A/N: Just a random drabble that came to mind one day playing around with the idea of what it would be like for Kate the second time around and taking part in the action. It's primarily gen and friendship.
Warnings: There is the occasional swear word. Also this story is unbeta'd so future apologies for any grammatical mistakes.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these great shows or movies and make no money from writing this.
'This was a lot different the second time around.' Kate couldn't help but think, as she slid behind a police car before taking aim. New York was once again getting invaded by aliens only this time instead of the powerful Avengers Earth's mightiest heroes. It was just her...holding back the line. She dove back behind the car, when they returned fire.
"Um Darcy I know you were working on a whole superhero network, but I could really use some back up. Like anyone at this point!"
"Monica's not there yet? I sent her the SOS text as soon, as the portal opened. I hope she's not waiting to make a dramatic entrance. But help should be on the way! Though I doubt Clint, Bruce, Bucky, or Sam will get there in time, and Thor is still with the guardians. I also alerted everyone else in my wire. They all should have earpieces and the frequency link, so fingers crossed we hear chatter soon."
"I hope so!" Firing off another arrow before gauging around her. "I need a better vantage point." She needed to get to the top of one of those buildings and then target most of the sky ones. Spinning around she fired at an incoming glider watching the arrow sail right through his stomach. Tugging at the connecting rope Kate yanked him off and ran up and on top of the hover-board like machine.
"Okay how does this work?" She mumbled to herself pressing several buttons feeling the board jerk side to side. "Whoa!" Before using the giant ball thing in the middle to lift it high into the air. "Got it!"
So preoccupied with trying to get up high and avoid all the shooting she neglected to see the alien kamikaze driving right into her. She barely had time to curse before rolling off. For most people they may be panicking right about now having just dived off without a parachute, but Kate was finally going to get to try out Clint's shoot an arrow while falling backwards and swinging to safety move. However before she could try it something hard collided into her, and she dropped all her weapons.
"My arrows!" She yelled, thrusting out an arm as if she could still get to them. Forced to watch them scatter below.
"Oops! Sorry about that!" Came from both in her ear and right next to her. She nearly rolled her eyes as she clung tightly to him.
"Uh huh. Make it up to me by getting me to a roof and dropping some of them off for me. I'm going to need them at this point." Instead of Spiderman answering a different voice came over the coms.
"I've got it. You should really start carrying a gun, Kate Bishop. Less reliance on these arrows."
"Yelena?" Kate asked as Spiderman swung up to the corner edge of the nearest roof. "When did you get here?!"
"About 5 minutes ago." The two could now see a black motorcycle speeding onto the scene and swerving around all the rampaging aliens. "You are like the most troublesome puppy. Unable to be left alone for very long. Come quickly to get your spare weapons. I will work in this sector."
"I'm going to go get those for you and be right back. Just hang tight." Spiderman back-flipped off before swinging low and taking out a few aliens along the way. Once he intercepted the spare arrow bag from Yelena, he distributed them quickly to Kate's hands who immediately started taking out some of the air squad.
"Alright I'm here." Monica replied, finally coming in over the wire, but nowhere Kate could immediately see. "What's our status, and who else am I working with?"
"Well they outnumber us a hundred to four." Kate answered by firing off two more trick arrows, the taser and exploding kind. "So I'd say not great and you currently have Spiderman, White Widow, and...Hawkette." Introducing her new alias name proudly that was immediately met with groans.
"I thought you nixed that?"
"What about junior Hawkeye or Hawkeye mini?"
"Did you really just call me White Widow?"
"Ugh fine! Call me Hawkeye 2 for now or Kate. Everyone knows me anyway." The effort she went to sometimes to be met with no respect. She would bet no one ever questioned the original avengers names.
"Fine whatever this is what I need. First we need to figure out a way to destroy that book since that should close the portal. The rest is damage control and containment for all of the monsters that slipped through. Kate since you're up top you'll be overseeing everything. Feed us areas that need the most priority or that are struggling. Spiderman you head to the perimeter and try to force anything 5 blocks out back here or web it down. And Widow I'll need you with me here for a ground strike and to help protect any trapped people. Everyone copy?"
Monica heard murmuring assent to her plan.
"I'm so glad someone has field experience." Darcy mumbled over the wire. Kate couldn't help but agree.
It wasn't too long after that where Monica must have met up with Yelena because they could all hear an annoyed grumble. "This one too? Such a poser."
There were so many of them. They never seemed to end. It seemed like Hydra. When Kate shot one down, two more would pop up really close behind. She was beginning to doubt they'd actually win, and worse she was running low on arrows. Not to mention trying to oversee everything and call things out to the others.
"Spiderman, there's several large ones headed for the park 6 blocks from you."
"Yep on my way just finishing tying down these others."
They needed another perimeter person. She couldn't help but worry. It was too much ground to cover by himself. It seemed Monica read her mind, because she snapped over the line.
"Darcy, can we be expecting any help yet?! We need some reinforcements."
It was oddly quiet which was only strange because Darcy was rarely quiet like her and Spiderman they were all babblers and hated silence.
"Darcy?"
"Well I think we're in luck." She said, sounding somewhat satisfied. "because help just got back to me and should be arriving any second."
Kate leaned over the edge waiting for something, anything to happen. It took a few minutes before she saw a spiral of gold sparks appear before it formed a circle which kept growing until a portal formed and 3 people stepped out. Kate's jaw dropped as two of them were similarly dressed Spiderman.
"Stop being cryptic and telling who we're expecting."
"Hey I'm America. And I call dibs on the portal." Already making a series of complicated hand gestures.
"Whoa are those aliens?!"
"That's a lot of aliens..."
Spiderman apparently knew them because he said "Pe- I mean Spider 2 and Spider 3 you guys are here!"
"Yeah buddy we're here to help just tell us how."
"Alright, America, find a way to shut down that portal. Other spider guys you'll be assisting with covering the perimeter. I don't want anything getting past 5 blocks from the book. Either push them back in or web them down."
"Aye aye captain lady."
"We're on it."
It didn't take long for America to close the portal, which she did via opening a portal underneath the book presumably to another dimension. So she quickly joined Yelena and Monica on the ground fight.
"If I knew how to open a mirror dimension, I would just trap all of these things in there. Stupid advanced level spells." She grumbled aloud.
The Spidermen were incredible to watch and they worked so well with each other, as if they had done it before. It was almost like they were communicating together without the use of the coms. They kept everything from escaping and took out a lot of their heavy hitters in the process. Kate however had a different problem.
"Guys? I'm out of arrows."
"Kate, can you stay there and still oversee everything?" Monica asked, sounding out of breath from her side.
"Umm...that's going to be a problem." Eying the ones that were slowly headed her way.
"Why?"
"Because some of the sky stragglers just realized I don't have a weapon."
Several curses were heard over the line, as she ducked down low to avoid some laser fire. She quickly ran around on the roof dodging blasts.
"Guys! I'm going to have to jump!"
"Wait! No one's close to you yet!"
"Are you nuts? Don't jump!"
"Kate, if you jump I'm going to kill you."
"Give me a few minutes and I'll be there!"
Kate barely dodged another blast before changing direction. "NO CHOICE SITTING DUCK HERE."
Without giving it another thought Kate sprinted straight toward and jumped. Everyone freaked out especially the Spider people but Monica only said.
"Damn it. America!" Can you-?"
The rest of it was left unsaid, but Kate was falling backwards fast and then suddenly she was falling through something. She came rolling out hard, colliding with the ground before hitting her head on something that knocked her out. When she came to her head was in someone's lap, and everyone was surrounding her, even two new people wearing sick leather armor outfits. 'Hey,' She thought at the new people, as she waved at them. The girl eagerly waved back, while the guy did so a bit more hesitantly.
"Did we win?" Was the first thing she asked and wanted to know.
"We did arrows girl." The girl called America answered her with some amusement. "Or should I say second arrows girl." Eying the newcomer. "And for the record, that was the first time I've ever portal-ed someone in mid air, so that wasn't bad for my first try."
"Yeah I'm not dead, though my head feels like I should be."
"That's what you get for jumping off of rooftops." Yelena replied without much sympathy, though she still stroked through her hair.
"Well better then being shot at." She closed her eyes with a smile still stupidly relieved that they had won. She cracked her eyes open, when their Spiderman started to speak.
"For the record we're all really glad you're not dead. Think I'm going to make you a parachute for the future in case this happens again." He added lightly that had Kate smiling through the pain. "Darcy says she's treating us to Shwarma. Apparently it's a crucial after battle step, but I think you should probably go to the hospital or get your head checked out."
"What? No it's fine, although I'm not sure why there's six spider people...when did the others get here?"
"And we're going." Yelena announced before scooping her up and walking away.
"Nooooo I wanted to stay and eat with everyone. Yelena please!" Though she would honestly pass on eating as with the concussion she had, that's the last thing she wanted to do. But she did want to hang out and talk to everyone, especially the newcomers.
Her blonde haired friend just muttered in Russian and shook her head.
"Bye Kate! We'll save you a bag!" Their Spidey shouted out to her.
"You're forever my favorite! Ugh" Forcing back a rough swallow. "Be warned I may vomit on your shoes if you keep up this pace."
"Don't do that. Do you know how hard this suit is to clean? Especially my cool vest."
"Yeah, tell that to my stomach." She still couldn't get over the fact that they had done it. "Thanks for coming by the way."
"Yes, well this city's not so bad. Still haven't had a chance to sightsee. It would be a shame if all my marked places were destroyed before I could visit."
"True." Not to mention Kate couldn't help but think by doing what she did she was following in her sister's footsteps and she'd imagine Natasha would be very proud of her.
