A/N Right, four things.
1. After this chapter there is only two more left.
2. There will be a sequel.
3. Thank you for reading, reviewing, following and favorite-ing
4. I know I stole the battle from the film. It's hard to write big battles. Please, please don't kill me. You'll see why.
Nothing Will Ever Bring Us Back Together
Chapter Twenty Five- That Stupid Tesseract
AVENGERS TOWER
"I must go, the Allfather is summoning me." Thor said standing up.
"Bye, Thor." Everyone chorused. They were lazing around, many of them thinking how nice it was to have a break from school, a few parents thinking about going back. Thor wondered what his father wanted with him, he never called unless there was an urgent threat.
"Be back soon." Jane added. Thor stepped outside and with a clap of thunder and a streak of lightning he was gone. At the same time Director Fury came out of the lift.
"Av and Revengers suit up now. The tesseract has been taken by Loki again." He said, staring at each of them intimidatingly with a single eye.
"Seriously, pirate? You are joking right." Tony didn't believe him. In fact, none of them did.
"No, Stark. He's going to try to take over New York again, we believe. Where's Barton and Romanoff?" He needed everyone on this job. Last time it had been bad enough and they had been practicing (It that was the right word) being superheroes daily back then. Now they knew how each of the others worked but had they forgotten?
"Here Director and its Barton and Barton." Natasha said, looking down as to avoid his eye, having slipped in to the room a moment earlier.
"When did spidey get let out?" Tony hissed to no one. None of them knew, except Ethan and Katya, that Natasha had gotten out, herself and Clint preferring to hide away as to not be recruited again.
"Two weeks ago. You lot are really unobservant." Natasha hissed back.
"Well, 'Barton and Barton', then. Barton #2 I have a surprise for you." Phil Coulson walked out of the elevator. Her mouth dropped open in literal shock.
"No, Phil, you are dead. Loki killed you. Eighteen years ago. Ha ha Fury joke not funny." Natasha was stunned. Nothing can reawaken the dead.
"Natasha, I'm real. I never died. Loki stabbed me and S.H.I.E.L.D. made me better. It took two years and then they were going to tell you. I was going to be there when you came back from that mission." Phil said. Over the years, he had grown tired of seeing it over and over to the newest level sevens.
"No. Please. You can't be alive. Did you know about this, Clint?" Quickly she turned to look at Clint. The guilt on his face was so obvious that she didn't even stop to hear his answer.
"No comment." Clint whispered but Natasha hardly heard him.
"I am, Natasha. You have already met my daughter." The Avengers all turned to look at Phil as he said to Fury, "Maria didn't tell any of them, did she?"
"Fern?!"
"Yes. Back to the point. I am alive." Phil had married Maria? That was kind of sweet. Natasha thought. If she wasn't still do shocked about the whole alive thing, she would have been happy for him.
"Yes you might be. But Phil, please don't suck us back in to S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Avengers. My life's too mucked up already." Natasha said.
"Natasha. Loki has the tesseract." Phil said, deadly serious. Now Natasha no longer looked like an idiot as everyone's jaws dropped.
"Clint, are you okay?" Natasha was worried. Last time Loki had the tesseract, she had to knock Clint out because he had sources of magic in his head.
"Tash, I'm fine, but sir, how did Loki get here to get the tesseract? I thought he was locked up in Asgard." Clint asked, looking to see if Thor was back, which he wasn't. He was the one who carted the idiot off anyway. A loud crash on the roof brought everyone's attention to the ceiling.
"He was. I join you, my friends, he needs to be defeated once again. This time he comes with an army of Chitari, once more, and MUST be defeated. We can not kill him though he is a god. He can not die." Thor was back, surprising quickly. According to Jane, Odin often... droned on, shall we say?
"Okay Thor, That was quick. What do we need to do director?" Steve asked, plan forming in his head already, as it had not done in some years.
"I think Pepper, Jane and Betty you better come with me for safety. Agent Carter, Black Widow are you ok to fight?" Fury asked, seeming to actually care about them.
"Yeah." Natasha replied, retreating to Clint's side and slipping her hand in to his.
"Yep. But Alice can't. No, baby, you can't come to fight." Peggy said, turning to face her daughter who was still only ten.
"But mum please? Everyone else is." Alice whined, not wanting to miss all the fun. She has made some great friends and didn't want them going on an adventure without her.
"Because they have trained." Peggy replied firmly. There was no way she was going to put Alice in danger, not that day.
"I have too. I can use a gun." Alice insisted. She had learnt how to do that in the short month she had been at the Tower.
"No, Alice. You have not trained compared to these people." Steve said, shaking his head in disbelief. Alice to think she was ready? That was like seeing Natasha without a gun or Clint without a bow.
"But-" She began.
"No buts. Al, you mean too much, we can not let you die. Director Alice is coming with you as well." Steve informed him.
"Sure. The rest of you are fighting. Here are some comms." Grabbing a box and handing it to Stark, he said.
"Give us a little more heads up if a missile is coming ok? I was sort if unprepared last time." Tony smirked, looking proud while everyone else groaned except Fury, who seemed not to hear it.
"Will do. Avengers, Revengers, I'm trusting you on this. Do not let me down." He then let them say bye to their families.
Pepper said to Tony, "Do not die and of one of them missiles comes, don't let Ella or Joe take it."
"Won't Pepper. Answer your phone this time though."
"I will. And you had better call. Love you."
"Love you, Pep."
Jane said to Thor, "I know you can't die but do be careful and look after Blaze."
"I love you, Lady Jane."
"I love you too, Thor."
Betty said to Bruce, "Be careful. The Hulk may be invincible but Lilly isn't. Come back to me, I love you."
"I love you too."
Peggy said to Alice, "Baby, watch the news if you must because it will tell you that we are ok. We will be ok. Let Pepper, Betty and Jane look after you. I love you."
"I love you too and I promise that we will both be ok." Steve said.
"I do too just come back, please come back." She was genuinely worried.
"We will." They said together.
"Come on girls." Director Fury said and four girls and two men entered the lift.
"So, Star Spangled man with-" Tony Stark began.
"Shut up, Stark." Clint said. He knew the look on Steve's face. It was the look of worry. He himself had worn it many times. Too many.
"Darling, it will be ok." Peggy said
"Betty will look after her." Bruce piped up.
"What if we die, Peggy? How can I break a promise to our little girl? What if we all die? I might have just seen her for the last time. Peggy-" Steve began, seeming to break down.
"Steve. Don't do this to yourself. Alice will be fine. We will be fine. We will go back to London, everything will be normal. We can train her and if this ever happens again, which it hopefully won't, she will be here." Peggy told him. He couldn't let himself get down, it would fail him, fail the team.
"Fine. I'll be fine." He didn't seem sure of himself but he stood up anyway.
"So Star Spangled man with a-" Tony began once more.
"Stark, shut it. And you and Bruce go locate it, make sure it is actually here." His game face was on now. Nothing was going to hurt his family. Not even the extended one.
"Will do. Come on Angry pants, That's a new one." Tony remarked and walked into the lift with Bruce who looked almost green in the hulk type way.
"The rest of us, get suited up. Minus you Lewis." Captain America pulled on his star spangled spandex suit. Agent Carter pulled on her S.H.I.E.L.D. issued catsuit. Hawkeye his black number. Black Widow her black catsuit. Blue Bullet a new navy and electric blue uniform, similar to Clint's. Amber Arrow a Black catsuit almost identical to the Black Widow one except for the Patten of amber arrows on the back. Thor waved his Mojnir over both himself and Blaze and their Asgardian armour appeared. Iron Boy and Iron Girl dug their hands in to their suits and watched as the suits appeared on them. Iron Boy admired the Black and Blue of his and Iron Girl admired the Pink and Black of hers. Ivy (As Lilly had been named) pulled on a simple green catsuit.
"All suited up? Let's go see where Iron Ass is up too." They all followed Captain America down to the Lab. He knocked.
"We found it." Bruce said, "And right now I would not advise you to go out of this tower. You know last time he pushed him out a window and his suit barely got on in time." The kids' eyes widened. None of them knew the specifics of eighteen years before, having only found out recently.
"Iron Boy and Iron Girl go up and find the floor that they are on. Tell us and hover outside few floors down. Do not draw any attention to yourselves." Steve told Ella and Joe. They nodded and went to follow his orders.
"Yes, Captain." They said as they jumped out of the window.
MEANWHILE ON FLOOR EIGHTY-NINE
"What have I to fear?" Loki asked, smiling. He was going to win this time, he knew it, just not in the way they thought he was.
"The Revengers and the Avengers. It's what we call ourselves, what Fury called our kids. Sort of like the team that defeated you eighteen years ago but better. "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" type thing, again." Stark replied. In the last eighteen years he had forgotten how many times he had said something like this in a nightmare.
"I've met the Avengers, Revengers sound interesting though." This conversation was so similar to the one that they had eighteen years ago.
"Yeah. Took us a while to get us back together, I'll give you that one but, let's do a head count here: Your brother, the demigod; Your nephew, the half Demi-God, does that make him a quarter God?; A super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; A man with breath-taking anger management issues; His son, who can transform in to the same guy; six master assassins," Tony counted, Natasha, Clint, Ethan, Katya, Peggy and Lilly. Six. "and you, reindeer games, you've managed to get every single one of them involved." Tony couldn't believe that he had said the Avengers were back together.
"That was the plan." Now Loki was being strange. He wanted to fight fourteen people?
"Not a great plan. They are all downstairs and when they come, and they will, they'll come for you." He hoped that they were ready.
"I have an army. They are coming as well. They are coming for all of you."
"We have two Hulks."
"I thought at least one of them had not changed for five years. Not a record you want to break."
"They both changed less than a month ago, get your facts straight, but you're missing the point. There's no throne. There is no version of this where you come out on top. This is revenge. You have been planning this for eighteen years so its probably not going to fail as badly as last time. Maybe your stupid Chitauri come, and maybe it's too much for us, which it will not be, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it. You are trying for revenge, Rudolph, for what happend eighteen years ago. We don't need revenge. We have Revengers." At this point Loki pushed Tony out of the window but Ella caught him. Joe, Ella and Tony all flew up to the window with suits on.
"And there's a few more people you got involved,"Joe said, "Iron Boy."
"Iron Girl." Ella said.
"And Iron Man. Phil's back by the way." The three shot lasers at him but he deflected them and the portal opened.
"Oh, right army. GUYS! SU-"
"Stark your in our ears. It's loud enough." Natasha growled. Her ears hurt.
"Ok, the Chitauri are here." Tony said urgently.
"Cap, what's the plan?" Clint asked.
"Irons take to the sky, Man, take out as many as possible at the portal, Boy, take the left side, Girl, the right. Arrow, Hawkeye you need to be up high. Thor, up high electrifying the things, Blaze, burning them. Bullet, Ivy, Carter, Widow, stay on the ground and take the things out, I'll join you once the police are sorted out. Hulks? Smash. Guys? Go!" Joe gave Katya a lift up to a rooftop on the left side, just in case. Thor took Clint up and he ran on the right. The four on the ground spread out a little but not too much and began taking out Chitauri. The Hulks smashed.
"There are people in those buildings. Get them out and off the streets." Captain America told a cop.
"Why should I listen to you?" He replied. The Captain took out three of them and said,
"I have a feeling I said this before. Because of that." The cop ran off shouting the Captain's orders in to his radio. The battle continued in the same way as it did in New York eighteen years ago however the battles were more intense, the Chitauri better than before and the Avengers having back up but the humans had ties they didn't have before. For example, if Katya died, Ethan, Natasha and Clint would stop and make their way over, probably getting shot, therefore Ella would go and see if Ethan was ok, getting shot at herself, then Joe and Tony coming over, getting shot by which time seven are dead leaving seven alive. In actual fact killing Katya would be a very good thing to do from the Chitauri's perspective.
"Iron Man, Missile at three o'clock blowing in two minutes" Fury shouted in to the comm, "Pepper says to take it and come back alive." Iron Man was in an intense battle with at least twenty of them. However, the message went to all the comms.
"DOES ANYBODY COPY?!" Ella shouted, forgetting that she was in everyone's ears. There was no answers. The others were alive, all in intense battles which made it hard to hear, even a shouted statement right into their ears. "Don't worry, dad, I've got your back." Ella muttered as she grabbed the missile coming in ninety degrees to her right.
"Shall I call Mrs Stark?" J.A.R.V.I.S. asked.
"No," She replied, she would break down if she heard her voice and wouldn't be able to go any further. "Just tell her I love her."
"Done, Miss. Anything else?" J.A.R.V.I.S. asked again.
"Tell Dad and Joe I love them." She was at the portal opening now and tearing up. Incoming call from Mum flashed in front of her eyes. Her father and brother's voices tried to persuade her to not do it. They were fighting and not making much sense. But she was inside the opening now.
"NO ELLA NO! COME BACK! Please Ells, I love you." That was Ethan. She heard that last from her comm as the suit began to shut down.
S.H.I.E.L.D HELICARRIER
"NO!" Pepper shouted. Each of them had their own screens, following their family. Alice was the first one over to her and arrived just in time to see Ella disappear.
"Ella you idiot." She whispered. Pepper held her head in her hands.
"My little girl..." She whispered. By then the others had come over.
"I'm so sorry, Pepper." Betty said.
"Wait what's that coming from the sky?" Jane asked.
NEW YORK
Ethan caught her, using his last bullet as a grappling hook (tech these days is incredible) and swinging to the ground. The Hulk Junior came over and said, "Metal girl ok?" Ethan nodded and told him that she was unconscious. "This works." Then he roared. Once Ella's eyelids began to open he stopped.
"Ella, please be ok. I love you too much to let you die. Please just tell me that you're ok." Ethan asked, begging.
"I love you too. Do you want the truth or what you want to hear?" Ella replied, blinking.
"You're alive. The truth, I suppose?"
"I'm ok," Ella smiled, "What happened, did we win?" Ethan looked around to see that the Chitauri were still fighting but the massive dragon ones shut down. No more came through the portal.
"Guys take this lot out, there is not too many, then we will get Loki. Bullet, Girl start making your way to the Tower. HJ, we need you." The Captain said. Hulk Junior bounded off.
"El, are you ok?" Joe asked.
"Yeah, give me a few minutes though." The rest were easy to take out, even without Iron Girl and Blue Bullet, blowing up the mothership had weakened them. Soon they had taken them all out and were back on floor eighty-nine all pointing something at Loki. Hawkeye and Amber Arrow, arrows; The Black Widow, Blue Bullet, Agent Carter and SOMETHING guns; Iron Boy, Man and Girl had lasers at the ready; The Hulk and Hulk Junior their fists; Captain America, his shield; Thor, his Mojnir and Blaze his sword.
"Loki. How did you get out, brother?" Thor asked he was curious because Loki had been stripped of his powers and there was the effect of magic in his cell.
"Me, of course, Uncle Thor. I helped my father escape and now we are going to take over the nine realms together, starting with Midgard." A girl said, appearing to appear out of thin air. She looked about twenty-five but Loki had been around thousands of years, she looked just like him so was probably his daughter. Clint immediately shot her.
"ARCHER, HOW DARE YOU IMPALE MY DAUGHTER?! YOU HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT HER DEATH!" Loki screamed. One look at his daughter and you knew she was dead. "You took my daughter, I will now take yours." He grabbed Katya by the elbow and his daughter's hand, and together the three of them disappeared. Natasha fell to her knees and screamed. Loki had taken her baby girl.
"My baby girl, my baby girl," She whispered over and over again.
"Tash, we will get her back. I promise." Clint said then started to cry. The others all stared at him. It was very rare to see assassins cry, especially if that assassin was Clint or Natasha. "This is all my fault." He whispered. Natasha looked at him and put a brave face on but tears still pooled in the corners of her eyes.
"NO!" Ethan shouted, reality finally setting in, "You can't take Kat!"
"No Clint," Natasha said, "None of this is your fault. He would have taken her anyway. Ethan com'ere." Natasha tried her hardest not to break down completely. She pulled Ethan in to a hug as the lift doors opened.
"Is everyone ok?" Fury barked, exiting the lift with Phil, Steph, Pepper, Jane, Betty and Alice. Alice ran to her parents and hugged them both. Her father picked her up muttering something about never letting her go again but he was focused on something else.
Betty walked over to Lilly and Lewis as Bruce had not calmed down enough yet, he was too angry about Katya. Betty hugged both of them and smiled. They were battle-worn but ok.
Jane took a step to the left where Thor and Blaze stood. Thor was rigid and still staring at the place where Loki had disappeared. She kissed Blaze's forehead and asked Thor, "Thor, what's wrong?" He did not reply.
Pepper walked over to Tony and asked, "Why did you let Ella take it? I specifically told you not to let her! I thought she was going to die!"
"Peps." He sighed his mind elsewhere. Ella and Joe were too busy staring at where they disappeared to say hello.
Phil was about to walk over to Clint and Natasha when he saw that both Clint and Natasha were crying. That rarely ever happened. He also saw Ethan trying not to cry but no Katya.
"Where's Katya?" Phil asked to everyone, noticing that Steve, Thor, Tony, Ella, Joe, Blaze, Peggy, Lilly and Lewis were all staring at the same spot.
"Loki took her." Natasha whispered before bursting into tears.