I saw Stark fly past us as we headed into the city. I clutched the locket and I was transported back to the Other.

"Krieger, have you figured it out yet?"

"What?"

"That means no."

"You will try to take over the world and fail."

He laughed.

"Krieger, we will not fail. Master Loki promised that we would succeed."

"Loki is wrong. The Avengers will stop this invasion."

"Invasion? Think of it has a forceful takeover."

"Isn't that the same thing?"

He growled.

"We may not have an army but, we have a Hulk."

"The beast. He told us all about him."

A sudden whooshing startled me and the Other.

"I would love to talk more Krieger but, our reign begins!"

He fizzled out and I was back to the quinjet.

"Nat, the portal is opening."

I pointed to the top of Stark Tower and I saw Stark flying around with Chitauri on his heels.

"We've got to help him. Lower the platform."

"We're not even at a high enough altitude!" Barton protested.

I pressed the button, unfurled my wings and prepared myself.

"Jay, what are you doing?' Rogers asked.

"Helping."

I jumped out and took out a Chitauri in the process.

I landed on the Chitauri on the back of the speeder. I kicked his corpse off and attacked the pilot. One strike of my sword killed him. I piloted the speeder into another and jumped off at the last second. I flew a few feet before being spotted.

"Nat, I could use some help here."

"I see you Jay."

I quickly ducked into a corner and let Nat open fire. I continued destroying Chitauri speeders while listening to the others talk over each other. I then saw the quinjet go down. I hoped that they were all right.

"Nat, you okay?"

"Fine. We're all fine."

Phew. I then realized that the Chitauri were onto me again and they set one of my wings on fire. I lost focus of where I was going and crashed through the glass into an office building. People clamored and got out of my way. I couldn't fly without my wings. What was I going to do? I could glide but, I didn't know how long that it would keep me aloft. I could be killed. I looked at the innocent people.

"What would Coulson do?"

He would save the people. I took a leap of faith and jumped.

The wind whistled in my ears and I plummeted back to the ground. I wasn't gliding like I planned. I knew now that this is where I would fall. I could practically see the Other smiling wickedly at my 'unfortunate' demise. They would destroy the world. I couldn't let that happen.

I moved back and my wings caught the air and I started gliding. I flew above people's heads and I was glad that I had lived. My happiness was short lived because the wind stopped blowing and I was on a crash course to the bridge.

I was unable to stop and I knew that I would crash into someone and die. At this altitude, I would die from impact. Oh, joy! I saw in the middle of the bridge I saw Rogers being slowly overtaken by Chitauri warriors. I changed my trajectory to kill the Chitauri. I crashed into the Chitauri warriors and saved Rogers.

I felt a few injuries in my chest but, nothing major. It wouldn't be as bad as the impact from the bridge. Immediately after, I crashed into the bridge and felt major injuries everywhere. I couldn't move and all sound seemed to be fading. My vision was also failing. I was dying. At least I would see Coulson.

"Jay!"

I heard Rogers' faint voice as I closed my eyes for the final time.

Weirdly enough when I opened my eyes again, I was still in New York. I thought that when you died, you went to heaven. Was this heaven? Nope. I turned and saw my dead body lying among the rubble and dead Chitauri bodies. Explosions and fires were everywhere and Stark Tower only had an A on it. Intentional?

"Jay!"

I turned and saw Rogers running towards me. I thought that he saw me but, he ran right through me. I looked down at myself. My body was transparent. I felt for my face but, I couldn't feel it. I couldn't feel anything. I tried touching a car hood but, my hand passed right through it.

"Let this be a dream." I said to myself.

"Trust me, you'll get used to it."

I turned and saw Coulson. I smiled slightly.

"I'm really dead, aren't I?"

"I'm afraid so."

I looked around and saw that time had been frozen. It was quite a sight to behold.

"I didn't expect to be transparent."

"I didn't either. Then again, I didn't expect to die. "

"We never expect it. How is death?"

"Odd and quite lonely."

"Isn't there supposed to be other dead people wandering around that you can talk to?"

He shrugged.

"I haven't seen any. Maybe I haven't been dead long enough."

"Trust me. You have been."

He turned and saw my dead body with Rogers beside it.

"You saved him by sacrificing yourself."

"Jealous?"

"Not really."

"It wasn't pleasant. There was no one to be with me in my final moments."

"I was. Not physically but, spiritually."

"Are you religious now?"

"It's true though."

Coulson looked at the locket around my neck.

"Why are you doing this?"

"I'm doing the battle not for the sake of the world but, for you."

"She does have a heart." He said sarcastically. "You're avenging me."

"I guess."

"Ironic, the name of the group and what you're doing."

"I'm not one of them."

"Fury disagrees. He wanted you on the team."

"He always disagrees. But, if I wasn't here Rogers could have been dead."

"Maybe not but Fury is never wrong."

Coulson looked at his watch.

"My time is up Jay."

"Don't leave me alone Phil."

"You won't be alone."

I knew that he meant Rogers.

"Be strong Jay and for goodness sakes, use their first names!"

"I will be strong and no to the second."

Phil smiled and faded out. Time resumed.

The explosions sent rubble raining down onto the streets.

"Jay!"

Rogers bent down over my dead body.

"Jay."

I knelt down on the other side. I needed to be alive again. I needed to save the world. Rogers felt for a pulse but, there wasn't one. I needed to wake up.

The scarring on my hand hadn't faded which meant that the gem's energy couldn't heal death. I suddenly heard a faint clicking. We both turned and saw more Chitauri warriors coming. There was more than last time. He would probably die without help.

"Call for help Rogers. Don't die." I called to no one.

I tried picking up my weapon but my hand passed through it. This was really frustrating. He was running out of time and I was running out of options. In a sudden outburst, I slapped my dead body but hand didn't pass through.

"WAKE UP!" I yelled.

A white light exploded and I opened my eyes.

I felt my weapon in my hand and my wings unfurled. I suddenly jumped up and attacked the oncoming Chitauri. The first one was easy to take out because it wasn't expecting my attack. A single strike with my sword killed it. The others had time to prepare.

"Hey fossil! You gonna help me or what?"

Rogers hesitated for a moment than helped me. I ducked out of the blast of one of the warriors guns and sliced another one. I did a back flip and stabbed another. I took the sword out of the first one and threw it at another one, killing it. My spiked gloves activated and I sliced through the final two.

After we destroyed the Chitauri, I looked at my scarred hand and saw that wird was gone and all that was left was fallen. I gathered my swords and felt energized. Rogers stared at me and I rolled my eyes. Secretly, I was glad to see him but, we had work to do.

"Aren't we supposed to be saving the world?"

Nat and Barton appeared from behind cars and Thor flew down. I was happy to know that he was alive.

"The powers' surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor stated.

"Thor is right; we gotta deal with this guys." Stark said.

"How do we do this?" Nat asked.

"As a team." Rogers declared.

"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor said.

"Yeah, get in line." Barton and I both said in unison.

"Save it. Loki's gonna keep this fight focused on us and that's what we need. Without him these things could run wild. We got Stark up top, he's gonna need us..."

Just then, Banner arrived on a motorcycle.

"So, this is all horrible." Banner pointed out.

"I've seen worse." Nat told him.

"Sorry." Banner apologized.

"No, we could use a little worse."

"Stark, we got him, Banner, just like you said."

"Tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you."

I was confused until Stark flew around a corner with a leviathan coming directly behind him.

Thor growled and adjusted his grip on his hammer.

"I-I don't see how that's a party." Nat spoke for all of us.

Banner looked rather fascinated and started walking towards the leviathan.

"Doctor Banner now might be a good time for you to get angry."

"That's my secret Captain: I'm always angry."

Banner morphed into the Hulk and punched the leviathan into pieces. It was falling slowly on top of us.

"Hold on!"

Stark shot a missile which became imbedded in its skin. The leviathan exploded and I quickly ducked behind a car. Luckily, it partially crashed into the bridge. We all regrouped and formed in a circle. The Chitauri roared in annoyance and the Hulk roared in defiance. Stark lowered down, Barton loaded an arrow; Thor looked at the oncoming Chitauri, Nat loaded a gun, Rogers adjusted his shield and I wielded my swords. I had to admit, it was pretty epic.

"Guys."

Nat turned our attention back to the task on hand.

"Call it Captain." Stark ordered.

"Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or your turn it to ash." Rogers ordered.

"Wanna give me a lift?" Barton asked Stark.

"Better clench up Legolas."

I smirked when they took off.

"Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal, slow them down. You've got the lightning, light 'em up." Rogers ordered Thor.

"You and me, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here." He told Nat.

Rogers turned to Hulk.

"And Hulk, smash."

Hulk jumped off and started smashing Chitauri.

"What do I do?"

I saw Chitauri speeders fly overhead and more were coming.

"Gonna give me a lift Rogers?"

He looked up and saw my plan.

"Can you make it?"

"Of course I can."

I walked back to the railing and faced him.

"Don't die Jay." Nat ordered.

"Dying already happened."

I ran and jumped on a car hood and then onto his shield. He pushed up and I latched on a speeder.

The Chitauri on the back noticed me when I latched on. It swung at me but, I moved to avoid it. It was making it hard for me to get up.

"Barton, I could use some help here."

"I see you."

A swish and clunk told me that that Chitauri was down. I climbed up and got to the pilot. I sliced the pilot's arm off and it sunk to its knees. I kicked the corpse off and I had the control.

On Asgard, they had a secret underground room with all types of alien technology that the public didn't know about or didn't need to know. Loki once showed me and down there was a Chitauri speeder and I learned how to operate it.

I turned quickly and another speeder almost crashed into me. I turned quickly to avoid it. I knew that I caught the attention of other speeders. Another speeder was coming at me and I knew that it would become a head on collision. To the Chitauri's surprise, I jumped off and glided safely down, even with a charred wing.

Explosions still rocked the buildings and the fires were still everywhere. Luckily for me, speeders still littered the skies. But without a lift, I couldn't get up there. I then remembered that I didn't have to be high to fly. But, how could I fly with a charred wing?

I looked at my scarred hand and it had completely healed. Fallen was gone. I didn't know why it was gone. I hadn't hurt or injured myself. I looked at my wing and it was fixed. That meant that I could fly. I ran to built up momentum and then I flew.

So free and peaceful. Until the speeders spotted me. I passed other speeders and got their attention too. I remembered how horribly turning corners was when piloting the speeders. I spotted a tight corner and went for it. The Chitauri took the bait and followed me. I aimed straight for the corner and at the last second flew up. As I flew up, I saw Loki. I had an opening and I took it.

I prepared myself and took out a sword. I aimed for the center of the speeder so I could cut it in half. Things didn't go as planned. I underestimated where the speeder would be and flew straight to Loki. He was ready for me and stabbed me.

"You foolish mortal, Krieger."

He retracted the knife and I fell uncontrollably.

MWA HA HA! I love a cliffy!

I know that I said that this one would be the longest but, it just didn't work out that way. Sorry.

There is 2 more chapters left in the Avengers part, then onto the Winter Soldier!

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