School Heroes

Chapter Three

It wasn't hard to find the cause of the alarm going off. As soon as the new Avengers walked outside, they were greeted by a scene of overturned cars, fires burning all around, people running for their lives. In the center of all this, a tall, grizzled man stood facing Avengers tower. He wore a strange uniform and gave orders to the dozens of figures that kept wrecking the streets of the city. Upon closer inspection, the figures were the other high school kids that weren't on the Avenger's tower tour. Their eyes were almost unseeing as if they had been possessed by something. They weren't phased when an overturned car exploded in front of them. The new Avengers turned their attention towards the grinning man staring at them from across the plaza.

"Ah, so the Avengers finally decided to join the party!"

"Who are you and why are you doing this to New York?!" James shouted from the front of the group

"You don't remember me? I'm a little heartbroken, but I'm sure we could work something out." The man in the suit smiled and nodded as if agreeing with himself, "You see, I want something from you-"

"Blah blah blah! All these villains do in monologue, I say we take him out and continue with our day." Emily interrupted, waving her staff around way more than necessary.

"Excuse me but you're being extremely rude. I was offering you a compromise!" The man stamped his foot.

"Who cares? You're acting like a big baby." Emily shouted back.

"You're acting like a bunch of teenagers!" The man argued.

"Guys, maybe we shouldn't go picking fights, we don't know what he has up his sleeve and he seems to have control over our classmates. Not to mention, we got our powers literally five minutes ago. How do you think this is going to go for us?" Alissa tried to reason with the group that seemed to be getting overconfident.

"We've seen the news reports on them. We know how these things work. As soon as we take out the leader, The rest will fall!" Roger spat back, raising his bow.

"Maybe Alissa has a point-" Cristine tried to defend her friend.

"Ready guys? Let's go!" Mason shouted as he released his hold on his hammer, sending him flying towards the enemy.

As Mason sped off, most of the group followed, Alissa, Cristine, Delilah, Grace, Charles, Joey, and Ruby hesitated for a split second. Cristine turned her head towards Alissa, "Should we go after them?" Alissa was silent for a moment, then narrowed her eyes "If we don't, they'll get themselves killed." She then ran after the group that was charging towards the enemy. Charles backed off and ran back inside Avengers tower, not wanting anything to do with this. The rest of the group looked at each other and decided to follow as one big group.

Mason felt the wind whipping through his hair and his hammer dragged him forwards, attached to his wrist. The man was about twenty feet away from him and closing fast. Mason put his feet down to stop but the hammer kept dragging him forwards, panic came in and Mason tried his best to get away from the enchanted hammer. The man sidestepped and easily avoided Mason who crashed into a building, making it collapse on top of him. James flew through the air using the jets connected to the hands and feet of the metal suit. Unfortunately, he was moving pretty slow because he was having trouble with the stabilizers. Eventually, he just settled for running. Ally came around the corner after flanking the man's forces and she used her new metal arm to punch him. The man saw this coming and jumped out of the way as Ally was thrown off balance by the unexpected weight of the metal arm. Emily tried mind controlling the man, but he hit her staff out of her hands before she could get anywhere near his chest. The man told some of his forces to hold her down while he was dealing with the rest of the Avengers. Cristine used her powers successfully for the first time and helped Roger onto the roof of a nearby building where he was attempting to use the bow and arrow, his new senses kept throwing him off target and he missed almost all of his arrows. Grace ran in to help Ally off of the floor and kicked the man in the face, the first actual hit on the stranger. Alissa had crawled onto the side of a building and webbed the man's hand before he could punch Grace. The man turned his attention towards Alissa and pulled on the webbing with his other hand, dragging Alissa towards him and off of the building. Phillip was still trying to figure out his powers and kept running halfway across town before he came back to the plaza. Every time he tried to help with his powers, he missed his target. Steve tried his best with what he had, but with almost no training, all he could use was a sling ring which didn't help in this situation. Ruby and Devin became tiny but kept almost getting stepped on, eventually, Ruby punched the man since he had wings and he flew backward, but got up again, swatting at her. Jake and Lewis were trying to figure out how to fly and never did get off the ground, the man's forces surrounded them both. Delilah was trying to figure out her weapons and kept activating things she didn't need, she ended up getting surrounded by the man's forces as well. Jacob and Joey were actually doing pretty well, taking turns hitting the man and also getting hit themselves. Eventually, they pushed the man back enough to where he hit the side of a building. The man shakily got up and felt his nose, it was clearly broken and bent out of shape. Joey and Jacob stood over him.