Alice, Steve and Natasha fought on the ground, Alice's invention proving to be good help. They were doing very well until more piranha looking robots came out of the portal.
"This is going to be very difficult if we don't close that portal." Natasha pointed out. As Alice fought more robots she thought of ways to close the portal.
"The sceptre." Alice mumbled and Natasha looked at her with a questioned look on her face.
"What was that?" Natasha asked and Alice paused for a moment and looked at her, Steve fighting off the robots for them.
"Loki's sceptre, it's worth a shot, the Tesseract is powered on it's own right? Well that means only a stronger power source can turn it off, it's the only way to close the portal." Alice explained, resuming to attack the robots as Natasha sighed and looked up at the machine.
"I'll turn it off, but I'll need a lift." Natasha said and looked at Steve who looked up and noticed all the robots flying over them.
"You sure about this?" He asked and Natasha nodded with uncertainty.
"Sure, it's going to be fun." Natasha answered and Alice chuckled at her answer. Natasha then ran and jumped on the shield, Steve then hoisted her upward and she took hold on one of the flying vehicles. Alice looked up at her in wonder and then was reminded she was in the middle of a war zone when she was hit by one of the guns. Steve rushed to help her only to be stopped by three or four robots, while Alice healed herself she tried fighting off the robots away from Steve until she was fully healed then she launched herself at them. Alice helped Steve up off the ground and they fought more robots until the heard Tony talking in their earpiece.
"Guys!" He alerted them loudly. "There's a bomb headed towards the city, don't close the portal just yet, I'm going to put the bomb in the portal." He said, Alice frowned.
"Isn't that very dangerous?" She asked and heard him sigh.
"I'll be careful, I always am." He told her and she felt like someone had kicked her in the stomach.
"You better." She whispered to herself, unaware that they all had heard her through the earpiece. They all fought more robots until they saw Tony fly up to the portal, Alice was still quite nervous. The area cleared a little and they all looked up at him flying straight into the portal. After a few minutes there was no sign of him and Alice looked at Steve, he noted how upset she was and hugged her.
"Close the portal." She head someone say, at that moment she was too upset to take notice of who had said it. When she looked up again she saw the portal closing but then saw something drop out of it before it closed completely, she gasped when she realized it was Tony. Everybody looked relieved to see that he was alive, until they realized he wasn't slowing down.
"He's not slowing down." Alice pointed out worryingly, just as she said this Bruce caught him and placed him lying down on the ground. Alice and Steve kneeled down beside him and took off the armour covering his face. His eyes were closed and Alice took note of the fact that his arc reactor wasn't lit up. She let a tear drop as she knelt holding his hand, then another tear and another. Usually Alice didn't cry, but right now, it was the only thing she could do.
"No," She mumbled, looking at his face again. "This can't be happening." She felt a hand on her shoulder, but she didn't care about it, she didn't care about anything at the moment apart from Tony. Bruce roared in frustration, with that Tony jumped in fright and his arc reactor lit up again.
"Please tell me nobody kissed me." Was the only thing he could say and Alice smiled, this was when Tony noticed her holding his hand. He slowly sat up and looked at Alice she was still smiling.
"I guess you were right, I do care, a lot." She admitted and he smiled at her, but it was a mix of a smirk and smile, of course.
"I knew you did, I just wanted you to admit it." He told her and she chuckled, looking at the ground, he pulled her chin up and she looked at him. Steve looked at Bruce and they both walked away giving them some privacy, which was a good thing. Alice and Tony just looked in each others eyes for a few seconds, not moving an inch, until Clint shouted into the earpiece.
"Get to it! I have a great birds eye view from up here." He shouted and the two laughed before finally closing the space between each other. This time, Alice felt something, not a spark, but something in her mind telling her, this was right. The kiss didn't last long, mainly because they had to capture Loki who they knew was being held captive by Thor at the moment. When they pulled away the looked at each other once again before getting up off of the ground and up to Loki and Thor. When they arrived Loki looked at them all in fear, then surrendered, because really, he had no other choice.
So that was how it ended, Loki was sent home to Asgard where he would be punished for his crimes and The Avengers went back to their normal lives. Well, most of them, Alice went back to her home only to move out a few months later. She lived with Tony after that and The Avengers still stuck together. Whenever Fury needed them they'd be there, no questions asked, the seven of them would be there to keep the world safe for as long as they could. The Avengers would ALWAYS be there.