Chapter 14 Pains of finding out
Iron Man flew as fast as he could towards New York. He had to get there and then kill Loki.
'Stark?' Captain Rogers said over to comm.
'What?' Stark snapped back.
'Stark I think you should stay out of this one,' Cap said. Tony ignored him and kept flying towards New York.
'Tony please, you're not thinking right, stand down,' Bruce said just after putting his earpiece in.
'Why should I stand down,' Tony asked, angrily. Back on the jet, Clint was driving and Natasha was sat in the passenger seat. Steve looked over towards Bruce, who just shook his head and looked at the floor.
'Just…Just stand down,' Captain said to Stark.
'You know me, I don't listen to orders,' Stark replied.
'Stark don't do this,' Natasha said.
'No I-' Stark began but stopped in midi sentence. He saw it. New York was under attack. There wasn't much damage but Loki was stood in the middle trying to make more. Stark saw Zoe spring out from behind Loki and shoot fire balls at the nearest building and then turn. She stopped. Stark was staring straight into Zoe's eyes. She didn't move.
'What are you doing?' Loki shouted at Zoe. She blinked and looked away from the Iron Man suit. Loki was staring at her.
'Iron Man,' she said pointing towards Iron Man. Loki turned and saw him. He snarled and lifted his sceptre and fired at Iron Man. Stark flew higher up missing Loki's shot. Zoe stared up at him. Why was he just staying there? Zoe thought. She turned trying to ignore him and shot a fire ball at a car that blew up. She turned and saw Iron Man flying towards Loki. He grabbed Loki my the waist and flew him into a building. Zoe blinked. Suddenly an explosion went of right next to her and she was blown away and landed on top of a car. She groaned in pain and slid of the car and stood up.
'What the hell are you doing?!' she shouted at one of the slaves.
'Sorry!' he shouted back. She growled at him.
'Aim more next time, you idiot!'' she shouted back. There was a rush of air and Zoe looked up. She saw a black jet fly over her head and land further down the street. There was another explosion. Loki had fired at Iron Man but he had moved out of the way.
The Avengers came running out of the jet and running down the street towards Loki. Rogers started to help people get out of the buildings and get to safety. Hawkeye was firing arrows at the weapons and the weapons exploded. Natasha was next to Clint with her guns up but she wasn't firing. They can't harm the people because they didn't know if Loki had taken over them or that they had just join them, they weren't close enough to see their eyes. Hulk came running down the street looking fucking angry. Thor flew down the street with his hammer. He landed next to Iron Man who was still fighting Loki.
'Brother please, this madness,' Thor said.
'I am not your brother!' Loki shouted at Thor and ran forward towards him. Loki jumped and kicked Thor who went flying back. Thor got back up and spun his hammer around and flew towards Loki. Iron Man flew out of the way and landed down. He looked at Zoe.
'Dad,' she whispered. He lifted his face mask and looked her straight in the eyes. She was about to talk but then an angry roar came from her right. Zoe span around and the Hulk came running towards her.
'Oh shit,' she said he ran straight into her. Zoe flew back and hit a car and slid onto the floor. She looked up at the Hulk. She fired two fire balls at him and the Hulk roared. She rolled underneath the car and then threw the car at Hulk with her mind. The car smashed into him and he staggered back. He roared and threw the crumbled car to the right of him
'Come then,' Zoe shouted, knowing that it was stupid to go head to head with a big, angry, green thing. She fired at him and fire engulfed him for a couple of seconds. Zoe turned and jumped over another car and sent it flying towards the Hulk. He roared so loud that Zoe knew the building had trembled. Zoe flew more fire at him, but he wasn't giving up and she was getting a little tired. Hulk came running towards her and he threw her into one of the buildings. She crashed through the glass and landed inside the café on top of one of the tables. She moaned and rolled of the table onto the floor. Hulk roared but he stopped half way through. Zoe looked up and saw Iron Man stood in front of the café, stopping Hulk from getting to Zoe. He stood his grounded. Hulk punched the ground and huffed, but he turned away.
Loki sent a shot of green magic towards Thor which hit him in the stomach. Thor threw his hammer at Loki but Loki doubled and it hit the copy of him. Loki laughed.
'You think you can beat me, son of Odin!' Loki shouted. Thor was surround by copies of Loki all shouting him.
'Brother please,' Thor said. Loki laughed at him.
'Begging will get you nowhere,' Loki's doubles shouted. Thor threw his hammer at one of them and it flicked. Thor ran forward and out of the circle. Loki's doubles flicked away and Loki turned towards Thor. They stared at each other. Natasha pointed her gun at Loki's head from behind him. Clint placed an arrow in his bow, ready. Steve stood next to Thor with his shield up and Thor's hammer had lightening flickering from it. Loki had been surround by them before but he would not go in this time. Before they could do anything else Loki vanished.
Zoe sat up and looked at Tony. She slowly got up. She looked down at herself. She had a massive cut on her forehead which was dripping down her forehead and her lip was cut. Blood was running down her arm from the cut in her shoulder. She looked down at her leg and then pulled out the two large pieces of glass. Her hands were covered in blood. She'll remember not to go up against the Hulk next time, a human against the Hulk, Hulk is going to win. She was covered in dust. She was about to walk to her but a hand grabbed her and pulled her back. Loki grabbed hold of her neck and pulled her in front of him, so the Avengers couldn't get to him. They walked out of the café, Zoe pulling at Loki's hand to get it off her neck and failing at it.
The Avengers froze when they saw Loki come out with one hand on Zoe's neck and a dagger in the other. Tony saw the fear in Zoe's eyes but she kicked and punched Loki to get him of her. Loki yanked her neck and held her tighter. She could breathe.
'Loki…please, stop this,' Thor said from where he stood next to Rogers. Loki snarled at him. Tony shut his face mask down and was about to fly at them both to get Loki off her but was stopped by Natasha hand on his Iron Man suit. She wasn't looking at him but at Zoe and nodded. Zoe stopped struggling. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and set herself on fire. Loki yelled in pain and let go of her. He stumbled backwards pushing Zoe forwards. Zoe falls to the ground, on all fours, the fire draining from her. Loki caught his balance. He colour blue took over him and you could the burns that shone out like the sun off his skin. His eyes had turned red. He looked up at Zoe.
'You'll regret that,' he snarled. Iron Man flew forward and was about to hit Loki but Loki vanished and Iron Man came to a holt, shocked.
Zoe breathed in deeply, the fire just on her arms now. She blinked and passed out onto the ground.