Hey guys, sorry for the slight delay, something came up and bla bla bla. I won't bore you with my silly excuses so I'm going to stop and start with the chapter right away! So here you go! Enjoy!
Eric sighed as he walked down the tunnels aimlessly. He couldn't believe it. His father was alive. He survived Loki's attack and is alive. But he's lost hope. If his father lost hope, is there hope? Steve was always the leader of the group, always was calm, always said that there was a way.
But this is the first time he said there was no possible way anymore, that Loki won. Why would he say that? Eric shook his head while kicking a stone away. He has no idea what he should think of anymore. Should he give up as well? His father simply gave up. If he says there's no way to beat that bastard, should they even try?
A lot of questions were running through his head and he just wanted a simple answer, but he couldn't find one. Why was it so hard? They've been trying to get back at Loki for five months thinking their parents were dead.
Now that his father was alive he thought they could even have a higher chance on beating him. He kicked another stone but it hit something this time. Looking up he saw a sword sticking out of the ground.
Alisa's sword.
It was still there. She should get it back soon.
He sighed again. Should they even try?
Don't you dare give up!
Blinking he thought he heard Lena's voice in his head. Damn she's annoying him so much that she's in his head. But wait, she, well the voice, was right. They couldn't give up! They didn't survive five months for nothing! They didn't scavenge all this stuff for nothing. They didn't help each other for nothing.
They didn't get passed their parent's death for nothing. They wanted to get revenge on Loki, to avenge their parents.
He shook his head. They were still going, even if it means his father doesn't believe. At least they will try and they will do it with or without help.
Eric turned around and wanted to head back to the others but a loud pitched scream stopped him in his tracks. That… that was…
"Alisa!" Eric yelled as he ran into the direction the scream came from.
Avengers Assemble! Avengers Assemble! Avengers Assemble!
Alisa hit the wall hard feeling pain run through her back up to her head. She screamed, but quickly moved to the side missing a sword by an inch. Quickly she got back up to her feet and looked at the alien creature.
It sneered at her and raised its sword again. She frowned and wiped some blood away from her mouth and nose. She wished she had her sword with her but it was somewhere else.
The alien ran towards her with its sword ready. Alisa stood still and waited for it to strike. As she saw it swung sideways she ducked the sword and done a upper cut to the creature's head sending it back.
But the creature got back up and charged at Alisa again. It came back so quick that Alisa was shocked and the alien creature slashed at her. She tried to dodge but the sword still hit her arm slightly.
She cursed as she stumbled back. I can't fight it without my sword! She screamed in her head. She was done for.
Damn it and just because she wanted to help Eric. She was going to kill him by haunting him from the grave. That was for sure.
The creature screeched at her again and charged with its sword ready to take her down. Alisa closed her eyes and thought about her friends. Damn it, she really wanted to tease Lena more as well as Marc. Why did she have to die right now?
But before the creature got near her something hit him and sent him to the side. She looked up and saw it was Eric. Sighing she hung her head and shook it.
Eric smashed both of his fists into the skull of the creature smashing it to the ground killing it. He stood back up and looked at Alisa. He hurried to her and put an arm around her shoulder. "Hey Alisa, are you alright? Did that thing hurt you? What am I saying? You're bleeding from your nose and you're injured at your arm! I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have left. This is all my fault. I should…"
"Eric, stop it." Alisa told him seriously. "I'm fine, I'm half god, I can handle it."
Eric sighed while shaking his head. "You worried me when you screamed. I thought you were…"
"I'm fine Eric." She told him as she looked him in the eyes. "It's just a scratch. The question is are you fine? We were worried about you."
Eric looked at her confused. "What me? I'm fine, why were you guys worried?"
Alisa sighed as she stood up straight. "You ran off. We thought you were slightly depressed due to Steve."
Eric sighed while looking away. "Yea, I was depressed that's why I needed some time to think. But I've come to realize that that shouldn't matter. We survived five months. We survived the attacks, we survived our demons. We can survive this as well. And we're going to do it with or without Steve's help."
Alisa smiled. "Well I'm glad you've sorted things out. We were worried."
Eric smirked at her. "We?"
"Yes we, so let's get back." Alisa stated and Eric nodded. "Yea. Want me to help you…"
"No I'm fine." She stated again. She looked at Eric with a serious expression that told him to let it go.
Eric nodded simply. "But maybe you want your sword back. It's back there." He said pointing to the other side of the tunnel.
"Yea that would be good." She said smiling. With that the two headed for Alisa's sword.
Avengers Assemble! Avengers Assemble! Avengers Assemble!
Lena, Zack and Marc were still at the camp talking to a kid that came running back to the tunnel yelling something. "Just calm down." Marc told the teenage kid that was just a few years younger than they were.
Zack nodded. "Just take a deep breath and tell us what you saw."
The boy nodded and took a deep breath. "I was doing surveillance with some others but I saw a warrior Krich enter the subway."
"A what?" Lena asked confused. "What's a Warrior Krich?"
The boy looked at her confused. "Are you blind? They're everywhere! They're overrunning the city!"
Then it hit her. "Oh those alien things. They're called Krich?" The boy nodded and Marc slightly frowned. "How do you know that?"
"We heard them talking and they said Krich a lot, so we called them that." He explained it to them.
Zack nodded. "Sounds logical."
Marc frowned. "But wait, if one of those things came in here… Alisa and Eric are out there. We need to get them. They both are weaponless."
"You don't have to worry about that anymore." A voice said from behind. They looked behind them and saw Eric and Alisa walking back to them. Lena noticed a cut across Alisa's arm and that she had dried blood under her nose.
She sighed. "You two ran into that Krich, didn't you?"
"Krich?" Eric asked and Alisa sighed. "Those creatures are called Krich as well. It's Asgardian and in Midgardian tongue it means Death."
"So did you meet the Krich?" Zack asked.
Eric nodded. "Yep, it's dead, killed it with my own two fists." He said proudly. Alisa rolled her eyes. Lena walked over to her. "You alright?" She asked and she simply nodded. "Yea, don't worry about it, but I still want to talk to you later."
Lena, confused, looked at her and simply nodded not asking more questions.
Eric looked around trying to find one person. "Did you see dad?"
Marc sighed while motioning to the back. "Sitting at the fire."
Eric nodded at him and walked passed him. They all looked at him confused but Alisa smirked. "He's going to confront him. That's good." With that she turned around but not before grabbing Lena and pulling her with her.
The boys looked at the women as they left while shaking their heads. "Crazy, crazy I tell you." Marc said.
Zack shrugged and watched as Eric headed to his father.
Steve was sitting by the fire not caring about anything around him. Eric walked up to him and sat down opposite of him and looked him in the eyes. Steve glanced up and before he could say anything Eric interrupted him.
"I want to talk dad. Just listen." Steve nodded and looked at him with a serious expression. Eric sighed. "I just want to let you know something. I thought you were dead. I thought you died back there. I was devastated when I found out. I didn't know what to do, but after a while I've started to think. We started to think. We wanted to avenge our parents. Kill Loki for what he done to you and we were set on it. There was nothing that would stop us."
"It's impossible Eric." Steve told him but the boy shook his head. "It's not impossible dad. The word impossible doesn't exist in the Avengers vocabulary. You know who taught me that?" Eric asked him.
He raised an eyebrow. "Thor? Clint?"
"You." Eric stated simply.
Steve didn't say anything but looked away. Eric sighed seeing this. He stood up shaking his head. "We're going dad, with or without you. We don't care, but Loki has ruled long enough. We will not tolerate this any longer." With that he stood up. Eric looked to the side and saw his shield lying there. He grabbed it and without looking at Steve he left.
Steve just sat there and sighed. "He's going to kill himself." He mumbled.
Alisa pulled Lena to the side. The red haired girl looked at her confused. "Alisa? What the hell?" Her gaze then fell to the girls shoulder and sighed. "Come on, sit down. I'm going to take care of that cut."
Alisa simply nodded and the two of them sat down. Out of Lena's secret pockets she pulled out a piece of bandage and started to wrap Alisa's wound but not before cleaning it with some water. She carefully wrapped it around her arm.
"So, you wanted to talk to me?" She asked the princess of Thunder.
Alisa nodded. "Uh yes, earlier when we found Steve and started to talk I saw you gripping something around your neck. I just wanted to ask what it was and since you wouldn't tell me in public I pulled you out to talk, just us."
Lena sighed as she lowered her hands as she was finished taking care of Alisa's wound. Alisa would expect her to just tell her it was nothing or bring something else up but what happened next surprised her.
The read head pulled out a necklace from under her shirt and took it off to show it to Alisa. It was a necklace with two attachments, the Black Widow sign and Hawkeye's sign. Alisa looked at her confused.
"This was a present from my mom and dad when they came back from seven month long mission. It was the longest mission they had ever been on ever since I arrived. So they gave me this telling me no matter where they are they will still be there for me. Ever since that day I carried it everywhere knowing they'll still be at my side and thinking about me. Now it's just a reminder of them."
Alisa nodded. "I… understand."
"You do?" Lena asked and she nodded. "Yea, it's the same with my sword. It was a present from my father. Yea the dwarves made it but my dad decided on the design. He even helped them."
"Wow…" Lena said. Alisa nodded. "Yep."
"HEY! Alisa! Lena!" The two girls turned around and saw Zack motioning them to come over. They replied and stood up quickly heading over to him. "What's wrong Zack?" Alisa asked.
"We're leaving." He said simply. Lena raised an eyebrow. "Really? What about St…"
"We're leaving, he's staying." Eric said as he passed them and headed down the subway. The two girls looked at the two boys but they only shrugged. Without saying a word they followed their friend down the subway hoping to get out of here and maybe on the way figure out a plan on taking down Loki.
Finally Eric talked to Steve! The kids left Steve behind. Hm... was that a wise choice? Who knows.
Oh by the way. I think I didn't say anything about this, but I have decided to not do any pairings. They're all just close friends and technically they're all family, so they will do anything to keep the other alive and sane.
Maybe, if I'm in a good mood, I will change that later on in the story. But for now, no pairings! Sorry if this is disappointing to anyone but like I said, I might change it later on.
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