Finally! I'm sorry for not updating in so long, but I had no internet for the past few months, so wasn't really able to work on the chapter. I've been working on this fanfic a lot the last few days, but what with the long typing and not checking all the time, there may be several errors or parts that don't quite make sense. Feel free to point out those errors (in a decent way) or ask for clarification/ tell me if something is confusing. I'm not sure how good this is considering it's the first battle scene I've written. The rest of this fic that will contain the events of the Avengers movie will end in the next chapter FYI. Then I'll move into the following events with some developmental fluff and eventually romance. Still, I'm sorry for not updating in so long, sorry this AN is so long, and I'm still taking OCs to be in this fic or one of the other ones I have planned. Also, don't be too harsh, okay? I don't do this to purposefully get cruel feedback... Thanks for reading this note if you do!

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Adrian yelled at the Chitauri soldier staring at him and 'Mark' and they went to attack it, yet Adrian froze when a female voice cried out, "NO! Please don't hurt me! I only just escaped them with my baby!"

Puzzled when Adrian froze, 'Mark' turned around to look at him. All he had heard was something garbled loudly from the Chitauri in front of them. Adrian wasn't looking at him though. No, he was looking at the Chitauri soldier. To Bilbo's surprise Adrian garbled something back.

"What do you mean? Why would you escape your own species, especially with a baby?"

"I'm not Chitauri. I only look like one because I had to hide amongst them after they killed my species. My baby is the only other one of my kind and I had to take him with me. Please, I come in peace and I wish to help defend this beautiful planet."

"What are you and how do you look like the Chitauri?" Adrian interrogated after absorbing the new information.

"I come from the planet Mutationem where I was an individual of the Mutata. We are able to change form into any living creature, but are limited in certain ways that vary by each Mutata. I change into any creature I touch and focus on. My baby can't change form just yet since he was born yesterday."

"Can you show me?"

"Yes... but I need to touch something living," Junn responded.

Thinking for just a moment, Adrian nodded before he morphed into a woman and offered the alien his hand. Shocked, the Mutata reached out and focused on the offered hand. Soon two of the same woman stood next to each other, before Adrian morphed back.

Assessing the now changed alien, Adrian spoke again, this time in English, "Interesting. What's your name?"

"Junn," she answered in the tongue without even realizing it.

"Nice to meet you Junn. We'll trust you for now. I'm Adrian and this is-"

He was cut off when 'Mark' staggeredly interrupted, "All this weirdness is fine and dandy, but you do realize there's a battle going on around you?" His point was proven when an explosion happened a few feet away.

"Good point. Junn? Ready to kick some Chitauri behind?"

In response, Junn hefted her Chitauri gun, adjusted her bag and simply said, "Yes."

Good timing since as soon as she finished shots flew over their heads. Adrian turned to face the threat and made the tar beneath the approaching Chitauri melt before making glass bullets shoot through their heads. He paused and focused. When he felt a tingle rush down his spine he opened his eyes to see only Junn looking about frantically, her bag was gone. He calmed her by saying, "Don't worry. We're still with you and your baby is still with you I just made us all invisible since I don't want to be seen before I want to be seen, but… um... apparently I can't make you invisible at the moment. I'll make us visible for now, but don't worry if it happens again. Hang on."

Junn nodded once they faded into her view and they all made their way out through the city fighting any of the Chitauri forces. They avoided the Avengers fighting, but Adrian made everyone invisible except Junn when he saw Iron Man pass over several times. They continued back towards Stark Tower unworried since most of the time it looked like Junn was walking by herself. They only worried when some Chitauri started coming their way as Stark came passing over them again. Quickly thinking, Adrian made gasoline materialize on the street so that a blast hitting them from above would make them 'explode', and Junn had nothing to do with it.

Tony had turned to look at the lone Junn and Adrian whispered for her to pretend to head for a building. He was happy when he saw the robotically suited man nod before taking off. Junn came racing back and, after continuing the fighting for a few blocks, startled Adrian when she shot over his shoulder. Looking back Adrian saw more Chitauri and, getting tired of them quickly, he simply waved a hand and they were encased in a six-inch layer of glass drawn from nearby buildings.

They were getting closer to Stark Tower and Adrian shouted to 'Mark' to be heard over some of the explosions, "You know, I bet they'll have a pleasant surprise in my artistic masterpiece!"

Grinning when 'Mark' gave him an exasperated sigh, Adrian turned and redirected falling pieces of a building to harmlessly land on several dozen Chitauri instead of a bus of people. Adrian reached out and felt for any civilians who could be in danger. At the moment none were, except for those in the bus, but Adrian left them to be rescued by Hawkeye and the others since that was indeed what was happening. Adrian watched Junn as he took a breather (some of the material conjuring drained his energy quite immensely). She was shooting several Chitauri down with her gun, so she didn't notice Adrian taking a break. Nor did she notice the black-cloaked figure watching from nearby holding two bundles.

Adrian stood back up, his energy returned, and quickly eliminated the Chitauri Junn was having a bit of trouble fighting. He walked over to her and told her to just stop and rest for a few seconds She was breathing far too heavily in Adrian's opinion and her arms were shaking.

Loki looked down on the battle as he drove a Chitauri craft, gritting his teeth. What was happening? How could these pathetic mortals not be overrun by his forces already? There were too many for even him to count. Plus there was the leviathan he had ordered into the fight, but if 'the Avengers' weren't overly distracted by his forces they may be able to succeed. If the beast showed up, there'd be a serious problem. He watched as the battle raged around him.

"Well we got it's attention," Tony said to himself, his voice being picked up by the suit, "What the hell was step two?" He had just shot several rockets at the leviathan that was currently now going after him. He started leading it away from the buildings. Or at least he tried to.

Hawkeye and Blackwidow were fighting several Chitauri soldiers. Natasha with one of the Chitauri weapons and Clint with his bow and arrows. Two charging Chitauri were about to smash them when Captain America bashed into them with his shield and pitched in with the fight. It was only a few moments later that the Chitauri around the three were hit with bolts of lightning and Thor landed clumsily, momentarily having trouble with his injured side, before straightening with the help of a car.

"What's the story upstairs?" Steve asked him.

"The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable."

"Thor's right. We got to deal with these guys," Stark said over their com-links.

Natasha spoke up, "How do we do this?"

"As a team," Steve answered.

"I have unfinished business with Loki," Thor thundered.

"Yeah?" Agent Barton said snidely, "Get in line."

"Save it," Steve ordered, "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 up top. He'll need us to…"

He drifted off when they all heard a motorcycle approaching. Looking, they found Banner pulling up on a motorcycle. He got off and approached the rest of the Avengers as they walked to him, "So, this all seems horrible."

Natasha spoke, "I've seen worse."

"Sorry."

"No, we could use a little worse."

Steve spoke into the com-link, "Stark, we got him."

"Banner?"

"Just like you said."

"Then tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you."

All of them watched as Stark came around the corner a few blocks down followed by the leviathan.

"I don't see how that's a party," Natasha quipped.

As the thing started getting closer, Bruce turned to face it and Steve stepped forward, "Dr. Banner. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."

"That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry," was all Bruce said before turning and morphing into the Hulk just in time for his fist to smash the leviathan's face causing it to flip due to its body's continuing momentum.

"Hang on," Tony said and launched an explosive at the careening body as it fell towards the group and it exploded before going flying off the bridge they were on into the road below. Such was the anger that this caused in the Chitauri forces that those surrounding the group now in formation .

Flying somewhere above them, Loki ordered, "Send the rest."

This brought about more leviathans and Chitauri coming out of the portal.

Natasha, who was looking up and saw the new arrivals, shifted before warningly saying, "Guys."

"Call it, Captain."

"All right, listen up. Until we can close that portal, our priority is containment," Steve said before he started giving out orders, "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 paused for Barton to ask Stark, "Can you give me a lift?"

"Right. Better clench up, Legolas."

Once they had taken off Steve continued with his orders, "Thor, you got to try to bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You got the lightning. Light the bastards up."

He paused to not have to yell over the whirling of mjolnir before turning to Black Widow, "You and me, we stay here on the ground. We keep the fighting here. And Hulk…" He paused and the Hulk turned to him with a snarl, "Smash."

Adrian barely managed to dodge before a green blur rushed past him and massacred the Chitauri forces they were facing. He smiled and thought, The green rage monster has been released! His attention was taken off the raging Hulk by an amassing of lightning blasting with a crackle into the portal from the top of the Empire State Building. Good, two less leviathans.

"Sir."

Nick Fury looked up from the screens displaying the news coverage of the battle in New York at the approaching Agent Hill.

At his look, Hill told him, "The Council is on."

Fury turned back to the screens and closed the news feeds.

"Stark, you got a lot of strays sniffing your tail," Clint Barton spoke into the com-link as he shot a passing Chitauri craft.

"I'm just trying to keep them off the streets," Stark responded as he turned a corner.

"Well, they can't bank worth a damn," Clint responded before pressing a button on his bow and, without looking, shooting an explosive arrow that destroyed a passing craft. He said, "So find a tight corner."

"I will roger that."

Through several loops and sharp turns, Stark blasted through the city and took out the following Chitauri strays, "Nice call. What else you got?"

"Thor is taking on a squadron down on Sixth."

"And he didn't invite me," Tony said before joining Thor in his fight. While Thor was blasting several Chitauri with lightning from his mighty hammer, Tony fought with his repulsors. All was fine until there was a lull in the area they were fighting. That's when they saw it.

Tony had been taking a breather against a building near the street's end when he spotted what looked like a huge squadron of Chitauri at the edge of his vision. With a cry he turned the rest of the corner to blast a few with a repulsor beam, but stopped at the sight that met him. Thor, hearing Tony's war cry cutoff turned, ready to take out some Chitauri, but likewise froze at the surprising sight he saw once he rounded the same corner.

It wasn't the mass of Chitauri that surprised them, no, it was the six inches of glass encasing all of them. It was molded to their bodies so that they looked like big Chitauri statues. They looked at each other in a silent question.

"What thing could do this?" Thor muttered, barely being heard by Tony.

"Well, it seems to be on our side at the moment… What should we do about these? I vote we leave them for now."

"Yes. It may be best if we were to rejoin the battle instead of wasting away time on such menial tasks as eliminating these statuesque glass Chitauri. They can be dealt with at a later date." Thor swung his hammer and took off.

Natasha Romanov, Black Widow, Spy, Assassin, all things she was used to being referred to as, but she wasn't sure what she'd feel at being called 'Hero'. She didn't have time for such things at that moment though since she was just slammed onto a car's hood. She dodged the strike from the Chitauri in front of her before pushing it, causing it to turn around, and grabbing it in a choke-hold. The Chitauri soldier didn't struggle long before she shocked its neck with her Widow Bites. She grabbed the alien's weapon, a sort of high-tech spear with a bayonet-like blade and energy blaster, and shot it in its chest. On instinct she turned around ready to shoot, but paused when Captain America landed where she was aiming with his shield up.

Lowering her weapon, she leaned back against the same car she was slammed into as the Captain took a few steps forward, "Captain, none of this is going to mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal."

With both of them looking at the portal, Steve pointed out, "Our biggest guns couldn't touch it."

"Well, maybe it's not about guns."

Realizing what she meant Steve told her, "If you want to get up there, you're going to need a ride."

"I got a ride," she said looking at incoming Chitauri hovercrafts, before walking away a few steps, "I could use a boost, though."

Steve backed up and lifted his shield a bit, "Are you sure about this?"

"Yeah. It's gonna be fun," Natasha said before running at the crouching Captain. She jumped and aimed for his shield while at the same time he pushed up on her impact against it, causing her to get launched into the air. With a twirl she got hold of one of the crafts, leaving Steve behind to deal with a few Chitauri shooting at him.

Hanging off the end of one of the Chitauri crafts is something Natasha would never recommend. Still, she had to get to the driver. She took out the shooter in the back: a simple cut to the line holding them plus a kick equals Chitauri gone flying like a penguin dropped from six hundred feet. With a jump she dug some blades into the driver's shoulder blades.

"Okay, turn, turn," the craft veered severely, "Less! Less!"

Tony bashed through a bunch of Chitauri before momentarily landing by 'the Captain' and shooting several repulsor beams at surrounding Chitauri. He took off after reflecting a beam off of Capsicle's shield.

Adrian paused when he came up dry with new Chitauri. Looking over he spotted a small sapphire dragon somehow biting off a Chitauri' s… Ugh... Nope Adrian didn't want to think about it. He quickly turned to his right and saw Junn also catching a momentary break. She was watching something in awe though. Adrian stepped over a Chitauri corpse and looked to where her eyes were fixated. She first was watching Hawkeye take out a Chitauri ship, then Thor and the Hulk fighting atop a leviathan. As Thor hammered some of the thing's own shell into it, Adrian spoke up, causing Junn to jump, "Brilliant aren't they? And you haven't even seen all of them yet!"

"Indeed. I hope I can eventually settle down here. With protectors such as these, I believe I would no longer have to fear for my life at all times."

Adrian nodded and then smirked thinking about Thor getting launched by Hulk's fist in Grand Central Station. That would forever be funny. Turning to face Junn, Adrian noticed a Chitauri trying to sneak up on the two of them out of the corner of his eye. 'Mark' had been too busy with a different soldier to stop the other. Quickly, he tackled Junn to the ground-making sure the landing didn't damage her or the child- before shooting out a hand and causing the Chitauri armor to crush its wearer. When he helped Junn up, he surveyed the remains. It looked like a super-sized tin can.

Steve grunted as he struggled against the Chitauri trying to shishkabob his face with its spear. With a quick maneuver, the Captain managed to subdue the creature and got to his feet.

"Captain," Barton spoke through the com-link, "the bank on 42nd past Madison. They've cornered a lot of civilians in there."

"I'm on it."

Through some intense action and with some struggling, Steve managed to eliminate the Chitauri threat against the civilians while also getting blown out the window by a Chitauri explosive and landing on a car. Climbing off, he stopped to recover while the bank evacuation and some chaos ensued.

"Director Fury, the council has made a decision," the only councilwoman said.

"I recognize the council has made a decision. But given that it' a stupid-ass decision. I have elected to ignore it," Fury snarked.

"Director," the councilman taking up the largest computer window said, "you're closer than 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," the same councilman spoke.

"If I send that bird out, we already have," was all Fury said before he shut off the call.

Silly aren't they? To think they can stand against the force of a god and his glorious army. It's too bad the archer was saved from his influence, otherwise he wouldn't be foolish enough to shoot his silly arrows at Loki. With a request for help from the quim, Barton shot an arrow and Loki simply caught it in his hand. With a mocking smirk, Loki didn't realize-until he was blasted onto Stark Tower-that the arrow was explosive.

While Natasha tumbled onto the top of Stark Tower, Loki stood up on the balcony. He wasn't alone for long. With a roar the Incredible Hulk jumped onto the balcony and charged Loki, launching him through a window into the building straight at a wall. Loki struggled to his feet and caught sight of the Hulk starting to charge again.

Before he could be hit, Loki fully stood and shouted, "Enough," when the Hulk stopped Loki continued, "You are, all of you, beneath me. I am a god, you dull creature and I will not be bullied by-"

He was cut off by the Hulk violently grabbing his legs and promptly smashing him into the floor a few times back and forth. There was a pause before the Hulk deemed Loki worthy of being smashed into the floor a couple more times. Walking away, leaving Loki to whimper in pain in a small Loki-shaped crater, the Hulk snorted, "Puny god."

Natasha approached the Tesseract, but was brought to a pause when she heard a voice from her right, "The scepter…"

Looking she saw Doctor Selvig lying on his side propping himself up with his left arm. As she observed a bleeding cut on his forehead she spoke, "Doctor."

"Loki's scepter. The energy. The Tesseract can't fight, but you can't protect against yourself."

Somewhat misunderstanding, the Black Widow knelt closer, "It's not your fault. You didn't know what you were doing."

"Actually, I think I did. I built in a safety to cut the power source."

"Loki's scepter," Natasha said, understanding.

"It may be able to close the portal," Selvig paused looking over the edge to the balcony below, "And I'm looking right at it."

"Watch out!" Adrian yelled to Junn who somersaulted to her left out of the path of several Chitauri blasts. Seeing 'Mark' and her relatively secure Adrian turned around to fight more Chitauri soldiers, but paused when he saw one of the Leviathans starting to blow up.

"Guys take cover in that building!" Adrian gestured to a nearby building and they quickly ducked into an open restaurant mere moments before they saw Iron Man crash through a little glass hut and smash into a Taxi cab. They watched as he tried to stand up, but got shot into a sign on the building next to the one they were sheltered in. Adrian stood up from crouching behind a table.

"So, what is this place?" Junn asked.

Adrian looked around and read a sign. He laughed, before shaking his head and saying, "How ironic. It's a Shawarma joint. Hmm… I wonder…"

Junn and 'Mark' watched as Adrian altered his appearance, grabbed a waitress, whispered to her, and gave her something in a corner, before glancing at one another questioningly. They shrugged at each other and turned back in time to see Adrian finish and come walking towards them.

Adrian paused at their questioning looks, "Just a little surprise for later."

"Does this coincide with your phone?" 'Mark' asked.

"Maybe, but let's go." They left, but were careful to give the momentarily immobile Iron Man and nearby Chitauri a wide berth.

"Director Fury is no longer in command. Override order 7-Alpha-1-1," came a voice over the comlink of a pilot in his plane.

"7-Alpha-1-1, confirmed. We're go for takeoff," the pilot responded and started preparing for takeoff.

"Sir, we have a rogue bird in motion!" Agent Hill alerted Fury before speaking into the ship's intercom, "Anyone on the deck, we have a rogue bird. We need to shut it down! Repeat, takeoff is not authorized."

Fury rushed to the deck and grabbed a rocket launcher on the way. As, he stepped out onto the open deck he aimed and shot, taking out the plane's wing and preventing its takeoff. A second plane took off and Fury futilely grabbed out his pistol, but the plane was too far gone to take out with a pistol, Thus, the director stepped back inside and immediately sent a message to Stark, "Stark, do you hear me? You have a missile headed straight for the city."

"How long?" Stark asked pushing himself up only to be hit back down by one of the Chitauri.

"Three minutes, max," was the response as Tony shot at several Chitauri from the ground, "The payload will wipe out Midtown."

"Jarvis, put everything we got into the thrusters."

"I just did." was all Jarvis replied before Stark took off, dislodging a Chitauri soldier.

Inside the plane the pilot pressed the red button on his control stick and launched his explosive cargo, "Package is sent. Detonation in 2 minutes, 30 seconds, mark."

Selvig opened his laptop as he instructed Natasha, who was now holding Loki's scepter, "Right at the crown!"

Natasha hesitantly approached the Tesseract's protective field and breached it with the scepter. With a brilliant blue glow the scepter was in, so Romanov spoke into the comlink, "I can close it. Can anybody copy? I can shut the portal down."

Down on the streets Steve responded, "Do it!"

"No, wait," Tony interrupted.

"Stark, those things are still coming."

"I got a nuke coming in. It's gonna blow in less than a minute," Stark responded getting in pursuit of the missile, "And I know just where to put it."

Tony finally caught up to the missile and grabbed hold of it.

"Stark, you know that's a one-way trip," Steve said.

Somewhat ignoring that, Stark spoke to Jarvis, "Save the rest for the turn, J."

"Sir, shall I try Miss Potts?"

"Might as well."

Pepper Potts couldn't believe what she was seeing on the TV. She listened to the reporter's report, "The Streets of New York City have become a battleground. The army is here trying to contain the violence but clearly, it is outmatched. And I have to say, in all my years of reporting, I have never seen anything like this. We have limited information on the team, but we do know that billionaire Tony Stark's Iron Man…"

Miss Potts, like the majority of the crew of the Helicarrier, was too occupied by the news reports that she didn't hear or notice her phone vibrating with Tony's call.

There he goes, Adrian thought as a flash of red, gold, and white went by, I know he's supposed to come out fine, but that doesn't help my anxiousness about possibly losing a platonic soulmate. Good luck Tony!

Tony directed the missile and just barely bumped the top of his tower before flying up into the portal, causing everyone on the Helicarrier to cheer. Still Fury somberly continued to pay attention to the feed of what was happening.

Tony had never seen something quite so amazing, as Jarvis shut down and he released the missile, he watched it go flying into the ship and destroy it in a massive explosion that caused the Chitauri on Earth to shut down and die. He felt this would be his end, but still fought to remain conscious. As he fell back he paused to watch the explosion with a nebula backdrop before accepting the darkness of unconsciousness.

Everyone was watching the portal's opening.

"Come on, Stark," Natasha muttered.

He's going to be fine. He's not dead, he just went unconscious. That's what the small, weak twinge you felt was, Adrian. He'll be fine.

There was a moment of silence before they all heard the muffled explosion, then Steve gave the order.

"Close it."

Natasha struggled to finally close it off. The portal opening started closing, but Stark fell through just before it closed relieving Natasha.

"Son of a gun," was all Steve could say.

Thor, too, was relieved, but he realized, "He's not slowing down."

Before Thor could take off flying, the Hulk launched himself from a building and caught Iron Man in mid-air and crashed into a building to slow down. He then launched from the building and twisted so his back crashed into a car and then the street, cushioning Stark's fall. Once the Hulk came to a halt he tossed the metal man onto the street, where Thor and Steve came racing.

"Is he breathing?" Steve asked.

Thor easily ripped off Tony's faceplate and Steve bent down to see if he could hear or feel Tony breathing, but sat back when nothing came. The three, Thor, Hulk, and Steve, sat in silence for a moment before Hulk decided that Bruce couldn't lose his science bro and roared causing Tony to jerk awake with a gasp.

"What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me."

Steve sat back and with a small head nod said, "We won."

Stark sighed, "All right, yay! Hurray. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have 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," Thor said referring to Loki.

"And then Shawarma after."

Loki crawled to a sitting position before turning and coming face-to-face with the gathered Avengers. As Hawkeye aimed his bow, Loki looked towards Stark and said, "If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now."

Okay. It is in. I have already started chapter eleven, but there may be a wait until either the weekend following this weekend or the week after that since I'll also be watching for 'error' comments or confused ones in order to make sure I fix any bad mistakes.

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