Chapter 35 -

"Well that's just not fair." Bruce said as he and Harry looked at an article on Harry's phone. "How come you're the most popular and liked Avenger?"

"I do magic." Harry shrugged as he put his phone away.

"Thor does magic." Bruce pointed out.

"No he usually does is hitting things despite being able to do magic," Harry replied. "I do hitting things and magic, double threat. Besides as far as all the male and lesbian members of the internet are concerned I managed to bag the Black Widow and should therefore be worshipped like a god. Besides I was the one who went out and repaired the city after the battle of new York, people still like me for that. Plus I'm the strongest or at least one of the strongest and unlike you I don't have to always chose between being a complete nerd in a blazer or really angry in short shorts."

"Ha ha, very funny." Banner said with a fake laugh and rolled his eyes just as Harry stood up.

"Alright well apologise to Hulk for me as I can't stay long enough to do our usual session, there is a bunch of idiots I have to stop and I have to meet with Fury before that."

"Alright, have fun." Banner waved as Harry walked away.

"By Banner, bye Hulk." Harry waved back before he reached the exit.

"Bye Raven." He heard Hulk's voice just as he got out the room.

"Stop doing that." He heard Banner say to Hulk.


"Nice job with Cross," Fury said as he and Harry sat down together to have a meeting. "although I do wish you handled certain things differently. Was it really necessary to destroy the entire building?"

"Wasn't my idea, nor was it something I supported, I just didn't argue with the guy who did." Harry replied. "Plus...it was kind of cool." Harry said with a grin.

"Nice job on the Hydra soldiers as well," Fury said with his one eye focused on Harry. "they were surprisingly cooperative, was that because of you?"

"I may have had something to do with getting them to cooperate, I also may have used some spells that would've been illegal where I came from but I did nothing beyond have them tell the truth." Harry confessed. "I didn't make them lie or do anything like that."

"Fine, it's not like I can punish you...plus you did do us some good. I think Hydra may actually die before I do." Fury said with a small smile.

"Fury, you'd outlive us all. You're too stubborn to die."

"You're not the first to say that."

"Probably won't be the last either." Harry smirked. "But about the information from the Hydra men..."

"I'll have it all sent to you." Fury said, guessing exactly what Harry was going to ask.

"Actually what I was going to say is I already read their minds but it would be best for you to make multiple copies so it doesn't get 'lost' if you understand what I'm saying."

"I do," Fury nodded. "I'll stay vigilant even though I don't think it's likely to happen. The population of Hydra has definitely become lower, soon the damn snake won't be able to grow back anymore heads."

"Here's hoping." Harry nodded hopefully, though he could see it happening. Hydra, while still having some members left, was not what it used to be.

"Where is the rest of the team?" Fury asked.

"The Avengers base at the moment," Harry answered "Stark is off either doing something important or annoying Pepper or both. The rest are preparing for a mission in Lago and waiting for me, that's in Nigeria by the way."

"I know where Lagos is."

"Sure you do." Harry said dismissively. "Anyway, from reading the minds of those Hydra I discovered that they have something planned there involving ex-shield agent and current Hydra dumbass Rumlow, and as soon as I'm done here we're going to go ruin it."

"That sounds like fun." Fury said in a dry voice.

"Oh yes it is!" Harry said enthusiastically, ignoring Fury's tone along with the face he gave him after Harry had finished taking.


"All right, what do you see?" Cap asked during the mission in Lagos, Cap were currently high up inside a building with a window view. Falcon and Raven were together on top of a different building while Pietro, Wanda and Natasha were sitting outside a small café opposite the police station they were looking at.

"Standard beat cops," Wanda replied through her ear piece as she, Bucky, Natasha and Pietro sat at different tables in civilian clothing and tried to look inconspicuous.

"Pretty women." Pietro added while sending a wink and small wave at one lady that walked past. Bucky snorted and his amusement increased when he saw the lady blush and give a small wave back before walking off.

"Small station," Wanda continued, ignoring Pietro. "quiet street, it's a good target."

"There's an ATM on the south corner." Raven said into his ear piece. "Which means..."

"Cameras." Pietro answered before Raven could finish.

"Both cross streets are one way..."

"So compromised escape roots." Wanda finished as she took a sip of her tea.

"Means our guy isn't scared about being seen and isn't afraid to make a mess on the way out," Cap replied.

"Isn't that brilliant?" Bucky asked sarcastically with a small shake of his head.

"You guys see that Range Rover halfway up the block?"

"You mean the one near the red one? It's cute." Wanda said in a way that told everyone she didn't think it was cute.

"I don't like it." Pietro said, adding his piece.

"I don't like it either." Raven agreed.

"It's also bullet proof," Natasha said, bring them back on track. "which means private security which means more guns, which means more headaches for somebody, probably us."

"You guys know I can move things with my mind right?" Wanda asked.

"You're not the only one." Raven replied.

"Even with powers looking over your shoulder should be second nature." Natasha replied.

"Sam," Cap said upon noticing something. "you see that garbage truck, tag it."

"You heard him." Raven said. A second later a small drone, that Falcon had lovingly named 'Redwing', flew off of Falcon's pack and flew towards the cup with Falcon controlling it using the touch screen on his left arm gauntlet. The Redwing drone flew under the truck.

"Give me an x-ray." Falcon said as he tapped the combat goggles so he could look at the feed from Redwing's camera.

"Well?" Raven asked.

"That truck's loaded for max weight." Falcon said.

"It's a battering ram." Natasha realised.

"Ram?" Pietro repeated.

"Go now." Raven ordered.

"Why?" Wanda asked but to her credit she did get up and go despite not knowing why.

"Because he's not hitting the police." Raven said just as he saw a pair of trucks go in the opposite direction. "Nat get Bucky then you and Pietro go after the runners." Raven said just as Falcon dived off the building, Raven jumped off and dove after him. Falcon's wings came out of his pack halfway down and he flew off, Raven was near the ground before he turned into a raven and levelled out before flying towards the bad guys while Falcon flew to get Cap.

Mere seconds later a truck crashed into the gates of a building that was the 'institute for infectious diseases', the driver had drove at it at high speed before jumping out the truck, the truck crashed into the gate and destroying and damaging the checkpoint so that the other trucks could get in, however in the aftermath the truck was also flipped over but seeing as there was nobody or anything inside of value they didn't seem to care.

A few seconds later a bunch of trucks drove in, carrying a small army's worth of bad guys. The hostiles came out and began shooting at people before sending gas cannisters into the building.

Raven flew down and was the first to engage in combat, he transformed into his human form just before reaching one hostile and took him out with a devastating mid-air kick that sent him flying backwards and bouncing off the front of one vehicle. A hostile on Raven's left was about to fire but Raven beat him to the punch and hit him with a disarming spell followed by a bone breaker and blasting curse, the end result was the hostile losing his gun just as his collar bone broke and just before he was blasted away and crashed into another hostile who fell to the floor before Raven finished that hostile off with a killing curse.

Falcon flew in at this point and dropped in Cap who immediately began taking out any hostiles near him.

"Body armour, Ar15s." Cap said. "I make seven hostiles."

"I make five." Falcon said after he flew in and took and two more. Wanda flew in and glided down, she made a shield to block gunfire from one hostile. Raven quickly hit the hostile with a disarming spell and a bone breaker to the arm, the man didn't get much time alone with his pain as Wanda grabbed him using her powers.

"Sam!" She said before tossing him at Falcon who flew towards the hostile and took him out with a mid-air clothesline.

"Four." Falcon said, still keeping track.

"You can bet more are coming." Raven said.

"Rumlow is on the third floor." Falcon said after he scanned the building using Redwing.

"Steve, with me." Raven said. "Falcon, you deal with the hostiles."

"What about me?" Wanda asked.

"You get the gas out of the building then assist Falcon." Raven replied.

"On it." Wanda nodded and began pulling the gas out just as Harry grabbed Cap.

"I detected some hostiles on the second floor so we're going there first." Raven said, Cap nodded and Raven teleported them inside the building where they immediately began fighting as the two were largely unaffected by the gas. A minute or two later the two reached the third floor.

"Rumlow has a biological weapon." Cap said after seeing that there was no Rumlow and no weapon.

"We're on it." Natasha replied over the communication device.

"I get the feeling that we probably won't have to worry about the weapon." Raven said just as he noticed something. "Cap." He said as he pointed to the window which showed a flying drone. The drone fired a missile at Raven and Cap, Harry quickly blocked it with a shield before sending a lightning blast that destroyed it.

"They got drones?" Cap asked as the two began walking.

"Apparently so." Raven nodded. "Hydra's getting desperate, there are so few of them that they'll chose their missions carefully and waste all the money they have trying to make their missions successful."

"Rumlow." Cap said when they reached a balcony, they looked down to see Rumlow in an AFV that was driving away. Rumlow fired a missile at them using the weapon on top of it. Raven quickly grabbed Cap and teleported away so they wouldn't be blasted.

"Sam, he's in an AFV heading north." Cap said into his communicator.

"Well isn't that fun?" Raven said as ten more drones flew in. "Cap, you go ahead. I'll deal with the drones."

"If you're sure." Cap said before he ran off to join the other team.

Raven calmly walked forwards, Leviathan appeared in his hand. The drones armed themselves, each drone had a gun and missile launcher fitted. Then without warning the drones fired at Raven using every weapon they had available, Raven quickly shielded against the drones while using Leviathan. After about ten seconds of no stop firing the drones stopped, Raven's shield had managed to hold. When the drones stopped firing Raven tossed Leviathan.

Leviathan curved in the air and took out four drones before it flew back to Raven, Raven sent three explosive spells that took out three more drones. Leviathan flew into his hand, Raven aimed it at the last three drones and sent a lightning blast that destroyed them. Raven took a second to stretch his magic out and found one lone person hiding behind one of the vehicles, Raven teleported next to him and found one man with a tablet in his hand. The man jumped to his feet upon noticing Raven.

"So...nice weather?" Raven said just as the man pulled out a gun, Raven beat him to the punch and slapped him on the back of the head hard enough for the man to go face first into the ground. "Good talk." Raven said before walking off. Raven took the air and began flying around, he saw Pietro take out a group of hostiles, deciding that he had it under control Raven left him to it.

"How are we on that weapon?" Raven asked into his communication device.

"Payload secure." Natasha replied.

"Cap? Bucky? How about you?" Raven asked.

"Little busy." Bucky confessed just as Raven spotted Cap and Bucky from above. He saw that they were currently engaged in battle with a man in a battle suit that Harry knew to be Rumlow. It looked like Cap and Bucky were overwhelming him as both had super strength and incredible teamwork. Raven flew down and landed, he was about to help when he felt his magic flare, he looked behind and saw one hostile in the crowd aim a gun at him.

Raven didn't want to risk using any of his more dangerous spells as the hostile was right next to a lot of civilians. Raven sent a spell that changed the gun into a rose. The hostile blinked in confusion when he tried firing only to realise that he was holding a flower. Raven quickly followed up with a stunner though he kept it low powered so the hostile didn't end up flying into the crowd. Raven's magic felt Wanda and Nat approaching, he turned to see Rumlow on his knees with Bucky and Cap standing in front of him.

Raven walked towards him when his magic flared once again, he saw a remote in Rumlow's hand and he immediately realised what it was. He summoned Cap and Bucky to pull them away from the coming explosion, the two landed in front of him.

Wanda and Natasha quickly used their powers to contain the explosion in a small ball around Rumlow, Raven also noticed that Pietro had arrived and judging by how close he was to Rumlow it looked like he was about to try and stop him before Rumlow exploded.

"Hold it for a few more seconds." Raven said to Natasha and Wanda before he raised Leviathan in the air, he slammed Leviathan down on to the ground. Ice travelled to Rumlow from Leviathan, a few seconds later Rumlow was surrounded in an ice dome. Natasha and Wanda let go, seeing that it was fine to do so the dome shook briefly from the explosion but it was kept intact by Raven. Once that was done Raven lifted Leviathan just as Falcon flew down and landed next to them.

"Is everyone alright?" Raven asked.

"Well...not dead." Pietro said just as everyone else nodded in the affirmative.


"I want to apologise." Pietro said as the group flew back. "I should've been faster and stopped him from pressing the button, it was my..."

"No," Harry cut him off. "it' not your fault."

"Harry's right," Cap agreed. "me and Bucky should have spotted that bomb vest long before any of you needed to do something."

"Yeah," Bucky sighed. "I'm sorry but me and Cap had him but then he mentioned Hydra and...we froze."

"It's always easy to say someone could do better from a viewer perspective or after the thing has happened, but all that matters is that you tried your best. You will make mistakes, that's human, just don't let it stop you." Harry said, patting Pietro on the back.

"Thank you." Pietro said appreciatively.


Harry was currently sat on the bed in Wanda's room, he leaned against the headboard of the bed with Wanda sitting in-between his legs and leaning her head on his chest and her back against his against his body as Harry wrapped his arms around her waist as they both sat in civilian clothes.

The two were watching the news, it turned out that people were currently divided between thanking the Avengers for saving people and blaming them for not saving everyone.

"That's just great." Harry said sarcastically as he took the remote and turned the TV off after listening to a news channel where they did decided to blame them for any people that died in the Lagos mission. "Hey, it'll be alright." He said to Wanda, sensing that she wasn't very happy at the moment.

"They're blaming us." Wanda said.

"They feel the need to blame someone, we're just the best targets." Harry replied. "If someone has to be blamed then it should be me, I was the team leader and I was in charge during the mission. It's on me."

"It's on all of us." Wanda replied.

"There were things we could have all done better." Harry said. "There will always be someone who finds some reason to complain, always. Yes people died but we didn't kill any of them, and if we did then I can at least know that it wasn't intentional. We went out there and did our best, I know you did..." Harry said as he kissed her on the side of the head. "...in this job we try to save as many people as we can. That doesn't mean everyone, next time it's possible that we will end up not saving anyone. All we can do is try."

"That was a nice little speech." Wanda said with a small smile.

"I always save the best for you and Nat." Harry grinned, Wanda turned her head towards him and planted her lips against his, she turned her body and straddles him as she placed her hands on the sides of his head and kissed him passionately. Harry returned with equal fire as his hands slid down from her waist to her legs, his hands rubbed up and down her exposed thighs. After several minutes his hands went back up to her waist.

Before anymore could happen the two were interrupted as Vision entered the room by phasing through the wall.

"Vis! We talked about this!" Wanda said, extremely annoyed at being interrupted.

"Yes but I tried knocking on the door and calling for you..."

"The door was locked and the room was silenced for a reason Vision." Harry glared at Vision while gesturing with his head to Wanda who was still on his lap.

"Ah...my apologies...but you wanted to know when Mr Stark arrived." Vision replied.

"Fine, we'll be right down." Harry said. "Use the door." He added when Vision looked like he was about to phase through the walls again, Harry waved his hand and the door opened.

"Ah...thank you," Vision said as he walked towards. "and apparently he has brought a guest." Vision said as he stopped in the doorway and looked at the two.

"Who?" Harry asked.

"The secretary of state." Vision answered before walking out. Harry waved his hand and the door closed.

"Aren't we going down?" Wanda asked, just before Harry pulled her closer to him.

"I'm sure they can wait at least ten minutes, we don't have time to do anything big but I'm sure we can spend a few minutes snogging." Harry smiled before he placed his lips against hers.


A.N: Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter. Yes I had to make a few changes by adding in more bad guys, to the fight scene along with other things as I felt like that was better than just making up reasons for many members not coming even though these members would definitely come. In case it was unclear the idea was that basically the last few members of Hydra are going all out when they do things seeing as only a few of them are left.

As for the explosion, I debated for several minutes about letting the explosion kill the people like in the film but then I eventually decided not to as it would be kind of ridiculous to let that happen with Harry around. Next chapter will have Harry meet Ross, that'll be fun hopefully.

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a review.