A/N: Hey guys! I apologize if this chapter is kind of short. It's late.
Emily sat at a picnic table with her friend, Peter the next evening. It was getting late and not a soul was in sight as it was cold and starting to snow, and Emily hated the winter. Well, she liked winter until she got her license that is.
"You sure about this plan?" Peter asked, concerned for his friends safety.
Emily nodded, "Yeah. I'll be fine though. Everyone took into account every bad thing that could happen." She answered, shrugging.
"Yeah, but_"
"Look, Peter, I have to go. I'll talk to you later." She said, cutting him off as she grabbed her things and left him at the table as she began to walk back to the tower, unaware that someone was watching her every move.
Emily got back to the tower to see that everyone was sitting at the kitchen table.
"What's wrong?" She asked, putting her stuff down when she approached.
"We got director Fury and Coulson in on the plan. It wasn't easy though." Peter said, sighing.
"There's something else, isn't there?"
"I am Groot."
"Nebula was spotted earlier today," Bruce started, about to continue when Gamora stepped in.
"She's been watching you, Emily."
"And what does that mean? Should I be scared?" She asked, looking around at everyone.
"Of course not. It simply means that_" Drax started, but Steve cut him off.
"It means that the plan will start much sooner than we anticipated."
Everyone was pretty surprised that Steve seemed alright with the plan when they had told him about it. It wasn't easy to get him to agree to some plans if it involved putting anyone in danger, but he probably knew that it was an argument that he wouldn't win.
"I'll set the life model decoys up." Tony said, getting up and leaving the kitchen.
"Don't suppose you've got life model decoys for us, huh?" Rocket asked in curiosity.
"Nope." Natasha and Clint answered simultaneously as they also got up to follow the billionaire.
"Where's Maria?"
"Miss Hill is at SHIELD. She said she had urgent matters that needed to be addressed." JARVIS answered her.
"So, i'm basically gonna be stuck in the tower with the life model decoys until someone comes to kidnap me?" She asked, not in the least bit joking.
"Yes, lady Emily, but it is very important that you act frightened."
"He's right. If you're calm, she'll know something is up." Peter agreed as the guardians all got up to follow everyone else out of the tower.
"Well it's a good thing that I took acting classes!" She called, only to be greeted by silence.
This was going to be a long night.
The teen awoke later that night to a sharp object pressed against the side of her neck. It was cold and sharp, and Emily knew it was a blade of some kind. She looked around the room, letting her eyes adjust to the darkness before her sights were finally set on Nebula, who had been the one holding the blade. To say she was scared was an understatement. She was terrified.
Although a little bit of it was fake, but she had a small percentage of actual terror in her.
"Get up!" She snapped, not bothering to keep her voice down.
Emily didn't need to be told twice as she clumsily got out of bed.
"Put on your shoes." She ordered, and Emily put on her best pair of running shoes, fumbling with the laces and tying them as fast as she could.
The assassin roughly grabbed her, pressing the blade to her back as they left the bedroom and used the elevator to descend to the lobby.
"Which one is yours?" Nebula asked once they were outside, pointing to the line of cars parked outside the tower.
The cold November air was biting at Emily's face and her bare arms and legs. It probably wasn't the best decision to wear shorts and a tank top to bed. Hell, she should've at least put on a coat before leaving with Nebula.
"The silver one. The Prius." Emily said, and Nebula urged her forward, letting the girl get into the drivers side of the car.
"Where are we going?" She asked, pretending to be clueless.
"Take me to SHIELD. To the necklace." She ordered, and Emily put the car in drive and pulled away from the curb.
"Are you going to kill me?"
Nebula sighed, "I do not know. Haven't decided yet."
The rest of the ride was silent after that, and Nebula now held the blade to Emily's side. Not exactly safe to drive with a knife pressed to your throat.
"You know, I need help with a decision."
Emily gulped, "A decision for what?"
"How I will dispose of Gamora," She started, and Emily opened her mouth to speak, only for Nebula to stop her, "Or perhaps I'll leave my traitorous sister alone and decide how to dispose of your sister. Thoughts?" She asked, smirking at how scared and nervous Emily got at the mention of Maria.
"I-I would advise leaving our sisters...and myself...alone."
"And why is that?"
"B-Because. Steve is very protective of me and my older sister. Much like how Peter is over Gamora. If you attack me or Maria, then you're attacking him and he'll take it personally. If you attack Gamora, then Peter takes it personally. It's a lose-lose situation." She explained as they pulled up outside SHIELD's head quarters.
"Hm. Then I guess I will dispose of them first."
Emily almost laughed, but decided against it since she had a knife still pressed to her brachial artery. She and Nebula got out of the silver Prius and the woman shoved her in front, now pressing the knife to Emily's back as they entered the building.
It was eerily quiet as they walked through the halls, not an agent in sight. Not unusual since it was a little past three in the morning, but the agents that were there had been given a heads up by Fury to leave the area as soon as they saw Nebula and Emily walk through those doors.
"Where is it?"
"There's a room full of safes where they put things before they send them away to be destroyed."
Nebula pushed her forward once more and they continued walking through the base until they came to a room at the end of a hall.
"Open it."
Emily punched in a code that she remembered seeing Maria use several times and the door opened to reveal a fairly large rooms with safes along the walls. Well, built in to the walls. The lights turned on when they stepped in, and Emily disabled the alarm that was right next to the door, attached to the wall before leading Nebula down the row of safes.
It reminded her of a morgue in a sense, but she would never voice that opinion out loud as they stopped at one that was labeled, 'SG-19674B'. She knew that the SG stood for Soul Gem, but not what the numbers and letter stood for. She kneeled down and punched in another code and the safes metal door opened, revealing a smaller, metal, box like safe that she was able to remove.
The teen took it out and punched in yet another code and opened the safe, only to reveal that it was empty.
"Where is it!?" Nebula growled, glaring at the sixteen-year-old.
Emily played dumb, "I-I don't know! I swear!"
Nebula took the knife from the teens back and smacked Emily with such force that it knocked her to the floor, making Emily instinctively cover her head with her arms and curl the rest of her body into the fetal position. The blue woman pulled out her blaster and aimed it at the brunette, about to pull the trigger when a voice stopped her.
"Looking for something, Nebula?"
Nebula turned around to see Maria standing in the open doorway.
She was wearing the necklace.
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