Here's the slightly not really filler-ish chapter. Also, when you've finished reading, I'm opening up another SYOC so I can start when I finish this story, so please submit! I love all your characters so much!
There was one day after the incident with Death for down time. Only one.
At StarkTower, they didn't know that. Win didn't know that that was possibly that last time she would model a piece of one-size-fits-most armor and hear his overly long scientific explanations for why things worked.
Ricky didn't know that was possibly the last time he would test things that Bruce had supposedly fire-proofed with a ridiculous grin on his faceas he did so.
Hartlyn didn't know that was possibly the last day she was curl up with Sweetheart while Thor read her Harry Potter or passages from a textbook that he couldn't correctly pronounce most of the words in and it would make her giggle.
But under the building next door, they half knew. They knew their captors were acting strangely.
Tonia had been pacing, just looked over at Monet and Clint every now and then smirking. Normally she would constantly threaten them as she sat cross legged on the floor or leaned against the wall, sometimes in cat form.
Scarlett was gone, instead of hanging around and waiting until one of the girls looked her way to drop them.
Aphrodite had gotten so quiet. She still played Monopoly, she still lost every time, and she still smiled at Taylor and laughed with Steve. But she didn't talk quite as much and didn't start conversations. Steve was started to get concerned.
Aphrodite just told him she was tired lately.
Charlotte was trying to untangle her hair, to get all of the bloodied strands apart. Behind her, Natasha was doing her best to help. Doing her best to try to cry out and keep herself distracted, Charlotte started to hum a familiar tune to Natasha.
After a few bars of the tune, Natasha added her high voice to the base melody. "It's time to try defying gravity. I think I'll try defying gravity. And you can't pull me down."
As the song went on, slowly rising in volume as it lifted the spirits of the two in the cell, they could start to hear it the next room over.
Clint grinned widely. "Monet," he whispered, shaking the teenager awake. "Monet, do you hear that?"
Monet blinked sleepily. "Who is that?" she drawled groggily.
"Tasha, and someone else," Then his face fell. "Oh no, she's trapped too, isn't she?"
"Shut up!" Feline called from where she napped, leaning against the wall. Feline got up, arched her back, and stretched. Then she looked at a dainty black watch and smiled. "Oh Hypno!"
She pranced off into the next room, where she found Hypno Heart sitting across from Taylor, talking to him through the bars. From Taylor's perspective, something very odd happened. He and Aphrodite had been talking casually about restaurants they liked when all of a sudden, her tone changed and she said, "And you can never escape!"
That's when Feline entered and Aphrodite left with her. He turned to Steve, "What just happened?"
"Aphrodite's been keeping a lot of secrets, that's what," Steve said, his eyes narrowing.
"You realize she's the one who brought us here in the first place? And she's not letting us out? Do you remember any of that?" Taylor demanded. As close as he'd gotten with the beautiful woman, he hadn't forgotten what she had done to them.
"But she's done so much for us while we've been here…" Steve trailed off, eyes far away. Taylor just threw his hands in the air before settling down into the corner, wishing that Aphrodite hadn't left Monopoly outside of the cell.
The next morning, the green eyed woman was getting ready. The place was ready, the plans were complete, but she had to prepare herself to meet the people who ruined her life. She was twisting her light hair into curls and straightening her gold armor, fastening her long emerald cape. She was already shockingly beautiful, but she wanted to be just as threatening.
StarkTower loomed in front of her and she entered it without a care. The secretary freaked out, as well did everyone else in the lobby. The woman just smiled, still making her way to where she knew the Avengers resided.
The first thing she saw was a huge tiger. Maybe it wasn't what she was expecting, but she was adaptable, and shot a little spark of magic into its face, watching as it hit the ground, fast asleep. After the tiger, everything was what she knew she would face.
In one room, still asleep, was a little girl, much too young to be any threat. It took the smallest amount of sleeping magic to knock her out for hours.
After her was the bumbling idiot, Thor. She knew Thor all too well, and disgust was evident on her face as she hit him with her powers and kept him sleeping.
The monster of a man was awake, as was the metal man. Both of them started to attack and protest, but a simple flick of her wrist sent them both to the floor, snoring.
The last pair was the tan girl with awfully short hair and the pale boy who needed a haircut. Both of them were awake too, but they were both so thin that it took so little to bring them down.
Luckily her girls were there to carry the limp bodies out for her. She helped of course, but she also quickly flashed over to the place she had prepared, getting ready for when they all awoke. When all of the sleeping Avengers were in place, She ordered the girls to bring back their own prisoners and handed them each two syringes of sedative.
Death took pleasure in bringing down her prisoners. When she held up the sedatives, Charlotte squeaked ever so slightly and Natasha stood in front of her, protecting her with her body. The red head took the first syringe easily and readily. But when the stuff kicked in, Natasha landed flat on her face and Charlotte was unprotected. Looking down at Natasha, Charlotte stepped up to the bars, a defiant look on her face. Death rolled her eyes at the heroics and stabbed her quickly in the neck.
Feline giggled as Monet pressed herself into the corner. Clint was next to her, whispering into her ear, trying to get her to relax. He tried to assure her everything would be okay, that they could get their shots together and it would all be over. When she finally gave up, Monet walked up with Clint, holding his hand tightly. Feline knew they wanted Monet to get hers and then Clint would be fine. So she slowly, agonizingly, pushed the plunger into Clint's neck. Monet backed up, fear written in her face, but Feline caught her and got her.
Aphrodite was having a hard time. She had gained their trust, become their friend, and she didn't want to hurt them. But she had to. She had known since the beginning that this was how it had to end. So when she walked into the room, she ignored their happy smiles and held out the syringes, one in each hand, stabbing them both in an arm at the same time. Steve and Taylor both look utterly betrayed, and Steve had started to say something until he slumped over onto the ground.
With her eyes closed and a feeling of extreme guilt, she helped bring the Avengers into the designated place.
The woman stood over the Avengers, watching as they started to wake up all at once, the way she had planned. As they groggily took in their odd surroundings, the woman smiled and started to speak.
"Why hello, friends! It's been a long time! I haven't seen you since, oh, since you had my husband sent to the dungeons of Asgard!" Her voice went from sickly sweet to murderous. "Venom drips into my poor baby's eyes and I can't stand to see him in such pain! My Loki is in agony, deep below the Asgardian palace! You have taken away my husband, my love, the father of my children, my other half!"
Iron Man glared up at her and screamed, "Who are you?!"
She grinned down at him. "Why, I am so humbled that you asked! I am Sigyn, Goddess of Loyalty."
Win coughed from across from Tony and asked her own questions. "What do you want from us?! What did we do to you!? Why have you put us here?!"
Sigyn laughed heartily. "I told you. You took my other half away from me. Half of me is gone, seemingly forever. So I'm doing the same to your team!"
*Gasp!* I know I didn't tell you much about where they are or even much about Sigyn, but next chapter will be more from the perspective of the Avengers as they wake up, and all will be told. Aphrodite is getting more and more fun to write, I swear.
Next chapter and maybe the chapter after that should be the fight and the trickery Sigyn has brought to that. What can I say, Loki rubbed off on her.
Questions! Doesn't Sigyn sound fun? Where do you think they are? What does she mean by doing to the team what they did to her? Do you think there will be any casualties?
Review Answers-
Storm229- Win and Charlotte seemed like an unlikely but good match for friends, so I tried to bring that up. I'll put in as many chapters as the story allows! Thanks!
Mythomagic-Champion- Thank you! You're such a good guesser! Either that, or you did your research! I'll do my best to do what I can on the amount of epicness.
TheOnlyEv- I'm glad you think I did well with Death. She's fun. Amora was close, but not quite. I still appreciate the guess. Thanks for the review!
Until next time.