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Chapter One

Jade stepped to the side, dodging a blow from a vampire. She smirked-even if the vampire had hit her, she doubted it could do much to her in her rock form. Jade lashed out, grabbing the vampire, and ripped its head off, turning it into dust. "Duck!" Blade yelled, swinging his sword. Jade did as she was told, throwing herself forward, letting Blade kill two vampires with one slash. Jade picked herself up and looked around at the now empty sewer tunnel.

"You know, maybe I should get to work on a replacement for sewers." She mused. "Like some kind of incinerator that evaporates waste right in your home."

"Why would you do that?" Blade asked, looking around to make sure there weren't more vampires hiding in the tunnel.

"Because most of the bad and evil things in a horror movie come from sewers, and the vampires seem to have decided to set up shop here. Why would they do that?"

"It's dark, people rarely come down here, and there are plenty of exits that lead out everywhere in the city." Blade reasoned. "Besides, if you replaced sewers, the tunnels would still be there."

"Good point." Jade admitted. "I guess filling them in would be a bit impractical." She shrugged. "Oh well, time to move on. One more tunnel section, right?"

"That's right. Be careful, the leader of the group is probably in there." Jade looked down the tunnel with her night vision filter on, using the zoom in feature she'd installed a few months ago.

"Well, judging by the fancy wall they've erected, I'd say that's a pretty safe guess." She said, heading off down the tunnel. Jade had only met Blade recently when a routine job had gone south, with the criminals being revealed as vampires and attacking her. Blade had arrived and helped finish off the vampires, but he was impressed by the amount of vampires Jade had been able to kill before he arrived. He told her that he had found the hiding place for the majority of the vampires in Los Angeles, and had asked if she wanted to help. Jade had eagerly accepted the offer, and the two had gone down into the sewers the next night. Jade walked up to the door of the wall and, after making sure that Blade was ready, punched the door down.

As soon as the door hit the ground, a horde of vampires rushed at them. Jade shoved forward with a forcefield, knocking them to the ground. She and Blade rushed into the chamber, his sword and her fists lashing out and killing any vampire that came within reach. A vampire dropped down at Jade from the ceiling, but she shapeshifted, giving herself the arms of grizzly bear and tearing the vampire apart. Jade quickly turned her arms back to normal, just long enough to remove the remains of the glove before turning them back into bear arms. She had to admit, there was something deeply satisfying about tearing into vampires with claws. Jade and Blade waded through the horde until they reached each other, standing back to back.

"The Queen is getting away!" Blade growled, decapitating a vampire as it jumped at him.

"Can you handle this on your own?" Jade asked, Spartan kicking a hole in a vampire's chest.

"I handled myself just fine before you came along." Blade said dryly.

"Good." Jade said, setting her legs on fire and flying up. She scanned the room, and quickly found the Queen, the only vampire wearing a fancy purple dress. Jade rolled her eyes at this vanity and dove down at the Queen, turning her arms back to normal. She slammed into the Queen, knocking her to the ground, but the Queen recovered almost immediately and punched Jade in the head, cracking the visor of her helmet. Jade growled and launched herself at the Queen, and the two began to wrestle, rolling around on the floor. The Queen was stronger though, and she pinned Jade to the ground.

"The Daywalker has our strength and speed, and even he can only just survive fighting us in large numbers. What chance does a mere human like you have?" The Queen asked, laughing at Jade's attempts to get free. Jade stopped struggling and concentrated.

"I'm not a human." Jade growled as her new tail, based on that of a Xenomorph, arched over the Queen's back and stabbed her in the heart. The Queen screamed as Jade snapped the tail like a whip, sending the Queen flying. Jade leapt to her feet and used the tail to cut the Queen's head off, turning her into dust. She turned around, ready to continue the fight, only to find that Blade had finished the last vampire off already.

"Impressive." Blade said, cocking his head to the side to consider her. "Not bad for your first night out."

"Thanks." Jade said, shortening her tail so that it was blunt and just long enough to cover the new hole in her costume. "But if it's all the same to you, I think I'll leave vampires to you for now." Blade laughed.

"I assume you can get out on your own?" He said, and Jade nodded. Despite having just finished off a large group of vampires, he was ready to go find more. She understood that. She'd been working on a scanner that could find Skrulls for the same reason, though she hadn't had any luck yet, and she kind of doubted that there were more Skrulls on Earth.

"Yeah, I can handle it." She told him. "Go ahead and go." Blade gave her a small salute and left the room, leaving Jade behind.

One hour later, Russia

"Where's Clint?" Natasha Romanoff demanded, picking up the phone.

"Don't know." Phil Coulson told her calmly. "We're working on it. But right now, Fury needs you to go get the rich kid."

"Stark trusts me as far as he can throw me, you know that." Natasha said, picking up her heels.

"No, I've got Stark. You've got the rich kid." Natasha stopped and frowned.

"Wouldn't Tori be better for that? West trusts her more than me." Natasha had become the unofficial liaison between SHIELD and Jade West after the failed Skrull invasion, and while Jade didn't dislike her the way Tony did, Natasha knew that Jade would trust her girlfriend more than her.

"Tori's got the big guy." Coulson told her.

"What?" Natasha yelled angrily. Tori was, admittedly, a prodigy as an agent, though she wasn't as good as Natasha or Clint yet.

"Fury's going with her as a precaution; he's just using this as an extreme field test for her negotiating skills." Coulson said, attempting to calm her down. Tori was Natasha's first and only student, and she tended to get protective of her.

"Did she at least bring the gauntlet?" Natasha asked, forcing herself to calm down.

"Yes, she brought the gauntlet." Coulson said.

"Fine. But tell Fury that if anything goes wrong, I'm going to kill him."

"Understood." Coulson said, hanging up.

At the same time, Kolkata India

"And your friend, is she a spy too? Do they start that young nowadays?" Bruce Banner asked, turning from the window. Tori shrugged careful not to move her right arm too much. She was wearing a long coat that was modified to make it look like she was missing her right arm, thereby making it easier to hide the gauntlet she was wearing.

"My teacher did." She said.

"How did you find me?" He asked her, not moving.

"We never lost you." Tori explained. "We were just content to let you live peacefully. We even kept General Ross off your trail with false leads and distractions."

"And yet now you come directly to me. Why?"

"Something's gone missing, and we need you to find it for us." Tori said, reaching into her pocket with her left hand and placing a phone on the table. Bruce put on his glasses and bent down to examine the picture on the screen. "It's called the Tesseract." She said by way of explanation.

"Who would dare steal something from almighty SHIELD?" Bruce asked, not looking up. Tori chose to ignore the sarcasm.

"We don't know." She told him. "But the Tesseract emits a low level of gamma radiation. And we want you to track it."

"So you're just after my mind? You don't want…the other guy?" Bruce asked, looking for clarification.

"That's right. You're the leading expert on gamma radiation. If there was someone better I'd be talking to them."

"Stop lying to me!" Bruce yelled angrily, slamming his fists on the table. Tori stiffened and slowly removed her right arm from its hidden sleeve.

"I'm not lying to you." She said gently, glad she had refused Fury's offer to have SHIELD agents right outside. They were nearby and listening to the conversation, but they weren't close enough for Bruce to notice them. Bruce smiled.

"Sorry, that was mean. I just wanted to see how you'd react. And I must say, for someone so young, you handled the threat of the other guy quite well."

"Thank you." Tori said, relived. She still kept her arm out of the sleeve though. "Will you please come with me?" He looked at her for a moment, then nodded.

"I assume you've already got agents getting my things?" He said, taking off his glasses.

"Probably." Tori admitted, looking down at the ground sheepishly. Bruce gave a small laugh.

"Don't worry about it, I'm used to it."

Four hours later, Los Angeles

"I already have a copy of this folder." Jade said with a frown, looking at the first page of the folder Natasha had handed her.

"It's been updated." Natasha told her. Jade turned the pages to find pages for Bruce Banner and Steve Rogers.

"You found Captain America?" Jade said in shock, her eyes wide. "I knew there was a chance that he survived, but this is…wow." Natasha raised an eyebrow.

"You sound like Coulson." She commented. Jade chose to ignore this and closed the folder.

"That's very nice, but what's the point? Fury told me that the Avengers Initiative had been deemed impractical and was scrapped."

"Things have changed." Natasha said, handing her an iPad. "I'd recommend you read that over tonight, I'll be coming tomorrow to pick you up at 8 o'clock in the morning."

"What if I say no?" Jade asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You won't." Natasha said confidently, turning and walking away.

"How can you be sure of that?" Natasha didn't look back as she opened the door.

"Tori will be there." Jade's eyes widened and she headed straight to the lab to look over the data Natasha had brought her.

Author's Notes

And so it begins! I'm going to make one thing clear right now-Tori will not be fighting in the Battle of New York. At this point she is far from ready for that kind of a battle, and neither Jade nor Natasha would be willing to risk her safety in that battle. And as for the mysterious gauntlet that Tori had? It's a replica of the Iron Man armor that Jade made using the miniaturized arc reactor she made, and it will come up again.

On a completely unrelated note, we have some shameless self-advertising from me! I'm starting a web series called Madhouse Reviews, in which I review the movies that nobody wanted to see and that shouldn't exist, things like Gingerdead Man(a Slasher movie featuring an evil gingerbread man), and the first episode will be put on my blip site ( /fooldartz) on Saturday. The reason I'm saying this is that I'd love to hear suggestions regarding movies I should review. If you have an idea for a movie, please send it to me via a private message on this site or email me at 13crazyaces

Thanks for reading guys! See you next time!