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   A couple of weeks went by since Ash told them about how he's been able to stay in touch with his friends. Why use the planet? The avengers wondered and asked.

"How else can you talk with dead phones?" Was all Ash asked them, which, he had a fair point.

The four kids, –Peter, Mj, Ned and Ash– all kept their eyes out on any strange kids. They minded their selves and didn't bother anybody.

However, flash kept trying to poke his nose into their business. Ash and flash despise one another, there hasn't been a peaceful day between them since there fight about month or so back.

Ash kicked the wall in frustration as he tried to relax in his room. He couldn't have a peaceful day without flash throwing shit at his face. Ash sat down on his bed and sighed.

There was a knock on his door. Ash perked up, "come in" he called out. Tony opened the door, surprised ash asked "Tony? Is there anything you need?"

Tony walked in and sat down next to him, "peter told me that someone's been giving you a hard time? Is that true?" Ash's eyes went a bit wide. He averted Tony's gaze and muttered "yes..."

Tony's gaze saddened, he placed a hand on his shoulder and asked "do you wanna talk about it?" Ash looked over at him, he sorta looked down at his lap, he sighed slightly, "it's flash, he's just..." Ash trailed off.

Tony waited for him to continue, "he's just been infuriating me. Asking me things I don't wanna answer and is poking his nose into our business. He's being a dick altogether" ash sorta shouted out.

Ash let out a frustrated sigh, he buried his face in his hands and sat there. Ash felt frustrated, angry, alone, miserable, and upset. Ash felt tears form in his eyes, his voice cracked as he said "I want my friends back, they're my family I want them here with me, I want them all back"

Tony pulled him into a hug and began to rub his back, ash buried his face on Tony's shoulder and just bawled his eyes out. Ash felt so overwhelmed by everything, he was stressed out and exhausted.

His chest began to hurt again, however the pain has seemed to have spread out from where his heart was to his whole chest. Ash felt something get caught in his throat, Ash broke the hug just as he began to cough.

Tony grew concerned, "Ash? Are you ok?" Ash manged to take a peek at his hand. He grew horrified by what he was seeing, he jumped up and ran to the bathroom to see if he was just seeing things.

"Ash!?" Tony shouted, he followed after him and caught wind in his bathroom and he froze. Ash had blood coming out of his mouth, ash sorta looked over at him, but a sudden coughing fit and dropping to the floor stopped him from saying anything.

"ASH!" Tony shouted and ran in to help his as ash began to cry out in pain. Unknown to them, they had a visitor. "Tony? Whats going on" someone had appeared in Ash's room, unaware of the situation.

It was Dr. Strange, he looked into the bathroom and instantly Strange froze. Tony turned to the doctor "STRANGE WE NEED SHURI NOW!"

Dr. Strange gave Tony a nervous look "I don't think it's a good idea to try to move him to waka-" Tony quickly cut him off "just get her here then, I'll get him to his bed" Stephen nodded "alright alright, hang on" he said as he opened a portal to wakanda and went through.

Tony carefully picked up Ash, as one of Ash's hands gripped his chest while the other covered his mouth to try to stop the blood from spilling out as he screamed out in pain.

Shuri scanned Ash when things had finally calmed down with him. She got results instantly and began to look them over. Her face grew pretty horrified and concerned. She stepped out of the room, as she made Tony and Stephen step out to give her space.

She approached the two. Upon seeing her Tony sprang up "Is he ok?" Tony asked. Shuri gave him this look that worried him

"Mr. Stark, the poison spell it's..." she paused. Tony grew anxious with her silence, but Dr. Strange spoke up "well? Whats wrong?" He asked as calmly as possible.

She finally spoke up "it's spreading..." she answered. Tony and Strange's eyes grew wide. Tony's shock passed good enough for him to ask "spreading? Is it bad or..?" Shuri looked at him and glanced away, as if to collect herself.

She sigh and looked back to the two "the poison spell reacted to his negative emotions, causing it to go to this second stage of slowly spread through his system. To effectively weaken it and shut it down, that's as much as I can calculate at least." She explained to them.

Tony and Strange grew more shocked than before, Dr. Strange finally concluded "so, he's effectively gonna slowly die. Unless we are able to find one of his friends who can heal him?" He asked.

Shuri nodded, "yes, unfortunately..." Tony looked down, this was all because of that villain, carmen. He inhaled and exhaled a few time to calm himself before he composed himself and asked "is there much of anything we could do to help him?"

Shuri perked up, she took sometime to think about it. A light bulb flash over her head as she said "possibly, try to keep him as calm as possible and make sure he's as comfortable as possible. It wouldn't stop the spell all together but it could slow it down just enough for us to locate one of his friends who can help him." she explained

Tony and Strange nodded, "alright, thank you for the information shuri, we'll be sure to keep that in mind." Strange said to her, she to nodded them, then she bowed "thank you for calling me here, but I'd like to get back home now." She said to him.

Dr. Strange nodded and opened a portal right behind her, she bid them a farwell and walked through the portal, to which it closed behind her.

Tony exhaled sharply, he couldn't believe this, now Ash was gonna suffer far worse than he already was. He's had to deal with being away from his friends, flash, and the poison spell enough as it is.

"What did he do deserve this?" Tony asked himself. Dr. Strange shrugged "I don't know Tony, he was the one that just happened to show himself and get caught up in the spell" he said.

Tony grumbled "I know! But..." he paused, Dr. Strange stood there waiting for Tony to continue. Finally Tony spoke up "I just don't get why he has to go through this, and his friends, what about them? Are they gonna suffer through something as well? Why? Why does it have to be them!" Tony shouted

Stephen pulled him into a hug, Tony didn't hesitate to hug back. Stephen spoke up "I don't know why it has to be them Tony, fate is mysterious and all we can do is hope and pray that fate has chosen to let him live and unite with his friends again" he explained, Tony sighed and nodded.

The two sorta faced each other, Dr. Strange continued "try to stay hopeful about the future. Who knows, maybe he'll be saved when we least expect it" Stephen suggested. Tony nodded and looked at him.

All of a sudden, "is daddy and Mr. Magic man gonna kiss?" They suddenly looked over and saw morgan standing there with ash next to her, she must've snuck in when shuri was examining Ash.

Tony and strange processed Morgan's words quickly, they instantly broke the hug and stepped away from each other "no no, no no, we weren't sweetie. Mr. Magic man was only comforting me, that's all" he told her.

She hummed in response and skipped off. Ash sighed as he watched her leave. Tony walked over to him "hey, you ok?" Ash exhaled "not really..." he explained Tony looked down at him and sighed "I'll have you stay home for a couple of days, I'll talk to the principal about it."

Ash nodded to him, "I'm gonna head back to bed now" he told them. Tony and strange nodded as ash slowly but surly made his way back to bed. Dr. Strange approached him and patted his shoulder, "I'll let the spiderlings know that he'll be absent from the mission for now"

Peter and his friends felt bad that their new friend –Ash– would be unable to continue their mission, for now at least. Mj was in another part of the school looking around.

She caught wind of a conversation with some girls and one of flash's friends. At first she was uninterested.

Until

"You and your friends were so brave going out to sea like that"
"Yeah who ever that guy was, he was crazy"

Mj stopped and listened in, now confused and curious, she had to learn more. The guy chuckled "yeah, well, we thought it was the right thing to do"

Mj was even more confused 'what are they talking about' she wondered. Once the guy left Mj approached the girls "ummm what was all that about? What did he and his friends do out at sea? Isn't it dangerous?" She asked

One of the girls looked at her "you don't know? Flash and his friends solved the ocean problems, they did a video about it to, it was out live so it's pretty long" she showed Mj the video.

Mj's eyes got a bit wide. Quickly she wiped out her phone and typed the video name out "alright, thanks"

Mj ran off, she was danm lucky that school had ended, she texted her dad to let him know she's gotta conclude an emergency meeting with some people. He's response?

👍

She ran to the bus that took them to the avenger's compound. She looked at the driver "I'm in a hurry, get me to the next stop please" the driver nodded as she paid for her stay and tiped him and extra 25$.

The driver got to the stop about 15 minutes earlier than he usually did so and she was out in a second and she quickly shout "thank you, have a nice day sir, drive safe!"

She ran to the compound as fast as her feet could carry her. She was lucky Ned and Peter volunteered to stay home that day to help ash out. She ran into the compound and made her way through the living rooms to the meeting room.

She typed the pass code and a red button popped up. She instantly clicked it giving a blaring alarm, signaling an emergency meeting with the whole team on earth and in space. She even relayed a message.

"I don't care what's going on, get her fast and now" now usually Peter, Ned and Mj aren't authorized to do this unless necessary. Luckily five minutes later the large team had assembled.

"I am groot?" Groot asked. Mj turned to the guardian's of the galaxy for translation. "He asked what the deal was, you called us while we we're in the middle of something" rocket said complaining

"We missed out on a lot of units girly" he added. Mj rolled her eyes "she must've had a reason for this" Steve said to him, Rocket backed down instantly.

"Why Mj?" He asked her. She looked around before she said "I think we should wait for ash to arrive" before anyone could protest a voice spoke up.

"Why?" They all looked over and saw Ash standing there with Ned and Peter. Mj perked up "good, this is information your gonna wanna hear" she answered him.

Ash blinked and gave this confused frown look. Rocket sighed "what was so important to drag us all into this" he complained.

Mj held up her phone and said "we now have information on one of ash's friends" the moment Mj said that joy sparked in Ash. He instantly perked up "who? Which one?" He asked. Mj looked at him and smiled at him "the one who can control water." She said

Ash instantly beamed, his felt a smile form on his face "brook..." he murmured happily. Tony walked over to Mj "what is it about? What kind of info is it?" Tony asked.

As Mj and Tony spoke with one another Ash couldn't help but smile and slightly hop in the spot he was standing in, could this mean he and the avenger's would get closer to finally finding someone ash cared about?

Tony then looked at the avengers "alright you guys, the information was in a video, in a live stream according to what Mj knows. So if you'd like to, take a seat or stay standing" strange began to float in mid air.

Tony added to accommodate to this "or fly in mid air if you oh so desire" a couple of people chuckled. Ash grabbed a seat and set it down infront of the screen —not to the point he was covering some of it though.—

Mj played the video as the phone connected to the screen "fair warning Ash, there's someone in here you don't like..." Mj warned him.

Confused he asked "who?" And right on cure the video began to play. The first thing Ash saw and heard was flash, instantly his face dropped and he frowned "oh.... him" he spat bitterly.

Tony gave a nervous chuckle "ok I'm gonna skip through this and get to the important part. Tony began to skip somethings and it was noted that the location wasn't confined "danm it" Tony murmured

Ash shrugged "it's ok we'll probably find out where him and his friends went to" Tony nodded and kept fast-forwarding the video. He stopped at a moment of flash babbling on about how cool Spiderman is.

Ash snickered a bit, oh little did Flash know. Tony kept moving the video forward and stopped at him taking about football. Tony internally sighed and fast forward it again.

Then when he stopped they heard "up next is top ten ways to get girls" ash gave this weirded out look, he began to (gay) cringe. Instantly he replied while shouting "SKIP THAT, NOW"

The others turned to ash, giving him a look. He had this look of discomfort and cringe all over his face. Rocket snickered "no no, keep playing it" Ash turned to him "raccoon I swear to God if you encourage that I'm gonna shove a broom stick so far up your ass you be mistaken for a red fluffy unicorn" Ash replied back.

Rocket blinked "red? I'm-" ash cut him off "red as in I'm gonna brake the broom 7,894 ways going up to make sure you bleed internally from the inside out if you keep it up you shit tard of a creature" Ash said with a death glare that would make blake very proud of him.

Peter gave Tony a look, "Mr. Stark, please skip this. Ash is not interested in hearing anything about dating girls whatsoever" he explained. Thankfully nobody made a comment or asked what he ment.

Tony compiled and began to fast forward the video Ash silently thanked Peter and turned his attention to the video. It took sometime but they got a moment where the video got dark. The three were in the middle of a thunderstorm, it was thundering like crazy as lightning flashed.

Ash would be lying if he said he wasn't worried, but even he was concerned by this. Ash turned to Tony "isn't it dangerous to be out there? Especially with what's going on?" Tony nodded "yeah" he answered.

The avengers gave this nervous look, "these kids got a lot of balls doing this" Rocket commented. Ash nodded "I agree with you there" he replied

"What will we do flash? How will we find the source of this?" They all turned to the screen. "I don't know man. We need to come up with something!" Flash shouted.

One of the other guys got an idea, "I know!" He shouted and walked into the cockpit. Everybody watched in anticipation. Then the guy came back.

With a gun

The avengers got wide eyes, "does this kid even have a license to carry this thing?" Quill asked. The avengers only watched in silence, "dude, isn't that your dad's gun? What do you plan to do? Shoot the water?" Flash asked. The guy nodded

"I heard that something strange happens when you shoot the water" the guy said before he aimed the gun down and began to shoot. Ash gave a devastating glare that could make thor shit his pants.

"DUDE ARE YOU NUTS!?" The other guy shouted. Flash shrugged "I don't see the issue with it" all of a sudden, before anybody could say anything else, something had shot out of the water, fast.

It had knocked the gun completely out of the guy's grasp and onto the wall, pinning it there. Instantly they knew that the gun was destroyed due to the sound of part of it dropping to the ground.

The camera suddenly pivoted over to the area. The Avengers and Ash caught notice of a blue double-bladed trident, sticking out of the wall. The Avengers became extremely stunned.

Ash's eyes widen with a look that none of the Avengers could see, but Peter and his friends could. It was full of love and pride, he knew who this was.

"Brook..." he murmured with this warm affectionate tone. The avengers gave him a look not understanding why he spoke like that and why he was suddenly up on his feet for this.

They decided to focus up now and ask question later, they had no time to ask him why he was acting like this. Suddenly the Trident in the video flew back to somebody's hand.

All they can see was a silhouette of somebody but as soon as the lightning flashed the person became clear. And just like ash thought before it was the one he mentioned.

It was Brook. And boy did he look pissed. The three boys ran and screamed. Ash couldn't help but bust out laughing his ass off, The Avengers gave him this confused look, why in the hell was he laughing at this?

But then again he didn't like flash or his friends. So it was understandable, for the most part. The guy Brook shouted for them to get back there, calling them cowards, and basically shouting how dare they shoot some of the sea life.

Ash shuttered at this. If there was anything that scared him worse than Blake, it was Brook pissed off beyond repair. Ash nearly pissed himself 'calm down hunny-' ash thought to himself.

The three ran off to an inner part of the boat they were on, it rocked and moved like crazy. "Dude! What are we gonna do?! The son of a bitch is crazy!" One of the friends asked. Ash glared at the screen, "fuckers" he murmured.

Then flash seemed to have come up with something, he turned to the other two "I've got it" he said. The camera turned away and due to the storm no one heard what was said. The Avengers gave each other a look, as if they were thinking the same thing "what's happening?" Clint asked.

They all turned back to the screen to see the camera jostle in its place. And move fast, now the avengers wondered what they were doing.

Peter got this eerie feeling in his gut that told him, something wasn't right. Peter whipped out his own phone and looked up the video. He skipped passed what they were watching to watch ahead. He eyes suddenly got wide in horror. He looked dover at Ash and quietly walked to him.

"Ash, I don't think you shouldn't continue watching" Peter warned him. Ash turned to him "why?" He asked, before Peter could attempt to persuade him, there was someone who spoke up in the video "OI, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU THREE!" Brooks voice chimed in on the video.

Peter knew that Ash wasn't gonna budge at this point. He looked at the video and waited. The camera was positioned facing the area in front of the cockpit.

One of the guy's was out there, looking anxiously. Brook then appeared behind him, the guy turned around and in panic he swung at him. Brook caught his punch midair, he then grabbed the collar of his shirt.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Brook warned, the guy surprisingly didn't fight back. The guy glared at him "then why attack us?" He asked. Brook got this look "attack you? Did i cause any physical harm whatsoever? No! It was you three causing harm to the sea life." Brook sorta shouted.

The guy rolled his eyes "the sea life will be fine. I only shot a few times" Brook growled at him "yes, but that few could be detrimental to the future. You've already polluted and poised the sea and it's life enough as it is, you people can't learn to step the fuck up and do something about it." Brook exclaimed.

Ash nodded at that "yeah, that I agree with. You earthlings need to do something about the pollution and habitat loss, or else there is no faith in your future. I know theres people stepping up now, but its not enough." He said.

The Avengers nodded, knowing that Ash and Brook were right. Brook looked around "which reminds me, where are your other two friends? Either they were in on your little shoting spree or not, I only wanted to give you three a fair warning." He asked glaring ath him.

The lighting again flashed now showing that this guy wore some sorta of suit. Tony blinked "isn't that the suit that can conduct electricity at protect a sailor or an electrician?" He turned to T'Challa, as this was made in wakanda.

"It is, what are they planning with that?" T'Challa asked. Then they turned back to the screen, Ash got this bad feeling in his gut. Something wasn't right, just then the guy kneed Brook hard in the gut. Brook shouted out in pain.

Then the guy jumped back "NOW!" He shouted. Flash and the other guy had some sorta of generator and a taser. Tony's eyes went wide, now he knew what they were gonna do "NO!-" Then they activated both on the water that was on the deck. They began to electrocute Brook.

But with the electricity mixing with his magic energy, it caused to show a visible electrocution to brook. Brook screamed out in pain and agony. The Avengers stared in horror.

Ash's eye were wide in shock and horror. "BROOK!" He shouted so loud that made everyone flinched. Silence filled the room. Then the electrocution finally stopped. Brook fell to the floor, he had server first degree and second degree burns.

Thunder and lighting crash, bashed, and roared in the sky as the waves crashed alongside and against the boat, causing it to shake and swerve around. Flash and his friends shouted triumphedly, thinking that they've solved the ones of the weird global issues.

There was a jolt of movement from brook in the corner of their eyes as they looked down on the ground. Flash walked over and grabbed brook's hair, causing him to shout out in more pain then he already is.

"Got anything to say?" He asked tauntingly to Brook. Brook murmured something, Flash pulled him to a hearing range "what was that?" He asked him

Brook looked at him, rage blazing in his eyes, "you'll regret this, all of this. Once he sees what you have done to me you'll be sorry. He will hunt you down and make you regret doing this to me, he'll make sure you'll know how much pain you inflicted on me..." Brook told them.

The other two gave an anxious look to each other, but Flash rolled his eyes "I'm not scared of your empty threats" he said as he dragged him to the edge and tossed him overboard. The other two protested "Flash, what if he's telling the truth? What if the threat wasn't empty?"

Flash just shrugged, "either way, I don't think I'll ever encounter this guy he mentioned." He said just as the video footage ended. Everyone sat or stood there in silence and shock. No a sound was made.

The only sound that finally broke the silence was the growing sound of someone begining to cry. Peter looked over and saw Ash looking down, with tears flowing down his face.

Peter went to approach him, "as-" he was suddenly cut off by Ash dropping to his knees and screaming out in dismay. His sudden drop cause a magic force that shoved everyone back. Then the ground started to shake. But it wasn't just that alone...

"Boss! The whole planet is reacting to this, there are ground quakes everywhere!" Fridays voice told him. Tony panicked "oh no! KID YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN!" Tony shouted.

It fell on deaf ear on Ash, as if he was having a flashback, hugging himself. The Avengers began to shout for him but he didn't seem to hear them, peter managed to crawl over to him.

"ASH, PLEASE SNAP OUT OF IT" Ash sorta looked at him "PLEASE!" Peter pleaded. Ash closed his eyes and began to breath in and out, in order to calm himself down. Sooner or later, the shaking duled down and eventuality  came to a stop.

The Avengers slowly stood up. They all looked around to see if their commands were alright. Peter went to Ned and Mj to check on them. They both confirmed that they were ok and realeaved Peter.

He looked over to where Ash sat. He stood up and stepped forward to him. "Ash?" Before he could say anything else Ash suddenly shouted "LEAVE ME ALONE!" He bolted out of the room. Peter blinked in astonishment "ASH-"

Peter went to go after him but was stopped by Tony and Dr. Strange "give him some space kid.... he needs time to himself." Tony told him, Peter gave a protested look but backed down after a bit. He know Tony was right, he just hoped Ash would recover from this.

"Uh oh"

"Now somebody's done it"

"Who ever fucked up is done for"

"Looks like somebody hurt brook"

"Who ever fucked up.... I'll try to join ash on killing them"

"Hmmmmmm. It seems like one of the protectors has fallen....."

"HAHAHAHA"
"Looks like I can initiate my part of the plan....."

SJVSVQGWUYDYEYRGGRVT THIS FUCKING BROKE ME- UGGGGGH-
Although- I've got something worse planned for the others-

Then again
Who said brook was gone for good?

Welp other than that stay tuned for Chapter 13 until then

Cat~con out