I am back working on Avengers. It was last month that I had been working on this, but it fells longer with just focusing on Supernatural: Jurassic World. Now that they are both up to date I will be working on Avengers one week and then Supernatural the next week. The reason for me working on both of them at the same time is that they are going on at the same time. With me working on them at the same time it makes it easy for me to keep them up to date and for me to know what is happening in both stories.
I also hope that you all had a great Christmas and Santa was good to all you.
Enough of me talking I will carry in with the story.
Chapter 17
Iron Man looked over his shoulder to make sure that he was not being followed. It had been a hard task to get away from them all as they kept watching him when he was around the sarcophagus. It hadn't been like that when they had found Imhotep's sarcophagus back when this mission had started a week ago. In fact they had been treated like heroes. Even Imhotep was being treated like he had been a long term member of the Avengers rather than just helping them to defeat Seth. Ahmanet, she will be the same as him. She would be an advisor like him on how to defeat Seth, and she knew how to fight. That was another plus that she brought in to the game rather than being a High Priest to a God like Imhotep had been back in the day.
"Mr Stark you are not permitted to be in this section!" came the Moonray's automatic all around him. The Moonray was another problem that he was facing. Five times he had already had JARVIS try and fail to hack into it, but every time the Moonray kicked JARVIS out with a horrible virus that had his AI forget who he was. It didn't take him longer to remember what was going on and who he was. Now JARVIS was no longer going anywhere close to the Moonray in case he was not coming back at all.
Iron Man stopped dead in his traps. He looked at the closet wall to see if he could see a solid form of the Moonray, but he was not finding anything. It looked like he needed to talk to thin air. That might work with Nightshade, but not for him. "And what are going to do to me, Moonray?" he asked the alien AI. He could feel the sudden change in temperature around him as the Moonray prepared to do something.
"I will ask you one more time to remove yourself from this section and return to the bridge! Nightshade has given me specific orders to not allow you to wonder around!" the Moonray responded with a natural voice. A voice that was holding all the cards without letting the other player know what they were up to.
"What is Nightshade hiding down here that she doesn't want anyone to see? Is it her My Little Pony Collection?" Stark asked with a smirk on his face. He kept the smirk on his face as the Moonray was silent. It was as if the AI was thinking if it should say the next thing. He really hoped that Nightshade had something hidden deep within the bowls of the alien jet. Something that he could bribe her with at a future date.
The Moonray responded after a second of silence between them. "The deeper you go into the chances that you will return will become less and less! Nightshade has weaponised paradoxes and has created Time Zombies that guard my supernova power core!" the Moonray responded.
Iron Man's smirk remained in place. He had just found out what Nightshade is keeping deep within the Moonray. The power source of the Moonray was the best thing he can use to bring the Moonray crashing down before it reached its destination. He knew that they were heading towards Britain, but he didn't know if they were heading to the Tower of London or to another destination. Nightshade had closed up and was not speaking to him at all. Instead she had been too busy looking over the Book of the Dead along with keeping her eye on Ahmanet's sarcophagus like it was some monster. Ahmanet who was waiting for the Moonray to land only wanted to help him in defeating Seth had not done anything to warrant such a horrid reaction from Nightshade, who had also brought something back from the tunnels under Hamunaptra.
Hamunaptra had been something that the Avengers were not use to. The Guardian's however they were used to that sort of stuff. Not him and the other Avengers. He felt that if he was to be leading this group of heroes just like Ahmanet said, then he needed to make sacrifices to be able to do so. He needed to show Cap and Nightshade where they stood. Cap at the moment would be easy as he was a snake, but his main concern was Nightshade. Ever Avenger and SHIELD agent knew that Nightshade was a force that was better on their side or distracted with something else that trumped the main problem that was being faced. And Tony knew the best thing to distract her.
The Moonray was a key part of the Guardians. It was how they kept in touch with each other and got from point A to point B. It also kept the Guardians on the same page as the Avengers and other hero groups from around the world. And right now it was keeping Ahmanet trapped in her box for the foreseeable future. Its technology was strong enough to keep the ancient magic at bay that the female Mummy could not escape. One Mummy was enough for the Guardians to deal with that they didn't need anything else from the ancient world to be on broad the Moonray.
"So Nightshade has bend time and space to protect you?" he asked the Artificial Intelligence. He glanced at the walls as he expected for something to jump out at him from the shadows. "Now I thought that was something that Nightshade would not do with all the high and mighty talk that she always does for others who bend the laws of time!" he snarled at the Moonray.
"Moonray don't say anything else to Stark!" ordered Nightshade from behind Stark. She walked towards Stark. Her shoes tapping against the metal floor of the corridor that she had found Stark in. "Now Stark you have 10.5 seconds to explain why you are doing down here when I had made it clear to everyone that they should not come down here!" she told Stark as she came face to face with him. She was making her optics glow a bright green as she regarded the inventor.
Iron Man stared right back at Nightshade as she leaned casual against the wall. "Other than the time traps and zombies that you have running about down here?" he asked with a smirk on his face. He watched Nightshade as she watched him. He could tell that Nightshade was watching him and ready to make a move against him.
"You have not answered my question yet, Stark!" Nightshade ordered. She remained leaning against the wall as she watched Stark with narrowed optics. "And you are running out of time! If you do not explain yourself I will be taken you to the brig and I don't care if you are an Avenger and even the CEO of Stark Industries!" she growled as she slowly got herself off the wall. She took small measured steps as she got closer to the human who had come to down to the engine room of the Moonray.
"I was just looking at the science that you use in here! From making the Moonray bigger on the inside and how it can travel so fast!" he informed Nightshade. He didn't make any move at all even with Nightshade glaring right at him. She was so close to him that he could fell the heat that was coming from her. "What can I say this technology interests me, Nightshade!" he said when he had seen that Nightshade was not buying his story.
Nightshade snorted back a laugh as she folded her arms across her chest. She remained in her human form when she was dealing with the Avengers and any other humans. She found out that the best way to deal with humans was to look human herself and the results always the same. The human or group of humans after some time always broke after some time, she just needed to find out what why Stark was down here after she had told them all not to come down here.
"You think I am stupid, Stark? Well lets just say I have walked among Gods, Demons and Archangels and all of them I have reminded them all not to take me for granted!" Nightshade warned Stark. She was getting closer to his face. She ground her teeth against each other as she felt her transformation process already beginning to take place. "I know that there is something wrong with you! There has been something wrong with you since you found that Sarcophagus in Hamunaptra! So are you going to tell me what is wrong or am I going to have to lock you up in order to get to the bottom of everything that is wrong you!" she growled at him.
Iron Man stared right at Nightshade. "Yeah and now I am walking among Gods, Heroes and Monsters! And let me tell you something Nightshade you fit into all three of those categories!" Stark hissed at her. He got right in her face as he dared her to make a move. He had learned that Nightshade was calm until someone really annoyed her, and right now he was looking for that. He was looking to see how far he could go against her before she broke his neck and made it look like he had slipped by accident. "And right now I don't see you looking at me the same way that you look at the others. Heck you even have more respect for Hawkeye than me! So tell me Nightshade why are you not letting me go down to where you have put the Sarcophagus in so I can get a new ally into helping us bring down Seth! You did allow Natasha to bring on board two Gods of War!" he said to Nightshade. He could feel his heart beat getting faster as he show that Nightshade's fist was balled and ready to punch him.
Nightshade moved way to fast for his brain to keep up. One moment he had been standing on his own power and now he was being pinned against the wall. The sound of metal crunching metal caused him to look left to see Nightshade's sword embed into the wall right next to his head. "You have no right to challenge me on my ship, Stark! The other Avengers may tolerate you and your ego but I wont! This is the only warning that I am going to give you and you better listen carefully because trust me I wont be repeating myself! You will follow the orders that me or Edward give you when you are on board the Moonray and if the Moonray gives you an order you follow it! Now I am going to let you go back up stairs or I will personally escort you to the brig! And that is where you will be spending the night until we get to the Black Archives in London!" she told Stark in the most demanding voice she had even given anyone.
Nightshade slowly moved away from the wall and the trapped Stark that she had moments ago pinned to the wall. Felling that she could trust a friend of Captain America she turned her back to him. It was something that she knew she should not do. Since Hamunaptra and since him finding that Sarcophagus, Iron Man had been acting strange. She had just been putting it down to the hero being in a world that he was not use to.
Stark watched Nightshade in silence. She moved in a way that reminded him of a predator. She was waiting for the next thing to make a move and she would make the move that would either end its life or badly damage whatever it was that she was up against. That alone sent a shiver down his spine. It was the basic instincts that humans had picked up when they had been nothing but small rodents at the feet of the dinosaurs all those millions of years ago. It was an instinct that he would normally have listened to, but not this time. This time he was to busy listening to Ahmanet in his head.
"My love, she will keep you from your glory! She is afraid that you will prove her wrong! She is wrong and you are right! You by far are the strongest Avenger!" he heard Ahmanet whisper inside his head.
She was the reason why he was down here and had come face to face with Nightshade. Alone. He had been in the same room with her but that was when there was another Avenger present. He had thought that it was he who was afraid of her, but it was the other way around. It was Nightshade. She was afraid of him. She needed to have a Ghoul watch her back because of him. Nightshade was not as scary as Thor and Cap had been making her appear as. She was just hiding behind a name that she had been given when she had been something else. Now she was nothing, but remembering the good old days. She was just like Captain America. Now it was time for new blood.
"That's it my love! She and the old hero are keeping you back! Join me and we shall take down the old world and create a new world! You will be remembered for eternity and worshipped as a God!" came her voice again.
Iron Man closed his eyes on Nightshade who was staring right at him with a concerned look coming onto her face. He didn't not see Nightshade reaching for her weapon or Scorponok appearing at her side like a loyal dog would come to their master. He missed the Moonray sending out a warning light to someone, no doubt Edward about his behaviour towards Nightshade.
When he opened his eyes he was once again in the desert and standing where Nightshade was in the real world was Ahmanet. She was just as beautiful as the first time that he had seen her when her spirit called out to his. "I will do whatever it takes to bring down the old world and bring a new one up!" he told her.
She smiled with a warm smile, but he failed to notice the dark glint in her eyes. "Then free me my love of my prison that I was placed in wrongly and bring this flying death trap down! Once on the ground we will be able to beginning in the plans that have been placed before us!" she told Stark. "You just need to get past the one that is called Nightshade!" she said as she and the desert shimmered out of existence.
Stark opened his eyes to see Nightshade. The Dragonoid had reached for her sword and now it was in her hand. She had taken a battle stance already and was daring him to make a move against him. He blinked his eyes and that became clear that that had been a mistake. In a blink of an eye Nightshade had dropped her sword and had transformed into the one eyed tiger form and had pinned him to the ground. His head banged against the metal floor of the Moonray and it became quickly clear that he was not going to be moving any time. Nightshade had trapped him with her claws digging deep through his amour that covered all of his body.
"Stop this now, Stark!" Nightshade shouted down at him. Her one optic was narrowed to him and him alone.
He didn't get a chance to say anything back to Nightshade when the Moonray suddenly started to go through a very strong turbulence. "Nightshade both my turbines have been destroyed! I am being forced to make an emergency landing!" the Moonray said right before it struck the ground at rapid speed.