V I G I L A N C E ~ (Marvel) ~

C H A P T E R 1 8_

I run and throw my body over the mimic fighting Thor. When my fingers touch the ground it bursts into flames and I turn to throw my knife through the air, letting it pierce a creature that Black Widow finishes by kicking the thing from her.

I look behind me. The ship hasn't started to rise yet. But it still needs to be protected. I have to give it all I can up here until I can leave and head to destroy those other demons that are the targets.

I let wind rip the mimics off the roof around me before I run for the flight deck. "Loki!" I call.

And he meets me there in time to cast ice onto every surrounding beast in the area. I teleport past them as something flashes through their bodies; a certain super-speeding mutant

I rocket around them as they shatter into the wind and I do a flip in the air to avoid one, landing down on top of another and freezing it with one touch. I turn around as Cap's shield flies straight through it and I grab his hand, letting him yank me around so that I can face the mimics behind him, blasting them in their faces with bullets before I leap up, catching Captain's shield in my hand and blocking the fire bomb from one of them as he grabs another to my left and lets Loki stab the demon in the head.

I hand the man his shield back before I look at Loki. "The ship!"

He looks over his shoulder at it. But luckily we still have time. "This way!" he says and darts west. I follow him immediately, both of us charging across the rooftop towards the edge. This is a faster way definitely—"Watch out!" I warn and Loki ducks just in time for one of those things to shoot above his head. I teleport to tear it in two with force and continue running. Loki blasts a mimic to my left when it pursues us, getting bullets in its body before it dies but that's when a bomb smashes into our backs and we fly forward. I have teleported us onto the ground below and we slump against the wall. "Shit!" I curse immediately. My back is on fire with pain.

"Language," I hear the Captain say in our ear pieces.

Loki is cringing. "Did you break something?" he asks.

I ball my hands into fists and say through clenched teeth. "No. I think I just got burned badly."

He sighs and moves with a stiff body towards me. I think he got the full impact of that firebomb on his back. "We failed that time, didn't we?" he almost brings a sarcastic humor into this mess.

I manage a small nod. "Oh yeah."

He makes a pained look.

I have drowned out the talking from my team but that's when I hear from Iron Man, "Uh are we not going to even address the fact that Cap just said 'language'?"

I say into the ear piece, "Nope."

"I'm sorry it just slipped out," Cap justifies.

Loki is giving me a look.

"Reset?" I ask.

He stares at me plainly and says, "I can't feel my spine."

I grimace as I reach to my hip and grab a new gun. I cock it and put bullet in his head.

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Loki and I fight side by side to rid the mimics from the deck, stabbing and slinging our elements around each other to cast these things back to the depths. I fire over and over to my right when Loki freezes one in its place. I turn to leap up in the air around him, kicking on hard in the face when it flashes towards him with lightning speed. It distracts it long enough for Loki to finish it with gunfire before he grabs my hand, yanking me into his chest to clutch me close when a ball of fire lands where I was.