Chapter 12: Avengers Assemble

Avengers Tower, New York City Earth- G1verse

"Edward thanks for coming!" Captain America said as Edward walked into the Avengers Mansion in the middle of New York City. The green skinned zombie stopped before the super soldier. His yellowed eyes showing a great tiredness that had not been there the last time that he had seen the corpse when he and Seth swung by his new apartment in Manhattan. To think that had only been only a few months ago. A few months ago he found out that three of his allies from the war were still alive and also that one of his enemies was still alive after 70 years.

Edward grunted in response as the blue swirling vortex snapped shut behind him. The hallway that a second a ago had been bathed in a bright blue light was now being light by the typical electric lights that Steve had gotten use to in finding himself in the 21st century. Edward walked like a mindless zombie in the direction of the meeting room where all the Avengers were meeting up. The Moonray and JARVIS had been quick in getting the other Avengers up to speed. He knew from reports that the Moonray was given him that UNIT was also preparing for a second invasion in a matter of months.

"Where's Julian?" Cap asked Edward as he fell in beside him. The two walked side by side, their focus soley on what was ahead of them rather than what was behind of them. Though their ears were strainned to hear if anything was following them. Years of fighting in wars and a gladiator pit had taught them to be ready for anything even when they were in a allied zone. It was always better to be prepared than take a beating when unprepared.

"Julian at the moment is on a mission to keep some kid safe from Seth and his lackeys. The last I heard from 'Shader she was thinking of having the boy moved to the UNIT in Scotland but nothing more on that!" Edward explained as the two walked side by side. Edward took in a ragged breathe in. His lungs that were not the fittest after breathing in so much sulphur when he had been forced to fight for the entertainment of others much like Megatron and Galvatron. It also did not help that on his way to and back from Japan that he had been shot at by Hunters. There seems to be an increase of Hunters. Hunters that hunted the things that go bump in the night like ghouls and zombies.

Captain America nodded his head in understanding. "Let's hope that Julian is able to wrap his mission up as quickly as possible!" Captain America said more to himself than to Edward.

"I don't see that happening in some time, Rogers! Julian seems to have struck a hornets nest!" Edward grunted in a reply to Captain America.

The two then walked in silence to the massive meeting room. The doors to the meeting room swung open and allowed the pair of them to walk into the room. The other Avengers were already sitting around the round table in the room. Wasp looked over her shoulder and let out the loudest scream she could manage. The sizeshifter shifted into her smaller size as the other Avengers jumped out of their seats. The other Avengers reached for their weapons as Edward pulled out his axe that was strapped to his back.

Thor was quick to move between the other Avengers and Edward. "Friend Edward!" he boomed as he approached the green skinned Maiden. "What brings you here?" the Asgardian asked the Maiden as he took his hand in a firm handshake.

"Nightshade has chewed too much than she can handle!" he replied letting go of Thor's hand as Wasp fluttered into his line of sight. He reached for his axe again as his yellowed eyes did not leave the sizeshifter. "Please do not scream again!" he growled at Wasp as she returned to her normal size. Her insect wings folded back into her shoulders as she watched him with weary eyes. He was reminded of a doe watching a wolf in waiting for the wolf to make a move that would either end its life or cause a great fright.

Wasp looked over at Captain America as the leader of the Avengers walked past Edward. "Who is he, Cap?" she asked. Behind her she could hear Hawkeye keep his arrow trained on the green corpse who was still talking with Thor. Standing behind the archer was the Hulk. The giant Gamma monster glared at the green corpse with a rivalry that had not been seen since Thor had joined the team.

Captain America looked back over at Edward as he walked towards him. He walked with a wide step as his long legs kept him balanced. His axe that was strapped to his back swung slightly with every step that he had taken. "Hawkeye you can lower your bow and arrow! Edward is on our side!" Captain America first said to the blonde archer who lowered his weapon at his word. The super soldier then looked over at Hulk and with a hand gesture the green skinned Gamma monster calmed down slightly but he was still glaring at the green skinned Maiden. Captain America when happy that the other Avengers where not going to attack Edward went to introducing the Maiden. "This is Edward von Head! He fought alongside me and the other Howling Commandos during the Second World War when we were fighting against HYDRA. He was one of the three who trained me before I became Captain America and he stayed with us as we fought HYDRA all throughout Europe! He is one of the few people from my time that is still alive and one of the fewer people that I trust outwith the Avengers!" he explained to the Avengers.

"And Rogers who are these people in the Halloween costumes?" Edward asked him.

The super soldier looked back at Edward. He should have known that Edward did not know about the Avengers. When he had meet Nightshade in Eastern Europe not that long ago she had little clue as to who the other Avengers were. It was just common sense that Edward would be the same in not knowing the members of the Avengers. From what he knew about what was happening in UNIT, Edward had been sent on a wild goose chase as he chased down Leatherback. The Maiden had been so close as to getting to Japan when he had called asking for his help. He knew that the Avengers alone did not stand a chance against not one God but two. He knew from his one fight with Seth that he had little chance against the God of Chaos from the Ancient World. He had been lucky that Bucky and Nightshade had appeared to chase the Wereset away.

"Edward these are the Avengers!" he began to explain to the Maiden. He could see the confused look that came across Edwards face at the mention of the Avengers. "The Avengers are earths mightiest heroes! Wasp who is also known as Janet Pym is a sizeshifter who has the ability to fly like an insect!" he said looking from Edward to Wasp. The sizeshifter who was getting use to Edward's scary appearance had moved closer to the Maiden and was no doubt thinking of a thousand questions to ask him when he knew all of the other Avengers. "You already know Thor the God of Thunder!" he continued to say as he looked at Thor who was still keeping a place beside Edward. "Hulk is the green skinned monster who is the strongest Avenger there! Beside him his Hawkeye our archer who has never missed a shot in his life as a SHIELD agent and as an Avenger!" he said pointing out the two Avengers sitting on the couch. They were keeping their wits about them in a sign that they did not trust Edward. Something that would need to change when they need to work together when fighting both Seth and Unicron. "Natasha is an assassin from Russia also nicknamed the Black Widow and we also have the Black Panther!" he said pointing to the two members of the Avengers who remained silent through the whole thing. "Finally we have Ant-Man another sizeshifter who can communicate with ants and other insects along with Iron Man who is the son of Howard Stark!" he finished to the two last Avengers who were in their full uniforms.

Edward looked from Iron Man to Captain America. "That is Starks son? I thought he had died before he started a family! I mean he never spoke of having a son when me and Nightshade meet up with him during the 80s when he was still looking for you!" Edward said when he was still looking at Captain America.

Iron Man made to say something about his father but Black Panther finally spoke, "We must start to discuss why we have come together today! If two Gods of Chaos have their eyes set on our world we must be ready for them! And that means to come up with a plan!"

Edward nodded his head in agreement to the Black Panther as he looked back at Captain America. "Just before I arrived here I got a message from Nightshade from the Moonray! She told me that what she is doing is keeping Unicron focused on Cybertron while we wait for Seth to strike here on Earth! Nightshade said that on Cybertron the best scientists are looking into a way to trap Unicron so that he can not escape and help Seth again! She also told me that there is due to be a huge fight on Cybertron very soon!" Edward explained to all the Avengers as he and Captain America took their seats at the table.

"Do we know where Seth is going to strike?" Natasha asked from where she was sitting at the meeting table. "Or do we just wait until he finally makes a move on some city?" she asked all the Avengers in hopes that one of them knew what they could do.

Edward looked at his broken and black nails as he thought of what little they knew about Seth.

"The only thing we can do is wait for Seth to make a move and hope that Nightshade and Galvatron deal with the other Chaos God on Cybertron!" Captain America said looking at all the other Avengers. "Seth is one of the few villains that has been faced that we knew very little about! That includes how he thinks and plans his moves! We can only wait until Seth makes a move! That is all that we can do!" he finished looking at all the Avengers who sat around the table.

"So we wait around until this Seth decides to show his face?" Hawkeye asked looking at the rest of the Avengers.

"That is all that can be done at the moment Agent Barton!" Black Panther spoke towards the blonde archer.

"Just great!" Hawkeye mumbled to himself.