Chapter 13 The Invasion Final
Tony grabbed the nuke and brought it straight through the portal everyone watching heaved a sigh of relief but it was taking longer than they expected and it didn't seem like Tony would make it back through the portal.
Cap sighed sadly and said {Close it.}
Nat then pushed Loki's Scepter to the crown of the machine to close the portal and right as the portal was about to close, Tony fell out and didn't look like he was slowing down, Thor was about to fly up to catch him when Apex came out of nowhere and grabbed Tony and flew down and landed in front of Cap and Thor.
"Whew, that could've been messy."
Cap looked at him and said "How'd you get here so fast you were outside the city with the jets?"
"I flew" Apex said like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Cap then looked at Tony. "What happened to you, why did it take you so long to get out the portal?"
Tony, who wasn't unconscious because of his extra protection from Apex, recounted his experience in the portal.
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(Flashback In The portal)
The mothership was equipped with laser blasters which they didn't have in the movie so Tony had to dodge continuously while he got close enough to make sure the nuke wouldn't explode while he was carrying it.
[I still I can't survive a point blank nuclear explosion even with the tech from Apex.] He also had to make sure it wouldn't be shot before it reached the ship.
He finally got close enough and let the nuke hit the mothership and then he turned around and flew as fast as he could towards the portal but his suit died and he was in a free fall as he got out just before it closed and was grabbed by Apex who landed in front of the two shocked Avengers.
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(Back on the Streets of New York)
Just then Stark stood up next to the group and asked "What happened?"
Cap answered and said "We won."
"Alright, yay! Hurray. good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow, let's just take a day. 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."
Thor looked over and said "We're not finished yet."
Stark paused for a second then responded "And then shawarma after."
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(Loki Back inside Stark Tower)
Loki is crawling with his beaten body towards the steps so he could sit up and then he turned around and saw The OG Avengers with their pose at the end of the first movie. Apex stood off to the side and looked around to see if he could see their future selves but still didn't he was a little confused and kinda sad because he hoped he could've seen the culmination of all their hardships being solved but it seems that he either affected the timeline more than he thought or it isn't close enough to the time where they decide to go back in time as Scott isn't even Antman yet. He supposes he'll have to wait and see.
Apex went back towards the group to hear Loki say "If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now."
While everyone else was changing and cleaning any wounds, Apex did his own thing while checking up on the Parkers and getting ready to make his future plans, both as Apex and Seth.
As Seth McCauley he had his people hire all the government workers to help clean up the streets and any tech he might have missed and made sure they couldn't be taken off the job.
As Apex he wanted to introduce himself to the world in a press conference Before that though, he needed to find a way to create additional identies for his clones so he could keep both identities and possibly work as a SHIELD Agent and as Apex. This would be the best case scenario since who better to have as an inside man inside SHIELD than himself.
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(Back in the Helicarrier)
in the main conference room Nick Fury is having a meeting with the council. They were looking at the news footage of the aftermath of what happened and one of the councilman asked "Where are the Avengers?"
Fury responded while having a smug look because he was right about the Avengers and the Council can go f**k themselves.
"I'm not currently tracking their whereabouts. I'd say they've earned a leave of absence."
A councilwoman then asked "And the Tesseract?"
"The Tesseract is back where it belongs. Out of our reach."
The original councilman then said with an angry tone "That's not your call"
"I didn't make it. I just didn't argue with the god that did."
The councilman said with an exasperated voice "So you let him take it, and the war criminal Loki, who should be answering for his crime."
"Oh, I think he will be."
Then one of the councilman who was also HYDRA asked "What about the new enhanced you brought in, Do we know anything about him?"
"We know enough."
"He could be dangerous."
"At his first major sighting, he had saved dozens of people from a hostage situation, and before that all he did was help people. I believe we can trust him."
Fury looked away from the council and said to himself [For Now]
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(Some bridge in the city)
The Avengers are standing around Thor who has the Tesseract in some sort of Asgardian containment unit with two handles on either side of a glass like case and he held one handle and gestured for Loki to grab the other handle and Thor twisted his handle till it was vertical and they disappeared in a blue light in what looked similar to when the Bifrost activates and they were brought back to Asgard.
The Avengers including Apex all decided to go their own ways with Apex actually going with Tony and Bruce to talk more about the future of his company and how to get in contact with Seth McCauley and work on improving his own technology. While Steve went back to doing his own thing and Clint and Nat headed to there own places they call home.
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(Back in the conference room)
"I don't think you understand what you've started. Letting The Avengers loose on this world. They're dangerous."
"They surely are. And now the whole world knows it. Every world knows it."
"Was that the point of all this? A statement?"
"A promise."
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The screens turned off and Fury walked out of the conference room and was met with Maria Hill who asked
"Sir, How does it work now? They've gone their separate ways. Some, pretty extremely far. If we get into a situation like this again, what happens then?"
"They'll come back."
"Are you sure about that?"
"I am."
"Why?"
"Because we'll need them to."
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For a couple of months Seth as Galen worked with Tony on some new uses of his tech and then he had him contact his other self and told him he had to take care of something and flew off. He met him as Seth McCauley and Tony seemed to instantly get along with Seth as if they were long lost friends who had known eachother forever.
Tony had agreed to give Seth some shares of his company and in return Seth let him patent his Nanite technology which Tony found was actually very similar to Apex's but it wasn't made to support combat situations so it looked like Apex really did get his nanites from McCauley Tech.
Tony and Seth got along great and he told him that he should look into his father's old notes, afterall his tech couldn't be supported by the technology back then but it could definitely be supported now. They ended up parting ways with plans to meet up later to talk about a possible joint project with McCauley Technologies and Stark Industries.
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