The Girl With Six Marks

The Battle of New York City

~*Chapter Ten*~

S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters

They managed to land the helicarrier safely to the ground. Natasha and Clint were taken to the medical facility where they began to undergo the healing process. Tony locked himself in the research lab, not speaking to anyone as he worked desperately to find where Loki could have gone. Thor and Captain America began mapping out plans of how to stop Loki and Bruce was nowhere to be found.

Clint was the first one to wake up. He shoots up and gasps, his mind feeling as if it had just been rung out like a wash cloth. Flashes of a beautiful dark hair woman fills his mind, and the cherry blossom mark on his left thigh sparks. His mate...He had found her...but what happened?

He closes his eyes and tries to remember. The last thing he could conjure up was being attacked by a weird 'Loki' man, and then nothing but blue light. Flashes of the woman appears in his mind, and he remembers hearing her cry out to him.

He looks over and saw Natasha. He rips out the IV and walks over to her. His dear friend, she had a large bruise on her face. He reaches down to push a strand of red hair away from her face when she suddenly grabs his arm, her green eyes snapping open.

She shoots up, "ALY!" She screams, breathing hard. Clint jumps, startled from her sudden action.

"Hey now, shush, you're okay," he tries to calm her.

Her eyes look around widely before landing on him. "Clint?" She murmurs.

He nods, giving her a smile. She smiles in return and reaches up to wrap her arms around him. "Nice to see you too Nat," he says to her, rubbing her back gently.

Natasha suddenly fills with dread, she moves away. "You...you hurt her," she says sadly. "Loki has her," she came to realization as she tries to stand up.

Clint grabs her to steady her. "Who did I hurt? What's going on?"

Natasha glares at him, but then realizes that he had been mind controlled the whole time and her gaze softened. "You might not believe me," she pauses, "But we found our mate."

A few moments later...

After she explained everything to him, Clint felt like absolute shit. He sat on the bed with his head in his hands, his fist balled tightly.

"How could I do such a thing!?" He cries to himself, the guilt feeling overwhelming.

Natasha touches his shoulder. "Hey, its wasn't your fault. Loki was controlling you, you had no control."

"But I haven't even met her yet, and her first impression of me is trying to kill her," he grumbles.

"Alyanna knew you were being controlled, she loves us all, she'll forgive you," she tells him reassuringly.

Next Scene

Research Lab

Steve joins Tony down in the lab. He approaches warily, knowing that Tony was taking this harder than everyone else, since he was the first to find her.

"Tony…"

"Not now Rogers," Tony snaps, typing away on the keyboard and taking a swig of whisky.

Steve had to refrain from snapping back. "Look, I want to find her just as much as you, but drinking isn't going to solve anything."

Tony pauses his typing, turning to Steve with a heated gaze. "Oh you want to find her just as much as me huh?" He shouts sarcastically.

Thor, Natasha, and Clint soon joins them, hearing the shouting.

Tony points a finger at him. "I was the first to find her. We spent three months together. Just me and her. We made love almost every night. You've only known her for 48 hours. You cannot dare say you feel the same as I!"

"Tony," Natasha starts, but she was cut off by Tony slamming his fist down on the table.

"Don't Tony me! Our life was perfect, then S.H.I.E.L.D decided to come along and fuck it all up! If it weren't for you, my mate wouldn't be missing right now!"

"Our mate," Thor corrects, glaring at Tony.

Tony turns his heated gaze to him. "Don't even get me started on you. If you had just kept your brother in line, none of this would have happened."

"We shouldn't be arguing right now, it's pointless and Alyanna needs us," Clint speaks, catching everyone's attention.

Tony turns a burning glare to him. "You!" He then stalks forward, gripping a hold of his shirt and slamming him into the wall behind him. "You dare hurt her and is still walking! I should finish you right here!" His metal arms forms and he opens his palm and a bright light forms.

Clint didn't move, just stares at Tony with concerned eyes.

"Tony stop!" Natasha says frantically, grabbing a hold of his arm. "Think about Alyanna. That's one of her mates, if you hurt him, she'll never forgive you!"

Tony looks to be having an eternal battle before he retracts his arm and let Hawkeye go. "This is all of your fault," he grumbles again.

Steve steps forward, his stance defensive but calm. "You're putting an awful lot of blame on everyone else but yourself. But who let Loki get away with her?"

Tony stops and stares at the once frozen soldier. He remains silent, everyone's eyes were on him. He then turns back to his computer. Suddenly, he picks up his whisky glass and threw it a nearby wall, shattering it to pieces.

"Fine! It's all my fault. I had him in my grasp and I fucked up! There I said it okay! The helicarrier was going to fall, what was I supposed to do!" He feels himself crumbling, and he tries his best not to let the tears fall in front of his team members. The realization that it was him who wasn't able to save her in time, came crashing down onto him like a falling building. His shoulders began to shake and he fell to the ground, his hand coming up to grip her soul mark. "I'm so sorry Alyanna," he whispers to himself.

Everyone could feel the emotion in the room. Natasha felt a tear fall from her eyes. It was all of their fault.

Steve swallows, kneeling down in front of the man of iron. He places a hand on his shoulder, "The only person to blame here is Loki. You did your best, now all we can do is work on saving OUR mate and this planet. Tony, I know you've loved and known her longer than any of us. But we've shared the same soulmate mark for the same amount of time. We've all dreamed of one day having her in our arms. And never did we imagine that we would have to share her," he chuckles. "But she is just as important to me as she is to you. And we WILL get her back."

Tony inhaled deeply, "you don't know what it's like, to have her right there...and not able to save her. I promised I would be her hero."

Steve stands up. "You don't always have to be the only hero." He looks around the room to the others. "We are a team, we can be her heros. We just need to locate her and find out where Loki is planning on opening the portal."

Tony suddenly perks up. Her necklace, he remembers. He jumps up, startling everyone. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his phone. He began going through it, before finding what he needed. He quickly plugged his phone into the computer.

"What are you doing?" Natasha asks.

"Before Alyanna joined S.H.I.E.L.D, I gave her a necklace that was also a tracking device. Just incase she were to be kidnapped or lost somewhere." He began to type away.

The screen pulls up the world, and began to zoom in on the United States, then to New York and then to New York City. Before it was able to make an exact loaction, the screen went blank and a box with writing popped up.

"Tracking has been disabled," Tony reads outloud. "Damnit!" He shouts, slamming his fist down onto the table.

"At least we know she is in New York," Steve concludes, his heart aching.

"Yeah but for how long, Loki could take her anywhere."

"What do you think he's going to do with her?" Clint speaks, his eyebrows stitching together .

Everyone knew exactly why Loki took Alyanna, she was the mate to all of them. They would bend to his will if he threatened her.

Little did they know that was the least of their worries.