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Chapter 22- When the heads strike

Summers House

"Giles, you don't have to help. You cooked", Buffy said to him.

"Oh, come on, I quite like to cook. Helping you two out makes me feel useful", Giles wiped a dish.

"Wanna clean out the garage on Saturday? You can feel indispensable", Dawn suggested.

"Hmm, how tempting", Giles said sarcastically.

"Dawn, if there are any plates in your room, let's have them before they get furry and we have to name them", Buffy said.

"Hey, I was like five then", Dawn exited.

"How's she doing?" Buffy gave Giles a look. "And you?"

"I'm okay. Well, some minutes are harder than others", Buffy said.

"I'm so sorry. All I can say is i-it will get better", Giles assured.

"It has to", she stopped washing dishes, then began drying her hands. "We're holding up though, you know, getting into a routine."

"Good, routine's good. In fact I was thinking that we might ... return to our training schedule", Giles said.

Buffy paused. "I don't know. I was, um, thinking about ... maybe ... taking a break or something."

She put down her towel and walked into the living room. Giles followed.

"Just ease off for a while. Not get into full slay mode."

"But you were doing so well."

"A-and you were great, helping me with everything", they sat on the sofa. "I'm just ... starting to feel ... uneasy about stuff."

"Stuff?"

"Training. Slaying. All of it. It's just ... I mean ... I can beat up the demons until the cows come home. And then I can beat up the cows ... but I'm not sure I like what it's doing to me", Buffy said.

"But you've mastered so much. I mean, your strength and resilience alone-"

"Yeah. Strength, resilience ... those are all words for hardness", Buffy paused. "I'm starting to feel like ... being the Slayer is turning me into stone."

"Turning you into stone?" Giles asked. "Buffy-"

"Just ... think about it", she got up, pacing. "Riley cheated on me, but he had one point- I was never there for him, not like I was for Angel. I was terrible to Dawn."

"At a time like this-"

"No."

"You're bound to feel emotionally numb."

"Before that. Riley cheated because I was shut down. He's gone. And now my mom is gone ... and I loved her more than anything ... and ... I don't know if she knew."

"Oh, she knew", Giles got up, putting his hand on Buffy's shoulder. "Always."

"I don't know. To slay, to kill ... i-it means being hard on the inside. Maybe being the perfect Slayer means being too hard to love at all. I already feel like I can hardly say the words."

"Buffy..."

"Giles ... I love you. Love ... love, love, love, love, Giles, it feels strange."

"Well, I shouldn't wonder", he frowned, sitting on the coffee table. "How serious are you about this?"

Buffy walked past him, sitting down. "Ten. I'm serious to the amount of ten."

"There is something ... in the Watchers' diaries ... a quest."

"A quest? Like finding a grail or something?"

"Not a grail. Maybe answers. It would take a day, perhaps two."

"I'm not leaving Dawn. Not with Glory looking for her."

Dawn entered in time to hear this. "Sure you can", she sat next to Buffy. "What's the deal?"

"Some Slayers before Buffy found it helpful in ... regaining their focus, learning more about their role. There's a sacred place in the desert. It's, it's not far", Giles said.

"But I can't go", she turned to Dawn. "I'm not leaving you, Dawn."

"If you have to go learn ... I mean, if it'll help you out ... I think you should do it", Giles smiled. "I can hang with the gang. I'll be okay."

Buffy looked at Giles, then turned to Dawn and put an arm around her. "I love you, Dawn. You know that, right?"

"Yeah. I love you too."

"I love you ..." she turned intense, "really love you."

Dawn had a nervous expression. "Gettin' weird."

"Sorry. But it's important that I tell you. Weird love's better than no love."

They hugged.

Night time, New York City

A bunch of robots were causing destruction in the city along with some Hydra thugs, making the people run around in fear and terror when one of them was hit by a blue beam and destroyed as Tony Stark aka Iron Man landed on the ground.

"Friday, talk to me." Tony Stark said in the air.

"Using the Unibeam has reduced armor's power to 60%, boss." Friday told him.

"Damn!" Tony said as Vision flew next to him and using his Mind Stone's blast, destroyed a robot.

Vision then flew up to a robot and turning his fist intangible, phased into it before turning it tangible again, destroying the robot's wiring as he pulled his fist out.

"Friday, activate external speakers", Tony ordered his AI.

"Just did, boss." Friday said.

Tony then looked at the Hydra thugs down below and announced. "Attention Hydra goons. You've been trying to take over the world for 70 years. It's not happening."

One of them fired a missile at him and he narrowly avoided.

"He actually shot at me?" Tony angrily asked.

"Fine, we'll do this the hard way", Tony said as he flew down and fired a missile from his arm from which many mini-disks popped out that attached themselves to the guns of the Hydra thugs before exploding, putting them all down.

Two of the thugs were hiding behind a car when Tony lifted it up and said, "Hi there."

He then fired a repulsor, taking them both down. "Well, they don't make bad guys the way they used to."

Suddenly, the skull robot Tony had taken down fired three huge projectiles as Friday said, "Warning! Incoming projectiles!"

Tony turned around as three huge balls fell in front of him, creating some smoke.

They moved towards Tony as Vision flew next to him.

The one with the glowing eyes fired at Tony and Vision but the former avoided while the latter turned intangible to save himself.

The second one fired a few missiles but Tony destroyed a few with his repulsors while Vision destroyed the remaining with his beam.

The one with the drill tried to bring it down on Tony as he held it back when Vision flew into it and turned tangible again, destroying its wiring as it broke down.

Tony fired powerful repulsors while Vision fired his Mind Stone, destroying the one with the missiles.

But a silver and green robot nearby was hit by Vision's beam and it was activated accidentally.

Tony fired his repulsors at the last robot, increasing their power and finally destroying it as the silver and green robot rushed them.

Tony fired his repulsors while Vision fired his Mind beam, throwing it back as it fell down.

After a few seconds though, it got back up and to their horror, fired Tony's own repulsors at him, sending him back. It then fired a beam resembling the Mind beam from its forehead, sending Vision down too.

"Okay, what just happened?" Tony asked.

"The robot has replicated all the powers, boss", Friday told him.

Vision got up when suddenly two disks fell near him and exploded, trapping him in a force field as he looked around in surprise.

He saw an armored man in a purple hood attached to a cape that obscured the upper half of his face. In the place of his right hand, there was a scythe.

"Who are you?" Vision asked.

"You will find out soon", the man said with a smirk.

"This will not hold me for long", Vision told him.

"I took care of that", The Grim Reaper said as he pressed a button and powerful electricity was discharged into the force field, making him cry out in pain. And it wasn't just normal electricity and the force field too was more powerful than an ordinary one.

Tony then fired repulsors at the machine but it turned intangible, saving itself. "Oh boy!"

The machine punched Tony hard, sending him flying off.

People were having fun in the bar when Tony crashed there, making them run off in fear. He got back up with a groan and removed the dust from himself. "Someone actually has a better robot than me! Me!"

He then flew off. One man was still sitting in the bar and had not run off. He took the cigarette out of his mouth and closed his hand into a fist as three metal claws popped out of his knuckles.

"Shit goes around."

Tony came back and then he fired a missile but it saved itself again before jumping at him and punching him hard, knocking him down and out.

"It's time to get out", the Grim Reaper said as he raised his scythe and twirled it, making him go up in the air, using it as a helicopter while the machine that was called Super-Adaptoid picked up the downed Tony and flew off with him. Two of the remaining robots lifted Vision and flew off with him too.

That was when the man with claws arrived and saw them going off. "Well, shit."

Syria

A hijab wearing woman who covered her face was standing in a warehouse. She pressed her earpiece and said, "Okay people. Our friendly terrorist shipment is headed your way."

"Copy that Natasha." A man said from the other end.

In a room in the warehouse, some men stood wearing hijabs with covered faces as one of them opened a box to reveal a Chitauri bomb inside it.

He said in Arabic, "Finally, these Chitauri-fueled weapons will provide us the firepower we need to lay waste to the regime."

Suddenly, one of the men punched another one out and said, "That's about as much as I needed to hear."

The others looked shocked as the man and two more men pounced upon the others, punching or kicking them all as one of the hijab wearing people, who was a woman, raised her hands and they glowed red as two of the men were lifted up and thrown away telekinetically.

Finally, all the men were out as the three men and the women looked around while Natasha Romanoff walked in.

"Guess my old KGB contacts can still pull through in a pinch." She said as she took off her hijab and the three men and the woman did the same, revealing themselves to be Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Clint Barton and Wanda Maximoff.

"We need to move fast. Won't take long for them to point to us as the turncoats." Steve, who had a beard now, said, "Just need to make sure we get these Chitauri components stripped and unusable before another splinter cell tries to take a crack at modifying them."

"Sure you don't want to call Tony in on this, Steve?" Natasha asked him.

"I don't!" Clint said, "That guy is untrustworthy."

"I'm sure he has got enough on his plate." Steve said.

"I can do it." Wanda told him.

"Go ahead." Steve smiled as Wanda used her powers. Her hands glowed red and red mist went into bomb as she manipulated it at a molecular level, finally dismantling it and rendering it unusable.

"Good job, kid." Natasha complimented her.

"Thanks." She said.

"Where's the chatter take us next, Sam?" Steve asked, back to business mode."

"Lebanon." Sam said.

New York

"I'm asking what're you trying to do about all of this?" Rhodes asked the hologram of Secretary Thunderbolt Ross.

"The matter is being looked into." Ross said simply as the two men glared at each other.

Rhodes said. "New York itself was attacked. By Hydra. They've taken Tony and Vision. What're you going to do about that?"

"We're trying to find out where they are hidden." Ross said, "Considering that all the Avengers who signed are either captured or not useful-"

He gestured to Rhodes' braces as he glared at the man angrily, "We will have to decide how many soldiers to send. Our resources must be used wisely."

"Yes, Mr. Secretary." Rhodes said in a forced polite tone as the call was cut. Rhodes was angry at the moment.

"Not helping?" Pepper asked him.

"No." Rhodes said and Pepper looked distressed.

"What will they do to him?" Pepper wondered, thinking about what Tony might be going through.

"Hey, Pep!" Rhodes said as he hugged her and she hugged back to be comforted, "We'll get him back. Him and Vision both. I promise you."

"How?" Pepper asked.

Rhodes let her go and walked into Tony's room as Pepper followed him. Rhodes opened several drawers as Pepper looked at him, confused, until he finally found a flip phone.

"This is how." Rhodes told her.

Syria

"You won't get out of here alive." A thug screamed as him and some others fired at Steve, Natasha, Sam, Clint and Wanda.

"They mobilized a lot faster than I expected." Natasha said as they all hid behind the walls.

"Someone must have tipped them off before the exchange, Widow." Steve said.

"We need to move." Clint said.

Steve said, "We need a clear path, Sam. You think you could-"

"On it." Sam said as he flew out, "But I'm not promising to be nice or anything."

Sam flew out and fired his Steyr SPP pistols, killing some soldiers as Clint fired an arrow into the ground and it exploded, killing some more as Wanda lifted them with her powers and threw them off.

The five quickly escaped their area and ran to their Wakandan jet but saw to people standing near it.

"Might I have a word, Captain?" Fury asked.

"Fury?" Steve asked, "Hill?"

"We'll talk later. Let's get into the jet." Fury said.

They all ran into the jet as Natasha and Clint started it and flew off.

"What're you two doing here?" Natasha asked Fury and Hill.

"Probably a mission." Clint said.

"We appreciate the house call, guys." Steve told them, "But I'm sure whatever you are here to say could have just as easily been handled through intermediaries."

"That's not always the case." Fury said.

"Why are you here?" Wanda asked.

"I think you and I both know when to its time to say enough is enough." Fury said to Steve, "Hell, not that long ago, you gave me a lecture on it before we took down SHIELD. Can't we all agree that now is the time? How long can you and Stark keep up this silent treatment?"

"Is there something more pressing that you feel needs "avenging?"" Sam asked.

"There is actually." Hill revealed.

"What?" Steve asked.

"A guy I know just called me." Fury said, "He says a Hydra faction attacked New York and took Stark and Vision."

"What?" Natasha asked in shock.

"Yeah, unfortunately." Hill said, "The guy says he needs help in rescuing them."

"Who is the guy?" Steve asked.

"An old war buddy of yours, Captain." Fury said.

"What?" Steve asked in shock, "Who?"

"James Howlett." Fury revealed.

"James?" Steve asked, "He is alive? How?"

"He went under ice too?" Natasha asked.

"No. He is a mutant. He has a healing factor that prevents him from ageing." Fury revealed.

"That's new." Clint said dryly.

"So James is alive." Steve realized.

"Yes. He goes by Logan now." Hill said.

"How do you two know him?" Natasha asked.

"There was this guy in Westchester called Professor Charles Xavier who was a powerful telepath." Fury said, "He ran a school for mutants called "Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters." Mutants studied and taught there. Logan used to work there. Xavier once contacted me and told me about it as he considered me trustworthy and I helped him keep the place a secret. That's how I know 'em."

"Wow." Natasha said, "Never knew about that place."

"You really are "The Spy."" Steve said dryly as everyone snickered.

"When Sam and Romanoff refused to come with me to London, Logan was the one I contacted for help." Fury said, "Does the job very nicely."

"I know." Steve said as he remembered him.

"So, are you going to help?" Hill asked.

"We will." Steve said when his flip phone rang.

He quickly accepted the call, "Hello?"

"Cap, it's Rhodey." Rhodes said from the other end.

"Rhodey." Steve greeted.

"Some Hydra guys took Tony and Vision, Cap." Rhodes said frantically, "We need your hel-"

"I'm already on it, Rhodes." Steve said and Rhodes paused, "We have a stop in New York and after that, we will come to the tower."

"Thank God." Rhodes said, "Thanks Cap. Hope to see you soon."

"You will." Steve assured as he cut the call, "Well, let's get to work."

"And I know where the Hydra faculty is", Fury revealed. "It's in Sunnydale."

"Oh! That place!" Natasha said. "Is it Initiative or anything?"

"No, nothing is left of the Initiative now, and it was Walsh and McNamara who were Hydra, they are both dead now", Fury said. "But I know other things about the place. There are people whose help you could take."

"Which people?" Steve asked.

"Sunnydale stands over a Hellmouth", Fury said and got confused looks. "It is a place where barriers between dimensions are weaker, and such places attract the supernatural."

"Sounds like bullshit", Clint said.

"Which is why it's not", Fury said. "Vampires, Demons, they're all real."

Everyone's jaws had dropped, including Hill's.

"Are-are you serious?" Maria actually asked him.

"I am", Fury said. "And to battle them all, a Slayer is chosen in each generation. She is supposed to stand against the forces of darkness. The current one lives in Sunnydale, and Spider-Man is there too, they team up."

"You think they will help us?" Natasha asked.

"Well, considering supernatural stuff is involved, I think they will", Fury assured the others. "And I have some information that would be interesting to them."

Glory was talking to her companions. "I still don't have my-"

Then the door opened as Grim Reaper walked in.

"Who the hell are you? Are you here to give me your brains?" Glory asked.

"Let's take them", her minions said but Reaper flipped and kicked one away by a few feet before landing.

"I am the Grim Reaper, my boss has sent me to make you an offer", Reaper said. "And if you accept, you will get your key very easily, and you will also be free of your human host."

Glory's expression turned cheerful. "Oooooh, tell me, tell me please!"

So that ends this chapter.

Yes, I'm adapting some stuff from my 'Heroes from two worlds', mostly the Hydra plot, but I'm modifying it to connect it with Buffy. So the Hydra base is now in Sunnydale instead of Strucker's Castle, and you already know Hydra has been trying their hand at some stuff earlier, like when Grim Reaper teamed up with Deacon Frost.

So now next chapter the Secret Avengers and Scooby Gang shall meet and team up against Hydra.

Also, yes, Walsh and McNamara were both Hydra in this, since if MCU and Buffyverse exist together, these two are most likely to be the Hydra members who have infiltrated the government.

As for how Fury knows about supernatural stuff, a guy like him would have connections with the Watcher's Council too for sure.

I'm following what I did in my other Marvel series here and brought Logan in, again.

I'm not going to show Buffy's journey and conversation with the Guide, since it would be the same as canon.

And like in 'Heroes from two worlds', Tony mentioning Clint's family has consequences, so his family was evacuated to Wakanda by Natasha and Fury, and Clint is also part of the group.

Hope everyone enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter. Stay safe from the coronavirus ya all!