Iron Man flew into New York, his suit barely keeping him in the air. He approached Stark tower just as Dr Selvig was activating the CMS device that held the Tesseract.
"Sir, the arc reactors so offline. The device is already self-sustained." JARVIS reported.
"Shut it down, Dr. Selvig!" Tony ordered.
"It's too late! It can't stop now. He wants to show us something! A new universe."
"Okay."
Iron Man aimed his hands toward the CMS and fired his repulsars at it. Upon impact with the device the energy from his repulsars caused a wave of blinding white energy accompanied by a deafening crack. The energy caused Selvig to fly backwards and smash into an air conditioning unit. Down below, the citizens of New York looked up at Stark Tower, wandering what all the commotion was about. Iron Man starred in disbelief at the unharmed CMS device.
"The barrier is pure energy. It's unbreachable." Jarvis stated.
"Yeah I got that." Tony looked down and noticed Loki standing below him, smiling wickedly. "Plan B then." Tony listed instruction for Jarvis as he approached the landing.
"The Mark VII is not ready to be deployed." Jarvis reminded.
"Skip the spinning rims. We're on the clock." Tony landed, as he approached the entrance his suit was taken off of him.
Tony entered the pent house and casually walked down the steps, towards the bar. Loki approached him, holding the sceptre.
"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity?"
"Uh...actually, I'm planning to threaten you."
"You should have left your armour on for that."
"Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage. You've got the blue stick of destiny. Would you like a drink?" He asked
"Stalling me won't change anything."
"No, no, no! Threatening. No drink? You sure? I'm having one."
"The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that. What have I to fear?
"The Avengers," Tony stated confidently. Loki looked at him in confusion. "It's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. `Earth's mightiest heroes' type of thing." Tony explained.
"Yes, I've met them," Loki laughed. Tony smiled back at him.
"Yeah, took us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one. But, let's do a head count here. Your brother, the demi-God; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a whole other team of super powered heroes a couple of master assassins, an alien with incredible powers and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them."
"That was the plan."
"Not a great plan. When they come, and they will, they'll come for you." From underneath the bar table, Tony pulled on two honing devices disguised as bracelets.
"I have an army!"
"We have a Kryptonian!" Loki laughed wickedly in response.
"Oh I have no fear of Kryptons sole survivor."
"You're missing the point," Tony blurted out. "There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it." As Tony said this Loki slowly approached him, raising his sceptre.
"How will your friends have time for me,when they're so busy fighting you?" Using the sceptre Loki taps Tony on the chest. The room went silent save for the ping of metal against metal. Confused, Loki tried again. Ping, again nothing.
"It should work," Loki mumbled.
"Well, performance issues. Not uncommon, one out of five."
In anger, Loki grabbed Tony by the throat and flung him across the room.
"Jarvis. Anytime now!" Tony whispered desperately.
Loki grabbed Tony by the throat again.
"You will all fall before me."
"Deploy! Deploy!" Tony desperately shouted. Full of anger Loki snarled as he threw Tony out the window with all his strength. Behind Loki and elevator opened and out shot a large red pod. The pod flew out the window and raced towards a rapidly falling Tony. As the pod approached him it locked onto the two honing devices and began to open up, covering Tony in a brand new suit of armour. Tony's thrusters activated just in time to stop him from crashing into the pavement before shooting up into the air.
"And there's one other person you pissed off!" He shouted as he reached the window. "His name was Phil." Loki angrily raised his sceptre and prepared to attack. However, Iron man fired first and sent Loki on his ass.
From the top of the tower a beam of energy shot of the tesseract. The beam then forms a vortex, which then opens up a large portal in the sky. As a hole in space was ripped open, the Chitauri Army spilt out in flying chariots, carrying energy rifles with a bayonet attached to the end.
"Right, Army." Tony mumbled as the realisation hit him. Iron man flew up to the portal, racing towards the incoming enemies. From his shoulders, a miniature multiple rocket launcher popped out and fired at the invaders. Several targets were taken down and fell to the ground. However, it wasn't a victory as thousands of Chitauri fly out of the portal and invaded Earth.
Loki walked onto the balcony of Stark tower, smiling as the sounds of the Chitauri rang out. He was admiring his soon to be kingdom when Thor dropped to the ground next to him. Loki turned to his brother, staff in hand.
"Loki! Turn off the Tesseract or I'll destroy it!" Thor ordered.
"You can't. There is no stopping it. There is only the war!"
"So be it." Loki and Thor rushed at each other. There weapons collided as the began to fight.
Soldiers and police officers took positions covering the streets, doing the best they could to defend the people of Earth. Above them flew Iron Man leading a trail of Chitauri towards his tower.
The Quinjet finally arrived in the city. The team inside watched in horror at the massive portal in the sky.
"Stark, we're heading north east," Black Widow reported over her communicator.
"What, did you stop for drive-thru?" Comes Tony's response. "Swing up park, I'm gonna lay 'em out for you." Iron man banked around his tower and saw Thor and Loki still going at it, neither seemed to be winning at that moment. Iron man dived towards the ground, causing a few Chitauri to crash. Flying up, Iron Man put the following Chitauri in view of the Quinjet. Black Widow used the jets machine gun and fired at the invaders.
"Sir, we have more incoming," Jarvis reported.
"Fine. Let's keep them occupied." Iron man raced back up towards the portal, blasting as many aliens as he could.
Thor and Loki continued to battle savagely. Loki fired a beam of energy from the his sceptre, sending Thor sliding across the floor. From inside the Quinjet the heroes watched out of the window.
"Thor's going to need help!" Clark called out as he opened the back hatch of the jet. He took a moment to zip up his red jacket before jumping out. Black Widow aimed the minigun at Loki. However, the villain shot a blast of energy at them. The blast hit one of the engines and the jet caught on fire. Loki was about to fire again when Clark punched him across the building. Clark helped Thor up and the two prepared to fight the demi god.
The jet spun uncontrollably and fell to the ground. They slammed into the street below. Luckily everyone was okay and they climbed out of the jet. Each one carried their respected weapons in hand. The team arrived in the middle of a four-way street. Suddenly, a deep primal roar filled the air and a shadow came over them. From the portal, a giant Chitauri Leviathan flew out, carrying hundreds of soldiers. Chitauri soldiers jumped off of the leviathan and attached themselves to the sides of the buildings. Some smashed into the buildings and began attacking innocent people, whilst others slid down and attacked from the ground.
"Stark, are you seeing this?" Cap asked as he, like everyone else starred at the Leviathan.
"I'm seeing, still working on believing. Where's Banner? Has he shown up yet?"
"Banner?"
"Just keep me posted. Jarvis, find me a soft spot," he requested as he flew behind the Leviathan.
Thor held down Loki's face straight ahead, forcing him to watch the city falling to ash. Clark held him from behind, stopping him from moving.
"Look at this! Look around you! You think this madness will end with your rule?" Loki tried to look away.
"It's too late. It's too late to stop it."
"No we can together." Loki looked at his brother, showing a sign of hope. Thor nodded at Clark who let him go. Unknowingly to both of them Loki pulled out a short knife and stabbed Thor.
"No!" Clark shouted as he went to attack. However, Loki spun around and slammed him into the ground with his staff.
"And you Kryptonian. I have had enough of you." His staff shone blue and he prepared to fire. At the last second Clark shoved the sceptre away from his face and used his heat vision to blast Loki off of him. "Enough!" Loki cried in rage. "It just so happens I have brought something to take care of you." Clark starred at him curiously. What's he playing at? "I here your having a little phantom problem. As he said this his staff shone bright blue and above them a window smashed.
Clark looked up to see a phantom from the Phantom Zone race towards him. He tried blasting it with heat vision but was unsuccessful and the prisoner collided with him. There was a bright light and a shockwave of energy. Clark looked around where he had been flung. He came drastically close to falling off of the building. He tried to stand up but before he could, someone stood over him. Clark looked up to find himself. Standing right in front of him was a version of himself except his suit was darker.
"Thanks for sharing. I feel a lot better now," the phantom smiled.
"What just happened?" Clark demanded.
"I took a little piece of your DNA," the Phantom explained. The Phantom Clark grabbed Clark around the neck and held him up above the ground. "And now I'm gonna take your life." The phantom punched Clark, sending him flying through the air. The phantom smiled wickedly before flying after him.
Loki smiled happily as his plan to deal with the Kryptonian worked. What he didn't notice was Thor about to attack him. Thor slammed him into the ground and was about to smash his head when Loki fearlessly rolled off of the building. Thor looked over the edge just in time to see Loki land on a chariot of sorts, followed closely by a squad of Chitauri soldiers.
The team of heroes on the ground looked up and saw Loki taking his band down the street and fired at the street in a chain of explosions. Cars where destroyed, buildings blew up as people ran from Loki. Captain America looked down from the bridge they were standing on.
"Those people need assistance down there." A couple dozen Chitauri soldiers landed near them and began firing at them. Black Widow pulled of two pistols and fired back. Bart watched in amazement as she took down a bunch of soldiers.
"What a woman," he sighed as he starred dreamily. He freaked out when she spun around and aimed her gun at him. Without hesitation she fired at him. Is was only thanks to his super speed that he managed to dodge the bullet. The bullet flew past him and impacted with a Chitauri sneaking up behind him.
"You could have told me to duck or something. You nearly killed me!" He shouted.
"I knew you were fast enough to get out of the way," she replied. She proceeded to attack more of the invaders. Bart and the rest of the team starred in shock and amazement.
"Still hot," Bart joked.
"Bart, Victor, you guys go with Cap and get those civilians out of here. We'll hold them off," Green Arrow ordered.
"You sure?" Victor asked.
"Trust me, we got this," Arthur replied. The Atlantian raised his fist into the air and a stream of sewerage water burst out of the ground and smashed into several Chitauri. The water wrapped around Aqua Man's arms and proceeded to shoot out in multiple directions, smashing, forcefully into a number of enemies. Needing no further encouragement Captain America, Cyborg and Impulse jumped off of the bridge to the ground below.
The remaining police continuously fired at the flying chariots, despite not making any damage. A young cop ran over to his police sergeant.
"We need to get out! They gotta bring the National Guard!" The young cop cried.
"National Guard?the Seargent questioned. "Does the army know what's happening here?"
"Do we?"
Captain America suddenly jumped in front of them followed closely by Victor. Bart appeared beside them in a streak of lightning. They look up at this ridiculous looking men.
"I need men in these buildings," Cap ordered, "There are people inside that can run into the line of fire. You take them through the basement or through the subway. You keep them off the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th."
"Why the hell should I take orders from you?" The Sergeant questioned.
"Did you not see our entrance?" Bart asked. Suddenly, an explosion came up from behind them. Cap blocked an energy blast with his shield as six Chitauri soldiers attack. The cops watch in shock as Captain America fought two of them with ease whilst Cyborg transformed his hand into a sonic cannon and fired at another two. Bart simply raced a around the remaining two delivering thousand of punches in seconds. It takes mere seconds to defeat the Chitarui. The Sergeant turned to the younger officer.
"I need men in those buildings, lead the people down and away from the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th."
The Phantom punched Clark across the city again and followed after him. However as he landed on the building Clark was gone. After a moment, Clark appearred behind Bizarro and decked him, sending the prisoner smashing through a number of buildings. Thor, flying past noticed the phantom and believing it to be Clark went to help him.
"Kal-El, I am here." He joined his friend in the air. They came to a halt as a figure leapt across the city and landed on the building next to them. Thor starred in shock at the two Clarks.
"That's not me!" The real Clark warned. Thor turned just as the Phantom punched him, sending him flying.
"What the hell are you?!" Clark demanded angrily.
"I'm you, only a little more Bizzare. Infact you can call me Bizzaro." As he said this his face changed a looked as though it was cracked. The two titans rushed at each other and continued to fight. As they fought Bizzaro grabbed Clark by the throat and slammed him into a building. He prepared to slam him again when Thor flew from behind and smashed him with his hammer. A streak of lightning smashed into Bizzaro on impact and he crashed into the ground below. Clark to began to fall down the side of the building but was caught by Thor. The two raced towards the the Phantom, preparing to attack.
Iron Man swerved around a building and faced the Chitauri Leviathan. He pulled out his miniature multiple rocket launcher and fired. The Leviathan roared in annoyance and turned to face him.
"We got his attention. What the hell is step two?!" He asked Jarvis. Iron Man flew away as fast as possible as the Leviathan followed closely behind.
Hawkeye tripped a Chitauri soldier and rammed an arrow down its throat. Green Arrow fired multiple explosive arrows, taking down a number of enemies. Black Widow continued to fire at the nearby Chitauri. Noticing a energy rifle one of the dead invaders had dropped she grabbed it and began firing. Aqua Man continued to use the water from the sewer to beat down enemies. None of this was enough and they soon became surrounded. Just when it seemed lime they weren't going to make it Captain America, Cyborg and Impulse reconvened with them and attacked. Bart ran around the enemies at super speed, taking them out with ease. Cap used his shield to wack oncoming Chitauri and Victor continued to use his sonic cannon to defeat his enemies.
Thor swung his hammer at Bizzaro. Just as the Phantom's feet left the air Clark grabbed them and smashed him back into the ground. Thor unleashed a bolt of lightning from his hammer and Clark used his heat vision and they attacked the Phantom. After a few moments they stopped attacking. They looked down to see the Phantom unconscious. Thor reached down to grab Bizzaro but was taken by surprise as he wrapped his fist around the Asgardian's neck. Bizzaro tossed him aside with ease. Clark went to stomp on him but he grabbed the Kryptonian by the leg and threw him into Thor. The Phantom stood up, clearly hurting after that last brutal attack. Bizzaro smashed his hands together and created a sonic clap. Thor and Clark smashed into the building behind them. When they returned Bizzaro was long gone.
"Anyone know where Clark or Thor are?" Cyborg asked the team as they defeated the remaining Chitauri in the area. As though they'd been listening Thor dropped down in front of them and Clark ran up beside them.
"What happened to you guys?" Green Arrow asked.
"Short version, we were attacked by an alien who copied my DNA and became a clone of me," Clark explained, much to the groups surprise.
"The pathetic retch ran before the fight was over!" Thor cried in annoyance.
"What's the plan?" Clark wandered turning to Captain America.
Cap opened his mouth the respond when Banner drove up on a small shitty motorbike. The Doctor climbed off of the bike and looked around the city.
"So, this all seems horrible."
"I've seen worse," Black Widow replied.
"Sorry," he apologised.
"No. We could use a little worse."
"Stark? We got him." Cap reported.
"Banner?"
"Just like you said."
"Then tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you."
Iron Man flew out from behind a building. The Leviathan followed closely behind him. The rest of the heroes looked up, getting ready and standing still. Iron Man swooped down the street as did the Leviathan. The Leviathan barrelled down the street like a freight train that kept building and building its intensity. Wordlessly Banner began to walk towards the monster.
"Dr. Banner. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry," Clark suggested.
"That's my secret, Clark. I'm always angry." Banner's body started to swell and stretch as his skin turned green. At the last moment Hulk smashed his fist into the Chitauri Leviathan. The punch was so strong the creature began to flip in the air. Iron Man, in mid-flight, extended his arm out and fired a rocket. The rocket hit a soft spot and chunks of the Leviathan were blown away.
From above and on the buildings, the Chitauri army watched in horror as the Justice League and the Avengers came together as Earths mightiest heroes.
Loki glared angrily from his chariot.
"Send the rest," he ordered. From the portal, thousands more Chitauri soldiers and even more Leviathans flew out.
"Call it, Cap," Clark requested.
"Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, Green Arrow, I want one of you on that roof and another on that roof." He pointed at the roofs he was talking about. "Call out patterns and strays. Stark, Impulse and Cyborg, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or your turn it to ash.
"Wanna give us a lift?" Green Arrow asked Iron Man.
"Right. Better clench up, Robin Hood." Iron Man grabbed ahold of the two archers and flew them to their buildings. Impulse vanished in a blur and Cyborg ran to where he was supposed to be.
"Thor, your the only one who can fly," Cap continued, "you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down..." He drifted off as the sound of a jet engine filled the air.
The heroes looked up just as a large black jet emerged from the clouds. Missiles flew off the jet and exploded against a Leviathan.
"Who the hell is that?" Arthur asked.
"And why is their jet shaped like a bat?" Black widow wandered as they starred at the bat shaped jet.
"There helping and that's all that matters," Cap stated. "Thor, You've got the lightning. Light the bastards up." With a swing of his mighty hammer Thor flew up into the air. Cap looked at who was left. Clark, Aqua Man, Black Widow, Hulk and himself. "The rest of us, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. And Hulk." He turned to the green giant. "Smash."
The Hulk smiled joyfully and leapt into the air, soaring high up into the nearest building. Hulk ran up the wall and punched several Chitauri. He grabbed the remains of the Chitauri he just killed and threw them at more soldiers on the building across from him. With a roar he jumped over to the building and continued to attack the invaders. The rest of the heroes fought the oncoming army whilst helping civilians get to safety.
Thor landed on top of the tower closest to the portal. He raised Mjölnir and summoned a blinding bolt of lightning. The Lightning struck down from the sky and collided with his hammer. Thor proceeded to aim his hammer at the portal. He channeled the Lightning through his hammer and blasted the invading soldiers flying out of the portal. The Chitauri were blasted back before falling to the ground lifelessly.
Iron man fired his repulsars causing a Chitauri chariot to crash into the ground.
"Sir, incoming projectile," Jarvis warned.
"What do you..." A flying blue blur smashed into Tony and he crashed into the ground.
"Clark?" Tony queried as he looked at the man who'd crashed into him. Then he noticed the clothes he was wearing were much darker than Clarks.
"Your not Clark," he realised.
"No," Bizzaro responded. "I'm better." He grabbed Tony by the helmet and through him into a car. Using his heat vision he blew up the car with Tony inside.
Clark used his freeze breath to freeze a number of enemies. What he didn't notice was the squad of Chitauri sneaking up behind him. They fired at Clark and the Kryptonian fell to the ground. Just like Loki's staff the Chitauri's weapons could hurt him. The attack continued and Clark came close to passing out. Suddenly the attack stopped and he heard sounds of fighting behind him. He looked up and found John Jonzz standing before him, holding a hand out the Kryptonian. Clark was taken aback. This was the first time he'd seen the Martian in his true, green form. He wore a green shirt with a red x across the front and had a long purple jacket on.
"I am here to help," the Martian stated.
"We could use it," Clark replied. "There's a problem."
"Yes the giant portal in the sky."
"No, well yeah, but there's another. A phantom collided with me and copied my DNA. It's an evil version of me essentially."
"I see, I do know a way we could stop him. However, I will need your help to weaken him."
"Of course. We just need to find him."
"Hey guys," Tony's voice came over the radio. "I think I found that evil clone of Clark."
"Where?" Clark demanded. As he said this an explosion went off above them. They looked up and saw Tony falling towards the ground. Clark prepared to jump to him when out of nowhere Hulk appeared and grabbed Tony, safely delivering him to Clark and John. Hulk leapt to a nearby building and continued fighting as Clark and John raced to Tony's side.
"Tony you okay?" Clark asked. His armour was wrecked. The face plate was gone, so we're the legs of the suit and most of the middle.
"Just peachy," he replied in a pained voice.
Bizzaro smashed down in front of them, a evil smile across his face, his hands covered in blood.
"Did you really think you could stop me?" He asked.
"By myself, unlikely," Clark replied. "But I know someone who can help. Hulk SMASH!" He shouted as loud as he could. A loud roar filled the air. Bizzaro turned around just a Hulk landed on him and began to pummel him into the ground. Martian Manhunter and Clark ran into the fight, desperate to stop this phantom copy cat.
"Jarvis, charge the Uni beam," Tony instructed.
"Sir, with the damage done to the suit the Uni beam could cause severe damage to yo..."
"Just do it!" Tony ordered. "Thor, we're gonna need some help."
Bizzaro couldn't believe how strong the green beast was as he took another hit from the giant. His body moved in a blur as he punched an attacking John right in the chest with two fists. Despite John getting hurt this did provide a distraction for Clark to race up behind the copy and punch him into the ground.
Clark and Bizzaro held each other by the arms pushing against one another. As this was happening Martian Manhunter used his shape shifting abilities and wrapped his fingers around Bizzaro's limbs. Clark began punching him in the stomach as hard as he could. Clark jumped high into the air as Hulk ran at full speed and shoulder charged the copy.
Bizarro was about to stand up when a bolt of lightning smashed into his chest. He looked up just as Thor's hammer collided with his face. Thor went to attack again, two hands on his hammer, however, Bizzaro, moving at super speed, dodged the attack my inches, grabbed Thor's arms and in an instant snapped both of them. Thor dropped his hammer as both of his arms broke. Clark shouted in rage and slammed Bizzaro into the ground.
"No more!" He shouted. "No more!" He slammed Bizzaro into the ground. Every punch caused a tremor in the ground. Eventually Clark stepped back. "Let's finish this." Clark blasted him with heat vision and John used his Martian vision. Tony made his way over to the team.
"Now," he shouted and a beam of energy shot from the arc reactor from his chest right into Bizzaro.
Finally, when they thought they'd done enough they stopped their attack. Bizzaro slowly knelt on one knee, clutching his ribs in pain, his face covered in blood.
"You will not stop me," he breathed. Hulk looked to Clark who nodded his approval. Hulk walked up to the murderer and with a swing of his humungous fist sent the Kryptonian copy flying up into the air. Martian Manhunter shot up after it in a red blur. They watched as the Martian grabbed Bizzaro and flew him into outer space.
The team raced to Thor's side. He reassured them he'd be fine and insisted that they keep on fighting.
Back on the Hellicarier, Fury saw on his view screen the destruction going on in New York. Agent Hill walked up to him.
"Sir. The council is on," she announced. Fury let out an annoyed sigh before turning off his screen.
Atop the rooftops, Hawkeye and Green Arrow fired arrows into the streaming flow of the Chitauri soldiers riding flying chariots. Every arrow hitting its mark each time. Oliver noticed a number of soldiers scaling the building towards Hawkeye. He began firing at them but there were to many. Thinking quickly, he grabbed a special arrow from his quiver and created a zip line between the two buildings. He jumped on and zipped towards his fellow archer. Oliver kicked one soldier to the ground and he reached the building.
"Looks like you could use some help."
"I let them get this close," Hawkeye replied.
"Sure you did. How about a little competition, who can kill the most of these bastards."
"Your on," Hawkeye smiled.
Tony ran over to Cap, his suit was to damaged to fly anymore.
"Cap, Shield!" He shouted. Cap raised his shield and Tony used his repulsars to blast a beam off of the shield and kill the surrounding enemies.
Bart was running through the streets, lightning surrounding his body. He noticed a Chitauri throw a grenade into a building. He raced inside and grabbed the grenade before anyone knew he was there.
"I think you dropped this." The Chitauri who threw the grenade spun around as Bart tossed him the grenade just as he blurred away. The Chituari tried to run away but it was to late and the grenade went off.
Victor was having trouble taking on a group of soldiers and was getting surrounded. A Chituari got up close and clawed at his face. Victor fell to the ground. Just as the Chitauri was about to attack again a stream of water shot out of the ground and smashed into the invader. Aquaman burst out of the ground surrounded by a stream of water. He moved around and smashed into the surrounding enemies.
"Vic you okay?" He asked as he helped his teammate up.
"Nothing a little duct tape can't fix," Cyborg responded with a smile. Half of his face was ripped off revealed the metal skull inside and a bright red eye.
Back in the bridge, Fury watched on the large screen in front of him the World Security Council, their faces covered in shadows.
"Director Fury, the council has made a decision." One of the voices stated.
"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 in the air, we lose everything."
"If I send that bird out, we already have." With that Fury shut off the screen.
Black Widow used the energy rifle shed grabbed to kill a number of invaders. Throughout the fight she'd managed to get separated from the rest of her team. One soldiers manages to grab her and she's taken off her feet. She tiresomely takes it down by cutting its throat. She grabbed the energy rifle and turned to attack. As she did she discovered that she was surrounded by a dozen Chituari, all preparing to attack. She stood nervously wandering what to do. Just as the Chituari were about to attack the bat shaped jet flew low and fired at them. As the jet flew over head the pilot shot out and landed beside Natasha. She was shocked to see a man in some sought of bat costume.
"Back to back," the man ordered. She did so and they prepared to fight the surrounding soldiers.
"Take my spare," she offered as she held out her spare hand gun to the man.
"Not my style," he replied before jumping into battle. As they fought Natasha was amazed at the skill the man thought with, using a number of gadgets to take down his enemies as well as hand to hand combat.
Eventually they took down the surrounding enemies. She slumped back, tired.
"Your they guy from Gotham," she realised. "Batman?" Batman remained silent. "Didn't even know you were real.
"None of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal," Batman stated.
"Our biggest guns couldn't touch it."
"Well, maybe it's not about guns." He gestured towards the top of stark tower.
"You wanna get up there, you're gonna need a ride."
"I got a ride," he replied as his jet hovered above them. He pulled out a grappling hook and flew up to the jet.
Clark and Hulk fought on top the back of the leviathan, tearing apart and fighting soldiers. Hulk broke off a massive piece of armour and slammed it down onto the spine of the leviathan. Summoning all his strength, Clark slammed his fist and brought the monster down with one final blow.
Hawkeye looked out into the city and noticed Loki flying relatively closely. Hawkeye pulled out an arrow but was stopped by Oliver.
"Try this," the billionaire suggested as he handed the SHIELD agent an arrow. Hawkeye took the arrow and pointed it at Loki, smiling.
"I've got him." The arrow flew through the air, headed straight for its target. At the last moment Loki caught the arrow straight out of the air. Loki smiled and starred at Hawkeye. The arrow began to beep and Loki looked down at it in confusion. Suddenly, the arrow exploded in his hand and sent him crashing into the penthouse in Stark tower.
As Loki looked up, shocked at what just happened, the Hulk leapt into the building. Loki rolled himself up in a flurry of broken glass.
"Enough!" He shouted in anger. "You are all beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I will not be bullied..." Hulk grabbed him by the legs and smashed him against the floor repeatedly and finally threw him aside.
"Puny God!" Loki was left whimpering in pain on the ground.
Batman jumped out of the bat wing and landed on the roof of Stark tower. He walked up to the CMS machine, examining it. The now conscious Dr Selvig, slumped down, weakened, looks at him desperately. The Tesseract's energy is firing towards the portal, gaining in strength, at the surge of energy raced through the sky.
"Loki's scepter, the energy...the Tesseract can't fight. You can't protect against yourself," Selivig wheezed.
"How do I stop it?" Batman demanded.
"I built in a safety to cut the power source," Selvig revealed.
"What's?"
"Loki's scepter. It might be able to close the portal." Selvig looked down and saw the sceptre on the balcony below him. "And I'm looking right at it."
On the Hellicarier a lone pilot sat in his cockpit, listening.
"Director Fury is no longer in command. Override order, 7 alpha 11." One of the world council, members announced.
"7 alpha 11, confirmed. Prepare to takeoff," the pilot replied as he ignited his engines. Back in the bridge, Agent Hill saw on her screen the jet preparing to leave and what it was about to do.
"Sir, we have a bird in motion!" She reported to Furry. "Anyone on the deck, we have a rogue bird! We need to shut it down! Repeat! Take off is not authorized!" Nick Fury ran out to the Helicarrier deck, holding a air tonic RPG. He took aim and fired at the jet. He fired his gun and managed to hit the tail of the jet, causing it to swerve and come to a stop. Suddenly, another 7 alpha 11 jet flew off.
Fury stood there, knowing he couldn't do anything about it.
"Stark, you hearing me?" He asked through his communicator. "We have a missile headed straight for the city.
"How long?" Tony asked as he used what little power his suit had left to blast enemies away from him.
"Three minutes, at best."
"Everyone, we have an issue," Tony announced.
"What?" Clark asked.
"There's a nuke heading straight for us." Silence filled the radio.
"Um, did you say a nuke?" Bart asked in disbelief.
"Yep."
"How long do we have?" Cap asked.
"Two and a half minutes," Tony reported.
"Can you fly up and lead it away from the city," Cyborg suggested as he took down another soldier.
"My suits to busted up to fly."
"What about Thor?" Arthur suggested.
"Thor's arms are both broken, he's down." Clark reported. They continued to discuss how they were going to take care of this nuke when a new voice came over the radio.
"I have a way to close the portal," Batman reported.
"Who is this?" Cap asked.
"It's Batman," Natasha replied.
"Wait Batmans real?" Clark asked.
"Focus!" Batman snapped.
The jet arrived outside the city. The pilot pressed down on a red button. The missile deployed from the jet and flew straight towards Manhattan.
"The missiles nearly here," Tony reported. "What are we gonna do?" He was responded by silence, no one could find a way out of this.
Clark couldn't believe it. After everything they gone through, the struggle, the pain, the loss it was all about to be for nothing. As strong as he was he didn't think he even he could survive a nuclear bomb. Explosions went off all around Clark, but he remained oblivious to stunned to do anything. Through the buildings, in the distance he noticed the nuke flying towards the city. His face turned to an expression of determination and his hands clenched into fist. He bent his knees and prepared, himself. This was it, he couldn't wait any longer. He had to do it, not because he had Completed Jor-El's training but because he needed to, Earth needed him to. The air around him rippled and the ground beneath him shook. Clark burst into the in a blur of motion. He caused a sonic boom as he flew straight towards the nuke.
A sound like thunder filled the air. Cap who now stood beside Tony looked up just as a blue blur raced past above them.
"What was that?"
"It's me," Clarks voice came over the radio.
"Clark? Your, your flying."
"Yeah."
"Clark's flying?" Oliver couldn't believe it. Hawkeye tapped him on the shoulder and he spun around. From the top of the building they stood on they could see Clark in the distance racing through the sky.
Batman grabbed Loki's scepter and slowly broke into the force field surrounding the Tesseract.
"I can close it! I can shut the portal down!"
"Wait," Clark interrupted. "Keep it open for me," he ordered.
"Why? What are you gonna..." He stopped as it occurred to him and everyone else what he was about to do.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Tony asked.
"No, but it's the only choice we've got." Clark caught up, with the missile and started following it from behind. Clark, being as careful as he could when flying at high speeds through he air for the first time grabbed the nuke from behind, gripping it tightly. With a mighty effort, he wrenched the rocket off its course. Steering it from behind, he accelerated quickly, flying straight up into sky, towards the portal.
Clark took a deep breath and as he approached the portal he took a moment to remember all the things he'd enjoyed in his life. His parents, his friends, All the lives he'd saved. Becoming an Avenger. His body disappeared as he flew through the portal, nuke in hand.
The bridge of the Helicarrier was silent as every agent watched the screens showing Clark fly though the portal. They began cheering in joy, all except Fury who desperately tried to reach Clark on his communicator.
Clark looked around horrified. He was surrounded by vast empty space, his com had gone dead and he was holding a nuke. Up ahead he saw what appeared to be the mother ship. Hundreds of Chitauri ships were flying around it, most heading towards the portal. Clark let go of the missile and came to a stop as he watched the missile fly towards the mother ship. The missile impacted the alien ship and caused it to implode which in turn caused the armada to burst into a supernova, creating a spectacular heavenly display. Clark watched in amazement as the surrounding ships were incinerated. All of a sudden Clark was snapped out of his daze as he realised the explosion was headed straight towards him. He spun around and raced for the portal, the explosion hot in his heals. He raced as fast as he could but unfortunately wasn't fast enough and he was engulfed in the explosion.
Back on Earth all of the Chitauri soldiers and Chitauri leviathans keeled over and began to shake, then stop. They all fell over, dead. The Avengers desperately looked up for their team mate, not sure if he'll make it through. Batman still held the sceptre in hand, ready.
"Come on, Clark," Oliver urged. Tony and Cap saw the supernova coming towards them through the portal.
"Close it." He instructed.
"No!" Bart cried. "Clarks still in there. We can't leave him!"
"We have to close the portal," Batman stressed. Without hesitating, Batman used the sceptre and shut off the energy beam. The portal quickly began to close.
Just as the portal was about close a figure fell through it and began plummeting towards the ground. A smile came across Caps face
"Son of a gun!" Clark continued to fall, and fall and fall. "He's not slowing down." Tony realised. Just when everything seemed helpless a streak of golden lightning ran across the side of a building and snatched Clark out of the air. Impulse ran his friend safely to the empty city streets. Tony, Cap, Aquaman and Cyborg ran over to their fallen friend.
"Clark wake up. Come one Clark wake up," Bart begged. Clark just laid their unconscious, his body covered in burns and wounds from the invasion and the explosion. The only clothes that remained were his pants. Just when the team began to fear the worst sunlight broke through the clouds and engulfed them in golden light. The group watched in amazement as Clark's wounds shone with bright yellow energy as he was healed. The light faded away revealing Clarks fully healed body. A few seconds later Clark woke with a jolt. He looked around rapidly.
"What happened?"
"We won," Cap replied, much to Clarks relief.
"Finally," he breathed, great fun he was back on Earth.
"We're not finished yet," Tony reminded them starring up at Stark tower.
Loki crawled onto the stairs, looking like a piece of crap after his fight with the Hulk. He took a few breathers before sensing someone behind him. Slowly, he turned around to find the Avenger and the Justice League starring over him.
"If it's all the same to you. I'll have that drink," he requested.
Authors Note:
The day is saved! Sorry for the long wait but I'm back now. So Clark learned to fly, Batman made an appearance and even Bizzaro was in it for a short while. With Loki stopped the world now has to deal with the aftermath of this invasion. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and I'll try and post the next one soon.