As the car pulled into the airport, excitement bubbled under her skin. She'd never felt a thrill like this before. Although there was that time when the FBI nearly hacked into her computer but it wasn't like this. As her feet hit the landing strip she pulled herself out of the car, walking around to the boot to grab her equipment. Happy reached over to grab her stuff but Nora panicked and pulled him back.
"What now?" he exclaimed, clearly annoyed with her antics.
"That is a custom built desktop with an AMD FX 8350, and MSI Radeon 280x, and 16GB of RAM," She cried out with excitement. When she turned to look at Happy he just grunted.
"So?"
"So," Peter stated calmly while Nora nearly exploded, "That is a custom model meaning Nora had to ask for these parts specifically meaning expensive."
Happy rolled his eyes before moving to the front of the vehicle and making a phone call. Nora sighed in relief and grabbed the desktop from the boot and placed it on the floor, also grabbing her backpack containing a Compaq laptop with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 and 4GB of Ram, ThinkPad T60 with a Centrino Duo and 4GB of Ram and a ThinkPad T60 with a Core Duo and 4GB of RAM.
Peter grabbed the desktop and Nora smiled up at him, "The suit looks good on you," She smiled at him. Peter gave a small smile back, still upset about this Sam dude and a secret that she had apparently kept from him for a while. He shook his head. He had so many feelings coursing through his body. The excitement from the new suit. Anxiousness for the upcoming fight. Rage from the lies and betrayal of his best friend. Happiness because the new Superman comic was coming out today.
Nora was feeling much the same but hid it well underneath her sarcastic exterior.
"Let's move, I've got some stuff to set up," Nora said shrugging the backpack higher up on her shoulder. In the middle of the quad, Mr Stark or Iron man stood waiting for them.
"Nora. Peter. Nice to see you again," Tony nodded at Happy who moved towards another vehicle.
"Mr Stark so grateful to see you again I-" Peter babbled but Nora promptly threw a hand over his mouth.
"Stark. Sup," Nora saluted him.
He saluted back with a playful grin.
"So where do you need us?" Nora asked pointing to the desktop.
"I need Nora over there in the van and Pete you can help her set up. I'll call you in a few," Tony said before walking towards some other dude in another suit. Nora hefted the desktop and walked towards a white van. A woman with red curls emerged from the van and Nora nearly dropped the desktop.
"You're Black Widow. Natasha Romanov. I can't believe it." Nora said hurrying towards the taller assassin. Natasha raised an eyebrow before glancing around the small teenager at Tony. Tony laughed moving towards Rhodes.
"You know who I am?" Natasha wondered aloud.
"I was doing background research and hacked into Starks mainframe. It was an accident but I finally found a data file on the Avengers," Nora huffed out quickly.
Natasha grimaced, wondering what else the young girl had found, "Well it's good to meet you."
Nora smiled before bounding up into the truck. She set up her computer plugging in the USBs and disks.
"Need any help?" Peter asked her.
"Nah I'm good," Nora said sitting in the vehicle.
She placed her earpiece in and connected to the mainframe of the airport, "All set Stark."
"Thanks, kid. Get ready. Cap's coming in three… two… one." Stark and Rhodes landed in front of Captain America.
"Wow, it's so weird how you run into people at the airport. Don't you think that's weird?" Stark said, his suit revealing his face.
Rhodes chuckled, "Definitely weird."
Rogers shook his head; the stress was clear on his face. Nora ignored this, scrolling through the cameras of the airport looking for his metal-armed friend. If any of them have suits, she should be able to use her set up to infiltrate their CPUs. Hopefully.
"Hear me out, Tony," Steve spoke calmly, "That doctor, the psychiatrist; he's behind all of this."
Nora's eyebrows wrinkled in confusion. Psychiatrist? What were they talking about? All Nora knew was that she had to take them out. However, what happens if she was on the wrong side? She swiveled to the other side of the van hacking into Shield's firewall. Whatever was going on she wanted to form her own opinion not what they all kept suggesting. An alert pounded in her ear and Nora jumped. Swiveling back to her first computer she noticed the winter soldier bounding down an abandoned corridor as well as some dude in a black cat costume galloping swiftly over a vehicle. More specifically her van. Shit. She was right in the middle of this.
"Captain," he spoke harshly with an accent. Nigeria maybe?
"Your Highness," Rogers spoke back, with equal amount of condescension.
"Anyway," Stark said clearly not impressed he was not receiving the most amount of attention, "Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?" Brothers don't betray each other, Nora wanted to chip in but instead bit her tongue.
"You're after the wrong guy." Rogers stated confidently.
"Your judgment is askew." Stark bit back.
"Stark," Nora stated loudly, "Found the winter soldier."
He nodded before returning to Rogers, "Your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday."
"And there are five more super soldiers just like him. I can't let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can't," Rogers winced. He had to do it.
"Steve," Natasha spoke from behind him in a soft voice, "you know what's about to happen. Do you really wanna punch your way out of this one?"
Steve looked behind him at Natasha before his eyes slid to the floor. Nora held her breath, scared for what might happen.
"All right," Stark said loudly, clearly bored, "I've run out of patience."
Clasping hands around his mouth he yelled, "Underoos!"
Peter slung in from a web hitting Roger's shield out of his hands. He webbed Captain's hands together as well before landing on the roof.
"Nice job, kid," Stark complimented.
"Yeah, Peter. Don't mess it up by talking-" Nora managed to piece together but Peter was too far gone.
"Thanks, I could have stuck the landing a little better, it's just… New suit you know. It's nothing, Mr Stark. It's perfect. Thank you," Peter babbled.
"Yeah, we don't really need to start a conversation." Stark waved a hand to cut him off.
"And you blew it." Nora whispered harshly.
"Okay. Cap, Captain," Peter said saluting, "Big fan. I'm Spider-Man"
"Yeah, we'll talk about it later," Stark said with a pleading look in his eyes.
Nora bashed her head against the desk before scrolling through the computers. "They've stopped in a hallway looking over hanger 5. It heads towards the north runway. I think this has been a distraction. There's a Quinjet in there. Can I get ready to disable the door and shut the engines downs?" Nora quickly zoomed in.
Stark looked back at one of the cameras nodding. Nora nodded back before quickly pulling up the security measures.
"Hey everyone," Peter said with a wave exhaling.
Tony breathed before stopping him, "Okay okay, and good job."
"You've been busy.
"And you've been a complete idiot," Stark yelled back, "Dragging in Clint, 'rescuing' Wanda from a place she doesn't even want to leave, a safe place," his voice cracked clearly upset, "I'm trying to keep," he sighed before speaking again, "I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."
Steve scoffed, "You did that when you signed."
Stark rolled his eyes with annoyance, "All right, we're done. You're going to turn Barnes over, you're gonna come with us, now, because it's us… or a squad of J-SOC guys with no compunction about being impolite," he was raging but calmed down slightly, "come on," he begged.
"Hey Stark," Nora quickly added, "Rogers has an earpiece. He's about to try and make a run for it." Before she could add anything else Rogers placed his hands above his head, where an arrow flew cutting the material in two. Stark quickly pivoted his mask covering up to hide his face.
"Guys," Peter quickly stammered, "There's something-" Suddenly a person sprung from the shield and kicked Peter in the face.
"Whoa," Rhodes stammered, "What the hell was that?"
"Nora?" Stark questioned.
"Already on it. Scott Lang. Master thief with the ability to shrink in scale but increase strength thanks to a suit made by Dr Hank Pym, member of SHIELD. He was released from San Quentin State Prison after three years in prison. Also lost a custody battle over his daughter Cassandra AKA Cassie." Nora babbled to Stark quickly.
"I believe this is yours, Captain America," Lang passed Rogers his shield.
"Okay two on the parking deck, Maximoff and Clint," Nora stated clearly.
"I'm gonna grab her," Stark said quickly flying off.
"Rhodey, you wanna take Cap?" Nora asked, "or I got two in the terminal, Wilson and Barnes."
"Barnes is mine," Black Panther said sprinting towards the fugitives distracting Rhodes enough so Captain could hit him with his shield.
"Peter keep your distance but web them up now." Nora directed.
"Okay copy that," Peter said slinging off towards their building.
Captain practically tackled Black Panther towards the floor.
"Move Captain. I won't ask a second time." The Black Panther's accent came across thick and gruff.
The Captain smirked and Black Panther raged jumping in the air, his feet striking out with raging speed. Captain blocked him with his shield taking the brunt of the force on his shoulders.
Nora typed hastily on her keyboard searching the monitors whilst inspecting everyone's situations. Ant-man (that was what he preferred to be called) was battling with Black Widow. He suddenly became small and flipped Black Widow onto her back. She groaned in pain and Nora winced.
"Widow. You here?" Nora didn't wait for her to respond, "I'm messing with that dude's suit in three… two…. one!" Nora hit enter and as Ant-Man went to change the size, his suit malfunctioned.
Black widow punched him in the face and Ant-Man sailed through the air landing against a truck. Black Widow smiled and nodded at the camera before quickly racing off to help Tony. Nora flicked over to another image of Peter slinging into a building. Nora hacked into the Winter Soldiers arm. A surprising look fluttered upon Bucky's arm as he nearly hit Wilson. Nora smiled as she continued to hack into his arm while Peter slung through and webbed them both. They somehow broke free and Peter slung through the air, fighting them both.
Outside bombs exploded and Nora covered her ears scared. Clint and Wanda were running outside trying to escape Stark. They stopped when they realized they were cornered between Nora's van and the fires raging around them.
"Wanda, I think you hurt Vision's feelings," Stark said with his usual amount of sass.
"You locked me in my room!" She muttered back at him with clear distaste, "And now you have manipulated another innocent girl," Wanda said looking straight at one of the cameras Nora was watching.
"Shit!" Nora whispered loudly, her hands shaking over the keyboard.
"Okay, first, that's an exaggeration. Second I did it to protect you. And don't get me started on Nora," Stark stated annoyingly.
"That is her name? The small girl good with machines? There's something about her and you know it, Tony. You shouldn't have put her in the middle of this." Wanda stated angrily.
"Hey, she volunteered." Stark screwed his nose up holding his arms up in defence.
"Did she know what she was signing up for?" Clint questioned with frustration. Tony directed his attention.
"Hey Clint," He said. Nora didn't care though she quickly unplugged her Compaq Laptop and bolted for the exit.
As she opened the back of the van a car flew through the air heading straight towards her. She screamed in fear, holding her hands above her as if to stop the vehicle. A loud bang rang out through the airport and Nora opened her eyes from behind her hands. A flashing yellow light disintegrated the car. She turned towards Wanda and Clint who both stared at her with confusion. As they advanced towards her she slowly backed up tripping over the car chunks. Wanda kneeled down to her level slowly reaching out to put an arm on her shoulder.
Nora who was riddled with fear managed to mutter a thank you.
"That was not me," Wanda replied turning to Clint who shook his head.
"We've gotta go, Wanda," Clint stated drawing another arrow.
He and Wanda turned to move but Nora stepped into their path. "I can't let you leave."
"Look, kid, it's important," Clint said but Nora stepped in front of him.
"You're on the wrong side," Wanda muttered her accent heavy with fear.
"I don't know what each side is for? I don't know what they stand for!" Nora yelled in frustration and another car exploded in her vision. Nora whimpered in fear as she crawled backwards until she was back against a car, her arms wrapped around her legs as she rocked back and forth.
Wanda leant towards the poor girl but another car exploded, sending glass shards in all directions. Clint pulled her away, "We've gotta go."
"No," Wanda said reaching out to her but more explosions rang in her ears, this time metal pieces were flying all over the place, "She needs my help!"
"You can help her later!" he said as he hefted Wanda in the other direction.
Nora screamed as the metal pieces raced towards her, impaling her in the side. Nora coughed, blood pouring down her jacket. She blacked out soon after.
Clint dragged Wanda towards the Quinjet, "There's our ride."
"Now would be an excellent time to block the gate Nora," Tony's voice rang through the comms earpieces. There was interference on the other side.
"Dammit," he yelled disabling his earpiece for a minute.
Natasha was beside him, "The van went up in flames. I've gotta go and check on her." Natasha turned to leave but Tony grabbed her bicep.
"We need you here. We need everyone here. It'll just have to wait." Tony masked his fear with confidence.
"She could be dying Tony!" Natasha shouted at him.
"She's just another casualty." Tony yelled back, "This needs to end now!"
Natasha looked at him with a sick expression, "You're a sadistic bastard. You know that." She stated with disgust as the others bounded towards them. They stopped dead in their tracks as Vision created a beam to stop them.
"Captain Rogers," his thick voice rang throughout the airport again, "I know you believe what you're doing is right. But for the collective good… you must surrender now." Vision lowered to the ground as they formed a line.
"What do we do, Cap?" Falco asked, nerves fluttering in his stomach.
"We fight," Steve stated loudly, motioning for his teammates to move. Wanda looked at Clint, guilt clear in her eyes but shook her head.
They both ran towards each other as Peter called out in fear, "They're not stopping."
"Neither are we," Tony said racing forward.
Hey Everybody!
I am so sorry for the delay. My mums been in hospital and school has been insane! Hope you are all going great and I get that some people might be confused with Nora and her strange yellow energy but I have a lot of plans coming up.
Wanted to say a major thanks to everyone who commented and followed and favorited this story. It really keeps me going. I wouldn't be able to write without you guys.
Hope you guys love this chapter.
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Thanks,
Alex