Chapter 1: Plan B
Authors Note: This is just a little intro for my character, the next chapter will feature everyone's characters. I would like to thank everyone for their characters and I hope you will stick around to see this through to the end. I have gotten a lot of interesting characters and I think you will all enjoy them.
Authors Note: I do not own The Avengers
(Berlin, 8:30 P.M.)
In an abandon warehouse in the cold winter of Berlin, a group of Red Skull fanatics were gathered around a few large crates full of illegal firearms. They each grabbed an assault rifle, automatic shotgun, grenade launcher and a rocket launcher and examined each weapon closely.
"Brothers, these tools are no mere firearms that are sold to the general public, these are high end fire arms that once belonged to, Tony Stark." The man with a red falcon tattooed across his forehead announced to his brothers in arms.
This man was known as, Hans Gunter. He was one of the biggest arms dealers in Germany and the leader of the Red Skull faction. He had hoped that one day he would lead an army following the goals of Red Skull and to bring in a new world order, but in order to do that he would need and army of his own in the same way as his idol.
The only problem, there was someone else living up to his idol's goal as well.
"With weapons like these in the hands of our fellow men, we will lead an army so strong that even the Avengers will not be able to stand a chance against us." He boasted. His men looked at him with great skepticism.
"Um…no disrespect, but while these weapons are good and the money they will bring will be better, there is no way we will stop the Avengers with this arsenal or our numbers. Maybe if we had some armor like Iron Man or the strength of the Hulk, but I don't see us taking on the Avengers with bullets and rockets."
"True, but what about in five years, when we finally got the word out that the Red Skull was supreme and with the money we bring in, we will have a grand army, not even the Avengers will stop us."
Suddenly, before they could even understand the grand scheme of things, something crashed from above them. They heard noises that sounded like Iron Man's jets, but when they finally got a look at what stood before them they didn't know what to make of it.
The whole thing was jet black with silver outlining the arms and legs, with a pair of glowing, slanted, yellow eyes staring at the group of men. The head was shaped like a bird's beak as the arms took the shape of wings and the feet looked like talons. They all stood before the being as it's wings transformed into fist.
"Drop the weapons and place your hands on your head!" The modulated voice echoed around them.
One of the grunts didn't want to listen and grabbed one of the assault rifles and started to open fire at the Iron Man knockoff. The mysterious man raised his left hand and his wing reformed from his arm, deflecting the bullets. When the grunt had run out of bullets, the man raised his right hand and blasted him with a stun bolt, causing him to fall to the ground twitching.
Another minion went to grab a rocket launcher, but the man in black had leaped in and using his wing, cut the launcher in half, before delivering a right hook to the man's head. He went down quick as he took down the remaining grunts with quick attacks and non-lethal blasts from his arsenal.
Hans was the only one left standing as the mysterious man had transformed his right arm into a small thermal cannon and he had it aimed right at Hans's head.
"Hans Gunter, you are under arrest for dealing illegal firearms and gang activity. Stand down or die."
"Okay, you have me." Hans shrugged as he had both hands in his pocket. "I surrender. Who are you, Iron Man or Robo Bird?"
"Steel Crow, Crow for short, now show me your hands!"
"Of course, there is no need to be so aggressive I am as helpless as a kitten in a tree." He removed his hand from his coat and wrapped around his right hand was a gold and silver glove with a small purple orb glowing on the back of his hand. He closed his fist and his eyes glowed dark purple while the veins in his face glowed a lighter purple. "It wasn't just guns I was trying to distribute."
Hans raised his armored hand and grabbed the weapons crate and to Crow's surprise he lifted it over his head with one hand. Crow's HUD had picked up and energy spike and from what his scans were picking up it was surging from the glove to the crate.
Hans threw the crate at Crow, who activated his missile pod launcher on his right shoulder. He fired off two missiles, destroying the crate in midair, but the resulting blast combined with Hans's energy had leveled half of the building.
Crow was sent flying through the brick walls and out into the scrap yard of the warehouse.
"Feather," Crow called out to his A.I. "I need a beat on this guy."
"Stand by, Mr. Crane." His A.I. Feather called out.
Crow examined the area for Hans, but so far, he was not finding anything on his scanners. He was starting to think that he had been taken out in the explosion, before the bastard had snuck up on him and managed to land a punch across his face, shattering some of his armor. Crow was shocked when his HUD went down and he could feel the cold air seeping through the crack in his helmet.
Nothing on Earth could penetrate his armor so easily, let alone break it. Hans didn't give him enough time to think, before he leaped towards him and grabbed Crow by his throat. He lifted him up in the air with his armored hand, while his free hand started to summon a dark energy ball.
"I guess there is only one real Iron Man in this world." Hans boasted.
"I told you bitch, my name is, Steel Crow!" Crow snapped. "Feather, short swords!"
"You got it!"
Both arms transformed into short swords and Crow quickly swiped both blades across Hans's wrist, severing both his hand and the orb from his body. Hans screamed in pain as the energy from his one good hand seeped back into his body. Crow's helmet had repaired itself and Feather started to go mad.
"The energy from his hand is starting become unstable, we have to get out of here, now!" Feather shouted. Crow activated his jets and he took off as far away as he could from Hans, who started to glow brighter and brighter, before exploding, turning the warehouse into a crater.
Crow looked down at the damage that was caused. He shook his head in disappointment, wishing he could have taken them all in alive, but he wasn't expecting to take on an alien relic. He looked down at the severed hand that was still clutched in his steel hand and he was surprised to see that the orb that had granted Hans his power was gone. The gauntlet was still intact, but Feather couldn't find a trace of energy.
"Feather, call Fury and let him know we are on our way." Crow said to his A.I.
"Yes, Mr. Crane." Feather said as he called the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D, Nick Fury.
"Crow, I've been listening to everything from the news to Facebook, what the hell happened?" Fury demanded, he was living up to his name with the anger spilling through Crow's HUD.
"Good question, I don't know." Crow informed him as he flew back to H.Q. "I got the drop on them and decided to go Non-Lethal, but Hans pulled out a small gauntlet with a purple orb on it. I couldn't even get a chance to land a decent hit on him before he started blowing shit up all around me. I managed to literally disarm him, but when I severed the gauntlet from his body, the energy just went crazy and turned him into a mini nuke."
"Do you still have the gauntlet?" Fury asked.
"Yes, but the energy that came with it is gone and Feather ran a full scan on the object and none of the scans match any of the element on Earth's periodic table, so Feather dug into some old S.H.I.E.L.D files and the only match that came up was Loki's scepter that held the Mind Stone."
"Shit, so who ever made that gauntlet is the same one who made that scepter." Fury sighed as Feather came up with more data.
"Not only that, but the energy from that explosion, it matches the same bursts from the Tesseract when Loki used it to open that portal." Crow informed his boss. "So, we have an unstable alien weapon that has the same power as the Infinity stone and we have no idea who gave it to Hans or why?"
"And we don't know if there are any more out there, this situation went from bad to shit real fast." Fury said in a worried tone of voice. He let out another breath and cleared his throat.
"Okay, come on back to base so we can come up with a plan."
"Call the Avengers?" Crow asked.
"Nah, you know that those days are over what with half of them on the run and the other half on the governments leash. It's time for plan B."
"Plan B?" Crow asked as he continued flying back to H.Q.
(!)
(New York, Harlem, 4:30 A.M.)
Crow had made his way to an old run-down apartment building and carefully casted off his armor as he entered through the back door. His black armor slowly deconstructed itself from head to toe as it all sunk into his left arm, leaving only a black feather on the underside of his arm. Crane had been wearing a wife beater and basket ball shorts under his black armor along with a pair of brown boots. His messy black hair was itching from being cooped up in his helmet for too long, leaving it itchy as he made his way down the hall and to a broken looking elevator.
He pressed his index finger on the down button of the broken panel, activating the scanner as it blinked green.
"Welcome, Agent Crane."
The V.I. said as the entire wall split open, revealing a clean and shiny elevator. Crane stepped in and he took it down into what he called home. After S.H.I.E.L.D was dismantled, Fury had only a few spots left in the world where no one could find him. This base in Harlem was one of them.
He brought Crane in a year afterwards when he had acquired Feather, his Nano Suit and the two have been trying to tidy up ever since.
Crane walked down the clean corridor and made his way into the war room and saw his boss leaning over the round data table that took up the center of the room.
"So, what is plan B?" Crane asked.
"We're putting together another team." Fury explained. Crane rolled his eyes.
"The last time that happened they ended up nearly killing each other." Crane stated. Fury glared at him with his one good eye.
"Yeah, but they also saved, New York and if things keep going on like this then how long will it be before that explosion you saw earlier takes out New York, L.A. or half of the damn planet?"
"Okay, but what if these guys aren't willing to go along with us?"
"You did, these guys are no different. They just want to be left alone but being alone won't help them when the next army from space decides to pay us a visit." Fury explained. He pulled out a tablet and held it out to Crane. "Now, will you help recruit these people or should I look elsewhere."
Crane let out a deep breath and nodded before taking the tablet. He started going through the files and he tried to figure out who he would recruit first.