I do not own Marvel, The Avengers, Legion or any of its characters. I only own my original character Arabella, her backstory and anything else that seems out of place.
So here is the next installment in the Fallen Angel series. I really hope you enjoy it. I want to say thank you in advance to anyone who chooses to favorite, follow and review this story.
Thank you to Narsilia Lyanna Elendil for the review. No I haven't written a Legion story with Arabella, but given it is a part of her backstory I am going to very soon.
Reviews are appreciated!
Loki watches from above, motionless. "Send the rest."
From the portal, thousands more of Chitauri soldiers and even more Leviathans fly out. The Avengers look up. Way out of their fucking element.
Black Widow looks up, "Guys."
"Call it, Captain." Tony says.
"All right, listen up. Until we can close that portal, our priority is containment. Barton, I want you on that roof. Eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash."
"Can you give me a lift?" Hawk asks turning to the Man of Iron.
"Right. Better clench up, Legolas." Tony lifts Hawk up to the corner of the building.
Down below Cap turns to the others. "Thor, Arabella, you got to try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You got the elements. You got the lightning. Light the bastards up."
Thor and Arabella fly off towards the portal. Cap turns to the last two, "Natasha, you and me, we stay here on the ground. We keep the fighting here. And Hulk... Smash."
The Hulk smiles a most magnificent grin and leaps, soaring high up onto the nearest building, Hulk runs up the wall and hits several soldiers, snapping them in half. He dives towards a building on the other side of the street, throwing the dead soldiers towards other soldiers. The soldiers fire at him, he backhands them, seizes them and with raw power, throws them down. In his most powerful leap yet, the Hulk flies up and is in the middle of a flying chariot traffic jam, to which he smacks them out of altitude.
Up in the sky Thor grabs onto the Empire State Building, raises Mjolnir and KRAKAKABOOM! A blinding bolt of lightening strikes down from above, colliding on Mjolnir. Thor aims this massive shockwave towards the portal. He channels the blast and fires the electricity out at the soldiers flying out of the portal. They're blasted back in a massive shockwave. They convulse, dropping dead to the ground. He even rips a Leviathan, which then explodes.
Below him Arabella flies around the bottom of the portal killing any soldier that manages to escape Thor's blast. One by one they dissipate to ashes from a fireball or smash to the ground shattering into pieces from an ice ball.
Back in the bridge of the Helicarrier, Fury sees on his view screen the destruction going on in New York. Agent Hill walks up to him, "Sir. The Council is on."
Oh shit! Fury turns on his screen.
Atop the rooftop, Hawk fires arrows into the streaming flow of Chitauri riders, hitting his mark each time.
"Stark, you got a lot of strays sniffing your tail."
"I'm just trying to keep them off the streets."
"Well, they can't bank worth a damn." Barton aims his bow behind him, without looking and releases an arrow, exploding a rider. "So, find a tight corner."
"I will roger that."
Iron Man does so and leads the Chitauri towards tight corners and into Hawk's view, who fires arrow upon arrow, exploding the Chitauri riders. Iron Man keeps leading the riders under tunnels, and through open parking garages. He looks back. None left.
"Nice call. What else you got?"
"Well, Thor and Bella are taking on a squadron down on 6th."
"And they didn't invite me?"
Inside a conference room office workers sit around a table. But noise catches one worker's eye, then another, and soon they are all rising, stepping to the window, mesmerizing by what lies beyond. A Chitauri Leviathan swims right in front of them.
Suddenly, another noise catches the worker's attention. The Hulk crashes through their floor, slashes his way through the room and jumps out onto the jaw of the creature. The Leviathan heads down trying to wave off the Hulk.
Black Widow, using the energy rifle, is taken off her feet by a soldier. She tiresomely takes it down by cutting its throat. She grabs the energy rifle and turns to attack. Cap stands there, holding his shield up. She slumps back, tired.
"Captain, none of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal."
"Our biggest guns couldn't touch it."
"Well, maybe it's not about guns."
"Well, if you wanna get up there, you're gonna need a ride."
"I got a ride. I could use a boost, though."
Natasha drops the rifle and backs up giving herself a running start, while Cap lifts and angles his shield.
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yeah. It's gonna be fun."
Natasha runs at Cap, doing a parkour move, using her feet to run up the car and jump up on Cap's shield, who gives her a boost up, she grabs onto a flying chariot. She climbs up onto the chariot and cuts the turret shooter's linkage to it. She then jumps on the rider and sticks her knives into his nervous system. She gets him to bank over to a building.
Iron Man arrives and shoots any other riders following her. He makes his way down to Cap, who is fighting off more soldiers. Iron Man points his boosters at Cap's shield, the energy comes off and Cap uses it as a reflection beam and takes down nearby soldiers.
From above them, Hawk sends down his remaining arrows, sending one across the street, taking down a rider following Iron Man.
Finally we have Thor, Arabella and Hulk fighting on top the back of a Leviathan, tearing it apart and fighting soldiers. Hulk breaks off a massive piece of armor and slams it down onto the spine of the creature. Arabella flies in front of the creature, she raises her arms and coats the creature's face with a sheet of ice, blinding it. On top, summoning all his strength, Thor raises Mjolnir, drawing lightening to it from all sides, and brings it down with a final, terrible blow—
The Leviathan crashes into a history museum. Dead. Thor and Hulk stand on the back of the creature after bringing it down. They stand still, admiring. Without warning, Hulk punches Thor with his enormous hand. Thor goes flying. Hulk smirks.
On top of Stark tower, Selvig wakes up from Loki's mind control. He looks around, confused where he is. He looks up at the sky, amazed.
Down on the bridge street, several Humvees aim their mounted .50 Cal guns into the sky, firing and hitting the Chitauri riders.
Captain America fights off a soldier who is pinning him down with its energy rifle. Cap breaks its leg. He stands up, picking up his shield as Hawk's voice floats into his earpiece.
"Captain, the bank on 42nd past Madison. They've cornered a lot of civilians in there."
"I'm on it."
Inside the bank dozens of civilians are gathered, tension and uncertainty surround them. Three soldiers oversee them, pointing their weapons at them. One of them charges a bomb, it beeps.
Cap jumps through the window and throws his shield at the bomber. The other two soldiers take aim at him with their rifles, but Cap heads for cover under a desk, which he then kicks at them. He jumps over the desk, headlocks a soldier, while backhanding another one over the railing. The crowd moves away.
"Everyone! Clear out!"
A soldier attacks him from behind and rips off his helmet, the bomb is beeping faster now. Cap flips over the soldier, grabs his shield and just as the bomb is about to go off, the bomber dives for it, trying to stop it, but it goes off, sending Cap through the window, landing very hard on a car. The civilians look up from below, they're okay.
Cap gets off the car, looks around the city. Destroyed. The Police and Firemen arrive, pulling out those civilians he saved. A waitress looks back, thankful.
Arabella flies as fast as her wings will carry her, banking around buildings, a group of Chitauri riders on her tail. She dives straight down, the Chitauri follow, she pulls up in the nick of time just barely missing the ground below as she skims underneath an overpass. Behind her she hears the telltale sound of an explosion and she knows that several of the riders just became a permanent fixture in the asphalt.
She quickly ducks down an alley the Chitauri slamming into the side of the building. She looks back with a smile, "Hawk was right, they can't bank worth a damn."
Just as she exits the alleyway she is slammed in the side by a pulse of blue light, her body folds up on itself as she is propelled by the massive force of the hit. She crashes into the side of a building, her body penetrating the thick wall before she makes a violent connection with the floor. Her body rolls like a ragdoll across the entire open floor of the building. Just as Arabella begins to gather her bearings she collides into a floor to ceiling window. She registers her weightlessness and the blue sky above her as her body plummets over five story's to the ground below. Her descent is stopped viciously and brutally as she lands on top of a car. The force of her impact shatters every pane of glass in the vehicle as her body violently shoves the roof into the car.
Arabella lies there immobile, every inch of her immortal body in pain. She registers a presence hovering above her through half-slit blurry eyes. By the chuckle she knows it is Loki.
"Oh, Bella. How the Angel has fallen. We could have been so good together, unstoppable. You could have ruled at my side, had anything your heart desired. Instead you chose to betray me, and for what? That buffoon Thor? You are royalty, you should be living in a palace. Instead you choose to live here with this pathetic race? Why? What makes them worth your life?"
"I'm an Angel."
Loki is suddenly slapped out of mid air by a giant vine that had grown behind him without his knowledge. He slammed into the ground about fifty yards from where Arabella lay. Groaning he shoved himself up and after glancing down the street to where his Angel lay he motioned to one of the riders who swooped down and picked him up taking him back to Stark tower.
Back on the bridge of the Helicarrier, Fury sees the World Security Council on his view screen.
"Director Fury, the Council has made a decision."
"I recognize the Council has made a decision. But given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."
"Director, you're closer than any of our subs. You scramble that jet…"
"That is the island of Manhattan, Councilman. Until I'm certain my team can't hold it, I will not order a nuclear strike against a civilian population."
"If we don't hold them here, we lose everything."
"If I send that bird out, we already have." Fury says before shutting off his view screen.
Natasha still driving the chariot with the rider, is hit at her side. She looks about, wondering whose energy fire it was, she looks behind. "Oh, you."
Loki follows her in hot pursuit, they race downward, trailing between buildings. They race madly, driving and dodging.
"Hawkeye."
Hawk looks at Natasha, astonished. "Nat, what are you doing?"
"Uh… a little help!"
Hawk pulls the trigger once, nocks an arrow, and points it at Loki, smiling. "I got him." He fires. The arrow streaks down the city, straight at Loki's head…
SNATCH! Like a cat, Loki grabs the arrow straight out of the air not even looking at it… He then looks straight at Hawk, smiling…
BOOM! The arrow explodes in Loki's face, crashing him into the Stark Penthouse pad.
Natasha looks down and building her momentum, she jumps off the chariot, landing on top of Stark Tower, rolling herself to the edge.
Loki looks up, shocked at what just happened. The Hulk leaps up and kicks Loki, hurtling him through the glass window of the penthouse. He collapses as he hits the wall, the Hulk jumps in ready to attack.
Loki rolls himself up in a flurry of broken glass, standing up to the Hulk. "Enough! You are, all of you, beneath me! I am a God, you dull creature. And I will not be bullied by…"
Hulk grabs Loki by the legs and smashes him against the floor repeatedly like a ragdoll and finally throws him aside to the ground, flattening Loki. Hulk walks away, "Puny God."
Loki whimpers in pain.
Back on Stark tower Natasha approaches the CMS machine cautiously. Selvig, slumped down on the ground, weakened, looks up at her desperately. The Tesseract's energy is firing towards the portal, gaining in strength, at the surge of energy moving through the sky.
"The scepter."
"Doctor."
"Loki's scepter. The energy… The Tesseract can't fight, but you can't protect against yourself."
"It's not your fault. You didn't know what you were doing."
"Well, actually, I think I did. I built in a safety to cut their power source."
"Loki's scepter."
"It may be able to close the portal." Selvig looks down, he sees a gold gleam. "And I'm looking right at it."
Thor rides on top of a chariot, smacking several riders with the hammer. As Thor takes the reigns, a Leviathan crashes through a building, knocking him down to where Cap is fighting off soldiers.
Iron Man flies right next to the Leviathan and aims his laser booster at it. Nothing.
"Sir, we will lose power before we penetrate that shell."
Tony flies up ahead, facing the oncoming monster. "Jarvis, you ever hear the tale of Jonah?"
"I wouldn't consider him a role model."
Iron Man flies towards the Leviathan, unleashing every arsenal on his suit. The creature opens it's mouth and Iron Man flies in and bursts out the other end, making the creature collapse. Tony rolls down the street, the wind is knocked out of him. He looks up with an overwhelming sigh as a small band of soldiers rush towards him, holding out their rifles.
Hawk turns and fires his last arrow, then using his bow as a staff, he knocks a soldier down, kicking it over the edge of the building. He yanks his last arrow off the dead body of a soldier. He places it back in the quiver and presses the trigger fitting another head onto the arrow. Hawk jumps off the side of the building, grabbing the arrow he nocks it and fires his grappling arrow up into the side of the building. Falling down, Hawk finds the momentum and swings himself into a building, through a glass window and rolls over in pain.
After letting the pain dissipate from his body, he stood up stepping over to the window, staring down, a wave of panic swept through his body as he saw Bella below him lying motionless on the top of a car.
"Bella can you hear me? Bella open your eyes."
Arabella opened her eyes the bright sun assaulting her sensitive nerves, she made out the figure of Hawk kneeling over her. With his help she sat up, her body wobbling as she tried to regain her bearings. She shoved herself to her feet which proved to be a mistake as her legs gave out underneath her, Hawk wrapped his arms around her waist steadying her.
"Whoa. Slow and easy Bella. Slow and easy."
Arabella smiled up at Hawk as she clung to his arms. "No way, you know me Clint, I'm a rough and fast kinda woman."
A slight blush crept up Barton's cheeks and ran to the tips of his ears turning them red. Arabella loved how just the tips of his ears turned red when he was embarrassed, so naturally she tried to make him blush whenever she could. With one arm tightened securely around her waist the two of them started walking back towards Stark Tower.
The Hulk holds soldiers by the face and slams them down. More keep coming. Hulk looks up, hundreds of riders hover over him. Then… they begin to fire energy blasts. Hulk takes them like he's running through a light rain. Blocking the stream of streaking blasts, as though swatting at bees.
On the deck of the Helicarrier, a lone pilot sits in his cockpit, listening. "Director Fury is no longer in command. Override order, 7-Alpha-1-1."
The pilot radios back, "7-Alpha-1-1, confirmed. We're go for takeoff." He ignites his engine.
Back in the bridge, Agent Hill sees on her screen 7-Alpha-1-1 preparing to leave. "Sir, we have a bird in motion! Anyone on the deck, we have a rogue bird! We need to shut it down! Repeat, take off is not authorized!"
Fury runs out onto the deck, holding a fucking airtronic RPG-7. He takes aim and fires, hitting the tail end of the jet. The jet skids off towards the edge. Pilot unharmed.
Suddenly, another jet flies off. Fury stands there, knowing he can't do anything about it.
"Stark, do you hear me? You have a missile headed straight for the city."
"How long?"
"Three minutes, max. The payload will wipe out Midtown."
Iron Man fights off as many soldiers as he can sustain. "Jarvis, put everything we got into the thrusters!"
"I just did."
Iron Man leaves the streets flying high into the sky.
The jet arrives outside the city, he flips the switch to press the button. He presses it and the missile takes off towards Manhattan. "Package is sent. Detonation in 2 minutes, 30 seconds, mark."
Cap and Thor battle, side to side, throwing their respected weapons. Thor catches Mjolnir, but as Cap turns, an energy blast strikes him down hard. Thor runs over to a broken car, swings the hammer and flips the car over and over onto it's side, crushing a few soldiers. Cap tries to get back up, he looks up to Thor's outstretched hand. He grasps it and Thor helps him back to his feet. Cap raises his shield back up.
"Are you ready for another bout?" The God asks.
"What? You getting sleepy?"
Selvig, back in scientist mode, clacks away at his laptop. "Right at the crown!" He nods at the assassin, who picks up Loki's scepter and slowly breaks into the force field, almost touching the Tesseract.
"I can close it! Can anybody copy? I can shut the portal down!"
"Do it!" Cap yells to her.
"No, wait!" Stark tells her.
"Stark, these things are still coming!" Cap says urgently.
"I got a nuke coming in. It's gonna blow in less than a minute. And I know just where to put it."
Tony catches up to the missile from behind, grabbing onto it and gripping it tightly.
"Stark, you know that's a one-way trip?" Cap tells him concerned.
"Save the rest for the turn, J."
"Sir. Shall I try Miss Potts?"
"Might as well."
Inside Tony's jet, Pepper, along with her crew, watched on TV, in horror, the destruction of New York. On the table, her cell phone is vibrating, with Tony's picture on it.
Back in the bridge, every single agent holds their breath as they too watch Iron Man fly up into the portal.
With a mighty effort, he wrenches the rocket off its course just before hitting Stark Tower. Steering it from underneath, he accelerates quickly, flying straight up into the sky, towards the portal. Iron Man climbs higher and higher over the city, gaining speed, suddenly flings himself through the portal.
Every single agent cheers, as Fury smiles, then he tries to communicate with Tony. Nothing.
Communications die. The suit begins to freeze. Tony looks on in horror at the armada before him. The black sky is filled with what must be ninety ships in a vague cluster. Most of them hang still in the air. Some move swimmingly about. Tony lets go of the missile, it whistles off into the blackness as Tony falls idly back down the portal's opening. The missile reaches the main ship, it implodes causing the entire armada to burst into a supernova, creating a spectacular heavenly display.
Suddenly, all of the Chitauri soldiers and Leviathans keel over and begin to shake, then stop. They all fall over, dead. The Avengers look up at their consultant, not sure if he'll make it through.
Still holding the scepter in hand, Black Widow shifts around, waiting. "Come on, Stark…
Thor and Cap see the supernova coming towards them, the God nods to Cap who radio's Widow, "Close it."
Without hesitating, Natasha plunges the scepter into the Cube. The Tesseract instantly turns off its energy beam. The portal quickly closes. A small figure is hurled backwards out of the now closed portal. Iron Man, plummeting to the earth.
Cap looks up with a smile, "Son of a gun!"
Iron Man continues falling as the group watches him. Thor turns to Cap, "He's not slowing down."
Thor swings Mjolnir around ready to fly up, but just as he does, Hulk snags Tony out of the air, both crashing and sliding down a building. Once on the ground, Hulk throws Tony off of him. Thor, Cap and the newly arrived Hawk and Arabella run over to their fallen friend.
"Is he breathing?" Cap asks as Thor rips off Tony's helmet.
He appears to be dead. They stand around not sure. Then… Hulk yells in fury, the noise startles Tony awake.
"What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me?" His eyes move from the men to Arabella. "Unless you did, then it's okay."
The Angel rolls her eyes at her friend, "He's fine."
"We won." Cap informs him.
"Alright. Hey. Hurray. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it."
Thor eyes Stark Tower where Arabella has flown up to Tony's penthouse. "We're not finished yet."
A beat passes before Tony speaks, "And then shawarma after."
Loki crawls onto the stairs, looking like a piece of shit rag doll. He takes a few breathers, senses someone is behind him. He turns to find Arabella standing there, her arms crossed over her chest. Then he notices the rest of the Avengers standing behind her staring at him, pissed. Hawk kneels on the ground beside the Angel, his bow loaded, pointed at the fallen God. Loki grimaces in pain as he moves. "If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now."
Hulk snorts at him.