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BY the time (Y/N) returned to Clint and Natasha's side, they had everything under control. They were both firing at every Chitauri that stepped in their radar and Steve had joined them in the last second, using his shield to fight through the aliens.
(Y/N) saw how Clint was busy in shooting his arrows at the Chitauri in the right, that he wasn't paying attention at the ones that were sneaking up behind him. Without thinking, (Y/N) raised a balled fist and blasted off the alien, knocking it out cold, the sound catching Clint's attention.
"Thanks," he muttered out of breath.
(Y/N) was about to say something when Natasha let out a cry that related to a cheer. "Finally!"
An exasperated laugh escaped (Y/N)'s lips. "Did it fulfill your expectations?"
"It certainly did."
(Y/N) rolled her eyes playfully and saw the upcoming Chitauri soldiers coming their way with raised weapons, but before she could raise her hands and do anything, they were all struck by lightning from above at the same time. This made her look up in the air and see Thor's figure approaching the ground with his hammer in his hand.
Once Thor hit the ground, Steve approached him. "What's the story upstairs?"
"The power surrounding the Cube is impenetrable," Thor told him, frustration evident in his voice.
"Thor's right," Tony's voice returned. "We got to deal with these guys."
Natasha looked amongst the group. "How do we do this?"
"As a team."
"I have unfinished business with Loki," Thor spoke up with his eyes following Steve.
Clint scoffed while he fiddled with one of his arrows. "Yeah? Well, get in line."
"Save it," Steve said to him. "Loki's going to 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 — "
A motorcycle engine cut him off guard, and he looked behind his shoulder to see who it was and immediately recognized the person. Bruce Banner was slowing down the motorbike through the rubble and crashed cars, wearing disheveled clothes and joining the team halfway.
"So, this all seems horrible," he awkwardly said.
"I've seen worse," Natasha eyed him up and down.
"Sorry."
"No, we could use a little worse."
Steve's eyes never left Bruce's form. "Stark, we got him."
"Banner?"
"Just like you said."
"Then tell him to suit up," Tony advised before giving them a heads up. "I'm bringing the party to you."
A snarl from the Leviathan rang through the entire street and everyone's head snapped in the direction of the noise to see just in time how the creature appeared through the buildings. Tony was flying in front of it, as if he had pissed it off just enough for it to follow after him.
Beside her, Thor adjusted his hammer and (Y/N) gulped down the lump in her throat at the sight. Meanwhile, Natasha just frowned at the creature and shook her head.
"I don't see how that's a party."
(Y/N) shared her sentiment, and she saw how the Leviathan kept getting closer by the second. It slithered through the empty street, crashing through the cars that were in its path and breaking the concrete of the street.
Bruce knew this was his cue and walked forward to meet the creature halfway, and Steve took a step forward to speak to him.
"Dr. Banner," he called. "Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."
"That's my secret, Captain," Bruce began, head turning back to face him. "I'm always angry."
(Y/N) was able to take one last look at Bruce's face before it grew in size and his skin changed into a green color. The clothes he was wearing were too small on him now and the muscles broke through the fabric without any problem. The Leviathan had reached him at this point and the Hulk threw a single punch directly at its nose, trying to restrain it from moving any further.
Because of the sudden stop, the body and tail of the Leviathan lifted up in the air and flipped forward, ready to fall right above their heads.
"Hold on!" Tony flew in and fired one small missile at the tail before it could get any lower.
The explosion went off and (Y/N) shielded herself with her arms from the debris and fire coming out of the creature. She saw how the remains of the Leviathan fell down the bridge and crashed into the abandoned cars, hearing one last growl coming from it. Other growls and screeches were heard from the skyscrapers, the rest of the Chitauri gripping onto the walls as they all glared down at the group that had just destroyed the Leviathan.
The seven formed a circle and stood back to back with each other, a loud roar from the Hulk echoing through the street to match the sounds from the aliens. Clint prepared his bow and held it up, Thor gripped tightly to his hammer with a scowl in his face and the sound of Natasha reloading her gun was audible through the group. (Y/N) stood in between Steve and Tony, her whole body glowing in a yellow and golden light, as the two men were looking up to the rest of the army.
The wormhole was still open in the sky, and Natasha was the one to notice how two other similar creatures to the Leviathan came out of it. "Guys."
"Call it, Captain," Tony spoke behind the suit.
"All right, listen up," Steve began with his eyes still trained on the sky. "Until we can close that portal, our priority is containment. Barton, I want you on that roof. Eyes on everything. Calls 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."
"Can you give me a lift?" Clint asked Tony.
"Right," Tony nodded and gripped him from the back. "Better clench up, Legolas."
Tony took off with Clint holding onto him, disappearing in between the skyscrapers and (Y/N) removed her gaze from them to Steve, waiting for what he was going to say.
"Thor, you got to try and bottleneck that portal," Steve moved on to the next order, and the god turned back to listen to his instruction. "Slow them down. You got the lightning. Light the bastards up."
Thor swung his hammer in circles before he flew away too, his red cape blowing back in the strong wind he created.
"Vaughn," Steve called once again, and she whirled on her heel to face him. "The sky's all yours. Something comes your way, feel free to take it down. Lure them away from civilians."
"On it," she mocked saluted him.
(Y/N) nodded with a smirk before running down a few steps to gain speed and push herself off the ground with a faint trail of her glow flowing behind her, claiming the sky just as Steve had instructed. The Chitauri grew alerted of her presence and she took this as a perfect opportunity to have them follow her while she blasted them off one by one in the air.
She turned sharp corners and flew through tight spaces between buildings, everything she could to draw the attention of the aliens and fight them off. Every now and then she saw how Tony fired his repulsers at the ones coming his way, and heard how thunder rumbled in a certain part of the sky.
"Stark, you got a lot of strays sniffing your tail," Clint suddenly spoke through comms.
"I'm just trying to keep them off the streets."
"Well, they can't bank worth a damn," Clint advised, and he was probably preparing to aim another shot. "So find a tight corner."
"I will roger that," Tony said in a hint of a playful tone before continuing. "Vaughn, are you planning on helping me or what?"
"Don't throw a hissy fit," she answered while she dodged a blast from the Chitauri and pushed herself hard to fly faster. "I'll be there in a second."
(Y/N) swerved through the skyscrapers and was able to find where Tony was flying in no time. She quickly noticed how Clint was right on how many aliens were hot on his trail, so she didn't waste a second in following after them and be just in time to see how the last one of the trail exploded by the hands on one of Clint's arrows.
(Y/N) got closer to the others following Tony and fired blast after blast at them, seeing how they crashed into the ground or the sides of buildings before letting out smoke. Tony was shooting out the ones closer to him too, both working in sync to take down every single one of the group. They made sure the aliens followed them to sharp corners or under a bridge to tighten up the space and blast them off for good.
"Oh boy," Tony sighed under his breath. He and (Y/N) dodged the attacks and quickly got rid of the remaining alien from the group, which had crashed right through a building and letting out a huge explosion. "Nice call. What else's you got."
"Thor is taking on a squadron down on Sixth," Clint informed through comms.
"And he didn't invite me."
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(Y/N) flew through the sky of New York with Tony by her side, the latter driving the aliens' attention and the other blasted them off for good. The Chitauri kept coming from every corner, and they knew they had to fight together to gain an advantage over them.
"We'll take the ones on this side," Tony spoke up from behind his helmet, catching (Y/N)'s attention for a minute as she steadied herself in the air. He pointed toward the left since he was sure that the Hulk was handling the rest on the opposite side. "We'll see who can take out the most."
"Tony, we are not having a competition — "
Tony completely dismissed her words and used his boosters to gain speed over her. "One, two, three. Go!"
(Y/N) huffed in annoyance and followed after him, watching from the corner of her eye how Natasha and Steve were handling the others down below. The light of her body glowed brighter as she increased her speed to catch up with Tony, but she was too late and saw how he was already taking out the majority of the squad.
"Oh, I see how it is," she muttered under her breath and waited for one of the flying Chitauri to come near her to she could punch it with her strength and sent it back, making it crash into three more.
Tony would've rolled his eyes at her dramatics but instead used the lasers from his gauntlets and used them to slice through the rest of the aliens before dodging the blasts that were sent his way.
(Y/N) was ready to throw off another group of Chitauri when she heard that same growl from before coming her way. When she looked up, she saw how another creature like the Leviathan was slithering through the rooftops of the buildings and making the damage in the city even worse.
She didn't waste a second and pushed herself higher in the air to meet it halfway, preparing for the impact that would come her way. The mouth of the Leviathan was getting closer and (Y/N) closed her eyes and placed her arms in front of herself for the impact, her strength being enough to restrain it from moving any further. The creature roared in protest, and (Y/N) groaned in exhaustion before gathering more strength in her body to send the Leviathan upward into the air where it came from, making it crash with the flying Chitauri that were barely making it out of the wormhole.
An explosion went off in midair because of this, and (Y/N) couldn't cheer yet since she spotted more squadrons flying out of the wormhole and coming toward her.
(Y/N) grinned to herself and her eyes glowed with the rest of her body, gaining more speed and strength as she got higher in the air and blasted off the Chitauri and swerved out of the way when they tried to fire at her. She twirled in the air and balled her fists to blast off the rest of the squadron that was surrounding her, and the cheer that she'd been holding the entire time finally escaped her lips and Tony was able to hear it from his spot.
"Show off," he muttered, but he would be lying if he said he didn't find that stunt impressive.
(Y/N) whooped again in victory and moved downward into the city to help the others with the remaining Chitauri in the near ground. She flew past streets and fought every alien that came her way, finding a sense of deja vu from the last time she'd been in a fight like this one.
She blasted off the squadron that was surrounding Thor and Steve from above, and she decided she'd been in the air long enough and placed her feet on the ground again.
"Can anybody copy?" Natasha's voice abruptly rang through her right ear. "I can shut the portal down."
Steve was ready to give the order. "Do it!"
"No wait," Tony interrupted.
"Stark, these things are still coming."
"I got a nuke coming in," Tony explained, taking time to reply once again. "It's gonna blow in less than a minute. And I know just where to put it."
"Stark, you know that's a one-way trip," Steve tried to reason with him, trying to knock him some sense.
(Y/N) felt the worry rising in her chest. "It's too risky for you, Tony, let me handle it."
"I think it's too late for that, Lieutenant."
(Y/N) was frozen in her spot and saw a faint figure flying right above the spot she was standing in, the white smoke of the missile drawing out a trail while Tony held it from below. He flew past Thor, Steve and (Y/N) in a blink of an eye, and three different set of eyes were focused on how Tony gained altitude and headed directly toward the wormhole in the sky, successfully getting inside.
The passing seconds turned into a dreading minute, and the anxiety grew larger inside (Y/N)'s mind. The thought of flying toward the wormhole without a warning was in her head, and she was ready to do it before the Chitauri surrounding the area and the Leviathan flying in the air dropped unconscious in the ground. This told (Y/N) everything she needed to know: Tony had succeeded and he would be coming out of the hole anytime soon, she just hoped it wouldn't take too long.
But there was no sign of Tony anywhere, and (Y/N) could see from the corner of her eye how Steve and Thor exchanged weary glances.
"Close it," Steve told Natasha solemnly.
(Y/N) snapped her head in his direction. "No, wait just a bit longer."
"It has to be done now — "
(Y/N) didn't stay long enough to hear the rest of his sentence, since she took off in the air before he could finish and hear how desperately he called her name through comms. A part of herself was urging her body to go faster and the other was questioning why was she so rattled in trying to save a man that annoyed her to no end every time he tried. It didn't make any sense to her back then, but she would've figured it out by later.
She flew past the Stark Tower and could faintly hear and see the way Natasha cried out her name as the ray of blue light that held the wormhole opened disappeared. (Y/N) grunted and gained speed since the wormhole began closing in, and she quickly closed in the helmet from her suit for her to be able to breathe properly.
(Y/N) was barely inside the closing wormhole to see how the figure of Tony inside his suit was falling downward into the abyss of space and with no light in his suit whatsoever. The sight instantly worried her and she pushed herself harder to fly toward him, grabbing a hold of his unconscious body. Once she had him secured, she dashed to the closing wormhole and let out a shaky sigh of relief once she realized she made it out.
The bright blue sky was a completely different look from what she'd seen in the wormhole, but now that wasn't of importance. (Y/N) groaned at the heavy weight but tried to adjust herself to it and lower herself down into the street where Thor and Steve would be waiting.
(Y/N) landed on the ground harsher than she had expected, her knees giving up by the weight of Tony's suit in her arms and she dropped him in the concrete floor with as much care as possible. The sight of her caught Thor and Steve's attention, and they ran towards her and Tony's unconscious body and heard the loud roar from the Hulk coming their way.
Thor helped in flipping Tony on his back as Steve dropped to his knees alongside (Y/N). "Is he breathing?"
Thor removed the face part of the helmet. Steve reached down to place his ear in Tony's chest, and his worried lines deepened. (Y/N) felt her heart drop at the look on his face, and she panicked in not knowing what to do to wake him up, but just when she settled for a slap across the face, the Hulk let out another roar.
Tony gasped for air and opened his eyes in surprise, his arms still spread out on the floor as he tried to analyze what had happened.
"What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me," he panted, and his eyes flickered to (Y/N)'s relieved face above him. "Unless it was you, Vaughn, I wouldn't have a problem."
(Y/N) scoffed and shook her head, but she smiled nonetheless. "Careful, Stark, or I'll drag you to space again myself."
"You were worried for me, admit it."
"Never."
"Hmm," Tony hummed in response but gave up, for now. His eyes flickered to the others that were surrounding him too, and a question was still irking in his head. "Now, really, what just happened?"
Steve, face covered in dirt and grime, looked up. "We won."
"All right, yay!" Tony cheered with the last of energy he had in his entire body. "Hurray. 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. I don't know what it is, but I want to try it."
"We're not finished yet," Thor's eyes set on the tower.
"And then shawarma after."
(y/n), *does the slightest thing with her powers*
tony, her future bf: omg 😍
he's gonna be her biggest fan be ready for it.
also, i made a meme for this and other scenes from the book: