So I'm sorry I didn't have time to work on either of my stories but I did have personal shit going on and writers block. Thank you for waiting so long for this chapter. Enjoy.

Previously:

We peak into a room that appears to be a lounge in a fire fight. I look around the room quickly. Watson is ducking behind a chair a few feet from Lestrade who's hiding behind another chair. I see Holmes run out from behind one of the pillars even though she's still being shot at.

"Lestrade!" She yells as I see him toss her something small and black.

A fresh clip.

She reloads a gun and takes aim. She takes nine quick shots; all disabling, none of them being kill shots.

The three of them work fast like a well oiled machine.

"Holmes!" Lestrade warns a moment too late.

She doesn't have enough time to move and just braces herself. The next moment she's gone and the bullets pass where she was previously.

"Holmes!" Lestrade calls desperately, standing up quickly.

Quite a few guns trained on him and he turns dark. Like really dark. The bullets fired at him pass through as if he was a shadow.

"I'm still here!" I hear Holmes call out before I see her again.

She slowly fades back. At this moment everyone runs in to help the trio.

Luca's POV

"Oh shit!" I hear someone yell from the opposing side.

Lestrade fades back to normal, just as Holmes had. The two of them share a quick look before they try it again, running out to meet the enemy. Watson comes barreling towards me, then knocks into someone behind me. He swiftly disarms them and knocks them unconscious, taking their weapons. He then stands and turns to me.

"You need to watch your back!" He yells at me before running off again.

The fight doesn't take much longer since the Avengers showed up. When the fight finally ends, my eyes sweep the scene. Everyone seems to be fine.

"Watson!" Holmes screams.

I immediately search for him but he's fine. I look over to Holmes as he runs to her and see Jen on the ground in a pool of blood and Holmes covered in it. The only ones who should be near Jen in this condition are her father and brother.

"Fuck! Holmes, Watson, get away from there! Her blood is dangerous!" I yell, gaining the attention of everyone else.

"Oh God, Jen!" Ethan yells.

We get as close as we're allowed. By now Watson is kneeling next to Holmes and Jen and panicking.

"We'll have to put them into quarantine to watch for any side effects from Jen's blood, especially Holmes." Tony says.

Holmes, Watson, you both need to move away from her." Bruce says trying to keep clam as his only daughter bleeds out.

In Watson's panic, he starts to glow a bright white. As he holds Jen's hand she starts to glow as well. Once the light dims a little, we can see Jen's blood seep back into her body and four bullets extract themselves from her chest. The light dies off completely and Jen seems fine as she opens her eyes again. All her blood is gone, including most on Holmes, she just has a few stains left on her shirt. Although, I'm not sure whether the blood stains are hers or Jen's.

The first words out of Jen's mouth are,

"Why are you purple, Holmes?"

"Uh, long story." She says looking down.

She slowly rises to her feet as Watson helps Jen up.

"Alright, let's get out of here quick." Damion says.

"No." Holmes, Watson and Lestrade say at the same time.

"Why would you want to stay here any longer? You were kidnapped and are all injured." Jamie says.

"Ikrum." Lestrade says.

"He's still here." Watson explains.

"We can not let him escape our grasp when we are so close to catching him." Holmes finishes.

"You can hardly stand!" I say as she leans on me.

"I'm fine." She says trying to straighten up, and almost falling.

I grab her arms to steady her just a voice rings through the lobby.

"The great Holmes, reduced to a damsel."

"How many times do I have to repeat myself. I'm not a God damn damsel in destress!" She grounds out pushing my hands off her arms.

"What a way to see you. So weak. So pathetic." The voice continues.

"I'm pathetic? Says the coward who can not show his face when he has been defeated!" She shouts as she walks with a slight limp over to the centre of the room away from everyone.

"How am I weak when I have a team to support me?! How am I pathetic if I can chase you and corner you?! You've lost! Face the facts Ikrum!" She shouts again.

"Team? You call the children you run with a team? You're all broken. A doctor who has no confidence and can not fight? A second in command who can not follow orders and fails at the most simplistic tasks? You, a so-called leader, a teenage girl who wants to please her father so badly she's turned into a rebel he hates? He wanted a son and he got you. You have shamed the Holmes name. You'll never be the child your father wants. Give up Holmes."

There's a few seconds of silence where the three mentioned lower their heads. I look around and just as Cam is about to say something, Holmes speaks again.

"No." She says quietly. "If I give up now, then and only then, will I have shamed the Holmes' name. This broken team of teenagers will be your downfall. You may call us weak, pathetic and broken. But we work together to get the job done. That's what makes us stronger, we're a team. Because we are together, Watson has gained confidence. He's learned to fight, and fight well. Lestrade may question my orders but that's what helps me the most. He keeps my mind running and questioning everything, he helps me close my cases. What you say is all true, but we're better for it." She finishes strongly, avoiding talking about herself.

After she finishes yelling to the empty room, a man walks in from a side door. Holmes picks up one of the knives off the ground and trains it on the man.

Lestrade and Watson walk up behind her on each side.

"Just come in with us now, and we won't have to injure you." Watson says.

Lestrade gives silent support.

"As you wish. Holmes was correct in the fact that you have won this time." Ikrum says.

"Lestrade." Holmes said.

Lestrade stoops down and picks up some black zip-ties then passes them over to Holmes. She walks over to Ikrum as he turns around. She places them around his wrists and tightens them, effectively cuffing him.

"Where's the car?" She asks.

"Uh. This way." Sàràh says bewildered.

Cam helps Jen stand and starts walking to the door. Lestrade walks over and takes Ikrum's right arm with Holmes grabbing his left. Watson follows behind, possibly to make sure Ikrum can't run anywhere. We exit out the door from the lobby and turn to go back the way we parked the cars. The walk back is silent and tense.

It shouldn't have been this easy. Nothing's ever this easy.

Holmes' POV

It's too easy.

I know this, yet I can't bring myself to care. With each step I take a can feel a shooting pain in my ribs. I tell myself the pain is nothing because I'm so close to closing this case. So close to home. Lestrade and I drag Ikrum out to one of the vehicles and put him in the trunk.

"Is that necessary?" Jen asks.

"Yes." I reply without looking her in the face.

What he said struck me hard. I could defend Lestrade and Watson, but I can't defend myself. I can't help but wonder if my father does hate me because I am not a young man. I'm outlandish, improper, and never lady-like. I am someone he should not be proud of; I am a rebel. What if I really have shamed the Holmes name?

"Holmes?" I feel a shake on my shoulder.

"Hmmm?"

"Just slightly out of character there. How much pain are you in?" Watson turns me to face him.

"Enough to know I'm still alive." The only answer I give before I fall silent.

No matter how many people try to talk to me or question me, I keep silent. I don't feel like trying to talk or listen to any reassurance from anyone. Once we get Ikrum back to the tower I'll have to interrogate him not only of his crimes but of his device.

Perhaps father would be proud if I could get everyone back safely. What would he think of this whole mishap? I feel different and I can't really explain it. I'm quite confused but also sure this feeling is relating back to Lord Ikrum.

I loose track of time as I am lost in my thought, and before I realize it, we are back at the tower. I don't speak to anyone as I exit the vehicle and take an elevator to the floor I had been staying on. I try to forget what has just transpired but my mind races as I head to the shower.

Luca's POV

She was so quiet during the drive home. She didn't even speak as she just left the car and got in the elevator. She's left all of us in the garage, including Watson, Lestrade, and Ikrum, the last still in the trunk. The former two unlock the trunk and take Ikrum out. They're about to leave when Tony speaks up.

"Alright. Watson, we actually need to make sure you won't, you know, die as a side effect of touching Jen's blood. We'll have to find Holmes too."

"What about Lestrade, dad? He turned completely black like a shadow." Damion chimes in.

"Right, we'll have to look into that as well."

"What about Ikrum?" I ask.

"We'll put him in containment so he can't escape." Steve replied this time.

"So, you're saying that we're test subjects now?" Lestrade asks.

"No. Not at all. We just want to find out what happened with you guys at that place and see if we can reverse what has happened." Tony said.

"What do we need to do?" Watson sighed.

"Well, we need to run some tests on you to test for any residual gamma radiation, and the same with Holmes, then some tests on all three of you to figure out what happened. We also need to keep an eye on Jen from what you did. She was practically dead back there." Tony explained.

"She was dead." Watson said.

"What did you do to her?" I ask.

"He saved her obviously. I mean those four bullets just flew back out of her chest and all her blood went back in!" Lestrade all but yells.

"Wait, you're saying I died?" Jen asks slowly.

"Yes. But you're fine now. You're alive." Watson is quick to reassure her.

Her eyes widen slightly before she takes a seat to calm her nerves.

Holmes' POV

I collapse shortly after I enter the shower and just sit on the floor. I stare at the wall opposite me for some time before I start to scrub my purple tinted skin. I scrub until my skin feels raw before I stop. I stay in the shower for sometime longer just thinking.

We'll have to go back and search that compound for the device. Once we find the device we can go home. Will father be proud? I honestly hope so.

I finish drying off and change into clean clothes then go to be examined. I faintly notice that I'm still tinted purple as I enter the lab. I see them finishing Watsons examination.

"Well, good news is you don't seem to have any side effects from Jen's blood." Bruce says.

"Ah! There you are, now we can check you." Tony says as he notices me.

"If Watson was fine should I not be as well?" I try to avoid it.

"Either way. Besides the three of you have something funky going on with your bodies. Jarvis scan." Tony explains.

I sigh and continue to walk over. It seems as though Tony is using Jarvis through his phone as he gets an update on it. Before he can go on a speech about what's wrong I decide to ask for the short answer.

"Could you just make this quick? I want to get back to that compound and find the device." I say without looking at anyone but Tony.

I just want to leave. Ikrum is right when he says I don't belong here. Not in this time.

Tony stares at me for a moment before replying.

"Right. Well it's not the best news."

"That's obvious from the way you reacted when you got the message from Jarvis." I say curtly.

"It seems that your deoxyribonucleic acid has been changed on a molecular level that caused minor mutations-"

I cut Tony off. "I said quick. You're saying our DNA has been messed with on a small scale to make us into freaks. Thanks."

"Whoa. Holmes, calm down. He's just trying to help." Lestrade says.

"I am calm." I reply.

"Lestrade is right, and no you're not. You are far from calm." Watson chimes in.

"Not the time." I can feel myself loosing my temper.

"Holmes." Lestrade tries to talk to me again.

"No. I'm fine. Everything is fine. We can go home again soon. You guys can go see your families again." I say. Leaving the room.

Both Watson and Lestrade follow me.

"And what about you? Do you not plan on seeing your father?" Lestrade asks reaching out and grabbing my arm.

"No. I plan to quit being a detective and only when I stop being a disappointment to my father and my family name will I return home like I'm supposed to." I stare right in his eyes as I say that. I break my arm free from him when his grip slackens and I leave them both in the hall.

"You, you can't do that! Holmes!" I can her Watson calling out to me as I move farther away.

I don't turn back as I respond, "Watch me."

I turn the corner and go back the way I came to the room I've been staying in. I lock the doors and tell Jarvis not to let anyone in no matter what.

Lestrade's POV

I watch as Holmes walks away from us and after Watson yells at her I hear a cold, quiet voice say "Watch me." I don't want to believe that was Holmes. I can't believe it. Holmes has never sounded like that before. I feel a mix of emotions and it's hard to identify most of them, the strongest being anger and hatred. Not towards Holmes, towards Ikrum. I turn around and head back to the lab and demand to know where exactly Ikrum is being kept. When I'm finally told I storm off to his cell. I slam open the door with Watson half a step behind me and walk right up to him while Watson stands at the door.

"What did you do to her?!" I yell right in his face.

He wears a cynical smile and keeps calm while he answers, "Let's just say, I've helped her see the truth."

I can't hold myself back. I pull my fist back and swing at him. I hit him right on his jaw. Watson comes running over and tries to pull me back. I'm so pissed at this time that I don't care and I let him. All I can hear is Ikrum laughing as the door closes behind us.

And there you have it. Another chapter done. Please review to let me know how I could make this story better. Thank you for sticking with this story through the wait.