Chronicles of the Night

When we last left off, Lisa and Joseph had a heart to heart which inspired Lisa to do anything to help her family from now on. In Russia, Felix and Natasha are carrying out further orders for the Captain to attack a base of the Russian Military. As backup from Fury, Hawkeye arrives and prepares to engage with Felix. Natasha surprisingly finds Lisa in the complex, and trouble between the two seems to be brewing.

Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel comics, I do own my characters and the plot.

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New Resolve

Felix and Hawkeye walked in a circle facing each other. "So, why are you here? Fury deciding to invade this base too?" Felix asked.

"No, the Russian Military just sees you traitors as a threat, and Fury wants you taken down." Hawkeye answered. "And he figured I'd be enough for the job."

"Well I've got news for the both of you, you're underestimating me." Felix said. He crouched low and ran forward.

"You're forgetting who the best shot here is." Hawkeye said, letting an arrow fly, Felix had to stop running and jump to the side immediately, but the arrow did scratch him across the shoulder.

"Not good enough though!" Felix said, ducking another arrow and then jumping at Hawkeye again. Felix threw a claw at Hawkeye that was blocked by the bow. Hawkeye then threw a kick at Felix that Felix blocked with his knee. Felix then shoved aside Hawkeye's second punch and scratched him across the chest. Hawkeye kicked Felix in the chest in retaliation before jumping back and loading another arrow.

"Try tranquilizer." Hawkeye fired the arrow that Felix leaned backwards to avoid. Felix then did a complete back flip in to the air to avoid a second arrow. Felix then caught a third arrow a few inches away from his head and a fourth arrow a few inches away from his chest.

"Sheesh, those would have been bad if they hit." Felix commented as he landed in the snow.

Meanwhile…

"Your family?" The Black Widow asked.

"Yes." Night-Princess answered before dispersing in to a swarm of bats and quickly reforming herself somewhere in the middle of the desks. "And I won't leave."

"Child… you're in too far over your head!" The Black Widow said, firing her gun at Night-princess. Night-princess stood there and took all of the bullets to her forehead before they fell out and healed. "…"

"Your heartbeat says you're surprised." Night-princess said.

"Out of you three, I never bothered to read your file since I wasn't supposed to be working with you. I suppose even I can make a mistake." Natasha said, tossing her gun to the side. "Child, this is your last chance to run before I can no longer guarantee your safety."

"No." Night-princess told her.

"Stupid child." Black Widow drew a knife and ran forward. Night-princess threw a kick at the Black Widow that was easily blocked. The Black Widow then dived at the other leg and sliced it through the back of her leg near the heel.

"AUGH!" Night-princess cried.

"Do you know what the Achilles tendon is child? That's the tendon that connects the calf to your heel, now stay out of my way." The Black Widow said, setting a bag down on one of the desks. "Twenty minutes ought to be plenty." She turned around and

WHAM

"AUGH!" Black Widow went sprawling backwards from a punch to the nose from Night-princess. "Augh… damn… you little wretch… you broke my nose!"

"You sliced my leg…" Night-princess said as she limped forward before her leg fully healed.

Meanwhile…

"Nice shooting Rex!" Felix taunted as he evaded another arrow from Hawkeye.

"Pft… as fast as ever, let's try this." Hawkeye said as he loaded an arrow with a round tip on it. Hawkeye aimed and fired.

"Wait… that smells like… HOLY CRAP!!!" Felix jumped high in to the air as the arrow exploded. "Ouch!" One arrow flew up and hit Felix in the shoulder. Felix pulled that arrow out of his shoulder and knocked away two more arrows before he landed near Hawkeye and swiped his claws.

"No chance." Hawkeye blocked Felix's hand with his bow right before jumping back. Felix jumped at him again, but Hawkeye ducked a kick from Felix, but the moment he stood up Felix scratched his leg with his toe claws. "Augh!"

"And let's add this!" Felix said, swiping his claws at Hawkeye's waist and scratching him there. Felix then quickly dodged and blocked a few punches and kicks from Hawkeye before Hawkeye managed to deal two solid punches to Felix's stomach and cheek. Felix jumped away quickly, kicking Hawkeye as he did so.

Back inside…

"Rah!" The Black Widow thrust her knife at Night-princess. Night-princess held up her palm and let the knife get thrust right through it, letting the bloody blade protrude from the back of her hand.

"Ha!" Night-princess then kicked away Black Widow's arm, forcing her to let go of the knife.

"Not bad… but you lack training." Black Widow pulled out another gun and fired a single shot.

"AH!" The bullet went through the lens of Night-princess' shades and entered her right eye. "AAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Night-princess shouted.

"…" Black Widow smiled and rushed forward. Black Widow dealt a solid punch to Night-princess' right cheek, and then she dealt a gut punch to Night-princess.

"Urk…" Night-princess had the wind knocked out of her with that punch and she slowly collapsed to the ground.

"Troublesome child." The Black Widow said.

"Black Widow, what is taking you and Hell-claw so long? He isn't answering his radio!" The Captain barked.

"It seems that the Russian Military is starting to see things Fury's way, I'm assuming Hell-claw is dealing with some back up from Fury." The Black Widow answered. "I just had such a run-in myself."

"Set the bomb for ten minutes and get out now!"

"Understood sir." The Black Widow said as she set the timer on the bomb. "Hm?" The Black Widow turned around to find Night-princess making her way for the door.

"I came to help Felix, not fight her." Night-princess reminded herself as she pulled the bullet out of her eye, allowing the eye to start growing back.

"Augh… if he sees you it will ruin everything!" The Black Widow said, making sure her radio was off before she said that. She pulled out an Uzi and open fired.

"AH!" Night-princess fell to the ground with bullets embedding themselves all over her backs. Black Widow walked up, pulled out her knife, and leaned in close to Night-princess' ear.

"Given how this battle went, you should survive this whole ordeal, and when you do… find your own way home for your own good." Black Widow said. She took her knife and first cut the knee joints from behind, and then numerous other muscles on Night-princess' legs.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Night-princess shouted.

"Believe me child… given your abilities, what I'm putting you through now is nothing compared to what I went through at an age younger than you." Black Widow said before walking out of the room.

"Felix…" Night-princess breathed out weakly as she listened to the bomb timer count down, and all she could do was wait until all the muscles in her legs reconnected.

Meanwhile…

"Sorry, but the bow has got to go!" Felix said as he kicked Hawkeye's bow out of his hand.

"Gah!" Hawkeye quickly began throwing punches and kicks to fight with Felix.

"Whoa… you're no Cap, but you could certainly give him a run for his money." Felix said as he dodged and blocked and retaliated with his own attacks. Felix used every opening he could fine to land more scratches on Hawkeye's body, even if it meant taking a hit himself.

"Little traitor." Hawkeye muttered as he blocked one claw swipe and punched Felix once in the chest.

"Hey you know… I bet the cold is serving those cuts pretty well." Felix commented sarcastically as he ducked a kick and tried to use a sweep kick that Hawkeye jumped quickly.

"Grrrrr…" Hawkeye knew Felix had a point, the blistering cold wasn't making the scratches Felix left him any less painful, he was slowing down. Hawkeye threw a fist at Felix's face that Felix ducked.

"Nice try." Felix said before landing an uppercut, a strong blow to the cheek with his right fist, and finishing with a punch right between Hawkeye's eyes.

"Oof!" Hawkeye fell backwards, knocked unconscious by that last blow.

"…" Felix walked forward and hoisted Hawkeye's unconscious body on to his shoulders. "Well Hawkeye… thanks for letting me win." Felix thought to himself.

"Hell-claw! The bomb's going off in less than two minutes! Get your ass in gear!" Black Widow shouted, running out of the base.

"I don't see what you're so worried about, that's plenty of time." Felix said, grabbing Black Widow and hoisting her over his shoulders. Felix sprinted towards the gate, leaped to the top of it and then leaped away from the gate. "Hold on…" Felix picked up traces of a scent Felix knew all too well on Black Widow. "NO!!!" Felix turned his head toward the base with a panic stricken look on his face.

KABOOM

The minute Felix landed, he dropped Hawkeye on to the ground roughly and let Black Widow down and turned to look at the base.

"He knows… great." Black Widow thought. "Hmmmm… Hawkeye eh? Well done Hell-claw, we have a very valuable hostage now."

"Yeah…" Felix responded, not taking his horror struck eyes off of the base. "No… no no no how did she even get here!?" Felix asked himself. He looked at the ground and soon saw a rat at his feet. "She… she's alive… oh thank god." Felix fell to his knees in relief.

"Did the fight tire you out that much?" Black Widow asked.

"Yes… yes it did." Felix sighed as the Captain's helicopters flew in to pick them up.

Later…

The base was just smoking and flaming rubble now with a few corpses here and there. One large piece of rubble moved a little bit, before it was shoved away. Night-princess climbed out of that wreckage. Her shades were missing and so was her right arm, which was now a burnt and bleeding stump. Her hair was singed and the right side of her face had lost large pieces of skin.

"…" Night-princess looked around, it was no use trying to find her arm. She would just have to wait for a new one to grow. She took off her broken shades and dropped them to the ground, she removed her leather jacket, and lastly one of her burnt shoes. In spite of the fact that she was left only in her black T-shirt, pants and missing one shoe, the frigid weather didn't really bother her that much.

"Hm?" Night-princess turned around to look at a large figure. "Aren't you…"

"Yes I am. You're a vampire though aren't you? Did you do this?" The large figure asked.

"No… I didn't. Please… help me help Felix." Lisa begged.

"Felix? You know him?" The man asked, loosening his grip on his hammer.

Meanwhile…

"You exceeded my expectations yet again." The Captain told Natasha and Felix. "Not only did you destroy an important base, but you also captured one of Fury's dogs."

"I never liked that guy anyway." Felix said.

"Who is to handle torturing procedures?" Natasha asked.

"No one." The Captain answered.

"Sir?" Felix asked.

"Information will be needless now, instead, he will be there to witness the activation of our ultimate weapon, and the dawn of a new future." The Captain answered.

"Very well." Felix said.

"Very good Captain." Natasha said.

"You're both dismissed." The Captain said, walking down the hallway. Natasha walked down the hallway in the other direction while Felix stood there for a while before going down the same direction as Natasha.

"Lisa… she's here… somewhere. Is she okay though? And what is this weapon? If it's as powerful as the Captain says… what should I do?" Felix wondered.

Later that night…

Two guards stood outside the door to the lab where the weapon was apparently being built. "I don't understand why we have to stand here."

"Nobody but the Captain can open this door anyways."

"We're not even allowed in here." The guards conversed with each other extensively about this.

"You two!" Felix walked down the hallway.

"Agh… it's one of the Captain's super soldiers." One of the guards whispered.

"Shut up, this one is supposed to have super human senses. Yes sir!" The other guard stood at attention.

"Am I hearing complaints about the Captain's orders?" Felix asked one of them.

"N-no sir."

"I can hear your heartbeat, and I know when you're lying, so I do believe that you don't appreciate this assignment that the Captain has given you." Felix said, making his tone more agitated as it went on.

"O-of course not!"

"That does it… you two, as punishment for your lack of enthusiasm for your all too important assignment, go and scrub the latrines this instant!" Felix ordered.

"Yes sir!" They both said before marching off hastily.

"Suckers." Felix scoffed under his breath. He knew the security all too well around here by now, he already had the cameras watching this door disabled and now that those two buffoons were out of the way, he just had to get in through the door. Felix wedged his nails in through the slight opening in the door, then wriggled his fingers in making the opening wider and wider until he pushed it all the way open.

"zzzzzz…" Felix listened to the sleeping scientists, Dr. Petrovitch's snoring stood out among the rest of them. They weren't allowed to leave this room and so they had bunkers set up here. The room was quite massive, Felix assumed the weapon was under the massive sheet in the middle of the room. He found a large computer and promptly walked up to it.

"Let's see…" Felix turned the monitor on, since no one who didn't have access to the project details could even get in the room they didn't even bother setting up a password. Felix could easily access the information by himself. "Holy crap… and I thought America had the edge in this kind of stuff but this…" Felix looked towards the sleeping Dr. Petrovitch. "This man has a much more dangerous mind than I thought."

Later…

Joseph was welding together parts of his suit by himself, some of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s techs helped build the basic stuff, but Joseph only trusted himself to put it all together. However his thoughts were preoccupied with other stuff.

He was worried sick about Lisa. Fury was correct in assuming that Lisa snuck aboard Hawkeye's transport to get to Felix sooner. He wondered what she could be doing halfway around the world in freezing cold Russia.

Beep beep

"Hm?" Joseph looked over towards his helmet. Joseph put it on and the visor pointed out an incoming transmission. "What? Allow transmission." Joseph said.

"Joseph… please say that's you and not some nosey S.H.I.E.L.D. agent."

"Felix?"

"Yep, it's you."

"How're you contacting me from all the way in Russia?" Joseph asked.

"I may be more of a chemist, but I still spent long enough in the Baxter building to know enough about this stuff. I took a while to get the right radio frequency and…"

"Hold on…" Joseph said. "Check line." Joseph said.

"What?"

Line checked, transmission avoided interception by 12 seconds, transmission is clean.

"Not well enough though Felix, you nearly got this transmission intercepted." Joseph said.

"Ah get off your high horse for a moment and listen." Felix retorted.

"It's good to hear you haven't changed." Joseph commented.

"Likewise, but anyways… I've found out about the weapon, and well… here I'm sending it to you."

"…" Joseph looked as the specs for the weapon appeared on the inside of his visor. "Holy… Felix this is serious stuff here."

"Yeah it's stuff alright. All I want to know is what the hell can we do about it?" Felix asked.

"…" Joseph sat there for a moment. "How's Lisa?"

"So you know… I haven't seen her yet, but I know she's okay… she's alive… well not in the traditional sense but she's alive."

"I get it." Joseph said, he couldn't help but wonder how Lisa would react to the comment of her being alive. "Hmmmmm… do you have any way of getting in touch with her at all?"

"Well, her rat Lola is still hanging around me, I guess I'm supposed to give it a message before it stops hanging out in my sleeve… it kind of itches. Ow! It just bit me! What was that for!?"

"Okay…" Joseph sighed, after thinking about it he couldn't believe what he was about to suggest. "Here's the plan…"

Later…

"Whew… that was close." Felix sighed. "That one scientist needs sleeping pills or something." He sighed again. He grabbed Lola gently from his sleeve. "Okay, sorry about the itchy comment, but now I need you to go back to Lisa, and tell her something." Felix said before whispering to the rat. "Got it?"

"Squeak." The rat dissolved in to mist.

"Good." Felix said before the slight mist seeped out of the room. After a second's pause, "I can't believe I was talking to a rat." Felix told himself.

Later…

Lisa was sitting next to a campfire, heat or cold made very little difference for her, but she still decided to sit near the fire. Lisa then gave a sudden look to the sky with her dark purple eyes. "Oh…"

"What is it young one?"

"Felix… and Joseph… Lola just told me something." Lisa said.

"Lola?"

"One of my summoned rats… she dispersed and I absorbed her experience." Lisa said. "Joseph and Felix have a plan. We'll all be together soon." Lisa said with a smile on her face.

"That's good." The man said, dropping a massive load of firewood near the fire. "How's that arm coming along?"

"Mmmm…" Lisa looked at her right arm, it had almost grown long enough to reach where the wrist should be, but not quite. "Almost there. Why did you decide that I was a good vampire? Most of us shouldn't be you know." Lisa asked sadly.

"Any friend of Felix's can't be a bad person." The man said. "I haven't seen him a long time, is there anything I can do to help any more?"

"Hmmmmm…" Lisa thought about it. "I think there is. This weapon… is dangerous." Lisa said.

Wherever they were, S.H.I.E.L.D., Russian wilderness, or the Captain's base, the Night-Hunters all had one thought on their minds. "We'll get through this and out of this together."

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