Loki watches and says to send the rest of the army.
"Or, just hear me out, don't send the rest." Ned said.
More leviathans fly through the portal. Natasha looks up. Tony tells Steve to call it.
Steve says that their priority is containment until they can close the portal. He tells Clint that he needs him on the roof to call patterns and strays. He tells Tony that he needs him on perimeter and if anything gets more than 3 blocks away to turn it back or into ash.
Clint asks Tony to give him a lift.
Tony tells him to clench up and calls him Legolas then he picks him up, flies up and drops Clint off on a roof.
"Legolas?" Scott asked.
"Hey, I consider that a compliment, Legolas is awesome." Clint said.
Steve tells Thor to try and bottleneck the portal and tells him to light the Chitauri up with his lightening. Thor flies up.
Steve looks to Natasha and says that they'll stay on the ground. He tells Hulk to smash. Hulk gives a feral grin.
"That smile looks scary as hell." Quill said.
Hulk jumps onto a building, grabs a Chitauri, he jumps into another building and does the same. Thor flies to the top of a tall building, he summons lightening, and sends it into the portal, electrocuting everything in its path.
"Holy shit." The teenagers cheer.
Fury is watching the news coverage. Maria tells him that the council is on.
"Those bastards." Fury muttered.
Clint tells Tony that he's got Chitauri on his tail.
Tony says that he's trying to keep them off the streets.
Clint says that they can't bank worth a damn and tells Tony to find a tight corner. Clint shoots some Tony makes a sharp turn some Chitauri following him crash tow more follow.
Tony flies into a tunnel. He blows up the two still following him and asks Clint if he has anything else.
Clint tells him that Thor has a squadron on 6th.
Tony makes a comment about Thor not inviting him.
"Because its not a party." Pepper said.
A leviathan is about to crash into a building. Hulk runs through from the other side and pulls it away. Natasha is lying on the hood of a car, she wraps her legs around the Chitauri's neck and shoots it with her spear. Steve drops down next to her. Natasha says that none of this will mean a thing if they can't close the portal.
"She's right." Nebula said.
Steve says that their biggest gins couldn't touch it.
Natasha says that it might not be about guns.
"Now you're on the right track." Gamora said.
Steve tells her that she's gonna need a ride if she wants to get up there.
Natasha looks up and says she has a ride but could use a boost.
Natasha backs up, Steve crouches down and asks if she's sure about this.
Natasha looks up, uneasy and says that it'll be fun.
"Looks fun." Shuri said.
She runs toward him, he lifts her up with his shield and she grabs onto one of the ships. She pulls herself up and pushes a Chitauri off. She grabs the pilot and frantically tries to turn the ship, it turns, narrowly missing the building. Tony flies down to the ground and helps Steve with the foot-soldiers. He shoots a beam at Steve's shield the blast bounces off, hitting two of them.
"That's useful." Peggy said.
Tony flies back up, knocking Chitauri off of the building. Clint shoots an arrow at a Chitauri pilot, the ship goes down. Hulk and Thor are fighting the ones on the leviathan. Thor electrocutes it and it crashes into a museum. Hulk and Thor are standing next to each other, Hulk Punches him.
"haha payback!" Quill yelled.
"I thought you said you two were friends." Loki said.
The army is now in the city.
"Its about time they got there." Hope said.
Clint tells Steve that the Chitauri have cornered a lot of civilians in a bank on 42nd.
Steve says that he's on it. Inside the bank, Chitauri have guns pointed at a large group of people.
"Oh no."
One activates something, Steve throws his shield at it, he kicks a table at two more, throws a dead one into the group. One grabs him by the neck. Steve tells the civilians to clear out. The beeping gets faster. Steve flips over one of the Chitauri and another shoots it. One grabs the bomb and throws it at Steve before it explodes. Steve is knocked out of the building and he lands on a car. Steve gets down and the civilians are being escorted out of the building by police.
"At least they're all safe now." Wanda said.
The councilwoman tells Fury that the council has made a decision.
"Dumb-ass decision." Fury muttered.
Fury says that he recognizes that the council has made a decision but given that its a stupid-ass decision he's elected to ignore it.
A few people laughed. "What was the decision?" Mantis asked.
"You'll see." Tony said.
The councilman says that he's closer than any of their subs.
Fury reminds him that it is the island of Manhattan. He says that until he's certain his team can't hold it he's not going to order a nuclear strike on a civilian population.
"Their solution to save the city was to blow-up the city!?" Gamora yelled.
Valkyrie and Loki were reminded of Thor's plan to save Asgard.
The councilwoman says that if they don't hold them there they'll lose everything.
Fury says that if he sends the jet out they already have and he hangs up the call.
"Let me guess, they tried to nuke the city anyway?" Carol asked.
Loki starts following Natasha. She takes notice and calls out to Clint.
Clint asks her what she's doing.
Natasha asks him for a little help.
Clint says that he's got him and he shoots an arrow at Loki, who catches it, it blows up.
"You knew he would catch it." Gamora says.
"Of course I did." Clint said.
Loki falls to the balcony, knocking the 'T' off of the building. Natasha jumps off the ship and lands on the roof. Hulk tackles Loki.
Loki stiffened.
Loki stands back up and tells Hulk that they are all beneath him. He says that he is a god and he won't be bullied by- het gets cut off.
Hulk picks him up by his feet and smashes him into the floor five times and calls him a 'puny god' and he walks away. Leaving Loki traumatized.
"So that's why there was large imprints in the floor." Pepper said.
"So that's why you're scared of the big guy." Valkyrie teased.
"I am not scared of him, I just don't like him very much." Loki said.
"But you were scared of him." Loki said nothing, leaving her to win the argument.
Natasha walks up to the machine. Selvig starts talking about the scepter. He says that the tesseract can't fight but they can't protect against themselves.
Natasha tells him it wasn't his fault because he didn't know what he was doing.
Selvig says he thinks he did.
"They knew what they were doing but they didn't know it was wrong." Gamora explained, seeing some looks of confusion.
He says that he built in a safety to cut the power source.
"Smart." Rocket said.
He says that Loki's scepter may be able to close the portal. He notices Loki's forgotten scepter.
"Finally."
Thor is fighting Chitauri on a ship. A leviathan crashes through a building, causing it to start falling. JARVIS says that they'll lose power before they penetrate the shell.
Tony asks JARVIS if he's ever heard of the tale of Jonah.
"Tony, this better not be going where I think this is going." Pepper said.
JARVIS says that he wouldn't consider Jonah a role model.
"Yeah, I wouldn't either man." Rhodey said.
Tony flies into the leviathan's mouth and blows it up from the inside. He crashes out the other end, hitting a phone booth and a taxi.
"I mean... it worked." Peter said.
He stands back up and gets hit twice by a Chitauri weapon. They start gaining on him.
"Shit."
Clint, still on the roof, turns around and shoots the one behind him, he hits the other with his bow and kicks him off the roof. A large group starts flying toward him. He jumps off the roof and uses a grappling hook arrow then swings into a nearby building. Hulk throws some Chitauri around and gets shot he looks up and sees a large group firing at him.
"And now you're getting your asses kicked." Rocket said.
The councilwoman says that Fury is no longer in command and gives the override code.
The pilot confirms it and says that they're ready for takeoff.
"Son of a bitch." Scott said.
Maria says that they have a plane in motion. She tells everyone on deck that they have a rogue plane and the takeoff isn't authorized. Fury starts running outside, he blows up the plane.
"That's one way to do it." Tony said.
Another one takes off.
"Shit!"
Fury tells Tony that there's a missile headed for the city.
Tony tries to stand up and asks Fury how long. He gets hit in the head twice.
Fury says that he has 3 minutes and that it'll wipe out Midtown.
Tony tells JARVIS to put everything into the thrusters then he flies away.
Pepper grabbed Tony's arm.
The pilot releases the nuke and says that there's 2 and a half minutes until it detonates.
"Idiots." Fury said, referring to the counsel.
Steve and Thor are fighting foot-soldiers on the ground. Steve gets shot. Thor knocks a car at them, then helps Steve up. Thor asks Steve if he's ready for another bought.
Steve asks Thor if he's getting sleepy.
A few people laughed softly.
Selvig and Natasha are working to shut the portal down. Natasha sticks the scepter into the energy field and tells the team that she can close the portal.
Steve tells her to do it.
Tony tells her to wait.
Steve says that the Chitauri are still coming.
Tony says that there's a nuke coming in that'll blow in less than a minute and he knows just where to put it.
"Oh, my god." Pepper whispered.
He grabs the nuke and starts directing it toward the portal. Steve tells him that it's a one way trip.
Tony tells JARVIS to save the rest of the power for the turn.
JARVIS asks if he should try Miss Potts.
Pepper clutched Tony's arm harder.
Pepper is shown watching all of this on the news. He phone ringing behind her, she doesn't answer. The SHIELD agents are also shown watching. The avengers all watch as Tony flies into the portal. The agents cheer. Jarvis powers down, the hud goes black. Tony lets the nuke go and it blows the mothership up.
Nobody noticed Tony wasn't looking at the screen anymore, they were too engrossed in what was going on.
On Earth, the Chitauri all power down.
"Told, you just blow up the mother-ship." Rocket said.
Tony closes his eyes and starts falling back toward the portal. Natasha tells him to come on.
"I didn't know you cared." Tony joked, or at least tried to.
Steve tells Natasha to close it. Natasha does. The portal starts shrinking. Tony falls through just before it closes.
Everyone who wasn't there or isn't from Earth let out breaths of relief.
He starts falling faster. Thor notices that Tony isn't slowing down and he goes to fly up and catch him. Hulk gets there first. He throws himself and Tony back to the ground and shoves Tony off of him. Thor and Steve run over to them. Thor pushed him onto his back and tore his face-plate off. Steve leans down to see if he's breathing.
Tony still hasn't looked back at the screen, eyes squeezed shut.
Hulk roars. Tony wakes with a gasp. Steve looks at him, shocked. Hulk roars again. Tony asks what just happened.
Tony finally looked back at the screen.
He asks them to tell if no one kissed him.
Pepper, Rhodey and Happy laughed at their friends antics.
Steve says that they won.
Tony congratulates them and says that they shouldn't come in tomorrow. He asks if any of them have tried shawarma.
The avengers smiled.
He says that there's a shawarma place 2 blocks away and that he doesn't know what it is but he wants to try it.
Thor says that they aren't finished yet.
Tony says that they can get shawarma after.
"Why do you always have to eat something after a near-death experience?" happy asked.
Loki struggles to sit up. He turns around to see the avengers, he puts his hands up in surrender and says that if it's all the same to them he'll have that drink.
Valkyrie laughed but showed down when she noticed she was the only one who was.
A news reporter says that despite the destruction of the confirmed extraterrestrial attack the heroics of the Avengers have been a cause for comfort and celebration.
A woman says that it's great to know that the Avengers are watching over them.
Another woman says that she loves Thor.
Thor's eyes widened.
Someone says that they don't feel safer with those things out there.
A woman says that it seems like there's something the Avengers aren't telling them.
"She's right, but that's not the point." Coulson said.
A man (Stan Lee.) is doubtful of superheroes in New York.
Someone says that The Avengers need to be held responsible for the destruction of the city.
"We'll cross that bridge when it gets here." Steve said
The avengers and a chained and muzzled Loki are in a park.
A woman asks if the destruction is the Avengers' fault. She says that Captain America saved her life and where any of them are she just wants to go and thank them.
"Your welcome." The avengers said, despite knowing the woman couldn't hear them.
Fury is shows watching them and talking to the world security council. A councilman asks where the Avengers are.
Fury says he isn't tracking them because they've earned a leave of absence.
Another councilman asks about the tesseract. Selvig takes out a device.
Fur says that the tesseract is out if their reach where it belongs.
Tony opens the case containing the tesseract Someone puts it into Sevlig's device
"Finally came to your senses." Gamora said.
The councilman says that that isn't Fury's call.
"But somehow its yours?" Scott asked.
Fury says he didn't make the call he just didn't argue with the god that did make it. Selvig hands the device to Thor.
The councilman asks if Fury just let Thor take Loki. He says that Loki should be answering for his crimes.
Fury says he thinks Loki will be. Thor holds one end of the device toward Loki, who takes it. Thor twists the handle and they leave, presumably for Asgard.
The councilman says that Fury doesn't understand what Fury started by letting the Avengers loose on their world. He says that they're dangerous.
"You bet your ass we are." Tony said.
Steve shakes Tony's hand. Natasha gets out of a car and hands Bruce a bag. Bruce gets into a car with Tony.
Fury agrees and says that every world knows it.
"You have no idea how true that last statement is." Gamora said.
The councilman asks if the point of all of this was a statement.
Fury says it was a promise and walks out of the room.
Maria asks how this is going to work because the Avengers have all gone their separate ways. She asks what would happen if they got into a situation like this again.
Fury says that they'll come back.
Maria asks if he's sure about that.
Fury says that he is.
Maria asks why.
Fury says it's because they'll need them to.
"Still doubtful agent Hill?" Clint asked.
Maria shakes her head. "Not anymore."
Tony rolls out some holographic blueprints. Pepper uses her hand to raise a design for the re-model. The camera zooms out showing that only the 'A' remains on the tower.
"That's nice imagery." Hope said.
The sanctuary is shown. The Other is talking to Thanos he says that the humans aren't the cowering wretches they were promised. He says that they are unruly and cannot be ruled. He says to challenge them is to court death. Thanos turns around and smiles.
"Who is that?" Fury asked.
"That is who you should be worried about. Thanos." Gamora said.
The avengers are shown eating shawarma.
"It nobody gonna question why that place was still open after an alien invasion?" Peter asked.