Any Time Now
Chapter 2
Sorry about the length of my last chapter. I didn't have a lot of time to write it and I just needed a big enough chapter to fill you guys in on what's happening. About the summary, sorry. It's not really an unknown force if I tell you in the first chapter, but it is unknown to the Avengers. Also, near the end of the fanfiction (which may be up to 18 chapters or more) I will ask you guys a question that won't make sense now, so better wait! Thanks to my reviewers and followers! Just remember to review! This chapter is mainly on the kidnapping and Tony meeting his captor... Just a reminder that this fanfiction will contain all of the Avengers, just Thor less than any. Oh, and no Pepperony! (or romance in general) Ok... a bit, but she isn't in the beginning of the fanfiction.
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Tony sat contentedly on the couch in the Avengers tower. The rest of the Avengers sat with him in the living room, except for Thor. What do you expect from a god that lives in another dimension? Bruce sat on the other end of the couch Tony was sitting on, reading the fifth Harry Potter book. Clint sat in one of the armchairs, polishing his bow. Steve had turned on the TV and was watching I Love Lucy, laughing at all of the weird lines only someone from the 40's would understand. Natasha, or Tasha as the guys liked to call her, was watching the TV with Steve, rolling her eyes at the way he would laugh at something she had no clue existed. Tony just dozed on the couch, watching his friends doing their thing, enjoying the rare leisure time they had.
Fury had been strangely silent all day, which was strange for him, because usually he called at least once a day to make sure they weren't getting themselves into trouble. The only time he had called in a crisis was when Bruce was reading the last Harry Potter book and "Hulked out" over Harry's death. That had been the first time he had read it and didn't know that Harry survives in the end. They hadn't told Fury anything, but he was suspicious of all the yelling and crashes from behind Tony, who was answering the phone and trying to lead him on a false trail. It had ended fine with only a few dents in the floor and a hole in the wall where Bruce had thrown the book.
That day it was nice outside, but Tony doubted that Fury was playing outside like the little kid they all knew had never existed. Tony wished this day would never end, but his daydreams were interrupted by the phone sitting on the counter behind them buzzing. Bruce snapped his book shut after marking his page and went to go answer it.
"To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking to?" he sniggered before mouthing 'Fury' to the rest of the group. "What? Why?" Bruce turned pale. "Again?!" The group looked up in alarm as they heard the fear and foreboding in his voice. He paused again. "Where do they think he is?" By now Steve, Clint, Tony, and Tasha were practically begging for information. "Okay. We'll be right there."
Bruce turned off the phone and raised a pale face to look at them. "We need to get to the helicarrier now. Suit up. I'll explain on the way."
By the time the team was ready to go, a quinjet was there to pick them up. Inside, Tony grabbed onto one of the support handles with a hand to keep steady as the quinjet took off. "So, you wanna explain what we're doing? I was having a perfectly nice afternoon doing nothing before my fun was spoiled by mister Fury-face."
The team rolled their eyes at him as Bruce took off on his explanation. "Fury called late because Thor payed a visit." The team exchanged confused glances at this. "Thor said he had come because Loki escaped from Asgard." A group of pale faces turned at this. "SHIELD doesn't know where he is, and they needed some extra help from us." Bruce almost expected to hear a snarky comment from Tony, but heard none.
Tony was terrified. The rest of the team knew that, and why. The last time they had fought Loki, Tony had flown a nuke into the portal Loki had been transporting the alien race known as the Chutari through onto Earth. The Iron Man suit had run out of power and fallen back to earth and Tony had died to be brought back by a screaming Hulk. This still burdened the team, Tony more then the rest.
Tony though he saw a shadow flit across the corner of his vision near the back of the quinjet. The Iron Man suit stood in the front of the quinjet with the back open for Tony to step in on short notice. For a moment he considered putting it on for an extra precaution. The team saw him looking around uneasily. The shadow flitted near the back of the jet again, and this time it was seen by everyone.
"Did you..."
"Yeah..."
"What was it?"
"No idea."
Tony was standing closest to the jet doors, undefended with nothing but the mandatory loaded guns they all carried in case of emergencies. Tony brought it out and cocked it. The other Avengers did the same and pointed it towards the back of the jet.
Suddenly, the quinjet doors opened and Tony nearly fell out and dropped the gun he was holding into the ocean beneath. He would have fallen to his death if Steve hadn't grabbed his arm and pulled his hand.
"Clint! What's going on?!" Steve yelled back at Clint, who was driving the jet.
Clint replied with a voice thick with tension and confusion. "I didn't do anything! Someone's overriding the controls!"
Tasha heard a muffled noise and a cry of pain from behind her. A masked man was holding Tony's hands behind his back with one hand and covering his mouth with another.
"Tony!" she screamed. The team turned around to see Tony being held. Steve started forward to grab him, but the masked man stepped backwards, dragging Tony with him.
"Let him go!" Steve yelled, pointing his gun at the man. He didn't shoot though, for fear of hitting Tony.
"I don't think so." The man's voice was deep and gruff. "I'm afraid Loki has some unfinished business with Tony here." The team stared.
Another man crept out from the back of the quinjet and raised a syringe full of a dark purple liquid. Another quinjet then swooped in and opened its doors to reveal a team of at least five other masked men. The man with the syringe inserted the point into Tony's neck, ignoring the pleas from the other Avengers. Tony immediately slumped to the ground. Tasha tried to tackle the man who had trapped Tony, but he easily punched her in the gut and she few backwards. The men dragged the unconscious Tony into the other quinjet and took off after closing the doors.
The team stood in silence, looking through the still open quinjet doors after the rapidly disappearing enemy jet.
Clint closed the doors and made to turn the jet around to follow it, but Steve blocked him. "Clint, we can't! We don't know where they're going and we need to go to the helicarrier for more information and backup! Rushing will be the fatal mistake."
Bruce felt like applauding Steve for thinking a plan through, but at the moment he was trying to keep the other guy from coming out. Somebody had kidnapped his best friend! What did they want him to do about it? Nothing!
Bruce sat down with his head in his hands, occasionally looking up at Steve, who kept running his hand through his hair. "What do we do now?" He kept repeating.
That phrase rang through everybody's head in the quinjet.
"What do we do now?"
Thanks for reading guys! I am on spring break so you can expect at least 2 other chapters before Monday. (3/28/16) Just a shoutout: I love Harry Potter and I Love Lucy. You can expect 1 chapter a week from now on if not sooner. I will inform you when I will not be updating but this is not one of those times! Please Review!