A/N: I’m not so good at writing action so another short one before we open up into slightly longer ones (🤞)
Masterlist
Whumptober Masterlist
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2014
NEW YORK
The glow of the streets means that there’s enough light pollution for the infiltration team to surround the building.
The drone is sent up and a small electro magnetic pulse is sent halfway up.
Immediately the lights go out.
It’s a go signal.
The second EMP goes off and half the team enters, the other half patrolling.
Having no idea where the Avengers team are hiding the scepter, the team looks to scout all levels and all floors. The most obvious being the laboratories, the sub-basement or the workshops.
Night vision googles on, gas masks situated; the team scout the entrance, letting off two smoke bombs and then gas through the air ducts.
They become shadows, moving in the darkness, through the smoke, expecting resistance and finding none.
They scout the first hall, the call coming through that there’s nothing on the first floor.
Moving down, the sub-basement holds more promise.
Lined with inert Iron Man suits, the men move forward, torches making the suits feel like they’re watching.
They move quickly, pumping more gas through the vents.
They know Captain America is likely to either be immune or work through the sedative quickly.
The others, they rely on their human constitutions to make sure they don’t wake up.
Sub level one gets cleared, no scepter.
Sub level two is blocked. Behind a vaulted door, one man steps forward and attaches a portable electronic device.
The scrambler for the door lights the room, numbers start running and they all stand and wait.
“Fifteen minutes,” the man identifies, rolling up his sleeve to reveal his Hydra tattoo.
Three continue to guard him, whilst the other four move away, heading up the tower through the fire escape.
Floor three and four produce no results and the gym and kitchen seem redundant to even explore.
Finally they reach the laboratories and find them shut down.
The EMP whilst effective, also seemed to have set off fail safes.
They move up, the personal floors. Finding them just as impenetrable, the men continue to the workshop, finding it just as locked.
Having accounted for this, they place small charges on each of the doors of the laboratory, it takes a moment before the charges blow; allowing entrance.
Ten minutes before the sub-basement is unlocked.
The laboratory is large, and it takes them time before they clear it.
Half finished projects litter the benches.
The sceptre is nowhere to be found.
The likelihood that it’s anywhere but the sub-basement but still, they continue.
The charges are placed and blow through the wall this time, the doors to the workshop too heavy and large to work through.
The wall collapses easily, pushing debris out, moving the contents of the workshop not held down into the opposite wall.
Focusing, they look through the debris finding nothing; spare parts for electronics, some half built iron man suits, other parts that they have no context for.
No scepter.
It seems the only place left are the private levels and the sub-basement; now unlocked and ready to be searched.
The team heads back down, to meet the others now waiting.
“Sir.”
The defection to the tallest member is obvious who the leader is.
He enters confidently.
He hears the plate click, swears at the likelihood that he’s just stood on a improvised explosive device, he signals for the team to spread and move out and away, but there’s no time.
He says a prayer and feels the end come.
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Jarvis detects movement around the tower, organised in its nature.
Immediately, he locks down the personnel floors, sub-basement, laboratories and workshops. He arms them where he can and places safeguards around the floors with people in them.
The movement halts, drones fly near, and then, he feels himself being shut down.
No electricity, he has nothing to draw from.
In dying moments, before the electricity is removed, he sends an urgent message to the Iron Man hud display, with the footage of the team and warnings he could muster.
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Sam snores, oblivious to the goings on outside, his door locking shut, and the bed still made as he sleeps beside it.
It had felt like a night that anything could happen and he’d opted for the floor, wanting a harder surface underneath himself.
He wakes to the building shuddering, breath laboured as he covers his mouth.
The air is wrong and he doesn’t know why.
The dizziness that accompanies it feels strange and he moves slowly to the corner, before realizing everything is so dark.
“Something is wrong,” he mutters to himself, before pushing into a standing position and finding the space enclosed.
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Tony wakes breathing in heavily the toxicity in his tower. Glancing at Pepper, he finds her still asleep. He tucks her in and sits up.
Something is wrong, he thinks, before succumbing to the sedative pumping through the vents.
Unaware of the boom underneath, the drugs encompassing his floor before the remnants drift up to the others.
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Steve sees all the lights of the tower turn off, his own room becoming dark as he looks out the window and sees shadows moving in the world, highlighted by the light pollution of the city.
Just like the rolling blackouts of his youth, he finds it strange that it’s only the Tower that’s gone dark.
“Jarvis?” he calls out, to no response.
Anxiety curls; he pushes at his door to find it locked.
Steve hears another beat and the whole tower shuts down.
The silence is deafening.
No way to tell the time, no way of contacting others. Steve feels panic for his friends and the tower as he contemplates what to do.
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Maria sleeps, and dreams of dark things.
When the tower shakes, she feels like she’s crawling through mud to get to the surface.
She feels it’s a dream, so real in her thoughts that the worry permeates through.
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Bruce dreams.
He dreams of the Hulk trying to wake him a growl and beating of his chest, but it’s all still a dream.
He’s not in any danger, he’s with the others, he says subconsciously.
Don’t worry.
They’ll protect us.
The Hulk growls again, awakening at the sound of explosions, ripping Bruce from his sleep as his subconscious becomes him.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel (Comics)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Avengers Team/Original Female Character(s), Thor/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Nick Fury, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Bruce Banner
Additional Tags: Not Canon Compliant, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Mating Bond, Claiming Bites, Drama, Reluctant Friendship, Angst and Feels, Hurt/Comfort, yes there will be spice it’s me, Team Dynamics, Team as Family, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, fated mates, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends
Summary:
When the team finds a young woman hidden away in what looks like an abandoned HYDRA base, they have a lot of questions. Who is she? How long has she been here? Why was she here? Why did they leave her behind? She’s in bad shape, so doing what’s natural they bring her back with them for treatment as they try and figure out the answers to all the questions.
When they learn she’s an omega, they decide that she should remain with them until they can get those answers.
But Rowan has two really big secrets and they have little to nothing to do with why she was being held captive. The team is about to get much more than they bargained for and they aren’t the only ones. Rowan’s life is about to change in ways she never expected nor wanted.
