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Skye's POV

We were fighting the Chitauri. Due to the close distance separating us, Clint had to resort to his hand-to-hand combat skills and leave archery for another time. We were holding our ground relatively well and as we were about to finish off with the last of the enemy forces that were surrounding us, Captain jumped in and helped with the finishing touches.

Soon, Thor followed after practically falling from the sky and wasn't looking in the best shape ever. I wonder what had happened to him. Though I refrained from asking, Rogers didn't seem to share the same opinion as I did. "The power surrounding the Cube is impenetrable" the Asgardian answered to the WWII hero's question.

"Thor's right" Tony's voice was heard through our comms. "We got to deal with these guys first"

"I have unfinished business with Loki" Thor was fast to interrupt.

His interruption had me raising an eyebrow his way as I re-strapped my right gauntlet, which had fallen a bit out of place from the previous fight. "You think you're the only one?" I challenged only to be interrupted by Rogers who seemed to have taken the Captain rank of our team.

"Save it. Loki's gonna keep this fight focused on us, and that's what we need" he declared and I had a hard time not rolling my eyes. Perfect, more aliens trying to kill us, I sarcastically thought as he continued speaking. "Without him these things could run wild". Well, if he put it like that how could I complain?

The sound of a motorcycle closing in stopped the Capsicle from giving any further orders and we all turned to look at Bruce who was closing in riding, you guessed it, a motorcycle. "So, this all seems… horrible" he said when we closed in around him.

"I've seen worse" Natasha replied and I didn't doubt it. But when the doctor apologised she continued, "No, we could use a little worse".

Though Tony and Captain were speaking I faintly heard the Iron Man saying that he was bringing the party to us, while all my focus was at the newcomer who was looking back at me just as intently as my name escaped his lips. And then he turned around as Tony came from around the corner, bringing with him this huge monster that was previously carrying a whole armada of Chitauri.

"I–I don't see how that's a party" Nat questioned and Bruce started walking towards that thing.

"Dr Banner" Captain stopped him in his tracks. "Now might be a really good time for you to get angry"

"That's my secret, Captain" he said. His eyes met mine, glowing in a very familiar way as a smirk made its way to both our lips and I nodded at him, finishing off where he started as he turned to the monster transforming into the Hulk. "He is always angry" and with that the Hulk slammed his fist to what could only be the face of the creature making it tumble forwards. Then Tony shot small missiles to the now exposed-from-its-armor body and the thing went down hard.

As we gathered together, breathing this small victory in, the portal seemed to suddenly come more alive and more and more Chitauri started oozing through there. I clicked my tongue followed by a "Perfect" as all our attention turned to the sky.

And with that our small break was over and the Captain took the wheel and started ordering everyone to their positions. Turned out, that apart from Natasha, him and myself everyone else had flown somewhere else. It was up to us to keep the fighting on the ground, as much as possible that was, and protect as many people as we possibly could, though in my mind there was a voice saying that there would be a lot of casualties from today's battle.

Despite the fight having just re-started it was obvious that it wouldn't take all that long before the enemies overpowered us.

At the moment, I was sending wave after wave to Chitauri who just kept on coming, while trying my best to dodge the beams that they fired in my direction from their spears. I had just sent the last one flying to two other of its companions, making them topple over and at least partially slowing them down. As the enemy trio went down I turned around only to see Natasha jumping to Captain's shield who boosted her on the sky and towards one of the Chitauri Chariots who was flying above.

"What's she doing?" I asked as another shot was fired in our direction and the Captain threw his shield to kill the alien.

"Trying to close the portal" and with that we parted again, each going to do their thing.

"Hold on to something!" I screamed just to make sure that he would hear me, as I brought my hands to the ground hard and released my power making the concrete shake violently and cracking lines to decorate its surface.

"We don't want to destroy the city, we want to protect it!" The Captain yelled back as he continued his punches and kicks and shield throws.

"I know what I am doing" I bite back as I run up to an alien, dodged as he waved his spear and tried to separate my head from my body. The moment I was at its back I placed my hands on its armour and destroyed the metal, leaving him exposed so that it wasn't hard to finish him off.

"Do you?", he asked back before quickly adding, "Duck!". Tony landed in between us and shot a beam from his suit to the Captain's shield, while the later redirected it and took out most of the aliens in near proximity before Iron Man flew off to the skies once again.

I didn't even stand up as I hid behind an empty cab to take cover. As the alien, who didn't seem to be very bright, jumped over me and towards the Captain who was fighting off another enemy and had his back turned to me. Peachy, I thought. If I were to blast him, he would fly towards Rogers and I would never hear the end of it. So instead I run up to the Chitauri who heard my approach in the last minute and turned around, but it was too late for him. I slid under his legs and shot him up in the sky, where he very conveniently crashed with a Chitauri Chariot. Hm… I wouldn't say no to that.

"Guys, the bank on 42nd past Madison. They've cornered lots of civilians in there" Clint's voice came echoed in our ears.

"I'll take this one" I said and started making my way there but before I jumped off the bridge that we were currently on I was stopped with a hand on my elbow.

On reflex I snatched my arm off the grip and brought my other hand up, ready for a shockwave only to see Rogers. Stupid man, grabbing someone in the middle of a war-zone. "Thank you" he spoke but before I replied my eyes and senses caught movement behind him. Not gently at all, I threw him on the ground and vibrated the alien who was about to pierce him from the back.

"That's twice already Captain. Get your head in the game" I told him as I helped him up and left him to fight his own battle as I jumped onto the street below and started running towards the bank that Hawkeye appointed moments ago.

Suddenly I was really glad for all the cardio that Clint and Maria made me do during training because, boy, it came in handy. As soon as I laid my eyes on the building that I was heading towards I saw the people gathered on the ground, looking up. So I guessed if I were to deal with the Chitauri there I would have to go through the window. I picked up my speed and threw my hands towards the ground as I boosted my jump high up. Reaching the height I wanted, I broke the window with my shoulder and rolled in the building.

The moment I stood up I noticed an alien holding something like an explosive device in his hand and so, without even thinking about it, he crashed through the wall to the other side when I hit him with my quakes.

That alerted his two companions who didn't hesitate firing at me. I ducked behind a fallen desk, while still listening to the grenade-like-device as its beeping sound filled the room.

Before they had the chance to do anything else, the desk was sent flying at the direction of the two aliens. One of them fell to the ground as the desk crashed mainly onto him while the other's spear flew from his hand. I took this opportunity to close in and destroy the armour of the still-standing Chitauri, just as I had done before. I put all my strength into kicking him hard to the chest and he fell to the ground level and to his death. The people, who parted as the alien fell in the middle of where they were gathered, looked up at me.

I barely managed to get a, "Clear out!", before the last alien grabbed me from behind, wrapping his arm around my throat. I brought my elbow to his ribs multiple times, trying to make him fall off my back. When that didn't work I jumped, bringing my knees up in my chest and then forcefully down to the ground, generating as much power as I could using my whole bodyweight and threw him over my shoulder.

And just because I am the luckiest person in the whole universe, he happened to land right next to the grenade which was about to explode. I watched as if in slow motion as he grabbed it and lifted it to send it my way. But before it left his fingers the time run out and a blue explosion occurred, taking him with it. I barely managed to jump in time and create a vibrational dome around me when the blast met me and threw me out of the window. I had not taken into account the strength of the explosion of the thrust that it created and as soon as I was out of the building my dome disappeared and I crashed with my back on the roof of a car.

"Shit" I exclaimed as I lifted my torso and jumped off the vehicle.

I had just a moment to collect my breath before another, "Shit", left my lips as my mental image filled with the upcoming enemies.

"Everyone clear out! Hurry up!" I yelled at the firefighters and police officers who were helping the people from the bank to a safer place as I took off towards the aliens, trying to hold them off and buy the civilians some time.

I could feel my powers slowly draining but didn't have much of a choice really, there were a lot of lives at stake and there were just as many enemies coming in our direction. Well, I thought. There is always a first time for everything, right?

And with that thought I brought my hands to the ground and closed my eyes. My mental image of my surroundings being the only thing guiding my quakes as I send them individually to all the enemy forces that I could see in my mind's eye. The vibrations traveled through the ground and in the bodies of the aliens, through their feet. And they did their job as one after the other, the Chitauri started to fall on the ground as they were torn apart from the inside out.

After that I collapsed back on the ground completely exhausted. Still alert if any more Chitauri came my way, but I really wasn't sure in what shape I would be in should something like that happen.

So, when I heard Natasha's voice saying that she could close the portal I let a small smile play on my lips as I sighed in relief. The smile was soon replaced by a grimace as Tony requested the portal to remain open for him to send a missile in.

"Stark, you know that's a one-way trip" Captain said and my eyes widened as my mind caught up to what was happening.

"Tony" I said. "Tony, you can't! What am I supposed to say to Pepper?" But he was not saying anything. He just directed the missile towards the open portal. "Tony!" I yelled at him almost desperate trying to make him snap out of whatever thoughts he was consumed by and answer me.

I watched him as he crossed the line separating Earth from outer space. "Tell her–" he started to say but then the connection was lost.