Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Little Too Late. Here's where the fun really begins. Jedidiah and Vortex's plans have sprung into action and it's up to Panic, and the Avengers to stop it. This is gonna be fun so be sure to follow and review/comment on this story! Enjoy.


Bang! Bang! Bang! my fist sounded as I pound them against the metal door. I know Jedidiah's next move but no one around here seems to hear me or they're just ignoring me.

"Hey! Let me out of here!" I scream with all my might. Then it happens, boom! The Helicarrier shakes and starts tilting to the left, the momentum knocking me off my feet, sending me skidding across the metal floor and slamming back against the wall. A groan escapes me and then everything goes silent, the only sounded being the pounding of my heart. Then the door is ripped off it's hinges and for the first time I see Nereza is person.

He's about 6'0" tall, about a head taller than me. The dark dragon tattoo clearly present under his eye. Black hair messy and shaggy like a dog while he's dressed in a white T-Shirt, leather jacket, skinny jeans, and black boots. He give a wicked grin before stepping towards me, I stumble to me feet and climb up onto the bed and creep back, trying to distance myself from him.

"How the hell did you get in here Nereza?" I ask as he steps closer and I a step back.

"I'm the one who holds all the power, you would be wise not to test my patience." That's his response. He leaps forward, coming at me. I kick off the metal wall and do a baseball slide and go underneath him. I get up and flee the room leaving him in the room, not stopping to look back and check to see if I lost him.

As I near the conference room it's much to quiet outside the door in the face of an attack. When I reach for the handle and push the door open that's when I realizes what's wrong. Nick Fury stands in front of the table with his mouth frozen as if he were screaming while all the other were frozen standing up, they must be frozen after the Helicarrier was attacked. Tony and all the Avengers were all suited up but they were incapable of moving. How could they be frozen though?

"Hello Miss Stark," I turn around to see Jedidiah and Nereza standing beside one another both looking at me. "I bet you're so utterly confused aren't you?"

"Somewhat, I knew you would attack the ship but all the Avengers being frozen has my stumped, why am I not?"

"You, my dear, don't pose a threat. There's nothing you can do that could effect our plans" Nereza says.

"Take her out!" Jedidiah shouts, I look behind and see a wooden plank come at me. A deafening crack fills the air and pain explodes in my head as my eyes cloud with red and black splotches then everything fades away as I fall from my feet.

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My right eye opens every so slowly while the left remains firmly close. The world is blurry and out of focus and I can't remember what happened. I can't remember anything. Not like amnesia but my head hurts so much that I literally am having a hard time putting anything together. Panic Stark.

That's right, I'm Panic daughter of Vanessa Wallace and Tony Stark. After five minutes with an eye open everything eventually pulls into focus and then it all comes to me as the throbbing in my head dulls. Jedidiah and Nereza, leader of Vortex, somehow froze the Avengers and kidnapped me for some reason. Without them the world is doomed, what can I do. I don't have any superpowers, all I had is my brain and I don't have any sort of tech to work wit- I stop.

My necklace! Jedidiah didn't take it, which means I can get out of here but what can I do without knowing the place? Right, it'll be best to hide the necklace and let Jedidiah show me around so that I can sabotage him and unfreeze the Avengers. I hide the necklace under my shift and start shouting from inside the cell with a wall of metal bars. Eventually Jedidiah hears my cries and he comes into the room and looks at me.

"What's with all the racket!?" he asks, clearly frustrated.

"How'd you do it Jedidiah, what do I have to do with anything, what's the plan?" I ask. All three questions will aid me in my attempt to enable the Avengers to stop Jedidiah and Vortex.

"Why would I tell you that?"

I grin before responding, "Why wouldn't you, clearly I'm not too much of a threat considering you didn't freeze me then took me hostage so you might as well tell me, I'm sure you're gonna kill me anyways."

"Fine," he opens my cell, grips my forearm and pulls me down the hall standing a little bit behind me. Jedidiah drags me into—what I assume to be—the control room as it's a large room with a row of blue alien people in the front of the room in a long U shaped desk with high tech computers, manning camera's with live video feed of the city. Nereza sits in one of the two commanding seats that resemble the one on the 2009 Star Trek film that Kirk sits in.

"What is she doing in here?" Nereza asks, looking from me to Jedidiah.

"She's gonna die anyways so we might as well tell her out little plan" he responds.

He orders me to sit in the chair beside Nereza, which I do as he explain it too me. I was right, Jedidiah did do it for revenge but there is more to it. He wanted revenge for his brother and my mother but he also wanted infamy, he wanted to be known and what better way to do that than to take over Earth? So he contacted Nereza because he had something they wanted, a crystal, similar to the Tesseract which was was stolen by Loki and used in the battle of New York but this was a round crystal with a swirling purple cloud like thing inside it which allows the user to freeze anyone and everyone they chose. Jedidiah had the crystal but not the staff that went with it, which is why Nereza attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. base and took the staff.

Jedidiah promised to give them the crystal if they helped him stop the Avengers and conquer the planet, he acquired the missiles to enforce his leadership and make all the people pledge their allegiance to him. He also told me that the staff and crystal is being held in the bottom floor of the ship and that it's impossible to get inside with all the motion sensors, cameras, lazer beams, and who knows what else but that's not gonna stop me from trying. As soon as I am taken back to my holding cell I begin my plan of attack and hopefully, if I die, at least I'll save the Avengers and everyone else on the planet.