Warning upfront: you wanted a long chapter, so here you got one. I think that this is going to be one of my longest chapters, but just so you know.

Oh and I think that I never mentioned this before, but I don't own MARVEL or anything related to MARVEL, I only own Accalia and Dusty...

This chapter contains some violence and strong language, so don't like, don't read.


I woke up to the sound of soft talking; I slowly opened one of my eyes. It took a second for me to remember why I was in Steve's arms. "Well hello there sunshine" Tony said. I looked at Tony and saw the camera; Steve had now woken up too.

"What are you doing?" I asked him still in wolf form. "Wait you can talk while you're a wolf?" Clint asked. "Well obviously, since you can hear me now." I answered. "How does that work? Bruce asked. Apparently all the avengers were up. "I Uhm well, I speak through my mind so my mouth doesn't move, but other than that it works the same as talking, so I can shout and whisper too." I answered Bruce, "Why are you all up by the way?" Natasha said "uhm, you do know that it is 2 pm right?" "What?!" Steve said, "And by the way Tony what are you doing with that camera?" "This is way too cute, the way you two are lying now, what happened yesterday anyway?" With that Tony winked at Steve, who became bright red. I stood up and stretched myself; "nothing happened Tony we both couldn't sleep." I told him.

After that he didn't ask any further, though he kept the recordings and pictures he had made. After we ate, I went to my room to take a shower. I walked to my closet and saw that there were more clothes now. JARVIS had asked me a few nights ago what I liked and apparently they had ordered a lot of clothes for me, not that I was complaining. I chose a vest and some jeans and sneakers and made my way down. I had no idea what to do now. In the living room I found Clint who was walking up to me. "Hey Accalia, I was just looking for you, I know that you have a game room and I think that you haven't tried it yet and I'm bored. So wanna have a go?" "Yeah sure" I answered him and together we made our way to my room. We played Call of Duty for a while and after that we played some Halo. "Accalia and Mr. Barton, your presences are requested in the training room." "Oh yeah, I completely forgot, we want to train you Accalia, let's go" Clint said. We turned off the gaming system and went down to the training room.

All the avengers were there. Steve was sparring with Natasha while Thor was punching a bag completely to pulp. Tony and Bruce were watching. "Hello Lady Accalia, welcome to our fighting room." Thor said. Steve and Natasha stopped sparring and made their way over to us. "Alright we want to know what you can do, Tony has a simulation room, if you would have a go in it we could monitor where you are right now with your skills and start making a plan to train you." Steve said. I wanted to say that it wasn't necessary, because I could already fight really well; I had found a guy when my parents were still alive to get a little self-defense so that I could protect myself if necessary, though I had never used it on my parents, whatever they did to me, they were still my parents. And it turned out this guy was basically a ninja, so you could say that I was highly trained, but I decided to let them find out the fun way.

I stepped into the simulator. Tony's voice came from the walls "we want to test how good you are so there will be a lot of robots fighting you, I will make it a decent difficulty, because we want to see what you can do and I can always turn them off should that be necessary. We will start easy though and then it will get harder." I smiled because knew that it wasn't gonna be necessary, then a quick question popped into my mind. "Can I use my wolf form, or do I have to fight them as a human?" "You can use whatever you like" Clint answered, "you need to be able to defend yourself, seeing that the wolf is part of you, you are completely free to use it." I smirked and knew that this was gonna be way too easy. "Ready?" Bruce asked. "Ready!" came my steady answer.

Suddenly the wall to my left opened and through came three robots. I raised my brows, only three, this was gonna be a quick fight. I quickly jumped on the first one, pulling out its circuit, resulting in the robot falling down. The other robots started shooting at me; I quickly evaded them and turned into my wolf. Now the fun was gonna begin. I jumped on the robot closest to me and quickly bit through the cables, shutting it down effectively, I then repeated this with the next one. All in all it didn't even take a minute for me to finish them. I turned human again.

"That all you got? And I thought that you were such a genius Stark." I mockingly shook my head in disappointment. It looks like Tony saw that as a challenge. The walls opened again and revealed about fifteen robots. I grinned "Finally a challenge." I turned wolf again and waited till they started shooting, then I ran behind the robots resulting in them shooting some of the robots down. I wanted to show the avengers what I could do, so I finally began to really fight. I ripped the gun-like arms of one robot, then bit through the circuits in his neck. Next I went for a robot, behind another; I bit in the neck and bit so hard that the head actually fell off. The robot before me fell down at the same time, because it was being shot by the other robots. In a pretty short time I took care of the rest, biting and snapping till there was only one standing. I turned human and started to completely dismantle the robot, it falling to the ground in about ten pieces.

The door opened and the avengers walked in. They were all clapping. I dramatically bowed and smiled. "Where did you learn to fight like that?" Natasha asked in wonder. "I trained for years with a guy when I was younger, he taught me most and the wolf part is self-taught, instinct, I guess." I answered her. "Very impressive." Thor said. Coming from a god that was a huge compliment. I smirked and turned my gaze to Steve. "So what about that training program?" He chuckled and said "I don't think that you'll need it, you are free when it comes to training, you can always come here if you want, but I don't think there's anything to teach you." I nodded. "So what do we do now?" I asked. Exactly at that moment my stomach growled. Tony laughed, "Now we eat". I gave him a sheepish grin and we went up to eat. We ate some Chinese take-out. After cleaning it up we went to the living room.

"So what are we gonna watch? It's Sunday so it's movie night." Bruce said. "Well who picked last time?" Thor asked. "Why don't we let Accalia choose?" Clint suggested. Everyone seemed to agree with Clint. I'd never seen many films, but I'd seen a few that I liked. "What about Inception?" It was one of my favorite movies ever. To my surprise nobody had seen the film before, so it was gonna be Inception.

I made myself comfortable in the couch, to my left sat Bruce and to my right Tony. When the movie was over Tony stood up and yelled "What kind of an ending is this?! Is he dreaming or not?" I laughed, while the others started a full discussion. Tony, Steve and Natasha were sure that it was real, while Clint, Thor and Bruce said that it was a dream. Then JARVIS's voice stopped their discussion. "Director FURY is calling sir." "Put him through JARVIS." Tony said. "Avengers, there has been an explosion in what looks to be a HYDRA base, you are to leave as soon as possible." Fury said. "You heard FURY, suit up and get to the jet, you have five minutes." Steve said. "What about Accalia?" Natasha asked. "Director FURY said that if you trusted her enough she can stay here in the tower under my supervision, if you don't you can bring her to the helicarrier and she will be put in a cell there until you return." JARVIS said. "Like hell she will be put in a cell." Tony growled. "Don't worry guys" I said "I'll stay here with JARVIS, you go kick HYDRA's butt." Bruce laughed at that "we'll be back soon, if you need anything JARVIS can immediately call it through to us, so you should be fine." They all gave me one last glance and with a quick "bye" they were on their way to get ready for HYDRA.

"Well I guess that that leaves you and me JARVIS" I told the ceiling. "It would appear so Accalia." JARVIS answered. I watched TV for a while until I got bored. I looked at the clock and saw that it was eleven pm now. "JARVIS, I'm going to walk around town for a bit, I'll be back in an hour or so." "Of course Accalia, have fun and be careful." Suddenly a phone popped up out of the wall. "Please take this phone with you Accalia, then I can still watch over you." JARVIS said. "Thanks JARVIS, you're the best!" I said before taking the phone and walking to the elevator. Once I was outside I chose a random direction. After a while I heard some sounds coming from an ally, so I went to investigate.

Suddenly something black jumped right in front of me and started growling. I noticed it was a dog and I turned wolf. "Hello there, I'm sorry I scared you, I didn't mean you any harm." I said to the dog. Hadn't I mentioned that? Because I am a wolf I can talk to dogs and wolves when I am in my wolf form. The dog stopped growling. "It's alright you just startled me." "I am Accalia," I said, "nice to meet you."

The dog wagged its tail at me and answered "My name is Dusty." What are you doing here, Dusty?" I asked. "I had a great owner once, but she was really old and died about half a year ago, since then I have been living on my own." He answered. "Sorry to hear that, you could come with me if you like? You could stay with me and my friends." "No thank you, I actually like living here, it's nice and free and always something different." He answered. "I was just gonna go for a walk, wanna join me?" I asked him. He barked happily out of excitement and started jumping up and down. It was obvious that this was still a young dog. "I'd love to; I haven't spoken to any dog in a long time. Maybe we could even be friends?" I smiled at that "Of course we can be friends, let's go!" I broke off into a run and he followed, I ran slow enough that he could keep up, but fast enough that it took some effort out of him. We played and talked for about an hour. "Dusty, it has been great hanging with you, but I really need to get back now, I hope we meet again!" I said. "Me too, Accalia, me too." With that I walked back to the STARK tower.

Once I reached the floor I sat down on the couch. I started dozing off without noticing it until JARVIS spoke up. "Accalia, someone implemented me with a virus, I need to go offline for a while to kill the virus. There are also a few men breaking into the tower, please be on your guard Accalia, there is nothing I can do to help you, I'm sorry." I was immediately up. "JARVIS, it's fine, go save yourself, but before you go offline, please inform the avengers of what is going on." "Of course, Accalia." With that I heard no more of JARVIS.

So apparently there were some people here. I looked at the time. It was 1:30 am now, I don't think that they were here for an autograph of the avengers. This wasn't gonna be good. I switched into wolf form and waited behind one of the couches. The doors opened after a few seconds. I heard footsteps coming closer, then suddenly they were running, standing on all the sides of the room, meaning that there was no escape for me. I was hidden well enough, though; they still wouldn't be able to see me from the position where I was now.

Suddenly a rough male voice broke the silence. "Please, there is no reason why you should be hiding behind the couch, so come out." Damnit, wasn't as good a safe spot as I thought it was. I got up and stepped into the light, still in full wolf form and all my senses hyper alert. I saw that there were roughly twenty men standing in the room. In front of me stood a tall and broad man, who was clearly the leader. They all wore uniforms with that stupid symbol that I knew all too well; HYDRA. "I know you can talk so spare me the, 'I am a simple doggy part' please." This guy seemed to know a lot about me. I growled softly before speaking up. "If you are looking for the avengers, you just missed them. I can take a message or make an appointment for when they are back." The man laughed loudly at this, this only made me growl louder. Then he suddenly stopped laughing and looked me dead in the eye. "Oh I know." He smiled menacingly. That left me confused.

I however, was given no time to think about this as suddenly I heard a loud "ATTACK" followed by all the agents grabbing their guns and shooting at me. I jumped away quickly. The leader laughed again and said "until next time." Then he waved and walked off. The agents stayed however, they kept shooting, so I started taking them down one by one. I jumped on an agent, snapping his neck, before turning to the next. I killed four agents in a row. Then one suddenly took a step back, causing me to miss him. I turned and was about to attack him, when I was shot in my left front paw. Damn those bullets hurt. I jumped on the guy, finishing him quickly. As more started falling down, I became more and more tired. I wasn't gonna be able to keep this up for long anymore. Luckily, there were less than ten left.

I jumped to get away from one shot, but because of my fatigue, I wasn't able to completely jump on my next target. Instead, I landed right in front of his feet. I knocked him over and bit through his gun. I was going for his neck when he suddenly tasered me. Damn, that really fucking hurts like a bitch. I couldn't help but let out a howl of pain. The pain quickly changed into anger. I snapped his neck before he could do anything else and with new vigor I started taking down the others. Then there were only two left.

The pain finally started kicking in, causing me to stumble instead of jump. As a result, a second bullet imbedded itself, a little under the first shot. With my last powers I jumped on the one who shot me and snapped his neck. There was only one left now. I turned to him, shaking to even keep standing on my paws. I knew that I wasn't gonna be able to jump on him anymore. He lifted his gun to my head. I closed my eyes and awaited the shot. Suddenly there was a loud sound, but I felt no pain. Was I dead? I opened my eyes to see that the windows had shattered. The iron man suit was flying in front of the window and the last man standing before me looked like he took a repulsor blast to his face.

Tony opened his faceplate and yelled my name, at least that is what I think he did, things were becoming hazy. I swayed on my paws. He looked extremely worried for some reason. Everything was starting to become dark. I saw Tony stepping out of his suit and running to me, while yelling something. The lift doors opened and more bodies filled the room, I think that some of them were shouting my name, but I wasn't sure, sounds filled the room. I couldn't figure them out anymore. I collapsed to the floor and all I knew was darkness.


Well guys, as you can see next chapter is up. No promises about when the next one comes.

Enjoy!