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Chapter 8 - The New York War – Part II

I was inside the Stark tower. Loki was coming towards my direction with his smirking face.

"I just wanna say one thing." I said with a calm smile.

"What could the last of a mortal be?" Loki was clearly laughing because he thought I would beg his forgiveness.

"This is Hero time." I shouted in excitement as I turned the dial and brought it to an alien with exactly similar appearance to Hulk, and pressed the Dial, then followed a flash of green light. I could feel my bones getting expanded and my body was developing more muscles. The feeling of transformation felt like rotating in a washing machine but it didn't felt bad in any sense.

"Outrage!" the whole Stark tower shook at the voice of my alien form. I could feel my chest burning than ever and I knew what this new feeling was. It was rage, a lot of rage, felt like someone has just put a molten rock in my chest.

"Huh! Another mindless beast. How desperate of you people to rely on monsters?" Loki taunted at my appearance, but I had a feeling inside that he shouldn't have said that cos' another feeling emerged inside me and that was to crush this guy. Even I couldn't control myself at this moment.

*roaaaaaaaaar

My body moved on its own and hit Loki with an overpowered punch and blasted him into a far wall inside the Stark tower. He turned red all from tip to toe. Then he jumped back, looked into his hands and then glanced at me. I could sense anger in his eyes but my anger was much more than his.

"ENOUGH!!!!"

"You and all of you are beneath me. I am a god you dowel creature. I would not be bullied by…." He couldn't even complete his sentence as he was pulled by someone from his cape. He was trashed here and there and then to the ground. Even I was dumbfoundedly looking at the scene unfold in front of me. The figure that pulled Loki was none other than Hulk.

"puh! Puny, god." (Hulk)

"Come on! Hulk, you took my chance of beating him." I pointed my question towards Hulk who just walked towards me.

"Hulk… smash puny god." Hulk said towards me. I guess it was the first time he talked to someone.

"But I wanted to smash him." I said after pressing the Dial and turning back to human.

"Go, help the others. Hulk, smash all the big creeps." I spoke and winked at Hulk.

"Hulk smaaaaash." Hulk roared and jumped from the building.

After a few, minutes I managed to reach the top of the tower, where the portal generator was seated.

"It's great that you brought the Scepter here. I build a safety to cut the power source. We can cut the power supply to the Tesseract through the Scepter." The wide awake, Dr. Sylvig said to us. I nodded towards him and told Natasha to proceed. Just as we were discussing how to close the portal, Fury's voice came through the intercoms.

"Stark, do you hear me? You have a missile, heading straight for the city."

"H-How long?" Stark said. I could hear clinking voices through the intercom. It seems like he is in the middle of a hand to hand fight. Then with swarming like sound he disappeared into a direction opposite from the tower to South-East.

"I am getting closer. Does anybody copy? I can shut the portal down." Natasha said as she got closer to the Portal Generator with the Scepter in hand.

"Do it." Said Steve in a hurry, but then Tony said to wait. "Stark, these things are still coming."

"I got nuke coming this way, and I know exactly where to put it." Tony said, then turned towards Natasha and said, "Just wait; till Tony pushes that missile through the portal then we'll close it immediately." Natasha waited and we looked into the sky and there we saw a big missile flying our way. In the midway it changed its direction towards the portal and rushed forward. Then Tony along with the Nuke-missile went through the portal.

"Close it." Steve's voice came. But I interjected, "No wait. He will come." Time was passing very slowly. We were waiting for Iron Man to show up but after a long time. Steve again said, "Close it Natasha. He is gone." Then Natasha towards me, when I didn't say anything so she went for the close and the portal started shrinking in the sky the blue ray that was connecting the portal to the tower was cut off and at the final movements of its closing a red silhouette appeared in the sky. Everyone jumped in joy. But he was not slowing down, so Hulk leaped and cought it in the air and crashed along with it on the ground, destroying a car in the process.

"There he is!" I said and turned towards the Portal Generator. I reached my hands towards it, and pulled the Tesseract. I held it in my hands but nothing happened, then I put the stone into my and poured my in the cube. It turned out the cube is a great conductor of energy. When the Life Energy became denser, I used and turned the Life energy into a crystal. It started shining in denser pink colour. After making the crystal I held the Space Stone in my other hand started pouring the Space Stone's energy into the crystal. After a little while, the Cube turned blue again and I put that on the ground. Dr. Sylvig climbed down. Natasha went to grab the Scepter, but then the Cube started shining. It got even brighter. I myself didn't understand what was happening. Since I haven't seen this sort of scene in any book or movie I had watched. I ran toward Natasha to take her away from the Energy blast but we both were sucked by the energy.

3rd Pov

Natasha and Ben were standing on the top of the tower. When a blue-mist covered both of them and they were sucked by it. After a while, the mist was gone along with both Natasha and Ben. But the Tesseract and the Scepter were lying on the ground.

Thor jumped to the top of the tower, but only discovered the Scepter and Tesseract in place. He picked both of them up and jumped towards others. Tony was lying on the ground, not moving. Everyone was in grief. They lost many people today: first, Coulson, then Natasha and Ben and now Tony. Steve held his head down. Hulk was really different; he was also feeling sad because his only friend, Ben was lost. Then Hulk roared very loud, in agony and something unexpected happened.

Tony jumped in fear, "What the hell?" Tony gulped and said in astonishment.

"What happened? Did we win? Let's go to a nearby restaurant tomorrow. The shwarma there is very special." Tony said lying on the ground.

"We are not finished yet?" Thor said.

"What do you mean?" Tony asked him, Steve also looked towards him and said, "Ben and Natasha are missing. They were sucked by a small portal. It must have opened while they were shutting down the Generator." Steve said in one breath, without taking a breath.

"Now, they could be anywhere in the space. We can only hope they are safe and find their way back." Thor said.

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When Loki opened his eyes, he found all the Avengers holding their weapons at him. Then he said, "If it all the same to you, I will have that drink now."

*Roar

Hulk roared and was about to lung at him, but Steve said, "It isn't necessary Hulk, we need him alive."

"Why? Natasha's gone. Ben's gone. Hulk's friend is gone. They are not coming." Hulk said and then walked to a side and sat on the floor. The other avengers took the Scepter and Tesseract and went down through the elevator. But contrary to the original plot Hulk stayed there.