Chapter 18
Julia's P.O.V:
We were all killing the Chitauri. Nat, with her guns, Clint with his arrows, Tony flying around, blasting them, Thor was battling Loki currently. From the portal, a FUCKING CHITAURI LEVIATHAN FLIES OUT. Carrying hundreds of Soldiers, the Leviathan starts flying around, going through buildings. EXT. BRIDGE STREET DAY They look up, out of their element. From both sides, Chitauri attach themselves to the sides of the buildings, sliding down. Some crash into buildings and begin firing from their weapons at innocent people.
"Stark, are you seeing this?" Cap said through the comms.
"I'm seeing, still working on believing. Where's Banner? Has he shown up yet?"
"Banner?"
"Just keep me posted. Jarvis, find me a soft spot." Tony quietly flies behind and parallel with the Leviathan.
"Those people need assistance down there." I turned looking to see people on the bridge. Chitauri that have landed near them and begin firing at them. Tasha pulls both pistols and fires at them.
"We got this. It's good. Go!"
"You think you can hold them off?" Cap asked me.
"Captain. It would be my genuine pleasure." I teleport to the soldiers and slice them each into pieces. Cap races over to the plaza, jumping over dozens of exploding cars. I turn to see a bus full of people. Hawkeye and I run over to them. From the windows, children are held by their parents for me to pull them out to safety. Clint runs over to the jammed door and opens it. Everyone else began to run out.
"Just like Budapest all over again!" I shouted.
"You and I remember Budapest very differently." Clint and Tasha say simultaneously.
Clint trips an alien and rams an arrow down its throat. Nat gets her hands on an energy rifle and stick fights the hell out of them. Cap joins back in and using his shield, swaps and whacks oncoming Chitauri. I slice Chitauri in pieces, throwing ice daggers, and blasting energy balls at them. It's all too much on them, until... Lightning strikes down from the sky, channeling the blast, firing the electricity out at the soldiers around us. We're blasted back in a massive shockwave. The soldiers convulse, and drop dead to the ground. Thor flies down to us.
"What's the story upstairs?" Cap asks him.
"The powers surrounding the cube is impenetrable."
"Thor is right. We gotta deal with these guys." Tony cuts in.
"How do we do this?" Nat asks.
"As a team." I said calmly.
"I have unfinished business with Loki."
"Yeah, get in line." Clint said bitterly.
"Save it. Loki's gonna keep this fight focused on us and that's what we need. Without him these things could run wild. We got Stark up top, he's gonna need us..." Just then, Banner arrives on a small motorbike. Getting off, he looks around the city.
"So, this all seems horrible."
"We've seen worse." Nat says, meaning me and her.
"Sorry."
"No. We could use a little worse." I said.
"Stark? We got him."
"Banner?"
"Just like you said."
"Then tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you." Tony comes out from behind a building. The Leviathan follows, impatiently.
"I... I don't see how that's a party..." Nat says.
"Dr. Banner. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."
"That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry." Banner's body starts to swell and stretch and harden. Green shoots through his body.
"Aaaannndddd.........SSSMMMAAASSSHHH!!!!" the Hulk punches the Leviathan in the nose. Tony in mid-flight, extends his arm out and a rocket, ready to shoot. He fires. The rocket hits a soft spot. It explodes. Other pieces of meat catch fire.
I use an ice force field to shield myself. From the portal, thousands of Chitauri come out with a few more Leviathans.
"Guys. We are Way out of our fucking element."
"Call it, Cap." Tony says.
"Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, Allen. I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or your turn it to ash."
"Wanna give me a lift?"
"Right. Better clench up, Legolas."
Atop the rooftop, Clint fires arrows into the streaming flow of the Chitauri, hitting his mark each time. Hell, he even aims his bow behind him with out looking and releases the arrow, killing another alien. I created my own bow and was shooting Chitauri. I used ice throwing knives and ninja stars to kill other Chitauri.
"Stark. You got a lot of strings sticking to your tail." Clint calls out.
"Just try and keep them off the streets."
"Well, they can't bank worth a damn. Find a tight corner."
"I will roger that." Clint fires arrow upon and arrow, killing the Chitauri.
"Nice call. What else you got?"
"Well, Thor's taking on a squadron down on 6th." I added.
"And he didn't invite me?"
"Captain, the bank on 42nd past Madison, they caught a lot of civilians there." I say.
"I'm on it."
I see Clint look at Nat, astonished.
"Nat, what are you doing?" I ask.
"Uh... a little help!" Clint pulls the trigger twice, nocks an arrow, and points it at Loki, smiling.
"I've got him." He fires. The arrow streaks down the city, strait at Loki's head... Loki grabs the arrow strait out of the air, looking strait at us. The arrow explodes in his face, causing Loki to crash. Nat looks down and building her momentum, she jumps off of the chariot, lands on top of the Tower, rolling herself to the edge.
Clint turns to fire is last arrow. Using his bow as a staff, he knocks some soldiers, before yanking his last arrow off the dead body of another. Hawkeye nocks his arrow, grabs onto me, and fires his grappling arrow up into the side of building. Falling down, we find the momentum and swing ourselves into a building. I teleport at the last second, finding Nat on the roof.
Nat grabs Loki's scepter, slowly breaks into the force field, almost touching the Tesseract, but its not enough.
"Nat. What if it needs my swords? They have the powers of the space stone. The tesseract is literally the space stone." I took off one of my swords from its place ment on my back. It easily pushes through the field, and it would close if we wanted it too.
"We can close it! Can anybody hear me? Julia and I can shut the portal down!"
"No, wait!" Tony called out.
"Stark, these things are still coming!" Cap called.
"I got a nuke coming in, it's gonna blow in less than a minute. And I know just where to put it."
"Tony, please don't." I say.
"Stark, you know that's a one-way trip?"
"Save the rest for return, J."
"Tony, I… I can teleport it to space. I can get it there without you going in. Please. Tony, don't do this." I cried out.
"Sorry Jules. Someone has to. I love you."
"Tony! Stop!"
Tony climbs higher and higher over the city, gaining speed, suddenly flings himself through the portal. Suddenly, all of the Chitauri begin to shake, then stop. They all fall over. Still holding the scepter in hand, Nat shifts around, waiting.
"Come on, Stark..." Nat mumbles.
"Please, Tony."
"Close it." Ca calls. Without hesitating, Widow pulls the scepter out, and I use one of my swords. The space stone turns off its energy beam. The portal closes. A small figure is hurled backwards into the open now closed portal. Tony. Plummeting to the earth.
"Son of a gun!" He keeps falling. And falling. And falling.
"He's not slowing down." Thor says. Just as Thor flies up, I teleport to Tony, hugging him. We fall through the air for a few seconds before I teleport us again. Thor and Cap run over to him. I rip off Tony's helmet. He appears to be dead. We stand around not sure. Then... The Hulk roars in Fury. Tony suddenly pops up.
"What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me?"
"We won." Cap says softly.
"Alright. Hey. Alright. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it." I laughed softly at him.
"We're not finished yet. A beat."
"And then shawarma after." I laughed again at him.
Loki crawls onto the stair, looking like a piece of shit rag doll. He takes a few breathers, senses someone is behind him. He turns to find us all staring at him, pissed.
"If it's all the same to you. I'll have that drink." He said, accepting his defeat.
The Avengers take Thor and Loki, who is handcuffed and muzzled, to a blocked area. Thor shakes hands with everyone but me, since I was going with them. Tony opens the Tesseract's case. Banner takes it out and places inside a glass tube, held by Thor. Thor gives Loki and I the other end, who reluctantly takes it. I look at the Tower one last time, and all the letters had been blasted off except for the A. The Asgardians and I leap into the energy beam. Gone.
(Thor: The Dark World is next)