Italics means over comms speech

3rd Person POV

As Ash flies on her own for the first time, she pulls ahead of the Quinjet Nat, Steve, and Clint are in to join Tony in his Iron Man suit as he was flying ahead of them all.

"Good to see you finally operating on your own for once." Tony tells her as she flies right by his side.

"Figured the end of the world is as good a time as any other." Ash side shrugs as they make it to Stark Tower in New York, where Dr. Selvig is seen on the roof with the portal opening machine running.

"Shut it down, Dr. Selvig." Tony instructs Selvig, but in his mind-controlled state, he doesn't relent.

"It's too late! It can't stop now. He wants to show us something! A new universe." Selvig looks at the two of them with a wonder in his light blue eyes that was not fully his own.

"Okay." Tony raises a hand and fires at the machine, but the light blue forcefield around it repels the shot, ricocheting it to strike Selvig, throwing him against a small structure on the roof.

The barrier is pure energy. It's unbreachable. JARVIS announces before Tony tells Ash,

"New plan, you check to make sure the doc's alright and I'll deal with the Trickster King." Ash nodded to show she understood before she landed, albeit a bit off-balance, to check on Dr. Selvig as Tony walks to the indoor bar inside the building, his damaged suit being taken off before Loki tells Tony,

"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity."

"Uh...actually, I'm planning to threaten you." Tony responded casually as he makes it to the bar.

"You should have left your armor on for that."

"Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage. You've got the blue stick of destiny. Would you like a drink?"

"Stalling me won't change anything."

"No, no, no! Threatening. No drink? You sure? I'm having one."

"The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that. What have I to fear?"

"The Avengers." Tony pours himself a drink as Loki looks at him confused before explaining, "It's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes' type of thing."

"Yes, I've met them."

"Yeah, takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one." As Tony begins his count off he pulls on a pair of metal bracelets while Loki is turned around,

"But, let's do a headcount here. Your brother, the demi-God; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; an alien who is a literal hothead underneath all the quiet; a couple of master assassins, and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them."

"That was the plan."

"Not a great plan. When they come, and they will, they'll come for you."

"I have an army."

"We have a Hulk."

"I thought the beast had wandered off."

"You're missing the point. There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it." Ash slowly gets up from where she's crouched near Selvig when she sees Loki walking closer to Tony as he says,

"How will your friends have time for me, when they're so busy fighting you?" Before tapping Tony in the chest with the scepter, but it doesn't work so he tries, and fails, again before asking in confusion,

"This usually works."

"Well, performance issues. You know? One of ten-" Tony is cut off when Loki grabs him around the throat and tosses him to the floor a distance from him, startling Ash until Tony makes the same hand signal that Bruce used to signal to her that he was alright.

"JARVIS. Anytime now." Tony tries to rush his AI as Loki grabs him again and hisses in his face,

"You will all fall before me."

"Deploy. Deploy!"

Ash stood there on the edge, watching as Tony fell toward the street below the building right before a bulky red missile-like shape came shooting after him, locking in on the bracelets on his wrists before encasing him in a new Iron Man suit. 

After fully suiting up in midair, Tony fired up his repulsors and flew back up to Loki's level and remarked,

"And there's one other person you pissed off! His name was Phil."

Loki raised his scepter to shoot at Tony but was shot back by a fire blast coming from behind him, revealing that Ash had snuck in behind him while he was focused on Tony.

"Nice shootin' kid." Tony praised right before a burst of energy shot out of the machine on the roof and tore a hole in the sky rimmed with faltering blue, allowing several beings on strange flying machines to come through.

"Right. Army."

"Try to redirect their line of fire, I will attempt to get the people out of danger." Ash told Tony before she flew down to the ground, landing more smoothly on the steps to the cafe that was close to Stark Tower and announced to the people who were cowering from the attacks from the Chitauri,

"Please evacuate and take cover inside!" 

People still looking to her in fear, they didn't notice a Chitauri raining fire toward them. Noticing its fast approach, Ash clasped her hands together to make a single fist that created a stream of fire that shot toward and melted the approaching vehicle.

"Didn't mean to do that, but I guess it's better than the alternative." Ash stared at the melted mass of metal that lay a few feet in front of her and to the crowd of people who were listening to her and clearing off the streets.

Stark, we're heading northeast. Ash pressed a finger to the comm in her ear to hear Nat's voice coming through before Tony snarked,

What, did you stop for drive-thru? Swing up Park, I'm gonna lay 'em out for you.

"Don't leave me out." Ash commented wryly as she used her flames to fly up and over the buildings to locate the Quinjet that the others had been flying until she saw several small explosions followed by a much larger one coming from a few streets away from where she was.

As she approached, the source of the blasts, she saw that the wing of the ship was on fire and was going to crash down on the street.

"No..." Memories of her own ship crashing on Earth came to mind for Ash and she wasn't about to let it happen again on her watch. 

Blasting toward the Quinjet at full speed, Ash braced herself against the front of the ship as it was dipping down towards the ground, before shooting her hands out and firing the biggest blast she could muster. 

The force was enough to level out the ship out as Clint steered it from the inside to make a controlled crash on the street below them, but Ash was still pinned under the bow of the ship underneath the rubble.

"Kid!" Nat came running out with Clint and Steve behind her as she moved aside some of the rubble to get to Ash.

"There." Clint grabbed a hand that was reaching towards the sky and Nat struggled to help him pull Ash out of the rubble until Steve came over and lifted her out by her suit's collar like it was nothing.

Coughing and waving some dust away from her face and out of her hair, she swallowed before assuring them with a thumbs up,

"I'm alright."

"That was crazy," Clint told her before thumping her back and saying, "I like ya."

Ash was smiling up at Clint when they heard a monstrous roar coming from the hole in the sky that made the smile fade from her face. Coming out of the portal in the sky, an enormous Leviathan flew it's way out and onto Earth, weaving its way over their heads and through the surrounding skyscrapers.

Out from underneath its armor, several lines were shot out from the Levithan with Chitauri soldiers at the ends of them firing away at the civilians that were still on the streets trying to find shelter.         

"No no no no no not again..." Ash gripped her head as the memory of the attack of the Chitauri and Leviathans came to her at full force with the violence they had displayed on her home planet and the sounds of pained screams as well as the sight of her dead friend flashed through her mind.

"Hey it's alright..." Nat kneeled down in front of her with both of her hands on Ash's arms in an attempt to draw her back to reality before she looked to Steve who radioed in to Tony,

"Stark, are you seeing this?"

I'm seeing, still working on believing. Where's Banner? Has he shown up yet?

"Banner?"

Just keep me posted. Tony signed off just as Steve turned back to see Nat still trying to shake Ash out of her fearful haze as her face dipped down shadowing her face.

"Alright, enough of this." Nat raised her hand, about to slap Ash when she gently put her hand on hers to stop it and she slowly stood up with a deadly determined look in her eyes.

"I won't let this world fall like my home did, not while I'm still breathing..." She lit two fires in her hands and started throwing them at any Chitauri that came close to them as the others used their respective weapons and abilities to do the same.

In the heat of battle, Ash diverged from the group to help save the few people who remained on the streets as they sought out shelter. She flew a little boy out of a Chitauri's line of fire before reuniting him with his mother at the entrance of a subway tunnel, directed a flying soldier away from the glass windows of a building that was still evacuating citizens, and saved a couple who were about to be crushed from a large chunk of a building that was damaged by a Chitauri, earning a quick thank you from the two before they ran off and she faced the soldier that had almost killed them.

"This is for what your people did to my home!" Ash unarmed the soldier by wrenching and throwing its spear away before slamming both her hands on either side of its head and melting its inner workings between her glowing hands in a moment of vengeful fury. Its last attempt to save itself by clawing at her hands was wasted before it completely shut down for the last time, making Ash feel a strange sense of satisfaction looking down at the fallen enemy.

However, once she saw what she had done, even to an enemy who had aided in the destruction of her planet, she looked to herself terrified of what she was becoming until bolts of lightning struck down from the sky, blasting several soldiers on the streets back in an enormous shockwave

"Thor." Ash smiled to herself before she flew back to where the group had been, only the God of Thunder had joined them as they were discussing their plan of action,

"How do we do this?" Nat questioned before Steve answered,

"As a team."

"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor announced before Clint cut in as he sharpened an arrow tip,

"Yeah? Get in line."

"Let's not waste this time with pointless bickering." Ash interjected as she made her presence known to the group.

"Thank you." Steve emphasized before Ash nodded once and he continued with his battle plan, "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-"

Steve was interrupted when they all heard the motor of a vehicle and turned to see Bruce riding in on a small, old motorcycle through the rubble on the ground. 

Getting off the bike, Ash shouted his name before running to him and nearly tackling him in a hug that he returned. He looked her over to see the suit she was wearing and the dusted rubble that covered her from head to toe before releasing her and saying to the others,

"So, this all seems.. horrible."

"I've seen worse." Nat told him nonchalantly with a neutral expression.

"Sorry."

"No. We could use a little worse."

"Stark? We got him."

"Banner?"

"Just like you said."

"Then tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you."

Out from the corner of building they could all see the Iron Man suit flying toward them with a Leviathan in close pursuit making Thor toss his hammer up ready to hit it as Nat stuttered a bit, 

"I... I don't see how that's a party..."

Tony manages to swoop down enough for the Leviathan to hit the street, tearing up the asphalt as it skidded toward them. 

Bruce gave Ash a little side hug before walking toward the gradually approaching Leviathan right as Steve recommended, 

"Dr. Banner. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."

"That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry."

Right before he started to transform into the Hulk, punching the Chitauri to where it started to flip over, but didn't make it all the way when Tony shot a missile into a soft spot, making it explode from the inside. Everyone took cover somehow as the explosion came towards them, but Ash was almost left exposed until she was scooped up as the debris hit what, or rather who, ever was protecting her.

Looking up after the dust cleared, she saw that the Hulk had been the one to protect her and she smiled up at him making him put her down gently before they all saw the Leviathan crash down on the street below. 

Unleashing a fearsome roar, Hulk and the others all gathered around in a circle back to back as Clint equipped an arrow, Thor readied his hammer, Nat reloaded her weapon, Steve tightened his shield strap, Tony prepared his repulsors, and Ash lit up a fire in each of her hands. After a moment, everyone looked up to see hundreds more flying Chitauri and Leviathans coming through the portal on Loki's command. 

"Guys." Nat gestured to all the incoming forces that threatened to overpower them all.

"Call it, Cap." Tony told Steve as they all turned their attention to the skies before he started giving the order,

"Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash."

"Wanna give me a lift?"

"Right. Better clench up, Legolas." Tony informed Clint before lifting him off the ground by the back of his suit and they both flew off.

"Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You've got the lightning. Light the bastards up." Thor whirled his hammer in a circle before throwing it up to take off from the ground before Steve directed toward Nat,

"You and me, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. Ash, get any stray citizens off the streets and out of buildings within the perimeter and fry any attackers who get too close. And Hulk." 

Hulk turned to Steve with a growl before he pointed up and told him,

"Smash."

To which he smiled before launching himself off the ground to pummel whatever Chitarui were on the skyscrapers close by.

"Try to keep his rampage contained if you can." Steve added to Ash and she nodded before taking off to the skies, blasting any soldiers that got in her way.

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AN- Sorry it took a while to write the first part of the battle scene but my break has not been as relaxing as I hoped it would be and now that I'm going back to school updates may be slow since I'll be having Robotics four days out of the week, community service club another day, and so I'll only have two "free" days. On that bummer note, I hope you enjoy the last chapters of the Avengers movie ^^