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Chapter Eight: Invisible
"Hello," Caroline said her voice dripping with sarcasm. "And thank you so much for telling us about the team's new mission."
"Why are you here?" Steve said through gritted teeth.
"The same reason you are," Caroline said. "The Avengers were called in, to investigate something. All of us!"
"You guys have school tomorrow," Natasha said.
"That's no excuse for not even telling us about the mission, which let me guess, was your idea to save time," Caroline retorted.
"Told you it wouldn't work," Tony said. "But did you listen? How did you figure this out anyways?"
"Well you told us the best way to get better at hacking was to practice, so…"
"You hacked into Jarvis?!" Tony exclaimed. "First of all how? Second of all do you realize how much damage you could have done to the-"
"Tony, shut up," more than one person said.
"What is wrong with you guys?" Clara said. "We're supposed to be a team."
"We are a-" Steve began, when Clint suddenly interrupted.
"Can we finish this argument later guys?" he asked and pointed to the pointed where the base had been just seconds ago. "Because I think we might have a bigger problem."
Everyone spun around to look where Clint was pointing. "Where'd it go?!" Clara exclaimed. The base had completely disappeared.
"Stark?" Steve said.
"Hold on," Stark replied. "Something's messing with my sensors… Oh no, that can't be good. Caroline I'm blaming you if something's wrong with Jarvis."
"Oh for heaven's sake!" Caroline exclaimed. Yellow energy spread across the ground forming around the land and revealing the now invisible base. "Found it," she said triumphantly. "And I only hacked into the security cameras and sort of just slipped past Jarvis."
"Caroline your energy thing is messing up my sensors again," Stark complained.
"This doesn't make sense," Natasha said. "The base doesn't have a camouflage system. It bends in well enough with area to not be spotted from a distance."
"So now we have an invisible base crawling with snakes that turn things to stone," Clint said, summarizing the situation.
"Yep," Clara said. "Aren't you glad we came now?"
"Why would the situation getting more complicated make us glad you're here?" Natasha asked.
"We found the base," Caroline said. "Otherwise you'd be stuck with your guys' clearly incompetent sensors."
"I've got a something in the general area of where the base should be, but it camouflage system keeps blurring the signals," Tony said, clearly annoyed that his technology wasn't good enough to get a perfect reading. He shot a mini rocket at the base which exploded upon when it hit an invisible wall. Caroline threw an energy shield up to keep the explosion from affecting them.
"See we are helpful," Caroline said. The base was still invisible so it was impossible to tell if the rocket had done anything to it. "Now let's go see what's going on." As that seemed like the most productive course of action at the moment, no one disagreed with her. They could finish the argument later. There was no reason to continue when they had a mission and the girls might actually be helpful. On the other hand trying to get them to leave would just waste, potentiating important time, and just get everyone angry, and the girls probably wouldn't go home anyways.
Before they could get very far a few snakes appeared out of nowhere. Natasha whipped out her guns and shot them. Unfortunately the bullets just bounced off the snakes doing nothing. Arrows had the same result. Before anyone had the chance to do anything else, Clara lifted them up with her mind and caused their bodies to split in half. They just sort of slowly melted into the ground after that.
"Freaky," Clara decided, once they were completely gone.
"That's one way to put it," Tony said.
"I'm going to say these things are not snakes," Bruce said.
"Well what else are we supposed to call them? Creepy little-" Tony began asking.
"Uh Guys, where's Caroline?" Steve asked. Everyone looked around trying to find Caroline, who was nowhere to be seen. Clara reached out with her mind to find Caroline but got nothing. It wasn't even like the time with the Chitari when Caroline's mind had been blocked but still there. This time there was literally nothing. Only there was something, not Caroline, but someone or something else was there. Its mind was surrounded by a barrier but there was someone there, and she was 99% sure it wasn't Caroline.
Everyone else was calling out Caroline's name, but getting no response besides a slight echo of their voices across the deserted place. It was getting a bit hot and the number of random unexpected things happening was putting everyone on edge.
"This is exactly why you girls shouldn't be allowed to on missions with us!" Natasha exclaimed. "You don't bother to take them seriously."
"Clara, contact Caroline now," Steve ordered. "It's bad enough that things keep disappearing. We need to form a plan before any more of those snakes come."
"Don't you think I already tried that?!" Clara exclaimed. "She's not there, which never happens. So don't get upset at either of us because we're not goofing off."
"What do you mean she's not there?" Clint asked, starting to be concerned. "How could she not be? I thought that was impossible."
"I don't know. Like I said, this has never happened before. I've always at least been able to sense her… how do I put this… mind presence, I guess. But now I can't." She left out the part about her sensing someone else, because they were probably already confused enough with the stuff she actually sort of understood.
"You might as well give up looking for her here," a voice said, coming from the invisible base. "Cause she's long gone by now. Clara could have sworn she had heard that voice somewhere before, but the harder she tried to place it the more it slipped away from her. "In the mean time I was told to keep you entertained for a while."
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