It was dark through the subway, but in that darkness there was one big light. The light came closer and finally you could see what it was. The five teens had each a torch while they walked down the subway. They were looking for people that were rebelling against Loki so they could have a small army to fight against him.
They just hoped some other people were down in the subways. "Nothing so far?" Zack asked from the back and Marc shook his head. He was walking at the front looking around for anyone.
He wanted to be like his father. To be second in command. To help his friends and to make sure people remembered his father. Marc closed his eyes. His father had died in a plane crash. He had seen the plane fall from the sky and into the ocean.
His mother, Pepper, was at a meeting. But before she came back these creatures started to attack and he had to go into hiding. After the plane had crashed he had seen Loki, but he didn't see him. But he knew what he was planning since he was headed for the Avengers Tower.
So he had gotten there as quickly as he could. He entered into the garage side and saw Lena standing at the door. He could hear fighting and yelling and something that sounded like Russian.
Immediately he had pulled Lena out of the tower before it exploded. Lena looked devastated. He couldn't get her parents out of there but he got Lena out there unharmed. Well physically unharmed.
He glanced at her and saw she had an emotionless expression on her face. Just like her mother used to have. He sighed. Marc himself was devastated when his father had died. He just couldn't take it, but he was glad that he could have gotten Lena out before she was caught in the explosion.
Marc closed his eyes.
"Hey buddy, how's it going?" Came Tony's voice over the video call. Marc was sitting at central park talking to his father over his phone.
"Hey dad. Everything is fine here. Mom's at a meeting where YOU should be at, but she should be back by tomorrow. When are you coming back dad?"
Tony chuckled. "Don't worry Marc. I'll be back in five minutes. I'm right over the sea in front of the Statue of Lib… oh shit!"
A loud explosion was heard and Marc jumped up from the bench he was sitting on. His father was out of the view but soon could see him standing up from the plane ground.
"Dad? Dad! What's going on!" Marc asked yelling at the phone he had in his hands. He didn't care if people were looking at him. He just wanted to know if he was alright.
"I think something just hit us. Marc, don't worry, I'm fi…" Another explosion was heard and the phone went to static. 'The call has been ended' came the voice from the phone.
Marc sat there shocked. He heard an explosion and looked up into the air to see a huge smoke in the middle of the air and a plane fell into the ocean. "No…" He said shocked his phone falling from his hands onto the green grass.
Then from the smoke something flew out. Marc squinted his eyes and notice it was a green clad man. He recognized this person as Loki, the man who his father talked about being a psychopath and almost succeeded in taking over the earth.
But what made him worry was that he was heading for the Tower. Crap! Lena was in that tower with her parents alone! Immediately Marc ran for the tower hoping he could get there in time.
Marc shook his head. Seeing the plane fall into the ocean was terrible for him. Seeing Loki heading for others was worse. He wanted to get to the others and kill them. But Marc was too late. He could only get Lena out.
"Hey! Tin can! Answer my question!" Alisa yelled. Marc blinked and turned around. "What?"
Alisa sighed. "I asked you a question Marc." She told him and he shook his head. "Sorry, what was the question again?"
The blonde shook her head. "I asked if you know where we're going."
"Oh." Marc said but then shook his head. "Uh yea, we're going south and should be coming to Central…" He stopped as he remembered that it was the place where he found out his father had died.
"Hey you okay man?" Eric asked putting a hand on his shoulder and he just nodded. "Yea, no problems."
Everyone raised an eyebrow. Alisa slightly snickered saying that he slightly resembled Lena; she got a death glare from the said girl.
While they kept on talking Zack was following behind staying quiet. He didn't talk much but when he does it was either joining in on the fun or something smart that would help them out. But at the moment he was quiet.
Eric noticed this and slowed down to walk next to Zack. The boy didn't turn his head. He just kept looking around to see if someone was there. The Rogers boy sighed. "Hey Zack, what's wrong?"
Zack didn't answer at first. The others were talking about handling their loss. He could clearly see in Mark's face that he was fighting against his emotions about the loss of his father. Everyone was fighting about the loss.
But to say the least Zack was the luckiest. Well not lucky but he didn't have to see how his father died. He was out at that time. Bruce and Betty were at a lab doing some experiments. He was slightly bored so he went out for a walk, but that walk changed his life forever.
When he came back the place was destroyed and Betty was running towards him. She said that his father was dead, that Loki had cast a spell on him a death spell or something that stopped the Hulk and actually killed him.
He was depressed. Yes, he loved his father even though he talked nonsense sometimes or talked about science and he had no idea what was going on. But he cannot compare with Marc who saw his father die in a plane explosion or with Lena who saw her parents die right in front of her in that garage explosion.
But he knew who was mad. The Hulk was mad. Yea, he just snapped that day and destroyed everything in his path and in that time he lost Betty and woke up with the others looking over him worried.
He didn't know what he had done and feared he hurt his mother, but he wanted revenge on Loki for what he done to his father.
Lena suddenly stopped snapping Zack out of his thoughts. Alisa looked at her confused. "What's wrong Lena?"
"Someone's following us." She stated looking around.
"Someone?" Eric asked and Lena nodded. She turned to the side which showed another station and jumped up the ledge.
"Lena?" Marc asked a little worried but Lena ignored him and kept walking to what seemed to be a door. She walked up to it with her torch to see what was going on. Something was not right. She just knew it. She was trained to feel when something wasn't right, but on the other hand it was in her blood.
She noticed the door was dirty. She raised her hand and wiped the dirt away and tried to look through it. Suddenly one of those creatures came in her view and roared at her making her stumble back.
The creature broke through the glass and lunged at the red head with its sharp claws ready to rip her apart. Lena fell to the ground with a thud but quickly rolled to the side missing the sharp claw.
"Lena!" The others yelled shocked. Eric immediately threw his shield and the creature knocking it off of Lena. She jumped back up and grabbed one of her arrows. The creature was completely black and looked like it came from hell. It shook its head and snarled at Lena and lunged at her again.
The others quickly headed to her to want to help but it wasn't needed. Lena moved to the side and then with a quick movement smashed one of the arrows into the back of its head sending it crashing to the ground as well.
Making sure it was dead she smashed her foot against its head. Lena was breathing hard as she looked down the creature. The others arrived at her side worried about their friend. "Lena, are you okay?" Eric asked and she just nodded still looking at the dead creature.
"Yea… I'm fine." She told them.
Zack frowned. "If one got down here then there is a high chance that others will soon follow. We're not safe here for long."
The others nodded. If one found their way down here others would find it as well. The subway was once the only place that was safe, now it may not be safe anymore. They needed to find survivors fast and get a group together to fight against Loki.
Alisa bent down to the creature and looked it over. She slightly frowned. "This is a scout. You can see it by the armor this thing has on. It's light and made for flexibility."
"Can't you do something about these creatures?" Marc asked and Alisa sighed scratching the side of her arm. "I don't think so. My father and I can control lightning but we cannot use magic. Loki is the only one who can get rid of them all at once. We would have to fight them away."
"But we can't kill thousands of these things!" Eric told them.
Everyone turned their heads towards Zack and he just stood there confused. "What?" Marc slightly smirked and that's when Zack understood. "Oh hell no!" He yelled.
"You can tear hundred of them apart when we go to Loki. It'll help us a lot!" Alisa told him and he shook his head. "No guys, I-I can't I won't be able to control him. He's angry and it will be really difficult to keep him on a leash. I don't want an accident like last time."
"You don't have to worry about that Zack. Nothing will happen." Lena told him trying to reassure him. He really was frightened about what would happen if he Hulked out and she could understand him.
But it would help them a lot. Eric was right; they couldn't fight thousands of these creatures. Hell it was near impossible.
"How are we going to do this anyway?" Marc asked what they were all thinking. They all turned to Eric and he shook his head. "No guys."
"Eric you need to lead. You were born to be a leader. Your father he was a leader." Alisa told him trying to encourage him. He looked at Lena and she nodded.
The boy shook his head. "No I can't; I'm not a leader. I failed guys. I failed my father. If I had done anything than maybe dad and the others would still be alive. Let's just, give this all up and get out of here." Suddenly he felt a sting against his cheek and stumbled back. He looked up and was shocked seeing Lena standing in front of him with an angry expression.
"Lena, did you just slap me?"
"Yea I did! Are you telling me that you're giving up?" She asked while yelling at him. Eric looked at her not knowing what to say. "I didn't go through hell Eric just to give up! I didn't watch my parents die to just give up! I didn't stop fighting just to give up! I didn't survive these five months finding a way to get revenge on Loki for killing my parents and their friends which are also my friends JUST TO GIVE UP! Get yourself together Eric! We are not giving up! You are going to avenge your father, you're going to show that bastard not to mess with the Avenger's family! You hear me!?" She yelled straight in his face.
Everyone was quiet. They knew when Lena was yelling, in an angry mood, or ranting not to get in her way and let her get it all out of her. She went through a lot and all kept it inside of her now she was letting it out and unfortunately Eric was the one who had to feel her wrath.
But he knew how to handle this situation. He put his hands on her shoulder and looked into her eyes. He noticed that her eyes were filled with confusion, fright and guilt. "Lena, it's alright. It's not your fault."
"Yes it is!" She yelled at him tears starting to fall out. "I could have helped them! But no! I was just standing there watching them and not doing anything! If I helped they would probably still be alive and your father wasn't dead and so would the others." Her knees buckled and she fell to the ground.
Eric knelt down to her and made her look at him. "Listen here Lena, you are strong you can get through this. It wasn't your fault. If you had stayed you would have been dead as well. The explosion was not avoidable. Be lucky Marc pulled you out."
"I'm weak, I can't even get through this." Lena murmured and Alisa shook her head. "No Lena, yes you have had it worst since both of your parents are gone but that doesn't mean you are weak. You are strong and you were just helping Eric."
"We all had it bad." Lena told her. "It's just, you all can get through it but I can't."
"Oh don't start there Elena." Alisa hissed at her. "You told me last night that you mourn your parents and think on the happy times you had with them. I tried it and it helps. Just keep doing that and you'll be fine. But Lena is also right Eric, you have to be the leader. Giving up isn't an option. We came this far so there's no going back."
Eric sighed. "Alright, but I'm just warning you guys that I'm not a great leader. I do a lot of mistakes."
Marc smiled. "Hey that's what we're here for aren't we? To correct your mistakes. But don't worry buddy, you'll be great. Now lead away leader!"
Eric shook his head, as the group continued with a quiet Lena. She'll probably won't be talking for a long time. They really are trying to help each other and hopefully they helped Lena. He wanted to follow them but he noticed something move out of his eyesight. He turned around to see what it was but it was already gone.
He just frowned and followed the others each having one of their torches again. This time they were more careful, they didn't want to be attacked again. Well Lena didn't want to be.
Okay that was another chapter finally done. I've got the next few planned out so it won't take forever this time to update. Depending on how I'm feeling and how many reviews I get (hint, hint) I may be able to post the next chapter up by Tuesday or Wednesday and by latest Thursday. Things are heating up and slowly the kids are finding their roles, mostly Eric in this one and Lena getting over her parents death.
Hope you guys like it and please write a review. They encourage me to write faster and that follows up with a faster post. So the speed of my posts is up to you.