8. Dust and blood.
We look from afar as the geniuses do their job. Suddenly, Peter ducks and kicks the air. No, not the air, Loki, who materializes grabbing his crotch. He hit him right in the nuts. That spider sense of him is the real thing. Stark backs off. Bruce falls to the ground. Not good. I ready my shield and jump into the action. For a while, Peter and I are able to keep up with Loki and his tricks. Thor and Barton watch, hammer and bow in hand, waiting for the right time to jump in. Natasha helps Bruce. Peter and I make a good team, but eventually, we see ourselves surrounded by illusions. Thor joins in, smashing a few. Barton is not wasting arrows, but the ones he shoots go right trough the illusions necks. Suddenly, we see Natasha fly. This is bad.
"PUNY GOD!" Banner lost it. He runs towards us, but we all manage to duck in time. The illusions fade as he smashes them. He starts looking around, but Loki doesn't show up.
"Parker! Come here!" That's Stark
"We re busy here Stark!"
"If he doesn't help me fix this, we are all dead. I need two sets of hands here, and Bruce's are suddenly too big for the job!"
"Go." With Parker gone, its Thor and me against an invisible Loki, plus a crazed Hulk. Clint is helping Natasha, but Fury takes her from him and he's back in the action. Hulk isn't attacking anyone right now, but we all keep our guards up. He is jumping around smashing things. He seems to have some degree of self-con…no he doesn't. He comes right at me. I manage to dodge him for a while, and soon enough he's hitting everything in his path. I see Barton shoot at him with his new yet-to-be-tested anti-Hulk arrow: a ridiculously strong sedative on a ridiculously sharp arrow. It gets stuck in him, but it doesn't work.
"You have to keep him away from the reactor Steve! We are almost done" Easier said than done, cause Stark is giving his back to the fight and doesn't know that Hulk is running straight at them. Without time to think, I run past him - below him, actually - and turn around to face him.
"….and that's it!" Parkers voice is the last thing I hear as I get Hulks punch right in the stomach. I fly away and hit the wall, which breaks to pieces. I try to get up, but my legs don't answer. The last thing I feel as my vision goes dark is the dust from the wall mixing with my own blood in my mouth.