Shifted Souls - Volume 2

Chapter 6: Do You Have a Death Wish?

Tony pulled up in front of his home and parked his car. Lizzie had said nothing the whole way back to the house. "Are you just going to not speak to me now?" Lizzie turned her head and looked at him. She rolled her eyes, grabbed the door handle, and exited the car. Coincidently Tony followed suit. Lizzie stopped for the moment and just looked over the ocean as the sun was starting to set. She dug around in the bag in her hand, Tony had grabbed it as she had exited her room at the hospital, and with a smile of satisfaction she grabbed onto her pack of cigarettes and the lighter. Well at least they hadn't been lost in the chaos of her life.

She lifted a brow, ignoring Tony and headed to the kitchen of his house. She opened the refrigerator, grabbed a cola, and stalked to the patio to take a walk on the beach. She opened the sliding glass doors and stepped out. The breeze from the ocean was calming to her nerves. She grabbed her smokes and her drink, dropped her bag, and stepped out to walk away from the house.

Tony stood watching her in exasperation. Why was she not talking to him now? She got her way. She left the hospital. What in the hell Izz? He just watched as she walked along the shoreline, lost in thought. She finally stopped away from the house and plopped down onto the sand looking out across the ocean. The wild colors of the sunset causing her to be outlined with the dying light. He frowned when he noticed a flare of orange as she lit a cigarette and turned her face towards the wind. Her hair blowing out behind her in a wild tumble.

Lizzie was far enough away from the house that she heard the sports bike first. Her head jerked up towards the road. Tony saw this movement and followed her line of sight. Suddenly as if he just appeared out of nowhere, a rider came over one of the large embankments that hid the beach from the road. His headlight slashing across Lizzie. Tony's heart stopped. He was headed right for her. Lizzie jumped to her feet and started running back towards the house. The driver didn't seem to have any intention of slowing down and was aimed right at her. Before Tony could get to her, the rider had reached out and grabbed Lizzie. She was fighting and kicking to get lose but the rider held her like he had an iron band around her. He expertly maneuvered back towards the road away from Tony's house. Within a heart beat he and Lizzie was gone.

Tony sprinted to his workshop and before anyone else even knew what was going on, he was suited up and after them. Calling for J.A.R.V.I.S. to track them by any means possible. Tony headed in the direction he had last seen Lizzie and whether it was luck or just good timing he spotted the rider as he handed Lizzie to a group of men. They were trying to shove Lizzie into the back of a black SUV. She was fighting like a wild cat and screaming at Fatal Attraction.

Tony didn't hesitate, he came around and took out the engine of the SUV. Fatal Attraction was already powering up what he could only describe as a rocket launcher and had it aimed directly at Tony. He heard Lizzie scream "SOLDAT" at the top of her lungs. It caused the Hell's Angel's reject to pause for just a split second. It was all Tony needed to bank and come up behind him. He hit the rocket launcher. It and Psycho blew all to hell.

By this time one of the very courageous bad guys had a gun to Lizzies head and was holding her in front of him while he was trying to back away from the blast. Lizzie drew Tony's attention and she looked down. He wasn't sure what she was about to do, but she stomped on the instep of Captain Courageous and had dropped enough that Tony took out his target. God, he loved this woman. He was in the process of tracking down where the other members of the Evil Scooby Gang had gone when he realized that Lizzie had ran to where her stalker lay on the ground.

Like something out of a James Cameron movie, he watched as suddenly Terminator had Lizzie around the throat, what confused the hell out of him is that he looked like he had a metal arm. He tipped his head and looked at her, his expression one of confusion. Lizzie was holding on to his wrist with both hands and calling him Bucky again. Then Sargent Barnes. What in the hell? Tony powered up his mini guns in the shoulders of the suit and aimed them at 'Bucky'. Lizzie was suddenly thrown away from the knock off Arnold and he just seemed to disappear into the darkness.