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Chapter Two: The Search for the Enemy

Katara: Soldier, mechanist, god, spy, archer, monster

(One by one, six figures do something to show off their skills: the soldier blocks an attack with his shield, the mechanist has armor envelope him and then uses the repulsor on his hand to blast something, the god holds a powerful hammer high to summon a bolt of lightning, the spy drops down from above and displays a few moves, the archer rolls across the ground and fires a few arrows, and finally the monster comes down from a jump and smashes his huge fists on the ground.)

Katara: When these heroes come together, they can do many great things.

(All six of the heroes stand in a spinning circle as they are surrounded by villains and arch enemies)

Katara: Working together they had saved their world.

(The team fights against an army of alien warriors in a city as a portal swirled open above them. The portal closed and the alien soldiers dropped to the ground.)

Katara: Soon, the heroes will journey to save another world.

(Up beat music plays as the title emerges from the sun)

The Avenging Avatar

Avatar Roku: Previously, on Avenging Avatar…

The Red Skull stands before a wrecked ship with some Hydra soldiers and waited as they ran to the wrecked ship. Then he says, "We should hurry and get him inside."

The scene flashes to the prison break…

Arnim Zola in his robotic body with standing with armored Justin Hammers and the Abomination as they make their escape.

Final scene flash to the Avengers defeating the rioters and being informed of the situation…

Both Captain America and Black Widow yell, "Hydra!"

Avengers Tower, New York City (January 1, 2014 3:00 p.m.)

The Avenger's Quinjet, a small but incredibly sufficient flying craft, made its way over the tall buildings of New York City. Inside the Quinjet, the Avengers sat in different spots as they waited to land. Once they neared the tower, Tony being at the controls started the landing procedures. Flipping a few switches, he readied the landing gear and let Jarvis in the towers mainframe now to begin. The Quinjet landed on the landing pad, and the mechanisms started to turn the jet around to where it could take off again when needed.

The door opened to let the team out of the jet. They all walked into the tower with thoughts on their mind. They were all thinking about what the guard said about the prison break.

Flashback

"I suppose that the fragile organization could be behind this." The guard guessed from what Steve and Natasha thought. He then he said, "That agent that was involved with Project Insight, um…"

He had to pause for a moment and then said, "Rumlow! That's right! Agent Rumlow broke out of custody after he was, somewhat healed, and hasn't been seen since."

Before any of the Avengers could say anything, another guard came running up to the guard they were talking to and whispered something into his ear. The Avengers waited for them to finish, and when they did the first guard's eyes grew wide when he loudly shouted, "What do you mean you can't find Justin Hammers and The Abomination!"

All the other guards and no longer unconscious prisoners gasped at this. It also brought some worry to both Tony and Bruce as they looked to one another. Cap and the others looked worried as well. Steve stepped toward and asked, "Do you have any idea where they might have gone."

Both guards shook their heads as a new voice said, "No, but we can tell you something about your old friends Hammers and Blonsky."

Both guards and all the Avengers looked to see a familiar face appear through the door. Nicholas J. Fury stepped into the mess hall, still disguised in his exile outfit of black clothing and a black snow cap. He still wore an eye patch over his eye. The team walked over to the former director of the destroyed organization S.H.I.E.L.D. as he picked his way around the mess.

"What do you mean, about Hammers?" Tony asked him. Fury pulled a tablet from his coat and turned it to an image. The team had to crowd amongst themselves to see. They had to make room, and as they tried to get a good view, they comically got in each other's way, but they did manage to make themselves comfortable to watch. It was a video of the breakout, and they saw the robot make its way to the cell doors. Fury paused it for a moment and said, "Me and Agent Hill were able to remove the sound of the alarms to hear what they were saying." He starts it up again, with the audio on high…

They hear conversation when the robot says, "Greetings, gentleman." Steve and Natasha immediately recognized the voice.

"Who are you?" A deep voice on the robot's left asked. The robot turned its head and said, "My name is Arnim Zola, once and still a great scientist of Hydra. And I am here to present you with an opportunity."

None of the Avenger's eyes left the screen as they heard the two prisoners agree. Both the small business man and the giant monster walk out of their cells. Fury pauses it again and said, "We also caught something else on the cameras."

Using his finger, he fast forwarded the video to where the three villains were temporarily stopped by some of the guard robots. They then noticed that Justin was wearing some form of Ironman suit. The five other Avengers looked to Tony as he stared at Justin's suit. Turning around, the billionaire left the mess hall while putting his Ironman helmet back on.

End Flashback

As most of the Avengers went to discuss, Tony lagged behind as he walked. The first of the others to notice was Steve. Slowing himself down, he allowed Tony to catch up. Turning to his comrade, the super soldier asked, "You doing okay Tony? What you saw on the Raft must have shaken you really hard, since you're not really acting like yourself."

"Oh, you have no idea." The engineer told him. Looking over to his friend, Stark said, "That was one of my suits, Steve. That was one of my suits!" He became very angry as he threw his hands up into the air. He shouted, "How in the heck did Zola and Hydra get a hold of one of my suits?"

"I'm not sure." Was all that Steve could tell him. Then giving his much younger friend a promise he said, "But we will find out what exactly is going on, I can promise you that much."

It seemed to make Tony feel a little better as he kept walking. They went into the conference room and sat in the chairs provided. As soon as they were all sat down, Steve motioned for Tony to pull up what they knew of Hydra's involvement. As the holo-images shimmered in front of the Avengers, Steve then said, "Ok, here's is what we know: the whatever remaining forces of Hydra are probably being led by both an upgraded Zola and a busted out Rumlow, they've just recruited both Abomination," Bruce looks away remembering the last time he had fought him, "and Justin Hammers, whom they just gave a suit."

"I can immediately tell that that suit was probably designed to help him in combat." Tony observed. He scoffed when he said, "I know that because it took me a while to get used to being in the suit." Standing up, Tony moved to where he could focus the team on the suit Justin was wearing. Grabbing the holo-image, he moved it away from the table and onto the nearby wall. As soon as it reached the wall, the image enlarged itself to show what the suit looked like. As Tony and the others took a much closer look at it, the mechanist gasped at what he was looking at. Steve noticed the reaction on his friend's face and asked, "What is it, Tony?"

Pointing to the suit, Tony turned to the others and informed them, "That's the Mark Forty-Two armor."

Natasha then asked, "Isn't that the armor you used against the Mandarin and his Extremist soldiers not too long ago? But wasn't it destroyed in the fight?"

Tony could only nod and then he commented, "It was, and now its back. Only now, someone's rebuilt it and gave it a butt ugly makeover." He cut out the part with Zola's body, saw some-thing else and then said, "Jarvis, could you please run Zola's new action figure body for me, please?"

"Already on it sir." The A.I. replied. Jarvis scanned the image of Zola's body and started to run through schematics and parts of the machine. A moment later, the A.I. informed, "It appears to be a copy of the design of the prototype that you had planned for me."

Bruce slowly looked to Tony and said, "What exactly did you have planned for Jarvis?"

"Don't worry. It's nothing dangerous, I swear." Stark said with his hands up and then said, "It was meant to be something for Jarvis to walk around in, to be able interact more with everyone."

"Indeed." Jarvis said to help ease the tension. Putting off the argument, Thor then said, "What about this 'Abomination' character? Who is he and how big of a threat is he?"

"Oh," Bruce chuckled with aggravation in his voice and said, "Blonsky, a former soldier that worked under Ross, until he saw the power of the Hulk." The scientist pointed at the picture of Abomination and continued, "Basically going through same kind of process as me, Blonsky slowly went through the transformation, but him as Abomination makes the Hulk look more friendly by civilian standards."

"All three of them a considered truly dangerous. Especially now that they've started their little boy band." Nat stated.

"Only one real question now," Clint spoke up. Everyone looked to him as he asked the million dollar question, "How do we find these freaky weirdos?"

Hydra Sub, Pacific Ocean (January 1, 2014 11:30 p.m.)

The Hydra Sub made its way through the Pacific Ocean without any mishaps. The gathered recruits were standing in various spots in the control room. Abomination paced around in a circle and growled like a dog that was starving. Crossbones was giving orders to the Hydra soldiers who were controlling the sub while the Red Skull and the giant suit armor stood behind them. Justin had his helmet off as he stood next to the automatized Zola.

A thought popped into the businessman's head, so he leaned over and asked the scientist of Hydra, "How is this big sub able to move about without being detected by sonar from a sub from any of the world's armies? I mean, I'm not complaining, but I was just wondering."

Arnim Zola lightly chuckled at this and explained, "I have designed this sub so it could not truly be detected by ze sonar of ze modern age. Whatever shows up on another's screen will just tell them that there is nothing to see."

"Oh, okay." Hammers said as he processed it. The businessman then looked to the Red Skull and asked, "So where are we going, if I may ask?"

Johann Schmidt gave a small smile as he turned around and said, "We are heading to base on the island chain known as Hawaii." He started moving around the console while saying, "There we will begin the stages of my plan."

"What sort of plan exactly?" Abomination asked. The Red Skull only turned his head slightly and said, "Let's just say, that if we are successful in getting to where we are truly going, you can bring all the smashing and destruction you want."

Abomination smiled at being able to use his powers the way that he wanted to. But a new thought came to his mind, or rather an old thought resurfaced itself and took away the smile. The thought of destroying the only one who could challenge him, the Hulk. He wanted to fight Hulk again, and his friends if the opportunity presented itself, but this time he would make sure that HE was the victor. Seeing something on the console, the Abomination saw that the words were spelled in English, and they said 'cloak signal' under a switch. The Abomination smiled again as he tried to quietly make his way over to the control. Making sure that no one was looking, Abomination gently flipped the switch, turning off the cloaking signal and thus letting the world know of their position.

Avengers Tower, New York City (January 2, 2014 6:00 a.m.)

While some of the other Avengers slept, two were getting in a rigorous amount of training. Steve punched away on a bag in one room as Thor fought some training robots in another. Both of them had a lot of thoughts on their mind.

Thor knew that he was unfocused as he dodged a strike from a robot the size of the Hulk. As he rolled back from the robot he became distracted by questions about yesterday's events. Right as he jumped back at the robot, he started to ask himself just as he punched the robot's head in, My friends are on edge because of their villains resurfacing. I wish I could do something to alleviate their fears.

Thor jumped over the robot as it fell face first. Looking to his downed fake opponent he thought, I know that they will not be able to feel better about the gathering Hydra soldiers and I do wish that I could call upon Heimdall for his help, but I cannot take him away from his duties to Asgard since what happened with the dark elves.

Sighing at not being able to be useful to them, Thor sat down on a bench to think. He remembered something that his mother would do to try to relax his father when he became distracted as he was. A smile formed on the thunder god's face as he got up and ran out of the training room. As he did, he nearly ran into Steve on the way. Steve was caught off guard by the rushing Asgardian, who offered a quick, "Sorry about that my friend, just in a hurry for something."

Without another word, Thor continued to run past him. Steve only watched as the prince of Asgard kept running.

Avengers Tower, New York City (January 2, 2014 7:30 a.m.)

Tony had been lying comfortably in his bed as he dreamed of a romantic dinner with Pepper Potts on the beach. In the dream they were sitting at a table with a view of the ocean enjoying a steak dinner when a new smell came about his nose. Tony's eyes snapped open as he suddenly knew that it wasn't steaks he was smelling. Sitting up in his bed he threw the covers off and quickly walked out the door. As he ran through the hall, Natasha, Clint and Bruce started to come out of their rooms. All three looked to each other before following the billionaire who was following the smell.

The four newly awoken Avengers came down to the kitchen area to find an odd sight. Thor was hunched over a stove with a spatula in one hand. He flipped something in the air and caught it as he hummed some sort of Asgardian tune. Putting what ever it was onto a plate, Thor turned around to reveal a funny sight: him wearing a black cooking apron and in his arms was a plate of pancakes. Bruce could only stare in bewilderment while the other three started to snicker at the sight. At that same moment, Steve walked into the kitchen area and immediately saw what the other four were seeing and his eyes grew wide. Knowing that he would regret this, he asked, "Um… Thor, what are you doing?"

"Making us a meal to lift our spirits, dear friends." Thor simply said as he turned to pour batter on the skillet and let the next batch of pancakes start to cook. Tony was on the verge of laughing as he asked, "We see that, but I think what we're all thinking is how come you're wearing that apron?"

"When I was younger, sometimes Mother would cook for us and/or Father when we had something plaguing our minds." Thor explained as he flipped one of the pancakes. Moving to flip another he said, "And during one of those times, Loki and I would watch her prepare something." After flipping two more pancakes, he looks to the wall and stares off into space. But before he could dwell on the past Thor shook his head and said, "Anyways, when she cooked she might have let us help her, but she always made us wear something so that we wouldn't get too dirty."

Thor put the newly made pancakes on another plate before turning to put them down on the table. With a gesture of his hands he said, "Enjoy."

One by one, each of the five other Avengers took a plate and put at least two pancakes on their plate. They sat down in a lounging area as Thor took a moment to bring them all five cups of orange juice. Setting all the cups next to his friends, Thor got his own two stack tall plate of pancakes. Steve and the others were a little hesitant at first, but the super soldier decided to be the brave one and after cutting up a piece he put it into his mouth. Tony and the others waited to see if anything would happen, but Steve looked as if he were enjoying the meal. With-out another thought the other Avengers started digging in.

Thor smiled as he started to eat as well. Bruce, liking the taste so much, asked, "These are actually pretty good, Thor."

"Thank you Banner." The Asgardian still smiled and then said, "It was actually quite difficult to find a goat to milk."

This makes his friends pause while they were eating. One by one they looked down at their plates. With his mouth full, Clint asked, "This has goat's milk in it?"

"Verily." Thor proudly states. Motioning back with his thumb to the stove he then said, "Though it was much easier to get the goat here for its milk."

Steve and the others stopped eating and looked up from their plates. Turning their heads to the kitchen area, they saw a goat walk from behind the counter. Clint, Natasha and Tony looked back down at their plates and started to feel a little sick. But when they looked to Bruce and Steve, they were shocked to find them still eating. Both their fellow Avengers noticed them looking at them as they took another bite.

"What?" Steve questions. Bruce then said in mid-chew, "The goat's milk actually doesn't do much to throw off the taste."

That didn't do anything to change the three's minds as they set their plates down still feeling a little grossed out. Thor looked at them with a confused face, but before he could say anything Jarvis spoke up through the television, "I don't mean to interrupt, Mr. Stark, but some-thing had come up on the scanners a few minutes ago."

"What was it?" Steve asked. Through the screen, Jarvis displayed a signal beacon beeping on a grid of the world. All the Avengers paid close attention as Jarvis said and made the image of the beacon more locatable, "Around eleven thirty last night, a satellite over the Pacific Ocean picked up a radar transmission about two-hundred miles off of the coast, west of Hawaii and this is what the military informants had said…"

"Radar picked something up… looks pretty big and moving really fast…" Who ever was talking said. Jarvis then said, "I tried to use the satellite to get a closer look at the sub, but it was too deep for anything to see." The Avengers didn't say anything as Jarvis started to pull up a different image and said, "But I was able to get an image from the militaries radar scan."

The image was immediately displayed and the team gasped. What they were seeing was a giant octopus shaped submarine. Steve looked to the other Avengers and said, "I think we all know what this means."

The other five look to him and nod in confirmation. Standing up he said, "Get ready to move out."

A/N: And with that Episode 2 of the Prologue Episodes is done. Stay tuned for the conclusion of the Prologue episodes before the Avengers dive into one of their greatest adventures to come from a fans mind. Please Review if you wish and I will keep writing to the best of my abilities.