The Legacy of the Avengers

Chapter 21

Third Person POV
"What did you do?"

"Nothing."

"Guys," Thea warned the two magicians in front of her. "I'm serious."

"I might've pulled on her hair a little," Castor smirked.

"I might've gave her a striking pain in her back," Castiel confessed.

"You're our friend," Castor told me. "We weren't just going to let you get harassed like that."

They walked down the sidewalk and they came upon Castor and Castiel's class building. "Our?" Castiel chuckled. "I don't have friends. Besides, I like seeing her in pain."

"So you guys'll come with me tonight?" Thea asked.

"I guess," Castiel shrugged before heading into the building. Castor followed in pursuit. Stark sighed and began to her building.

She stopped breathing for a second when an arm wrapped around her waist. "Relax," she heard him laugh. "It's just me."

"Sorry," she looked up to the blonde. "My mind just wandered."

"I could tell. What were ya thinking about?"

"I have to fight your sister," she sighed. "She challenged me and you know how I just can't back down from a challenge."

"Oh yeah," he laughed. Preston continued on, "Wait, why does she want to fight you?"

"To cut a long story short," Thea started, "she said she'd hurt me if I hurt you. I told her I could beat her to the ground. She mistook that has a challenge."

"Ah okay," he spoke. "Are you actually going to?"

"Yeah," she huffed. "I'm sick of her 'I'm better than you and I know it' attitude. She does it to everyone."

"You have that attitude too," he mentioned.

"But I definitely know it," Thea stopped in front of her building. "She thinks she knows it when she's wrong. Two different things."

"Ha, okay."

"What? Do you think I'm not going to win?"

"Well..."

"Well what?"

"She's stronger than you. She's slightly taller than you. I don't think it'll be good."

"You don't believe in me," Thea chuckled because of slight anger.

"That...that's not it, I-"

"No it's fine. I gotta go to class," she turned and went into her building. She headed up the flight of stairs. She couldn't believe that even her own 'boyfriend' didn't believe in her. I understand if he thinks I'm not that strong, but me not be able to win. Really?

She walked into her class and sat at her normal seat. "Hey raccoon," she greeted her chilled professor.

"What did I tell you about calling me that?" He groaned.

"Would you prefer rodent?"

He growled, "Not funny. What kind of hot sauce was put in your cereal this morning?"

She shook her head, "People."

"Ah those are the worst," he nodded. A few other classmates came in. Peter Quill Jr. walked in and sat right next to Thea. They started to chitchat about their day and Thea mentioned about her fight. Peter said he was planning on watching.

"Alright class," Rocket climbed onto his table in the front. Everyone got quiet. "We have a new student today." He motioned to the student who just walked into the door. The new kid made his way up to the front. "Tell them your name."

"Hi, I'm Jackson Wilson. Just call me Jack. That would be appreciated."

"Nice to meet you Jack. I hope you like it in my class. You can have a seat right next to Theadora over there."

He nodded and took a seat right next to Thea.

"Hey new kid," Thea smiled. She extended her hand, "I'm Thea Stark. Pleasure to meet you."

He shook her hand, "Jack. And ditto."

"Can I ask you a quick question?"

"Sure."

"Why do you wear that mask?" Thea asked.

"Oh because if I take it off I'd get arrested for public nudity."

Thea and Peter laughed, "What?"

"I look too much like a ball-sack that they wouldn't be able to tell the difference." All three of them started to laugh.

"You're funny, Jack," Peter said. "We're gonna be good friends."

• Twelve Hours Later •
(If you didn't read that in the spongebob voice you're not doing it right)

Thea's POV
It was dark outside. Completely dark. All the campus lights were off except for the occasional y'all sidewalk light.

I decided to bring along my necklace in case things were going to get nasty. Or she wanted to play dirty. Which I figured she would.

"Is this going to be your first time using it?"

"Not really," I answered Castor. "I've used it in practice, but not on an actual person yet."

"Well, we've got your back in case it doesn't work. Right, Castiel?"

"Speak for yourself," he chuckled.

I took a deep breath. We got closer to the fountain. I could feel like something was off. Like something wasn't going to go right. We arrived to next to the fountain. The air was cold and stiff. I didn't like it.

"Thea Stark," a voice from behind us made me cringe. "Glad to see you actually showed up. I would've thought you'd been too scared."

"I don't run from a challenge."

"Well obviously," she smirked. She picked up a nearby rock and threw it in my direction. I dodged it, and double tapped my triangle. Within seconds my suit was on a ready for action.

I raised my hand, "Looks like you missed."

She rose from the ground and her eyes became lit up like the light outside. She basically flew at me. I put a cool system in my suit to shade the eyes when things got too bright. I was lucky I put that in.

She came at me fast. But I was ready. Her fists struck my hands and we went gliding. She went so fast, my feet we're going into the pavement as we went forward.

I was able to turn quick. She went flying into the gates and I tumbled to the ground. I got up. I saw she was struggling to get up and there was a dent in the tall, metal fence.

I walked over to her, partially hoping she was alright, partially hoping she was severely injured.

Instead of getting up, she grabbed the metal on my foot. She got up easily and took to the sky. She flew with my foot. I was soon hanging upside down fifty feet in the sky.

"Let's see who can get down the fastest," she spoke before dropping me.

As I fell, I heard I.A.N.H speaking to me, "Ms. Stark, would you like me to engage the flight system?"

"Yes please," I answered. "Also call out elevation too."

"25. 20. 15. 10. 5."

I reared you the boosters and I flew along the ground. I lifted myself up so I was able to see the campus. Suddenly, something hit me from the back. I went down; the thing that hit me also did.

I caught myself on the ground. I saw Britney float down too. "You're resilient."

"You're annoying," I retorted. I put my hand up, and blasted her with a bit of laser. She dodge it and it hit a tree near the fence. It went down and a crash was heard for miles.

"Oh shit," Danvers and I whispered at the same time.

I retracted my suit with enough to hear a door opening, "Stark! Danvers! What the hell is going on?"