All Tony had wanted was a nice relaxing day with the team. No alien invasions, no HYDRA coming back to kill Cap, no Bucky coming back to haunt Cap, no Obadiah Stane set out to destroy Tony and take his business empire. Tony just wanted a normal day where he actually felt like a normal human. Well, normal millionaire, genius, playboy, philanthropist that is part of one of the most powerful group of people in the world of course. Then everything just had to go awry. That is saying something. Tony had been kidnapped by terrorists, had a huge piece of metal implanted in his chest to keep him alive by stopping other metal from going into his heart, he's had his heart stop when his arc reactor was removed, and he's had what he thought was incurable palladium poisoning. If Tony was saying that things went awry, they went awry.
Four random guys just HAD to randomly appear in his tower. To add insult to injury, no alarms were set off and JARVIS didn't even recognize a problem. They also appeared in strange flash of majestically blinding white light. All four looked stunned. Tony and his team, (Bruce, Steve, Natasha, Clint, and Thor) took this moment to observe the men while they were still momentarily stunned. The shortest guy, around 5'8" looked even more shell shocked than the other guys. He had longish brown hair with hazel eyes. His eyes seemed to be glowing slightly as if the flash of light had come from him. The weird looking accountant guy with the trench coat was an odd ball. He had icy blue calculating eyes and brown hair that stood up in tufts. The next guy was the male model type. He was around 6'1" with spiky blonde hair and a crazy look in his eyes. As he surveyed the group, they all had that look, as if they were battle worn soldiers that had seen everything and more. The last guy was huge. He was like 6'4" with long shoulder length hair and a smart look in his eyes.
By this time the trench coat one had started to regain his senses and his eyes roamed the room, quickly locking onto the Avengers with their weapons. "Sam, Dean, Gabriel." He spoke in a low raspy voice that sounded weary and tired. Who were these people? Like they were struck by lightning, the group suddenly thrust into action. Each pulling a weapon from what seemed like nowhere, except for the short one. Trench Coat pulled out a blade that reminded Tony of an ice pick. Model pulled out a white handled pistol with the letters DW carved into the side. The giant pulled out a knife which had strange runes carved into the side. The short one just stood, poised and ready for battle. "Gabriel," Trench Coat hissed out, "Grab your blade. "Sorry Cassie," the short guy who was apparently named Gabriel replied nervously, "Uh, Raphael's kinda been gunning me down by numbers and the uh, blade didn't really help. I stuck with my pow-" Gabriel's mouth was quickly covered by Giant.
The Avengers and the four strange men just stood, staring each other down until somebody made a move. Finally, Steve coughed and the tension in the room started to drain. "So uh, where are you guys from?" Trench Coat started to speak but Model interrupted, "Cas, don't." He then spoke directly to them, "How do we know you aren't demons and Gabriel here managed to send us to an odd version of Hell?" "Uh, I don't know what you mean by demons," Tony spoke up, voice strong, "you are in Avengers Tower in New York City." "What year is it?" Giant spoke curiously. "It's uh, 2016." replied Bruce nervously, shifting on his feet. "Gabriel," this time it was the Mode that hissed. "Where the hell did you send us to?" "Ah come on Dean-o," Gabriel nervously answered, "It was supposed to just be a prank y'know? Once a Trickster always a Trickster." Gabriel laughed nervously. "Who are you guys?" the giant asked, cocking his head to the side. Huh, out of the people, the beefiest one is the least intimidating. "Uh, I'm Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man. This is Steve Rogers, Captain America, Natasha Romanov, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, The Hulk, Clint Barton, Hawkeye, and Thor Odinson, well, Thor." Tony said loudly, voice only wavering slightly.
"You mean from the comic books?" Dean-o, or more likely, Dean, spoke up. "I don't know what you mean by comic books, we are real." Clint concluded confusedly. "Anyways, we told you everything you asked, you owe us some answers." Natasha said firmly, leaving room for no argument. They four men conversed quickly. The Avengers listened closely, although the conversation made no sense. "Should we?" "I mean I don't know." "What do you say Cas?" "I do not know Sam. I sense that one of them is not human. A few others have special items in their DNA." "Hey guys, come on. Don't I get a say." "Shut up Gabriel. You're the person who got us into this whole thing in the first place." Their conversation ended and Dean stepped forward. "I am Dean Winchester and this is my brother Sam," he gestured to the gentle giant. "These are our friends Castiel," he gestured to Trench Coat, "and Gabriel." He glared slightly at Gabriel.
"Ok, where are you from?. No, actually, how can you sense that we aren't human and how did you even get in here?" Steve asked, going into leader mode. "Uhm, well.," Sam started out, "You probably wouldn't believe us." "Try me" Tony retorted. "I am actually archangel Gabriel, Messenger of God." "Gabriel!" Castiel hissed out yet again. The whole team just stared at Gabriel, looking at him like he was crazy. "This is my brother Castiel, Angel of Thursday." "GABRIEL!" This time the whole group yelled at Gabriel, obviously angry that Gabriel was revealing who, or at least who they THOUGHT they were. "Okay then guys. Lets just get you to the hospital." Steve spoke calmingly as if they were children. "See guys, they don't even believe us." Gabriel triumphantly said. "They think we're crazy." "Yea Gabriel, that's what most people think when they find out who we are." Sam replied carefully. As Tony took a closer look, he realized that Sam was starting to sweat and his eyes were dilating. "Hey is uh, gentle giant over there okay?" Tony asked, raising his voice to be heard.
"Sam. Sammy," Deans voice was quiet as he somehow managed to question Sam without saying anything other than his name. Sam tried to respond but promptly dropped to the ground and starting seizing. The Avengers rushed forward to help but Castiel pointed the knife towards them. "Do not approach Sam," he spoke calmly, "You have no idea what is happening." The Avengers began to realize that these men were part of something much bigger. Sam kept seizing and the Avengers could just hear his voice chanting, "Lucifer. The Cage. Dean the Cage. He's back. I can't stop him. Hell Dean, HELL." The Avengers were staring with wide eyes as they had no idea what was happening in the slightest. "GABRIEL!" Dean shouted, "You want a chance to redeem yourself, this is it. Repair the wall in his head. Erase the memories of Hell. Cas couldn't but maybe you can. I don't care what you do, just heal Sam." The Avengers watched in awe as Gabriel began to walk over. Even Natasha's mouth was slightly open.
Gabriel slowly kneeled down and placed his hands on Sam's forehead. His eyes began to glow white and the Avengers finally realized that these people were involved in something huge. "Dean," Gabriel cried out, "I can't. The wall has crumbled, there is nothing left. There is nothing to repair. The memories of the Cage are coming full force. He's being overcome." The avengers were all but forgotten as Castiel dropped his blade and ran over. "Dean" he spoke quietly as to not to frighten Dean, "There may be a spell. We could force the memories to physically manifest themselves. That way, we could see what Sam sees and help him through it, take some of the pain away." Tony and everybody else's eyes widened. They would be able to see in this kid's mind? Cool! If only they knew. "What do we need Cas? NOW! Sam is dying!" Dean was on the verge of screaming. "Okay. First we need a bowl." Cas spoke calmly and turned his eyes to the Avengers, calculating. "Bowl, now!" He spoke in such a tone that it had the Avengers scrambling to comply.
Bruce tossed a bowl towards Cas and everybody watched curiously as Cas began naming off ingredients, some of which were very confusing. "Firstly, we will need rosemary, secondly, the skull of a lamb, an two angel feathers from different angels, and lastly, an angels blood needs to be used to draw in Enochian. The same phrase must be repeated and once that is completed, we will be able to see Sam's memories." Clint, finally realizing the urgency of the situation, scrambled off and was back within two seconds with a jar of rosemary. "Gabriel, lamb skull now." The Avengers watched as Gabriel disappeared and reappeared a few seconds later with the skull. Cas crushed the skull and threw it in with the rosemary. "CAS HURRY" Dean cried out, "I think we're starting to lose him. "Gabriel manifest your wings." Castiel spoke with deadly sincerity. "But Cas, seeing our wings is like seeing a human vulnerable." " Gabriel, NOW! Sam will die if we do not do this." Gabriel gave in and the Avengers gasped as two huge golden wings suddenly made themselves visible on Gabriel's back.
Cas quickly plucked a feather and threw it in. Gabriel's wings disappeared and his eyes traveled to Cas, a smug look in them. "Your turn Cassie!" Gabriel sang. Castiel's eyes turned nervous for the first time in hundreds of years. Beautiful black wings with blues and greens mixed in appeared behind him. Gabriel plucked a feather much to Cas's dismay and threw it in." Castiel quickly skidded back to grab his blade off the floor and sliced his arm open. Bruce watched with interest as white light along with blood began to pour out. Cas started tracing symbols under the bowl and stood up to chant. "It ma mae sera pa kay fuilah ah mae." Suddenly, the air around them turned cold and fire was everywhere. Dean saw Sam in a corner and everybody raced toward him. Sam was on fire, screaming. "LUCIFER. STOP!" He screamed out and pointed behind them. They saw a man. He had blonde hair and his face was littered with what looked like holes. "I'm Lucifer." he greeted cheerfully. "Welcome to Sammy's Hell! I would've thought Dean, that since he made such a huge sacrifice, you would've looked for a way to get him out harder. He spent a year in the Cage, with me. He spent a year seeing nothing but blood and fire."