CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 1:
Doom.
Raven
"You're still gonna wear that hoodie?"
Nova, or rather Sam Alexander, asked with a sly smirk as we entered Midtown High.
"What of it?"
"We haven't seen your face, Rach. People might get suspicious," Luke commented.
"And automatically think I'm Raven?" I questioned, crossing my arms.
"Whoops!"
Sam crept up behind me and yanked my hood down, and I was suddenly faced with the gawking faces of my teammates.
"What was that for?!" I snapped at Sam.
"You're hot! Why do you hide your face?!" Sam shook me.
"Sam, that was inappropriate," Danny removed Sams' hands from my shoulders.
"Come on, dude! You have to agree with me on this one," Sam pointed at me.
"Rachel is attractive, but that's no reason to cause a commotion. She didn't want to show her features," Danny defended me.
"Talk about privacy," Ava glared at Sam.
"Sorry," Sam grumbled.
"Come on, we got to get to class."
"That's interesting," Danny mumbled as we all split up to go to our classes.
"What?" I tilted my head.
"We have all of our classes together," I checked my schedule and sure enough, we had the same classes.
Oh.
"Looks like I can get to know you more," Danny smiled.
"Yeah."
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"Detention?! Principal Colson, I've never had detention a day in my life!"
"How sad," I pouted, sticking my bottom lip out and he glared at me.
"When Aunt May finds out, she's gonna kill me! Then bring me back as a zombie, and kill me again!"
"Good job with the role play guys, that was perfect," Colson complimented.
Yeah, they were totally acting.
"Oh, this was just to get us all together for a secret SHIELD thing. Phew, I thought it was serious," Peter felt relieved.
"Define serious."
Hm?
Next thing we know, our chairs dumped us into tubes and I landed in a chair with my suit already on me.
"How in the-? Ah!" I jerked forward as the chair thing started flying straight towards some kind of hole, and then came to a stop and I flew out of it.
"Oomph!"
"Oh, hey Raven."
Huh?
I opened my eyes and saw that I had landed on my teammate, Iron Fist, and my hands were on his chest.
"S-sorry," I stuttered, quickly getting up and off of him.
"I think a warning would have been fair," Iron Fist proclaimed as he got up.
"Move, webs!"
"I got this knot in my back and those dumb pointy things on your helmet is just the right shape."
"This is what differentiates the boys from the men," I commented and Ava chuckled.
"Where are we?" Ava mumbled, seeing as we were surfaced underwater.
"ALL SHIELD PERSONNEL, PREPARE TO SURFACE."
The helicarrier.
"I don't know what your deal is, Webs, but if you want to throw down, let's get it over with," Sam flew up, away from Peter trying to mess with him, and his palms lit up.
"In a feisty mood? Outstanding. Court is in session," Fury appeared on the giant screen.
"Court? Like b-ball court?"
Oh yeah, just a bunch of teenage heroes here to play.
"Court, as in you're here to be judged. Harshly."
The fighting drones appeared from beneath the floor and had their shooters at the ready.
"Bet your webshooters I can take down more drones that you can," Sam challenged.
"You're on."
"We aren't going to stop them?" I questioned as they started wreaking havoc on the drones.
"There is a lesson to be learned here," Danny replied.
Maybe.
"Raven, do you have to keep that hood up?" Luke asked.
"No."
"But what if just fell off? Won't people know who you are?"
"No. It's an illusion, so when it does come off, the people will see me but they won't be able to piece it together. It's just one of my illusions," I shrugged.
"IN YOUR FACE!" They yelled in unison.
"Gentlemen! The objective of this exercise was to cross the room without setting off any traps."
"He said that? When did he say that?" Peter asked aloud.
"I was going to send you into the field today, but until you start working together, you're grounded."
Idiots.
"But that's not fair! It was dork one and dork two," Ava glared.
"You're gonna clean up your mess as a team."
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""Be the best hero you can be, work with professionals", I'm pushing a broom thanks to you two," Ava grunted as swept up the last of the debris.
I waved my hand and moved the last pile from my section onto the rest.
Field training with those two?
I'd rather talk to my dad.
"A tornado becomes a gentle breeze, only as temperatures cool down," Danny proclaimed, clasping his hands together.
Not with this team.
"He does that," Luke excused him.
Wait, I was the only one who got that?
"Let's just finish so we can prove what we got to Fury."
Nova melted it all and it flooded into the garbage system.
"You guys are the noobs-!"
I'm not even going to listen to that.
Either they know who I used to be and the things I've done, or they think I'm just as new as they are.
"That's it! Spiderman, you're a geniu-you gave me an idea," Ava walked towards one of the computers and pulled up a file.
"SHIELDS Most Wanted. We bring in someone from this list-"
"-instant respect."
I wouldn't say instant.
Not with Fury.
"Right. Let's make sure it's someone we can handle. Ah, Lady Porcupine," Ava clicked on her profile and I stepped closer.
Misdemeanors here and there, some SHIELD violations.
Even I could bring her in.
"Yawn! Nova, you take that pal, bring some bandages," Peter taunted.
"As if! I'm aiming higher. Like, top of the list. Let's go after him! Doctor Doom!"
"That's where I step in. Absolutely not," I jumped in.
"Too scared?" He smirked.
"Do you even know what he's done to warrant that spot? The people he's killed?" I questioned.
"If I can't take him, then you can't. Not even I'm strong enough," And that's where I started the fire.
"Oh, so we're basing this off of you? We don't even who you are or what you can do, so why should we take your word for it?"
Don't listen to him.
Just walk away.
But as soon as I did, he let it burn.
"Looks like she is just a scaredy cat."
I spun around and marched towards him,"I can do things that not even Doctor Strange can comprehend, I've torn down an entire other dimension, I've saved an entire country, and I'm not even fully human."
I got right up in his face.
"So if you want to see what I can do, then let's let this demon out, shall we?" I growled.
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"Raven, you're angered."
"Is it that obvious?" I glanced at the hologram of Danny.
"Perhaps we can meditate once this is all over-"
"I don't think anyone will want to meditate with me once this is over," I cut him off.
"Being not fully human doesn't make you a bad person, Raven."
"If only it were that simple."
"You have nothing to prove to Nova. You're strong, don't let him get to you."
"It's not to prove anything, it's to show him that he can't talk to me like that without knowing what I can do. I was raised by a monster, so I'll just become a monster," Little did I know, while Danny was pressing all those buttons, he accidentally pressed one that linked our conversations.
"Besides, Doom and I have some history. Though I don't think he'll be so happy to see m-is someone trying to blow Nova up?" I quirked my brow, already seeing rockets blowing up and chasing Nova.
We dropped ourselves out of the jets and I landed in the middle of a minefield of his robots.
"Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" I spread my arms out and a black mass swiped across, slicing them all in half.
More flew at me from the sky, and I put my hand up before yanking it down, and the robots all crashed into the neighboring trees and exploding on the ground.
"Azera-! Agh!" One managed to sneak up behind me and grabbed me by the throat, but my eyes glowed white and I moved my hands together before yanking them apart.
And it tore in two.
"Thanks for taking care of the lightweight. The pros will take it from here," Peter smirked, holding one of the heads of the bots.
"Whoa, now that's some spidey sense," He shivered.
And then, I looked up.
"Look upon me and tremble! For my face is the last you shall ever see! I am Doom!" Doom landed only a few feet away from us, and his eyes were entirely on me.
"Fury dares attack Doom?! On sovereign ground?!" Within seconds, my teammates were blasted apart, but he never lost site of me.
"Raven, who would have thought you joined Fury."
"Nice to see you too."
"Do your teammates know what you are?" I sneered.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" I sent a long range attack his way, my black mass diving straight towards him, but he managed to dodge my attack.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" It wrapped itself around him, and I flew up towards the sky with him in my grasp.
"You know you can't defeat me, girl!" He squirmed.
"You have no idea who you're talking to," And with all of my strength, I sent him flying into the trees and I didn't stop there.
Landing on the ground, I smashed his body into each and every boulder, tree, and even sent him diving into the dirt and then pulling him back out again.
"Raven!" I glanced behind me, but I was already too late.
One of his bots grabbed me and threw me into the bricks of Dooms castle, and I tasted metal in my mouth.
Shit.
And spat out the blood that had collected in my mouth.
"Raven, let me help," Nova tried reaching out for me, but I got up myself.
"Don't touch me," I glared.
"Look, I'm sorry, okay? Is that what you wanted to hear?"
"I'll be fine, just let me handle him. Azarath Metrion Zinth-os," My vision started to fade and I felt myself fall into someone's arms.
You could have used my power.
Just let go. . .
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