Masters of Chaos

Let the Games Begin

The next few days were filled with sparring and training, Avery impressing everyone. Avery's office was also strictly off limits to everyone except Stephen Strange. Why him, no one knew. One day, Rhodey finally walked over with a glint in his eye.

"How about you and Loki versus the rest of us? All magic and weapons allowed, the arena is the whole compound. We capture each other and drop them off in the gym. The losers buy the winners dinner and they have an hour to make them do anything." He grinned.
Avery smirked.
"I have stipulations. The hour and buying dinner only applies to those who get caught. So if I capture almost everyone but you guys get me last minute the hour applies to me, not Loki, and vice versa. Even though you'll never catch me." Avery smirked.

"And the hour can be called in whenever the winner chooses, there is no limit." added Loki as he sharpened his daggers.
"Plus, no sex favours, and you can't use your hour to save someone's ass from humiliation. You CAN trade though." Avery continued.
"Once you've been captured you can't escape either." Loki finished.
"Loki and Avery can't use our coms! They need a separate set so we can't hack each others channels!" Tony said quickly as Avery and Loki just smirked.
The others cheered and agreed. Nick agreed to referee. They all headed to the gym, in the centre of the building.

"Five, four, three, two, one, BEGIN!" he yelled. Avery immediately disappeared, as did Loki, the two breaking their coms, deciding to use telepathy instead and Tony immediately went into tactic mode.
"Spread out and keep talking to each other, if someone goes quiet on the coms it means they're in distress. These two are known for escape artistry and deception. Both have been removed from the com link so we should know if they shapeshift into one of us." He said quickly. The others nodded and broke off into teams to catch the rogues.

The Guardians walked through the compound together, worried. No one had beaten Avery yet, but they were hoping to get lucky.
"Keep together, let's not split up, or they'll just pick us off one by one." Nebula said as the others agreed. Suddenly Avery dashed ahead of them.

"Gamora, you're the fastest. After them!" Peter said as they turned, looking for any signs that it was a fake. Gamora, not thinking twice, took off after "Avery", convinced it was them.
Avery followed behind the group and chuckled. Projection spells sure were handy. Gamora would be kept busy. For now they focused on the weakest members of the Guardians. Sneaking up behind Drax they wrapped around him in a chokehold. He gasped, trying to warn his friends but Avery conjured a gag and secured it around his mouth. He fell with a thud, his idiot friends not even noticing his absence. They bound him quickly in some rope, grabbed his com and flew back to the gym with him, dropping him in front of Nick.

"Caught one already?" he asked, surprised. Avery just shrugged and flew off again. Inserting the intercom, they decided to switch tactics when they heard the com go live.
"Draxx is missing!" Peter exclaimed. Avery decided to have a little fun with this wager as they heard the others swear.

"That didn't take long, Starlord. A Lord is supposed to be intelligent." Scorned Stephen.

"You're the wizard! You find them! Or maybe you should shove that magic up your-"

"Well, I don't see anyone with either of these two bound in the gym so shut it, the lot of you!" Tony snapped.

Avery turned on their com and sang;
"Run rabbits, run rabbits run, run run." laughing at their arguing and scrambling to find them before turning it back off and smashing it.

Avery silently glided to Gamora who whipped around wildly with her sword. They looked over, Loki was already there, cloaked in a camouflage spell only they could see through. Avery gestured to Gamora and then themself, then pointed to Loki and then towards where they had last seen the Guardians. He nodded, grinning and stalked off. Avery removed the spell and stalked Gamora before tapping her shoulder while whispering;