A/N: This chapter is brought to you by me listening to Deadlock by Go! Child on repeat outside until a bird popped on my computer screen. It was very gross.

Once again, thank you so much Emerald2211 for being my amazing beta!

Before I could say anything, Bucky sharply turned the bike, getting off the road that was quickly filling with panicking people. We both got off the bike and just stared at the sky.

It was a lot more intense than in the movie and I took a quick look at my stats to run some numbers.

[Name: Lani Chen]

[Age: 7]

[Hometown: Hawai'i]

[Family: unknown]

[Title: Rebellious: people of authority will mark you as 'bad egg']

[hp: 70]

[sp: 110]

[Strength: 6*]

[Dexterity: 9*]

[Constitution: 7*]

[Intelligence: 18]

[Wisdom: 11*]

[Charisma: 17*]

[*: -7 to physical states, -2 to wisdom and +2 to charisma due to age]

I wondered for a moment when my intelligence changed from 17 to 18 without me noticing, but there were bigger issues to deal with.

"We should help people get out of sight, and maybe away from the Stark tower."

It was pretty clear to see that most of the fighting was happening there, which was only a few long New york Blocks away. That doesn't mean there wasn't anything where we were, and I was more worried about people panicking and getting themselves hurt.

"You get the people out of the way, I'll deal with the targets." Bucky said before pulling out a gun from who knows where and rushing back out.

It was all too easy to not think about the demi-god and aliens and superheroes fighting not far from us, and just focus on getting people away. I also had a lovely internal monologue of me just screaming going on, but no one needed to know that. Apparently, a 7-year-old telling people to calm down and follow her is more effective than I first thought, and I was able to make a few trips before running into any trouble.

And by that I mean Bucky running into trouble in the form of the Chitauri. At some point he ran out of bullets and ended up fighting them hand to hand. Then like the huge idiot that I am, I ran over to help.

I did have a plan though. Or an idea at the very least. I remember something about the Chitauri's being like cyborgs, and that they have cybernetic implants. Implants that must use some elemental metal to conduct electricity. Elemental metal that I could use my alchemy on.

So while Bucky held the attention of five of them, I was able to jump on one of their backs without them noticing. Then I slapped my hands on the alien's head.

I'm not sure when it started to happen, but somewhere along the line, I realized that when I used my alchemy I just knew what the chemical make up of the object was. I took chemistry and organic chemistry in university before I died, so I knew a lot of random information. I also new a lot of molecular formulas for superconductors due to all the physics class I took for my major. That was what I was blaming for the reason why I didn't realize I knew things that I didn't know before until a few months ago. But I was more than thankful for it now.

In those five seconds, I realized a number of things. First, the Chitauri were silicon-based, not carbon-based. Which was neat to know but useless since I can't manipulate semi-metals. The second was that the wires were all made from pure silver, not copper. Which later I thought made sense since silver was a better electrical conductor and maybe the Chitauri homeworld had more silver than copper, but I didn't have time to think about that. I also didn't have time to think about which metals have the greatest resistance, so I just pulled on the wires and broke them.

I jumped off the back of the alien seconds before they started screaming. Only it was very animalistic and reminded me of something from a horror movie. Then the dude's head literally exploded.

"Holy shit!"

I was not expecting that to happen, and if there was not a battle going on, I would have loved to figure that out.

"Lani! Get back!" Bucky called out, but I ignored him in order to see if I could repeat the results without getting myself killed.

[SP: 106]

I grinned when I saw how little SP blowing up alien brains cost me. Sure I couldn't kill them all with this method, but at least 20 without getting close to my limit.

Bucy seemed to have given up on me not fighting with him, and just gave me a lift to get on their backs like a monkey. By the third time, I figured out which wires I needed to destroy to completely mess up whatever circuitry they have in their brains.

I know that they are a war based species, but considering that Thanos is in charge of them I find myself wondering how willing they were. For all I know, part of the electronics in their brain is to keep them constantly aggressive. I don't know. I just find it hard to believe that there could be a whole species of intelligent beings that are all 'evil'. Never liked it in dnd and it always reminded me how white male scientists in the 20th century were 'so certain' that those of African descent were more aggressive and had lower IQ despite no evidence to back them up.

But they are trying to kill people right now so I should really hold off on the ethical debate in my head.

Turns out the weird energy guns that they use is a little harder to dodge then usual guns.

"Lani!"

I quickly got off the ground while Bucky dealt with the alien who got a hit on me while I was dealing with his friend. Apparently they don't care about friendly fire.

[hp: 66]

[sp: 52]

"I'm fine, it was just a graze."

Soon after that I noticed that there was a missile flying over us.

I stood next to Bucky and squinted up to watch Iron Man drive the missle back into the wormhole. Then he'll come back and maybe there will be some time in the chaos to give Steve Bucky's number or something.

But then the wormhole closed.

And Iron man wasn't back.

I waited there for what felt like years trying to figure out if I just missed him fall out. I was 90% sure that Iron Man made it out of it in the comics as well, so why didn't...

[Save loaded]

[SP at max]

I was still confused, wondering what happened. I almost forgot to warn Bucky about what would be happening in only an hour.

"Aliens?" Bucky asked, still looking serious but there was also a hint of humor in his voice.

"Yeah I know. Sounds silly but they were coming from space and were silicon-based. Silicon! There are no animals or fungi or plant that is silicon-based on earth. Sure it still has four valence electrons so it would make sense that it could form a lot of the same chains as with carbon but for life to evolve that way? Yeah. They were totally aliens."

"You didn't mention why you... reset." Bucky said, stumbling over the word.

"Oh, you know Iron Man? He... there was a missile and he lead it into the wormhole and..." I trailed off.

I couldn't help but wonder if it was somehow my fault. Either somehow warning him about Stane and the poisoning made his suit slower or just from butterfly effect from me being alive. I don't think I would ever know, but it does make me feel like it's my fault.

[Quest: Iron Fall]

[Make sure that Iron Man makes it out of the battle of New York alive]

[Reward: Positive Relationship with Tony Stark]

[Failure: many Quests will be locked as well with ending]

[Timeline: five minutes after the wormhole closes]

[ ] Accept

[ ] Decline

"So you want to try saving him?" Bucky asked before I could react to the new quest alert.

"I mean, I want to try. I don't know if I can but... he literally sacrificed himself to save the city so it would be nice if he could be alive long enough to see that."

[x] Accept

The text accepted itself for me. Like telling Bucky was enough to accept the quest. Not that I mind, but I might have to be wary of that in the future.

"You're a good kid Lani, but you better not try sacrificing yourself for anyone today." Bucky said as he messed up my hair.

And here I thought having shorter hair would solve that problem.

"I know my limits. You know, Steve was... or will be there too. Even had the outfit and shield. I was thinking that right after the fighting you could slip him your number. He seems like the guy that would want to find out without telling anyone."

"Of course that punk would." Bucky muttered, eyes only slightly glazed over.

That time we were ready. I told Bucky to stop right before the wormhole showed up, and we were in action before chitauries hit the street. It was much easier for me to get people to safety, and when I felt it was safe to jump into the battle, I stopped.

I apparated up to the top of a building to get a better look at all the battles. I saw the hulk smashing cars and aliens alike with Steve throwing his shield like a frisbee.

A few climbing the building would randomly explode, either by hawkeye or black widow. I had no idea where they were, but the results were there.

The sound of thunder amidst the fighting and screaming was my only clue that Thor was somewhere around. And Iron man was flying around when the first Leviathan came out of the wormhole.

I had no idea what to do. There is no way I could get the missile through the wormhole myself without dying. One, I don't know if I could teleport with the missle, two I would be in space without a spacesuit. I do not want to know what it feels like to have your blood boiled or have the nitrogen in your blood cause you to inflate like a balloon.

Then I got an idea. A stupid idea that would likely force me to reload my save to keep myself from dying, but at least it would look cool and change things enough that Iron man can get out of the wormhole on his own.

Like the idiot that I am, I teleported onto the back of the Leviathan almost as soon as more started coming through the portal. Just like with the Chitauri, they were partly biological and partly cybernetic. So even though the thing was huge and it felt like I was one sudden movement from falling off, I could use my alchemy to destroy the wires just like with the others.

Not quite the same since I don't know if the brain is in the head or if it had multiple brains because it was so big, so I just tried to manipulate the whole thing.

I didn't bother doing my usual clap and slap since that just mostly for aesthetics, and just kept my hands wedged in the scaly bits of the alien/monster. It took a bit longer than with the Chitauri, but once I felt that it worked, I pushed myself off before apparating back down.

My legs buckled as soon as I landed since conservation of momentum is still a thing even with my teleporting powers, but nothing was broken. Bucky was next to me in a moment, and I really hoped he didn't notice where I was.

"Please tell me you didn't do that the last time as well."

"Uh, no, that was a first. Worked out pretty well." I said with a grin while Bucky shook his head at me before killing the last Chitauri in our area.

Soon after the missile arrived and I watched with bated breath as Iron Man lead it into the wormhole once again.

And waited.

And watched as the wormhole started to close.

When it closed with no sign of Iron Man, I closed my eyes for a moment before trying again.

"Sir, something just appeared on the target."

Tony was trying to bat another one of the Alien Bastards over to Thor when, sure enough, there was something there that wasn't there only moments before. Something that made Tony refrain from blasting the thing because...

"Is that a child?"

Before Jarvis had time to find out for sure, the kid fell off and before Tony could get close enough to do anything, was gone. Just completely gone like the kid was a hallucination.

Then to make matters even more confusing, the alien exploded not long after.

"Well, I take that that might be the same person who has been dealing with the aliens over in the northern sector." Tony commented before his com went on.

"Stark, you hearing me? We have a missile heading straight for the city."

Tony wanted to swear.

"How long?"

"Three minutes, at best. Stay low and wipe out the missile."

Looking at the wormhole in the sky, Tony knew just how to deal with it.

He wasn't sure what to think when Lani started talking about aliens over breakfast, but he knew she was telling the truth. Lani likes to make jokes all the time, but she gets nervous whenever she talks about her abilities. Like she was expecting him to get mad at her.

He didn't know what to expect, but the reptilian warriors that came from the sky weren't anywhere close to it. They still bleed like humans, even if it took a few more shots to the head then most.

Right when he emptied his first clip and threw the gun to distract his target while he grabbed a new one, Lani showed up and jumped on the alien's back. Then before he could yell at her, his head exploded and she was moving on to the next one.

He ended up following her lead in order to make sure she didn't get carried away. He even threw Lani at one point so she could get where she needed to be. It was going well, until he noticed that Lani wasn't with him.

There were too many of the aliens for him to go looking for her, but when she reapeared with a crack right about then the big thing exploded, he knew where she was.

"Please tell me you didn't do that last time as well."

"Eh, maybe once or twice before, though I think I'm going to do something even more risky. Should be fine though. It takes like 30 seconds for your blood to boil in space so..."

"What?" Bucky asked as he reached over to her, but Lani was already gone.

The thing about space is that it's not the lack of oxygen that is dangerous. The lack of pressure causes the nitrogen in your body to collect up and will literally inflate your organs. Your blood will boil, once again due to it being a vacuum. Then there is the temperature and solar radiation. There is a reason why the only thing on earth that can survive such conditions is the water bear.

And I am not a water bear.

But I can teleport and that should give me a chance to survive. Maybe not a good chance, but I was out of options at this point.

I meant to say bye to Bucky instead of telling him some space facts, but saying that felt like I was giving up. I wasn't. I was merely making a calculated risk.

From what I could tell, Apparition didn't have a range limit. As long as I had a clear idea of where I was going, it only took 9 SP nowadays. I don't know if it would be double when traveling with others or squared, but either way I have enough SP and HP, if it gets to that point.

I got my Chitauri head exploding technique down to only 1 SP, and taking down the Leviathan only cost me 20 SP on the last round. I still had 52 SP left, and all 70 HP. I should be fine.

It was still a shock when I appeared next to Iron Man's foot right when a supernova like explosion happened before us. It was oddly beautiful, but we were both on the clock. I couldn't breathe and even though I was right next to the suit, it seemed to take forever for me to grab it.

The wormhole was already closed, but I didn't let myself think about that as I activated my Apparition once more.

A/N: So, sorry about the cliffhanger again. That's just how I plan my chapters. Blame all the books I've read that did the same thing.

So because I am I huge nerd, I calculated all the base stats for the avengers. Then I found a 5e dnd stats for the Chitauri that I used (thanks Geeks&Sundry). If you guys want my behind the scene math let me know and I'll put it here next chapter. For now here is Bucky and the Chitauri stats so you can figure out how Lani ranks with them.

Bucky/Winter Soldier

Strength- 18

Dexterity- 18

Constitution- 14

Intelligence- 11

Wisdom- 13

Charisma- 10

Chitauri

Strength- 15

Dexterity- 14

Constitution- 13

Intelligence- 14

Wisdom- 11

Charisma- 10

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