5So sorry it took me so long to upload! My family and I moved, so I was offline for a while! Thanks for sticking with me!
I figured I should elaborate: this follows the cartoon as closely as I could manage.
Episode 3
I avoided the team like the plague. Only Ava knew who I was, and that was only because she'd recognized me out in town. Peter of course knew me, because he was practically joined at the hip to my brother. After the ordeal with Luke, he really didn't need to find out I actually couldn't stand up and help clean.
Cookie and I were hiding in a science lab as the team walked by with Peter. The teacher of the class walked over, "Hi, Miss Osborn! Can I help you?" I'd forgotten the teacher's name. Shoot. "No thanks, I was actually looking for the physics classroom. Would you happen to know where it is?" The teacher started giving me instructions, but I was just listening to the team chatting outside. Oh here we go.
I thanked the teacher and rolled out. Peter waved chipperly for me to join them. Luke, Danny and Sam frowned, confused. "Hi, guys," I mumbled. I saw Danny's eyebrows shoot up. One. Sam whipped his head suddenly to Peter. Two. Luke said softly, "W-wait. Yo." And three. Agent- no, Principal Cousin happened to walk around the corner at that second, "Ah." Cookie moved in front of me and sat down, a doggy scowl on her face. Trying to protect me. "Stand down, Cookie," I said with a smile as I scratched behind her ears. Her tongue flopped out of her mouth as she returned to my side. "Why didn't you tell us?" Sam said, a hint of betrayal hovering over his words. The words hung there for a second. "I didn't want your pity."
Ava smiled sadly, "I think you know that we wouldn't. Pity you, I mean." My eyes snapped up. "We wouldn't be a team without you." I smiled the second the bell rang. Coulson grinned, "Detention, guys. You're tardy." With a collective groan, my team wandered after Coulson.
We sat around a detention room. Peter actually thought he was in trouble. I thought it was hilarious.
Suddenly, the ground gave way beneath my chair and I plummeted through a chute. Cookie barked down from above as I plopped into a S.H.I.E.L.D. pod- wings and all. I squished and shifted around, trying to find a comfortable position. The pod flew forward. Nice. It jerked suddenly to a stop. I flew out, but was able to cushion myself with air before landing flat on my face- like the boys had. Tiger had landed perfectly with a "TADA!" I laughed as she scoffed at the pile of boys.
We were in some kind of metal room with two windows.
Tiger moved to some kind of aquarium window, "Where are we?" I hovered down next to her, "Wish I knew."
"Attention, all S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel. Prepare to surface." PA's blared. Fury? I mouthed to Tiger. She shrugged. The ground pitched as what we were in burst from the water. "The helicarrier!" Tiger shouted, pumping her fist into the air, "I love this job!" Nova flew up suddenly, "You want to throw down, webs? Let's go. Right now!" I flew up next to him, nudging him with my wing. He glanced over and scowled. "In a feisty mood? Fantastic," a voice said. We looked over to a holo-screen with Fury's face on it. A few training bots rose up from the floor around us.
Oh.
Training.
Lovely.
Spidey and Nova went ballistic on the bots. The rest of the team and I just kind of hung out, watching them do their stupid competition thing.
"Gentlemen," Fury deadpanned, "The object of this exercise was to cross the room without setting off any traps." I snorted at their confusion. Then we were stuck cleaning. I used solid air to crush all of the metal bits into a dense cube for Nova to melt down. "You guys are the noobs," Spider-man said as he dropped from the ceiling, "I've been catching baddies for over a year." I scoffed, "I've been doing the same for two, rookie." He started rattling off the villains he'd caught. Tiger jumped, "Spidey, you're a geni- You gave me an idea!"
Tiger started up a console, scrolling through a list of bad guys, "S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most wanted. We bring in someone from this list…" "Instant respect," Luke- Power Man finished. "Guys…" I said softly as they scrolled to the top of the list. "Doctor Doom!" Nova shouted triumphantly, "Last one to Latveria licks Fury's eyepatch!" He started to fly off, but I grabbed him with air and held tight, "Absolutely not," I snapped, "Last thing you want to do is chase down literally public enemy #1, Nova." He jerked free and zoomed down the corridor. I sighed and flew after him, "But no way am I licking Fury's eyepatch!" Tiger leapt on my back, "We stopping them?" "Duh."
The boys beat us to a small ship. "Can we turn off the testosterone? We can't fly to Latveria and attack Doctor Doom." I hovered down into the ship, "Think with what's between your ears, boys." Tiger huffed and swung in. The door slid shut and the ship flew out of the helicarrier.
"I hate you all," Tiger growled.
I left the ship and flew beside it. Might as well stick with my team, right? A few minutes later, Nova burst out, shouting, "Latveria in three minutes!" "I have eyes, bucket head!" We flew to a small island. It was actually really pretty. The ship broke into mini ships and followed us to land. A few explosions started firing in the distance. "Blow 'em up!" I shouted to Nova. "With pleasure!" We took turns destroying anti-aircraft missiles and took the fight to the ground. Rows and rows of robots greeted us. With a solid wave of air, I knocked most of them down and Nova melted and crushed them. The rest of the team soon joined us. The robots were down pretty fast.
"Hang on, guys," Spidey murmured. A movement next to a huge brick wall caught my attention. A man in a suit of silver metal jet-booted down the wall, "I am doom." He started firing red lasers at us. "He's nuclear!" I shouted to Spidey. He blasted Power Man and a slab of concrete into the woods surrounding us and soon turned his fire on the rest of the team. Spidey and Nova- still stupidly competing- battered the guy until he was out cold. Spidey webbed him up and crammed him into a pod. "Are you sure this is a good idea? It seemed a little too easy to get him," I shouted to Spidey. He closed his pod's lid and lifted off. "This is stupid," I muttered as I followed.
Let's just say… Fury wasn't pleased with Spidey and Nova's gift. He drew a phaser on the webbed up villain, "You just walked the most dangerous man in the world right into my helicarrier!" Doom ripped up Spidey's webs and little mini Doctor Dooms crawled from his chest, armed to the teeth. They started wreaking havoc across the bridge and running amok in the other parts of the ship. I scowled at the boys as I followed the smallest one. Tiger had the best idea ever- corral them. Spidey and Nova were heavily chastised by the rest of the team for starting this mess. Suddenly, the helicarrier tilted to the side. "They've hit one of the engines!" One was in the reactor core, too. If that core blew, so would New York. I pounded through the floor, carving my way to Engineering. Nova and I muscled the falling helicarrier up away from the Bronx. Gosh, was it heavy. He was holding with energy, I'd padded most of the bottom with air. "Gotta go, birdie!" He shouted.
He dropped his part of the helicarrier. Wow this thing was REALLY heavy. I struggled to hold it until the engine came back online and the carrier leveled out. I kind of wandered onto the bridge, where the team was lying around in various states of exhaustion. "Bucket head," I panted. He looked up. "The next time you do that, I'll blow you up like a balloon." He laugh-coughed. Fury stomped onto the bridge, eye practically popping out of its socket. He unloaded onto us. Juvenilism. Idiocy. Stupidity. But when he asked who started it, we all moved forward to stand with Spider-man. After all, he was part of our team. He was practically family, for all I cared.
As Fury left, Doom popped up on one of the large screens. "I have scanned your every flaw, your every weakness. Cross my path again, and you will suffer unspeakable consequences." Nova blew his top and flew to another transport.
Really?
The team ran after him, but I just kind of hovered for a moment. Yeah. They were family.
Aera out!
