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A/N: So coming up next it the Iron Fist. I'm excited to post his chapter (I've already written them all). So that's pretty good. I've got time to work more upcoming chapters I think there's going to be one Luke chapter and then Sam's four chapters from his chapter. So just a little look into the future. Anyway not much else to say. Enjoy!
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Chapter 15: Ava
"When Fury said 'who's in for underwater operation?' I pictured flippers, swimming with dolphins, and tropical waters in the Bahamas. But what do I get? A SHIELD aqua-suit in the middle of the Hudson River. P-U." Spider-Man complains as he leads us down into the depths of the Hudson River.
"The sooner we get to it, the sooner we get done. Talk less, swim more." I report to him.
"What are we doing down here anyway?" Nova complains.
"I - told you - " Fury's voice comes over our com system, the signal breaking up between his words. "Find me - Thor - Got it?"
"Uh," Nova process for a second. "I got like half of that."
"Isn't it obvious?" I ask him. "Thor was battling an unknown villain near this location and crashed into the river. You don't read the SHIELD Newsfeed?"
I know he doesn't.
"Oh! Of course, always, never miss it." Nova answers sarcastically.
"Fury wants us to find Thor and whatever is causing the power surge with our comlinks." Spider-Man's voice says straight into my ear.
"Yo!" Power-Man calls. "Over here! Check it out!"
We swim over to watch him push some rubble around to reveal a huge suit of armor.
"Whoa," I mutter.
"What is that?" Nova asks.
"It looks like Asgardian Armor." Iron Fist speaks up. He's been really quiet up until now. "And look." He points to the grey stone that seems to be a centerpiece for the armor.
"Did someone say Norn Stone?" Spider-Man asks.
"Director Fury, we found something," I report as we watch the unmoving armor.
"Good, but - it's unsecure - make sure you - touch it." Fury replies.
"Did he say touch it?" Nova asks.
"No," Power-Man corrects. "He said 'don't touch it.'"
"I'm telling you what I heard," Nova argues. "He distinctly said touch it."
"Hey! Bucket Head!" Spider-Man steps in. "It's Asgardian, you touch it, who knows what happens. Poof! You turn into a frog, a pig, a…" He trails off to his imagination for the slightest second.
"Hey," Spider-Man rephrases. "On second thought, I do think Fury said touch it."
"Wait." "Is that reverse psychology, Arach-nerd? You touch it!"
They. Are. Children.
"No." Spider-Man replies.
"Then just admit it, you're scared of a little Asgardian Hocus Pocus. No one will hold it against you." Nova taunts.
"Yeah, well you'd look great with tentacles." Spider-Man pushes Nova's arm away. "We could call you Chum Bucket-Head."
"Hey!" Nova shoves Spider-Man and the sand from the bottom of the river begins to fly up around us.
Oh no…
"Quit acting like children!" I shout at them as more and more sand blocks my vision.
I heard what sounds like Spider-Man falling and something glows brightly through the sand.
"If I never see another Asgardian it will be too soon," Spider-Man muttered under his breath.
Of course, Loki, how come we didn't even think of that?
Lightning strikes the ground right in front of us sending us all flying backward.
As the smoke clears we see Thor's hammer sitting in the creator it made.
"Thor's hammer." Nova comments, but where's…?"
The hammer shakes and then falls over as Thor appears from under it.
He's shrunk down just like we are.
That's not a good sign.
"Spider-Man?" Thor asks as he turns to face us.
Spider-Man spits out his pacifier. "Thor? Thor! We've been looking everywhere for you! What happened?"
Thor puts his tiny hands on his hammer and picks it up with a bit of a struggle, pulling it on his shoulder.
"By a mystic Norn Stone, I was transformed." He explains before falling over backward. "I came to warn Fury of Loki's plan, alas it appears I come too late. You are too tiny to wage war."
"Too tiny?" Spider-Man sounds offended. "No, we're good to go. Right gang?"
"Um, yeah no," I answer.
"Your friends do not seem as confident as you, Man of Spiders." Thor notices.
"Fury might be right." I point out. "We might only get in the way. We couldn't even escape D.A.Y.C.A.R.E."
"What are you talking about?" Spider-Man asks. "Our size? That's nothing. We put our minds together there's nothing we can't do."
Something crashes in the background and Thor instinctually goes for his hammer. "Make haste, I know that sound. The destroyer is loose!"
He spins in a circle to gain momentum for his hammer and launches it at the window.
"Warning!" Coulson's voice comes from one robot. "Discipline Imminent."
The hammer comes back, beheading the two robots that were outside.
"Well-meaning robots with the face of the Son of Coul!" Thor picks up his hammer. "Into the fray!"
He runs out of D.A.Y.C.A.R.E. and we chase after him.
This is going to end well I can feel it already.
"I told you we could do this." Spider-Man chatters as he web-swings. "So Loki turned us into bobbleheads, so what?"
"Through magic," Thor explains. "Loki has made himself the elder son of Asgard. And as such, he holds the authority to wield the weapons of Asgard. The most powerful of which is the destroyer."
"The Destroyer, you mean that empty suit of armor we found?" Spider-Man clarifies.
"That 'empty suit of armor' as you call it is a machine of unstoppable power," Thor explains.
That's just great.
The bay doors open and we rush into the room to see the Destroyer standing and taking plenty of open fire from SHIELD Agents.
Of course, it's going to be next to indestructible.
"The Destroyer," Thor does another spin and launched himself at the suit of armor.
"Let's go, gang." Spider-Man orders as we rush in to help.
I rush in and jump up onto its arm to go for the head.
"Tiger! Look Out." Iron Fist appears out of nowhere beside me and pulls me down, getting under me to shield me from the fall. I look up to see the Destroyer blast where I had just been.
"Thanks," I mutter getting off of him and to my feet.
"No problem." He nods as we both start to rush in again, only to have the metal floor blasted at our feet, sending up smoke and hot metal.
Cackling, it has to be Loki.
Iron Fist and I look up to see the green smoke appearing beside the Destroyer as it stops attacking.
"How does it feel, little brother?" Loki asks as he floats in the air.
"Little brother, heh." Spider-Man laughs.
Thor looks over in his direction.
"What? It's a small price to pay for a good pun." He goes on. "Small price, see what I did there?"
"Loki, stop this madness you are playing with powers beyond you," Thor advises as calmly as he can.
"Beyond me?" Loki asks. "That's funny coming from someone so beneath me."
Spider-Man shoots a web up and goes after the suit of armor while it's not attacking.
"Get off my ship." Fury orders appearing with two guns blasting at the same time.
Fury dodges out the way as the Destroyer blasts him and Thor uses the opening.
I feel helpless. But what am I supposed to do here?
Thor goes in for one more hit and knocks the destroyer over and causes the floor to give out, dropping them to the city.
"We got to help Thor!" I look at Spider-Man waiting for him to give the word.
"Follow me, I have a big idea." I can hear the smirk in his tone.
He turns around and takes off in the other direction.
"No!" Loki shouts from inside the suit. "The Norn Stone! Give that back!"
Spider-Man webs it and swings it around above his head. "Not until you say the magic word."
He uses the force of the swing and throws it over to me.
I grab the stone and cut the webbing off of it.
It feels funny in my hand like it's warming up.
I close my eyes and when I open them again I look down at my body, back to normal.
"It worked."
"Stop this right now! I command you!" Loki shouts.
I stand up on the hanging sign. "Power-Man, grow up!" I throw the stone away from Loki as he approaches me.
He catches it as I watch Loki fall short of jumping up to get me.
Power-Man glows briefly and changes back. "Sweet Christmas." He muses for a second before spotting the Destroy headed in his direction.
"Three-pointer to Iron Fist," He throws it like a basketball. "Not so tough anymore, huh Loki?"
"Yeah, you want to take your ball, or stone in this case, and go home?" Spider-Man taunts Loki.
Iron Fist catches the stone under his foot and also changes.
He's holding a hockey stick and takes his shot, sending it to Nova who catches it easily. "He shoots, he scores."
Nova catches it in a baseball glove.
Boys and their sports toys, I just shake my head.
Nova grabs the stone out of the glove and changes too. "Take us home Thor."
The Destroyer falls to the ground, landing on it's back.
"It doesn't matter how small you make us Loki." Spider-Man goes on as Thor grabs the stone out of the air and changes. "We're still bigger than you because we know, no matter what size you got to stand up to the bad guys. Heh, rhyme."
He runs out of the way as the Destroyer blasts at him. "Spare me your speeches, you mortals. You won't outwit me."
"Thor!" Spider-Man yells. "Don't leave me hanging."
Thor tosses the stone and green mist appears right in the path of the toss.
Loki…
He materializes just quick enough to catch the stone.
Please let it have the same effect on him that it had on us… please…
"Ha! Mine! You can't defeat me, you're only a child!" He yells at Spider-Man, holding the stone out in one arm.
Great, we still need Spider-Man to change back.
"Oh no."
What?
Green mists swirl around Loki as I let out a breath of relief.
The stone's going to work on him too.
"Outwitted, Again!" Spider-Man shoots his web and catches the Norn Stone, pulling it out of Loki's hands and into his own, changing back to himself.
"I will destroy you all." Loki threatens as Thor picks him up.
"In truth, you need a time out, little brother."
"Curse you, Thor, this plan was foolproof!" Loki rambles. "Turning you all into kids, that was brilliant, that should have worked!"
Spider-Man webs his mouth shut. "Shut it, Jokie. They don't let crybabies into Valhalla."
"Time for your nap, little Loki." Thor laughs.
I'd almost forgotten what it was like to have an older brother.
Seeing Thor and Loki today, even if they are at odds with each other, brought back the memories from when I was little.
Memories from when my family was whole.
"Hey, are you feeling ok Tiger?" Sam asks taking off his helmet.
"Yeah," I pull off my mask. "I'm just thinking."
"What's wrong?" Luke asks.
"Seeing Thor and Loki today… just thinking of a happier time…" I mutter some semblance of an explanation.
Sam takes me by surprise and hugs me around my stomach. "Being apart from family this much does stink."
"It does." I agree, hugging him back. "Losing them is hard too."
It's almost like he knew what I needed.
"Come here." Luke bear hugs us as Danny stands uncomfortably off to the side.
I feel the warm tears streaming down my face.
I miss dad, I miss mom, I miss Hector, I miss Filippo, I miss Awilda, I miss Rey, and I miss Newman and the absolute nothingness that was there.
I miss everything.
"Come on, Danny." Luke coaxes as Danny steps closer.
"Mandatory group hug," Sam adds.
I close my eyes and feel Luke pull Danny into the hug.
"You guys are weird." I laugh as I push Sam away.
"What?" Sam asks.
"A group hug? You're a bunch of teenage boys; you're not supposed to be sympathetic." I laugh whipping my eyes.
"It's the job." Luke lets out a deep breath. "It gets to us all from time to time. You got to watch each other's backs."
"Thanks, Luke." I nod my head. "I'm going to go take a shower now…" I begin to excuse myself.
"Team movie night?" Sam asks.
"Fine with me." I agree.
"Sounds fun," Danny smiles.
"Nothing stupid," Luke warns.
"Deal," Sam says. "I'm going to shower before someone uses all the hot water."
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