*3rd POV*
"I can close it! Can anybody hear me? I can shut the portal down!" Natasha grunted out, Loki's scepter penetrating through the bright beam that kept open the portal in the sky.
"Do it!" Steve immediately voiced.
"No, wait!" Tony called.
"Stark, those things are still coming!"
"I got a nuke coming in, it's gonna blow in less than a minute. And I know just where to put it."
Looking toward the portal, Tony flew with the missile on his shoulders.
"Stark, you know that it's a one way trip." Steve warned.
Tony held it tightly in his hands and he started to fly upwards. He flew higher and higher over the city, gaining speed, and disappeared through the portal. All communication with Earth has ceased. The suit began to freeze. Tony looked in horror at what he was witnessing.
An armada full of Chitauri and Leviathans. The black sky was filled with at least one hundred ships in an obscure cluster. Most of them were in immobile state. Some move swimmingly about. He released the missile from his grasp. It careened off into the darkness as Tony fell back down toward the portal's opening. The missile reached the main ship. The main ship implodes upon impact, causing the entire army of ships to burst into a supernova, creating a spectacular heavenly display.
Suddenly, all of the Chitauri and Chitauri Leviathans collapsed on the streets of New York.
Everyone watched, waiting for the familiar red and gold suit to fly out of the portal. He never came out.
Thor and Cap saw the supernova coming towards them. Thor nodded to Steve.
"Close it," Steve said.
Without hesitating, Natasha extracted the scepter, the energy beam shutting off. The portal closed. Just as the portal closed, a small figure fell out. The Avengers sighed in relief.
"Son of a gun," Steve commented with a smile. Everyone's eyes were trained on Stark as he kept falling.
"He's not slowing down," Thor notified, swinging Mjolnir about to fly off to catch Tony before he pummeled to the ground. Just as Thor prepared to take flight, the Hulk snatched Tony out of the air, sliding down a side of a building to slow down the fall.
Hulk placed him on the ground. Thor and Steve ran over to his still body. Thor tore off Tony's face plate. It looked like he wasn't breathing. They stood around, unsure of what to do. A loud roar rang echoed through the destroyed city. The sound jolted Tony awake with a gasp. Steve and Thor sighed in relief.
"What the hell?" Was the first thing Tony said. "What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me."
"We won," Steve chuckled.
"Alright. Hey. Alright. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it," Tony rambled as he laid on the ground.
Thor looked off toward Stark Tower. "We're not finished yet."
"Right. And then shawarma after."
Steve glanced around the area, worry present in his facial expression.
"Have any of you guys heard from Megan?" He questioned.
He received blank looks and negative responses from Natasha and Clint.
He cursed under his breath. "Megan, state your current position."
Steve waited a few moments before repeating.
Nothing.
"You guys go take care of Loki. I'm going to look for her," Steve ordered.
"You sure? You got a lot of ground to cover, Cap," Tony told the worried Captain. Thor helped Tony stand.
"I got this," he said.
Thor, Tony, and the Hulk nodded before heading toward the tower.
The sun started to set in the horizon. Steve searched for his fellow comrade for what seemed like hours.
"Captain, I've located Megan. Her location is on Park Avenue in front of Grand Central Station at 42nd Street," Fury's voice rang through the earpiece.
Steve's head whipped around, trying to figure out what street he was on. Turning his head, he saw the fallen street sign that indicated he was on 41st Street.
'Just hold on, Megan,' Steve thought to himself as he broke out into a sprint. As he raced through the rubble and overturned vehicles.
Skidding to a stop, he saw the familiar blue and black suit stuck out amongst the pale pavement.
"Megan," he whispered as he ran to her unconscious body. Kneeling beside her, he turned her body over and checked on her. Placing his hand on her neck, he sighed in relief as he felt a pulse. "I found Megan," Steve informed everyone on comms.
"Is she alright?" Natasha questioned as soon as she heard him.
Looking back down at her, her face was lightly scratched up and dried blood on her nose.
"She's unconscious."
"A med team has been dispatched at Stark Tower to take her back to the Helicarrier and look her over," Fury's voice sounded.
Gathering her limp body in his arms, he lifted her and started off toward that big ugly building in the middle of New York.
Upon arrival, Megan was guided and placed onto a gurney where S.H.I.E.L.D's med team wheeled her off toward a quinjet that waited on the runway of Stark Tower.
"Will she be alright?" Steve questioned after them as they hurried past. His question fell upon deaf ears as the quinjet took off back towards the Helicarrier. He sighed as he watched the aircraft zoom away.
"This is just like last time." Steve turned his head and saw Tony, still in his suit sans the helmet, standing right beside him.
"What are you talking about, Stark?"
Tony sighed. "Well, if you must know, her being unconscious has happened before. A bit back while you were still a Capsicle." Steve rolled his eyes at the nickname, but continued to listen. "A man named Vanko wreaked havoc on the streets of Queens. I assumed you read about it in my file?" Tony took his silence as confirmation. "Well, I extracted the footage from S.H.I.E.L.D's files. After I took off with Pepper when the drones started to detonate-"
"Wait, you left her on the ground as those robots started to self-destruct?" Steve asked Tony incredulously with anger laced in his tone as his brows furrowed.
Tony threw his hands up in surrender. "FYI, I still didn't know she was down there. Anyways, it was like during the battle today. She conjured up a shield with her… powers. When those drones detonated outside the Stark Expo, she did the same thing and then passed out. She must have pushed herself past to her limit due to not having used that much of her ability before."
"But, Megan didn't pass out after she protected us from that explosion," Steve reminded him.
"After using her shield, did she seem alright? Signs of fatigue? Nausea?" Tony listed as Steve thought hard back to that exact moment.
"Her nose bled," Natasha stated as she strode toward them. "Right after her force field went down, I noticed her heavily breathing and when I checked her over, there was blood dripping from her nose. She didn't experience any hits in the face before that happened."
Tony stayed quiet, his brain wracking ideas on why.
"It also happened before I went to the bank on 42nd. She took down some of those aliens and crumpled against a flipped over vehicle. It was the same thing that Romanoff described," Steve informed, Megan's exhausted form flashing through his mind. "She insisted she was fine and I thought nothing of it."
All three of them worried over the young Avenger as they found out what Megan tried to conceal.
Noticing Tony's silence, Natasha sighed, "I will inform Fury of this discovery so they can try and figure out the problem."
With that, she walked away from the two men as she notified Director Fury.
Author's Note:
Hi everyone! I am so so so so sorry for being MIA for such a long time! I have been working my butt off to finish university and I finally did!
The only problem I have now is job hunting... Great...
So, back to the story! How did you guys feel about this chapter? This is the first time I ever wrote in 3rd person. It was difficult, but I pulled through! *happy dances*
The real question is: What is happening to Megan? We've seen her like this a little bit throughout the story thus far!
Review what you guys think is wrong with Megan!
Also, I will try to post another chapter within the week because all of you lovely people deserve it for waiting so long for this update.
In other news, has anyone seen Spiderman Homecoming? It was really good! I kept cracking up and Tom Holland makes a pretty good Spidey! He is just too adorable! What do you guys think of the new Spiderman?
Anyways, I hoped you all enjoyed this chapter and until next time!
- YoullBeAvenged
