A blue light shot upward, splitting open the sky.

Thor began to swing his hammer round and around, ready to take off. I drew Obsidian.

The Chitauri began to pour through the portal, quickly swarming around like bees.

I took a deep breath, preparing my mind for the battle that was about to take place.

"Hey." I heard Thor say softly.

I looked over to him.

"Going in alive." He said raising an eyebrow.

"Coming out alive ." I replied, giving him a small smile, and slapping his hand to mine.

"Now would be a great time for everyone to join in" Tony said over the earpiece.

We launched ourselves off the building towards Loki, who was now wearing his full battle armor and watching the destruction of the city. As we landed on the balcony, the stone cracked beneath our feet.

"Loki!" Thor said angrily. "Turn off the tesseract or I'll destroy it."

Loki laughed, but didn't look at Thor. His eyes were only on me. A smirk made it's way across his face. "You can't, there is no stopping it, there is only the war!" Loki shouted back and shot a bolt of energy out of his scepter.

I put a telekinetic shield between us, absorbing the impact of the blast.

"Loki, please it isn't too late for you to do the right thing." I said more calmly than I felt.

The Chitauri continued to spew from the portal, riding their chariots down past us into the large city below.

"Poor innocent Cade. You still think you have a hold on me." He chuckled, his eyes hardened. "But I will never listen to another word that comes out of your whore mouth."

That was rude.

Thor yelled and launched himself at Loki, just as Loki moved jumped towards us off the platform. They met mid air, sparks flying from their weapons.

Loki's scepter charged up again aiming at me, but Thor knocked it away with his hammer, causing the blast to hit the lettering on the side of the building.

"You are just always in the way brother!" Loki roared attempting to knock Thor aside to get to me.

"I will not allow you to hurt Cade." Thor grunted pushing Loki away from me.

Loki paced in front of us, a murderous look in his eyes. "How long did it take you to coax her into your bed when I was gone? I probably wasn't even gone an hour before you two started f-"

Thor tackled Loki, cutting off what he was about to say, but I think I had a good idea as to what it was.

Loki kicked Thor off of him and rolled away towards his scepter.

"Loki believe me when I say this, there is nothing going on between Thor and I, there never has been," I said calmly. Obsidian was clutched in my right hand, a menacing sword, but I wasn't sure if I could use it on Loki.

"Liar!" Loki bellowed shooting another bolt of energy, this time I couldn't stop it as it raced towards me.

I raised Obsidian to absorb the blast, but even that knocked me back a few feet. Loki was in front of me in a flash, bringing the spear down at my head. I ducked around him and kicked him in the back, making him fall on his knees.

Every building around us was exploding in a volley of gunfire, and I could hear the screams of the citizens drifting up towards us.

"Look around you Loki!" Thor said grabbing him. "Do you think that this madness will end in your rule?"

Loki paused, and for a second I saw something flash in those eerie blue eyes of his.

Why are they blue? Wait, maybe the scepter didn't just mess with us, maybe it messed with him too.

"It's too late to stop it." Loki murmured eyes wide.

"We can stop this together." I said getting closer to him, that was my mistake.

Loki flashed forward a small dagger in his hand, and shoved it through the soft part of my armor into my side.

Pain exploded in my body as I fell backward away from him.

Thor yelled loudly and kicked Loki away from me. Worry flashed in Thor's eyes and he took a step forward to see if I was okay.

The jet carrying Steve, Natasha, and Clint rose next to us, targeting Loki with the large gun on the front of the ship.

Loki whipped around and shot a energy pulse at them. The engine on the side of the ship exploded and they started to plummet to the ground.

In anger Thor grabbed Loki and threw him to the ground, but Loki rolled off the platform and onto a passing ship.

My pain forgotten, I launched myself off the building and began free falling towards the ground quickly.

The jet was below me, and I could feel the strain of Natasha's mind as she attempted to keep the jet aloft.

I flew under the jet swiftly and caught it in my hands, slowing it down. My muscles were straining under the effort, but I knew that I wouldn't have been able to telekinetically stop this, it was too big, and spending that much energy this early in a fight was not a good idea. Thor appeared next to me, catching the jet in his hands, worry on his face. The landing gear came out around us as we neared the ground, and we was able to land the jet softly.

I let out the breath I had been holding and looked around at the destruction around me. It had only been a few minutes, but it already looked like a war zone. Broken bits of building littered the streets and people were running and screaming, running in every direction.

Everyone came out of the ship and looked around at the destruction.

Thor put his hand to my side, where the blade had pierced my skin. I winced as his hand touched me, and worry flashed in his eyes.

"Thor I'm okay, it's just a flesh wound. I promise it didn't pierce anything important okay?" I said.

He pursed his lips, but let out a breath. "Okay."

"Thor don't worry about me, if you worry about me, you are going to get hurt." I said frowning.

He laughed. "Cade there isn't a day that I don't worry about you." He paused. "But then again that's mostly because you tend to charge into battle more than I do, and that's saying something."

I laughed. "You know that's because I am more ferocious than you."

"As adorable as this is, can you save it until we are not all about to die." Natasha said as she loaded the gun in her hand.

"You worry too much." I replied looking over at her. "Plus this will be fun."

Thor chuckled and raised Mjolnir above him.

'Your and my definition of fun is very different." Natasha said smiling.

I shrugged.

"Thank you for landing the jet." Steve said to us

"You're welcome." As I said this a Chitauri squadron landed on the other side of the street. I picked up Obsidian from where it had fallen from my hand.

The Chitauri roared, challenging me.

Oh you want a fight, I'll show you a fight.

"Echo off." I growled.

Echo appeared in front of me, a shadow with claws and teeth.

He ripped into the Chitauri like they were made of paper, and we all charged in after him. The dark blood of the Chitauri stained the edge of my blade as I slashed my way through the fray.

A Chitauri rose in front of me, but I cut him in half with Obsidian and raised my sword to absorb the blast from a Chitauri with a blaster ducking behind a car.

"Ready Clint?" I yelled.

"For what?" He asked.

I telekinetically threw the car away, taking away the group of Chitauri's hiding place.

"Oh I get it!" Clint shouted as he let loose a volley of arrows, cutting down the aliens where they stood.

A roar cut off my reply, and I looked upward towards the portal.

Why did I have to look up?

A giant flying beast soared out of the portal. It was bigger than anything I had ever seen in my life, and a sense of dread clawed at my spine.

"Does anyone know if Bruce is coming back?" I asked, pretending to be calm.

"He'll be here!" I heard Tony shout.

"Hopefully soon." I mumbled.

"Heard that." Tony gruffed.

As the beast flew over us, countless Chitauri shot out of the armor grabbing onto the buildings around us.

Obsidian lengthened into an axe in my hand.

Echo roared out a challenge to the Chitauri who clung to the building above.

Thor rose off the ground and flew upward taking down a few of the speeders that raced past.

"There are civilians trapped in those buildings." Steve murmured looking over the side of the bridge. He was hesitant to leave us, how cute.

"We got this." Natasha told him confidently.

"Do you think you can hold them off?" Steve asked Clint.

"Captain, it would be my genuine pleasure." Clint replied shooting a volley of arrows at the oncoming swarm of Chitauri.

Steve jumped off the bridge and raced towards the people who were in danger.

"You sure about that?" I asked Natasha.

"Nope." She replied opening fire.

I slashed at the oncoming squadron of Chitauri. Echo stayed in the forefront ripping and tearing at anything that got close enough to us, but we still weren't making a dent. Steve came back up to the fight, going hand to hand with every Chitauri that challenged him

"If we get out of this Cade, I'm going to show you what real fun is." Natasha yelled over the explosions around us.

"I'll look forward to it." I grunted, swinging my axe through a Chitauri's back severing his spinal cord.

Lightning reigned down from above taking out every remaining Chitauri on the bridge with us. Thor landed next to me, shaking the ground with the force of his landing. Pain flared through my side, but I ignored it.

There were more pressing things.

"What's the story upstairs?" Steve asked Thor, as he wiped off blood from the front of his shield.

"The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor sighed.

"He's right. We have to deal with these guys." Tony's voice rang through the earpiece.

"How do we do this?" Natasha asked us.

I shrugged.

"As a team." Steve replied.

"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor said stoically, his grip on Mjolnir tightening.

"Get in line." Clint said from behind us as he scavenged arrows from the fallen.

"Save it. Loki is going to keep these things focused on us and that's what we need. Without him, these things could run wild. We got Stark up top and he's gonna run us..." Steve trailed off.

I turned and looked behind us. Bruce was riding up on a loud mechanical bike.

"Bruce you came!" I said smiling. He gave me a small shy smile.

"So this all seems horrible." He said pursing his lips together.

An explosion shook the ground beneath our feet.

"I've seen worse." Natasha replied, raising an eyebrow.

Bruce sighed. "I'm sorry about that."

"No, we could use some worse." She said giving him a smile.

Were they flirting? That is so cute.

I sent a sly look at Thor, who rolled his eyes at me.

"Stop." He said smiling.

"Come on, you know it's cute." I replied laughing.

"Stark we got him." Steve said calmly.

"Then tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to him." Tony said mysteriously.

He rounded the corner, with the giant floating beast following him closely behind.

Well this should be fun.

"I don't see how that's a party." Natasha mumbled, watching Tony try to out race the giant creature behind him.

Bruce turned and walked calmly forward towards the monster.

"Dr. Banner I think now is a good time for you to get angry." Steve shouted.

"That's my secret Captain, I'm always angry." Bruce called over his shoulder.

Just before the creature slammed into him, Bruce shifted, becoming taller and wider and finally greener.

His fist slammed into the face of the creature, causing a chain reaction through the body. The creature's momentum propelled the tail end to rise off the ground so that it was above us, about to slam onto us.

"Hold on" Tony said shooting a weapon into the tail end as it fell towards us.

I threw up a telekinetic shield protecting us from the explosion that rained down guts and bits of blood from above.

Not Bruce roared out a challenge to the Chitauri that clung to the walls above us, and Echo snarled bearing his teeth.

I looked upward at the portal as countless others spilled forth, including two more of the flying monstrosities.

It was going to be a long day.