Intertwine

53 - Peter Get Your Ass In Here

ROARA

I was throwing out everything I could, fire, water, plants, air, persuasion when I had the time to speak. I was mimicking from Thor, sending out blasts of lightning, using Loki's illusion to confuse the agents, making them think we were on the other side of the room. There were so many of them, like ants crawling into their burrow. 

"Who was that guy!" I shouted at Loki.

"No idea! Apart from he was in that video!" Loki replied, throwing a knife as he spoke. The man had turned up, mid battle, a spear looking weapon in his hands. It was long and thin with a small blue sphere at the end. I didn't know exactly what it was, but it seemed to be able to blast out heat, electricity, deafening sound. He'd be running on the ground and then he'd be running on the ceiling. He had disappeared though, for now. As though he'd come to turn the tide in their favour and then left. I hadn't even seen him go.

The entire building began to shake. I looked at the others, still mid-combat.

"Oh no." Nat said softly. 

"What?" I asked, throwing a wooden spike at a man coming up behind her. I could see Thor having a hard time with the woman in charge. She'd been in the video too.

She began to run back to the room we'd just come from that had nearly been blasted to bits. 

"Guys stay here! Wanda come with me!" I raced after Nat, up the stairs, dodging bullets and shooting balls of fire as I went. Wanda was throwing men left right and centre as we ran.

We threw open the doors from the stairway, and that's when I saw him. It was unmissable.

The Hulk.

He smashed through a wall, grabbing and throwing a man at the same time. I took a few steps backwards as he roared, the building shaking yet again.

"What do we do!" I looked to Nat. I knew the Hulk is always useful in a fight, but in a building as old and falling apart as this one it was bound to come down. I'd also never seen Bruce as the Hulk before, and it was quite truly terrifying. I wasn't scared of much apart from small rodents, but this was something else.

"SOME HELP PLEASE!" Someone screamed from the room Peter had found the girls in. I looked through the hole where a wall had been and saw the brown skinned girl, Clint's niece Aditi Savant, kneeling on the floor, a body in front of her. 

Fiona was lying there, her blonde hair covering her face, strange black lines across her arms. I thought something was off. I couldn't hear the birds. They had gone.

Behind Aditi was the man from before. The round end of his spear pointed at the back of Aditi's head. 

From in front of me the Hulk smashed down another wall, charging towards the stairs. Natasha and Wanda would have to deal with that.

I ran into the rubble filled room, skidding to a stop in front of Fiona's body. To my right the two girls who were left were holding hands, backs against the wall. I glanced down at Fiona. She wasn't moving, up close I could see the lines were pressed into her skin like grill marks on a burger. 

"Key." The man said.

"No chit chat this time man, I'm tired of that shit." I flexed my fingers. "Let the girls go."

"You come with us, I won't kill her." He nodded at Aditi. "And I will be taking the girls. Her life or your freedom." Aditi looked exhausted, her body shaking slightly, her skin paler than it should have been.

"I'm not here to make deals." I'd made a promise to Barton. But if I went with them I didn't know what they might be able to do, what power I might unwillingly give them. If they had me under their control it was over.