Hello everyone! I am soooooooo sorry for not updating! I just had a lot of homework. And the last episode of WandaVision just came out! Why did it have to be the last one! Why! But The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is coming out soon! I'm really excited! But anyways I hope that you like my story so far! Here is the next chapter! I hope you like it!
Previously
"Night." Steve replied
"Goodnight." Thor said
"Night." Clint said
"Night." Natasha said and then they all closed thier eyes and went to sleep
Now
"Bruce?" Natasha asked as she walked through the empty dark hallways of the helicarrier
"Bruce?" Natasha asked again in worry and then heard screaming
"Bruce!?" Natasha said as she ran towards the screaming and then it suddenly stopped as she turned the corner
Natasha turned to see Bruce on the ground covered in dark red blood, and his chest barely moving
"Bruce." Natasha gasped as she ran over to him and kept next to him "Bruce."
"Na-Natasha." Bruce said and then his head fell to the side and his eyes became blank
"Bruce." Natasha gasped as she got up, and covered her mouth as she slowly backed away, and then she heard growling behind her
Natasha turned around again in horror to face the Hulk who was looking at her with anger
"Aahhhhh!" Natasha yelled as the Hulk roared and grabbed her, and then squeezed her really hard, then she felt the cracking of her bones in her arms and chest "Aahhhhh!"
Then, after she was almost unconscious, he threw her across the room, making her crash into a wall. Natasha shakily got up and suddenly she wasn't in the helicarrier anymore. Natasha staggered through a hallway and down some stairs into a room. She looked around until she saw girls dancing ballet through a window.
"You'll break them." Natasha heard her voice say as she stared at the girls who were dancing
"Only the breakable ones. You are made of marble." Another voice echoed
Natasha backed away slowly but then tripped backwards and then she was suddenly on a stretcher getting pushed down a hallway
"The ceremony is necessary...for you to take your place in the world." The voice echoed again
"I have no place in the world." Natasha heard her voice say again
"Exactly." The voice said
Natasha opened her eyes and sat up quickly, breathing heavily as she squeezed the blankets, and looked around the palace chamber. She breathed in slowly and shakily got up and went out onto the balcony.
"Couldn't sleep?" Natasha heard a voice say from behind her after a couple minutes
"No." Natasha said as Clint walked next to her on the balcony "I just...had a nightmare."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Clint asked as he watched Natasha look up at the stars "You don't need to. But you know you can tell me anything."
"It was horrible Clint." Natasha stated as she looked down and closed her eyes "Bruce was..."
"What?" Clint asked
"B-Bruce w-was dead, a-and" Natasha said and then her tears started to fall
"It's okay." Clint said in a calm voice as he rubbed her arm "It's okay."
"What else?" Clint asked after a couple minutes when Natasha calmed down
"T-the Hulk was there." Natasha said
"Yeah." Clint said
"H-he grabbed me. A-and I could feel every bone in my b-body break. A-and then he threw me into a wall." Natasha exclaimed
"What happened after that?" Clint asked
"Th-then I was back in the Red Room." Natasha replied as she squeezed her eyes shut and tears started to escape her eyes again "A-and I-I"
"It's okay." Clint said as he pulled her into a hug "You aren't there. You aren't there. Your here, with me. It's okay."
"I'm sorry." Natasha said after a few minutes when she stopped crying
"It's okay. Don't be sorry. You didn't do anything." Clint replied and Natasha tok a deep breath and then looked back up at Clint
"Can you stay with me?" Natasha asked as Clint guided her back into the palace and onto the floor
"Yeah." Clint said as he shut the balcony doors
"I'll stay with you." Clint stated as he walked back over to her and put her crutches to the side, and then covered himself and Natasha with a blanket
"Thank you Clint." Natasha said, closing her eyes, as Clint hugged her in comfort
"You're welcome Natasha." Clint replied as he closed his eyes and then they both fell asleep
The next morning
"Good morning." Clint said quietly as Natasha slowly opened her eyes
"Hmmm" Natasha said sleepily as she sat up
"Any more nightmares?" Clint asked
"No." Natasha replied as she looked around the room
"That's good." Clint said
"Where are the others?" Natasha asked
"They already went to the healing room." Clint stated
"How long ago?" Natasha asked
"Like maybe fourty-five, fifty minutes ago." Clint exclaimed
"What time is it?" Natasha asked as she grabbed her crutches and started to get up
"It's..." Clint said as he looked around
"It's ten fourty-eight" Clint stated once he found a clock "So yeah. They left a little before ten."
"Okay." Natasha said
"You want to go?" Clint asked as he walked towards the door and opened it, and then looked back at Natasha
"Yeah." Natasha replied after a couple moments as she started walking towards the door
"Okay." Clint said, and then him and Natasha went out of the room
"Is Steve doing okay?" Natasha asked after a couple minutes as they walked down the hallway
"Yeah." Clint said "He's doing good. They were planning on waiting for you to wake up. But his back was really bad."
"Yeah. It's fine." Natasha said and Clint nodded
"Did Bruce wake up yet?" Natasha asked after a few moments
"No. We haven't checked on him." Clint replied
"Okay." Natasha said and a couple minutes later they arrived at the healing room
"Hey guys." Tony said as Clint and Natasha walked into the healing room
"Hey." Clint replied "How is your wounds coming along?"
"Good." Tony said "Me and Thor are already done. She's still working on Steve though."
"Yeah." The Asgardian healer that was working on Steve said "I will be done in about ten minutes. And then all of their injuries will be healed by next week."
"Okay." Clint said "Good."
"What about us?" Natasha asked
"Once I'm done with him I can have both of you done in about an hour." The healer stated "If another healer helps me we can have you both done in half an hour or less."
"Okay." Clint said "We can do that."
"Okay." The healer said and then resumed working on Steve
"What do you guys want to do while we wait?" Tony asked
"I do not know." Thor said
"How about we see if we can contact Fury." Clint said "So we can tell him what we've found and what's happened."
"Okay." Tony said "We can do that."
"Come on. Let's do it in the hallway so she can concentrate." Tony said as he walked towards the door
"Okay." Clint said as they walked out of the room and into the hallway
"Hold on. Let me call him." Tony said as he flipped his helmet on
"Okay." Clint said
"Jarvis, call Fury." Tony ordered
"Of course sir." Jarvis replied and started dialing
"Okay. It's ringing." Tony stated
"What should we tell him?" Clint asked
"I don't know. Just..don't tell him to much." Tony exclaimed
"Okay." Clint replied
"Hello?" Nick Fury said
"Hey." Tony replied
"Stark." Fury said
"Yeah." Tony replied again
"Where are you?" Nick Fury asked "I have called you multiple times."
"We're back on Asgard." Tony stated "And sorry about not answering. We have been a little busy."
"How busy?" Nick Fury asked
"Busy like trying to stop an enormous green rage monster from destroying Asgard busy." Tony said and Fury frowned
"What happened?" Fury aske
"Okay. So we found out that they can't take the tesseract out of Bruce right now. Maybe in a few years. But the best they can do right now is stabilize it. But they said that once it gets stabilized it won't get unstable again unless something with similar power and energy messes with it." Tony exclaimed
"Okay. Then what happened?" Fury said
"Well. Something happened and the tesseract started making him glow. I know, weird right. But anyways, so then we all got burned when ever we got close to him. It stopped but then a little later Loki escaped again. And then he touched Bruce with the mind stone. And then he turned into the Hulk and Loki mind controlled him. And then a little later as we were fighting him he started glowing again and we ran, cause you know we're would have gotten really burnt and might have died if we didn't. And then the Hulk got into the city and started destroying stuff. And by the time we got him turned back we were all badly wounded and the city was almost in ruins again. And then, when he woke up, his eyes were blue and he attacked us. Because he was under Loki's control." Tony exclaimed "But we're getting healed right now, and then we're going to visit Bruce. And then we are going to find Loki and get the scepter so we can get Bruce back."
"I thought you weren't going to tell him to much." Clint said
"Uhh..oops?" Tony said
"Where is Banner now?" Fury asked after a couple moments
"He is in a cell in the dungeon." Clint stated
"Good." Fury said "When are you bringing him back?'
"When we want to. You aren't going to tell us to bring him back just to put him in a different cage." Tony said
"Stark I think tha-" Fury began
"No!" Tony said "We'll come back when Bruce is better. And we aren't going to you. We'll probably go somewhere were he can rest. Not somewhere were he is going to get tested on and get more stressed out."
"Stark-" Nick Fury said again
"We'll come back when we want. We've told you where we are and what we're doing. You don't need anything else. So bye." Tony interrupted and then hung up
"Okay." Tony said after a few moments "What do you guys want to do now?"
"I don't know." Clint said after a few moments
"Okay." Tony said "Let's just...let's just go back in the room."
"Okay." Clint said as they started walking back towards the door
"Hey. Are you guys done?" Steve asked Tony, Clint, Natasha, and Thor as they walked back into the room
"Yeah." Tony said
"What did he say?" Steve asked
"Nothing that matters." Tony said "We just told him where we are and what happened with Bruce."
"Oh, okay." Steve replied
"What do you guys want to do after she's done with Steve?" Clint asked
"Can we go see Bruce?" Natasha asked
"Yeah. We can go see Bruce." Clint said
"Yeah." Tony said and a few minutes later the healer was done with Steve
"Okay. I am done. But your back is still open and really badly burnt, so be careful." The Asgardian healer exclaimed as she finished wrapping his back in bandages
"Okay." Steve said as he got up "Thank you."
"You're welcome." The healer replied and then turned to Clint and Natasha "When you are done visiting your friend come to me."
"Okay." Clint said and then the healer left the room
"She gave you a shirt?" Clint asked after a moment as he watched Steve pull on a grey shirt
"Yeah. My suit is burnt and doesn't cover my back so she gave me this. The only one she could find that wasn't ripped, wasn't a robe, and that fit me." Steve said and Clint nodded
"Okay. Are you guys ready to go?" Tony asked
"Yeah." Steve replied "Let's go."
"Okay." Tony said and they all went out of the room and started towards the dungeon
"Do you think Bruce is doing okay?" Natasha asked after a couple minutes as they walked through the hallways of the palace
"Yeah. I'm sure he's fine." Clint replied
"Hey Clint." Tony said after a few moments
"Yeah." Clint said
"What did it feel like when you were mind controlled? I mean, did you even see or remember what you were doing?" Tony asked and Clint looked down
"Sorry." Tony said as they all stopped
"No. It's fine." Clint said as he closed his eyes and then took a deep breath in "I didn't see anything that I did when I was mind controlled. It wasn't like I was trapped inside another person that was doing everything and saying everything for me. It was more like...I blacked out and when I woke up I was back with Natasha in the infirmary...But then those things I did started to come back to me in flashes. It was...horrible...all those things that I did...all those people that I killed."
"Clint. It wasn't your fault." Natasha said and Clint opened his eyes and looked up at her and smiled
"I know that now. Thank you Natasha." Clint said and Natasha smiled
"You're welcome Clint." Natasha replied
"Okay. Come on. Let's get going again." Tony said after a few moments
"Okay." Clint said after a moment and then they started walking again
"Do you think that it'll be like that for Bruce?" Tony asked after a few moments
"I don't know." Clint replied "I mean...It could effect him just the same as me...but with the tesseract and the Hulk...I don't know."
"Yeah." Tony said, and a few minutes later they were going down the stairs towards the dungeon
"You ready?" Clint asked Natasha
"Yeah." Natasha replied after a moment and then Thor opened the doors
"Where is Bruce?" Tony asked as they walked into the dungeon and Thor shut the forest behind them
"He is this way." Thor said and started leading then down the halls of the dungeon
"Do you think he's okay?" Natasha asked after a couple moments
"Yeah." Tony said as they turned a corner "I'm sure he's fine."
"Yeah." Clint said
"He is in there." Thor said as they walked towards a cell
"What happened?!" Natasha asked in worry as she ran over to the cage and looked at Bruce who was unconscious on the floor with burn marks all over him, and blood stains on the floor around him
"I do not know. He was not like that when I left yesterday." Thor said in reply and then turned
"Hey!" Thor shouted to a guard and they turned and went over to them
"What is it my prince?" The guard asked
"What happened to him?" Thor questioned as he gestured to Bruce who was unconscious on the ground and had several burns
"He was trying to escape my prince. Banging against the walls. He almost escaped, but then we powered all of the Shields to his cell. Which sent a big blast at him when he banged it really hard, knocking him out, and burning him pretty bad." The guard stated and then looked at Bruce "This happened this morning. And those burns looked way worse. He was bleeding everywhere."
"Do not do that unless I say." Thor commanded
"But my prince. He was about to escape." The guard said
"I do not care!" Thor said "He is my friend. Do not do that again."
"Yes my prince." The guard said and then walked away
"It must have been the tesseract or the Hulk." Tony said "He healed really fast."
"Yeah." Clint agreed
"I hope we can find Loki soon." Natasha said
"Yeah." Tony said
"Hey Thor when do you think he will wake up?" Tony asked after a few moments
"Thor?" Tony said again and turned when Thor didn't answer
"Thor?" Clint said as they looked at Thor who's eyes were closed
Then a couple moments later Thor opened his eyes
"What was that?" Tony asked
"Heimdall. He has found Loki." Thor stated