Updated: 28/8/2021
Happy 29th Birthday to Me and Happy 55th Birthday to my Dad!
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Chapter .5.
And at the same time as the lab explodes and Bella felt the floor underneath her gave way as the world goes black…
Bella groans. Her body arced. What happened? Her head was pounding. But she realised she would have to push through it. As she remembered the explosion and her confrontation with the Mind Stone.
'Damn that Mind Stone to hell', she thinks.
'Isa! Are you alright?' she hears the thoughts of Tony.
"Don't worry about me. Just keep the helicarrier in the air!' Bella thinks back.
She takes notes of her surroundings and her robotic eye sees Agent Romanoff trying to calm Bruce who was about to go full Hulk.
Damn. Damn. Damn.
Her eye also picks up Agent Barton boarding the helicarrier and starting to attack Agents. She would keep an eye on that. Hopefully nobody would get killed. But injured she could handle.
Bella let her magic out and lifts the debris off her. She crawls out and shakes her limbs. Nothing was broken. Just badly bruised and some cuts. She could deal with those later. She quickly checked her prosthetic arm and hearing aid. Her arm was fine. But her hearing aid had some static. But it would do for now. She could get through it till she gets her backup.
She climbs to her feet and approaches Bruce who was now turning into the Hulk. The Hulk roars and Bella sees Romanoff still pinned.
She lets strands of her magic out. The Teals, Blacks, Golds, Reds, Silvers, Whites, Oranges and Violets come out dancing around the Hulk and Agent Romanoff. She could feel her magic calming the situation.
"Easy Hulk", she murmurs.
"Hulk smash!" Hulk roars.
"Hulk you can smash the bad guys. But Agent Romanoff is not the enemy here", Bella tells him.
She was telling the truth she might not like Natasha very much right now. But a Seidhr always helped when they were needed and didn't harm anyone unless they absolutely had too.
"Hulk smash puny woman!" Hulk roars.
"Hulk you don't want to do that. Your doing so well and I promise if you help us you I will speak to Doctor Banner on your behalf to let us play another time", Bella reasons with him.
"Puny Banner doesn't like Hulk. Hulk saves him", Hulk replies.
"I know. And I promise I'll do my best to make him see that and we will have a lot of fun when all of this is over as friends", Bella replies.
"Friends?" Hulk asks seeing to calm down and look at her in disbelief.
"Yes Hulk we are friends for life. A Seidhr keeps his/her word", Bella replies holding up her hand for him, "Friends?"
Hulk slowly takes out his hand and presses it against hers. He was strong but with her magic she could make herself stronger.
Natasha looked between them in disbelief. How on earth did she do that? And what was with the colours swirling around them? How had she managed to make friends with the Hulk? Nobody had been able to do that. Well it had been rumoured that Doctor Betty Ross had. But that hadn't been proven.
"Little Seidhr nice. Hulk help", Hulk rumbles he says shocking Natasha and the part of himself that was still Bruce.
"Good boy Hulk. Can you get this beam off my friend?" Bella asks Hulk.
Hulk surprisingly listens to her and lifts the beam of Agent Romanoff's leg. When that was done he bounds off down the Helicarrier to where most of the noise was coming from.
"Are you alright Agent Romanoff?" Bella asks kneeling down to her.
"Why?" Natasha asks her.
"Why what?" Bella asks hiding her amusement.
"Why did you help me? How did you help me? What were those colours surrounding us?" Natasha asks her.
"Thor told you I am a Seidhr. And the truth is Agent Romanoff most Seidhr believe in keeping the peace and helping out those who deserve it. I am not saying there is no bad/evil Seidhr. Just that Seidhr like to keep the peace, be just and protect those that deserve it", Bella replies placing a hand on Natasha's ankle.
'Heal', she thinks.
Natasha flinches but then realises the pain in her ankle was going away. She sees white light coming from Bella's hand.
"What are you doing?" she asks.
"Healing you. As we must get going in order to get those turned Agents back", Bella replies.
Natasha climbs to her feet and tests her ankle to find all the pain was gone and she could walk on it.
"Are you ready to go Agent Romanoff? I know you don't trust me, but I am afraid I am all the backup you have at the moment. Tony and Rogers are struggling with the engine. Thor is intercepting Hulk and Barton is making his way through the lower floors. We can intercept him and I can release him from the sceptres grasp when we disarm him", Bella asks as a staff appears in her hands.
"You can do that?" Natasha asks.
"Yes I can if you can trust me. I won't hurt Barton on purpose", Bella replies firmly with only truth in her voice.
She wasn't going to tell the SHIELD Agent and former Russian Spy why she felt the need to help Barton. But she believed it would come out anyway.
Natasha pulls out her guns.
"I'm ready", Natasha replies.
"Then let's get going. Before anyone else gets hurt", Bella replies.
They start to race down the halls. Bella twirling her staff around knocking over controlled Agents. Knocking them out. They would have headaches but they would live.
Natasha realised she actually admired Isabella's skill with the staff. She wasn't killing anyone just knocking them senseless and unable to hurt anyone else.
She found she also worked well with Isabella. Like Isabella could read her every move before she did anything.
Bella was racing through the corridors. But her eyes weren't sorely on what was in front of her. She also could see that Loki was still in his cell. At the moment anyway. But she could tell he had something planned.
She was also keeping an eye on her beloved Tony. As she was helping him.
As well as Thor and the Hulk's fight. Which by the way was making it difficult for her to keep the helicarrier balanced with their fight.
She winced a few times with the things the Hulk was doing. He was causing a lot of damage. Luckily Thor was a match for him. She knew they both would be ok. But SHIELD would have to do a lot of repairs on the lower decks.
She grunted when a fighter jet starts firing on the Hulk and Thor. Damn it what were those idiot SHIELD Agents doing? Do they want to kill everyone?
Bella was using more power by the minute. She sees the Hulk jump out of the Carrier and onto the fighter jet. She places a temporary shield around the pilot of the jet to make sure he survived the landing. She didn't bother about the Hulk as nothing could kill him.
She saw Director Fury and Maria Hill shooting at enemy Agents. They were actually going pretty well. But she could tell they needed her magic. She might not like Fury but she was a Good Seidhr and she would help those that needed it.
"Agent Romanoff I am needed on the Upper Decks. I will be back in a minute. Keep Barton occupied for a few minutes", Bella orders the Russia Agent.
Natasha didn't know what was going on but she nodded. Hopefully her trust wasn't misplaced…
Tony grunts as he tries to take fix the engine. But he needed help.
'Isa how long can you support the helicarrier so it doesn't crash?'
'I can give you ten minutes. I am stretched to my limits my love', he hears her reply.
'That is more then enough time', Tony thinks back. He hoped he thought the last part to himself.
He felt her magic stretch out and wrap around the engines and the carrier seemed to stabilize.
Steve felt the carrier stabilize.
Could Stark have fixed it?
Tony assed the situation after Rogers gave him limited information about what he was seeing on the panel.
"What's our next more?" Tony hears Rogers through the comms.
"Even if I clear the rotors, this thing won't re-engage without a jump. I'm going to have to get in there and push", Tony replies.
Damn he needed to talk to Isa again. There was only one way to reignite the engine.
'Sorry Isa but I need my suit reenforced for a few minutes?' Tony thinks to his Isa.
'A few minutes is all you have love'
'That is fine Gorgeous but don't overtax yourself', Tony thinks back.
He knew he was asking a lot from her at this moment.
"If that thing gets up to speed you'll get shredded", Rogers tells him through the comms.
"That stator control unit can reverse the polarity long enough to disengage maglev and that could…", Tony tries to explain without telling Rogers Isabella would help him survive this.
"Speak English", Rogers tells him.
Tony rolls his eyes. He forgets that people were not as smart as his Isa who would understand anything he said. But Bruce would understand if he wasn't a raging green monster right now.
"You see that red lever?" Tony asks him, "It will slow the rotors down long enough for me to get out"
'I hope', Tony thinks to himself.
"Stand by it. Wait for my word", Tony orders him.
Tony was using his laser to cut through the metal. He jumps and breaks away part of the metal that was blocking the engine.
JARVIS told him Rogers was currently involved in a fire fight with the controlled SHIELD Agents. But wasn't getting hit. Tony realised quacking that his Isa was shielding him too. He didn't know how to feel about that.
Suddenly he felt another engine fail.
Before he could say anything Isa was talking to him.
'Hurry up love. Don't worry I am keeping you from falling quickly', Bella thinks to him.
Thank god for Bella being a Tier-Zero Mage. Tony thought.
"Stark we are losing altitude", Tony hears Fury tell him as he starts to push the rotors.
"Yeah, I noticed", Tony replies grunting.
He puts most power into his thrusters. And the rotors start to more and spark.
Steve was doing his best to hold back the Agents that were shooting at him. Doing their best to stop him from helping Stark get the engine back up and running.
He was hoping that Stark would hurry the hell up. How long could it take? He thinks while ducking another bout of gun fire.
Tony flies faster and faster pushing the rotor. To he was a blur of speed. He grunts as he started to feel some pain. Telling him his beloved couldn't help him for much longer.
"Cap, hit the lever", Tony says into the comms.
"I need a minute here!" was the reply he heard.
"Lever now!" Tony says again trying not to think of the chance of him being shredded if Rogers didn't pull that lever in the next minute.
The rotor starts to go away from him and he flies back onto the blade.
"Uh-oh", Tony says knowing what was about to come.
He gets flinged under the rotors.
"Help!" Tony calls to Rogers.
He groans in pain as he was hit with the blades and he yells too. But just before he thought Rogers wasn't going to pull the lever. The blades slow and he was able to shoot out of there.
Tony knew his suit was a wreak. But he guess he should help Rogers.
He charges at one of the gunman and knocks into him and lands on top of the guy. He groans/sighs. That will leave a make.
He was sitting up when he held something that made him panic.
The weak mental cry of the woman he loved more then life itself…
Bella teleports to the bridge and sees a shootout. She flexes her magic out crashing into the controlled Agents on the bridge. The magic in her blast knocks them unconscious. And stops the shootout in its tracks within a second.
People turn their guns on her.
"They will be fine and their minds will be there on in a few minutes after I do this…", Bella waves her hands and strands of her magic flash out.
Hitting the unconscious Agents and whipping the Mind Stone from their minds. It took a lot of magic. But at least these Agents would be free.
Fury's eyes widen seeing the display of pure power.
Then he sees more white strands of magic? Hitting everyone on the bridge and seeing injuries being healed in a matter of seconds and glass reforming into their original forms.
"What the fuck?" Fury yells his gun still aimed at Bella.
"Your welcome Director Fury. They will be fine now with no lasting damage. Now if you don't mind. Agent Barton now needs the same treatment", Bella says curtly disappear in a swirl of colours.
"What is she?" Agent Hill pants touching her healing cut on her head.
"That is what we have to find out", Fury replies.
"Do you think she is really on our side?" Agent Hill asks Fury.
"At the moment we will have to be cautious. But from what I see she is not on our side. But Stark's. And her power looks like it rivals Loki's. And I don't like or trust it. Now get these men bound and start looking into the footage of Isabella I want to know what else she can do", Fury orders.
Who was Isabella?
And just how far does her powers extend besides healing, seemingly able to teleport and undoing the controlling of people by the sceptre?...
Bella arrives back on the lower decks and sees Agent Romanoff fighting Agent Barton. Agent Barton's eyes were blue. Showing he was being controlled as Agent Barton's eyes were normally a different shade of blue. And usefully held a mischievous quietly to them mixed with seriousness.
She watches the fight getting ready to step in when needed.
When Natasha is knocked to the ground getting winded and stunned by a kick from Barton. Bella jumps in and kicks him back. There was no need for possibly Agent Romanoff to die fighting someone that had no control over there body. And it would destroy Agent Barton to kill his friend.
"Come on Barton give me a challenge", Bella taunts him.
She was lucky she had a black belt. Because a certain family member wanted her to be protected when she was younger. Before she was left to be by herself.
Bella blocks his blows with her staff. Her staff being made from wood and metals from mythical trees. And it was basically unbreakable.
She grunts at Barton's strength. And swore in her mind when she saw Thor fall for Loki's tricks.
'Come on that is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Is Thor actually a Norse God?', Bella thinks to herself after deflecting Barton's attacks.
She knew she needed to finish this fight to be able to go after Loki as she had a very bad feeling about this.
Suddenly she gasps seeing Agent Coulson get stabbed through the heart in the detention cell by Loki. Having tried to stop him.
She wouldn't let Loki murder an innocent. There was still time to save him.
Bella lashes out at Barton knocking his bow out of his hands and hits him in the stomach hard with her staff and knees him in the chest knocking him on his knees.
She makes her staff disappear and her hands lash out onto Barton's head.
'RELEASE THIS MAN', Bella yells to both Loki and the Mind Stone.
She feels the resistance. She pulls on power from her Stones and a blinding flash of power engulfs her and Barton.
Bella hears Barton cry out and clutch his head.
The power dies down and Barton looks disoriented. But looks up at the woman standing in front of him. She was familiar.
She was about 5'6 with mahogany brown hair with white, turquoise, violet and gold strikes in it with multicoloured eyes. But those eyes so different but still that same.
"Izzy?" Barton mumbles before his world went black.
Bella had hit him in the head knocking him out.
"What was that for?" Natasha yells.
"His mind needs time to process everything. Take him to the med bay and strap him down for a few minutes after he wakes. He WILL be fine. I have to go", Bella tells her.
"How does he know you?" Natasha asks having heard what Barton called her.
Was she an enemy of Clint's?
"That is complicated", Bella replies disappearing in a swirl of colour.
Natasha frowns she WAS going to get an answer.
But first she had to take care of her partner.
"Come on Clint lets get you seen too. As I don't trust that woman even through, she had saved lives", Natasha says to Clint's unconscious form.
With a sigh she lifts her arm around her shoulder and heads for the med bay hoping that Clint would be back to his old self…
Bella appears in the detention block just in time to see Agent Coulson blast Loki through several walls.
"Ouch", Bella says eyes wide at the weapon in Coulson's lap.
"So that's want it does", Coulson whispers.
Bella kneels in front of Coulson. She could still see and feel life in him.
"Agent Coulson I am the one to save you", Bella tells him gently.
"How?" Coulson rasps.
"With these", Bella says honesty pulling out two stones.
One orange and one white.
She holds them in one hand and places her other hand on his chest.
"Heal body and soul", Bella whispers.
She knew it wasn't only Coulson's body that was injured but his soul from the sceptre going into his chest.
Bella felt her strength leaving her she had done too much. Everything over the last hour had taken it's toll on her. She was sweating and exhausted.
Coulson couldn't believe it he felt his strength return and he felt better then he had in a long time. It was like he never had been injured at all.
"Why?" Coulson asks her.
"For you are pure of heart. And my brethren would approve of me saving your life", Bella whispers as she feels darkness creeping up on her.
The last thought she had was of her love.
'Tony!'
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