hi, this is F, just here to tell u that I'm probably going to be adding chapters less often because I'm working on a Heroes of Olympus fan fiction with A (The seven plus two, if u like heroes of olympus please read). I'll still post new chapters but less often. Sorry. I don't own the Avengers, and yeah. I hope you enjoy.

Wren's POV

We all crammed into the SUV again and headed out. We were going to a secret military bunker that might still have the original hardcover files on Shade. When the cap had rescued all those soldiers from the Nazi scientists way back when, and saved Bucky and everybody, he had also grabbed some files. He hadn't known what they were at the time, but they might tell us about Shade's weaknesses if we could find them at the bunker.

The trip was uneventful, and we landed at sunset. I don't know where we were because the Avengers wouldn't tell us. "It is a secret base after all." Dr. Banner had told Cecily when she had complained about the secrecy.

We rented a car and drove out to the middle of nowhere, to a big empty field. The only thing there was crumbling cement walls. Something had once been here, but it was long gone. "That whole trip for nothing." I groaned. "There's nothing here."

The cap just laughed. "The whole point of a bunker is that it's under ground. Spread out, find some mechanism to open the entrance. We fanned out and waded through the tall grass, trying to find something helpful in the fading light.

"I think I found-" Romanoff called. "Oh no. Just litter. Never mind."

About a half an hour later, when it was full dark, the cap called to gather at the car. I knew I should go, but I was standing behind a partially-collapsed cement wall, in what must have once been…. Actually I wasn't sure. There was a rusted wood-burning furnace on its side, and rotted wood, like from furniture.

"Come on Carmen! Lets go!" But something in my gut told me not to. Something was here, and I could feel it. I could sense it. I crouched behind the concrete, beside the furnace. My hand tingled, and it moved towards the furnace without me meaning it too.

"Carmen! Where are you! Its not funny!" I could barely hear them anymore. I now really couldn't stop myself now. I clutched at my hand, trying to stop it, but I slid the latch on the furnace door, slid it open, and reached inside.

"Get over here NOW!" This time it was Romanoff's stern voice.

"Carmen!"

"Where are you?" My hand ran found a tiny nick on the inside of the door easily, like it had done it before. I couldn't stop. I physically couldn't stop. I tried to scream, but there was a pressure on my lungs like I couldn't breath.

"Carmen!" As the nick clicked in, the patch of earth next to me slid down and to the side, and suddenly my legs were moving, and I wasn't in control anymore, and I dragged myself into the opening, and I could hear my friends calling, and as the earth closed over me, and I fell, I put the last of my energy into a scream as the last of the light disappeared.

Sam's POV

The sun was setting. It was too dark to find anything, but I wandered into the field without complaint. I spent the time climbing a tall crumbling wall. Teetering on the top, I stood up wobbly. Looking out over the field I saw Romanoff and Stark examining something on the ground to my right. Agatha and Cecily were still sitting on the hood of the rental car. Carmen was all the way at one end of the field, and Adana all the way at the other. I suddenly heard the cap call to re-group at the car, and I jumped with surprise and tumbled off the wall, skinning my knee. I stumbled back over to the car, where everyone but Carmen was waiting.

"Are you okay?" Adana asked.

"I just fell off one of the walls." I rolled up the leg of the jeans. It was just a skinned knee, nothing too major. "I'm fine though." Adana raised her eyebrows at the fact that I was climbing one of the walls, but didn't say anything.

"Where's Carmen?" Cecily was tugging at Adana's frayed jean shorts. "She didn't come back." So then we started calling for her, but she didn't call back. I was just starting to get nervous, when we heard her scream from the edge of the clearing. It was the sort of scream that only happens from pain and fear and desperation, and it was suddenly cut short like a hand had been clamped over her mouth.

"Thats Carmen." I said. And I began to sprint towards the scream. I didn't care that I was mad at her, and I didn't care that she had given us up, but all I could hear was my heartbeat in my throat and my blood pounding in my ears, and I knew that I had to find my friend.

I could hear the others behind me, and my leg stung, but I suddenly stopped. I didn't know where Carmen had been. Which way to go. I had a sudden mental image of the field from the top of the wall, and Carmen crouched at the far end. I started again, my hoodie flying behind me, limping slightly as I ran, not caring. My lungs burned and I had a side cramp, but the farther I ran the faster I went.

I drew up short at the place where I had seen Carmen. Nothing was here but a broken furnace and some rotten wood beams. And the faintest square outline in the grass beside the furnace. I dropped to my knees in the grass, not sure what I was looking for.

"What….Is….That?" Cecily gasped, out of breath.

"Its like this part of the ground sunk down." I said, pressing down on the ground. "I saw Carmen over here…."

"Allow me." The cap taps on my shoulder, and I stand back. He lifts his shield, and strikes the ground so hard that my fillings rattle. It creaks, groans, and falls into a secret room underneath. I start forward before anyone can stop me.

"Come on, Carmen's down there!" I leap into the hole. Tumbling through the darkness, I land on a hard concrete floor, stumbling and falling on my side.

"Are you okay?" Adana shouts down. The hole is about seven feet above me. I scramble to my feet.

"I'm fine. C'mon down, its not far." Stark jumps down, followed by Adana carrying Cecily under one arm, and Agatha under the other. Romanoff is the first to land on her feet, followed by the cap and Dr. Banner. My hands spark, and flames flicker across my palms, lighting the room.

It's all concrete, desks scattered around, like they might have been in rows at some point, but no longer. A door on the other side of the room has been torn off its hinges, revealing the dark hallway on the other side. Two more doors opened in two other walls, to my left and to my right. A thick layer of dust covered everything.

"Which way?" I whispered. It didn't seem like the type of place to speak loudly.

"Listen." Romanoff put a finger to her lips. We stood in silence. From the hallway in front of me, I could hear the faintest of murmuring, humming, buzzing sound. "That way." She pointed at the door…. to my left.

"No, I hear something down that one." I motion towards the front door.

"Its the right door, guys, can't you hear it?"

"I can't hear anything at all."

"It's coming from all of the doors but that one, silly." We all heard it, but no one could place it.

"We have to split up." Dr. Banner decided. "Captain, you take Adana and go right. Natasha, you and I will go left with Cecily. Stark, Sam, and Agatha will go straight. Hurry, we have to find Carmen, the file, and get out as soon as we can." With no further discussion, we all sprint down our assigned hallway.

Agatha and Stark are right behind me as we run. My hands keep the hall lit to a certain extent. We run until we reach a fork. Stark and Agatha go one way, and I go the other. Running alone now, I can hear nothing but my footsteps and breathing. I suddenly stop.

I'm sure someone is behind me. I'm so sure I can almost picture a shadowy figure behind me. Spinning around, I see nothing. Just my imagination. I turn and run farther, to another door, pushing it open I find another office room. Suddenly, behind me, I hear a scream. It's distant, but I think its Adana. Theres four doors in this room. I spin around to see which way she is, and when I stop again I realize my mistake. I don't remember which way I came in by. I'm lost.