Avengers Generations

Chapter 27

"You're going the wrong way!" Steve shouted into his headset.

"No I'm not." Came Tony's voice over the speaker "I'm going the right way. Jarvis says so."

"Indeed." Came the AI's affirmation.

Steve rolled his eyes as he piloted the small jet and watched Stark's suit veer to the south. "The scanners say Peter's signal is..."

"I invented the scanner!" Tony said breezily, obviously enjoying his flight.

Clint, who sat copilot, shrugged and laughed softly. "That's Stark."

"Have we arrived yet?" Thor complained from the back seat "This lack of activity is dull."

"I am sure that when we arrive, you will not be left untold, brother." Loki calmed him, obviously ready for this venture to be over.

"Play the alphabet game." Clint suggested dryly.

"You know there are no billboards up here, right?" Steve ask him quietly.

"All the more challenging." Clint smiled slyly back at him.

"Alright," Tony's voice broke through the speakers again "When we get there, I'll find the door. Thor will grab Legless Legolas, and Steve, you'll grab a parachute and the Lokilizer. Right?"

"A door?" Thor asked "There will be no-"

"Never mind, Thor." Steve told him before responding to Tony "Roger that."

"That's funny." Tony said "Because you're Steve Rogers. Get it? Roger that...?"

"Think of that one yourself?"

"Yep."

The men flew - bickering all the way - towards Peter's signal. Tony had planted a location device in the boy's already-wounded forehead, which had made Pepper cringe. For the past couple of days, the team had been closely monitoring Peter's movements, waiting for a clue that he was in. Now, they concluded, he was either treading water in the middle of the North Pacific, or he had made it onto the helicarrier.

They knew Hrimthurs was coming for Einmyria, and they bet Fury knew that too. All they had to do was get in, take the kids -which seemed feasible, if Fury wasn't so tight on the reigns- and get out. Thor would take his daughter back to Asgard to protect her there, and everyone else would get their kids as well. If all else failed, their numbers were enough for a good fight.

"We're practically on top of him." Steve said, looking at the scanner "Almost there."

"What in the name of-" Clint blinked his eyes in disbelief at the black, swirling clouds that suddenly appeared in front of them "Where did that come from?"

"Looks like a welcome committee." Tony said dryly "Everybody in position?"

Steve glanced at everyone before responding. "Roger." He said, immediately regretting his choice of words.

Tony felt nervous enough in the minute-suit without having a natural disaster to deal with. The suit was really only a prototype, and was never designed to be exceptionally sturdy. Honestly, it was never designed to be exceptionally anything other than fast and easy to build. Now he lay completely at the mercy of the whatever-it-was in front of him, and he didn't like it. Among other things, it reminded him of New York.

"You're heart rate is rising, sir." Jarvis observed, but Tony didn't respond. The last thing he needed right now was a panic attack.

Tony reached the cloud, and breathed deeply and slowly as he signaled for Steve to avoid it. Tony needed to figure out what was going on before the jet crashed through. He took another breath before launching himself carefully into the darkness.