Welcome to the first official chapter of Crushed! Please, feel free to point out any errors or grammatical mistakes :) Thank you in advance-

YellowLaxr_ (You can call me Yellz)

Prologue

I knew that there was something wrong all day, my sister could feel it too. It was that feeling you get in your stomach that's almost unbearable because you feel too sick to do anything. Other than that, it had been another simple day at school with all of the regular events. Classes were that easy that it was actually boring, sport was useless because all we did was sit down and talk, lunch was noisy and smelt like sweat and too-sweet perfumes, and the bullies - well they were bullies?

Once again, my parents were a no show, obviously they ran into a couple of problems and couldn't pick my sister and I up from school. I didn't mind though, my parents absolutely adored their jobs and I wouldn't want the both of them to leave them just for Sophie and I. That would be selfish.

My father and Mother both worked for the same company - Bridgeway Motors. They're up high in the managerial positions, so they had to work long hours - day and night. This led to me taking care of my sister all the time. I love her and she loves me, although we may fight sometimes, our relationship will probably always be close.

The last bell of the day just rung, so I walk to the front of the school and sit down on the steps, waiting for Sophia to come out. Kids rush past me, yelling and screaming about their plans for the holidays and where they might be going. I roll my eyes at them.

My family don't really go anywhere in the holidays because my parents work. Sophia and I normally just go to the shops or go and get ice cream - things that normally don't include electronics. There is one thing that I love doing though - going to holiday karate classes. I do it each summer, and I absolutely love it. Sophia has no interest in it, so I do it by myself. I don't know why, but Karate and Science are probably the biggest highlights that have been in my life since I was 8. Science interests me gives me a sense of danger and a rush, like it was meant to be. Hands cover my eyes and I brace myself.

"HI!" A young girls voice fills my ears, probably making me go half deaf for a while. I give Sophia a look and smile lightly, ruffling her hair.

"Seriously? Every time Soph" I laugh, grabbing onto her school bag and beginning to walk home. Sophia follows behind me, a slight bounce in her step.

"Guess what?" She blurted out, showing off her two missing front teeth. I glance over to her.

"What? You're crazy and I'm not" I answer her. Sophia looks at me confused before she literally shakes it off.

"We were learning about the Battle of New York today, and I got to learn about Thor" I sigh at the name of the Norse God. Sophia has this really weird obsession with the guy and she has to bring him up at least once everyday. I don't really study any of the group but if I had to answer, I would probably choose either Iron man or Loki.

Yes, the guy who lead weird Alien thingies.

I don't know why, I think that Loki is just misunderstood, and I think it's kind of brave that he was confronting his problems. Well, I didn't like the bit where he destroyed New York, I mean we weren't allowed to do anything for about 4 months straight! Thankfully with Tony Stark and the help of the company SHIELD, we managed to get everything back up and running within that time frame. Pretty cool if you ask me.

"Yeah? What did you learn?" I ask her this everyday. I've kind of taken on a parent role towards her, although I'm only 12. My mum and Dad love us both, and we love them very much but they don't see us very often during the week so they can't ask us questions about school. They do all that stuff on the weekend.

"Did you know that he has a girlfriend, here on Earth? her name is Jane Foster" She mentions in a matter-of-fact tone. I just bump her slightly, acknowledging her fact.

"Where does she live?" I quiz.

"In Mexico" She replies, kicking a stone up the walkway.

"Hmm, maybe you should go and live with her, you know so you can see Thor whenever you want" She looks up at me innocently.

"Really?" She gives me the cutest puppy eyes and I feel extremely guilty.

"Sorry Sophie, that would be impossible..." She looks sad and looks straight ahead for a moment.

"Hey... What was that?" I look up ahead to catch sight of a black blur speeding around the corner right next to our house. I watch to see if it would come back, but it doesn't.

"It was probably just an animal Sophie. Don't worry" I tell her, getting out the house keys and twisting it, making the door open with a content grunt. We walk in and I place both mine and Sophie's bags in the cupboard next to the front door.

"Mum? Dad?" My voice echoes through the seemingly empty house and I stand there in confusion. Mum and Dad come home early on Fridays? They should have been home ages ago.

"Are they home?" Sophie's disappointed face turns towards me and I hug her tightly.

"They're probably just late Soapy" She smiles at the silly nickname that I've been calling her since she was a baby.

"Alright? After I finish my homework, can we go out and have ice cream?" She asks as we both walk up the stairs. I hesitate.

"Only if Mum and Dad are home. We don't want them worrying if we're not here, do you?" She rapidly shakes her head and then scurries of into her princess room. I shake my head at her silliness and slump down onto my bed. I don't have any homework, my friends are all at their first-day-of-holidays sleepovers and here I am - home alone with my 6 year old sister. Not that I minded...

For about an hour I just lay on my back with my eyes closed facing the ceiling. Moments like these were amazing after school. I can just relax and calm my body down without any interrup-

"AAH!" A high pitched scream fills the house and I jump up in fright, running into Sophie's room. I grab hold of the door handle and slam open the door, scanning the room with my eyes. When I don't see anything, I look over to the small girl cowering over in the corner of the room. She looks pale, sweaty and absolutely frightened. I rush over and pull her into my chest, her sobs shaking both of our bodies.

"Shh, Sophie? What's wrong Honey?" I try to comfort her but her cries are getting nothing but worse.

"It-it-it was in here. He tried to-to touch me. Oh he was horr-horrible. He was really black and he looked slimy. Oh no he's going to get you! You have-have to hide!" Her voice getting higher and higher as she babbles on about a monster who got in through her window and tries to put it's hand on her. Apparently in ran out of the room moments before, and into my parent's bedroom. I sigh wearily.

"Here, I'll go check Mum and Dad's room, okay?" She looks at me nervously, but then she slowly nods and let's my arm go. I stand up and walk across the hall to my parents room. I turn around to see Sophie burying her head into the pillows on her head, not wanting to look in.

I'm glad she didn't look.

I open the door and the sick metallic scent of blood fills my nose. I gag, looking horrified at the figure laying in my parents bed. My father. His mangled body, bloody and bruised sits there staring at me. His eyes were wide open, begging me to help him. Tears fill my eyes and shock fills my body. I quickly slam the door shut and lock it, not wanting for Sophie to see any of this.

"Oh god, Oh god, Oh god" I stutter over and over, sprinting over to my fathers side. I want to touch him, to comfort him but the sight of his limbs hanging off of his torso was too much for me. I feel the bile rising up my throat and I manage to turn my head, vomiting the substance next to the bed. Tears falling down my face and shock still running through my brain, I don't notice the 2 figure standing on both sides of their room, until one of them groan.

I run over to my mother, placing my hands in her bloody ones and watching as she squirms in obvious pain.

"Mum?" I cry, trying to stop the bleeding by putting pressure on the major wound, but it wasn't helping. Her whole body was also mangled. They both had things that look like bite marks, lacerations and bruises making up their arms, legs, torso and face. The only difference is that my Father has had his limbs separated from his body. Bile rises in my throat again, but I manage to keep it down. Pressure on my hand is what breaks me from my teary trance.

"My poor baby" My mother whispers, so soft that it was almost inaudible.

"Mummy?" I call her the name that I haven't used in about 6 or 7 years. She slightly smiles, but it's more of a grimace.

"Listen." She breathes out, her eyes begging to roll into the back of her head. "You know that I love you and your sister - very very much" She breathes in heavily and breathes out, her eyes growing lazy and moving rapidly. "I want you to know... I- I want you to know that I lo-" She stops moving and her chest doesn't move up and down anymore.

"Mom?" I call out. "Mum?" I start to yell urgently, slightly shaking her bloody body, making the blood transfer to my clothes and hands. This makes me completely freak out. "MUM! NO! YOU CAN'T LEAVE US" I scream, tears rushing down my face rapidly. I fall down, putting my head on my mothers corpse. A cold and slimy hand is placed on my shoulder. I scream bloody murder at the thing that stands behind me.

It was a monster... It lashes out at me, biting the part of my back that is revealed because of how I'm leaning down. I don't feel anything because of the adrenalin that runs through me. I throw whatever I can at the thing before it finally hisses at me once more, and jumps out the window. I quickly get up and run into my sisters bedroom. When she see's me, she starts to cry harder. I pay no attention as I pack a bag for her. It mostly includes 2 day time outfits and a pyjama one, including her two favourite stuffed toys. We had no time to wait, so I picked her up and ran. Smoke fills my nose and I stare at the fire that spreads through our living room. I quickly slam open the door, running through. I place Sophie down. I can't leave them. I can't.

"Sophie. You stay. Right. Here. Call 911 and tell them there has been an extraterrestrial attack." I order her. She nods, snot and tears all over her face as I hand her my phone. I turn around and run back inside ready to gather my parents. I gather my father first as he was in pieces... and would be easier to carry. I drag him out by his jumper and after a lot of trips and burns, I manage to get him out of the house.

"SOPHIE! DON'T LOOK. LOOK OUT FOR THE AMBULANCE AND POLICE" I yell over the roaring of fire. I'm amazed that no one has come out to see. I race back inside and to my horror, a slamming sound from behind me echoes. I know that the door has collapsed but I still run up the stairs. On the top step, my foot almost fell through, but I caught myself. I run into the bedroom, and once again I am trapped by burning pillars of wood. I look around to see light coming from outside. Specifically red and blue ones. I grab some books off of the book shelf and throw them out of the picture window, making a hold big enough to fit my mother and I both through. I can slightly hear yelling and talking of the Ambulance of Police, but I pay no attention.

"PLEASE! HELP MY MOTHER!" I yell out. Agreements reach my ears and I use all of my strength to haul my mother up and gently slide her out of the window and into an officers arms. It was me next. I watch as the room slowly catches fire, cornering me into the corner of the room. I have to face my fears... I quickly jump and land into the strong arms of a man, feeling myself quickly getting put into a car, but when I look up I see that I'm not in an Ambulance or Police cruiser. In fact, surrounding the house wasn't the ambulance or the police. It was black cars and people in black suits, running around and talking into devices. We arrive at a destination and my sister and I are quickly whizzed up into hallways of grey and black. Eyes stare at us curiously and nervously. When we get to wherever we were supposed to go, I see that Sophie and I were getting separated. I quickly jump out of the man's arms and whisper into Sophie's ears.

"Do not tell them anything about me and yourself, you hear me?" When the man leads me into the room, thoughts fill my head.

"What if this guy is in on it?"

"What if he's here to kills me?"

"What if this is a secret Alien organization here to eat our brains"

I start to freak out, lashing at the guy and forcing him to move towards the door.

"DON'T TOUCH ME! GET AWAY FROM ME! I DON'T NEED HELP. DON'T YOU FREAKING TOUCH ME OR I WILL DESTROY YOU AND YOUR FUTURE BABIES" I grunted as I attack the man in various forms of Karate, jiu jitsu and the little information I know of Taekwondo .

My life was officially crushed.

Approximately 1 hour and 48 minutes after accident.

(Tony's POV)

We all sit in a circle around a stack of files innocently sitting in the very middle of the table, eagerly begging for me to read them. We being the Avengers, well excluding Thor. Apparently he needs his Father's word to bring Loki back to Earth. Yes, we're letting the guy back here, but that's only because apparently he's 'Changed'. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.

"Do any of you know what's on?" I ask the group. One by one, they all mumble their answers, shaking their heads and sipping the coffee's in front of them. Seriously? We were called in at 11:30 at night. Pepper and I could be doing something more...productive right now... Fury walks into the room at that moment with 2 figures behind him. One with blond hair and one with black. Great, the god's are here.

"My friends" Thor greeted us, a smile etched onto his face making him look like a giant cuddly bear. Not that I would cuddle with him... Fury rolls his eyes and motions for the duo to sit down. We all avert our eyes from rock of ages, and we all face the big boss.

"What's up now Fury. What, do we have to save the world again?" I smirk, leaning back.

"More like protecting 2 little girls from Aliens." He blankly says. We all go quiet as he passes out the files.

"About 2 hours ago, a 911 call was received from a little girl stating 'There was an Alien in my house, now it's burning down with my parents and sister inside.' She then tried to explain what it looked like, but there's not much to get out of a 6 year old." He starts. I look at the photos of a little girl with brown hair, crying and looking up and a house that looks black with soot and small flames. Even I feel a little sorry for her.

"We managed to get little information out of her, she is too shocked and young to understand. I can't really say much about the older one..." He trails off. We all look at each other.

"What? Is something wrong?" Bruce asks, looking over his glasses.

"No, well I don't think so. It's a bit hard to get any agents near her when all she does is attack them, using multiple forms of fighting skills" He growls, bringing up feed of a teenage looking girl, beating grown men's arses. I laugh at that. Seriously?

"Why? Is it because she's afraid?" Thor speaks up, looking quite concerned.

"Well, that's the thing. What we got from Sophie, the younger one - is that the older one found the parents mauled and dead on the floor of their bedroom. She then told us that she heard fighting and hissing when she saw something jump out of the window. It was approximately 8 feet tall, black and... scaly?" He reads off the file.

"I've never heard of anything like that" Thor mentions, looking at the file.

"Neither have we, that's why you're here. We need to get information out of her, it could be dangerous if we didn't. That thing is still out there and right now, we can't do anything to stop it." Fury finishes, standing up straight.

"Thor, I wan't you to speak with the young one with Barton and Rogers. Natasha, you and Stark speak with the older one. Because Loki is here, he will also be going with you, although he will wait outside with guards watching him. now move." He walks out of the room, his black cape swishing behind me. I stand up and stretch.

"How hard can this be?" I ask. Everyone just shrugs and we walk off towards the rooms where 2 girls sit and wait.

Sentence/s:- An orphaned pair of siblings

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~Yellz