Amanda Smith (The Avengers ff) #English

60.

Amanda

One week later

With a loud crash I fly through the wall of the old museum building.
That's not how I imagined a good day. In the short term, I'm back on one of Caps missions.
Actually, he didn't want me to be here because he thought it was too dangerous for me.
Otherwise we fight against terrestrial criminals, but not this time.
For years no extraterrestrials had come here, as I know.

I don't know what they want here, but they won't get it.

Quickly I get up again and attack him again. What kind of alien it is, I don't know.
But that also doesn't matter.
The others are busy with fighting, too.
Suddenly they surround me and one of them starts to speak.
"Ah, an inhuman, I think he doesn't have one in his collection yet", he says.
What does he mean with that.

Before I can ask, I feel a strong pain and then everything turns black.

When I wake up, I'm tied up in a cargo hold.
What happened?
In vain I try to get up.
"Stop, it won't work", a boy says who I've just noticed now. He's tied up too, leaning against a wall.
"Where am I?", I ask, finally sitting upright.
"On a ship of traders, they kidnap other beings and sell them to the best tenderer", he says.
"So what are you?", I ask and realize that this was really rude.
"I'm Xandarian, they kidnapped me from my home planet, Xandar.
You're from Earth, aren't you?", he asks curiously, and I nod.
"So you are a human?"
"No, I'm an Inhuman", I say.

"Where do they take us?", I change the subject.
"To Nowhere, I heard them talking about it earlier, they're looking for buyers, and I've heard that the collector is interested in new species", he says.
"Who is the collector?", I ask confused.
"Taneleer Tivan. He had a large collection of different beings in the galaxy, but now after that what happened, he had to start collecting again, but he already has many species from his previous collection",  he explains.
I just look at him in shock.
"Who's doing something like that?", I ask.
"That's how it is", he says only.
"I won't let that happened", I say softly.

Through a small window, I look out into the space and think.
What's Peter doing right now.
Does he know what happened?
Is he worried?

Peter

"What?!", stunned, I walk around in the living room. Luckily, May isn't here right now.
"If you talk louder, the whole neighborhood will know", I hear Black Widow say.
"Seriously?!", now I stop,
"How did that happen?", I try to calm down.
"I don't know, we were distracted, suddenly they all were gone", Steve says.
He's worried, too.
"I shouldn't have let her come with us, it was just too dangerous", he says.
"You couldn't have stopped her, Steve", Natasha says. She said it's okay if I call her Natasha.
It's quiet in the room for a while now.

"How do we get her back?", I ask.
"If we could contact Thor, he could definitely help us", Steve says looking at me.
"We'll find a way", says the man next to Steve.

I hope she's fine.
When they suddenly stood in front of my door, I didn't expect them to tell me that Amanda was kidnapped.
I still don't believe it.
It's as if it's just a prank and she would just come through the door, laughing, and ask if I believed it.
And I would agree, hug her and swear that I'll pay her back. She would laugh again and say that she's already looking forward to the prank.

But she's not there.

"But we will find a way"