Hotaru was pouting as she sat on the bed, Natasha sitting next to her. The door slides open to reveal Captain America walking in and the girls look up.
"Time to go." He said.
"Go where?" Natasha asked.
"I'll explain on the way. Can you fly one of those jets?"
"I can." Clint answered as he walked out of the bathroom. Steve looks at Natasha, who nods, he looks back at Clint. "Got a suit?" He asks and Clint nods. "Then suit up." With that he turns and leaves, the door sliding closed behind him.
Captain America comes up to Trista and Michelle who meet up with him in the middle of the hall. "Do you have a suit?"
"We transform." Trista smiled, pulling out her pen.
"I Finally found them." Michelle smiled also smiled. "Captain, you might wanna close your eyes." She warns as held up her pen. "Neptune Crystal Power!"
"Pluto Crystal Power!"
The two soon transformed. Steve's face was bright red and he avoided eye contact.
"You … uh." He cleared his throat. "You know you're exposed when you transform right?" He asked as he desperately avoided eye contact.
Sailor Neptune smiled. "Yes, that's why our powers also shield our bodies."
"And thankfully we're fully clothed when we de transform." Sailor Pluto added, holding her Garent Rod. "Now, Captain can you put your thoughts together so we can continue this mission?"
Captain America cleared his throat. "R-right." He nods. Behind him, Clint's jaw is dropped and his eyes are wide, a smirking Natasha put a finger under his jaw to close his mouth.
"I can do that too." Hotaru muttered, then realizing her father could hear her she ran off after the two Scouts and Captain America.
It took Clint a moment, then it registered what she said. "What?!" He demanded. "Hotaru!" She was too far down the hall with the others, Clint just stood there for a moment longer, Natasha's movement had him snapping back to the task at hand. "Did you know about this?" He demanded as he quickly followed her.
"I pinky promised her to not tell." The red head turns to him. "And you have secrets you're keeping from her." She added as she moves, Clint stops to stare after her.
"Only to protect her!" He ran after the red head.
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They soon boarded a Quinjet, the pilot looked up startled and moves over to them.
"Hey, you guys aren't authorized to be in here." He said.
"Son." Captain America starts. "Just don't."
"But the Director."- The pilot starts to argue, then trails off when Hotaru took his arm and escorted him out.
"Don't worry, you won't get in trouble." She assured him. "The only one getting in trouble around here is me." Once the pilot was off, Hotaru hurried back into the Quinjet. Steve and Pluto sat next to each other, strapped in and behind Natasha who is in the passenger seat. Hotaru took her seat next to Neptune, across from Steve and her seat is right behind her father.
"May I ask why you're not transformed?" Steve asks Hotaru as the Quinjet took off out of the hanger.
"You don't want me to transform." The teen answered gravely.
"Sailor Saturn is the deadliest Scout out of all us Sailor Scouts." Neptune added causing Steve to nod.
"What are your powers?" He curiously asked. "If, if I may ask." He stutters the question.
"I have the power of manipulation and controlling of spacetime, I also have the power to teleport Time Wave to short or vast distances." Pluto explained. "I can also open rifts or doorways in space through different areas. And erect a shied of time space energy." She paused. "And I can also freeze time, which is forbidden."
"My powers are seawater, precognition, and astral projection." Neptune added.
"And my powers are immense destructive, deadly powers." Hotaru explained. "Because Earth is still a healthy planet, Sailor Saturn is not needed. I can erection force fields, mirror healing abilities and see visions of the near future." She looked down at her lap, then back to Steve. "And I can destroy a whole planet."
Steve's eyes grew wide. "Whoa." He breathed.
Hotaru blushes a little. "Yeah."
"Hotaru also has Hawkeye's abilities." Pluto added with a smile.
"Holy shit, look at that sky!" Clint suddenly called from the pilot's seat, gaining everyone's attention and they all watch the sky as an enlarge portal is shown and aliens are flying out. And Iron Man hovered by his building.
The Quinjet came flying in and shooting. "Stark, we're on your third, headed Northeast." Natasha said into the com.
"What? Did you stop for drive thru?" Came the response. "Swing up park, I'm going to lay them out for you."
The Quinjet flew back around Stark Tower. "Nat!" Clint called, spotting Loki.
"I see him."
The jet began firing at Loki as he threw Thor to the ground, Loki used his scepter to blast the Quinjet, and Thor tackled his brother.
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Inside the Quinjet, everyone thrashed around as Clint tried to steady them. Neptune held Hotaru close, as Steve also held Pluto to his chest.
"Everybody grab hands!" Pluto instructed urgently. "Now, now!" She grabs Steve's hand tightly, everyone did as instructed. With her free hand Pluto lifts her Garnet Rod and the orb lit up. They all disappeared from the Quinjet just before crashing.
A bright light appeared in the middle of the chaotic streets to reveal them not hurt. "Nice." Clint smiles, slinging his arm around Hotaru and pulling her to his side as he looks at Pluto.
"Thanks." Pluto smiled, then it faded when they all looked up at the sky.
"We've got to get back up there." Steve said as they watch as giant alien spaceships like an eel flew down as it carried more aliens attacking civilians. "Stark, are you seeing this?" He asked with shock.
"Seeing. Still working on believing." Tony's response is dazed.
"Eh. This is normal for us." Neptune said so simply.
"Where's Banner?" Tony asks. "Has he showed up yet?"
"Banner?" Steve asks, turning to Neptune.
"Just keep me posted."
Neptune pulled out her mirror and looked into it. "We've people trapped in those buildings." She informs. Steve nods as he takes out one of the aliens. Then they all duck as a series of blasts narrowly miss them. Clint holding his daughter close to his chest.
"Loki." Steve watched as Loki flew away.
"Everyone stand back." Pluto orders as she stepped backwards a few. "Dead Scream!" Her attack blasted towards the alien creatures, knocking a good portion down.
Both Steve and Clint whistled.
Natasha looked around, pulling out her gun. "We've got this." She nodded towards Clint, who was knelt by an upside down car with Hotaru.
"Do you think you can hold them off?" Steve asked.
"Captain, it would by my genuine pleasure." Clint said as he prepares himself.
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"Deep Submerge!" A blue green sphere that's shaped like Neptune is blasted at more aliens. They more just kept coming.
"They just keep coming!" Steve said.
Neptune turns around. "Submarine Violan Tide!" The attack took down more of the aliens.
"You ladies are remarkable." Steve smiled. He and Neptune finally reach the police. "You need men in these buildings." He instructed, pointing to a few of them as he stood on a patrol car. "There are people inside and they're going to be running right into the line of fire. You take them to the basement or through the subway. You keep them off the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th." He instructed in leadership mode.
The two cops in front looked at each other, then back at Captain America. "Why the hell should I take orders from you?" One of them demanded.
"He's Captain America, dummy!" Neptune snapped, just as an alien attacked, and Steve easily destroyed it.
That convinced the police to listen to the orders.
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Pluto and Thor landed on the roof of Stark Tower at the same time. Thor charged up his hammer before he leaps at the Tesseract, but his hammer slammed into a forcefield that sent the two flying backwards, Thor went one way as he crashed landed and Pluto bounced and rolled losing her Garnet Rod in the process.
Thor shook his head to clear it, he slowly picks himself up and moves to Pluto. "Pluto, are you alright?" He asks as he places a hand on her shoulder.
"Yes." She coughs and he helps her up. "If that cube does that with your hammer, then we will get more damage or worse if I use my powers."
Thor picks up her Garnet Rod. "We should find the others to warn them." He gives her her staff.
"Thank you." She thanks as he helps her up. She uses her power to teleport them off the roof.
The two teleport in the middle of the chaos streets.
"What's the story upstairs?" Steve asks, hurrying over to them.
"The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor answered.
"Thor's right, we got to deal with these guys." Tony called over the coms.
"How do we do this? As a team?" Natasha asked as she, Hotaru and Clint came up to them.
"I have unfinished business with Loki." An angry Thor, said.
"Yeah? Well get in line." Clint said examining the arrows on Hotaru's back.
"Daddy, we all want a piece of him." Hotaru told him.
"We need to focus on these things before we go after Loki." Pluto said. "If we take him out first these things will stamped the city in no time flat."
"She's right." Steve agreed. "Loki is going to focus the fight onto us." His leadership abilities came out now. "We got Stark up top. He's going to need us." He began to explain, till a bell is heard.
They turn to see Bruce approaching on a moped. "So all this seems horrible." He said as he tried to sound casual. His calm and casual comment earned a giggle from Hotaru.
"I've seen worse." Natasha bluntly said.
Bruce gave her an apology look. "Sorry."
"No, we could use a little worse." The red head said.
"Stark, we got him." Steve informs over the coms.
"Banner?" Tony asked happily.
"Tell him to suit up." Tony said over the earpiece. "I'm bringing the party to you." Iron Man appears with a giant eel alien creature behind him.
"That doesn't look like a party." Natasha said confusion and concern.
"Dr. Banner!" Steve turns to Bruce. "Now might be a really good time for you to get angry." He said earnestly.
"That's my secret, Cap." Bruce turns to look at him. "I'm always angry." He then turns back around to look at the enemy, morphing into the Hulk an leaping at the creatures. Tony starts to fire on the tail while in the air.
"Uh, guys!" Natasha calls, seeing more aliens coming through the portal.
The Avengers now stood in a circle, their backs facing each other as they all faced the alien force. "Call it Captain." Tony said.
"Alright, listen up." Steve said, turning to face his team. "Until we close that portal, our priority is containment." He orders. "Barton, I want you on that roof." He orders. "I want your eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays." The two nod in agreement. "Stark, you got perimeter. Anything gets 3 blocks out, turn it around or turn it to ash."
"Can I get a lift?" Clint asks Tony. "Cap, I'm not leaving her here." He points at his daughter.
Steve nods. "Good idea."
Tony walks over to his Clint, who just took Hotaru's hand, then picks her up in his arms. "You better clench up Legolas, hold tight Little Legolas." Tony warns before taking off.
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Clint starts firing off arrows. "Daddy, I'm sorry I didn't tell you about my side job." Hotaru apologized as pulls out another arrow.
"Once this is all over, I want to know everything."
Hotaru nods. She turns to see Iron Man fly by with a bunch of aliens on his tail. "Mr. Stark you got a bunch of strays sniffing your tail." She informs.
"Just … keeping them off the streets." Tony responded as he avoids the blasts sent at him.
"Well they can't bank worth a damn." Clint said. "Look for a sharp corner."
"I will, roger that." Tony did just that, destroying the aliens. "Nice call. What else what you?"
"Thor's taking on a squadron down on 6th." Hotaru answered as she looks towards that street.
"And he didn't invite me." Tony sounded hurt.
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Down below Natasha leaned heavily on an upside down mini van when Captain America jumps down next to her.
"Cap, non of our attacks are going be worth this unless we close that portal." She said, looking up at towards the beam that the Tesseract was shooting into the sky.
"You want up there, you'll need a ride."
"I got a ride." Natasha tosses the alien weapon she had been using. "I could use the boost though." She said as she backed up.
Steve looked at her as he too took a few steps back. "You sure about this?" He asks, readying his shield.
"Yeah, it'll be fun." She tries to brush off how nervous she is. She ran towards him, jumps on a car, then jumps at Steve, who pushes her up.
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Hotaru gasps as she watches Natasha flying close on one of the alien hoovers.
"Hawkeye!" Natasha yells as she starts to flyby.
"Nat, what are you doing?" A confused Clint watches as she starts to pass.
"Uh, a little help here."
Clint instantly pulls out an arrow and aims it at Loki. "I got him." He shoots his arrow, but Loki catches it without a second glance, it explodes while he's holding it and the blast sends him flying.
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Pluto and Neptune ran towards 6th street, Steve is on the ground painfully after a Chitari attacked him, Thor takes the alien out and offers his hand.
"Are you ready for another bout?" The Prince asks.
"What, are you getting sleepy?" Captain America teased.
"Steve!"
The boys turn to see Pluto and Neptune running towards them. Pluto grabs and knocks into Steve hugging him, he returns her hug tightly.
"Everybody ok?" Neptune asks.
"Yes." Thor nods.
"Can anybody copy?" Natasha's voice called over the earpieces. "I can close the portal."
"Do it!" Steve exclaimed.
"No, wait!" Tony's alarmed and urgent voice came through the coms.
"Stark, these things are still coming!" Steve called.
"I got a nuke coming in."
"And that's not a good thing." Pluto said with worry.
"It's gonna to blast in less then a minute, and I know where to put it." Tony continued.
"Stark, you know that's a one way trip." Steve said gravely.
"Save the rest of the return."
They watch with batted breath as a nuke zoomed towards Stark Tower. Pluto transformed back to civilian altar, making Neptune, Steve and Thor to look at her.
"Why did you return to civilian form?" Thor asks confused.
"One of my powers is to stop time." Trista answered. "If I had stayed as Sailor Pluto, I would have done that." She looks around sadly at all the destruction. "It's a forbidden power."
Steve reached for her hand, and squeezed it. "I'm glad you didn't." He smiled at her, she returned it.
"Stark isn't coming out of that portal." Neptune said with worry.
"Close it." Steve ordered Natasha.
The portal closed, Tony came through just before it closed completely.
He fell, and fell and fell.
"He's not slowly down." Thor said, beginning to twirl his hammer. But Hulk suddenly comes in, catching Tony and bringing him safely back to the ground, then tossed Tony to the ground.
The others ran towards Tony, Thor pulls off the Iron Mask and tosses it to the side. Tony is still and his Arc Reactor is dark.
"I don't have any power for this." Trista said, she's knelt down next to Steve and leaning against him.
Hulk suddenly let out a ear pricing roar scaring them all, that also activated Tony's Arc Reactor and he jolted gasping for breath.
"What the hell?" He breathed heavily. "What just happened? Please tell me no one kissed me."
Steve smiled. "We won."
"Great." Tony breathed with a smile. "How about none of us come in tomorrow? Let's take the day off. Have you ever had Shawarma? I don't know what it is, but I want to try it." He looks around at everyone.
"We are not finished yet." Thor reminds.
"Ok, then Shawarma after." Tony said.
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Inside Stark Tower, Loki is dragging himself out of the crater that Hulk had slammed him into like a rag doll, he slowly climbed up the two steps and paused to turn around to see the Avengers. Clint pointing an arrow into his face.
"If it's all the same to you." Loki spoke through his pain as he sat up a bit more. "I'll take that drink now." He said looking at Tony, who smirked.