ASTONISHING AVENGERS #13
By:Stephen Kelley
Soaring above the eastern skyline of Manhattan Redwing Falcons feathered companion observed any and all activity above ground while falcon stayed streetside in his civilian clothes, "keep looking she's got to be around here somewhere"Sam partly muttered to himself which got him one or two curious glances but if only people knew he was really communicating with Redwing who was high above in the sky.
Not a lot of people in both the civilian and superhero world REALLY KNEW the kind of abilities that Sam Wilson possessed, one of the most major assets for Sam is that he had the ability to telepathically link to any bird within a 2 to 3 mile radius possibly five if he really concentrated but mainly Sams telepathic link with his pet bird and feathered companion Redwing was the strongest, even freakier but also amazing is Sam could not only telepathically "talk"to Redwing or any other birds nearby but Sam could even "see"through their eyes almost kind of like what did that science show call it when they had the psychic special "remote viewing".
Regardless this made Sam excellent for stealth and recon missions where discretion was really needed, but Sam was also a skilled hand-to-hand combatant thanks to some one-on-one training with cap and his flight harness was designed by Wakandan techs who managed to make Sams original harness much more offenses as well as defensive plus it would be a lot harder to take Sam out of the air as his wings were fully made of hard light, Sam was wondering if they were ever gonna beat the aliens it just angered and frustrated him to no end.
Fortunately Sam's thoughts of doubt were interrupted by Red Wings "psychic chatter"and Sam at least smiled a little "all right little birdie let's hope you're willing to listen to reason cause if you sing, all hell gonna break loose"Sam said psyching himself up for what he felt was going to be a very rough encounter or a very calm one, when he walked into the lounge immediately almost every eye fell on him especially the big bad tattooed bikers who appeared out of place but Sam figured they were probably bouncers before going up to the bar and taking the seat right next to her.
"Look whatever you have to say Sam don't bother I'm not coming back" Songbird said without even looking at Sam "then don't say anything just listen"Sam said equally not turning to look her eye to eye, "we had a scuffle at the tower" Sam began "found out when they had cap and stark as prisoners they put some kind of nano mind control junk in their heads, made them do the Queen's bidding but you and I both know Tony too well Melissa"Sam said smirking which in turn Melissa did as well "so stark managed to fight this thing and break its control" "hold on hold on let me finish"Sam said putting his hand up to stop her as he continued, "Tony started going crazy started thrashing himself about banging his head on the sink man panther thought he went nuts due to the torture, but you know panther and his mystical voodoo tribal whatever it is that he does"Sam playfully joked "but he managed to separate the little thing from Tony you write about the time that we were helping him completely clear the thing from his system we get attacked by cap" Sam said as he and Melissa now were locking eyes with each other.
"Wait wait wait you guys had to fight cap" Melissa said almost spilling her drink to which Sam grimacely nodded, "if it wasn't for Erica, we would have been dead" "so is" "he's alive and he's trying to help repair the damage that the Queen didn't trying to break us all a part" "then what are we standing around here for let's go" Melissa gold down her drink slam the glass down paid her tab and Sam's and grabbed his arm so quick Sam almost toppled over "easy girl easy, we gotta get everyone back together first" "I'm not worried about Eric no doubt cap is going to find him right" "yeah I ain't worried about Antman, but Bill and Skarr those two i am worried about" and needless to say like any clichéd action movie the bikers tried to hit on Melissa make a few racist statements at Sam and unlike the action stars it didn't take any big guns or muscles, all it took was one "note"from Melissa to blow the group of bikers through the front lobby windows.