Disclaimer: Everything is owned by Disney Marvel, original ideas and characters are my own.
Authors Note: So close to the end!
Need Some Backup?
Kendra watches as Iron Man arrives at Stark Tower where Selvig then activates the device holding the Tesseract. aims his hands toward the device and fires. The energy from his boosters hits with a deafening crack. Selvig falls backwards. The device is still going. Iron Man stares in disbelief that the device is unarmed.
Stark lands and goes through the gauntlet which takes the suit off of him. Loki looks up at him, smiling. They proceed to walk into the penthouse. Kendra stands her ground as Loki walks in, holding the scepter.
"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity." he mocks.
Tony stops at the top of the stairs, "Uh...actually, I'm planning to threaten you. That and bring back Kendra."
Loki laughed, "She seems just fine to me." he looked at the woman beside him.
"I'm just fine where I am Mr. Stark." She answered, Tony cocked his head to the side observing her.
"You should have left your armor on if you were here to fight us." Loki quipped.
Tony casually walks down the steps, towards the bar. "Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage. You've got the blue stick of destiny anyway. Would you like a drink?"
"Stalling me won't change anything." Loki challenged.
"No, no, no! Threatening." Tony corrected him, "No drink? You sure? I'm having one. Kendra? You look like you could use a drink."
Kendra shook her head, watching Loki before leaving his side and walking over to the bar, "Tony," She stopped in front of him. "Join me, fight with me."
Tony looked at the woman in front of him, one he considered family, "I told you once that I fought the bad guys Kendra," he motioned to Loki, "Loki right now is the baddest of them all."
She reached forward as he hand went to his bottle, she grabbed his wrist and squeezed, "Please. Tony. Fight with me," his eyes met hers, he watched as the blue haze disappeared, revealing her true self, Kendra smiled, "Fly with me Tony. Make the jump."
Tony let out a breath as she released his grip and backed away, nodding, the blue haze returning to her eyes and she looked to Loki. He walked over to the window to see the city below them, "The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that. What do I have to fear?"
Tony, keeping his composure, opened up his bottle of brandy, "The Avengers."
Loki looks at him, confused.
Tony rolled his eyes, "It's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. `EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES' type of thing."
Loki chuckled walking towards him, "Yes, I've met them."
Tony smiled, "Yeah, takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one." He took a deep breath, "But, let's do a head count here. Your brother, the demi-God," Tony watched the nerve hit as he mentioned Thor, "a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend,"
From underneath the bar table, Tony puts on two bracelets, a honing device for one of his many suit, "and not to mention a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins, and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them."
Loki nodded, smiling. "That was the plan. As you can see," He waved his scepter over to Kendra, "As you can see, I have my own champion here."
Tony's face went stone cold as he took a sip of his drink, "Kendra wasn't ever yours to take. Also, not a great plan. When the rest of them come, and they will; they'll come for you." He walked around the bar and headed towards Loki.
"I have an army." The desperate prince snapped.
"We have a Hulk." Tony snapped back.
"I thought the beast had wandered off." Loki spoke mocking him.
"You're missing the point" Tony made his way down the stairs. "There's no throne. There is no version of this where you come out on top." He looked back to Kendra who stood behind Loki, at the ready.
Tony continued on, "Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it." He took another swig of his drink.
Loki slowly walks up to him menacingly, raising the scepter. "How will your friends have time for me, when they're so busy fighting you?"
Loki presses the center of Tony's chest with his scepter with a tap. Nothing. Confused, Loki tires again. Still nothing. Loki looks up to Tony, "It should work."
Tony shrugs, "Well, performance issues. You know?"
In anger, Loki grabs Tony by the throat and flings him towards the window. Kendra can only look on.
"Jarvis. Anytime now." Tony chokes out trying to get up. Loki walks over and grabs Tony by the throat again.
"You will all fall before me." He sneers
"Deploy!" Tony screams and Loki throws him out the window. From behind Loki and Kendra watch, an elevator opens and a Red Pod Shoots out to follow Tony down as he free falls into the city.
Loki looks up, angry as Iron Man flies back up to the broken window. "And there's one other person you pissed off! His name was Phil."
Loki raises the scepter. Iron Man fires at Loki, sending him on his ass. Suddenly the device shot a plasma beam into the atmosphere, opening the portal. Iron Man looked back to Kendra who was looking at Loki.
"We got work kiddo," Tony quipped and tosses a comm to Kendra, "Take out this garbage, I'll see you soon."
She smirked as Tony flew away towards the portal. She presses the comms into her ear. Loki pushed himself off the ground and stared at Kendra who began to glow.
"You foolish human. You belong to me," He screamed, spitting out blood.
Kendra walked forward and tilted her head to the side. She closed her eyes and opened them, a bright energy began to pulse, Loki felt the air begin ripping out his lungs. He sputtered and grabbed at his throat. Kendra stood before him, "I am the daughter of a god. And I belong to no one."
She walked closer to his crumbling form on the ground. "Remember what I said if you hurt the ones I love." he continued to choke and she laughed, "No one can stop me." She brought her hand up and raised him to stand.
Before she could finish him off, he managed to raise his scepter and with the final ounce of his strength, Loki shot her and she went flying out the tower.
Suddenly aware she was falling to her death Kendra began to focus and before she hit the ground, she took in her thoughts and pulled the energy of the air and launched pulses through her hands. She managed to stop herself from falling and slowly landed on the ground.
Kendra looked up and saw Tony flying, knowing he was right, "Fucking Tony." She laughed to herself. Suddenly behind her there was a crash, she watched the QuinJet crash and made it's landing nearby. Kendra ran to meet them, but not before jumping, and blasting energy to the ground as it carried her.
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Captain, Widow and Hawkeye run behind some taxis. They look up and see Loki taking his soldiers down the street firing at them, a series of explosions follow. Cars and people hurling through the air. People begin to run for their lives.
"Those people need assistance down there." Captain states as Chitauri soldiers begin firing at the crowds. Black Widow pulls both pistols and fires back at the soldiers coming towards them. She crouches down and turns to look at the Captain.
"We got this." She states, "It's good."
Suddenly behind them Kendra drops from the sky. She looks behind the Trio and raises three soldiers into a whirlwind of air and tosses them yards away. She steps around the taxi and crouches down.
"Sorry I'm late," she quips, "Hey Cap, need some backup?."
"You good?" Captain asked with a short tone. Kendra nods. He turns back to Hawkeye, "You think you can hold them off?"
Hawkeye smirks, "Captain." He pulls a trigger on his bow; an arrow is mechanically loaded into the quiver, "It would be my genuine pleasure." He shoots an arrow into the creature's head, gaining a few seconds for Captain and Kendra as they jump and fall over the bridge onto a wrecked bus. They race over to the plaza, jumping over dozens of exploding cars. Cap jumps in front of a couple of officers standing around, they look up at this ridiculous looking man. Kendra lands behind them, glowing. The officers look between them confused before Cap begins to speak.
"I need men in these buildings. There are people inside that can run into the line of fire. You take them through the basement or through the subway."
"You keep them off the streets." Kendra jumped in, "We need a perimeter as far back as 39th."
The police were not amused, "Why the hell should I take orders from you two?"
Suddenly, an explosion comes up behind Cap. An energy blast is blocked by his shield. Two Chitauri Soldiers attack and Kendra jumps forward to stand with Cap. The cops watch in shock as they both fight them off with ease. Kendra crushing a soldier to the ground with her powers, while Cap rips the arms off the last one.
The Sergeant turns to his officer, "I need men in those buildings, lead the people down and away from the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th."
Cap smirked and looked back to Kendra, "Glad to see you finally in action."
Kendra winked, "Like riding a bike remember."