18. War is here
Hi there readers, hope you are all well, I didn't get a lot of feedback from my last chapter, I do hope you liked it and were not put off by the fact that I said I had the rest of the story mapped out. Guys don't panic, it's not ending yet, and I would never not be busy working on something for you all so don't lose faith as they say. This chapter has a lot of action in AND a chance for Loki to redeem himself from all the stuff you might have previously been mad at him for. I own nothing but Daya and I hope you guys enjoy this chapter as well.
Daya held on to Loki as he transported them both to the location of the tesseract. Teleportation had always left Daya leaving a little fuzzy and weak and Daya had to blink a few times before her eyes could focus properly on her new surroundings.
They seemed to be in another house. Only the living quarters in this one seemed a lot more lavish than the last. Daya spotted a well-stocked mini bar, a large fireplace and then outside on the balcony. The tesseract, secured into some very complex looking machine.
"Where are we?"
"We are in Stark towers my love".
Daya spun on her heels to face her husband. "Stark towers as in Tony Stark's towers?"
He nodded. "Yes, the metal man's living space".
"Rather insulting don't you think? To execute this plan in the home of one trying to stop the plan from happening in the first place?"
Loki shrugged. "Darling with things the way that they are, I just want your safety along with my own, so we can start a new life, without Thanos' gaze on us any longer".
She nodded, looking around to see if there was any way of stopping the tesseract or at least contacting Tony and the rest of the avengers. If she could tell them the truth about Thanos perhaps they would sympathise with Loki and unite to destroy Thanos.
As Loki went outside to talk to Erik Selvig, Daya found paper and a pencil on the side of the coffee table by the fireplace and decided something must be done before any more fights broke out, in case anyone was hurt. She wrote two letters, one addressed to Loki, the other for Steve. After finishing them quickly, and very roughly she tucked both of them in her robes, deciding that it had to be the right time for the letters to be opened.
Before Daya could speak, there was an arrival on the balcony of the tower. It was Tony and he didn't seem too happy. Then again, neither did Loki.
"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity" Loki smirked as Tony walked into the building, heading straight for the mini-bar.
Daya frowned and stood by the fireplace as Loki attempted to stare Tony out. There was no way she could tell Stark what was really happening without alerting Loki, and the way things were going with him, she didn't want him getting angry anymore then he already was.
"Uh, actually I was planning to threaten you. Hey Daya, sad you chose not to stay with us, the winning side. We could have used your help really. Still, I get it, wifely duties and all that jazz, but Steve is shook up about whatever you said to him" Tony answered.
Loki gritted his teeth. "Address me with your so called threats, my wife does not need any more guilt thrust upon her."
Tony told Loki about the avengers coming together again to bring him down, or at least avenge the Earth if Loki took it over. Knowing Thanos would kill Loki himself if he failed at the mission appointed to him Daya knew she had to tell the avengers the truth behind Loki's actions. But who would listen? Stark seemed to be currently busy facing off against Loki, perhaps Thor would understand? She had no idea where he was, he could be at the bottom of the ocean after the stunt Loki had pulled with the cell. Steve, she had to tell Steve, even after all she had said to him, he would listen, he would believe her, he had to surely?
"You will all fall before me" Loki said harshly as he gripped Stark by the throat.
"Loki, what are you doing?" Daya couldn't get to Stark in time before Loki threw him out of the window and over the edge of the balcony. She ran to the edge of the balcony to see what had become of Tony. Luckily his suit had found him before the ground had and he flew off, most likely to find the rest of the avengers. She watched to see which direction he had flown off to, keeping an eye on where Steve was likely to be, before racing back to Loki.
"What are you doing? The Avengers are the only ones that can help us now. If you tell them the truth we can all defeat Thanos together. Stop ruining any chance we have of escaping all this with as little punishment as possible. I don't want to love my husband from behind bars" Daya frowned, gripping his arm roughly.
"If I don't finish this you will be loving a deceased husband, let me do what I must Daya or stay out of my way" Loki told her, as he tried to release her grip on him. Just as he prized her off him, Thor landed with a loud thud on the balcony.
"Perfect, just what I need at this point" Loki grumbled quietly. Daya ran to Thor, but as she attempted to speak to him, to tell him the truth, he pushed her aside to get to Loki. "Move Daya, you had your chance to help us, you chose foolishness instead" the god of Thunder shouted to her.
Daya looked around hopelessly, not entirely sure what step to take next, even Thor wouldn't listen to her. Thor's attempts at stopping Loki were just as successful as her own and it wasn't long before Loki used the tesseract to release the army of chitauri and fight with Thor. Daya knew trying to harness the power of the tesseract was useless, as futile as a pebble trying to stop a river's flow so she went to separate Loki and Thor from fighting instead.
As she tried to pull Thor away from her husband, he shoved her back again, making Loki angrier. Daya stepped back and backed up to the edge of the balcony, her heels teetering over the very tip of the building. She watched the skies as the portal the tesseract had opened was already allowing floods of the chitauri access to Midgard.
They were on flying machines and carried weapons unlike Midgardians or Asgardian weapons and huge metal pleated monsters seemed to file out of the portal with ease. Daya looked over at Loki once more, seeing that he was so busy with Thor and paying no attention to her at all, she did something she never thought she would have to do for him ever again.
She jumped off the edge feet first. Just before she reached the ground she had just enough time to conjure a small force field around her, letting her touch the ground with ease. Above her Loki and Thor still fought and Daya ran in the same direction as the fleeing citizens away from the chitauri and hopefully, towards the avengers.
As she ran, she had to duck many times to avoid the hordes of Chitauri warriors. Alongside her, innocent bystanders were being struck down, she tried as hard as she could to protect as many people as possible, but her powers couldn't protect everyone, and Daya shook as she ran, seeing the dead bodies pile up. Loki couldn't have seen this, not this amount of death, if he had, he would have stopped, he would have had too, wouldn't he?
A small boy who only looked about ten was stuck under a turned over bus. He was shouting for his mommy, but nobody would stop to help him. Daya ran across the chitauri filled street to the bus and helped the boy from out of the wreckage.
"Are you alright?"
The boy was crying and he clung to Daya. "Where's my mommy?"
Daya picked him up and ran to a street corner just as a group of the chitauri swarmed the bus and shot at Daya. She walked briskly up the street and told the boy to point out his mommy if he saw her.
As Daya walked on a young woman with her hair dishevelled and her sweater torn ran up to them, taking the boy from Daya's arms. "Oh god, Josh you're ok, thank God. No wait, thank you miss, thank you so much" the woman said.
"That's alright, listen to me, is there anywhere safe in this city you can run to. Anywhere fortified? Anywhere with barricades or that can be locked from the inside and not the out. Anywhere secure?"
The woman nodded and held her son close. "Yes, people are running to banks. Most of them have panic rooms, they seem the safest places to be. There is a really big one, two blocks away from here".
Daya pulled the woman closer to a sheltered corner as more Chitauri flew overhead. "Good, now find as many citizens able to run to this bank you speak of and lock yourself in. You have a child to care for so don't stop for anyone, just call out for people to follow you to safety. Stay clear of glass, if the chitauri have weapons able to cause explosions you don't want to be near glass".
The woman frowned. "Chitauri? That's what those things are. Listen, thank you for your advice, and thank you again for saving my son. Don't you want to follow?"
Daya shook her head. "I need to find someone. Steve Rogers, I think you all know him as Captain America?"
The young boy raised his head off his mom's shoulder to look at Daya, his eyes sparkling. The woman nodded. "Yeah my son loves him. I think he and some other ninja looking people were down near the empire state building, trying to keep the monsters at bay. It's messy down there, I wouldn't go there if I was you".
"I need to see him, he's my last hope" Daya frowned.
"Ok, well, good luck, it's in that direction" the woman pointed at the street on her left. "I'm Sandy by the way, good luck to you".
"Thank you, I am Daya, good luck to you too" the Goddess smiled before running off towards the empire state building.
As the woman had said Steve stood giving orders to police officers from on top of a car. Thor was near to him, using Mjonir to destroy some of the Chitauri warriors. Daya ran to him. "Steve!"
He turned to face her, and frowned. "Daya, I'm sort of busy here" Steve answered.
"Please Steve, I have to talk to you".
Thor paused in his fighting. "Daya, Loki is searching for you, you should go to him".
"Yeah" Steve said. "Go back to your husband Daya, it's where you belong after all". He turned back to the police officers.
Daya stood on top of the car next to Steve and put her foot down forcefully. "Steve Rogers I am here and I am talking to you and I will not leave until you listen to me Dammit!"
The police officers had received Steve's orders and turned away to help the citizens. Steve looked down at Daya and then looked up to see an oncoming wave of warriors. One pulled out a gun and aimed it at Daya. He hoisted her up in his arms and fell backwards just as the explosion hit the car. Daya landed on top of Steve, her head against his chest, his hand curled around her waist, the other entwined in her hair. She looked up at him.
"Ok, let's go somewhere a little safer to talk" he replied. She got up and helped Steve off the ground before running off to an alleyway.
"What is it?" Steve crossed his arms.
Daya bowed her head. "Oh goodness. You hate me now don't you?"
Steve sighed and uncrossed his arms, holding one of them out to sit on Daya's shoulder.
"Of course not, I could never hate you Daya, I just saved your ass right? What's the matter, I mean, aside from the obvious upcoming genocide of the human race?"
"Loki is being blackmailed, he isn't the one behind all this. Nobody will listen to me but Thanos is the one behind Loki's actions".
Steve exhaled deeply. "That doesn't mean Loki hasn't done any wrong. He has messed up big time Daya, he is letting innocent people die".
"I know, I know that Steve. I know he must be stopped but he's doing this because Thanos told him he would kill me if he didn't".
Steve suddenly realised why Loki felt like he had to do what he had done, it was to protect his wife. Steve would do anything to protect Daya as well.
"I need you, Steve I need you. I need you to help me. Loki needs to be stopped but if he is, He and I will need the avenger's protection. We will need to stop Thanos. I really do need you Steve" Daya pleaded.
That was all Steve needed to hear to make him want tell the Avengers to unite against this, Thanos. He just wanted to know Daya still wanted him in her life, even if it was just as her friend, and protector.
"Alright, where's Loki? We find Loki, we stop him, and we tell the avenger's the truth. Then when Thanos comes, we will be ready for him, and we can take him on together".
"He was at Stark towers last time I heard. I know the way. We will need everyone though" Daya said.
Daya followed Steve out to the street where Thor, the two assassins and the Hulk had gathered to fight the chitauri.
"Where is Stark?" Steve asked Thor.
The god pointed to the sky. "The man of metal had a plan to close the portal". Suddenly they all turned their gazes to the sky and saw Stark flying up to the portal at a ridiculously powerful speed.
Daya filled with fear, if Tony failed, the human race was in big trouble, and if he won and Thanos came for them. Loki and Daya would be in even bigger trouble.
Cliff-hanger guys, I know we all know Stark succeeds but what about Thanos, he will be in the next chapter to spoil people's fun. Loki may just redeem himself though, but there will be a lot of material in the next chapter to keep you guys on the very edge of your seats. I am working on it as we speak, I can't wait for you all to see it. I still have a few more chapters for this story and then it's onto the sequel AND the other story I am working on which will be out very soon. Don't panic guys, you will not lose your dosage of the avengers in my stories, EVER! And you most certainly will not lose out on Loki. Anyway, until next time, review, favourite and follow, let me know what you guys think so far, love and hugs to you all!