Oceans

He jumped.

His favorite advantage of being given the super soldier serum was that he didn’t need a parachute at certain heights.

His favorite part was that free-fall. He vaguely heard a slightly panicked voice chirping in his ear about the fact that he just jumped off the Quinjet without proper gear. He ignored them. He knew one of their names. Natasha. He only bothered to learn it because evidently it’d be a requirement in the future.

The Avenger Initiative has been explained to him earlier. He honestly wanted no part in it, wanted no part in any SHIELD business, but always that small voice of guilt and hate piped up in the back of his mind originating somewhere deep in his gut, and he couldn’t stop himself.

So he had been introduced to Natasha, a future Avenger, and then a sudden flurry of action had taken place. Their enemy, a Loki who wanted to take over earth, and took the Tesseract, had acted. Attacking somewhere in Germany. Sabo didn’t care enough to pay attention to the exact location. He wasn’t the one that had to get them there.

The plane ride had been tense and quiet. Sabo had also been told about Clint Barton, another agent meant to be on the Initiative, but was being mind controlled by Loki instead. Briefly he resigned himself offhandedly in his mind to keep a lookout for the man.

No one deserves that kind of fate.

When a call came from Natasha and the other agent flying that they were right over Germany, and coincidently near where Loki was he didn’t waste time. He jumped out of the Quinjet and was running as soon as his feet hit the ground.

He stopped himself a couple feet away from where he could see Loki. He sneered in distance at the man’s, or whatever he was, words. This guy reminded too much of the people who ruined his life back home.

When Loki went to fire at the man who refused to bow to the man, Sabo had acted.

The blast was easily deflected and he briefly felt nostalgic at the slight vibration and tingle that shot through his arm like a wave, before refocusing on the enemy.

He slowly lowered the shield and pinned Loki with a glare, straightening as he did so.

Loki snorted. “Oh look. It’s the man out of time. The oh so great Captain.”

Sabo tilted his head slightly. “I guess we're both out of time.”

He heard the Quinjet in the air behind him become armed and Natasha’s voice rang through the speaker, just like the woman said she would do. “Loki drop the weapon and surrender.”

Loki chuckled before firing another bolt at the Quinjet, which swerved dangerously to avoid it. Sabo immediately took action as the civilians scattered.

Tossing the shield at the supported god, it served as a slight distraction as Sabo shot forward and landed a punch to Loki as he was regaining his balance from the first hit.

Loki looked surprised for a moment before swinging his golden staff at Sabo who stepped to the left to avoid it, putting him in range of his shield, which he promptly picked up and used to block the next swing of Loki’s stick.

Sabo used the shield as a momentum to force the staff to the side, which in hindsight he should have known was a bad idea. He knew how dangerous a staff could be, still occasionally used one himself. Loki swung the staff around so that the side closest to him was shifted enough so he could slam it into Sabo’s gut.

Sabo flew back and hit the side of a fountain exhibit, hard. He picked himself up as Loki took two steps forward, not hesitating to sling the shield at Loki’s head again.

Unfortunately Loki deselected the shield with his staff and got a hit in on Sabo’s shoulder when the soldier shot forward. Sabo didn’t let himself stagger and instead threw a punch at Loki only for him to dodge to the side. Loki tried bringing the staff around to nail Sabo in the head only for said super soldier to duck at the last second, putting him in the perfect position to support his body with his hands as he used his feet to kick Loki in the stomach.

‘Thank you for the idea for that Lu.’

Loki staggered a second before recovering. Sabo quickly stood during that recovery and punched Loki right under the ribs. Loki didn’t seem to feel it, or at least didn’t show it, before he slammed the staff into Sabo’s back. Sending the super soldier flying once again.

As he was pushing himself up he felt the staff touch the back of his helmet, and Loki’s panting words. “Kneel.”

Sabo felt unblinding rage at those words and the forcible pressure on the neck of his helmet. “Never.” It was snarled out, and a second later Sabo grabbed ahold of the staff and yanked making Loki stumble forward as Sabo lifted a leg and kicked the ‘god’ across the face.

Loki growled and grabbed Sabo’s shoulder and flung him across the yard. Sabo landed hard and rolled for a moment.

Loki started walking toward him and Sabo immediately started getting up. Only for both of them to pause when an obscenely loud music blasted through the Quinjet speakers.

They bother looked to said jet before Loki looked towards him. “One of yours?”

Sabo raised an eyebrow as he saw a red streak in the night sky flying toward them. “Heck if I know.”

He heard a snort from Loki before suddenly Iron Man landed before them blasting Loki in the chest with two power blasts from his hands. Loki flew back and the air left his lungs very audibly.

Iron Man straightened up and his suit armed itself with small guns and power blasts, all trained on the supposed god.

“Go ahead make you move reindeer games.” Sabo collected his shield and stood next to the man in a suit. Openly staring at some of the mini guns on the thing. Before looking at Loki, who was just staring at them with a look that irritated Sabo to no end for some reason.

Loki’s armor disappeared and he held up his hands. Seeing this the suit disarmed and Iron Man put his arms down. “Good move.”

Sabo looked to the suit’s face and nodded. “Stark.”

The suit’s head tilted slightly. “Captain.”

‘This isn’t going to be easy is it, Ace, Lu, wish me luck.’