A/N Please Review! Tell me what you think! About as long as the last one. Also, I almost completely changed the whole Loki and Tony scene because I couldn't remember how it went…. Sorry.
The contraption on the edge of the tower was buzzing and glowing, and Selvig guffawed, relishing his triumph. Loki told him to stay where he was and continue his work until the portal opened fully. He waved his hand and the others on the roof disappeared, his magic sending them somewhere he assumed was safe.
He turned and faced thee child beast, who was staring out at the city below, its breath coming out in short puffs.
He rested his hand on the child's head, idly running his fingers through the black mane. So odd, how one so young can be so worldly, and one so worldly can seem so innocent. He waited and watched the window, knowing that soon the real battle would begin.
He smiled slightly as Iron Man landed on the small pad in front of the tower and he almost laughed in glee as the fool removed his armor as he walked in. Loki rested his weight on one leg, gripping his scepter in his left hand, keeping his right on the head of his monster.
The beast leaned back onto its hind legs, as a man dressed in metal came into the living room. Her chain tugged at her neck as she craned her head to look at his face, something about him seeming familiar. Tony Stark- the words pierced the blue and she tried to reach back into her mind where that thought had come from, but could not seem to find it again.
"Hey, kiddo. Like the new hairdo. Dyeing it black was definitely the right choice." Tony winked at the beast, noting her blue eyes.
"Jack's okay by the way. He was supposed to wait on the helicarrier, but I'm pretty sure he's hiding out somewhere down there. I thought we could have a little play date later." Stark crossed over to the bar, pouring himself a glass of the strong smelling brown liquid.
Loki waited with his arms crossed, keeping his foot in front of his monster in a possessive stance. "Stark, I presume?" Loki crossed to the center of the room, cutting an impressive silhouette in his full armor.
"Welcome to the end of the world." Loki's smile was cold again and the beast shivered, inching away from where he stood.
"Yeah, yeah. Been there done that. Hey you want a drink?" He smiled warmly when Loki declined, and Kitty watched as he connected two bracelets to his wrists. Loki looked amused as Stark continued to ramble something about pissing people off. "I have an army." Loki scoffed.
"We have a Hulk." Tony glanced at Kitty and grinned, seemingly unfazed by her current state of being.
"Oh, I think I have a greater beast." Loki's grip on her tightened, but she refused to show pain.
"You're missing the point, there's no way you win. There's no situation in which you can just sit on your little throne and rule. Because if we can't save the earth, you can be damn sure we'll avenge it."
"Yes, but how will your friends have time to worry about me, when they are so busy fighting you?" Loki raised his scepter high and brought it into contact with Tony's chest, and the beast cringed as she smelled the burnt scent of magic in the air.
But nothing happened. "This usually works." Loki said quietly.
Stark made a faux nose of disappointment, "Performance issues, you know." Kitty could smell the confidence and fear that radiated off the man, and she found it intoxicating, wanting to fell what that would taste like on her tongue.
Loki roared in rage at the failure, and brought his hand upwards to strike the man, but thought better of it, merely grabbing his shirt. "You should have kept the suit on." He growled into the infuriating man's face, before swinging his light form out of the floor-to-ceiling window.
"That tactic never seems to fail at least." Loki grinned at his beast, which was shrinking slightly as she relaxed. He reached his arm out and Kitty roared, as he invaded her mind for a split second, her bones stopping their reduction, the blue haze taking over her mind once again.
The more violent part of her took over again and she felt the collar continue to dig into her flesh as she subconsciously leaned towards the window, where the sounds of destruction and the smell of blood joined together in a beautiful symphony of death.
"Mmm, yes, soon will be the time for you to fight my dear. Wait until…" Loki murmured as he resumed absently drumming his fingers on top of her head. The air pulsed and Selvig cried out as a line of blue light shot up into the sky, seemingly ripping open the heavens.
"Well here they are now. You go have fun, sweetheart, I'll wait here." Loki turned from her and went to stand outside. Kitty's fur bristled as she waited for the blue haze to allow her to go.
She rose to her full height and snarled, her claws digging into the wooden floor. The smell of death was in the air, and she needed to quench her thirst for blood. The need for this however was undermined by the blue veil in her vision, and a pull in her gut, forcing her to bow to Loki's will.
Loki's wrist flicked forward, and Kitty leaped out the smashed window, relishing the feeling of falling. The blue haze allowed her to see the glass below her and she latched on. She clawed the sides of the tower, leaping off of it towards where she could see the Man in Iron had flown off to.
Captain America drove his shoulder into the alien, sending it flying backwards. He turned, throwing his shield at the chitari behind Black Widow, who was currently stealing the weapon off of one. She ducked as the shield split the thing in half, then grabbed the now dead chitari's weapon, using it to blast the other one's head off.
He grasped the handle as his shield returned and brought it through the jaw of the chitari nearest to him. He was getting tired, and his arm ached with the constant use, still he knew had only to wait another moment before reinforcements arrived.
He spared a glance at the café he was fighting in front of; making sure that the little boy who had somehow gotten form the helicarrier to the city hadn't run away yet. Luckily, Jack was still sitting underneath an overturned table, staying silent and still.
"I'm bringing the party to you." Tony said in all of their coms as he flew towards them, a giant something following him.
"I don't see how that's a party" Widow says next to him, as they all stare on.
Kitty nearly crowed in triumph as she watched them all gather below her, forming a circle, naively thinking that they could fight off Loki's army through teamwork.
She waited as the green giant took out the whale-thing, and then she dropped down, digging her claws into his thick skin. The giant roared and she bit his neck, trying to get a taste of his blood. He drew his hand up and grabbed her by the scruff of the neck, flinging her into the building next to them.
The man in iron tried to still her with the high-pitched weapon again, but she ran up to him and swiped at his suit, breaking the mechanism. "Well, crap." Tony said under his breath as the clawed hand grabbed the suit and flung him to the side.
Captain America was just trying to contain the chitari, being helped by Widow. He wasn't quite sure where Hawkeye had gone, but he sincerely hoped that Tony would fly back soon, and deal with the creature before she set her eyes on the rest of them.
Apparently, lady luck thought he was a cheap date. Cap came to this opinion as he found himself using all of his strength to keep the giant dog thing from biting his head off. Widow was very occupied in trying to stay alive at the moment, and he was about to just hit the thing on the nose lilke he remembered you did with sharks when he heard the roar of a very bug, very green Dr. Banner.
"Bad Doggy!" Hulk grabbed the thing and Steve swore it yelped as he brought it up into the air.
"Kitty. Not a –doggy. Kitty." Hulk snorted as the small boy emerged from the café, staring up at the two monsters. Hulk released the mass of fur and teeth, taking that as a signal that he could just leave. He jumped on to the closest building leaving the monster, it chest heaving up and down as it breathed, with two mortal [and very breakable] superheroes and an adolescent boy.
"Thanks hulk" Widow muttered as she pinned a chitari to the ground, ripping its head to the side, hearing the satisfying sound of a broken neck. She turned to watch the scene unfolding before her, reaching a hand out to help Cap up.