Chapter 13

The Hulk held onto the two mutants in his arms while getting as far away from the base as possible. Banner had told him he needed to get to the planes as fast as he could, and he knew that while he could cover a lot of ground with each leap he was nowhere near as fast as Ironman or even Thor. Looking back over his shoulder he saw Thor flying with him. They had a nice little rivery going when it came to smashing, trying to see who could do it better or even break more things and this is why he respected the strangely dressed man. Landing after another leap he took two steps and prepared to leap again when he felt the ground under him shake.

I don't think we have made it Hulk, Puny Banner said in his head. You might be strong enough to survive the explosion, but they can't. Give them to Thor he can make it.

He knew Banner was right, so he changed his grip on the two mutants. "Goldie Locks catch and go," He throw the two of them into the air and watched as Thor swooped in and caught the two of them and fly off with a large boom. Hulk turned and watched as a large white explosion swept over him.

Thor looked back behind him at the shock wave slowly gaining on him and the fire ball not far behind it. It was slowly losing strength, so he knew the planes would be safe, but it was slowly becoming a question of whether he was going to be caught and how much damage it was going to do. Changing his grip, he lifted the female mutate up to his chest and then swag Iceman up, so he was on the other side. If they did get caught at least the two men would take the brunt of the damage. Just then they were caught in the explosion as the planes came into view.

"Come on, where are you?" Ironman asked himself while he scanned the horizon.

"Any sign of them?" Captain America asked walking up to stand next to his friend while Wolverine joined them on the other side.

"No," he sighed. "Not a thing. They better hurry or they will be caught and while I know the two big guys will be fine I don't know about the other two."

"It would take something pretty big to kill Iceman he is an omage level, so he can control all water particles at the subatomic level. Unfortunately, Magma isn't, and her powers only work while she is touching the ground so if they are flying then she is as helpless as any normal human."

"Well knowing Hulk and Thor they will do everything they can to keep them safe." Ironman kept up the conversation while he was still looking. "How is everyone going?"

"Widow has come around but is still sitting down in the Quinjet. Hawkeye is still out, and we have had to set Spiderwoman's leg after it was broken. Outside of that everyone is fine. We are all just waiting around to see what happens."

Just then the ground they stood on shook and everyone that could ran up to stand alongside of them. This caused Storm, Blink, Spider-man with the Race still attached to him, and Captain Marvel to come running out of the quine jet and joined the others on the ridge.

"What the hell was that?" Blink asked.

"That would be the explosion and that would be the fire ball." Ironman answered while pointing off into the distance. "I can see Thor and he is carrying the two X-men but there is no Hulk with him and I don't think he is going to make it."

He watched while his friend was caught in the fire ball and they all gasped as they watched the fire slowly died down and a very large ball of ice covered in fire came bouncing across the ground clearing the line of people as it passed over them and smashed through the Black bird. Continuing on its way until it slowly came to a stop a small distance away from them. Storm called down rain to put out the flames as they all rushed up to the ball of ice. This left an uncounses Magma, Thor and a very tired Iceman laying on the ground. Storm knelt to check on Magma to make shore she was ok before lifting her up onto her shoulder. Spider-man ran up to his friend who wasn't moving very far.

"How are you going? That looked like it had to hurt."

He reached out a hand, but Iceman waved him off. "I'm just going to lay here for a bit. If anyone needs me tell them to take a number." He replied as he slowly closed his eyes.

Everyone chuckled at his response as Thor slowly rose to his feet. "Your friend is a truly brave man Spider-man. I thought we were in a bit of trouble just then, but he somehow covered us all in that ice and so kept the fire and debry off of us."

"Yeah that is Bobby all heart and not much brains and yet somehow he still manages to pull off stunts like that." Spider-man knelt down to lift his friend up into a fireman's carry. "I don't know about you lot but I think he deserves a rest."

With that they headed back to the Quin jet. About half way back they could hear Racheal and Widow yelling at each other.

Both Captain America and Ironman let out a knowing sigh.

"What the hell?" Wolverine stated just as Black Widow limped out the back of the plane followed by a very pissed off Racheal who quickly throughout her hand making Widow stop dead in her track.

"Get off me bitch before I rip you a new one."

"What's going on here?" Captain America, "like I don't know."

"She refuses to sit still and recover. She was just knocked uncountious back there for all we know she could have a serious head injury and, yet she won't stay still. She insists on going out there and looking for Banner."

"When I hear the explosion, I know he didn't make it and now is out there somewhere probable changed back into Banner and is going to need both his cloths and help." Widow retorted while shacking the bag on her shoulder a little to emphasize her point.

Ironman tapped him on the back as he continued into the jet with the others following him. "Have fun this is so not my problem."

"Not for long it's not." Steve pointed to his friend's chest, "you can take her to look for him. Between all the different sensors in that suit of yours and her weird connection to Banner it shouldn't take you two long to find him. And it also means if she takes another turn from her injures your suit can pick it up."

"What?" Racheal yelled, "you can't be serious she needs a hospital not to go running around looking for her boyfriend."

"First off one, Banner isn't my boyfriend (yet she whispered) and two I am no more human and in anymore danger then you and the super soldier over here. Now let me go," she growled out.

"Fine," dropping her hand. "But if you turn up dead from a brain injury then don't come complaining to me."

"Right now, we have that sorted." Ironman walked up to Widow, so she could take a hold of him, "let's go find my science brother." With that the two of them took to the sky's.

Just then Captain Marvel came running out, "Cap we have a serious problem here."