Welcome to the final chapter of the Avenger's movie. After this one there will be another arc that revolves around Kokoro. BTW In the middle of the chapter is switching constantly from Stark's POV and Kokoro's POV. In case you get confuse in one point.
I was going to post this chapter, yersterday XD But i was tired. Did you enjoy it? Let me know.
Chapter 12: Avengers Assemble
The situation was getting worst by the second. In a couple of hours, New York will belong to them and later maybe the whole world if they couldn't defeat Loki and the invaders. Steve, Natasha and Clint were fighting in the streets. Not long after, Thor appear and give them a hand. The area was secure for now but they still have a whole city to protect. They couldn't do it by theirselves
"There's no end to this... How do we do this?" Ask Natasha
"As a team" Steve replied
"I have unfinished business with Loki" Said Thor
"Yeah? Well, get in the line" Said Clint
"Save it. Loki's going to keep this fight focused on us, and that's what we need. Without him, these things could run wild. We got Stark and Kokoro up top. They are going to need us to-" Steve stop when he heard the sound of a motorcycle behind him. He turn around and Bruce Banner appear on top of one.
"So... this all seems horrible" He said and get off the motorcycle
"I've seen worse" Said Natasha
"Sorry" Banner apologies
"No, we could use a little worse" She replied. Steve talk with Stark through the earpiece
"Stark, we got him" Said Steve
"Banner?" Stark ask
"I told you he'll come. He was coming in a motorcycle. What do you expect?" Said Kokoro
"Well, then tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you" Said Stark and he appear with Kokoro flying away from the giant monster
"I don't see how that's a party" Said Natasha. Banner walk in the monster's direction, he was very calm about it
"Dr Banner" Said Steve "Now might be a really good time for you to get angry"
"That's my secret, Captian" He turn around to see Steve. He's eyes start to turn gree "I'm always angry" He said and in matter of seconds he turn into the Hulk while he with a single punch stop the monster, breaking it's armour in the process. Stark shot at the monster's soft spot under the armour and it exploded. The aliens scream at them as soon they saw one of their more potent weapon fall apart. The team gather around in a circle to watch everyone's back. In the distant they could hear the people chearing because of the destruction of the monster. Out of the portal more of them start to show up.
"Guys" Natasha point at the sky
"Call it, Captian" Said Stark. He was giving the leader status to Steve. He have more experience in that
"All right, listen up. Until we can close that portal, our priority is containment. Barton, i want you on that roof. Eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash" Steve explain
"Can you give me a lift?" Clint ask to Stark
"Right. Better clench up, Legolas" He said and take Clint with him
"Thor, you got to try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You got the lightning. Light the bastards up" He said and Thor leave "Kokoro, you got to defend the civilians. If you see anyone that is in the middle of the battle, take them out. When you finish, help Stark"
"Ryōkai" Kokoro smile and fly away to help the people
"Romanoff. You and me, we stay here on the ground. We keep the fighting here. And Hulk" Steve get Hulk's attention "Smash" Once he said that word, Hulk smirk and jump to literally smash every enemy he saw
Kokoro fly away and saw a group of aliens attacking people in the entrance of a bank and take hostage some of them. She landed and slash the aliens with precision. The hostages look at Kokoro with wide eyes. She keep away the sword and walk at them.
"All of you run away. Get as fast as you can away from the Stark Tower. We are getting the situation under control" She said and more aliens arrive. She take out the sword again "Dammit" The aliens jump at her but they didn't stood a chance against her. The Hanzo Masamune could cut down almost everything that touch. The battle wasn't great, Kokoro finish in a heartbeat. When she finish, she look at the people "Now is your chance, Go!" She said and everyone run away in the direction Kokoro told them to go. She fly again, only to be hit by one of the monsters.
She fall to the ground but stand up again. In the blink of an eye she was already surrounded by aliens "This must be a joke" She said. The sword wasn't in her belt. It was in the ground near the army of aliens that surround her. She extend her arm and the sword fly at her like Thor's hammer. She breath slowly and run at them...
"Director Fury, the council has made a decision" Fury wasn't happy to hear at the Council at this moment, much less hearing the decision they had made. The war wasn't lost yet and they already jump to the last resort
"I recognise the Council has made a decision. But given that it's a stupid-ass decision, i have elected to ignore it" Fury replied
"Director, you're closer thatn any of our subs. You scramble that jet-"
"That is the island of Manhattan, Councilman! Until i'm certain my team can't hold it, I will not order a nuclear strike against a civilian population"
"If we don't hold them here, we lose everything"
"If i send that bird out, we already have" He said and ended the transmition
Kokoro was standing in the middle of the corpses of the invaders, she was grabing her arm that Hulk break not long ago. If she push it too hard it will break again. She put the sword in her belt and prepare to fly but Stark fall next to her. She run at him
"Stark!" Before she could reach him. Aliens appear and shot at her in the back "Dammit!" She throw the sword at one of them and stab it in the head. She open her hand and move the sword to the others and kill them before calling back the sword. "Stark, are you alright?!"
"Yes, that's the armour for" He stand up "Still, they hit hard" Stark look at Kokoro, one of her sides was bleeding "You are bleeding"
"What?" She ask and look down "I didn't feel it too deep. Don't worry, The wound will close in no time"
"Watch out!" Stark yell. Behind her a dozen of ships appear and shoot at them. Kokoro turn around only to meet the lasers right at her face. She raise her hands and a shield made of darkness appear before them. It reflect the lasers but a couple of them hit Kokoro. She fall to the ground and Stark shoot at the ships destroying them. He take Kokoro and look at the wounds "Nakamura, answer me"
"L-Lasers hurt more than the demons claws" She mutter. She touch her stomach and look at the blood coming out "Shit" She said out loud and stand up
"Stay down. Don't stand up, you will hurt yourself"
"I'm fine... Just give me time" She breath heavily
Stark was worried about Kokoro's condition. He couldn't help it because she is younger than him and as an adult it's kind of his responsability to look after her. He's afraid that out of nowhere she died in his arms, he don't want to hold someone in their last breath. It break his heart.
"I'll take you out of here. You need a doctor"
"No!" Kokoro yell "I'm fine! Just... clean the place. I need time for the wounds to close up" She decided to sit down in the street near a destroyed Taxi "Can you do me that favor, Stark?"
"That's what you want?"
"That's what i want" Tony sigh. Then someone start to speak to him through the Communicator in his suit
"Stark, do you hear me?!" It was Fury "You have a missile headed straight for the city"
"How long?" He ask
"Three minutes, max. The payload will wipe out Midtown"
"Dammit!" He said and look at Kokoro. He couldn't let that missile arrive "Kokoro, i need to go... Just hold on there for a moment. I'll tell Rogers or Thor to come here"
"W-What?" She ask
"Jarvis, put everything we got into the thrusters" He said and fly away, leaving Kokoro alone
Steve and Thor were fighting against the aliens in the streets. They were coming in groups. Steve got shoot by one of them but Thor defend Steve from the other attacks and defeat the remaining invaders by throwing a car at them with the help of his Hammer. Thor help Steve to get up, both of them were tired.
"Are you ready for another bout?" Thor ask
"What, are you getting sleepy?" Steve replied
"Guys, Kokoro is hurt" Said Stark through the earpiece "I need you to take care of her, ASAP. She's near you two"
"How bad is she?" Steve ask
"She's bleeding out"
"We are on our way!" Thor use his hammer to fly and saw Kokoro at two blocks from them. He told Steve where she was and he went first to her. Thor landed on the street and saw Kokoro grabing her stomach and breathing heavily. He leave the Hammer aside and grab her. Kokoro yell
"ARGH! It hurts!" She scream "Don't touch me. Just don't let any of them attack me. I need time for the wounds to close, Thor"
"I understand. Don't worry. I'll help you"
"Where's Stark?" She ask. Steve arrive to where they are and Thor told him they need to protect her for a couple of minutes. Not long after, Natasha speak throught the earpiece
"I can close it. Can anybody copy? I can shut the portal down" She said
"Do it!" Said Steve
"No, wait" Said Stark
"Stark, these things are still coming"
"I got a nuke coming in. It's gonna blow in less than a minute" He said
"What?!"
Stark saw the missile making it's way to New York. He use all the energy to reach the nuke, when he finally have it in his back he said "And i know just where to put it" He was near the city and start to lift the missile to direct it right at the portal. He have to take the missile inside the portal.
"Stark, you know that's a one-way trip" Said Steve
"Save the rest for the turn, J" Tony know that there was a chance for him to not made it out alive. Still, he was going to save the city
"Sir, shall i try Miss Potts?" Jarvis ask Tony if he wanted to talk with Pepper Potts.
"Might as well" He said and call her. She wasn't answering "Please... answer the phone, Pepper. Please"
Kokoro feel the wound finally closing up. She stop grabing her stomach and stand up. Then everyone look at the sky and everyone could see Tony Stark lifting the missile, it almost hit the Stark Tower. It was now flying right at the portal at full speed, in the blink of an eye Stark disappear inside the portal along side the missile. Silence filled the streets as the missile explode inside the portal... no one saw Stark coming out.
"Close it" Said Steve. Kokoro sigh and leave the sword on the ground, she walk at the middle of the street at look at the portal.
"Kokoro?" Steve ask "What are you...?" Before he could finish, Kokoro fly right at the portal leaving a trace of black smoke "Wait!"
Stark saw as the missile go straight to the invaders ship and explode, killing every last of them. Stark couldn't breath, he was closing his eyes. Kokoro enter the portal and saw Stark floating in space. She extend her hand and try to reach him, while she do her oxigen was running out, she couldn't breath anymore. She was making an effort to not close her eyes. She take Stark's hands and fly again to the portal. She start to fall inside of it and let go of Stark as soon they were back on earth, not because they were safe now. It was because she pass out. Both of them fall to the city. Steve and Thor were looking at them and smile
"Son of a gun... they made it back" Said Steve but his smile disappear when he saw that neither of them was slowing down. They were falling to the ground
"They're not slowing down" Said Thor and jump to catch Kokoro. Hulk jump from another building and catch Stark. Hulk fall in a car and leave Stark in the ground. Thor landed with Kokoro in his arms, he put her in the ground and check on her. She was breathing, she was alive. She just passed out "She is fine. What about him?" Thor take Stark's mask and look at him. Steve couldn't know if he was breathing or not due to his armour. For a moment they didn't talk. They fear the worst... Hulk roared at him loudly and Stark react. He's eyes were wide open and searching for air. Steve let out a little laugh
"W-What the hell...? What just happened?" He look around "Please tell me nobody kissed me" Steve sigh
"We won..."
"All right, yay!" Said Stark "Hurray. Good Job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day"
"Fine" Said Kokoro and make an effort to stand up again. Her legs were weak. Thor catch her before she fall "Enjoy your day off. I have to... go back to Japan and go back to the rutine"
"Kokoro, are you okay?" He ask
"Not really. Your armour was very cold up there. Space is really cold" She replied and Stark was confuse
"She get you out of the portal, Stark" Said Steve and get up
"You did?" Stark ask and Kokoro nodded "I can't believe it. He what about dinner. I invite you all dinner. Have any of you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but i want to try it"
"We're not finished yet" Said Thor
"And then shawarma after"
"Only if you pay" Kokoro finally stand up by herself and cough blood "... And maybe a hospital after that"
Not long after that, Loki was again under custody of S.H.I.E.L.D. Everyone return to the Helicarrier and attended their wounds. The only one that walk away with scars was Kokoro due to all the attacks she receive and the low regeneration speed. Banner spend some time with her to examine her arm that Hulk break early that day. It wasn't broke anymore but it was still weak, he give some medicine that will help in the recovery even though Kokoro insisted that she don't need any. The main reason was because he was still feeling guilty for that. After that, Kokoro walk to the control room of the Helicarrier, there Stark, Steve, Natasha and Clint were watching the news. Kokoro stand next to Stark.
"Hey, Chaos Girl" Said Stark "This is for your stepfather" He give her a photo of his Iron Man suit and an autograph.
"Thanks... i don't have anything for you"
"You safe me. That's enough" He pat on her back. They look at the news, the monitors show a lot of TV news around the globe. All of them were congratulate the Avengers, only a few weren't happy for the destruction of the city..
"Despite the devastation of what has been confirmed as an extraterrestrial attack, the extraordinary heroics of the group known as the Avengers has been to many a cause not only for comfort but for celebration" "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break" "These so-called "heroes" have to be held responsible for the destruction done to this city. This was their fight. Where are they now?" "Though questions are being asked about the Avengers themselves. Their sudden appearance and equally sudden disappearance-" "What, this is all somehow their fault?" Kokoro look at all the news and look at a familiar face in one of the monitors. She walk to it and saw her mother talking in the new of Japan "I'm so proud of her. When she was a child i didn't think that she would be part of something so big... she help to save New York and she save Japan... She's my little piece of joy, my heart, that's why she's called Kokoro. It means heart" A tear came out of Kokoro's left eye and smile. Her happiness was interrupted by another TV news in Japan
"There's still questions that Kokoro Nakamura have to answer. She still didn't answer for the destruction of Tokyo last year. According to our sources, Mikaboshi is Nakamura's father. She is the only that need to answer for her father. She's called a heroe but she's not" The man in the TV said. Another one was discussing with him "But she can't answer to that. If we think of it, she's not human to begin with. She's half god. She's above our laws, or what? You want to send Izanagi to prison for not helping the country during the War?" The discussion still going
"... Hell awaits for me when i get back" She said
"Not really" Fury appear next to her "They are giving their opinions, it's true that opinions divide a country but in the end is that... opinions. Like that guy just say. As a demi-god you are above the law of this world. We talk with Izanagi and the Prime minister some time ago. We keep it in secret until you accepted working with us"
"I see"
"If something comes up, call me. I'll help you" Fury give her a card with a number
"Thanks for this"
"No problem, Nakamura. You and the rest of the Avengers safe New York. You all earn vacations"
The Avengers reunite in the middle of Central Park, Thor was bringing Loki who was handcuffed. Dr Selvig have the Tesseract inside a suitcase, agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. were securing the area. Not so far away were people that wanted to look at their heroes. Selvig carefully place the Tesseract inside a little chamber while Thor say his goodbye to the team. Selvig give Thor the Chamber, he and Loki grab it and they were teleported to Asgard. After Thor leave, everyone say their goodbyes to each others. Stark leave with Banner to work in future projects, Steve leave in a motorcycle to a unknown place, Natasha and Clint go back to S.H.I.E.L.D and Kokoro fly back to Japan. Satisfied of what she and the others had made... The save the world
Nick Fury was in front of the Council again. They were demanding answers "Where are the Avengers?" One of them ask
"I'm not currently tracking their whereabouts. I'd say they've earned a leave of absence"
"And the Tesseract?"
"The Tesseract is where it belongs. Out of our reach"
"That's not your call"
"I didn't make it. I just didn't argue with the god that did"
"So... you let him take it and the war criminal, Loki, who should be answering for his crime"
"I think he Will be"
"I don't think you understand what you've started, letting the Avengers loose on this world. They're dangerous"
"They surely are, and the whole world knows it... Every world knows it"
"Was that the point of all this? A statement?"
"... A promise" He said and exit the room. Leaving the Council without any other word to say
In a dark place... far away from the world, buried in the void fulled with endless darkness... a figure locked down by chains that pierce it's body, start to move slowly. The creature open it's eyes... it's completely dark eyes and look around the Void. A smile creep out of it's face. The infinite silence of the void heard for the first time in millenia, a sound...
"I... Am... Hungry"