Disclaimer: I only own Cassandra, Samantha, (And appearing in this chapter; Lauren and Drew) and the plot. Everything else belongs to the wonderful Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
3rd Person POV
The portal was open, Tony was fighting and everyone would soon join him. There was no going back now.
"Stark, we're heading north east." Natasha told Tony
"What, did you stop for drive-thru? Swing up park, I'm going to lay them out for you
"I'm still in denial" Sam said turning to Casey who was sitting next to her on the quinjet. The portal was already opened but they needed a place to land. Tony was already fighting, and Thor was 'talking' to Loki.
"Huh Sammy?" Cass absentmindedly replied turning from the window to her friend
Sam smiled at the old nickname, "I said, I'm still in denial… of all this. Everything that's happening just feels like a dream."
"Well. If it is, I'm hoping I never wake up." Cass smirked. But that smile was soon replaced with shock and wide eyes as Cass saw a blast from Loki's sceptre coming towards the quinjet. As everything jolted right, Cass grabbed Sam's hand and the next this Sam saw was the rubble of the streets of New York. That was also the next thing she felt, because Sam was sitting when Cass teleported them she wasn't supporting herself with her legs… so she instantly collapsed on the ground, pulling Cass down with her. They used one arm each to shield their eyes from the explosion of the quinjet. Luckily, Steve, Clint, and Nat jumped out before it crashed.
"So what's the plan?" Cass asked
"Kill aliens, save people." Sam answered simply.
"Couldn't have put it better myself." Tony added in over the earpieces.
Together Cass teleported through the streets using her swords to kill of as many aliens as she could while Sam flew behind doing the same.
Sam stopped for a second to catch her breath.
"Are you serious? It has literally been only five minutes." Cass shakes her head
"Yeah! I've been dodging alien bullets, killing Chitauri and flying! And flying is a lot harder than you'd think" Sam pointed out
"Drew enough!" they heard a voice yell from the building to their left. Immediately the teens ran to the doors, bursting through them. There they saw 2 girls, both in casual but dirty clothes, trapped in a corner of the office reception building surrounded by Chitauri. The one on the left had long dark brown hair that was out, and piercing green eyes that were looking frantically at the aliens surrounding them. The one on the right however, had red hair tied into a ponytail, a fringe and was grinning. The girls weren't very young, about 14/15 years old.
"Come on Lauren! We can take them!" The one with the fringe yelled as she threw what was (possibly) her shoe at the Chitauri. The shoe just bounced off one of their heads and they advanced even more. They were only 10 metres away from them now.
"Drew just stop! They have guns!" Lauren yelled at Drew panicking.
"Quick, pass me your shoe! I've ran out. Or better yet, get me a massive shoe!" Drew requested turning to her friend.
Cass looked at Sam and they both nodded nodded. Time to shine! Cass thought. Sam ran up in between two Chitauri, implanting her axes through their backs. Cass was busy cutting and slicing their heads off with her katanas. Lauren and Drew stood still, frozen in their spots. They both had very different emotions. Lauren was relieved, while Drew looked ecstatic at all the action taking place. The teens made quick work of the Chitauri. Sam strode over to Lauren,
"You guys okay?" She asked concerned
"Yeah we're fine" She replied
"Okay, you guys need to run on down into the subway, you'll be safe there" Cass told them
"Who are you guys?" Drew asked before heading off
"I'm Cass, and this is my friend Sam" Sam have a little nod as if to confirm it
"Now run!" she advised the girls.
As the girls ran to the nearest subway Sam and Casey heard Drew say to Lauren, "I ship it" Making them both blush deeply.
Anyone other than themselves could see they had a thing for each other, they just didn't see it.
"We need to get back to the main fight" Sam reminded Cass
"Oh yeah." Cass said before teleporting them back to the main street where everyone was assembled.
Cap turned to face Hawkeye, "You think you can hold them off?"
"Captain, it would be my genuine pleasure." before he shot two aliens gaining time for Natasha and Steve to advance.
Cass and Sam helped get people out of a destroyed bus.
"C'mon guys! You all need to get off the streets!" Cass told them as she helped a little girl out a window, handing her to her mother. Two Chitauri appeared behind Cass and Sam's eyes went wide,
"Casey!" She yelled, Sam created a force field in front of the blasts coming for her friend. She shoved the force field back quickly, smashing the aliens into an overturned taxi.
"Whoa" Cass breathed, seeing what had just happened, "Thanks Sammy"
"No problem, I know you'd do the same for me." Sam smiled
Over their earpieces came Nat's voice, "This is just like Budapest!"
"You and I remember Budapest very differently" Came Clint's.
"What happened in Budapest?" Cass asked them
"Now really isn't the best time for storytelling!" Natasha said over the explosions
"Not now I meant like later!" She huffed
Cass swiftly jumped over a different car and took down another Chitauri hiding behind, ready to strike.
"What's the story upstairs?" Cap asked Thor
"The powers surrounding the cube is impenetrable." He replied
"Thor's right, we gotta deal with these guys" Tony's voice rang over
"How do we do this?" Nat asked
"As a team"
"I have unfinished business with Loki" Thor added in
"Yeah, get in line." Clint said as he organised his arrows
"Save it. Loki's gonna keep this fight focused on us and that's what we need. Without him these things could run wild. We got Stark up top, he's gonna need us…" Steve started, but that was Bruce's queue to come in.
"So," he said pulling up, "this all seems horrible"
"I've seen worse."
"Sorry" He apologised
"No, we could use a little worse."
"Um yeah Tony? We got him." Cass told Stark
"Banner?"
Sam answered, "Yup, just like you told us"
"Then tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you." They heard Tony from inside the suit
From around the corner they saw Tony flying towards them… followed by a Chitauri Leviathan.
"I...I don't see how that's a party…" Black Widow commented
'What? Did you expect it to have a little hat, streamers and banner saying, 'good job?' Cass thought sarcastically.
The Leviathan swooped down like a freight train, destroying everything in its path.
"Dr. Banner. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry." Sam and Cass heard Steve say from behind them
"That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry." The teens stepped back.
Sam smiled as Bruce completely stopped the creature in its tracks and Tony fired missiles to take it down. Sam stepped forwards and surrounded it in a force field to contain the flying debris as it collapsed onto the road. All of the Avengers equip their weapons and got ready for the rest of the battle. Cass and Sam looked over at each other. There they were the legendary Avengers circle, and they were in it. If it weren't such a serious and iconic moment the two of them would be jumping for joy. The avengers all looked up, they were way out of their element.
"Guys…" Nat said
"Call it, Cap"
Cap instantly had a plan, "Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there we're gonna use a containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or turn it to ash."
Clint turned to tony, "Wanna give me a lift?"
"Right, clench up legolas." Tony replied before taking off
'And then there were six' Sam thought
"Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You've got the lightning. Light the bastards up." Steve turned to Casey and Sam, "Cass, I need you up near the edge of the portal, stopping them as they come in, you too Samantha."
"Sure" Cass said before leaving in a flash
"Okay, just don't call me Samantha" Sam agreed pointing an axe at him before flying off.
Sam hovered near the portals edge, stabbing anything that came through. The duo would go up to the main ship but that was in space and, space = no gravity, no gravity = no air, no air = death. So that was off the table. Sam looked over to her friend,
"Seriously?" She asked
Cass had taken control of a chariot and was deliberately crashing into another.
"Hey, I'm killing 2 birds with one stone. Or in this case, 2 aliens with one ship." Sam shook her head and smiled.
"Um Casey, how are you hovering like that?" Sam asked curiously
"Constantly teleporting to this spot." She stated nonchalantly
"Sam, Casey, theres a ton of civilians down on 42nd, the chitauri are trying to get into the subway." Clint told them through our earpieces.
"We're on it" Cass said
"Wait! We don't know street names!" Sam pointed out
"It's the one where we saved those two girls." Cass informed her
"How do you remember this?"
"Good memory" Cass replied tapping her head.
Sam soared down to 42nd in a nose dive, she saw 2 of the aliens advancing towards the stairs of the subway. Sam focused on them and turned upwards last minute, landing on top of both of them. Cass appeared behind her and started attacking more Chitauri as Sam assured the civilians "they will all be okay." Sam felt although she was lying, she couldn't secure the safety of anyone here, not even herself.
"How long?" Sam and Casey heard Tony's voice
"Jarvis, put everything you've got into the thrusters." he commanded
"I just did, sir you only have barely enough power to fly, yet alone carry…"
"Jarvis, just… find a way"
Sam hadn't heard Black Widow and Cap talking before,
"-I can close the portal!"
"Do it!" Cap told her
"No, wait." Tony butted in
"Stark, these things are still coming."
Sam zoned out. This wasn't to plan. Tony was supposed to put the nuke through the portal, now he didn't have enough power left to.
Cass turned around, "Hey Sam- Sammy?" She asked, 'she was here literally 5 seconds ago' Cass thought
Sam wasn't thinking, her mind was a mess at the moment.
"Sam what are you doing‽" Tony asked her
"We need to get this through, together."
"You know that's a one-way trip?" Steve asked
"Yup" she said focusing on the task at hand. 'I've seen the movie, everything will be okay… won't it?' she thought.
"Save the rest for the return J."
"Sir, shall I call Miss Potts?"
'Pepperony!' Sam thought as Tony replied, "Might as well."
"Sam! Don't you dare! Don't do this!" Cass yelled at the daredevil
"I'll be alright, Cassandra." Sam told her. Cass knew she would come back, like Ironman did… but she still had this thought, 'what if?'
Sam pushed on further with Tony, they turned it upright and they flew right through the portal's ring.
Together, the chitauri collapse, and the leviathans crash into buildings. 'We did it' they all think. By this time the lights on Tony's suits have dimmed and Sam's eyes closed to the explosion of the mother ship.
"Come on" Nat murmured
Silence
'C'mon Sam! You can do this!' Cass thinks as she stares hopefully into the empty portal
"Close it." Steve says looking away. Cass was about to protest but she knew this was to happen. 'Any second now' She thought, waiting for her friend to return. Suddenly a small figure fell through the closing portal, followed by- ...Followed unfortunately by nothing but the clear blue sky of New York.
"No. Sammy!" was all Cass could whisper. She felt this weight crushing down upon her chest and tears began to appear in her eyes, threatening to spill over.
"I can get her!" she told the others. Before she could hear their protests, she was long gone, with large intake of oxygen.
Cass pictured the scene, the explosion, the stars and the portal.
Before Sam went unconscious, she surrounded herself with one of her force fields. The only way to die was loss of air. With Cass's arms wrapped firmly around Sam's waist, Cass pictured the streets, no not the streets, the street. The street where they stood in the legendary formation, and Cass's heart danced like the dust in the sunlight when Sam smiled at her from across the road. Cass's feet made contact with something metallic. She looked down and there was her, holding Sam, on top of a taxi roof. Cass heard the roar of The Hulk, (the very same that awoke Tony) and smiled.
"We made it." she breathed in disbelief
"We sure did" she heard from in her arms
"Sam!" Cass yelled spinning her around in her arms. When Sam's feet were finally placed firmly on the ground she asked,
"What happened?"
"You went through the portal, didn't come back when it shut unlike Tony. So I teleported to you, bringing you back here" Cass explained
"Seriously?" she asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, seriously." Cass answered
"You're the best!" she responded hugging her best friend
The two stood silent for a moment catching their breath and smiling like idiots from everything that had happened on this adventure. Cass stared into Sam's blue eyes and Sam stared into Cass's (now) purple ones. They inched closer, eyes now closing, and eventually after what seemed like ages in their minds, their lips found each other's. From behind them, a part from a leviathan fell from a building, silhouetting them in the explosion behind them. More explosions were going off, fireworks in their hearts. As they broke apart Sam whispered to her lifelong friend, "I love you"
All Cass could do was blush as red as a tomato and reply with the same words.
"I love you too."
HEYYY! BUT WAIT THERES MORE! That's not the end quite yet! There's still (I presume) 2 more chapters left! (Possibly 3?) Follow, favourite, review, or just whatever as long as you enjoy it!
OMGG CASS AND SAM FINALLY GOT TOGETHER! ^_^
Last year was telling my friend about the general idea for this (back then future) story, when she asked, "Do the two girls get together? Because I ship it already!"
So I thought, 'Why not?' (Ship name Cassam?) Idk but I thought to make this one MASSIVE chapter rather than two small ones! (thats totally why it's taken so long to update… not my laziness…) See you (hopefully) soon!
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