AN: I had to rewrite this chapter a few times. It wasn't pretty. Let me know if you like it! -Galaleo

Harry watched as his new teammates exited the penthouse that was now being inundated with snow. He quickly used his broom to fly out the missing window and watched as Tony was pelting the flying chariots with repulser blasts. Thor was further off striking down Chitauri with massive bolts of lightning. He could see Clint on a nearby roof picking off anything within his range.

Slowly his gaze drifted to the ground and he grimaced. Even from this high up he could see the burning husk of vehicles and bodies in the streets. Ice covered everything, leaving several statues in running positions. Getting slightly irritated Harry started chasing down the chariots. He swooped through the air like he was born for it. Blasts from chariots were dodged as he retaliated by swiping his hand and sending out claws of wind blades, tearing enemy flyers into pieces.

When Harry and Tony flew past each other, they caused a massive crash and explosion from the chariots chasing them. Suddenly a great bellow came from the sky as a huge worm-like creature started flying towards the city, releasing shock troops onto nearby buildings.

Harry was still slightly distracted and was clipped by one of the Chitauri when they shot him in the back. When he was struck by another just as quickly, he started getting mad. "Anybody got info on that portal?" Even while contacting the team he was transfiguring large birds of prey and setting them on the chariots.

"The portal device is on top of Stark Tower, but the shielding is impenetrable." Tony said as he fired a runic missile nailing a chariot and watching it explode.

"I'll go check it out. Keep your eyes open for Loki, he might have a way to stop this." Harry said as he flew up to the roof. There he found Selvig unconscious and the Tesseract in a device that was stabilizing the portal. He first tried phasing, then apparating, and finally his portals. When none worked he approached the barrier and attempted to infuse his magic into it, but was only blasted away for his troubles. Shaking off the blowback Harry spoke up, "I can't get through. We need something to penetrate that barrier."

"That's great, but I need some help!" Tony shouted as he continued to fire repulsor blasts at nearby chitauri while being chased by a huge worm. Tony was swiveling between enemy fire while trying to out pace the flying monstrosity behind him. He released a sigh of relief when an angry bellow sounded out right before a sonic boom and a huge crunch. Turning he saw the Hulk jumping away from the pancaked face of the worm creature that was now dropping to the ground.

Thor had just spotted Loki standing on the balcony of Tony's tower when he dropped down, "Brother what has become of you?" Loki stood there slightly gaping at his bald brother before deciding to ignore it, his skin an icy blue and the Cask of Ancient Winters still sending out waves of freezing power.

"I am not your brother and when the climate is ready I shall summon the armies of my people to conquer this world." Loki said smugly as he left the cask sitting on a table, before he picked his scepter back up spinning it.

Thor raged and swung his hammer striking the scepter in Loki's hand. They traded blows, Thor using quick spins and heavy attacks to break Loki's guard while Loki used his scepter to parry and redirect Thor's attacks, "You must stop this Loki. This madness must end! This isn't like you at all! What happened?!" Loki, holding the scepter across his shoulder stopping Thor's hammer, looked out at the destruction of the midgardian city showing something in his eye before it disappeared. Smirking, Loki used his free hand to stab Thor in the stomach.

Thor backed off holding his stomach, "This is only the beginning. I will one day rule the nine realms, as King of Asgard or King of Jotunheim it matters not, for I will be King!"

Thor bellowed and spun his hammer before uppercutting Loki sending him flying off the balcony and his scepter to fall. Even now Thor was momentarily worried about his brother before he saw him flying off on a chariot. Grimacing Thor watched his brother fly off, pondering if he could really redeem him from this madness. He was pulled from his contemplations by Man of Iron blowing up a flying monstrosity, it was time to get back into it. He swung his hammer flying away once again.

"We have too many civilians down here and we're pinned!" Cap shouted as he weaved through enemy fire, tossing his shield and laying out enemies left and right. He had just round housed a chitauri when a car was blown up behind him, sending him flipping off the elevated bridge he was on.

Landing in a rolling crouch, Steve was quickly back to his feet as he rushed a chitauri aiming at a group of civilians hiding near a bus and a wall. He jumped and slammed both of his feet into the back of the alien causing it to smack face first into the wall, purple blood oozing from the contact point. Doing a quick flip on his hands he was already tossing his shield at an approaching group, "I got civilians in need of evacuation." When he didn't get a response he put his finger to his ear only to realize the comm was gone, frowning he continued his attacks before addressing the group, "Let's go people. We need to get you underground." Steve quickly led them to a nearby subway entrance, stopping any chitauri from approaching.

Steve was quick to continue finding more civilians and leading them away, when a large group of enemies started to advance on him, causing him to take cover.

Natasha was still on the highway, using a chitauri staff to quickly dispatch enemies and shoot down chariots. "Cap, you alright?" When she received no answer she called out to everyone, "Cap might be down. I need backup." Natasha used her cables to fling herself around a half dozen grouped up invaders and lit them up with the lightning enchantments. When she released the spent cables tangled in the bodies of chitauri she frowned as a nearby skyscraper was almost shorn in two, screams echoing from falling civilians. Her body was reflexively dodging incoming strikes and parrying attacks with her new bracers. When she had some room she started using her magic bolt gun to dispatch the enemies.

Harry was quick to drop down to help. He landed next to Natasha and spun himself into a roundhouse sending out a large 10 ft wind blade that cut through vehicles and enemies alike. Finally having some breathing room they both moved off to the side before jumping down to where Cap fell. Landing they saw him fighting off two dozen or more chitauri. Taking off at a sprint Harry jumped over the car Steve was using as cover and landed in front kicking the ground with such force it cracked and sent a wave of spikes through the enemy force. "Good to see you still fighting."

Steve had just called back his shield from impacting an alien's skull, "I lost my earpiece." Natasha walked over and gave him a spare, "Thanks" he said as he quickly got back on comms. "Natasha and I will continue moving down here and helping rescue civilians. We need more of them out of the sky."

Landing nearby, Tony and Thor both stopped for a moment to catch their breath, Thor looking the worse for wear. "What happened to you?" Harry asked, looking at Thor.

"It was my brother. I fought him on the Man of Iron's tower. He stabbed me." Thor said grimacing.

Checking over Thor's wound he sent a minor spell to stop the bleeding before he spoke, "We need to reduce the number of invaders coming from the portal, Fury should have back-up on the way." Harry said as he frowned looking at the destroyed vehicles and blown out walls. Snow was half covering several bodies and a single hand too small to be an adults. Tony noticed as well, but with his helmet still on his face was unreadable.

"Thor, are you ready to show the wrath of a god?" Tony asked as he shot upwards towards the portal, Thor quickly on his tail. They both stopped near the portal as Tony released several drones that shot cables between each other, "Fire as much lightning as you can at those cables." While Thor was gathering power Tony sent the drones up coving a few feet outside the portal with those long and thin cables. Soon lightning was accumulating on Thor's hammer before he launched it supercharging Tony's trap. Lightning now sparked across dozens of wires looking like a net of death.

When it was done the newly arrived chitauri were being bisected by the wires, "That should hold the portal for a few minutes." That proved true when one of the worms came flying out only to have it's head cut in half before the cable snapped. "Keep up the light show and we should have some breathing room." Tony finished as he shot off.

"Good, I've got several strays moving quickly out of the immediate area." Clint said. Tony acknowledged before flying off. Clint was quickly and efficiently shooting down anything in range while keeping an eye on enemy movements. "They are acting more like a boarding party than an invading force. Most are grouped in the immediate area around the portal."

"That does not bode well for us if their numbers are this many for a boarding party." Steve said as he approached a set of nearby officers. Steve was quick to issue commands, telling the officers to help evacuate the buildings and move everyone underground. Slowly civilians were being pulled off the streets, military vehicles were helping keep the chitauri localized and the team was finding their groove.

Tony used a set of three runic missiles on the mouth of a worm creature blowing it to pieces. "They make for great target practice." He said as he used his new magic bolt thrower to snipe several chitauri hanging on the side of buildings. Tony whooped, "My new suit is working wonderfully."

"You'll have to sho-" What Harry was going to say was cut off as his broom was knocked by blaster fire and he started to lose altitude. Grunting Harry shrunk his broom and pocketed it before he slowed his fall. He was quickly besieged by ground troops. He spun out of the way of a spear strike before he pulled his sword and split the weapon and wielder in one swing. Turning he parried a few blaster strikes away from his body with the sword, before he glowed a vibrant red and disappeared in a flash step. He reappeared in the middle of a half dozen chitauri. His right hand was swinging his sword, felling enemies while his left was creating shields and sending out earthen spikes and bursts of fire.

Harry had just bisected another chitauri with his sword when several chitauri weapons fired on his position. Jumping behind a car Harry peeked around his cover. Harry saw a dozen and a half chitauri advancing on him firing and the other side had a rushing Hulk smacking away chariots and ground troops alike. Whistling Harry grabbed Hulks attention before he made a large earthen ball lined up with the large group. Hulk grinned as he sprinted and Spartan kicked the ball, smearing the entire group of chitauri to the ground.

A quick high five and they were off to fight. Harry was advancing down the road when Steve landed on a car next to him. "You good Cap?"

Steve just grunted, looking a little worse for wear. "I'm barely getting tired." They both knew he was lying. It had only been 30 minutes, but battle took a lot out of you. They were both interrupted by a roar from Hulk and a large lightning strike on a flying worm that soon crashed into a building. "We need to stop this." Cap said as they took in the injured huddling under cover and the bodies peeking through the snow.

Above them Natasha used her cables to latch onto a chariot and mounted it, barely able to steer it using the dead chitauri as a crude steering apparatus. When she started taking heavy fire from the chariot with Loki she called out, "I need a little help up here."

On a nearby roof, Clint was already aiming with one of his lightning arrows, when he released it, sending it flying right towards Loki who caught it and smirked at Hawkeye before the arrow discharged, blowing up the chariot and sending Loki flying. Clint just smirked before he started picking shock troopers off the side of the building he was on. While Natasha used the break in enemy fire to approach the top of Stark tower.

Jumping off the chariot she rolled several times to lower her momentum before she approached the now awake Selvig. "Doctor, we need to shut this thing down."

Selvig shook his head as he was leaning over the side of the roof, "We can't shut it down. It's powering itself now. The only thing that can stop it, is itself."

"What can we do?" Natasha asked. Selvig just waved her over and pointed at the abandoned scepter. She gave a small smirk.

Harry and Cap were fighting back to back, culling waves of enemies. When Tony flew by and used Cap's shield as a refractor causing a massive repulsor beam to bounce off the shield and sweep an entire group of chitauri away, before he was once again in the air batting down chariots.

Harry saw an incoming worm and thrust both hands down before raising them creating a huge 20ft stone spike that impelled the flying monstrosity when Nat spoke up.

"I think I can close the portal." Natasha said over the comms.

"Do it." Steve replied.

"No wait, I got an in-bound Nuke, t-minus 2 minutes." Tony quickly interrupted.

"Nat be ready to close the portal, Tony give me a trajectory." Harry said as he started fading up to the top of nearby buildings.

"It'll be shooting right for my tower on the east side." Tony said as he was following under the missile.

Harry acknowledged the information before he moved to a nearby building, when he saw Tony under the missile he told him, "Back off Tony. I'm gonna teleport it up. When I do, Nat, close the portal." When Tony backed off and Nat gave him a 'copy'. He opened a portal directly in front of the missile, sending it right through the chitauri's entrance to Earth. Just when the flames of the explosion were reaching the portal, it closed. The remaining chitauri fell to the ground like puppets with their strings cut and the Avengers all let out a sigh of relief. Harry quickly fell to his ass leaning against a nearby wall. "Everyone, sound off."

"Widow here." Natasha said as she leaned against the scepter in her hands.

"Captain here." He said huffing and puffing, before picking up his shield.

"Iron Man here." Tony said as he landed near Harry.

"Hawkeye here." Clint said as he gently descended from his nest with a grapple hook.

"Thor here and with me is Hulk." Thor said as he side eyed the green behemoth. "Any eyes on Loki?" Thor was distracted when the nearby Hulk smirked and chuffed out a laugh, "What's so funny."

Hulk just threw a thumb up at Stark Tower, "Puny god there."

"Seems as if Hulk left Loki in Stark's tower." The team acknowledged it and moved to regroup.

They all entered the room ready for a fight but only found a battered and bruised Loki laying next to two suspiciously Loki sized holes. Harry grinned and gave the Hulk a quick high five, "Nice job Hulk." He just smirked in response.

Loki opened his mouth to say something but Harry didn't care. He faded away only to reappear next to Loki and knocked him out with a hard kick to the jaw. "That's enough out of you." He transfigured some cuffs and a muzzle before ensuring his was out with an overpower stunner. Looking up he saw the satisfaction from most of the team, but Thor looked conflicted. Harry ignored it for now and started waving his hand around fixing up the penthouse until it was brand new.

Tony stepped out of his suit while everyone else flopped down on the nearby couches, "How does everyone feel about Shawarma?" They all just tiredly chuckled in agreement before moving off to grab food.