Brother relocated to Washington DC. Gaining control over powers. On Director's watch list.
"Ms Ranter?" JARVIS called, she was already awake but hadn't move to actually go anywhere.
"Yes JARVIS?" She replied, she had begun to get changed.
"The avengers are going to depart, they wanted to see you and Mr Campbell downstairs," She walked out of the room to find Lincoln doing the same, they both shrugged and headed down the stairs. All the avengers were gathered in the lounge room, including Thor.
"Thor has alerted us to a incoming alien attack, we will be suiting up now. Stay here and if Stark towers is attacked we will extract you," Steve told them, his voice faster than usual as all of the avengers moved to the door. Ellie didn't have time to say anything before the avengers disappeared leaving her with Lincoln. Lincoln just struggled his shoulders before moving towards the kitchen and Ellie stared at him.
"Are you not worried?" Lincoln glanced back as he grabbed the box of cereal before pouring out his breakfast.
"Not really, there's a reason I left the field. I don't want to be the one fighting, or the one worrying," Lincoln admitted. "You want any cereal?" I nodded at his question as he poured me some cereal. I grabbed the bowl, eating the cereal dry.
"Do you think it's anything to worry about?" She asked him, voice low.
"Even if it is, I'm not worrying about it," He told her, he flicked on the TV, quickly flicking away from the news with the avengers plastered on it. He moved to some TV drama, obviously a comedy judging by his laughing. He looked so normal, watching TV instead of out there fighting, Ellie tapped her foot. She didn't understand how Lincoln could not worry about their newly made friends. "Calm down Ellie," He told her quietly, she glanced at him. He gave her a soft look, touching her shoulder quickly. "It'll be okay," She got up going towards her room. When she got to her room she flicked the TV on, it turned on to the news where she instantly saw Tony in his suit. He was hovering over the ground shooting at these aliens. They were short, fat and honestly quite ugly. They were holding swords and looked like they were getting their asses kicked by Tony. Then the screen flicked and her heart dropped, it showed Nat and Clint back to back, Nat shooting at the aliens advancing on her and Clint shooting arrows through a few of the enemies, they didn't look they were fairing as well as Stark was. They were falling back, towards Stark towers. The screen flicked to Thor and Rogers who were doing slightly better than the two humans, they were using their signature trick, hitting the Mjolnir onto the shield creating an explosion. The screen flashed an alert, 'Aliens have infiltrated Stark Towers' and right as she read the words the tower began to beep. Ellie jumped up pulling at the door.
"Mrs Ranter, it is advised to not leave your room," Jarvis alerted.
"Where is Lincoln?" Her voice raising with each word.
"He remains in the living room, however he is looking for you," Before Ellie could reply Jarvis talked again. "I am connecting you to sir," The line crackled and broke, there was heaving breathing before a voice came on.
"Ellie?" Stark's voice came on, his strain was obvious in his voice. "You need to move to the training rooms, get Lincoln there too. It's the most reenforced part of the building, so as long as the Hulk stays away you should be fine. Get there and stay low, the aliens have an interest in inhuman's so be careful,"
"Be careful Tony," She told him.
"Don't worry sweetheart, I am ironman," He said in his usual cocky voice before the voice cut out.
"I have informed Mr Campbell to sir's plan, the hallways are lit up to show you where to go," Jarvis told her as the door swung open. The hallway was dark but as Jarvis told her there was a lit up path for her to follow to the training room. She walked slowing, stalking the dark halls before she slipped into the room. She heard a bang from down the hall, she tensed up staring at the door. Footsteps got closer and closer to the door before the door open, revealing blonde hair.
"Lincoln," She breathed out, he gave her a nod before closing the door quietly behind her. "Will they find us?"
"They are tracking inhumans, they can sense our powers so they will find us if someone doesn't stop them," Lincoln glanced at her. "Our powers are strong, together they are even stronger," They stood in silence, banging and shots being heard from above them. Then they heard something closer than all the other noises. Ellie watched the darkness, wary of what were behind the dark walls. She walked towards the door, putting her ear to the door. Lincoln made a noise at her, she could just see him from the door. He shook his head slowly.
The roof cracked, both of the inhumans snapped their head upwards, watching the crack grow larger. Ellie's eyes widened as she point her hands, palm first, towards the ceiling, the two of them stayed silent. The ceiling fell in, revealing one of the short aliens. Ellie gave a small screen as Lincoln jumped backwards, they were either side of the creature as it started towards Ellie. Lincoln shot a small streak towards it but it didn't even look at him. Ellie swung the door open, as the alien screeched towards her and she shot red energy at it. Lincoln was continuing to try and distract it from her as he shot white at the it but the creature was fixated by Ellie. She sent a larger energy ball at it and it paused, it waited a few seconds. She could see that another creature fall through the ceiling distracting Lincoln and leaving her alone. The monster then jumped towards her, sending her backwards into the wall. She hit the wall, slumping on it as she sat breathless as this monster stood above her.
"Ellie!" She could hear someone yell as her vision faded in and out. She could see the alien snap towards her but it fell to the side, she turned to look at the monster, green goop oozing from an arrow hole. Turning to the right she saw Barton running towards her, in front of her Lincoln was cornered in the room by the creature. His white streaks were aimed towards the monsters feet, Ellie gathered some energy together, more than she had used earlier. The power gained and she felt the strength in her hands.
"Lincoln duck!" She yelled and as she saw the other inhuman duck she sent the large red energy ball towards the alien. The alien let out a scream as it fell onto of Lincoln, she heard a groan.
"Can someone get this thing off me?" Clint took one look at Ellie, obviously checking if she was alright, before he jogged to help pull the monster off Lincoln. Lincoln pulled these faces as he tried to brush off some of the green blood. The dirty blonde limped over to Ellie putting his hand out to help her up, she took his hand her head spinning. "Thanks for the help," Ellie smiled at his thanks.
"Thank Barton first, without him I would be alien food and so would you," Ellie smiled to the two men, before her head started pounding, she's smile faded as she tried to keep upright. She leaned up against the wall again to keep herself steady.
"We need to get out of here, the rest of the team are cleaning up outside, Stark took care of most of them," Clint told the two inhumans. Lincoln tried to follow Clint down the hall but quickly realised that his left leg was badly crushed from the alien falling on him.
"Clint, you're going to have to help him," Ellie said quietly, the agent turned around wincing at the state of Lincoln's gait. Lincoln draped his arm over the avenger as they both walked out, Ellie following them closely. Ellie noticed the differences between the two men, Clint being significantly more muscular, his arms nearly double the size of Lincoln's. The inhuman was taller but a couple inches, Lincoln was also thinner than the famous Hawkeye. Ellie caught up with the two men, even with Lincoln's face strained with pain he looked more innocent than Hawkeye, whose face look riddle with the death he had encountered, not that Ellie doubted that Lincoln had killed a few men working for SHIELD.
"Man you need to lose some weight," Clint joked, his mouth turned up in a smirk.
"Maybe you need to lift more," Lincoln snapped back his voice breathy in pain but they both let out a laugh at their childish comments. They had almost made it outside, when they saw the well-known red and gold ironman suit descend to the middle of the street. Tony pulled the mask off, his usual smirk painted on his face.
"Were you two getting busy down there?" Stark smugly asked, Clint just rolled his eyes at Tony.
"This fatass can't walk," Clint huffed to his fellow avenger, Lincoln pulled away from the shorter man.
"Okay I don't weigh that much, weakling,"
"I wouldn't start with the weak jokes," Stark hissed, his face pursed in a smile. Ellie could tell he was holding back from laughing. Clint started towards Ellie, Ellie's eyes widen but before she could get away from the avenger he grabbed her hand, pulling her towards him. He pulled her upwards, hooking his arm under her knee. He easily lifted her upwards towards his chest, she laughed hitting his shoulders. He jokingly lifted her up and down a few times, before smirking at Lincoln.
"Am I weak?" Lincoln just rolled his eyes at the showing off avenger.
"Put me down Clint!" Ellie squealed, Clint just laughed and spun around before putting her down. Ellie gave him a light smack again. The archer then pulled out his bow, the ends flicked outwards locking into place. He strung an arrow, pulling it back so his elbow is in line with his wrist. He looked down the bow string thoughtfully, before letting it go slack but he was still holding the arrow.
"You try," Barton said turning to Lincoln, Lincoln cocked his head. Grabbing the bow before looking the sleek black metal over. "Don't break my baby," The agent threatened, Stark smiled obviously knowing what was going to happen. Lincoln lifted up the bow, he went the pull the bow string back but it didn't budge. Lincoln's face got increasing red as he put more effort into his draw. Still the bow string only moved less than an inch.
"What the hell Barton?" Lincoln turned to him, his eyebrows scrunched in confusion. Clint took the bow from him, gliding his fingers along the upper limb of his bow. He pulled it back again, seemingly with less effort than the inhuman put in.
"Who is weak now Campbell?" Barton smiled, flicking his bow and putting it back in it's holder on his back.
"What's wrong with his bow?" Lincoln asked looking from the still hovering Stark to Clint.
"It has a 250 pounds draw weight, only Thor, Captain and myself can pull it," Even Ellie's mouth fell open at the admission from Clint. She knew he was a superhero but he was still human, to be able to pull that weight was incredible. "Let's not forget I saved your ass back there," Clint retorted, Ellie glared at him.
"Hey! That was me who saved him,"
"Ok that's enough from the showing-off twins," Stark interrupted all three of them, his comment directed towards the boys. "JARVIS informed that the rest of our team have exterminated to rest of the aliens, they will be back here," Stark didn't even have time to finish his sentence before Thor landed in front of him, Tony landed the suit next to the god.
"Now," Thor chuckled, he gave Clint a hard clap on the back as they greeted each other. "And who is the lady?" The blonde god spoke looking towards Ellie.
"That's Ellie Ranter, one of Lincoln's inhuman buddies," Stark told Thor, Thor took her hand giving it a firm shake. Just then Steve and Wanda showed up, pulling up in what Ellie assumed was a SHIELD car, there was no Widow or Banner present.
"Where's Widow?" Ellie asked then, the avengers turned towards her.
"The Hulk needs to let Banner take control once again, Romanoff helps him with that. They will both be back soon" Clint told her, the six of them entered Stark towers once again gathering in the lobby. "When Banner does get back, Lincoln and you should see him so Banner can check his leg over over,"
The two missing avenger showed up an hour later, walking through the elevator doors into the living room. Neither said anything but Ellie could tell that something had happened, Widow was walking closer to him and she didn't seem as angry as before. "Banner can you check Lincoln's leg over?" Bruce just looked over at the inhuman who was sitting on the couch, there was a little cloth tied tightly around his leg. Ellie had helped his tie it when they found out he had a gash that was still seeping blood.
"Let's go up to my lab," Bruce announced after seeing the blood. Ellie held out her hand to help the injured man up, he leaned on her as they walked over to the elevator. Bruce was quiet, Ellie didn't think it was particularly unusually for the man she met just yesterday to be this quiet but she was still suspicious. Lincoln was nearly resting his full weight on Ellie and she knew that that meant he must be in real pain. "What happened?" Bruce asked when they got Lincoln up onto on of the scientist's desks. They had to move a few things to get him up there.
"Ellie saved my ass but hurt my leg," Lincoln joked, Bruce turned away to grab a first aid kit. "I think it needs stitches," The curly hair doctor just pushed up his pants to above the knee, finding the gash on the inside of his calf. He unrolled the makeshift bandage before pointing and prodding at the cut.
"It will need stitches," He rubbed some cream around the cut before gathering the needles and medical thread. Ellie was standing on Campbell's right as Banner began stitch the cut up. Lincoln held onto Ellie's shoulder, she assumed the numbing cream wasn't strong enough since every time the needle pierced into him he squeeze her shoulder a little harder.
"Shit man," Lincoln swore quietly, the scientist just ignored him and kept going but Ellie could see the tears gathering in the man's eyes. She took his hand away from her shoulder and let him squeeze her hand. Bruce glanced at the two inhumans holding hands but said nothing, he finished up the stitches.
"Take these painkillers and anti inflammatorys , I'll have to take the stitches out but I'll check it up in the next few days to see," He was walking to his store room, he was gone a few seconds before Ellie turned to Lincoln.
"You okay?" Her voice was sad, he looked like he was in a lot of pain. He pulled her closer since they were still holding hands. He kissed her, holding her head lightly. Ellie leaned into her fellow inhuman, his tongue touched hers but someone cleaning their voice broke them from their embrace. Bruce just raised his eyebrows before handing Lincoln the medication.
"Can you help me bring this to the back room?" Bruce asked, his brown eyes on Ellie. She nodded grabbing the needle box and following the scientist to his room.
"I'm sorry, you shouldn't have seen that," Ellie started, unsure of what the Hulk thought of her now. He looked at her, his ever calm face looked the same.
"I won't tell anyone," Bruce promised her, the younger girl looked nervous but she could tell he had something else to say. "I don't mean to meddle at all, but I thought you were involved with Clint," She could tell the man was being careful with his words.
"I'm not involved with either of them," Ellie said defending herself.
"Just be careful. Clint seems to really like you," He warned her, she appreciated his care but didn't really know what to say. "I'm always around if you wanted to talk,"
(Sorry for the long wait, a nice juicy chapter for you guys. Please review and follow)
-I.A.H