Updates will be slow because I'm in Utah for Thanksgiving.
I slung my backpack onto my shoulders, giving a sideways smile to Natasha.
She gave me a solemn look that made my smile falter.
Everyone else started suiting up as I fixed my deep purple gloves and deep purple boots. The rest of my outfit was a long sleeved black shirt and long black pants with purple designs etched into it.
I joined up with Steve, Nat, Bruce, and Clint as we got into the jet.
"Hey, you guys aren't authorized to be in here." Some guy said, and I looked over with a scowl.
"Yes we are."
His eyes flashed purple and he nodded, giving us a salute before leaving.
"You're gonna find a way to get the Oryx out soon, right?" I glanced over at Bruce, and he nodded furiously.
I sat in the back of the jet next to Bruce, eyeing Clint a few times before deciding to talk to the man beside me.
"I really am looking for you to have love so that you can be happy and not worry about the other guy."
"And you chose Tony?"
I shrugged and gave him a sheepish grin.
"If we survive this, I'll tell you why." I promised, and I knew for a fact I was not lying.
"Meg." He started after a few moments, and his tone caused the other three to glance at us.
Nat and Steve kept their eyes on us, but Clint flew the plane.
"I studied the Oryx. I… I don't know the first thing on how to take it out of you. But I do know… It's going to be-!"
"It's going to be fine." I snapped to look at Steve, shock I'm pretty sure evident on my face.
"It's going to come out, it's not going to leave any lasting impressions or hurt."
I watched him momentarily, silence consuming the cockpit.
"I have somewhere to be." I suddenly said impulsively, standing.
"We're in a moving jet-!" Nat tried, and I gave her a dirty look.
"And I learned that the Oryx gave me wings." I said, scowling, before I felt the things from before piercing my skin, before they exploded out of my back, black and purple feather flitting onto the floor.
I opened the thing, I don't know what it's called, and jumped out, before making my way to Stark Tower.
"It's too late!" I heard Erik Selvig yell, and I stopped beside Tony.
He looked towards me and I heard him give a curse. "The Oryx gave you wings?"
"I learned to make the most of it while I still can."
"She can't be stopped now. She wants to show us something! A new universe." Erik told us, and I looked over at Tony softly.
"Okay." Tony shot his repulsors at the Tesseract.
"It's self-sustaining, alive, Tony. It won't work." I said, just before it hit the shield and shot back, hitting him.
The shock wave threw me back into the building next to it and I hit the window, it smashing beneath me.
I looked at the people in the room and gave them a sheepish grin before flying next to Tony, glancing back a moment.
"The shield is pure energy, we are not going to breach it." I yelled.
"Yeah, I got that!" He yelled back.
I looked over to see Loki, and I settled to the roof of his house.
He set himself on the armor taker off-er and I watched Loki silently.
"How is the Oryx in your veins?" Loki asked.
I glared at him silently.
He started inside, glancing over at Tony, and I followed, giving a small determined smile to him.
"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity." Loki said, walking slowly toward him.
"Actually, I'm planning to threaten you." Tony answered, starting toward the bar.
"You should have left your armor on for that." Loki said as Tony got to the bar.
"Now you have a bar." I said, smirking when recognition flashed through his eyes.
"And I actually have scotch." He said.
"Am I not here?" Loki asked incredulously.
"His armors a little… eh, and you've got the stick of truth." Silence.
"The glow stick of destiny." I said flatly.
"Would you like a drink?" Tony asked, and I reached over.
He gave me a beer and Loki laughed.
"Stalling me won't change anything."
"Who said we're stalling?" I asked, sipping lightly on the glass.
"Threatening." Tony corrected him.
"No drink? Are you sure?" Tony asked him.
"I'm having one, she's having one."
Loki walked briskly to the window. "The Chitauri are coming. Nothing will change that. What have I to fear?"
"The Avengers." At Loki's confused face, Tony gave a face. "That's what we call ourselves. We're sort of like a team. Earth's mightiest heroes type thing."
"Yes, I've met them."
"Yeah, I know. But let's do a head count, shall we?" Stealing Tony's line!
"You're brother, a demigod, a super soldier out of time who lives up to his legend, a genius billionaire playboy who fights crime, 2 assassin spies, the host for the Oryx that is just a mixture of 4 species, and man with breathtaking anger-management issues. And you have managed to piss off every. Single. One of them." I said threateningly.
"That was the plan." Loki answered.
"Not a great plan." Was Tony's answer as he stepped away from the bar.
"When the rest of us come, and they will, they'll come for you."
"I have an army." Loki answered.
"We have a Hulk." Tony answered.
"I thought he would have wandered off by now." Loki said, actual confusion written on his face.
"I saved him from himself." I answered, and blushed. "And got an eyeful of something I should NOT have seen."
"You're missing the point, there is no throne!" Tony chided.
"There is no version of this where you come out on top." Tony continued.
"Maybe your army comes and it's too much for all of us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth…" I sipped lightly on my beer. "We're gonna live up to our name."
Loki stalked towards us slowly, and I choked down my fear at the look on his face.
"How will your friends have time for me when they're so busy fighting you." He said darkly, leering over Tony, before he tapped his chest with his scepter.
I laughed out loud when the metal clang of it hitting the arc reactor.
Loki growled and turned to me, about to touch my chest with it.
The damn pedo bear.
I kicked it hard and it flew across the room.
"Tony, if you have a plan, do it now!" I yelled, pushing Loki to the ground and resting my foot on his back, holding onto his arm.
The Mark 7 deployed and got on him as Loki found a way to push me off and throw me into the window.
The impact lost my concentration and my wings disappeared, just as the floor beneath me disappeared and I was falling.
I screamed and looked down.
Isn't that a rule?
I squeezed my eyes shut just as something grabbed onto me and pulled me up to the roof.
I sat on the floor, chest heaving.
"You ok?" Tony asked me, in his armor.
I couldn't speak yet, so I just nodded vehemently.
Tony shot his repulsor at Loki and Loki fell back.
I jumped in surprise as the Tesseract activated.
We both looked up as things flew out of the portal.
"Right. Army." Tony said, and I quickly ran up the stairs to follow Loki as he went to fight them.
"Loki…" I whispered, and he looked to me, raising his scepter.
"Loki!" Thor suddenly yelled, landing on the roof.
"Turn off the Tesseract, or I'll destroy it." Thor said darkly.
"That's a terrible threat, no one can get near it because it has a shield!" I yelled, then stopped as realization dawned on me.
"A shield that the Oryx can get through." I said quietly, in shock.
I can wait, however.
I can wait until they really need it.
I jumped back as soon as Loki leapt towards Thor, and started scaling the wall back to the Tesseract.
Which took a long ass time because I was scaling glass.
It's a good thing I had knives to help pull myself up.
I flinched and looked down when the K off of Stark fell down the building and pierced the roof of the building below.
I climbed farther and jumped, landing beside the Tesseract.
I groaned as the Oryx decided it would be a perfect time to fight with the Tesseract.
I cursed loudly when the Tesseract's shield touched my hand and sent me reeling back off the roof again.
It's a good thing my wings started working right before I became a splat on the ground, right where the jet was going to land.
Upon seeing the jet come towards me, I cursed again and got ready to fly.
Too bad my wings stopped working again.
Well, no use just standing here.
Run.
I got to the building farther away, turned and, remembering that it would hit the building, jumped just in time to land on the window.
I lay on there, staring at Clint and Nat.
"Hey…" I said weakly.
They stared at me in shock, and I jumped off on the left side, facing the street.
I heard the thing open and the others climb out of the jet.
"You alright?" Clint asked.
"Yeah." I answered quickly, following the others to the street.
"We got to get back up there!" Steve cried as I followed, running at the same pace as Bruce.
The 4 looked up in awe at the portal in the sky.
"Fun, huh?" I asked sarcastically, watching it with a scowl.
Clint nodded. "Super fun."
And then that spiny thing flew out.
-Spades-
I was now in the elevator of Stark Tower, humming to myself as boredom started to take over.
"Sink your teeth into my flesh, get undressed, ta-ast the flesh. Hold me up against the wall-!"
"Miss Spades, I think you need to focus." I heard Alice say, and I nodded.
"I'm not sure if you'll come out of this without regenerating." Alice spoke again, and I brought the watch up to my face.
"Alice…"
"I will tell the Avengers your story if you do not survive."
I stayed silent, then nodded softly.
"Ok."
When the elevator stopped at the top I stepped out towards the Tesseract.
"I don't think so." Loki said, coming up towards me.
I cursed.
"I will never be able to do this, huh?"
Loki shrugged.
I turned to the ground and watched the others fight the Chitauri.
"I can close the portal." I said into my ear piece.
"No, we aren't doing anything that will kill you." Tony immediately answered.
Silence.
"Is it the only way?" Natasha asked.
I hesitated.
"No." I answered.
"Then wait." She yelled.
"I can stop it before you guys get hurt."
"We're not sacrificing one of our own!" I heard Steve yell.
"I'm not sacrificing humanity."
There was silence again, and I stared at Loki.
"We wait!" I heard Clint yell.
I hesitated.
"Fine. Backpack time." I said, taking the first weapon in my back pack and launching onto the first Chitauri I saw.
"Meg!" I heard Clint yell as I landed on the roof with him.
"Miss me?" Clint smirked.
"I never miss."
-Spades-
"Enough! You are, all of you, beneath me. I am a god, you dull creature. And I will not be bullied by-!"
I watched as Hulk slammed Loki into the ground over and over, before throwing him into the new rut in the ground.
He whimpered and I leaned over him.
"Puny god." Hulk said as he left.
"I have an opening, I can close the portal." I said into the ear piece, and Hulk turned to me.
"No, you will die!" Tony yelled from my earpiece.
I ran up the stairs to the Tesseract and met with Nat.
"I can destroy the ship and close the portal, Natasha." She looked to me with a stoic face.
"And is there another way, without you dying or getting hurt?"
I hesitated. "There's no plan where any one of us is guaranteed not to get hurt."
Natasha watched me hesitantly, then nodded, stepping back.
I stepped into the shield, already assaulted by pain as the Oryx took hold of me.
I reached up and just as Hulk jumped up, Thor came up with Steve, and Tony flew up with Clint.
I wrapped my hands around the Tesseract and I screamed as the pain suddenly became too much for me to handle.
"MEG!"
-Spades-
I weakly lifted my hand up to the light above me.
"Meg, you're awake!" I heard someone say, pushing me back when I tried to sit up.
"You took a lot of damage, I suggest you stay back."
I looked over with tired eyes at the man standing next to me and lurched backwards as recognition swept over my mind.
"Now, now, Meg. I suggest you sit back."
My father smiled sadistically at me.
"The Avengers don't expect you back for a long time."
I know, I know, but I didn't have an ending for the chapter so here's the chapter. You won't actually have a chapter detailing what happens, but the next chapter will be before the show. Book 2 will be the show. Sorry Book 1 is showing itself to be pretty short.