Chapter 9: Let go
They were losing. The hellhound was practically indestructible. Even with Spiderman's help and the information he stole from Oscorp wasn't helping. They'd used all the tactics they'd used in New York to beat the Chitari but even they weren't helping.
"We need to hold it off till Alexis and Loki get back. Stark, get the perimeter, Hulk and Spiderman, try to keep it distracted, Nat, try to spot a weakness. Thor get Clint up high, and shoot the hell out of it." Steve told the team. They needed magic. Where the hell were they?
They kept fighting in that formation for about 10 minutes. They were still losing. Nat and Clint still hadn't found any chinks in the hellhound's skin, and the team were beginning to tire. This was Spiderman's first big fight, and he'd managed not to get injured. All of a sudden there was a green and gold flash, and out of it came running Loki and Alexis. All of a sudden there was another flash. When they all looked back, they realised that Loki had his battle armour on, and that Alexis had her suit on. As they ran past Steve and Nat noticed that Alexis had scars all up her arms. Nat felt for her, she was becoming a bit of a daughter figure to her. She may have said love is for children, but she'd changed. They all had. Meanwhile, from his rooftop, Clint was eyeing up Loki. He may resent the god for the mind control, but he was pretty fit. Maybe another time.
Their appearance had got the hell-hounds attention. It started to lollop towards them, but Loki and Alexis kept running towards it. Their link made it so they were almost perfect partners, but not as good as Alexis and Luke. Then again, they had fought together for years, and this was Loki and Alexis first fight together. Alexis fired a fire ball towards the hounds eye, which temporarily blinded it. It began to stumble and Loki teleported up onto its face and stabbed it through it's eye into it's brain. That pissed Clint off. Why hadn't he thought of the eye?
The hell-hound began to fall, so Alexis began to move out the way, but she tripped. The last thing she saw was the body of the hellhound falling onto her, and heard Loki and Tony scream, "Lexi!".
She was in a dream. Her whole life was playing out in front of her eyes. Most of it included Luke. Luke, she thought. He would be fine without her, he has Jake now. Her mind went back to the time where they were more than friends. She could remember their first kiss, the feel of his lips on hers. It had been raining, and they were huddled in the cellar of an empty house. It seemed like a lifetime ago. Then it all started to go downhill. They started to fight, so they went back to being just friends. Luke admitted he was gay, after she found him kissing one of the guys they'd shared a cellar with for a while. He managed to start making a life for himself, but gave it all up to help her. She owed him everything, and was willing to give everything up to keep him happy. She thought about when Loki confirmed her suspicions about being half Jotun. It had played on her mind since she'd seen the Jotun, her father she guessed, in her lounge. She began to drift away, couldn't think about anything. She could hear music, a lullaby that Luke would sing her when she had panic attacks. This is the end, she thought. She let go.