Thirty minutes or so after the attack on the Helicarrier, Izuku stood on the bridge with Stark and Steve. Izuku's wound had been treated and he was cleared to resume working since the bullet wound wasn't as bad as they thought. Fury approaches the table with something in his hands.
"These where Collison's jacket." He said sliding the blood-stained cards over the table before Steve. "Guess he never did get you to sign them." Steve picks them up and looks at them. We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor. I got nothing for you. Lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming." Fury pauses for a moment and says, "Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing something even riskier. There was an idea, Stark and Midoriya know this, called THE AVENGERS INITIATIVE. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes." Fury explained.
"Nice speech."
"Would you shut up?" Izuku walked out of the bridge not wanting to hear anything from anyone right now. He shut out all the sounds as he walked through the halls of the damaged Helicarrier. For the first time in a long time he wanted to be alone.
Izuku now stands on the ramp that lead to the ceil of which Thor had been dropped in. Standing here he thought about a lot. How he started, One for All, Nedzu, Mirio, Collison, EVERYTHING. Izuku knew that being a hero wasn't always going to be pretty, but this definitely wasn't what he was thinking. He hated that he could only protect Collison for a minute. Was that his fate? Was Collison supposed to die no matter what he did? So many thoughts and it was making him sick.
"Izuku?" Steve appeared with Tony.
"Hey there Green Bean." Tony attempted to lighten the mood.
"Hey…" Izuku didn't look at them.
"How's the wound?" Steve asked.
"Healed." Izuku answered.
"Was he married?" Steve asked not saying Collison's name.
"There was a cellist." Izuku answered. "Never met her but she sounded really nice."
"At least he wasn't lone." Tony said.
"Yeah…but I should have done more." Izuku said. "I have this power to save people and I'm failing! I should have seen the gun but didn't."
"You did save him from Loki." Steve said.
Tony looks at the blood-stained floor recalling Izuku's report. "He was making it personal."
"Hm?" Izuku and Steve looked at him funny.
"Loki's point. He hit us were we all live. Why?"
"To divide us." Izuku said. "He's done a good job of that."
"Not just that. He knows that he has to take us out to win." Tony said. "That's what he wants. He wants to beat us and wants to be seen doing it."
"To make an example like he did in Germany." Steve said.
"Right. That's just a preview, this is opening night. Loki's a full-tilt diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built in the skies with his name plastered..." Tony pauses for a moment before he mutters, "Son of a bitch." It took a moment to realize that Tony was on about before it hit them. Stark Tower. That's where Loki and the tesseract are.
Izuku leads Steve over to the room where Natasha and Clint are as Tony goes to repair his suit. Opening the door Natasha looks startled to see both of them.
"Time to go." Said Steve.
"Where?" Natasha asks.
"Fill you in on the way." Izuku said. "Is Clint good? We could use his piloting skills."
"I am kid." Clint said coming out of the bathroom. "Good to see you."
"Good to see you too." Izuku smiled.
"You got a suit?" Steve asked.
"I do."
"Then suit up." Steve ordered. Izuku tossed Clint his bow as the four marched over to the hanger. As they walked Clint walked beside Izuku.
"I'm sorry." He mumbled.
"It's okay." Izuku replied.
"I…heard about Collison."
"...It's fine. Let's avenge him." Izuku said getting a nod from Clint. They boarded the jet and followed Stark to New York. The plan was for Stark to get to his tower to shut off the reactor and get a new suit since that one was barely lasting as it was. As they flew Izuku was moving around keeping his blood following. While he was doing this, he deiced to text Nedzu.
Green Bean:
Hey, Principal Nedzu, mind if I come over for the sports festival?
Mouse Dad:
Of course, I don't mind!
Has the situation cleared?
Green Bean:
Should have everything cleared up today.
Mouse Dad:
Good to hear!
Maybe you can bring the team.
I imagine they must be very curious about our world.
Green Bean:
Oh, they are.
Once everything is cleared, I'll ask them.
Mouse Dad:
Great!
I look forward to meeting them.
Green Bean:
You'll like them.
Mouse Dad:
Until then.
Green Bean:
Right.
See you then.
Izuku smiled and bit his lip remembering the conversation he had with Collison. He removed his visor for a second to wipe the tears. He took a shaken breath and placed his visor back on. Steeling his nerves Izuku threw a few punches in the air and jumped a little bit. They were approaching New York now. Izuku peaked his head into the cockpit seeing New York just up a head. Izuku saw the beam of blue light shooting into the sky and beginning to open a portal. Out of the portal came alien creatures came pouring out.
"Holy shit."
"Are you sure we aren't in a moive?"
"That's a lot of aliens." Izuku noted.
"Yeah hang on." Clint said as the rocketed to the tower.
"Stark, heading in from north east." Natasha said contacting Tony.
"What, did you stop for drive-thru?" Tony asked. "Swing up Park, I'm gonna lay them out for you." Clint maneuvered the jet firing at the incoming alien forces. Izuku and Steve hold onto the handrails as the jet shakes. Peaking his head back into the cockpit Izuku sees Thor and Loki duking it out on the tower's outside walkway/balcony.
"Nat, Clint." Izuku gestured over them.
"We see them." Clint said as he turned the jet over. As they begin their assault on the Asgardian God of Mischief, he fires his spear taking out one of the wings at Thor tried to stop him by tackling him to the ground. Izuku and Steve hold on for dear life as the jet spins downward and makes a crash landing. With everyone okay, they pour out of the jet coming up to a four-way road. They hear a roar and look up to see a leviathan fly out of the portal and fly around as alien soldiers are ejected from its side.
"Stark, are you seeing this?" Steve asked.
"Seeing still working on believing." Tony answered getting a small laugh from Izuku. "Has banner shown up yet?"
"Banner?" Izuku asked.
"Just keep me posted." Tony said. Izuku quickly realized that Tony had a plan for taking down that leviathan and it was going to need the Hulk for it to work. Steve, Clint, Natasha, and Izuku start dealing with the alien soldiers on the ground saving civilization as they go. Using the batons and black whip Izuku handed himself pretty well.
"Just like Budapest allover again." Natasha said to Clint.
"You and I remember Budapest VERY differently." Clint said firing an arrow. Izuku takes a damaged car with Black whip and flings it at the incoming forces as Thor lands.
"What's the story upstairs?" Steve asks.
"The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor answered.
"Thor's right we gotta deal with these guys." Tony added.
"How do we do this?" Natasha asked.
"As a team." Steve answered.
"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor stated.
"Yeah, get in line." Clint and Izuku said at the same time.
"Save it." Steve snapped. "Loki is going to keep this fight focused on us and that's what we need. Without him these things could run wild. We got Stark up top, he's gonna need us..." Steve is cut off by the sound of a motorbike pulling up. They all turn to see Bruce on the motorbike as he comes to a stop before them.
"So, this all seems horrible." Bruce awkwardly commented.
"I've seen worse." Natasha said.
"Sorry about that."
"No, I think we could use a little worse." She said.
Steve spoke into the commlink and said, "Stark? We got him."
"Banner?"
"Just like you said." Steve replied.
"Tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you." Tony said as he came around from a building, miles away with the alien leviathan chasing him.
"I-I don't see how that's a party." Natasha said. Tony lowers himself to the street as the leviathan copies.
"Dr. Banner, now would be a good time for you to get angry." Steve said as Banner started walking toward the leviathan as it got closer.
"That's my secert Cap." Banner said looking back. "I'm always angry." Banner seemly at will transformed into the Hulk and punched the leviathan square in the nose making it come to a halt. The leviathan's body bended upward allowing Tony to fire a missile into its flesh and destroy it. The Avengers look up seeing more aliens pouring out of the portal.
"Guys." Izuku looked at them then back at the portal.
"Call it, Cap." Said Tony.
"Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything." Steve pointed to the roof top. "Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or your turn it to ash."
"Wanna give me a lift?" Clint asked looking at Stark.
"Right. Better clench up Legolas." Stark said grabbing Clint and flying up to the building.
"Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You've got the lightning. Light the bastards up." Steve ordered. Thor nodded and flew up. Steve then looks at Izuku and Natasha and says, "The three us, we stay on the ground keep the fighting here." Steve then looks to Hulk. "Hulk." The green beast looks at him. "Smash." Was Steve's order. Hulk smirked and then jumped up smashing a bunch of aliens as the he went. Steve, Izuku, and Natasha began battling aliens. Izuku was thankful for the voices of the vestiges calling out surprise attacks and fire from above. It was nice having them help him out like this. Everything seemed to be going okay as Izuku went around the battlefield saving people from the alien soldiers. Seeing a child hiding under wreckage from the alien soldiers Izuku quickly defeated them and picked the kid up his arms and ran toward a small group of police.
"Get her out of here." He ordered.
"Wait!" The girl grabbed his hand. "What's your name?" She asked.
"Emerald Savior." He smiled under the mask before running back to join Natasha and Steve.
"Captain, none of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal." Natasha said taking a moment to breathe.
"Tony and Thor couldn't touch it." Izuku reminded.
"Maybe this isn't about guns and hammers." Natasha said as she looked at Steve. "Mind giving me a lift?"
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yeah it'll be fun." Natasha said. She did parkour jumping on to Steve's shield as he lunched her into the air. She grabbed onto one of the aliens flying chariot and begins to make her way up to the tower. Izuku and Steve go back to dealing with ground forces saving more civilizations as they go. There was a bomb thrown by one of the alien soldiers and Izuku grabbed the civilians with black whip and felt something inside him snap. Suddenly before he knew it, he and the civilians where floating in the hair.
"Welp no time like the present, eh? Here Young Midoriya let me help." Said the mature female voice. Izuku felt his body move on its own as he moved the civilians to a safe location. Dropping them off Izuku felt his body move forward toward the tower. Using black whip Izuku swung the black tendrils taking out the flying chariots.
"Izuku the hell are you going?" Clint asked.
"I ended up unlocking one of the quirks stored inside one for all." Izuku answered.
"Well since you're floating nearby mind grabbing me the staff?" Natasha asked.
"Sure…?" Izuku said picking up Loki's staff and flying up to Natasha. He tossed it to her asking, "What are going to do with it?"
"We're going to use it to close the portal." Selvig stated.
"Dr. Selvig you're okay!" Izuku gasped relieved.
"For now. Now let's get that portal closed." Selvig said as Natasha moved with the staff in hand to close the portal. Izuku went back to fighting aliens as he heard Natasha over the coms.
"I close it. Can anyone hear me? I can close the portal."
"Do it!" Ordered Steve.
"Hold off on that because there's a nuke incoming and I know just where to put it." Tony said.
"Tony that could be a one-way trip!" Izuku said.
"Don't worry about it." Tony said brushing it off. Izuku watched as Tony took the nuke and helped direct into the portal and went with it. They waited for what felt like hours before Steve ordered Natasha to close the portal. And just as the portal was closing Tony's limp body fell through the portal. Izuku acted quickly catching Tony before he left himself pass out. The last thing he saw was Hulk coming toward them.
Izuku woke up in th vestige world and was taken down by a dog pile. He winced as the vestiges got off an sat around him.
"What the actual fuck, Young Midoriya! You scared the crap out of us." Said a man with short brown hair that kind of reminded him of Bakugo.
"That was crazy!" Said Daigoro. "I thought you actually died for a second."
"Please," Said Shigaraki. "never scare us like that again."
"Well it wasn't his fault." Said the youthful woman with long blue hair. "I mean I'm sure we all would have just passed out from overuse."
"He should be lucky that it didn't kill him." Said the man that remined Izuku of Blue Jeanist due to his high collar jacket.
"But that was amazing Young Midoriya." Said the woman with long black hair wearing it in a style that reminded him of his mother.
"There is no denying that we all are very proud of you but try not to give us a heart attack like that again." Said the man with the two jagged scar-like markings on his face. Izuku smiled brightly.
"Well I can't promise that, but I'll do my very best." Izuku said.
"That's the spirit!"
One roar later Izuku and Tony awoke finding that Hulk, Thor, and Steve looking at them.
"What the hell?" Tony asked as Izuku slowly sat up. "What happened? Please tell me that no one kissed me." Izuku laughed.
"We won." Steve said.
"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 said.
"I could eat." Izuku said.
Thor looked at the tower and said, "We're not finished yet."
"And shawarma after." Tony said.
As they enter the floor of the tower where the Hulk had left Loki. When they arrived, they found him clawing onto the stairs. The Asgardian god took a moment to breathe as the Avengers surrounded him. He turns seeing the serious and pissed looks of the group.
"If it's all the same to you. I'll have that drink." Loki said. Izuku nearly laughs as Hulk snorts at him. They get Loki cuffed and secure the tesseract and staff. With everything taken care of, the Avengers end up heading to that shawarma place that Tony mentioned and ordered something to eat. No one spoke as they sat around the table eating.
"That looks really good." Said Shigaraki.
"Damnit, Young Midoriya! Why are you doing this to us!? I want some of that!"
"Just let him eat."
"So, does anyone want to head with me to my world?" Izuku asked suddenly.
"Sure." Said Tony.
"Sounds like fun." Said Clint.
"I'm game." Steve said.
"I must return with Loki to Asgard, so sadly I cannot."
"Well I have nothing better to do." Bruce said.
"I think it's settled." Natasha said wiping the dressing off her lower lip.
"Also, Clint I may have told my friends that you have a quirk."
"Why?"
"I don't know, I knew that I was going to have to lie and so made one up about your incredible eyesight being a quirk." Izuku said.
"Well if you think about if he did tell them the truth that you are quirkless they probably wouldn't believe him." Natasha said.
"What's a quirk?" Thor asked. Izuku sighed placing a hand over his face.
"If and when you come back to Earth, I'll tell you." Izuku said.
"So when are heading to your world?" Asked Steve.
"Next month. UA is holding a sports festival." Izuku said.
They stood in a blocked off area watching as Loki stood cuffed and muzzled. Thor shook hands with each of the Avengers and finally apologized to Izuku about what happened when they first met. He then gave Selvig a hug. Thor is given the tesseract which is in a glass tube and walks over to Loki. With both of them holding either side of the tube Thor turns the handle and the two are transported into a bright glowing beam then vanishing. One, by one, the group splinters off promising to meet up next month to head with Izuku to his world. Steve drives off on his Harley, Bruce goes with Tony in his sportscar, and finally Izuku, Clint, and Natasha load into a SHIELD car heading back to base.