It was loud and foggy when they arrived, it was only nine in the morning but there were already lots of people, carrying bags of Christmas presents. Loki looked around and ended up looking at a church, completely white, with a few gold stripes in its doorframe.

"This is a beautiful city after what I've heard"

Melizza said and looked at her phone where she had a map over the whole city, Loki closed his eyes and he could already feel Thor's presence in this city. Not far away thought, he pointed at her phone and she looked at the spot.

"I can feel his presence at that position"

Banner looked at the map and recognized the location.

"It's one of Shield's secret bases, he was in a Shield base after all, even though he isn't in the register"

"What is the safest location to teleport to that is close to the base?"

Loki asked and Banner took Melizza's phone, he studied the map for a few minutes. He gave the phone to Loki and pointed.

"We should teleport there, it's a gas station not far away from the base"

Someone grabbed Melizza's arm and she turned to Stark, he pointed at the far end of the street. She looked at poked Loki in his arm to get his attention, he looked down at her and then over to where she and Stark pointed. At least twenty Shield agents came running toward them, with weapons raised.

"Grab my hand, let's get out of here"

He said and lifted his hand, everyone grabbed it and they vanished. They landed in sixty centimeters with snow, Stark cursed and lifted his foot, clearly wet.

Banner also cursed and Loki looked around in the empty parking just a few meters from gas station, which looked closed, perhaps is hadn't open yet. Loki looked at Melizza's phone, the map had updated and showed that they were on the outside of the city, close to a restricted area out from the fog over the Shield base on the map.

"Well, we can see the Shield base from here, but they discovered us so we have to be prepared on fighting our way inside"

Stark said and pointed at a huge fence with a gate, guarded by men in Shield uniforms. They began walking toward the gate and saw that the guards watched them. Loki smiled with he saw that one of the Shield agents shouted something to the men behind him in a tone that dripped of fear.

"Stark, you should get suited up now, you're not going to survive long without armor"

Loki said and Stark nodded, he looked at his watch and clicked a small blue button, out from the watch began his armor to spring out around his. He nodded to Loki when he was finished. They was just four meters away from the gate when the Shield agents began to shoot at them, a loud growl came from behind and Hulk jumped over them and ran straight through the gate. Stark kept at Loki's side and they walked through the gate, alarms began to scream and they walked inside the warm and dry base.

"Thor's presence is stronger than ever, he must be close"

Loki said and Stark looked as a small panel on his wrist, a map over the base was showed on it. Loki could guess Thor would have taken Diana to the medical to get her in better shape. Shield agents came running toward them, Loki lifted his scepter but Stark fired a beam at them, they screamed and flew through the wall.

"I have to admit I would never thought Stark ever would fight with us"

Melizza said to him, who nod, he had actually never thought any Avenger would accept him as their ruler.

"Never say never"

Stark said and Melizza smiled for herself. More Shield agents came running toward them, Loki blasted them away as dolls. They came to the command center where a small dozen of Shield agents and Nick Fury aimed at Loki and Melizza. Nick lifted his head when he saw Stark beside Loki.

"Stark, you have to fight against Loki, not help him, don't you remember who you are?"

Nick said loudly and Stark open his face on the helmet.

"To be honest, I have never followed your orders and I like to be on the winning side instead of dying on the losing side"

Stark said and closed the face on his helmet, Nick shook his head and fired at Loki who just laughed.

"You really think your petty little Midgardian weapons can hurt me, I'm disappointed of that you think you could kill me"

Loki said and walked toward Nick who had fired eight bullets at Loki, when he saw it didn't work he lifted his fists, ready for battle. Loki raised an eyebrow and whistled, a roar came from the other side of the wall and Hulk came bashing through the wall and grabbed Nick by his chest.

"Ant, boot"

Loki said and pointed at Nick and Hulk.

"You once threat me with that line, and see who is the ant now"

Loki said and smirked, he looked at Stark who came walking toward Nick.

"I would appreciate if you could fly a couple of hundred meters up in the air and drop Nick"

Stark nodded walked behind Nick, he grabbed Nick's coat by the neck, Stark flew up the air. Nick looked down at the white roof of the base, it disappeared slowly as he came higher and higher in the air.

"You don't have to do this Stark, do you really want to see everyone around you die by Loki's hand?"

Stark sighed and stopped in the air.

"I chose to follow Loki because he cannot be beaten, he has become invulnerable, with the help of the Tesseract. I'm sorry but this is the end of the Avengers, the end of Shield. Good bye Nick Fury"

Stark let go of Nick's coat and he fell toward the base, Stark kept in the same location until he could see Nick bash into the ground below. Then he flew down toward the hole in the base, where he knew Loki would be waiting, wanting him to kill more people.