“Avengers Tower has fallen. I repeat: Avengers Tower has fallen.” And that’s how it began. A few shocking words uttered quietly into a crackling radio, a shaky attempt at calm, and for a moment, all he could see was black. The sounds of the battle eased away, and he was lost in total darkness. That was their main base of control, thousands had been stationed there, taking over command from their central unit of power, and it was just....gone. No warning, no chance at stopping it. One moment it was there and the next it was...collapsed, obliterated. Nonexistent, like it hadn't ever been there at all. It was the screaming that brought him back; the plaster, dust and ash rendering him completely, hopelessly blind; the ear-splitting crash of debris raining down. For a second, a moment that felt like days, everything settled and there was dead silence; no screams, no debris left to fall, no explosions. Blissful silence.