Natasha leaps up onto the back of the alien, wrapping her legs around his waist she stabs two knives into his back using them to steer the ship towards the tower where she could spot Buffy's friend now lowering herself in front of the power source.

Willow lands gracefully on the roof of the building, her eyes wide with wonder, she looks around at the stunning penthouse, despite the tacky STARK imprint on the front of the building the place was elegant. Honestly, despite what she had heard from both Buffy and the press she had never really realized just how rich Buffy's family was.

"Wow her trust fund must be huge." She whistles still in astonishment.

Suddenly a large metal object is swung at her, the red head quickly steps to the side only to spot Doctor Selvig swinging Loki's spectre at her.

Despite the excitement over actually meeting the famed scientist Willow focuses on the task at hand, raising her hand she sends Selvig flying backward, making him lose his grasp on the Sceptre.

Floating over to him she summons the sceptre to her grasp before approaching him, just as he moves to attack her again she raises her hand freezing him, making him completely immobile.

She glances down at the sceptre in her hands, she could feel the power running through it, filling her veins, calling to her darker side. Swallowing the temptation to give into her deeper urges, she raises the sceptre and places it onto Selvig's chest watching in amazement as his eyes turn from that crystal blue back to their normal gray.

Selvig groans in pain before dropping to his knees at her feet, "How?"

Willow smiles down at the man "My name is Willow, I'm gonna make this quick, I'm a witch you were brainwashed by a God who is now trying to destroy the present. So wanna help me save the world because I so want to work through your mind on details about the piece you wrote about the incident in New Mexico it was awesome."

Buffy breaks the alien's arm before swinging the scythe down on it slicing it from place. Dropping to her knees she spins across the floor slicing off the alien's legs before doing the same to the one approaching her.

Suddenly, however, another alien runs at her taking her off her feet and slamming her up against the car.

Buffy groans in pain before head butting the alien, as it stumbles she flips up landing on her feet on the hood of the car. Twisting through the air she lands behind him and grabs her bo-staff off the ground releasing an energy bolt in its direction, blowing up the alien in the process.

After a long pause Buffy sighs, leaning against the Hood of the car she takes a deep breath, she hated to admit it but she was getting damn tired.

"Miss Summers." Captain Rogers says as he leaps back onto the bridge to approach her.

Buffy chuckles before clicking her neck "Buffy." She corrects before looking over at the end of the bridge "They're like wasps." She hisses completely and utterly annoyed. She hadn't this many of the same creatures since The First's army of uber-vamps.

"None of this matters if we don't get that portal closed." Steve says as he stares up at the portal where creatures were still piling in.

"Willow hasn't got long till the city is overrun." Buffy realizes only to freeze as she hears more creatures coming towards them.

Buffy turns to face the aliens, standing beside Steve she twirls the scythe in her grasp "How do you feel about a point system?" She asks with a tilt of her head.

Steve stares at her astonished she was an odd one, even for a Stark, but nonetheless, she had a good heart, he could sense that about her.

"Might as well." He says despite his better judgement "What does the winner get?"

Buffy smirks "I really am a bad influence on you."

Buffy reaches her hand out as she sees her father flying by, he grasps her wrist and swings her in the direction of the alien currently shooting at her from one of the ships.

As Tony flies onto the ground shooting lasers off Steve's shield Buffy climbs onto the ship, she backhands the alien across the face before kneeing him in the stomach, she leaps up and wraps a leg around his neck and forces him down to the ground. As he drops she twirls the scythe in her grasp and brings it down swiftly removing his head.

Quickly she heads over to the controls and frowns "Not good." She mumbles as she stares at the buttons, she sighs in frustration before grabbing the batons at her sides and attaching them to the ship letting the electricity flow through the alien device.

Her eyes widen as the ship she was on starts firing at the other aliens below.
"Cool."

"Summers." Barton says through comms "Group of them moving in on Grand Central. There are civilians inside."

"I'm on it." She says into her comms before looking for her father as he flies past her she leaps off the ship and onto his back "Grand Central."

"I'm not a taxi driver." Tony hisses as he flies towards the station despite his outburst.
After a long pause, he shrugs "As long as this keeps you away from the star spangled..."

"Steve?" Buffy asks with an arch of the eyebrow before rolling her eyes "Don't be a child."
"Child happens to be you. My kid. So-no-boys. We discussed this after the whole Angel thing. And the Riley thing...I really hated that kid."

Buffy rolls her eyes again, he had always been overprotective when it came to boys, even when she was five and had play dates he would terrorize the little boy next door. His overprotective streak just got worse when she was in high school.

"You really need to remember I'm not a kid anymore."
"Doesn't matter. I still say five feet minimum distance at all times."

Buffy shakes her head in amusement before leaping off her father's back and landing just outside the station "I guess Steve does have great arms." She says dreamily making sure her comms were on silent before saying it.

Through his mask, Tony's eyes darken "Nope!" He yells "That's it when the world isn't about to get messed up, I'm flying that boy to mars." He exclaims before flying off leaving a laughing Buffy in his wake.

She shakes her head in amusement before leaping up onto the side of the building and crashing through the window.

"Hey!" Buffy exclaims as she spots several aliens pointing their weapons at the civilians "Geez, what does a girl have to do to get a little attention around here. I mean we fight and fight but nothing...talk about mixed signals."

Suddenly one of the creatures throws a bomb at her, she smirks before leaping through the air "That's better. Now we are getting somewhere."

She throws the scythe through the air burying it in one of the alien's necks. She then grabs the bomb and kicks it through the air hitting one of the aliens in the chest. As it explodes his body is sent to pieces.

She quickly runs at the other aliens and the two go crashing off the balcony down to the main floor of the station, as the civilians scream Buffy groans and tosses the alien off her.

Grabbing her batons she slides across the floor and kicks the alien across the room and through the window.

"Director Fury, the council has made a decision."

One of the members of the Council informs Fury as he stands in the Helicarrier, his hands on his hips; he was clearly pissed "I recognise the Council has made a decision. But given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

"Director..." Gideon Malick, another member of the Council says with a sigh "You're closer than any of our subs...you scramble that jet..."

"That is the island of Manhattan." Fury says furiously "And if you haven't as damn well noticed the damn thing is covered by a freaking forcefield. No nuke is getting through that."

Malik sighs "We are aware of that. Ms. Rosenburg is on our gifted list from the Sunnydale Incident. However, we have our own gifted, another Sunnydale alum, who can get a nuke through that. That field will then contain the blast."

Fury groans, that was one plan out the window, he hadn't expected that the World Council would have gotten a hold of another witch, let alone one from Sunnydale.

"With all due respect I will not order a nuclear hit on the city of Manhattan until I know my team cannot handle this."
"If you do not do this. The human race will lose. Will lose everything."

Fury glares at the members of the Council once more "If I send that bird out we already have." He hisses before slamming close the conversation.

Willow raises her hands towards the tesseract, covering the device in a red glow, as she attempts to close the portal a throbbing pain courses through her head and slowly blood begins to pool down her nose and from her ears.

"Ahh!" Willow screams out in agony before dropping down to her knees, a loud piercing noise fills her head making her insides feel as though they were trying to tear free of her.

"Ms Rosenburg." Selvig says hesitantly as he approaches her to try and help her stand.

Willow shakes him off and clenches her eyes shut trying to force the images of monsters and planets imploding out of her brain, however, two piercing eyes filled her thoughts, evil eyes. It felt like the devil himself was in her brain worming through it.

Taking a large gasp she clutches her chest before slowly standing, she winces slightly before turning to Selvig "I can't close it, the magic in that object...it's far beyond anything I've ever felt."

Selvig sighs before handing her Loki's sceptre "The spectre...Loki's spectre. The energy. The tesseract can't fight, but it can't protect against itself."

Willow's eyes widen in that moment as she looks at the sceptre "It's part of the sceptre."

Suddenly a loud explosion goes off overhead and suddenly a loud crashing noise comes from the penthouse. Willow turns freezing as she spots Loki crash into the Penthouse, followed by the Hulk; before she could even do anything, another crash and scuffle comes from the other side of the roof.

Willow immediately takes notices of the gorgeous redhead standing opposite her "Well it must be my birthday." She breathes out as she watches the woman come towards her.

Natasha frowns as she spots the other red head watching her intently "Hi. I'm Natasha Buffy sent me."

Buffy groans as she crashes out of the four-story window and hits the wall of the opposite building, she groans as her back hits the concrete building before she crashing down to the ground landing painfully in the middle of the street.

"Buffy!" A voice exclaims, Buffy looks up from the ground to see an exhausted Steve walking towards her, offering her a hand the blonde woman takes his hand in her own and allows him to help her stand.

"You look like crap." She says with a chuckle gesturing to his now missing mask and the cuts on his arms.

Steve smiles at the young woman however before the two could say anything else another blast in fired at them, Steve tackles Buffy to the ground landing on top of her as they roll across the floor avoiding the blasts.

The two come to a stop Buffy sighs before looking up at Steve who clears his throat uncomfortably and quickly climbs off her before pulling both himself and her behind a car, hidden from the blasts rapidly being fired at them.

"Sir, we have a bird in motion!" Maria Hill exclaims as her hands fly across the security screens trying desperately to shut down the jet "Anyone on the desk, we have a rogue bird."

Fury's eyes widen. The Council. He takes off in a run towards the exit grabbing a rocket launcher from the weapons room as he makes his way to the hanger.

Fury kicks down the door to the hanger raising the launcher, immediately he aims it at the jet currently flying past him.

As the jet crashes back down he breathes a sigh of relief only to instantly panic as another jet zooms past into the sky heading towards New York. Fury grabs his gun and fires however it was too late.

"Stark, you hear me?" Fury asks urgently as he storms back into the building.

"Which one?" A female voice asks, clearly Buffy.

"Adult Stark." Tony's voice says as he cuts in only to instantly be cut off by Buffy "Okay me then."

Fury groans in annoyance "Don't have time for you two Stark to banter. We have a missile heading for the city."

Buffy frowns in confusion at Fury's words as she ducks her head again from being hit by the incoming blasts "But Willow put a forcefield around the city."

"The World Council have someone from Sunnydale in custody."

Buffy eyes widen, in that moment she realized why Willow had disappeared for all those months. She was trying to get her out of their hands to make sure she was properly contained "Amy." She hisses before turning to Steve "I need to get to Willow. Now!"

As Natasha pushes the spectre into the tesseract Willow raises her hand forcing the forcefield around the tesseract the separate weakening its power.

Suddenly, however, she freezes as she spots the look on Natasha's face "What?"

"We have a missile coming towards the city. It will wipe out the whole city."

Buffy leaps over the car ignoring the pain in her side she runs past the aliens slicing and dicing as she makes her way to the tower like a mad woman.

She ignores the calls of Steve and Thor and continues on her path towards the tower. Willow was the only one who could stop this.

Leaping onto one of the alien jet skies again she ignores the argument between Steve and Tony over comms as they discuss the incoming missile and makes her way to the tower.

As she approaches the roof she spots her best friend "Willow!" Buffy yells as she leaps off the jet ski and over to her best friend who was still holding her hands towards the portal while Natasha held the Sceptre right by the crown of the machine.

Willow's eyes widen as she spots the missile force it's way through her force field and into the city "No." She breaths out. This was her fault. She should have stopped Amy when she had the chance, but she had let her go. She hadn't wanted to spill blood but now that mistake was going to result in millions of people, innocent people dying for her mistake.

"Buffy." Willow breathes out as she spots Tony grab onto the missile and leed it up towards the portal.

Buffy frowns and her head swings around, immediately she gasps, her hand covering her mouth in horror "No! Dad!"

"Hey, Buff."

Buffy takes a shaky breath as she watches her father fly by "Dad...what—what are you doing...you can't—you can't do this."

"I have to kid. You've always been the hero in the family. Let me do this. I love you, Buffy."

When the line goes dead her eyes widen in horror, she looks up and spots her father rapidly approaching the portal "Nooooo!" She exclaims.

Buffy turns to Willow her eyes pouring with tears "Stop it please, Will, there has to be a way. Please."

Willow looks at her best friend her heart broke at the sight of her best friend falling apart. The girl had lost so much.

She places a hand on Buffy's cheek "I love you, Buff. But this is my doing. I need to fix it."

Buffy frowns in confusion before suddenly Willow disappears.

As Tony attempts to call Pepper he swallows the pain at the idea of never seeing his daughter again. He had missed so much of her life because of his name. She was the light in his life the only thing precious to him, but as long as she lived it would all be worth it.

Suddenly just as he comes to accept his fate his body goes rigid, he frowns "Jarvis?"

"Apologies sir, I seem to have no control anymore. Someone has accessed my system."

Tony's eyes widen as he spots Willow floating in front of him, she shakes her head sadly, she could read his thought, his one hope that she could use magic to float the missile to space, but Amy's spell was strong she couldn't break it. It had to be carried out of this atmosphere before the magic would fade.

"Don't worry. She'll see you again. I've made my choice." Willow says "I can be with the woman I love now. I'm ready."

Just as Tony begins to realise where she is going with this she raises her hand and hits him with a bolt of energy sending his body crashing right back down towards the city.

Willow catches the missile in her arms and after a brief hesitation flies through the portal.

Buffy flies through the city in one of her father's suit, she had stolen it the moment Willow took off, spotting her father crashing towards the ground she catches him and lowers him to the ground.

As she moves to go after Willow her father grabs her ankle, Buffy fights him off prepared to go after her best friend. Suddenly the suit separates from her, Buffy growls and looks down to see her father having ordered Jarvis to power off the suit.

As the suit falls from her Buffy turns to him "No! That's Willow Dad! She—she can't..." Her breathing becomes panicked and shakes violently, she screams out and tries to run to get to the portal.

Tony grabs her from behind as she screams at the portal for her best friend, at that moment Steve and Thor appear, they both freeze as they spot Buffy screaming at the portal tears dripping down her face.

Willow's eyes widen as the oxygen begins escaping her body, she forces her eyes to stay open as she watches the missile move towards the mother ship.

A small smile graces her lips as the ship implodes sending a burning sensation towards her before finally, she feels her organs begin to fail and her heart beat slow. With one last breath, she closes her eyes accepting her fate, her sacrifice.

"No." Buffy cries as she falls to her knees on the ground, Tony sighs guilty and lowers his mask clutching the screaming girl to him closely.

Looking over at Steve it seemed that they both had the same thought, Willow hadn't had any form of protection, nothing to keep the oxygen in her system.

Steve after a brief hesitation reaches for his coms "Close it."

As Natasha closes the portal Buffy looks up tears filling her vision, she takes a gasping breath hoping for one last chance that Willow would make it but as the portal closed nothing came through. She was gone. Her best friend was gone.

Buffy gasps loudly "Noooo!" She cries out ignoring the blood dripping from her face as she looks up at the sky where her best friend had disappeared to save her father. To save the world.

Buffy stands by her father and the rest of the team in Stark Tower as Loki crawls against the floor.

Her face was emotionless, the pain from losing Willow still so fresh, she glares down at Loki as he finally turns towards all of them and raises his hands in defence "If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now."

Buffy glares at him before kicking him in the face, knocking him unconscious "I need a drink."

Buffy stands next to her dad as they watch Loki gagged and handcuffed by Thor's side as they prepare to head back to Asgard.

"I want him dead." Buffy hisses.

Tony sighs sadly and wraps an arm around her shoulders "That's not what she would want."

Buffy groans and swallows down the grief before watching with a flat expression as Thor and Loki as well as the tesseract disappear.

As Banner and Tony get into the car Buffy heads over to Steve who offers her a small smile "I'm sorry about your friend. She was a hero."

"Yeah." Buffy breathes out "She was. And always will be. But now...she gets to be with Tara."

Steve takes her hand hesitantly a small sign of support before releasing her "I hope to see you again, Buffy Summers."
Buffy blinks up and looks him in his deep blue eyes and offers him the same smile "I'm sure we will. Maybe when I'm back from Scotland I'll help you figure out what the internet is."

Steve frowns in confusion making her smile slightly, he smiles at her "I would appreciate that."

"Buffy!" Her father yells from the car glaring at the two of them "Back away from the man-boy!"
Buffy shakes her head in amusement before waving goodbye to Steve and climbing into the backseat of the car.

"So where to Buffy?" Tony asks as he puts the car into drive.

Buffy watches the city pass her by as they speed through the streets, she glances down at her phone staring at the photo of herself Willow and Xander and smiles "Scotland. But...we'll be back. We'll rebuild.