Captain's Hart and Soul

Chapter 1 At Long Last

*A/N I do not own Avengers, Marvel, or anything related to the movies. I only own my own character. Story contains spoilers for the Avengers: Age of Ultron, and later Captain America: Civil War.

April 5, 2015

Arianna fired her guns, saving her knives for when it would count. She stood beside Clint, leaning as close to him as possible without getting in the way of his quiver or as he fired his arrows. The pair were balancing as they stood upright on the jeep Nat had commandeered, firing at snipers, foot soldiers, and the attacking machine suits that had clearly been made after Tony's Iron Legion design.

She ducked as a large blue laser blast came flying towards her head, before she stood back up and fired her gun at the two jeeps that were chasing them. Arianna took out the tires on one, making it crash into one of the many trees, but she was forced to duck again as the remaining jeep fired at them again. Nat swerved sharply, driving through the snowy forest as she tried to avoid the laser fire.

Clint was busy taking out the snipers placed amongst the trees and the occasional foot soldiers lining the forest ground, when he called to Arianna: "Aria, you're slacking."

"Yeah, yeah." Arianna replied as she rolled her eyes, firing at an approaching suit quickly before firing a shot at the jeep that was pulling up beside them.

The driver ducked, but Arianna grinned as Thor came out of nowhere and smacked the driver out of the jeep. The God then flew off towards a sniper post, leaving the now-driverless jeep to crash into some trees, and Arianna fired her guns at a group of approaching machine soldiers.

The last one evaded her fire, but before it could shoot at her, Tony took it out with a blast from one of his hand lasers. Arianna waved at him briefly as Iron Man flew past them, and he waved back before zooming off. Arianna turned her attention back to the front, firing at the sources of any laser gunfire that weren't coming from straight ahead.

Steve raced past on his motorbike, throwing his shield to take out hostiles directly in their path while using his bike to power through many of the foot soldiers as well. Any of the targets that he missed, the Hulk smashed, while Tony and Thor cleared the skies of any hostile forces.

The pattern continued, as the group raced towards the HYDRA base, until DELTA hit a fallen tree. Nat hit the brakes and Clint and Arianna lowered their stances quickly. The team braced themselves, Arianna shoving her guns back into their holsters on her thighs so that she could grab two knives.

The jeep swerved from Nat's sudden brake, and DELTA jumped out of the jeep right as it hit the tree. The trio used the momentum to leap into the air, Clint with his bow raised and an arrow ready, Nat curled into a fighting stance, and Arianna drawing her knives. The three were joined by the rest of the Avengers, Steve jumping his bike over the tree as Thor and Tony flew in overhead and the Hulk ran, using the tree as a springboard to leap powerfully into the air.

Thor whacked his Mjolnir onto a soldier, sending bolts of lightning out to the other hostiles in his area, while Clint fired his bow and simultaneously kicked down another soldier as he landed. Nat had jump-kicked a soldier as she landed, while Arianna threw two knives into the necks of two soldiers and knee-kicked a soldier right in the head as she landed.

The Hulk was smashing soldiers on their other side, while Steve and Tony sped past. Steve took out a base further ahead, effectively cutting off the laser fire, while Tony flew on ahead towards the HYDRA base on the top of the Sokovian hilltop...

"Shit!" Tony winced as he hit the barrier over the base.

Arianna rolled her eyes briefly as she stabbed two more soldiers and then jumped a third, and Steve scolded over the comms: "Language! Jarvis, what's the view from upstairs?"