36: Trapped

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Elizabeth POV:
I sat up in bed, and looked at the clock which read 3:40 a.m. I hadn't slept, and i hadn't gotten a word from Peter. I quietly got out of bed as not to wake Michelle and walked outside the hotel room, placing my hand on my earpiece.
"Peter?" I whispered, looking around to make sure no one would here me. "please answer, I'm getting worried." I said, but still silence. I sighed, taking a deep breath trying to calm the awful thoughts that came to my mind. "Where are you Peter?"

Peter POV:
I awoke with a blasting headache pounding in my head. I slowly stood up, looking around seeing that i was still in the truck.
"Ow, my head." I said grunting in pain.
"You appear to have a mild concussion." Suit lady said, not surprising me after how hard i had hit my head trying to go after the bad guy.
"Hey, so where am I right now?"
"I'm not sure. The container walls are hindering my sensors." Suit lady spoke now.
"wait a minute, they must have hijacked the truck and have taken me to their evil lair." I looked around the container, "Okay suit lady we're going to have to fight our way out of here." I said preparing myself. "Three. Two.. One!" I said running and hitting the doors of the container, making it fly open. I rolled on the ground and got up, standing in a fighting position. I looked around confused seeing as i was in a huge room with other shipping containers. "What is this place? Suit Lady where am i?" I asked as I spinner around taking in the large room I was in.
"You're in the most secure faculty in the eastern seaboard, the damage controlled deep storage vault." She said.
"No! Seriously?!" I said with my hands on my head as I stared at the large doors in front of me. For about five minutes I tried to open the doors, everything being unsuccessful.
"The door will most likely remain closed until morning." Suit lady said finally.
"morning?" I said frustratingly. "I'll call Elizabeth." I then placed my finger on my earpiece. "Lizzy? Elizabeth can you hear me?" no answer. "Shit." I said quietly to myself. I sighed and walked away from the large doors, and walked towards two of the shopping containers, shooting some webs to make a hammock. I then lied down on top of it, swinging slightly. "Hey suit lady? I kind of feel bad calling you suit lady, you know. I think I should probably give you a name." I thought for a moment, "Elizabeth. No, no no god that's weird." I said shaking my head. I got off the web now and started to walk around, thinking of a name, I shot a web and swung from it now. "What about Karen?" I said letting go of the web and falling to the ground.
"You can call me Karen, if you would like." Karen said now. I smiled to myself and got off the ground and walked around some more. I then shot a web to the ceiling and hung upside down from it now, reading one of the books i had in my bag.
"Karen what else can this suit do?" I asked. Suddenly wing like things came out between my armpits and hips. "What?! Lizzy's going to love this!" I said to myself in excitement.
I then got up and walked to wall, "I really should run the refresher course."
"Ricochet web." Karen said. I then shot a web at the wall, it then ricocheted off the wall, and i immediately ducked. For another fifteen minutes I tried out all the webs, every time getting more excited about my suit. After I finished the large doors were covered in webs. I then got on top of a shopping container and lied down.
"Should I tell Elizabeth that I like her?" I asked Karen, pondering the outcomes of me confessing my feelings for her.
"Who's Elizabeth?" Karen asked. I smiled thinking about Elizabeth, thinking about how to describe her, because the truth was she is perfect and I didn't have any words to use.
"Who's Elizabeth?" I repeated, with a light laugh and my mind full of thoughts of her, "She's the best, she awesome, beautiful, strong, funny, smart. She's an avenger, she recently has started going to school with me, but we met before. We were on different teams but, I don't know, she was so nice and genuine that I couldn't fight her. Mr. Stark sent her to school with me so she could have a semi normal life." I paused, trying to suppress my smile, "I really want to tell her I like her, but, it's scary you know. Like what if she doesn't feel the same? 'Hey, um Lizzy, I like you'," I said mocking myself telling her.
"What's scary about that?" Karen asked.
"What if, she doesn't like me, and she gets weirded out, it'll be awkward and it'll hurt, you know, because, i really like her. I haven't felt this way about someone ever."
"Well, if I were her, I wouldn't be weird out." Karen said comforting me.
"Thanks Karen." I replied. "It's really nice to have somebody to talk to. Hey how long we been here anyway?" I asked feeling as though I had been for hours.
"thirty seven minutes." Karen said simply, making me jump up.
"What!? Thirty seven minutes that's insane! I cannot take this anymore, I gotta get out of here."
I then went inside the container i was stuck in before and looked around. "There's gotta be something in here i can use." I said to myself. I then opened the bag the bad guys were trying to steal and looked through it tossing things that didn't look useful, until finally finding a purple glowy thing like the one Ned was keeping safe. "Hey it's like the glowy thing."
"That glowy thing is an explosive Chitauri energy core." Karen said warily. I then placed it down starting to freak out after what she had just told me.
"Woah, woah woah woah! You mean we've been carrying around a bomb!" I said picking up my phone and calling ned, but I did not have any signal. "no no no!" I said running out of the container. I now looked at the large doors in front of me, shooting two webs and jumping on the wall. I began to bang on the wall now "Hey please let me out of here!" No answer. "Karen you have to help me override that time lock." I said moving towards the large grey box. For the next couple hours I tried to override the time lock, but everything was deemed unsuccessful.

Elizabeth POV:
I knocked on Ned's door frantically.
"Ned it's me Elizabeth!" After a few moments Ned opened the door and ushered me in. "Where is he? He didn't come back yet?!" I said in a frantic and worried tone.
"He didn't, I haven't gotten a call or anything. Do you think he's okay?" Ned asked sounding worried.
"I hope so," I said quietly. After a moment there was a knock on the door.
"Ned! Peter! We're going to be late, come on let's go!" Liz said through the door. Ned and I looked at each other even more concerned now.
"Okay, hold on, hold on!" Ned said quickly grabbing the glowy thingy from the bed and putting it in his bag. "We gotta go." Ned said stepping towards the door.
"I should've gone with him, i could've helped him, I-" I sighed feeling guilt wash over me.

"Elizabeth, he's okay, everything's going to be okay

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"Elizabeth, he's okay, everything's going to be okay." Ned said putting his hand on my shoulder reassuringly. I nodded and grabbed my bag off the floor and we walked out.

Peter POV:

"Initiating trial 247." Karen said, I waited a moment patiently hoping it would work. Suddenly the doors opened.
"It worked!" I said excitedly and proudly. I then quickly swung out, and jumped on top of one of the trucks that was heading out of the facility, and began to make my way to the decathlon.

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