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How Many Warehouses Are Even In Queens Honesty, Early Sunday Morning

The problem with waiting for HYDRA to make the first move was that, once they did, it was a scramble to get into action. Especially when Clint's team was occasionally a little hard to find to call for back up. Stupid magic.

Luckily for Tony, he could make sad eyes at a few people on the island to help keep him alive to stop whatever the hell the Red Skull was planning this time.

He took a quick scan of the warehouse (it was always warehouses) to see what sort of opposition they'd be running into and was a little disturbed and distrustful over how few guards they had.

[Expecting two for all the slowplay!]

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There were only a few HYDRA foot soldiers guarding the building rather than the usual mass numbers that were usually employed. The reason why became clear once inside where it looked like they were going through a goth phase with an abundance of candles and a familiar body on... well, it certainly looked like an alter from here.

So. There was that. Oh, and of course there were a few people who might not enjoy being interrupted.

"The ritual is nearly complete," the Red Skull shouted in his usual level of drama queen. "You won't be able to stop me, Avengers!"

Steve rolled his eyes. "Honestly?" he called back. "I've stopped you once already."

And punched Hitler a few hundred times!

Wow. That was just rude. He was gloating in a villainous fashion here.

Schmidt glared at the 'Captain America' addressing him. "You can't fool me with another fake."

"Not a fake," Steve said, planting his feet and holding up his shield. "Just a different reality."

And when did that become almost normal to say?

It was Marvel, Steve. Nothing was ever normal.

Schmidt went with the most mature response to that by shooting at him. Because that's how he rolled. "Attack them!"

You know, the few HYDRA soldiers he'd kept for this sensitive procedure of body stealing.

Steve clenched his jaw and got ready to punch some soldiers really, really hard.

"Keep him distracted," Tony said, blasting at the nearest HYDRA goon blocking him from interrupting whatever weird magic shit they were doing.

Despite not having their normal numbers, there were still a decent amount of HYDRA soldiers to fire on the group.

And on top of that, there was The Red Skull wasting no time to try punching whatever impostor they'd dug up for this. At least it wasn't the Winter Soldier this time.

Yeah, that would have been...something else.

Steve got his shield up in time to block first the shots, then Red Skull's punches. "I can do this all day," he muttered.

"And I only need do this moments longer," he sneered. But that could just be his usual method of speaking. It was hard to tell because of the whole skull thing. "Soon I will possess your counterpart's body as my own!"

Steve aimed at Red Skull's lack of nose extra hard for that. "No, you won't."

He stumbled back, making an inarticulate noise of rage. "Attack him!"

Yeah, you just let your nameless minions attack Captain America because he gave you a boo-boo, Schmidt.

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Aaaaand Amora was constantly surrounded by incompetent idiots. She rolled her eyes, quietly withdrawing from her position next to the Red Skull so she wouldn't need dirty her hands with such trivial matters.

The Skull fight was personal for Cap and Tony. That left Jessica as the person free to cut off the lady trying to slink away.

She did so with a giant web in Amora's path. Branding. "Leaving so soon? Don't be rude, we just got here."

Great job at branding! Unfortunately it just made Amora pause and flare up into flames as she burned it away. "Now, now, little spider. Don't you need to help your friends?"

Ugh, fire people. It was bad enough when Amora just looked to be a magic person. "I think they've got things covered over there. It leaves me to pick up the scraps."

Taunt the magic fire god lady, Jess. Tactical brilliance.

"Scraps?!" And that flaming hair thing just got more... flaming.

Spider-sense was going crazy, but Jessica had experience with fire-themed bruisers. And this lady was no Norman Osborn.

... She was clearly way more powerful than Norman Osborn.

"I mean, the Skull's the guy with the plan, right? You're just the lovely assistant in his magic show," Jessica suggested. "And your work is valued, but... c'mon." Jessica was crouched and ready to spring away the second the taunting caused fireballs or magic blasts or both.

"You think I would demean myself to that creature's lacky?" Amora hissed, turning to circle the mortal who dared say such things to a goddess. "Your minds are so small."

"My mind's reasonably large for a mortal," Jessica said, moving sideways so they would be circling each other. She didn't want to get trapped by a fire goddess. "But if I'm wrong, then what's your deal here? Why work for -- work WITH the Skull on this?"

"You will learn soon enough, little spider. My master comes for your world next." Amora hunched over, teeth gritted in pain as her hands went to the 'necklace' at her throat.

It was possibly a warning or a threat. Hard to tell with her.

Jessica shot an electrified webline at the necklace in an attempt to yank it away and/or shock Amora. Whatever worked. "So you have a master besides the Red Head over there?"

It was magic, Jess. Magic. Butt the fire snuffed for a moment and Amora stared at her with wide, frightened eyes. "Find Thor. Or more worlds will fall."

Jessica was ready for any number of results. Electrocuting Amora, pulling the necklace away, Amora sending flames down the webline, vaporizing eye blasts. But that? That caught her by surprise. She wasn't going to crack wise at Amora's sudden fear. "I will. Anything else I should tell him? What's happening?"

She was expecting the flames to come back now and a suitably evil answer in response, but it was worth a shot.