Those who answer the call in the dark - Wasp, Thor, Black Widow and Quicksilver
While he understood a fight was going on, there was a point between the fifth ninja he knocked down with a fast punch and the sixth in which Pietro couldnât really tell completely what had been going on. First they came there because of electromagnetic pulse, so it was probably a metalokinetic, then the ninjas showed up so it was probably ninjas but Pietro had no idea how ninjas would be able to generate such a pulse. I mean, if they were anything like tech-based-nijas Pietro would understand what was happening but those guys were using ancient magic or something.Â
âI was about to ask the same thing.â Pietro replied to Natasha, he wasnât really keen on believing this whole mess was going down. It looked like a bad action movie directed by a talentless piece of bread. When the creature made of shadow attacked Thor Pietro was sure this had to be some kind of hallucination because there was no way this was happening for real. Pietro was about to run and get Thor out of the thingâs way, when he started to hear the buzzing noises coming from something behind his back. When he looked at the hornets flying towards him Pietro seriously couldnât look more pissed off. âWhat the shit?!â
As much as he wanted to just go away and just pretend this whole mission never happened, Pietro wasnât gonna leave his teammates in there to die or worse face this terrible reality by themselves. âIs it just me or this mission is bringing up more questions than answers?â He started running towards the ninjas, presuming the hornets would follow him so he turned a few inches from hitting the ninjas that way the hornets would hurt them instead. He did that several times, for he wasnât about to be outrun by some insects. At one point he did that to some of the ninjas attacking Natasha, hopefully that would make her life a little easier. âYouâre welcome.â He shouted to her as he kept running.
Thorâs lightining openened a hole trough the âBeastâ, but once it went trough it the creature healed and gained a more solid form. The Beast prepared to punch the god of thunder right in the face. While the ninjas that were hit either by Thorâs full strenght or his hammer, Mjionir, become dust across Central Park. The Beast canât be affected by iron, metal or electricity. It is barely a real being, more like a creature of the deepest corners of the dark dimension that was summoned to this place and will anihilate anyone who considers a threat or an enemy.
While Quicksilver and Black Widow took down some of the ninjas, there are still many others. The ones Quicksilver left to be attacked by the hornets were killed and turned to dust, but another group of 6 with heavier artilary started their attack on Black Widow using bigger swords, maces and axes. None of these ninjas operate or attack using modern weapons, only weapons found centuries ago. They deem Balck Widow a threat that should be contained without the use of their magic arsenal.
A cloud of hornets assemble on the form of a humanoid creature with two arms and stops their pursue of Quicksilver, instead the âSwarmâ stands in the middle of the fight looking around. Quicksilver has a small hornet attatched to his suit, the Swarm detects it and slowly it vanishes between the lightings and the darkness. All the hornets emerge from the one in Quicksilver and the âSwarmâ grabs him by the neck with one of its four arms. This creature is sentient, their target is Quicksilver and they are prepared to eliminate.
Janet was trying to help her teammates from afar, she kept using her âstingsâ on the ninjas only to knock them down nothing really serious. She didnât want any more dead people dust around, but that wasnât really on her heands as she watched. Janet returned to her full size and looked for the cilinder, she expected it to have some sort of answer. Before she could reach the cilinder someone shot an arrow in it - very symilar to Clintâs. âClint?â She asked, presuming her teammate was in another state at the moment.
          To watch his lightining go trough whatever it was they were facing gave the Odinson some chills, even if he would never admit it. As far as he was concerned there should be no creature in all the Nine Realms able to witstand such an attack. Thor prepared his position to try a more physical approach to his attack, he threw the almighty Mjionir in the creatureâs direction before the creature maanged to throw its punch in his face. Unfortunately Thor still received the punch full force and had himself. The punch was much like those of Frost Giants but this body wasnât as strong as the one he had back then so the punch actually injured him and made him go trough some trees.
          On the ground, fallen from the pain he just went trough with a single punch, Thor tried to look around and raised his hand calling his hammer back. âWhatever it is, it has strenght.â Thor told his fellow comrades, if he wasnât able to witstand a blow from this thing it would surely end his fellow Avengersâ lives. Thor stood up prepared to finish off that creature in the name of the honor of his name. There was no way the fist son of Odin would be taken down by a creature made of darkness. Once again he called upon lightings, this time to make sure all his wrath was released. âIf thy wants a fight, itâs time to make it a fair fight.â
          From the few moments theyâd been in this battle, Thor realized these so called ninjas were no mere human beings and yet they were still presenting a huge set back to his mates. âProtect thyselves from the lightinings.â The Odinson shouted as he began flying, holding the hammer now with both hands. It all came falling from the sky, a lightining storm centered around Thor with rays of lightining falling on the ground. The Mighty Avenger aimed for the ninjas and the creature of shadows, presuming that if he hit whatever held Quicksilver would damage the fast Avenger.
Natasha gave Pietro a nod, he had just taken out one of the ninjas that had apparently made it their mission to finish her. But there was not time to dwell on that, there was no time to try and come up with ideas to take whatever they were up against down, because they were not afforded a single second to regroup. They all had someone on their back, they were are fighting no longer to contain the threat but to survive. Nat had never saw herself as being in disadvantage, she was after all only human, she was fighting alongside gods and mutants, but right now she was feeling like maybe she was in beyond her deep. Then she remembered a battle in which she had felt the same way, a battle that if they hadnât won would result in earth being occupied. You are not doing this for you, she reminded herself, even if when a maze came close to crushing her skull was a bit hard to remember.Â
She was about to say something to her teammates while dodging an ax by a mere inch, when her voice caught in her throat. The creature made of shadows was not solid, or as solid as darkness could look like. Natashaâs mind was trying to produce an explanation, but there wasnât any. It was in this brief description that the edge of a sword managed to catch her on the thigh. Whatever material and modifications her suit had, Tania had made a big deal out of giving them all upgrades, helped her not lose the leg, instead she was just forced to her knees, there was blood and she was momentarily out of combat. She just needed a respite. She continued to roll and dodge the ninjaâs attacks, she had to fight back or they were going to kill her. It was then than she saw a creature reaching for Pietro. âPietroâ she heard herself scream just as the creature got a hold of him. Even if she hadnât been struck earlier there wouldnât been much she could do. The ninjas were still all around her.Â
When she heard the sound of an arrow piercing the air, Natasha found herself turning towards where the shot might have come. There was no time to try and look for the origin, a maze came down next to her. Natasha continued to try her best at avoiding being killed by the ninjas when she heard Thor yell to look for cover. Her mind was racing and all measures against lighting were useless in a park where every few meters there was nothing much that could be used for cover. Natasha rolled to dodge another hit and then braced for the incoming lighting. âWhat are going to do?â Natasha yelled to be heard above the chaos, she was talking to everyone but particularly to Jan. They had to act fast, maybe try to regroup, or they were going to be defeated by whatever or whoever was causing this. The sky lit up with yellow light. Natasha waited.
For sure these guys werenât just ninjas because as far as he had read or watched on these western movies, ninjas didnât just puff out of existence after being killed. Well, technicaly they couldnât be killed considered they were just becoming dust. It was something else. Pietro tried his best to take down as many ninjas - or what the hell those things were. While Thor was being punched by the freaking creature Pietro caught his hands full with ninjas. Quite literaly, he had just fast-punched one of them and now his hands were filled with dust. Part of him felt really dirty because of such thing. The others apparently were also filled with their own problems, so he just kept going as fast as he could until he realized it was too late. Until that moment he never felt like he wasnât fast enough for something, but this time not even his speed helped him.
As soon as he could turn around to see the Swarm of creatures that had just showed up behind him - or from him he wasnât quite sure - he was already struggling to breath. One of the creaturesâ many arms was pressuring his neck, he tried to grab said arm but the insects just escaped his reach or stung him, which wasnât the most pleasuring sensation to say the least. His mind couldnât think so fast without enough oxygen getting to him, he was not sure about what could he do in order to set himself free of this creature. Pietro kept trying to grab the creature with his arms, his wasnât even touchign the ground at this point for the creature was holding him high. Probably it knew if he was in contact with any surface he could just run. Pietro couldnât bring himself to take the creatureâs arm of him, he wasnât going to escape this. All he could think was this was such a pathetic way to go.
Last thing he remembered before thigs going all dark in his herad was hearing Thor shouting something, Natasha asking what to do over the coms and then a huge flash of light. Pietro fainted from the lack of oxygen.
Janet was caught up searchign for the ninja that aimed an arrow to the cilinder as Thor lit up all the ninjas and the creature of shadows. While the lightinings pratically took the number of ninjas to ten or twenty at most, the Beast wasnât affected by it. Janet nearly was caught by one of the lightinings, if it wasnât for a mysterious woman wearing a dark leather suit that covered her face grabbing her out of the way. Her first instinct was to shrink and sting the woman, presuming she was another ninja or associate. Before she could attack the woman Jan heard Natashaâs voice over the comunicator, she was supposed to handle this mission not handle her teammates butts to the enemy. âIâm on it. Try to help Quicksilver, Iâm going to see what can I do for Thor.â She answered, right before the woman once again protected her from somthing.
An explosion.
The arrow had expoloded, alongside the cilinder. The woman was now on top of Janet, she pushed her aside and coffed right before poitining her hand at the womanâs head. âIf you move one inch Iâll blast your brains out.â Then Janet looked at Pietro, fainted at the hands of the Swarm. If he was dead she wouldnât ever forgive herself. The woman put her hands on the air, Janet wasnât really keen on letting her live except for the fact that she had saved her life not once but twice. Still, thereâs was one thing she learned at this job was that she shouldnât just go around trusting anyone.Â
âIâm not the enemy.â The woman said right before aking off her mast, revealing an unfamiliar face. âThe name is Kate Bishop, Ms. Van Dyne. I swear to god Iâm here to help.â Just as she spoke, Janet noticed Pietro being dropped in the ground and the Swarm slowly vanishing with the hornets flying away and the Beast becoming just a fog of shadow. Kate seemed surprised that whatever she had done worked, Janet put her hand down still not sure if she could trust this woman.Â
âWhat are those ninjas?â As Janet asked this the fog of shadow just entered Pietroâs body torugh his mouth and the speedster stood up in a really odd manner. âQuicksilver?â Janet ran closer to Pietro, Kate followed her.Â
âThis ainât your friend, maâam.â Kate said, pointing her bow with three arrows at Pietro and remaining in front of Janet. Noticing Janet was damn confused with what was going on, Kate looked at her without letting go of her aim on Quicksilver, or whatever that was. âItâs called the Beast of the Hand, and itâs on its strongest form in time.â As Kate finished her sentence Pietro/the Beast went running around forming a cyclone in the whole Central Park area which was starting to get dark again.
          As soon as he managed to stop his lightinings, Thor looked to the ground and saw the creature he was battling just some seconds ago entering Pietroâs body somehow. Thor came down to the ground, his teammate began to run in circles and called upon a twister somehow. It wasnât something Thor believes Pietro was able to do. âWhat is happening?â He asked to his colleague and then noticed Pietro wouldnât stop. Due his physique Thor wasnât affected by the strong winds Pietro was conjuring, but once the other Avengers didnât stop the winds only grew stronger and he was not able to say in place.
          All he felt was his head into a wall as he was threw away by the - now tornado - Pietro was created. The god of thunder stood up and looked at the rising tornado, he raised Mjionir and started flying trying to manage his own weight and not be moved by the wind being generated by Pietro. Thor spoke trough his communicator. âI thought I was the one to call upon the storms in this team.â Then he tried to find a way to stop Pietro without actually hurting him for he knew that was not the colleague he knew.
           âMs. Van Dyne, any ideas? I could stop him right here but I donât think Mjionir would hit him slowly.â No more ideas ran trough his mind, but he was aware he could not hurt or even kill Pietro, that might even not even ceise the creature inside of him.
