This chapter is a lot longer than all my others because I really wanted to get this whole part of the ship being attacked into one chapter. I hope you all enjoy and remember to review! And don't forget about Scribble suggestions if you have any!

Everyone in SHIELD hurried around, getting prepared even if they didn't know what they were getting prepared for. Emily rolled onto her stomach, taking deep breaths, taking a moment to process what had happened. "Melody." She whispered out. With all the strength she could muster, she pushed herself up, getting a view of the lab. When she saw where Melody had been standing and calculated where the blast would have sent her, she gasped. Blood pooled the floor, and she knew that Melody would be the last person to tell anyone what had happened. "Oh no."

"Hill!" Fury yelled into his walkie talkie while he sat up, only a few feet away from Emily.

"It's a detonation." Maria spoke into hers while trying to get everything under control, going from computer to computer. "Number three engine is down."

"We've been hit!" One of the woman agents called from her left. "We've got a fire in engine three!" Another voice said.

Maria hurried over to the first agent she saw, turning so she could look on his monitor. "Talk to me."

"The turbine looks mostly intact, but it is impossible to get out there and repair while we're in the air."

Maria sighed helplessly. "Well if we lose one more engine we won't be." She mumbled to herself before going to the ear piece to talk. "Somebody's got to get outside and patch that engine."

"Stark!" Fury called into his ear piece. "Did you copy that?"

"I'm on it." His voice came over the radio.

That was one thing less he had to worry about. When he turned, he looked for Emily, trying to give her an order, but she was no longer there. He let out a heavy sigh before going back to his ear piece, knowing something had to be done whether they had Emily or not. "Coulson, initiate the lockdown in the detention center, then in the armory." He got up from his spot on the floor and began to hurry out of the lab, but stopped when he saw the blood. He now knew why Emily was nowhere to be found. And with that, he needed help. He needed her protector. "Romanoff!"


Natasha's leg was stuck under a metal pipe. She tried to move it, but it was seeming impossible. All she knew right now was that she had to report. "We're okay." She spoke as she pushed the button on her ear piece. When she looked over to Bruce, he was writhing on the floor. It looked like he was trying to keep himself from changing. And now, Natasha had something completely different to worry about. "We're okay, right?"


Clint led his group into the helicarrier. All of his minions jumped in before him and right when he swung down his rope, the inside part of his brain was screaming at himself. "Keep that engine down!" He ordered anyway, keeping his real self at bay. "And make those cameras go dark." He looked to one of the men closest to him, deciding he needed back up, not sure if the other Clint was going to come out here. "You stay close."


Melody, Tony and Steve continued to hurry through the helicarrier and Melody expected Clint to come around the corner any second. She had her gun and her knives, but she didn't know if she had the strength to hurt Clint. "Get to engine three." Melody looked up at the sound of Tony's voice. If they were going to do this, they were going to do it together. "I'll meet you two there."

Melody stopped walking, wanting to wait for Tony, but Steve pulled her along. They both knew what he had to do. With the click of his remote button, a door opened, revealing his Iron Man suit, the small triangle glowing, ready to be put on and to fix the engine.


Bruce was gripping onto whatever he could, feeling so much discomfort and pain in trying to keep himself from being turned. "Doctor?" Natasha asked in a meek voice as she began to get even more scared. "Bruce?" She asked again as she tried to pull her leg out from under the pipe. "You got to fight it." Bruce sat up with his knees on the floor as he kept up with his deep breaths. "This is just what Loki wants. We're gonna be okay. Listen to me." Two men began to run over to help, but Natasha waved them away, knowing that anything could set Bruce off to change. "We're gonna be okay, all right?" He began to growl, causing Natasha to being to twitch from nervousness. "I swear on my life that I will get you out of here and you will never ever – "

"Your life?!" Bruce interrupted with a scary, deep voice that echoed in the entire area. Bruce got up on his knees, beginning to grow green and his shirt starting to rip as his muscles grew.

Natasha began to struggle even further to get out as Bruce let out more growls as he staggered back. Bruce looked to her over his shoulder, giving her an apologetic glance before letting out more growls of pain as he turned into something everyone on this ship would fear. "Bruce." Natasha whispered before struggling to get out again as he stood up. All she could feel in that moment was guilt because if it wasn't for her, he wouldn't be here right now.

Natasha finally wriggled her leg out from under the pipe and hurriedly stood up. But she didn't get by unnoticed. She hurried up the stairs as he chased after her, ripping the stairs off as she flipped onto one of the platforms. She made her way through the air vents as fast as she could, but none of it was doing anything. He was still chasing after her and he was incredibly close.

As his roar rung through the helicarrier, Loki smiled, a laugh bubbling in his throat. His evil little plan was working.


Fury ran through the control room, going right to the one person that was keeping the thing flying. "We have been carrying 180 to the south. Take us to the water."

The man turned around, his eyes going wide from what his director had just told him. "Free wind. Navigation recalibration after the engine failure."

Fury moved toward him, his eyes wide. "Is the sun coming up?" He asked in the most obvious tone.

"Yes, sir." He spoke like he was terrified, his voice growing small.

"Then put it on the left." He practically yelled out. "Take us on the water."

"Sir," He spoke in a calm voice. "If one more turbine goes down we're trapped."

Fury took a deep breath. "Stark!"


"Stark!" Steve yelled as they moved through to get to the outside of the turbine as Melody held her side, her hand only getting bloodier. "Stark, I'm here!"

"Good." Tony spoke as the two looked up to see his suit fly in. "Let's see what we got." He spoke as he hovered next to the damage. Melody took this distraction to look down at her wound. Her suit had only gotten darker in the area of her cut, but you couldn't really tell it was from the blood. She simply pulled it further away from everyone's view before looking back up at Tony. "I gotta get this super conducting cooling system back online before I can access the rotors and work on dislodging the debris."

"You need us to get to the control panel?" Melody inferred as she pushed the ear piece further into her ear.

"Yeah," Tony spoke to her. "Mel," She looked down, trying to concentrate on his words. "Tell me which relays are in overload position."

Melody looked over to where she had to go and took a deep breath. "I'm so glad that my mom made me take gymnastics classes when I was three and I stuck with it my whole life." With all of her might, she jumped, grabbing onto one of the near bars before swinging onto the platform where the control panel was, sticking the landing perfectly.

Steve was shocked about how perfectly she did that. Looks like the gymnastic skills ran in the family. He quickly joined her, not doing the flip as gracefully or as perfect as her, but he didn't think about it as she opened up the control panel and pulled it out. Melody's eyes went everywhere, reading everything like a second language. Steve's eyes went everywhere also, but in a different way. In a way that he had never seen anything like this before and had no idea what any of this meant. "It seems to run on some form of electricity." Steve spoke while throwing his hand in the air.

Melody and Tony both slightly rolled their eyes. Not at Steve, but themselves for realizing they were asking Steve to do this. "Well," Tony sighed out. "You're not wrong."


Natasha had gotten quiet as she went through the inside of the ship, trying her best not to make a sound for the green monster outside to hear. She heard his footsteps, but she couldn't quite pinpoint where his footsteps were coming from. She moved to another spot, holding her gun close to her. Right as she inched forward, a growl came from her left. She gasped and turned to see the Hulk screaming in her ear. She immediately went forward and began shooting at him. She knew it wouldn't hurt him, but she hoped it would distract him. She shot a hole in a nearby pipe, sending out steam.

She ran down one of the hallways with a slight limp from that pipe being on her leg for so long. But she could hear him screaming behind her as she ran forward, taking down everything he could with him. Lights were going everywhere and Natasha tried to pick up her pace, but she could barely see.

The Hulk swatted her away like a bug, sending her into the wall extremely hard. She grunted as she tried to sit up, but the Hulk had the upper hand. He moved to her, towering over her as she began to shake from her fear. He picked up his hand, preparing to swat her again. This time, for good.

But he was knocked down instantly. By Thor. When they tumbled into the aircraft preparation room, everyone stared at them, shocked, not sure what they had to do. Thor began to sit up as all the humans ran out from fear and Natasha continued to sit in her spot, traumatized by what had happened.

Both Thor and the Hulk circled each other before Bruce sent a blow to Thor that would have destroyed him, but the Asgardian caught his fist. He held his fist up, shocking Hulk as he held him up without wavering. "We are not your enemies, Banner." Right now, Thor would have said anything to get him to try to see who he really was. "Try to think." The Hulk simply raised his arm, taking Thor up with him before throwing him into the boxes nearby, completely destroying them.


Tony tore some of the debris out that he could while throwing it off to the side. Melody had done most of what Tony needed, trying to explain every single step to Steve as best as she could even though he looked lost for most of the time. "The relays are intact." Melody told Tony as she put one of her hands on her wound. She was starting to really feel the pain.

"What's our next move?" Steve asked, not even noticing Melody's pained face, only focused on the task that was in front of him.

"Even if I clean the rotors, this thing won't re-engage without a jump." Tony shook his head, coming up with the only conclusion. "I'm gonna have to get in there and push."

Melody's eyes widened over how dangerous that could be. "Well if that thing gets up to speed, you'll get shredded." Steve spoke, now worried about this one person he thought he absolutely hated.

Tony sighed, knowing he was speaking the truth. "Melody," He spoke in a commanding voice. "Stay in the control unit and reverse polarity long enough to disengage – "

"Speak English!" Steve finally spoke.

Melody sighed out. She was completely following and she was getting really annoyed that she had to explain every little thing to him. "Yeah," Tony spoke. "Mel, you take this one."

Melody turned to him, knowing the first thing she was doing if she got out of this alive was teach Steve how to at least operate a computer. She walked over to what she needed with heavy steps. "See this red lever?" She spoke obviously. "It'll slow the rotors long enough for Tony to get out." Steve looked down at her side, finally noticing something he should have noticed a long time ago. "We stand by it and wait for his word."

"What happens when you can't stand anymore?" Melody sucked in a breath when he spoke as she looked down at her side, putting one of her hands over it, trying to cover it. "Melody," He spoke in that commanding voice that she couldn't ignore. The one that only the closest men in her life knew how and when to use it. "You need medical attention."

"And I'll get it once this madness is over." She promised, causing Steve to look her up and down before biting his lip.


Thor was thrown into even more boxes and it was starting to make him mad. As he heard the Hulk's roar, he began to smile, knowing that in a moment, he would have the upper hand. He threw out his hand and closed his eyes, concentrating on Mjolnir. Hulk's footsteps grew closer, but Thor's calm wasn't wavering. Mjolnir ended up in his hand right when Hulk bashed through. With a smile now plastered on his face, Thor swung the hammer up, hitting him right in the jaw, sending him down with a shake of the entire ship.

Hulk got up, even angrier than before, tearing off the wing of a nearby aircraft and throwing it to Thor. Thor was ready. With the sound of the wing flying, Thor threw his head back, barely missing the wing as it cut a jeep in half.

This fight wasn't just making the Hulk angrier, it was making Thor angrier. So now, his hits were aiming to hurt him. He threw his hammer and Hulk caught it with his hand, but the strength of it sent him right down. Hulk tried his hardest to pick the thing up, even creating holes in the ship from his feet. With the moment he had, Thor went forward to kick the Hulk in the face, sending him staggering back. Thor took advantage of his upper hand as he climbed on top of Hulk, planning on chocking him out, but Hulk quickly took the upper hand, throwing Thor down on his back.


Fury flipped through the images on the monitor closest to him, seeing all the damage the two were causing in the lower decks. "I need a full evac on the lower deck." Fury spoke, pointing mindlessly to Maria.

She hurriedly walked away from him right as Emily appeared right in front of her at the end of the hall. The two stopped at the sight of each other, but Emily's eyes quickly went to the floor when she heard the rolling. "Grande!" She called before jumping in front of Maria, knocking her down and off the platform they were standing on.

While the two were trying to recover, Fury hid behind a wall, a pistol in hand, waiting for the first guard he could get. He grabbed the front of his gun, leaving him unable to do anything as he shot the one in front of him. After that, Fury used the butt of the gun to bash him in the head, sending him to the floor. He flipped over another guard like it was nothing before punching the other in the face. When he looked to his other side, he could see a guard coming right toward him, but he had nothing to defend himself with. Before he could even think about what his last words were going to be, a bullet rang out. When he looked, he got a glimpse of Maria Hill's deathly glare with blood coming out of a gash on her forehead.

Emily flipped her hair back as it all rested in front of her face before looking up at Maria. She pulled her down, staring into every inch of her eyes. "Where's my daughter?" She asked her in an intense voice as she began to squeeze her shoulders.

"She's trying to fix the engine with Tony and Steve." Emily stood up quickly, but the second she stood up, she began to get woozy, feeling herself fall back into Maria's arms, but still conscious. "Emily," Maria spoke in a panicked voice as she put her down in a sitting position. "Just a rest for a little bit.

"I can't." Emily cried out as she let her head rest on one of the nearby bars. "Melody's hurt. She needs my help."

"Emily," Maria spoke in a soft voice, still worried about telling her supervisor this. "You can't control her."

Emily looked up at her, knowing it was the truth, but at the same time, wanting to keep that innocence of the young Melody she knew. The Melody that she could control in some points. But this Melody was grown up. She would never be able to control any parts of her again…and that was haunting her. "But I want my little girl back." Emily whispered in the saddest depths of her voice, hating this one part of being a mother. The knowledge of no longer being needed.

The two were immediately showered with bullets, causing them to get into an immediate cover stance, shooting out as many of Clint Barton's guards as they could. "We have the Hulk and Thor in the research level!" One of the SHIELD agent's voice came over the radio. "Levels two and three are dark!"

"Sir!" Maria yelled out, taking a break from shooting. "The Hulk will tear this place apart!"

"Get his attention." Fury growled out while keeping his shooting position, not wanting to be distracted for a moment.

Emily took cover, putting her hand to her ear piece as Maria and Fury continued shooting. "Escorts 60, proceed to the lower levels. Don't get too close."

The jets from outside the helicarrier moved forward, getting an eye on what Emily was talking about. The pilot got to the lower levels of the helicarrier, seeing both the Hulk and Thor fighting hardly able to believe what he was seeing. "Target acquired." The man in the jet reported before moving to aim at his spot. "Target engaged."

The pilot began shooting out bullets as Thor dove for cover. Hulk, on the other hand, hated this. He growled to the pilot before jumping in the air, only destroying the jet in his mind. "Target angry." The pilot reported to Emily in a terrified voice. "Target angry!"

Hulk was on the top of the jet, trying to tear out everything he could as the pilot got ready to be ejected. He watched from his safe seat with a parachute as the jet blew up, sending the Hulk to god knows where.


As both Steve and Melody waited impatiently while Tony broke away some of the debris, they could see two soldiers making their way towards them from a level under. One took out a grenade, trying to throw it into the engine to cause more damage, but Steve jumped in the way, knocking it into the sky while jumping onto their level.

When Melody joined them, she grabbed one of the loose rods nearby, beating him in the face with it as Steve kicked his gun out of his hands. The two of them kicked one of the guards in the chest, sending him staggering back. The two split up, taking on their own guards, Melody throwing one over her shoulder and Steve pushing him over the edge as they both fell through the air.

More guards came along and as they shot at them, Steve picked up his shield, distracting the guard long enough for the two to go up on the second level. Steve picked up one of the dropped guns as Melody pulled out one of her throwing daggers. They both shot at each other as Steve pushed Melody back, but she just rolled her eyes. She could end this in no time. She moved from behind Steve, throwing her dagger, landing the guard right in the heart. She sighed as she turned to Steve with her hands on her hips. "And that's how you take care of that."

Steve rolled his eyes, but right as his eyes went down, he got the view of another guard coming towards him. He pulled out the gun, shooting him right in the head, sending him down instantly. Melody's eyes grew wide, realizing that if Steve wasn't there, she would probably be dead. He put his hands on his hips, a growing smile as he looked down at her. "And that's how you do that."


As Fury crouched behind his hiding place, he was just getting angrier with the more bullets he shot off. "They are not gonna do this here."

That's when an explosive arrow shot off. Fury growled, knowing exactly who this was. When he stood up, he got a good look at his former agent, throwing a grenade into a crowd full of his people. This time, Clint switched arrow heads out to hack into SHIELD servers. Fury was having enough of this. He wasn't planning on killing Clint, just seriously injuring him as he shot his gun off.

Right when the arrow plugged itself in, everything on the SHIELD helicarrier just stopped working. Everyone stood there, letting panicked silence take over as everything simply stopped. "Engine one is now in shut down."

Everyone began to panic, but Fury and Emily didn't have time to take a moment to panic because the ship immediately began to tilt from the lack of engines. "Sir," One of the agents reported. "We lost all of engine one."

Natasha sat in her crouching position, her knees to her chest, still trying to get over what had just happened to her. Melody, she stood there frozen as Steve continued to shoot. Her hand was on her ear, listening in on the SHIELD talk. "It's Barton." Fury finally spoke. "He took our systems. He's headed for the detention lab." Melody took a deep breath. This was her fight. Clint was her fight. She was going to fix him even if this wound was piercing her with pain. "Does anybody copy?"

This was something she was going to do whether it was with her last breath or not. Melody shut her eyes before pushing the button to talk. "This is Barnes." Emily perked up when she heard her daughter's voice. She was just glad to know she was okay. "I copy."

"Melody," Emily spoke in a frantic voice as Melody already began jumping off the platform she was on with Steve, beating up any guard that tried to get in her way. Steve simply watched her as she walked away, knowing there was nothing he could do. He respected her. He knew she had to do this. And even if he tried, he wouldn't be able to stop her. "This is insane. You're hurt. You can't do this."

"You can't stop me, Emily." Melody spoke as she hurried to the detention lab, picking up her pace as her stomach pulled down, the closer she got, the more nervous she was.

"Your mother's right." Natasha's voice came through the radio, causing Melody to stop in her tracks, not even wanting to imagine what she was going through right now. "You can't do this." Her voice sounded so weak. "Not alone."

"Tasha – " Melody began in a worried voice, feeling absolutely guilty for bringing her in on this in the state she was in.

"I'll meet you there in a few minutes." Natasha spoke with no more argument. Melody took a deep breath before picking up her pace again. She had to admit one thing, she would be glad that Natasha was there with her even if this guilty was piercing at her like the wound.


Tony got into one of the engine rotors and began to push it forward, trying to at least help them keep a steady pace in the air. "Stark, we're losing altitude."

"Yeah," Tony breathed out, still stressed about the conversation he had just heard with Melody being hurt and going to take on Clint. One person who was much more advanced in combat skills than her. "Noticed." He turned on his thrusters, beginning to get a good moving pace for the engine to stay in the air instead of fall out of the sky.

Steve was continuing his gun battle with the last Clint minion left. Steve began to step back, the bullets getting extremely close to him. Right as he backed up as far as he could go, he began to slip off of the edge. Everything slowed down as he freely fell in the air for a few seconds before finding a wire to grab on to. With deep breaths, he looked down, knowing he was in way too deep.


Thor ran through the SHIELD corridors, his only thoughts on getting to Loki before he tried to escape. Right as he got through the door of the room with the holding cell, Loki was making his way out, opening the door himself. "No!" Thor yelled before running to him, planning on tackling him down. Loki crouched like he was ready to take him on, but right as Thor touched him, he began to disappear and Thor landed in the holding cell.

As he turned around, the doors were closing, causing him to try to make a run for it, but by the time he got there, it was too late. He was trapped as the real Loki stared at him from outside the holding cell with his minions walking around behind him. Loki was studying him with a serious face as Thor pressed up against the glass, only getting angrier. "Are you ever not going to fall for that?"


Clint casually walked through the detention lab, only focused on his job, but he could see a shadow right in front of him. He turned around, stringing his bow, but Natasha caught his arm, kicking him in the shin as he swung the bow at her.

Now that he was turned around, Melody ran in, kicking him in the back before grabbing his arm and twisting it, giving Natasha a chance to get away and regroup. Melody kicked him the chest before following her lead, going under the bridge, meeting Natasha instantly. Clint couldn't even believe what was happening. The two girls that meant the most to him were trying to beat him up and this spell he was under made him want to beat them up.

Natasha wrapped her upper body around the bridge before kicking her legs up at Clint, sending him staggering back. He immediately strung his bow up again and shot off an arrow, but the inside Clint did it again. His arm jerked, forcing him to miss causing Melody to smile.

Melody got an idea, jumping over to the other bridge, getting Clint's attention, remembering Loki's words in the back of his mind. Kill Melody Barnes. The first chance you get. He jumped onto the second bridge, following Melody, confusing Natasha completely. They had a perfectly good fight going on over here. Why get distracted? Unless…she was his target all along.

She punched, but he blocked. He swung an arrow at her, but she simply blocked him. She was mirroring all his moves. And it was really pissing him off. The real Clint was in there watching and he was rooting for her. She had gotten so good at fighting and Clint was honestly so proud. He pushed his bow to her again, but she grabbed the string and as he pulled to get it away from her, it simply stretched out. That's when he pulled hard enough to head butt her. "Listen to me." Melody spoke as he slammed her into the bars of the bridge, causing her to let out a groan of pain. "Your name is Clinton Francis Barton."

"Shut up!" He growled before pushing her into the bars again.

She kicked his legs out from under him, causing him to let go of his bow, Melody ripping it from his hands as Clint pulled out one of the daggers from her utility belt. Clint got to a crouching position, running her dagger through his hand as Melody gave him a smile, waving one of his arrows before stringing it up in the bow. Then her smile went away quickly, knowing what she was going to have to do if this continued. "Please, don't make me do this." He simply stared at her before going forward, trying to slash her with her own dagger.


Thor pounded his hammer in the glass, making cracks in it, but it wasn't doing anything. It wasn't going to break a thing, just make a lot of noise. Loki smiled at him, revealing in his winnings before taking a few steps back. "The humans think us immortal." He moved to the control panel, growing a sick smile on his face. "Should we test that?"

He came close to pulling the lever that would send him falling at an alarming rate, but he was stopped by the sound of his guard falling to the ground. Coulson was standing over his body with a very large gun in his hand. "Move away please." He spoke causally as he began to move forward, stepping over the body. Loki put his hands up in defense as Coulson got even closer to Loki. "You like this?" He asked, referring to the gun. "We started working on the prototype after you sent the destroyer here." He shrugged, almost excitedly. "Even I don't know what it does. Wanna find out?"

The gun began to power up just when Emily ran into the doorway. But right when she got there, she wished she hadn't been heading that way to help Coulson out. Loki shoved his spear in Coulson's back using one of his fake appearances, causing Emily and Thor to immediately scream.

Emily stood in the doorway, breathing heavily, wanting to take what she just saw away from her memory. Loki ripped the spear out of his body, causing Emily to cringe. As Loki walked away from Coulson as he fell to the floor, Emily didn't care about what would have happened to her. She ran to Coulson, hardly able to believe that these breaths he was breathing were about to be his last.

And before Emily knew it, Loki pushed the only button needed to send Thor hurdling through the sky in that steel, glass trap. Emily knew there was nothing she could do about either situations, but all she could feel was guilt from not doing anything.


Clint punched Melody in the face, but she just kicked him in the chest while flipping over. Natasha tried to jump onto the bridge with them, but Clint immediately knocked her off, not wanting to fight her at all. Only wanting to fight Melody.

While Clint was distracted, she punched him before twisting his arm into ways where he wouldn't be able to use it. Then, Clint jabbed her in the wound to get out of it, causing her to fall to her knees. He punched Melody while she sat there in pain before climbing on top of her, getting his bow from her while placing the string right in front of her neck. Before he could start pulling, she placed her hand in front of the string, giving her just enough time to think of what to do next.

"Clint," Melody whispered before elbowing him in the stomach and standing up weakly while Clint grabbed his aching stomach on the floor. "You know me." He got up, trying to stab her with her own dagger, but she wrapped his arm up, holding it as close to her chest as possible, hoping he could look at her and see something in her eyes. "Why else would you miss?"

With the blink of the eye, his eyes went back to his own in a split second, his face softening slightly, but almost immediately went back to Loki's controlling gaze. He grabbed her blonde ponytail, pulling her head back, trying to put the knife in her throat as Melody let out angry growls. "You're the love of my life." Melody practically cried out, just wanting him to understand.

Clint was breaking on the inside at the sound of her voice, screaming at himself for even pulling a knife of her. "You're my target!" He screamed out, getting the knife only an inch away from her neck.

Melody had no other choice. She leaned forward, biting him on the arm as hard as she could, but he let go of her. "Then kill me!" She screamed out before kicking him into the bars of the bridge. Clint stopped, staring at her, feeling the real Clint bubbling to the surface again. "Because you've got me until the end."

Clint was so close to coming out from under this spell, but there was that fading bit of him that told him to hold onto his promise to Loki. He went for her, deciding the best thing to do with her fighting style was to tackle her to the ground. Melody saw it all coming, though. She grabbed his head right when he neared her and slammed him into the bars of the bridge.

He grabbed onto the bar after that hit, letting out a few grunts, throwing Melody off that instant. Through this whole fight, he had shown no sign of pain or tiredness until now. He struggled to get up on his knees and Melody moved towards him, still cautiously, not sure what to expect. He looked up at her, and she noticed in that moment, his eyes were no longer that cloudy blue Loki made them. They were that deep pool of blue she was so in love with. "Mel." He breathed out lovingly as she gave him a bright smile with a little chuckle.

But Natasha showed up behind him, punching him the back of the head, causing him to fall right in front of Melody's feet, her mouth dropping to the floor as he remained still. "Natasha!" She screamed while looking up at her.

"Oh, bite me." She told her with an eye roll. She looked down at her wound, her uniform material only growing darker since Melody had last looked. "You're gonna pass out any minute anyway from all that blood you just lost."

Melody let out a deep sigh as she slowly moved to sit down on the floor. "You are so right." She slowly laid her head on the floor and right when her brain registered that it was lying on the ground, she lost consciousness.

Natasha put her hands on her hips as she looked back and forth at the two. "Now both of the lovebirds are knocked out." She spoke in a bland voice. "How cute?"


Emily was holding onto Coulson's hand as Loki began to go to the doorway, not even caring about the two that were still sitting there. He thought he'd give them some time seeing as one was about to die. "You're going to lose."

Loki turned back to them, thinking that this probably wasn't the best plan. Maybe he should just kill them on the spot. "Am I?" He asked in an amused tone, a smile on his face.

"It's in your nature." Coulson told him with a shrug as Emily just looked back and forth between the two with wet tears resting on her face.

He shook his head as he looked at the dying man. "Your heroes are scattered, you're floating fortress fall from the sky." He shrugged again, this time, the smile missing. "Where is my disadvantage?"

"You lack conviction." He told him with full confidence.

"I don't think I – " Just as he moved towards them, Coulson shot off the gun, resulting in him falling into the other room. Coulson simply shrugged as Emily's mouth remained dropped. "So that's what it does."


Tony was going around and around as fast as he could, making sure they could stay in the air. "Cap," He spoke flustered, knowing if he stayed this fast for any longer than he would probably be killed. "Pull the lever."

Steve was still struggling to pull himself up from the wire he was barely hanging on to. "I need a minute, here!"

"Lever!" Tony spoke, only getting more nervous. "Now!"

Right when Steve pulled himself back up, that one minion was still shooting at him, causing him to roll his eyes.

Tony got the rotors going steady, but that also meant that he wasn't going fast enough for it anymore. He looked behind him, noticing the blade catching up on him. "Oh, no." He whispered before being sucked under.

He wasn't stuck there for long, though. Steve got to the red lever, pulling it down instantly. Tony got out of the rotors, his thrusters not working quite properly at first, but they adjusted themselves. That's when Tony was real tiered with all of this. He flew as fast as he could manage to Steve, knocking down the last Loki minion before rolling over on his back to take a much needed rest.


The rest of Loki's minions got together on the ship with Loki in the back, smiling a devious smile. He had got just want he wanted and he was feeling really great about himself.

Emily ran into the holding cell's room with Fury following close behind her. She had run off to get Fury for only a few minutes, but when she came back, Coulson somehow looked weaker. Now she was really wishing she would have stayed with him. The two crouched down right next to him, feeling insanely sad just at the look at him. "I'm sorry, boss. They got rabbited."

"Just stay awake." Fury commanded as he moved his chin to look right at him. "Eyes on me."

Coulson gave them a little chuckle. "I'm clocking out here."

"Not an option." Emily told him in a hoarse voice.

"It's okay, boss." He told them in a content voice that was breaking both of their hearts. "This was never going to work if they didn't have something to…" Coulson trailed off as he took his last breaths while looking off to the side, no longer moving. Ever again.

"Oh, god." Emily whispered before Fury put his arm around her shoulders, pulling her close, needed the comfort of a friend's touch just as much as she did. The two of them stood up, still holding onto each other as they stepped back to let the medical team inspect him even if they knew they wouldn't be able to do anything.

Fury looked to her, knowing they had to let the entire team know what was happening. He put a finger to his ear piece. "Agent Coulson is down." Maria Hill stopped the medical team examining her from that update.

"A medical team is on their way to your location." One of the other agents spoke over the radio as Natasha watched Clint and Melody being taken away by another medical team.

"They're already here." Tony and Steve waited on the news, standing close to each other like if they were protecting Melody. This time, it was for themselves. "They called it." Everyone bowed their head in a somber silence, knowing a very important part of their team was now going to be missing.

I hope you all liked. I tried to use the scene from the Winter Soldier where Bucky and Steve are on the bridge to parallel the fight scene with Clint and Melody. Remember again to review and suggest!