A few hours into the New Yorkers' unexpected nap, not only did the sun begin to rise but apparently so did the bad guys.
After detecting movement for the camera Kate had placed the day before, Ava decided that it was best to wake the heroes by playing a high-pitched sound through the basement's speakers. They all woke suddenly, immediately covering their ears.
"Ava what the hell!" Danny yelled, a little louder than he expected, and Ava cut the noise
"Excuse me, but I have detected movement near last night's location," Ava explained, projecting the live feed from the camera.
It showed 7 black G-wagons moving towards the warehouse, one in the centre at the front, and 2 columns of 3 cars trailing it from behind.
"That's Hydra, that's the formation they move in," Danny immediately realised.
"Shuri, how are the gauntlets?" Peter asked, shaking his head in an attempt to wake himself up.
"Great, we finished them right before we fell asleep," Shuri responded, equipping her bracelets.
"Did you guys find a weak spot," Wanda asked, massaging her temples.
"Yeah the joints, but there's a small gap right under its pectorals isn't reinforced," Danny replied.
"Okay everybody suit up," Peter commanded, only to realise that they had all, except Shuri, neglected to change out of their suits last night,"
"Scratch that, We're prepared for this, but whatever happens, we have each other backs," Peter encouraged, lightening up his team's enthusiasm
"Ava, Garage door," Danny said, vaulting off of the couch and the team stepped onto the runway. Once the door was open, they jetted out of the base and towards the warehouse.
In less than 10 minutes, they had all arrived at the same rooftop they were on the day before,
"Wait, what's the plan here?" The archer asked
"We go in, we stop the deal, and we take the vibranium," Danny replied
"No, I mean what's our attack plan," Kate clarified
"Are we all going in at the same time, are we attacking from multiple fronts, and what about crowd control?" The honorary member pondered.
"If everything goes to plan crowd control shouldn't be an issue but if things do get out of hand, Danny evacuate the area as fast as possible," Peter commanded and Danny nodded in recognition.
"In terms of the actual plan, I think we should break off, three of us drop down from the roof, and 2 of us check around the facility and enter from the back,"
"I'll take the back," Shuri stated
"Me too," said the archer
"Guess that leaves us with the roof," Wanda realised, and the rest of the team put on their game faces
Peter shot two webs at two nearby buildings, prepared to slingshot forward, Wanda was hovering off of the ground surrounded by her usual red aura, Shuri fired up her jets and grabbed Kate and Danny turned on his powers, gathering up energy in his legs for his super jump.
The 5 maintained their positions for a few more moments and lept towards the warehouse, Peter Wanda and Danny heading for the roof whilst Shuri manoeuvred around the building
The trio that leapt to the roof, crashed through their target and were greeted with an unpleasant surprise. On the ground were some 30 soldiers, some wearing exoskeletons, most bearing crazy chitauri weapons, but they were all targeting the roof. The back entrance was open, and outside were more soldiers, a number closer to 20 all aiming for the roof.
Wanda acted fast, surrounding the three in a sphere of translucent hex energy that was both protecting them from the gunfire and suspending their descent.
Danny was also quick to react, preparing to use a trick he had failed to utilise last time but had since almost perfected thanks to Monica's training. He placed his right palm over his left and generated a tennis ball-sized dodecahedron of solid kinetic energy.
The construct shot out of the sphere straight towards the ground. It then bounced off the ground and onto one of the soldiers. The construct chaotically rebounded throughout the area, bouncing off of walls and soldiers alike. When the majority had temporarily lost their balance, Danny returned the shape to his hand and dissipated it.
Wanda dispersed the sphere surrounding them, and they dropped to the ground ready to face their assailants.
Outside the warehouse, Shuri had just arrived at the back entrance with Kate and immediately spotted the vibranium being loaded into two armoured trucks and one of the G-wagons. Most of the 20 people who were positioned outside had already moved into the warehouse, and the remaining ones outside were concentrated on getting the vibranium.
"Ava, can you send me an aircraft with magnetic cables?" Shuri requested, placing Kate on the ground, and hovering beside her.
"Prepping the copter jet," Ava replied, and Shuri got a ping on her H.U.D.
Taking her chance, the armoured Newyorker pounced towards one of the truck's feet first leaving a large dent in the truck right next to one of the soldier's heads. She sent a thruster-powered kick to the soldier's face, incapacitating them immediately. This action was followed by Kate shooting one of the soldiers in the leg before they had a chance to react. The Wakandan hero bounced off the side of the truck, and shot a beam from her right gauntlet at the normal frequency at the soldiers near the other truck, sending them away briefly. During all this commotion, the G-wagon had managed to slip away unnoticed with a small but sizeable amount of vibranium in the trunk
Right on schedule, the Copter jet in its jet formation had arrived. It decelerated as it started to shift forms. The copter tail had now extended from the back like a collapsible fishing pole. The Wings had collapsed in on themselves, whilst the helicopter blades popped up from their hiding spot, and began to rotate, keeping the craft suspended in the air above the warehouse.
"Cables," The princess requested, and two magnetic cables descended from the jet and near the foot soldiers that she had just incapacitated.
She and Kate moved quickly, attaching the cables to the top of the vans before more foot soldiers could get too close to her.
When the soldiers had finally reached them, it was too late as the vans were already in the air and on their way to Newyorker mansion. Shuri went to blast the soldiers away, but an unexpected hit connected to the side of her face. Normally this wouldn't have shocked her, but this was different. Her helmet's exterior was slightly damaged. She regained her balance and saw a fairly bulky guy wearing an exoskeleton with a glowing purple back and large metal fists standing before her.
A quick scan of the exoskeleton confirmed that it was made of the same stuff the rhino was. A chitauri metal and unrefined vibranium alloy, but she had drastically underestimated its strength.
The soldier charged at her, and she fired her gauntlets at their destabilising frequency, stopping the guy in his tracks, and slowly pushing him back. She continued to fire, and although it was slowing down the soldier, he was still moving, and Aja-Adanna's gauntlet was beginning to vibrate abnormally. She was starting to get worried until the soldier cried out and dropped to his knees with his body forming an acute angle. Behind him, Kate had shot an electric arrow into the exoskeletons glowing back.
Kate was about to say something quippy, but the ground started to rumble, and as if history was repeating itself, the new and improved rhino burst into the warehouse. Unlike last time, however, the rhino successfully managed to charge at Spiderman, Scarlet and Surge, pushing them back into a wall.
Shuri was ready to fire her gauntlets but didn't want to risk missing her shot. Especially in the condition her gauntlets were in. Kate seemed to have caught her drift however and fired a sonic arrow at the top of a wall after telling her honorary teammates to plug their ears.
The arrow released a sound similar to the one Ava had played in the morning, causing the soldiers who were still conscious and surprisingly even the rhino to stop in their tracks. The Newyorkers took this opportunity, and all fired their attacks at the rhino suit, right under its pectorals.
Unfortunately, a masked figure with forearms engulfed in flames seemingly came out of the shadows, jumping up onto the rhino's shoulder and kicking the 9ft tall armour out of his way, like it was nothing. Whilst this figure was in the air, the entire warehouse seemed to be getting hotter, and out of the blue, the figure threw a large fireball towards the sonic arrow, destroying it on impact. The figure then used a series of expertly directed fire blasts to position himself facing the frozen shocked Newyorkers and released a column of devastating fire straight in their direction.