to have it catch onto Redwing. The small machine pulled him away and out one of the large windows.

"You couldn't have done that earlier?" Bucky asked.

"I hate you." Sam replied.

Meanwhile, Scott rejoined Steve in his battle against Rhodey and T'Challa.

"Hey Cap, head's up!" He yelled, tossing him a toy truck. "Throw it at this." He said, holding a small disk-like devise. "Now!" Steve obeyed Scott, watching at the toy car suddenly grew into a life-size truck.

"Oh, come on!" Rhodey shouted, as the truck landed in front of him and exploded.

"Oh man," Scott gasped. "I thought it was a water truck! Uh…sorry." He and Steve turned the other direction and ran.

"All right, now I'm pissed." Rhodey growled.

"Is this part of the plan?" Natasha asked as Tony knelt to help her up.

"Well, my plan was go easy on them." Tony replied. "You wanna switch it up?"

"There's our ride!" Clint announced as he and Wanda made their way to a small jet. They were met by Steve and Scott.

"Come on!" Steve shouted. Bucky and Sam joined in, along with Summer.

A bright beam shot in front of them, stopping the group in their path. Steve looked up to see Vision, floating in the air.

"Captain Rogers," He greeted. "I know you believe what you're doing is right." He continued as the rest of Tony's team joined them. "But for the collective good…you must surrender now."

The two teams stared each other down.

"What do we do, Cap?" Sam asked.

"We fight." Steve replied, stepping forward.

"This is gonna end well." Natasha said sarcastically. The teams slowly walked toward each other, slowly going from walking to sprinting.

"They're not stopping." Spider-Man said uneasily.

"Neither are we." Tony replied. Those who could fly quickly took to the skies, while those on the ground still sprinted toward each other.

Before Jenny knew it, the two teams were caught in an intense battle. Tony came down on Steve, while T'Challa pounced on Bucky. Jenny found herself face-to-face with Summer again. She knew a way to take Summer down…she knew her weaknesses…but at the moment, she couldn't bring herself to do it.

Clint and Natasha were battling. He pinned her down for a moment.

"We're still friends, right?" She checked in.

"Depends on how hard you hit me." Clint smirked. As they fought, Wanda pulled Natasha away with her magic.

While Bucky continued to fight T'Challa, he grasped his throat. "I didn't kill your father." He reasoned.

"Then why did you run?" T'Challa demanded, pulling Bucky's arm away. Before he could claw at Bucky, Wanda used her magic to pull him away as well.

Spider-Man flew through the air, only to have his webbing chopped by Steve's shield.

"That thing does not obey the laws of physics at all!" Spidey observed.

"Look, kid, there's a lot going on here that you don't understand." Steve scolded.

"Mr. Stark said you'd say that. Wow." Spidey replied, shooting his webs at Steve again, pulling him forward and kicking him in the chest. "He also said to go for your legs!" Before Steve could run and grab his shield, Spidey shot out webs at Steve's hands, pulling him back. Steve used the webs to pulled Spidey toward him and hitting him in the head with his suit. Spidey jumped up onto the top of a passenger boarding bridge.

"Stark tell you anything else?" Steve asked.

"That you're wrong." Spidey replied seriously. "You think you're right. That makes you dangerous." He swung down to fight Steve again, but was only kicked in the stomach and knocked back.

"I guess he had a point." Steve said, using his shield to break the boarding bridge, and Spider-Man caught it, holding it up. "You got heart, kid." Steve praised. "Where are you from?"

"Queens." Spidey said, grunting as he struggled to hold up the bridge.

"Brooklyn." Steve smiled before walking away.

While Tony chased after Sam, Clint shot an arrow at him. Tony aimed at all the pieces flying everywhere. He didn't notice, of course, an Ant-Man crawling into his suit. Tony attempted to hit Clint when suddenly, his left hand stopped working.

"Friday?" Tony asked.

"We have some weapon systems offline." She replied.

"What?" Tony asked again.

"Oh, you're gonna have to take this into the shop." A voice said.

"Who's speaking?" Tony demanded.

"It's your conscience." The voice replied. "We don't talk a lot these days."

"Friday?" Tony asked, looking at his suit in confusion.

"Deploying fire suppression system." She replied calmly.

"Uh-oh!" The voice said. "Oh boy! Whoa!"

"Summer!" Jenny said, after looking around at the scene. "You're making a big mistake!"

"No, you're the one who's made a mistake!" Summer replied. "I can't believe you are working for the Avengers."

"With you helping Steve, that makes you no better than me." Jenny said.

"Quit fooling around and fight me!" Summer lunged at Jenny again.

Jenny blocked her, wanting to use Summer's weakness, but still couldn't do it, after a while, she knew she had no choice. She dropped her weapons and held up her fists. "No Summer, I don't want to fight you!"

"Fight me!"

"No Summer, you can't do this. You have to listen to me."

"No! I'm done taking orders!"

"Summer, you're too hot-tempered!"

Summer attempted to swing at Jenny, who only dodged her blows. This made Summer more and more angry, and Jenny knew it would tire her out and slow her down. But that wasn't Summer's worst weakness.

"Summer! What would Audrey say if she were here right now?" Jenny asked, blocking Summer's fist and holding it tightly.

Summer's eyes widened. Jenny knew she hit a sore spot. Summer had loved Audrey as much as Jenny did. Jenny noticed whenever her name was mentioned in battle, it seemed to hinder her fighting abilities.

"I'm sorry…" Jenny said.

"You will be, you bitch." Summer growled. Not what Jenny expected. Summer reached for her throat and grasped it tightly. Jenny's necklace began to glow again. There was a beam of green light and Summer was thrown back away from Jenny. Summer flew into the building, the wall breaking behind her.

"Are you okay?" Spider-Man asked, running up to Jenny.

"Y-yeah…" Jenny said.

"Whoa…can you shoot green light out of you? That was awesome!"

"N-no…" Jenny replied.

Steve ran into Bucky. "We gotta go. That guy's probably in Siberia by now." Bucky said.

"We gotta draw out the flyers." Steve said. "I'll take Vision, you get to the jet."

"No, you get to the jet!" Sam interrupted. "Both of you! The rest of us aren't getting out of here."

"I must say, I hate to admit it…" Clint agreed. "If we're gonna win this one, some of us might have to lose it."

"This isn't the real fight, Steve." Sam added.

"All right, Sam." Steve sighed. "What's the play?"

"We need a diversion." Sam replied. "Something big!"

"I got something kind of big." Scott added. "But I can't hold it very long. On my signal, run like hell. And if I tear myself in half… don't come back for me."

"He's gonna tear himself in half?" Bucky asked, giving Steve a look of confusion.

"You're sure about this, Scott?" Steve asked.

"I do it all the time!" Scott reassured. "I mean, once. In a lab. Then I passed out. I'm the boss, I'm the boss, I'm the boss…" He muttered to himself.

Suddenly, Scott appeared, and grew taller… say about 36 feet… He grabbed onto Rhodey's leg, laughing excitedly.

"Holy shit!" Spidey yelled, standing next to Jenny who stared in awe.

"Okay, tiny dude is big now, he's big now!" Rhodey said.

"I guess that's the signal." Steve said.

"Way to go, Tic Tac!" Sam shouted.

"Give me back my Rhodey!" Tony demanded, staring up at the enlarged Scott, who threw Rhodey and began to kick cars around. Scott ripped off a wing of a plane and threw it at Tony, who was now chasing Sam.

"Okay, anybody on our side hiding any shocking and fantastic abilities they'd like to disclose…I'm open to suggestions." Tony said. Jenny took a deep breath and ran toward the scene.

"I'm sorry…it might not be the direst emergency." Jenny said, grasping her necklace. "But please, let me use some magic."

A surge of energy went through her, as she and Wanda began a battle of magic. Jenny shot a blast of energy from her hand at Wanda, then at Sam, who was charging at Tony.

"That's what I'm talking about, Short Fuse!" Tony cheered.

While Scott had kicked at T'Challa, Rhodey flew toward him, Spider-Man, holding on with his webbing. He jumped from Rhodey to Scott and began to wrap webs around him.

Jenny decided to join Spider-Man in his quest to defeat Scott. She stood below, avoiding getting stepped on by the giant man.

"Hey, where can I get that technology to make me taller?" She asked as Spidey crawled on Scott's helmet.

"None of your business pipsqueak." Scott retorted.

"Who are you calling pipsqueak?!" Jenny shouted.

"Get off!" Scott grumbled, attempting to bat Spidey away. Vison bumped into the giant, making him stumble back into an airplane.

Scott reached out to grab Vision, who easily flew threw him.

"Something just flew in me!" Scott squealed. Vision destroyed a tower, attempting to block the way to the jet. Before they could slow down, Wanda used her magic to stop the tower from collapsing, allowing Steve and Bucky to pass under safely.

Rhodey flew over and hit her with a sound wave. Wanda cried out and covered her ears. The magic disappeared, and Steve and Bucky had to quickly run through before getting crushed under the tower.

As Steve and Bucky ran towards the jet, Natasha was already there.

"You're not gonna stop." She confirmed.

"You know I can't." Steve reasoned.

"I'm gonna regret this." Natasha said, raising her fist. Her gauntlet ready to shock him, but she aimed behind him and hit T'Challa. "Go." She urged. Steve nodded, and he and Bucky took off. Natasha continued to aim at T'Challa.

"Hey guys, you ever see that old movie, Empire Strikes Back?" Spidey asked, running on a plane and dodging Scott.

"That's a Star Wars movie, and it's a classic." Jenny said.

"Tony, how old are these two?" Rhodey asked.

"I don't know, I didn't carbon-date them." Tony replied, rolling his eyes. "They're on the young side!"

"You know that part when they're on the snow planet, with the walking thingies?" Spidey continued.

"That would be Hoth." Jenny replied. "And the walking thingies are called Walkers- AT-AT's if I'm not mistaken."

"Maybe the kid is onto something." Tony said.

"High now, Tony, go high!" Rhodey joined in.

Spider-Man continued to swing around Scott's legs. Jenny joined in, using one of her tubes and shooting out a grabbing hook with a wire. She ran around Scott, as Spidey continued to swing.

Both Tony and Rhodey flew into Scott, punching him in the face.

"Yes!" Spidey cheered. "That was awesome!" He gave Jenny a thumbs-up before getting whacked by Scott and flying into large, wooden boxes. Scott fell onto a plane before shrinking down back to a normal, human size.

"Does anyone have any orange slices?" He winced.

"Sorry, not me." Jenny said, walking up to him. "But I could go for a pizza." She ran over to Spider-Man, who seemed to be struggling with his mask. He had just gotten scolded by Tony, who flew off.

"Wait, Mr. Stark…I'm fine… I'm…I'm done… I'm done."

"You okay, dude?" Jenny asked.

"Yeah." He said. "I think you and I are the only ones who don't really know each other's identities…"

"Huh…yeah. Weird." Jenny replied. She adjusted her helmet while Spidey adjusted his mask. They didn't know who the other really was, and for now, they were all right with keeping it that way.

The two looked and saw the jet taking off. While they had been able to capture Cap's team, Jenny knew they had failed to capture Steve and Bucky.

Yeah! This chapter was crazy for me! First of all, Summer-what are you doing? Stop it! Summer Skye is one of my OC's and has fire powers. You may have met her when you read Thor: The Long Fang. If you haven't read that I highly recommend it ;D

Also, I love Spidey in this chapter. I think I would relate to him if I got to work with the Avengers- just excited and want to walk to everyone! LOL!

Also, not really into shipping Steve and Sharon. I just felt like Steve deserved a kiss from someone. But I'm not sure who I ship Steve with. I know a certain friend of mine would say Natasha, and I like that, but I also like her with Bruce.

I like ALL the ships! XD

But yeah, if y'all have suggestions, I'd love to hear what your favorite ships are!