Chapter 5: A new name
AN: I know this is a bit later than intended for an update, so sorry! I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Alex trots Storm up to a market. She takes his reins and ties them to a pole outside. The sun had gone up and down; it was now about 5:30. Alex pats his neck before going into the market; leaving Storm outside.
She walks into the market and sees a man at the counter. She looks at the food under the counter and gets two snickers bars and a pack of gum. She tosses them on the counter and goes over to the produce section and gets a bag of big carrots; throwing them on the counter. She pulls out her wallet and gets a twenty. The cashier gives her a look before taking the twenty and putting it in the register.
Then the door opens and two cops walk in. Alex sees them in the reflection of the glass in front of her; taking a deep breath she tries to act natural. They walk up next to her with some food. They glance at her, seeing her uneasiness. Alex takes the change and grabs the bag, she turns and runs into one of the cops; her pistol flies out of her holster, which was hidden under her jacket. The cops look at the pistol and then back at Alex. She tries to casually walk over and pick it up but the cop grabs her arm.
"Why are you carrying a loaded weapon miss?" He says. Alex doesn't make eye contact.
"To protect myself." Alex tries to say casually. The other cop goes over and picks it up; looking it over.
"That's a nice piece of machinery, where did you get this?" Alex was about to shrug but decides not to.
"It was handed down."
"You know there's a law against carrying a loaded weapon into a public area." The cop states. Alex didn't know what to say, she had already pointed out the two cameras that were focused on her. If she tried anything funny, she would be recognized for sure. Alex promised herself she wouldn't use this in case of emergency; she pulls out her SHIELD badge.
"I'm with SHIELD if you must know." Alex says. The cops glance at the badge. One of them smirks.
"It's outdated." Alex's confident face fades; she turns the badge to see for herself. It was true; the badge expired a month ago. The cop grabs her other arm.
"Why don't we take a drive." He begins to lead her out. Alex lets him as they walk out of the market. As soon as she thought there weren't any cameras she, she kicks his feet out from under him and turns; her fist connecting with the other cops face. Both cops fell to the ground. The first cop regained his feet and through a clumsy punch at her. She easily dodges it and kicks his stomach. She hears a crack and he collapses. Alex sees them both unable to continue, she walk back into the market and grabs her bag. The cashier held up his hands; as to say don't hurt me. Alex looks at him, and rolls her eyes. Some people are pathetic. She thought.
She walks out of the market and up to Storm. He nickers as she approaches. Pulling out a carrot, she gives it to him. She takes a minute to put the food in the pack. She goes over to the front of him and strokes his muzzle. Storm stared at her with gentle eyes. Then his gaze travels to something behind her. Alex turns to see one of the cops fire some kind of gun. She feels a jolt of electricity. She falls to the ground, regaining herself as quickly as possible. The cop already had her arms behind her back. Alex's vision was coming back, but not fast enough. She feels herself being lifted and a high pitched neigh from behind her. She could see a police car in front of her, then she heard him yelling, she is dropped abruptly. Turning over she sees Storm in a fighting frenzy, the officer fell to the ground and Storm landed on his arm with a bone crushing crack. He yells in pain. Alex clenches her fists and snaps to cuffs. She stumbles, clumsily to her feet and runs in front of Storm and he calms; landing on his powerful hooves. She strokes his muzzle; she looks back at the cop. Both were on the ground in pain. She pulls herself onto his back and they take off into the night again.
AVENGERS
Morgan walks into his office followed by two men. They stand at his desk. Morgan nods to them. They begin.
"Sir, there was a incident at a small market near the border, about fifty miles from base 2J." Morgan sighs.
"Please tell me Alex wasn't in the area." The men look at each other. Morgan nods.
"What'd she do this time?" Morgan asks. The man pulls out a newspaper and tosses it on the desk. Morgan picks it up and looks it over. There was a picture of two cops in bad shape, sitting by an ambulance and a blurred picture of what looked like a girl. Morgan puts a hand to his face. He begins to read the article.
"It was last night that two cops intercepted a fourteen year old girl carrying a loaded weapon. She claimed to be a SHEILD agent, with an expired badge. As the two cops calmly began to take her to their car she attacked them; using fighting techniques unknown by the two officers. Outnumbered, she managed to break three ribs in one of them and four ribs in the other. She said to have a horse with her. The cops beforehand, saw the animal earlier. They described it as a black thoroughbred. The shop owner said this about the two and also nick named the pair. "She came in and bought a few snacks and a bog of carrots. It was when the cops came in that I could see she became uneasy. When she turned and ran into one, her pistol fell out of her pocket. That's when she was in trouble. She pulled a SHIELD badge on them; it probably would have worked if it wasn't expired. Once they took her to their car it happened. She took both of them down. But before she could escape, the officer hit her with a powerful Taser that should have almost killed her. –Back to article message- "The cashier called this mysterious character 'The Dark Rider'. The police are doing what they can to track down this dangerous female."
Morgan finishes reading; he sighs and puts his hands on his face. The man takes the paper. Morgan drops his hands.
"Find her, and bring her back before she gets into more trouble." The men nod.
"Yes sir."
AVENGERS
Alex slowed Storm to a walk as they came to a river. She nudged him on as they came to the bank. Storm was eagerly walking forward but abruptly stops. Alex nudges him on again, but he doesn't budge. Storm rears back, Alex hangs on. He lands and she decides to get off. Taking his reins she begins to lead him forward.
Alex knew he wasn't fond of water. When he was a colt, there was an accident that he was in. It was April and there was a huge flood. Alex was helping her stable mates get the horses out of the lower field. But they forgot Storm, he almost drowned. Alex had gone back to save him, and then adopted him. Ever sense then, they had had an unbreakable bond.
Storm nickers before taking a step forward. They begin to wade through the water. It came up to her stomach as they made it to the other side. Storm shakes his mane and got water all over the remainder of her body. She blocked most of it with her arms.
"Hey!" Alex laughs. She shakes her hands and then puts the reins back over his head. She pulls herself back onto his back. Just then she hears cars; lots. Storm hears it t as he became uneasy. He begins to paw the ground; his ears pinned back. She looks through the trees and sees Police jeeps and trucks. They were coming toward them. Alex slowly begins to grip his mane, along with the reins. She turns him and they leap into a gallop.
She could feel the wind speeding past her ears, blocking out all sound. Looking over her shoulder she could see they were hot on her tail. She pushes Storm on, his breathing echoing in her ears.
"There she is!" She hears them. She didn't know how she could hear them. They were at least a few hundred yards away. Ignoring it, she keeps going. Then a car comes up beside them. The man leans out of the car with a gun. Alex's eyes widen and she steers Storm right up next to the car. She jabs her hand at the gun and pries it from his hand pretty easily. She lets go of the reins and cocks the weapon, she aims it at the driver but before she can pull the trigger a car pulls right in front of them.
The car slams on the breaks. Storm neighs and tries to stop, but they were to close. Alex is thrown off his back and over the car. She lands with a thud, but recovers quickly. She scurries around the car to Storm's side. He was becoming very uneasy. If she got in his way she might get trampled. Then police officers begin to get out of their cars and pointing guns at them. Alex quickly pulls herself onto Storms back.
"Get on the ground now!" One yells. Alex was too stubborn to surrender, but she couldn't forget that Storm was here too. She couldn't put him in harm's way. Alex was about to get off when shots rang out. All of the officers collapsed to the ground and Renegade men started to appear. Alex sighs in relief. Dave; a fellow Renegade officer she knew from previous missions. He walks up to her, she dismounts.
"I knew you could get into trouble, but this is a new low." He says with a smirk. Alex rolls her eyes.
"I was doing fine on my own." Alex states. Dave laughs.
"Of course you were." Alex walks Storm over to a car and they get ready to leave. Alex mount Storm again and they follow as the head back to Base 2J.
AVENGERS
Alex walks into Morgan's office. She had a feeling she would never hear the end of this one. The fact that she had almost revealed herself to someone who knew her really well and she almost got caught, twice. Morgan looks up and sees her walk in, he throws a newspaper across his desk. She sees the picture of a blurry image of her, and two injured cops. She gave a slightly innocent grin.
"Care to explain?" He says. Alex shrugs.
"What's there to tell?" She asks. Morgan sighs.
"Well, you almost got caught by three different people, including SHIELD. And now you have people giving you names." Alex looks up, an eyebrow raised.
"What are they calling me?" She asks.
"There calling you The Dark Rider."