"Banner, I would have thought you had gone to bed by now."
"Nope, I was actually waiting for you. I just want to let you know that I'll be listening to make sure nothing goes on in that room."
"Do not worry, Banner, nothing is going to happen, you have my word."
"Good, because I'm not the only one paying attention."
"I know that JARVIS will also be aware of what is going on."
"Yeah, he will, but that's not who I was talking about. Ares made it perfectly clear that he is also paying attention."
Thor's brow furrowed, "How do you know this?"
"He sent a ball of fire into Alina's room in the shape of a vulture, which is Ares sacred animal, to make it obvious that he was listening."
"Oh so we are being spied on by her brother?" Thor asked a little annoyed.
"No, he's just paying extra attention. I don't know if Alina told you, but Ares is especially fond of his baby sister. He spent the first year of her life watching over her like a hawk, hardly ever leaving her side. By orders of his father but still, he loves his sister very much, he was there for all of her milestones. He was there when she first walked and when she first talked, her first word wasn't Mama or Dada it was Ares. So yeah he's a little bit more protective of her."
"Ares needn't worry, I made a promise and I intend to fulfill it. I will wait until our wedding night."
"Good, I just wanted to give you a heads up." Bruce tells him.
"Thank you, Banner."
With the end of their conversation, Thor made his way to Alina's bedroom, he knocks on the door.
"Come in."
Opening the door he smiles down at her as she lies on her bed surrounded in pillows.
"Hello, my love, I must admit the you do have a large bed, mine's bigger," Thor says with a smirk.
Alina rolls her eyes, she pulls the covers back then pats the bed beside her, Thor eagerly lies down. Getting under the covers he grabs Alina by the waist and pulls her toward him.
"Do you want to watch a movie?" Alina asks.
"Whatever you want to do, my love."
She wiggles away from him and puts on a movie, Thor sits up and opens his arms. Alina snuggles into him and they watch the movie. After a while Thor notices Alina's breathing, he realizes she has fallen asleep against him. Thor smiles down at her, wrapping his arms around her, he settles himself down and closes his eyes. He sighs, letting his body relax, he falls into a deep tranquil sleep.
When Thor wakes up the next morning, he finds that he's alone. Sitting up, he rubs the sleep from his eyes and looks around, looking for Alina.
"My Love?" He calls out
At this point Alina comes out of the bathroom in a black leather bodysuit resembling that of black widow, though the difference was that her suit had the X-Men emblem on it. She was making final adjustment on it when she look up at Thor and smiled.
"Oh, you're awake."
"Yes, well, the lack of your warmth woke me." Thor crosses his arms and looks at Alina appreciatively.
"May I ask, My Love, where are you going dressed like the Black Widow?"
Alina looks down at herself, "It looks the same doesn't it? And to answer your question I got called in, the X-Men need me. Professor Xavier called me telepathically a little while ago. It turns out that there's a government agency holding some Mutant children for experimentation and we're going to free them."
Thor gets out of bed, "Then, I shall assist you."
"That won't be necessary, Sweetheart, this is an X-Men thing, not the Avengers."
"But will you not be in danger?" Thor asks
"Not really, a simple rescue mission, get in get out. Nothing to worry about, I should be back before you know it."
"I do not want you to go alone," Thor says his eyebrows furrowing
"I won't be alone, the rest of the X-Men will be there and normally Logan is my partner so there's no worry there, I'll be fine."
Thor wasn't all that convinced.
"Look, Thor, I have been part of the X-Men for a long time now, sure it's dangerous, but we have always managed to pull through, you don't have to worry, everything will be fine." Alina tells him
She walks over to him and gives him a sweet kiss then pauses, her eyes glass over for a second, when they focus again, Alina smiles at Thor.
"Looks like I won't be going alone after all."
Thor gives her a questioning look, when suddenly JARVIS announces that the Avengers need to assemble in the conference room.
Thor raises an eyebrow, "Is this about you?"
"It would seem so."
"Let me go and get ready, I shall meet you in the conference room."
With that, Thor exits Bruce and Alina's floor and goes to his floor to shower and change. A few minutes later, Thor and Alina meet up with the rest of the Avengers in the meeting room. As it turns out Scott Summers, and Professor Xavier are also present along with Wolverine who is smoking a cigar, along with Piotr
When Thor and Alina walk in holding hands, Wolverine takes a puff of his cigar and quirks an eyebrow. He was definitely missing something and he didn't like it. Alina looks up at Thor and smiles, but she lets go of his hand and goes to stand next to Wolverine as part of the X-Men.
They all take their seats and Steve begins the meeting.
"Thank you all for coming I'm sure you have noticed that there are a few extra people in the conference room today, these are members of the X-Men, Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, Logan, AKA Wolverine, Piotr "Peter" Rasputin, AKA Colossus, and Professor Xavier. You all know Alina, AKA Aegis."
Tony raised an eyebrow, "Aegis, really, as in a goatskin shield?"
Bruce smacked Tony in the back of the head, hard. "No, you idiot, Aegis as in an attribute of Zeus and Athena."
As I was saying, The X-Men are here because we will be participating in a joint mission. It seems that Hydra has taken to kidnapping mutant children from off the streets and are holding them hostage, for what we can only assume are experimentations. Our mission is to go in collect any data that we can on their operation, while the X-Men free the children. Then we destroy the base" Steve explains.
"Why don't we just do it ourselves?" Clint asks.
"Because you're humans, and after the trauma that these kids have been through they're not going to trust any non-mutant to help them." Cyclops tells Clint.
"After which we will offer them sanctuary at our school and therapy to help them deal with this trauma," Charles explains further.
The Avengers see the logical in this and agree.
"Alright lets gear up we leave in four hours." Captain America announces.
And with that everyone disperse, the Avengers start talking to Cyclops and Colossus.
"Good that gives me just enough time to get some answers out of my daughter and Goldilocks over there." Logan says to Xavier.
"Logan, nothing too violent now." Xavier tells him.
"I'll be discreet." Logan says as he puts his cigar out in his hand and starts stalking an unsuspecting Thor.
Logan unsheaths his claws and suddenly grabs Thor by the armor slamming him against the wall.
He has his claws at Thor's neck, "What did you do to my daughter?!"
Tony turns with a gleeful look and rubs his hands together, "Oh this is going to be good."
