So I spent a while trying to figure out how I was going to keep this going without copying someone's story, or stealing idea's, hopefully this is a good way to keep the story going. Again, thanks to everyone for the reviews, you know I love them. Enjoy this chapter.
Hearing a slight roar Cora looked up to see a sort of worm like thing with armor on, and my oh my, was it huge, letting her jaw drop she gazed at the thing a little perplexed, how the heck was she supposed to kill something like that? That thought quickly left her mind as it was covered up by, screw that I'm a boss right now.
About to jump into it full force Cora saw that Tony was leading it away, perhaps he had a way of defeating it, she didn't have time to watch, there were still tons of alien flying things destroying parts of the city. So she went to take care of them instead, there's only so much one person can do to help, but since Cora was in super mode it made her feel like she could do anything, which was more or less true.
With a thud she landed on one of the flying machines, taking it down a few feet the aliens on board gurgled in their language and tried to shake her off, and the other tried to fight her. Launching some energy through the middle of it she jumped took a few steps and jumped towards another one that was flying a few feet in front of her. Doing the same thing she jumped into the air and flew towards the portal, she could kill them before they even touched Earth.
While flying towards the opening she shot out a huge beam of light, stopping about a dozen alien ships before they even made it out of the portal. There were still many ships crashing through the city so she went back to work on taking those out, taking a few hits here and there, but more often than not she kicked butt.
Flying around the city she saw Bruce, now as a big green hulk thing, Steve, Natasha, everyone, she wasn't sure if they saw her or not, but it wasn't something that she was going to stop and think about. She even saw Thor, which was something she was relieved about since the last time she saw him he was being sucked out of a plane. They were all fighting bad dudes, and that's what was most important here, plus Cora was kind of keeping count, she wanted to compare later.
"Eighty," Cora shouted taking out yet another ship. She was panting, and her breathing was starting to get ragged, did this mean that her super Averian mode was coming to a close? It couldn't be, she still had to fight aliens, she still had to save people.
Aiming at another ship Cora stopped short when she saw that Loki was riding it, her face contorted with emotion as she lowered her hand.
Whipping her head around towards the portal she saw that there were more worm things coming out of it, making their way towards the city, ready to smash building, or whatever they were going to do, Cora growled and lifted her tired wings. Even now they felt heavy as she flew into the air again, focusing on what she had to do Cora launched towards one of the worms, covering herself in energy she went straight for it.
At first she was stopped by the worm, its thick skin seemed resistant to the energy that was surrounding Cora. With a faint sting Cora felt pain in her body, she started to tremble, she started to hurt, but it wasn't the time for that, she pushed through it. With an angry battle cry, one that she had always wanted to do, she pushed through the worm, tearing its skin apart and launching out the other end, crashing into a building; she lay still for a few moments.
The worm fell to the ground with a great thud, one that made Cora smile even from where she was. Gritting her teeth against the pain that she was now feeling she flew to the ground softly, landing a little hard she shot out energy at aliens that seemed to be terrorizing citizens on the ground, and she would not have any of that.
Looking across the road Cora saw Steve running towards a building that seemed to be slightly surrounded by aliens, so she followed him, she hadn't spoken to much anybody since she started fighting. She figured she could at least say hello.
"Hi Steve," she said flying by him quickly. Steve spun around in a circle trying to find her before he spotted her flying away. With a slight sigh of relief he went back to work, she seemed safe enough, no one had seen her since Loki had taken her off the ship, so it was nice to see her.
Cora turned around to see that he had disappeared into a building, helping people, killing aliens; Steve was pretty good at that.
Quick eyes caught an alien holding a grenade, ready to throw it at a group of people who were cowering from three other aliens that were surrounding them, Cora flew over to them just as the alien threw the grenade. Mustering as much power as she could Cora made a shield, white light encased everyone as Cora spread her wings in order to make the shield big enough to cover everyone. The grenade exploded blue, destroying the ground around the people who screamed expecting to be blown apart. Cora gasped at the pain that seemed to be spreading throughout her whole body now, yes, her power was leaving her.
That was when they realized that someone was helping them; looking at Cora a little scared she smiled at them painfully.
"You're okay now," she in a stern voice. With a sudden cry of pain Cora looked at her shoulder to see a spear sticking out of it. An angry alien had stuck her from behind, breaking through her weakening shield and getting her in the shoulder it sneered at her, twisting the blade and making Cora cry out in agony. The spear had gotten her shoulder and her wing, turning the white feathers red.
The shield broke, and Cora fell to her knees, using the last bit of her power she created a wave of energy that killed all aliens that were on the ground within fifty feet of her. The people around her ran away when they saw that the aliens had fallen, a couple of them stayed behind to help her, with a little bit of vigor she pulled out the spear, cringing as it tore itself away from her body.
"We need some help over here," one of the men said as they steadied her gently. Hearing something tear through the sky Cora looked up to see Tony vanish into the portal; from where she was she looked at the portal angrily. Getting to her shaking feet, she shrugged off the humans and began to walk back to where she saw Steve; he could help her, couldn't he?
Clutching her shoulder she kept her eyes trained on the sky, the portal was closing now, Cora dragged her limps wings across the ground, barely able to pick up her feet she froze when she saw Tony barely make it back to Earth. He fell, he wasn't conscious, if he hit the ground, he would die.
The feeling of pain was so great she could almost think of nothing else, save for the fact that she knew she would probably die. With this fresh on her mind there was someone that popped into her head, and you probably know who that was. Loki, she wished that she could have known him without having to fear he would destroy her home. She wished that he wasn't such a butthead, that he could have kissed her once more and maybe she would have kissed back.
There was so much she wished for, but her biggest wish at the moment was that Tony would live, if another of her friends died, she would die a very unhappy life. If he died, she would have failed, and she would have died knowing her friend gave his life, when she should've given hers.
With a smile dashing across her face Cora watched as a big green dude caught Tony and brought him to the ground not far from her, she could at least make it that far. Walking was a great chore, the blows and hits she had taken in her more powerful form were coming back to her one at a time, a punch here, a stab there. She was a horrible walking bloody mess; one would wonder how she could even keep her legs beneath her, or how she could even keep them moving.
When she got up to them Tony was talking away about some type of food he thought they should eat after the whole thing was over.
"Good," she said sickly, catching Bruce and Thor's attention. They looked at her and froze.
"Cora," Thor said taking in the sate she was in. Immediately Steve and Tony's attention was on her, both looked at her with frozen expressions, that couldn't be Cora could it? She wasn't supposed to fight this battle; she wasn't supposed to get hurt.
"You're all okay," she mumbled before falling towards the ground. Steve caught her before she hit the ground and immediately checked for her pulse, looking over at everyone else to see that Thor was right next to him.
"She barely has a pulse," Steve said feeling her neck gently. Tony was scrambling to his feet trying to get over to her, her pale skin seemed to be even paler than usual, if that was even possible, she was pretty white normally, but this was different.
Now let's go back to what wasn't said about Averians when they go into super mode. As you already know when they are in their more powerful state they don't feel pain, it almost seems as if they are invincible, which is how most Averians destroy themselves. As the power starts to wear off you can feel the pain that was ignored during battle, you start to feel the blows and injuries that you'd accumulated over the course of the battle.
The transformation from super Averian back to regular Averian is, by itself, a painful experience. Along with the inflictions of previous blows it's almost unbearable to go through, most of the time the body cannot handle it. You see, most Averians who transform into this powerful being, are never seen again, almost all of them use all the power they had to give. Whether it was to protect the ones they loved, or to destroy something they wanted revenge on.
Most of them die.
Cora lay almost lifeless in Steve's arms. With a great roar Bruce grabbed Cora and jumped off towards a hospital, smashing into the building her dropped her on the ground next to a doctors feet. The man looked at Bruce with fear written all over his face, he wanted nothing more than to run away from the monster in front of him. Then he looked down, angel was the first word that popped into his head when he saw Cora's wings, except that they were red now.
Staining the floor with her blood Cora's face clenched in pain, even when she was unconscious the blows of the battle still stuck into her skin like a knife, creating new wounds from which her blood could be leaked. Bruce looked down at her as she writhed in pain, worry stitched into his face when he saw that she seemed to be looking worse off than before.
"Help," Bruce growled at the man. The doctor looked at Cora a little fascinated by her wings before he jumped into action, calling for nurses and a bed that he could gently lift Cora onto. Bruce ran off before the doctor could turn around and wonder about what had happened, he'd found new anger in wanting to destroy the man that had captured Cora in the first place.
At first he hadn't known, but Tony had told him because he thought it would add onto his anger, which it had, so it'd worked.
For Cora the rest of the day seemed to be all pain, there was nothing that the doctors could give her that seemed to help with anything. They had stopped the bleeding from her shoulder, that had been their first victory, but there seemed to be nothing they could do about anything else, the angel they were taking care of was still dying.
After fighting with it for a while they finally got her to stabilize, she wasn't bleeding anymore, they'd bandaged all of her wounds, but she wouldn't wake up, and she wasn't getting any better. Tony looked down at Cora, everyone had gone to the hospital, Natasha, Hawkeye, Steve, everyone, even Fury, though Thor had to leave a little while before. Something about talking to Loki before they left later in the day, they were going back to Asgard soon.
Surprisingly enough when they'd captured Loki he'd asked about Cora, was she okay? They didn't answer him, he didn't have the right to know, no one wanted to tell them how much Cora was suffering, they thought he might be proud, or happy at her pain. They didn't know that he was worried.
"Tony," fury's voice called over to him. He was sitting by Cora's bed, looking at her pained face.
"What?" He questioned without looking back at him.
"Cora's going to die," he said looking down at her as well. With that remark said Tony stood up angrily, throwing his chair across the room and glaring at Fury with an unbearable amount of pain and rage.
"I know that, don't think that I don't know," he shouted at him. "I know she's dying, I know," he yelled walking up to him. Tony went to Cora as soon as he could, almost breaking when he saw her laying lifelessly with wounds all over her body, she wasn't supposed to be hurt, she was supposed to be dying.
Fury looked at Tony and sighed.
"There is something we can do to save her," Fury said looking Tony in the eyes sternly.
"Whatever it is I'll do it," Tony said his voice getting quieter.
Taking Cora from the hospital as gently as possible Tony and Bruce carried her to where Thor and Loki were going to leave, Thor had already been confronted by the idea, and agreed that if Cora was taken to Asgard she might live. Everyone had already said their quiet goodbyes to her, not that she could say it back, but they didn't know if they would ever see her alive again, or sort of alive considering the state that she was in.
"Thor," Bruce called over to him when they'd come into sight. Loki was standing next to his brother, looking away from everyone until his brother was called out so suddenly, and that was when he saw Cora.
The condition she was in made him speechless, wounds all over her body, scratches and gashes and injuries everywhere, she was a mess, and she didn't seem to be waking from it.
Tony handed off Cora to Thor with as much gentleness as he could, Cora needed help now, but he wasn't going to throw her around in the urgency of trying to save her. Thor took her in his arms, holding her as one might hold a sleeping tyke; he looked over to Loki with a grim expression.
"Look here brother," Thor said motioning towards Cora. "This is what your insolence has done," he stated watching Loki's eyes. Loki looked down at Cora with a sort of dead feeling, how could she have come to being like that? It was strange to see her so, motionless, usually she would be skipping around and talking about random things, anything, she would be talking about anything! Instead, she looked dead.
Tony looked Cora over before kissing her on the forehead softly.
"Bye short stuff," he murmured sadly, walking backwards slowly.
"I will bring her back alive," Thor promised before picking up the Tesseract. He said a few other things and then waited for Loki to pick up the other end of the glowing thing.
Loki glanced at Cora, who seemed to only be getting worse while they waited to leave. It was his fault, wasn't it? She looked like this because he'd let her go, of only she'd stayed with him he could have protected her; nothing would have happened to her, she wouldn't be looking like this.
With a determined expression Loki made a decision. When she lived, not if, he would have her as his wife, she deserved him. No one else, and he had to make things right.
Picking up the other end of the Tesseract, Loki, Thor, and Cora disappeared, back to Asgard, where Cora was going to live, or die.
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