Blood Trail

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Saturday morning. Abandoned Warehouse-

Dr. Strange is one of the world's most popular heroes, but something horrible happened to him.
Last Thursday night, he had almost completely destroyed the London Sanctum where he used to live. No one knew why. Only that his eyes were a burning red and he was acting very strange. He was shouting about "finally getting his revenge."
So the Avengers assumed that he was being controlled, obviously. They had tracked the destruction to the warehouse, and were prepared to detain Stephen if necessary.
The building was old, the walls were crumbling and there were no lights. But the morning sun shone brightly through the small windows.
The group- Iron-Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Banner. Bruce had hesitantly agreed to go with them, but he had said that he wouldn't turn into the Hulk unless he needed to.
"Can't hear anything." Peter whispers, listening intently to the sounds coming from the stairs and the pipes.
"Well, maybe he's not here." Clint says, keeping just as quiet as Peter.
"Impossible." Tony sighs, using his suit to see through the walls in the building to check for any sign of life.
"Okay. So we split up. Take it floor by floor." Steve replies. "I'll take first, the kid can take second, Nat will take third and Clint can do four. Bruce you can come with me, and Tony you can do the top floor."
"Sounds good." Nat says, nodding her head along with the rest of them.
Tony takes Peter by the shoulders gently and whispers to him. "You want me to send someone with you?"
"No, it's alright. Really, Mr. Stark. I can do this."
"Okay, be safe."
"You too." Peter smiles, walking towards the stairs with the other heroes. They each go to their floors, checking all the places someone could hide carefully. Peter looks down the empty corridor, he walks cautiously throughout the hall. He gets to the second last cell when he hears a noise. A horrible noise.
His mentor. Tony's in trouble. He can hear his panicked voice echoing through the warehouse, despite Stark being three floors above him.
"Get off me. Let me go. Stop it!"
Peter hears faintly through the vents, it's not like him to cry out like this, but it's definitely Tony. And then there's a shout, he's in pain, no... he's in agony. Peter had never heard him like this, vulnerable and scared. It's not like him.
Theres a dragging sound, something is being pulled across the floor. He can't hear Tony anymore.
Peter immediately rushes to the stairs, he shouts in through the doors for everyone to go to the top floor. His heart is pounding, dread building in him and there's a lump in the back of his throat.
"Mr. Stark!" He yells, bursting through the final door to be met with nothing. No sounds. No Tony.
He's already terrified when the others walk in the door.
"Shit. Shit." Clint says, rubbing the back of his neck.
They walk towards the back of the building only to notice something awful. There's a trail of blood leading outside to another corridor, there's a lot of it, far too much for one person. The kids never seen anything like it before, it's terrifying and he can't even deal with the thought that Tony was the one being dragged up the corridor like a corpse.
"No. No. No. No. Mr. Stark. Please. No." Peter mumbles, hands in his hair and eyes welling up.
"It's okay. We're gonna get him, we don't know what happened yet." Nat says softly.
"No. I heard him. He was freaking out, he was shouting. And then it stopped. I think Strange was dragging him across the floor. He was so afraid." Peter chokes out, trying so hard to hold back the waterworks.
"Okay. It's alright. We're gonna follow it and it'll lead us to Tony." Steve says, walking ahead to lead the rest of them. The trail gets fainter and fainter as they go on, but it stops at a door in the middle of the long hallway.
The door has a lock, but Cap breaks it with his shield and kicks it open. It's dark with no windows and there's a figure lying on the floor.
Peter rushes over to him, and kneels down, he shakes Tony by the shoulders but he doesn't get a response. That's when he notices the puddle of red underneath him.
"He's bleeding." The kid whispers, hands shaking as he still attempts to wake him up.
"Is he breathing?" Nat asks.
Bruce rushes over to him and checks for a pulse. "Yeah. But he's bleeding out."
"You gotta help him. Please save him." Peter begs, "Come on, Mr. Stark, wake up."
"We have to get him somewhere safe, a hospital or something." Clint replies, checking to make sure Strange doesn't come back.
"Okay, I'll get Fury to send an ambulance." Nat says, worry clearly present on her face as she pulls out her phone.
No one seems to notice just how upset the kid is until he grabs Tony's hand and tries to cover up a sob, still kneeling beside him.
"Hey... it's alright. He's gonna be okay." Bruce says softly.
It takes only a few minutes before the sirens can be heard, paramedics bring in a stretcher and take Tony out to the ambulance.
The group follow them out, with Peter in front, staying as close to his mentor as possible. But Steve grabs his arm when he's about to go inside the vehicle.
"I have to go with him. I need to... to go... Please... I have..." Peter stutters, pulling against Steve's grip on him.
"You can't. We can go visit him when he's better but right now he has to go into intensive care. You're better off with us." Natasha says, signalling the ambulance to leave.
"No!" The kid tugs harder to try and get away, but Steve takes his other arm and holds him close to himself. "I don't want to stay with you! I want Mr. Stark! Please let go!"
The kid stops struggling once the ambulance takes off, but he doesn't stop crying.
He's only been on the team for a little while, but what happened had really shown the other Avengers just how young Peter actually is. I mean he's only fourteen. Still just a child.
It also proved to them how much he cared for Stark, it was obvious that he couldn't live without him.
Tony was okay, of course, but Peter would never get the trail of blood out of his mind for the rest of his life. No one told Stark how upset the kid was when he got hurt. But it became very clear to the billionaire when Peter wouldn't leave him to go on missions by himself anymore. He knew that the kid was so worried, he knew this because he was just as worried about him.

(I'm sorry! I didn't know how to end it. Please don't come at me.)

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