Chapter 10 I don't own anything.
Percy's POV
I woke up to JARVIS telling me to come to Tony's lab. I had a moment of confusion before I realized this had to have something to do with the portal. I quickly jumped out of bed, pulling on a clean shirt and shorts, and ran to the lab.
When I arrived, the rest of the team had beat me there. They looked at me sadly, like I had lost something important. I looked at them in confusion until I remembered. Nat. I started to tear up at the memory of seeing her in the bed, looking so peaceful. I quickly swiped away the tears with the back of my hand, they couldn't see me weak. Not now.
"What happened with the portal? I'm assuming this is about it, right?" I asked Tony.
"Yeah, you see, we've got a problem. Since Thanos had all of this magical power along with the staff, he had a lot of power, and thus was able to make the portal. Now, we have two choices. One, wait until another portal opens up and some how get through. Or two, we use all of Loki's magic and shut down the city's power grid, directing all of the electricity into a device that hasn't been made yet, creating a portal that is hopefully stable enough to withstand the time we need to get through and back out a time later." Tony said in a rush, as if tring to get it over with.
The news hit me like a semi truck, in other words, slamming into me with no hesitation. I didn't know which to pick, if we picked the first choice, we would have to reply on luck and chance. Plus there is a chance we don't get out. But if we chose the second choice, it might take longer, but we would get a stable portal and a definite chance to get through and back. Loki's power would be drained, rendering him useless for the mission.
I looked around at the team, taking in their reactions. Everyone looked like they didn't want to make the choice, but they had to. And so did I.
"I vote for the second choice." I spoke up, taking charge. The votes followed in my favor, with the whole team siding with me. They must have respected me a lot to follow me on a difficult decision like this. Loki didn't look too happy with the power draining part, but he would have to deal with it.
My thinking was cut off by an alarm going off throughout the tower, we all rushed to the garage filled with sports cars, except for Bruce who continued the work on the portal. There may have been a lot of sports cars, but when Tony pressed a button, a section of the wall slid away revealing a truck that was hand built by Tony to fit the whole team.
As we drove off I looked sadly at the empty seat beside me, it used to be where Natasha sat. But she couldn't anymore, all because of a stupid monster. I shook my head to clear it, and focused on the road ahead. Before I knew it we had arrived. The first thing I saw was a group of Chitauri raiding a building with advanced spears and weapons. They were on foot attacking and killing the people inside, I reacted first, summoning my sword and running forward.
When I arrived at the door, the Chitauri had already moved themselves into the building. I slammed open the door, making the first two monsters I saw jump. I quickly jumped forward and slashed one across the back, it stumbled back from the force of my slash and fell to the ground. I stabbed it through the heart just in time to turn and block a stab from the other one. I angled my sword so the spear went to the side of me, I grabbed it from the Chitauri and pulled it fom it's grasp, quickly stabbing and killing the beast with it's own weapon.
By now the team had caught up to me by now, 'Minus Nat.' I thought rebelliously against my will. 'No, don't think about it, not now.'
After some discussion, we decided to split up and each take a floor. On my floor, there were several Chitauri. I easily took down the first two with a series of rolls and strikes. But the third stabbed at me with its spear, I jerked to the side but it grazed me and drew blood. I winced but kept going, cutting the Chitauri in half with a slash from my sword. I quickly brought up my sword to block a slash from a monster carrying a sword. Me and my opponent broke off and I pulled back my sword and feinted right, while really attacking left. The monster fell for it, blocking on the right and was in shock as it fell to the ground, gushing blood from a large cut in its side.
I moved on to the last one, dispatching it easily as it was too scared to fight after seeing me destroy its companions. After killing the last beast, I quickly grabbed a towel from a nearby drawer and stemmed up the blood by applying pressure to the wound. I slowly moved downstairs, wincing at every step as my body moved suddenly, spreading my wound open a bit.
As I got downstairs I was the second to last one, the last one being Clint with the top floor. I sat down on a chair and slumped down to sleep.
I woke up to a stinging pain in my side, I looked around to find Loki applying a bandage to my wound on my side.
"Steve carried you to the car with Thor's help and I'm cleaned out the wound with water and I'm now bandaging you up, at least until wee get back to the tower to get you patched up." Loki said calmly. This is when I noticed I was in a moving car and we were almost to the tower.
"Thanks." I muttered sleepily, and after he put the bandage on completely I went back to sleep.
'No, don't go Nat! I need you in my life!' I thought helplessly as I watched her life fade from her eyes, her beautiful green eyes. The eyes that were once so filled with life and joy, if hidden behind a mask, that shone brightly when the moon glinted off of them, were fading. 'NO!' I mentally yelled,'YOU ARE NOT DYING ON ME!' I fought and fought, punching and kicking at this invisible barrier. I kept slamming into it when...
It cracked.
'Yes, finally! I get to hold my Nat again.' I thought joyously as I rushed to hold her. I turned her over, and saw, staring back at me, cold and lifeless eyes.
"NOOOOOO!'"I screamed out loud, and heard a voice speak to me.
"It's all your fault, if you had just moved to the side, or not been standing there. She wouldn't have had to save you, you lazy idiot. Because that's what you are, a lazy person who needs to be saved every ten seconds. Why can't you just take care of yourself and focus on living and surviving, not loving people and family. No, just listen carefully. You need to realize what your priorities are in life. Not family. Not friends. No, just pain. Think about all of the pain you have gone through, the suffering. Being betrayed by your friends and girlfriend, you had been cracked then, being tortured, then you had a spider web crack on your soul. But the final blow had come and shattered you, breaking your soul into a million microscopic pieces. It was Natasha-"
"No." I interrupted
"Excuse me?" The voice asked.
"I said No. You are just a made up, fake voice in my head trying to control me. Or are you? I've known something was in my head for a while now, it was like a tumor you could feel but not touch. A constant buzzing in the back of my mind, just sitting there and watching me. Observing my every move. So I went along with it, making you think I was getting weaker by the second. That every passing second of my life was getting worse and worse. No, I'm not broken or shattered. I may have a few cracks in the window that is my life, but I'm still standing. Now the only question that is left is: Who are you? Who could be insane and powerful enough to invade someone's mind just to watch them, and then, when they were weak, try to influence them onto their side? Only one person would be insane and powerful enough to do just that. I know it's you, I know you've been there this whole time. Thanos." I ranted.
Shock. I felt shock, but not from me, from Him. It was true and whole, completely and utterly confusion.
"How did you know, I am the most subtle mind reader in the Nine Realms! How could you have felt me?!" Thanos yelled at me.
"I guess I'm just special like that." I smirked at him. And I forced myself awake.
When I woke up I was surrounded by the Avengers team.
"Hey, Water Bender, you okay? It looked like you were having a nightmare." Tony asked, concerned.
"Yeah, it was just a nightmare about...Natasha." I said, deciding not to tell them about Thanos and only the first part of my nightmare. I looked around and noticed Bruce was here, so that meant we were at the tower.
"I stitched you up while you were sleeping, you seemed to be unresponsive to any pain so I did it then." Bruce said, and I was fine with that. If I didn't have to feel pain I was fine with that. Only when Thor yawned extremely loudly I noticed it was 11:36 at night!
"You guys stayed up this late for me? Just because of some stitches?" I asked, astounded that they would stay up and away from sleep just for me.
"Of course, here, let me ask you a question. If Tony or someone else on the team were to get hurt, would you stay up as late as possible if only to see them when they woke up?" Clint asked.
"Yes, I would want to make sure they were safe and were healing correctly." I answered immediately without any hesitation, sounding a bit like Cap.
"Awww, it means a lot, and because of that, It is time for a group hug!" Tony yelled, dragging us all together. It may have meant a bit of pain for me and the hug being awkward with me laying down, but it was the most comforting hug I had received in a while.
I had gone up to my room to get ready to sleep, when I panicked. I didn't have Nat to keep away my nightmares when I slept. I had realized it awhile ago, but something about her very subtle but definitely there perfume scented of flowers and her warmth from her body just made it easier to sleep at night. As I lie there in bed, I had a bad feeling about the night to come. I fell asleep with my stitches on my mind, and wondering how they would affect my movement.
Leader opened the door. I heard a faint tune in the air from a movie I had seen when I was a kid. But it was sung along with a haunted tune, making it scary.
"I've got no strings, to hold me down, to make me fret, or make me frown." The creepy tune was sung along as Leader entered the cell.
"I've got no strings on me." Were the final words sung before Leader spoke.
"Hello again. So have you figured out your punishment for today? If you have, you don't have to participate." He said all too sweetly.
I hadn't figured it out yet, and I knew I never would at this rate. So I just admitted it.
"No, I don't know." My raspy voice was heard around the cell, almost like a ghost's whisper.
"Awww, too bad. You have to do the torture now." Leader said, not sounding sorry at all.
A large tray was carried in by two larger Chitauri. They nodded to Leader and left. He picked up a what looked to be a needle. Except it was ten times longer and was as thick as a pencil. Then he picked up the end of a fishing line, or some other sewing thread, and tied it through the loop on the needle. My eyes widened. 'No strings to hold me down.' Oh no. Leader walked up to me slowly, and said.
"No strings on me." Then he stabbed me with the needle.
He had gripped it like a chisel and stabbed it through by arm. The pain had hurt, but I had gotten used to extreme pain in my time here. Then he had pulled, gripping the end of the needle ad pulling it through. That had made me scream, with the string scraping against my muscles. Once he had pulled it all the way through we turned the needle around and stabbed it back through my arm. I screamed again, with more string scraping against my muscle and the needle stabbing through my arm.
He repeated the process, over and over again. Once he had gotten through my arms and shoulders he tied both ends of the strings to this metal pole on both ends. The first string had looped in and out of my arms like he was sewing me together, and the strings on the pole looked like it could be on...a marionette. Oh Gods, he was turning me into a puppet.
Leader repeated the process with my legs, but tied the string into a knot on one end so it wouldn't come out and looped the other end around one end of a pole so it could be pulled up and down. My screams were horrifying by then, and Leader was loving every second of it. Some blood was leaking out of the many puncture wounds on me and trailing down my body in many bloody trails.
Once he had all of the poles done, he threw them up in the air. They were caught by Chitauri who I couldn't see, and on his cue, the monsters started to pull. My body was being torn up and down against my will and my muscles, skin, and sometimes veins were being ripped open because of the jerking. This went on for hours, me being pulled up and down. Then, once they pulled me up really high, they cut the strings. I fell, and unable to straighten my legs, I hit the ground hard on my left leg, breaking it in three places.
"I've got no strings to hold me down." Was spoken by Leader. "But you do."
I jolted up in bed. It was the middle of the night, according to my clock, 12:52. I wasn't going back to sleep anytime soon, so I just lie there. I lie there, in my bed, sobbing. And wishing I had Nataha to keep the nightmares away.
It is done! The reason this took so long was school, ugh, it takes up 8 hours of my day. I could be using those hours to write this story.
Anyways, this chapter was quite long, and I can't remember typing a lot of it, mostly because it was written in sections with internet breaks.
So what did you guys think of the torture scene in this? I feel like it was the most brutal scene I have ever written. Write your thoughts in the comment section below, sorry, I watch too much =3. In the REVIEW section below, I'll see you next time. And I approve this message.
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