They all turned to me when they heard my voice and Fury seemed surprised at what I just asked. 'Shit, then everything is true. Loki spoke the truth'.
- ''What are you insinuating?''.- Stark demanded.
- ''What do you mean?''.- Thor asked, at a time.
- ''Well, S.H.I.E.L.D put me as a decoy in Stuttgart and pretended to be my savior to recruit me, basically''.
- ''What did you say?''.- Steve asked incredulously, walking around the lab.- ''This is too much. You were playing with human lives!''
- ''Agent Romanov, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his... ''.- Nick couldn't finish his sentence.
- ''Where? You're renting my room''.- Bruce said.- ''Yes, that cell was only in case you had to kill me but you can't, I've tried! I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on, I focused on helping other people. I was good until you''.- he looked at Natasha.- ''Dragged me back into this freak show. You wanna know my secret?''.- he asked, taking Loki's scepter without even looking at it.- ''You wanna know how I stay calm?''
The tension was chewing in the air, we all stood motionless seeing him with the scepter and looked at him with caution.
- ''Dr. Banner!''.- Steve said with authoritarian and firm voice.- ''Put down the scepter''.
Bruce was surprised, looked down at his hand as if it don't belonged to him and a strange beep filled the room. Bruce dropped the scepter to run towards a computer.
- ''Got it!''.- he exclaimed.- ''Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my party trick after all''.- he smiled embarrassed and looked to the computer.- ''Oh, my God!''.
A huge explosion was heard in the Helicarrier, windows were broken and the shock wave threw us all through the air and I ended up in the corridor, my ears were whistling and I was pretty stunned. Alarms sounded everywhere.
- ''Are you all right?''.- I shouted to nobody in particular.
- ''Yes, we're fine!''.- Natasha's voice came a bit far but seemed fine.
I could see Stark and Steve, they were running through the back door of the laboratory to see what had happened and I heard they were going to try to fix the engine that had failed. Nick Fury went to the flight deck while barking orders over the comm. Thor reached down and helped me up.
- ''Are you all right?''.- he said grabbing my arm gently.
- ''I'm fucking sure that Loki has nothing to do with all of this''.- I said sarcastically.
Thor stared at me and ran away, it took me a couple of seconds to follow him. 'Damn, he's fast!' I heard another explosion and lost my balance, I got up and went running into the restriction room. I went through several corridors, I had to take a long detour as the main road had been damaged by the explosion and saw two military agents of S.H.I.E.L.D coming towards me, pointing their weapons. 'What the fuck?'. They began to shoot me and I barely had time to dodge the bullets. I entrenched in a corner as I searched in my pockets, heard the footsteps of those agents coming, found the electronic grenade (usually used for robots and machines, but also would knockout humans) and threw it. / FLASH /. I listened as their bodies hit the ground unconscious.
I stepped over them running, I knew I was close to the restriction room so I accelerated a little bit more, I reached the door just in time to see how Thor was in the cage and disappeared falling with breakneck speed. 'NO!'
I couldn't believe what my eyes had seen, I entered the room and Agent Coulson was lying right on the floor with a large blood stain on his chest. He was still alive so I went running to him but I saw Loki separating from the controls of the cage. I took the gun from its holster, I aimed and shot him getting closer. I finished a full magazine and searched frantically for other, but before reaching it, Loki pushed me against the handrail that led to the void left by the cage. He cornered me with his body and the bastard didn't have a miserable scratch.
- ''Damn you Loki!''.- I yelled angrily.- ''You better kill me, you bastard! Because if I get out of this shit I'll kill you''.- I struggled, trying to release me.
He stared at me and said nothing, not even mentally. I looked at him, I stopped struggling and, unexpectedly, he brushed his lips with mine. I was stunned, this was real, he was kissing me.
Suddenly, I heard a loud bang and Loki was no longer there, Agent Coulson had shot him with any sort of laser weapon and made him go through the wall. I crouched next to Coulson and, at that time, Nick Fury also came and bent down.
- ''I'm sorry, boss. They got rabbited''.- Coulson said.
- ''Just stay awake. Eyes on me''.- Nick Fury was calling the paramedics through the comm.
- ''No, I'm clockin' out here''.- Coulson answered between throes.- ''This was never gonna work if they didn't have something to...''
He did not finish the sentence, he was with dead eyes staring into space. The group of paramedics came into the room.
- ''Agent Coulson is down''.- Fury said over the intercom.
Afterwards, Nick Fury reunited us in the command room. Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha,Agent Hill and me. We looked completely defeated, many people had died in the attack, Bruce and Thor were missing and Loki would be opening the door for his fucking army to dominate the planet. 'Perfect, just perfect'.- I thought sarcastically.
Nick tried to give us an emotional moral speech on Coulson's sacrifice but none of us were in the mood to listen. We dispersed through the ship, I knew Natasha was with the boy who had been brainwashed by Loki, someone called Clint Barton. So I started to wander lost without thinking about anything, as lost as Earth was going to be at any time.
Without realizing it, I ended up right in front of the restriction room, I saw that Stark and Steve were talking and I went inside. They both looked at me with concern.
- ''Hey, little one''.- Stark said.- ''Are you okay? Well, I know no one is having a good time here but you look quite shattered''.
- ''I'm just a little overwhelmed''.- I said trying to smile, failing miserably.
Stark nodded and continued talking to Steve about Loki, how much he enjoyed being adored, seen and admired.
- ''That's just previews, this is...this is opening night''.- Stark was saying.- ''And Loki wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the skies with his name plastered''.
Stark fell silent staring straight ahead, he seemed like he had just realized something.
- ''Son of a bich!''.- he exclaimed and rushed while he was explaining us what was passing through his mind.
We went to the hangar, there were Natasha and Clint ready for battle, Stark went out flying past us as we picked the Quinjet and we headed towards New York. Clint prepared his bow and arrows but also grabbed a pair of knives, Natasha carried her wrist explosive darts and two pistols, Steve took a handgun for him and I took another gun plus a katana. We all got communicators to be connected.
We were still passing beside the Statue of Liberty and we could see the open gate in the sky and the amount of creatures that entered through it causing a path of destruction.
- ''Fuck! This is fucking great''.- I said to nobody in particular.
- ''We'll make it''.- Steve said putting his hand on my shoulder.- ''If we are united we will succeed''.
- ''But Thor and Bruce are missing''.- I replied.
- ''Stark has faith in that they will come to battle with us''.- He said smiling sweetly to me.- ''So do I''.
- ''Hey guys, I know you love me''.- Stark said over the comm.- ''But can you hurry? These bastards are pretty hard''.
We were practically in the war zone, the destruction reigned everywhere. 'This is completely madness'. Natasha ran the fighter where Stark had told her, to destroy several Chitauri but Loki threw us an energy ball that hit the left wing of the Quinjet, the impact was very strong, fortunately between Natasha and Clint managed to land without the Quinjet bursting out in flames.
We started to fight relentlessly, I got into a building and killed several bastards who were in, terrorizing humans. I went rising floor by floor (they weren't more than 7) to reach the roof top, thence I watched the chaos that came through the gate and that were in the streets. 'This is fucking crazy'. I heard a roar that warned me that I was not alone and I turned just in time to dodge a punch from one of the Chitauri, so badly that I slipped and fell but managed to grab the edge of the roof. The Chitauri approached me, prepared to step on my hand but it remained motionless an inch from my hand and threw itself out from the roof. 'What the fuck?'
I felt a mental tingling and tentacles of power, I knew who was and also knew that resist would be futile, I let him enter.
- 'Are not you able to stay alive?'.- Loki said with a playfulness tone.
I looked up and there he was, on top of Stark Tower, with a smirk on his face. I heard a couple of Chitauris fell on the roof, so I decided to prove to Loki that I could keep me alive. I let go a hand to search into one of my pockets, found what I wanted and threw it to where the new sounds came from.
- 'Let's see what you think of this'.- I said to Loki as I smiled at him proudly.
I let go of my other hand and I held on two windows below, I did the same until I was only 3 floors from the ground, an explosion was heard on the roof by the grenade that I had previously released and I gave a flip and jumped to fall on a Chitauri that was to shoot Captain America in the back, I unsheathed my katana and cut off the creature's head in one movement. I showed my middle finger in the air without even looking up at him.
- ''Wow, thank you''.- Steve told me approaching a little.- ''That one would have caught me unprepared''.
We were all down there : Thor (who had appeared in the chaos), Natasha, Stark, Clint, Steve and me. At one point, we just ended with all Chitauris around and we heard a loud noise coming from the portal, we all look up in time to see how a creature of nightmare was going through it. It was like a huge turtle and a mutant alien, flying and releasing Chitauris in its path.
Stark devoted himself to distract the creature while the others were beginning to fight the new Chitauris that they were entering. The sound of a motorcycle distracted us and we saw Bruce Banner approaching.
- ''Stark, we got him''.- Steve said through the comm.
- ''Tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you''.- Stark replied.
At the end of the street we saw how Stark turned a corner and came towards us, bringing with him the nightmare monster, the Leviathan.
- ''I don't see how that's a party''.- Natasha murmured, getting ready.
- ''Dr. Banner, now might be a good time for you to get angry''.- Captain America said to Bruce.
- ''That's my secret, Captain''.- Bruce replied.- ''I'm always angry''.
And turned into Hulk, I've never seen it in person, had only seen the videos they had of him in the lab but it was impressive. Hulk took two giant steps toward the leviathan and gave him a punch that made the horrible being hit hard the ground so as to remain completely destroyed. We heard the roar of rage from the Chitauris that had witness this and we made a circle, back to back, ready for what might come next.
- 'There are still a couple more to coming my dear'.- Loki told me mentally, I could feel his eyes on us, on me.
We heard the same noise as before and, this time, entered 3 more leviathans, followed by a huge amount of Chitauri warriors.
- ''Guys!''.- I warned my companions pointing to that was coming through the portal.
- ''Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use 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 your turn it to ash''.- Captain America said.
- ''Wanna give me a lift?''.- Clint asked Stark.
- ''Right. Better clench up, Legolas''.- Star replied, grabbing him and flying.
- ''Thor!''.- Captain America continued.- ''You've gotta try and bottleneck that portal, slow them down. You've got the lightning, light the bastards up. Natasha, Yami and me, will stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. And Hulk... SMASH!
We started to fight again, those bastards were practically infinite and we were growing increasingly exhausted by each second. I could see Thor landing in Stark Tower and beginning to fight against Loki but I had no time to keep track of their fight. Energy balls fired by the Chitauri exploded everywhere, debris and fire, dodge punches and fight decently.
- ''Yami! Behind you!''.- I heard Natasha shouting at me.
I turned quickly and tried to dodge the blow but I was not fast enough, something hard and metal crashed into my left temple and I collapsed, darkness engulfed me. I didn't know how much time passed, I knew I had my eyes closed and heard someone calling me. I decided to open one eye but immediately regretted it by the pain that this caused, I growled and I stirred.
- ''Yami! Please get up!''.- A female voice told me.
I opened my eyes, I saw Natasha and I remembered it all: Loki, the portal, the war... I sat up quickly causing me a terrible headache that made me feel nauseous.
- ''Where are we? How long have I been unconscious?''.- I asked Natasha while carefully, I took my hand to where I had been hit.
- ''We are Stark Tower's reception, only been a couple of minutes''.- She told me with a smile of relief.- ''But I should go back there. Will you be okay if I leave you alone?''
I nodded slightly and replied jokingly.
- ''Yes Mom''.- I stuck out my tongue, smiling.
She smiled back and ran towards the battle, I got up slowly feeling jabs of pain in the head with every movement and I could feel a migraine headache coming but I wouldn't let it knockout me. Imagine that in a few years, someone asks me: Where were you when we were invaded? And my answer "with migraines". I laughed a bit and decided to go up to the portal.
Miraculously the elevators worked, so without thinking twice, I got into one and went to the top floor, which were 5 floors below the roof. The elevator doors began to open and revealed that I had a welcoming committee .There were two Chitauri warriors destroying everything in the floor and they looked at the elevator just when I came out. I shot one at the head several times until it collapsed, the other came running with the intention of making me a tackle but I dodged it and he was knocked out against the elevator. 'Fuck yeah!'
I climbed to the roof of the tower Stark per the fire escapes. At the top I saw an old man who looked a little confused, I aimed at him with the gun, I knew that Loki had brainwashed a scientist who was friend of Thor's girlfriend and I supposed he was that scientist.
- ''Are you Erik Selvig?''.- I asked him approaching carefully.
- ''Yes, I am''.- He looked at my gun and rubbed his face.- ''Relax, I feel better. He didn't have us as controlled as he believed. There is a way to close the portal''.
- ''What?''.- I asked him while approaching still pointing my gun at him, just in case.
- ''I'm looking right at it''.- He said looking at a floor below.
I peeked and saw Loki's scepter on the floor. I looked at the scientist, nodded and went back to the stairs.
The ground floor was what I supposed, Stark's main apartment, cause it was decorated with his eccentric taste and stuff. I went to the terrace, took Loki's scepter and went back inside running.
- 'Where do you think you're going?'.- Loki asked me, mentally. I flinched scared and looked everywhere but couldn't see him around so I sighed and relaxed again.
I ignored Loki's mental voice, opened the apartment door and there he was, imposing and with a triumphant smile on his face. I tried to hit him with his scepter but he held it tight and imprisoned me against the wall, sticking to my body.
- ''Tell me Yami''.- He whispered against my lips, smiling viciously.- ''What do you think of that dream you had on S.H.I.E.L.D's ship?''
I was shocked, I could feel a blush rose to my cheeks and looked at Loki with wide eyes. 'Damn, how the hell does he know? Why? Shit, shit, shit. Perhaps he was able to provoke me that dream?'
- ''Guys! We have problems''.- Stark told over the comm.- ''A nuclear missile is close to our position and will arrive in about 3 minutes''.
By the look on Loki's face, he had heard it too. Suddenly, Hulk entered breaking all the glass and Loki pulled away from me as he faced towards Hulk, I ran to the roof to close the portal.
When I got up I saw Stark with the missile approaching us, he passed like a flash and entered the portal. I was with the scepter ready to close the portal.
- ''Come on Tony''.- I said softly.- ''Come on!''
At the bottom of the portal I saw a huge explosion and all Chitauris who were here crumbled.
- ''Yami, close the portal''.- Captain America told me.
- ''But Tony is...''- I replied, but he cut me off.
- ''Close it!''.- He ordered.
I pushed the scepter against the crown of the device that caused the energy of the tesseract and it was over, the portal began to close and a recognizable figure crossed it just before it was completely closed: Iron Man.
- ''Yes!''.- I cried with relief.- ''He made it!''.- My eyes filled with tears of emotion.
But Stark was falling and falling, I became scared again.
- ''Why isn't he flying?''.- I said to the others while watching as Stark fell next to me towards the ground.
Hulk stopped his fall, they took off the mask and, even from above, it seemed that Tony Stark was dead. Hulk roared and Stark opened his eyes frightened.
- ''What? What?''.- Stark told looking at them.- ''What the fuck? What happened? Tell me nobody kissed me''.
We all laughed relieved to see that he was fine and was joking as usual.
- ''We won''.- Captain America told with a sigh of relief.
- ''Alright''.- Tony replied breathlessly.- ''Hey. Alright. Good job guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow''.
- ''We're not finished yet''.- Thor said, I heard him through Stark's communicator and I thought of Loki.
- ''Where is him?''.- I asked, wondering where Loki was.
- ''Made mush, not dead''.- Hulk replied proudly.
- ''Then I'll wait here to pick up his remains''.- I replied with a smile forming on my lips.
After 5 minutes we were all in the apartment looking menacingly at Loki, he gave up (although for my taste he was not so mush, he only had a couple of scratches on the face).
- ''If it's all the same to you''.- Loki said settling himself in the ground, wincing in pain.- ''I'll have that drink now''.- he looked at Stark with puppy eyes. I almost burst out laughing at his expression.
Stark grinned and went to pouring a glass of whiskey, offered it to Loki, who accepted it and drank its contents in one gulp without flinching.
- ''Thank you''.- Loki told, returning the glass to a surprised Tony Stark.
Captain America approached and placed a pair of handcuffs around Loki's wrist.
- ''Well, come on''.- Captain America said as he lifted Loki by his arm without much difficulty. Thor approached him and grabbed Loki by his other arm.
- ''Um ... guys''.- I said doubtfully.- ''As the global threat is under control and I doubt that he manages to escape again''.- I continued, avoiding looking at that pair of emerald eyes that were fixed on me.- ''I believe that now I'll go my own way''.
Everyone stared at me somewhat surprised and looking sad.
- ''Hey, don't look at me with those faces. We will be in touch, okay?''.- I replied smiling as I approached and gave a hug to every one of them, although in the case of Hulk just I hit him in the arm playfully. He was freaking awesome.
- 'Will you embrace me too?'.- Loki asked me with resentment in his voice.
- 'Ha! You would like so'.- I said, without looking at him. He was going to Asgard and from there couldn't have contact with me, right?
- 'No, I can't, but you won't get rid of me so easily'.- He said menacingly.- 'I know ways to return to Midgard and I have plenty of time to find a way to escape from Asgard'.
- ''Well, I have to go''.- I sighed and turned around, leaving the apartment.- 'Fuck you Loki!'.- I snapped him as I came down the elevator and his laughter followed me until I got up my mental defenses.
It was all over. Would I finally be able put in order this crazy head?
Author's note: To be continued? */evil grin/*
Greetings humans