Oh my god. I just finished writing this story. That is right-as soon as I am done editing-I will be sending out the final chapters. I am excited and sad at the same time. Also, LovesDragons is the bestest ever because you keep reviewing and pushing me to work on these in my precious free time.
Director Fury took a deep breath and glanced at his phone: today was the day. He looked around the room. Natasha had just arrived in her jumpsuit. Clint followed behind her with more arrows than Fury had ever seen. They headed for coffee, neither of them speaking.
Stark was sitting at the table looking absently over to the horizon. He wore casual clothes, he could get his suit easily when it came time. His eyes were dazed as he thought on previous battles with the Chitauri.
Bruce sat next to him staring down at his coffee, which was ice cold by now
Pepper, Jane, Darcy and Selvig had been sent on one of Stark's jets to his Miami Beach house. The rest of the city had been evacuated too. It was too quiet.
Fury looked over as Thor and Loki entered using the stairs.
"Didn't feel like the elevator?" Captain asked. He was sitting on the couch holding his helmet while his shield leaned up against him.
"The device stated we were too heavy," Thor frowned. He was wearing his full armor including his helmet with wings. His red cape was flowed behind him. Loki stood behind him wearing his armor and horned helmet.
"Going to say it's the armor," Clint commented.
"It is rather heavy," Thor shrugged.
Loki walked past his brother to the window. Thor eyed him, recognizing the wary look of a warrior about to enter battle. He walked up to his brother and placed his hand on Loki's shoulder.
"If you fall today, it will be with honor and bravery." Thor told him. "If such a path must be taken, let it be swift and let the Valkyries ride swiftly to you."
Loki turned to look at his brother, "may your hammer swing strong and swift."
Thor chuckled and wrapped his brother into a large hug. Loki hugged him back.
"You know," Thor pulled back. "This reminds me of the battle of the three axes."
Loki snorted and shook his head. "This is nothing like that." He glanced back to the horizon. "It reminds me of the battle of the Rock Giants."
"I disliked that battle intensely," Thor frowned.
"That's because they wouldn't electrocute."
"No, because of your little…whatever you call it," Thor gestured at Loki who began laughing.
"That doesn't sound like me at all," Loki stated. They both started laughing.
"I feel like we missed something," Clint commented.
"Probably a random Asgardian thing," Tony sighed. He jerked when he heard beeping.
"That mean what I think it means?" Fury looked to the device sitting next to Bruce.
"Time to go," Tony nodded. He rushed away to get his suit. Bruce's face got paler.
"I will get SHIELD ready," Fury left the room.
"We will go where Stark directs us," Thor told Loki, "Where will you be?"
Loki gripped Thor's right shoulder and grinned, "Where I belong."
Thor gripped his brother's hand that lay on his shoulder. "I will see you there." He watched as his brother disappeared in front of him.
Tony led the way. By the time they reached the coordinates they could see sparks coming out of a blue circular disk about five feet off the ground.
"Reminds me of the thing that Loki came out of," Clint said.
"Should we just start shooting it now?" Iron Man asked the group.
"Might not be a good idea," Bruce frowned. "Something like that might not be very stable."
Loud sparks echoed and then a beam shot forward.
"Yep, just like Loki." Clint took aim with his arrow to the large creature that came out of the beam.
The creature had dark purple skin with black armor. He was kneeling on the ground just as Loki had when he first came out of the portal. After a second he pulled himself upright and turned to look at the Avengers.
"Thanos," Thor stepped forward toward the creature. "Turn back now and you will receive no harm."
Thanos jerked his hand to the portal, the blue disk moved higher into the sky. "I doubt you could cause much harm." Sparks emitted from the disk that was now above the buildings around them. Then ships erupted from the portal.
"You will not win this fight," Thor held his hammer out. Electricity began to spark at the end of it as he concentrated his energy into it.
"I think I will," Thanos smirked. "After all, I do have the upper hand." He looked over to his left and Loki's form shifted into view.
"Brother!" Thor lowered his hammer and stared at him in disbelief.
"I've come to realize something," Loki smirked deviously. He turned his gaze to Natasha. "I am the monster parents tell their children about at night."
"This isn't you brother!" Thor took another step forward.
"What betraying everyone for my own selfish gain?" Loki blinked. "That doesn't sound like me at all."
Thor opened his mouth to say something but closed it instead. He jerked his head as a roar sounded and the Hulk rushed Thanos and Loki. The beast was stopped by an invisible wall.
"Quite the creature," Thanos commented.
Loki stared into the snarling Hulk's face. "I told you we would need the shield."
"Give it to me," Thanos ordered.
Loki grabbed his bag off of his hip and pulled out the infinity gauntlet.
"Loki," Thor stared at the item. "What have you done?"
"What I had to," Loki said simply. Thanos took the gauntlet from him. He eyed it for a moment and ran his fingers down it saying a few words. Nothing happened.
"Can't be too careful," Thanos smirked at the sorcerer. Loki merely shrugged. The gauntlet rose above them and three more stones joined the other colorful stones into the gauntlet.
"You think this will end well for you Loki?" Steve shouted. "He will turn on you the second he can. He's just using you."
"As if I'm not used to that?" Loki tilted his head to look at Natasha. Natasha glared at him as Clint gave her a questioning look.
Thanos inspected his new gauntlet, "kill them."
Loki turned to look at Thanos. "Our agreement-"
"Does not start until after my war," Thanos smirked.
Loki frowned at him. He turned and tossed his hand out to the Avengers. Each of them flew backwards. Loki let the shield fall and jumped toward Captain America.
Thor raced for Thanos and was immediately thrown backward by a punch from the gauntlet. Natasha shot several of the super bullets that Fury had given her at Thanos. The creature turned his gaze onto her.
Loki dodged the shield and whirled right past the Iron Man's blast. The blast hit the shield and sent the three of them backward. Hulk roared and Loki saw it attack Thanos. Thanos sent the green monster flying several miles down the road. He then lifted his hand and sent a blast after the Hulk; leveling an entire building.
Captain rushed for Loki, but blasts began hitting all around him from Chitaurian ships above. He ran for cover as the SHIELD ships came to his rescue. Thanos raised his gauntlet and a car soared into one of the SHIELD ships making it explode. Iron man looked up and blasted into the air. He zoomed upward toward the Chitaurian ships.
When shooting at the creature didn't work, Natasha began shooting at the gauntlet instead. Clint had already run backward as he tried to find a weak point on the creature. He noticed too late that Thanos was heading straight for Natasha. Thanos easily swatted the archer's arrow away as he raised the gauntlet at Natasha.
"STOP!" Loki roared.
Thanos blinked and turned to see the Asgardian behind him. He narrowed his eyes at Loki; he wanted an explanation.
"I want her to suffer," Loki growled. He glared at the redhead in question.
Natasha turned her gun on Loki and went to pull the trigger. She was thrown backward into a building before she could.
Thanos smirked and turned to Loki. "She will live." Thanos laughed and began shooting energy blasts at several of the nearby buildings. He began to heading down the streets toward the center of the city. Loki quickly followed Thanos.
Iron Man took down a few of the Chitaurian ships near him. His attention was diverted when he heard explosions from the ground. Thanos was blowing up buildings as he walked quickly toward the center of the city. Tony flew forward and began to shoot energy blasts at Loki and Thanos. Loki looked up at him in anger and held his hand out when Thanos raised his gauntlet. Loki smirked and his form shifted into Tony Stark's.
"Sir, Tony Stark is in danger with that course of action," Jarvis stated.
"That is not me! Shoot!" Tony yelled.
"I cannot shoot. Tony Stark has given me the order to never shoot himself," Jarvis stated.
"That's NOT me!" Tony screamed as he flew past the two.
Loki smirked as he watched Tony fly past without shooting them. He turned to look at Thanos, who seemed somewhat irritated in not getting to blow the man out of the sky. Loki shrugged and sent a fire blast to the closest building; it went up in flames quickly. Loki then began to set fire to everything in sight. He whirled around just in time to catch Clint's arrow which he promptly turned into an ice cream cone. Loki smirked at the archer who quickly darted away.
Thanos turned when he heard the roar of the green monster heading their way.
Thor flew toward the battle. He grimaced at the pulsating side of his face. Thanos had definitely used the power stone to make himself much stronger.
"THOR!" Iron man flew up next to him.
"Where is Thanos," Thor demanded as they flew. He looked down to the ground.
"Thanos is not the problem," Tony yelled. "Loki has messed with Jarvis. I cannot shoot at him. He knows our moves, how we fight and he is playing against us."
Thor said nothing.
"We need your help to get Loki out of the way," Tony yelled to him. He looked forward to see Thanos and Loki.
Thor immediately drifted to the right with every intent to take on Thanos.
"THOR!" Tony yelled at the Asgardian.
Thanos was flung backward by a large lightning bolt. Loki turned to see his brother fly past him toward Thanos. Almost immediately he was also flung backward as he was tackled by the Hulk. Loki yelled as he was flung into the street numerous times. Loki sent an energy blast at the Hulk and was able to remove himself from his grasp. He made twenty copies of himself and began to laugh at the Hulk.
"You missed!" The Lokis laughed as Hulk tried to smash one. It disappeared under his fist.
The hulk roared as it began smashing all the Lokis it could see. Every Loki he tried to smash disappeared as his fist came down. It roared even louder as the Lokis laughed and taunted him.
"Not very smart is he?" Clint watched the Lokis taunting Hulk.
Natasha didn't answer. She was still leaning against the building she was flung into. The top of her jumpsuit was torn.
"He's making the Hulk angrier, which is only going to make him stronger," Clint frowned and looked at Natasha. "What do you think he's up to?" He tilted his head as he noticed she was wearing a different necklace. It was a green crystal of some kind.
"I couldn't shoot him," Natasha frowned.
"You were flung into a building while you were trying to shoot," Clint frowned. "It happens."
Natasha frowned. That wasn't the reason she couldn't shoot him. She had him in her sight, she was angry enough, she just didn't take the shot.
Thanos slammed the thunder god to the ground. Thor gasped for air as he felt one of his ribs break. Thanos raised his gauntlet up but was hit with several energy blasts. Thanos roared and turned to see golden ships flying through the air.
"Saved by Father," Thanos chuckled. "Not for long." He raised the gauntlet up and caused one of the ships to fly into another. They both spun out of control and crashed to the ground.
Thor took this opportunity to roll away and then fly. He quickly made his way several buildings over so that he could inspect his wound and rethink his tactics.
Thanos stomped his way toward Loki who was still taunting the Hulk, "Quit playing and kill them!"
The Lokis smirked, "Where's the fun in that?" A single Loki appeared next to Thanos and the rest of them disappeared. The Hulk turned to see only one Loki and quickly rushed them. The two sorcerer's put up another shield. They turned as they heard an explosion behind them.
"Man of Iron thought he had caught us off guard," Loki mused. He watched as the Iron man flew behind the Hulk who was attempting to tear down the invisible shield.
"He is quite the angry creature," Thanos mused.
"The angrier he gets, the stronger he gets," Loki told him.
"An army of him would be something to have," Thanos grinned.
"He's the only one of his kind," Loki told him.
"I think I found a new pet," Thanos smirked at the raging monster.
"He can't be controlled," Loki shook his head. "He is a mindless beast in this form."
Thanos raised his gauntlet and smirked, "I have all the power of the realms in my hand."
Thanos raised his hand and Hulk flew backward, almost into the Man of Iron. The beast jumped up and roared at the two sorcerers. Thanos smirked and clenched his fist while turning it. The hulk became rigid.
Thanos felt the beast's mind come under his control. He laughed triumphantly at the creature that was now to do his bidding.
Thanos' laughter became a grunt of pain. His hand became filled with excruciating pain as he tried to control the large creature. The pain became more unbearable and Thanos fell to his knees. He gripped the gauntlet that was adjoined to his hand: it wouldn't come off. His hand was in complete agony.
Thanos turned to look at Loki who was staring out to the green beast in front of him. The Asgardian had not reacted to Thanos' obvious pain.
"What did you do?" Thanos gasped in pain.
Loki looked down at the horrible creature, "I told you, I didn't want to be under your rule."
*evil smirk*
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