Uncanny Young Avengers

Chapter 21: The Young Avengers Go Medieval- Part 1

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- All familiar characters belong to Marvel. Jessie Dillon is mine.

Somewhere in Malibu, California-

Somewhere in the coastal region of California known as Malibu, a young woman dressed in a black hooded robe was sitting in front of a bubbling cauldron. The girl was Bonnie Heart, the lead cheerleader at the nearby Perez High School. Bonnie was working on a spell to rid herself of a problem. That problem was Luna Maximoff and the rest of the Young Avengers.

Bonnie chanted in a long-dead language as she dropped photographs of Luna and her friends in her bubbling cauldron.

'That should keep you out of my hair for a while, you stupid little Inhuman witch.' Bonnie sneered as she watched Luna's photo sink into the cauldron. 'Nobody crossed me and lives to tell the tail. Just like the time Mr Flutie trailed to fail me. He ended up getting eaten by devil dogs.'

Bonnie chuckled to herself evilly as she watched smoke rise from her cauldron.

'Oh, yeah. This is gonna be sweet! Be seeing you, Young Avengers!'

Elsewhere-

Luna Maximoff woke up to the sound of birdsong. The Young Inhuman stretched her arms with a groan. She must have fallen asleep with the window open again. Still partially asleep, Luna got up to close her window, but there wasn't a window to close. She wasn't even in her room.

'The hell…?' Luna blinked as she looked around at the grassy glade that she had woken up in. 'What in Agon's name is going on here?'

The blonde Inhuman then looked down at herself and realised that she wasn't wearing her usual green silk pyjamas. She was instead dressed in a dark green tunic and matching tights.

'Okay, this has to be a dream…' Luna muttered to herself as she ran her hands through her hair. Then the young Inhuman noticed something unusual with her ears. They felt like they were pointed, like an elf's!

Luna knelt down to rifle through a battered leather satchel that was sitting beside a bow and a quiver full of arrows. She pulled out a mirror and took a look at herself. Her ears had indeed taken on an elfin appearance.

'Aww, man!' Luna groaned into her hands. 'Please tell me this is a dream!'

'I only wish that was true…' Nate Grey sighed as he walked into the glade. He was dressed in a red tunic, red pants, and a red hooded cloak. He also had a battered leather satchel, not unlike Luna's. 'I think I'm supposed to be a mage, or something.'

'At least you're wearing some sort of clothes…' Jessie Dillon grumbled as she followed Nate into the glade. The young demon-conjuring mutant was dressed in a skimpy leather bikini. 'Can I borrow somebody's cloak? I'm freezing my backside off here!'

'You appear to be dressed as a sorceress…' Nate pointed out. 'Why not conjure yourself a cloak?'

Jessie just shot the mutant clone with a withering glare. Then Kristoff and Cassie joined them. Kristoff was dressed head-to-toe in some sort of silver armour, similar to a knight's.

'This armour isn't so bad…' Kristoff shrugged as he lifted up his visor to talk to his friends. 'It's not unlike the armour that I usually wear. Plus, I also have a sword.'

Kristoff withdrew his sword from the leather scabbard hung from his hip and held it up to inspect his weapon.

'Oh, yes. Very nice indeed.'

Cassie was dressed in a dark blue hooded tunic and matching pants. She too had a battered leather satchel. She also had a small knife hung on her hip.

'I guess that I'm supposed to be a thief.' She guessed. 'That's why I have lots of jewels and stuff in my satchel. Neat.'

'Well, I'm sure that you're all happy with your new clothes.' Luna laughed bitterly. 'But where the hell are we?'

'Are you sure we're not all having the same dream?' Nate frowned suspiciously.

'It doesn't feel like a dream.' Jessie shivered, rupbing her arms in an attempt to keep warm. 'It's too cold to be a dream.'

'It looks like we're all dressed as rejects from a fantasy role-playing convention, or something.' Cassie surmised. 'I'm supposed to be a thief, right? Well, that's one of your basic fantasy classes. Luna is an elfin archer. Nate is a mage. Jessie is a sorceress. And Kristoff is a knight.'

'That still doesn't tell us where we are, or how we came to be here.' Kristoff stated. 'One of our enemies may have banished us to a make-believe fantasy world.'

'But which of our enemies could have done such a thing?' Nate asked. 'This doesn't seem like the Masters of Evil's usual style.'

'It might even be somebody new.' Jessie suggested. 'It could be Morgan le Fey.'

'This doesn't seem like her.' Cassie shook her head. 'I've read all about her file back home. Why would she pick on us when she could take out the adults instead?'

'Who cares?' Luna threw up her arms in exasperation. 'My ears are pointy! I look like a freaking pixie!'

'Oh, I wouldn't say that…' Nate shrugged. 'I think you look kind of cute with pixie ears.'

Luna was about to say something when a scream alerted everybody to trouble. A young woman had burst through the woods into the glade where the Young Avengers were standing. She was being pursued by a band of marauding trolls.

'Explanations will have to wait…' Luna told everybody. 'We've got work to do.'

Luna yelled over at the trolls.

'Hey, ugly! Why Don't you pick on somebody your own size?'

The rolls all spun around and glowered at Luna.

'Oh, yeah, that's it…' Luna grinned to herself as she held out her hands to take the beasts out with a light blast. 'Come to momma, you evil sumbi…'

Luna's face fell as she realised that her powers weren't working. Then the trolls all let out fearsome roars.

'Oh, crap…' Luna grimaced as the beasts charged at her.

'I cast Mystic Missile!' Jessie yelled desperately as she held out a hand in the direction of the charging trolls. Much to the young mutant's surprise, a purple ball of energy shot out from her hand and hit one of the trolls square in the chest. The fearsome beast let out a shrill screech as it exploded into ashes.

The dark-haired mutant looked down at her hands with an astounded expression.

'Jeepers.'

The momentary distraction gave Luna enough time to make a grab for her quiver of arrows.

'Aww, man. I hope this works…' Luna winced as she nocked an arrow into her bow and let it fly. Fortunately, it hit one of the trolls right between the eyes.

'C'mon, guys…' Cassie called to the rest of the Young Avengers. 'You saw Jessie and Luna. Let's fight these trolls! Young Avengers Assemble!'

TBC...

Next: The Young Avengers Go Medieval- Part 2

The Young Avengers have more trouble with various magic beasts. Trolls, and orcs, and harpies, oh my!