Infinite Siberia
Chapter 5: Infinite Siberia
Steve rolled in the wide bed and sighed when he looked at his alarm clock. The clock indicated five in the morning. It wasn't too early, the mission didn't start until 7 a.m., but he still had something to do. He had to power himself out in the gym before go to Russia.
He boxed too hard once again and the sack fell off his chains again. He hoped Fury wouldn't notice. Steve took a short break after an hour to see the messages he had got. Natasha had texted him:
Time to prepare.
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He stood with the other Avengers in a room with doctors and agents.
Even Potter, who looked visibly nervous and made a guilty face.
Clint casually came the door in and rubbed his hands and walked toward Nat, clapping into her hand.
She patted him on the shoulder. Briefly, her gaze flew to Bruce, who focused on checking a few documents and didn't see them.
He looked so smart and professional that he left a smile on her mouth.
He was so sweet.
Fury clapped his hands on the table.
Tony fell silent with his conversation about whiskey from the Highlands with Thor, turning to their director like everyone else.
Everyone watched eagerly.
Ahem, so to everyone in this room.
We now go through the plan again.
We will fly to Siberia with the Quinjet, as you know it, I suppose. Potter flies along.
I will scan the landscape with Maria and inform you when there is uncertainty. That's why each of you gets a little earplug to stay in the funk with us.
Experts assume the organization to which Granger belongs may be HYDRA. Most likely, the reason for that is because Dolohov is one of them, according to the Crime Database of SHIELD.
We have updated the uniforms. There are bitterly cold temperatures in Siberia and therefore your suits include advanced cold-protection technology.
Fury waved one hand and five agents dragged suitcases into the meeting room. On the suitcases were the logos of each superhero and Steve felt flattered.
He had gotten a new Captain America suit that looked really stable. It was a slightly different than normal one.
It was white.
There was a light blue star in the middle of the chest and three pale red stripes on each of the star's sides.
The surface was made of high-quality plastic material and was waterproof.
Steve wore tight, black underwear and saw Maria's face light up.
Two people from the staff helped him into the second layer of slightly thicker polyester.
Then came the uniform.
Inside was kind of plates of movable material.
At a push of a button by a man, the stabilizers tightened slightly tighter around Steve's thigh, upper arms, vertebra zone and the neck. He inhaled sharply and first had to accustom the new feeling around his body. He took his shield, which was also in white, light blue and pale red. It suddenly became abnormal warm and then it was a normal temperature again.
''Heat mode works. '' One man indicated, explaining to Steve how that technology worked.
The newfangled technique would have had certainly fallen under the term ' alien technology ' in the old days, he thought to himself.
He looked around and everyone had their respective uniform in a snow white color with a few little colored strokes.
Tony's iron suit to Steve's surprise too.
Potter was in a cold-protecting jacket emblazoned with the logo of SHIELD and Natasha in a tight catsuit in blank white. They were ready for the hard mission.
It took about twenty-three hours for them to arrive. A radio voice went through the microphones and left Steve waking up from his recused hours of sleep. They were there. Over Jakutia , they flew and gazed at the snow landscape beneath them in amazement. White elevations crisscrossed the landscape and they could feel the cold wind in the Quinjet.
Harry put on his jacket and pulled his wand around the area to search.
"Director, can we fly a little more down?"
Harry drew a complicated movement into the icy air and once said:
maleficis artibus ostende .
The top of the wand lighted up dark blue.
" Okay, there's no trace here yet, it's dark blue, if we get closer and closer to Hermione, we'll be able to see that through an increasingly red spike. Mr. Fury, how is it going forward with the scans? ' '
Harry looked around for Fury, who entered the coordinates and waited until Liv, SHIELD's new computer system, came forward.
,, 500 further northeast, down from there. There is, according to records, a safe landing site, director. ' ' Liv fell silent.
Steve started putting on his uniform again and turned the warmth settings at the highest temperatures.
It was bitterly cold despite the shining sun.
Steve unwrapped a white face cloth and covered his nose and mouth. It was painfully cold and it was blowing a little wind. He then put on his usual Captain America helmet and saw everyone else except Thor, caps or face coverings put on.
Tony's face disappeared under the folding helmet front. He took off from the ground and the Quinjet took off from the ground again. The Avengers plugged in their earbuds and raised their gaze to the top of Harry's wand, which was now light blue.
They were already walking for half an hour and it had got colder. To the left stretched a forest and on the horizon were only these endless expanses in snow. Steve breathed flat and he even saw his breath through the covering.
Bruce hadn't yet been transformed, yet he growled inhumanely when Harry's wand suddenly began to turn orange.
Tony flew and then you heard him:
"People, over there, about 100 meters further are people.''
Steve hook up and pulled the cloth away from his face and started running. Natasha and Clint after him, every muscle Bruce's body stretched. Harry stopped walking and didn't understand why it was such a hit now.
He would see Hermione again.
Harry got out the blaze, which burned bigger than before.
She was there.
Tears burned on Harry's iced cheeks and he swallowed and hastily ran through the snow.
"How many are there? '
They heard Tony briefly counting before saying: 'Seven. ' '
The top of Harry's wand flashed red and pulsed.
Harry breathed flatter. There were figures on the horizon who ran towards the Avengers. Bruce roared loudly and let Harry cringe. The next moment, the green monster jumped over him and whipped up the snow.
Steve focused on a muscular figure on the left.
The fight began.
The tall, wide agent hid his face under a mask and took a machine gun off his back. It started thundering shots. Steve cleverly dodged the bullets and skinned the criminal into the stomach area with the shield. The man toppled over.
Steve looked after the others:
Natasha recorded it with a far taller man and cleverly kicked him well placed in the shoulder, dropping him into the snow with a perfect judo throw. She got cords out and tied him up.
A female-looking figure, also under a mask, shouted at someone while walking past, something in choppy Russian and pounced on Clint with a knife, who shot an arrow that exploded and the woman flew backward.
Now there were four left. One, quite clearly Dolohov sent a curse on Steve, who stumbled, got up, ran on and was hit again by a curse.
Thor sent a few flashes toward Dolohov's feet, leaving him flying six feet backward while screaming.
He was left lying down.
Harry ended the curse on Steve and started finding Hermione. Bruce pounced on the other three and skinned them apart.
The woman previously knocked out by Hawkeye raced up and shot twice at Natasha with her gun, who immediately laid down on the ground and also started shooting. She shot the woman in the leg, who immediately fainted.
Steve saw Tony's Iron Man suit surrounded by purple light and whirling incessantly through the air until it popped to the ground. With one last flash, Thor turned off the stubborn Dolohov.
Another man who had been holding himself in the background shot at Steve, who fought off the shot with his shield and threw it so, that the attacker immediately fell over.
Another grabbed a slightly confused figure, most likely Hermione by the arm, and wanted to run away.
Tony used his repulsor to knock the one out.
Hermione was not wearing a face mask.
Harry recognized her face from far.
The wind blew a few tresses out of her face before she slowly walked forward.
Harry also kept going forward, his eyes fixed and the Avengers walking behind him.
Apparently, Dolohov wasn't dead, because Harry couldn't identify clear, beautiful brown eyes instead there was a layer above her eyeballs, looking milky white.
It was clearly the Imperius curse like Harry had suspected from the beginning.
He aimed his wand at Hermione, who raised her hand and set off explosions. Harry ran while everyone else stood still and tried to trace apart what was happening from the reflected light by the snow.
He roared:
Finite Incantatem!
And a white beam of light came out fromHarry's stick, shot at Hermione, who took off from the ground, falling a few meters behind, she painfully stood up, looked slowly around the landscape around her and realized who was in front of her.
It was Harry.
Hermione ran up to Harry, throwing herself sobbing into her best friend's arms.
Harry?
Yes Hermione, I got you. I got you now.