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Chapter Three: A Spiritual Confrontation
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.
(Upbeat music plays as the title emerges from the sun)
The Avenging Avatar
Avatar Roku: Previously, on Avenging Avatar…
The team sees that the Abomination and an armored Justin Hammers have escaped from prison.
The scene flashes to The Abomination flipping a switch…
Another flash to Thor making breakfast, trying to lift the team spirits. Jarvis then shows them the Hydra sub on radar. Captain America then says to the team, "Get ready to move out."
Avengers Tower, New York City (January 2, 2014 8:00 a.m.)
Avengers Tower was full of motion as everyone gathered what they needed to fight, all six in a different part of the tower. Tony was in his work shop putting the finishing touches on his newest Ironman suit, this model was supposed to be able to regather energy when not in battle mode, not to mention that it was solar powered with a fast charging power converter. As he used the right tools to program the suit, the lights of the helmet came to life.
Clint sat in his room picking the right arrows for the job while looking at a picture of something on his desk. At his feet was not one specialized arrow quiver, but two: one for his back, and the other to be placed on his side. Feeling as if he had enough arrows, he stands up and thrusts the bow forward to make it fold into a smaller item to make it easier to carry. Placing the folded bow in a compartment in one of the quivers, Clint then places one quiver on his back and the other on his hip as he grabs pieces for something else next. Clint took one final look at the picture before walking out.
Bruce brought out a backpack to bring a few things to keep the Hulk calm before and after the mission. Moving over to a desk he opened a drawer and pulled out a CD player and a pair of headphones. He placed them down in the bag and then grabbed a few meditative CDs from a CD rack on top of the desk. Slinging the bag over his shoulder, Bruce turned to the door. Before walking out, he said to the Other Guy as he turned to the mirror on his desk, "All right, Hulk, let's save the rage until we fight. Once it starts, we go all out. And we won't stop until we beat HIM. Okay?" Hulk responded by making Bruce's eyes flash green for a second. Bruce put a smirk on his face as he started to walk out.
Natasha was in her room practicing some of her moves, as she left two guns and their holsters and her wrist stingers on her bed. With a high kick she smirked before grabbing the guns off of her bed. She put the holsters on her belt and put on her wrist stingers. Her phone vibrated, alerting her to something. Taking it out of her pocket, she turned it on and saw that she had a text message from an unknown phone. It read: Good luck on your mission. Come back alive. Nat smiled at this and put her phone back in her pocket.
Thor was out on the balcony swinging his hammer Mjolnir in practice swings. He thinks of the mission, and he prays to the All-fathers to give him strength to protect the weak and defenseless who may be in danger. Taking one more swing, he lift Mjolnir high up into the air and summons a bolt of lightning while the rest of his Asgardian armor and cape. The action scares off a flock of pigeons from the Tower's roof.
Steve Rogers sat on his bed as he was polishing his shield as he had Jarvis keep him updated on the moving Hydra sub. As he continued polishing, he thought of the last time he fought against Hydra during project insight. Steve thought about when he had to fight Bucky. He hoped his friend was alright, but more importantly he hoped that he was able to get away from Hydra. Suddenly remembering that he didn't have long, he shook his head to clear it of any thoughts other than completing the mission. Throwing the rag he was using aside, he stood up and placed his shield on the holder on his back. Placing his helmet on his head, he walked out the door.
Captain America met the other Avengers as they made their way to the Quinjet's balcony. Looking from one to the other they didn't say anything as they exited the door. Out on the balcony the Quinjet started to open the doors to let the team in. Two by two, the team stepped up the ramp of their Quinjet. Tony, with his suit in briefcase form in his hand, made his way to the controls. As soon as everyone was in Steve turned to Tony and said, "We're ready when you are."
Tony didn't say anything as he started to start the Quinjet's take off procedure. As the Quinjet's engines started to rev up from ignition, it started to hover off of the ground. As soon as they were a few feet off the ground, Tony made the Quinjet fly away from the Tower. Maneuvering it to where it went higher into the sky, Tony pushed a few buttons and flipped a switch or two to make the jet go faster. A moment later the Quinjet flew at a much faster rate, and sped off to the island of fun and relaxation, for tourists anyway.
Hydra Base, Hawaii (January 2, 2014 8:15 p.m.)
The Hydra Base in Hawaii was even more busy, considering that there were a whole lot more people. Inside the central parts of the base, the Red Skull and his newest recruits were walking through the halls. The halls of the Hydra base were hexagonal in shape, each hall was thirty-five feet long and five feet apart there were sliding doors. The group of warriors followed the red skinned leader to a door with the Hydra symbol, just with a few extra symbols to decorate it. Four symbols in total, each of them between two of the tentacles. Three symbols were unidentifiable, but the fourth symbol, the symbol at the top of the looked to be in the shape of fire. As the doors slide open for them, the newly assembled team made their way inside the room. Inside the room as a work table, and a door to the bathroom, but the most impressive thing in the room was a massive portal. On the portal's compass points were the same symbols on the door, and very similar to the door the portal's north point was decorated with the symbol of fire at the top. They made their way into the room, Johann Schmidt then said, "Before we can take over this world, I had made a promise to help someone take over theirs."
Justin, Abomination and Crossbones looked to one another as if they were thinking that he was slightly crazy. But they didn't say anything as the Red Skull walked over to a table with some kind of gloves on it. The gloves looked like they had been designed for a specific purpose. Johann Schmidt chuckled as he said, "Back during the second World War, when I had touched the Tesseract, it had cast me away from this world. Sent me to another realm, an extraordinary one at that.
"There, I had encountered a group of people currently engaged in their own world war. I made them a deal; if I were to help them in conquering their world, then they would help us conquer ours." He explained as he went to put them on. But before he could, a Hydra soldier rushed into the room and ran right up to the Red Skull. Schmidt motioned for Zola to come, and the mechanized scientist came to his side. While the three conversed, Crossbones leaned over a little and said, "What he just said makes me wonder if he met any aliens."
Before they could say anything, the Red Skull let out a shout of anger, "Ergh-Ah!"
They looked over to see the Red Skull slap away the soldier who gave him the message. But instead of telling what was wrong, he ordered to Crossbones, "Go and quickly get the other recruits, and report back here at once!"
The mercenary quickly ran off to carry his leader's orders. Then turning to the other two he still frowned as he said, "It would appear that we will be having some guests after all."
Outside the Hydra Base, Hawaii (January 2, 2014 8:53 a.m.)
A few miles outside of the Hydra Base, the Avengers were sneaking up on from the ground. They had landed their Quinjet a good distance from the base. Cap had thought it was best if they stuck to the ground for the assault. But they had met a surprise on the way here, Colonel Rhodes had apparently been sent to also deal with this threat as well. All of the heroes moved quickly yet silently, even Tony and Rhodes only had the torso and arm parts of their suits active.
As they made their way through forest, they saw a few patrolling Hydra guards coming through the trees. All seven of the heroes quickly hid behind a tree. As the guards came upon their area, Cap saw that they were comprised of six men and one woman and their faces were concealed behind a demonic looking mask and wearing the same colored outfits and cloaks. An idea formed in his head as he used his hands to signal the others. Each of them got the message and got ready to attack.
As soon as the Hydra guards were in between them, Cap nodded to signal them and leapt from his hiding spot. One of the Hydra soldiers turned around only to get his face smashed against the Cap's shield. When the other soldiers turned to see what was going on, one was kicked in the gut and then the head by Natasha while another was ensnared by one of Clint's net arrows. Just as the other four were about to react when two of them get blasted by a repulsor blast from both Tony and Rhodes. The last two stand back to back as they prepared for whatever was coming. One of them was hit from the side by Mjolnir, and when the other turned back after seeing his comrade go down, he was punched in the face by a normal Bruce Banner.
When all seven of the Hydra soldiers lay on the ground unconscious, the team gathered in a circle around them just in case. Tony looked over at Cap and saw that Steve was thinking of a plan. He asked the super soldier, "What are you thinking Cap."
All four of the other Avengers and Colonel Rhodes look to the Captain as he said, "I think that we might have found us a way into the base." He looked to the others as he said, "We infiltrate through a disguise."
But he began to think even more as he thought about the plan, especially when he saw that the guards had some cuffs on them and smirked, "And what say we do a little role playing as well."
20 minutes Later
The now disguised Natasha, Clint, and Bruce in Hydra gear led the now cuffed and disarmed Cap, Thor, Tony and Rhodes through the rest of the jungle. Thor had left Mjolnir in the jungle next to the tied up Hydra soldiers while Clint was carrying the shield and the two of sets of armor in brief case. Cap told them that it was all part of his plan.
The team followed the path that the Hydra soldiers took on the way. As they walked another four miles until they reached the check in point. The heroes walk up to the gate house. When they get close enough for the other Hydra soldiers to see, those who were actually Hydra soldiers tensed up at the sight of three of the Avengers. The disguised Natasha holds up her hand to keep them from firing and then motioned for the other disguised heroes to show them the confiscated gear.
Once showed, the Hydra soldiers laid down their weapons. But there was one who wasn't entirely convinced. A soldier stepped forward and asked, "Isn't the blonde one supposed to have some kind of hammer with him."
"Had to leave it behind." The disguised Bruce said with a deeper voice. Thor then put in his own words about it, "Plus, scum like you are unworthy to touch it."
This earned Thor a single kick to the side from the soldier who questioned about Mjolnir. The disguised Clint couldn't do anything retaliate else it would blow their cover. The other Hydra soldiers gave them clearance to go inside. As they walked through they soon a door that would be their access point. Looking over to Tony he gave him a small nod. Tony understood it and waited for the right moment.
As they came up to the door without any detection, the disguised Nat walked up to the door and slid a key card through the slot. The light on the console flashed from red to green and the door slid open. As they passed through, Tony lightly touched the side of the console, left a small bug and whispered, "Alright Jarvis, do your thing."
The seven heroes walked right in without another word.
Special Hydra Chamber (January 2, 2014 9:13 a.m.)
Back with the Red Skull, Abomination, the robotic Zola and the armored Justin Hammers, all four of them waited as Crossbones started to bring in the other three of their team. As the masked mercenary stepped back into the chamber, behind him came three others; a man in what had appeared to be some kind of yellow bug suit, a woman with dark brown hair and a slender spy suit, and finally a man with long black hair wearing what appeared to be a suit for an assassin, not to mention the shiny, silver metal arm. When Johann Schmidt saw the Winter Soldier before him, he remembered the time that Captain America came to save him and the other Ally soldiers. But he remembered that Zola told him that he was able to bring him under Hydra's control.
"Do we have any more other recruits?" Red Skull asked Rumlow and Zola. Both Hydra agents shook their heads to confirm that they didn't. Smiling a sinister smile he said, "Then we shall open the gateway at once! And we will have no more delays."
Elsewhere in the Hydra Base
The Avengers continued to make their way through the cramped halls of the Hydra Base as they looked for a good spot to throw away the disguises. As they came by a door, it immediately slid open. All seven of the heroes did a vertical lean kind of thing and looked through the door. They saw that it was empty and Cap walked right into the room. The others were quick to follow his lead. As soon as all six of the Avengers and Rhodes was inside the room, the door slid itself shut.
Thor used his Asgardian strength to break his cuffs before moving to Tony and Rhodes. Cap used his super soldier strength to break his cuffs and took his shield back from Clint. Tony and Rhodes did the same. As soon as they had their own gear, Clint, Nat and Bruce started to remove their Hydra disguises to reveal the clothing they had been already been wearing. Tony pressed a few buttons on Rhodes' suit to make it expand into the full Iron Patriot armor. While Rhodes stepped inside, Tony did the same thing for his armor. It expanded into the full body Ironman suit. Stepping inside, the armor closed on the billionaire as the lights lit up. Cap placed his shield on his arm as Clint brought his bow back out. Bruce decided to get angry for this mission and quickly turned into the Hulk.
As soon as they were ready, the team moved back to the door. But it didn't slide back open for them. Nat came up with key card and slid it through the slot, but for some reason it still didn't open. Cap sighed as he placed his shield on his back and moved to the door. Putting his hands where the door parts he uses his strength to pry the doors open. When he couldn't seem to get them open, Thor, Ironman and the Iron Patriot moved to help him. Two men on each side started to pull on the doors. But when they only got it to open a few inches, the Hulk moved forward and gently pushed the four men out of the way. And just before the door could shut, Hulk stuck his fingers through it and with little effort, he pushed them open and started to walk out.
The team wasn't surprised that the Hulk was able to do that, but four of the seven were a little ticked off that Hulk just pushed them aside. They didn't say anything as they started walking through the base again with Cap on point. Tony was using the suit to get in touch with Jarvis. It took a minute, but Jarvis was able to use the secure network to get in contact with Stark. Jarvis then said, "Mr. Stark, I have success-fully infiltrated the network of the base. I await further instructions."
"Get ready to open the doors to the outside since it's part of Cap's plan." Tony told him. He looked at the other doors as he said, "But do me another favor and find out the power relay of the place, any thing else you can find."
"At once, sir." Jarvis told him before going silent. As they walked through the hallways, they came to a fork in the road. Before they could choose anything else, Jarvis contacted the entire team, minus the Hulk, through their ear pieces. The A.I. told them, "I am detecting a large energy source about four rooms down from your position on the right. Though what I am detecting is a little odd."
"How odd?" Natasha asked. Jarvis then said, "It somewhat feels like the energy signature of the Tesseract when it was used in New York two years ago, but a little faint."
"Impossible." Thor said. Everyone agreed with him as he said, "The Tesseract is secured on Asgard. How would this organization have been able to access its power."
"I'm not sure." Was that Steve could say. Looking back he then said, "Jarvis, any news on our incoming friend."
"Incoming is inbound and should be arriving soon." Jarvis informed him. Cap told the A.I., "Tell him to look for Mjolnir and when Thor summons it he's to follow it inside the compound."
"Understood, Captain Rogers. I will run it through him now." Jarvis said as he tuned out. Cap looked to the others and said, "Alright we know where to go, and we know that it's not going to be easy. But what I do know is, that if we hit them fast and hard, then we can end this before it can get too out of hand. Now let's show them what we can do."
Everyone else nodded and started to pick up the pace to where Jarvis said. They soon came by the door and just as they were about to sit and make a plan, they noticed the symbols on the door. This makes a few of them curious as Natasha asks, "What the heck is going on here?"
"I don't know. I've never seen symbols like that before." Iron Patriot said. He looks up and sees and then said, "But if I had to guess, the symbol on top is some-thing for fire."
"We'll figure out what it means later, right know let's get in there and put an end to Hydra's scheme." Steve said as they prepared themselves. Natasha moves to slid the card through the slot, and this time the reader takes it. Light flashes green and the doors slide open. The team waits as the doors slide and sees something that makes their eyes grow wide.
Standing in a row, shoulder to shoulder, the escapees from the Raft, the robotic Arnim Zola, the busted out Rumlow, a woman with short black hair, a man in a robotic bug suit, and a reacquired Winter Soldier. But the sight that truly shocked them was the Red Skull who stood before them. When Johann Schmidt saw that Captain America, a half-smile formed on his face as he said, "Greetings, Captain. I was actually quite surprised when Zola here," He quickly gestured to the mechanized scientist, "told me that you still lived. Even after all these decades. But then again, we both have been given great power haven't we?"
"At least he didn't let his power go to his head, tie-dye job." Tony said with a snarky attitude. The Red Skull didn't take too kindly to that, but didn't say anything as Justin spoke up, "Ah, what's the matter Tony, angry that Hydra was able to take and make an old suit of yours even better?"
"Yeah, that's I believe that's called thievery of copyright." Rhodes remarked. Both he and Tony raised their arms and readied a repulsor blast. Justin did the same with his suit's arms. Thor then said, "Make this easier on yourselves and surrender. Do that and we shall be merciful."
"That truly is a nice offer, but I'm afraid that we'll have to decline." The woman told him with a smirk. Then she lifted her head up a little as she said, "Besides, we have something that might make you quake in your boots."
With that, the Red Skull motioned to the shadows behind the Avengers, making them turn around, and with a loud stomp, the giant suit of armor stepped into the light. All the Avengers, but mostly Thor, were truly shocked by the appearance as the Prince of Asgard said, "Impossible. The Destroyer."
"Is not impossible, your Highness." Johann Schmidt told him. Thor turned his head as the leader of Hydra explained, "You see, through the records of S.H.I.E.L.D. my good friend Zola was able to keep an eye on each of your battles, and when S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken the Destroyer into custody, it was the perfect weapon to use against you."
Thor lightly chuckles at this and said, "Do you think that I am afraid." He turned around and looked Schmidt in the eye he said, "I have beaten the Destroyer once before, and I can assure you that I can defeat it again."
"Perhaps, if the Destroyer had not been resurrected and upgraded by Hydra." The Red Skull said as his frown deepened as his eyes shifted from Thor to Steve. Although the Captain wasn't looking at his enemy at the moment, right now he looked over at the one person he didn't believe that deserved to be brainwashed and once again serving Hydra. He quietly said, "Bucky."
His thoughts were pulled away as the Red Skull and Zola started to laugh. Zola then said, "He is not your friend anymore, Captain." The mechanized scientist turned his head in the direction of the Winter Soldier. The Red Skull then said, "Quite true, Captain, your friend is once again under the power of Hydra. And there is nothing that you can do to change that."
That one statement made Steve's blood boil. Turning to Tony he said, "Do it, Tony"
Nodding, Tony then said, "Jarvis, open the front door and keep all doors to this room open, please."
"It would be my pleasure, sir." Jarvis complied. This confused all of the villains for a moment. As Zola tried to shut the doors to prevent the Avengers from having some sort of advantage, an image appeared on his screen that informed him of something. Turning to his leader he said, "The internal wiring has been com-promised, sir."
Cap turned his voice to Thor and said, "Do your thing Thor."
"With pleasure, my friend." The Asgardian said as he held his hand towards the door. A moment later, Mjolnir came banging through the compound and into Thor's hand. But that's not all that came into the compound: a few seconds later quickly flying through the hexagonal halls, a blur came through the open door and rolled across the ground before taking a kneeling position with two pistols in his hands. Not wasting a second, the man on the ground fired his pistols at the enemy. All of the adversaries, save for Abomination, quickly jumped out of the way of the oncoming bullets. With that happening, the battle immediately started.
Thor turned with a raised arm and threw Mjolnir at the Destroyer armor, causing it to hit the wall behind it. With a mighty leap, Thor jumped at the Destroyer and started to swing his fists at it. But the Destroyer managed to catch one of his punches and with a punch to the gut of its own, it threw the winded Asgardian away. Thor rolled across the ground and came to a stop on his belly. Smirking as he starts to get up, Thor holds his hand out again as Mjolnir comes flying back, this time hitting the Destroyer in the back.
Hulk immediately went into battle with Abomination. Hulk rushed at the more hideous gamma beast, and smacked the real monster in the face with a giant fist. The blow causes Abomination to stumble back a little, but he just looks at the Hulk with a mad grin on his face and smugly said, "Is that all you got?! Is this gonna go like it did before?"
Hulk roared in defiance to this and made another attempt to attack, but Abomination caught the swinging fist and then kicked the Hulk in the chest. The blow caused Hulk to roll back a little, but like Thor he gets back up and balls his fists as he growled in anger. Both gamma monsters roared at each other as they charged at one another.
Natasha and the other woman quickly went at each other with their martial arts. The woman dressed like her came at Nat with a high kick, but Natasha was able to get under it and use a leg sweep. It knocked the other woman on her back before she put her hands against the floor, raised her legs up and then jumped back up into a standing position. With a smirk the other woman rushed Nat as she did a flip in the air and came down with a kick. Natasha quickly flipped out of the way as her foe came down.
Tony, Rhodes, Hammers and the guy in the bug suit went at it up in the air. All four of them were using their blast attacks. Tony kept using his suits maneuver-ability in the air as Hammers tried to blast him. Ducking behind a tall pole right as the repulsor blast hit the spot where he once was, Tony moved to the other side of it and fired a small bunch of mini-rockets at the Hydra recruit. Hammers was able to maneuver out of the rockets way before they exploded, but it left him open to attack as Tony tackled him out of the air. Both men hit the wall, the impact separating the two as they fell onto a high catwalk. Getting up, Tony glared at the former businessman and prepared for when he got back up.
Rhodes kept blasting at the man in the bug-suit, using from repulsor blasts to any of the other weapons on the Iron Patriot suit. The suit was able to out maneuver all of Rhodes attacks as it came right at him. Deciding to use a different tactic, Rhodes waited until his opponent was close enough. A few feet from him, Colonel Rhodes pointed his feet at the guy and used his thrusters to disorient him. The guy flew right by him and bounced off of a nearby wall. As the guy in the bug-suit tried to pull himself together, he turned around right as Rhodes punched him in his helmet.
Clint was having a tough time against the Winter Soldier. Clint had been able to convert one of his bows into a staff of sorts, and was using it to block the punches and kicks that came from the brainwashed super soldier. As Clint jumped out of the way of a kick, he tried to smack the makeshift bo-staff against Bucky's body, but the Winter Soldier catches it with his normal hand. Clint tries to wrestle it from his grasp, but the Winter Soldier raises his robotic arm and brings it down full force, breaking the bow in two. With a kick, the brainwashed super soldier sent Clint tumbling backwards. Clint rolled himself into a kneeling position and reached for his back and pulled out something. With a quick thrust of his arm, he turned the object into his bow. He armed the bow with an arrow and aimed it. As the Winter Soldier came running at him, Clint fired the arrow a few feet in front of him. The arrow transformed itself into a small device. A second later the device let out a sonic blast, making the Winter Soldier cover his ears. With Bucky distracted, Clint shot another arrow and as soon as it touched Bucky's feet, it exploded into some kind of gel that held the Winter Soldier in place. Clint fired three more of the same arrows at different spots on Bucky's body and each spot was coated with the hardening substance. The sonic blast arrow silenced itself as Clint walked over to Bucky. Placing the arrow back in the quiver he walked up to the immobilized Bucky as the super soldier only glared at him. The archer then said, "I know how much you mean to Cap, so that's why I'm not going to killing you." The Winter Soldier didn't say anything as Clint ran off to help someone else in their fight.
Sam Wilson, sometimes known as the Falcon, was trading and blocking blows with the masked Rumlow. Rumlow used his specialized gauntlets as he punched Sam in the gut. The blow knocked the winged pilot into a wall. Crossbones rushed at him and held Sam against the wall with his arm against Sam's throat. Sam could feel the air being cut off and his vision started to dim as the pressure started to build. But luckily fate was on his side when something attached to Rumlow's back and pulled him away from Sam, and a loud bang could be heard. Falling to his knees, Sam started to fight for the breath that he had lost. Once his vision had cleared up, he looked up to see Clint standing before him with a hand extended to him. Sam smiled as he took the archers hand, and with a pull Clint helped Sam back to his feet. Before Sam could thank him, they both heard a yell come from behind Clint. Looking back, they saw that Crossbones was running up to them. Sam looked to Clint and said, "You ready to give this guy a little smack down?" Clint, not looking back, nodded his head. Both Avengers rushed the mercenary.
Steve was fighting against the robotic body of Zola as the Red Skull stood next to the portal. The Cap would use the shield to block the blows from Zola's mechanical fists. The robotic professor tried to use an upper cut, but Steve quickly fell on his back and did a spinning sweep kick. The kick did its job and sent Zola crashing down on his robotic behind. Jumping back on to his feet, Cap used his shield to punch at Zola, but the former Hydra professor was able to avoid the attempts. Zola then raised his left arm and shot a bolo rope at Steve. Cap raised the shield to block the incoming object. As Zola took the time to get up, Steve saw a hanging light fixture over the robot. Aiming with his shield, he threw it to where it would cut the cord. Zola looked up and moved out of the way just as it crashed onto the ground. With Zola's back turned Cap ran at him, and with a jump, he kicked the robot from behind. The blow sent Zola crashing into the table with the gloves on it.
This made Johann Schmidt angry as the gloves flew through the air. Luckily for him, the gloves landed at his feet. Quickly putting them on, the Red Skull then turned his attention back to Captain America. Cap did likewise as he stared his foe down before they charged at one another.
Thor was sent flying backwards by a punch. As he skidded across the ground and came to a stop, the Destroyer slowly walked towards the downed Asgardian. Hulk had just knocked down Abomination to the ground and turned to Thor's fight. Seeing the Destroyer armor standing over his fallen friend and opening up its face mask, Hulk knew that only something bad would happen. Hulk looked at the stirring Abomination and an idea formed in his head. Grabbing the bigger gamma monster by his ankles, Hulk started to spin himself around in a circle. Abomination was still too out of it to do anything as Hulk let go, flying towards the Destroyer armor. Abomination crashed right into the Destroyer armor, which in turn made them crash to the ground a few feet away from Thor. Hulk ran up to his friend and lightly nudged his head to see if he were alright. Thor's response was to lift his hand in the air and summon Mjolnir back into his palm. Sitting up, the Asgardian prince looks to his green friend and said, "Thank you, my friend. I was actually in need of assistance."
A bestial roar made them look up to their foes and saw that both of them stood back up. Thor turned to his friend and asked, "Have you ever fought against something made of Asgardian metal?"
Hulk shook his head meaning no. Thor smiled and said, "And I even though I have fought against much more uglier things in my day, I've never fought against any-thing as ugly as this 'Abomination', and I beginning to want to." Pointing to the foes he asked, "Do you wish to trade?"
Hulk simply gave him a smile, meaning yes. A smile still on his face, Thor said, "Then let's show these two how we Avengers get it done."
Both of the strongest Avengers then leapt at their new opponents. This confused both of the towering Hydra recruits as Thor threw Mjolnir at Abomination's midsection and Hulk landed a punch to the Destroyers head. Both threats went down in a snap. Both Avengers did a fist bump before charging at the rising adversaries.
Rhodes and Tony were out maneuvering shots from both the guy in the bug-suit and armored Justin Hammers. Both armored heroes were having a tough time dodging the shots. An idea formed in Tony's head as he communicated through a secret line in the suits. Tony said, "Rhodes! I've got an idea!"
"What is it, Tony? At this moment, I'm willing to take any of your crazy suggestions!" Iron Patriot said as he dodged another repulsor shot. Tony was a little insulted by this, but he didn't dwell on it at the moment and said, "If we create some kind of smoke screen, maybe we can catch them off guard. And then use the repulsor blasters in our chest."
"That's actually a great plan Tony." Rhodes said, smiling inside the Iron Patriot suit. Tony looked around for something to help them create a smoke screen. He saw a water pipe that went up from the ceiling to the floor. As the two Ironmen were able to move out of the way, they hovered in the air. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Tony pointed at the water pipe. Rhodes nodded before noticing that the villains were coming right at them. Maneuvering to where they could fly horizontally, the flew at the pipe with Justin and the other guy right behind them.
As soon as Tony and Rhodes reached the water pipe, they waited for the right moment. Both Hammers and the other guy took aim as they were about seven feet away as Tony motioned with a downwards arm slash. Rhodes immediately punched the pipe in two, and then with the Iron Patriot's suit strength he bent the pipe to where it would spray at the two. Justin and the other guy put their hands in front of them to block the water, a mistake on their part. As soon as they were distracted, Tony and Rhodes let loose a powerful repulsor blast from their respective arc reactors. Both blasts knocked the two out of the sky and crashing into the ground. Tony and Rhodes waited to see if the two would get up, but when they didn't, the two Ironmen flew to help someone else. Rhodes went to go help one of the other Avengers while Tony went to go help Cap.
Rhodes saw that Nat was starting to have a tough time with her opponent. Flying a few feet away, the other woman had just knocked Natasha flat on her back. Holding up his hands, Colonel Rhodes sent a repulsor blast at the woman. The blast knocked her off her feet unconscious. Iron Patriot walked over to Natasha and leaned to look at her. She had an annoyed expression on her face as she said, "I had that under control."
"I'm sure you did." Colonel Rhodes jokingly said. Nat put on a half-smile as she stood up and dusted herself off. The two of them heard a smack and turned to see Clint on the ground as Rumlow started punching away at Sam. Lifting her wrist stingers, Nat waited until the next swing, and when Sam stumbled back from it, she shot a small voltage into the double agent. Crossbones screamed as he fell to the floor. Both Nat and Rhodes ran over to their friends to check on them. Natasha quickly ran over to Clint and knelt down beside him and said, "You gonna be okay partner?"
Clint coughed as he looked up to her and said, "I'll be even better when you get your knee off of me." Natasha looked down and realized that he had been right and said, "Oh! Sorry."
"Eh, no harm no foul, am I right?" Clint said as she helped him up. They looked over to Rhodes checking on Sam as they both walked over. Gesturing to the winged suit pilot he said, "Sam's gonna have a few bruises here and there." He started to chuckle when he said, "But after today, I think we'll all be sore."
"No doubt about that." Clint and Nat said at the same time. Both former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents laughed at that before a shape landed with a thud behind them. Looking back, they see Hulk landing on the Destroyer armor with a slide with the latter under the former. Looking to where Thor was, everyone saw that he had just knocked down Abomination for the count. The prince of Asgard walks over and asks, "What? There's nothing wrong with switching."
Tony flew in just time to see Cap trading blows with Schmidt. Steve ducked under an incoming fist, but that made him vulnerable to a kick from the Hydra leader. Tony was about to blast Red Skull when he saw Zola's robotic body get up and aimed an arm at Cap from behind. Not wanting to give the bad guys an edge, he quickly flew down and tackled the mechanized scientist from above.
Steve was able to get up and slid back as Red Skull brought his foot down. With a spin, Cap was able to trip up Schmidt and make him fall. As the Hydra leader fell on his back. Johann Schmidt looked behind the Captain and saw that his allies had fallen. With growl and then a grunt in the effort of getting up, Red Skull quickly moved over to the portal. Steve immediately ran after the madman.
As soon as he was near the gate way, Red Skull stepped on a pressure plate that brought down some kind of chest plate from the ceiling. The chest plate draped itself over the red skinned man. Once it was on, he used the gloves to channel a blue energy from the arc reactor on his chest.
Tony got up and saw the reactor on Schmidt's chest. Angrily rising to his feet, he made the mask move and then shouted, "What is up with this?!" Red Skull turns his head look his way as Ironman came closer, "First, you steal one of my suits and now I find that somehow you stole my arc reactor too!" With a curt nod of his head he said, "I think I'll just go ahead and kick your butt know."
With nothing left to say, Tony closed the mask again and used his thrusters to fly at Schmidt, whose suit kept building up on power. Holding out his hands Red Skull catches Tony's outstretched arms. The two begin trying to use their strength to push each other.
Cap immediately ran up to Tony's side and wrapped the arm that didn't hold the shield around Skull's neck. Feeling the pressure on his throat, Red Skull started to shake himself like a mad dog as he attempted to shake them off. Using his elbow as he tried to look behind him, Schmidt tried to attack Cap with it. This gave Ironman an opening as he started punching at the chest plate three times. They didn't damage it much, but the strikes did make it turn on. This made the three men stop as a humming sound came from both Schmidt and the portal. Looking down at the chest plate, Red Skull sees that one of the wires had been damaged as it activated. All three men break it up as he looked up to Tony and shouted, "You simpleton! What have you done?!"
"I'm not entirely sure myself. But if it's making you mad, then it was worth it." The billionaire said. The portal beside them started to glow blue, making Schmidt laugh a little as he joyously said, "You Avengers are too late!" Using his now free hands, he pointed to the portal and said, "It works! With the power of this portal and what's on the other side, I can conquer all."
But suddenly a white blinding light overwhelmed them, making everyone cover their eyes. When it died down a little, Red Skull looked at the portal and saw that all four symbols were glowing. A surge of energy crackled from his suit, making him worry a little as the air in the room turned into a pulling force. Quickly running, Red Skull ran towards the door followed by the other villains, making the others look towards the portal again.
Steve was the closest to it and felt the pull make him slide a little. He turned to Tony as he slipped and fell on his front. Tony rushed and grabbed Cap by the hand. The force started to make Ironman kneel as he held on to his friend. He grabbed onto the table to try and anchor himself.
"Steve! Tony!" Sam and Rhodes yelled as the six ran to help. Just as Ironman's grip was starting to weaken, Thor grabbed the metal hand, followed by Hulk who gently had Nat's in his other, who in turn had Clint's in hers. As Sam and Iron Patriot came to help, Clint looked back and yelled over the rushing wind, "No don't! The vortex's pull is becoming too strong! The rest of us will have to ride it out!" Looking to the portal and then back at them, "You need to get out of here cause things are gonna get worse."
When they didn't, the archer yelled more harshly, "GO!"
Though they didn't like it, both friends turned and started to run, leaving the founding Avengers to the mercy of the portal. Its pull increased again, making the Hulk lose his footing a bit. The green machine tried to get it back, but he couldn't which in turn made him stumble into Thor and pull Nat and Clint closer. As the Avengers started to bump and tumble, Steve's back legs came dangerously close to the portal. All five of his friends tried to keep him from getting sucked in, but it wasn't easy.
Unbeknown to them, Zola had come back to the room and saw the Avenger's predicament. He decided to take an advantage and aimed his right robotic arm and readied a rocket. What the once human scientist didn't count on was Sam coming in from the side kicking him just as he fired. Sam's eyes grew wide as the rocket flew into the room. It hit the wall close to the Avengers, making the debris hit Hulk in the back of the head. It caused him to stumble again, but this time the Avengers completely lost their footing and were pulled into the portal. Just as they were all pulled in they managed to grab a hand of their fellow teammate.
"NO!" Sam yelled as they disappeared into the white void.
As they quickly flew through the white field, the Avengers tried to keep a hold on one another in a circle of hands. But an unknown force caused them to spin faster and faster. Soon they were spinning so fast that their grip on one another was loosening. At the last possible second, the Avengers slipped from each other's fingers and drifted in opposite directions of the void.
As Steve tumbled to who knows where, he started to black out. The last thing he remembered was feeling the cold, wet and soft feel of snow and a voice crying out in terror.
Author's Note:
Man, that took a long while to write. And it was so difficult to write the fighting sequences. I look forward to reading your reviews. Keep a lookout for the next part of this exciting adventure. Be sure to leave a comment either about if I've done something wrong or if you want something specifically to happen. As Aang once said, we'll see you next time.