Hey guys! So so sorry this is really late I know, but I've been dealing with school and everything else ugh! Anyway, there are a lot of POVs in this chapter and it's also the battle in New York City, I really changed it up a lot of it, but I thought it was better, it also have some of the lines from the movie and everything else, but just different scenes in it as well.
Also, I did put in a song from the Dark Knight Rises so that's in there and I got inspired to do a scene while listening to the soundtrack so probably at the end it's going to be a little depressing and sad and probably make you cry. But other then that I think that's everything I hope if not, well leave a review and let me know what you think of this chapter.
I do not own Marvel's The Avengers, X-Men or anything else! I own my character Sarah Anastasia Chandler!
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Chapter 10: The Fire Rises, A Life Taken Away
Tony Stark's POV
Well, that was pointless. Yeah, let's try to blast the reactor when a barrier is protecting the generator and it can't be destroyed. Yeah, great job Tony. Now Selvig is unconscious and the portal will be opening very soon. Great, now there's this guy. I spotted Loki on the balcony of my tower who was smirking at me. I flew over to the other balcony, landed and let the rings take of my armor. Loki then walked in the tower like he waiting for me this entire time, probably was. I walked in and saw him standing in the middle of the room smirking at me, I really want to blast that smirk right off of his face, but I know Sarah wants to kick his ass for manipulating the Phoenix. So, I'll wait for her arrival.
"Please tell me your going to appeal to my humanity." I walked down the stairs and shrugged at his either question or comment, couldn't really understand him.
"Actually I'm here to threaten you"
"You should have left your armor on for that." I continued to walk down the stairs to my personal bar that I got installed for my tower.
"Yeah, seemed like a bit of mileage and you've got the glow stick of destiny, want a drink?" He looked at me which was kind of scary.
"Stalling me won't change anything."
"No, no threatening. No drink you sure? I'm having one." I took a glass and poured myself my favorite scotch, never know when you're gonna have another one. Loki turned on his heels and walked towards the window.
"The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that. What have I to fear?"
"The Avengers." Loki raised an eyebrow in confusion and I rolled my eyes and poured myself a glass of scotch. "It's what we call ourselves. Were kinda like a team, Earth's mightiest hero's sorta thing." He smirked at it was kind of creeping me out.
"Yes, I've met them." I let out a chuckle and a fake smile.
"Yeah, take us a while to get any traction I'll give you that one, but let's do a head count here. Your brother, the demigod, The super soldier, living the legend who kinda lives up to the legend, a man with breath-taking anger management, a girl who can phase through anything, a small dragon from another universe who's always at her side, couple of assassins and a telepath, telekinesis and a trained mortal combat and you big fella managed to piss off every single one of them." He chuckled at me.
"That was the plan." I took a large drink because I really need it.
"Not a great plan, when they come and they will, they'll come for you." He looked at me straight in my eyes probably looking into my soul which is kind of scary.
"I have an army."
"We have a Hulk."
"I thought that beast the beast had wandered off?"
"You're missing the point, there is not throne, there is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Cause if we can't protect the Earth, you can damn well sure we'll avenge it." Loki then walked towards me and raised his staff at me, this isn't a good sign.
"How will your friends have time for me, when there so busy fighting you?" The end of his staff hit my chest and with a clink sound it did nothing. Loki furrowed his brow and hit it again, but nothing happened. "This usually works." I looked down, glanced somewhere else and shrugged.
"Well performance issues, not uncommon 1 out of 5," Before I could finish what I was saying, Loki grabbed my throat and tossed me to the floor. "Jarvis anytime now." I tried to get up, but Loki grabbed my throat again.
"Kneel before me!"
"Deploy!" He raised me in the air and I could barely breathe. "Deploy!" Before I knew it, the window glass shattered behind us and he dropped me. I hit the floor hard on my side, but scrambled to my feet to get up and get my armor on. Loki was flown across the room by none other than Sarah. She glanced back at me in the creepiest way, but it's the mask. I looked across the room and saw that my armor was about to be deployed, it flew towards me, but it slowed down once I brought up my hands. The bracelets identify that I am myself and my armor was putting itself on. Once my helmet was on and my face plate intact, I was ready to fight. I turned towards Loki who got up on his feet and glared at us. "And there's one other guy you've pissed off, his name is Phil." Loki was about to attack until I blasted him to the ground, it was a small victory until the portal started to open and released the Chitauri. I looked up and my screen went from blue to red. "Right army." I looked back at Sarah who looked up at me. "You gonna be alright!?"
"Just go! I'll take care of him!" I nodded and took off towards the Chitauri. I blasted away as many as I could and tried to led them away from the city, but that wasn't working out so well.
"Stark, we're heading north east." Oh look who decided to show up. Agent Romanoff and the rest of everyone else.
"What, did you stop for drive-thru? Swing that part, I'm gonna lay 'em out for you." I flew through the park so they could see the situation we are in. Agent Romanoff shot the few of Chitauri down and they headed towards the tower. I flew over towards the tower to see if Sarah was okay, once I got there and the jet, Thor and Sarah were fighting off Loki. I could hear their conversation.
"Loki, end this madness now!"
"I don't think so, they are already here! You're going to have stopped me yourself brother!"
"Then so be it." He looked over at Sarah who we don't have a nickname for was glaring and at smirking at her.
"You have a fight in you young warrior! Who do they call you?" She glared at him and spoke.
"Huntress, of the hunted"
Sarah's POV
"Huntress, of the hunted."
"Oh, I like this already. Thor and The Huntress together!"
"Loki, stop this! Do you have any ideas of how many innocent lives are going to be killed!? Thousands, Loki, maybe even millions of innocent lives will be lost in this war! Think about what you're doing Loki! You don't have to prove anything!"
"I should be king of Asgard! I should be at my rightful place on the throne! I should be king!"
"This world isn't for you to rule! This not a world to be ruled! Humanity is not to be ruled by Gods! Once you rule over humanity, they will turn against you and rebel against you!"
"I will not tolerate you any longer!" He jumped off the edge of the other balcony and landed a few feet in front of us. He's glaring at us and pointed his specter at us. "I will end you, Thor and everyone else who stand in my way!"
"Then think about Jean!" He stopped in his tracks and his eyes went wide when I mentioned my sister who is his adopted sister as well.
"What did you say?"
"Jean, who is my older sister."
"Then that means,"
"Yes, I'm your sister too." He dropped his specter and fell to his knees. I think I got to him when I mentioned Jean. I'm gonna go on a limp here that he knows her or the fact is that he may have feelings for her, but that's just a guess. I slowly made my way towards Loki; I kneel in front of him. His face expression was full of fear, but what does he have to be fear of?
"How is this possible?"
"You tell me, I'm still new to all of this."
"Heimdall found her and brought her to us, she said she escaped from a force she could not handle."
"The Phoenix."
"No, no the Phoenix you have, it was different."
"What do you mean different from the Phoenix that I have?"
"She's darker much more evil then I am."
"Is she the one that's making you do this?"
"I'm afraid so."
"Why didn't you just tell us?"
"Because if I don't, she will turn the Chitauri on me, I can't risk that!"
"Even if it means hurting Jean?" He looked at me with wide fearful eyes and his mouth was gaped opened.
"I have no choice."
"Loki, Jean is you're sister and I'm you're sister too, I know we're both adopted, but it doesn't change the fact that you are still my brother. Jean doesn't want you to get hurt and she doesn't want to watch you get hurt."
"She's watching us right now!?"
"Yes, right at this very moment. Jean has seen enough people get hurt and so have I. Please stop this now before any more people get hurt. Please!" We stared at me for a moment then looked at Thor. I cupped his face in my hands and made him look at me. "I'm begging you Loki, don't do this! You have a choice and I can't lose any more people that I care about! I lost so many people I love and I can't lose you!" Just then Loki pulled me into a bear hug as I felt tears streaming down his face. He cares about Thor, he cares about Jean and most importantly he cares about me. I dove into his mind and cut the strings of whoever is controlling his mind. I quickly got out of his mind and he lets out grunt sound. "Loki?" He looks up at me and his eyes were no longer bright blue, they were emerald green eyes. He was free. Free from whoever was controlling him.
"Sarah?" I touched his cheek and smiled in happiness and so did he. I pulled him into a hug and he hugged me back. After a moment goes by, I felt Thor coming towards us; we both get up off the ground. Loki looked at Thor and gives him a shy smile. "Brother, I'm so sorry for what I've done." Thor didn't hesitate to pull him into a hug, a brotherly love hug. Thor thought Loki was dead, but to be honest so did everyone else. They all mourned for the god including the All-Father. At the time, I didn't know them, but I know what it feels like to mourn someone you are close with. I saw Thor who started to cry and I could hear Loki's silent sobs. I was happy that they are reunited again. I pressed a button on my earpiece to let the others know.
"This is the Huntress, Hawkeye do you copy?"
"Copy you Huntress, what's the situation?"
"Target is no longer a threat."
"What do you mean Loki is no longer a threat? What happened?"
"Loki was under a mind control spell, the same one you and Dr. Selvig were under. Source of the spell unknown enemy."
"You sure he's no longer a threat?"
"Positive. Loki had many chances of killing me, but he didn't. He never wanted to do this, he never meant for this to happen." I heard an explosion coming from the portal, I saw more Chitauri coming out of the portal. A few of them were flying towards us; Loki and Thor pulled away from their brother to brother moment and prepared to attack. I pulled out my glock 22 and started shooting them down. They were fast and started firing at us. I used my telekinesis to make a force shield to cover us. The ground under me started to crumble and I didn't have enough time to catch the edge of the balcony. I started to fall from the balcony as I heard both Loki and Thor yelling my name. Everything around me started to slow down as I started to free fall, I didn't scream or yell, I just watched Loki and Thor yell my name. I closed my eyes and thought everyone I made friends with. For the first time, I felt like I was myself and no one was judging me. I felt the Phoenix inside of me surge through my entire body, I opened my eyes and felt them change from sea blue eyes to fire red. I felt something coming out of my back, it felt like wings, Phoenix's wings. They spread out release their beauty; they were like a hawk's wings, but only bigger and more radiant with beauty. The color of the wings were orange and red like fire, I glided through the air and started shooting down half of the Chitauri. I flew towards Loki and Thor; I landed gracefully on my feet and smiled at both of them. Loki and Thor gave me hugs, Thor kissed the top of my head and Loki kissed my cheek. He cupped my face and looked at me with worry in his eyes.
"I thought I lost you." I smiled at him and shook my head.
"Sorry, but you won't get rid of me that easy." We both shared smiles and Thor put a comforting hand on my shoulder.
"We need to close the portal, but first we need to make sure everyone else is okay." Loki looked at Thor.
"The civilians are what we should be worrying about, the Chitauri are not going to stop until all lives are gone."
"Loki's right, we need to keep the civilians safe before we shut the portal down." I heard the jet coming towards us. I could see Agent Barton and Romanoff through the windshield of the jet. I waved at them and pressed my finger on my earpiece. "Where you guys when I was free falling?"
"We were taking out half of this alien army." Sometime I love Natasha, but sometimes she can be a real bitch.
"Well, I'm gonna tell you now, I've sprouted wings or at least the Phoenix's wings. I think she knew I was in trouble and even though I can use my telekinesis to fly."
"Just be glad that you're not dead."
"Geez, what crawled up your ass and died!?"
"That fact is that if you died, I would have to deal with both Barton and Steve from depression." It was true, both Clint and Steve are important to me. Clint and I are bonded with each other, Steve and I well, I really don't know, but I know he's has a special place inside of my heart. Steve and I still need to talk about what happened in the elevator. Overall, Nat was right, if I did die, who knows what would happen to Clint if the bonded had been broken and poor Steve would be heartbroken. I sighed in defeat and agreed with Nat.
"You're right Nat, I'm sorry, I'll be more careful, but right now we need to get to ground level and protect the civilians. They are in more danger from the Chitauri then trying to figure out how to close the portal. We'll worry about that later."
"Agree, we'll meet you on ground level." Just as she finished that, the left engine was shot at and burst into flames. The jet was hit. "We've been hit! Get ready for a crash landing!" I felt my heart skip a beat, I looked at Loki and Thor and they nodded. We all jumped off the balcony, Thor was flying, Loki used his specter to create a force bubble and I spread my wings. We took out as many Chitauri as we could, Thor used his lighting to take out twenty, I took both my glock 22 and started firing only taking out at least ten and Loki used his specter to shoot at fifteen. The jet crashed landed on the streets of New York City, as we landed on a bridge I started firing the Chitauri. Thor whacked the Chitauri with his hammer and Loki was slicing them down. I looked over at the jet and saw Nat, Clint, Steve, Kitty, Lockheed and Bruce coming out of the jet. We all looked around and saw many Chitauri roaming the streets and creating chaos. People were running around in a panic, police are firing at the flying Chitauri, but not knowing what to do. Buildings were being destroyed and the screaming of innocent lives being lost. The group came running towards us, another explosion came towards us, I look up and saw falling debris coming down towards me. I run out of the way and barely made out before the huge debris could smash me. I looked up at the portal and saw a strange snake like airship coming out of the portal and it had teeth.
"What the hell is that?" Everyone gathered and saw what I was seeing.
"Stark, are you seeing this?"
"I'm seeing, still working on believing. Jarvis find me a soft spot." I saw Iron Man aka Tony Stark, flying around the snake thing and scanning it for its weak spot. Another dozen of Chitauri started firing at us, we all took cover, I dove behind a cab with Clint and Nat, Thor and Loki took cover behind a huge wall of debris, Steve, Kitty and Lockheed took cover behind another cab that was across from us and Bruce was with Steve, Kitty and Lockheed. I looked behind me and saw a public bus trapped with civilians trying to get out or calling for help. I looked over at Steve aka Captain America, he got my gaze.
"We need get those civilians out of that bus!" He looked back and saw them banging on the windows crying for help. He then looked back at Nat, Clint and I.
"You think you guys can hold them off?" Clint smirked and so did Nat.
"Captain, it would be my genuine pleasure." Clint stood up and shot his arrow at the Chitauri. Steve started running towards the police who were fighting off the Chitauri, I saw him jumping off the bridge headed towards the police. I looked over at Kitty, Lockheed and Bruce and motioned them to help out with the people who are trapped in the bus. Nat was shooting down the Chitauri with Clint.
"Just like Budapest all over again." Clint furrowed his eyebrows at Nat.
"You and I remember Budapest very differently." She smirked at him and kept firing. I came out of cover and walked casually and shooting down the Chitauri. They looked at me like I was crazy or insane, but we couldn't stay hidden any longer. I started to walk fast and shooting them down or as everyone else would say it, hunt them down. A Chitauri was running at me, I put my gun back in my holster, dodged its attack and counter attack. I kicked it in the stomach, grabbed its spear, use it against him and stabbed him in the back. Another one came running towards me, I twirled the spear over my head, grabbed the end of the spear and hit in the head. More and more Chitauri came after me and everyone else, Nat and Clint came out from cover and started running towards the Chitauri. Nat grabbed one of the spears that was lying on the floor and started taking down two of the Chitauri; Clint was still shooting his arrows and also hand to hand combat as well. I glanced over at Kitty, Lockheed and Bruce they got everyone else off of the bus and to safety. Lockheed was shooting fireballs to cover Kitty and Bruce. Thor and Loki were working together to take down ten Chitauri.
I looked up at the portal as more of them started coming down towards the city. However, I kept fighting no matter what the odds were, I wasn't going to give up that easy. I looked over at Clint as he stabbed a Chitauri in the back with his arrow; he then took that arrow and shot another one. Nat took down two, Kitty and Lockheed took down seven and I took down six. A Chitauri caught be by surprise and swung his spear at my head, I quickly dodged its attack, swung my spear at him, but caught it with his hand. It yanked it out of my grasp and kicked me in the stomach. I hit the back of the car, I dodged its attack, punched it in the face, kicked his leg and did a roundhouse kick to its side and dropped kick it in his shoulder. I took its spear and stabbed him in the throat. I did a back flip and landed on top of the car and ran towards Nat, Clint, Kitty and Lockheed who were surrounded by Chitauri. I jumped on top of another car, jumped in the air, front flipped in mid air and knocked down the Chitauri. I did a spinning kick to the next one and stabbed him with the spear. I twirled the spear and knocked out another one, Kitty phased through a Chitauri and did a spinning kick to the back of its head, Clint fired three arrow and took out three Chitauri, Lockheed was flying around firing fireballs and Nat twirled the spear taking out two and kneeling to shoot at another one.
I raised my hand to use my telekinesis, the rocks and debris started to levitate in the air, no one noticed until I warned them.
"Everybody get down!" They all looked at me and saw the rocks and debris levitating in the air, they dove to the ground as I one swift move with my other hand the rocks started flying towards the group of Chitauri. I ran towards the remaining Chitauri, dodging their shooting and attacked each and every one of them. I took out my glock 22, firing two Chitauri in the head, did a spinning roundhouse kick to another one, shot it in the head, used my telekinesis to stop another one from charging at me and threw him into the one that was about to shoot me. I saw a flash of lighting taking out the rest of the Chitauri in front of me; I looked up and saw it was Thor. I smiled at him and nodded at him and he smiled at me back. I didn't see the Chitauri running from behind me stabbed me in the chest.
"NOOOOOOO!" I heard the Thor yell and everyone stopped and saw what has happened. Lockheed roared in anger and flew towards the Chitauri who stabbed me through my chest, the Chitauri jerked its spear out of my chest and started shooting at Lockheed. He dodged all of its shots and fired multiple fireballs at it until it was dead. Everything around me started to slow down, my eyesight was getting blurry, I could feel my own blood running down my chest, I saw Thor running towards me in slow motion and Clint ran towards me as well. Before I even hit the ground, I felt a pair of arms catch me. I gently lay down on the cold ground and I saw Bruce Banner who was applying pressure on my wound to stop the bleeding. I could hear everyone's voice ringing in my head; my vision was blurry to see everyone faces clearly. However, there was another voice that I recognized and was hovering over me.
"S-s-steve?" My voice was hoarse, he looked at me with worry and fear in his blue eyes, I reached for his hand. He grabbed it and squeezed it.
"It's going to be okay Sarah, you're going to be okay!"
"She's losing too much blood!" Steve looked at Bruce with a panic look, I know Bruce didn't want to tell him, but he had too. "There's nothing much I can do. I'm sorry." I could feel my breathing was slowing down, was this my time to go? Steve looks around to find Tony.
"Tony! Sarah's been stabbed!"
"What!?"
"She was stabbed through the chest from behind; she's losing too much blood!"
"Hang on! I'll be right there!" Steve looked back at me, I was still breathing slowly and my eyes were tired, but if I close them I know I won't be able to wake up. Steve gently rubs his thumb on my hand and kisses it.
"Steve?"
"Save your energy Sarah, you're going to be okay."
"I don't think I can make it."
"No, don't say that, you're going to make it, you're going to make it." His voice was cracking and I could see the tears streaming down his face even with the mask on.
"Steve, if I don't make it, tell Jean I love her and I understand what she had to do." He squeezed my hand tighter and with no words coming out of his mouth, all he could do is nod. I reached in my belt and pulled out dog tags. "Give these to Clint, I know our bond will break, but this will be our treasure, a treasure that will never be forgotten."
"I'm losing her, where the hell is Tony!?" I heard Bruce yell at Nat who was shooting at the remaining Chitauri.
"He's got Chitauri on his tail! He's trying to get here as fast as he can!"
"There's not enough time! She's slowly slipping away!" Nat growled, inserted another magazine and started shooting again. I felt another presences coming towards me and I knew it was Clint. I didn't even know he left and I don't feel Thor at all, where did he go? He was kneeling next to Bruce and gave him the first aid kit. Bruce looked at him with wide eyes. "Where the hell have you been!?"
"I ran back towards the jet, it was still undamaged. Loki and I went to go and find it until we found some visitors in the jet."
"Who?" Clint looked at Steve.
"You won't believe me if I told you." I thought about what Clint was saying until it hit me. I looked at him and met his blue eyes.
"The X-Men." I whispered and Clint nodded.
"Only a few of them, they left the X-Men."
"Why?"
"It's because what Kitty said. They were inspired by her words and their here to help." I felt their presences coming towards us. Clint looked at me and saw that I was holding the dog tags. He moved around Bruce and was hovering over my head. He strokes my cheek, leaned down and kissed my forehead. "One of them can heal you just by touching you're skin. However, when she touches your skin, she will absorb you're powers, memories, everything else will become a part of her."
"Clint," I swallowed hard and it was getting to the point where it's getting difficult to breathe. Clint rested his hand on my cheek.
"You're going to be okay, remember I said," I slowly nodded. He grabbed my hand with his dog tags and looked straight in my eyes. "These dog tags are a piece of me and they are a piece of you, no matter what happens, I'm never going to leave your side no matter what. You know why?" I slowly shook my head, my body became weak and my skin became cold. I saw one tear streaming down Clint's face. "Because I love you." I swallowed hard at Clint's words as his tear hits my cold skin. Does he really love me? But what about Steve? I still have these lingering feelings for him and I don't know who to choose now. As I kept looking at Clint, I felt someone touching my forehead. I felt flashes of my memories right in front of me; I grunted in pain and felt the wound in my chest heal. I squeezed my eyes shut as more of my memories flashed fast.
The memory of the incident, running from my past, Fury approaching me offering to be a part of something incredible, meeting Steve Rogers, contacting Clint in his mind, fighting off Loki in Germany, learning about the Phoenix and most of all Steve and I's moment in the elevator. The feeling of Steve's lips upon mine, so soft, so warm and so gentle. He was gentle and he caring for me, he always worries about me and will do anything to keep me safe. The flashback ended with everything else, I gasped for air and started to cough. Everyone was shocked as was I that my wound is healed and I'm alive. I looked around and saw Steve, Clint, Bruce, Thor and Loki with wide eyes. Clint gave me a hug first, he was silently crying and he buried his face in the croak of my neck. I rubbed his back gently and took in my surroundings, more Chitauri were destroying New York City and I couldn't bare the fact that this city was being destroyed. I looked at Steve who was still wide eyed at me; he was still holding my hand and taking in the surroundings as well.
"Avengers, we got a nuke heading towards the city, it's going to destroy everything!" Fury's voice rang in my head and I looked up at the portal. It was still open as more Chitauri come out.
"We have to close the portal. There will be nothing left." Clint pulled away and looked in my eyes.
"We can't get near it and we don't know how to close the portal."
"There has to be a way."
"There is one." Clint and I looked at Loki who looking at the portal as well, I didn't understand what he was saying. I scrambled to my feet quickly so did Clint, I grabbed Loki's arm.
"We'll find another way, there has to be!"
"I don't think we have many options at this point."
"Even if you could there is a ninety nine percent chance you won't come back! This isn't our only option!" Loki grabbed me and was right in my face.
"Listen to me! There is no other way! I have to do this!"
"I can't lose you Loki! I can't lose any more people I love! I just can't!"
"You won't lose me, I'll be back! I promise!" With that Loki kissed my forehead and took off running. I watch him fly through the air towards the portal, Tony was already on the roof of the tower and Loki threw him his specter and went through the portal. My hands balled into fists and felt anger inside of me. Everyone else was fighting off the Chitauri. I saw Wolverine and Nightcrawler tag team a group of Chitauri, Rogue and Angel were helping out the police protect the civilians, Bruce already hulked out fighting alongside with Shadowcat and Black Widow and Captain America were fighting a strip of Chitauri along the bridge. Thor was already on the roof with Dr. Selvig and Tony. I felt a hand on my shoulder; I looked over at Hawkeye who was giving me comfort.
"He did what he had to do Sarah."
"This wasn't supposed to happen." A tear ran down my cheek as I saw my step brother fly towards the Chitauri base along with missile. I raised my hands and glared down at the dozen of Chitauri. Clint stared at me with wide eyes as I use my powers to levitate as much debris as I can. I felt my eyes change from sea blue to fire red, I felt my entire body set on fire, but it wasn't burning my skin and I felt the wings on my come through and spread out. The rocks and the rest of the debris were set on fire; everyone who saw stopped what they were doing and stared with wide eyes. I begin to walk by everyone, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Rogue, Angel. Hulk, Shadowcat, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Captain America stared at me with wide eyes. They couldn't believe what they saw. The Chitauri charged at me and I glared at them all. "Go to Hell!" I threw my hands forward and the rocks and debris flew towards the remaining Chitauri on the bridge.
I could hear the piano playing softly in my head and every sound around me was silent expect he the piano playing in my head. Before we took off, I was listening to my IPhone to my favorite composer Hans Zimmer. I was listening to the Dark Knight Rises soundtrack; this one song I was listening too was "Nothing Out There". It was forever stuck in my head since then and now playing in my head as each Chitauri were killed by the flying rocks and debris that was on fire. I looked up in the sky and saw the missile go towards the portal. My powers subsided and fell to my knees, I heard a faint explosion in the sky, and I watched the scene as the portal started to close. The song replayed in my head and heard the soft piano playing, the portal closed and any remaining Chitauri on Earth were dead instantly.
I was still looking up at the sky, it was clear as day. I felt tears streaming down my cheeks at the thought of Loki being gone. He promised he would come back, he promised, but he didn't. I could hear the faint sighs and laughter coming from everyone else; however I wasn't one of them. Loki wasn't coming back, more tears streaming down my cheeks as I continued to watch the sky. I felt a pair of arms wrap around me and a head lean against my shoulder. It was Natasha and Steve. Natasha wrapped her arms around my arm and leaned her head against my shoulder and Steve kneeled behind me and hugged me from the back. I heard more footsteps coming towards us, everyone surrounded us and the air was filled with sadness. A whisper said it all that brought almost everyone to tears. "He's gone…Loki. Gone."
Bruce Banner's POV
"Gone." That's all I could hear from Sarah, the sadness in her voice and staring up at the sky trying to see if it was real. Loki sacrificed himself to the Chitauri to save everyone here on Earth. Just like Agent Barton, he was under a mind control spell and Sarah broke it. He felt responsible for what happened and thought this is what he had to do. Loki knew this was his time, now Jean, Sarah and Thor lost a brother. No one could have survived the blast not a single soul. At first, I didn't I thought Loki was insane for trying to take over the world, but it wasn't him talking, it was someone else. He never wanted this or at least that's what we know.
"Bruce, what's going on down there?"
"The Chitauri are dead, it's over." There was a long silence as we give in the moment of a lost comrade.
"And Sarah?"
"She's grieving." I couldn't say anything else because I don't know what to say that will make her feel better or anyone else. Even though the battle is over, the scarring will remain with the city and everyone else including us. We all bowed our heads in silence and Sarah continued to stare up at the sky. I felt sorry for her, she was just reunited with her family and now she loses a brother. She may be adopted, but family is still family. Sarah's eyes started to close slowly and they went from fire red to sea blue color in her eyes. I could feel my own heart break when Sarah finally passes out from exhaustion. Agent Romanoff notices Sarah and tells Steve that Sarah passes out. Steve gently scoops Sarah in his arms and starts to walk toward Stark Tower. We all followed, but we walk in silence.
Wolverine/Logan's POV
"Gone." Seeing the kid like that isn't how I imagined. I felt sadness, a lost comrade the feeling of losing a friend. I know the feeling all too well and this kid now feels it, but its worse for her. She lost a brother. It brings me back when I had killed the Dark Phoenix inside of Jean. Even though I killed the Dark Phoenix, I killed Jean as well; I was devastated when I killed her like I lost the other half of me. Now Sarah feels it. She passes out, Agent Romanoff tells Rogers and Rogers scooped her up and headed towards Stark Tower. We all followed in silence, if Jean is watching all of this, then she's probably hurting as well as everyone else.
Nightcrawler/Kurt's POV
"Gone." Hearing Sarah's voice breaks my heart, she doesn't deserve to feel all of these emotions. Even though, I don't know Loki personally, but I do know what it feels like to lose family or to feel like you don't belong. Sarah has been through hell and back with her life, since the incident, she's been on the run, I know the feeling. Leaving everyone you love behind, not looking back, I know what that feels. Sarah shouldn't be feeling this, not at this age. I couldn't bring myself to look at her anymore. I turned away from her, closed my eyes and lowered my head in shame. It's like we're from the same world, but different places. I remember my life on the run and hiding my true self from everyone. I was branded a freak and now Sarah was going to be branded a freak, but Kitty did not allowed that. I noticed the Captain Rogers had scooped up Sarah and is now heading towards Stark Tower. I felt a hand on my shoulder and sure enough it was Rogue. I gave her a soft smile and she gave one back. She guided me towards the others and walked in silence.
Angel/Warren's POV
"Gone." I may not know Sarah as well as everyone else, but from the looks of it, she's devastated. She just lost her brother and the world has been saved from this alien race called the Chitauri. Her brother sacrificed himself to save everyone else, but also come with the fact is that he's gone. He made a promise to his sister Sarah that he would come back, however, he didn't. Now Sarah grieves for her brother and even though they are not blood related, she's still her brother. I looked around to see everyone's faces and they were full of sadness and sorrow. Kitty probably is having a flashback when she got a call from Ariel just minutes before she died. She understands, I understand, we all understand the feeling of losing someone. Captain Rogers scooped her up and started to walk towards Stark Tower where Iron Man and Thor are waiting for us. We all followed and walked in silence thinking of our own experiences of losing someone we loved and dearly hold till this very day.