Hey guys! Finally got another chapter for this fic- I worked hard on it, so let me know if you like it by leaving a review.
Anyway, on with the story!
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Straightaway, Raegan ducked out of the way of a flying sheet of metal.
"What the heck!" she shouted over the sound of one of the building nearby being blown up by some very aggressive-looking Chitauri that then made a beeline for the superheroes running out of the quinjet.
No sooner had they done this, the quinjet blew up. As in, blew into pieces, caught fire, and then promptly exploded.
"If Fury wasn't already going to kill us, that would have cinched it," Clint muttered, pulling an arrow from the quiver on his back and notching it on his bow. "He loves that quinjet, like it is his child."
One of the Chitauri sent a blast of purple energy at Raegan, the only thing saving her by a mere second was Steve's shield, which knocked the blast away and back into the aliens, who ducked out of the way.
"We need to regroup," Steve shouted over the sounds of a nearby building crumbling to the ground. Civilians screamed and ran for cover, pushing and shoving others to the ground in their desperation.
Raegan helped somebody up and pushed them toward the nearest subway station when she felt it.
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The trembling. Raegan could feel it in every part of her body, from her head all the way down to her toes. Above- in the far distance- thunder rumbled and lightning flashed as the sky changed.
Everything was deathly silent, before a low sound- comparable to a ship's foghorn- emanated from the hole. It sounded ominous- it sounded evil. And it told them that whatever was going to come out of that hole was bad. A sinking feeling settled in Raegan's gut.
People scurrying on both sides of her obviously felt it too, because each and every one of them paused and looked up as the circle of black widened in the contrastingly blue sky around it as more Chitauri came spewing out in what was obviously a second wave, bursts of bright purple light striking the ground around them as more giant worm things emerged, smashing into buildings and sending debris raining from the sky onto the street below.
Somebody screamed loudly in Raegan's right ear as everybody stampeded toward the subway tunnels, shrieking and pushing, jostling to be first for fear of their own lives. She couldn't move- she felt physically stuck to where she was standing as the swarm approached, close enough that she could see their vaguely humanoid shapes and hear their primal war screams as they flew at her, purple energy strikes increasing tenfold as they honed in on what they deemed 'easy prey'.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Steve yelled before a warm body tackled her to the ground and the alien war crafts buzzed over the place her head had been at just moments before.
The light beneath the skin of her hands flicked briefly before beginning to pulse along with her heartbeat, healing the small grazes on her face as her whole body buzzed and warmed with the beginnings of her powers.
"I'm fine," she muttered, looking up at Steve as he took he hand and helped her up, ignoring the green glow altogether.
"What, you deal with alien invasions all the time?" he asked, chuckling at the look of confusion on her face.
"All the time! Although I think I'm slowly going crazy."
He considered me for a second. "I have a friend who's a doctor. He might be able to help you with that."
She stared back at him, glaring at him and ducking away from falling debris. "Right, well that's fantastic, but seeing as the world kinda needs saving and there are aliens up there who made the mistake of thinking that I'm weak, I'm going to have to pick up this conversation later."
And sprung up into the air, her hands gripping onto one of the floating chariots the Chitauri were flying. Steve stared after her as she knocked the soldier flying it out of the way and took control. The sceptre that it had been using to fire blue energy at the motley bunch of superheroes hummed happily beneath her hands as she swung it around, hovering it just beside Steve.
"Steve," she said, ignoring the look of shock on his face. "Get on. We need to get to where our team is regrouping."
Natasha and Clint had already broken into a car and were driving in the opposite direction of the screaming civilians, the people parting around the car.
He clambered on and shot her a worried glance as they lifted up off the ground. "Do you know how to fly this thing?" he shouted as they narrowly missed crashing into several other Chitauri, who promptly gave chase to their sloppily driven chariot.
"I literally started driving it two minutes ago! Cut me some slack!" she shouted, whirling around and glaring at him.
"EYES ON THE ROAD!" he shouted, reaching forward and grasping the front of the flying chariot to try and correct Raegan's steering.
"WE AREN'T DRIVING ON THE ROAD!" she yelled back, swerving to avoid purple light. Steve ducked and covered his head as all of the windows on the side of a building shattered when the light impacted with it.
Raegan noticed the Chitauri that were gaining on them and th eons that were currently approaching them from the front. "THROW YOUR SHIELD AT ONE OF THEM OR SOMETHING!" she bellowed at Steve.
Steve dropped his shield when he tried to pull off where it strapped to his back. "LET'S TRY 'OR SOMETHING'!"
Raegan sighed and watched out of the corner of her eye, seven of the Chitauri slam together and explode in a massive fireball as she banked a hard right and spun around in a complete one-eighty, forcing each and every one of the aliens following them to drop to their knees in pain. Or, at least, what she thought were their knees. She hoped they were.
Steve stared at her, horrified as the Chitauri let out unholy screams of pain.
"IT'S ALL IN THEIR MINDS!" She swerved again. "WHERE ARE WE RE-GROUPING?"
He pointed at the ground a few hundred metres in front of them where the remaining Avengers were assembled.
"OKAY, I'M GONNA HAVE TO CRASH THIS! YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO JUMP! RECKON YOU CAN DO THAT?"
"THAT'S A FORTY FOOT DROP!" he shouted, but jumped nonetheless as she jumped from mine onto one that happened to be travelling beneath them. The flying chariot she had been badly flying collided with another office building and exploded.
"Hi," she said as they turned to see who had jumped on top of their vessel. "Sorry about this."
"Raegan-" he began, but she punched him in the face and sent him hurtling to the ground.
A few of the Chitauri stopped and helped him up. He was shaking a fist at me and shouting some really, really bad language in her direction. She chuckled whilst giving him the one-fingered salute.
Raegan flew as close as she could to them, dropping down from her chariot.
It crashed into a shop front and exploded.
"Cue the dramatic entrance," she muttered as Steve helped her up from the ground.
"Nah, would have been more dramatic if you had walked away with the explosion in the background," Clint said, smiling at her as she surveyed the beaten up team.
"Right guys. I kind of threw Loki off a flying Chitauri chariot, and he's still trying to end the world as we know it. What kind of plan do we have?"
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And so there we have it! Leave a review if you like it- reviews with feedback for me are great too- and remember: constructive criticism, not destructive criticism.