A Tale of Mischief and Mutants

Back Into Action

—-Sam—-

The weeks pass. Things have improved even more for me I no longer suffer from my flinching habit, I've become quite a bit less timid, and I've decided I love it here the people are kind and Tønsberg is all around a really peaceful place to live. I've grown fond of Thor, Korg, and Miek I speak freely around them now and we have even started playing video games together. Sometimes we stay up super late and play with Peter online or vice versa.

Peter's friend Ned even joined in at one point. Though I've never met him in person I've decided I'm fond of him too. Loki and I have only grown closer he doesn't even try and hide his affection for me in front of people anymore. During this time I also work on regaining my strength and it isn't long before I'm back at the physical level I was at back in 2018.

I work on my fighting skills and some of the magic Loki has taught me. I'm not great at illusions but I have summoning mastered. Loki has given me a few daggers for this purpose. It's early in the morning I am practicing summoning and throwing daggers at a tree in the garden. I want to get back into action.

I hear someone approaching from behind, it's almost definitely Loki and I decide it would be a great opportunity to practice actually taking someone down. I catch him by surprise and quickly take him down I am kneeling on one knee positioned on the ground my foot is on his chest the dagger I was holding is in a defensive position. I smirk I still got it. He looks at me wide eyed in surprise.

"Sam, what the Hel?!"

I laugh then take my foot off his chest and stand up.

"It's good practice."

I hold my hand out to help him up. He looks annoyed but takes it.

"That'll teach me to bother you when you're training."

I giggle.

"Why'd you come over here anyway?"

"I came out here to ask if you wanted to come on a mission with me. Fury said it's all hands on deck."

I look at him in concern.

"What's happening?"

"The usual, an alien invasion in a major city."

"Which one?"

I'm ashamed to say I'm actually hoping he'll say New York it would give me an opportunity to sneak away to see the X-men.

"San Francisco."

I hide my disappointment quickly overriding it with the excitement of getting back into the action.

"So you're interested?"

"Hell yeah! I've missed kicking ass lets go!"

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Thor came and transported all of us onto the Helicarrier through the bifrost. It was both terrifying and exhilarating like a very high tech roller coaster or something. I can't say it was the worst way to travel but I do hope I become used to it enough that my adrenaline doesn't spike so high every time we do it. I'm rearing to go and somewhat forget my fears when I find myself in a room with a table full of Avengers all talking about the mission we're about to be debriefed on.

Korg, Miek, Sif, and Valkyrie are already there. Everyone's waiting for Director Fury to get here and tell us about the threat we're about to face. Loki looks over at me and is surprised to find I'm not as fearful as usual. Not now I'm going into battle soon and need to be mentally prepared for it the adrenaline rush I just received from our trip through the bifrost is also helpful.

Like giving a speech after bungee jumping. If anything I'm just a little shy. Finally the director comes out and begins explaining what we're about to face a screen behind him shows a still of an alien soldier holding a weapon of some kind.

"They call themselves the Brotherhood of the Badoon they are a reptilian race of all male warriors. They posses advanced cloaking technology, particle guns, and seem to have a technology that can take out people up to ten feet away when a Badoon is taken out. I suggest close combat for slowing them down but for lethal force using long range weapons. They also have this."

Fury pulls up footage of a cyborg like being taking out a portion of the U.S. Military. A glance around the room at the faces of the other Avengers tells me this is a remarkable threat.

"That's not even the worst part. They have started converting the bodies of their victims into soldiers using cybernetics"

Horrific footage of corpses fighting the military starts to play. Tony Stark stands up and throws his hands up.

"Well shit!"

"Language Tony!"

"I'm sorry Capsicle are you not seeing this?!"

The Captain roles his eyes and ignores him then turns to Fury.

"Do they have any weaknesses?"

"They seem to be only slightly above the strength of a human in their physical prime and die from some of the same methods as it would take to kill a human."

Captain Rogers seems to think for a moment then takes charge he starts handing out jobs for everyone to do, he gets to me and Loki.

"I want you two to go with Romanoff and Barton to help keep this contained."

"But-ow!"

Barton begins to protest but is stopped by Romanoff elbowing him in the ribs.

"Any questions?"

I find my voice though it's hardly a whisper and I'm not sure anyone even heard me.

"Do you have any guns I can use?"

"What was that?"

Captain Rogers didn't hear me and I shy away not wanting to face any confrontation with him. He may be Captain America but he's still a man and one with immense authority and strength above my own at that.

"She asked if there are any guns she can use."

I look at Loki thankfully. He knows just how intimidating using my voice in front of a man can be for me especially one I don't know.

"Yeah Bucky can help her with that."

He raises his voice to the whole team,

"We've faced threats like this before and we can do it again I can't promise we'll come out on top but I can promise that we will sure as hell try because everyone in this room is willing to fight for this planet."

He pauses and let's his speech sink in.

"Alright Avengers you all know your jobs. So let's get this done."