Avengers Assemble
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Complicated Possession.
Chapter 5 – The Main Event

Loki turned to face her as the suit came crashing from the elevator doors and caught him off guard, he went flying and Minnie took her chance and shot forward. As he crashed to the ground her foot caught him in the chin, he yelled out in pain but twisted on the ground and caught her leg. He tugged and she fell to the ground, her head hit the ground hard and lights danced in front of her eyes. She blinked rapidly, trying to disperse them but they wouldn't go away. She saw Loki stand in her peripheral vision. He looked down at her before shaking his head and starting to walk away, wiping blood from his lip.

Minnie rolled over to her side for a moment and squeezed her eyes shut before opening them wide for a moment. She repeated this a couple of times before the lights finally dimmed and she could see properly. Her head was buzzing and a painful throbbing had begun near the back of her brain but she told her brain to repair itself and it did just that. She took a deep breath before forcing herself to get back up. Loki was stood a little way away from her with his back to her; she slowly got up, being as quiet as possible. She didn't know what he was doing but she was fairly certain that it couldn't be anything too good. She paused a moment, gathering her strength before running straight at him and leaping. She was proud of this leap; it was large and graceful and got her easily to her target.

She threw her arms around Loki's neck and her legs around his chest. She clung to him and buried her face in his shoulder, not relenting or having any desire to let go. His fingers scrabbled at her arms, drawing blood but she clung on tighter with every scratch. He dropped his sceptre focussed mainly on trying to free himself from her, but she refused to let go. She screwed her eyes shut and buried her face deeper into his shoulder, suddenly she felt him stop scrabbling or struggling and instead his head turned to towards her.

"What do you want from me?" he hissed and she raised her head to speak.

"I want you to stop this. Can't you see it's ridiculous? This isn't your world it's ours, you have no right to be doing any of this!" she said through gritted teeth and turned her face so she could see him, he looked back at her and she could see apprehension in his eyes. For one moment she thought that he might have realised what he was doing was wrong, that he had no hope against the Avengers. For one moment she believed that he could change, that he was the wonderful Loki that she'd found so spectacular from afar. For one moment she allowed her grip to loosen a little.

Her back connected with the floor but she managed to keep her head from following it to smack against the floor but before she could get back up he was on top of her. One leg either side of her, pinning her down and his sceptre was at her neck. She struggled and tried to get up and push him away but she couldn't. He pressed down the sceptre against her neck, the cool of the metal seemed like ice against her neck and she froze. Looking up at him with wide eyes, would he really kill a child? She really didn't put it past him. But this was good, this forced her to stop and think, how could she get away? He leaned down close to his into her face.

"You are really trying my patience. And now my dear brother isn't here to save you, what will happen now?" he sneered and she blinked rapidly. Searching his face and racking her brains for any little weakness she could think to use against him.

"What will happen now?" she whispered, repeating him as her opportunity came into her head.

"I wonder?"

She smiled sweetly and enjoyed the look of surprise on his face, "I think I'll go for a fly…"

"What?"

She commanded her thrusters to go to maximum and she shot out from underneath him. Before she could collide with a wall she put her hands up above her head and activated those thrusters too. She slowed but not quick enough, she slammed into a wall and groaned as she forced herself to stand. She faced him and shrugged, breathing rapidly. She could already feel the bruise forming across her left cheekbone from where she'd hit the wall. He chuckled lightly before throwing the sceptre to one side and holding out his arms.

"Come along then, child." She sprinted forward and leaped again, this time with her feet first. Her foot connected with his chest, and he went sprawling back. Taking advantage of him being on the floor she mimicked his earlier actions and climbed atop him, pinning him down and holding her place with much effort. He struggled against her and grabbed a hold on her shoulders before rolling. Unable to hold her ground she rolled with him and he was once again on top. She got her left hand across her face to protect it from his blows and advances; she curled it into a fist before waiting for a break in his blows against her. She then swung her fist up and felt a rush of satisfaction as she felt it crack against his cheekbone. He howled and she took advantage of his pain to wriggle out a little before sitting up and tackling him, he fell down to the ground and she stood up slowly. She spat blood before telling her body to stop the bleeding.

She surveyed the damage to his body, he had a bruise soon to form across his right cheekbone, a cut lip and she imagined a rather large headache. She then turned her attention back to her own injuries and noted a cut across her right eyebrow, a bruise across her left cheekbone and a cut on the inside of her lip. She was lucky that her brain was so advanced she could heal her headache instantly.

He groaned on the ground and rolled onto his side, she almost felt pity for him. Being beaten up by a fifteen year old girl had to be hard to come to terms with. She knelt down by him and looked down into his face, her own eyes stony and unforgiving.

"Stop this. Stop it now." She said sternly and he shook his head slowly.

"I can't…" he wheezed, "It's too late. There's no way to stop it!"

"There must be something, a way to close the portal?" she grabbed his chin and forced him to look up into her eyes, she leaned in close so their noses were almost touching. "Tell me. Please. I don't want to die, not here, not now. I'm only a kid, look at me. Is this really fair? To condemn me to death or a life of enslavement to a race who hates me? And there are billions more like me out there, some younger than me. Just children. In a way compared to you our whole race are just children, please, don't do this. Tell me how to stop this." Her eyes were wide, she was pleading.

He looked at her for a long moment before his eyes softened and she truly believed his heart was changing. He opened his mouth to speak but there was a crash that interrupted them both and both their heads turned to see Thor striding over to them. She knew that Loki had been about to tell her how to stop all this but thanks to Thor she'd lost the moment. Thor snatched up his brother and flung him through a window, striding after him. He barely even glanced at Minnie, who stood slowly and watched everything that happened out on the balcony. She watched as Loki jumped from the balcony, closely followed by Thor and, sighing, she followed. She sprinted towards the edge of the balcony, trying to get as much speed as possible before she reached the edge. She then flung herself off of the edge and allowed herself to free-fall for a moment, enjoying the sensation of her stomach turning inside out as she sped towards the ground before she activated the thrusters which were still a little weak, but they served her.

She sped downwards to join the others who were stood in a group. As she landed there was a large beast flying towards them, everything was too much of a blur for her to keep up with and she was only aware of Thor grabbing her and holding her to his chest and wrapping his cloak around her and then a wave of uncomfortable heat and light to which she screwed her eyes up. And then he let her go and she watched as Captain America issued orders, he seemed to miss out her completely so she turned to Thor who was getting ready to go and cast lightning through the portal in the sky.

"Let me come help."

"There is nothing you can do." He said dismissing her, and suddenly she was tired of being dismissed as a child. She knew what she was doing, she was smarter than anyone ever gave her credit for and she wanted to help.

"Yes there is." She put a hand to his arm to stop him going, he looked down at her with faint bemusement. "In my blood there's a serum which is how I can do everything I can do. It can magnify your lightning to up to twenty times the concentration it already is. All I have to do is be touching the point of conduction, the spire."

"No. It will injure you."

"No it won't!" she lied hastily, she knew that if Tony found out she was doing this he would kill them both but she ignored that thought. "Well not much anyway, the serum protects Me." she wasn't actually sure what it would do to her. She knew it would probably hurt but the serum would give her some kind of protection, she had no idea what it would do to the serum or her powers but she had to try. She had to help in some way.

"Very well." He said and nodded to the tower where it was going to take place and got ready to depart. She activated her thrusters and met him there. She clung to the tower and willed herself not to look down to the ground many hundreds of metres below her. She bit her lip and he put a hand on her shoulder and nodded before grasping the building and conducting the lighting. As it coursed through her it was more painful than she'd been expecting and she couldn't stop the scream coming from her mouth. He looked down at her, worried, and realised that she had been lying.

"I am stopping this!" he yelled against the rain but she shook her head.

"No! Keep it going I'm alright!" she yelled in return and then the dread filled her as her father's voice was in her ear as she knew it was in Thors.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Minerva?" he said, he sounded pissed.

"I'm helping! Shut up I'm trying to concentrate on not dying!"

"Thor! Shut it off you'll kill her she's an idiot."

"No Thor don't! I'm alright, I can do it!" she looked up at him and used the last remaining serum to dull her pain so she could smile up at him reassuringly. She closed her eyes and waited for it to finish and it was a moment before she'd realised her mistake. Of course her father hadn't meant it would kill her straight away, she'd used up all her energy on the lightning, and now her thrusters wouldn't work.

And she was hundreds of meters above the ground, looking down with no way to get down without falling to her death.