A/N: Thanks for reading that last chapter! I am sorry that it was kind of a bad chapter, I was very rushed during it, and so I'll try and redeem myself in this one. This chapter will be about; Hawk, Hulk, and Ashley going on a mission, more Steve and Ashley stuff, and a battle between Hulk and the city people. I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter Characters, Avengers Characters, or the silver surfboard from fantastic four.
Lost an Ear – Ashley's POV
"Great job on the overnight mission, everyone, Ashley thank you for sharing your world with us. We have to get into the next mission, however, and that will be Hulk, Hawkeye, and Ashley." Nick Fury started. "What you will have to do is get information from Vanessa Tucker," Nick handed us all a picture of a blonde haired woman; "she is someone who we think is working with Adam Andrews, and therefore working with Loki." Nick ended.
"So basically, you want us to go to this place and just get information out of Vanessa Tucker, what is the catch?" I asked; this is way too simple.
"The catch is that we think there will be intense security people there and if Hulk should change, since the recent events the army is already here to protect the citizens, and we fear that they would attack you Bruce." Nick Fury replied, apologetically.
"I can handle that." Bruce answered somewhat stiffly.
"We will help you, right Ashley?" Hawkeye asked.
"Of course." I nodded sincerely.
"Thank you." Bruce smiled.
"Also, your mission is in the city so you will probably fight in the middle of the street some." Nick Fury added. "Be safe and try your best not to be put on camera."
"We will." I nodded as Hawk and Hulk nodded with me.
"Alright, go get changed and you all can go." Nick Fury ended. We all agreed and ran to our rooms.
On the way there, I ran into Pepper and Steve.
"Pepper! I haven't seen you in awhile." I exclaimed hugging her.
"I know, I miss you, are you doing anything right now? Maybe we could go shopping." Pepper asked hopefully. I frowned.
"Actually, I am about to go on a mission right now, but later." I nodded. "I would love to get out of here for awhile." I told her.
"Of course. Eliza can even come with us." Pepper smiled.
"I would love that." I smiled back.
"What is the mission about?" Steve asked protectively.
"We have to go get information from a Vanessa Tucker, who Nick thinks is working with Adam Andrews." I explained. Steve calmed slightly.
"Alright, who are you going with?" Steve asked.
"Hawkeye and Hulk." I replied smiling. They were my two best friends in the Avengers.
"Okay, well we will let you get changed." Pepper told me before Steve could ask another question.
"Thank you. I will see you two later." I thanked her and hugged them both before running down the hallway into my room.
Finally, my old outfit had come out of the dryer. Tony told me that Catherine kept putting it back in to get the horrible stains out and get the 'prison scent' off of it. I was very happy to wear my sleeveless jacket, black cargo pants, sleeveless shirt, and high-tops again. There was no doubt in my mind that this outfit was the easiest to fight and run in.
After I hid my wand, gun, and knife under my clothes, I dashed back downstairs to go. To my surprise, I wasn't the last one down there. Hawkeye was still upstairs changing. Hulk only had to put on the stretchy huge black pants and a plain t-shirt, so he was always done fast.
"Hey, the old outfit is back. Looking good, blackie." Tony complimented as he looked me over.
"Thanks, Sony Tark." I replied there were a few chuckles around the room, "This one is defiantly easiest to run, jump, and fight in."
"Sony Tark? How did you come up with that, sorcerer?" Tony asked me, confused.
"I switched the first letter from your last name from the first letter of your first name. Not that difficult, go-tee." I shrugged.
"That is clever, Pshley Aotter." Tony tried; everyone stared at him and blinked. "It doesn't work with your name." Tony laughed and everyone else joined in.
Finally, Hawkeye came into the conference room. He looked like a fighter. Hawkeye was wearing a strapless vest with the SHIELD sign on it. He was wearing black pants with a full container full of arrows with his bow slung across his shoulder.
"Dude," Thor gasped, "you look awesome." Everyone nodded entranced.
"… C'mon you all need to get going." Nick told us, giving us our earpieces.
After that, with difficulty we all walked downstairs and Hawk drove us to a huge building with at least sixty stories. Hulk grabbed my hand as I stepped out of the car and saw two hundred people's stats over a period of two minutes but I was only focused on one person.
"Vanessa Tucker is on the fifty-fifth floor in room 204." I told them, blinking out of the dark room after the last person.
"Well done, Ashley. I will always be amazed at how that works." Hawkeye complemented me.
"Thank you; now let us go we are getting looks already." I replied, walking inside the building with the two superheroes on my heels.
We walked straight into the nearest elevator and I pushed the button to fifty-five. A man in the elevator was staring open-mouthed at Hawk and I because we looked the most different. Another woman in the elevator was gaping at the Hulks huge pants. The elevator music was a nice excuse for us not to explain ourselves. The elevator ride took forever and these people either missed there floor or they were going up to the sixtieth floor because they didn't get off.
After about ten minutes, the elevator doors finally opened at floor fifty-five. Hawk, Hulk, and I all but ran out of the open doors and into room 204. Luckily, Vanessa was in fact in her office and looked up when we entered. Vanessa surveyed our clothing before she spoke.
"Hello, can I help you?" Vanessa asked kindly.
"We just wanted to talk to you, actually." I replied.
"Sure, I am here. By the way, my name is Vanessa, lovely to meet you all." Vanessa introduced herself, holding out a hand.
"Hello, Vanessa. My name is Ashley." I replied, shaking her outstretched hand.
"I am Clint, nice to meet you." Hawkeye introduced himself, shaking her hand as well.
"My name is Dr. Banner, hello." Bruce shook her hand with a smile.
"Nice to meet you all, what did you want to talk about?" Vanessa asked smiling and motioning to the seats. We all took a seat.
"Well," I glanced at Hawk and Hulk before I spoke, "Vanessa, do you know a man named Adam Andrews?" I asked her, watching her face for any changes and I grounded my foot into the ground to listen to her heartbeat.
"I do know Adam. Why?" Vanessa asked, she looked simply curious and her heartbeat didn't race as if she were lying.
"We needed to find out some information involving Mr. Adam." I replied. Vanessa nodded as if she were a doctor inspecting a wound.
"What information? I will have to keep a certain amount of thins confidential of course." Vanessa told us. I nodded.
"Of course. Well," I glanced at the superheroes again, "Do you know… his boss or who he is working with?" I asked carefully. Vanessa's heartbeat sped up slightly.
"Yes, but I do now know much. I know that he is working for a man that wants to be in control and that he can be very sinister if not evil." Vanessa replied, slowly as well.
"Do you know why the man wants to be in control or what he is after?" I asked a bit sharper.
"Adam once told me that he is after all the power in the world. That he wants to control humanity. He wants to have all the power in the world." Vanessa answered. "Sometimes, I think he will succeed." She shivered and her heart started to speed up.
Everyone stayed quiet for awhile.
"That is what we needed to hear." Hawk replied, finally speaking.
"Vanessa, he is coming up the elevator. Adam Andrews has come to meet with you. He has two army soldiers beside him and he has tanks waiting downstairs." I explained to her.
Vanessa seemed shocked, "What do I do?" She asked.
"I am going to give you a drink that changes you into me. The affects will last one hour and that will give you enough time to get to safety." I replied. "But we have to act fast." I told her.
After that, I pulled a small potion vile out of my jacket pocket.
"Ashley, maybe you should wait a minute." Steve said from my earpiece.
"Nick Fury, have a car waiting in front of the building to get the fake me." I replied in my earpiece.
"We will help the real Ashley fight the men and tanks downstairs." Hulk said into the earpiece. While Hawkeye nodded; agreeing.
"Be careful, Vanessa, don't talk to anyone and hid my scar so that you won't get recognized." I told Vanessa. Pulling out some hairs and placing them into the potion, which turned a bright gold.
"Wait a second! Am I going to drink that?" Vanessa yelled.
"Yes, you are and you have to." I told her, walking towards her.
"How safe is it to become you?" Vanessa asked. "What is the worst that could happen as you?"
"The worst that has happened? One of my best friends had his left ear chopped off when disguised as me." I told her honestly.
"Who did that?" Vanessa asked, glancing at the potion in my hands.
"It was a secret agent who everyone thought was bad; was very rude to me, but it turns out he was just in love with my mother. He was angry at my father for marrying her and then took it out on me because I have his black hair." I explained Severus Snape. "But after that it seems that he was just pretending to be bad to get information from the 'bad side'." Everyone stared at me.
"You never told me that story." Steve whispered from base.
Vanessa nodded slowly, "And is there a good side?"
"Well, there were seven people disguised as me and only one got permanently injured. The others just got scratches and at worst a bruise." I told her, nodding. "Also, the man that hit him wasn't trying to; he tried to hit one of the bad people but accidently hit the guy who lost the ear instead. As well as they were in the air and it was at night." I helped her.
Vanessa nodded again. "Alright, let's get this over with." She reached out for the potion and drank it.
The effects were instantaneous and there was a twin of myself in the room in less than ten seconds.
"Amazing." Hawkeye and Hulk whispered together along with everyone at base in my ear.
"Now, Vanessa, go downstairs he is coming down the hallway. Take a different elevator." I told her as Vanessa thanked me and scurried out of the room.
"Alright, we need to get on the street." Hulk said next, making himself turn into the hulk and then jumping out the window; down all the way to the streets.
Hawkeye grabbed my hand and started running down the stairs of the building until we were downstairs, exhausted. We saw a crowd of people circling Hulk and he seemed to be trying to get them away. In the distance, I saw that there were two tanks while there was one behind us and one shot a huge missile at Hulk who shook it off very easily and several people ran away from the area.
The next tank ran over cars and shot more missiles at Hulk; who fell slightly.
"Hawk! We have to help him!" I screamed at him. Hulk could lose control at any moment and hurt all these people.
"I know. I'll try and go take out one or two of the tanks drivers." Hawk yelled over the noise.
After, I nodded before I hit the back of my glove making it transform into a silver flying surfboard in seconds. I jumped on it and flew in front of Hulk before my hands shot out to stop a huge missile that was on its way towards Hulk. The missile pushed me back from its amount of strength but it pushed all my strength into pushing the missile into the water surrounding New York City.
From there, another missile was thrown at us. I didn't have enough in me to catch that one in time and it hit my head causing serious bleeding to come from my left temple down my face and throat, my board caught me before I could fall.
"Ashley, no!" Steve yelled.
Hulk caught the missile before it could do anymore damage, threw it, looked at the blood streaming down my face, and roared at the tank. Running forward and catching the tank by its nose and flinging it all into the water. After that, I looked behind me at the two tanks that had stopped running and Hawkeye was holding two men on the ground by the collars.
My vision started to fade as I floated back towards ground. My eyes started to close and I could tell I was close to fainting as I fell from my board onto the ground and all went black.
Pain was all I felt as I started to come back from the darkness. There was a large, huge, pain in my head on my left side but I couldn't figure out what it was. Then, something wet dapped at my head and before I could think about who it was; my hand shoot out, grabbed then hand, and stopped it from moving.
I forced my eyes to open and look at the person who was dabbing me with fluid. I opened my eyes and light filled my vision, so much so that I had to blink several times to get used to it. With difficult, I turned my head to the side and looked at the blonde haired blue eyed man. The man said something but it came out blurry and not comprehendible. My ears tried to adjust and suddenly my memory flew back to me.
This was Steve Rodgers also known as Captain America, the superhero that I was dating. I had been hit with a missile that made my head bleed and made me faint. I tried to touch my head as it was still aching but Steve stopped me.
"Don't touch it, love. I know it hurts but you shouldn't touch it." Steve told me gently putting my hand back by my side. I brought my hand up again, but this time to stroke his cheek.
"Steve." I whispered gaining my voice back. "Steve Rodgers." I smiled and he smiled back leaning into my touch and I grimaced. "You can yell at me if you want to." I dropped my hand.
"Why would I yell at you?" Steve asked, grabbing my hand and squeezing it.
"I thought you were mad that I got hurt?" I told him, my eye brows furrowing, confused.
Steve laughed, "I am not mad at you. I am mad at the person that hit you."
"Steve, honey, you have got to make up your mind." I told him
Steve laughed again, "I know, honey. I know. How are you feeling?" He asked started to dap my forehead again. The feeling felt well.
"That makes it feel better." I replied closing my eyes. "How long was I out?"
"About an hour, you got caught on camera but Nick is not mad at you. Hulk carried you home, the two men are in custody and Vanessa is safe. Well done." Steve complemented me as he kissed my forehead very softly.
"Are Hawkeye or Hulk hurt?" I asked worriedly.
"No, they are fine. Bruce is actually still as the Hulk he is so mad that you were hit with that missile that he hasn't been able to calm down." Steve explained to me.
I was shocked, "Do I need to get up and go see him?" I asked starting to stand up.
The pounding in my head increased as Steve grabbed my arm and helped me up. I caught glance of myself in the window and I noticed that I had several purple bruises on my neck. I also had a huge open angry red cut going from the button of my ear to the middle of my forehead. My mouth dropped open with an audible gasp as I touched my reflection in the mirror.
"You are still beautiful." Steve told me.
"I don't even look like myself." I mouthed out. Steve stepped in the way of my reflection.
"You are beautiful." Steve placed his hands on my shoulders. I glanced at him and then looked away gently touching my neck where, from the sudden pain, I could feel the bruises on my skin.
Steve took my hand in his and lent my face back to kiss me. "You are beautiful." He repeated again. "So beautiful." He whispered.
"Thank you, Steve." I replied pulling away. "You always make me feel better." I confessed.
"I know you, love. Would you like to go on a date again tomorrow? I found a great new place." Steve told me, holding my hand as we started to walk slowly out of the hospital level of Stark Tower.
"Of course," I replied nodding smiling, that motion making me dizzy and I swayed but Steve linked our arms together still holding my hand. "Where is Hulk?" I asked.
"He is on the roof. Tony and Thor helped him get up there along with Hulk's own strength of course." Steve replied helping me into the elevator.
Steve kissed me while in there and then after a few breathless minutes the elevator doors opened and we walked out of the elevator to see the whole team along with Catherine, Pepper, Vanessa, Eliza, and Bucky. Everyone smiled when they saw me. Hulk looked at me and nodded his giant green head.
"Ashley!" Thor, Hawkeye, and Tony chorused.
"Look at your face and neck!" Nick, Eliza, Bucky, and Vanessa all yelled.
"Are you okay?" They all asked together.
Hulk started to calm down, his skin started to become whiter, and he started to shrink into his human form.
"I am okay. A little dizzy but I am okay." I replied to their question smiling as Hulk was Bruce Banner again. Bruce came up and looked over my bruises and huge cut, like the doctor he was.
"This cut is deep and big it will scab over and be better in about two and a half months. Your bruises being on your neck it will take about three months to fully heal. None of your bruises are severe and that is a good sign. Your cut, however, is going to half to be washed everyday for the next few weeks to fight infection." Bruce told me. "I am happy you are safe, Ashley." Bruce then hugged me.
"Thank you, Bruce. I will remember that advice." I replied to him.
"Good, because that will get you better as fast as possible." Bruce nodded.
I thanked him again and we all went about our business again. I walked into Eliza's new room, because I saw that Pepper and Vanessa were in there.
"Hey, Ash!" Pepper exclaimed, coming to hug me gently.
"Hey Pepper. Would you still like to go shopping?" I asked her, since it was only two o'clock in the afternoon.
"Of course, but are you sure you are okay in your condition?" Pepper asked worriedly.
"I believe so." I told her. "I will put some makeup on the bruises and clean up the cut as much as I can and we can. Would you two like to go?" I asked Eliza and Vanessa.
"I love any excuse to go shopping!" Eliza immediately exclaimed.
"I would love to have a day with some friends." Vanessa nodded. "And for what you did to save me today, I have to go with you." Vanessa smiled at me. "Thank you."
"You are welcome, Vanessa, then it is settled let us go shopping in the city." I told them, smiling at Pepper.
"Alright, fine. I will be holding onto you and hovering, you know." Pepper answered me.
"Oh I know." I smiled at her.
After we all walked back into our rooms to go get ready, I cleaned my cut and put make-cup over my bruises as much as I could. In the end, my bruises just looked like well, less purple bruises and more white bruises. I was happy with that though as long as they didn't make me stand out to much.
Also, I put on some jeans and a normal short sleeve cotton shirt with a blue-jeaned colored purse with a few pockets and zippers. For shoes I wore some simple navy blue shoes. I still didn't look like me, but at least that was an improvement. As always, I wore the silver glove and a hidden gun. I sighed before picking up some American money; a few days ago I went to the bank an exchange a cold coin for a large amount of cash. I was ready after that.
"Where are you going, Ashley?" Steve's voice came from behind me, I saw him come in.
I turned around to face him, "We are going shopping." I replied carefully.
"Who?" Steve played along smiling at me.
"Vanessa, Pepper, Eliza, and I." I told him.
Steve nodded slowly, "Are you sure you are up for it?"
Truly I didn't think I was, but I still wanted to get out of this place for awhile.
"I can always come home earlier than them." I shrugged, that movement hurting the bruises on my neck. I took a second to think about what I couldn't do so no shrugging and no nodding for a few months, great.
"Do you want me to come with you?" Steve asked, watching my face carefully.
"Of course I want you there, but you don't have to go. Why don't you have a afternoon with the boys?" I suggested smiling. "You know, bond a little."
Steve laughed, "Alright sure, Ashley, but if you need to come home alright?" Steve asked seriously.
"I intend to." I replied walking up to kiss him.
"Have fun." Steve whispered into the kiss.
"Thank you, honey." I smiled up at him, kissed him once more, and left the room.
Once downstairs on the ground floor, I found Vanessa, Eliza, and Pepper chatting away about stores and what they could buy. I took a deep breath before we walked to the car.
A few hours later
My neck was killing me! Let me bring you up to speed, we went to a few stores that Pepper and I bought some stuff in and then we went into high-fashion places where Eliza and Vanessa bought stuff in. Then, we started going in every store we saw, I was already exhausted from today's mission and fainting so I was in no shape to hold ten bags. But that wasn't all.
After that, some paparazzi people recognized me and were following us around everywhere asking me several questions. So the night started out boring, and then had some exciting hours, and now I was walking home with Pepper trying to get away from the paparazzi and cover my neck and head as much as possible without it looking awkward or unnatural.
Successfully, we made it home and went up the elevator to the bedroom level to see the boys playing beer-pong. Pepper and I gasped and dropped our bags. Everyone was playing the game, even Nick Fury and Bucky. Steve seemed to notice us and walked over to me swaying.
"Hey! Ashley! Everyone! Ashley is back!" Steve yelled putting his arm around my shoulders and pulling me to his side; that movement hurt my neck very badly.
"Steve, what are you doing?" I asked pulling out of his embrace.
"Ashley I am just doing what you told me to do, bonding you know?" Steve told me, playing with my hair.
"Drinking is bonding?" I asked laughing. Steve kissed me very sloppily.
"Yes, ma'am, it definitely is." Steve replied.
"Okay then," I whispered, "Alright party is over! Come on everyone! Get to your rooms!" I yelled at them. I was so not in the mood for this.
"C'mon, Ashley, we are having a good time." Nick Fury whined.
After all of their whines that sounded the same as Nick's, I gave them all a sobering potion and led them into their rooms with the help of Pepper. Once everyone was in there beds, I said good-night to Pepper and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
A/N: Thanks for reading!
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