Chapter 17
Julia's P.O.V:
I felt someone press their lips against mine. I subconsciously kiss back, letting my eyes flutter open. I'm in Stark Tower, and I find myself kissing Loki. I pull back, realizing who it was. He looks crestfallen, and for some reason I get disappointed when he doesn't kiss me again. I ignore my feelings and Pay attention to my surroundings.
I'm on the couch in the living room, near the bar. I hear someone land near the gauntlet.
"Julia, I deeply apologize for the way I acted the other day. I was a monster. I am a monster. I know you are just a child, but, I was wondering if you would be my queen?"
"No ones a monster. Not even you. You're just… misunderstood. I know you didn't have the perfect child hood. I didn't either. I had to learn how to take care of myself by the time I was six. my parents were super heroes. Every time there was a crime, I would be alone. I would have to be mature and take care of myself. I'm not a child. I never was, because I had to be mature. I'm seventeen-"
"You're seventeen?!"
"Yeah…"
"You look like a mid-guardian child. You're so tiny."
"Just because I'm 5'2" doesn't mean I'm a little kid. I'm just, below average height."
"Definitely below average. Way below average." I flipped him off as he started to shift.
"Loki, you're not a bad person. Please. Stop this madness."
"I wish I could. If I don't give the Other the tesseract, they will find their own way to earth. They will torture and kill every single one of you're loved ones in front of you. Then, they will kill you in front of me. Use the soul stone to bring you back to life, and kill you every single day in front of me as my punishment for an eternity. I don't want this anymore, but I have to keep up the act." suddenly you can hear footsteps on the drop off.
Loki quickly gets up and I hear him talking to Tony.
Tony's P.O.V:
"These were in Phil Coulson's jacket. Guess he never did get you to sign them." Fury throws Coulson's trading cards on the table towards Steve.
"We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor, Julia. I got nothing for you. Lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming. Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing something even riskier. There was an idea, Stark and Allen knows this, called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes." That was it. Loki is going to pay. I didn't want to hear anymore. I couldn't. So I walked away.
I walked to Loki's detention cell.
"Was he married?" Steve walked in behind me.
"No. There was a uh...cellist, I think."
"I'm sorry. He seemed like a good man. Julia seemed so nice."
"They were idiots."
"Why? For believing?"
"For taking on Loki and Hulk alone."
"They were doing their jobs."
"He was out of his league. He should have waited. He should have... The pilot had it covered. She could have left him alone."
"Sometimes there isn't a way out, Tony."
"Right. How did that work for them?"
"Is this the first time you've lost a soldier?"
"WE ARE NOT SOLDIERS! I am not marching to Fury's fife!"
"Neither am I! He's got the same blood on his hands as Loki does. Right now we've got to put that aside and get this done. Now Loki needs a power source, if we can put together a list..."
"He made it personal."
"That's not the point."
"That is the point. That's Loki's point. He hit us all right where we live. Why?"
"To tear us apart."
"He had to conquer his greed, but he knows he has to take us out to win, right? That's what he wants. He wants to beat us and he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience."
"Right, I caught his act at Stuttgart."
"Yeah. That's just a preview, this is opening night. Loki's a full-tilt diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built in the skies with his name plastered... Son of a bitch!"
"Sir, I took off the arc reactor. The device is already self-sustained."
"Shut it down, Dr. Selvig."
"It's too late! It can't stop now. He wants to show us something! A new universe."
I shoot at the C.M.S. I look at it and it was... unharmed.
"The barrier is pure energy. It's unreachable. The Mark VII is not ready to be deployed."
"Skip the spinning rims. We're on the clock. I land my suit and go through the gauntlet at it unsuited me. Loki looks up at me, smiling. I proceed to walk into the penthouse.
Loki walks in, holding the scepter. I casually walks down the steps, towards the bar.
"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity."
"Uh...actually, I'm planning to threaten you."
"You should have left your armor on for that."
"Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage. You've got the blue stick of destiny. Would you like a drink?"
"Stalling me won't change anything."
"No, no, no! Threatening. No drink? You sure? I'm having one."
"The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that. What have I to fear?"
"The Avengers. It's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. 'EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES' type of thing."
"Yes, I've met them."
"Yeah, takes us a while to get any traction, after all, Julia was what brought the team together. I'll give you that one. But, let's do a head count here. Your brother, the demi-God; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins, and the most powerful meta human alive, with a spirit type thing inside of her, and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them."
"That was the plan."
"Not a great plan. When they come, and they will, they'll come for you." From underneath the bar table, I pull on colantotte bracelets, a honing device.
"I have an army."
"We have a Hulk."
"I thought the beast had wandered off."
"You're missing the point. There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it."
"How will your friends have time for me, when they're so busy fighting you?"
"It should work."
"Well, performance issues. You know?" In anger, Loki grabs me by the throat and throws me across the room.
"Jarvis. Anytime now." Loki grabs me by the throat again.
"You will all fall before me." Loki throws me out of the tower. I can hear Julia screaming. I free fall down the tower. The red pod that followed me out begins to transform into the Mark VII suit. It latches onto me. Loki looks down, angry. I fly back to the floor I was just on.
"And there's one other person you pissed off! His name was Phil." I fire at Loki, sending him on his ass.
"Tony!" Julia shouts. She was on the couch. I grab onto her and fly to the Quinjet everyone else came here on. I drop her off and fly back to the Tower.
Julia's P.O.V:
I see everyone else in their suits, and I'm just in leggings and hoodie. I don't even have shoes.
"Julia! You're back!" I laughed at Clint.
"Yeah. I see you're back, too. But I don't have a suit."
"I've got that covered. Suit up. Fury told us you were amazing in close combat with swords." Cap handed me a briefcase. My suit was just like Agent Johnson's, but my gauntlets helped me harness speed force energy instead of vibrational waves. I also had two katana's made of ice, that were part of Phase 2. They had the force of the space stone. I can technically control space, so that's why Fury created them for me. They also can't melt or shatter. I looked pretty bad ass. We were still on the Quinjet, and Loki shot at us and Nat swerved to avoid it. With everyone okay, Clint and Tasha unfasten their seat belts and open the ramp. Cap runs down, followed by Clint, Nat and I. Each one of us has their respected weapons in hand.
Cap with his shield, throwing it at Chitauri, killing them. Clint has his bow, nocking arrows and killing Chitauri. Nat has her hand guns and electric bracelets. Last but definitely not least, me with my swords, slicing Chitauri in half, creating throwing knives made of ice, shooting blasts of speed force energy, quick reflexes, phasing through Chitauri, vibrating my hand, pulling a reverse flash. And with that, the battle began.