The Fight for New York

Eventually, Eris was left alone to train, and she was pretty good at it, before she head to stop at hearing footsteps coming up behind her.

"Eris."

At hearing her name, she turned around and looked at Rogers, who had been the one to walk up behind her.

"Yes Captain?" She stopped her training and looked at him, her arms folded under her chest as she looked at him.

"We are ready to go, will you be joining us?"

"We, Captain?" Eris asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Me, you, Natasha, Stark and Barton." Rogers told her, reeling off names for her, before he watched her nod and they walked towards the aircrafts, and they were soon met by Natasha and a man that Eris wasn't accustomed to.

"Agent Barton, this is Eris of Asgard, Loki's wife and someone who will be a great help to us." Rogers explained.

The man just nodded, looking as dumbfounded as everyone else had when they all first saw Eris, before Natasha dug him in the ribs and he recovered himself.

"It's nice to meet you, Eris, I'm Clint Barton, but people call me Hawkeye." He introduced himself and held out his hand.

Eris looked at his hand for a few minutes, before she took his hand and shook it. "Eris."

They shared a smile with each other, and headed towards a jet.

As they all got on board the man who had been checking on things inside it, stood up.

"Whoa, you guys aren't authorised to be in here." He protested, but soon stopped when he felt one of Eris' swords be pressed to his neck.

"Son, just don't." Rogers told him in exasperation, and he nodded for Eris to let the man go and when Eris sheathed her swords, the man left them alone.

"Can you do anything that doesn't end up nearly cutting someone's head off?" Barton asked her.

"Yes, slight mind control and I can control Chaos." Eris told him, leaving the man frozen at the mention of mind control and she found somewhere to sit, strapping herself in. she watched as everyone done the same and the jet soon took off. When it was fully in the air, Rogers stood up and walked to her, holding out another one of those earpieces, which she reluctantly took, and put into her ear, just as they saw the start of the island of Manhattan on the horizon.

"Is this your 'New York'?" Eris asked when she saw it, standing beside Rogers.

"Yes, well this is Manhattan." Rogers told her.

"It looks pretty nice, minus the portal though." Eris told him, causing Rogers to smile, as he pulled his helmet on over his head.

As they drew closer to what Eris guessed as the Stark tower, she heard Romanoff signal to Stark.

"Stark, we are on your trail two blocks east."

"What did you stop for drive through?" Stark's voice asked. "Swing up park, I'm going to lay them out for you."

As he said it, the all saw him fly past in his iron suit, whilst being chased by a team of aliens, at seeing the aliens Barton and Natasha open fired on them.

"Eris, can you try and get to Loki?" Barton asked.

"I can try." Eris told him.

"Because you're going to want to go now."

Eris nodded and with a salute, she disappeared through the floor of the jet and landed on the roof of a building, before she looked at where the Stark tower was, and breaking into a speed that made her a blur, she ran towards it. When she reached the foot of the skyscraper, she used her powers of speed and her ability to climb and she eventually reached the balcony where she found Loki and Thor fighting.

"Stop it." She shouted, pulling them apart. "Please, just stop." She watched as Loki did stop, and as Thor took a swing at him with his hammer, she got in the way. Thor didn't have time to realise that Eris was in the way, before his hammer suddenly struck her on her head, with such force that it left a noticeable dent in her skull.

"Eris!" Loki's voice could be heard about anything and he knelt down beside his wife. "Wake up Eris, come on, I'm so sorry Eris."

Thor watched his brother, seeming surprised as he suddenly picked her head up and rested it onto his lap, pressing gentle kisses to his wife's forehead, as her body slowly repaired itself.

"You idiot!" Loki hissed at his brother, suddenly hitting him with a beam of energy from his staff, just as the jet appeared and started to fire at Loki. Loki fired at the jet, managing to cut off one of its engines, before Thor suddenly attacked him again, which resulted in a wrestling match between the two, and Loki falling off the side of the balcony.

"Loki!" Eris ran to the edge, just in time to see him picked up by one of the Chitauri crafts, and Eris and Thor looked on as they watched him leave, before they suddenly found themselves surrounded by Chitauri fighters, all aiming their weapons at the two gods.

"Thor…" Eris told him as she looked at the Chitauri.

"Yes Eris?"

"May the best God win?" As she said it, she pulled out her swords and used them to deflect the beams that came from their weapons, just as Thor done the same with Mjolnir, and they started to fight. Side by side, like they normally done. Eris didn't remain on the balcony as much as Thor did, since she could jump, she decided to jump aboard each craft and behead those that were on it, before she got back onto the balcony to relieve some of the warriors from Thor.

"Thor, I'll hold them back, try and stop the machine." Eris told him when she was able to handle the people around them.

Thor nodded and he gave a few swift swings of his hammer, before he shot up into the sky towards the machine, leaving Eris on her own on the balcony. Eris was doing well on her own in defending herself against the aliens that attacked her. However, at hearing an explosion, Eris looked up and noticed Thor falling from the top of the Stark tower.

"Thor!" She suddenly sheathed her swords and she jumped in such a way that she caught him, and they ended going through the wall ad into an office block, rolling across the floor.

"Thank you." Thor coughed.

"Don't thank me yet, this isn't over, what exploded by the way?" Eris asked as she sat up rubbing her head where she had hit the floor.

"I tried to hit the cube, its shield is strong."

"We need to tell this to the others." Eris told him, and she stood, pulling Thor to his feet and she took hold of his hand before he pulled her into his chest before they both jumped through the all thanks to Eris and Thor used Mjolnir to help them fly down to where the others were. They landed on the ground, Thor using a nearby car to keep himself upright. At seeing them, Hawkeye, Natasha and Rogers walked over to them.

"What's the story upstairs?" Rogers asked Thor.

"The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor told him.

"Thor's right, we have to deal with these guys." Stark's voice told them, and it made Eris wince.

"Are you alright?" Barton asked, at seeing her wince.

"I'm fine, my hearing is just a bit more sensitive than everyone else's and these little noise things are doing my head in." Eris told them.

"Take it out Eris, you should be okay without it." Romanoff told her, and she watched Eris take out the earpiece and flick it away, before she looked back at Rogers and Thor.

Barton looked at Eris and he mouthed the word arrows to her, before he tapped where he held them and she soon flitted off, catching the idea that he needed to retrieve them.

"How do we do this?" She asked them.

"As a team." Rogers told her sternly.

"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor interjected.

"Yeah, well get in line." Barton told him, as he fixed his arrows which Eris had brought back, before he watched her grab Thor's arm, to stop whatever reaction he was going to give Barton.

"Save it." Rogers told him, walking to him. "Loki is going to keep his fight on us, and we will need that."

"Captain's right, without us these things will run wild and your city will be lost." Eris told them, letting go of Thor.

Rogers nodded as Eris agreed with him, before he continued, starting to walk backwards as he spoke, gesturing around with his arms. "We've got Stark up top, he is going to need us to-"

The sound of a motorbike caused Rogers to stop in whatever he was saying and turn around, and they all looked behind him at Banner who took himself off of the motorcycle and looked at them all.

"Well, this really does look terrible." Banner told them.

"I've seen worse." Natasha replied, her voice its usual monotone pitch.

"Sorry." Banner told her, and he actually did look quite sorry.

"No, we could actually do with a little worse." Natasha told him quickly, which caused him to almost smirk at her comment.

"Stark, we got him." Rogers suddenly told Stark.

"Banner?" Eris could hear his reply from a mile away.

"Just like you said." Rogers told him, no doubt boosting Stark's ego with the comment.

"Tell him to suit up, I'm bringing the party to you."

Just as he spoke, they all looked around and noticed Stark coming towards them, followed by a large metal leviathan.

"I don't see how that is seen as a party." Natasha commented as she readied her guns.

Eris watched as Thor had the same idea as her, and he brandished Mjolnir, as she pulled out her swords, ready to fight, and then she watched Banner walk towards the creature's path as Stark landed beside her.

"Dr Banner, you might want to get angry." Rogers told him.

"That's my secret Captain." Banner told him as he continued to walk towards the creature, before stopping and looking back at the group. "I'm always angry." At his last word, he suddenly morphed into the large green creature that Eris has witnessed chase Natasha down a corridor. With one swift punch to the face of the creature and an earth shattering cry, the Hulk had the leviathan's head pinned down to the floor, as its body raised itself up, Stark suddenly shot a rocket at a patch of flesh that had appeared when its armour fell away. Eris suddenly found herself pushed to the floor, and Stark covering her body with his as the leviathan exploded, throwing pieces of its body and head everywhere. Then along with all of the Avengers, she looked around at the many Chitauri warriors that lined the buildings and had witnessed the destruction of one of their leviathans and they all let out an ear wrenching cry, which made Eris cover her own ears with her hands. To her it sounded like nails on a chalk board and it wasn't very pleasant. Their cry was then answered by another one from the Hulk, and Eris unsheathed her swords, as Thor readied his grip upon Mjolnir, Barton readied his arrows, Natasha and Stark readied their weapons and Rogers gripped his shield. They were prepared for battle, and this was going to be one legendary battle.

They all looked around them, yet only Natasha and Eris looked up at the sky, and what they saw almost made them rethink their options of what they were about to do.

"Um guys." They both said, their eyes remaining on the sky, just as everyone else looked up at the portal. They all watched as more and more Chitauri warriors and leviathans came spewing out towards the city.

"Call it Captain." Stark told him, and this spurred Rogers into action.

"Right, for now I want to use containment." Rogers told them as he moved to stand in front of the group. "Barton, I want you on that roof," He pointed to the roof that he meant as he spoke. "You need your eyes on everything and call out any patterns or strays that you see."

Barton nodded at his orders as he looked over at Rogers.

At Barton's nod he looked at Stark. "Stark, you've got the perimeter, if anything gets more than four blocks out then you can either turn it back or turn it to ash."

"Want to give me a lift?" Barton asked Stark, shifting his hawk eye gaze onto him.

"Right, better clench up Legolass." Stark told him, and Barton done as he said as he grabbed his jacket and then they were flying off to Baton's designated roof.

When they were gone, Rogers went on to give Thor a job. "Thor, you've got to try and bottleneck that portal, you've got the lightning so light the bastards up."

Thor looked at Eris when he nodded to the Captain. "Are you going to be alright?"

"Don't worry about me, I'm less breakable than you, just try and be careful." Eris told him, moving aside as Thor gave a few swings of his hammer and shot off into the sky, and then the Captain looked at her and Natasha.

"Us three will stay on the ground, and try and keep the fighting here with us." He then looked back at the Hulk. "Hulk." Hulk looked at him, with almost curiosity on his face. "Smash."

At being given that one simple word, Hulk's look turned to that of pleasure and excitement, and he suddenly jumped onto the side of a building and started to crush any Chitauri which either fired at him or was simply there at the time of his landing.

When Hulk had left, Eris, Rogers and Natasha all started to fight, all of them able to provide protection for each other, yet Eris managed to get herself separated from her friends, and she could feel eyes watching her as she fought.

"Eris…"

The voice was no more than a whisper, and yet it made her stop, just as a Chitauri warrior suddenly pinned her to the floor, on her stomach, but as he was about to shoot her, something else shot him.

"Eris, stand up."

At hearing the voice for a second time, Eris stood up, just in time to be suddenly grabbed and almost thrown onto one of the crafts that he Chitauri used, and as she pulled out a dagger from her sandal, she noticed who had grabbed her – Loki.

"Loki…" Eris whispered.

Loki turned to face her and he gave her a sly smile, before he stopped flying near the portal, and he seemed smug as they watched the Avengers all fight.

"Loki, you know that I have to help them." Eris told him, walking up behind him and sliding her arms around him.

"I know." He whispered, his voice almost silent. "I just wish that you didn't have to." He looked at her. "I love you too much to fight you."

"That's why you and I aren't fighting, instead we are here, holding each other in the midst of battle." She told him, pressing a gentle kiss to his lips. "I love you, and I'm sorry for this, but it has to be this way." She told him, before after one last chaste kiss, she took a running jump and jumped from the end of the craft that he was using.

When she reached her intended target, the top of Stark tower, she landed on her front, coughing out a lot of gravel and dust.

"Okay, never doing that again." She told herself, wincing as she stood up, grimacing slightly as she heard her injuries heal themselves, before she noticed Selvig lying on the floor, on the opposite side to her.

"Selvig!" She ran over to him, at human speeds this time and knelt down beside him her hands covering themselves in an almost black mist and she pressed them to his chest.

"Please be okay, please wake up." She whispered, smiling in relief when she heard Selvig take a shuddery breath. "Thank stars."

"Eris…" Selvig whispered, as his eyes opened and he looked at her, suddenly reaching up to touch her face and smiling. "It is you."

"It is me." She smiled. "You're back Selvig, now rest and take it easy." She stood up and walked over to the cube where it stood in its device and she tried to come up with a way in which to stop it, just as Natasha landed on the roof not too far away. Natasha saw Eris and walked over to her.

"What do we do?"

"I do not know." Eris told her. "This is beyond me, I'm not as smart as I make out."

"The sceptre…"

Both of the women looked over at where Selvig was, now leaning against a metal wall of the tower.

"Doctor." Natasha looked at him as she spoke.

"Loki's sceptre. The energy in it. The tesseract can't fight, against itself." He watched as Natasha walked over to him.

"It's not your fault, you didn't know what you were doing." Natasha told him.

"Why should I think that I didn't, I built a safety in the sceptre to cut the power source." Selvig told her, and he actually sounded proud of himself.

"Loki's sceptre can close the portal." Eris suddenly spoke up, walking over to join them. "Where is it?"

"I'm looking right at it." Selvig nodded down to the balcony, where Loki's sceptre lay almost forgotten on the floor.

Eris looked down at it, and she suddenly disappeared through the floor, ending up on the balcony, where she picked up the sceptre, and made her way back up to the roof.

When she got to the roof, she put the sceptre down, and helped Natasha to pull Selvig to his feet, before she looked down and saw that Stark needed her help. "I have to go and help Stark."

"Go Eris, we'll be fine." Natasha told her, as she picked the sceptre back up, and she watched Eris seemingly disappear, before she and Selvig set to work with closing up the portal.

When Eris got back onto the streets, she shot in Stark's direction, her speed making her a blur once more, and she unsheathed her swords before she started to help Stark in fighting off the aliens that surrounded him. When she had this fully under control, she heard a message come through his communicator, it was from Director Fury.

"Stark, there's a missile heading your way."

"I can't go right now, I'm a little busy." Stark replied as he and Eris stood side by side and helped each other fight.

"Stark, I've got this. Go." Eris told him as she took another hit for him.

"Jarvis, put everything that we've got into the thrusters." Stark told his computer, as he and Eris looked at each other and at her nod, he flew off.

What seemed like minutes of fighting, Eris stopped and looked up to find Stark flying over her head, holding what she only deemed to be the missile, and she calculated that he was heading towards the portal. However, before she witnessed him disappear, she suddenly got hit with a laser from one of the gun, and as her skin healed itself, she got back up and went back to fighting. Yet this didn't last long, as she watched the Chitauri warriors that she was fighting, suddenly stop and all fall to the floor, and she looked up in time to see Stark falling, and she flitted in that direction, getting back to Thor and Rogers just as the Hulk landed on the floor with Stark, and he put him on the floor.

Eris ran over and knelt down beside him, removing the golden part of his helmet, and she watched the Captain rest his ear next to Stark's mouth to check if he was breathing and then they checked a now lightless ring on his chest.

"Oh no…" Eris whispered, and she moved to stand beside Thor, as he slid an arm around her in a sort of awkward hug slash friendly gesture.

Suddenly, Hulk gave a roar, and Stark became full of life as if the sudden roar had scared him to death half as much as it had done to Eris.

"What just happened?" Stark asked, looking between them. "Please tell me no body kissed me."

Rogers looked around and he breathed a sigh of relief. "We won…"

Stark then looked around at the area that they were in and finally noticed that there was no Chitauri warriors there.

"Hey, good job guys, and Girl. Let's just not come in tomorrow." He looked over at he Hulk. "Have you ever tried shawarma?"

This caused everyone to smile, since it was like Stark to try and cheer everyone up.

"There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here, I don't know what it is, but I want to try it."

Thor looked at them, his face sullen and Eris could see that he was still a bit annoyed and geared up for a fight. "We aren't finished yet."

Eris looked at him and she sighed, realising that he was right. "He's right, we still have to deal with Loki."

Stark looked almost heartbroken at the news and he sighed. "Then shawarma after." He then allowed Eris and Rogers to lift him to his feet, and he watched as Eris moved away and held out her hands and her swords flew back into them and any other weapons that she had lost came flying back and attached themselves to her armour.

"Neat trick." He told her, and this caused her to role her eyes as she watched them all walk towards Stark tower. Now she had to return to Asgard, and stop Odin from finding out about her broken rule, or no activity of any kind with her estranged husband. That wasn't going to be easy.