Chapter 24: Mass destruction

Grace POV

Loki, a controlled Barton and Sulveig and a couple of controlled guards with guns marched their way to the door. Loki looked around the room, admiring his work. When they were close enough to the door, I ran out of my hiding spot to aid Director Fury. He had been shot in the chest but it had missed his heart. It was too low.

I looked up at the enemy as the were just about to go through the exit and Loki looked directly at me. He did not have enough time to kill nor control me as the building was now an ticking time bomb. We made direct eye contact. As my deep blue ones stared into his icy blue eyes, it flickered a deep green just before he turned away. His face expressed recognition. Did Loki know me? I shook off the thought and try to raise Fury to a sitting position.

Fury gave a groan of pain at the movement but sat up and looked at my eyes. Making sure I wasn't controlled.

"Grace?" He asked, "how the hell did you stay normal?"

"I hid from Loki after I realised my bullets didn't work on him. I then stayed there and watched. I was going to help Barton, Sulveig and you but I didn't want to risk myself being controlled and allowing Loki full access to my ability."

"Good, agent," he congratulated. I got out his walky-talky and pressed it in his right hand, "What's this for?"

"Agent Hill is going to let Barton escape unless you tell her that he has been compromised," I explained. He pressed the button on the walky-talky as I went to his chest to pull out the bullet.

"Hill!" he shouted, "Do you COPY!" I tugged out the sharp bullet at the end of his sentence, "Barton is compromised."

We heard bullets being fired as I placed Fury's other had over the wound to stop the bleeding. I went to the other side of him and pulled him up with his right arm over my shoulder. I grabbed the walky-talky and held it to Fury's face as we began to make our escape.

"Get the tesseract, shut it down," He ordered before I took it away.

Agent Hill POV

I jumped into another car and sped after Barton and the mysterious man with a spear.

Thanos POV

A vehicle with flashing lights on it sped after us and began firing their useless weapons at me. Their feeble attempt to stop me. I held the sceptre out in front of me and fired a blast directly to where the metal balls were coming from. The side of the car was damaged from the blast and I had obviously shot the driver as the car went haywire by crashing in the wall and flipping over onto it's top. This stopped all the traffic behind us.

That couldn't have been Grace, Loki denied. He was still going on about the red-headed agent.

Yes, It couldn't have been, She's dead, I said bluntly. I could feel Loki going sad, she is dead, Loki. Get over it.

Never in a million years or any lifetime known, Loki replied, I love her.

I let out an internal groan of disgust.

Director Fury POV

The explosion was building up. Grace and I scrambled out of the hall and up the stairs. My chest hurt but it was the last thing on my mind at the minute.

Metal rods, ladders and science equipment all fell around us. Sparks flew everywhere we turned.

Grace was holding me up as we began to make our way back to the chopper. If it wasn't there we were dead people but it wasn't authorised to leave without me on board or a senior agent authorising it to go.

Agent Coulson POV

I was out the front with only a handful of agents left as we were packing up the remainder of the science equipment from the labs above ground. We were just about the load the last couple of boxes before a tremor shook beneath our feet, making the men and the boxes topple to the ground. This made me realise that the explosion was closer than I expected.

"Let's go!" I ordered, waving the men down to the cargo truck. Some of them bent down to pick the boxes up. We did not have time to lift them and load them, "Leave it! Go!" I pushed them towards the cargo truck, abandoning the equipment.

Agent Hill POV

I had seen the blockage down the tunnel and decided to take the twin tunnel beside it at twice the speed to I could overtake Barton and stop them from getting away the tesseract.

I swerved into the other tunnel and, coincidently, in front of Barton. I swung around to face him, expecting him to stop. But he did not. He rammed into me with his headlights crashing into mine. He began to accelerate while driving me backwards. I pull out my gun and try and fire shots at him to make him stop. He did the same.

Agent Coulson POV

We all clambered into the cargo truck as it sped away from the base. I had to make sure Director Fury was ok. I reached down to get my walk-talky.

"We're clear upstairs, sir," I said, "you need to go."

"Thanks Phil. We're making our way to the chopper now," a British, female voice replied. Grace. I gave a small sigh of relief.

Grace POV

We were almost at the helicopter. The ground was beginning to crack under our feet, the lampost beside us shattered in sparks as I helped Director Fury into the helicopter and climbed in after him and closed the door as it began to take off.

Agent Hill POV

I was nearing the end of my ammunition when Barton stopped firing. Had he ran out of bullets too? He shook the car to flick me out of the way to he could get through the narrower tunnel. I had momentarily lost control of the car until I managed to get back and speed down the tunnel to chase after them. I could feel the building about to collapse.

Director Fury POV

I was in the chopper with Grace as we were now reaching a safe height. I saw the ground continue to crack below us. The building looked like it was going through a very powerful ripple. The ground raised up before crashing down with several explosions popping up in several different areas.

It looked as if the earth itself was swallowing the base. I looked out with disappointment as the building crumbled and disappeared before my eyes.

"It's gone then," Grace said beside me,

"Yes," I replied.

Thanos POV

The ceiling was beginning to collapse behind the pursuing agent. I also hoped we made it out of here alive otherwise the tesseract would be lost and I would have been placed in Loki's body for no reason other than to fail.

But you could immediately go back to your old body whereas I would be trapped, Loki muttered bitterly. He did have a point.

Agent Hill POV

Rocks began to fall on me as the seismic tremor caused the rocky ceiling to fall on me. It was getting closer and closer to me. Adrenaline shot through my system as I continued to navigate my way around the falling clumps of rock with my foot stepping harder and harder on the acceleration pedal.

Agent Coulson POV

We were driving through all the S.H.I.E.L.D satellite dishes as they began to get sucked down. It was a scary but oddly fascinating sight. I looked out in horror as the large, strong, metal satellite dishes slowly disappeared along with most of the road behind us. I feared for our lives as it was quite close to us and the driver better not run out of fuel or already be at full speed.

I worried for Agent Hill, who was probably still in pursuit with Loki. I worried for Director Fury, the main man to our organisation. But I worried the most about Grace, she had been on this Earth for the shortest amount and barely had memory from a past life and she could almost die this way. At the hands of a man who was most likely the same species.

Agent Hill POV

I wasn't quick enough. The rock continued to fall but this time it was directly above me. I continued to push harder and harder on the accelerate but it wasn't working. My car hit a direct halt when a large rock landed directly in front. Causing me to fly forward but my seatbelt stopped me and pulled me right back sharply.

Thanos POV

We had done it. I had escaped. The agent that had been pursuing us had been trapped in the rock and we escaped!

Only by the skin of your teeth, Loki grumbled. I hadn't planned to get captured just yet but all in good time. We drove onto the open road in the fresh air with the wind blowing around me. I heard the sound of some vehicle but there wasn't one on the road. I looked up and there was some sort of aircraft hovering above me.

With a screech of the tires Barton spun around to a dirt road. He continued to drive. The pushed up the dust that swirled around me, obscuring us from the aircraft's view. I stood up and looked in the direction the vehicle was facing but looking up at the sky where the aircraft was.

The door slid open to reveal the man with the eyepatch I had shot when I collected the tesseract. He began to use one of his hand held midguardian weapons on the car. But he wasn't shooting at me. He was shooting at the driver. We needed to move so I fired a blast at the aircraft and it began to fall out of the sky.

Grace POV

Loki had shot the helicopter. I grabbed Fury and we jumped out as the helicopter crashed into the grass beside us. It's wings continued to spin until the ground chopped most of them off. I left Fury on the grass to go check the pilot.

He was bleeding with his eyes closed. I put two of my fingers to his neck. No pulse. He was dead.

"Pilot's dead," I said walking back to Director Fury. I looked off in the direction the escapees were headed. Loki had escaped with the tesseract, a S.H.I.E.L.D operative and a scientist. Fury was on his knees with his gun out in front of him. He was still trying to shoot Loki. He was too far away. No shot would have reached him.

"Director?" Phil's voice came through the walky-talky in my pocket as Fury stood up, "Director Fury, do you copy? Grace? Agent Holmes, do you copy?"

I handed the device to Director Fury.

"The tesseract is with a hostile force. I have men down. Hill?" Fury replied. Loki had escaped but there had been no sign of Agent Hill. My stomach knotted in worry.

"A lot of men still under," her voice came through. I breathed a sigh of relief while Fury remained emotionless, "don't know how many survivors."

"Sound the general call. I want every living soul not on rescue looking for that briefcase," Fury ordered, "Coulson, get back to base. This is a level 7. As of right now, we are at war."

War. The word echoed in my head as Fury turned off the walky-talky and threw it at me. I caught it and put it back in my pocket.

"What about me sir?" I asked.

"Take some time off, Holmes. You deserve it after your actions last night. Go spend some time with that boyfriend before I call you back to duty," he ordered. He knew about Daniel, of course he did he was Director Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D, "and I may be stepping in to have a chat with your room mate."

"What for?" I asked but I already knew the answer.

"We're going re-activate the avengers initiative." He replied.

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