After exiting the garage, the five teens split up, each going to a separate part of the city. Peter had chosen the warehouse in Queens for one reason, and he was rapidly approaching that reason.
He landed on the side of his aunt's apartment building and peered through the living room window. As usual, she was working even though it was quite late in the night. He felt bad about leaving her to live with his teammates, but she had encouraged him to do so. Not wanting to be distracted for too long, Pete leapt off of the building and started swinging toward his assigned location. He stopped at a building a few streets away, after noticing just a few guards surrounding the warehouse.
"A.V.A., can you get me a visual inside the building?" He asked
"Of course," She replied, and the spider emblem on his chest detached from the rest of his suit, setting course to the warehouse.
The drone manoeuvred past the guards and slipped through a slightly cracked open window. The drone scanned the interior, but the place was almost completely empty. No vibranium, and no stabiliser.
"Damn it," Peter whispered to himself.
"Guys, my address is a no-go," Peter said in his coms, as the drone re-attached to his suit.
"Just left my second, no luck yet," Danny replied, as he ran through the streets, not noticing the pedestrians trying to film his blue streak.
"I just got to my address," Wanda said, descending in front of an unguarded warehouse with her feet just inches off of the ground, and a red aura surrounding her hands.
She hovered around the building and instantly sensed a lot of energy emanating from it. She found some large double doors that were mysteriously unlocked and not fully closed and was about to enter, but this all felt a little too convenient. So she checked the building again and found one of the skylights on the roof open. Kneeling by the opening, she managed to peer inside, and was surprised to see the place was entirely empty, but a red glare across the room caught her eye. She took a closer look and saw a grid of barely noticeable red lasers throughout the room. Her suspicion was right, it was a trap, and only something extremely valuable needed to be guarded by a laser grid. After taking a longer look at the open space, Wanda quickly found the origins of each laser.
Standing up, she took a deep breath and conjured 2 dozen hex energy discs in her hands. She fed a little more energy into them, and they started showing reflective properties. She knelt by the open skylight and manoeuvred each of the discs towards the laser origins. She positioned each of them in such a way that they would clear the floor of the warehouse, and as planned, each of the beams shot upwards into the night sky.
Wanda sighed in relief and dropped through the skylight opening, cushioning her fall with her powers. She took a few minutes to look around, but there was nothing in there worth protecting. Until bumped into something. Large and metallic. Odd thing is, the warehouse was completely empty
She took a few steps back and shot a bolt of hex energy towards the area she had just collided with. A purple light glitched where she had just hit, and a large black metallic pillar with a turned-off light revealed itself. Wanda looked around the room and released a wave of energy across the room, and 7 more pillars revealed themselves, 4 on each side of the length of the area.
"Shuri, I think I found the stabilisers," Wanda said, to her teammate in her coms.
"Did you find the vibranium?" Shuri asked, changing her trajectory mid-flight, rocketing towards Wanda's location.
"No, but the stabilisers are powered down, and I feel a lot of residual energy in this place. I think they've already been used," Wanda revealed.
"Isn't that good, I mean now we can track it," Danny suggested.
"We might not have to, I think I've got something," Kate said, cutting the thrust of her rocket board at the feet of a small run down apartment building. Unfortunately she couldn't run up walls or fly like the others so she was forced to take the stairs. Lots of them. She arrived on the roof out of breath and perched over the side looking over at the warehouse she came to find.
A few moments later, she was greeted by a short sparking noise, which she recognized as Danny's speed. Then a thwip and two more people landed on the roof. The four others joined her perched over the edge also observing the warehouse.
"This is definitely the place," Peter said, pointing out the chitauri weapons that the surrounding guards were carrying.
Just a moment later, his Peter tingle went off, and he could sense something. Something huge and dangerous.
"Somethings coming," He stated, and as if on cue, the newly upgraded Rhino crept through the open doors of the warehouse. All nine feet of his menacing metallic exoskeleton.
"We don't know how to stop that armour yet," Kate remarked
"But now we know where the vibranium is, so that's a start," Peter responded
"A good start," Shuri said, reconfiguring her right gauntlet and scanning the rhino suit from a distance.
"I can work with this," She added, observing the scan of the armour.
"We should head back, we need some kind of plan if we hope to stop the deal," Peter said, earning a nod from his teammates.
"Just one more thing," Kate said and took a special arrow from her quiver. She drew her bow and shot the arrow at a wall close to the warehouse. When it made contact, the arrow tail detached itself, revealing a 360-degree camera.
"Now we can go," Kate announced
Whilst Peter, Wanda, Shuri and Kate made their way down the building and towards the mansion, Danny stayed for a while. He had a feeling. A feeling of slight discomfort, like they had missed something. He looked back down to the warehouse in a crouched position, and spotted someone, wearing a ninja-esque black and crimson combat suit. They were masked, but Danny immediately recognized them. Subject 2. Hydra sent him to guard the deal. Danny stood back up, staring at his former bunk mate for a few more moments, before following his teammate's direction to the mansion.
He entered through the basement tunnel, and the team was already at work brainstorming.
"They might have been able to stabilise the vibranium, but none outside of Wakanda knows how to refine vibranium," Shuri stated
"Meaning?" Wanda questioned
"It's nowhere near as durable," The princess replied
"How about we exploit the chitauri tech? It's highly unstable when exposed to radiation, so if we irradiate the warehouse, then we can blow up the armour," Kate proposed
"Yeah, and everyone in it," Danny commented, shutting down the idea.
"What about the stabilisers I found, couldn't we reconfigure them and then lead the rhino there," Wanda suggested.
"We could, but the two warehouses are too far apart from each other. We can afford rhino getting loose in the city," Peter expressed
"Plus even though the suit is unrefined vibranium, it would still take a while for our attacks to do anything," The princess processed aloud
"Unless I tweak my gauntlets to shoot at the same frequency my destabilizers do. I can't guarantee that it's gonna shut him down completely, but it's worth a shot," Shuri suggested.
"I could build some more sonic arrows too, they should take out any foot soldiers they have," Kate added
"Ava, get the fabricators started on sonic arrows for Kate's bow," and the fabricators in the lab powered on,
"Is there anything we can do?" Peter asked
"Yeah, Danny can you-" Shuri started and finished by moving her hand between the table and the lab door.
Danny understood what she meant, and ran back and forth between the lab and the main room, putting all of Shuri's equipment on the table.
"Thanks," Shuri replied, picking up the white and transparent box that she had used that morning, and placing it in front of Wanda
"Can you disassemble this for me?' Shuri asked and grabbed a tool for her friend to use.
"Here-" She said, but the box was already in mid-air with Wanda using her powers to take it apart,"
"Okay, whilst she's doing that, Ava project this scan of the rhinos armour," Shuri commanded, turning on her kimono beads and sending the scan to the holo table
"Peter and Danny, try and find a weak spot in the Armour," Shuri suggested and activated her left gauntlet.
"Kate you're with me," Shuri said, sliding her arm out of the gauntlet and placing it on the table.
She grabbed her tool and opened up a panel, revealing the power source and lots of wiring.
"This might take a while," Kate groaned, and Shuri tilted her head in agreement
Despite the 5 heroes' endless goodwill and determination, eventually, basic human needs got the best of them and at 5am, they were all fast asleep.