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"Aw shit. Aw fuck. Aw shit. Aw fuck." Alex kept repeating the words over and over as he saw dark figures emerge from the gaping hole in the sky. Flashes of red and gold told her Tony was fighting them but there was only one Iron Man and he wasn't enough. Chitauri slipped through and flew down towards the city. She could hear the screaming. Pillars of smoke reached upwards and litter and glass covered the streets. It wasn't even the Chitauri that had caused this, it was panic, mass panic. The Chitauri hadn't gotten that far.

The teen had to shove her path towards the tower, going against the current. It was too difficult, there were too many people, they were desperate, there was no way she was going to get there by herself. She turned into an alley to take a break. Why was she going back anyway? Loki and Tony. Fuck. She honestly did not want to go there but she had to fight, right? Fury… If Fury saw she had at least done something maybe he wouldn't send Trey away if he had him. Right, good plan. While trying to find Trey, occupy yourself by killing aliens.

She shook her head. Her face, she had to cover her face, there were news anchors all over the place. Grimacing in disgust, she covered her face with a layer of blood, giving herself a blank mask with only eye holes to look through. She could easily take it off, just make it float away from her face. She had been using her blood so much lately her control over it had improved, it was mostly subconscious now.

Gagging as she swallowed another pill, Alex formed a small platform under her feet, large enough to stand on, and attached herself to it. With a twitch of the head she lifted and experimentally moved it up, down, backwards and forwards. When she figured she would probably not fall to her death she relaxed a bit and swallowed another two pills, forming two thick hoops around herself. She paused a second as she gave her body some time to adjust to the high speed traffic of blood in and out of her body. Tony hadn't said anything but she knew that taking too many pills would probably harm her.

She zoomed up and out of the alley, passing over people's heads, quickly heading to the Tower. When she got there it took all the courage she had not to turn tail and run. There were Chitauri flying all over the place, Tony was speeding from one place to the next, gunning down aliens. The police were scattered on the ground, doing their best to maintain control of the situation and keeping the citizens safe. A crash resounded in the sky and Alex turned to look. Thor and Loki were fighting. Even from a large distance she could tell that it was them.

Suddenly a Chitauri flew at her, brandishing a large spear. Before she knew it, a small amount of blood had shot through it's throat and it was tumbling down to the ground. Alex's eyes regarded the blood floating around her in wonder. Automatically? Reflex? Her reflex was to kill whatever came her way? Her fists started flexing and her breathing became laboured. What was she, some kind of… animal? Or… or…had her parents been right? What-

"Alex watch out!"

Her eyes flew open and a blood barrier blocked the path of an alien that had been about to decapitate her. In return she swung her arm at it, making blood swipe forwards and decapitate it. Then she turned to Tony, who was a small ways away from her, staring.

"We'll talk later!" She called out. "Kill Chitauri first!"

He looked as if he wanted to disagree for a second before taking off back towards the main group of Chitauri. He dodged their attacks and sent little missiles at them before turning around an getting a few civilians out of the line of fire.

Alex hesitated for a second before lowering her 'floating platform thing', she hadn't figured out what to call it yet, and started to help people get away. At first they all looked at her with distrust, until she easily took out two Chitauri heading their way. Those things were way too slow. Then they all followed her while she covered for them, they got to a subway entrance and she left them there, hurrying back to help more civilians out. This time it was easier since they had seen her help the other people, but they all still stared at her in suspicion. Good thing she had a mask covering all of her face or the pictures they had hurriedly taken would have been a shit ton of trouble.

The sound of a machine gun made Alex turn back to the street Tony had been on first, a huge SHIELD jet was shooting at the Chitauri. Apparently, Romanov and the Captain had decided to get off their asses and help out. She hurried and pushed some civilians out of the way, forming a thick shield before herself so the bullets wouldn't hurt her. As soon as she was out of the range of fire she let the bullets that had been imbedded in the shield drop to the ground where they were lost among the rubble. Her head whipped around as the jet turned to Stark Tower, a gun was pointed straight at Loki.

Alex's heart froze. But it wasn't necessary, not only did Loki set fire to the jet, Thor also pushed him out of the way before he could get hurt. She'd told Loki that Thor loved him. Not that he was all that in control of himself at the moment. She should tell the others before they hurt him but she knew Thor would do no such thing, or at least not extensively. Loki had magic, he could probably heal himself well. Still, she headed that way as quick as she could.

The jet was on fire but the pilot made it seem easy to land it on the street without a skirmish. Seconds later, the Black Widow, Captain America and Hawkeye ran out, staring upwards at the huge Chitauri flying out of the portal. It looked slightly like a whale but it was much, much larger and it carried hundreds of little, normal, Chitauri. They were jeering at their surroundings, lifting their weapons and chanting something in their language.

Thor and Loki were fighting, wrestling almost, but as was expected, Thor won when it came to something plainly physical. He wrapped Loki's arms around Loki and forced him to look at the city, which had a layer of destruction that tainted even the most vibrant colours of signs grey.

"Look at this! Look around you!" Thor shouted. "You think this madness will end with your rule?"

For a second, the blue shine in Loki's eyes vanished and he struggled to turn his eyes away from the destruction he had caused. He had done this, unwillingly, but ultimately he had.

"It's too late. It's too late to stop it." Loki whispered. Then he scrunched up his face with the pain of the Chitauri forcing themselves back into his head. His eyes were blue again.

Thor's eyes looked at him with confusion. Hadn't his brother's eyes been green? He racked his head for memories. Yes, always, his eyes had only ever been green… He stopped his train of thought as soon as he felt something stab him in the gut. A dagger was firmly lodged in his stomach, Loki's hand was still on the hilt. He looked at his brother in anger and lifted him off the ground before slamming him back down harshly. Blood dribbled across Loki's pale skin before he rolled to his side, over the edge, and fell. Thor could only look incredulously as Loki fell to what he though was a very painful escape, until, out of nowhere, a small figure caught him by the hand and lifted him on the red plate it was standing. The blonde god could faintly recognise the young Alex girl's voice as she sped away, all the time shouting at Loki for being careless.

"What the fuck were you thinking?!" Alex shouted, making sure she still had a firm hold of Loki so he wouldn't fall. Apparently having him with her meant that the Chitauri would leave her alone because she flew across the street and they weren't attacked once. " Are you out of you idiotic, egotistical mind? Never mind, I know you're fucking insane, Loki! Rack your brains for one fucking second, what if I hadn't been there to catch your sorry ass?"

"Then the landing would have been painful." Loki stated calmly as he wiped blood off his face with his free hand. He was secretly pleased for two things, one; she seemed able to protect herself from Chitauri so she wasn't dead, and two; she had actually come for him, his trust wasn't misplaced. The fact that she was yelling at him and insulting him slipped his mind for the moment.

"Yeah, well..." They landed on a rooftop and she turned the blood into two basketballs that stayed floating around them. "I'm not gonna catch you next time, Loki. I'm not your babysitter, I have to get these civilians away from here." She ran her hands through her hair as she took deep, calming breaths. This was slowly getting to be too much. Trey missing, Tony fighting, being attacked, automatically killing, stressed because fuck, she had betrayed one of America's security organisations and then! Loki was suicidal!… Well maybe not suicidal but the point was made! Too many things at once. Her breathing sped up but she forced herself to listen to what the god beside her was saying.

Loki raised an eyebrow. "So you are fighting neither with me, nor against me?"

"I'm not gonna hurt the Avengers, that will only get Fury pissed at me and me very hurt, but I'm also not gonna fight you." She said, finally forcing herself to be calm. Having a nervous breakdown was not going to help her right now. Her eyes turned to a Chitauri that landed close to them, waiting for Loki to get on the chariot.

The god nodded, he placed a hand on her shoulder. For a second his eyes flickered green. Alex took this chance to talk to him, the real him.

"I'll talk to them. We'll stop them and help you."

There was barely time for the corners of his mouth to twitch upwards before the blue had flooded his eyes again. He looked as if he had missed what she had said so she shook her head and pushed him to the chariot. Without a word, he stepped on it and flew away.

Alex felt three pairs of eyes burn holes in her back and she turned to see the other Avengers staring at her from the ground. They seemed about to shout something but a loud screaming interrupted them. A group of people was being cornered against a few tilted cars, there was one officer present but he was having difficulty keeping the aliens at bay. Black Widow and Captain America rushed to help them, leaving Hawkeye to take out some more Chitauri, but once they got there they found the assailants dead on the ground. Bells was floating in the air, standing on a platform of her own blood with streams of the same liquid floating around her and covering her face like a mask. She was shouting at the officer to take them to a subway station where the could all hide. Other civilians had taken refuge there too.

As all the people were guided away, Alex reluctantly dropped next to the two adults, taking off her mask. She looked at the ground stubbornly.

"I'm not sorry." She said. "But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna help these people."

Steve looked at her coldly for a second. "We'll talk about this later."

He turned away and headed towards the battlefield again, slamming down aliens and helping trapped people get away. Natasha looked at Alex for a second, offered her a nod, and left. Alex followed closely behind, she fastened a smaller platform under her, almost like a skateboard, and used the extra blood to protect herself.

"Just like Budapest all over again!" Natasha called over to Clint as she gunned down a few Chitauri from behind a car.

"You and I remember Budapest very differently." He mumbled as he landed beside her.

They both ducked as an alien flew over their heads, propelled by the force with which a large spear of blood had stabbed him in the chest. The agents glanced at Alex but she wasn't paying any attention to them, she was just standing on the platform in a crouched position, moving her hands every now and then to control her blood more easily. Clint shrugged and went back to shooting Chitauri, Natasha followed his example shortly afterwards.

Steve ran over a few toppled cars, making sure to take out any enemies that attacked him in the process. The fact that they were cooperating with someone who had willingly deserted them gnawed at his stomach, though the feeling was pushed down harshly as he regained his concentration. He turned his attention to a few cops not far away from where he was. He could faintly make out what they were shouting at each other as they desperately tried to protect themselves.

"We need to get out!" The youngest was shouting. "They gotta bring the National Guard!"

"National Guard? Does the army know what's happening here?" The older one asked.

"Do we?"

The Captain jumped towards them, landing in front of them and ignoring the gobsmacked looks his suit gained him. He started pointing at different building while giving instructions.

"I need men in these buildings. There are people inside that can run into the line of fire. You take them through the basement or through the subway, you keep them off the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th."

The older cop turned red. "Why should I take orders from you?"

All his doubt were dissipated as the Captain took care of two Chitauri that came at them in the blink of an eye. Well, a blink for them, Steve didn't bat an eyelash.

"I need men in those buildings, lead the people down and away from the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th…" He started ordering.

Steve just rolled his eyes.

Thor landed shortly after taking out a wave of Chitauri with lightning. The agents, Captain and Alex,who stood back a bit, turned to him. Thor looked slightly shaken but his voice was steady. He didn't notice Alex. She had removed her mask, mostly, and only kept a small amount covering the lower part of her face, this way it didn't hinder her vision. That had been a mistake seeing as she now sported a deep gash on her shoulder. She hadn't seen her assailant and he had been able to injure her. Luckily the wound didn't bleed because she wouldn't let it.

"What's the story upstairs?" Steve asked.

"The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor answered, looking grim.

"Thor's right. We gotta deal with these guys." Tony's voice sounded from their earpieces.

"How do we do this?" Natasha's voice sounded distracted as she scanned their surroundings for oncoming attacks.

"As a team." Steve said.

Alex bit back a snort.

"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor bit out.

"Yeah? Get in line." Clint mumbled.

"Keep your hands off him, Feathers." Alex's voice cut through the conversation like a knife, alerting everyone to her presence. They looked at her wearily.

"What's he to you?" Barton asked, choosing to ignore the nickname but not being able to help the way it laced his voice with irritation. He stepped closer, looking her up and down. She was considerably shorter than him, he could only imagine how dwarfed she was by the Captain and Thor.

"None of your business." She paused. "I would think you would know your own brother's eye colour, Thor." She commented idly as she threw a glance at the blonde.

"It's green." Thor answered immediately, not knowing where she was going with this. The other's looked between them, confusion masking their faces.

Alex rolled her eyes. "Then I wonder why they're currently blue… any ideas, Feathers?"

Hawkeye's eyes widened as realisation kicked in.

"You… you're sure?" That couldn't be. Why hadn't he noticed… he had. He'd seen the blue eyes he'd just assumed that blue was his natural eye colour, he'd noted that his own eyes were of the same shade he'd just assumed that the colour changed to mimic whoever was controlling him.

"Positive."

"What's this about?" Steve asked.

"We'll explain later." Alex cut him off. "Right now…" She lifted an arm and moved blood to grab a Chitauri heading their way. She closed her hand, effectively crushing the alien. Clint winced.

"I don't think we have the time. As Tony said, we gotta deal with the Chitauri."

All of their attention was suddenly pulled to the sound of a small motorbike heading their way. They could, from such a distance, slightly make out the figure of Dr. Banner sitting on the miniature vehicle that, even with him in his human form, was too small for him. They waited as he stopped before them and let the bike fall to the ground. An awkward silence ensued as he figured out what to say. He gestured around them.

"So this all seems horrible."

Alex's snickers sounded behind them but they ignored her, except for Barton who hesitatingly clapped her on the back when she seemed to choke on her own saliva. It turned out it was some blood from the remnants of her mask that she had accidentally swallowed. She nodded at him.

"I've seen worse." Natasha continued.

"Sorry." Banner looked at all of them, noting that the teenage girl's face betrayed her discomfort at his apology, though he couldn't for the life of him figure out why.

"No. We could use a little worse." Natasha encouraged him.

"Stark?" Steve called into his com device. "We got him."

"Banner?" They heard him ask.

"Just like you said."

"Then tell him to suit up, I'm bringing the party to you." Tony's voice was tense, if anything, but they could make out a slight amount of amusement in it. Iron Man flew around a few buildings and into their view, his paint was scratched in various places but seemed alright. There were no dents in the metal, not parts missing, no smoke… He only seemed in a hurry. This was explained when they noticed that he was closely followed by the large whale-like alien. It smashed buildings as it passed, leaving a trail of smoke and flying debris behind him. There were no wounds on it, nothing imbedded in the tough skin, there was not even a stain on the thick armour.

The Avengers on the ground froze, all hands inching towards their weapons though, if what they saw was real, no weapon would help.

"I… I don't see how that's a party." Natasha said, voicing everybody's thought on the matter. Except Alex's.

"Goddamit Tony!" She yelled. "We take our eyes off you for one second and then this?! You mother fucking lunatic, you wanna get us all killed? What the fuck were you thinking?!"

Tony's snorts were the only answer she got.