Callie let out a small puff of air as she hit the roof, before she stood up and glared at her best friend. "Why?" She asked, taking a sword from her back and holding it at her side, she didn't want to use it but she would if she needed to. She would do anything to keep the world safe, even if it meant letting Clint put an arrow in her head.
"Why not? He is going to heal my daughter, Callie. He is going to make this world a better place..." Felicity said, letting the arrow fall from her bow and point to the ground, Callie knew that it would not take much for Felicity to notch the arrow once more and fire it at her.
"The world is an amazing place, Felicity! We don't need a demented god to rule us! We rule ourselves fine! Look around for gods sake!" Callie said, motioning around to the destruction that was going on around them, only half of it coming from Hulk. "If this is his way of peace, then god forbid if he wanted a war!"
"You always need a war before the peace can settle..." Felicity stated, making Callie wonder if she was on drugs or under Loki's spell. Or perhaps her friend had always been this simple minded and Callie had just ignored it. "Once this is over and Loki has won, he will save Hella and we can start to live life on a peaceful planet..."
"Ruled over by a Frost Giant! There is a reason Odin would never give him the crown of Asgard! He is not a leader, he is a small boy with demented dreams! He is like a child playing with his fathers briefcase pretending he was the one that went to the office." Callie snapped, the thought of Hella being brought up on a planet ruled by Loki and his temperamental tantrums making her more bold in what she said. "He is the god of lies! Yes his life was harsh, shit happened to him, but not everyone has had a life of fucking roses!"
Without thinking Callie sent three energy balls at Felicity, who dodged them, the third one only nicking her arm and causing the skin to blister in a fierce burn. "BECAUSE OF HIM MY FATHER HAS SIGNED MY DEATH SENTENCE AND THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO!" Callie yelled, throwing four more energy balls at Felicity, not caring if she hit her or not, but just wanting to get rid of the anger inside her. "I JUST HAD TO KISS THE MAN I LOVE GOODBYE BECAUSE I KNOW WHEN HE TURNS BACK I'LL BE DEAD!"
Callie's chest rose and fell with each angered breath that she dragged in through her nose, trying desperately to stop firing off energy balls in case she actually hit someone by accident. "You want a world filled with peace and no more war, yet you stand on the other side fighting." She whispered, staring in to Felicity's eyes. "You leave your daughter without a care and you ru-" Callie's sentence was cut short from a scream of agony as Felicity's arrow pierced the skin of her shoulder, making her fall down to her knees, gasping in pain.
"I will rise with him, Callie." Felicity said, walking towards her and notching another arrow. "I will be his queen and Hella will be treated as a princess! The child who survived the non-survivable with his help! He will be seen as the healer and bringer of good fortune that he is."
Callie stared up in to her friends eyes, seeing nothing that would show that she was under Loki's spell, before she said quietly. "Loki Laufeyson will always be the god of lies and mischief, no matter how many lives he saves." She closed her eyes as Felicity pulled back on the string, waiting for the impact of the arrow that never came. Opening her eyes when she heard a thud, she came face to face with the crumbled body of Felicity, smoke rising from a wound on her chest where Loki had shot her with an energy ball.
"By the way, you can't kill me." She hissed, standing up and gritting her teeth as she broke the shaft off the arrow. Letting that arm fall limply to her side she looked around, wondering what the hell she could do now as the battle raged around her. Spotting Hulk and Thor destroying a Leviathan she ran to the side, waiting until the beast was next to the building she jumped down on to its back and screamed out as the fall jarred her injured arm.
Pushing herself up, she managed to run up to the two of them, making Thor raise an eyebrow in question at the wound that was spilling blood on to her singlet. Before she could say anything, Hulk had seen the wound and roared in anger at the sight of her injured. Grabbing a sheet of metal he jammed it in to the back of the beasts neck, pushing it in as much as he could before Thor hit it down with Mjölnir.
"Thanks for the ride!" Callie called, waiting until the beast had fallen towards the ground enough before she jumped off it and landed down on a bus, once again the landing jarred the injured arm but her body had filled up with enough adrenaline for her not to feel it. Running along and dodging attacks from Aliens, who were then shot out of the sky by an annoyed Loki, she came to where Steve and Natasha were fighting. Without a word she joined them, forgoing her precious swords and reverting to using the magic that Loki had gifted her, the only good thing that had come out of the bond.
"I know you gave the orders, sir. But they are so stupid I am choosing to ignore them!" Nick snapped at the computer screen, trying his hardest not to call the board Director a complete wanker. His hands were in fists at his sides as the others all watched what was happening around New York, he had just heard that there were now two people using what people were describing as magic.
"We need to contain this to the island!" The board director snapped. "And it seems your team can not do it!"
"I will not destroy civilians until I see that my team can not save the island!" Nick argued. "My daughter is on that island fighting, director... And I don't care what you say, I will not destroy her!"
"We've seen the reports Nick, her powers have been unlocked by this Loki! It is beyond your control now, the subjects must be destroyed. Both of them."
With a snarl of anger Nick swiped his hand across the screen, instantly shutting the chat down, before spinning around to Maria. "No jets are allowed to leave, if one does shoot them down!"
"But sir..."
"I said shoot them down, Maria!"
It only took three minutes before he was racing through the ship to stop the plane from take off, his thoughts on Callie. He was going to save his daughter, no matter what. If she was to die today, it would be from Clint's arrow, not from a nuclear war head! Shooting the plane down he yelled out as another one took off with the bomb, grabbing his radio he hoped beyond hope that someone would answer him.
"Is anyone there?"
"Yeah, bit busy now Director.." Tony answered as he dodged three aliens and watched as Callie blew each of them up.
"There is a plane on the way now with a nuclear weapon. They are going to blow up the island. I need you to stop it! Please Tony, stop it!"
"Fuck! How long?"
"Three minutes."
Tony paused as two aliens raced past him and crashed in to a building, before turning around and racing towards where he could intercept the bomb, Steve's words floating around his mind.
"No." He thought. "I wouldn't lie down on the wire and let the others crawl over me, I would carry them across the wire for them to save their energy..." He finally found the bomb and chased after it, hearing Natasha's delighted call that she could close the portal.
"Don't!" He cried out, ignoring the chatter the others put over the coms at his decision. "At the moment I have a nuclear weapon in my hands sent from the board! And I know just where to put it!"
"This is a one way trip, Tony!" Steve called over the coms, but he did not tell him not to do it. Instead his voice was filled with pride at the billionaire's actions.
"Sir, you won't have enough thrust power to get back to Earth..." JARVIS said in his emotionless voice. At times like these Tony wished he had given JARVIS an accent, everything was better when said in a Jamaican accent.
"I know, JARVIS. Just get me through that portal." Tony whispered, groaning in effort as he pulled at the bomb to change its course.
"Shall I ring Miss Potts?"
"Yeah... you better."
The cheer that went up in S.H.I.E.L.D's ship was deafening as they watched Tony fly through the portal with the nuclear bomb, even Director Fury let out a small whoop of delight at the thought of New York being saved. But the whoop soon died when he realised there had been no talk of Loki or the other person who was using magic on the news.
Did Clint do as I asked? He thought, glancing at Maria who was giving him a glare to suggest she was thinking the same thing. It was for the good of the world. She needed to be stopped before she started.
And so the story starts to wind down to its end. :( I'm going to do this here so then the future chapters will just have story and no A/N. Thank you all for reading this story and loving it, thank you for all your comments and all, it has really made me happy to read them. It's been fantastic to slowly watch my review count for each chapter rise with each chapter that has been posted.
Yes, this story will go in to a sequel, because I feel that ending it with the movie's finish will be a good way to end it! The sequel will be called 'The Bonded Girl' and will be posted after this story is finished (I will write a quick A/N and add it to this story to let you guys know when it is up!)
I hope you all enjoy the chapters to come and don't kill me for how this story ends!
xoxo,
Jabberwocky!