? ?Agent Parrish, steve rogers

chapter twenty.

Loki walked towards the window and looked out. "The Chitauri are coming. Nothing will change that." He then turned back to the pair. "What have I to fear?"

"The Avengers," Tony said. Loki frowned.

"It's what Fury named the group of us," Evelyn told him. "We're like a team, I guess. The 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes, ' you could say."

"Yes, I've met them," Loki grinned.

Tony sarcastically smiled back. "Yeah, it takes us a while to get any traction; I'll give you that one." Tony and Evelyn both took another sip at the same time. "But, let's do a headcount here. Your brother, the demi-god." Loki looked away, annoyed that Tony addressed Thor as his brother. "A super-soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend." Evelyn smiled at how Tony addressed Steve. She also noticed Tony slipping on a colantotte bracelet (a honing device) onto his wrist. "A man with breath-taking anger management issues. Your daughter, who can control the elements. A couple of master assassins, and you, big fella, have managed to piss off every single one of them."

"That was the plan," Loki said.

"Well, that was a shitty ass plan," Evelyn said.

"It's true because when they come, and they will, they'll come for you," Tony said, walking around the bar.

"I have an army," Loki said.

"We have a Hulk."

"I thought the beast had wandered off," Loki said.

"You're missing the point. There's no throne, 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," Tony told Loki.

Loki slowly walked up to Tony, raising his spear. "How will your friends have time for me when they're so busy fighting you?" Evelyn sipped her drink as Loki tapped Tony on the chest with his sceptre. Nothing happened. Confused, Loki tried again. "It should work."

"Well, performance issues. You know? One out of ten," Tony said.

"I think your stick is broken," Evelyn told him.

Loki angrily grabbed Tony by the throat and flung him across the room.

"JARVIS. Anytime now," Tony called.

Loki grabbed Tony by the throat again. "You will all fall before me." Loki threw Tony out of the window as Evelyn took another sip of her drink, finishing it up

From behind Loki, an elevator opened, and a red pod shot out after Tony. A few seconds later, Tony flew up in his suit.

"And there's one other person you pissed off. His name was Phil." Loki raised his sceptre, but Tony fired at him, sending him onto his ass before he could do anything. "Are you alright, Evie?" Tony asked.

"Yeah, I'm alright. Help me to the ground?" she asked him.

"Sure." Evelyn stood up and headed towards the window.

"Please stay here where I know you will be safe," Loki called out. "For me?"

"Sorry, but I'll be too busy avenging all the shit you did wrong," Evelyn told him before walking to the window. Tony grabbed onto her and flew her away from the building and onto the ground below, where a Quinjet crash landed somewhere down the road. She began to run towards it. Evelyn looked around and saw many Chitauri aliens flying out of the portal in the sky, coming down and firing at New York. The back of the Quinjet opened up, and three people stepped out.

"Clint!" Evelyn ran up to him at full pelt, then leapt into his arms. "You're alright!"

"Of course I am," Clint chuckled. "You're alright, too!"