Sorry to everyone who is reading this. I just noticed I missed posting last week. I will try to never miss one in the future but in my defence I was at the hospital last Thursday with one of my sons and didn't get home until after midnight. So once again so sorry and to make up for it I will post last weeks and this weeks right now.

Chapter 8

The three of them slowly and quietly crept through the base knowing they wouldn't have long before the attack began and then all hell would break loss. Spider-man looked down at the scanner in his hands and he could see the blip they were slowly making their way to. Suddenly both Spider-man and Spider-women's spider sense went crazy and the two of them grabbed Captain Marvel at the same time and jumped to the roof. Carol tried to make a yelp form the unexpected movement, but Peter placed his hand over her mouth and made a shh movement. Looking back down they saw four Sentinel's walks around the corner and straight underneath them. Carefully they watched them as they went down the corridor they had just come up and dissipare out of view.

"That was close," Carol said.

"Had closer," Spider-women replied dropping down again. Carol rolled her eyes and pointed down at her while looking at Peter and he just shrugged in reply.

"Come on you two we don't have all day," May started before the two of them even made it back to the floor.

"She gets that from you," Peter quip.

"Shore and you keep telling yourself that."

Going around the last corner they arrived at the door of the room on the scanner.

"Well my spider sense isn't going off, so I would say it's all clear." May said as she placed her ear to the door, "and I don't hear anything ether."

"In we go then." Carol walked up to the door trying the handle it didn't move so she put her shoulder to the door and pushed there was a crunch as the hinges snapped and with that they were in.

Elsewhere Spiderwoman, Black Widow and Hawkeye silently made their way through to the other end of the plant. They didn't have as far to go as the others but the room they had to enter was a lot more open. In the centre of the room sat giant size sentinel. Once every few minutes its chest would open up and another small sentinel would come out from its chest on a platform. A large claw would come over and pick it up and place it in a holding cell with even more sentinels. Once the cell was full it would be driven away and replaced by another cell, so they could be transported all over the world.

"Well so far it doesn't look like they haven't started to build any new models," Black Widow said looking around.

"Yeah don't want to run into one of them. They sound like a real problem," Hawkeye replied. "If we set the charges around the outer edges of the room we should be able to bring the roof down onto the how thing."

"It would be good if we can get one right down next to the Sentinel Prim in the middle there." Taking the explosives from her back Spider-woman pulled the others back down hall a little. "Ok here's the plan I'm going to float with two of the charges down to the Prim while you two set the ones around the room. You know the drill we have done plenty of this in the past and with any luck we can get it all done before the attack starts."

Hovering a little off the ground she took two of the charges and started to move away from the other as they went about their tasks. She floated behind different crats and cage cells as she made her way down to the Prim.

Hawkeye found himself a high hide and shot off the charges around his side of the room without any of the active Sentinel's spotting him. He kept a look out for the other two as he went.

"You have two Sentinel's approaching from your five o'clock Spider."

"On it." She climbed up into a crate and hid on the roof there she stayed quiet and still until they had passed.

"All good," Hawkeye spotted her, "you're in the clear."

Sneaking back out she continued floating down to here target. Making good time she planted and armed the first charge by one side of the Prim and headed around for the second.

"All clear," Widow radioed in.

Shooting off his last charge Hawkeye reached up to his ear, "Last one is in place."

Reaching the last side, she knelt just as the building shook.

"Mutant signature detected. Activating all Sentinel's to engage."

Outside a few kilometres away a quinjet and blackbird sat next to each other with the final two teams waiting the allotted time to pass. The Avengers all sat calmly in the quinjet with Hulk and Thor snoring away. Ironman, Captain America with Wolverine stood to one side watching the time giving the first two teams five-minute head start. Magma was leaning on the jet watching Racheal pace around in circles while the other stood off to one side a little.

Iceman walked up to Magma and lent on the blackbird alongside of her. He was in his ice form and she was in her glowing orange powered form. She was looking down at her feet not willing to look him in the eyes and thankful that her powers hid her face as she felt her face getting hotter with his proximity.

"Hay err Magma," Iceman started off with a lot of nerves in his voice.

"Yah yeah."

Across from them Blink and Storm stood near each other waiting on Logan's call to get started. When Blink spotted the two of them standing near each other she tapped Storm on the shoulder and tilted her head in their direction. Looking over Storm saw the tension and nerves flowing between the two of them and had to chuckle.

"I am, was wondering. That is if you are free. I have been invited to this party on Friday and was wonder if you would like to come with me?" Getting it out was hard. Harder then he thought it would be. Rubbing the back of his neck just on instinct he picks up on what he was doing and thought to himself, 'great now I'm acting like Peter.'

"Oh, um you mean this Friday?"

"Yeah. That is if you want?"

"You mean like a date?"

"We could call it that if you like or we could just go as friends."

Now he was getting really nervous because Racheal was heading back towards them and he still hasn't received a straight answer from her yet. While Magma was secreatly praying that she wasn't dreaming or that Venus would stop playing with her even if this wasn't a dream.

"Are you shore you want me to go with you there isn't someone else you would rather go with?" 'Dame' she thought to herself 'where did that come from'.

Finally, Racheal walked back up to them and as she passed she stopped right next to them and shook her head. "God why are you to so dense." Turning to face them she continued. "She likes you and he likes you. So yes, he is asking you out on a date and no he can't think of anyone he would rather go with." Raising her hands and activating her powers. "Now stop being total morons this close to a mission." She pushed her hands together which in turn pushed the two of them together and they on instice wrapped their arms around each other. Storm and Blink just cracked at that and burst out laughing to the point their sides started hurting. Racheal just turned back the way she was facing and continued to pace. While steam started to rise in between new couple from their combined power set.

Finally, Ironman signalled Wolverine. "Times up."

"Good luck soldier. Give them hell and remember we will be right behind you."

Walking over to his team, "Ok X-men its time lets remind those buckets of bolts what mutants can do. Blink take us in." Using the flight over as her reference point she opened a portal right out the front of the base they all ran through leaving the portal open behind them.