Archer vs Avengers

Chapter 4

Unlimited Blade Works

Archer moved swiftly and moved to strike at an airborne Falcon with a just summoned Kanshou before having to black a hammer strike from Thor with a swiftly summoned Bakuya while Kanshou was blocked by Captain America's shield thrown at the right moment. 'Their teamwork is impeccable,' Archer thought in mid battle as he landed on the ground just in time for Hawkeye to start firing a rapid succession of arrows at him to throw off his balance. It didn't work as Archer used his own eyesight to see through the arrows trajectory to dodge with the least amount of energy needed. He knocked away the trick arrows with the twin blades though, and just as he was about to knock away one of the many arrows, a bolt of lightning was shot at him and forced him to bend backwards to avoid getting hit.

This is where Black widow came in to get the drop on him with the use of her batons, and ready to strike at him while they were electrified. Too bad for her that Archer could take control of the swords all around him and used those swords to carve her new batons to pieces and forcing her to fall back and wait for her chance to strike. Thor came back in and was about to slam his hammer down on the warrior's head before Archer used the force of bending backwards to do a back hand spring and kick Thor in the face at the right moment to make the thunder god miss his head. Archer stood straight again and blocked a few of Falcon's feather projectiles with ease using Kanshou while Ironman got into position to use the energy from the hulk buster armor to charge up a very powerful repulsor blast.

"GET CLEAR," Ironman shouted before blasting the massive amount of energy to Archer while everyone ran out of the way to the side.

Archer stood there and looked on in almost boredom before saying, "Rho Aias," and a flower made of pink energy formed before seven lenses formed in front of it that held the energy at bay like it was nothing. Thor decided to put in his own lightning in and used it as well while everyone else looked on at the scene. The power the two possessed was impressive for some, but for Archer and the Rho Aias, it was nothing like the Gae Bolg, and could easily be held at bay.

"How is it possible that we're getting beaten by the new guy," Hawkeye asked as he saw the combo attack lose its power.

"This is what happens when you don't follow your gut to stay away or train harder to beat a 'new guy'," Widow called over to him.

"I was following my gut, I still remember and follow my SHIELD training and they never screamed at me to be on alert around this guy," he replied back

"What, how is it that only me, Hulk, and Widow felt something wrong and not you," Captain America said as the combo finally ended and Archer was left there looking completely fine.

Hulk charged at the guy and jumped up to use the force of gravity to increase the impact force that he would have, but all of a sudden, Hulk stopped in midair and hung there in a slamming position as everyone saw what happened. Golden chains suddenly appeared from nowhere and wrapped around Hulk to stop the fall and impact, but the only thing holding them was glowing gold intricate circles in the air as if they were on something.

In their shock, they never once saw Archer move until it was too late, he moved directly to Falcon before anyone else could react from the shock at what he just did. In one moment, Falcon was alive and in shock, the next, Falcon was on the ground and bleeding out from two very deep wounds on his chest that were in the shape of an X. Then when they did react, it was too late again as Bakuya was imbedded in his head by Archer in a single flash. "Now that you know how serious this is, maybe you'll finally take me seriously when I say to disband or die," Archer said in a cold and emotionless tone.

"LIKE HELL WE'LL DISBAND NOW, YOU JUST KILLED HIM," Thor yelled before he began charging up a huge blast of lightning from the hammer. Captain America and Widow forgot all sense of self and rushed in while Hawkeye shot arrows to cover them and Ironman ejected himself out of the dead hulk buster armor to fight as well. The only one not about to fight them was Hulk, and that was because he was tied up in magical chains, but might not be for long.

Archer deflected the arrows shot at him from Hawkeye with ease before Captain America and Widow got to him to fight in close combat, Archer wasn't going to be that predictable. He made Kanshou and Bakuya disappear in an instant and brought back his bow and seemingly without knocking an arrow, pulled back the string before he released. Three red energy arrows were launched from the bow and sent flying to Captain America and Black Widow and forcing them to stop charging and hide behind the Captain's shield. They didn't see that Hawkeye was behind them, or that Archer used a sword to embed itself into his foot so he couldn't escape. He took care to make sure the others were busy with his controlled swords before all this and waited for the arrows to hit their mark.

They did, Hawkeye was pierced with three arrows, two in each shoulder, and one in the lower abdomen, and Archer made sure to pierce the nerves in the archer's shoulders so that they can't move. Archer also made sure to cut through the veins and into the stomach of Hawkeye to maximize the damage. If he didn't receive treatment within three minutes, to Archer's estimate, he would die very soon and that would leave only five more Avengers to deal with, and he only had to keep one alive.

Thor was really the only one he had to keep alive for any number of reasons, one was that his biological mother and the real Gaia would kill him for the deed, and killing him could lead to a war with Asgard. For the others, Hulk needed to die before Widow, Captain America and Ironman could die in any order of the four, but that is only if they surrender or their hope is crushed to the point they have to disband. Archer didn't really like to kill lovers, had to but didn't like it, so he would prefer to keep Hulk and Black Widow alive, and Captain America was a good soldier and one of his heroes when he was Shirou, so he wanted to keep him alive. So if he could help it, he would prefer not to kill some of the greatest of heroes that ever lived.

"I severed the veins of Hawkeye with my arrows, if he doesn't get treatment within the next few minutes he will die, do you still wish to fight me or save his life," Archer offered to them.

"You guys fight, I'll try to cauterize Hawkeye's wounds," Ironman ordered before flying off to stop Hawkeye's bleeding.

"Hurry Tony, I don't know if we can hold him," Captain America called back as he grabbed a random sword from where he was standing and Black Widow doing the same. They charged and engaged in a one on two fight as Hulk was stilled tied and Thor was fending off a few remotely controlled swords.

Ironman was over at Hawkeye's side as blood was flowing from the man's body at an alarming rate, and so Ironman used his repulsors with precision to cauterize the wounds. The only problem, the energy arrows that Archer used wouldn't go away or come out so that the wound can be closed, it was as if they refused anything that was Archer. Time was running out as Ironman used all of his strength to pull out an arrow so the wound could be cauterized, it just refused to budge even an inch.

"Sir," Jarvis called him to get the attention of Ironman, "sir," it called again and still Ironman was trying to get the arrows out of Hawkeye to stop the bleeding, "SIR," it finally screamed at him.

"What, I'm trying to get these arrows out to cauterize the wound, we need to save Hawkeye's life," Ironman said as he continually tried to remove the arrow.

"Sir, it's too late, I don't sense a life sign from him, just as I do not sense one from Falcon either," Jarvis regretfully informed him.

There was silence for a few moments as everyone digested the news, they all heard it, but just couldn't say anything, only continue to fight. And fight they did, Captain America went for a lunge while Widow went for a swipe on the other side of Archer. Archer in return brought Kanshou and blocked Captain America's lunge with the flat of the blade, Bakuya was brought up to with a swipe to block Widow's. Now Captain America tried to attack with his shield and Widow tried to bend down fast and do a sweep of his legs while hopefully dealing with the shield. Archer jumped up to avoid the leg sweep while bringing his twin blades up in an X shape to block the attacking shield before stomping back on the ground, which happen to be on Black widow's legs. She screamed out in pain before Archer actually was able to get under Captain America's shield and judo flip him into her and landing on her head, with any luck it just knocked her out and didn't kill her so he would live past the Hulk.

Captain America got up and moved to check up on his teammate to see if she died or just got knocked out, to his and Archer's relief, she was alive and unconscious. "Thank the gods, I really didn't want to deal with an out of control Hulk from his lover's death," Archer commented from behind acting casually.

"You still might, after all, you killed two of our friends," Captain America said before Ironman flew straight into Archer and took him high into the air and made sure the height was high enough to kill him before dropping him. Swords sprung up from the ground and created a small platform for Archer to stand on before the fall would be too much to take, after that he stared Ironman down as Thor finally dealt with all the swords and joined him. This was going to be an aerial fight it seemed, an aerial fight right after the first two casualties in this battle in Unlimited Blade Works.