Rising of the Avenging Heroes

ESKK: Well here we go a new chapter so let's get started.

(Start Foreign Kingdom)

A group of maids were seen helping a woman with violet hair prepare for the day as she was dressed in clothing of a royal origin. As she was being dressed for the event to come she seemed to be talking to someone as she held a striking resemblance to Malty. "Is that what the King has been up to" She asked as she looked to the window.

"He has apparently I'm sure princess Malty must have talked him into it." A masked woman said as gave her report.

"How is the Shield Hero holding up?" She asked showing a hint of concern for him.

"He procured a Demi Human girl from a drunken gambler a while ago via one of his party members." The masked woman said while giving her report of the situation from the home front.

"Is that so?" The Queen asked curious about this information. "Well that's a relief I must say." She said as she knew what may need to be done upon her return home which included cleaning house. "However news of Melromarc summoning of the Four Cardinal Heroes is making no small impact in our kingdom as well as others." The queen spoke as she knew why this was happening. "We must make sure we prevent our neighbors from meddling in our affairs no matter what it may take." she said knowing what could very well happen to Melromarc if they don't approach this was caution.

"Never fear milady we'll continue to keep a watchful eye on events in the capitol." The masked hooded woman said as she finished up her report.

I'm counting on both of you." The Queen said dismissing her eyes and ears within her home country while looking out to the kingdom outside showing it was in the industrial age of sorts judging by the sound of gears and factories outside. As she looked she soon saw a familiar eagle looking down upon her observing until it spread its mighty wings and flew off to parts unknown.

(Scene Break Melromarc Castle)

The Four Heroes were all seen standing before the King with most of their parties standing off to the side. The Sky Stinger had already started to draw attention to which they had Azari stay with Viv to explain it. Motoyasu had bandages after the beating James had given him the night before. "As the reward for his efforts during the wave and fulfilling my request Master Motoyasu will receive 4,000 silvers." The King said as a servant gave the sack of silver to Motoyasu. "And young masters Itsuki and Ren will receive 3,800 silvers." The King said Ren and Itsuki looked wavered as they took the coins. "Finally I've set aside 500 Silvers for the Shield Hero." Aultcray said as James was patient with the others. But before James could take the coins the King continued to speak. "However since it's been offset by the expenses of Master Motoyasu's healing he will not receive any funds at this time." The King said but before he could continue Itsuki spoke up.

"Wait a second that's not gonna fly." Itsuki said as he looked to the King. "During the duel James had given Motoyasu plenty of opportunities to give up and Motoyasu didn't take them. Though I can't condone lashing out like he did near the end Motoyasu had clearly brought it upon himself." Itsuki said before Ren spoke up.

"Yeah that's true and since your daughter was caught cheating when Morgan blasted at her it leads me to believe either you, your daughter, or the both of you had tried to rig the battle so James would lose." Ren said as he looked to the King.

"I believe your both mistake, that poor girl had clearly had this scenario pre prepared to try and frame me." Malty said trying to lie her way out of this.

"Sorry Ms. Malty but that recording showed no sign of pre preparations or even tampering it shows everything that happened as it happened." Itsuki said as he looked to Myne.

"Besides more so when the wave hit and those massive monsters came through it was James and his team who fought them off and defended that village." Ren said as he had his eyes closed to which Motoyasu had no retort for that one. "So if you ask me it would be the right thing to fairly compensate him as well as extra for all the grief you two have been causing him." Ren said knowing about James little break down the night before.

"Fine I shall provide him 2,000 silver but nothing more." Aultcray said and thus another back of Coins was brought out for the other 1500 coins for James.

"Thank you." James said as he talk the coins in question.

"Well there you have it now be gone with you." Aultcray said and thus they understood.

"Have a good day." James said and thus he and the Avengers took their leave.

(Later in the Sky Stinger)

"So let me see if I got this right, James had been summoned as the 'Shield Hero,' and you guys were dragged along for the ride." Viv began to summarize as she looked to the group. "And ever since the people of this screwed up country has been giving James endless grief and you by proxy because they hate the Shield Hero." Viv added and thus the group nodded.

"That just about sums up this cluster fuck of a world." Hawkeye said as he was tying a bundle of arrows together.

"Ok so you guys are basically deep behind enemy lines and have no way of getting out of it." Viv said and thus they were all in agreement with a nod. "Ok well Tony has been trying to bring you guys home but Doctor Strange was already working on it and apparently something in this world is anchoring you here and until you do whatever you got summoned here to do the anchor won't come undone." Viv explained to which Morgan nodded to this. "That's why they sent me here with the Sky Stinger and your equipment, better to have every advantage you can get your hands on." Viv said and thus Morgan smirked.

"Viv you are a life saver." Morgan said as now she can properly research the data she's gathered while also maintaining her armor.

"Oh stop your making me blush." Viv said as Raphtalia was just making sense of meeting this friend of the Avengers. "Anyway let's start up this bad boy and head out..." Viv began but then stopped for a moment.

"By the way... where are we going?" Viv asked as she looked to Morgan with curiosity.

"I got it." Morgan said as normally the ship flies itself but sometimes they need to do the flying themselves.

(Scene Break in Town)

People were seen looking oddly at the Avengers as Viv was looking around. They had put the Sky Stinger to Park out of sight utilizing the old Slavers Tent that Skaar wrecked and hiding it under said tent. Since it was out of the way well enough they were ready to use it. The guy who used to own the place had left because after Skaar wrecked his business he basically opted to pack up what he could and try his luck elsewhere.

"So this Melromarc." Viv said as she looked around and even phased through a few items surprising the people who saw her do so. The Avengers of course had to keep her in line in this regard as Viv wasn't using any optical camo to hide herself. "Looks nice actually." Viv said as she looked around but Morgan then spoke up.

"Yeah don't let it fool you this place is on the ass end of shit town." Morgan said as she walked with Viv keeping a close eye on her.

"Cool a Chocobo!" Viv called out as the group looked and saw a Filolial passing by.

"Yeap that's Vivian alright." Morgan said as she looked to the Sythezoid. "At least her Grandad isn't around to hunt her down." Morgan said as Viv smirked to her.

"Only because you plugged me out of Ultron and knew how to hide my signal with Vin and moms, Momona." Viv countered and thus Morgan blushed and went beet red.

"You swore never to call me that in front of the others!" Morgan yelled as she glared at her friend her face still red.

"Momona that's almost as bad as Francis!" Pym laughed as Morgan glared at Pym.

"Hey Pym ever wonder what it's like inside a bug jar?" Morgan asked with promise to do so which Pym went wide eyed and shrunk down before hiding in Torunn's hair.

"Come on Morgan you've been gone for a Month give me that much." Viv said while levitating with a smile on her face. "Oh eggs!" Viv called out and thus the group looked and saw Viv standing at what looked to be a stand to sell pets.

"Well looks like someone is interested in my Monster Egg lottery." The man said as he moved his hat a bit. He was sitting leaned back on a chair with his feet propped up possibly napping while waiting for customers.

"Monster Egg Lottery?" James asked as he walked up to the guy.

"Yeah the guy who originally owned these things who sold them said that you enter and you'll at least get a Filolial if you're lucky to get the jackpot you get a dragon." The guy said a bit lazy on this but letting it be. The animals he was selling were mainly pet animals with a few mounts on display. Any of the more dangerous ones were in cages for safety reasons.

"Doesn't matter what you get though if you want one better be sure to take care of it because trust me when I say the rewards are worth it." The man said showing he enjoyed animals as next to him was his own pet a sleepy one at that as it was at peace despite where it was.

"Sorry but what's a Filolial?" James asked until Raphtalia spoke up.

"It's the creatures Viv had called a Chocobo." Raphtalia said as Viv heard this.

"Personally I'd avoid the Dragon jackpot as much as possible, the damn things are hard to control sometimes especially around others." The man said moving his hat back over his eyes to nap. He then yawned before he continued speaking. "Those things are tough but when it comes time to get rid of it that in itself is never an easy task." He said to which he knew Dragons were not easy to sell especially if they had been with someone for a long time. It's why they have those crests on them to keep said dragons from going on a rampage.

"You're not a fan of dragons are you?" Hawkeye asked as he looked to the man.

"It's not that I'm mainly doing this jackpot as a special thing to draw in costumers and even then I'd rather have most of these guys go to good homes." He said grabbing something from a nearby bucket and adding it to the monsters feed making sure they each had plenty to eat till someone wants to buy them. "If you want to know it's not Dragons I dislike its people in general." He said showing he felt more connected to animals then he did to actual people.

"Do it. Do it. Do it." Viv all but chanted to which James sighed in response.

(Later)

"I can't believe I did this." James said rubbing his eyes as in his hands was a carrier for the new Filolial Egg.

"I can't believe you let her talk you into it." Raphtalia said as she looked to James.

"It's Viv besides she's going to start traveling with us more often than not so having a combat mount would help." Morgan said as she then sighed a bit. "I swear our head count has gone up big time." Morgan said as they currently have 9 in all if her count is correct... which it was.

"Yeah we're going to end up becoming an army before we know it." Hawkeye said as he walked with the group.

"Should we look into cutting back or something?" Azari asked as it was worth looking into.

"We'll look into it later let's just run our errands first." Cody said as they arrived at the Drug store.

"Agreed." Torunn added as right now they had some errands to run before heading back out to the fields.

(Later in the Drug Store)

"Relatives of mine in lute village asked me to help you guys out," The old man behind the counter place a book before James and Morgan as they were the one up front as they were selling some medicine and trading for medical instruments and other tools as Morgan took the book and open to a few pages, as she cannot understand a word of the book, there were some images of what could work. Of course Morgan thinking Torrun could help her translate this and any other books, with the tech on the Sky Stinger should be easy to do.

"Was it someone we save from the village?" Raphtalia asked in a whisper, with Cody responded to her and said in a low tone, "Gotta be as the guy did say lute village."

"That book has recipes for finer medicines than you bring to me. Use it, It's yours," the man said with Morgan close the book and smile as she said, "Thank you, we appreciate the gift and use it well on our journey."

"Oh by the way the old woman at the magic shop wants to see you as well. It's for a similar reason" the man said with the group were surprise by this and wonder how many people did they saved that are relatives to shops owners, as the man behind the counter said, "She said you helped save her grandkids and gotten them out to safety."

(Magic shop)

At the magic shop the woman there had thanking the Avengers for saving her grandchildren and offer a free read of their magical affinity as the groups were glad they did as Morgan would say it would help look for the proper path of magic everyone could take to improve their fighting and combat abilities.

James let most of his friends go first with almost everyone seem happy, surprise, or a little disappointed of what they gotten, and Viv was somewhat of a mystery as the woman could not get a proper read on her, due to Viv being half machine and came up with one confirm affinity with one or so unknown affinity that Morgan would help figure them out if she can.

James and Raphtalia were next as they stepping up in front of woman who owns the magic shop to read their affinity as she said to them, "You seem to have an affinity for healing and support magic, Shield hero and the young demi-human lady with you have a light and dark magic affinity."

"Is it rare for someone to have both light and dark magic?" James asked as everyone gotten different types of magic that fits them well enough and wonder about Demi-human as the woman said, "It's not common for humans, but it's pretty common for some demi-human as with her being half-raccoon, after all. I recommend she learn illusion magic and the like."

"Thank you," James said as he and Raphtalia move out of the way as Torrun step up last as the woman said to her, "Alright let's see about you now."

After a moment the woman soon looked surprise as she said, "Now this is surprising."

"What is?" Torrun asked with the woman looked at her and said, "It seem you have 3 magic affinity, and what more they are elements that should be together but you have an affinity for lightning, but also for wind and water as well, and the biggest thing is they seem to be all equally strong to each other."

Torrun was surprise by this as the lightning was a given but wind and water as well, she wonder how could that be as she said, "This is surprising."

"In a way does give me some thought, with the stories told Thor is able to fly around with his hammer mostly, but Torrun is able to fly without using her sword for that as she doesn't need to hold it to fly, so maybe you have been using wind to fly around?" Morgan theories to that as Torrun thought in her head and it would make sense.

"Torunn father flew on a hammer?" Raphtalia asked as she was curious about this.

"Yeah he spun his hammer before tossing it but holding the strap and lifted himself off with it." Hawkeye said as Torunn thought it over in this regard.

"Well my natural abilities answered the flight aspect for wind but Thunder and Water make no sense I've only ever been able to channel Thunder with my sword and had never even used water." Torunn said as she was still young by Asgardian Standards... very young in fact.

"Well in my time with dealing in magic." The Woman began as she looked to Torunn. "That some things in magic are hereditary but others are things we are born with." She said and thus had a theory. "Perhaps you've always could use Thunder but the Sword served as more of a focus for it." She added and thus Torunn thought it over.

"So I've been using Wind based magic my whole life and never even realized it and my sword is simply a focus?" Torunn said as she looked at her with a suspicion.

"Yes it's a theory but the fact is that a natural affinity doesn't come from a weapon a weapon is merely a focus to channel it." She added to which Torunn still had on question to ask.

"Well can you explain my 'affinity to water,' as you had put it?" Torunn asked as the old woman was at a lost with a shrug.

"That one is a loss on me some affinities just come naturally." She said showing she wasn't sure where the water came from. "But I'm sure you'll figure it out." She said hoping Torunn figured it out as she did have one more theory. Torunn clearly believes her thunder affinity came from her sword but from what she saw the sword was in fact a focus for it. She's young and more so the sword is sentimental if rumors are to be trusted. Meaning the sword may have been with her a long time and was no doubt made with the intent to be a focus. This alone would suggest that the focus was needed because Torunn had large stores of untapped power that she may not truly be aware of. "After all with what I've heard if you can channel it without the need for a focus you may very well be more powerful then you realize." The woman said and thus remembered something.

"Now that being the case." She said as she began to reach for something that she passed over to the group.

"A Magic grimoire isn't that sort of expensive?" James asked only for Azari to elbow him for it.

"It's a gift as thanks for helping my grandchild." The old woman began before looking to the side. "I would have preferred to have given you a crystal ball instead of it." She added as the group looked to the Crystal ball in question.

"Ok I mean it's shiny but..." Morgan trailed off as a sign to show she didn't know how to use it.

"Oh you mean you didn't know? If you use a Crystal Ball you can learn one of the magic sealed within it." The woman said as the Avengers heard her.

"First I've ever heard of it." James said as the Avengers all nodded with the others nodding in agreement.

"But I heard the royal court ordered a bunch of them to give to all the heroes." The old woman said as she looked to the Avengers.

"Well I won't deny they did but the King seems to hate me." James said as he looked to the old woman who nodded knowing how this country can be.

"Learning magic from a Grimoire is certainly hard but if you keep at it and do the work you can learn as many spells as you want. You can do it." She said showing she had her upmost faith in them.

"Thank you we won't let you down." James said as he won't lie to get praise from someone honestly grateful honestly felt good after so long.

(Scene Break Sky Stinger)

The group was on their way back to Lute on the Sky Stinger. They had to start charting the land but luckily the map they had enough for them to make travelling a simple task. Morgan was currently checking out the data screen as Torunn was translating the book to local dialect they could all understand. Raphtalia looked a bit sick but was able to keep it down for a bit.

"These spells will be useful." James said as he looked to the screen with Morgan.

"Yeah no kidding." Morgan said as on her work bench her armor was being restocked and recharged. "Thank Torunn we have She-Ra to translate for us." Morgan said happy they had an Asgardian among them while also making a joke at the mentioned Asgardian's expense.

"So happy to have the Sky Stinger back?" James asked as Pym was the one who had coined the name but he actually liked travelling in it.

"Oh hell the fuck yeah." James said only for Pym to fly in.

"Hey language!" Pym scolded while flying away.

"Kid don't make me get the bug jar!" Morgan countered as she looked to Pym who flew away. "Anyway now that we have my baby back we can start supplying ourselves with tools faster." Morgan said as she wasn't going to sell it but she was going to make sure everyone had what they needed.

"So what are you working on now?" James asked to which Morgan smirked.

"Oh new schematics for Erhard, repairing and rearming my armor, working on a cloak system, and repairing our gear from our lack of good tools." Morgan said as James looked to her.

"One at a time?" James asked but Morgan smirked.

"At the same time." Morgan said showing she was good with multitasking.

"James." Raphtalia began holding her stomach. "Are we going to land soon?" she asked with concern over this trip.

"Soon just hold on." James said helping her up to the bench. "We'll be spending the night in Lute and heading off early for some level grinding." James said and thus Raphtalia nodded to this.

"Yeap and we gotta make sure Morgan doesn't stay up all night." Viv said knowing how Morgan is. Sometimes she is literally till the crack of dawn tinkering like a true grease monkey.

"So while James sleeps in Morgan stays up." Azari said as they had their own game on how to get Morgan to sleep similar to the one involving James.

"I have a lot to catch up on so sue me." Morgan said as she kept working on her current task on hand causing a chorus of laughs all around in response to the small jab.

(Scene Break the Next Morning Lute village Inn)

The Avengers decided to hang around Lute village to slay some monster and father coal and other ores from the mines when they find it, even find some gems that was worth some coins while introducing Viv to the people of the village.

It was strange at first sense on how she acted and how she look to the people, as no one could figure out what kind of creature she was not that they would tell people what she is but get the people to get use to her.

As the gang stay the nights at the Inn in Lute village with boys in one and girls in the other, with James keeping the egg with him in the boys room.

Speaking of which as James was lightly snoring in the bed he is in, a few shadows cover him as Viv voice is heard in a low tone as she asked, "So what shall I do?"

"Anything that could wake up a person, as long it doesn't do any permanent damage," Morgan said in a light tone as Viv soon said, "Like this."

Suddenly a vase was held over James's head as it seem Viv was about to drop it, until Raphtalia voice is heard as she said in an almost yelling whisper, "Stop! That will hurt him if you drop that on him!"

"Don't worry I just gonna do this," Viv said as instead of dropping the vase, she tip it over and pour the water in it over James with the flowers in them falling out, as he cry out while everyone that was around him quickly step back with the boys around were straddle by James cry as Azari said, "What happen?"

"Are we under attack again?!"Hawkeye said as he suddenly had an arrow strung on his boy that he had hidden under the blanket with him with Pym waking up as well while rubbing his eyes and asked, "What's with the noises?"

Everyone look to James, as they saw him soaking wet for some reason while he wipe away the water out of his eyes as he look and saw the girls while he ask, "What's going on?"

James look over to the window and saw the sun light was seen over the horizon as he said, "And why are you waking me up this early?"

"Something happening with the egg," Viv said suddenly as James is surprise to hear this as he gotten up and walk over to it as he saw the egg was cover in cracks as all the boys gotten up from their beds as well as Pym said, "Its hatching."

"Will it be a Filolial or a dragon?" Torrun said as she did wonder what a dragon would look like coming out of these monster lottery eggs.

As the Eggs shake a bit with a piece of shell coming off, with everyone keep silent and waited as the egg suddenly burst open showing a Filolial with pink feathers on its body while it gave out a cute cry.

Most of the girls in the group went "Awe" seeing how cute it was and the noise it first made as well when it was just born, with Morgan surprise as the Filolial wasn't wet looking to messy when normal birds are born but instead it was fluffy looking, but then again it was a monster type bird.

When the Filolial open its eyes, they suddenly fell on James first, somehow knowing he was her owner as it flew up and out from its remaining shell before landing on James's head, with everyone smiling and grinning to the site of James having a bird on his head with Raphtalia said, "It's so cute, it must think yours its mother."

The Baby filolial was nestling in James hair as Hawkeyes suddenly said, "Hey check out mother James."

Everyone soon laugh at that, as they could not hold it in after that as Morgan said, "It must have imprinting on James when it first saw him."

"Imprinting huh?" James said as the Filolial just cry out happily with Raphtalia said, "We need to come up a name for it."

"I'm sure we can think of one, right papa James?" Morgan asked as she rub her shoulder a bit against his as he give a slight blush to this as he didn't know how to respond to that.

(Montage time skip)

The Avengers were at a dining area of the Inn as they were eating and having fun as they ate, with James feeding his Filolial some food with the bird eating happily.

Soon went to the stables with James checking something on his shield, while taking over the former slave trade area, James found a few items adding them to his shield gaining a new ability of monster enslaving or taming depends on who you're asking and see what he could do with it with the Filolial.

Outside Raphtalia and Torrun was training outside, with everyone else were slaying monsters, getting their remains to sell, and get Viv's Exp. To help level her up as she did so quickly sense they were working as a team and facing a few strong monsters other than the balloons.

Later on coming back from the market place getting good, the Filolial was still on James's head and it seem to have grown in size as it was bigger than it was before only being a size of a baseball now the size of a basketball as well, while James keep the bird balance on his head.

Back at the Inn as they were having dinner, to everyone surprise as the Filolial was getting bigger and it was also eating more food as it had 5 bowls of stew with everyone soon betting who can eat more now between Torrun, Cody/Skaar, and the Filolial.

The next day came around as the Avengers saw the Filolial was rapidly growing at what seems an unnatural way, but it was normal. Morgan had went back the Castle Town and gotten the information from the guy who sold the egg to them. When she got to castle town and told him of what's happening Morgan had gotten some detail of what to do next after a while sense Filolial has grown to the size of an ostrich, Morgan suggest riding the bird now.

With James soon gotten on the Filolial, at that moment, the bird cry out and soon took off fast with James hanging on tightly, kicking up the dirt as it went into almost everyone faces, as when they recover from that, they open their eyes and to their shock to see James was almost out of site while he was riding on the Filolial.

Everyone soon chase after them to stop the run away Filolial or see how James would save himself from this as he grab hold of the Filolial's back feather which somehow made it go faster shocking everyone to see how fast the bird was.

Hours later with the sun setting, as everyone came back exhausted, they seem to have chase the Filolial all around without rest. James was looking worn out the most as he was taming the Filolial and figuring out how to slow down or stop the bird completely. They had stopped for the day and gathered around their monster bird rub her head on him.

(End Montage)

The next day at the stables, as they gotten the Filolial in a pin so it won't escape out with Raphtalia spoken while sounding a bit exhausted after what happen yesterday as she said, "I can't believe she grew so much in just two days!

"My growth boost skill probably helped." James said and thus Morgan smirked to this. "Right Filo?" James asked to which Filo went off in response.

"My James is that boasting I hear?" Morgan teased as the group shared a laugh.

"But Filo you named her Filo as in Filolial?" Raphtalia asked as she looked to James.

"Ok I know I'm the youngest but doesn't that sound kind of obvious?" Pym asked as he was in his pixie form again.

"Yeah but she seems to really like it." James said and thus Morgan opted to shrug in response.

"Well if it's not broken don't fix it." Hawkeye said with Azari nodding in response.

"Oddly enough Skaar wanted a dragon." Cody said as Viv and Morgan looked to him.

"Oddly enough that's not surprising." Morgan said as she could understand why Skaar wanted something like that. "But I don't think he'd be able to ride it if Filolials and Dragons size are similar." Morgan said as Cody felt Skaar growl at this.

"Hey easy Skaar she's just means your big with muscles not lard." Cody said as he knew Skaar was easily offended which fueled his rage at times.

That was when they noticed a commotion going on outside to which they opted to check it out. "Hey look at that." One of the Villagers said as the group saw this.

"Why are the Knights here?" Another asked and in turn the group decided to go investigate.

"Oh boy." Hawkeye said as he had a bad feeling about this. "My Bitch senses are going off." Hawkeye said as he had a hunch as to who was here and why.

James sighed as he began to walk to where the commotion was taking place knowing well enough that if it is who they think it is then a confrontation may be unavoidable.

(Later outside)

Malty stood above the village as she was with the Knights and Motoyasu. "In light of his exploits during the last wave the spear hero, Sir Motoyasu, has been appointed ruling lord of this region." Malty said as Motoyasu was as smug as ever about it. "To help with the rebuilding efforts we decided to levy a toll. This toll will be 50 silvers to enter the village and 50 to exit." Mayne said as the Party arrived and heard everything while the village was wide eyed to this.

"But that will ruin us." A villager said wide eyed to this.

"We won't have anything left to buy food tomorrow." Another said as the Avengers looked ready to step in.

"Do you dare to defy your lord's orders?" Malty asked and in turn it was Morgan who opted to step in.

"Yeap you bet!" Hawkeye yelled as in turn gasps were heard as the Avengers made themselves known.

"The Shield Hero what are you still doing here?!" She demanded as she saw James here and also noted there seems to be a new member with them. "This is Sir Motoyasu's domain now you have no right to question him." She said to which Viv looked between the two groups. "Actually leave this instant you miserable criminal." Malty began but Viv decided to voice her questions.

"Is this the bitch and idiot you guys told me about?" Viv asked as she looked to the Avengers.

"They very same bitch and yeah the guy is one of her idiots." Morgan said before Hawkeye spoke up.

"He's actually one of three idiots." Hawkeye added as Motoyasu saw Viv and looked to her but saw James oddly calm despite what happened before. Motoyasu still had some bruises left over from the beating James had given him and boy were they sore.

"Anyway if criminals need to leave doesn't that include you manipulative lying bitch." Morgan said as she smirked to Myne getting a rise out of her. "Last I checked our last few confrontations had has about 2 or 3 in my favor with zero in your." Morgan said as the Avengers all heard this.

"Unfortunately for you, you armored sow you won't have the royal court to hide behind as you twist our laws to your favor." Myne said glaring at Morgan to which Morgan smirked.

"Actually it's good for me because you won't have your noble allies to hide behind." Morgan said as she glared at Myne who looked ready for a fight.

"Is that a threat?" Myne asked but Morgan ignored him.

"Hey Motoyasu do me a solid and tell me how much do you think it costs to stay at an inn around here?" Morgan asked as she looked to Motoyasu whom she had gotten the attention away from Viv.

"Actually I um." Motoyasu began and in turn Morgan got the jerk.

"Heh figured who here wants to answer that question?" Morgan asked as she looked to the group.

"Oh I know! One Silver a night food included!" Pym called out as he flew in.

"Very good Pym." Morgan said and thus James stepped in.

"You guys are basically charging 100 nights just to enter and exit a village. Don't you realize that sort of toll would not only destroy this village economy but also be the starting point of invoking revolts and rebellions against those in charge?" James asked as he had read up on history books that showed the facts that overtaxing would lead to the people eventually getting fed up and rebelling.

This in turn sparked the initial stages of what may be a revolt when the people started to backtalk on this decision. "Yeah their right!" A Villager called out as the Avengers all heard this and began to share smiles.

"And you can't just show up here and call yourself our lord." A Villager called out the crowd quickly turned on Motoyasu.

"And it was the Shield Hero, and the Avengers who defended this whole village when the Wave of Catastrophe hit." Another spoke out as Malty glared at them.

"You dare complain about a royal decree!" Malty yelled out and with a wave of her hand the Knights pointed spears at the villages. Acting fast the Avengers sprang into action. In turn Viv phased through the Knights and had taken one of their spears while James, threw the Boomerang Shield to get the rest. Once this was done the Avengers surrounded the villagers in a protective wall while Viv made her approach to them. The few other Knights attacked by Viv let the spears harmlessly phase through her while in her intangible form.

"Stay back!" Myne said as in turn Viv was right in front of her and giving her an odd look with her seemingly soulless yellow eyes.

"I don't like you." Viv said as she then calmly walked back to the others as Myne glared at the girl as she casually walked back to the others. Viv then fired her head laser at the Knights spear disarming him before he could try to attack.

"Come on give us a reason!" Hawkeye said with an arrow notched up to fire.

Just then in a blink of an eye dark cloak figure with mask came forth and by the look of them they were women, as the Avengers and about everyone else in the village were confused as to who they were other than Malty judging by the look on her face alone. The dark cloak woman in the middle said that seem to be aimed at Hawkeye without even looking at him, "There won't be a need for such action as we have come to settle this matter."

"You are," Malty began to say as she was shock to see them as the same dark cloak woman looked up at Malty and said to her, "I trust you know who represent Princess Malty."

"But why are you people here?" Malty asked confusedly as she had no idea why they were there in the first place until the dark cloak woman said as she handed to Malty a scroll, "For you."

"Who are they, James?" Raphtalia said as James and the Avengers had no clue on who these women are as he said to her, "No idea, but I can tell they're important."

"How could this be?" Malty said angrily as it seem her royal decree was now trash, false words now as she cannot make a move on it, but she wasn't going to give us so easily as she went to the only thing that would settle the matter as she said while pointing a finger at James, "Shield Hero! Fight us for the right to rule this village!"

Soon enough the group went, "Hu?"

(A brief moment later)

"So pretty much the redhead bitch can't make a move on the village unless she beat us for it, and if we decline it, it basically giving victory to her as turning down the challenge means basically giving up the rights to the village as well, great," Morgan said as she gotten the idea as someone made it so no loop holes can be use as it must thing must be settle peacefully.

"This girl has proven to be more of a nuisance by the day." Torunn said as she crossed her arms on contemplation.

"We have no choice, we either play their game this time or else this village will ended up in the hands of dumb blonde spear hero who has no clue on how to rule an outhouse, and the lying bitch princess. So James it's on you," Azari said as James already figured as much.

"I know but at least it will be a race as oppose to an actual fight." James said as he figured that was as close to a peaceful resolution as one can get. "Besides as the village is now they can't afford the taxation that Malty and Motoyasu are trying to impose." James said as the villagers all listened in on James realizing they didn't even have to bribe or beg him to help, he was going to do it regardless.

"You wanna know something guys?" Azari asked as Viv then looked to the group as Filo looked off to the side. "I think it was that message that got her all worked up." Azari said to which Cody nodded to this.

"I know anger and whatever that message said set her off." Cody said as he began to think it over. "Clearly the King gave Motoyasu control of this village so his word should be law but its clear someone overrode that order someone with more power." Cody said as James then remembered a detail from when they first arrived.

"The Thrones." James said as all eyes looked to him. "The Kings throne was smaller than the empty one next to him." James said as he thought the information over.

"Normally in monarchies the larger throne shows who the main leader of the country is. The One who has the larger throne is in charge of the Kingdom gets final say in matters of the state." Torunn said as she had seen her father's throne enough times to figure that out. Plus being that Torunn is royalty herself she would know about these things. "The King isn't the one who gets final say this Kingdom follows a matriarchy system as opposed to a regular Monarchy." Torunn said as she looked to where the cloaked figured had appeared. "The Valkyries serve the throne of Asgard and if rumor has it true they also serve as the eyes and ears within the 9 Realms for areas the Allfather's eye cannot see." Torunn explained and thus the Avengers put the pieces together.

"So that means it's the queen who's in charge around her and the fact she overrode her husband's decision to give control of Lute to Motoyasu suggests she's aware of what's going on to an extent." Morgan said as he looked to the group.

"You are correct Avengers." The same woman from before spoke causing the group to yelp in shock.

"Hi there." Viv greeted happily not at all bothered by this.

"So if the Queen is in charge why hasn't she done more to help James?" Azari asked as he looked to the Shadows.

"I cannot go into detail but all I can say is the summoning of the Four Heroes has caused a great uproar with the other countries and the Queen is trying to pacify the situation." The Shadow said as she looked to the group vague but it suggest the King had done something he should not have done. "All I can say on this is that the Queen will try her best to provide you with any aid she can until she can settle the matter in person upon her return." The Shadow said as it was good to know they had allies.

"Alright." James said giving both this woman and the mysterious Queen the benefit of the doubt. The Shadow nodded before vanishing just like a ninja before any of them could respond.

Just then they heard Filo growl and looked to see her glaring at the Dragon in question. "It sure looks like it's true that Filolials and Dragon's don't get along very well together." Raphtalia said as she saw proof of it before her eyes.

"No Skaar you can't have a dragon." Cody said as he was having a conversation with Skaar.

"But I'll take care of it!" Skaar tried to reason as he clearly wanted a Dragon.

"No Skaar their expensive and I don't think you can handle the responsibility of owning a Dragon." Cody said as he swore it was like talking to a child.

"I can do it!" Skaar tried but Cody was firm on this.

"The answer is no Skaar and don't even try to ask the others." Cody said as he understood where Skaar was coming from. "Besides it can't handle your size you'd sooner hurt it then be able to ride it." Cody said as Skaar then pouted and grumbled showing he was not happy about this choice. "I swear it's like Pym but bigger." Cody said as Pym heard this.

"HEY!" Pym called out clearly offended by what Cody said.

"Well looks like we'll be racing." Morgan said as she smirked to this.

"You think the red head would cheat?" Azari asked and thus Morgan gave him a look.

"It's a given." Morgan said as she had some stuff ready for this.

"Ok guys start looking around for any traps I'll go get ready for the race" James said and thus he left to get ready to race against Motoyasu.

(Later at the track)

Viv and Torunn had gotten Filo set up while James was doing a final check around the place. As they were alone Motoyasu approached Viv and looked at her. "Well aren't you a beauty." Motoyasu greeted as she looked to Viv.

"Oh hello there." Viv greeted as she looked to Motoyasu.

"So where did an exotic girl like you come from?" Motoyasu flirted as Viv didn't seem at all affected simply confused as to his actions.

"The California ruins." Viv responded to which Motoyasu saw this.

"Ruins?" Motoyasu asked as he looked to Viv.

"Yes after Ultron's uprising and subsequent conquest of the planet before the Avengers finally managed to defeat him." Viv said surprising Motoyasu to no end on this.

"Wait but in that case how did you?" Motoyasu asked as he realized Viv and the Avengers were from the same world.

"We have our own local magic users they're trying to bring my friends home with limit progress, they sent me over to help them." Viv answered before Motoyasu focused on his reasons for talking to Viv.

"Well glad to see you're a loyal friend then." Motoyasu said as he flirted with Viv. "Though I can tell you're not much of a fighter so why not let me protect you instead." He flirted until Viv figured out what Motoyasu was doing.

"Oh I get it now you're flirting with me!" Viv said hitting her hand to her open palm.

"Wait you just now realized that?" Torunn asked as she looked surprised that Viv was slow on that uptake but was ignored.

"I appreciate the sentiment and am actually flattered but... I'm not exactly interested in guys like that." Viv said surprising Motoyasu to no end.

"Wait what?" Motoyasu asked surprised he just flirted with a lesbian.

"I'm not all that interested in guys beyond simple friends or sibling relations." Viv explained and thus Motoyasu's mind was assaulted by mental images mainly of Viv and another how young woman or a smaller woman being intimate with each other.

"Oh... um ok." Motoyasu said his mind on autopilot as it seemed his tiny brain couldn't handle it.

"I think you broke him Viv." Torunn said as she smirked to this. If finding out Viv was gay did this to the Spear Hero she wondered how he'd respond to finding out that Viv is not even human.

James came back as he saw Motoyasu as he asked the spear hero, "Is there something we can help you with Motoyasu, as if not then its best for you to remain at a distant and keep to your party."

Motoyasu thoughts came back as he heard James as he turn to him and said, "Oh James, sorry I was just meeting your new friend here, but other than that I got say this is lame, you just have a bird and not a dragon."

When Filo heard that, her eye twitch to that in anger as it seem the blonde spear dumb ass hasn't learn his lesson of not to mock other just yet as he went on saying, "How are you gonna race my dragon with this?"

Suddenly Filo suddenly kick Motoyasu between his legs and sent him flying in the air, for some reason Motoyasu was giving a strange look when he was kick in the nuts, and soon landed head first in a pile of Hay near Princess Malty and a few of her knights she was telling them something until she heard the noise hear her, looked, and soon cry out, "Sir Motoyasu!"

Motoyasu held his hand at his groin as Malty went to him and guess what happen as she turn to her guards and said, "healing magic, Hurry!"

Over by the Avengers as they saw the whole thing go down, Morgan was recording the whole thing mostly to show if he or Malty did something stupid or wrong and use it against them, but in this case she can just laugh at it when the spear hero gotten kick in the dick by Filo when he insulted her with Malty call out to them, "You dirty cheaters!"

"Hey not our fault he can't keep his mouth shut, or keep his foot out of it!" Morgan said as she laugh soon after words with James, Filo, and everyone laugh at that.

(Little later)

Soon enough everyone was ready as James and Motoyasu were at the starting line as the noble of the village came up to start the race, but with what happen earlier and with Malty bitching attitude they decided to let Motoyasu have a 10 second head start in the start of the race along with James doing an extra lap as well, with malty happy about this, thinking Motoyasu would win the race with ease with that 10 second head start let alone the extra lap was just icing on the cake of winning the race.

But just in case she had something plan as well to hopefully let Motoyasu win the race for sure as Morgan stood by her with Raphtalia, pretending to watch over the princess just in case "She" does something but in truth it was to distract her while the rest of the team do their thing.

The noble of the village soon explain how the race would go as he said to everyone, "The course will be three laps around the outskirts of this village. Whoever reaches this fate first will be declared the winner!"

"Good luck Sir Motoyasu!" Malty said to him as Morgan yell out to James, "Kick their butts you two, win it for the team!"

"Do your best James!" Raphtalia call out to him, as James gave a nod to them both as he turn his attention to the road ahead and waited for the race to start as noble raise his hands in the air as he said, "On your marks..."

Everyone waited as Motoyasu smile to this as he thank his lucky stars for getting kick in his nut to give him the 10 second advantage thinking his dragon is fast to give him the advantage in the race, with the noble throw is hand down as he yells out, "START!"

And with that Motoyasu went off fast down the road around the village, with Morgan timing James a bit with malty said to her, "He better off giving up now, just to save the embarrassment of losing this race."

"Oh James is gonna win alright, and you wanna know why?" Morgan said to the redhead bitch as the princess said to her, "What?"

"The 10 seconds are already up," Morgan said and with that James give Filo a small nudge and held on tightly as Filo give a cry before running at full speed while kicking up a whole lot of dirt behind them, catching up to Motoyasu.

Meanwhile up ahead as Motoyasu smile thinking he has the race in the bag. But just then he hears a small rumble behind him as he look and saw James catching up quickly as before he could say anything, James came up and said to Motoyasu, "On your left!"

Motoyasu was jaw drop to this before he frown and jab his foot into his dragon mount to make him go faster, as they came around a corner, one of Malty's knights were there as he was preparing a spell to help Motoyasu but then a hand grab his shoulder, as he turn around quickly and to his surprise to see Azari there as he said to the knight, "Hello there."

Azari mark soon glow as he release a charge of electricity, shocking the knight greatly before the panther kid let go, and let the knight drop down knocked out as he said, "One down."

Ahead James was ahead big time as he was about to take the turn that would lead to the front gate.

A 2nd knight on the track was preparing a spell that could slow down or stop James completely in his track, but there was a small buzzing sound ringing in his ear as he swing at it, while missing the buzzing soon came around his other ear with the Guard try to hit it but keep on missing as this went on for a bit as the knight went a bit crazy with the buzzing in his ears as he stood up suddenly and turned around saying, "You damn bug I will- ohf!"

Suddenly Pym came out of nowhere, no doubt he was doing the buzzing in the knights hear, then enlarge to drop kick the knight in the back of his head making the knight run into a tree, knocking him out on the impact while falling backwards, with Pym shrank again as he flew around the knight's face as he said, "No one likes a cheat, remember that!"

Soon flew off as James pass by without worry, as he soon came up to the gate, passing it as Malty was shock to see this as she wonder how he did it, as she turn to Morgan and said, "You did something, didn't you?!"

"How could I if I'm here, and with my party with yours?" Morgan said in a mocking with as Malty growl as she turn to the knight near her and whisper to him as his eyes widen and nodded before walking away went away.

(Down the Track)

A Knight was seen as James was still in the lead. As he and Filo rode down the tracks the Knight looked ready to cast a spell only for someone to tap his shoulder with her index and middle finger. The Knight looked and saw Torunn standing there smiling like a sweet young girl. Next thing he knew he was met with a fist to the face and then it was all black.

Torunn smirked to the track as she saw Motoyasu about to pass by and already saw James coming up from behind him.

Motoyasu managed to get back up ahead but hadn't seen James yet as he kept running. Just then he heard something coming up behind him and went wide eyed when he saw James coming in. "On your left." James said as he passed by Motoyasu who glared at James in pure contempt to this.

"Dammit run faster you!" Motoyasu ordered as he glared at his Dragon already annoyed with James rubbing it in that he passed him a second time.

James and Motoyasu took the turn and crossed the gate with James still ahead. James had already crossed the line three times as is. Giving Motoyasu a 10 second head start and taking an extra lap was Morgan's idea of adding insult to injury. When James passed them by Morgan already had a mask on as Malty ended up coughing from the dirt.

"How are you doing this!?" She demanded as Morgan smirked to Malty to this.

"I don't know." Morgan partially lied as she wasn't doing anything the Team was.

(Race track)

Another Knight was seen as Hawkeye saw the Knight about to do something from afar. James had just passed the track a third time without trouble and knew what came next. Hawkeye took out an arrow he was saving and smirked a bit. "I'm a simple guy who likes and lives for the simple things." Hawkeye said as he began to notch up the arrows. "Like how much this is going to hurt." Hawkeye said a she took aim at the Knight. He then fired off the arrow and smiled at how it flew and hit the guy after producing a boxing glove. It nailed him in the face knocking him out cold and thus leaving a very happy Hawkeye. "Ride on buddy ride on." Hawkeye said as he smirked as he knew James was going to win. After all they weren't cheating just making sure it was all fair.

As Motoyasu growled James was already neck to neck with him with James three Laps in and Motoyasu was two laps in. Just then he heard a familiar sound of Filo and dared himself a look and saw something that made him angry. "Don't, you say it! Don't, you dare say it!" Motoyasu called out but James did so anyway.

"On your left!" James called out and thus Motoyasu roared in fury.

"Oh come on!" Motoyasu called out as he glared at his dragon to move faster.

The red tape was there as Malty was shocked to see the pit hole didn't show up and Motoyasu was still behind James. In turn Malty saw Morgan who was whistling to herself as she had just the thing to use here. In turn cheers were heard as the villagers cheered on James as Malty was now just barking orders for Motoyasu to win as she knew he wasn't going to win this fairly.

The cheers got louder as James got closer to the finish line. Eventually James managed to cross it with Filo and thus the cheers reached their peak as people all began to feel grateful for the success of James the Shield Hero.

(Later that day)

The sky began to change color as the sun was beginning to set. James smiled as he walked with Filo and hopped off her while petting her neck. "Looks like we won, guys." James said as the Avengers all began to gather around James.

"Way to go James!" Pym called out smiling as he flew in and return to his normal size.

"Good job buddy." Hawkeye said as he patted James on the back.

"Good news is you won fair and square." Morgan said with a smirk on her face as James new why. They all knew Malty would try to cheat during the race and would no doubt deny it if she was called out on it. Since all eyes would be on Morgan they all agreed to have the others take care of making sure that the race was fair.

"Brilliantly done. Thanks to you we can rest easy and focus on rebuilding the village." The Village lord said only for a flash of light to go off from Filo making everyone who saw it go wide eyed to it.

"If you wanna thank someone thank Filo here." James said patting Filo's side only to feel something off about it. He also saw some feathers reigning down as Cody was wide eyed at what he saw.

"Um James I think we might have missed something because I have no idea what the hell we've been feeding her." Morgan confessed as she looked to the other while Cody was trying to make sense of it.

"She's adorable." Viv said as she saw the massive form here.

"You cheated!" Malty was heard suddenly as the group looked and saw two of the nights here one of them looking a bit singed and the other with a black eye. "You didn't tell us your Filolial was really this massive tub of lard I see!" She accused while she glared at James.

"Kind of like you didn't tell us you were a Princess until it benefited you?" Morgan countered as she smirked at Malty who glared at Morgan who was quickly becoming her most hated Avenger.

"Listen here you red headed sow, she only transformed after the race was over." Torunn said as she glared at Malty. "If anyone was to be accused of cheating it was your sort. We had found your Knights all on the track preparing spells to aid Motoyasu if we had not stepped in the Race would have been unfairly won." Torunn yelled as she glared at Malty.

"I have no clue what you are talking about." Malty lied as she then made a haughty look. "Now why would I have any reason to cheat?" She asked only for the Shadows to appear once more.

"The Shield Hero's Party speaks the truth." The Shadow said making Malty go wide eyed to this. "We had been observing the Race from the very beginning and saw each Knight exactly where the Avengers found them neutralized from performing magic." The Shadow said as she glared at Malty. "No Magic was used in the race what so ever." The Masked Woman said as she looked to Malty.

"That's is a lie I mean look at them that beast was clearly been given magic to hide its true form!" Malty defended but the Shadow said otherwise.

"Untrue we had gone through the track with a fine brush no magic was detected before, during, or after the race." The Woman said as James was suspicious of her a bit. "You should take some comfort in this the Shield Hero beat you fair and square and had his party ensure yours played fair as well." The woman said showing a hidden tone of threat. Either take the loss with pride or force the Queen to end her diplomatic travels early to sort Malty out herself.

"Well we'll leave for now but we'll be back you can count on that." Malty said before she stormed off from the area.

Just then Motoyasu began to pass by James before speaking. "Remember kid I let you win today. But it won't happen again." Motoyasu said but Morgan scoffed at him.

"Dude gave you a shit tone of a handicap and he still won!" Morgan taunted as she looked to Motoyasu. "Fair and square baby fair and square so take the loss like a man and start walking." Morgan said before Azari stepped in.

"Unless you want your crotch to make some new friends." Azari taunted and thus Motoyasu growled at the group.

"Well you... I'll get you yet!" He called out and thus stormed off with the rest of his party.

"Might I suggest you put ice on your bruising reproductive organ at the very least it should numb the pain." Viv suggested as Motoyasu moaned in pain while walking off.

Once they were gone the Village Lord continued with things as normal. "Sir Hero again the whole hero owes you and your party so very much. We don't know how to express our gratitude for everything you've done." The Village lord said as James nodded to him.

"No thanks are needed, I just don't like bullies." James said as he looked to the villagers. "Just focus on rebuilding and I'll say we're square." James said but the Village Lord begged to differ on this.

"Sir Hero this time I must insist on a reward. You've done so much for us already that I cannot under good conscious let you leave without some sort of reward." The Village Lord said but James scratched the back of his head.

"Look I appreciate it but we don't want your money not with your village as is at the moment." James said looking around for something to use as compensation that won't cause the village to suffer. Just then Morgan tapped James shoulder with Filo tapping his head as well. "Huh?" James asked as he looked to the two and thus they pointed to something nearby. They in turn saw a Wagon as James looked to Morgan surprised by this.

"Are you sure?" James asked as the Village Lord got the memo on this.

"Hey we may have the Sky Stinger that they let us park here but this might be a good way for us to get an income." Morgan said with a smirk on her face.

(Later that Day on the Road)

They Avengers were lucky that Filo and the wagon could keep up with the Sky Stinger after the vehicle had its speed slowed down for this. James was on the Wagon itself holding Filo's reigns with Raphtalia. Filo clearly was enjoying herself while the Avengers were split between the wagon and the Wagon.

"Sorry James but could we stop for a little bit? Just for a second?" Raphtalia said clearly feeling unwell even with all their stuff.

"You feeling ok, Raphtalia?" Azari asked as he James, Pym, and Torunn rode in the wagon while everyone else was in the Sky Singer.

Raphtalia turned her head with her answer and thus James sighed and took out a communicator that Morgan made in the Sky Stinger. "Morgan we're pulling over." James said into it and Morgan got the memo.

"Got it!" Morgan called out as she got to work on parking the Sky Stinger.

They soon began to pull over as the Sky Stinger began to land in response as well. Once they did so Raphtalia ran out and proceeded to vomit behind some pushes. James sighed to this knowing this might pose a problem if not dealt with.

(Later that evening)

The Camp Fire was started as the Avengers were all gathered around it. With the Sky Stinger and wagon off the road they gathered around it. James carefully laid Raphtalia down knowing motion sickness was a common problem here. "I'm sorry about this to make you work after you let me rest all day." Raphtalia said as Morgan smiled and headed to her.

"Hey its ok Rocket Raccoon girl but you gotta figure out how to get over this motion sickness problem because we'll be traveling a lot by both the wagon and the Sky Stinger." Morgan said as she looked to Raphtalia.

"I'll try." Raphtalia said as she looked to the Avengers.

"Hey you don't have a fever do you?" Azari asked as he looked to Raphtalia.

"No." Raphtalia said as she then looked to Filo. "Filo looks happy now that she gets to pull the cart." Raphtalia said as Viv saw this as did Cody.

"She sure does." Cody said with Viv nodding to this while Filo smiled to this.

"But don't we look a bit too young to be traveling merchants?" Pym asked as Torunn decided to voice her approval of this.

"Better merchants then a tavern wench." Torunn said happy to finally be rid of that maid uniform. "Or worse a nobles maid." Torunn said shivering at the mere thought of that.

"Oh come on you didn't look." Hawkeye said and thus Torunn glared drawing her sword just enough to get the warning across. Hawkeye eased back and shut his mouth as James took a moment to look to the pass they got. "Still no we can run a traveling business while saving people and getting stronger." Hawkeye said but Viv had a question.

"Still what shall we be selling?" Viv asked to which... that was a very good question. They can't just serve monster pelts and medicine they need something that can do them some good.

"It's... a work in progress bit we've made improvement." Morgan said as James then looked to them and sighed. "Anyway lets head to sleep Sky Stinger's sensors are up so no surprises for us tonight." Morgan said as she smiled to this.

Just then James yawned and when he did Filo began to move her head to use James lap as a pillow. As James smiled he yawned again as he began to drift to sleep. "No offense Filo but your feathers are stuffy as hell." James admitted while he began to drift to sleep.

When he did the last thing he heard was something odd but assumed it was Pym. "Meany!" Came an unknown voice as James fell asleep.

(The Next Morning)

"James! James wake up!" Morgan was heard yelling with urgency.

James saw the Avengers looking at James in shock once their leader came to. "Jeez I must have over slept again." James said as he yawned a bit and then found his hand touching something soft. "Huh?" James asked as he then looked and to his shock saw Filo was gone and replaced by a blond haired little girl. "Um... what?" James asked getting nervous and honestly scared as hell because she was naked as a newborn.

James cried out in shock and fear and stepped away from her. "That girl is." Morgan said as James began to panic big time.

"Master, good morning." She greeted not at all minding or even noticing she was a little girl around Pym's age naked out here.

"Ok this cannot be happening right now man this CANNOT be happening!" Hawkeye cried out in fear looking to be having a panic attack of sorts as even Cody and Azari were scared.

"Why is there a naked little girl in our camp and where's Filo?!" James cried out in horror as the boys all began to panic.

"How should we know you were watching Filo last night?!" Morgan defended as she looked to James.

"Never mind Filo how did this girl get into our camp!?" Torunn cut in looking over to Morgan.

"Those were your sensors?!" Cody added as he looked to Morgan who noted Cody was also panicking.

Just then the girl began to voice her desires and thus smiled to them. "Can I have something to eat?" She asked with a huge smiled on her face unaware of the situation of panicked Avengers going on around her.

"Please tell me we're not on some watch list now." Hawkeye said as he'd rather not be accused of pedophilia nor did any of the other male members of their team.

(TBC)

ESKK: Well here we are a new chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it and I hope to see you all next time. So review and until next time ja-ne.