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Xander smiled as he wandered through the New York streets looking for the famous Stark Tower that had been on the news not too long ago. It was supposed to be the newest example from Stark Industries in clean energy. As he wandered he heard a loud sound and then saw a bright light shoot up into the sky making a big hole through which some really weird creatures started coming out of. Xander sighed as he knew that he would have to go investigate the creatures and most likely fight them. He headed in the direction of the light beam and gave a soft laugh when he saw that it was coming from the very tower that he had been looking for. He heard the sounds of a fight and headed that way. He gave a soft squeal when he saw Captain America fighting the creatures with several other costumed people. One of the creatures attacked Xander and was met by a large axe to the head. Xander snarled at the large group of creatures that headed his way and began swinging his favorite axe as quickly as he could loping off heads left and right. Once he was through the crowd that had attacked him he made his way toward where he had seen Captain America. One of the creatures was about to shoot the good captain so Xander jumped up on a car trunk and then leapt forward with a roar bringing his axe down on the creature’s back. Captain America spun around at the sound of Xander’s roar and starred in shock at the sight of the young man with the axe buried in the creature’s back. He said a quick thank you and returned to fighting the creatures. Xander fought back to back with one of his childhood hero’s for another ten minutes before the others who were fighting gathered around them for a quick check in and to see if Captain America had come up with a new plan yet. Xander nearly spazzed out when he saw Thor and Iron Man.
They fought for so long that Xander was beginning to think that he would need to bring the hyena to the fore to continue fighting. Just as he was about to do it he saw Iron Man fly by with a missile on his shoulder heading for the hole in the sky. He smiled sadly as he watched the man in the iron suit sacrifice himself to save the world. When he saw Iron Man fall back through the hole just as it closed up he cursed because it was just like when Buffy sacrificed herself in Dawn’s place to close Glory’s portal. When the Hulk snagged the iron suit out of the air he gave a shout of joy and ran with the others to check on him. He laughed when Hulk’s roar woke the man up and his first words being a plea that no one had kissed him. Xander had then joined them in the confortation with Loki in the tower.
He was about to leave when a disembodied voice said, “Sir, I am picking up traces of the DNA of all the Avengers in the young man with the large axe.”
The entire group turned to stare at him and he held up his hands in the classic ‘don’t look at me’ gesture.
He said, “That is news to me as well. As far as I know, I am one hundred percent human and the son of Jessica and Tony Harris.”
Before anything else could be said Xander’s phone rang startling everyone with the Scooby Doo theme song.
“Hold that thought for just a minute.”
Xander grabbed his phone and answered it with a jaunty, “Xander’s house of wonder this is your Xander speaking. How may I help you today?”
He was quiet for a few minutes as he listened to the other person speaking and then said, “It is totally not my fault, Willow. I had nothing to do with the portal that opened in the sky over New York. I helped the superhero’s here fight the creatures and am even now being glared at by them because their invisible man just said that he could sense each of their DNA in me. I’ll have to call you back in a little while with a further update once I know more about it.”
After another minute of listening to the woman on the other end he said good-bye and hung up before turning back to the group of superhero’s.
“So, what’s next on the list of fun things to do here in New York?”
Captain America, aka Steve Rogers, sighed and said, “Now we go to S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ’s and let Mr. Stark and Dr. Banner do their science stuff with your blood to see what JARVIS was talking about. Because, if someone out there has DNA from all of us and made you then, who knows how many other people are out there who also have our DNA and could be at risk of being attacked like you were.”
Tony turned to Steve and asked, “He was attacked? He didn’t just jump in willy nilly?”
Steve nodded but Xander interrupted what he was going to say by saying, “Actually, technically I did jump in willy nilly. I’m a card carrying member of the supernatural attack club.”
Everyone looked at him funny and he sighed heavily before saying, “It means that I work for people who handle supernatural attacks dailey. Also, if it flirts with me we know that it’s evil or was, at one time, evil.”
Bruce, who had shrunk back down from Hulk mode, asked, “Who do you work for? I’ve never heard of a company that dealt with supernatural forces dailey.”
Xander smiled and said, “Yeah, well, you wouldn’t have. We keep a very low profile. Our HQs used to be in London until a few years ago when it was bombed along with most of our office personnel. Luckily our archives, libraries and vaults are all separate from the main buildings and built to withstand an Atom bomb going off at close range. Otherwise, we would be up a very deep and fast moving creek without a paddle going the wrong direction.”
Clint laughed and said, “I like him. Can we keep him, Cap?”
Steve smiled and said, “I think the young man might have something to say about that, Clint. We need to be on our way for debriefing with Mr. Fury. Let’s go, people.”