Avengers: Sorcerer of Fortune

Chapter 07: The Castle Falls

Helicarrier – Somewhere in the Atlantic

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Harry walked through the halls using his legilimency skills to read the emotions and thoughts of the people around him. There was no doubt that something was at play, but he was also sure it wasn't just Loki but SHIELD as well. SHIELD claimed to be using the Tesseract to create a stable energy source. However, what they didn't say was why. As much as Harry would love to pull the secrets out of Fury's skull, he instead was finding himself heading towards Loki's cage.

"Not many people can sneak up on me," Loki said with a smile as he turned to face Harry.

"Not many can say they've earned my personal attention to speak to them," Harry replies.

"You see yourself above others," Loki said in amusement.

"Don't you see yourself in the same way?" Harry replied calmly. Loki chuckled, keeping a smile on his face the entire time.

"I guess I'm not one to criticize another for that. We'll just have to see who stands as one's betters," Loki said.

"We shall," Harry said.

"But you came here with a question."

"Why are you so interested in starting a war with Earth?" Harry asked.

"Oh, concerned about others, are we? Or is it someone you love that concerns you?"

"I have no one. I'm just curious," Harry said.

"Let's just say, the ants have grown too large for their colony and need to stay down. It wouldn't have mattered. You all would have done the same thing in a few years' time as your population is growing too fast to settle elsewhere."

"So, you're saying that your actions are an act of mercy?"

"Hardly. My actions are for one purpose: power. I am, and shall be once again… a King," Loki said.

"Odd place for a king," Harry said.

"A cell is an odd term, but a cell is two things: a place where others put another or where someone waits before the doors open."

"So, you want someone to open the doors for you. Who is opening the doors?" Harry asked.

"You know full well who," Loki said with a laugh.

"I'm afraid I don't. What you are doing doesn't fit your schemes that Thor has told us about."

"My idiot brother. He thinks he knows me, but he never did. No one does."

Harry said nothing as he stared at Loki.

Would he… end up like Loki if he continued to isolate himself? No longer caring about the well-being of others? For a brief moment, it wasn't Loki that Harry was staring at, but a reflection of the Dark Lord Voldemort. Only this Voldemort slowly changed appearance and Harry was looking at possibly a darker version of himself.

Harry turned away and left Loki alone, who was confused by Harry's sudden departure.

Harry ignored the guards as he walked into the lab where everyone was screaming at each other.

"Hey, what's going on?" Harry shouted over everyone.

Everyone stopped talking and looked at Harry.

"Basically, we found out that SHIELD was using the cube to create weapons of mass destruction," Tony said, pointing to the screen.

"An explanation, Director."

"It's because of him," Nick Fury said, pointing to Thor.

"I'm confused," Harry said.

"Last year in New Mexico, Thor and his brother had a grudge match that leveled a small town. It was that day we learned not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly and hilariously out gunned."

"So, you decide to build weapons instead," Harry said.

"Our hand was forced. We had to find some way to defend ourselves if we fell into a situation like this."

"Maybe this situation happened because you brought it to your doorstep, Director," Harry said.

Now, he understood what Loki was talking about. It wasn't Loki who would open the door; it was Nick Fury and SHIELD who was doing it.

"Loki is manipulating Doctor Banner and wants him to go Green. Agent Romanoff, would you please escort Doctor Banner to…"

"Where? You rented my room," Bruce Banner said, gesturing towards the detention level.

"The cell was just in case…"

"In case you need to kill me, but you can't. I know. I tried," Bruce Banner said, interrupting Nick Fury. Everyone fell silent as Bruce Banner spoke about his worse experience. "I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth, and the other guy spat it out. So, I moved on. I focus on helping other people. I was doing well by myself before you drag me back to this freak show and put everyone here at risk. Do you want to know my secret Agent Romanoff? Do you want to know how I keep calm?"

A noise caused all of them to look towards the computer signally that the Cube has been found.

Doctor Banner reached it and looked at it in surprise. Before he could say a word, however, an explosion rocked the ship and threw everyone off their feet, causing them to tremble on the ground.

The ship gave a strange noise as if something was causing it to bend.

"Hill!" Fury said, as he started to stand back. Tony and Steve Rogers got up and left. Banner and Romanoff were nowhere to be seen as was Thor.

"External detonation. Number three engine is down."

Harry got up and moved to get outside.

"Specter, I need you at the bridge for technical support," Fury said into Harry's earpiece. Harry looked at the exit before he turned around and headed to the bridge.

"Talk to me," Harry said the moment he arrived on the bridge.

"The Hulk has been set loose, and Thor is currently trying to restrain the Hulk. They are on the lower levels," Maria Hill said.

"Evacuate the lower hangers, and get them to the middle of the ship," Harry said.

Maria Hill nodded her head and moved to carry out what Harry told her.

"Grenade!" Maria Hill shouted as an explosion hit the bridge. Maria Hill was thrown backwards from the force of the blast. The moment the grenade exploded, Harry and Fury moved towards the side of the door and remained motionless.

Moving forward, the moment the first guy passed, Harry stabbed the second guy in the heart with his knife before using him as a shield and shooting the next two men with his FN Five-Seven.

A gunshot brought down the last man down and Harry turned to see Maria Hill back up on her feet with her gun in her hands. Fury had the first man that Harry allowed to pass him in a choke hold, and Fury broke his neck.

Harry pulled back along with Fury to Maria Hill. She covered for them as more men in SHIELD gear appeared in an attempt to get on the bridge.

"We have the Hulk and Thor on Research Level Four. Levels two and three are dark," a voice over the intercom said.

"Sir, the Hulk will tear this place apart," Maria Hill said.

"Get his attention," Fury said as he and Harry open fired at the next wave.

"Escort six-zero, proceed to wishbone and engage hostile. Don't get too close."

"They are not getting through here, so why do they keep trying," Harry said as he took down another.

An explosion caught everyone's attention, and Harry saw it wasn't a grenade attack.

Harry looked around and saw a man with a bow hiding in the air vent. Harry pulled the trigger and fired, but not before he was successful in placing an arrow by the computer. The systems all went down, and Harry and SHIELD could feel the ship starting to spin out of control.

"We are in an uncontrolled descent."

"All engines are shut down," the tech reported.

"Any way to reboot the systems?" Harry asked.

"It will take fifteen minutes to reboot, and we have to be on the water," the tech replied.

"We're at ten thousand feet and dropping at a fast rate."

Harry knew he had no choice. As much as he wanted to hide his ability to use magic, he had to do it.

Harry stretched out his arms, and the ship gave a rock as it was slowly beginning to level properly.

"Specter?!" Fury said shocked. Harry ignores Fury unaware that so many eyes were now watching him.

Harry didn't say anything as he was attempting to slow down the Helicarrier.

"Five thousand feet. All hands to crash stations immediately."

Harry was feeling the strain of attempting to slow down something as huge as the Helicarrier. The hard part was trying to slow it down without damaging it.

"One thousand feet."

It was at that moment, the ship stop moving and was floating motionless in the air. The jerk threw nearly everyone off their feet as Harry was now slowly moving the Helicarrier over the water and allowing it to land safely.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief as he let go and fell backwards on his buttocks, breathing heavily.

Harry sighed as he looked around and could see people looking at him stunned and in awe.

"When have you've been able to do that?" Fury asked in amazement.

"All my life. You could see why I wanted to keep it quiet. It's not something I want to be questioned about, nor do I wish to be interrogated about either."

"That's why you're so hard to find. Because you can manipulate matter," Maria Hill said.

"In a manner of speaking, yes. I know you want answers, but I like to keep my secrets, at least for the time being," Harry said.

Fury nodded his head. Clearly, it was a gesture of thanks for saving the ship and his crew.

"Agent Coulson, report."

"Has something happened to Agent Coulson?" Harry asked the moment there was no response.

"He's not responding," Fury said, taking off down the corridors. Harry got up and followed.

Fury went to Loki's cage to find it was gone and Agent Phil Coulson was on the ground with blood coming out his mouth.

"Sorry, boss. The God rabbited," Coulson said.

"Just stay awake. Eyes on me," Fury said.

"No, I'm clocking out here." Coulson replies.

"Not an option," Fury said.

"Move," Harry said as he steps in the way of Nick Fury was over Agent Phil Coulson. Harry placed his right hand over Coulson's heart and immediately began to channel his magical energy to heal Coulson.

Coulson let out a breath of relief as he could breathe once again. Harry removed his hand and could easily see Phil Coulson was coming around instead of losing consciousness.

"Help him up. He'll feel a bit weak, but he'll live," Harry said, he and Fury taking Phil Coulson by the arms, bringing him up.

The medical team arrived, and they took over, grabbing Phil Coulson and leading him to the medical hanger.

Harry, Tony, and Steve Rogers all sat around the table as Nick Fury stood before them. They were the only ones in the room besides Maria Hill, who stood there watching.

"These were in Phil Coulson jacket pocket when he went down. I guess he never did get you to sign them," Nick Fury said as he handed the Captain America Trading Cards to Captain Rogers.

"We're dead in the water. Our communications, the location of the Cube, Banner, Thor. I've got nothing for you guys. I lost my one good eye. Perhaps, I had that coming. The truth is this: my superiors had lost faith in the Avengers Initiative and wanted to build a more reliable source of defense, so they had SHIELD work on the Phase Two prototypes. I didn't believe in them. I was playing a much riskier game. Stark knows this. It was an idea to bring together a group or remarkable people and fight the battles we never could. Phil Coulson believed in that idea. That there was a hero in you. In all of you," Nick Fury said.

Tony said nothing as he got up and left. Harry sighs and follows suit slowly by Steve Rogers.

Tony, Steve, and Harry were all in the cage to go over the recent events.

"Loki has been playing us for fools since the very start," Tony said.

"There is no question about that. He clearly had everything planned out," Steve said.

"We're not talking about making us look like fools. This is a guy who has a plan within a plan. Nothing is ever straight with him." Harry said.

"Yeah, but he's making this personal," Captain Rogers said.

"That's it," Tony said, suddenly excited.

"What's it?" Captain Rogers said.

"That's Loki's point. He's making things personal. He knows he has to beat us to win, but he wants to be seen doing it. Why?"

"Divide and Conquer," Captain Rogers replied.

"Dive and Conquer is a good strategy, but this is something else. Loki is making it personal and wants to be seen defeating us to erase all doubt of resistance. He wants his rule to go unchallenged," Harry said.

"Right… I caught his act in Stuttgart," Steve said.

"That means Loki is going to do it where there is a large audience, so all could see him defeat us and his army raining down. He wants to do it to mock and humiliate us…" Harry said before Tony and Harry looked at each other.

"What?" Steve Rogers said in confusion; as he looks at the two.

"If Loki is making this personal, then he would make it personal to hurt all of us. That means he's heading to the one power source that would have the power to empower the cube. That would mean only one place on the planet: Stark Tower," Tony said.

"We need to get there as soon as possible. Loki's escape means that the Cube is ready. We have to follow," Harry said.

"I agree," Steve said.

"We need someone to pilot the Quinjet. It's the only way all of us can get there," Harry said. "Tony, you repair Iron Man as best you can. As soon as you're able, get to Stark Tower and shut down the ARC Reactor," Harry said.

Harry walked towards his personal storage area and opened it to see the outfit he created. It held many similarities with his original outfit, only this was made out of Dragon Hide with Unicorn Silk overlapping it. The Unicorn Hair, as Harry discovered, was excellent once it was put together. Harry was also able to place enchantments on his robes that were better than his old ones.

Putting them on, he felt the relief that seemed to be waiting to be released. The robes were surprisingly lighter than he originally thought.

Harry walked towards the Quinjet and got inside as Captain Rogers walked towards him with Agent Romanoff and a man he didn't know.

They all got on board and quickly took off despite the protest of a young SHIELD mechanic, who was kicked out by Captain America.

"Sir," Maria Hill said, approaching Nick Fury.

"Agent Hill," Fury replied, going through the cards.

"Those cards, sir, they were in Coulson's locker, not his jacket."

Fury sighed, looking at the Captain America trading cards.

"They needed the push," Fury said, looking a bit sad.

"We have an unauthorized departure from docking bay six."

Fury looked up to see Iron Man and a Quinjet taking off.

"They found it. Get our communications up. Do what you have to. I want eyes on them immediately," Fury said.

"Yes, sir," Agent Hill said, turning to carry out those orders.

Author Notes: Hope you guys enjoyed it. I had Harry reveal his magical abilities, but SHIELD doesn't know it's magic. They think it's telekinesis.

I know many of you have questions about the Titan's Enchantment, but I will reveal more in a later chapter.

The Titan's Enchantment is also consider forbidden because it can, with the right person, allow an individual to bend the will of others. It's not something that is done immediately. It does take time. The longer the people stay together, the more they are devoted to that person.

I'm setting it like this, because Harry is going to be the reason why the Avengers stick together.

Please Remember this story is base of the movies.