Chapter 24! Woooooo!
Steve watched as the mountain range got closer and the sun got lower. S.H.I.E.L.D had provided them with dune buggies to get across the desert with. Steve, Tony, and Bruce were in one, and Thor, Natasha, and Clint in the other.
Steve looked out into the desert and sighed. He wished he was back at the tower with Sarah. He knew she was fine, she could take care of herself and she had her mom with her, but he couldn't help worrying. He needed to get his head in the mission, and concentrate. He thought of their kiss earlier and he smiled. He wasn't exactly the "ladies man" of the Avengers. That was Tony.
Steve had always been shy around women. Even when he had met Peggy, he'd never gotten up the courage to kiss her. They had never even gone on a real date. They were supposed to, but that had obviously fallen through. Now that he thought more about it, Sarah had been his first real kiss, one that he had willingly given. There was that one girl before he had been frozen that had practically lept onto him, but he didn't count her.
"Steve, you ready?" Tony said, breaking him from his thoughts.
"Ready for what?" he responded.
"We got to the mountain range a lot quicker then I had predicted, we're going in." Tony said, looking serious.
Steve picked up his shield. "Yup. Ready."
"Good, we'll be at the edge of the mountains in less then 10 minutes. Be ready incase of an ambush." Tony couldn't have said that any sooner. As Steve looked up into the mountains, he noticed something coming towards their buggy.
"MISSILE!" Steve shouted, and Tony looked up and gasped.
"Shit shit shit shit.." Tony mumbled trying to steer the buggy out of the path of the missile. "DIVE!" he yelled, and the three men jumped out of buggy, just as the missile hit the buggy. Tony's flight stabilizers caught him mid air, allowing him to hover, and Steve used his previous military training to tuck and roll out of the buggy, using his shield to protect his head.
"Bruce!" He heard Tony call out, "You all good?"
"Yeah.. I think so, a couple of scraps and cuts but nothing permanent." Bruce responded standing up and stretching slightly.
"At least we know their here." Steve said, this meant he could go home faster.
"But it also means that they know we're here." Tony said, frowning slightly, taking in the situation.
"Oh yeah, there's that." Steve said. He heard Natasha's voice in his ear piece.
"What was that? Are you guys all okay?" she said. If Steve didn't know her so well, he would think she didn't even care, her years of training keeping her voice calm, but he knew better. He knew she was frantically waiting for a reply from him.
"There was a missile headed towards our buggy, we got out though, we're all fine except for some scratches." Steve replied.
"Good, we'll be there in a few minutes." She said. They had spread out the buggies. Natasha's was about 5 miles farther east then they had been. "Heads up, looks like you've got company." She said. Steve looked up and saw dozens of helicopters, all armed and loaded, coming right for them.
"Bruce?" Steve said, he still hadn't noticed the helicopters. Bruce looked over at him and Steve pointed.
"Well that looks like a problem." Bruce commented.
"Now would be a good time for you to go green doctor!" Tony called, flying towards the helicopters attempting to bring down as many as possible.
"My favorite part." Bruce muttered. Steve watched as he Hulked out then jumping up the mountains, reaching the helicopters in less then 5 bounds. Steve felt useless for a moment until he heard Tony's voice over the intercom.
"Heads up Cap. They have divers." Steve looked up and watched and hundreds of men jumped from the helicopters, using parachutes to land safely on the ground.
"Natasha? You guys almost here? I'm not going to be able to hold them all off for very long." He heard a honk behind him and spun around to see the dune buggy coming right for him. He jumped out of the way as the buggy hit a few of the men at the beginning of the ambush.
"Really? You couldn't go two feet around me?" Steve asked, giving Clint, who was driving, an Are-You-Crazy, look.
Clint just grinned like a cheeky little child. "Hey I hit some of them. So be thankful."
"Yeah thanks for almost hitting me with a dune buggy but having the audacity to honk first." Steve said, sarcastically.
"Your welcome!" Clint said. Natasha shook her head and roles her eyes.
"You've both been around Tony way too much."
"What's the call captain?" Clint asked, So they could get prepared as more men began landing around them.
"Thor, get as high as you can and try to bring down the helicopters with the lightening. Once their gone, I want you back down here so we can bring down the men." Thor nodded and used his hammer to fly to the top of one of the mountains.
"Natasha, your here on the ground with me and Clint-"
"Yeeees?" he said, looking giddy as if he knew what the captain was about to say.
"Your in the buggy. Run them over, chase them out of town, what ever you can."
"Yes!" Clint cheered, pumping his fist.
"Just don't run any of us over." Steve warned.
"Course not." Clint said, he saluted Steve and jumped into the buggy.
"What about me and big man?" Steve heard Tony ask.
"Tony, help Thor with the copters and then we want you down here too. Hulk can just do what he wants. I can't control him." Steve said, and he heard Tony chuckle slightly.
"Got it. We'll be down soon." he said.
"Steve?" Natasha called. "Get ready!" He turned around, and saw the hundreds of men coming at him.
"Yeah. It'll be fun." he turned and hit the first man that came up behind him. Promptly dislocating the mans jaw.
This was the worse for Steve. When they were real people with real lives and real families. Fighting beings from outer space didn't bother Steve as long as they didn't look human. But these people might have kids or wives to go back to, he couldn't just outright kill them.
"Steve! Now is not a time for your goodness! Knock the bastards on their asses and keep going!" Natasha yelled at him. "They aren't going to stop and think about your life back home, they just want you dead. Take them out and don't look back." Steve watched as she went over to a man and promptly broke his neck, watching him crumple to the ground. "It's easy. Just pretend like their going to hurt the one thing you love most."
Steve nodded. He turned and began taking people out left and right, like there was nothing except this. He had to do this now, Natasha had put the idea into his head and now it wouldn't leave. He had to do this, he had protect everyone he loved.
"All the copters gone. I can see their base from up here. The three of us will be down in a few to take out the rest of the men and then we can make a plan to infiltrate their base." Tony said, Steve looked around and noticed the remains of the copters aflame around him.
"Got it. We're almost done here." Steve said, there was barley any men left. They had numbers up, but no skills when it came to fighting. There was probably less then 100 men left.
After the last men went down, the team came back together to think of a strategy on how to properly take down the rest of the base.
"You know what we need? A giant missile to just throw at them and watch them blow up." Tony said. Everyone gave him a look. "What?" he shrugged. "I just want to go home."
"It's not that. It's just that's actually a really good idea." Natasha said, looking surprised.
"Why are you so surprised? I am a genius."
"That doesn't mean you have genius ideas." Clint teased. Tony stuck his tongue out at Clint.
"Yeah. Real mature Tony." Clint replied.
"I said I was smart. Not mature." Tony said, matter-of-factly.
"We know that."
"Okay you two. Stop. Tony, where exactly are we going to get a missile big enough to destroy them?" Steve asked.
"Oh that's easy. They have all the missiles. We just need to light 'em up and watch the fire works ensue." he said.
Everyone looked at Thor, who in turn looked confused. "Yes?" he asked.
"See those missiles Thor?" Thor nodded. "Light them up!" Clint cheered and punched the sky.
Thor summoned his lightening, hit the missiles and the team watched from a mountain top as the base below them was blown to smithereens.
"Does this mean we can go home now?" Bruce asked, coming out from behind a rock, buttoning up his shirt. The team started bringing spare clothes on every mission so Bruce could unHulk and still have clothes.
"It would appear so." Thor said, pointing to the sky where a jet appeared, ready to take them back to the tower.
I'm so bad at fight scenes its disgusting. ._.
So don't kill me at the baddness of the fight scene. Oh well.
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