"How much longer till it's ready?" Loki eagerly asked as he approached Erik, who was working on the device that would create the portal using the cube.
Erik turned around with a fanatical fire burning in his eyes and a big grin, "Almost completed, I am making the final adjustments since the energy source from Stark Tower is different from what I originally thought. The energy from his Arc Reactor is pure and clean, I will be done not long from now. We will see what more the cube can show us, together." After saying this he returned to work on the device, Loki jumped down onto Tony's balcony and took over Tony's Penthouse Suite.
Adam watched everything, he made sure all teams were in position, which they were. Peggy Carter not only was an excellent agent and spy, she was a superb leader as well. Armin Zola had to wait for her to retire before they could truly sink their tendrils deep into SHIELD.
She was efficient and highly intelligent, she was a master strategist, and now with a super soldier serum that not only gave physical boosts but mental ones as well, she was even better than she was in her prime.
It didn't take long for the UNSC crew to respect and admire her, even though she was new and not from their time. There were some who didn't like Adam's decision, but they didn't say or do anything besides voice out their opinion on the matter, but it didn't take long for them to understand Adam's decision.
Soon Tony showed up and just like originally he offered Loki a drink while secretly having Jarvis begin to prep the Mark 8 suit. Thor had warned them of the Chitauri army and was surprised that many of them knew who the Chitauri were.
So knowing they would be fighting an army he was going to need his new suit.
After his attempt at mind controlling Tony, who was protected from the mind stones energy thanks to the energy field his arc reactor produced. Its energy had a regenerative effect and was able to block the energy from the Sceptre.
Seeing his attempts fail, and receiving a typical Tony Stark witty comment, Loki threw Tony hard enough to smash thru the window and begin falling to his death.
However his new suit saved him and he was able to enter the suit and fly back up for a little payback, just as he fired a blast which had thrown Loki clear across the room and thru a wall, the device on the roof activated.
Looking up, Tony saw the beam of energy shoot into the sky and a small black portal began to grow, as it got bigger, stars could be seen like the night sky itself.
Any astronomer that looked into this portal would immediately be able to tell these stars were different than what was normally seen, the portal opened at a completely different part of the universe after all.
As the portal grew, suddenly small objects could be seen flying down from the portal. Tony, in his new armor, began to take out the Chitauri in groups thanks to his various weapons. Soon the Avengers all showed up and began to defend the city, they were joined by the teams Adam had sent prior. Thanks to UNSC superior firepower, the Chitauri were literally flying into a blender.
Adam had to wait until he got a lock on the ship before firing, while Eve used the drones that monitor Earth, to focus scans into the portal to scan for the ship, he easily knocked Erik out and went for the Sceptre.
In a typical UNSC officer uniform, Adam flew down and saw the staff laying on the outside walkway to the balcony area, when Tony's suit flew out it had hit Loki from behind causing him to drop the staff.
Before Loki could retrieve it Tony had flown up then hit him again, this gave Adam the perfect opportunity. After retrieving the staff using his telekinesis, he flew back to the roof and readied the rocket launcher so that he could fire as soon as the lock was established.
Down on ground level things were hectic but not unmanageable. Steve coordinated everyone keeping the heavy hitters such as Hulk, Thor and Stark on offense as well as the UNSC teams. The rest of them focused on getting civilians out safely and coordinating with the police to keep people out of the area.
It didn't take long till Eve informed that the Chitauri ship was located and locked onto. Immediately after getting confirmation Adam fired the EMP up into the portal.
While watching the missile dodge incoming Chitauri and Leviathans, the missile was a smart missile so it was able to maneuver around obstacles to hit the locked on target, Adam prepared to shut down the device as soon as he saw it go off.
It was the longest two minutes of Adams life so far. A large force had already made it thru, but it wasn't close to being out of hand. Finally he saw a large blue electricity ball explode and all the Chitauri soldiers dropped, like puppets having their strings cut.
Adam, using the Sceptre, shut down the device which closed the portal, he then removed the Tesseract. Just after he used a portable translocation pad to send both the Sceptre and cube to Infinity, Adam felt danger and jumped back just as a beam of energy smashed the device that created the portal.
Looking over he saw a glowing woman with long blond hair looking right at him.
"Those weren't yours to take, hand them over, now." Carol demanded, she had been in a meeting with Fury when this happened so she had shown up late.
From what Fury had stated and told her about the man now in front of her, she didn't like him one bit. She felt he was one who craved control, and she did agree with Fury that Adam shouldn't have the cube or Sceptre since he had a high risk of conquering the Earth once he has established himself.
Fury told her about his plans to build space stations and bases, which once completed would definitely give him full control over not just the Earth but the whole solar system, Carol knew this because she knew every empire had the same.
Carol had no plans to allow it, but seeing Adam retrieve both and send them off somehow, she was pissed. She regretted taking Loki out first before coming up to the roof to get the cube back, she figured even if Adam got the cube first she could just take it with force.
"Wouldn't you like to know, so now your Fury's little attack dog? Shouldn't you be out there doing your little space police thing? You're out of your depth here little girly, go run along back to dealing with pirates and criminals, you're good at bullying the weak aren't you, otherwise you wouldn't be going after such low level characters and go after Thanos to stop his slaughtering of planets." Adam nonchalantly said as he prepared to fight her, he knew it would come to this no matter what he said so he figured it best to have a little fun with her.
Hearing what Adam said stunned her for a moment then pissed her off even more, it was true what he said, but it wasn't by choice. She had wanted to go fight and stop Thanos but things kept coming up.
Multiple conflicts had broken out across the galaxy and the Kree were attacking Nova Empire owned colonies and planets. She was trying to protect the Nova Corps, who she had basically joined after finding out what the Kree had done to her, she wasn't about to join back with a bunch of fanatical supremacists, a empire hell bend on genocide.
Carol moved in for the attack, angered by Adam's words, but a sudden voice from beneath her startled her.
"Too slow. Come on you have to be faster than this." Adam said as he appeared underneath her and punched her in the stomach, launching her into the air like a bullet.
The UNSC teams began to open fire onto Carol as she flew high into the air, Adam flew up and raised a hand which stopped the barrage of bullets fired at Carol.
"Don't interfere, I will handle her myself. All teams work on clean up and salvage. Priority on rescue however, have a team dedicated to retrieval of alien tech. I don't want to see one missed piece of equipment, the last thing we need is alien tech in civilian hands." Adam ordered as he watched Carol catch herself in mid air, he knew she was getting angry which is exactly what he wanted.
Unlike the Hulk she didn't get stronger as she got angry, it would cause her to make mistakes, a cool head in battle can beat a stronger opponent. The last thing you want is to bring emotions into a fight unless you can channel it which is what keeps a calm mind.
"Guess you been dealing with weak nobodies too long Barbie, you're going to need to do much better than that for you to have any chance." Adam said as he floated up closer to Carol.
Carol took a few breaths and replied, "I wasn't trying to kill you, I just wanted to get what you were stealing back. But it sounds like you need to be shown just how outclassed you are, muscle for brains." Carol mocked back as she began to glow brighter as she released more of her power.
It was true that due to her mainly fighting low level pirates and such, she had always limited her strength so she wouldn't accidentally kill them.
"That would imply that the cube has an owner, you know as well as I that no one owns an infinity stone, they can only be possessed. Plus, even throughout this galaxy and others across the universe, possession is nine tenths of the law. We will see who teaches the lesson today." Adam relied as he took a battle stance, then gestured mockingly with a smile saying bring it.
Carol sped over towards Adam, much faster than before and punched out towards his face. She wanted to punch that smug look off his face so badly.
Adam caught the fist and shook his head, pulled her in and headbutt her which sent her down back towards the ground.
"More. I'm not even going all out here. You come here thinking you can do as you please, make threats to get what you want. Well sweetheart, you better be able to back up those threats. Otherwise you can find yourself in a bad situation. You're nothing but an attack dog right now, do you know another name for a female dog? Now if you can't be civil and hear the other side of things, then I'll treat you exactly like the bitch you are being." Adam taunted as he flew down in Carol's direction.
"Fury said you had a mouth on you, I'm going to enjoy shutting it up." Carol replied as she shot a large beam of energy from her hands at Adam.
She was surprised that even after releasing more power he was able to easily take her punch, so she began to access more of her power. Her speed and strength increased the more she released.
The more she released the glow around her body began to pulse, as flashes of blue lightning made of pure energy emanated from her eyes. The more Adam dodged her attacks the angrier she became, until she finally snapped.
"Fine, don't blame me if you can't survive. You asked for this." Carol at her wits end, she let go of the restraints she placed on herself.
Carol flew straight at Adam, turning into a beam of light and smashed a straight punch onto Adams left rib cage.
She moved so fast, although Adam knew to dodge, the speed was unexpected thus she landed a solid full powered hit. Adam shot thru a large building, crashing thru desks and out the other side before he was able to stop his momentum.
Carol was shocked from the pain she felt in her hand and wrist, Adam's flesh and bones were extremely dense so it was like hitting a steel wall.
"Now we're talking." Adam said as he dusted himself off. Another flash and Carol tried to land an uppercut, however now Adam expected the speed and moved forward sending a knee into Carol's stunned face.
Carol's body flew backwards and crashed into a SHIELD SUV, the vehicle folded in half and crumpled around her. Adam was using his magnetic ability to crunch the car around her, trying to trap her inside.
The vehicle exploded shortly after it had fully encased her.
Within the crater left behind, Carol floated a bit off the ground making her at the same eye level as Adam, her fists were clenched so hard her knuckles were turning white and shaking. She hadn't had this much trouble with an opponent in so long, flashes of Yon-Rogg and her sparring when she was in the Starforce appeared in her memories.
"I hope you're ready for round two, cause the gloves are off now." Carol said thru gritted teeth, Adam just cracked his neck and smiled. He was more than ready.