Chapter 24
The Raid
Both The Avengers and the Autobots are waiting at the still activated ground Bridge when Updraft comes flying out And the ground Bridge closes behind him. Updraft comes to a stop and lets Natasha out before transforming. Before anyone can say or do anything, Natasha looks around at the gathered Autobots and Avengers and says, " You guys are going To want to hear this."
A few minutes later Natasha starts to recount what she found at Area 51, "When I Arrived I noticed the president walked into a heavily secured building," Natasha began remembering exactly what happened, "I snuck my way inside And saw An Elevator Shaft. At the bottom There Was a massive Warehouse with boxes Piled on top of each other, each and every one of them embroidered with the Decepticon insignia." Natasha Remembered the Seemingly endless boxes at the bottom, " Then I heard what sounded like the president talking to someone." She shuddered. Remembering that voice How cold it made her feel. But she did her best to describe the voice to the others.
"Megatron,"Optimus said. That name sent shivers down both Autobots and Avengers. For The Avengers they had only heard Tales that the Autobots had told them about Their own personal encounters with Megatron. But the Autobots were not lucky enough to have only heard tales. They witnessed Megatron's brutality first hand. Many of their friends were wiped out within seconds due to Megatron's sheer Ruthlessness And savagery on the battlefield. If it wasn't for Megatron ego The Autobots would be no more.
Natasha was frozen in shock; she had almost come face to face with Megatron And survived. But she did her best to continue to describe what happened.
"It appears the president had made a deal with Megatron They will assist the Decepticons in hunting down the Autobots for an endless supply of tox-en. After that I escaped and that's how I ended up here," Natasha concluded.
There were a few short minutes where everyone was silent. This was a pretty big problem. Not only was the strongest military in the world now on the side of the Decepticons but they were also being supplied with a biological weapon. Then finally Arcee spoke up "If only we knew where they were producing this stuff.Then we could Stop it." Slamming her fist against her hand.
"But we don't know where it's being made, Arcee," Ironhide Responded in his Southern accent.
Then Ratchet spoke up,"But if we had a sliver of the stuff, Teletran 1 could Give us an exact location."
"So it's obvious," Updraft said, "So we burst in there, steal the tox-en and disappear like we were never even there."
"With the amount of tox-en Natasha described Any cybertronian would be dead within minutes," Ratchet said, shutting down updraft's idea.
"What About Us It's clear that stuff doesn't affect us,"Steve suggested, gesturing at The Avengers. At the thought of this suggestion the Autobots went quiet it was clear that nobody liked this idea but it was the only one that worked.
Optimus clearly being the one that hated this idea the most groaned and said, "Are you sure you want to do this, If you do you will be labeled as terrorists."
After hearing this a few of the Avengers notably Wanda and Pietro. Seemed against this idea but said nothing Of course Optimus could understand why.
Tony spoke up and said, "Who cares I'm sure after we save the world for a third time we will be pardoned." With a smile on his face.
"Very well,"Optimus said simply. "Make sure after obtaining a sample Destroy all of the tox-en."
"You can Count on us, Optimus," Clint said.
"Very well you can strike tomorrow," Optimus said.
After hearing this Ratchet activated The ground Bridge And all the Avengers went in, Appearing at The Avengers base Steve turned to the Avengers and said, "Everyone rest up We got a big day Tomorrow."
The next day all the Avengers Stepped out of their base and saw a ground Bridge.Upon seeing this The Avengers knew exactly where it went so without saying a word they all jumped in.
The Avengers exited the ground bridge and appeared Just outside Area 51 And as soon as this happened Steve began to lay out the plan.
"Tony, We need you in the air, Draw their fire, And don't let them fully mobilize,"Steve said While looking at Tony who Nodded.
"They won't know what hit them," Tony Quipped as Tony's suit, the mark 46 Finally arrived.
Steve then turned his attention to Pietro, "Pietro, We need you to Take out Their Communications, we don't want the Decepticons hearing of this attack."
"You got it," Pietro said before Disappearing Leaving only a blue and silver blur.
Steve turned his attention to The Android Vision "Vision disable the security Cameras and then join Tony in the air."
"Yes captain,"Vision said before standing completely still, A moment later Vision spoke up, "Done all security cameras And security systems have been deactivated"
Just then Quicksilver returned Carrying a whole pile of Wires in his arms "Communications are down, no back up incoming,"
"Good, Natasha you, lead us the way to the tox-en," Steve said and Natasha nodded in response. Upon seeing this Steve turned to the Avengers and spoke, "Everybody listen up well we are about to do is highly illegal and will get us branded as terrorists, If you want to step out I won't blame you, But As long as The government has an alliance with the Decepticons the Autobots and the world are at Stake. We all know our mission So Avengers, let's do this!"
And with that Both Tony Stark and Vision Flew up and blasted a hole into the chain link fence Setting off alarms And almost immediately A small Squad of guards armed with m4 "It's the Avengers," One called out before he and his Squad were quickly knocked out With a shield Throw from Steve.
Pietro Ran Through disarming the guards and knocking them out, and Wanda used Her powers to Send guards flying everywhere. Tony and Vision flew overhead Blasting large groups And keeping them from mobilizing. Steve raised his shield as a group of guards Unleashed a barrage of Fire at him, his shield absorbing all of it and then Natasha popped out from behind And shot to the guards in the plates Knocking them down and out, They all had a feeling that Optimus would be very disappointed if they caused any casualties.
Clint shot an explosive Arrow Which sent a massive group Flying, Before firing A grapple Arrow at a guard, pulling him in And delivering a vicious kick to the face knocking the guard out.
Wanda used The powers to Tear a chunk of wall off one of the buildings And use it as a shield Before sending it flying Towards a large group of guards Knocking them all unconscious.
Tony flew across the sky firing at anything that moved before landing in front of Steve And Blasting his shield And Steve used his shield To reflect Tony's beam In a wide Arc knocking out several guards in the process Before Tony flew off again.
Steve threw his shield At a guard Stunning him So Steve can run up and deliver a devastating kick Sending the guard flying and knocked out, Before catching his shield And blocking Several shots Before sliding under getting close and delivering three well-placed punches knocking all three guards out.
Natasha Fired several times each hitting a guard in the plate Knocking them out Before running up and Using her gauntlets To electrocute a guard before Kicking him into another Guard.
Pietro was running faster than ever, He grabbed a guard by the leg and then used said guard to hit several other guards at super speed knocking them all unconscious before throwing Said guard into a wall.
Vision Used his laser To destroy several guards weapons before phase shifting to allow some bullets to go through him, upon seeing who it was He flew directly at them And slammed them directly into the ground creating a small crater.
After pushing through hordes of guards, The Avengers finally arrived at The building. Over the constant sounds of gunfire Natasha yelled out, "Yep this is the one!"
The moment Wanda Heard that she tore several pieces of Nearby buildings off and created a barrier between the Avengers and The security guards, "Tony,Pietro, You know what to do,"Steve said, "Vision, contact the Autobots. Tell them we may need a ground Bridge Soon."
Vision nodded as Tony and Pietro ran Into the building, Tony blasted the elevator creating a way down and Pietro without hesitation Eventually they reached the bottom. Tony blasted The Doors Down to reveal A large room pitch Black.
"I can't see a thing," Pietro said, squinting trying to discern anything.
"Hang on I got this," Tony said before His unibeam powered on, However instead of a destructive laser like Pietro had come to expect Was a soft glow bright enough to light up a few meters in front of them, "Let there be light!" Tony said jokingly.
However, that few meters of light was enough for them to see the warehouse. On all sides of them they were massive boxes piled on top of one another.
Eventually Pietro found the light switch and the room was so much bigger than they could have imagined. It was so big that it would have taken Pietro a minute to do a lap around it. Thousands of boxes Scattered everywhere piled on top of each other all of them had the Decepticon insignia.
Pietro began to run all over the place Placing explosives everywhere And started the 2 minute timer. Meanwhile Tony Flew up and tore one of the boxes open Revealing A large Amount Of dull nigger green crystals each emitting green vapor Tony assumed that this was of course the tox-en So he cut a small sliver off An ejected a vial From his thigh.
Tony placed the sliver in the vial, He floated back down to the ground and Pietro Appeared right beside him, "I take it you planted the explosives," Tony Questioned.
Pietro smiled at that and said " Yep, even got us some souvenirs!" And then an army helmet Appeared on Both of their heads.
"Are you serious," Tony said, knocking the army helmet off. "Why not grab The Area 51 sign."
Pietro shook his head and replied "That was the original plan but I couldn't find a way out."
Tony picked up the helmet Pietro had given to him and said, "Well come on, the others are probably waiting for us."
Both of the Avengers rushed up the elevator Elevator Shaft and when they got to the top not only had the makeshift barriers Wanda had put up were Destroyed, And the rest of the Avengers were busy fighting off What appeared to be the entire US Army. Tony flew right up to Steve and said "Well, cap. Explosives have been planted, I'd say it's time for us to take our leave." While firing everything he had at the incoming soldiers, Making sure not to kill them.
"Agreed," Steve said, He caught his shield and slammed it against a soldier who got too close And Kicked Another away Then delivered A vicious upercut which sent to another Soldier flying into the air And kicked him into another Squad Knocking them all down.
"You know I've never understood why bad guys always decide to rush into melee combat against somebody who has a giant vibranium Shield and is a super soldier," Tony pointed out.
To be honest Steve never gave it much of a thought But it did seem kind of dumb, "Avengers, on me," He shouted out and just like that The Avengers rallied around him, All on the ground standing in a circle holding off the US army, "Vision, call for a ground Bridge." Steve Ordered.
Meanwhile back at the autobot base Ratchet was monitoring Communications when Vision's voice came through the comms, "Avengers to Autobot base, repeat Avengers to Autobot base come in."
Ratchet responded quickly "This is Autobot base We read you what's going on,"
"We need a ground Bridge immediately," Vision Responded in his usual monotone voice Yet ratchet could detect a hint of urgency.
"Copy that, stand by for ground Bridge," Ratchet said as he located their coordinates However instead of placing the ground bridge in front of them like he normally would do he placed the ground Directly beneath them And activated the ground bridge.
Ratchet looked over at the ground Bridge as it activated and watched all the Avengers tumble out of it. Tony pushed himself up and asked Ratchet, "Was that really necessary."
To which Ratchet responded "Yes, yes it was,"
