This is a short chapter, I was going to put all the battle scenes in the one chapter, but there is so much going on I thought I would break it up in to three parts, the start (Tony and Loki's scene), the middle (The fight) and then the end (The aftermath).

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Callie I am trying to protect you!" Director Fury said, staring at his only child, who at the moment was glaring out the window with her arms crossed, not daring to look at him as he spoke. "Please, just tell me where the child is, she needs doctors and help no-"

"Shut up!" Callie yelled, spinning around and glaring at her father, her hands curling in to fists at her side. "Just stop lying! You don't want to help her, you are not trying to protect me, you are trying to protect what you think is right! Dear god, father, you have more blood on your hands then Loki!"

"It's for the good of the world!" Director Fury snapped, slamming his hands down on the table. "Everything I do is for the good of the world!"

"Even locking me up?" Callie asked, her voice losing all anger as she stared in to his eye. "Is locking me up for the good of the world? Do you really fear that I will become a weapon?"

"YOU BONDED WITH LOKI!"

"LOKI DOESN'T LIE TO ME!"

"HE IS THE GOD OF LIES!"

"AND YOU ARE A MAN FULL OF LIES!"

Director Fury fell silent for a few minutes as he watched Callie take deep breathes to calm her anger down, her hands balling in to fists and relaxing over and over at her sides, a calming technique that Bruce had taught her many months ago. "You know we never lost you when you ran with Bruce. We knew where you were at all times. We just left you two alone, gave you space, even kept people off your trail who wanted his other side..."

"You think that makes up for everything?" Callie asked, staring up at him once more. "You think telling me that helps in a way? Father to you I am something that needs to be contained!"

"You are a security risk, the board demanded..."

"FUCK THE BOARD!" Callie screamed so loud she feared she had done damage to her voice, when she spoke again her voice was more quiet and huskier. "S.H.I.E.L.D is your life, S.H.I.E.L.D was mothers life as well, I just came in to the picture because of a stuff up."

"That's not true Callie, and you know that..."

"You want to know why I bonded with Loki?" Callie asked, placing her hands on the desk and staring at her father, her face void of emotion. "We are just the same, free yet still prisoners. Feared by the world yet no one has the guts to get rid of us, protected only by the status of our fathers! If I wasn't your daughter, you would kill me to save the world, wouldn't you father? Loki was never adopted, he was stolen! The Asgardian hero you rely on for his help to save the Earth, his father stole Loki after a war to use him as a pawn for his own twisted sense of reality. That is the Asgardians that you look to for help, such a mighty race to sit on the throne and do nothing, just like S.H.I.E.L.D."

"WE PROTECT THIS PLANET!" Director Fury yelled, once again losing his temper at her.

"Only when it needs to be protected, never anything else. The first thought you had of the cube was weapons, not unlimited power! Phase One was nothing more then a way to harness the power without drawing attention to yourself, Phase Two was your plan all along, you were happy to leave the eco-friendly crap to Stark!"

"Sir!" Steve said, poking his head around the door and looking between them. "Tony has found the cube, we are moving out now." He stood away from the door and opened it to let Callie through, he went to shut it but stopped when Director Fury called him back in to the office.

"Give this to Barton." Director Fury said, handing a sealed envelope over to him. "It's his orders for if he believes we can not fight this. Tell him to read it before you take off and destroy it, tell no one about it."

"Yes sir." Steve said, taking the envelope and leaving the office to find Clint. He handed the envelope over to Clint and replayed the message that Director Fury had given him. With shaking hands Clint opened the envelope and read the small slip of paper inside, in scribbled writing was one sentence;

Her life is tied to Loki's, if all else fails kill Callie and it will end him.

"You know this is really, really rude." Tony said as he walked in to his apartment to come face to face with Loki, he was slightly out of breath from the explosion the cube had thrown back at him when he tried to destroy it. "I mean, not only do you decide to marry a girl when you knew she had someone else, and we all know you don't love her! But then you decide to use my tower to overrule the world."

Tony paused as he went behind the bar and slipped on the bracelets that would call the suit to him if he needed it, once again ignoring JARVIS's warnings. "I mean, I was overruling the world from here perfectly fine without you. Drink?"

Loki ignored the offer and turned to look out the window, quietly searching for Callie's mind among the rumble that was the human race. Once again it was sealed off to him, hidden behind gemstones that sparkled against her skin.

Was she coming to fight?

Would he have to fight her?

Would they kill her to finish him?

Forgetting for a moment that Tony was there, Loki chewed on his bottom lip nervously terrified he had just made the bullseye on Callie's back even larger by letting her father know the truth. In his desire to stir up the director, had he just spelt the end for the only girl that had ever challenged him as well as himself?

"Ah, love..." Tony said, smirking softly. "It's a bitch to bring in to battle with you."

"I do not love!" Loki snapped, spinning around and glaring at Tony. "Only weak, pathetic mortals like you love! Even the mortal you call Hawekeye felt it before I opened his eyes and showed him what to do..."

"Ah! But she got him back, Loki! She got him back! Don't you see? Love is much stronger then any other emotion that we feel. It can make humans do the most extraordinary things!"

"LOVE CAN ALSO CREATE NOTHING BUT CRUELTY!" Loki yelled, losing his temper and pointing the staff at the middle of his chest. "But you'll see, I'll open your eyes." He hissed, pressing the staff against the Arc reactor and pausing in shock. He tapped it again and raised an eyebrow in confusion. "This normally works..." He muttered as he tapped it once again.

"Well performance issues are completely normal..." Tony said, smirking as Loki growled at him. "One in five me-" Tony was cut off as Loki let out an annoyed sound and threw him through the window.

"NOW JARVIS!" Tony yelled, trying to hold his arms out as still as he could whilst he was hurtling to the ground below. "JARVIS!" He closed his eyes as the ground continued to get closer, before opening them in relief when the suit attached itself to him.

Quickly using the boosters to avoid squishing a poor woman and her shopping, he shot back in to the sky and looked around. "Holy hell..." He whispered, watching the alien warriors shoot out of the sky to bring destruction to New York.