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Chapter 5

The turtles stayed close to me as I let my legs hang off the edge of where that glass cage should be. They all kind of made a protective wall around me as I tried to work through what happened just an hour or so ago. Across the large gap was the blood from Coulson, now drying onto the wall. Why couldn't anyone clean that up? Elek sat on one side of me and Donnie was on the other. My eyes narrowed at the stain. This time, Loki has gone too far. I sighed and lowered my head.

'I was such a snob to him.' I pulled my legs up and wrapped my arms around them to keep them up.

'You were being cautious.' Elek said in an equally sad voice.

I don't know if I was feeling his sorrow or mine, but I felt like crap right now.

"Hey, cheer up, Bailey." Mikey offered me a smile.

I just rolled my eyes. "Nice try, Mikey."

"I'm gonna break Loki's face in!" Raph punched his fist into his other hand.

"Get in line." I huffed.

"Bails." Dad's voice came from the entrance and I just sat where I was. "Come on, don't start the 'silent treatment'."

My lip quivered and I shot to my feet to race into his arms, pushing Raph out of the way. Taking a deep breath I refused to let myself cry. Dad just held me as I silently apologized and he forgave.

The Avengers couldn't fail now. Coulson was one who was the biggest and one believer, other than me, of this team. I have to admit though, I was losing faith in this so-called team, but now I was counting on it.

"We'll avenge him." I said in a stern voice to try and convince myself.

Dad chuckled. "Nice play on words there."

I smiled and I saw Steve walk in as the turtles went to go explore a little. Donnie was a little hesitant and tried to smile to comfort me. I returned the smile and nodded.

"Was he married?" Steve asked.

"No." Dad answered. "There was a cellist, I think."

"I'm sorry." Steve's head bowed. "He seemed like a good man."

"He was." I said quietly.

"He was an idiot." Dad nodded.

"Why? For believing?" Steve beat me by two seconds.

"For taking on Loki alone."

"He was doing his job." Steve argued calmly.

"But he could've called backup." I added defending dad's side of the argument. He was right with the fact that Coulson didn't think thoroughly before confronting Loki, but he wasn't dumb.

"No time." Steve said. He knew of those situations, the ones that needed sacrifices instead of teammates. The ones that saved thousands of innocents.

"He was out of his league." Dad scoffed. "He should've waited. He should've-"

"Sometimes there isn't a way out, Tony." Steve walked towards us.

"Right, I've heard that one before."

"But he's right, Dad. There are those times where there's no getaway." I told him.

"There's always an opportunity to get out of situations where the odds aren't on your side." He walked past me and Steve. I had a feeling Dad meant when he was supposed to die back in that Afghan cave. He survived, but his friend died and so did that playboy side of my dad.

"Is this the first time you lost a soldier?" Steve asked and Dad spun around with a terrified look on his face.

"We are not soldiers." His eyes rested on me as he took a breath. "We're not marching to Fury's fife." His gaze scared me, dad seemed so lost. He seemed truly terrified.

"Neither am I." Steve agreed. "He's got the same blood on his hands that Loki does. But, right now we got to put that behind us and get this done."

"Loki needs a power source." I pointed out and Steve nodded as I got our conversation back on track.

"If we can put together a list-"

"He made it personal." Dad interrupted Steve.

'What?'

'He's right.' Elek agreed.

"That's not the point."

"That is the point." Dad argued then it clicked.

If he'd hit us where it hurt, then he'd break us and Loki would get away with his plan! "That's Loki's point." I mumbled under my breath as the pieces clicked together. Dad was saying out loud what was rushing in my head.

"He hit us all right where we live. Why?" He tested Cap.

"To tear us apart."

"Yeah, divide and conquer is great but he knows he has to take us out to win, right?" He asked making sure Steve was following. "That's what he wants." Dad looked at me. "You get it right?"

"Yeah, he wants to beat us and he wants to be seen doing it like he's the star of a reality TV show." I started.

"He wants an audience." Dad continued nodding and pointing at me.

"Yeah, I caught his act in Stuttgart." Steve nodded.

"Yeah, that was just the previews. This is opening night." Dad totally got what I was thinking and I cut him off.

"Loki's a full-tilt diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades. He wants a monument built to the skies with his name plastered-" I stopped my rambling when I noticed my metaphor wasn't really a metaphor.

"Son of a bitch." Dad said before rushing out of the room. Steve looked at me.

"The ugly building in New York." I just said in a way he'd understand.

Steve's eyes widened. Now he got it. "We need to regroup."

"I'll have Donnie get a jet ready." Elek said before the two of us rushed off to find the guys.

We found them all heading to the dojo and I called out to them and told them we were leaving. I got them to leave without asking questions and we gathered the remainder of the Avengers in the back of one of the jets. When we entered, Steve was in the lead and a poor pilot tried to tell Captain he wasn't authorized to enter the jet. Ha, ha, funny. All it took was a 'Son, just don't' and a growl from Raph to get the pilot scrambling. Raph chuckled and Mikey was happy he wasn't the one getting growled at. Dad would lead the rest of us to New York and get to the tower, but with our last battle, his suit was having trouble flying. So, I decided to fly with him.

"We gotta go now before Fury finds out about us leaving." Nat said as I exited the jet.

"Then let's go." Elek formed onto me and I took off right behind dad with the others behind me.

I had Elek keep a secure line to the turtles' ear pieces. I haven't talked to them too much since they arrived. There was just so much happening so fast.

"Hey guys."

'Bailey, is everything okay?' Donnie's predictable response came.

"Ya, I'm fine. Just in some need of my healthy dose of my best friends' life." I smiled.

'Dude, you will not believe what was back on the TV!' Mikey's excited voice blared into my helmet.

"What, Mikey?"

'Oh god, there he goes.' Raph grumbled.

'Space Heroes!'

I cringed at how loud Mikey was and answered. "Isn't that that TV show you four watched when you were younger?"

'Oh yeah.' Leo came into the conversation.

Donnie laughed. 'Leo was such a nerd when it came to that show. He always wanted to be just like that captain on the show.'

'Captain Ryan.' Leo muttered.

We all started hysterical laughing.

'Oh Leo, please tell me you still have that Captain Ryan poster in your room?' Raph asked still laughing.

The silence coming from Leo made us all laugh even harder. Oh priceless.

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