It's Sunday! And, because I'm practically done with school this semester, I'm not stressed out and remembered to do this without any reminders from my phone or Izzy.
Well, stuff happens in this chapter. That's really all I can say.
Enjoy.
Loki sat on the bed inside the small room, finishing putting his armour back on, waiting for Raina to finish getting dressed.
"Okay, wet hair and no hair dryer, what to do..." Raina thought as she stared into the mirror in the bathroom. "Ah, yeah, that's it." Raina grinned. "Now, just concentrate..."
"Rain, what on Midgard are you doing in there?" Loki called as he stood and started into the bathroom.
"Holy shit!" Raina screamed out suddenly. The next thing Loki knew, there was a strong wind that knocked him onto the floor. The mattress of the bed flew upward and hit the ceiling before falling back down onto the floor next to Loki. Some S.H.I.E.L.D. uniforms that were in the dresser flew out and around the room. The wind finally died down as Loki groaned, attempting to sit up, brushing random objects off of him.
"Rain, Loki! What was all that! Are you two okay?" Pepper's voice came from outside the door. Loki managed to stand up and went to the door to answer.
"Yes." Loki said upon opening the door.
"Oh my god, what happened?" Pepper asked as soon as she saw his hair in disarray. She poked her head into the room, observing all the damage done.
"I'm still not entirely sure." Loki sighed as he brushed his hand over his hair. Raina appeared from the bathroom and walked over to the two, her hair completely messed up and pointing in every way possible.
"Um, so, apparently wind drying my hair is bad." She said sheepishly as she looked towards the other two.
They all stared after Rain, Loki and Natasha as they walked out.
"She's, uh," Coulson started.
"Yeah," Rachel said, "I know."
"So," Bruce started, "We need to focus on finding Thanos."
"How?" Natasha asked.
"What did he steal Thor? Maybe it can be tracked."
"He took the Infinity Gauntlet and the tesseract."
Rachel looked back at Bruce and Tony hopefully, but Natasha quickly stepped forward and said, "Do you either of you have the tracking algorithm?"
"Of course," Tony said, rolling his eyes.
"So we're to assume that he's going to be wherever the tesseract is?"
"Let's not assume that he's going to be where the tesseract is. How else can we track him?" Steve asked.
"The tesseract and the gauntlet have the same energy signature," Rachel said.
"And how exactly do you know that?" Fury said.
"Lucky guess?" Rachel said as if she was asking a question.
"How does she know?"
"Again," Tony said, "The wonders of inter-reality travel." He said as he sent Rachel a warning glance. Fury did not miss the exchange between Tony and Rachel, but let it slide.
"Then it's a plan," Bruce said, "We'll find him using the tracking algorithm and then we'll go from there."
"Good," Tony said, clapping his hands, "Let's get to it."
"Rain come back here! Tony and Bruce are never going to be able to get anything done if you're in there bugging them!" Rachel called after her younger friend as she skipped down the hallways of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.
"I'm sure she is plenty aware." Loki stated as he walked swiftly beside Rachel.
"When has that ever stopped her from doing anything?" Clint laughed. Raina had managed to drag them all into checking up on Bruce and Tony's progress on tracking Thanos.
"Psh! I'm just strong spirited is all, and stubborn. Those are my best qualities!" Raina continued skipping down the hallways, ignoring the weird glances of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as she passed by. Finally, they reached the lab and walked in.
"Oh it's Rain..." Tony acknowledged the group. "I'm pretty sure that we're not going to be able to concentrate with you here."
"Oh please, you'll be done tracking Thanos in a couple seconds." Raina waved him off as she walked over to look over Bruce's shoulder at the tracking screen.
"She's right." Bruce spoke up as he looked at the screen.
"Thanos is in Norway? That's kinda cliché." Raina mused. "Well, let's get suited up guys!"
"Ugh, excuse me? 'Us'? You three are not coming with us." Tony stated, crossing his arms.
"What! You can't stop us! And it's not like were all defenseless now!" Raina protested.
"Thanos has hurt us all, and you need all the help you can get to take him down." Rachel stood up for Raina.
"It's not that we don't believe you can hold your own it's just that," Steve began to explain.
"If S.H.I.E.L.D. knew of your abilities they wouldn't let you leave without 'examining' you three." Bruce concluded in a quiet voice. Raina looked over to Loki for support.
"I'm not going to try and stop you." Loki immediately spoke.
"I mean, I think it's a little late to hide Rain's abilities and if S.H.I.E.L.D. tried anything on her Loki or Thor could always just teleport her to Asgard." Clint added.
"Hey, what can I say, subtly is not my best attribute." Raina shrugged. "But seriously, we need to leave right now before anyone else realises that we've figured out Thanos' location." Without further arguments, the group quickly went to their respective rooms and changed, meeting back up at the flight deck, Gwen, Rachel and Raina, changing into some generic suits of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s, looking much like Maria Hill as they did so. Rachel complaining about the fact that they had to wear wedge shoes with their suits.
"Where is Tony?" Thor voiced for the rest of the group as he looked around the Quinjet.
"Don't worry guys, I'll be along shortly. Go on ahead and head out." Tony's voice came through their ear pieces they had all grabbed as they headed out to the jet.
"Tell Pepper I said 'Hi'!" Raina called to him.
"Will do, kid." Natasha and Clint situated themselves at the pilot's seats. The rest of the group buckled themselves into the seats.
"Everybody strapped in? Next stop Norway." Clint announced over the jet's intercom system.
"Rain shut up I'm trying to concentrate!" Gwen shouted. She had her eyes closed as she tried to concentrate. They had been flying for over four hours and were almost to Norway. Rachel and Gwen had taken to trying to figure out their powers, while Raina had made it her job to annoy them as much as possible.
"Seriously Rain, if we want to be able to help we're going to have to figure out these powers. Why don't you sit over there and figure out yours?" Rachel spoke calmly, trying to stop the younger woman from causing any more trouble.
"What's to figure out? Emotions are the key, obviously." As Raina spoke, she had summoned up a mini cyclone in the palm of her hand. "Oh my Odin! Loki, quick, ice powers!"
"What?" Loki raised a curious eyebrow.
"You heard me." Raina said cheeckily. Loki sighed as he held his hand out over hers. Raina's held cyclone quickly turned into a mini blizzard, her hands frosting over. "Ah, cold cold!" Raina winced as she quickly stopped the cyclone, shaking her hand rabidly. Loki and Thor could not stop themselves from laughing as they watched Raina cradle her hand in an attempt to warm it up. "Yeah yeah, laugh it up you two."
"Hey Rain?" Gwen called.
"Yeah?" Gwen did not answer, immediately after Raina spoke she burst into laughter, holding her sides and stomach. "S-stop! Gwen!" Raina managed to get out in the midst of all her laughing. Finally, Raina stopped and was catching her breath.
"I'm going to have so much fun with this." Gwen smiled.
"Does this mean Bruce'll have more control over the Other guy?" Rachel asked curiously.
"Looks like it." Gwen smiled happily over at Bruce who sat next to her.
"Okay guys, get ready." Clint's voice came through the intercom.
"We'll be landing in ten minutes." Natasha spoke up. "What's on your end Tony?"
"Let's see...looks like he's got the local army working for him. A couple tanks here and there." Tony described to them.
"They are more than likely being controlled by Thanos." Loki added.
"Civilians basically." Steve spoke up, "More or less, we can't just go and kill them all."
"Cool, so our powers will be awesome then." Raina said proudly. "So what's the plan Cap?" Everyone turned to look at Steve as the gears immediately began to turn in his head.
"The main plan is to get to Thanos and get back the Gauntlet and Tesseract at all costs. Thor, Tony,"
"And me." Raina added in quickly.
"-and Bruce will go in from the top."
"No Rain." Rachel scolded.
"Why not?!"
"I've already got a job for you. You have decent control over your powers right?" Steve asked.
"Yeah." Raina proudly answered.
"You and Loki will give us cover. Don't let them see us. The rest of us will go in on foot will go in on foot." Everyone started unbuckling and began to prepare themselves. "Everyone ready?"
"Aye!" Thor shouted as he raised his hammer.
"Let's kick some Thanos ass!" Raina yelled. Thor opened up the hatch, then jumped up with Bruce right behind him.
"Bruce!" Gwen grabbed his hand, stopping him. Bruce turned away from the hatch and looked at her. "You and the big guy go get them!" She smiled up at him. Bruce suddenly felt anger that was so intense that he had never felt before.
"Thanks." He smiled back as jumped out of the hatch, changing seconds later.
"Alright, landing in less than five seconds." Natasha announced.
"Rain, Loki!" Steve yelled.
"On it!" Raina jumped up, pulling Loki with her to the opened hatch. "Hope you guys don't mind the cold!" Loki intertwined his fingers with hers as they both held their free hands outwards of the jet. A frosty wind flew out from Loki's hand and mixed with the violent winds that Raina was creating; Raina glanced over at Loki, worried, as he skin began to slowly turn a light blue shade. "Nat, Clint, can you see to land?" Raina yelled back trying to confirm that her trick was working.
"We're good, landing now." Clint answered. Natasha and him turned off the Quinjet and joined the others at the opened hatch; Natasha making sure her guns were loaded and Clint readying his bow and arrows.
"Rachel-" Steve began.
"Gwen and I will stay behind you all, but we're still in this fight." Rachel confirmed.
"You two know how to use a gun?" Natasha motioned to Rachel and Gwen.
"Yes." They answered in unison.
"Here," Natasha tossed them some pistols. "Wouldn't be right to leave you without weapons, even with your, abilities."
"Well thanks then." Raina spoke up. Loki rolled his eyes as he conjured up a simple staff and handed it to her. "Ooh, never mind, I'm good."
Steve looked at Rachel, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Of course," Rachel said nodding, "I can't let you guys have all the fun."
Steve smiled at her and said, "Let's go!"
Clint, Gwen, Natasha, Loki, Raina, Steve and Rachel all ran out of the back of the Quinjet and onto the ground. As it turned out, Tony had been right; at least one platoon of soldiers had been turned into Thanos's set of mind slaves. Rachel thought that they looked exactly like Loki when he had been under the tesseract's control; they all had blue, tired eyes with blank stares on their faces. Despite the blank stares on the soldier's faces, as soon as they saw the Avengers, Loki, Rachel, Raina and Gwen, they started to attack.
Rachel, Rain and Gwen immediately went towards them, making liars of themselves by not waiting for the rest of the Avengers or Loki to cover them and began to push the soldiers back. Raina used her air powers to force them to lose their footing and fall while Rachel ran up and commanded them to stay where they were and Gwen jarred them out of their mind control by pushing self-reliance in their minds.
Natasha rolled her eyes and did what the rest of the Avengers were doing, knocking the soldiers unconscious while trying not to fatally harm them.
"You said you'd stay behind us!" Steve yelled at Rachel as he came and punched a soldier that had been about to shoot her.
"I'm a pathological liar!" Rachel laughed as she put her hand on a random soldier, forcing him to sit down and surrender his weapon.
Steve rolled his eyes as they continued fighting. Loki jumped in front of Raina to protect her from the bullets of a random gun.
"This is so much fun!" Raina yelled.
"Focus on fighting!" Clint yelled back at her.
Gwen laughed at her friend, "You tell her Clint!"
Rachel looked over at her friends, enjoying the moment, then looked over at Steve, who was being choked by a random soldier. Rachel watched in horror as another soldier aimed his gun at the love of her life.
Rachel threw her arm out and screamed Steve's name, thinking that it would be useless to do so until Steve was thrown a few feet out of the way just as the gun went off. Because of her scream, the majority of the Avengers, Gwen, Raina and Loki were staring at Rachel in shock, realising that she just moved a person with her mind.
"You have telekinesis!" Raina yelled happily at her friend.
"That's nice!" Rachel yelled back at her as they all advanced, "Focus on not dying." Rachel then ran over to Steve, "I'm so sorry," she said as she gave him back his shield, which had been dropped earlier.
"Are you kidding, you just saved my life."
"But I threw you ten feet in the air," Rachel argued.
"I've had worse, and not with intentions as good as yours."
Rachel smiled as she stood up and offered her hand to Steve.
"I feel like it's useless for me to say it to you," Steve started, "But be careful."
"Always," Rachel said, smiling. Tony and Thor flew down to land next to the group as they finished incapacitating the controlled soldiers, Hulk following seconds later as he destroyed the last tank that was stationed at the front of the large, plain building.
"All clear on the outside Cap." Tony reported.
"Okay then, Thor, Tony, Natasha, Hulk, and I will go in through the front. Everyone else find the back door. We'll come in through the two sides and overwhelm him. Let's take this guy down!" Captain called out. The team broke up into two groups and headed to their spots.
"Wait for Clint's signal that they're in position before we attack." Steve said into his earpiece and to the group he was leading.
"Roger that Rogers." Raina called back. Rachel rolled her eyes.
"Really Rain?"
"What, are you unamoosed?" Raina giggled. "Hey, I've got an idea."
"Rain-" Rachel squealed as they were suddenly levitated up into the air. Looking over at her younger friend, Rachel kept quiet; Raina had her eyes closed and was concentrating intensely. Gwen placed a hand onto her shoulder, helping her to concentrate. Mere seconds later, they landed at the back entrance of the building and walked in.
"In position Cap." Clint called through the ear pieces.
"Let's do this!"
Whoo! Look at everyone being badasses. Isn't that nice?
And just a heads up that we only have about three more weeks of posts before we're done with the sequel.
Thank you for reading,
~Jade
Also, if you get the chance, watch Disney XD's Ultimate Spider-Man. It's really funny and Drake Bell is Spider-Man. And you should like Drake Bell because he is Spider-Man, did star in a pretty great show and he has an on-going war with Justin Bieber's more belligerent fans. That is why he is my favourite and he should be yours too!
