Chapter 7 Still don't own anything. :( Bold=COMM
When we got on the Quinjet, I had my mask in place so they wouldn't see my emotions playing across my face. Though I'm pretty sure Natasha could see right through it. Clint kept apologizing about getting mad, by now I had explained about the nightmare. While we were flying to our target, we discussed a battle plan. Steve and I took charge.
"Alright, we should have Bruce stay on the Quinjet so he can come in when it's an emergency." Steve said in a commanding tone.
"Thor and Tony could check out the building we're attacking, or if it's even a building and not some hobo home." I recommended.
"Tony, you could give Clint a lift to a higher perspective and when we head in you could grab him and fly him in with us." Steve said thoughtfully, "Oh and Tony, try not to kill him when you are flying."
"Steve, Loki, and I would go in when we get the all clear from Tony and Thor. Just blast and burn after that. Natasha, you would flank them and go in with us. That sound good with everybody?" Everyone gave an affirmative at my finishing up of the plan.
"Ok everybody, you're going to need to put in what we call COMMS. They are basically walkie talkies in your ear and you talk with a press of a button. Ok? Got it? No? Good." Tony said like he was on an airplane and was telling us to fasten our seat belts.
"It's gonna be a few hours till we get there, you might wanna get some sleep." Clint called from the captain's seat. Everyone got some sleep, well, almost everyone. I didn't sleep at all, not wanting to wake them up with the screaming from my nightmares.
A few hours later we had arrived thanks to the preset GPS guide. Clint landed the jet smoothly, with almost no sound. "Alright everyone, remember the plan, once we get inside, smash and crash." I said, trying to give them a pep talk.
Apparently it worked, because their faces brightened just a tiny bit. I tried out the COMM system. "Stark and Thor, go ahead and give us a report on the base." They flew off with Clint and a few minutes later I heard from Tony, "It's just a normal building, looking like a poor man's hospital, there are several floors, maybe seven. Part of the roof is caved in. It's all clear, send in the infantry!" Tony said adopting a formal accent.
"You heard him," I said out loud,"Let's go." We moved forward at a light jog, and once we got there we saw Clint, Thor, and Tony standing in a pose as if they were waiting for hours.
"Finally, you're here! Hurry up. Let's go." Tony's sarcastic voice was heard around the clearing.
"Let's go team, move in." Steve said, trying to make Tony be mature about this. Natasha was already by the entrance, so when we got there we moved in. As we entered the main lobby, we immediately knew something was wrong. Some lights were busted out and sparks flew from them. We walked forward and near the end of the lobby was a three way split in entrances, one to the basement, one to the upper floors, and one straight forward. We would have to split up.
"Alright guys, we're gonna have to split up, Natasha and I will go to the basement, Steve and Tony can go forward, and the group of three, Thor, Loki, and Clint can take all of the upper floors. If you run into trouble, take out the enemy and then tell us on the COMM, ok?"
They all nodded and we split into our groups and went to our areas. When me and Nat quietly moved down the stairs, I thought I heard voices, I stopped and listened, but I didn't hear them so I thought it was my imagination. We moved farther down the stairs, they seemed to go on forever, then I definitely heard voices. I turned to Nat but she had already heard them, I reached for my COMM to tell the team that we've found something. My hand was about to hit the button when it shocked me, I was confused, then I realized. Something was interfering with the COMM.
Natasha nudged me and motioned to her COMM and I nodded back, we knew that weren't working, but we had to continue. We tip toed down the stairs for a few more minutes until we got to the bottom. The door was slightly open and we looked through the crack. We saw multiple people moving around inside surrounding this big blown up sleeping bag. Or at least I thought it looked like that, it was made of metal and came to about my waist.
They were all looking inside through a glass window, and there was one guy looking at a panel pressing buttons whenever the other people would cue him. This would have been fine except for what they were saying, things like,"Is it working? Test Subject #374 had similar properties and almost made it." One scientist said. Test Subject 374?! How many more test subjects did they have to spare. I glanced at Natasha and made a fist and hit my hand with it, signifying I wanted to fight. She smiled a little and nodded, she held up three fingers and counted down.
Three.
Two.
One.
Go.
I slammed the door open and it was like we were born to fight together, I ran and slid to my knees as Nat jumped off my shoulders onto one of the scientists. I summoned my sword, but changed it into a duller sword, kinda like a club. I smashed my club into one guys head, knocking him out cold while Natasha took out another one. The scientists had started to react by now and started pulling out hand guns, they started firing at me and Nat. Natasha just ducked under a table and rolled back into action, me however, that's a different story. Everything went in slow motion and I could see the bullets coming at me, a series of flips and ducks got me away from the bullets, but one caught me in the stomach. I didn't let them see my pain and I just kept going. Pretty soon all of them were knocked out except the one at the panel.
"Who are you? And what are you doing here?" Natasha growled menacingly. "I'm Alex Lehman, and we are working on regenerating limbs, we took over this base a while ago and are continuing the progress, but with our own purposes." He stammered out nervously.
While Nat was interrogating Alex, I was gathering up all of the tech, leaving the heavy things for last because of my bullet wound, but I'd suffered through worse. I continued gathering the technology until Natasha was done. After that I lifted up the big poofed up sleeping bag and carried it, it was surprisingly light for a metal cylinder. We set some stuff on top of the thing and I slowly carried it upstairs. When I was walking up the first few stairs I heard a few gunshots, I panicked until I realized it was Nat taking care of the scientists.
About half way up I gave up on carrying it and just dragged it, who cares if everything got broken, my wound was really hurting now, but I just pulled out a bandage and covered it up. Finally, after what seemed like hours of walking, me and Nat finally made it up. Only to find the rest of the Avengers freaking out like their puppy ran away.
They all turned at the noise of us coming up the stairs and tackled us to the ground.
"We couldn't communicate with you, the COMM wasn't working! I was sitting here forever fixing this COMM over and over again because we thought it was broken." Tony yelled.
"There must be something jamming the signal in our COMMS, and if you were so worried, why didn't you come down and look for us?"
"Umm, we didn't think of that yet. Anyway did you guys find anything?" Steve asked.
"Look behind us you'll see what we found." They were all mad that we found it first, well, at least Tony was. He pouted for the whole fly home. On the way home I started to feel woozy, I didn't know why until I looked at the blood soaked through my shirt, jacket, and bandage.
"Hey gu...guys, I go...got hi...hit back at the baa..."
Then every thing went black.
I woke up in a hospital bed, at least I thought I was at a hospital until I noticed SHIELD printed on the wall in front of me. Then I felt the pressure on my right arm, I looked over at my arm and smiled. Red hair was fanned out all around my arm as the beauty with green eyes lie on my arm. Then I stopped, wait, since when did I call her beautiful? I sighed, my crush was getting worse my the minute, or better if you looked at it that way. Natasha must have felt my stirring because she woke up at that moment, looked around at her surroundings and blushed as she rubbed a bit of drool off of her chin.
"So you're finally awake." She said after gaining her composure. "You've been asleep for two days, you lost a lot of blood and put in too much work so you had to get fluids into your body." Huh, so that's why there's a cord going to my arm attached to a plastic bag filled with what looked to be water.
"So where's the rest of the team?" I asked, wondering where they were.
"They were here yesterday and left, but I stayed and waited for you to wake up. They'll probably be here later." She replied. I couldn't help but think that this would be some thing Annabeth would do, I flinched. 'No thoughts about your past life, Percy' I scolded myself.
"Why did you flinch, does something hurt? Do I need to get a nurse?" Nat said in a rush. "Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to ramble." She said, blushing. Why did she blush so much around me, what's so special about me? I'm just a normal guy. The door suddenly opened and in came the rest of the team, all rushing in like a flood.
"Hey, Aquaman! You're awake! And good news, after one last check up from the nurse and you're home free!" Tony said quickly and happily.
And as Tony said, twenty minutes later I was free, though when the nurse gave me a check up, even though my stomach got shot, she said she had to check my arms. I came out of that room feeling molested.
I asked Nat,"Do normal check ups for your stomach involve your arms to be felt up?" She left looking really mad and came back smiling with a bruised hand. After that we drove back to the tower and they filled me in on what I missed.
"Fury basically gave us a pat on the back and sent us along after sending the stuff to a secret section of the base." Bruce said quietly.
To be honest, I was kinda glad I missed out on the after mission talk. When we got to the main room in the tower, we contemplated what to do. Me, being the mature adult I was, decided to suggest the mature game of Tag. Two hours, three broken couches, Thor flying out of the window, and four smashed walls later, we had finished the game.
We were quite tired after the most intense game of tag ever, but there was still daylight. So we wanted to watch a movie, but the couches were broken. So, me again being the most mature adult ever, decided to build a pillow fort. This lead to a war of the pillow forts, the teams were Bruce, Tony, Nat, and me VS Thor, Loki, Steve, and Clint. In all honesty, our fort won, I mean, we had an engineer who built his own tower on our side. Plus our fort had four rooms to sleep in and was facing the TV, so everyone agreed ours was better.
We had spent so much time on the forts that we didn't realize it was dinner until my stomach decided to imitate a blue whale.
"Well, I think it's time for dinner. Mr. Growling Tiger over here needs to be fed." Tony said sarcastically.
I blushed and leaned back waiting for the arguments to ensue. Since everyone had missed lunch, the arguing was more intense than usual. I got tired of the yelling so I went over to JARVIS and asked for pizza. Sometime later, the pizza was delivered and the Avengers were still fighting, honestly how does someone argue for this long? Natasha gave up at arguing and came over to where I was and noticed the pizza.
So that was how me and Nat had our first unofficial date, surrounded by yelling people.
And it was the best unofficial date ever.