Ron let out a small sigh as he popped his neck and tried to blink away the sleep that was still in his eyes. As he let his eyes get adjusted to the dark, he noticed that he felt something odd on his right arm. He turned his head, and saw that Kim was in his bed and had curled up to him like she did with her cuddle buddy Pandaroo. Ron couldn't help but let a small smile come to his face as he looked at his best friend. She must have had a nightmare or something and curled up next to him. It felt nice to have her there next to him. Most guys his age right about now would be hoping for something more or trying to feel some part of her, but not him. Being with her like that was enough for him to last a lifetime. That's when he realized he was truly in love with her.
He carefully leaned in and kissed her forehead, and laughed at the small smile that crossed her lips. As much as he enjoyed just watching her sleep, nature was trying to make its call to him. When was he going to learn not to drink so much before bed? He did his best not to wake Kim up, and slid out of her warm embrace and out of the bed and slowly made his way to the bathroom. Things were hard since Rufus had died. He missed looking in the window and seeing his little pal asleep, or the little guy eating as much nacos and nachos as possible. He hated Dementor for doing that to Rufus. One of these days, he would give that little punk a piece of his mind.
Ron looked down and noticed the fist he had been making and the slight green tint that had started. He took a few deep breaths to try and calm himself. He wouldn't be helping anyone if he hulked out. After he was done with his business, he turned on the warm water and let it fill the sink. He began splashing his face with the liquid, trying to clear the rest of the sleep in his mind and trying to calm himself down. The sooner that sedative was ready, the better. He didn't want that Hulk to be seen for a long time. As Ron looked up, he noticed the mirror had fogged up on him. Like a little kid, he couldn't resist writing something in that mirror. Maybe a message to Kim or something. But the reflection looked a little weird.
As he began to move his finger across the glass, his eyes caught something. As he looked closer, he could swear he saw green where his finger was making contact. He wiped some of the fog off the glass, and he saw more green, but it was different. Ron wiped more away, and saw a pair of green eyes looking at him through the bangs of shaggy dark green hair.
"What in the world?" Ron asked himself.
That's when the glass shattered as a large green hand punched through, and grabbed Ron by neck and began to add pressure. Ron's eyes were wide with fear as he looked at the figure behind the glass. Most of him was covered by the shadows, but he could still see those green eyes. As Ron kept looking at the figure, he noticed its head and hair were similar to his in shape. Wait, this wasn't what he thought it could be. Was it?
"Puny Human." It said in a deep voice and increased the pressure.
With a loud growl, it pulled Ron through the mirror and hurled him into nothing but blackness.
Ron woke up with a loud shout as he felt his body drenched in a cold sweat and the covers fall from him. He was panting so hard that it was making him slightly light headed as he tried to figure out what was happening. He was so distracted that he didn't even notice Kim by his side until her hand was on his shoulder.
"Ron, what is it?" she asked him as he finally realized where they were.
"I-it was another nightmare." Ron said.
"About Rufus?" she asked him. Lately, his bad dreams were about loosing his friend, and it looked like Ron kept blaming himself for Rufus' death every time he had another nightmare.
"No. I-it was him." Ron said.
"Who?" Kim asked.
"The Hulk. It was him. He grabbed me and threw me into some – I dunno. Some pit or something. He wants out." Ron said as he began to shiver with fear.
"Ron, it was just a dream. He isn't trying to get out, he's you." Kim said, trying to ease her friend's worries.
"No, he isn't. That gamma stuff only released something that was already there." Ron said as he tried his best to hold back tears. Kim crawled into the bed with him and wrapped her arms tightly around him.
"Ron, he's you. He's a part of you. I've seen it Ron, and I always saw you looking at me through its eyes. No matter what you say, I know it wouldn't do anything you wouldn't." Kim said as she hugged him tightly, feeling him relax little by little.
"Why did I have to turn into that thing? Why couldn't I turn into Conan or something?" Ron asked as they both felt sleep trying to claim them again. "There was at least something good about the dream." Ron said as they both laid themselves down onto the bed.
"What's that?" Kim asked him.
"I got to hold you in my arms." Ron said, not knowing that he had already wrapped his arms around his girlfriend in a gentle, but firm, embrace.
"I think I like that part too." Kim said as they both drifted back off to sleep.
"Is this all the data we have on the location?" Dementor asked his henchman over the intercom.
"That's all the mole sent us, boss." He said.
"This vill have to do. Ready my personal transport, I shall be leaving immediately." Dementor said.
"Don't you want some of us to tag along? What if you get into trouble?" the goon asked.
"That vill not be a problem. Just ready my ship." Dementor said and ended the audio transmission. Before he grabbed his black helmet, he looked at himself in the mirror and let out a low growl. He slowly traced a single scar that was on his face, which was also the reason he had to wear the helmet. "If you vant something done, do it yourself." He mumbled as he placed the black metal over his head and left for his private ship.
He had the coordinates memorized in his head, and knew exactly where to go and how to get in. His goons kept asking him about backup, but he either told them no or backhanded them to get his point across. Once he was in the air and had his ship set on auto pilot, he began to review all the data he had from his mole as he began to remove his clothes.
"It isn't much, but it's a start. We'll be able to finish what we started years ago, and make these Earth pests finally pay." Dementor said as he removed his helmet, and his skin change it's color into a greenish blue while his body morphed and changed. It was always painful to go through this process, but he hardly even noticed anymore. He kept his eyes closed as the metamorphosis continued, not wanting to risk blindness as his body chemistry was altering itself. When his transformation was finished, he opened his eyes to reveal they were glowing with an inner light that gave them a blue glow. As he stretched his muscles, readjusting to his true form after so many years, he let out a slow growl.
"Things will be different this time." He growled as he opened his pod like hand, and smiled at the energy inside was ready for use.
"It's time to call the troops in." Fury said as he and Shego entered the war room that was even larger than the one that had been on the floating fortress. The massive room looked like it was made for a gathering for dignitaries, with each seat and desk built stadium style. There were three large screens behind the podium Fury and Shego were at, while a large round table with the symbol of SHIELD carved into it sat in the middle.
"Just remember Iron Pants, these are citizens. You might have to use lamens terms with them." Shego said as she adjusted the black T-shirt and tight black leather pants she was wearing. It annoyed her to no end that a symbol of SHIELD was on every piece of clothing in her closet.
"Don't worry, they'll understand plenty. Send them in." Fury said as Shego spoke into the wireless ear piece.
The main doors on the left and right hand slid open to let the people that had been waiting outside to enter. The first ones to enter the war room and take a seat were Hank and Janet Pym, both wearing civilian clothes. Janet was wearing a modest T-shirt and slacks while Hank wore an old white T-shirt, a pair of holy and faded jeans, along with an open green flannel button up shirt that looked like it was on its last legs. To show his total lack of respect with SHIELD, mainly Fury, Hank propped his muddy shoes on the table and tried to scrap some of the dried mud off while his wife gave a disapproving look.
The next ones to enter were Captain Steve Rogers with Dr. Ross and Dr. Banner not too far behind him. Shego's eyes slightly bulged when she saw Kim and Ron enter as well, taking a seat across from the Pym's.
"Fury, what the hell are the Princess and Stoppable doing here?" Shego whispered to him.
"They're apart of the strike force. We need Possible's skills and abilities as an added age, and Stoppable goes wherever she goes." Fury said.
"What about his – condition?" Shego added, trying to hold back a shiver as she remembered looking face to face with the Hulk.
"If he's as in control as I think he is, he could be a needed weapon if something goes south." Fury said to her.
"Great." Shego mumbled.
"That's Captain America? He looks so – young." Janet said as she got a good glance at the World War II veteran.
"Well, he's also about sixty years too old for you, Janet. So you can roll your tongue back in your mouth. We'll all probably get put on ice with him around." Hank said as his jealousy instantly started to take effect.
Every one turned when the heard the sound of machinery and something almost stomping the ground. Kim and Ron couldn't help but be in awe when the saw what they could have sworn was a robot enter the room. It was large with what looked like serious weaponry on the gauntlets that covered both of its forearms. The design was sleek, smooth, and was more of a design from the future than anything else. Its head had a gold face plate with two glowing slits for eyes, and one where a mouth would be, with a serious pair of what looked to be rockets on its legs. A small glowing circle sat in the middle of its chest, with all of its body painted in gold and red colors.
"I hope I'm not late." It spoke in a digitized voice that made it sound like he was related to Darth Vader.
"You're right on time, Iron Man." Fury said.
"He looks more like an Iron Lung. Want a rematch, Tin Man?" Hank said.
"Hank!" Janet said as she elbowed her husband hard in the ribs.
Fury only groaned in frustration as he saw what his team was made off. As Shego watched the rag tag bunch in front of her, only four words came to her mind. 'We are so screwed.'
"All right, everyone listen up! Now all of you are here today because you have been chosen to be apart of a special strike force that has been code named Project Avenger under the command of Captain America." Fury started.
"Oh, great." Hank muttered,
"Against what?" Janet asked.
"Allow me start at the beginning." Fury said as the lights dimmed and the three screens came to life.
"May second, nineteen forty-five. A secret Nazi fortress of the cost of Norway had been designed and built in order to launch their newest super weapon. A nuclear warhead. Thankfully, it had been destroyed before it could reach Washington. And we all owe a great deal of gratitude for the brave soldier responsible." Fury said as a shot of the missile launching from the fortress displayed the middle screen.
"A nuclear missile? That's impossible. The only thing closest to a missile during that time was the atom bomb." Janet said.
"How could the Nazi's be able to get ahold of that kind of technology in 1945?" Dr. Ross asked.
"They had the help of Hitler's new ally." Fury said.
"Who were they? Aliens?" Hank joked, as he was starting to become bored with Fury's history lecture.
"Yes, they were. Before they went into hiding, the unit photographer took these." Fury said, with nothing but seriousness.
The next shot showed the strange aliens escaping from the fortress, using their own arms as energy weapons as they ran. They looked like strange lizards that had a slight resemblance to the creatures from the movie Aliens VS. Predator.
"What in the world?" Kim asked as she saw the picture.
"This is a joke, right?" Hank asked.
"Mr. Pym, I've seen these things. They've killed my men. So they are very real." Captain America said as a hardened stare looked dead into Hank's eyes and actually made the scientist straighten himself in his chair.
"Hiding? Why are they still here?" Janet asked.
"We don't know. The Germans called them the Chitauri. They move around in three ships and like to buzz our nuclear facilities and our military bases. It's like they trying to gather as much data as they can." Fury said.
"Incredible." Bruce mumbled as he looked at the photos of the Chitauri.
Kim glanced at Ron and saw the large frown on his face. Her gut was instantly telling her to start worrying.
"Ron, are you all right?" she whispered to him.
"They helped the Nazis?" Ron growled.
Ron's grandfather and grandmother had been held in a concentration camp during World War II. He remembered when his grandfather going into stories on how he watched friends and members of his own families being gassed in massive numbers and how he watched as they burned their bodies in massive furnaces. When Ron had to actually study about World War II, he found out some of the other horrors the Nazis had done to the Jews. So Ron hated Nazis as much as the next person. And hearing this information about these aliens was really starting to upset him. When Kim glanced at his arm, her eyes widened as she saw the fabric begin to expand and his skin slowly starting to change pigment.
"Dr. Ross!" Kim whispered to the older woman.
When Ross glanced at Kim, she immediately knew what was happening. She quickly took a seat by Ron while everyone else was distracted, and injected Ron with a clear liquid.
"Ow! What was that for?" Ron whispered.
"It's the new sedative. Remember, if you feel angry, you have to take it." Ross told him and handed several vials of the liquid along with an injector.
"Thank you, Dr." Kim said as they turned their attention back to Fury.
"Okay Fury, let me get this straight. These guys have been around sense the forties and you haven't even bothered to even try to find a way to track them?" Hank asked.
"We did. We were able to create a system that was able to detect the strange metal in their hulls. This is what they thought of that." Fury said as he played the footage from the shuttle and the satellite being pushed into Earth's orbit. Everyone seemed to grimace or become shocked when they saw the shuttle pilot screaming for her mother before the transmission ended abruptly.
"H-how can they do that?" Janet asked.
"So – how were you able to get a line on what metal they use?" Hank said. He didn't want to admit it, but the footage had him shaken down to his core.
"When the Nazi warhead detonated, one of their ships was destroyed. That was our first lucky break." Fury said and made a hand gesture at a hidden camera.
The lights brightened as three SHIELD soldiers entered and deposited a high tech canister and stand in front of the view screen, and opened it to reveal a black piece of metal that was no bigger than a dinner plate. "They neglected in recovering all the pieces, and we were able to get a few pieces and fragments of it." Fury said.
"What type of alloy is it?" Dr. Banner asked.
"Unknown. The shards of their ship are made of a highly durable substance that we've named vibranium. It's resistant to any weapon's attack we have on this Earth, and it absorbs energy like a sponge." Fury said as several armored SHIELD troops came in. One fired a machine gun at it, only for the bullets to bounce off of it like spitballs. Another soldier came in with a heavy duty bazooka, aimed, and fired.
The explosion was almost deafening inside the room with the smell of burning gunpowder floating around them with the thick smoke. When the fans finally removed the smoke and floating debris, the metal shard didn't even have so much as a scratch on it. You couldn't even tell it had just been hit with a rocket that could have taken down a heavy duty tank.
"Is there anything that can penetrate it?" Banner asked as he stepped down from his seat and began a close examination of the alien metal.
"Yes. Besides a nuclear blast, more vibranium." Fury said as Shego took out a strange boomerang, and hurled it at the metal. The small weapon pierced through the metal in its center, only a few inches away from Dr. Banner's nose. "Unfortunately, we were only able to recover a minimal amount."
"Is Stark Enterprises doing anything on finding a way to counteract it?" Janet asked.
"Please. Knowing that arrogant snob, he probably wouldn't lift a finger unless it was going to make him money." Kim said.
"Or get laid." Ron added and made a few of the attendants snicker. No one noticed as Iron Man turned his head back to Fury and Shego and ignored the comments.
"I don't know how you guys can put up with that ass in the first place." Hank said.
"So we can't find these ships or shoot them down if we do?" Janet asked.
"I never said this would be easy. So if anyone of you want out, you better tell me now." Fury said as he looked at all of them with his ever penetrating glare. When no one answered, he actually let a brief smile cross his lips.
As everyone left, Shego stood outside the entrance to the war room and waited. Hank Pym got on her nerves and reminded her too much of her brother Mego as she watched him and his wife leave.She kept her eyes on Captain Rogers and couldn't help but notice how the t-shirt didn't do anything to hide his muscles. She knew he was still getting to know his current situation, but it didn't hurt to watch. Then the one she wanted to talk to came out with his redheaded girlfriend.
"Stoppable!" she said in a firm voice, making both teens turn and look at her. "Mind if I have a word with you?" she asked him.
"Sure, I guess." Ron said as he looked a little confused at one of his new commanding officers. "I'll meet you back in our quarters." Ron told Kim as he walked toward Shego.
"What's on your mind, Shego?" he asked her.
"That's Black Widow to you now, Stoppable." She said.
"Sorry, Ma'am." Ron said and stiffened some.
"At ease. Back in that room, I couldn't help but notice that Dr. Ross gave you that little booster shot." She said.
"Oh, you saw that, huh?"
"Stoppable, you'd be surprised at how much I can notice out of the corner of my eyes." She said, almost sounding like Fury. "I take it you're little green friend wanted to come out to play?" she asked him.
"I kind of got a little mad when I heard those aliens helped the Nazis." Ron said.
"That's understandable. But Ron, I need to make sure you're doing your best to keep him under control." Shego said.
"Dr. Ross gave me more of the,"
"It's going to take more than just those drugs, Ron. Are you doing anything else?" she asked him.
"I've been doing some meditation lately. Mast – I mean Mister – Sen. Yeah, Mr. Sen taught me a few meditation techniques. You know, when I was in Japan? The student exchange progam? Way back when?" Ron asked, kicking himself for almost blowing Yamanuchi's secret.
"Really?" Shego asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah." Ron said while he scratched the back of his neck.
"Okay, but look into some anger management techniques though. Believe me, they can help sometimes." She told him and started to walk off.
"Thanks. Ron said.
"By the way. You might want to ask Master Sensi to teach you a few more meditation techniques." Shego said to him and let out a small chuckle when she saw Ron's jaw hang open. "Come on, Stoppable. Where do you think I went to after I quit Team Go?" she said.
So far, everything was quiet. Ever since they had found out to their satellite, everyone had been on edge. He did want to be somewhere else, but he had his orders. The US had spent a lot of money on his training, so now he had to show it didn't go to waste. If he saw anything out of the ordinary, he wouldn't hesitate to use his weapon.
He had been here long enough that the normal sounds of the woods around them didn't bother him anymore. Most of the sounds, he knew right off the bat. The scratching in the far bushes was either a wolf on the prowl or a squirrel trying to forage. The flapping was an owl finally up and about after getting an entire day's worth of sleep. So far, everything was clear.
That's when he heard something. This sound was new to his ears. What was it? Sounded like rocks moving. No, it wasn't rocks. It was gravel. But where was it coming from. It sounded close by; really close. Wait a minute, it was coming from above!
As the soldier glanced upward, a small yell escaped from his throat as a large lizard like alien jumped off the roof and landed on top of him. The thing had glowing pale blue eyes and was growling at him.. He was on his back, using his rifle to try and keep the creature off of him. He needed to find a way to get this freak off of him and blast him. Before he could try and shove the creature away, he felt a burning and very painful sensation in his gut. When he looked down, he saw the thing had stabbed him with that thing on his arm. The pain became unbearable as he felt and saw the thing drinking him! It was drinking his guts out of him! As the terrified soldier screamed to the heavens in pain, he began to feel sleepy. So very sleepy.
As the alien withdrew its limb, he began to shift and shrink again. As his skin smoothed itself and changed its colors in the appropriate spots, a human face formed where its head was. As it finished shifting itself into the dead soldier, a wide tooth filled smile crossed his face as he walked to the main gate, and pressed his thumb to the plate on the wall. When the gate opened after scanning the print, his grin only grew wider as he walked up to the next security soldier on guard, and twisted his neck around like a twig.
"This is still so incredible." Dr. Bruce Banner said as he looked at Ron's latest blood work.
"You're still on that? What about the Super Soldier formula?" Dr. Ross asked her fiancée.
"I've made leaps and bonds in it, but I'm also fascinated by Ron's blood work." Bruce said.
"Bruce, maybe we should switch to something else for right now. It isn't good being obsessed with something." Betty said.
"Oh God." Bruce said as he looked at some of his lab results on his computer screen.
"What is it?" Betty asked him.
"It's Ron's DNA. His DNA is stable in either form, but the transformations are shredding it." Bruce said.
"What?" Betty asked.
"His DNA is becoming more and more damaged every time he changes. If he keeps it up, there won't be enough left for the DNA to repair itself." Bruce said.
"You mean – Ron's dying?" Betty asked him.
"If he keeps changing, yes." Bruce said grimly.
"Is there anything we can do?" Betty asked her lover.
"Maybe. It looks like we were damn close with the formula Ron was given. If I can figure out the complete formula, I might be able to stabilize him. Or," Bruce said.
"Or what?"
"Or it could also boost the Hulk's strength and make him just about unstoppable." Bruce finished.
"So we may have a cure, and a possible weapon in a bottle." Betty said.
"I'm afraid so." Bruce said as he rubbed his eyes.
"I'm going to go to bed. We need a fresh start. Care to join me?" she asked him.
"Give me a minute. I need to make a few more notes before I shut down for the night." Bruce said.
"Okay. Good night."
"Night Betty." Bruce said as she left.
As soon as she was gone, Bruce opened every file on Ron and the super soldier project he could find. They were closer than anyone had thought with their formula. If he could just fill in the gaps and alter a few sequences, there was more potential than just stabilizing Ron. Maybe, just maybe, Ron would be able to control himself in his Hulk state. If Ron could control himself, he would be a greater advantage to SHIELD than project Avenger. The only problem was that he had to keep from letting Ron know. Ron had to avoid transforming and give his DNA time to repair most of itself. But how was he going to do this and hide it from not just Ronald, but everyone else?
"General Fury, one of the proximity alarms just went off at a SHIELD instillation." Wade said over the intercom.
"Oh God, don't tell me." Fury said as he rushed from his filling cabinet and back to the computer on his desk and called up the data. As he looked at the data displayed in front of him, his face began to contort with a look of rage.
"SHIT!" he shouted as he called up the surveillance cameras, and saw a soldier grab another by his neck and snapped it with a twist of his wrist. When he turned and saw the camera, everyone noticed that his eyes were glowing a pale blue before he lashed out and destroyed it.
"Looks like our first mission just started. Wade, Assemble the Avengers! I want them to meet me in the hanger bay in two minutes. MOVE!" Fury shouted.
Everyone met out in the hanger minutes later. Kim was dressed in her usual mission gear, a purple form fitting T along with black pants. The only added things to it were a standard issued utility belt, and the logo of SHIELD on the right shoulder of her shirt. Janet was wearing a sleeveless, backless, grey body suit while her husband wore a brown and orange body suit that looked more like it was an advanced Haz-Mat suit. Shego was decked out in all black and had two pistols strapped around her waist, and carrying a heavy duty machine guns around her shoulders.
"Don't you think that's a little overkill Shego?" Kim asked her.
"I like to be prepared. Besides, this thing's for you." Shego said.
"Me? But I don't use guns." Kim said.
"These are the big leagues now, Princess. Not everyone is going to be an idiot like Drakken and the others. If you want to play, you got to play by their rules." Shego said and handed her the weapon, which Kim reluctantly took.
"So where's the fearless leader of the group?" Iron Man asked as he joined them.
"Right here." Fury answered them with Captain Rogers behind him.
Rogers walked up to them wearing a jumpsuit that was mostly blue. On his arms, the blue stopped at his shoulders with a red circle that had a white star in it on each shoulder; while the rest of his sleeves were white with red military style gloves that went to his forearms. On the torso, white and red stripes went around the area of his abs while a huge white star sat in the center of his chest and back. His face was covered by a blue mask that only left the lower half of his face, eyes, and ears exposed while a large white A sat on the forehead of the mask. He also had a black military belt around his waist and a pair of combat boots.
"Very patriotic." Shego said.
"We just received word that a Chitauri alien breached a high security SHIELD instillation that's housing the rest of the SHIELD 1 satellites. From Intel we have, we can already assume he's killed everyone inside. I need you to stop him before he can hack into our database or destroy those satellites. And Captain?"
"Yes, sir?"
"I want that alien brought back to me, alive." Fury said and stepped aside for them to board the craft.
"Before you leave Captain, I think you might need this." Fury said as he held out a large object that he had been carrying that had a larger piece of cloth draped over it. Fury removed the cloth to reveal a large circular shield that had red and white stripes with a blue circle in the middle. In the middle of the blue circle was a white star.
"It's composed of a combination of adamantium and vibrainium fragments. This shouldn't be able to dent so easily." Fury said to him.
"Wait a minute! You give him a shield made out of that alien crap when you should be making a weapon out of it?" Hank asked the general.
"In the hands of Captain America, it is a weapon." Fury told them.
"General, where's Ron?" Kim asked him.
"I've decided that he's sitting this one out, Possible." Fury said.
"General,"
"Possible, if he looses it, there's no guaranteeing we'll get him back. Not to mention Ross has just given him a new sedative. We don't know its side effects or if it'll even work. I'm sorry, but he sits this one out." Fury said and nodded to Rogers, signaling it was time for them to move out.
Kim glanced at the Fury for a minute before climbing into the ship with the others.
"What about all you said about them being a team?" Shego asked.
"Like I said, I don't know if the sedative will hold. The last thing we need if for the Hulk to go on a rampage." Fury told her.
As Ron watched from a distance, he seriously hoped that she would be okay. Without her, he didn't know what he would do. And he didn't know if he could even keep that thing in him contained without her. But somehow, it was as if he knew that it was thinking the same thing he was.
'Let her be safe.'
1000 hours
The fake soldier just chuckled in a child like glee as he removed a silver sphere from his body and placed it at the computer console. The object sprouted legs and crawled to the nearest data port, where several cables inserted itself and began to hack away at SHIELD's firewalls. The fake soldier glanced at all the dead bodies of SHIELD soldiers and scientists that were around him and chuckled again.
"To think, I've gotten farther than any of my lackies ever could. Humans are so stupid." He chuckled. When the proximity alarm went off, he glanced to the nearest screen and saw a SHIELD helicopter land in front of the base. "Ah, the party is just beginning. I hope they like my – Vas ist das?" he asked himself as he saw the tall, broad figure in blue exit the craft and holding a large shield. He zoomed the cameras in on the man to get a closer look. Even though a mask covered most of his face, he recognized him. He was very familiar with those blue eyes, and knew who they belonged to as he his line went along the unseen scar that sat on his face. "It can't be. He's dead! How can he be here now?!" he shouted as the scar made itself visible and his eyes began to glow blue again.
"So what's the plan?" Kim asked as they exited the craft.
"We have to apprehend the intruder before he can try and make a get away. Someone will have to try and get in without tripping any of the motion sensors." Captain America said.
"I'm on it." Wasp said as she shrunk down to the size of a doll and flew off toward the instillation.
"Not yet! Wasp!" Cap shouted, but just groaned as he watched her fly out of sight. "All right. Iron Man, I need you to scan the building overhead and get me the intruder's location. Black Widow and Possible, you take the loading bay and take out the automated defenses while I take the east entrance. Giant Man, you stay here. If the intruder tries to escape, I need you to try and stop him from escaping." Rogers said.
"Oh great idea! Bench your strongest player, old man." Hank said sarcastically.
"It's not up for debate, Pym. EVERYONE MOVE!" Rogers said as everyone moved into position.
"Be on your toes, Princess." Shego said as she picked the lock to the door and slowly opened it to give them access.
"So how do you know General Fury?" Kim asked as they slipped in and gauged their surroundings.
"SHIELD has had an eye on me and my family since that meteor hit. How else do you think a whole city built an HQ for a bunch of kids playing hero?" Shego said as they moved down the hall.
"How do we know if we're going the right way?" Kim asked as they slid along the wall.
"Simple." Shego said as she ignited her hands and leapt around the corner, rolled, and hurled two massive fireballs at the two ceiling turrets. "We take the way that's most heavily armed." Shego said.
When Shego stood back up, she realized too late that she had missed one turret as she heard one descend from the ceiling and take aim. She quickly turned readied herself to blast it and dodge; but saw the turret explode as soon as she did. When the smoke cleared, she Kim standing there with the large rifle she had given her and was awe struck.
"I thought I had to play by their rules, remember?" she asked Shego smugly.
"Let's just take out the rest of these things." Shego said as they moved forward.
"Iron Man, what do you see?" Captain America asked as he caught his shield after taking down four turrets.
"Infra red shows the alien is in the main hub of the complex. Wasp might be in trouble though. I'm detecting several motion and heat sensors in the area she's flying through." Iron Man reported as he flew over the compound.
"Understood. Wasp, the area you're in is too hot. Get out of there!" Captain Rogers said.
"Relax. I'm too small for," BOOM!
"Janet? JANET!" Pym shouted through his comm link.
"Pym, stay at your position!" Cap shouted as he burst though the door and hurled his shield in an arc, severing two more turrets from their bases before it became embedded into a wall.
"I'll get her." Iron Man said.
"That's a negative!"
"Relax. Saving the ladies is what I do." Iron Man responded before two more explosions shook the building.
"It looks like things aren't going well, sir." Wade said as he kept looking at the data feeds he was getting from hacking back into the systems.
"How bad is it?" Ron asked as he stood by his young friend while Fury walked next to them.
"Whatever this intruder has, it's highly advanced! As soon as try to put up another firewall or encryption code, it tears through it like it was nothing. At this rate, it'll have everything about SHIELD in a matter of minutes!" Wade told them.
"Where are the Avengers?" Fury asked him.
"Captain America, Black Widow are getting close to the main hub, but Wasp is stationary right now. Hold on, I'm getting a transmission from their comm links." Wade said and put the transmission on the speakers.
BOOM!
"Janet? JANET!" Pym shouted through his comm link.
"Pym, stay at your position!"
"I'll get her."
"That's a negative!"
"Relax. Saving the ladies is what I do."
Two explosions soon followed and knocked out Wade's connection to their comm link.
"Oh no." Ron said quietly.
"I knew bringing civilians into this was a mistake. Wade, get me a transport ready for me ASAP. I'm heading out there." Fury said.
"But General,"
"That wasn't a request Mr. Load." Fury said as he glared at the young man.
"Right away, sir." Wade replied.
"I'm coming too." Ron said and began to follow the general.
"Like hell you are Stoppable!" Fury said.
"That's my girlfriend out there, General. I don't care if I'm on the sedative or not, but I'll rip that Nazi bastard's head off if she even has a head out of place. If you don't like it, then tough shit! Just try and stop me!" Ron said and walked off to the direction of one of the many hangers by himself.
"Not bad, kid. Maybe there's hope for you after all." Fury said to himself as he caught up to Ron.
The whole building began to shake with the force of each of Giant Man's blows as panic and fear clouded his jusdgement. He was desperate to try and reach his wife in time, and hoping the worst hadn't happened. As Hank began to pound onto the roof again with brute force, pieces of the roof began to fall all around Captain America and the others inside.
"JANET!" Pym's voice echoed from outside of the building, booming like it was thunder.
"KNOCK IT OFF, PYM! YOU'RE BRINGING THE WHOLE BUILDING DOWN AROUND US!" Cap shouted into his comm unit.
As Rogers moved to retrieve his shield, three spider droids sprang from the ground that were armed with three automatic guns each. Cap was ready to try and think a plan of attack when two exploded into bursts of green fire and shrapnel as the last was repeatedly shot until it burst into flames and collapsed.
"These amateurs are going to get us killed!" Shego said as she extinguished the green fire that had engulfed her hands and Kim reloaded another clip into her weapon.
"Um, thank you. I'm not used to being saved." Cap said as he yanked his shield out of the wall.
"No big." Kim said as they headed further into the complex.
They soon reached the area that housed the satellites. Two massive blast doors constructed of titanium and steel. Cap entered the command codes to open the doors, but received a beep that said "Access Denied."
"I think I can handle this one." Shego said as she cracked her knuckles.
"I'd move back if I were you." Kim said as she began to take a few steps backwards, with Rogers soon following her example.
Shego ignited both of her hands and put them together. A glowing green ball began to form, and soon grew in size. When the orb of energy was the size of a basketball, Shego threw into the doors and blew them completely out of their frame and into the massive hanger beyond. The three stepped pass the smoking ruin of the doors into the hangar, looking for the intruder.
"If I were him, I'd probably be on my way out of here by now." Shego said.
"Thieves code of conduct?" Kim asked her.
"No, just common sense. This whole thing screams smash and grab." Shego said.
That's when Cap noticed strange circular discs on each of the satellites. All of them had a single red light that kept flashing on and off, and seemed to get faster. It didn't take him long to figure out what they were.
"EVERYONE OUT NOW! MOVE! MOVE!" Cap shouted, all three of them bolting out of the area before each explosion went off like a domino effect. The explosion was so massive and powerful that it actually knocked Giant Man off of his feet and onto his back. Before Hank passed out from his head slamming into the ground, he saw an MP walking away with a sadistic smile before turning into a weird grayish-green lizard man.
"Stupid humans." It said.
"Where are we going?" Shego asked Rogers as they raced through the crumbling corridors.
"We're regrouping with Wasp and Iron Man. It sounded like they ran into some trouble." Cap said as they rounded the next corridor.
"I think that would be a big understatement." Kim said as she saw Wasp kneeling over a dented and charred Iron Man.
"I need help. He can't breath and I can't get his mask off!" Wasp shouted.
Cap slid next to Iron Man and could hear him struggling for breath underneath the techno armor. Cap dropped his shield, grasped Iron Man's faceplate and pulled hard! Iron Man began to take several deep breaths as the rest of the Avengers around him were able to get a good look at his face.
"I'll be damned." Shego said.
When the transport landed, a very pissed off General Fury exited the vehicle with a very worried Ron following close behind him. When Fury saw the smoking ruin of the SHIELD compound, Fury's scar looked like it was just about ready to reopen itself. Ron let out a sigh of relief when he saw the Avengers emerge from the massive debris cloud.
Captain was the first to emerge, followed by a mad Shego and Kim, with Wasp helping her dazed husband who had shrunk back to normal size. The Last to emerge was a very tired Tony Stark, snapping his faceplate back onto the helmet he carried under his arm.
"Stark. I should have known it was you in that tin can." Fury growled.
"Hey, about that ass comment earlier?" Hank tried to joke, but was silenced when Fury's glare seemed to pierce him through and through.
"Sir, what happened," Rogers started, but was silenced as soon as Fury began to unleash his rage.
"I know what the hell happened! You allowed that Chitauri bastard to steal vital SHIELD data and blow up the satellites! Do you know how vulnerable we are now?" Fury shouted.
"It wasn't his fault." Janet started.
"No, all of you are at fault! You deviated from your mission and violated your orders. Not to mention you allowed the intruder to escape!" Fury said and looked at Hank in the eyes.
"I was trying to save my wife!"
"THAT WASN'T YOUR MISSION!" Fury shouted.
"You know, screw this crap!" Hank said and began to walk off.
"No, Fury's right! You almost brought down the roof on top of KP and the rest of them!" Ron said.
"Screw your girlfriend, punk!" Hank said and jabbed a finger into Ron's chest.
Before anyone realized what had happened, Hank was on his back again with a split lip and two loose teeth from the massive uppercut Ron landed onto Hank's face.
"Why don't you shove that suit of yours up your ass, and expand it." Ron said as he went to check on Kim.
"Ron?" she asked worriedly, hoping he brought the sedative.
"It's okay, that was all me." He said to her.
"Hank, you're fired. Captain, I want a debriefing from you as soon as we return to HQ." Fury said to Roger. Without saying a word, Steve just handed Fury the large heavy shield back to him and walked off.
"I'll go try and talk to him." Shego said and began to follow Rogers.
"You know, this is why I work alone." Stark said as he put the helmet back on, and flew off into the night sky.
"This day can't get any worse. The rest of you, come with me. "Wade, SHIELD is at Defcon 4. I want everyone and everything ready for an impending attack. We'll be lucky if we survive this." Fury said as he walked back onto the transport with Kim and Ron in tow.
The alien chuckled as it's ship began to return him to his lair. It's form slowly shifted and contorted until it had returned to the same short stature it had been earlier that day. He reached into his chest and removed the orb he had used to extract the data from the SHIELD mainframe. As he let it attach itself into the on board computer, he began to put his clothes back on and activated a communications link that only he knew of. As soon as he slid his black helmet back on, he was graced with a familiar greayish-green face.
"Status report?" the creature asked.
"The mission was a success. I am sending you all information on SHIELD that I was able to retrieve." The man said with a smile.
"Excellent."
"Now we can begin to formulate a plan of attack." Dementor said.
"We already have one."
"WHAT?"
"The countdown has already begun. Your data you acquired will be most helpful, but we attack SHIELD in a matter of hours."
"YOU CAN'T! My army is not yet ready!" Dementor shouted.
"We will not be using your army. We need to attack now! Thank you for your help." The creature said as the transmission ended.
"THOSE STUPID FOOLS! They vent over my helmet, so I vill go over theirs!" Dementor said as he began going through star charts, trying to find the best way to contact his superiors.