Chapter 13

Natasha fell. She was falling and she didn't like it. Her heart went into over dive, beating so fast, she thought it was going to exploded. Her arm still up trying to grab Clint's, which was slowly fading away from her. she was falling... falling... And for once she was actually scared.

'Tony, drop me,' Bruce said. Tony looked at him.

'What?' Tony asked.

'DROP ME NOW!' Bruce snapped. Tony saw the green in his science bro's eyes. Tony let go of Bruce and a roar rippled through the air.

There was a roar and a green blur came towards her through her tear filled eyes. She felt something crash into her and wrap it's arms around her protecting her from harm. She heard a grunt as the fell. Natasha looked up and saw the Hulk. They fell to the ground.

Clint thought he had lost her, he thought he had lost her when he had just got her back. No please no, Clint thought. But when he saw the Hulk fall from Tony's grip and catch her, he let out a breath and turned onto his back, closing his eyes and breathing heavily and facing the sky. She was safe.

'Thank Hulk...' Clint mumbled.

'Hey, a little help here!' Maria shouted. Clint looked up and the robots were all around her. One of them grabbing hold of her neck. She kicked the over robots, running along them as the robot grabbing her neck holding her up turned around. She landed and they all got back up.

'Duck!' Clint shouted and Maria pulled herself down to the ground. There was an explosion from one of the arrows. Maria rolled onto her back and kicked the robot that had hold of her neck, off of her. The robot rolled over and pulled itself back up, one arm hanging off. Clint came running over to help having ran out of arrows. Maria pulled her gun out from behind her back. The shot three bullets, hitting the robot in the eyes and one in the forehead. The eyes flashed and flickered off. It started to fall her way. Maria rolled but was too late The robot fell landing on her legs. Clint ran forward and tried to lift the heavy robot up. Iron Man landed next to them and lifted the robot up with Clint. Maria let out a shaky breath and checked if her leg was damaged. It was bleeding but she would be alright. Tony lifted his face mask up.

'You look sexy,' Tony said with a smirk. She ignored him, as he held out his hand. Maria glared at it then looked up at his face.

'Come on, it's just a hand,' Tony said. Maria took it and let him pull her up. she balanced unsteady on her feet so Tony put his arm around her waist, which she tried to get out off, but Tony wouldn't allow her to. They both looked around, just as Thor and Steve landed on the desk. Maria looked over to Clint who had now gathered up some of the arrows that he pulled out from the dead robots that were still on the helicarrier and hadn't been thrown overboard.

'Are you ok?' She asked Clint and he nodded.

'Natasha's... safe,' Clint mumbled. 'Hulk… caught her,' he breathed, rubbing her face. 'Other than that... yeah... I'm fantastic...'

Tony climbed up onto the deck, helping Maria get up with her leg, with Clint following him, they were low over the water, so there was enough oxygen to not feel lightheaded. The helicarrier was flying towards the SHIELD base (Known as the hub) then they could be sure they weren't all going to die by falling into the water. There was an explosion from the right and a man flew out of the hole, yelling as he fell to the floor. The helicarrier shook. They could hear the engine of a jet and all looked up.

'Get down!' Steve shouted as the jet threw a bomb at them. He lifted his shield and protected Agent Hill from the blast. Just before they all ducked, Tony saw the face of a man he wished he would never see again.

Killian

He was in the jet, while Hammer threw the bomb at them.

'What the f-' Tony's arm was pulled and he was yanked to the side as the bomb went off.

Steve woke up only minutes later. He sat bolt up when he felt someone leaning over him. He groaned and closed his eyes, rubbing them.

'Hey, you ok?' Maria asked from over him. Steve nodded.

Clint rolled over off of Thor and looked to his side. He had grabbed Tony's hand and pulled him to the side. He looked around and saw Tony wasn't there. The Iron Man suit was but Tony, Tony Stark... he wasn't there. He looked up at everyone as Thor stumbled up to stand.

'Hey, where's Tony?'

Hulk landed on his back, like he had done with Tony last year. He rolled Natasha off of him and Natasha quickly stood up and backed away from the hulk quickly. She watched, frozen to the spot, as the Hulk slowly shrink back to Bruce Banner. She looked away as the man was nude. He coughed and slowly got back up. He pulled on the pants he had worn for the Hulk. They were very, very baggy but they were the only thing he could use to cover his privates up. He pulled them up and held onto them to keep them up. Natasha turned and took a deep breath. The Hulk had saved her life...ok, so she need to calm down. He wasn't running after you trying to kill you, he saved you, Natasha thought.

'Erm… thanks,' she mumbled.

'No problem,' Bruce said. Natasha gave a blunt nod. They weren't very good friends the two of them and hadn't really spoken a lot.

'There's a SHIELD base a couple miles out… if I'm correct,' Natasha said. Bruce looked around, they were in the middle of the field. Bruce nodded.

'Lead the way,' he said, gesturing for her to walk in front. Natasha turned and walked towards the New York base, followed by a tired looking Bruce.

'What do you mean where's Tony?' Maria asked as she rubbed the back of her head, she was sure she had a bruise. Steve quickly stood up and pulled Maria up too. She stood on one leg, she other legs toes just touching the floor.

'I mean, where is Tony? He's not here. I grabbed him and pulled him down before he got blown up,' Clint said standing up. Maria tried to look around for any sign of the jet that had bombed them. Maria then also noticed the Iron Man suit was there.

'He wouldn't go anyway without his Iron Man suit,' Maria mumbled.

'What does this mean of our friend Stark,' Thor asked. Maria looked at Clint, both thinking the same thing.

He had been kidnapped.

They both nodded and turned to the other two. Clint open his mouth to talk but there was a loud explosion and a robot and a man where blown out the side of the jet and fell into the clouds to the ground. The fire roared up into the sky.

'Hill, engine three has been hit,' Fury said over the comm.

'I'm on my way, we stopped the robot's at engine one sir,' Agent Hill said back down the comm to Fury.

'We'll talk about it later, first we need to sort out the robots,' Clint said to Thor to answer his question. Steve nodded and picked up his shield. He catch eyes with Maria and then looked away awkwardly. They all ran, Maria Hill hopped slashed ran, back to the fire door and pulled it open, running back down the corridor. Maria reloaded her gun as they ran down the corridor, Clint reloading his bow. They ran into the command room. There were still some men and robots standing. They took action. Steve punches the closest guy. Agent Hill ducked behind the table, firing at the men, kneeling on one of her knees, since her other leg was bleeding and damaged. Clint reloaded his arrow shooting the eyes of the robots, so that they would fall to the ground. Agent Hill rolled along the floor and ducked behind the railing where Fury was.

'Engine three and engine four are failing,' Fury shouted as he fired at some of the men. Agent Hill nodded and jumped up. She hopped towards the computer and starting tapping away.

Agent Coulson was walking down the corridor heading to his next mission. This mind wondered to Tahiti. It's a magical place. Agent Ward was following him closely. Coulson's phone started to beep. He pulled it out and looked at the message. It was from Hill. Agent Coulson looked at Agent Ward, who was looking at Coulson's phone. Ward looked away and at the wall. Coulson turned back to his phone.

Helicarrier under attack. Going to crash land near SHIELD base. Will need medics.

Coulson read the text and quickly turned around heading into a run. Agent Ward looked at him confused and then quickly ran after him.

Hiya guys, sorry I didn't update yesterday, I was at my dad's and I felt my computer at my home so that had this chapter on. But here it is. I hoped you liked it. As if I would kill Natasha off. However there will be more drama on the way.