AN: The last chapter for 2018 is here! Aside from the thanks to MegaDiary123, thank you all for supporting this story for these past 6 months. I will see you all in the new year (probably next Sunday). Before I let you go on with this chapter, I want to ask you not to hate me too much after reading this because of a little change that I made to the original Avengers script. It is an AU after all... Please, enjoy :)

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Skye's POV

Loki was successfully taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D. just as we had planned. With him on the inside we would tear the Avengers-wanna-be apart so that they wouldn't stand in our way when we used the Tesseract as we planned this day. Selvig was delivered the iridium we managed to get from the gala and was attending to his part of the mission. All I needed to know now was that I needed to get Loki out of the Helicarrier so that he would lead us to the next phase of our plans.

With what I knew, I managed to get my hands on a Quinjet, in which I was currently in. A team that I had assembled and I were making our way towards the air base of the organisation. Despite being unable to fully hack into their systems, I was skilled enough to send a virus which would register our jet in their systems and our coming would be more subtle than it would otherwise have been.

In order to get the exact place where the Helicarrer was, we were using a system to track the energy that the Spectre was emitting. "Transport Six-Six-Bravo, please relay confirm codes. I've got you on the computer but not on the day log. What is your haul? Over" the voice of an agent came through our speakers and I knew my plan had worked as to register our vehicle.

"Arms and ammunition. Over" I replied and got ready for what was to come.

Everyone was preparing on the back of the jet, wearing their suits and holstering their weapons, whereas I had moved to the side and opened a box that was laying there. I took the bow in my hand and prepared the arrow with which I would blow one of the engines up. I would have to remember and thank Clint at some point for insisting on teaching me how to use his weapon of choice, as it did turn out to be handy.

The pilot opened the cargo hold and I looked at the air vehicle as I took in its distance, the air currents and where exactly I needed to put the arrow to cause as much destruction as possible. I might not be as skilled as Clint to shoot arrows while fighting with great ease, but I was good enough to do what was needed of me in this moment.

I held the string of my bow, checked my target one last time and released the arrow.

I watched as the explosive arrow planted itself right next to one of the four main engines. Once I made sure everything was going according to plan, I let the explosion echo through the sky as we landed on the Helicarrier and made our way in.

"Keep that engine down" I order a handful of agents. "Alpha team, wait for the cameras to go dark." I pointed to some others. "The rest of you, say close" I finished and a wave of 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Got it' was heard as I started making my way to the control centre. The next important step would be to shut the other engines down before they managed to repair the one that I had just blown up.

Clint's POV

The moment the explosion occurred everyone parted ways. Natasha had confirmed that she and Dr. Banner were fine, though I highly doubted it for the latter as he was already agitated from the disagreement that we had in his laboratory. Stark and Rogers left to repair the engine that I could only guess Skye blew up, Thor disappeared God knows where and I followed the director in the control panel. Coulson and Hill were there with us as well.

If one more engine was to go down, then we would drop to the ground. Something I was really not keen on doing.

"We need full evac on the lower hangar level" Fury instructed Hill and myself and we got ready to go there. We had just took a couple of steps before something was thrown our way and Hill screamed, "Grenade!", and was sent flying to the ground as I joined her a few meters to the side.

I managed to get my bearings fast enough, despite the ringing in my ears before of how close I was to the small explosion. I saw a few agents, with their weapons up coming in from a corridor and despite them wearing S.H.I.E.L.D. gear I knew they were the enemy. My bow was thrown a bit further than I was and by the time I got to it, Fury had already incapacitated almost all the enemies, and the one he missed was put down by Hill who had already got her bearings.

"We have the Hulk and Thor on Research Level 4. Levels 2 and 3 are dark" someone announced. Fury and Hill quickly decided on a way to act and she gave the appropriate orders. I was shooting arrow after arrow, as the people we were fighting seemed to have no end.

I was about to shoot another arrow when I felt the vibration rising up from somewhere behind me. I had spent my fair amount of time training Skye so that I knew how to recognise her use of powers blindfolded. "Watch out!" I screamed but was too late as she shot a vibration beam in our way, making me dock to the side so as not to be hit. Fury was the first one to get up and spot her and so he shot her with his gun. I was somewhat glad that he didn't hit her but at the same time I was not sure whether that was a good sign. It was only a moment later that our systems failed and then another engine started losing power, as we slowly started falling to the ground.

I saw something attached to a computer and went to pick it up, which turned out to be a USB stick. Skye must have used her powers to shot it and get in our systems. I cursed under my breath and broke the small device in my palm. Everyone was running around, trying to get the systems back on play.

"It's Skye" Fury said through the comms. "She took out our systems and is headed for the detention level. Coulson is right behind her. Does anybody copy?"

I was about to reply when I heard Natasha's voice. "This is agent Romanoff. I copy" she said and then her end went quiet. "Permission to join, sir" I said as we didn't have any more enemy forces to worry about and all our effort was put into getting the engine back up. I couldn't possibly be of any assistance there at the moment and following Skye was something I needed to do.

"Granted" Fury said without as much as turning in my direction and I took off behind Coulson, Natasha and Skye.

Skye's POV

As soon as I shot my USB in one of the computers, I was sure that my program would do its work and one of the engines would soon fail and there would be chaos in the whole of the Helicarrier. That was when I moved swiftly through the corridors that I had memorised and made my way to Loki's holding cell, where another agent had already taken out any security and had freed the alien.

The moment I walked in the holding cell I saw Loki in the door of his cell, smirking and waiting. Soon the reason became apparent as his brother came rushing in the room, trying to tackle Loki and put him back on his cell. However, as the God of Mischief, Loki had created an illusion of himself and Thor ended up locking himself up instead of his brother.

"Are you ever not going to fall for that?" The dark-haired Asgardian asked with a shake of his head.

Instead of an answer however the God of Thunder hammered the glass in an attempt to break it, alerting the security measures prepared by Fury. He would soon fall off the plane with the press of a button. Loki however wanted to be the one to do so and I stepped away from the control panel, taking the sceptre from his hand.

With my powers, I was feeling every vibration that was coming from the room and I felt a different pair of steps closing in. Creating a mental image of what was going on around me, I translated the familiar steps to Phil's ones, as he finally caught up with me after I inserted the USB minutes ago. I looked at the agent who was standing in the doorway. "Stay here" I commanded and he didn't second guess me. Focusing my powers in my legs, I jumped high with a proper boost and hang from a pipe on the side of the wall, waiting for the second in command to come in the room.

"The humans think us immortal", he dramatically said. "Shall we test that?"

But before he released his brother cell from the Helicarrier, a grunt was heard from underneath me as the other agent fell to the ground unconscious from a blow that Coulson delivered. "Move away, please" he said, pointing a kind of weapon towards Loki. I could see his eyes darting around trying to locate me, but it was more essential for Loki not to escape. These were his orders after all, and I couldn't blame him. I wanted to make him see the truth in what we did, but since I was holding the sceptre and not Loki, reasoning with him was not possible.

I saw him move towards Loki and talking with him. I stalled for as much as I could, but when he activated his weapon I had to protect the Asgardian.

I absorbed the vibration when I landed behind Coulson, so that he couldn't hear me and did the only thing I could. I pierced his back with the sceptre, earning a gasp from him and a yell from Thor who was looking at everything play out and was unable to help.

"Skye?" Coulson whispered in shock when I pulled back the sceptre and he fell to the ground. I couldn't look at him, not after I did what I did. I knew I needed to do that, he was a threat after all, but that didn't make it all too easy. So, instead I focused on what I could and that was to complete the mission.

"Sir, there are a couple more people approaching" I said as I felt the vibrations sent from both Nat's and Clint's running footsteps. "You go to the exit point and I will deal with them" I said and after I received the nod from our leader, I exited the room.

I made my way towards my brother and sister and I felt them stop when my footsteps reached their ears. They both went into hiding as if this would help them. Since Clint was one of the two, he was the one who knew the full length of my abilities, so he knew he wouldn't be able to sneak up on me. Despite all that, I kept walking as if I wasn't aware of their hiding spots.

I was in a narrow corridor, restraining my movements, metal pipes were all around and subsequently a lot of places to take cover. I knew that neither preferred to use deadly force against me, but I guessed that if I didn't back down they would be forced to. And I also knew that there was no way that I would manage to convince them to join us, they were unable to see the truth until Loki's sceptre touched their hearts. The moment when I stepped in between their hiding places an arrow was shot in my direction, aiming for my knee and trying to incapacitate me.

I swiftly and easily stepped away and lifted my hand towards Clint, aiming my vibrations to his bow. By directing all the quakes to his weapon I tore it apart from the inside out, leaving him with a bunch of arrows at his back and probably a knife and pistol, since he usually carried them with him at all times.

Just as the bow was destroyed I felt my vibrations picking up Natasha trying to sneak up on me from behind. I immediately turned around hand outstretched as I send a beam in her direction, only for her to tightly grab my wrist and redirect the blow so that I just hit air.

Without missing a beat, I turned around and brought my elbow at her face, making her release my hand so as to guard her face. As she stepped back Clint fell down from his nest sending a kick my way, which I barely managed to sidestep from. I kicked the back of his knee just in time before Natasha ambushed me from the other side. I had to admit that this was way harder than I had initially anticipated. Them both working together, especially after all the years they spent as partners during missions, made them this amazing duo. There was this rumour that had once risen that they were telepaths and they spoke mentally to one another when they were sent in the field.

So as Natasha came once again, all I could think of was quake the whole place, making the room we were in shake as hell. Thankfully this bought me a few seconds as Clint, who was already in one knee, fell on his back and Nat had to grab from one of the railings. With that in mind, I send a beam to the bar that Nat held onto, making it collapse and Natasha fall to the level below.

Clint, however, being used to my powers, got up quickly and attacked again. With my back turned on him, he sent a powerful roundhouse kick that hit me just above my shoulders and on the side of my neck. The blow made me fall sideways, and hit my head on the railing just as Natasha managed to somehow get back on the corridor and carefully close in on me.

I felt as if a part of a fog had been lifted from my head, a fog that I didn't know was there until that moment. I could suddenly think somewhat like my old self, with the voice in my head suddenly going quiet. Like before Loki touched me with his sceptre, like before all I cared about was to utilise the Cube.

My head was pounding hard, as if someone smashed it with a hammer, only I didn't know if it was solely from the hit that I just took.

"Nat? Clint?" I asked when both closed in and my brother hesitated for a second. Natasha didn't do as much, instead she sent a punch that landed on the side of my face and threw me into oblivion.