General Pov
Avengers Tower
"The government are calling them terrorist attacks, but solid evidence has been gatherer that they are indeed Hydra bases, the last attack was on a few buildings in the outskirts of New York, all that's left there is a giant box made of ice surrounding the buildings and that's all we have on the recent sightings of the 'Ice Man'. That's all from MCU News this Saturday I'm Kat Grant. Have a good day"
Tony looks at the news while shaking his head "Look at him, he has done more damage to Hydra in a few days than Shield has in Decades, and he isn't even near from over."
"How did he do this, this base isn't in the list you gave him" Banner asks scrolling through the list on his tablet
"He must have gotten them from the bases he destroyed, I managed to get my hands on the drives from the least destroyed bases. The rest were frozen solid, the entire building was frozen to its core, including the stuff inside." Tony
"He has gotten a lot stronger since the last time we saw him. Any idea how he did it?" Cap asks Thor and Sif
They look at each other before Sif starts to explain " The magic system that he is using is mostly unknown to us, but gaining this much power in such a short period of time must mean he sacrificed something to get it. Most likely used his own methods or used the Scepter to increase his power, either way he payed some sort of price to do it"
"Doesn't matter, he isn't hostile to us and he is getting rid of Hydra. Let him do his thing, the world will be a better place after this" Rhodes adds in
"Yea but who is to say that he wont become an even bigger threat to the World" Cap says with a serious tone
"Meh if that happens its over anyway, plus we still have to survive the threat to all life called Thanos before we get to worry about the Wizard doing something bad"
"I honestly forgot about him, how do we deal with someone that goes around killing half the population on each planet" Rhodes asks
"We hit him with everything we got" This time Tony answers
"All of the Nukes Earth has, I'll keep building stronger Suits. Thor will handle Asgard and make sure they use every last object hidden in the Vault that Thor described. And the Wizard will fight as well. If we fail, then there's nothing else to do."
The mood turns somber at Tony's words
"Why they aren't out there helping the Wizard, i mean if he is getting rid of Hydra we should help him" Banner tries to change the conversation
"Because I don't trust him that much, and he is doing a great job on his own. Plus with all the chaos he is causing, i can search for Barnes much easily. Me and Jarvis are hacking in the Hydra network thanks to the files I managed to recover from the Ice Bases. The more trees he shakes the easier I can get to Barnes." Tony says as he is eating snacks,
He might look relaxed, but he is very anxious, his goal is near.
Steve Rogers sees this and gives Tony the look 'I will stop you' They have had the same argument since Ward told them the truth. The rest stopped them before they cross the line and ruin the Avengers
The others notice their looks, and tension starts rising.
"Okey stop, we get it, but you doing this isn't helping at all" Rhodes goes in between them before they start something
"We have been over this, as soon as we catch him, we check if Barns is still 'alive' or just a mindless Hydra solider. If its the first, we help Cap heal him, if its the latter we let Tony have his closure." Rhodes tries to pacify them, even he knows that what they agreed on wont hold once they find Barns
Tony will try to kill him and Steve will try and protect him. Everybody knows that if nothing is done the Avengers will fall apart.
The mood was getting worse, this has been happening a lot the past few days.
"I will be leaving" Banner said "There is not much I can do, even if we find him, the Green Guy will just rip him apart"
Before anyone could say anything a portal opens up, everybody was startled and jumped from their seats and prepared for an attack. It took a moment to recognize the familiar portal, they waited for a few moments but nothing came out.
"Why isn't he coming in" Banner asks
"Is there a problem with the portal?" Tony asked
Then all of a sudden a huge cube of ice passed through the portal and it slid to the Avengers, they jumped back to evade it
"What the hell?" Tony yells out before he got a good look at the Ice Cube, freezing him in place
And it wasn't just him, every Avenger stopped moving, there in front of them was their target , frozen from the neck down in an ice cube, on his head was a big pink ribbon, with it a note.
[One 'Bucky on Ice' for a 'Mr. Flying TinCan and a Mr. Capsickle' and their Merry Gang, found him in a Hydra Prison with gay inmates, don't believe a word he says , whatever sanity he had was lost in the prison bathrooms
P.S. Here he is, you owe me again, and we will set off for Asgard at the arranged time
P.P.S. Someone buy Thor a phone and teach him how to use it.]
And with that the portal closed leaving behind an incredibly awkward situation.
Word Count 1000
(A/N People don't swear in the comments, things like shit, bullshit, and stuff like that, gets your comment deleted by Webnovel, i can't see it or reply to it)
I haven't forgotten about the Twins, they were in Sokovia, to get to New York from there is thought, especially since i assume that they are quite poor, they grew up without parents, and had to survive on their own, so I imagine their funds are a little low.