Story of Lion Man

Chapter 17

This is the seventeenth chapter, and its in "Captain America: Civil War"!

Confession time: This story takes place in "Captain America: Civil War", a short story after that, and then, "Avengers Endgame".

A few months later, Leipzig airport, Germany...

The truck side door opened, flooding the interior with light, waking Ryan from his sleep on the cold truck floor, and some black haired American guy who slept on the seat up above him to his right, the two of them getting up and out of the truck. Ryan wore a red and white stripy shirt with black trousers and black shoes. "What time zone is this?" The man asked, clearly jet lagged, looking to his left stepping a step to his rigth, making more space, as Ryan rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He then remembered what had happened earlier. He was walking down the pavement when a cloth covered his mouth and he fell asleep, so it was probably Chloroform. When he came to, they told him he was needed from some "urgent superhero business" and that they've brought his serums and clothes with them, and they let him go back to sleep. "Yeah, and how long have I been out? And where are we?" Ryan asked as he stretched his body before he and the man to his left, looked ahead to see Captain America, himself! Their eyes widened as they looked at him. "Come on." Ryan heard to voice to his right as someone tapped the man's shoulder. They both moved forwards towards Steven Rogers. "Captain America." The man said as he grasped his hand. "Mr Lang, Mcranson." Rogers said, acknowledging Ryan's presence as the Lang guy shook thier hands frantically. "It's an honour. I'm shaking your hand too long. Oh, this is awesome. Captain America. I know you too. You're great." Lang said when they both looked behind themselves to see a women Ryan recognised as Wanda Maximoff, before Lang looked back at Rogers and felt his body. "Uh, jeez. Uh...Look, I want to say, I know you know a lot of super people, so, thanks for thinking of me." Lang said. Ryan spotted a sign nearby in German, which answered Ryan's earlier question. "I know who you all are, so... pleasure to meet all of you." Ryan said as he and Scott saw Wilson standing behind Rogers. "Hey, man." Scott said to him. "Hey, there. Ryan said at the sam time to him. "What's up, tic tac, furball?" He greeted them. "Not much. Sorry about what I did to you. By the way, got your message that you were looking for me." Ryan replied. "Uh, good to see you. Listen, about what happened last time... " Lang began saying, before Wilson interrupted him. "They were some great auditions, but, uh... they will never happen again." Wilson spoke.

 "They tell you what we're up against?" Rogers asked them. "Something about some... physio assassins." Lang answered. "Led by some maniac doctor?" Ryan added, Rogers nodding. "We're outside the law on this one. So if you both come with us, you're both wanted men." Rogers said, which made Ryan gulp as he did not really want to be a wanted person. "Yeah, well, what else is new?" Lang asked rhetorically. "We should get moving." A long dairy haired man standing by an old VW Beetle said. "We got a chopper lined up." Ryan heard voice say, which turned around to see a Spiky haired man whom he identified as Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye. Suddenly an alarm sounded and a voice came over the tannoy, speaking in German, which Ryan did not understand a word of. "Their evacuating the airport." The long haired man said. "Stark." Wilson said. "Stark?" Lang asked in confusion. "You mean Tony Stark, Iron Man?" Ryan asked, also in confusion and also a bit of shock. "Suit up." Rogers told them all, Ryan taking out of his right pocket and twirling a vial of orange Lion Serum in his right hand.

A few minutes later, Ryan stood in Lion Form in a section of the terminal building, wearing the red leather jacket and the same black shorts, which he'd decided were his 'mission' clothes. He watched as Rogers confront people Ryan recognised as Iron-Man, James Rhodes aka War Machine, Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, and a few people he didn't recognise. "We found it. Their Quinjet's in hanger 5, north runway." Wilson spoke in a communicator he had in his left ear which been given. He saw An arrow obviously fired by Barton free Rogers bonded hands, Lang, who told him his first name was Scott, and that he could shrink himself with a special suit, appear by Rogers famous shield, held by one of Starks teammates (a red and blue suited guy) come near him and gave it to him. Iron-Man and War Machine flew a bit up into the air and Ryan saw the black cat suited figure run towards the building wall."Ryan, get down here." He heard Rogers tell him through the comms. "I'm coming, Captain!" Ryan yelled as he got a running start of a few steps, ran forwards and jumped rigth before the wall, breaking it open, bending his feet as he started to fall with his fisted hands and arms in between his legs, before he landed on the black cat figure. His landing was less rough as it should have been as the figure fell on his/hers stomach on the ground, Ryan sitting atop him. Ryan rapidly rolled himself off the figures back his left before it got up. "Who are you?" The figure asked, revealing it to be a man, with a slightly African accent. "They call me Lion-Man. And you?" Ryan asked. "Black Panther. Now out of my way." The man said as he then extended small grey metal claws on his fingers, similar to Scar-Mane's. Seeing them made Ryan smirk. "You call those claws? Ha! These are claws." He said proudly as he brought his forearms up into an upward V, his fitted hands touch each other and extended his claws. Black Panther recoiled his head slightly in surprise, before then lunging to strike with with his rigth- hand claws. But Ryan caught those claws with both his claws, parallel together, before Black Panther then got his hands out of Ryan's claws, moved his hands towards Ryan's chest, but he caught them with his hands, and using his increased strength, moved the back slightly, but not so much as he was expecting. He looked besides the man's head to see Rogers coming at them. Letting go of his opponents hands, he jumped aside just before Roger's flung shield hit Black Panther, making him fall to the ground, but just as quickly he got up. He watched them figth each other until Black Panther was moved some distance away. "Move, Captain. I won't ask a second time." He said before they went back to fighting. Ryan then saw War Machine flying towards them, holding a strange stick in his hand. Thinking fast, Ryan leapted in front of Rogers, brought his claws parallel to each other again, and the stick thing struck his claws, but somehow, in went rigth through them, breaking them! 

Ryan screamed as War Machine regained his balance. "Oh, man, that's gotta hurt." War Machine said, with not pity at all, but Ryan then smirked again. He brought the remains of his claws closer to his head, which then suddenly slowly began to grow back. "Woah." War Machine spoke in surprise, before he then kicked Ryan hard in the stomach, making him move back against the wall, knocking him out. He remain unconscious for a few minutes, but when he came to, he saw Wanda and Barton, Wilson, the long haired man they told him was James "Bucky" Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, and Scott running towards Rogers. He retracted his claws, got up on his feet and ran up to them, ending up on Barton's left, when suddenly a yellow beam created a lone in the runway ahead of them. Ryan looked up to see what he recognised as the being called "Vision". "Captain Rogers. I know that you believe what you're doing is rigth. But for the collective good, you must surrender now." He spoke, as of thier opponents gathered the red in a line together. So did Ryan and the others, him still on Barton's left. "What have you gotten yourself into, Ryan?" Ryan asked himself in his head. "What do we do, Cap?" Wilson asked. "We fight." Rogers answered, just before the group started walking forwards. So did the other group. Then they started running, then so did the others. Ryan extended his claws and then did a roar as those who could fly took off, and when they collided everyone started fighting each other. However, Ryan didn't know who to fight, so he stood still and looked around for anyone. He then saw Maximoff move Romanoff away from Barton, against a vehicle with her powers. "I'll take care of her!" Ryan told them as he ran over to her as she got up on her feet, faced him, and got in a fighting stance. "Oh, you want to do this the old fashioned way?" Ryan said as he retracted his claws and got into a sort of stance, thanking he had done those practices with Jess the past few months.

Romanoff then punched him in the chest , then kicked his left leg as quick as a flash, making him fall to the ground with a small groan. She then threw onto him a little disk shaped device that stinger upon impact, but his healing ability reducing the stinging to zero in a matter of seconds. Hastily getting up on his feet, seeing the confusion on her face as to why her stinging disk hadn't had the affect she desired, Ryan then tried punching her, but she kept blocking them. She then punched him in the face with her rigth hand, which damaged his communicator. It reminded him of his training, but this time it was real. He then had an idea, which he'd done on Jess once or twice. "Look out! Arrow!" He shouted, pointing with his left index with his left arm pointed outwards as he lookaway from her. She looked in the direction he was looking/pointing and in that instant, Ryan punched her in the head with his right hand as hard as he could, making her groan and fall to the floor. He then took a deep breath before he heard a zapping sound, turned around and looked up to see Scott was now 50 feet tall, or more! "Oh, my god!" He said in shock. He stood where he was for a few minutes, watching Giant-Man and the other people from both sides figth. He then turned around to where Romanoff had been, only to find she'd gone. "Darn it!" He groaned  in annoyance. He looked around and saw the Quinjet fly away from the airport. He felt a pang of panic, fearing he'd been left behind, before he saw Barton run into the area. He turned to see Ryan and ran towards him. "What's happening?" He asked as Barton came to a stop. "Cap and Barnes took the jet. This isn't the real fight, which is where their going. We're gonna take the blame." He answered. 

Ryan stood still, looking rigthwards towards the ground, processing what that meant. He realised that as they were likely to be captured, they'd go to prison, what with the whole Sokovia Accords situation, after an international outcry the Avengers caused a month ago in Nigeria in Africa. Ryan hadn't been paying much attention to it, but guessed from what was going it, it had resulted in a terririst attack on the UN in Vienna, Austria, and had split the Avengers. He wondered how his family and friends were gonna take it, but he'd done what he thought was right, and that what he and others were going to do was also right. He nodded at Barton before he turned around and walked a few steps, taking out from his left-hand jacket pocket with his left hand a vial of red Lion serum, which he then drank and De-Lionized, and waited for the authorities to arrive.

And that's the seventeenth chapter done. Hope you enjoyed it. Sorry if Ryan didn't do much, but I couldn't think of much. The next chapter will be out soon.