Chapter 18: Avengers!

It takes us 30 minutes after making the announcement to reach Manhattan. As soon as we get close enough to Manhattan, we see a blue light shine from the top of Stark Tower, leading to a hole in the sky with small dots denoting Chitauri soldiers entering our atmosphere. Barton manoeuvres the jet towards Stark Tower.

Nat connects the jet to Stark and speaks, "Stark we're heading North-East."

"What, did you stop for a drive through?" Stark's sarcastic voice answers her. "Swing up Park, I'm gonna lay 'em out for you." He says.

Barton does as Stark said and moves the jet closer towards Stark Tower. We see Iron Man fly from in front of us with a swarm of Chitauri tailing him. Nat takes control of the machine gun and blasts them apart. I whistle loudly at that. She continues blasting Chitauri soldiers and looks around for more targets.

Barton looks out the left window and sees Thor and Loki fighting on the roof of Stark Tower. He says, "Nat?"

Nat nods and replies, "See them." She aims the machine gun at Loki. Before she can fire at Loki, he fires a blast from his staff at us which hits us at the left side, destroying one engine. Barton takes control of the other engine, we spin and spin, we crash the wings into a few buildings and Barton slowly maneuvers the plane and crash lands us on the road.

I look around the jet and see that everyone is okay. Pete and I just stuck to the walls, Cap held on to the top of the jet while Nat and Barton were wearing seatbelts.

We get ourselves out of the jet and take a look around the city. Damn! There's still people on the road, they didn't believe us. What a fucking surprise. Some of the small buildings were destroyed, bigger buildings had their windows broken, rubble lay on the ground, there were even some bodies. I listen for their heartbeats, but finding none, I move on.

We move towards the centre of a four way street.

"We gotta get back up there." Steve says. Thank you, captain obvious.

We suddenly stop and turn our heads above to look towards the portal. A huge turtle- worm like Leviathan was flying towards the Earth from the portal. It gives out a loud roar and starts descending downwards.

"Oh, crap!" Peter's whisper sums it up for all of us.

The worm gets down low to the ground, breaking a few statues with its wings, and Chitauri soldiers blast out of the worm and into the buildings when it goes from over our heads.

Steve's voice says in all our ears, through the earpiece, "Hey, Stark, are you seeing this?"

"I'm seeing. Still working on believing. Where's Banner? Has he shown up yet?" Stark returns from somewhere.

"Banner?" Steve asks, confused.

"Just.. keep me posted." Stark says.

Our group runs behind upside down cabs.

"We've got civilians trapped over there." Barton says, pointing towards a building.

"Loki." Cap says suddenly, we look up and see Loki taking his band of idiot aliens down the street and fire at the street, which causes a chain of explosions, smashing cars and hurling people as they go. It goes off in one final conflagration. Terrified people, running from Loki, looking over their shoulders, coming straight at us. Cap Looks down at the bridge, where a few people were stuck.

He says, "They're fish in a barrel down there."

My spidey sense goes off and I turn to see some Chitauri soldiers land near us and fire. I duck the first shots, warning the others, and start running towards the soldiers, dodging, weaving through their shots. I can hear Nat firing guns at those soldiers, while I see a few of the Chitauri get struck by arrows. Peter is right beside me holding his sword in his right hand, I bring out a sword too and we both get close and start cutting the soldiers.

I duck under a shot and cut his head off, I dodge another shot and pierce my sword through his chest. I turn behind to see Cap running towards the stuck people. So I continue killing Chitauri left and right. I turn to Peter and see him killing soldiers too. But I can feel that he's already upset about these deaths.

More Chitauri soldiers join their brethren and surround me and Peter. We get back to back. I absorb the sword and bring out the Berserker's staff along with the wristband. I immediately feel stronger.

I throw the staff like a boomerang. The staff starts flying towards a group of Chitauri, once those soldiers are dead, I manipulate it so it fly backs to me at the same speed.

"Peter! Duck!" I yell and duck down as the staff passes overhead destroying another group. Nat and Barton joins the fight by firing at the soldiers from a longer range, while we fight close combat.

I see Barton helping out the people stuck in a bus get out through the windows and run towards him.

"Could have called one of us birdbrain." I say and pry the door to the bus off. I help guard the bus while Barton gets everyone off and use one of the fallen Chitauri's guns to fire at the ones coming at us. My aim was not as good as Barton or even Nat, but it was good enough. I mean, I wanted to strike his head, but I got his chest. Good enough for me.

Nat and Barton then stand close to me and start firing their weapons at the Chitauri.

Nat looks at Barton and speaks up, "Just like Budapest, all over again."

Barton dryly replies, "You and I remember Budapest very differently."

I snort and throw down the Chitauri gun. It was just not it for me. Though I may take a few to study. I run ahead once again bringing out the staff and start bashing heads. I was now about as strong as Thor's base strength, so I had no trouble killing these soldiers. I see Peter stab a soldier in defence of a woman and smile. Now he knows what he's fighting for.

I turn around and start running towards Barton, who I see is about to be swarmed. Barton gets knocked down by a Chitauri, while Nat uses her taser bracelets to down another. I get close to them and kick the Chitauri soldier off of Barton and help him stand. Nat is now using a staff of one of the fallen Chitauri as a weapon. Damn! She's good!

A few more soldiers appear and surround us, again. Me and Peter run close to kill them in close combat, while Barton and Nat keep firing. Soon Cap joins us from his excursion and starts fighting the soldiers with us. When it looks like they are about to overwhelm us, a white lightning bolt slams down on them all killing them instantly. Thor lands right in front of us, stumbling a little. We get a little time to rest as there was no enemy near us.

"What's the story upstairs?" Steve asks Thor.

"The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor says gravely.

"Not the right place to say penetrable." I mumble to myself, but they all hear judging by Peter and Tony's snorts and Nat's smirk.

"Thor's right. We gotta deal with these guys." Tony speaks through the comms.

Nat looks at Steve and asks, "How do we do this?"

Cap confidently says, "As a team."

"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor warns.

Barton, who's now cleaning an arrow he pulled from the corpse of a Chitauri he killed, dryly says, "Yeah? Get in line."

"Save it." Cap orders. "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, we all hear the voice of a motorcycle and turn to the road to see Bruce Banner driving a beat up bike towards our location. He gets down the bike, looks around the city, and says, "This all seems horrible." I snort at him, shake my head an just pat his shoulder in welcome.

"I've seen worse." Nat says, reminding us of when Hulk attacked me and her.

"Sorry." Banner apologizes instantly. And he is sorry.

"No, we could use a little worse." Nat returns.

"Stark, Banner's here." I say in my earpiece.

"Tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you." Stark orders.

We all look towards a building where a roar comes from and see Iron Man come towards us from behind that building. He is followed by the big Chitauri Leviathan which is now coming towards us.

"I don't see how that's a party." Nat says, dryly. Iron man swoops down close to the road and the Leviathan follows him and comes down to about our level, destroying columns and cars while traveling.

"It is. That's a piñata coming towards us, and our stick is about to hit it." I joke from beside her, gesturing towards Bruce.

"You sure we aren't the piñata?" Nat asks, just as dryly.

I snort, but don't say anything. Banner looks towards the incoming Leviathan and starts walking slowly towards it. Cap runs towards him and stops him, "Dr Banner. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."

Banner turns back to us, smiles at Cap and says, "That's my secret, Cap. I'm always angry."

Saying that iconic statement, Banner turns towards the now close Leviathan and starts turning green and growing big. He turns completely into the Hulk just in time as the Leviathan is now right in front of him and punches its head with full might. The scene almost looks like what happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force, Hulk skids back a few feet, dragging his feet through the road, and the Leviathan follows Newton's 3rd law of motion and its tail lifts high into the air, its head still stuck by Hulk's punch, and a few of its parts break apart.

Iron Man flies close to it, extends an arm out and a rocket flies out of it. The rocket goes inside the Leviathan and hits a soft spot, and blows up from the inside. The big leviathan falls apart in an explosion. We all use various objects as shields. The smaller Chitauri soldiers screech at us for destroying their precious Leviathan, while Hulk roars out loud. The Chitauri look on in horror as they see a group of Earth's mightiest heroes standing united, against a common enemy. Them.

We all stand in a circle, Hulk roars at the Chitauri in challenge and I have Venom do the same. Next to Hulk, it's like a screech, but still better than anything the Chitauri could do.

Suddenly, more Leviathans start entering through the portal, along with thousands more Chitauri soldiers on their gliders. From those Leviathans, more foot soldiers drop down near us.

"Call it, Cap." Stark states, because frankly amongst us, he has the calmest head during battles. Thor's fought more battles, but he used to be a war-monger a year ago.

Cap gets determined, now that our team depends on him to make plans, and says, "Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, our priority is containment. Barton, I want you on that roof," He points towards a building, "Keep your eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays." He then turns to Iron Man, "Stark. You got perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash."

Barton looks at Stark and asks, "Wanna give me a lift?"

Stark nods and gets behind Barton to lift him up, "Right. Better clench up, Legolas." He lifts Barton up to the building and drops him there.

Cap then turns to Thor and says, "Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You've got the lightning, light the bastards up." Thor flies up to do the same.

Cap then turns to Me and Peter, "You two help out anyone who looks like they're about to be overwhelmed. Mostly keep to civilians and keep them safe. Minimise the damage, if you can." I smirk and me and Peter swing out of there in different directions. I go towards a building which I can see is overrun with Chitauri. On the way I notice Hulk running from building to building killing enemies left and right, and Thor destroying a Leviathan as soon as it enters through the portal with his lightning.

I look at it in awe for a while, shake my head and enter the building through the window, already bringing out a shield to protect myself from the incoming fire. As soon as they stop firing I look around the room I'm in. There were about 20 people there, all scared and dirty.

I absorb the shield, run towards one Chitauri soldier, and before he even knows what's happening, use my Venom Blast on his head. His head blows up from the inside out. The remaining Chitauri, seeing one of them fall start firing again. I bring out twin swords and weave out of the blasts to get close and cut the rest of them up. All in all, it took like a minute. I turn to the people.

"Are you guys okay? Anyone hurt?" I ask. They all shake their heads, still scared. Huh. That's lucky.

I then pick up a gun the Chitauri dropped and check it over. It looks good. I fire a few experimental shots on a Chitauri corpse and check it's functionality. Seeing everything at least looks good, I turn to the group and ask, "Anyone here ever used a gun? Like heavy gun?"

One man and one woman stand up and come closer to me, I give the gun in my hand to the woman, show her how to use it and ask her to fire a couple experimental shots at the corpse. Seeing her fire at the corpse without flinching, I nod and give another gun to the man. He was heavy built so probably a retired soldier or just a typical American. He too fires calmly but determinedly so I nod at him too.

"Get out of this room and start going underground. One of you stays in the back, the other stays front. Priority is protecting people. Don't go out of your way to kill these aliens. We'll take care of that. If you find any more people then take them with you. Again, don't go out of your way to find people. Find a safe place first, and underground is safe. If you find any more people that can use these guns then first have them get used to the feel. And never point the gun at a friendly. We don't even know if it has a safety." I order them, the two people nod, so I start leading them out of the room.

We find two more groups in the same building whom I save. 4 more people who can use the guns so I have them take up arms. But give the same warning again. Seeing that there was no one else in the building, I lead them outside and to a subway.

Once they all get in, I start going towards another building which was overrun and do the same in this building. I speak up, "Siri, any more people in my vicinity?" Siri checks using different cameras and answers, "No, sir. Though Ms Romanoff is about to be overrun by the enemy."

"Shit!" I start running and Siri directs me to where Natasha is. I reach there just in time to see that she actually had the situation handled. She was using a Chitauri staff and blasting the Chitauri left and right. She points her weapon at me once I'm close and then at Cap when he gets there to help.

We all turn to look at the portal, as more of the soldiers were coming through it. Nat looks at us and says, "None of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal."

Cap argues, "Our biggest guns couldn't touch it."

Natasha looks up, says, "Well, maybe it's not about the guns." And gestures towards the flying chariots.

"You wanna get up there, you'll need a ride." Cap points out.

Natasha shakes her head and says, "I got a ride. I could use a lift though." She looks like she's about to run at Cap who readies his Shield.

I interrupt them and say, "Wait a minute before you do something stupid." Nat looks at me but relaxes and nods.

I see an incoming horde of chariots and let them pass overhead. As the last one passes, I web it and get on it. Killing the passenger, I go towards the pilot and drive my sword through him. Separating the pilot's corpse from the chariot, I bring it down towards the waiting Nat and Cap and land it and get off.

I dramatically wave my hand towards the chariot and say, "Your Chariot is ready, My lady?" in a posh British accent.

Cap snorts and Nat just shakes her head, but she gets on the chariot and starts taking control of it. I get on the chariot to defend her while she's driving and leave Cap to himself. I see Peter join him just as a group of Chitauri start firing at them. And then Nat takes off.

A few chariots start following us but I bring out a Chitauri gun from myself and start firing at the chariots. I could have just jumped on them, but then Nat would have been defenceless. Iron Man joins us and fires a few repulsor blasts at them.

Once the way is cleared, Stark separates from us and goes to help Cap and Peter fight the foot soldiers. I take a look around, ignoring the destruction for now and see Thor and Hulk fighting Chitauri on top of a Leviathan and bringing it down. Barton was destroying Chariots from the roof of a building. The military was now in the city firing at the Chitauri using tankers as well as guns. Thankfully no heavy explosions yet.

I get brought out of my musing by a chariot following us and blasting its guns at us. I look at the chariot and see that it's passenger is Loki. I hear Nat telling Barton about Loki and jump on his chariot while bringing out the Staff. I feel my strength increase, just as I drop on the Chariot and don't waste any time.

I swing my staff at him, which he ducks under, and then I kick him in the face. Once he looks back up, now furious and holding his bloody nose, I swing the staff at his face, again, and this time manage to throw him towards the Stark Tower. He drops on the roof of Stark Tower and looks to be hurt.

I look towards Nat just in time to see her make an impressive back flip over the chariot and onto Stark Tower, near where the Tesseract is. I kill the pilot of my chariot and jump off to follow her. I see towards where Loki was beginning to stand up to see him get hit by Hulk. Knowing Hulk's got this, I turn towards the Tesseract. There was a barrier surrounding the cube, as Thor said.

I test the strength of the barrier by trying to pierce it with my Katana. It does not even waver a little. I look at Nat and ask, "What now?"

"The sceptre." A voice to our right says. I turn to look Dr Selvig leaning over the edge of the roof and looking at something.

"Doctor," Nat greets him. Selvig looks at us and repeats,

"Loki's sceptre. The energy.. the Tesseract can't fight. You can't protect against yourself." Selvig continues.

Nat gets close to him and tries comforting him, "It's not your fault. You didn't know what you were doing."

Selvig shakes his head and says, "Well actually, I think I did. I built in a safety to cut the power source."

"Loki's sceptre?" I ask.

"It may be able to close the portal. And I'm looking right at it." Saying this, Selvig looks down. I lean down the edge to see Loki's sceptre sitting there innocently.

I turn to Nat and say, "I'll bring it to you and then join Thor in destroying that thing." Turning to the left she sees Thor get thrown aside by a Leviathan.

Nat nods and I jump down to get the Sceptre. I quickly absorb it within myself to see if I can take an infinity stone within myself. Other than feeling a little overwhelmed, I handle it well, or more appropriately, Venom handles it well. I jump up and land next to Nat. I bring out the sceptre and offer it to her. "Pocket space within my suit." I explain.

Nat looks at me curiously but accepts the sceptre.

I turn away from her and start webbing towards the Leviathan. I jump down on it and turn to Thor who was fighting an overwhelming amount of Chitauri soldiers. I help him fight them and then bring out a longsword made of Praedium. I flow my Venom Blast through it and it lights up, like Sasuke's Chidori stream. I stab the lighted sword into the Leviathan and call out to Thor. Thor, seeing what I'm doing gathers lightning in his hammer. I don't let go of the sword and keep pouring Venom Blast into the Leviathan through the sword. Thor hits his lightning charged hammer onto the sword. The blast throws me away from the Leviathan and into a building. My sword came with me thanks to my Spider grip. I turn towards the Leviathan as Thor jumps away from it.

It was amazing! The whole Leviathan starts glowing. It starts burning brighter and just.. falls apart. No big explosions or anything, thankfully, it sort of just, shuts down and disassembles. I shake my head, getting out of my awe and swing back towards Stark Tower.

"Siri. How's everyone holding up?" I ask mid swing.

Siri answers, "Stark is currently heading south towards an incoming bogey, Rogers, Barton and Peter are fighting the foot soldiers and are holding the fort, so to speak. Thor and Hulk are destroying a Leviathan down on 7th. They've got it managed. So you can go ahead and help Romanoff, like you want to."

Like I want to? Well she is attractive, but no. I'd rather not get on with her. She scares me.

"Right." I say, uncomfortable, and continue towards Stark Tower. When I reach there, I see Selvig typing something on his Laptop and nod at Natasha. Nat grabs the Sceptre, pierces the barrier surrounding the Tesseract, which does not stop the sceptre.

"I can close it. Can anybody hear me? I can shut the portal down." I hear Nat say, both in front of me, and also in my ears, through the comms.

"Do it!" Cap yells out.

"No wait!" Stark's voice stops Nat right there.

"Stark these things are still coming!" Cap argues.

"I got a nuke coming in. It's gonna blow in less than a minute. And I know just where to put it." Stark mumbles out.

I turn to where I know Stark is and see him carrying a missile on his back and exerting a lot of effort to change it's course. He manages it and almost hits his own building, but starts going upwards towards the Portal.

"Thor, clear up the way for him, please." I say in the earpiece. "Don't want it to blow up early." I explain.

Thor flies off towards the portal and starts killing the Chitauri getting in Stark's way.

"Stark, you know that's a one way trip right?" Cap asks Stark on the common channel. Stark shuts his comms off and continues flying towards the portal, he enters the portal and we wait for a beat. We see a bright light shine on the other side of the portal. The Chitauri soldiers start falling down, one after the other.

"He did it. The nuke blew up on the other side." I tell the others, unnecessarily. Stark is nowhere to be seen.

"Come on, Stark.." Nat mumbles.

Starks still not coming out. We wait another beat.

When a voice in our ears say, "Close it.."

I squint my eyes at the portal and see a black spot coming towards us and knowing it's Stark, I yell out, "WAIT! He's coming through. Although, he's not fucking slowing down. Thor be ready to catch him!"

Nat stops once again and looks up. As soon as we see a figure enter through the portal, Nat pushes the sceptre forwards and closes it. The Tesseract stops beaming its energy and the portal slowly starts closing.

"Son of a gun!" Cap whispers.

Thor looks like he's about to fly above to catch the falling Stark when suddenly he is caught by Hulk mid air. Hulk crashes into a building or two and lands roughly on the road using his body as a cushion for Stark.

We lean down to look at them, not seeing anything clearly, so I bring up a camera feed in front of us three as a hologram. There, we see Thor laying Tony slowly on his back, Cap, Peter and Hulk standing right next to them. Cap checks for a pulse but doesn't detect anything.

It was all sombre for everyone who think Tony's dead, when suddenly Hulk roars out loud.

"Ah!" Tony gasps out, "What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me?"

Peter just points at Hulk and says, "He did. Gave you a big sloppy kiss." There was a beat of silence, then Tony gets horrified and it shows on his face and we all laugh at him, including Hulk.

"We won." Cap says, smiling.

"Yeah, we totally kicked ass!" I speak up.

"Yeah! 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." He points towards a random direction. "I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it."

Thor looks up towards Stark Tower and says, "We're not finished yet." Everyone looks up at us.

Tony nods and says, "And then Shawarma after."

They all get up and start walking towards the Tower so I shut the video down. I turn to look at Nat and ask, "Meet them where Loki is?"

Nat nods and starts walking inside. I follow her keeping my eyes strictly above, and see that Selvig is just sitting there, probably resting.

We walk slowly, so we reach there at about the same time the rest of the Avengers get out of the elevator, with Hulk jumping up from the road.

We see Loki currently crawling onto the stairs, looking like a piece of shit rag doll that's taken a hell of a beating. He takes a few breathes, freezes and then turns around to look at us. He sees all the Avengers standing in a pose, all of us pissed beyond reasoning, and aiming all our weapons at him, me and Peter with our swords, Nat her guns, Tony, his repulsors, while Barton nocks an arrow and points it at him.

"If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now." Loki says to Stark, to which I, Peter and Hulk snort loudly.

I and Peter use our strongest webs to bind him and his mouth. And Thor gets a hold of his neck so he knows that Loki's still here.

We put the sceptre in a case and just wait. A few minutes later Shield agents come to collect the Sceptre, Tesseract as well as Loki as a prisoner.

I turn over the Sceptre to them, because the world needs Wanda if it has to fight Thanos, I remember that fight very clearly.

We go down the lift with Thor and Tony leading us, Tony had the case with the Tesseract in his hand, and was now out of his suit. Loki was trailing behind them with me standing behind Loki using all my senses to make sure he doesn't escape, and the others and a few Shield agents trailing behind me.

We enter the lobby of Stark Tower and get stopped by about 20 Shield agents including a man I hate a lot. Alexander Pierce.

"May I ask you where you are going?" Pierce asks us.

"To lunch and then Asgard. I'm sorry, you are?" Thor asks, confused.

"Alexander Pierce. He's the man, above Nick Fury." Tony answers introducing them.

"They call me Mr Secretary. I'm gonna have to ask you to turn that prisoner over." Pierce says and gestures to a bound Loki.

"Loki will be answering for his crimes to Odin." Thor explains.

"No, he's gonna be answering to us. Loki can't get off with one slap. And I'm gonna need that case." He points to the case in Tony's hand. "It's been a property of SHIELD for over 70 years." An agent tries to take the case from Tony so I go forward and interrupt.

I say, "Mr Secretary? Are you a part of the World Security Council?"

Pierce looks at me, but not knowing who I was, just answers, "Yes, I am. Who are you?"

I don't answer, I instead go right in his face and pick him up by the throat, with my left hand, while I bring out the Praedium dagger in my right hand. I point the dagger towards his throat. Everyone has paused whatever they were doing and all the Shield agents bring out their guns and point it at me, but don't fire. Everything was silent so I ignore the guns pointed at me and whisper, which everyone in the Lobby hears, "You just fired a nuke at the island of Manhattan and tried to murder millions of people. The aftermath of which would have killed millions more. And you want an Alien being so that you could experiment on him and the Tesseract so you could build weapons of more mass destruction? I'd take the sceptre and leave. That's if you like your head on your shoulders."

I throw Pierce away from me who slides a few feet before stopping. I look behind at Thor, who was pissed that his brother was going to be experimented on and brandishes his Hammer.

"Leave." He says just one word, but with so much power behind it that every Shield agent in the lobby almost runs out, taking Pierce with them.

The Avengers all look at me and just stare. I get uncomfortable and ask, "What? I got something on my face or something?"

"Never knew you could threaten someone like Pierce that way." Tony comments, dryly.

I smirk at him with the Venom mask, which creeps them out some more, and ask, "Wanna join me on a mass hacking of the World Security Council? Starting with that asshole?"

Tony's eyes brighten immediately and he nods enthusiastically. Others just shake their heads, while Pete and Nat snort. Thankfully Peter was still wearing his mask.

We all take Loki out with us and have lunch at the Shawarma place Tony told us about. I'd loved Shawarma in my previous life, so having something so familiar to my old life almost brought me to tears, I ate almost as much as Thor did. Thankfully Banner was human once again. We all ate solemnly, still thinking about what happened.

Apparently, after the 3 times Cap's warning played out, the Mayor of New York City held a press conference and declared it a hoax. He said Captain America was dead, since 1945 and Spider-Man was already known to be a menace, so let's not evacuate. Fucking asshole. I'm gonna bring up all the dirt on him and make sure he gets arrested.

The army was already mobilising, because some of the higher ups knew about Shield and that Captain America was alive. So at least there's that. War machine was in DC and it would have taken him a long time to get here, even if he had the knowledge of the attack happening. Stark didn't think to inform him of it. We prevented a lot of deaths, but we could have made it zero, if only the city was evacuated.

Peter was probably thinking about his first kills in his first major battle. I decide to let him think about it first before cheering him up.

Loki was sitting on the table over glaring at us. Why isn't he running away? I look at his eyes, they were now green, which I knew were his normal colours.

I turn to Thor and ask, "Thor? What colour were Loki's eyes?"

Thor gets confused and answers, "Green, like they are now. Why?"

I don't answer him and instead turn to Barton and ask, "What did you see his eyes as before he took over your mind?"

"They were blue. You don't think he was being controlled too, do you?" He returns and asks, afraid of the answer.

I snort and say, "Judging from the way he's glaring at us? Definitely not. But the one who persuaded him had to take over his mind to convince him at first. He's not running away right now, even if he could. That could only mean one thing." I say the last part gravely.

"He's afraid of the one who sent him more than he's afraid of what Odin will do to him. He thinks staying on Asgard, inside Odin's prison will be safer than out here." I finish and look at Loki, who's now glaring at me. His mouth was restrained, thankfully.

We all think about the possibility of someone stronger than Odin coming to Earth and just gulp. Good. I already warned them about Thanos, without mentioning the name.

"Damn, Venom. What is it? Be a badass day today? First you threaten the Shield Secretary, then you figure Loki out. Kudos man." Peter mumbles out.

"Zip it, Spidey. I saw some of your moves today too. The way you saved that woman and her child by standing in front of her. The way you punched through a Chitauri. Shall I continue?" I smirk when Peter blushes and mumbles out a sorry.

We were wearing our masks over just our eyes, keeping our mouths open to eat. Don't need anyone to see what they're not supposed to.

After eating, Tony offers everyone a bed at the Tower which I and Peter refuse. We needed to go home and comfort our respective families and friends. Cap refuses at first but accepts after a while of pleading from Tony. Nat and Barton refuse as they had to go back to base. Thor needed a place to rest before going home, so he accepts. Loki goes with Thor.

Me and Peter decide to go home after that. We swing together till my home after which Pete goes alone. I had already activated the mini Stealth device I'd finally developed for exactly this purpose, so no one manages to follow us.

When I reach home, I find out that Bernard had evacuated the building of its people as soon as I called. Thankfully the people who work there and their families all managed to get out of town in time. Though some of their friends did not take their warnings seriously. After making sure Gwen and Bernard were okay, I immediately get to work.

I first hack the personal files of the Mayor of New York City and any dirt I find, I compile it all in a folder. Once everything is done, I send out the package to Shield, NYPD, and WHiH world news. I don't bother with other news outlets as they didn't report about Ross before.

Then I speak out, "Siri. Start finding out all you can about Alexander Pierce. Hack everything, if you must. I wanna know where he sleeps, how much he sleeps. I want total control over his security systems, and I want every little secret he has kept hidden from Shield and the rest of us. Once that's done, find who the rest of the members of the WSC are and hack their files. We have a few weeks, so no rush. Take your time. Keep backups of any file you copy from them. I'll give you the next task once this one's done."

"Yes, boss. I'll start with Pierce immediately. He could have killed me before I even got my body." Siri says.

I snort and just nod. I then turn to Venom and say, "Venom, buddy. I'm really tired right now. Any chocolate you want, you can eat, but keep it in limit. Don't finish everything. Also, don't go out of the house please."

Venom just separates himself from me and says, "Yess! Fudge, here I come!" and starts going towards the kitchen.

"Siri keep an eye on him please. And don't wake me up." Saying that, I enter my bedroom and just sleep. It was a really long few days. Fucking annoying Asgardian. Had to start a temper tantrum on Earth.

A few weeks later, we all gather at a cleared out Central Park. Loki was bound and gagged and Thor was dragging him around, saying goodbyes to everyone, giving everyone handshakes, but Selvig a hug. Tony opens a case and plucks the Tesseract out of it. Banner brings out the machine that we built using the CMS machine as a basis, to help use Tesseracts energy to open the Bifrost. Tony puts the cube in the glass tube that Banner held and gives the setup to Thor. Thor gives the other end to Loki, who reluctantly takes it and rolls his eyes.

Thor spins the mechanism which activates the device and Thor and Loki disappear. I really hope they landed in the right place. Then, one by one the group splinters off i different directions. Banner joins Tony in his car, Steve rides away on his Harley Davidson, Nat and Barton climb back into SHIELD cars while me and Pete who were in our uniforms swing away.

The news these few days was interesting, to say the least. The mayor got kicked out of office for not taking the warning given by Captain fucking America seriously, and later arrested for drug smuggling and taking bribes. We got named the Avengers, Shield probably made it famous. People finally acknowledged me as Venom. Some people gave us a good review, other fewer people gave us a bad review.

I hired Adrian Toomes in collaboration with Shield and Stark to collect all the Alien tech for the government, meaning Shield. It was also so I could prevent him becoming the Vulture, though who knows. It might still happen. I had to talk to the agents to always have someone keep an eye on the people so that none of the stuff goes missing. I had already absorbed about 5 guns and 4 staves from the Chitauri arsenal, so I didn't worry about that. Seriously pocket space is awesome.

I was really interested in those crystals that power the Chitauri weapons. So I had to take a few more from the wreckage in the middle of the night. I even went into one of the crashed Leviathans and had it scanned and stole it's power source, which was a bigger crystal. It really reminded me of the power stone.