Ethan laughed slightly and heard Nat say "I don't see how that's a party" before turning to Banner and said.
"Are you ok with doing this? I know you don't like getting angry."
Banner nodded and started walking towards the monster that was spending towards them. Ethan walked back to stand next to Thor.
As the beast got disturbingly close to Banner he turned and looked back at the team. "That's my trick you see... I'm always angry."
As Bruce turned back towards the Leviathan he grew in size, his muscles becoming huge and his whole body turned green. The Hulk punched the nose of the beast and it stopped flying towards them. It's tail pushed up and the whole thing would roll over but Stark flew up and shot a missile into its back.
The explosion was massive above them and Thor pulled Ethan down bellow his outstretched arm which shielded him from most of the shrapnel.
All of a sudden a horn sounded and the seven Avengers looked up at the sky to see more leviathans pouring through with countless ships accompanying them.
Chitauri landed on the buildings overshadowing the team on both sides as they formed a loose circle. They were all ready for the oncoming fight as Nat reloaded her weapons, Clint pulled out an arrow, Thor twirled his hammer, Stark opened up boosters, Steve pulled his shield further up his arm and Ethan spun his staff infront of him. Oh and the Hulk roared as well.
"Call it Cap'in." Stark said looking around at the aliens that were roaring at them.
Steve pointed at the tallest building close by and said, "Barton, you're up top. Call out patterns and strays." Steve then turned to Stark and said "Stark you are on border patrol, anything gets more than three blocks out you turn it back or turn it to ash."
"Got it" Stark said quickly before he turned to Clint who asked, "Can you give me a lift?"
Stark grabbed the back of his jacket and said "Better clench up Legolas" before he shot them both into the sky.
Steve then turned to Thor and said "I need you to bottleneck that portal. You've got the Lightning, light the basterds up." Thor grimaced and started spinning Mjolnir. He took to the sky within seconds and was flying incredibly fast between the skyscrapers.
Finally Steve looked around, almost forgetting the Hulk but he just pointed at the aliens and said "Hulk... Smash." The Hulk grinned and jumped into the air, smashing alien after alien on the side of the buildings.
Once the others had gone Steve turned to Nat and Ethan and said "We've got to keep the fight here on the ground and focused on us. The more they try and kill us the more they aren't trying to kill innocent civilians."
Ethan just spun around and threw his staff like a javelin into the first alien who was trying to sneak down the road towards him. He ran and pulled his staff out before throwing himself back into the nexus of death he was creating.
Ethan seemed to lose track of time, he was flipping and spinning, stabbing and tearing but he almost felt distance from the carnage he was reaping. He moved effortlessly through the ranks of advancing aliens, tearing them swiftly apart. At some points Steve would be next to him and at others he would be on his own. He saw Nat's red hair flying around him at one point but he just moved on and destroyed more.
Finally after what could have been hours or minutes, the aliens finally stopped coming and Ethan had a moment to rest. He landed heavily, coming out of the sudden bloodlust just as quickly as he had gotten into it. Steve and Nat both looked tired, they had been fighting hard and Ethan knew he must mirror their faces because he could feel the ache deep in his arms and legs.
Nat was looking up at Stark tower and said "None of this matters if we can't close the portal."
"Our biggest weapons couldn't dent it." Steve said. Ethan tensed as he saw more aliens coming towards them and readied his staff for more fighting.
"Well maybe it's not about firepower, I need a lift up there but I could use a hand getting it." Nat said and Ethan realised that she was looking at the speeder bikes that were flying overhead.
Steve raised and eyebrow and said "You sure about this?"
"Yeah it will be fun." Nat said with a big grin. She was enjoying this far to much to stay safe. As Nat leaped of Steve's shield Ethan had already thrown himself back into the alien mass, taking out several in single swings of his staff.
The occasional arrow hit an alien that Ethan was about to kill and he knew that Clint was watching over him from above but maybe he just wanted him dead as he said through the radio, "Cap, there's a bank on West 33rd where they cornered a lot of civvies and Ethan, I can see a bus down on East 31st which has people still inside."
Ethan grinned at Steve before jumping of the side of the freeway. He span in the air before shooting the grappling hook in his watch which latched onto the side and slowed his fall to the ground. The moment his feet were on the ground Ethan started running, dodging between burning car wrecks and vaulting streetlights and lampposts that had fallen down.
He even had time to kill the occasional alien that was stalking around the city before he found the bus on 31st. Only now it was surrounded by aliens. Ethan leaped into action immediately, jumping and landing hard on one alien whilst slicing apart another. He managed to duck, stab and spin until every alien around the bus were just corpses on the floor and Ethan managed to pull the front windscreen out to let people out.
People started streaming off the bus and said "Thank you so much."
"If you hadn't been here..."
"Like a tiny ninja..."
"Where did he learn to do that..."
Ethan shepherded them into a large building with thick concrete reinforcements where another man held open a door to a basement level. It was as safe a place as anywhere but Ethan was still disturbed by a woman screaming. "My child, my baby. He is still on the bus."
Ethan looked to see that there was a kid still on the bus. He looked to only be six or seven and he had his leg trapped in a seat near the back of the bus. More aliens had dropped near them now and Ethan had to be quick to get to the kid. He pushed his staff back into its holster and jumped forward, leaping off of car bonnets and landing in the front of the bus.
The kid looked terrified and cowered before him but Ethan just knelt down next to him and pulled down his hood. Ethan thought back to when he had been seven. Daily weapons practices and extreme physical exercises had been highlights of the day. Ethan knew that he had to save this boy, he couldn't let anyone else be hurt in this fight.
Ethan murmured quietly to the boy "It's ok, I'm not going to hurt you. Is you leg trapped?"
The boy nodded and Ethan flicked his wrist to extend his gauntlet on his left hand. Ethan used it to punch the seat of its binding and it flew out of a window. Ethan picked up the small boy and pulled his hood back up. He held the boy in his arm as he jumped out of the front window only to see three Chitauri with their guns trained on him.
Ethan spun around and managed to raise his gauntlet between him and the aliens as he shielded the kid. The blast from their guns created a massive explosion off of Ethan's gauntlet which shot back at them and consumed all three of them.
Ethan was just blasted of his feet. Still holding the boy he crashed through the first floor of a shop. His vision was hazy and grey and he looked around. The boy looked mostly unhurt, though he did cradle his arm which looked broken. A group of people ran into the shop and the boy jumped into his mothers arms who had been the first person to run in.
Ethan managed to pick himself up but a hand grabbed his shoulder. A gruff voice spoke in his ear, "Stay still, I'm a doctor. You've just been blown up, you shouldn't move."
Ethan shrugged of the man's arm and pulled himself up, only swaying slightly from the pain in his head that throbbed darkly. He could feel unconsciousness calling him but he refused to give into the easy call. Ethan shook his head and pulled his hood back up.
"I'll be fine, there are still people to save." Ethan said with a sad smile but the mother of the boy came up to him and said
"You saved my boy. I can never repay you. Who are you even? We don't know anything about what's happening." The mother of the little boy was hugging her son close. Ethan felt some warmth in his chest as he saw the loving family. He wondered what it would have been like to grow up with someone who cared about him like that. Ethan shook his head, he had to stay in the game.
Ethan flicked his right hand and the gauntlet expanded over it, just like his left. He ran forward and jumped out of the window. Just before he ran of he turned back and said "Aliens are attacking, you have to get clear, my name is E- I'm Triton."
With that Ethan ran off to find more aliens to fight with a renewed energy. He mercifully used his gauntlets, instantly killing aliens all around him. The only thing that managed to break through his bloodlust was Nat's voice over the radio. "I can close it. Can anyone hear me?"
Steve's voice came over loud and strong, "Do it."
But Stark's voice came back instantly "No don't do it, we've got a nuke inbound and I know just where to put it." A Nuke! What had Fury done, had he really authorised an nuclear strike against New York. Then Ethan realised that is couldn't of been Fury, they were still alive and Ethan had seen the belief in Fury that the Avengers would be their strongest weapon. This must be the security council overriding his decision.
Ethan started running back to Steve's position, finding him standing with Thor, watching as Tony Stark pushed a missile through a portal in the sky. They were all surprised that he had done it. Tony never was the one who sacrifice himself for the rest of mankind.
They stood there for a minute but nothing came back from the other side. Steve's face fell as he told Nat to close the portal. Ethan felt fear gripping at him now, Stark couldn't be dead, it just couldn't happen even if he had just push a missile into space.
All of a sudden all the aliens that Ethan could see dropped to the floor, Stark must have taken out something important and it was over now.
Ethan fell back against a car and sat on the bonnet, looking up at the portal with silent prayers. The blue light powering the portal shut down and the circle immediately started shrinking. The hole was getting smaller and smaller and Ethan strained his eyes to try and look closer.
Just as the portal was finally closing a small red dot shot through it. Ethan jumped up and whooped. Steve said "Son of a gun."
But Stark wasn't flying, he was falling and didn't look to be attempting to himself. "He's not slowing down!" Ethan yelled. Thor started spinning up his hammer but it wasn't necessary as suddenly The Hulk jumped from nowhere and caught Stark, holding him close as he landed.
Steve, Thor and Ethan all ran to where Banner had landed and Clint had also made his way there. Everyone looked battered. Thor looked ok but he had super skin so couldn't be hurt as easily but Steve had a huge burn mark across his chest. Clint looked battered as well with some cuts across his face and arms.
Ethan knew that he probably looked the worst as he saw himself in a car windscreen and saw that shrapnel was lodged in his arm and he was covered in cuts and burns. It didn't hurt that much but he was still running on adrenaline.
The Hulk had thrown Stark on the floor and Thor pulled his face plate off. The man wasn't breathing and his eyes where closed. They all looked at eachother, knowing it was too late and Ethan knelt down next to Stark.
Suddenly The Hulk roared and Ethan nearly passed out. It had the opposite effect on Stark though, his eyes flew open and he yelled out.
"Woah, Ho. Please tell me no one kissed me. What happened?" Stark said with huge eyes.
They all smirked and Ethan leaned back and Steve said "We won."
Stark made some feeble movements on the ground and said "ok guys, let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's take a few days. Hey does anyone wanna get Shawarma?"
Thor looked up darkly up at the tower and said "We are not done yet."
Ethan grimaced, eager for a face off with Loki. Ethan pulled Stark up whose suit opened up to enable him to get up. Ethan pulled Stark's arm around his neck and half carried him to the lobby before they go into the elevator.
They opened out into Stark's living room and the Hulk landed on the balcony and Nat dropped down next to him carrying Loki's sceptre. Loki was pulling himself outside of the hole that Banner had buried him in and the Avengers all moved over to him. Clint knelt infront of him and notched an arrow right in his face and the rest all stood in his vision.
Loki looked up at them all and said in a defeated voice "If it's all the same to you, I would take that drink now."
Thor walked forward and grabbed his brother under the arm and pulled him out of the building. They all made their way back to ground level where a circle of black SUVs had appeared around the base of the tower.
"Ethan!" Was all Ethan heard before he was hit by a flying ball of Blonde hair. Ethan breathed in deep and smelled Amy's strawberry scent and felt so happy to be back with her. He gasped slightly as she hugged him and she pulled back. "Oh I'm so sorry, you must be really hurt and-"
Ethan cut her off by kissing her. They locked lips and folded into eachother, becoming one in a small space. The whole world might as well have stopped spinning for all Ethan cared. He was only broken out of his love when he heard Loki clearing his throat.
"Though touching, I do believe I was being escorted to prison." Two agents came forward holding a huge pair of handcuffs between them. They clamped them firmly around Loki's arms and they locked with a loud thud. They walked away with Loki between them.
Tony said to the rest of them "so shawarma anyone?" They all laughed.
Less than twenty minutes later, the eight of them were sitting around a table with packets of food on the table. The cafe was mostly destroyed and the owner was sweeping in the corner.
Ethan held Amy's hand who sat on the seat next to him. They crunched their food silently, held in awe by what they had just managed to accomplished. Once they had all finished, Thor said "I will need an open space to go home from with Loki tomorrow. I would recommend an open park."
Clint said "We can set it up in Central Park to clear the area. Shouldn't be this hard really."
Ethan stood up and pulled Amy up with him, he felt exhausted and needed to get home for a wash. "I'll see you both there tomorrow then, ten o'clock sound good." Steve nodded and Ethan took his que to leave.