"Alright team, here's the plan…" Danny stopped listening as Spider Man blathered on. He wasn't in the mood to pay attention. His dream from the night before was still haunting him. "Five will fight but only four will return.."
"Fist?" Spider-Man's irritated voice jolted Danny to attention.
"Huh? What?"
"Did you hear anything I just said?"
"Um… No."
Rolling his eyes, Spider Man started explaining the plan again. "We are going to go into the town without costumes and talk to people, trying to find any information on Scorpion or the angel." Spiderman spoke super slowly, as if speaking to an idiot.
"Cut it out spider. I'm tired, not stupid." Iron Fist frowned.
"Alright, sorry. Just making sure you are paying attention. Once we find either, the plan is simple: attack and capture. Any question?"
"Um yeah," Nova inspected his gloved hand. "Who wants to demote the spider and make me leader?" When everyone glared at him, Nova shrugged with a sly yet somewhat bashful expression. "Alright, got it. Just asking."
"I still don't get why we have to capture both of them?" White Tiger frowned. "It's not like the angel is doing any harm. Why do we need to capture him?"
Spider Man shrugged. "Fury needs information on the angel. Such as how he had managed to stay untracked for so long. And how he knew the cures for diseases most doctors consider incurable. Fury's other excuse is that technically the angel has been breaking the law by breaking and entering into hospitals without permission, even though he has been saving lives. I know, I don't really get it either. Being unable to find out anything on the angel is driving Fury a little crazy. I guess that would be the worst thing for any super-spy: being unable to figure out the information you want."
The five heroes made it to Steepridge Alaska by noon the next day. Looking out of the window at the small city, Luke frowned. "Why would Scorpion come here? It's the middle of nowhere!"
"Maybe that's why the angel lives here. I wouldn't think to look for someone in a dingy place like this. And he acts as if he doesn't want to be found." Ava too looked out of the window.
"Do you think that he might be why Scorpion came here? I mean, there probably isn't much else of interest in this place." Peter frowned.
"I hope they are not working together. That would make our job much more complicated." Danny gazed off into the distance, a worried expression on his face.
They hid the jet in a copse of trees outside the city at the top of a small hill. The city was smallish and encircled by five mountains, so it was pretty much protected from all sides. Sliding out of the Helicarrier jet in civilian clothes, without his helmet, Sam shivered. "It's FREEZING! Why does Alaska have to be, like, negative forty degrees?"
"Sam, it's January. New York isn't exactly warm this time of year either." Ava rolled her eyes at the wining bucket-head.
"Yeah but at least there we can hide inside with bug fuzzy blankets and buckets of cocoa." Peter started drooling as an image filled his head of cakes and pies and hot chocolate.
"Cocoa?" Sam's mocking laugh broke Peter out of his daydream. "What are you? Five?"
"What's wrong with cocoa?"
"Will you two stop arguing and start walking?" Luke huddled deeper into his coat. "The sooner we get into the city, the sooner we can find a café or something and get warm."
"I'm for that! Let's go!" Peter grinned and raced down the hill.
"Last one there buys!" Sam jumped up and ran after Peter, both boys slipping and laughing in the snow. The other's followed, but no one noticed Danny glancing nervously behind his shoulder the whole way down, as if sensing something watching them.