Chapter 3: Meet the Avengers

The countryside of Eastern European had once been a quite place. It was a world trapped between the medieval times and the mordern world. The towns and villages in the most remote areas had hardly changed in three hundred years. They were still very much aware of vampires and the Undead King who ruled over the land. It was only recently that the mordern world had crashed into their world. Their Undead King had dissappeared and HYDRA and the Avengers were in an all out war. Many vampires that were still in the area fought with the Avengers. They had their people to defend and that was something that the outside Undead creatures could not do for them.

The castle was the biggest building in the small town of houses made out of stone and wood. Its huge black walls had been battered by HYDRA tanks. The small houses of both human and vampires were on fire. It was going to take a good time to rebuilt the small town that Dracula had kept in the dark as the rest of the world stayed in the light.

Bang! Bang!

The ground trembled as explosions exploded on either side of him. Raising his shield up to block a bullet Captain America grunted. He knew HYDRA would return and to attack Dracula in his own backyard was something he did not expect of them.

Smacking his shield against a HYDRA soldiers face he rejoined the fight. All around him HYDRA was fighting the other Avengers and the vampires who were also fighting against the Avengers. He had not yet seen Dracula and he hoped that the Undead King was not planning on attacking the Avengers again. They were still recovering after their last fight with Ultron.

He could hear the Hulk roaring as he smashed the tanks that would have been a major problem if he was not with them. Hawkeye was in higher ground taking shots at both vampires (should they attack his teammates) and HYDRA. Black Widow had decided to fight hand to hand combat with all their enemies and was fighting alongside him. Iron Man was in the air acting as air support as Thor was charged up another storm as two jets broke through the darkening sky. Their weapons primed before they fired at HYDRA soldiers. The jets hit their tagerts before shooting back up in the sky. Captain America watched as the two jets got higher into the sky before dropping back towards the ground. Both jets were dark and to be frank scary looking as they swopped down like a couple of birds of prey.

"Cap!" Iron Man shouted as he landed beside the super soldier. "Those jets don't have pilots!" he finished as the both of them watched the two jets weave in and out of HYDRAs jets.

Captain Steven Rogers looked back up at the two jets. Since being defrosted after being in the ice for 70 years he thought there was nothing else that could surprise him. But he was wrong. One jet got closer to the ground and fell apart was the best way for him to say what had happened to the jet. The jets structure shifted and twisted before a figure slightly smaller than him stood. The figure was human that was as far as he could see even as metal bones snapped back into place.

A pistol was whipped out of a pocket as an old friend shot a HYDRA soldier in the head. The dead body toppled to the ground in a dead heap as Nightshade walked closer to him and Tony. She was still a skeleton and Hawkeye was no doubt keeping arrow trained on her.

"Hello again, Captain!" Nightshade said putting her pistol back into its pocket. "I hope I'm not too late!" she said as two HYDRA soldiers raced towards her and Captain America. Nightshade stepped back as Captain America stepped forward. One soldier was brought down by a Vibrainum sheild and another was pinned under Nightshade's foot.

"Cap? Who is this?" Iron Man asked. He had raised his hands and was charging his repulsers in preparation to firing.

"Its alright Tony! This is Nightshade!" he said. "Where have you been?" he asked her as she kept her foot on the man's chest. The other jet that had arrived with her hovered above the ground before transforming back into a towering silver and black robot. Iron Man kept one repulser on Nightshade and the other on Megatron who took a step back. Hawkeye moved his loaded bow over to Megatron from where he was hiding.

"All over the place!" she replied putting more pressure on the man's chest. "But it would seem that both of us have been attracted to Dracula's nice home!" she said looking up at the huge black forbidden castle. "But why would HYDRA want to attack Dracula when he is protected under the Code and was once the Skulls ally rerecently?" she asked looking back at Captain America as Black Widow came up from behind her with a gun pinned at the back of her head. "And is it really needed that a of you have to keep your weapons trained on me?" she asked still looking at the super soldier.

Black Widow kept her pistol in her hand and kept it in the back of Nightshade's skull. The gun was primed and ready to take the shot but she was not ready for how fast Nightshade was going to move. One moment the man she was on top of was dead with a crushed ribcage and the next Nightshade had forced her to the ground. Her black converse smalled into the wrist of the hand that was holding her pistol. The clicking of an older pistol forced her too look up and to see Nightshade had aimed her own pistol at her.

"Be a good girl and don't make any sudden movements!" Nightshade hissed as her eyes glowed bright red. Black Widow relaxed and soon found herself being helped to her feet by the very same person who had pinned her to the muddy ground. "Sorry about that! Thought I should make a show!" Nightshade said to her before looking at Captain America. "Now what can you tell me about any of this?" she asked watching as a pack of vampires tore a HYDRA soldier apart.

"We don't know what is going on! From what we know Dracula and the Red Skull have been at war for months since the Cabal fell apart!" Captain America explained as he brought up his sheild to defend himself from bullets that rained down from a machine gun. A machine gun that was destroyed by a well placed shot from Megatron's plasma cannon. Megatron watched as HYDRA fell back and the vampires slunk back into the shadows.

"The Skull?" Nightshade asked, "But didn't he burn before his jet crashed in the north?"

Captain America looked at Iron Man as Thor landed. "Lady Nightshade! It is so good to see you again!" he declared as he walked up to the shapeshifter. "Where is friend Edward?" he asked noticing the silver and black mech behind Nightshade. He gave Nightshade a bear hug and released her quickly.

"Edward is in Japan at the moment and Julian is just finishing his mission in Blithe Hallow! Once he's done there he will go and help Edward!" she explained to Thor who nodded his head as Hulk stumbled up to the gathered Avengers and Hawkeye came out of his hiding place. His loaded bow never straying far from Nightshade and Megatron. "And Steve I need to have a word with you in private!" she said with a tone that Captain America had not heard since he has last fought beside her.

Nightshade and Captain America walked away from the gathered Avengers as a women who could change size and had insect wings went up to speak with Megatron. The large Mech was a bit awkward at first but soon got use to Wasp chatting away to him. The rest of the Avengers just watched them and Black Panther was about to follow them but a warning glance from Thor stopped him.

"What have you got to say Nightshade? For 70 years I was in the ice as you were still alive and then recently I find out that your still alive and so is Seth! So what's the next thing your going to tell me?" he asked narrowing his blue eyes.

Nightshade was silent. She just wacthed him until she looked at the floor and her converse. "I am sorry, Rogers! But over 70 years things happen and I have been rather busy while trying to keep Edward and Julian from causing problems left right and centre. But I can tell you that one of the Howling Commandos is still alive and is quite well! They have not submited to the passage of time like other members of your race!" Nightshade said as she walked so that her back was to the Avengers. The Avengers tried to listen to the conversation but Nightshade might as well have been whispering she was talking that quietly.

"Who Nightshade? Stop keeping it to yourself!" Cap snapped at her. He did not like the smile that crossed her face. She leaned in closer and whispered a name before walking away. Her converse leaving marks in the ground as she walked back to Megatron who was still with the other Avengers and was joining in with more of the conversation that Wasp was leading. Captain America watched her go back tobthe silver and black robot before the both of them walked away. He was not alone in this world like he had first thought.

Wasp and Nightshade were talking already when Captain America joined up with the others. The sizechanger and the shapeshifter were having a good chat about something that Ant-Man had found interesting and was asking questions here and there. Thor and Hulk were play fighting with each other while Hawkeye made beats with Iron Man. Black Widow was staring at Nightshade waiting for her to make a move. He noticed that Megatron had returned to his jet mode and was some way off. He definitely needed an explanation from Nightshade about what was going on.

"So you're the last of your kind?" Ant-Man asked. He still had his helmet on as he studied Nightshade.

"Hank!" Wasp snapped nearly slapping him but was stopped when Nightshade grabbed her arm.

"It's alright Wasp!" she said to the female sizechanger before looking at the male sizechanger. "I am! I'm the last of the Dragonoids!"

Ant-Man and Wasp looked at each other before looking back at Nightshade. "What happened?!" Ant-Man asked.

"A war! The Time War! My race died to defend the universe from the flames of the war between the Time Lords and the Daleks. I was unlucky and still alive!" she explained as she looked back up at the stars.

Wasp would have said something else if Nightshade didn't clamp a bony hand over her mouth. Mumbling for her to let go she tried to wiggle her way out of Nightshade's grip. "Captain we have company! A lot of company! I'd suggest falling back!" she shouted as Wasp kept kicking at her.

Captain America looked in the direction that Nightshade was looking and sure enough a fleet of jets were heading right for them. The Avengers, Nightshade and Megatron just watched as the jets flew overhead before vanishing. There engines were still roaring in the air even after they had dissappeared.

"What is happening here?" Hawkeye shouted. The archer looked from Captain America to Iron Man.

"Those planes were a fleet of planes that vanished during the Second World War! " Nightshade spoke as she released Wasp from her grip. "But that was not a time displacement! That was spirts but only someone with great power can bring about jets like that?"

Megatron looked up at the sky. The sky had gone purple where the jets had been. But that was not possible. His Spark felt a pinch of pain even though Nightshade was working on breaking the curse that Unicron had put on it. It couldn't be. Primus and Optimus Prime had locked him in limbo. How could he have found his way to this dimension? His red optics looked down at Nightshade who was still in human form and looking up at the sky. He had to tell her. He had to tell her and the Avengers about Unicron the Choas Bringer.