"No, you move."

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𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 / 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯.

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spidcrling‌:

it was just another day in new york when disaster struck but then again - that’s always how it seemed to happen nowadays. he was on a field trip to a museum when literal aliens came down in search of the reality stones but as far as they knew, that threat was neutralized in wakanda. and for a little bit, it was. sure, the avengers were still remaining vigilant because knowing that there’s something more out there but things were normal. he was on patrol, scooping up kittens from trees (seriously, when will cats ever learn that climbing trees is bad?) and helping the elderly get to the other side of the road in one piece. they had returned back to their norm, the sky wasn’t falling down on them anytime soon. 

or at least, that’s what peter had thought. 

he had just assisted in the pursuit of an armed robber of a little ma and pa shop when peter got the sense of something strange. the hair on his arms stood up and caught his attention, something wasn’t right. but the bustling streets in times square didn’t seem phased by it, so maybe it was just all in his head? his spider senses had been a bit on the fritz ever since he returned from space, maybe it was just another one of those moments. it was hard to say but he didn’t get too much time to process that train of thought before a strong rumble overtook the streets and the sky was filled with a bright emerald green hue.

quick to react, peter got the pedestrians out of the way of moving vehicles, trying to avoid as much casualty as humanly possible. he ushered people from their cars, doing his best to just try and find some safety for them amongst all of the chaos that unfolded in the matter of seconds. there was screaming, people were rushing around and the once peaceful new york afternoon turned into something else entirely. he caught sight of a tree beginning to fall over and he sprung into action, webbing the tree with a faint thwip until he could get under it and set it out of the way so that something like that wouldn’t happen again. 

his eyes landed on the person who could’ve been potentially flattened by this tree, the rumbling still present but not as severe. “are you alright?” he asked the person, taking a few steps closer to them. 

After the debacle with meeting Wonder Woman and saving the people at the red steps, Steve had been tipped off to more activity at the rift that had cut their conversation short. He had sent her over to a secure location nearby where he could meet up with her after the fact, but he had swung back to the scene just to make sure there was no one else there that needed help. The red blur whizzing around the area put him at ease, though. Peter was young, but he was capable. Steve observed him looking out for individuals; the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man even when he was an Avenger in his own right. Full of exuberance, full of desire to do the right thing. Maybe it was a little self-indulgent to see himself in a skinny but determined hero, but it didn’t mean Steve didn’t. Of course, Peter wasn’t an asthmatic with heart problems, but he remained consistent with what he had been set up to be. Steve had once been told to never forget who he was. Peter did that admirably.

Now, as he approached, he looked over to the other. “Spider-Man, good to have you on the scene. Anything I can do to help?” He knew better than to use Pete’s real name out in public, and he certainly wasn’t going to treat him like a kid and have people clock him as younger and therefore vulnerable. Though, anyone that thought Peter was incapable wasn’t paying attention.

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Amazons and Captains || Steve and Diana

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amazondianas‌:

Diana took his hand, assuring him she was fine. She followed his gaze to get a better look at the rip. One moment, she’d been preparing for a meeting with the Justice League, routine scheduling and assignments for new members. Then the shaking had started, and as she tried to cover some of the other members, she felt herself being pulled closer and closer to the strange rip. No matter how hard she flew she’d been sucked right in. 

“Portal…” she said, thinking aloud. She couldn’t remember much about the journey through. It’d been a haze of confusion swirling around her, and over as quick as it had begun. It couldn’t have been more than a minute from the first realization something was wrong to her ending up in this new city. 

“It must have been a portal,” she said to the man. She turned her attention once more to the comm in her ear, pressing into it and willing it to buzz to life. “Superman, Batman, do you read me? Martian Manhunter…” she sighed. A portal, but one only she seemingly went through. This was a problem. Either her team was in this world and they had no current way to contact each other, or she was the lone traveler, stuck on her own. 

“I didn’t see anything as I traveled through,” she admitted, wracking her brain for signs that a super villain had done this. No one at the Watchtower had given any reports about any of the usual suspects trying to rip through realities, and once again she was at a loss. 

Well, there was one thing she could do at least. Diana straightened and turned to the man, giving him a reassuring look. “I am Wonder Woman. I don’t know what’s going on either, but I promise I will help. What should we do next?” 

Superman? Batman? Martian Manhunter? He had never heard any of those names before. Should he have? His confusion was all over his face as he watched her. And it wasn’t exactly uplifting that she hadn’t see anything. Better the enemy you knew than the one you didn’t. It meant that this was certainly not the last of it and likely not going to be even the worst of it. In Steve’s experience, which only got more and more vast as time went on, it could honestly be anything.  “Well... that’s the working theory for now. And this isn’t the only one. They’re cropping up all over the world. And you’re not the only one who’s come through, apparently.” 

Wonder Woman. Well, with what he had just seen her do, he thought that name was fairly apt. “Captain America,” he introduced. They could possibly share their real names later. But for now, the Codename was fine. “Right now, we’re focused on getting everything figured out surrounding the portals. My team is covering them as best they can, getting people out of the way, and recovering individuals like yourself.” He looked up at the rip, ominous but otherwise no longer producing things like entire buses. It seemed like it had settled down, though he certainly wouldn’t call it stable.

“I’ve got a few questions for you. It looks like everything here is more or less able to be handed off.” Information would come in the more they learned. No doubt Tony’s people would have something to do with further stabilization efforts. Or at the very least Stark tech would be all over the place. Until they could figure out the source of these things, they probably couldn’t get rid of them, but no doubt Tony would be all over it with Bruce.

“We have a compound upstate. Might be best to get somewhere like that.” Somewhere they had the resources to contain someone like her if that became necessary, thought it didn’t seem like it would be the case given her cooperation thus far.

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Amazons and Captains || Steve and Diana

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amazondianas‌:

The man was efficient, clearing the people out and away from the wreckage. Her trust in him was vindicated; everyone would live. She saw them stumbling out of the corner of her eye: some bleeding, some with tears down their faces, some pale with shock. But they could all move, and she would make sure they were safe. 

She felt the rumble before she heard it: a shaking from the bus that threatened to jolt her back and forth. She opened her mouth to warn everyone, but the man beat her to it, ordering everyone to stand back. It was a good thing too, because in the next instant a huge tumble of fire burst from the bus, the explosion sending her flying through the air. 

She hit the side of a building, hard, crumbling bricks falling behind her as she hit the sidewalk with a dull thud. Diana groaned, dragging her limbs a she stood before running back over to the man. 

“Everyone made it out,” she said, blocking a small piece of flying debris with her bracelet. “Do you know what’s happening?” 

Steve had turned to the woman when he watched her getting thrown. “Jesus,” he murmured before making his way over to where she had fallen. He was surprised to see her heading back over. “Are you alright?” He asked her. He held out a hand to help.

“We know about as much as you do.” He could see responders starting to arrive and relaxed a little. Looking up at the rip, it appeared to be producing less debris. It was still unstable though. “Unless you saw something before you... came through? Is it a portal?”

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Amazons and Captains || Steve and Diana

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amazondianas‌:

Diana had to make a choice, and fast. If he was planning to attack her, he’d probably have done it by now. With no League to help her or anyone familiar, she needed someone else if she was going to contain all of this mess. Someone she could count on, at least for now. There were many ways to judge someone’s character, and Diana just had to go with what she knew: the sincerity in his voice, his plea for her to help. And, she realized, he only carried a shield. What kind of villain had no weapon with them? 

She nodded once. “Let’s go.” After pausing a moment to hand the woman off to passing emergency personnel, giving stern orders that she needed immediate medical attention, Diana raced off in the direction of the bus. 

With a grunt, Diana grasped the bus in a firm grip and lifted. The destroyed bus was slow to move and creaked terribly, and she pulled it up firmly. The scent of gasoline filled her nose, and the screaming of innocent people filled her ears. She would not move until all the people were out. She couldn’t. 

“Get them out,” she shouted at the man as sweat dripped down into her eyes. 

Steve was strong. Damn strong. He had managed to hold down a helicopter with one arm before. But he wasn’t lift an entire bus strong. Holy hell. At her words, he snapped out of his awe, a little ashamed that he’d been caught up in it. His first priority were the people inside the bus. Ducking under the bus, he used the edge of his shield to break open one of the windows. “I’m here to get you out,” he asserted to the terrified people inside. “Quickly now.” 

He managed to clear out the group of people inside before guiding them all out. From there, the folks under the stairs had also taken the opportunity to run. Rolling out, Steve nodded. “Let it go,” he told the monstrously strong woman. “We have to get clear.” The scent of gasoline was stronger now. “Everyone back up!” He shouted. “Get clear.” He had to trust that the woman would follow, because he had about a thousand questions for her. Still, the safety and well-being of the bystanders--some of them idiotically filming instead of getting out of the way--was more important than his curiosity.

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Amazons and Captains || Steve and Diana

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amazondianas‌:

“Superman!” Diana cried into her comm as she held back one car from crashing into another on the street. She’d been the first on the scene of the strange green light, and before she could properly land on her feet, she’d been sucked right through. Alternate dimension, she thought immediately, or a simpler portal to another world. As a member of the Justice League, she’d faced similar ordeals before. But never alone, like she was now. 

“Batman,” she called, her fingers denting the hood of the car. People rushed around her, screaming and tripping, and she paused to help one man stand back up on his feet. Silence. There were no flashing scarlet capes above her, no shadows sweeping by her. Not a single sign of a single one of her friends and allies. 

“Are there any members of the Justice League that made it through that portal?” she asked, catching a large piece of debris as it flew by in the air. Now she was getting worried. First objective: control the chaos and get people help. Second: figure out what’s causing all of this. Third: Find the League. 

A woman’s scream cut through the noise and she sprinted to the source. Hera, please, she prayed, heaving the wreckage off of her and picking the woman up. 

She turned and found herself face to face with a man she didn’t recognize. A man in uniform with an impressive shield, tense and ready to attack or defend, she couldn’t decide. She narrowed her eyes, the woman held limply in her grasp. 

“Who are you?”  

As he took in the woman, who was taller than most women he knew--certainly taller than Nat--Steve noted the outfit. Either she had just walked off the set of one of the shows playing all around them or she was a super like him. Given what he had just witnessed, he was willing to believe that it was the latter. Her demand had him unsettled, still poised to fight if she proved to be a threat. As of now, he didn’t believe that was true of her, but he didn’t know. Not quite yet.

“I might ask you the same question,” he cried. 

He was about to press for more when a loud chorus of screams caught his attention and he watched in horror as a full sized city bus came careening from the sky right toward the red steps. As the two collided, a number of people who had taken cover under them were now trapped. The scent of gasoline told Steve that bus could light up at any time. Were there people inside? 

His head whipped around to the woman. “I don’t know you, but I do know you’re strong. Let’s save the introductions for later. Can you help me help those people?”

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Amazons and Captains || Steve and Diana

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The news showed the rips appearing just before they got the call. Just when they thought that they might get a little bit of a break... Well, he supposed they had gotten a little one. A few months, as a matter of fact. Just enough time for he and Bucky to relocate back from Wakanda and deal with all the red tape that came with it. Apparently, the Avengers preventing imminent doom with the assistance of the Guardians and even some of the X-Men had been enough to get the Accords dealt with. But if had still been an adjustment period. A short one.

Now, Steve transported to the middle of the city, where one of the larger rips was causing trouble. There were already several injured and one reported casualty. They needed to get that area cleared out and fast. 

It felt good to have his shield in hand again as he took in the chaos. He didn’t have too long to observe, however, before he had to roll to the side as something flew at his head. A... stop sign? A scream to his right had him moving quickly, running through the wreckage to a woman pinned by what appeared to be a semi mangled street lamp.

He was a few paces away, prepared to move to assist, when he caught sight of a dark haired woman reaching the woman’s side before he did. He didn’t know of any other serum enhanced people here outside of he, Nat, and Bucky. But this woman clearly had something going on, because she tossed the wreckage aside as if it were made of paper. What the Hell?