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Chapter 7 - The Battle of New York

In the middle of New York City, a ray of blue light shot towards the sky from the top of the STARK tower by a wormhole generator, operated by Sylvig. After reaching a certain height, it stopped and spread making a huge circle like a black hole. But instead of being black, it was violet-blue colored. It was a portal.

As the portal opened, small-sized air pods started pouring out from it, each boarded by a vicious creature, called the Chitauri. "So these are the Chitauri," I muttered to myself after seeing the true form of the aliens. I read about them in some mythology books as well as seen their forms in the movie, but seeing them in the movies and in reality, they seem very different. These are simple-minded dogged creatures, similar to insects, to the point of following a queen. The Chitauri were able to mimic human form and absorb human knowledge, by sucking the organs or brains out of the humans they imitated.

Tony, in Iron Man suit, drifted in the air towards the horde of Chitauri, while shooting laser beams and missiles. Chitauri started pouring through the hole in a massive amount.

I could see blinks and beams of blue lights shot around Stark tower, guess Thor and Loki are. I, Natasha, Steve and Barton were currently in my Quinn Jet. I looked back and saw Barton was looking outside the windows. "Barton, take control of that remote. It is a remote machine-gun controller. Shoot as many as you can."

"Where the hell should I sit? I don't understand a single thing. How the hell did you modify the Quinn Jet, so much? I swear this was a regular one when Fury gave it to you." Barton spurted, as I could already see him clueless.

"Just sit on the seat on your right and consider the control like a video game remote." I told him while focusing my speed.

"game remote…." He muttered to himself. I just chuckled at his behavior and focused on my driving.

"Natasha, leave the driving controls to me. I have Mr. X, it will help. You just focus on clearing my way and watch for friendlies."

"There's Stark." She said as we saw a red suit fly between the buildings. Natasha turned the communication com and said, "Stark, we are in three hundred North-East."

"Just swing up. I am gonna layup park for you." Stark replied through the system.

"I don't think we can land near the tower. I have a plan. We will drop Barton on a tall building near the Stark tower so, he would provide support. We have to clear the Stark tower so we could do something about that projector. Steve will do something to retrieve the Scepter. I think we'll need it." I voiced my plan which I came up with in this short while.

Nobody said I guessed they agreed.

Our Quinn Jet was getting near the tower. Tony circled in the sky and passed in a narrow street. As Natasha saw him pass by she readied Jet's machine gun. All the weapons of this ship are modified specifically for this battle. I doubted if normal guns would work. I infused the coils with small electromagnetic generators to accelerate the rounds fired to high velocity thus making it an extremely potent weapon for long-range. Natasha shot several Chitauri pods that were following Tony.

[User Tennyson, we have more incoming.] Mr. X's voice resounded.

"Fine, let's keep them occupied. I have a feeling that something much bigger is coming."

When I was passing around the Stark tower suddenly my Jet's one engine was hit by Loki's energy beam. Unfortunately, this was the only place in Quinn Jet that was not protected completely by the energy barrier. I was working on it, but it was the only place that needed direct contact with the environment to produced the up-thrust effect in the air. Our Jet lost balance and landed with a thud on the road.

"I swear, I'm going to hang this guy from the STARK tower so, every villain could see not to mess with my Jet or car again." I voiced my irritation because I knew the scene in the movie where Loki shot the Quinn Jet only when he noticed that it was going to shoot at him. Therefore, I was careful and I wasn't shooting at him because Thor was also near him.

Steve and Barton shot outside, while I stopped Natasha since she didn't have a weapon. I took out two Gauss Rifles from the Jet's armory and handed one to Natasha because Gauss Rifle is the only thing that can take out big insect-like Chitauri. I also took a minigun from there. It was not regular-sized but it was powerful. It shoots small bullets with extremely fast velocity enforced by electromagnetism. I hung the minigun from my right shoulder and went outside followed by Natasha.

"Be care full with it. It has a very strong impact. It has enough power to pierce the defenses of these creatures."

As we took off the Jet, a large boulder from the top of the building was a few meters ahead of us.

"Seems like we 500 meters away from the tower. Others are pretty much busy, let's go." I told Natasha as we hid behind the cars on the road. Everything was abandoned. We haven't spent much time inside the jet but seems like Steve and the others were faster. They probably took the civilians to safety. I hung the Gauss on my shoulder and took out the Mini-gun. I gestured to Natasha for going silently, and thanks to being a spy she understood perfectly and started following me. We sneakily passed several Chitauri but I didn't bother killing them since the civilians were already taken to safety. We reached a huge building similar in structure to the Baxter building but I had checked this world several times for any extra heroes and there wasn't any, besides Avengers and SHIELD. I held the Mini-gun and pointed to nearby Chitauri and then pressed the liver. With a booming sound, the Chitauri blasted into smithereens. It also astonished me because I haven't had the occasion to test these weapons. Natasha was also surprised. The Mini-gun seemed was really heavy because my absorbed Asgardian physiology couldn't hold it for much longer. Or rather the DNA I absorbed was not stronger. I should try absorbing Thor's sometimes. I put the Mini-gun away and picked Gauss. Now, it is time to test its power.

Then my senses picked up the arrival of something big. I tool Natasha's hand and ran towards the entrance of the building. "Aren't we going to help the other?" Natasha asked me when we were looking for a back door in the building in order to get into STARK tower. We silently went up the stairs that we found in the right corner of the building. We reached the upper floor and passed through a small door to another platform inside the building, where two Chitauri were standing pointing their weapons towards the ground floor. I gestured for Natasha to take the one on the left while I took aim at the right one and pressed the trigger. For a split second, a small ball of lightning gathered in the coil and then shot forward with a boom and both the Chitauri along with their armors turned to dust.

"These weapons are so powerful. How did you manage to get your hands on them?" Natasha asked as I could sense clear astonishment in her voice.

"I created them with magic and technology."

"No wonder they are magical." (Natasha)

We walked to the platform and looked down to see what was the Chitauri pointing their weapons at. The ground floor was full of civilians. When everyone saw us, they looked at us. I put my finger on the lips to let them stay silent. They complied and we made our way to the ground floor and then out from the building. I took Natasha's hand and ran towards the building. As I entered the building, I heard Steve's voice on the intercom. We were constantly hearing their voices but those were just their conversation, but now they asked about us.

[Agent Tennyson, Agent Romanoff; do you copy?] (Steve)

"This is Agent Tennyson. I copy. We are inside the STARK building."

[That's good. Move to the top floor and try shutting down the portal projector.] (Steve)

"We are on it CAP. Just try to keep these creepy things occupied."

[Tony, keep an eye on them.]

"ROOOOOOAOAAAAARRRRRR"

While we were distracted, a terrific roar came from the direction of the portal. "I guess, this is some big insect Chitauri." I voiced as I saw a giant mouth full of vampire-like teeth appearing in the portal from the lift's glass. I saw it in the movie, but in reality, it was something I couldn't think of anything scarier than this. It was like a giant dragon with tiny wings on either side and was completely covered with metallic scales.

I saw something falling from the top of the tower. It was Loki who jumped to a pod. "Thor, leave the scepter there on the tower we might use to it shut the portal."

[Right!] (Thor)

We hurriedly made our way to the elevator and moved to the top floor. Thank goodness, the elevator was working just fine. Then reached an extended platform with an 'S' symbol. There I saw the scepter still lying on the balcony. Just at the moment Barton shot down a Loki's pod and send his straight towards us. We both ran towards there. As Loki was standing up I told Natasha, "Natasha, take the scepter and go. The Scepter is powerful enough to penetrate the barriers around the Tesseract." Natasha took the Scepter and went.

I stood in front of Loki and took my stance. Loki smiled evilly, but I wasn't in the mood of joking. I ran straight at him and punch him in the face. He was probably expecting less force but it was the exact amount of strength combined with my Osmosian strength with is comparable to a super-soldier. He flew a few meters. He hurriedly got up. Lines of shock were clearly visible on his face. Without underestimating me anymore, he rushed at me and swung his right hand towards my face. I stepped to the left side. I could clearly feel the gush of wind hitting my face due to the speed of force he put into his punch. Seeing his attack going missed, he kicked me in the stomach. And this was my turn to fly several feet hitting the floor. My strength was still not enough to face him head-on. I got up and ordered Julie to jam all the video cameras inside for a while.

[All cameras are jammed successfully.]

As I heard this notification, an evil smirk found its way on my lips. I looked towards Loki who was slowly walking in my direction. "See mortal, you cannot bully a god. An ant cannot quarrel with a boot. I am burdened with glorious purpose and no one can stop me."

"Guess what!? You haven't seen anything then. But let me tell you one thing." I spoke with a smile.

"And what is that?" Loki asked, clearly confused by what I was gonna say.

"This is Hero time." Then a green flash of blinding light occurred and Loki stepped back a little due to the intense light.

When he looked at me again, he only managed to speak in horror, "W-what are you?"