The Outlier

Chapter Nine

"Chess, slow down. You'll kill him." Horn said.

"Huh? You're joking! Hey! Human! You can't die without my permission!" Chess replied. Meanwhile, the Avengers all thought, Did we really get our butts kicked by this idiot? "I'm sorry Crowley-sama, Annemarie-sama, he died."

"It's fine, we still have a lot left."

Chess' smile returned. "See? So you should drink too Horn." She offered the limp body of the soldier to her.

"At least try to act like a noble." She scolded.

Chess pouted. "You're no fun!" She threw the body across the room.

Is she an idiot? Or just childish? The Avengers thought. Probably both.

They had all decided that they'd try to get as much information as possible, since it was likely another team of people sent to rescue them, or if they managed to find their own way to get out. Natasha and Clint had already slid out of their ropes and we're working on discreetly untying Thor and Steve's, who couldn't break the roped or else it'd draw attention to what they were doing.

Crowley walked over it the soldiers body and took his sword. "Hey Chess, come here for a second."

"Huh? O-Okay..." Once she got close enough, Crowley attacked her with the sword. When the smoke clear, they saw Chess against the wall with her sword drawn in front of her as if she had used it to block the attack in a crater in the wall. "Ow! What was that for!?"

So they can feel pain, the Avengers discovered.

"I just wanted to see whose weapon was stronger, a vampire's or a human's."

"Anything's strong if you use it, Crowley-sama."

"I suppose that's true." He faced the window and looked down at the blade. He put one finger on the edge of the blade and slid it upwards. "But it is troubling to see humans advancing this fast. It's possible someone is leaking large amounts of our information to them."

"Are you implying there's a traitor?" Horn asked.

"And someone high-ranking too." Crowley turned around and held out his still bleeding finger to let them see. "As you can see, this wound isn't healing, so the three of you be careful okay?"

"Hey, my powers are still coming back okay?" Annemarie said. "It's just taking more time now..."

"Is that why they always insisted on giving us a weapon to use?" Thor asked his teammates.

"Thor?" Steve said. "Shut up."

"I apologize Captain."

"Crowley-sama, you should get that treated." Horn said.

"If you want you can drink it." He replied.

"Eh? But..."

"If Horn won't I will!" Chess shouted.

"What? You drank from the soldier before. Now it's my turn."

"What! No fair!"