Notes: THERE IS NOTHING NEW HERE. JUST A FRIEND CHECKED IT FOR ME.
So it's kinda beta-ed.
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This chapter is being posted without my beta checking it. I hope it is not too terrible, but she has been very busy.
Anyway... Let's get on with it.
I apologize now, since this chapter is all movie with only some small changes. Next one will be more original, I promise.
Chapter 6
Toni had to make some quick repairs on her suit to be able to leave the helicarrier and go to New York, but Mark VI was definitely on its last breath. She couldn't go against Loki in it, so Toni had to make arrangements.
The scientist – poor doctor Selvig – looked madder than a hatter and was currently activating that fucking Cube on top of Toni's beautiful building. The billionaire tried shooting the machine that held the Tesseract, but there was a barrier around it. Jarvis informed her that it was unbreachable. (1)
"Yeah, I got that." Toni snorted, then saw Loki on her balcony, on her penthouse. "Plan B."
"Madam, Mark VII is not ready for deployment." Jarvis warned.
"Then skip the spinning rims. We're on the clock." She snapped with no patience.
Toni landed on the balcony and had to watch Loki's smirk. When she got her hands on that asshole…
She started walking towards the door, barely noticing her suit being disassembled by her machine. She could feel Loki's eyes on her the whole time. Toni ran her fingers through her hair, threw it over her shoulder and tilted her boobs.
Diva to diva… That pale jerk was about to get the ass kicking of his life.
"Please, tell me you are going to appeal to my humanity." Loki said in a mocking tone as soon they were both inside the penthouse.
"Nope." Toni replied calmly.
Loki eyed her from head to toe and frowned. "Seducing?" He said and was that a bit of… Revulsion on his tone?
"Uh, I didn't think I was your type, per se, but I'm game if you are." She said good naturedly to him. His expression was answer enough, and funny as hell. "Thought so. Actually I'm planning on threatening you."
"You should have left your armor on for that." Loki said, the asshole smirk coming back.
"Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage. You've got the blue stick of destiny." She smiled softly. "Would you like a drink?" Toni walked to the bar.
"Stalling me won't change anything." Loki said.
"No, no, no. Threatening." Toni corrected. "No drink? You sure? I'm having one."
Loki gave an impatient snort and walked towards the window.
"The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that." He said, looking at the sky. "What have I to fear?" He turned back to Toni.
The brunette opened her most expensive bourbon. God knew if she would be alive by the end of that day, so she might as well enjoy life's little pleasures, like a 10 thousand-dollar bottle of alcohol.
"The Avengers." She finally answered.
Loki shrugged in a way that showed he had no idea what she was talking about. Yeah, she got it. She did feel weird saying out loud.
"It's what we call ourselves. Sort of like a team." Toni explained. "'Earth's Mightiest Heroes', that kind of thing."
"Yes. I've met them." And by Loki's tone, his opinion of said team was quite clear.
"Yeah," Toni gave an amused little laugh, "takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one. But let's do a head count here. Your brother, the demigod;" Loki rolled his eyes, "a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of masters assassins and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them."
Loki didn't seem overly concerned with his potential opponents, strolling around the room like he freaking owned it. Toni took advantage of his distraction to grab the bracelet that was on the counter and put it on her wrist. Now it was up to Jarvis…
"That was the plan." He said with an annoying amount of satisfaction.
"Not a great plan." Toni sipped her drink "When they come, and they will, they'll come for you."
"I have an army." Loki insisted.
"We have a Hulk."
"I thought the beast had wandered off." Loki commented, vaguely curious.
"You're missing the point." Toni rolled her eyes and got closer to him "There's no throne, there's no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes, and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you." She saw the demi-god's hand tighten around the scepter "Because if we can't protect Earth, you can be damn well sure we will avenge it." Her mouth was dry, so she sipped her drink again.
Loki looked really pissed at her right now, which kind of was the plan, but… What now?
"How will your friends have time for me…" he started, coming closer "when they are so busy fighting you?"
Thinking back and taking into account what happened to Barton and Selvig, Toni should have been way more concerned with that. But, before she could do anything else – and, let's be honest, she would probably just make another smart-ass comment – Loki raised the scepter and put it against her chest.
The only thing that really happened what the metallic "click" when the tip of it hit the arc reactor on Toni's chest. Loki tried again, but the result was exactly the same.
"This usually works." Loki said confused.
"Well, performance issues." Toni said supportingly "It's not uncommon, trust me on this." She stage whispered to him "One out of five…"
Loki, obviously done with games, grabbed her by the throat and threw on the floor.
"Jarvis, anytime now." She called getting up.
Loki grabbed her by the neck, lifting Toni up, until her toes barely touched the floor. "You will all fall before me." He hissed at her ear.
"Deploy!" Toni screamed "Deploy!"
Loki threw the billionaire out of the window and Toni just wished Jarvis was as amazing as she kept saying he was.
A few seconds later, Mark VII came flying out of the same window, fitting itself to her body, stopping her from hitting the ground in the nick of time. She managed to turn and started flying up, full speed until she was face to face with Loki, who was probably hoping to admire the sight of her body splashed on the sidewalk.
"And there's one other person you pissed off." She told him "His name was Phil."
She attacked Loki before he had the chance to respond. She raised her hand and blasted the asshole right into the wall.
Obviously – since portals have some sense of dramatic timing – this was when a very strong light came from the top of the building, reaching the sky and ripping a hole in it.
From that hole… Well, weird things came out.
"Right." Toni was looking up "Army."
Toni took a deep breath and started flying even higher, towards the sky and the hole in it, shooting as many of those aliens as she could. But they were too many. She couldn't do it alone.
Where the hell was the rest of the team when she needed those jerks? That was why she never would play-
"Stark, we're on your three, headed north east." Natasha's voice came from the earpiece.
"What? Did you stop for drive-thru?" She muttered "Swing up Park, I'm gonna lay 'em out for you."
Stark heard shooting and explosions and decided that those aliens were taken down by Nat. Ten down, just another thousand to go.
"Madam, we have more incoming." Jarvis informed.
"Fine. Let's keep them occupied."
XxX
Toni couldn't think of one day of her life that been worse than this one. So full of fear, anxiety and a constant state of despair. She couldn't stop wondering if the others were okay, if they were alive. That was why she never worked on teams!
And to make it a party, Fury calls in to let them know there is a missile on the way.
Maybe jumping head first into the wormhole hadn't been the best of the plans, but it did seem like a solution. She would have been happy to hear Pepper's voice one last time, but then again, perhaps it was a good thing that Pepper didn't hear her voice in such a moment.
Because it was the last one, wasn't it?
She got into the hole expecting never to leave again. She kind of wanted to ask the Captain what he thought about it. Who wasn't the one to make the sacrifice play now, huh?
Toni could remember the darkness, some lonely stars sparkling, then falling and nothing else.
Until the roar.
"What the hell?" The sky was too bright, her chest hurt.
The Hulk was close by, thumping his chest and roaring. Thor and the Captain were there too.
"What just happened?" she asked looking around "Please tell me I wasn't kissed and missed it!"
Steve shook his head and smiled. "We won." He said simply.
"Alright. Hey." She said with fake cheer "Alright. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma?" She was mainly asking the Hulk "There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it."
"We're not finished yet." Thor indicated.
Toni sighed. "Then shawarma after."
Notes: Next one is the last. Of this part. Yes, there is more.
(1) It was like this in the movie, but does this word actually exists?
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