AN: Well here we go! we are going to start getting into the events of the Avengers. Let me know what you think. A lot of what was deemed to be plot holes I hope I have answered. I think there might be still a few more but we will get there; don't you worry, all will make sense
"Are all the preparations ready? Is the Asgardian in place?" a voice called out from upon a throne.
"Yes, Master. With your permission I will open the doorway and send the Asgardian through to the location of the cube. He will carry out our plans, opening the portal allowing the Chitauri through. Once the planet is razed to the ground, your children will go through and collect the Stones for you."
"And you are sure that the Earth will not be able to put up a fight capable of stopping us?"
"Yes, Master. With the Bifrost destroyed, preventing those who dwell upon Asgard from leaving, our information shows that Earth remains a low-level society; none of what they produce for weapons would be able to combat the Chitauri."
"You have done well. Begin phase I; open the doorway and send the Asgardian to the planet."
"At your behest master."
R
Having finished his meetings, Harry "faded" as he had come to call it back to Tony's tower intending to get some rest for whatever it is that is coming, but for some reason he felt like he wasn't going to be getting much sleep. Harry didn't feel like spending any energy interacting, so he apparated straight to his room.
Sleep alluded Harry. Just as he laid down and closed his eyes, he felt the same pulse from earlier, expect this one was stronger. Earlier, it had faded quickly. This was not the case tonight. Summoning the Staff to his hands, Harry sent his own wave of magic following the original pulse back to its source.
Harry closed his eyes and followed the pulse until it stopped. Letting his magic envelop him, he let himself apparate with his magic to guide him. Arriving at his destination, he had just barely touched down when he felt the ground begin to shake. He turned around and saw an apparent government facility collapsing on itself—the pulse was coming from the center of it.
Several motor vehicles chased after a helicopter that were all bearing the SHIELD logo. Before he could pursue however, something pulled him back towards the rubble. He could feel several energy signatures that appeared to be growing weaker. Not sure what it was he was feeling, but wanting to inspect it, he approached the crater where the facility used to be.
He stopped at where the largest concentration of energy signatures were located, he pushed his magic through his staff and into the ground below him. The tendrils reached the signatures and he closed his eyes, attempting to determine what the signatures were.
His eyes opened wide. Harry realized that the signatures were people trapped in the rubble. Focusing his magic through the Staff, he split his attention between pushing healing magic into the people below him and the rest of his attention to moving the rubble from on top of them.
Slowly, he felt the energy signatures growing stronger, while the rubble moved up and away stacking itself away from the center of the crater. Harry moved the rubble slowly and carefully; with one wrong move, he could have completely crushed everyone. Finally, he could see the survivors.
Smiling, Harry reinforced the remaining rubble before turning around coming face to face with Fury. "So, Director, care to tell me what you and your men were doing here because from the pulse of power I felt coming from this site, it was something powerful that you clearly had no control over."
Fury looked down at the men and then back up at Harry. "Something that I am not at liberty to share in this current location. If you would accompany me to somewhere more private, I can brief you on everything you need to know."
"Well, there must be a lot to tell; the signatures left behind tell a clear story of SHIELD being way out of their depth." It was clear that Harry was having trouble keeping control of his magic through his anger as the gemstones contained within the Staff were flaring brightly in an attempt contain his wayward magic.
Fury stared Harry down for several seconds until realizing he wouldn't be able to intimidate Harry from backing down, he relented, "I will tell you, but we must really get somewhere more secure. I already have several compromised agents and I need to get some continuation policies into place."
R
Arriving at SHIELDs carrier, Fury immediately began barking orders: "I want men and women moving! We are facing a level 10, class D extinction event! Get this thing ready as soon as all assets are in place and aboard! I want this thing moving! We don't know where the target is going to strike next and I want to be prepared." Harry followed Fury inside as they reached the bridge. Fury walked up to the console in the center and looked over the various agents before turning to the agent closest to him. "Hill, what's our status on Coulson and Romanov?"
The agent, who Harry had met once before when she bailed him and Tony out in DC and knew to be Fury's right hand, stood up from the console she was looking over. "Coulson has managed to wrangle Stark and Romanov has picked up Banner from where he managed to hide himself away."
Fury nodded, "and Rogers?"
"Captain Rogers is on board currently. He is in his room getting settled."
Harry had enough. "I believe it is my turn now. Fury I want to know what you were doing in the compound."
Fury groaned a part of him had been hoping Harry would drop it but seeing as he had no other choice, he turned back towards Hill. "I'm going to be in conference room B. Hill you are in charge until I return." Fury turned around and led Harry from the room, grabbing one of the tablets on the way out.
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Arriving at the conference room, Harry walked in and took a seat. Fury walked in and closed the door before pushing a button on the wall causing the metal shutters to come down over the windows followed by the door secure itself into place before a voice said overhead "SCIF MODE INTIATED."
Once Fury was seated, Harry immediately started in on him. "what was SHIELD experimenting on at that compound? I think would be a good place to start... Don't you, Director?"
Fury nodded and pushed a few buttons on his tablet. An image of a blue cube appeared up on the screen. "We call it the Tesseract, an item of immense power. It has popped up a several times throughout history dating back quite awhile before vanishing around the early 1800's. It wasn't seen again until 1942 when Hydra the Nazi's science division discovered it in Norway."
Flicking the screen on the tablet, he brought up some pictures of weapons and what appeared to be several mid-sized bombs. "Using the energy that they were able to siphon from the Tesseract, Hydra was able to make weapons capable of completely obliterating enemy soldiers leaving nothing behind. They also made bombs with ten times the destructive power of a nuke. It was only thanks to the work of Captain Steve Rogers that the plane carrying the bombs was stopped; at what was believed to be the cost of his own life he brought the plane down."
Harry nodded. "We'll come back to the BELIEVED to be part… what was SHIELD doing with the Tesseract?"
Swiping once more, Fury brought up images of several planes. "Well, during the search for Captain Rogers in the area of the Arctic Circle, Howard Stark rediscovered the cube. SHIELD, then known as the Strategic Scientific Reserve or the SSR, took custody of the cube. We believed we could use the power to develop light speed engines capable of helping us travel to other worlds. To that end we developed what we coded Project Pegasus. While we were able to develop several planes able to travel faster and further than anything we had available at the time, the lightspeed engine however was ultimately a failure. We then shelved any plans we had at the time for use of the Tesseract."
"So what's changed? You wouldn't just suddenly decide to start using the cube again… you're attempting to hold back on me, Fury. Remember I am under no obligation to help you here. either give me the information or I will leave and let you deal with it yourself."
"Every first world country as of late has been in a race for clean energy. We knew the Tesseract was able to provide limitless amounts of energy and we wanted to find a way to harness that energy. We opened that compound recently as way to minimize potential dangers of people getting hurt by the cube."
Harry started laughing. "Let's say for even one second I believe that… there is no way that the biggest spy agency to ever exist is going to give two shits about clean energy, but you know what for now I will take that. I am sure once Tony is here, he can help me figure out what you were actually doing." Standing up Harry walked over pushing the button on the wall he brought the room out of lock down, "we should probably get back to the bridge."
R
Reaching the bridge, there were two men on the bridge who Harry had never met before. Harry held out his hand and introduced himself. "Hello, gentlemen. I'm Harry Potter."
The blonde man responded first, shaking Harry's outstretched hand. "the name is Steve Rogers. Guess you are going to be part of whatever team they are putting together here to help recapture the Tesseract."
"Sort of, I happened to be on scene during the theft of the cube, only reason I didn't retrieve it then was due to wanting to save the lives of the men and women trapped under the rubble."
Rogers nodded. "very noble, Mr. Potter."
Turning to face the last man Harry held his hand out to him, "and you are?"
"Bruce Banner. I'm a physicist who specializes in Gamma Rays I was brought in to assist in helping locate the cube."
Before Harry could speak, one of the agents spoke up. "Director Fury, sir we have received a facial recognition hit on Loki."
"Wait, Loki is behind this?" Harry asked stunned.
"We are unsure if it is actually Loki who is behind this. The man who appeared using what appeared to be the power of the cube, claimed to be Loki of Asgard, but we have no way to confirm." Turning to face the agent who had pointed out the facial recognition, Fury barely paused. "where do we have recognition?"
"Stuttgart, Germany."
Fury turned to face Steve and Harry, "suit up I am sending the two of you and Agent Romanoff to capture "Loki" and bring him back here for containment."
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Standing at the back of the quinjet, Harry turned to face Steve who was dressed in his Captain America uniform, "you up for this, Captain?"
The man nodded. "I'll cover you back if you cover mine, though you still haven't said what it is that you do?"
Harry smirked. Before he could answer, Natasha spoke up from the cockpit, "We are over the drop site gentlemen."
"Guess you're going to have wait and see." Harry took a running start and jumped from the plane. As he fell, he pushed his magic into the Staff, bringing his Armour out and taking flight towards the location Loki was at.
Steve turned to face Natasha, "he didn't take a parachute with him when he jumped."
Her lips curled into a light smile. "He has a few special abilities that mean he doesn't need one."
Steve shook his head grabbed his chute and jumped out of the plane. Harry appeared to have slowed down to meet Steve. Catching up to Harry, Steve couldn't help but notice he looked different. "you didn't have that armour when you jumped out, right? Where did that come from?"
Harry laughed, slowed and angled his descent. "One of the perks of what I can do and having spent the past six months on Asgard."
Touching down, the two heard the tail-end of Loki's speech about humans deserving to be subjugated. Harry spoke up. "You know, I am not really a fan of men or women who try subjugate other due to perceived inferiority."
Steve, who by now had finished detaching his chute spoke up as well, "the last time I was in Germany and there was a man attempting to cause others to kneel, it didn't work out too well for him either."
Loki snarled and fired blasts at Harry and Steve. Harry proved to be the faster as he quickly threw up a shield which absorbed the blast from Loki's scepter. Turning his head, Harry looked back at Steve. "Alright Cap, when I drop the shield you get the civilians out of here, I will take care of Loki and keep him distracted." He nodded and Harry prepared himself. "NOW!" Dropping the shield, Steve moved forward and Harry fired several blasts directly at Loki using the power of the Staff to make sure they didn't go off course.
Loki was quick to block the shots. He spun the scepter in a circle, creating a sort of shield in front of him, absorbing the spells. "You will have to better than, Seidr if you wish to stop me… though that Staff is interesting; wherever did you get it?"
"I found it laying around during my time on Asgard. Looked like it was gathering dust and your father was quite ok with me taking it with when I returned to Earth." Harry shrugged and used the power of the Staff pushing his magic through the white moonstone on the top. He picked Loki up and threw him in the opposite direction of the crowd of civilians where he crashed, hopefully painfully, into the nearby fountain.
Loki stood up snarling. "So you have a few new tricks with that Staff of yours Seidr, well I have a few new tricks too." Loki faded from sight and suddenly reappeared directly in-front of Harry placing the tip of his scepter against his chest.
R
The next thing Harry knew, he felt a foreign presence pushing against the shields of his mind. Pushing back against the invading force, Harry started sweating. Not since he had faced Voldemort had anyone tried to get through his shields like this before. Focusing himself into his mindscape, Harry found what looked to be Loki pushing at the outside of his shields, but he looked different; Loki was yellow and glowing.
Summoning the mental representation of the Staff, Harry went on the offensive firing off several concussive blasts at the not-Loki, Loki that was attempting to invade his mind, however the blasts seemed to have no effect beyond stunning the figure for a fraction of a second. Frowning, Harry replicated his move from earlier pushing his magic through the Staff and out through the moonstone it wrapped around the figure and Harry threw it away from his shields.
He conjured a box around the figure and began tightening it slowly, compressing it, hoping to force it out. However, the Not-Loki wasn't to be defeated that easily. Using a power Harry didn't know it could possess, it shattered the box and sent the pieces at Harry.
With just a thought, Harry vanished the pieces. Needing to act quickly, Harry reached out and bound the Not-Loki. Harry quickly started thinking the Not-Loki didn't seem like it was going to go down without more of a fight and he wasn't going to be able to keep it bound forever. It would eventually get out and make its way through his shields and into his mindscape where it could fulfill whatever its purpose was. However, if it couldn't find his mind then there was nothing it would be able to do.
That gave Harry an idea focusing Harry created a mental representation of his invisibility cloak from his old dimension. Enlarging it, he brought it around the representation of his mind and made it vanish, detectable only to him. He smirked when the Not-Loki figure appeared confused at the sudden disappearance of his mind. Harry took advantage of the confusion to push him out of his mind.
R
Coming out of his trance, he realized only a few seconds had passed thanks to time moving at its own pace inside his mind. Harry looked up at Loki, who still had a look of confusion on his face. "This usually works," was all Loki was able to say before Harry used the Staff, brought it up knocking the Scepter from Loki's hands and sending it flying from the god's hands. Harry quickly bound him and grabbed the Scepter.
Tony finally decided to show up. "Hey metal head! You're a little late getting here. I already wrapped everything up, but if you would like to help us escort this one back to SHIELD, we do need to figure what he did with Tesseract."
Tony smiled, "next time, save some bad guy for the rest of us." Touching down just behind Loki, Tony hoisted him up. "I'll load him onto the plane, you grab the sharp pointy metal thing and grab oldy over there and let's go.