A special thanks to Magentarosegallifrey for reviewing so quick and having me write this so quickly. Hopefully you like it.
I also want to thank Aa826 for always being there to listen to my rants on the sexy Tom Hiddleston and my freaking out about how to put a chapter together.
Thor looked out the window at the chaos that was happening to the city. It was apparent that the Chitauri were not actually after any civilians but after the Avengers themselves.
"You are going to have to be a bit more specific," Loki called to him.
Thor turned to Loki, "Remember the spell you used in Svartalfheim when we were about 400?"
Loki paused, "the one that had the trees attacking people or the one you made me promise to never ever do again for as long as I lived?"
Thor glared at him which made Loki's smirk grow larger. "What do you need?"
Loki glanced around him at the Chitauri laying on the floor. He glanced back out the window. "I need someone high up."
"Done," Thor turned to leave.
"When you leave, call back to us," Loki started. "Tell us to protect Jane with our lives."
"You wish to use Jane as bait?!" Thor thundered.
"Well, yes," Loki shrugged. "It will make them flock here."
"We only need one," Thor reminded him.
"The one who will flock here will be the one who believes he can take you," Loki smirked. His features shifted into Fury's. "And he will think he has us cornered."
Thor frowned and turned on his heel. Right before he leapt off the building he shouted back, "Protect Jane with your life!"
Loki turned to look at Jane, "You stay up against that wall." He pointed to the wall opposite of the window. "No matter what happens, you stay there!"
Jane nodded and scooted back to the wall.
"NATASHA!" Clint yelled from the top of the fire truck. He looked around in vain. He shot an arrow down at the growing amount of Chitauri soldiers who were now rocking the vehicle as well as climbing it. He shot another arrow down and sent one of the Chitauri flying down into the mass of creatures.
He couldn't stay here. He was running low on arrows and only had a few exploding ones left. He shot one of the exploding arrows down to clear a path. Clint jumped down and hit the ground with a roll. He pulled out of it and shot a Chitauri in the face.
He glanced around and then ran. He grabbed a Chitauri spear and chucked it at one of the creatures. He glanced down the streets but he didn't see Natasha.
Tony yelled as he pushed the Chitauri down to his knees.
"Sir, the Chitauri seems to be at a 400% increase in strength from the ones you fought before," Jarvis told him.
"I noticed!" Tony yelled and shot blasts into the creature.
"They are also more structurally sound," Jarvis told him. "It will take more energy to bring them down."
"Noted!" Tony leapt from the building and began shooting up the streets again.
Fury shot the Chitauri in the face and Coulson managed to slice one across the throat.
"I think it's time we move the hell out of here," Fury yelled as he headed for the door.
"We may be able to get Stark's attention from the top level," Coulson followed behind the Director.
"We still have 8 minutes before the cavalry comes in to save our asses," Fury knocked down a Chitauri. "Where are these things coming from? I thought Bruce had the shield up."
The building shook violently.
"That can't be good," Fury frowned and immediately took the stairs.
Loki, who still looked like Fury, paced with his gun out. He was muttering strange words that Jane couldn't understand.
Lightning lit up the sky and Loki turned to see something heading straight for them. He aimed his gun at the creature as it flew into the window. As soon as it landed, Loki shot it in the chest. The Chitauri growled at him but seemed otherwise unhurt.
"Get back!" Loki yelled at it angrily. He took several steps backward, leading the Chitauri further into the room. The Chitauri followed him. Loki shot it again in the chest and it roared at him. Loki looked terrified as he took several more steps back.
Jane grabbed Darcy's arm when she felt the woman start to bolt. Loki had told them to stay put no matter what. Knowing the god of mischief, this was nothing but an act.
The door to the stairs slammed open, making them all glance that way. Fury stepped out with his gun raised quickly followed by Coulson. Fury aimed immediately at the Chitauri who was cornering the others.
"LOOK AT ME!" Loki yelled to the Chitauri. The Chitauri paused and looked between the two identical men.
The real Fury shot it in the head. Loki swore loudly. The Chitauri growled and started for Fury and Coulson.
"LOOK AT ME!" Loki yelled again as he shifted back into his normal form.
The Chitauri stopped dead in its tracks. It recognized the supposedly-dead sorcerer. With a roar it rushed Loki. Loki side stepped and tossed it against the wall. The creature was up immediately and slamming Loki into the floor. The Asgardian rolled out of its way and sent a kick to its face. The Chitauri rushed him again and slammed him against the wall a few feet from the others, its hand closing on Loki's throat. Loki brought his hands up to the creatures head and chanted something. The creature backed up and gripped its head as if in pain.
Loki rushed forward but the creature swiped outward, clawing Loki's face. Loki wiped the blood away with his sleeve and tried again. He sent the creature to the floor with him on top of it. He chanted more words as he held his hands on top of its skin. The Chitauri roared and tossed Loki off of him.
The creature rose quickly and raced for the door.
"No." Loki growled. Shadows leapt from their normal positions and grabbed onto the limbs of the Chitauri. It began yelling in its own language. "I need to borrow you."
Loki calmly walked over to the creature who was suspended in the air. He stretched his hands out in front of him and then jerked his hands outward. Immediately the skin and armor ripped off of the creature. The skin hovered in pieces in a sphere around the creature. Loki continued his slow movement to the creature and mimicked his movement from before. This time the muscles pulled away from the creature and floated in a smaller sphere within the first. He did the movement one last time and the organs made a third smaller sphere while leaving the skeletal system behind.
Fury held his gun on the trickster god. He watched as Loki reached inside of the skeletal frame, which was floating in midair, and grab something from within it. Loki held his hand out but Fury could see nothing but thin air. Then it glowed brightly. It was a tiny sphere, about the size of an orange. Loki muttered words to it.
Thor entered the window and glanced to Loki. He frowned at the display but said nothing. He looked back to the outside.
"They are focusing on the Avengers, and there is a shield up on the ship," Thor told Loki.
Loki didn't respond. Instead he blew on the glowing sphere. Immediately black wisps swirled into the sphere until it encompassed it. Loki held his hand out and the sphere shivered. The sphere split into five spheres rotating around a larger sphere about the size of a ping-pong ball. They whirled around the larger sphere a few times and then Loki threw his hand backward, forcing the smaller spheres backward. They each went into a dead Chitauri body.
"Get up," Loki ordered.
The Chitauri began to jerk and move to standing positions. Sounds of their necks cracking back into place had Darcy gripping Jane's arm in fear. The creatures stood at attention and Loki turned. The larger sphere still in his hand.
"Destroy things," he ordered. The Chitauri on the left roared and raced out of the building.
Loki smirked, "Find Barton, shoot him-but miss. Take out your comrades instead." The Chitauri raced for the stairs. Fury jerked backward as it ran past him.
Loki glanced to the next one, "Run back to the ship as if something is wrong. Trip on your own feet and fall into the energy pit that is fueling the ship." The Chitauri ran for the window, leapt out and caught one of the spacecrafts flying by.
"Take one of your grenades," Loki told the next one, "And hold onto it too long after pulling the pin. Make sure you are around quite a few of your friends." The Chitauri nodded and raced out the window. It used its claws to go down the side of the building.
"Attack the Iron Man," Loki told the last one. He waved his hand and explosives from the massacred Chitauri flew to the one standing in front of him. "You will explode far away from him. Taking out others." The Chitauri raced out of the room.
Loki turned his gaze onto the Chitauri who was still in pieces. He smirked and walked to the center of the spheres. Slowly and carefully he put the black sphere into the middle of the body. He stretched his hands out as if grabbing onto the air and pulled it inward. The organs flew back into place, followed by its muscles and then finally its skin. The creature blinked and its eyes turned completely black.
"You," Loki smirked deviously, "are going to panic and run for the ship. You are going to issue a retreat and try to contact Thanos to say that the Avengers are too powerful. You will accidentally hit the buttons that control the energy pit. You will panic and make things even worse causing the ship to explode. You will NOT tell anyone about me."
The Chitauri blinked and its eyes went back to normal. It made its way back to the door. "Oh, and if you somehow survive the explosion," The Chitauri turned to look back at Loki who ran his finger over his throat. The Chitauri raced out of the building in a panic.
"Chase after him, brother," Loki smirked.
Thor smirked back at Loki's slip, "and if I catch him?"
Loki's eyes turned black, "You won't."
Captain America ran for Clint. For some reason the archer was all on his own in the middle of the street. Where is Natasha?
Steve's eyes widened as he saw the Chitauri take aim and fire at his friend. Somehow the creature missed and took out the others coming up on Clint's other side. Clint turned and took out the Chitauri who had shot at him.
Steve grunted as he was caught off guard by a Chitauri who threw him into the alley. He used the side of his shield to knock it against the wall. Its skull cracked and Steve pulled himself up. He looked behind him to see if there were more Chitauri down the alley and he paused. He glanced back to where Clint was and then hurried further down the alley. He could have sworn he had seen red hair.
Steve's eyes widened. A few feet from the building on the right was Natasha who was covered in rubble and blood. "NAT!"
Tony zoomed away from the mass of Chitauri that was swarming him. He tossed out a few fires that knocked some of the weaker ones down. He turned to see a large Chitauri zooming past him on a space craft, he ducked past it and landed on a building. The creature clawed at him as it went by again.
"Want to play?" Tony jumped down. If he was going to take out the bastard then he might as well take out several.
As he hit the ground he looked up to see the Chitauri following him. He also saw another Chitauri racing to the ship with Thor on his tail. Thor was trying to hit it with lightning and failing.
"That's not good," Tony jerked out of the way as the Chitauri jumped to the ground. Tony smirked and shot a blast at him. He was thrown backward at the intensity of the sudden explosion. He groaned as he lay in the street.
"Integrity is down to 48%," Jarvis warned Tony.
"Ugh!" Tony groaned. He pulled himself up and noticed that the blast had taken out at least twenty of the creatures. "That was unexpected."
Bruce was trying to breathe. He was trying not to think about how Loki was controlling things yet again. He was trying not to think about how he had pulled a creature apart with just a few flicks of his hands.
"Sir, we may have a situation," Coulson eyed Bruce.
"Damn right we do," Fury started marching over to Loki.
"We need the shields to go up," Loki turned to look at Fury. His eyes were still black. "The ship is going to blow and I'm not sure what will be incinerated and what will crash down on us."
"First, why don't you tell me what the hell that was," Fury demanded.
Loki shook his head, "I'm a bit busy."
"Doing what?" Fury asked. "Controlling people?"
"Yes," Loki said simply. He concentrated on the visions in his head. A Chitauri had just pulled the pin on its grenade. Loki waited and a few moments later the connection between him and the Chitauri was lost. "Three down." Loki stated. He concentrated and saw that there was the Chitauri destroying the city, another was racing through the ship. And the last was running for the control panel to the ship.
"How much longer," Banner tried to breathe smoothly.
"The Chitauri is ….has now tripped and fallen into the energy," Loki winced and shook his head. The Chitauri had stayed alive long enough for Loki to witness the flailing and blinding light. "The other is about to issue a retreat."
"I'll get those….shields up," Bruce breathed.
Loki's eyes immediately reverted to their normal state. "Do I need to throw you out the window?"
Bruce chuckled, "possibly."
"Get the shield up first," Loki told him and his eyes went black again. "Thor will whine for months if I let Jane get killed."
Steve pulled Natasha into his arms. He could see that she was breathing and that she was just unconscious. He pulled her to him and winced at the bone protruding from her arm. He frowned as he looked around for something to wrap her wound with but everything was covered in rubble. He looked around him and noted that there weren't any Chitauri in the alley. He couldn't just leave his friend here. He stood up all the way as he tried to figure out a way to get her to the tower without being attacked.
He jerked back against the wall as a large screeching noise resounded. Steve grunted. If his arms were free then he would have covered his ears, but he had to protect Natasha. He nearly chuckled to himself at the look Natasha would give him if she ever heard him say that.
He looked down at Natasha and pulled her closer to him. He'd rather have her yelling at him than her be like this.
Clint fell backward from the mad rush of Chitauri heading back for the ship. He spotted one of them ignoring the loud screeching noise and continuing its destruction. He shot it in the head. He wasn't sure what the hell was happening.
"About time to get back to the tower," he muttered. He looked around for Natasha but still didn't see her. He frowned and assumed she had caught a ride with one of the Chitauri spacecrafts.
He waited for an opening and ran for the tower.
Thor made his way back into the tower. "How much longer?" He said as he made his way to his brother.
Loki frowned, "he's pressing buttons now. Are the Chitauri back on board?"
"Almost," Thor looked back out the window.
"Let it fall," Loki warned and his eyes reverted to normal. He knew that Thor was thinking about destroying the ship before it hit the ground.
"It will destroy the city," Thor frowned.
"It has to look like an accident," Loki growled. "You go out there and look confused. Not hard for you, I imagine."
Thor made a noise of irritation.
"Shields are up," Bruce told them. Both Asgardians looked over to Bruce who seemed much calmer now.
Thor made his way to the window, "They are almost all aboard."
Loki's eyes reverted to black, "now." The Chitauri's finger slipped and the energy pit fluctuated. Immediately alarms blared as it spun out of control from the excess energy and the Chitauri body inside the pit.
"Now what?" Fury asked warily.
"I would hold onto something," Loki told them.
"Sir," Jarvis said to Tony who was perched on a building. "The energy in the ship is spiking to dangerous levels. I suggest cover is in order."
Tony frowned and looked down at the mostly empty streets. All the Chitauri had made their way back to the ship. He could see Barton running to the tower. He leapt down and flew for the archer. "Is there a focal point on that thing?" He raced downward. "Jarvis!"
"The center. It seems as if the energy is building quickly sir," Jarvis answered. "There is no outside focal point."
Barton looked up just in time to see Tony right before he was picked up.
"Hey, birdie." Tony flew them toward the tower. "I think it's about time you flew."
He made it through the window when they heard the explosion.
Tony whirled around and saw the ship imploding on itself. Its own shield held for a moment, containing some of the blast. But quickly it failed, and burning pieces fell to the ground.
Fury rushed for the window. The majority of the ship burned up with the intense heat of the blast but many of the pieces fell to the streets and buildings.
"Where's Natasha?" Clint looked around the room. An explosion echoed outside.
"She's not here," Fury said quietly as he watched debris knocking chunks off of buildings.
"Neither is Rogers," Coulson frowned.
"Tell me how the hell this was such a good idea," Fury turned to glare at Loki.
Loki shrugged and jerked his shoulder to Thor, "It was his idea."
"I don't give a damn whose idea it was!" Fury yelled. "We have two Avengers missing and you are messing with people's minds again."
"Say what?" Clint raised his brows and turned to look at them.
"They were already dead," Loki shrugged.
Fury got up in Loki's face, "exactly what all can you do?" He eyed the god.
Loki smirked at him.
"He saved us-that should count for something," Jane spoke up.
"To save his own damn ass!" Fury pulled out his gun and put it to the god's head. "Tell me why I shouldn't pull this trigger?"
"Pull it and I will show you how slowly I can take a person apart while keeping them alive," Loki continued to smirk.
"Loki," Thor warned.
"He's got a weapon to my head," Loki blinked in innocence.
"It can't hurt you," Thor waved his hand dismissively.
"This one is special," Loki said. "Built just for me."
Thor paused and looked back at the gun that Fury had to his little brother's head and then the look of malice on the director's face. "Remove it."
Fury eyed the god of thunder before pulling the gun back.
"It still wouldn't have killed me," Loki said offhandedly. "Just hurt a lot."
The door to the stairs slammed open and Captain America stumbled in carrying Natasha.
"I need help!" He yelled.
Immediately Clint made a dash for his friend. She was covered in debris and he could see bone. "Bruce can you fix her?"
"Uh, set her on the table," he motioned to the table across the room.
Steve quickly set her down and took a step back to give Banner some room. "The stomach wound looks superficial. Though her arm is definitely broken. I'd need my lab to see if she has internal bleeding but it's probably smashed. Chitauri were down there."
Thor turned to Loki, "Please help."
Loki shrugged and made his way over to Natasha. He didn't really want to use more magic considering how much energy he has to expend on the shadow spell. But at the same time he had been waiting for someone to ask him to help. He knew that Midgardian's were not as good at healing as Asgardians. Wounds like this could mean death for some of them if not treated properly. He looked down at the woman and found that it bothered him to see her in such a state. He told himself because he needed every Avenger ready to fight for the battle with Thanos.
Loki placed his hands on her stomach and closed his eyes. He concentrated and tried to feel if there were any lacerations, cuts or protrusions inside her. He furrowed his brow.
"There's nothing bleeding….but she's missing something…" He blinked in surprise. He had a basic knowledge of the female body and he was quite sure she was missing a vital part in the process of creating a baby.
Bruce cleared his throat, "if you're talking about what I think you're talking about, then that's a pre-existing condition."
Loki shrugged and placed both of his hands on her arm. The majority of her damage was the break in the bone. He took a deep breath and concentrated on the flesh and bone beneath his fingers which glowed light blue.
"He can heal?" Steve glanced for around for confirmation.
"Supposedly," Fury crossed his arms. He had seen the god do it to Thor but it was a small burn. He raised a brow as he saw the woman's flesh move underneath Loki's hands.
Loki moved the muscles and veins as he tried to move the bone back in without causing much damage. Natasha started to groan in pain. It bothered him. Loki concentrated harder and shoved the bone into place. The bone scraped against its counterpart as it found where it was supposed to be. Natasha began groaning again, pulling out of her unconscious state.
The bone mended, one he knew to be a painful process. Natasha's eyes shot open and she let out a bloodcurdling scream. Loki gritted his teeth and pushed the muscles and veins back into place as the woman thrashed. Thor started to head for Loki to pin the woman down seeing as Loki required both his hands for the process.
"Thor-" Loki was cut off as Natasha's other fist connected with his nose. He jerked back in surprise and his hands stopped glowing immediately. He stared at her incredulously as she gripped her wounded arm.
Thor grabbed his brother's shoulders, "She didn't mean it."
Loki felt blood trickle down his nose which irritated him to no end. He glared at her with malice as she writhed in pain on the table. Tears left trails down her dirt covered face.
"She's still bleeding," Clint told him.
"The bone is mended," Loki wiped his nose with his fingers and then looked at the blood.
"She isn't fully healed-" Thor began.
"This is why I don't help people," Loki wiped the rest of the blood off of his nose.
"Loki, heal her!" Thor ordered.
"No," Loki shook his head. "She doesn't want my help."
Thor grew irritated, "She is in a lot of pain-"
"Exactly." Loki snapped in irritation. He honestly had enough of these people asking him for help and then yelling at him. "That process hurts for us, how do you think if feels for them? She wanted the pain to stop-I stopped. She can heal the rest herself."
Thor looked back to the half-conscious woman on the table. She was gripping her bloody arm. Clint was using paper towels to stop the bleeding.
Loki sighed and headed for the stairs, he had had enough of this crowd.
"Loki?" Thor followed him to the stairs. "She will be alright?"
Loki shrugged, "She is no longer in any danger."
With that, Loki headed out of the room and down the stairs. He was irritated. It wasn't the fact that Fury had held that pitiful weapon to his head. It wasn't the way Jane and Darcy looked at him in fear after turning those Chitauri loose. It wasn't the fact he had slipped into old habits and called Thor 'brother'. What was bothering him more than anything was the woman who was semi-conscious in the other room.
He had seen her like that and wanted to help her immediately. His brain prevented him from doing something so stupid. Instead he had waited tensely for someone to remember that he could help her: someone to ask for his help. And then her scream had grated his nerves. It was nothing like the scream he normally pulled from her. He had hated it; wanted to stop it. Loki opened his door and shut it quickly behind him as he mulled over his thoughts.
He decided that he cared purely because she was helping him get through the weeks until Thanos arrived. Without her he had no better way of getting to sleep. No way of getting past the nightmares. She was also one of the few in this tower he semi-tolerated. He told himself that he needed her for the next couple of weeks-nothing more.
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I hope you all enjoyed. I blew off my homework for the day (I can do it later) just so I could post these two chapters together for you guys. I really hope you like the dark magic spell because I have toying with that idea for-ev-er! Loki is such a badass. Again, look up his stuff in Marvel. He's like the most powerful sorcerer ever.
I'm playing with the ideas for the next chapter. Not a 100% yet. Very likely it will be next weekend before I post. Unless I get done with homework early (God I hope so).
As always, reviews make me do a crazy happy dance.