A/N. Le voila! Chapter 36! This one's pretty short too, but I hope you enjoy :D I want you to imagine this like in the Avengers movie when the whole team was fighting together in harmony. Imagine in like the camera is filming all of this in one shot and is moving from one Avenger to the next without changing cameras or shots at all so that it's super smooth and action montage-y. That's how I imagined it :)

CHAPTER XXXVI

Natasha fired her fun before bending over backwards completely to avoid bullets being aimed at her. The pellets bounced off Steve's shield and he threw it at them, whacking them all like a pinball before returning back towards him. Tania grabbed it midair and swung it around, smacking the faces of three guys who had tried to surround her before tossing it back to Steve and rolling to the side as arrows lodged into the hearts of those same men.

Up in the tree, Clint continued firing, watching the backs of his teammates and family with eyes like a Hawk. Thor flew by and summoned lightning to strike ten henchmen down below, near the Hulk, who smashed them shortly after. He roared before swatting at the Iron Patriot flying above his head while trying to shoot the minions near the gate. He tag teamed Peter who high-fived him before swinging forward by his webs and kicking his feet one man's jaw. He shot a web in the direction of another guard who was approaching Agent Hill.

She hooked her leg around one man's neck and threw him down on the floor before stepping on his body and turning on her heel to kick another man's gun away, where it landed at War Machine's feet. He didn't take notice to it and instead focused on fighting with the guy in front of him. He grabbed him by the arms and flew him over to the roof and dropped him off. But that was when the guy grabbed his ankle and lifted his other hand. Crap. He had the same kind of technology as the guys at the restaurant. With one blast, Tony's War Machine suit was done for and he rolled along the roof.

He groaned. He hadn't had a chance to fix the suit since the restaurant had collapsed on him. He had gone into this battle severely damaged and now the suit wasn't functional anymore. He quickly slipped out of it, regretting not fixing it up earlier. The guy kept firing at him and he ran for the edge of the roof.

"Hey Pep?"

"Yeah?" She responded from her place right below the roof he was about to jump off of.

"You sound like you have a little Stark in you."

"What are you talking about? I don't have any-"

"Would you like some?" He jumped off the roof. Immediately, Pepper's suit came up to meet him, opening up like a second skin and clamping over his body in swift move. He caught himself with his thrusters and shot back up onto the roof, now dressed as Rescue. "I think this might be the kinkiest thing we've yet to do." He blasted the man from before easily before zooming over the rest of the fray.

Over his comms unit, Pepper scoffed. "That was a terrible joke."

"What? I'm literally inside you. It was a good joke."

"You know what I think is a good joke?" Graham asked over the comms. "The fact that now you have boobs."

Tony could hear the laughter from pretty much everybody in his ear and his face turned beet red. Luckily, no one could see it. "Ignoring you. Thanks for the help, Pep, but I got it from here." He flew over everybody else, searching for something to do. "Barton, what do you got for me?"

"Parker's taking on a squad at two o'clock."

"And he didn't invite me."

Tony flew over and dropped down beside Peter and the two of them began fighting side by side. Once he helped with that, he began flying again. "What else you-? Holy son of a mother fucker."

"Tony? What is it?" Steve asked through the comm.

"See it for yourself."

Steve turned around and gaped. "Seeing. Still working on believing."

"Okay, can we stop quoting ourselves now? It's getting kind of annoying," Natasha told them from a few feet away.

"Why not Romanoff? Hang tight. I'm bringing the party to you."

"Just like you said," Steve spoke.

Tony flew over to the tank and got behind it, pushing it into view of the other Avengers. "I-I don't see how that's a party," Natasha commented, shocked at what she saw.

This was no ordinary tank. First of all, it was twice the size of a regular, modern day tank. Second of all, there was no door for people to get in so it must have been remote controlled. Thirdly, there was a giant Chitauri cannon sitting on top.

"Son of a gun…" Steve muttered.

"Okay seriously, can we stop now?" The red headed assassin asked.

Steve turned to Bruce. "Hulk!" The Other Guy turned to him. "Smash."

He grinned and started for the tank only to have it blast him at full throttle. He struggled to move forward. Every step required pushing against something that was pushing back. Hulk shouted in frustration and dug his feet into the ground but he was still getting pushed back. The Avengers watched in awe as Hulk slowly started closing his eyes and swaying. And then all of a sudden Bruce was on the ground, naked, and unconscious.

Everyone stared. That cannon had taken out the Hulk. They were in some deep shit. Seeing as it was the whole reason she was there in the first place, Maria ran forward and grabbed Bruce. She threw him over her shoulder and ran back out, getting lost in the forest probably toward the quinjet to pick them up.

The tank began firing short shots in every direction. Steve grabbed Tania and hid them both behind his shield as they were blasted. Thor tried to counteract the blast of energy with his lightning, but the blue energy went straight through the bolt and straight into the God's chest, sending him flying back really far.

Rhodey flew over the tank and tried to attack from behind, but the cannon spun around and tried to shoot him. He managed to dodge the first two but the third sent him straight into Peter, knocking them both out with Iron Patriot almost completely covering the teenager's body.

The tank aimed a blast at Tony, who flew out of the way just in time only for the blast to hit the tree Clint as sitting in. The tree rocked back and forth unsteadily before falling forwards and onto Natasha who hadn't been fast enough to dodge with six henchmen shooting at her. The two assassins couldn't be seen through the many leaves and branches of the tree.

It was just Steve, Tania, and Tony. Oh wait! Thor came hurtling back in anger with leaves and branches in his usually perfect hair and anger written all over his face. He began swinging his hammer. "You have no idea what you're dealing with!"

"That gives me an idea!" Tony flew up to meet Thor. "Hit me."

"What?"

"With your lightning. Hit me Shakespeare in the park! Come on! Doth mother know you weareth her- oof!" Thor zapped Tony with his lightning as instructed and Rescue tumbled back, flipping several times before engaging the thrusters just above ground. He dropped to a kneel and turned to face Steve and Tania.

"Power at five hundred percent capacity, Sir," Jarvis informed him.

"Well how 'bout that?" he asked, not at all surprised. "Yo Cap! You got this?"

Steve held out his shield and hid Tania behind him. "Do it."

Tony fired his cheat beam at Steve's shield while the tank was distracted trying to shoot Thor. Steve reflected his weapon towards the tank as Tony kept the beam going. The blue energy began to get thicker and Steve and Tania were slowly getting pushed backward from the strength. The tank was turning a bright red from the heat and it started sparking.

"Cap? Banks? Are you two-?" Tony started.

"Keep going!" Tania shouted.

Tony grunted and complied, putting everything he had into the uni-beam. "Thor! Hit me again!"

"Are you sure-?"

"HIT ME GOD DAMN IT!"

Thor summoned his lightning and zapped Tony as hard as he could. The beam magnified and doubled in size. Steve and Tania could feel the air ripping around them and hear the tearing of space that seemed to get more and more high pitched as Tony continued firing. Tania had her arms around Steve's waist from behind and was trying to help keep him steady while at the same time hiding behind the shield.

The tank became too hot. It exploded in a giant ball of fire, taking out the entire compound and then some.

Tania was blinking in and out of consciousness. All she could hear was a very loud ringing. All she could smell was smoke. All she could see was the back of Steve's shield over her head and Steve's sleeping face next to hers. All she could taste was ash. All she could feel was the cold ground beneath her body (that was curled up into a ball) and Steve's hand woven tightly with hers.

The next time she woke up, she heard the blades of a helicopter and shouting voices. The grey of Steve's shield was removed and everything was fire and smoke and embers. She coughed and realized that it hurt to breathe and she gripped his hand tighter before she fell back into the darkness.

There was a loud roaring and she could only assume she was on a plane or something. She registered shaking and bobbing and she could sort of see blurry shapes but she from the colours that the shape over there was Spider-man, the other one was Rhodey, the one with bright red hair was obviously Natasha and the one closest to her had to be Clint, Tony had to be the one next to the one that looked like Bruce and the giant blonde had to be Thor. None of them were moving but that was okay because neither was she. And right in front of her face, Steve was still there. She smiled.

There was something on her face. She wanted to reach up and take it off but it just felt so nice to breathe easily again and she was really tired. She blinked open her eyes and everything was white. But then it cleared and she saw the walls and knew that she being moved on a gurney or something. Beside her, moving at the same speed, was Steve, also being wheeled on a gurney. He smiled slightly at her. His hand twitched toward hers across the little space and she met him halfway, interlacing their fingers with some difficulty.

"Happy birthday," he whispered.

Her chest shook with silent laughter before sleep took her again.

A/N. Brownie points to anyone who can name all the quotes I used from the movie and double points to those who can name the scene they're from and who originally said it!