It's really late, but thanks to the urging of some readers I decided to update! Here it is! Please forgive any typos and review! :)
Hundreds of feet in the air, the vortex that was the portal opened. Out of the void, hulking figures of ice fell, plummeting towards Earth- towards the massive fireball that was the city block.
Loki watched the mortal standing beside him stiffen- her hands clenched into fists, eyes hardened- still, he could see she was afraid.
She watched the figures fall 30-0 feet, their silhouettes disappearing into the inferno. She took a step back, surprised as she could see several silhouettes rising, bursting from the wall of flames and into the streets….
How can we fight creatures that can fall hundreds of feet and survive? She thought, her heart rate increasing.
Loki looked over at her demurely, clearly unimpressed by her display of confidence.
Still, she flipped the switch on her suit, the thermal cannon humming to life. It'd been charging constantly, and now, it was primed and ready to fire….
She locked her leg braces, steeling herself, as she lifted her arm, aiming carefully at the first figure to emerge from the flames, firing.
The recoil from the blast shoved her back a few inches, her legs slamming against the braces, before the first hulking figure fell to the pavement.
Still, as soon as the first figure fell, four more charged from the flames, steaming and weakened, but far from harmless.
Another blast from a thermal cannon downed one, while a muttered incantation from Loki served to freeze one where he stood.
Still, a blast of blue launched towards them, and Loki jerked her backwards, the concrete where she'd been standing a moment before icy and steaming an odd, shimmering substance.
"What the hell is that!?"
"Magic- watch yourself!" Loki's scepter struck down another giant below with a blast of magic, and Amy hesitantly raised her own cannon- by utilizing the leg braces, she was exposing herself to the possibility of being hit by ice magic while she shoot still….
Another blast from the thermal cannon sent her back a few inches, and she crouched down, disconnecting the dead car battery from the wiring- the hot battery burned her hands, but she didn't care, hunking the useless battery off the building into the street below before grabbing the next battery, quickly working to attach the wires to the correct terminals.
Still, as soon as she'd stood, frantically eying the blaze below them, she frowned- the streets were barren and empty.
"More are coming." Was all Loki said calmly.
A moment later, no less than 20 figures were charging out of the blaze, steaming. Blasts of ice magic flew past them, slamming into the building- they were only three stories up, but the war on the elements was clear.
A well-aimed thermal blast to the head of one giant sent them to the pavement, but the others were still coming, shouting war cries and charging. One grabbed the concrete like it was nothing, sinking their fingers into it and beginning to climb the building.
"Shit." Loki muttered, blasting the first climber off the building like an insect with a white blast of thermal magic.
"Loki!" Amy spoke hurriedly, before another recoil from the blast sent her back.
"Keep fighting!" was all Loki growled, frustrated with their situation.
Another 7 frost giants laid dead, blasted off the side of the building. The giants across the street had taken cover behind cars, blasting the base of the building with ice magic.
With a roar, one of the giants was racing across the street- glass shattered, and a moment later, several other giants followed suit.
The three stories of concrete shuddered beneath them.
Loki frowned. "Curse this."
The roof beneath them shifted, and Amy's eyes widened.
It'd all been a diversion- the frost giants climbing the building had been a distraction to keep them occupied while the others targeted the structural support of the building.
Her breathing was rapid, eyes wide, and she stared at Loki like a deer in the headlights, stumbling forward towards the edge of the building as the room shifted violently beneath them.
Loki reached out, snatching her back from the edge. The Asguardian let out a shaky breath as he scrutinized her for a moment, before he set his scepter on the cracking roof beside them, electing to wrap both arms around the girl.
He could survive the three story fall that was about to happen, but he wasn't sure the mortal could.
"Hold on tightly." Was all he said. The teenager in his arms buried her face in his chest, breathing harshly, before the concrete beneath them gave way completely, the building crumbling to the ground.
The mortal's muffled screaming could be heard- Loki lost all sense of time, simply clinging to the being in his arms, being buffered by concrete and tuds as they fell, fell, fell, and Loki lost all sense of time.
"Ah!" Steve bludgeoned the large icy figure over the head with his shield, his punch knocking the creature back into the building and cracking the concrete badly.
Natsha pumped round after round into the creatures, but they refused to fall.
Clint gave a way cry, another arrow shattering as it went towards it's target.
The only one who seemed to be having any measure of success was the Hulk, who didn't care, though even he was having slight difficulty, having to spend a good minute or two to down each giant.
"They're everywhere! How do we fight these things!?" Clint shouted into his comm.
Steve was breathing heavily, as he ducked a blast of magic from one of the creatures, before he was launching himself at the creature, landing a blow to the jaw that would've killed a man, but only sent the creature stumbling.
There were at least 20 frost giants surrounding the group- a flaming city block on one side of them, unharmed apartment buildings behind them, open streets on either side, and only parked cars to take cover behind as they were overwhelmed.
Steve swallowed, tasting blood, and felt a twinge of fear when he realized he didn't know.
"C'mon!" Daniel shouted over the roaring of flames and the faint war cries.
He sprinted through the deserted street, dragging the old woman who still held the toddler towards the roadblocks, where the barriers marked the end of the danger zone.
He turned down a side street- he could see the white and orange sawhorses marking the barrier- they were almost to the safe zone….
Daniel skidded to a stop, freezing, as three frost giants rose up to block the way.
Daniel's eyes widened, flicking from the dangerous creatures to the vulnerable people he was in charge of.
"Shit." He dove behind a Subaru, dragging the elderly woman with him. He placed his back against the hot metal, breathing rapidly and trying to think of what to do.
He hadn't anticipated having to take people out of the danger zone- he also hadn't planned for frost giants landing outside the inferno zone. The entire plan had gone to hell in a matter of seconds- he could hear large, hulking feet crunching over the pavement as the bulky creatures lumbered towards them.
His heart was pounding in his chest- the toddler in the woman's arms whimpered, lower lip trembling pathetically, and the elderly woman looked at Daniel desperately.
For the first time since this whole thing started, Daniel was forced to come face to face with the realization they were fighting a losing battle.
His eyes snapped open seconds later. He was lying on the ground- Amy was peering down at him anxiously, green eyes impossibly wide. "Are you okay?"
The mortal had a bleeding scratch on her pale face and was covered in filth and ash, but her green eyes still shone with concern.
Loki grunted, his eyes falling closed.
"No no no! You have to be okay!" the mortal jumped on him, shaking desperately, voice rising in panic. "Please! Please! I can't fight this alone! I need you!"
Loki grunted, forcing his eyes open, before he was painfully getting to his feet, looking at the frantic mortal, rather unimpressed.
"The frost giants?"
"They buried themselves, I think. I couldn't find any of them…." Amy nodded to him.
Loki paused, noting it was eerily quiet.
The ruble shifted behind him, and Loki whirled- he didn't have his scepter, it'd be harder to focus his magic, but it could be done, and as the hulking frost giant rose from the rubble, he turned, an incantation sending scalding heat and dropping the creature….
Massive amounts of rubble began shifting, and Loki vaguely heart the mortal screaming behind him- at least fifteen frost giants had been buried in the rubble, and though weakened, they weren't yet dead, as proven by the fact they were emerging rapidly from the rubble.
A blue thermal blast from behind him let him know the mortal was still in fighting condition, something he was grateful for.
The hum of a thermal cannon became his best friend as he focused only on reining in his magic, blasting the frost giants with enough force to be lethal without totally losing control and accidentally killing the mortal who fought beside him….
The last five were the most troublesome.
The car battery powering the thermal cannon had died after a particularly well-placed shot, leaving Amy defenseless. The mortal had dropped to the ground, crawling through the ash and soot towards where a battery lay.
Amy frantically disconnected the dead battery, sweat dripping down her brow. A frost giant leering down at her with blood red eyes, lumbering towards her. She managed to successfully re-connect the new battery, flipping the switch- the cannon hummed to life, charging….
At the last second, she fired- the force of the blast send her flying across the rubble, scraping over pieces of concrete and plaster dust.
No sooner had she finished off the frost giant did she find herself screaming as white hot pain lanced through her upper arm, a burning so intense she couldn't stand it….
Loki whirled from where he'd been dealing with two rather persistent frost giants to find the mortal in the air, dangling perilously from where she was held by the forearm by a frost giant.
Something within him snapped- he didn't realize what was happening, but the magic escaped his hands without him saying the incantation, and both frost giants fell to their knees, dead.
Loki turned, stumbling on the rubble as he sprinted towards the mortal, who was still screaming- it awakened something primal in Loki, some protective instinct he hadn't known he possessed.
The frost giant was oblivious to him- it only noticed the mortal, and Loki's rage only increased when he realized it was playing with her, wanting to draw out her suffering.
He tripped on his scepter, clawing himself back to his feet, handing closing on the metal- a moment later he was charging forward, muttering a heating incantation- the metal scepter heated to scalding beneath his hands, the hot metal piecing the frost giant's hide like a warm knife through butter.
The frost giant grunted, falling to it's knees, and a moment later Loki was prying it off the shaken mortal, who yipped and whimpered at his touch.
Her upper left arm was deep purple where she'd been grabbed- she'd been frostbitten.
"Are you alright?" he asked hurriedly, not knowing what else to say as he knelt before the teen.
Amy just stared up at him in wonder- Loki blinked, before he looked down and realized his hands were blue- all of him was blue. He'd touched the frost giant somewhere during the battle and his true form had been revealed.
Loki swallowed, taking a hurried step back. This changed things. Now that the mortal saw his true form- blood red eyes and blue skin, so identical to that of the enemies they were fighting- she'd surely turn on him. While he couldn't allow Amy to kill him, he also didn't have it in his heart to hurt her….
He was stopped by a hand grabbing his wrist. He whirled, surprised, to find the green-eyed mortal staring up at him pathetically. "D-don't go. Please."
"Aren't you disgusted by what you see?" Loki asked, tone ragged.
"You're still Loki to me. Being blue hasn't changed much. Just… please, stay, alright?"
Loki took a breath, reining in his magic. Slowly, he returned to his aesir form, his skin returning to the normal flesh-colored white it usually was.
"Tell no one what you've seen today."
"I didn't see anything. It was all just one big stress induced hallucination." Amy grinned up at him, giving him a cheeky look.
Loki couldn't help but feel the corners of his mouth twitching, and he turned away from her, realizing, not for the first time since he'd met her, that mortal were a strange bunch.
They were going to die. That was all Daniel could think of, before a metallic ringing split the air. A moment later, two frost giants were smashed into the concrete by Mjionir, whole a third had been blasted by Tony's ionizing glove, killing it.
"Son of Stark! Tell the others they are vulnerable to magic and extreme heat!" Thor's voice sounded over the distant crackling of flames.
Tony landed, metal boots clanking on the asphalt as he relayed what Thor had told him to the others.
Daniel was debating making a break for the barrier when he came face to face with a norse god himself, who looked none too pleased.
Tony came around the other end of the Subaru a moment later, his mask retracting to reveal his pissed off expression.
"Where is my daughter?"
