Author's Note: Guess I had time to do 2 chapters today, hope you enjoy them! Just in case you are wondering, the Vordock race is my own creation, feel free to use them in your writing if you want. After this chronicle I probably won't be using them again, maybe I will, who knows? For those that are finding all kind of Marvel textual inaccuracies in my book so far, please remember that I'm taking creative liberties in the storyline. Pyro may not be part of the brotherhood til much later in the marvel universe, but I really like him and have always dreamt of a rivalry between Pyro and Quicksilver so I'm making it work in my story.

Also, now that we're 7 chapters in the movie I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has followed, favorited, or reviewed this novel. I love hearing from you all and it's always encouraging to know that I have readers! Special thanks CyKiESuMMerS, xmenfan33, AngeliqueRox, Jess Maximoff, and GinaLeBeau for their reviews and support. All those folks are good writers and have some fun stuff out there, check it out if you want!

And now...back to the story!

Chapter 7

Operation New Hope Part II

In San Diego near the coast, a large Vordock transport appeared and unleashed several hundred soldiers with murderous intent. As the creatures that resembled orange Orcs in heavy body armor dropped down onto the coast, the people of San Diego ran in terror, screaming loudly. Amidst the chaos, a blue and white flash of light appeared as Quicksilver reached the cost. Holding on to one of the orange aliens as he ran, and quickly letting go, as the speedster appeared on the scene he tossed the heavy creature into several others, knocking them all down like a bowling ball into the pins.

"This is my city." Qucksilver said arrogantly to the Vordock soldiers. "And it's time to take out the trash!"

Several axe wielders rushed towards the fast man trying to slice him down to size. Each attack was a utter failure, as Pietro was too fast. Instead of slicing Quicksilver, the mob of Vordock troopers slashed and injured each other.

Back at the Avengers Assault Cruiser nearing San Diego, Captain America shook his head, as Quicksilver disobeyed a direct order to wait for the rest of the team before entering battle.

"That kid isn't very skilled in the art of waiting, is he?" Captain America asked Wanda, who stood next to him.

"Never." Pietro's sister responded rolling her eyes. "Patience and my brother don't have much of a relationship."

"Well let's get on down there and start rocking!" Pyro exclaimed with manic pleasure in his voice, as the hatch door began to descend. "Can't let Quicksilver have all the fun, can we mates?"

"Wait we should come up with a plan of attack…." Captain America tried to speak as Pyro lunged out of the aircraft landing on a nearby rooftop, and unleashing his fire onto the Vordock riflemen, laughing the entire time.

"Super villains…." Hawkeye grumbled "Their plan of attack usually involves jumping out guns a blazing…no wonder they always get caught!"

"Well there is our first wave of attack." Captain America spoke, flexibly changing his strategy to fit his unorthodox new allies. "Me and the Scarlet Witch will aid Quicksilver and Pyro on the ground defense, Hawkeye stay in this ship and try to figure out a way to open up one of those energy holes that they've been using to get here through. We need to figure out a way to get to the main ship, get our men back, and take the Vordock down from the inside out!"

"Aye Aye Cap!" Hawkeye acknowledged. "I'll be covering you guys through the air too."

As the Scarlet Witch descended to the same rooftop as Pyro she caused the faultlines under a building with many Vordock snipers to erupt, which sent great tremors that led to the earth engulfing the building and the aliens on it. Captain America landed on the street and began fighting off several of the soldiers alongside Quicksilver, punching, kicking, and using his shield expertly. Pyro remained on the top causing flames to turn into massive tigers and other feral creatures that would devour and burn Vordock troops. As it turned out, Pyro learned, this alien race was highly flammable just like humans.

Quicksilver sped around cloths lining several aliens and dodging laser blasts and ended up shooting down Vordock soldiers. The speedster smiled to himself, enjoying this one sided battle. The Avengers Assault Cruiser hovered around the area shooting down the creatures as well, as Hawkeye was at the helm with supreme accuracy.

"Keep it up, people!" Captain America ordered, "They'll have to order for reinforcements eventually…and when they do maybe we can piggyback on that portal they use to get here!"

The Captain's attention was distracted as several aliens had thrown large rocks in front of Quicksilver, impeding his movement, and then shot him in the back, knocking the mutant to his knees. A axeman raced towards the stunned speedster with his weapon raised, ready to strike. With one swift movement, Captain America threw his shield at the axeman and knocked him onto the ground, allowing Quicksilver to speed around and use the alien's weapon against him.

"Careful soldier!" Captain America spoke to Pietro, "These hostiles are everywhere! Be mindful of your surroundings!"

"Thanks…" Quicksilver was not accustomed to anyone other than his sister having his back, and was impressed with the character of Captain America, who shamelessly would protect anyone, no matter who he was.

The battle raged on for several minutes, the Avengers and villains easily defeating many of the warlike grunts together as an effective war force. After enough of their troops had fallen, the Vordock grounds commander smacked the communication plate in his chest armor, and gave the order for reinforcements. There was a loud pop, as another energy portal opened up.

"Hawkeye! Now is our chance!" Captain America spoke through his communicator to his ally.

"I can't keep the portal open!" Hawkeye spoke from the cruiser, as he kept shooting at the energy field hoping to make it stay open. Unfortunately, as the Vordock troops descended, the portal began to close.

"You're not trying hard enough!" Scarlet Witch spoke, annoyed at the incompetence of the Avengers technology. "Let me show you how it's done!"

Sensing that there was a .0064% possibility for the portal to be ruptured and stay open indefinitely, Wanda shot up a hex that collided with the energy door and caused it to open widely.

"This is our chance, everyone back on the ship and let's take the fight to the Vordock!" Captain America ordered as he threw his shield on his back and pointed upward at the now opened gateway to the other dimension where the Vordocks existed.

Meanwhile from the rooftop, Pyro saw his opening to attack a currently defenseless Captain America. The fire manipulator smiled as he noticed an open side to the Avengers leader. He could launch a full force fire blast at the super soldier and have him barbequed before the man would have a chance to pull out his powerful shield.

"Good luck leading your little assault from the afterlife!" Pyro muttered to himself as he launched the inferno towards Captain America."

"Cap! Watch out!" Hawkeye saw the flames raging towards Rogers, knowing that his leader couldn't possibly move in time.

The archer wasn't the only one who saw the flames descending from the build, Quicksilver had noticed that Pyro had turned his attention on Captain America and launched a massive wave of flames. Without a moment's hesitation, Pietro rushed towards the Captain, and picked him up and ran into the space ship, saving him from the flames.

"You double crossing bastard!" Pyro yelled out in rage at his former partner. In the villain's mind, Quicksilver and him were cut from the same rock and he hadn't considered this betrayal. Realizing his grave error, the flames of Pyro's rage fumed with the urge for vengeance. "I'll teach you what happens to those that mess with me!"

"I've had just about enough from you, Pyro." Scarlet Witch called out in her communicator to the maniac, as she jumped aboard the assault cruiser as well. "You got us caught in the MRD facility, and now you're trying to burn my brother? I don't think so…"

With that comment, Wanda hexed Pyro's flame tank on his back to overheat and explode. The impact of the explosion knocked the fire manipulator off the building and into a heap of rubble. Now powerless to do anything but run, Pyro ran away from the masses of Vordock soldiers cussing the twins and swearing his eventual vengeance the next time their paths crossed.

"You two saved my life…" Captain America said as he put his hand on Quicksilver's shoulder. "and that makes you a hero in my book…maybe there is something to this Operation New Hope. "

"We're not out of the woods yet." Hawkeye interjected from the cockpit, as their aircraft entered unknown space through the light portal. "What next, Cap?"

"Find the biggest spaceship…" Captain America ordered, "That'd be the alien headquarters, that's where our friends are being held, and my guess is that's where the leader of this assault is hiding out at. It's time we put an end to this invasion!"