Fury had announced Coulson's death, and Tony was sitting at the table with Steve- all the others were getting their wounds treated and mourning the loss alone. Thor and Banner were missing, too. After a couple minutes, Tony and Steve had finally figured out where Loki went.
"Time to go" Steve told Stella.
"Where?"
"Stark Tower- Your place. Loki's headed there." She thought for a moment. "You ok?" He asked her. He walked up to her and lifted her chin, looking at a scratch on her cheek and rubbing it with his thumb. Her face was flawless and her blue green eyes pierced into his crystal blue ones.
"I'm fine." She almost whispered as she cupped his hand in hers.
"You know how to fly one of those jets?" Steve asked her after a long moment, letting go of her.
"I can" Clint said as he walked out of the bathroom. Steve looked over at Stella and she nodded in assurance. "Suit up." Steve told him.
"Sir." Jarvis said. "I've turned off the arc reactor, but the device is already self-sustaining."
'Shut it down Dr. Selvig." Tony said to Selvig as he landed on the rooftop of his building.
"It's too late!" Selvig laughed. "She can't stop now. She wants to show us something. A new universe."
"Ok." Tony said as he shot the tesseract. It sent him flying as well as Eric.
"The barrier is pure energy. It's unbreachable." Jarvis said.
"Yea I got that." Tony said with a sigh. "Plan B." He looked down at Loki. He walked over, the robotic arms removing his Iron man suit. Loki walked up to meet him inside.
"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity." Loki said.
"Actually, I'm planning to threaten you." Tony said.
"You should have left your armor on for that."
" you like a drink?"
"Stalling me won't change anything" Loki said with a smile.
"No, no- threatening. No drink, you sure?" Tony said as he made his own drink.
'The chitauri are coming. Nothing will change that. What have I to fear?"
"The Avengers."
"Oh. I've met them."
"Let's do a head count here." Tony said, stalling so his suit was ready as he put on the scanning recognition bracelets. " Your brother, the demigod, A super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend. A man with breathtaking anger management issues, a couple of master assassins, and you big fella; You have managed to piss off every single one of them."
"That was the plan."
"Not a great plan. When they come, and they will. They'll come for you."
" I have an army."
"We have a Hulk"
"I thought the beast had wondered off"
"Your missing the point. There is no throne. There is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the earth you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it." Loki didn't care about the man's words. He grabbed Tony by the throat and threw him to the ground. "Jarvis, anytime now." Tony grunted.
Loki grabbed him again as Tony got up. "You will all fall before me." He said as Tony yelled deploy before being thrown out of the window. His iron man suit deployed and wrapped around him just in time.
"And there's one other person you pissed off." Tony said as he flew up to Loki. "His name was Phil." Tony blasted Loki to the ground. Suddenly, a portal opened and the chitauri army invaded. Tony tried to stop them but there were too many. They destroyed the city, blowing up and destroying everything, killing hundreds of innocent people. Loki laughed with glee at the horrid sight. Thor popped up, causing him and Loki to battle, Thor losing as he got stabbed. Heroes were fighting the aliens everywhere, it was pure chaos at its finest. Loki shot down the jet that Stella and Steve were using to shoot out many aliens. Steve had grabbed Stella and jumped out just before they hit the ground. They tumbled along and stopped, Steve on top of Stella. They made eye contact for a long moment before they were taken out of their trance by a blast nearby.
Suddenly, the biggest chitauri came out of the portal- bigger than the carrier they were on. It destroyed buildings easily, with more chitauri jumping from it.
"Stark, you seeing this?" Steve said.
"Seeing it. Still working on believing it." He said. "Banner show up yet?"
"Not yet."
Tony followed the huge beast at a distance, finding a weak spot to strike. Loki had caught a ride on one of the chitauri's spacecrafts, blowing the whole street to rubble. Clint was getting people out of a bus while Stella guarded his back with two pistols as Steve went to give orders to get the people to safety. Shortly after, Steve joined Stella and Clint and Thor also popped up.
"What's the story upstairs?" Steve asked him.
"The power surrounding the Cube is impenetrable." Suddenly, Banner showed up.
"Stark, we got Banner" Steve said.
"Yes. Tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you." He said as he quickly led the beast to them.
"I…I don't see how that's a party…"
"Dr. Banner, now might be a really good time for you to get really angry." Steve said.
"That's my secret, captain. I'm always angry." Banner said as he walked up to the beast, turning into Hulk very quickly. He punched the beast, stopping it and causing it to flip as tony shot at it, causing it to explode into large pieces. Steve had to shield Stella from getting hit with the pieces. Tony looked over at them momentarily and felt a range of emotions, but quickly focused on the task. They continued in an epic battle, killing chitauri after chitauri in different ways very skillfully. This went on for at least 10 minutes.
Stella had just tackled one off of her and met up with Steve. She sat down, breathing heavy and exhausted. "Steve, none of this is going to mean a damn thing if we don't close the portal."
"Our biggest guns couldn't touch it."
"Well, maybe it's not about guns." Stella said as she eyed the alien scepter in her hands.
"Well, if you wanna get up there you're gonna need a ride."
"I got a ride. I could use a boost though" She said, referring to the Chitauri aircrafts.
"You sure about this?"
"Yea…it's gonna be fun" She said, mainly trying to convince herself.
Steve moved close and kissed her. At first, it was a small kiss. But then, it grew bigger and more intense. It was probably the most intense kiss Stella has ever had. He pulled back and smiled, and she returned the smile. "Ready?" He said. She backed and ran forward, jumping in the air and taking over a chitauri jet. She made it up to Stark tower when Loki was thrown through the window by Hulk. "Enough!" Loki yelled at Banner. "You are, all of you, beneath me! I am a god you dull creature, and I will not be bullied by-" Banner picked him up and slammed him side to side many times. "Puny god." he said walking away as Loki was severely injured. Stella had been talking to Selvig, and she'd found out that Loki's scepter would be able to close the portal.
"Sir, we have a rogue bird! We need to shut it down now! It's carrying a nuclear missile to destroy the whole city!" An agent yelled. Fury was beyond panicked. He'd told the council to not send that nuke!
"Stark, you got a missile headed your way!" He said through the earpiece.
"How much time do I have?"
"3 minutes max."
Tony knew what he had do-He had to lay down on the wire and let the other guy crawl over him. There were too many of them for everyone to handle, and they were starting to lose-badly.
"I can close it! I can close the portal! Can anybody copy?" Stella said as she pushed the scepter through the barrier. "Do it!" Steve said. "No wait." Tony called. "I got a nuke coming in. It's gonna blow in less than a minute And I know just where to put it." He said as he grabbed onto the nuke and led it towards the portal.
"Stark…you know that's a one way trip."Steve said. Tony ignored him.
"Stella" He said through the earpiece. "I'm sorry I couldn't make 'us' work"
"Tony, don't do this, please." She begged.
"Just know that I've loved you. As a friend, as somebody I've taken care of, and as somebody I wanted to spend the rest of my life with." He continued.
"Tony please! You still can!" She watched as he flew into the portal with the bomb, tears dripping. Stella waited to close it as all the chitauri powered down. It worked.
"Come on Tony." She said.
"Stella, you can't leave it open, you gotta close that thing now!" Steve said. Crying, Stella closed it. The blast of the tesseract blew her off the building, sending her flying as she smiled as she caught a glimpse of Tony-He'd made it. Everybody watched as Stark fell, realizing he was unconscious. Banner was the only one who could catch one of them, but he'd have only seconds to make a decision on who to catch. Instinctively, he caught Stella, leaving Tony to crash into the ground with tremendous impact.
Sorry if the chapters really long guys! But anyways, what's going to happen to Tony….I'll try to update as quickly as I can because this is kind of a cliff hanger XD
