#seriously though. there's no fics or edits or even gifs of him unless he's like in the background of the scene

[armins-main-hoe]

Katsuki Bakugo X Diva!reader au.    Pt.2 here

I’ve yet to see a fic like this so I’m taking it into my own hands and writing my own.

edit: There is some swearing in here. It’s also quite long but I might do a part 2. 

Katsuki Bakugo X diva!reader au.

You knew Katsuki since you were kids. His mum and yours were friends meaning that you often met up with him. As kids, the two of you got on well enough to play with each other. Usually with you playing the ‘Princess’ and him the ‘Heroic Knight’ who would save you. Though as you grew up, his pride and temper grew and your sense of style, attitude and mindset changed. The two of you no longer could get along. Whenever your mother and his would meet and, unfortunately, drag you two along, there would be squabbles and shouts to be heard.

“Can’t believe you walked out of the house looking like that today.”

“HAH? Says the one caked in makeup.”

“You son of a- “

“you plastic bit-“

This only ends with your mothers shushing you and cutting the get together short.

You didn’t go to the same school, which was a relief to both. That was until UA. The shock on both of your faces when you saw each other in 1a was incredible.

When first year at UA started. The whole of 1a quickly caught on that Bakugo had a hot head. Though he had a strong temper, they all did not underestimate his strength.

To the class, you seemed like a bitch. Judging anyone and everyone constantly, only caring about your own looks and feelings, not caring at all about school. While Bakugo somehow managed to make a few friends, you couldn’t make any until further into the year when your attitude changed towards your classmates with the help of Mina.

Despite now going to the same school, you both didn’t talk to each other at all unless it was absolutely necessary.

You once spoke to him when he burnt a part of your hero costume in a training exercise. It did not end well. The two of you where partnered up for just one task, as usual, Katsuki went ahead and took the lead. Told you to sit down and watch him while he attacks.

You rolled your eyes at him. Yes, you seemed as if you didn’t take training seriously enough since you were too busy with your hair or if you looked good enough, however, even you cared enough to keep your grades up. There was a reason for why you applied for this course anyway. That meant that you would not let him do all the work. You like attention too. With no communication or idea of a coordinated plan, the two of you followed ur own ideas and went to attack the dummy villain.

With delicate ease, you were about to get ur hands on the dummy, at the same time, so was Katsuki, he didn’t see you until was too late and so did you. The two of you collided and his explosion that was meant for the dummy, landed on you. This caused the fabric on your costume to burn and nasty looking holes to appear. He ruined your hero costume. How dare he.

The dummy long forgotten, the two of you started to fight each other.

“You are so FUCKING dramatic. It’s not like you were a super model before anyway!”

“You and your HORRENDOUS hair have no right to talk about being a super model!”

“I don’t want to be a dumb model. I’m here to become number 1!!”

“As if they would ever let a pig like you become number 1.”

Aizawa had to step in and stop you both. The two of you failed that training session.

At the time of the USJ incident happened, you got consumed by fear of there being actual villains in the area that you really could not think of what to do. You came across one villain and knew you had to fight against that villain. Your quirk allowed you to easily escape if you wanted to but you knew that if you left, this villain would simply go and find another classmate. While you did not get along too well with most of your classmates, Mina being an exception, you cared enough to fight the villain so no one else has to. Though because of your fear, you kept making many mistakes during the fight, proving you still have quite a lot to improve on. Thats when he came, with his loud explosions propelling him forwards and to the villain. You weren’t hurt that bad but you did have a few cuts and bruises, had he not arrived when he did, you believe that you would have been injured far worse. 

Once the villain was unconscious and on the floor, he told you to “fucking get out of the way” and go “back to the other extras”. That time you didn’t reply with another witty remark. Kirishima, who also was with Katsuki, did ask you for any injuries and said that you should join them both since it would be better to stay as a group. You simply nodded, words of agreement dying at your tongue, making it hard to get any words out. 

Katsuki noticed this unusual behaviour from you but did not say anything about it. He’d only glance at you every now and then to make sure you didn’t get left behind anywhere.  

When sports day came around, you made it through all the way to the one vs one matches. You even got the chance to fight Katsuki himself. The two of you were delighted to be against each other. Finally you could beat the other up without anyone getting in the way.

The match between you two seemed to go on for ages, in the end it was a test for who had the best stamina. Too bad your quirk gave out on you and you ended up dealing with some serious side effects of over using your quirk. This meant Katsuki Bakugo won. You did not like this. No, you wanted to keep fighting, you wanted that shitty grin wiped off his face.

However, as you were walked off the stage, Katsuki admitted to himself that he kinda like fighting with you. You gave it your all and victory never tasted sweeter. He felt the muscles in his hands cramp up but he couldn’t care, he felt too good winning against you. Though that feeling of sweet victory soon went away quickly after his match with Todoroki. 

You watched him as he came first in the sports festival. You watched him struggle and shout. You suppose that this passion to come out as the best is admirable but surely his behaviour right now is a bit overboard. You and everybody else knew that he wanted Todoroki to fight him just as you did. Perhaps you set his expectations a little to high. Though his fight with that gravity girl was quite intense too. 

It doesn’t matter what he felt, in the end you lost to him and that made you feel this horrible burn in your stomach. You wanted to win. You wanted to come out as top. How come you weren’t good enough?

Well perhaps you were putting more time into your physical appearance than your education but that doesn’t mean you weren’t putting any effort at all. You looked down at your nails, you remember doing them yesterday which was also when you could have been getting some last minute training in. 

Oh but your nails look pretty though. 

You ended up admiring your nails and how much more you have improved in your nail art. 

That ugly burn in your stomach died down a bit. Though as soon as you went home, your family members were praising Katsuki more than acknowledging the fact that you gave it your all too. Your younger siblings looked at him on the screen in awe as they watched his matches. 

Your eye twitched as jealousy rushed through your veins. He is not even here yet he has everyone’s attention on him. It should be you. Not him. 

But it always was him. Even when you were younger, the ride home after visiting his place was full of praises for him. He was not even there to hear the praises so what was the point? You were there though yet they had nothing to say about you. All you got was a compliment for how you looked that day. 

That was all you ever got compliments and praises for but you will take what you will get, even if those compliments slowly stopped after a while and you had to ask them to say something about how you looked. While everyone else around you thought that you were just another girl who is obsessed with clothes and makeup, your physical appearance meant so much more to you. To you, it made you feel like you weren’t so worthless. It gave you reassurance that while others may be better than you, may be more worthy than you, you at least have a pretty face. 

That day, after the sports festival, you couldn’t stand to sit and listen to your family’s praise for Katsuki anymore. Escaping to your room, you started to redo your nails. You needed something to distract yourself. Something to feel proud of. 

You later found yourself with an opportunity to get some hero experience while training under a pro hero. Considering how you did not even make it to the top three, receiving that opportunity had you jumping around your room. You went and told all your family members about it and you never felt more seen than you did at that moment. You saw your parents smile and praise you. Not Katsuki. Not your friends. You. 

Of course you had to have some bad luck when something so lucky happens. You see, you got to work with Best jeanist, the number 4 pro hero. That wasn’t the unlucky part, its the fact that Katsuki was also there. Seeing him there reminded you of when you first saw him in 1A. 

“The fuck are you doing here?” He asked you.

‘I could ask you the same thing.” 

“I asked first.”

“Okay. I don’t care.”

That lead to another argument between you both. It was only when best jeanist walked in that made you both shut up. During that first day, you and Katsuki went on and on with the insults, you mainly teasing him about the jeans and his hair. Putting the insults aside, you found yourself enjoying being around him. Yes, he called you rude names but he has been for years now and it isn’t like you call him anything that nice either. You noticed how he would wait for you, caught you when you tripped but immediately let go of you when you made eye contact with him. You saw him try to talk to kids and fail horribly. He saw you trying to act as if you are perfectly fine with new addition of jeans to your hero costume. He saw you look into every reflective window to see if you really did look decent with the jeans on. He saw you genuinely smile while talking to himself and Best Jeanist. 

Jeanist, however, could only see your weak points and where you have to improve. He knew that the two of you were quite strong already, he knew that if Katsuki had not been your first opponent in the sports festival then you stood a chance of coming second place. Yet he did not like either of your attitudes. One of you was far too obsessed with becoming number 1 and the other doesn’t seem to care at all. Best Jeanist definitely had his work cut for him with you two.     

While on the way back home you both had to take the train together. (I can’t remember if they stayed with the pro hero’s agency for the night or if they went home and came back the next day so just go along with it.) While waiting for the train at the station, you looked at him. His hair was still in the neat, clean hairstyle that Best Jeanist forced it into. Not that you would admit it out loud but you thought he looked cute with his hair like that. You could tell the hair was irritating Katsuki quite a lot. You debated on whether or not you should help him out. It’s not like he would say thank you but you have wondered if his hair is soft or rough from lack of care. So you decided to take your chance. 

“Hey Katsuki, look at me.”

“Ew, why would want to look at-”

You moved your fingers through his hair, gently pulling it out of the style it was forced into. To your surprise, it seemed like the livid boy does take care of his hair since though it was not silky, it was very soft to touch. Whats even more surprising, is that he let you fix his hair. You could feel his red eyes on you the whole 3 minutes that it took to make his hair back into the spiky mess it had always been. As if he was studying your face like he hadn’t been seeing it for the last 11 years.

“Finally, your hair looks horrendous again. Honestly though, I don’t even know how you can go around looking like- ” You say as you smile at your work. 

“Who said you could call me Katsuki?” 

You were a little taken back by his question. 

“I’ve always called you Katsuki since we were 4. Besides you call me by my first name too sometimes. Okay maybe it more rare than sometimes since you do call me ‘cake face’ or ‘plastic bitch’ most of the time even though I have had 0 plastic surgery whatsoever!”

He ‘tsk’ed and looked the other way. Though kept your eyes on him and did not fail to see his ears burn red. No way, is he blushing? 

“My hair services don’t go free of charge, Katsuki.” 

“Fuck you.” 

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[bebepac]

How We Met (Happy Birthday Jess!)

This is a very special birthday edition of Just The Way you Are.   To catch up on this story line, please click:  Just the Way You Are Masterlist

This time last year we didn’t know each other.  Did not know I would have written so much content, and met so many different people.  One of the being @phoenixrising308​​​ , who I started talking to several months ago on a zoom call.   Then she messaged me on tumblr, and the rest is history.  

I hope you have a happy birthday!  Thank you for being my friend.

I know on the fandom people use the characters of the person they are writing the birthday fic for.  That’s something I’ve never felt comfortable with is using other people’s characters, so I always gift them my own when a write a fic.  So I really hope you enjoy this Jess.

Original Post Date:  3/8/21 6:02AM

Summary:  Nico and Riley meet for the the first time and go on a “date.”

Warnings:  One almost curse word.  This is seriously fluff.  

Word Count: 1838

The Book:  TRR x Perfect Match

Pairing:  TRR MC x M! OC (Riley x Nico) 

Riley Brooks belongs to Pixelberry, all others are my own characters to help us tell our story.

Sir Fluffs A Lot is back for this.  We all know he likes big fluffs and he cannot lie.

He walked in seeing a  beautiful woman getting a drink from the staff vending machine.  But she wasn’t staff.  At least he didn't think she was.

He hadn’t seen her around before, but he’d only been working there a few weeks.  

She was trying to get a Dr. Pepper from the machine.   She was wearing hip hugging jeans and a cut off NYPD t-shirt, and her wild curly hair was pulled up into a ponytail.   Pink sunglasses held back her flyways from her chaotic hair.

“You see there’s a trick to this machine.”  

“Oh is it now?  Because every other one on the face of the planet, you put your money in and press the button, and it gives you what you ask for, unless the little red light is on.”  

She smirked at him.  She had a little bit of sarcastic sass. He already liked her.  

“Do you trust me?”  

“I don’t know you.”  

“Well let’s change that. My friends call me Nico KH.”  

“What does the KH stand for?

“My last name.  Karahalios.”  

“So Nico Karahalios,  about that drink….”  

Nico grabbed his heart.

“That hurts girl, are you trying to tell me, we won’t be friends?  You’re not going to tell me your name?”

“I’m sorry, I don’t date cops.”  

“I didn’t ask you out.”

“That was a little cutthroat Nico.”  

“I feel like you can handle it. Why don’t you date cops?”

“Long story. I’m Riley.”  

“See Riley the trick to this machine is, if you want Dr. Pepper you need to hit the Sprite.”  

“Nuh, uh…”  

“It is, watch.”  

Nico walked up to the machine and hit the button for Sprite, and out popped the Dr. Pepper she wanted.  He picked up the bottle holding it out for her to take.

“I told you.”  

“Thanks.”  

He watched her walk away.  He told himself if she was interested she’d glance back one last time before she hit the door to leave.  Look back… look back…. He willed her.

Riley right before she turned the handle on the door to leave, she glanced in Nico’s direction.  

He smiled at her.  She smiled back shaking her head at him.

She walked out of the lounge.

"Nico KH don't even think about it." Greene laughed.

"She's cute, and funny."

"Get her out of your head man.  Forget you ever saw her.You know Brooks upstairs  in IA?"

"I think I met him once."

"That's his daughter. So get that out your head man, she's off limits. She doesn't date cops. Neither of them do."

"Them?"

"Brooks has identical twin daughters.”  

Nico's eyes widened. 

"There are two of them?!? That look just….like her?"

"Nope and THAT is never going to happen Nico."

Nico laughed.

"I mean a man can dream.”

Their paths didn’t cross again for over a month.

*^*^*^*^*^* Prospect Park *^*^*^*^*^*

“You’re going to love it,  the tire swing is soooo cool!!!!”

“Can I swing on it by myself?”  

“We’ll see, then after, we’ll get some lunch.”  

“Pizza?”

“Okay. Even though the slices are bigger than you are.”

“They are not!”  

“They are sooooo!!!!”

Nico ruffled Nic’s hair pulling him closer to him,

As they got closer to the swing, they saw her sitting under the tree with a blanket, reading a book.   She had a little cooler with her as well.  It looked like she had planned to be there for a bit.  

“Riley?”

“Nico right?”  

Yes, and this is Nic,  we thought it was too beautiful a day to be in the house.   We thought we’d come to the tire swing, and well looks like you had the same idea too.  Well sort of.  And who’s that little guy?”

Riley had a little corgi puppy curled up in her lap.  He woke, looking at the two strangers.  

“His name is Chance.”  

“Can I pet him?”

Chance jumped down from Riley’s lap and bounded over to Nico, and rolled over around his feet.

Both Nico and Nic petted the puppy.  

“He’s adorable.”  

“He’s supposed to be an attack dog.”  

Nico laughed.  “Corgis are not attack dogs.”  

“I know that NOW.”  

Nico laughed even harder.

“I’ll move to the other side so you two and get to the swing.”

“Are you sure?”  

“Is it your first time on the swing Nic?”

Nic nodded.

“I’m sure Nico.  She started gathering her things.  Nico and Nic helped her, and set her stuff up on the other side of the tree.  

As Riley got settled she could hear Nico talking to Nic.  He seemed like a very attentive father.  Riley found herself watching him with Nic,  Nic was truly his mini me.  He even walked the  same as Nico did.  

She watched Nico get in the tire swing first, and  pull Nic into his arms.

She watched them glide out over the lake both Nico and Nic were laughing.  

Riley and Chance both stood there watching.  

“Can I go by myself?”  

“You have to hold on tight Nic, you can’t let go.”  

“I won’t.”  

“Are you really going to let him do it?”  

“The water’s warm.  Worse come to worse he can swim.”

Nico gave Nic a firm push and he squealed in delight as he sailed out over the lake.

“You look like you want to give it a go too Riley.  Go next.”  

“No that’s okay.”

“It’s fun.  You’ll be glad you did. Girl, let that beautiful hair down and have some fun already.”

“Can I hold your puppy?”  

“Sure Nic.”  

He picked up Chance, and he licked his face.  

 He was such a cute little boy.  Nico held the tire while Riley hopped in.

He gave Riley a hard push and watched her swing and scream happily. 

  When the swing slowed, he helped her get out.  

“You were right, that was fun.”  

“Daddy, I’m hungry.”  

“I have sandwiches, nothing fancy.”  

“I’m sure you just brought enough for yourself.”  

“I brought three, chips, apple slices, and drinks.”  

“Why did you bring all this food, are you planning on moving into the park?”  

“I mean I brought enough for me and Chance.”  

“You’re NOT going to feed that puppy that food!!!!”

He raised his eyebrow at her.

“Okay already! All the sandwiches are for me, I like to eat Dam….arnit… but I’ll share. One of them is peanut butter and jelly.”  

“That’s my favorite!”  Nic exclaimed.

“Then that sammich is yours.”  

They walked over to the table. Nico carried the cooler.  

“This is so nice of you Riley, to share your food with us.”  

He watched as Riley got the sandwiches out of the cooler.  

“Is he allergic to anything?”  

“Nope.  Neither am I.”

She made Nic’s plate first.  Sliced his sandwich in half and then thirds.

“Coool!!!!  I have six little sandwiches!!!!”  

She put some apples and chips on his plate.

“What do you say?”  

“Thank you Riley.”  

“You’re welcome.”  

“Did you want turkey or roast beef, Nico?”  

“Which is your favorite?”  

“Um meat.”

Nico laughed.  

“Noted.  Do you mind if I take the turkey then?”

“That’s perfectly fine.  Do you want apples and chips too for your plate?”  

“Yes, thank you for sharing with us.”  

“Riley?”  

“Yes Nic?”  

“Do you have a boyfriend?”

Nico tried not to smile, his voice was firm, but his eyes were amused.

“Nic, I told you about doing that.  You can’t ask every girl you think is pretty, if she has a boyfriend.”

Though not going to lie.... this is one time he desperately wanted to know the answer.  Nic was so getting ice cream tonight as a treat if she answered the question.

“No Nic I don’t.  But thank you for your interest,  I usually date boys that are a little bit taller.”  

“Like my Daddy?”  

Nico choked on his drink.

“Nicolai, eat your food.”  

"Yes Papa."

AS MUCH ICE CREAM AS HE WANTS!!!!!!!

His eyes met Riley's, and she was blushing.  After they all had lunch they talked more and went for multiple rounds on the tire swing.  

Riley’s stomach growled loudly.

“Still hungry?”  

"Didn't we establish a little bit ago my plan was to eat all three of those sandwiches? Dude, just one sandwich was a drop in the bucket."

Nico laughed.  "My mother would love you."

"Why is that?"

"She loves people with healthy appetites. She cooks every meal like she's cooking for a small army."

"My mother and yours would get along famously. She is the same way."

“Daddy you said we could get pizza.  Can Riley get pizza with us too?”  

“They’re not going to let me bring Chance inside.”

“We could get it to go.”

Riley shook her head, looking at the two of them.  Both looked at her with big brown eyes.

 Even Chance was in on it too.  All of them staring at her with big sad eyes.  Riley was completely outnumbered.

“I have a great Disney DVD collection if you guys want to come over, to watch something kid friendly."

Both smiled at her.  

Nico ordered a large meat lovers pie, as Riley was a fan of meat, as she so eloquently put it.  They headed back to Riley’s apartment.  

After everyone had stuffed their faces full of pizza, Riley turned on a movie of Nic's choice.

With his full tummy, Nic had fallen asleep on the couch cuddled up with Chance. 

Nico helped Riley with the dishes in the kitchen.  

“I really enjoyed tonight.  So did Nic,  I think Chance is his new best friend.  I’d like to do it again sometime.  Maybe just me and you?”

“I don’t date cops Nico.  I’m sure you know by now who my father is.”  

“Yes, but I don’t understand why you don't date cops.  Your father is a good man and very well respected in the field.”  

“Because of my mother, and when he used to be on patrol, the way she worried about him.  My father was one of the lucky ones that came home after 9/11. I don’t want to worry about someone the way she constantly worried about him over the years.”

“But he’s not that kind of cop anymore and I’m not either.  Riley, anything can happen at any time.  Reconsider.”

He stepped closer to her.  “I know you feel it between us too.”

The next few words Nico said Riley didn’t understand.

“What?”  

“The attraction between us Riley, it’s so strong, it’s almost intoxicating.”

“What language is that?”  

“Greek.  We moved to America when I was eight.”  

“Who’s we?”

“My sisters, my mother, and I.”  

“So English is not your first language?”

“No, it is not. Reconsider Riley.  I am more than my job.   I’m a man, a single father, and I'm interested in you."

"What happened to Nic's mother?"

"She decided, that she really didn't want children.  When Nic was three days old, she signed away her parental rights to me.  Nic is my child, and mine alone. I get it. I'm a package deal. Buy one, and get a pocket sized mini for free."

Riley laughed.  

"He's a sweet boy."

“So is his father. Give me a chance to prove it to you.” 

“Nico....”

"I see it in your eyes when you look at me. You're attracted to me Riley, like I am to you."

Riley nodded.  

He pulled Riley closer to him; his grip tight and secure around her.   Riley gasped just before he kissed her.  

“Will you have dinner with me?”  

“Yes.”  

We’ll see how tagging the comments works on this.  Y’all let a sistah know. 

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[wiypt-writes]

Stark Spangled Banner

Ch36: I Bid You Farewell And Good Luck, Morons. Part 1- It’s Like A Pirate Had A Baby With An Angel.

Intro: Thor wakes up on a strange ship, surrounded by even stranger people, a talking tree and a rabbit. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the fight to save Vision is won and the group make their way back to the compound to understand what exactly it is that they’re facing. 

Warnings: Bad Language words.

Pairing: Steve Rogers x OFC Katie Stark

A/N: So I HAD to write Thor and Tony’s POV over the IW chapters too, because, frankly, they had some of THE best scenes in Infinity War, and I love that freaking Norse God Himbo and chaotic Stark chemistry so bad! I know this is Katie and Steve’s fic, but Steve had so little screen time in this film all things considered…we were so robbed!!! Once again, I can’t thank @angrybirdcr​ enough for her edits, they’re awesome!

Disclaimer: This is a pure work of fiction and classified as 18+. Please respect this and do not read if you are underage. I do not own any characters in this series bar Katie Stark and the other OCs. By reading beyond this point you understand and accept the terms of this disclaimer.

Chapter 35

Stark Spangled Banner Masterlist // Main Masterlist

Thor wasn’t dead. But he felt like it. Every inch of his body ached and when he was jerked back to consciousness for a moment, just one split moment, he thought he saw Little Stark. Only it wasn’t her. The woman had dark hair, yes, but as he focussed he realised she looked nothing like the woman he loved dearly as a sister. This wench had huge eyes and antenna dangling from her forehead. And, whilst he knew it had been a while since he had seen his friend, she wouldn’t have changed that much.

Finding his feet he looked around, chest heaving, at the band of people stood in front of him; a woman with green skin and red hair, a man with grey/blue skin covered in red designs, a tree creature- a Flora Colossus unless he was mistaken- which was off to the side draped over a chair, some kind of furry, animal thing- a rabbit maybe- and finally a man who appeared to be a normal, human being. That was until he opened his mouth and Thor realised he was probably the most stupid human being he had ever encountered.

His rescuers had offered him soup, and then when he had explained about Thanos, the green skinned lady called Gamora had told Thor what the Titan wanted the stones for.  Which she knew, because she his daughter.

Thanos had a daughter. Interesting.

“Families can be tough,” Thor spoke wisely, placing a hand on her shoulder. “Before my father died, he told me that I had a half-sister that he imprisoned in Hell. Then she returned home, stabbed me in the eye so, I had to kill her.” He shrugged. “That’s life though isn’t it I guess? Round and round, but I feel your pain.”

The human, Peter Quill, pushed his way between Gamora and Thor, and looked at her “I feel your pain, as well, because, I mean it’s not a competition, but I’ve been through a lot. My father killed my mother, and then I had to kill my father. And that was hard. Probably even harder than having to kill a sister. Plus, I, came out with both of my eyes.”

Thor wasn’t paying attention. The man was clearly a moron, and he’d just noticed he had bent the spoon in the bowl of soup and was having a flashback to the time he had tried to bend the Captain’s shield. Little Stark had laughed so much at how annoyed he had gotten when he failed that she had cried. And then, to make it worse, a few days later the Captain had managed to move Mjolnir. Just a fraction, but it moved. No one had seen it, bar Little Stark of course, but there was something there, Thor was sure. Steve Rogers was a man worthy of a lot of things, but his hammer was complicated. You have to prove your worth. That had been explained to him by his Father the day he had given it to him. Of course, he hadn’t realised then that Eitri had actually made it for Hela first.

Eitri… Oh, yes!

“I need a hammer, not a spoon.” Thor mumbled, as the idea took hold and he looked at the pod at the back of the ship. “How do I open this thing?” He began pressing random buttons on the screen next to the door. “Is there some sort of a four-digit code? Maybe a birth date or something?”

"What are you doing?” the rabbit animal, Rocket asked.

“Taking your pod.” Thor replied nonchalantly.

And then there was an argument in which the moron Quill tried to imitate Thor’s deeper voice telling him he could not take the pod, but Thor was going to take the pod anyway because he was the God of Thunder after all, and then the lady Gamora cut them off quite rightly directing the focus back to Thanos by stating they needed to find out where he was going next.

But Thor had already thought of that. “Knowhere,” he answered as he brushed past Quill and over to the refrigerator he had seen Gamora get his soup from.

“He must be going somewhere.” Mantis argued innocently.

“No,” Quill shook his head and Thor noted his stupid voice was back to normal. “Knowhere? It’s a place. We’ve been there. It sucks. Excuse me, that’s our food.” He jabbed,  suddenly noticing what Thor was doing.

“Not anymore.” Thor shrugged, stuffing it into a backpack he found.

“Thor!” Gamora cut across the pair of them again. “Why would he go to Knowhere?”

“Because for years, the Reality Stone has been safely stored there with a man called the Collector.” Thor stated.

“If it’s with the Collector, then it’s not safe.” Quill snorted. “Only an idiot would give that man a stone.”

“Or a genius.” Thor shrugged.

“How do you know he’s not going for one of the other stones?” Gamora asked.

“There’s six stones out there.” Thor began to explain, “Thanos already has the Power Stone because he stole it, last week, when he decimated Xandar.”

He didn’t missed the shocked and horrified look the group shared with one another.

“He stole the Space Stone from me, when he destroyed my ship and slaughtered half my people. The Time and Mind Stones, are safe on Earth. They’re with the Avengers.”

“The Avengers?” Quill asked.

“They’re Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.”

“Like Kevin Bacon?” Mantis called out.

“Errr he may be on the team now, I don’t know.” Thor shrugged, having no idea who the man named after a breakfast meat was. “I haven’t been there in a while. And as for the Soul Stone, well no one’s ever seen that. No one even knows where it is. Therefore, Thanos can’t get it. Therefore, he’s going to Knowhere. Hence, he’ll be getting the Reality Stone. You’re welcome.”

“Then we have to go to Knowhere, now.” Gamora stated, looking around.

“Wrong. Where we have to go is Nidavellir.” Thor picked up the backpack.

“That’s a made up word.” Drax, the blue man countered.

“All words are made up.” Thor smiled, slinging the backpack onto his back.

“Nidavellir is real?” The animal called Rocket’s eyes grew wide and he jumped up onto the table and looked at Thor. “Seriously? I mean, that place is a legend. They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the Universe. I would very much like to go there, please.”

“The rabbit is correct.” Thor grinned at Rocket’s excitement. “And clearly the smartest among you. Only Eitri the Dwarf can make me the weapon I need.” He turned to the furry animal. “I assume you’re the captain, Sir?”

Rocket grinned and nodded, “You’re very perceptive.”

“You seem like a noble leader. Will you join me on my quest to Nidavellir?”

“Let me just ask the captain. Oh, wait a second, it’s me!”  Rocket grinned. “Yeah, I’ll go.”

“Wonderful.” Thor beamed.

“Uh except that I’m the captain,” Quill chipped in

“Quiet!” Thor was now beyond bored of the moron.

“And that’s my backpack.” Quill continued pointing to the bag that Thor was stealing.

“Quill, sit down.” Rocket tapped at the pad and keying in the digits to open the pod.

“Look, this is my ship. And I’m not going to - wait, what kind of weapon are we talking about here?” Quill looked round.

“The Thanos-killing kind.” Thor smiled.

Boy, was it going to be a big, fucking weapon like no one had ever seen before…

“Don’t you think that we should all have a weapon like that?” Quill frowned.

“You lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies would crumble as you minds collapsed into the madness.” Thor shook his head.

“Is it weird that I wanna do it even more now?” Rocket asked.

“Erm, a little bit weird. Yeah.” Thor looked down at him, frowning.

“If we don’t go to Knowhere and Thanos retrieves another stone, he’ll be too powerful to stop.” Gamora stepped forward.

"He already is.” Thor shrugged.

“Look, I got it figured out.” Rocket interrupted, looking at Gamora. “We got two ships, and a large assortment of morons.  Me and Groot will go with the Pirate Angel here, and the morons will go to Knowhere to try and stop Thanos. Cool? Cool.”

“So cool.” Thor grinned before he climbed into the pod.

“For the record,” Quill said leaning down to Rocket, “I know that you’re only going with them because it’s where Thanos isn’t.”

“You know, you really shouldn’t talk that way to your captain, Quill.” Rocket smirked, walking backwards and gesturing outwards with his arms. “Come on, Groot. Put that game down. You’ll rot your brain,”

As Rocket sat down Thor nodded out of the pod to the rest of the people on the ship. “I bid you farewell and good luck, morons. Bye.”

******

It wasn’t hard for the team to track Wanda, her red power flashing bright against the dark sky over Edinburgh City Centre, and as the jet followed her movements, the four friends saw her spiralling through the sky with Vision and crashing through the train station roof, just as Sam put the jet on the ground.

Within seconds the Ex-Avengers were sprinting off the jet.  

“Katie, Nat, take the side!” Steve yelled, as he vaulted over the railings at the edge of the road running down onto the bottom half of the concrete ramp which led to the station. “Sam, up high and remember, we protect Vision at all costs!”

“Got em.” Sam spoke over the coms. “Platform seven, near the café.” 

Steve vaulted over another set of barriers, the station now deserted thanks to the evacuation taking place by the local police. As he ran onto one of the walkways over the lines, he was just in time to see two of the aliens crash through the station roof. Weighing up his options, he realised it was going to be quicker for him to hop down onto the platform he was currently overheard, and jump across the lines to help. He swung his legs over the railings and landed easily, looking up. Across from him he could see Natasha and Katie emerging to the right, as Wanda stood and moved protectively in front of Vision, building power in her hands. An express train whizzed past him and he stood still, waiting and it wasn’t long before the taller, blue looking woman spotted him, and she launched her spear over the platform. Steve easily snapped his left shoulder back whilst leaning over his body with his right, catching the staff in his hand.

“Heads up.” Sam muttered, and as Wanda and Vision turned to see Steve step out from the shadows, fury lining his face, Sam swooped in and kicked one of the aliens across the platform and through a closed café’s security gate, causing tables and chairs to go flying, before he spun and started to fire on the other alien.

Steve launched the weapon he had caught across the tracks where Natasha caught it and stabbed the second assailant in the gut as Katie moved in to head off the other who was stalking back towards them. The weapon Natasha had been using flew back into the alien’s hands and Katie ducked as she swung, jabbing her in the back of the leg with an electric powered escrima stick. The alien let out a yell, stumbled slightly and Steve cleared the platform in an easy leap, rolling and scooping up the second assailant’s staff from the floor, holding it up to block the blow that the creature aimed at Katie. He grit his teeth, planting his legs to absorb the power of the hit, as Katie rolled to the side, jumped up and the two of them began to fight the alien, joined shortly by Natasha. Steve had to admit, the woman (if you could call her that) was a force to be reckoned with, but the three of them were just about getting the upper hand when they heard Sam yell.

“DUCK!”

The three of them did so and Sam flew in hard, kicking the woman backwards where she fell and scuttled over to her fallen friend. Sam landed next to Katie, drawing both his submachine pistols on the couple.

“Get up” The alien instructed to her fallen partner, her voice was deep.

“I can't.” His gravelly, robotic voice replied.

“We don’t wanna kill you.” Natasha spoke coolly “But we will”.

“You’ll never get the chance again.” The female levelled them, with a cold glare and with that a beam shot down from the hole in the station roof and the two were transported upwards. The weapon Steve was holding also shot out of his hand. He frowned in surprise for a moment, looking at his hand then upwards as the beam of light disappeared and the ship sped off.

“Can you stand?” Sam asked Vision as Katie replaced her sticks and walked towards Wanda and the android. When Vision shook his head, Sam moved forward to help him up.

Supported by Wanda and Sam, Vision looked over at Steve, Natasha and Katie, electricity shimmering over his surface. He’d been badly damaged in the fight, and as he spoke his voice distorted.

“Thank you, Captain.”

Steve took a deep breath and nodded. His face stern, but his eyes were much softer than his expression and Katie knew why. It had been a while since anyone other than Sam, Nat or Wanda had called him Captain.

Steve looked at the android, he might have been damaged but they had the stone, and that was the main thing. Nodding, he spoke. “Let’s get you on the jet.” His voice was soft and he moved to let Sam and Wanda support Vision on their way past him, Natasha following.

Katie hung back a little, trying to stop the light-headedness she was feeling from washing over her.

“You okay?” Steve turned to her as she blinked.

“Yeah, just took a whack that’s all. “I’m fine.” She assured him as they took up the rear of the group, her fingers lacing into his.

Once Vision was safely settled in a seat at the side, Sam dropped into the pilot’s seat. Katie hit the button to close the ramp as the Jet rose into the air.

“I thought we had a deal.” Natasha spun angrily to Wanda. ”Stay close, check in. Don’t take any chances.”

“I’m sorry. We just wanted time.” The younger woman said gently.

Katie glanced at Steve, he was stood up in the middle of the jet, hands on the buckle of his utility belt, staring seemingly at nothing but clearly contemplating something.

“Where to, Cap?” Sam asked.

Steve looked up, he glanced at Sam then locked eyes with Katie as he spoke one word, one simple word that they had all been waiting to hear for almost two years.

“Home”

*****

After a few hours, with the morning sky being the only thing in sight, Sam started to lower the jet through thick white clouds and Katie couldn’t help but inhale sharply when the compound began to take shape as she watched out of the front window. It looked the same. The buildings, the grounds…she wasn’t sure why she had expected anything to change, maybe because it felt like everything had changed for them, but either way, there it was. The exact same as the last time she had seen it.

Steve noticed her demeanour change slightly as they landed. She stood up straight, her shoulders squaring as if she was about to face an onslaught. And they were, in a way. On their way Steve had called Bruce to tell him that they had Vision and were heading back, but had had no idea what they were heading back to, nor did he care. Be it Ross, police, the army, whatever, Steve was done bowing to anyone’s will, he was over playing other people’s tunes. The two years they had spent hidden had shown them all that they could operate on their own if required, and he wasn’t afraid to fight anyone who got in his way.

They stepped off the ramp and strode over the lawn, Katie taking a deep breath as she looked around. So many emotions flooded her system, she couldn’t explain or identify half of them. Memories flashed in front of her eyes, visions of long summer nights spent outside in the garden and on the BBQ patio until sunrise. Laughs during team dinners. Sam and Wanda collaborating on pranks. Training sessions with the team and Vision reading Tolkien aloud to Wanda before asking questions about humanity’s love of fiction. Walks and picnics and other things in the ground, just her and Steve. Their wedding, God their wedding! Frequent visits from Tony, bringing in new ideas and improved gadgets. Getting back safe after being out on a long mission. Feeling relaxed and at ease.

Feeling at home.

Steve’s arm curled round his wife for a moment before he pressed a kiss to the side of her head as Vision opened the door.

“Still no word from Vision?”  

“Satellites lost him somewhere over Edinburgh.”

“On a stolen Quinjet with four of the world’s most wanted criminals.” “You know they’re only criminals because you’ve chosen to call them that, right, sir? “

“My God, Rhodes, your talent for horseshit rivals my own.”

The sound of the call between Ross and Rhodey echoed down the corridor reaching the group that were making their way through to the lab.

“If it weren’t for those Accords, Vision would’ve been right here.” Rhodey shot back and Katie glanced back at Vision as the sounds the voices grew louder as they neared their destination.

“I suspect it will be a Hollo Call.” Vision said gently, answering Katie’s unasked question.  His suspicions were proven correct as they rounded the corner and the lab came into view. Rhodey was stood across from where the holographic image of Secretary Ross was facing off against him.

"You have second thoughts?” Ross was challenging Rhodey, who smiled simply as his eyes shot sideways. Steve strode forward, his presence as intimidating as ever, and the first thing Rhodey noticed was just how dark he looked. Gone was the upstanding, All American Hero, and in its place was someone much harder, far rougher round the edges. Kiddo looked different too. Her hair was shorter and she looked slimmer.

“Not anymore.” He grinned.

The holographic Ross followed Rhodey’s gaze and his eyes fell on Steve who was stood next to Katie at the front of the group, Natasha, Wanda, Sam and Vision behind them. Steve raised his chin a little defiantly and moved to take his power stance, feet apart, hands on his belt, before he greeted Ross politely.

“Mr. Secretary" 

Katie couldn’t help the smirk on her face as she watched Ross attempting to cover up the shock he had clearly felt at the group of outlaws turning up again. She locked eyes with Rhodey who gave her the smallest of winks before he glanced back at Ross who was shaking his head slightly as he approached Steve, his holographic form almost trying to square up to him.  Steve simply raised his chin further and looked down from the steps he was stood on.

"You got some nerve.” Ross sniffed, staring up at him “I’ll give you that.”

“You could use some of that right now.” Katie shot back bluntly, Ross turned his head to face her for a second. She held his gaze and arched an eyebrow until he turned back to Steve.

“The world’s on fire.” Ross said incredulously. “And you think, you can just walk back in here and all is forgiven?”

Steve levelled the secretary with a firm gaze. “I’m not looking for forgiveness.” his voice took on a threatening tone as he spoke “And I’m way past asking for permission.”

At that point the smirk on Katie’s face grew even wider as she stole a glance up at her husband, pride swelling in her chest as he continued, stoic and unyielding. 

“Earth just lost her best defender, so we’re here to fight. And if you wanna stand in our way,” he stepped down to be at level with the hologram, and stared it square in the eyes “We’ll fight you, too.”

Ross was practically foaming at the mouth as his eyes went to Rhodey and he spat out his order, “Arrest them.”

“All over it.” Rhodey promised nonchalantly before shutting off the hologram, shortly after a beeping noise sounded from the computers.

“That’s a court-martial.” He informed the group as he slapped the back of his right hand into his left palm, though his tone said told Katie that he blatantly couldn’t have cared less for Ross’ demands. There was a short pause as the group glanced down at their friend, Steve smiling softly, before Rhodey’s face split into a huge smile of his own.

“It’s great to see you, Cap.” He stepped forward.

“You too, Rhodey.” Steve answered, taking the last two steps down before he shook Rhodey’s hand. Katie threw herself at her brother’s best friend and he gave her a huge bear hug before he looked down at her.

“You do something to your hair?” He teased.  Katie smiled, stepping back from his embrace while he looked the rest of the group over.

“Well. You guys really look like crap. Must’ve been a rough couple of years.”

Steve looked round, an amused smile on his face as he glanced at his wife then to the rest of the team.

“Yeah, well, the hotels weren’t exactly five star.” Sam quipped back cheekily, the banter flowing between them like no time at all had passed.

“Uh, I think you look great.”

Steve turned at the new voice to see Bruce inching his way into the room nervously wringing his hands together.

Steve and Katie remained silent, exchanging a glance. In the rush around and the fray of the fight, we’d forgotten to explain exactly who it was that called.

“Yeah. I’m back.”

Katie glanced over at Nat, she had her gaze fixed solely on the scientist as she spoke “Hi, Bruce.”

“Nat.” Bruce answered inclining his head towards her slightly as he fidgeted.

“This is awkward.” Sam piped up. Steve and Katie looked at one another, before they both smiled and looked back up at Sam.

“Any news on Tony?” Katie asked gently, interrupting the silence that had fallen.

“Not yet no.” Rhodey said. “FRIDAY lost him when he left the atmosphere. We got NASA running scans and we’re trying to track his trail but…” He shook his head. 

“Typical Tony.” Katie rolled her eyes “Always has to go one bigger and one better doesn’t he?”

Her blasé tone wasn’t fooling anyone.

“Banner.” Steve said gently, looking across the room at the scientist. “Can you fill us in on what we’re up against here?”

“Yeah sure,” Bruce said nodding hesitantly.

Without so much as another word, the group all started to make their way out of the room. As Katie turned to follow Natasha, Steve’s hand gently fell on her shoulder. Without looking at him, she reached up and gently wrapped her fingers round his, giving them a squeeze before she left.

Steve took a deep breath as he glanced around the room once more, before he too followed on, that sick feeling in his gut was getting worse.

**** Chapter 36 Part 2

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