Hi all. We are into Age of Ultron now! This should be a lot of fun. I played around with a few things. Hope you guys enjoy it. I'll try to have the next chapter up in a couple days.
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Izzy took a deep breath as she sat in the co-pilot seat of the quinjet. It had been a busy year tracking and cleaning up after Hydra. They were heading to Sokovia, a small country that was currently housing Baron von Strucker, a Hydra agent that had Loki's scepter.
In truth, Izzy was nervous. This was going to be her first real mission with the Avengers, she had only been participating in backup and support roles until now. However, today was too big and too important for her to stay behind.
As she reached up to make an altitude adjustment, she noticed a slight tremor in her hand. She clenched her fingers and returned her hand to the controls.
"It's normal to be nervous."
She looked over at Clint in the pilot seat, he smiled. She glanced back to make sure Tony wasn't listening. He was preoccupied with talking with Bruce. "I shouldn't be. I fought exploding people, this is— "
"Going to be different." Clint said. "These are going to hit home more because they aren't glowing and about to explode. It's okay kid. I'd be worried if you weren't nervous."
Izzy nodded.
"Who knows." Clint said. "We may not even need you or Bruce for this."
That was a laugh.
Izzy covered Clint and Natasha, who had stolen an enemy Jeep while taking out pockets of soldiers that Tony, Thor, and Steve missed in their advance. Hulk was just everywhere tearing things up.
Tony peeled off to go up to the castle/fortress on top of the hill. After a second, she heard a bang followed by Tony's exclamation of "shit!" as he bounced off a shield.
"Language." Cap said admonishingly. "JARVIS what's the view from upstairs?"
"Strucker's base appears to be surrounded by some sort of energy shield." JARVIS' voice filled their coms. He was watching over them from their personal satellite. "His weapons appear far more advanced than any Hydra base we've taken out so far."
"Loki's scepter must be here." Thor said. "Strucker couldn't mount his defense without it. At long last."
Izzy took out a watch tower and then a bunker before heading up to Tony to try to find a way through the barrier.
"At long last is lasting a little long boys." Natasha said.
"Yeah I think we lost the Element of surprise." Clint replied as he shot an arrow into a bunker.
Tony's amused voice came over coms next. "Wait a second. Is no one going to deal with the fact that Cap just said 'language'?" He asked.
"I know." Steve said and Izzy could practically see the look on his face. There was an explosion as Steve threw his motorcycle into a Jeep with a turret. "It just slipped out."
"Sir, the city is taking fire." JARVIS said over Tony and Izzy's separate com.
"Strucker isn't going to worry about civilians getting caught in the crossfire." Tony said. "Send in the Iron Legion."
In this area the Avengers were not typically warmly received so it came as no surprise when Izzy saw the notification that one of the Legion was already damaged.
She was distracted as she heard Clint suddenly cry out like he was in pain.
"Clint!" Natasha said heading over to him.
Steve grunted as if he had been hit by something hard. "We have an enhanced in the field." He said.
"Clint's hit." Natasha said. She let out a noise of frustration. "Can somebody deal with that bunker?"
Before anyone could reply the Hulk roared and smashed through it.
"Thank you." Natasha said.
"Stark, we need to get inside." Steve said as he took out another small squad.
"I'm closing in." Tony said as he took out a few guards. "JARVIS am I…closing in? You see a power source for that shield?"
"There is a particle wave above the north tower." JARVIS replied.
"Great. I wanna poke it with something." Tony said. "Izzy follow me."
They took out guards as they went before flying up high, Izzy ripping a door off a Jeep on the way. JARVIS lit up a weak spot in their heads-up display for them to target. Izzy threw the door into the shield and blasted it twice with her repulors to weaken it and Tony immediately followed that with a missile that was able to go through the weakened shield and take out the generator.
"Drawbridge is down people." Tony announced as Izzy whooped in excitement.
"The enhanced?" Thor asked.
"He's a blur." Steve said. "With all the players we've faced, I've never seen anything like it. In fact, I still haven't."
Natasha spoke in a tense voice. "Clint's hit pretty bad guys. We're gonna need evac." She said.
"I can get Barton to the jet." Thor said Steve. "The sooner we get out of here the better. You and Stark secure the scepter."
"And for gosh sake," Tony said.
"Watch your language!" Tony and Izzy said at the same time.
Izzy smiled as Steve sighed. "That's not going away any time soon." He said.
Tony went in one direction while Izzy circled around the opposite side.
"Isabel, keep your distance. If you encounter hostiles just get out of there." Steve instructed as she mentioned her location.
"Got it Cap." Izzy replied as she knocked in a wall.
Looking around, her stomach clenched. "J start video recording." She said looking at bloody cells and what looked like medieval torture equipment. There were some computers along the wall, so she went closer. "JARVIS do your scanners pick up any heat signatures close by?"
"Everything I read is a floor above us Miss." JARVIS replied.
"Good." Izzy said. "Let me out."
"Miss you've been instructed to— "
"I know J but whatever they've been doing in here might explain the enhanced." Izzy said. "I need to get in to that system and it's too old to remotely hack. You'll have my back."
JARVIS, with all the hesitance the AI could muster, let her out of the suit switching it to sentry mode.
Getting in to the system was no trouble and she immediately began sending it to the Avengers servers. As she was reading through the files and briefly watching the videos, she began to feel sick to her stomach. Strucker was a monster.
The sound of one of the guard's energy guns charging made her tense and she turned to see a soldier aiming at her, noticed too late for JARVIS to save her. Izzy raised an arm on instinct and turned away from the gun. Suddenly, she felt her stomach drop like she was on a roller coaster and the shot fired missed her by a mile. She looked up to see a guy, a little older than her with shocks of white mixed in his brown hair standing next to her, now on the opposite side of the room from where she was. She watched her suit blast the guy who shot at her and then turned to them.
The guy glanced down at her and then disappeared in a blur.
"Miss I would suggest you get back in the suit." JARVIS said.
"Yep." Izzy said and quickly got back in the suit. "Where is dad?"
"He has found the scepter." JARVIS said. "Agent Romanoff is getting Dr. Banner and Thor has gotten Agent Barton to the jet. Captain Rogers has encountered a second enhanced, a female."
"Let's get out of here." She said.
She couldn't shake the uneasiness of her encounter with the enhanced. Yeah, he saved her from being shot, but the minute she locked eyes with him her heart began to pound like she knew she was in danger. Something wasn't right.
She found the hole in the wall that Tony made and found him coming out of a secret doorway with the scepter in hand. She frowned when she saw the grim look on his face and an almost manic look to his eyes.
"Dad, you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah." He said. "Let's get back to the jet."
She followed him without question and although they had won the day, there was something that wasn't sitting right with her. Somehow it felt like they had lost.
