Chapter 3

Melody

As we boarded the plane the agent said, "You're not authorized to be in here."

"Son, just don't." Steve said and the agent nodded and ran off the jet. Clint and Natasha went to the controls and Steve and I were behind them. We were following Stark. A couple minutes later we saw the Army and our jet was blown. Steve and I held onto the roof of the jet and pulled ourselves up. We hit the ground and the hatch came out and we all ran out of the ship.

"We got to get back up there." Steve said and I looked to the sky and saw a huge portal with a crap load of aliens coming through, great. Then a whale like creature came through and my jaw went slack. "Stark, you see this?"

"Seeing, still working on believing. Where's Banner, has he shown up yet?" Stark asked through the comms.

"Banner," I asked confused.

"Just keep me posted." Stark said and Steve and I ran back to Natasha and Clint. "We've got civilians trapped." We all stood and ran to the closet bus.

"Loki." Steve confirmed looking to one of the ships that just passed by.

"Well, crap." I sated leaning against the taxi we were hiding behind.

"Their fishing the barrel down there," Steve said and Natasha got up and started firing her gun left and right. Barton ran to another taxi to hide behind and I stood up with my shield ready. I raced back over to Clint because I knew that Steve needed to help Natasha more than me.

"We got this. It's good go." Natasha said to Steve and me. I looked to Barton and saw him nod.

"You guys think you can hold them off?" I asked.

"Captain, Sergeant, it would be my genuine pleasure." Barton said and clicked a button on his bow. I nodded to Steve and we ran off the bridge, jumping in the process and onto a bus. Then onto a car and we flipped and landed on the ground. We ran and were jumping all over cars and debris to get to the police. I helped a few people get off the streets and into a building and went back to running with Steve.

"You need men in these buildings. There are people inside and they are going to be running right into the lines of fire." I said looking around.

"You take them to the basement or to the subway. You keep them off the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th." Steve concluded.

"Why the hell should I take orders from you two?" The police man asked. Steve and I looked back at them. Just then an explosion came and a bunch of Chitari came down by us. Steve nodded to me and grabbed my arms after throwing his Shield and flipped me over his shoulder and I threw my Shield in the middle of my flight and landed on two of the Chitari and beat the crap out of one and caught my shield in the process. "I need men in these buildings. Lead the people down and away from the streets." The Police man told the others.

"Well, we got its attention. What the hell is step two?" Stark asked through the comms. Steve and I joined the Clint and Natasha and I knocked a Chitari off of Clint with my shield and he shot it with an arrow. Then a bunch of lighting came down and shocked the rest of the bastards and Thor flew down once they were down.

"What's the news upstairs?" Steve asked while we approached Thor.

"A ball of energy is surrounding the cube it's impermeable." He answered and then Stark came back into the conversation.

"Thor's right. We've got to deal with these guys."

"How do we do this?" The one other girl in the group besides me asked.

"As a team," Steve and I answered together.

"I still have unfinished business with Loki." Thor said to me.

"Yeah, well get in line." Clint said while fiddling with his arrows.

"Save it." I said while looking at Clint.

"Loki's going to keep this fight focused on us and that's what we need. Without him these things could run wild." Steve said. I wasn't done but ok.

"We've got Stark up top. He's going to need us to-" I cut myself off when an old motorcycle sound was brought to my ears. All of us but Barton looked toward the sound and there was Banner. We walked over to him but I stayed closer to Steve's side.

"So, this all seems, horrible." Banner said.

"I've seen worse." Natasha said.

"Sorry." Banner apologized.

"No. We could use a little worse." Natasha said.

"Stark, we got him." I said into the comms.

"Banner," Stark asked me. Banner looked to me.

"Just like you said," I said while staring right at Banner.

"Then tell him to suit up." Stark said, "Because I'm bringing the party to you." I stepped closet to Clint in case if he needed anything. Then Stark came by a corner with the huge whale type thing behind him.

"I-I don't see how that's a party." Natasha said and Banner stated walking towards it.

"Dr. Banner. Right now would be a good time to get angry." Steve said and I gulped and moved a little closer to Clint.

"That's my secret Captain, I'm always angry." And then Bruce turned into the Hulk really fast and punched the whale. I shielded Clint and myself with my shield and Steve did his with Natasha. The mouth went off the bridge and I still had the shield over myself and Clint. We all moved to where we were in a circle and I had my Shield ready. The Hulk roared when all the Aliens screeched.

"Guys," Natasha said and I followed he line of vision and my eyes widened and I moved closer to Steve.

"Call it Captain, Sergeant." Stark said from his suit.

"Alright listen up. Until we can close that portal up there is in containment. Barton, I want you on that roof eyes on everything call out patterns and strains. Stark, you've got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out you turn it back or you turn it to ash." Steve was ordering everyone again.

"Give me a lift?" Clint asked Stark.

"Right, better clench up Legolas." Stark said grabbing Clit and they flew off.

"Thor, you got to try and bottle up that portal. Slow them down; you got the lightning, light the bastards up." Steve ordered once again and he flew off. "Us three, we stay here on the ground. We keep the fighting here."

"And Hulk, smash." I said pointing to him. He grinned and jumped and started smashing bastards left and right. Natasha was in fight with an alien while I was knocking them away left and right along with Steve. We landed right behind her and she pointed the stick weapon at us and lowered it when she saw it was us.

"Cap, Serge, this isn't going to mean a damn thing if we don't shut that portal." She told us sitting on the hood of a cab.

"I think its guns couldn't touch it." I said.

"Well maybe it's not about guns." Natasha offered still looking at the portal.

"You want to get up there you're going to need a ride." Steve said looking up at the sky. I was looking at the bunch of aliens coming our way.

"I have a ride, could use the boost though." She dropped the weapon and backed up a little bit. Steve backed up a little bit and I was standing guard.

"You sure about this," I called over my shoulder.

"Yeah, it'll be fun." Her voice cracked and I heard the sound of the shield being used as a spring board. I used my shield to deflect a shot from one of the aliens and they began to close in on us. My back was to Steve's. I used my shield to have Stark's beam hit the aliens and Steve ducked before Stark flew off. An alien was on top of me and I punched it off. Steve ran off to help the people in the bank and I followed. We rolled through a window and Steve threw his shield at the alien with the bomb. The others started shooting at us and I hid behind my shield and it deflected off of it.

"Captain get that damn bomb!" I yelled and knocked one of the aliens out with my shield. The other picked me up from behind and removed my mask. All the people on the floor under us gasped when they saw I was a girl.

"I'm trying, Sarge!" Steve yelled back. I elbowed the damn alien who was holding me in the face and snapped its head off. I pushed it over the railing and the other had Steve so I grabbed my shield from the floor and threw it at the alien.

"Everyone clear out!" I yelled to all the people under us. They all yelled and ran but a blond stayed for a few seconds just looking at us. One more threw the bomb at us as we jumped out of the window and the blast hit our shields and flung us out. I was on the sidewalk while Steve got a car to cushion his fall. Lucky bastard.

"You ok, Melody." Steve asked.

"Just Peachy, Captain." I groaned out. He helped me up and gave me back my shield. "Damn, that hurt more than the tree." He chuckled but still looked worried. Our identities were out. That's why. We met up with Thor and were killing bastards left and right. Steve got hit by one of the beams and Thor knocked over a car while I went to Steve.

Thor came and helped him up. "You ready for another battle?" Thor asked.

"What, you getting sleepy?" Steve asked breathing heavily. I smiled but frowned when I noticed he was holding his stomach. Thor summoned his hammer back and I grabbed my shield. I moved Steve's hand and looked at the wound. It was bleeding but not that badly as before because the healing in our system came back into his system.

"I can close it. Can anybody copy? I can shut the portal down." Natasha said into the comms.

"Do it!" Steve and I yelled together and I placed a hand on his stomach again.

"No. Wait." Stark said.

"Stark these things are still coming." I said looking to the wound and making sure it wasn't bleeding anymore. Steve flinched when I pressed harder.

"I've got a nuke coming; it's going to blow in less than a minute." Stark said. I looked into Steve's blue eyes that met mine and made his sit down on a cab hood while he finished healing. "And I know just where to put it."

"Stark, you know that's a one way trip." Steve said. We watched as Tony went into the portal.

"Close it." I ordered Natasha when all the aliens went down. Natasha closed it but not before Stark came through.

"Son of a gun," Steve and I said together. I smiled but frowned when I noticed that he wasn't slowing down.

"He isn't slowing down." Thor said and started swinging his hammer around until the hulk came in and grabbed him mid air an slid down a building with Stark in his arms until he crashed on the ground, himself first. Thor, Steve and I ran to the two and we knelt down next to Tony when Thor flipped him over and got his face mask off. I leaned down to check if he was breathing but couldn't find any trace.

I felt tears gather in my eyes until the Hulk roared and Tony woke up gasping. I leaned closer to Stark with Steve and I smiled.

"What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me no body kissed me, unless it was you, Melody." Stark said and I rolled my eyes.

"He's alright." I stated and they all nodded. "You're way too much like your father." I smiled and shook my head.

"We won." Steve said nodding.

"Alright, hey! Alright good job guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just, take a day. You ever tried Shwarmba? There's a Shwarma joint about two blocks from here." Steve was smiling at Tony's ranting. "I don't know what it is but I want to try it."

"We're not finished yet." Thor reminded us. I nodded but was still smiling at Tony.

We were all panting until Tony broke that silence, "And then Shwarma after," which made me chuckle.

Loki was trying to get up the stairs from where the hulk smashed him into the floor which I found out by the Loki sized holes in the floor. I was standing next to Steve with my arms crossed and my shield in front of my stomach. He looked over at us and saw Clint have an arrow pointed at his eye and looked concerned. "If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now." Hulk was pissed.

The next day we were all in central park on the bridge. Loki was in chains and had a muzzle on his mouth. I was next to Steve, Selvig and Banner was putting the Tesseract in the case Stark designed for it with him watching. Thor was next to Loki; Clint was next to Natasha. I looked at the Tesseract with hatred and so was Steve. That thing had put us through enough.

Thor came and gave me a hug and I hugged him back. Steve put his arm around my shoulders and Natasha whispered something to Clint in his ear and he cracked a smile. Loki grabbed onto the Tesseract case and Thor twisted his hand and they were gone. Natasha gave Bruce his bag and gave me a hug as well. Clint shook hands with Clint and Tony while Tony and Bruce gave me hugs. I wasn't going to let them go that easily.

"Come by sometime. We would love for the Stark Tower to become the Avengers tower. And Cap, treat her good." Tony said and Steve and I nodded. Bruce and Tony got into the sports car and drove off. Steve and I got onto his motorcycle and I wrapped my arms around his waist. Soon enough we were driving into the soldiers graves from world war two and we walked up to Bucky's.

Tears were falling from my eyes and Steve gave my hand a gentle squeeze. I leaned my head on his shoulder and looked up at him. He nodded to me and I placed the flowers on the grave along with replica shields of ours. I made them stick into the ground to where only Steve and I can pull it out and put a kiss on my fingers and touched it to the headstone.

"You gonna be ok?" Steve asked concerned.

I nodded, "It's a soldier's duty to always be ready for anything." My eyes narrowed on the HYDRA sign on the gravestone a few rows back. He nodded and followed my eyes. Then a bullet whizzed past us and into the grave of Bucky. I turned around and my eyes locked on the same blue eyes as mine. The ones of what looked like my brother but I knew it wasn't. Then the person stepped out into the light and I gasped and hit Steve's arms to make him turn around.

"Bucky?" We asked together.