Thank you to all of you out there who are reading my story! I hope it is entertaining because it is certainly entertaining for me! I love writing for you guys. :) Keep reading on! I will try to update more often and I am sorry if the story lacks continuity I know it is a little all over the place. One reason why I started this FanFiction account was to grow as a writer. Please review my story! And if your name is Cheyenne A., I do not appreciate your bad reviews thank you very much. haha just kidding love you Cheyenne! Okay, I'll stop rambling now. On with the story!
-Angelica B. Steve Rogers
Chapter 4 - Secrets Uncovered
"They will never find us here," says Astrid maliciously as she unzips the bag.
A sapphire glow pours out of it.
"Perfect," Astrid grins.
"Just what you needed for your machine that you are using to dominate the world!" Denise exclaims.
"Shh, don't say it out loud, Denise! Do you know how easy it is to eavesdrop on conversations these days? Astrid scolds Denise, her hands on her hips.
In a booming voice that Denise only gets when she is excited about something, Denise answers: "Yea! People can set up hidden cameras anywhere they want these days. Isn't it amazing?! Isn't technology amazing?! I doubt anyone will be able to hear us down here under the sea! Unless they have a waterproof camera..hmm.."
Astrid breathes out deeply through her nose.
"I made a promise to myself not to lose my temper so easily, so I will let this slide. Still, what am I going to do with you, child?" Astrid says through gritted teeth.
"Love me!" Denise yells.
Astrid slaps her hand onto her forehead.
"Just go get the machine."
"Ya got it, boss!"
Denise comes back with a machine covered in a tarp. Astrid grabs the tarp and throws the tarp on the ground below her. She circles the contraption, surveying it to make sure it was ready for a test run. After a few moments, she nods.
"It's ready," Astrid says, content with her work.
Astrid places the Tesseract into the machine. She races over to the computer that is hooked up nearby, and she punches numbers on the keyboard to start the test run. A low rumble begins to sound. Then, the machine glows blue, and starts to heat up and smoke.
Astrid quickly shuts down the system before the machine could explode and blow their cover. Denise watches Astrid pant heavily and try to regain her breath.
Denise says: "Well, we should try it again! It is bound to work some time!"
Denise is always the optimist in situations, and Astrid had to admit that what Denise said was true. It was bound to work sometime. She just needs to readjust some data...
"We will not rest until the machine is complete!" Astrid yells.
"We will not rest until we can find the Tesseract!" Thor yells, as he slams his hammer onto the tabletop. He doesn't know his own strength, and he ends up splitting the table into two.
"That belonged to my grandmother!" Cheyenne says, hitting her forehead with her palm.
"Oops.." Thor says, silently trying to creep out of the room before Cheyenne hit him on the head. She can hit fairly hard, and Thor does not want to endure the pain right now.
Cheyenne sees that Thor is trying to get away from her so she softens her tone a bit. Cheyenne says: "Thor, do you know what you need? You need a little relaxation to get this stress off your chest. Actually, all of you could use a little relaxation."
Cheyenne motions to all the Avengers in the living room.
Steve is holding his head in his hands while Dr. Banner writes furiously on a notepad, trying to figure out the best place to search next for the Tesseract. Loki is stretched out on a reclining chair, and studying an atlas. Tony is playing a GameBoy on the couch. Unlike all the other Avengers, Tony is not taking the situation seriously.
Cheyenne comes up to Tony and snatches the GameBoy out of his hands.
"Hey. I just caught Pikachu!" Tony whines, trying to grab hold of the GameBoy and yank it out of Cheyenne's hands.
"No, I think what you guys need is a little team bonding time. You know what I mean? I mean you guys barely even talk to each other." Cheyenne says.
"What? We talk to each other!" Tony exclaims.
"Hey, Banner, can you hand me the chips?," Tony asks Dr. Banner.
"Sure, bud" Dr. Banner says, as he reaches for the bag of Doritos that is on the coffee table.
"See? We are all tight. We are best buds. No need to worry about us!" Tony smiles.
"I don't remember ever saying that you are my friend," Steve says, smirking.
"You know I am!" Tony answers, in a cheerful voice.
"No, you guys need to go out somewhere.. hmm.." Cheyenne says, thinking.
"Okay, guys. Get ready. We are going bowling and cliff diving!" Cheyenne exclaims.
At the bowling alley:
Cheyenne meets up with her girlfriends who are helping with the search at the bowling alley. The Avengers and the girls get set up into teams.
One lane is for the girls: Cheyenne, Angelica, Emily, Yazmin, Leslee, and Fiona.
The other is for the Avengers (plus Loki): Tony, Dr. Banner, Steve, Thor, and Loki.
"Hey, no fair! The girl's team has an extra person!" Tony says, pouting.
"Well, do you want to stay out of the game so the teams are even?" says Loki.
"Nah. Just forget I said anything." Tony answers, still pouting.
Dr. Banner and Steve have a different attitude. They think they can take on all the girls and win. Steve says he can three strikes in a row because he has done it before in his hometown in New York. Dr. Banner brags about the time he got spares the whole game and got over two hundred points. He could just turn into the Hulk and knock down all the pins himself. Steve says he can just throw his shield and knock them all down.
"I don't believe you," says Angelica.
"Oh, really? Well, pretty lady, watch and learn." says Steve, accepting her challenge.
Steve pulls his shield out of his backpack, and hurls it at the pins that the end of the lane. The shield hits the pins, and all of them come tumbling down along with the sign that was hanging over the lane.
Steve runs as fast as he can down the lane to fix the sign. He ends up slipping on the greased lane, and hitting the wall with a thud. Steve fixes the sign and comes back rubbing his nose. When he comes back, Angelica and the others are laughing at him, but he doesn't care. At least he got Angelica to notice him and that was all that mattered.
The bowling games that ensued were intense. The Avengers won four games against the girls and the girls won only one against them. They say the Avengers have an advantage because they have Steve's shield and Dr. Banner's strength to help them. Tony proves to be a good bowler. He gets all spares in a row which really add up. Cheyenne creams Loki with her special technique she uses where she throws the ball, spiraling it. She always gets strikes using this technique, and Loki starts to try to use her technique. At first, he is lousy at it, but eventually Loki picks up the technique and creams Cheyenne.
There are many high-fives. There is a lot of laughing and fist pumps. Afterward, all of them had to admit they had a lot of fun, and felt closer than ever to each other.
Then, came the cliff diving.
The girls have been doing cliff diving ever since they were little girls, so they know what they are doing. Tony has no problem going off the cliff because from years of flying around in his suit, he has learned to love the sensation of falling. Dr. Banner is down for it as long as he can turn into the Hulk and do a cannon-ball into the water. He does this and he sprays everyone in a massive tidal wave.
Everyone seems down for going off the cliff, except for Steve. He is having second thoughts about it. He is not a fan of heights, and the chilly water below scares him out of his wits because it reminds him of the time he spent in an ice drift, frozen for many years. He was frozen as time moved on and left him behind. All his loved ones died off and he never even got to attend their funerals or say one last goodbye. Steve stands on the edge of the cliff and looks down at the smiling faces of his friends.
"C'mon, Stevie. You can do it!" Tony calls out to Steve.
"We believe in you!"
Another person is also unsure about whether to jump or not. Angelica is also scared of heights and she is sitting on a boulder not too far from the edge of the cliff. She silently cheers Steve on in her mind because she knows he is strong enough to do it.
If he can do it, then I can do it. Angelica thinks.
She waits and waits for him to jump, but he doesn't. He is too afraid. Angelica decides to take the initiative and jump before him. Maybe she will inspire him to jump by himself. She stands up and starts to make her way to the edge, but she trips and falls off the side of the cliff.
Angelica crashes down the side of the cliff, sharp rocks scraping her all over. Pain rushes over her like a waterfall. She sees the shore below and she prays that she will survive the collision alive. She keeps falling and falling, and just before she reaches the shore, she feels strong arms lift her up and lead her into the safe cushion of the water.
Angelica looks up to see who her rescuer was. It was Steve. His bright blue eyes smiled at her as she thanked him for saving her. He says it is all in a day's work as a superhero. Angelica knows that he would have never had jumped off that cliff if it wasn't for her fall. He had wanted to save her, and he wanted her to be alive. Why? She had a feeling the attraction that she felt for him was mutual, and he felt for her too.
Angelica smiled back at Steve as her friends surround her.
Cheyenne takes Angelica to an infirmary nearby. The Avengers stay behind in the water and play in the water. Tony picks up stones, smooth from years of being weathered by the ocean, and throws them at Loki and his other friends. They do this for a long time. Loki picks up a peculiar stone that is light as a feather and a glowing green color. He stares at it and turns it over in his hand. Loki investigates the spot where he found the stone closer and he realizes there are a whole collection of these strange stones here. He digs through them and he sees that the stones were put there to fill in a hole. A tunnel actually that must lead to a hidden place.
Loki tells the others about it, and they start to dig.
Who knows what secrets they will uncover by going down the tunnel?
To be continued...