Gorgon
Toni was so fucking tired of supervillains. Couldn’t she have one day off? She’s Medusa, she's Toni Stark, she's Iron Maiden, can’t she have a day off?
Nope.
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Winter growled as the Avengers assembled and James was a constant mantra of ‘no trigger happy on civilians’
They were working out understanding Toni and picking through their memories to determine what the odd feeling in their chest was when they were around Medusa, and some asshat just had to try and take over the city.
Ублюдки. (bastards)
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Toni grabbed her small, delicate-looking silver and blue bracelet, just in case something happened to her armor and medusa needed to make an appearance.
She reconvened with the avengers in time square. Would a little originality hurt anyone? Like did they have to parade themselves through a heavily populated area filled with stupid tourists?
Today was someone she didn’t recognize as Iron Maiden.
But Medusa, Medusa would know this woman anywhere.
This was hydra’s attempt to replicate her. Gorgon.
Gorgon was a mutant and enhanced, she was also equipped with some of Hydra’s best specialized weapons. But everyone believed Hydra died, the only reason she knew they were still up and kicking was they made a mistake, they stored data on a flash drive and gave it to one of their leaders who became medusa’s victim for completely unrelated reasons.
She never went to SHIELD with the info, Fury would be too curious about the origins and she didn’t have the patience to deal with any more government meddling.
Too bad Hydra couldn’t replicate Medusa and instead scraped the whole idea, Gorgon was an unknown.
That was a problem.
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“Avengers!” a lady dressed in what was basically a catsuit covered in snake patterns, a heavy Russian accent lilting in her voice jeered. “About time you showed up! Gorgon was worried you would be late.”
She was lounging on what looked like a cloud of purple mist, fiddling with a black whip.
Great. Just great.
She let out a low laugh, Winter’s hairs stood on end as he watched a shiver run down the rest of the Avengers' spines, while the Widow looked on in concern.
“Turn yourself in peacefully and no one needs to get hurt.”
God, Stevie was such an idiot sometimes. WHAT FUCKING PHSYCO HAS EVER TURNED THEMSELVES OVER WILLINGLY?????? Winter could feel James’ internal facepalm as Winter let out an exasperated sigh.
“You think you can arrest me? That is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard,” she said as she stood up.
Steve leaped forward and hurled his shield at the woman as she dropped to the ground and the once black whip turned on an ominous purple hue.
The woman was unfazed by the shield and she flicked her whip, a sharp clang sent it hurtling back. Ramming into the widow’s side with a sickening crunch.
Winter had seen very few people fight with whips, this would prove to be an interesting battle.
He watched as the Widow collapsed, coughing up blood.
Having just witnessed the woman’s true capability, the rest of the avengers attacked the woman at the same time, knowing that the woman wouldn’t be able to take them at the same time.
Winter looked to the sky, searching for Toni, she must be protected, while they weren’t dating until he had his feelings sorted out about medusa, she was important and must be protected.
He and James worked in tandem as they dodged the whip, combining their knowledge and experience.
The woman was unfazed by the attack that they had launched at her, as she ducked out of the way of kicks and punches.
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Toni was unsure what Gorgon's mutant ability was. All she knew was that Gorgon could kill, not as efficiently as Medusa, but she was a major threat to the unprepared team.
Sending a repulsor beam at her, only to find it being curved by the purple mists, she pulled away.
This was Hydra. They had larger plans.
A collision with her suit turned the world hazy, the last thing she saw before the pain clouded her sight, was a squad rushing towards her.
‘Great’ she thought, ‘fucking Hydra.’
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The woman huffed in annoyance as she watched the widow hurl herself forward attempting to reach her throat, her actions greatly hindered by the blood she spat. A cloud of purple enveloped Widow as Gorgon smirked.
Clint then fired one of his arrows at the woman only for her to catch the arrow in her hand, and she hurled a purple arrow at him.
It exploded squarely on his chest, enveloping him in a cloud similar to the one that had taken out the Widow.
Winter made not to avoid all purple clouds, whatever they were, they were dangerous. He had seen Iron Maiden's collision with the emp and he needed to make sure she was safe. But she wouldn’t truly be safe until gorgon was gone.
Sam halted his dive attack and looked over at Steve, winter knew that was a mistake.
The whip wrapped around the falcon’s ankle and hurled him the rest of the way to the ground and then threw him into a storefront, a cloud of purple chasing after him.
Winter felt someone come up behind him. He slit the throat of a masked person, taking note of their uniform he was filled with dread and felt the space he shared with James grow cold.
Not them.
Not Hydra.
He had to end this as soon as possible
Something massive slammed into him and he caught himself with shaking arms.
He had seen the fight-ending many different ways, but none of them ended like this.
He should have known hydra was back, medusa had barely been active in new york since the avengers had formed, as far as he knew.
He turned to find Stevie collapsed and hacking up blood as he struggled to push himself off him.
The last thing that he saw before he fell into purple-tinged darkness was the woman standing in front of them, a devilish grin on her face.