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Kapitel 114: New York-1

A/N: Pat-reon: HelloDarkness07.

Two Chapters today! This is the First One!

Jean.. was flying. She was a bird, and she was herself. She didn't know how she was here, how she was even alive. 

She remembered fighting Vuk in space, after killing the other D'Bari invaders. She remembered blowing herself up, imploding the endless well of energy within herself in an effort to kill both herself and Vuk. But now, here she was flying over.. what looked like her to be France. 

It felt like a dream, since she didn't remember coming here, nor did she remember beginning to fly.

"Hello Jean." Jean hears, making her suddenly stop in the air, only to see a man standing in front of her.

Floating. He was floating in the air, in front of her. He was flying too!

Through the orange haze that her eyes seemed to be covered by, Jean stares at the man, and asks, 'Who are you?'

She did not recognise his face, she did not think he was even a part of this dream… if it was a dream even.

The man smiles at her, and says, "I am.. like you. A mutant with the powers of Telepathy and Telekinesis, amongst others. My name is Mason Aves."

Not a dream then.

Mutant? Jean remembers that word. It was what her father had called her, it was what she was. It was why her mother died, why Vuk came to Earth, why Charles came for her. It was why Mystique almost died at her hands.

She also remembers the name, Mason Aves. She remembers reading it in her history books, she remembers her parents arguing over which Super Soldier was the best. Captain Avalon- Mason Aves, or Captain America- Steve Rogers.

Somehow, despite all those doubts and questions, Jean could only feel calm, as she asks, 'Why are you here?'

The man, Mason Aves answers, "I am here to help you, Jean. Help you regain your identity. Help you control the Powers inside you. Help you.. with whatever you feel like you need help with."

Jean tilts her head, and waves her hand. The orange haze surrounding her spins in the air, following her commands without any issue, and she says, 'I am already in control, Mr Aves. I don't need your help.'

The man smiles, and asks, "Why are you only using your Telepathy to speak then? Why not use your mouth?"

Jean stops, only then realizing that yes, this man was right. She puts her fingers on her lips, and tries to open them, to say something. But even as she opens her mouth her words only come through her telepathy. Her mouth felt as if it was.. sluggish, not entirely her own.

She widens her eyes, once more feeling afraid, and says, 'What- what's happening to me?'

Mason Aves smiles, and Jean feels calm once again, as he says, "You're changing, Jean, growing into your powers. The Phoenix Force within you is making you what you're meant to be. She wants to talk to you, but alas, she cannot. Not yet. That's why I'm here. To help you grow, and until you can talk to the Phoenix yourself, to be the voice for her."

Jean stays silent, and looks into her own mind. She barely glances at the fiery visage of the Phoenix, when with a single screech from the bird, she is thrown out of her own mind. She could understand that she wouldn't understand anything. Not yet. The Phoenix Force had tried talking to her, but even her voice was too much for her to handle.

Still, however, Jean realizes she was perfectly calm. She could feel the calming presence of Mason's mind around herself, she could feel it comfort her, sooth her. She could feel the orange haze calm her, it was her own power after all.

Nodding, she asks, 'Why? Why are you doing this?'

The man tilts his head, and says, "I had made a deal with the Phoenix, once. In return for her help, I was supposed to help you become who you're meant to be. Even without my debt to the Phoenix, however, I would have still helped you, Jean. Everyone deserves to feel comfortable in their own mind and body. Everyone."

Jean could feel the sincerity behind his words, feel that he was right. And she remembered her mothers stories about this man. Captain Avalon had purposefully gone into enemy territory to free the captives. If he was the same man, and Jean had no reason to doubt him, then she knew that she would be safe with him.

Safe from manipulations, safe from memory erasures, safe from.. hurt.

Nodding hesitantly, Jean says, 'I will come with you. To learn. But once I believe myself ready, I will leave.'

Mason Aves smiles, and with a simple wave of his hand, creates an orange glowing hole in space, which shows a castle on the other side. He says, "If you believe yourself ready, Jean, I won't even try to stop you."

Making up her mind, Jean enters the portal into a land of Magic, of dragons and unicorns and fairies. As she turns back towards the still open portal however, Jean sees the flying forms of Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto, accompanied by Charles Xavier, flying towards her, yelling for her. And then, the portal closes, leaving her alone with the First Superhero.

Charles could clearly remember the two times he had seen Mason Aves. First was when he had gone to recruit Jean into his School for the Gifted, in the year 1982.

Mason Aves, whom he hadn't recognised at first, was talking with Jean's father, barely a day after the car accident which lost Jean her mother. Unfortunately, through her own actions.

Mason Aves had already explained to Mr Grey what Mutants are, or what Mutations mean for the person or their relatives. The man, however, wanted nothing to do with his own daughter. He couldn't look at her in the same light while knowing that Jean was responsible for his wife's death.

Charles had debated changing his memories then, so the father doesn't know that particular fact about Jean. But alas, he couldn't make that decision.

Mason Aves being a mutant was not that much of a surprise. There were already theories about it in the world of genetics, since unlike Steve Rogers, the source of his powers wasn't exactly confirmed.

Everyone knows the story. Hydra experimented on him, and when he escaped, he had powers. Some super strength, amazing reflexes, and resilience to damage. It had stayed hidden well during the war, but as it happens, everyone knew when the war eventually ended, and the man went missing.

Some did believe that his powers were a result of Hydra's experiments, but Charles.. he believed that Hydra's experiments only brought forward what was always there. His mutations. Multiple, as far as he knows.

His being alive, however, was what was the most surprising. 

Charles had spoken with the man then, after Jean's father had made the not so surprising decision to hand Jean off to Charles, and not Mason. 

(Charles had an actually established school in America to teach her, whereas Mason had just himself. And no father, no matter the feelings, wants to hand his daughter off to a lone man, let alone someone not in the same country.)

Mason Aves was surprisingly calm when Jean wasn't given to him, but Charles wanted to know why Mason wanted to teach her. And so, he had learned that Jean was something special. Even amongst other Mutants.

'She could be our staunchest ally, or our worst enemy.' Mason had said, and Charles could feel it to be true.

He could feel the tremendous potential within her, the infinite Power within her that was just waiting to be unleashed. 

And so, as soon as Mason had left, Charles had.. changed a few of her memories, and put up a mental block on her. He made her forget that her father ever survived, since that was a wish of her father's. The mental block, meanwhile, prevented Jean from accessing more than a fraction of a fraction of the power that had remained dormant within her.

And it had gone well, for a while. They fought the Brotherhood of mutants, Friends of Humanity, Stryker and his stooges, and even a few terrorists, all under the careful watch of the CIA. 

Until.. the mission happened. A dangerous mission to rescue the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which had been attacked by a small Solar Flare-like Storm. The Cosmic Storm was slowly moving towards the Earth, and Endeavour had simply just gotten in the way.

During the mission, which had been requested by the President himself, Jean had somehow managed to protect the others of her team by pulling the Cosmic Storm towards herself.

And then, into herself.

Events just went wild after that. Jean lost control over her powers, his mental block deteriorated, and her mental stability.. declined. And then, after an attack by an Alien race named D'Bari, Jean.. died. In space.

But somehow, she survived. She showed up above Europe in the form of a flaming bird, which Charles and Erik were fortunate enough to see before it disappeared behind clouds, and Charles had recognised her immediately. Erik had lifted Charles up, as they flew after the Phoenix, but alas, they had only seen her disappear through a glowing orange portal, along with the recognisable form of Mason Aves.

After that, they hadn't seen a hint of either Jean, or Mason. They just.. disappeared. Until Mason showed up at his doorstep a few minutes ago, asking for help defending the planet. And lets not forget that he had first healed Logan's mind, brought all of his lost memories back, something which even Charles hadn't been able to do.

From what he had learned just now, however, and from Hank's call with Agent Hill of SHIELD, it was true. Only, SHIELD didn't know where the Battle would happen, but Mason did. Stark Tower, he had said.

Logan had agreed immediately, and so had Mr Rasputin and Mr Drake. Ororo was just a moment behind them, and after she agreed to go to war, Scott was the next. Charles could see the benefits for the Mutant kind if this invasion is defended against, and they were here to help.

Seeing Mason Aves look at him with a raised brow, Charles says, "The X-Men will help, Captain Aves. Earth is our planet too, of course we will help defend it."

It takes a few minutes to tally up the people that will go, and those who will remain behind to protect the School if it is attacked. After a few minutes of discussion and loud debates, Charles interjects with a loud voice, "Enough!"

Once everyone is silent, he says, "Piotr(Colossus), Logan(Wolverine), Scott(Cyclops), Hank(Beast), Ororo(Storm), Betsy(Psylocke), Kurt(Nightcrawler), Clarice(Blink), and Kitty(Shadowcat). You will be leaving with Captain Aves to New York, representing the X-Men. The others, including me, will stay behind just in case the School is attacked. I will even be coordinating the defense via Cerebro."

"But.. Professor!" Evan Daniels, and Jubilation Lee yell simultaneously.

He gives them a look, and says, "You're still too young for a War, Mr Daniels, Ms Lee. I will not be sending anyone under 20 to fight a War. And that's final."

"And what about me? I'm 23, Why're you holding me back?" Anna Marie, or Rogue, asks, and Charles could feel that she was disgruntled about not being allowed to go.

Sighing, he says, "Rogue, your powers will not be of much use in the middle of a battle, I'm afraid. You are far more of use here. If someone takes the distraction of the battle as an opportunity and attacks the school, you and Mr Drake will be our strongest defenders. That is also why I'm keeping Warpath and Bishop here too."

Bobby Drake, or Iceman, nods in confirmation, accepting Charles's decision. Warpath and Bishop were not outside at this moment, but Charles knew that Warpath was listening to this conversation intently.

The list made, everyone goes to change into their X-Men uniform, leaving Mason alone with Charles. Charles stared at the man, a long list of questions on his mind.

Alas, now was not the time to ask them. There was a war to be had. A battle to be won, and aliens to be fought.

As soon as the team gathers, Charles says, "You will be going to War. This will be like nothing you've ever done before, trust me. Your priority is to defeat the alien invaders through any means necessary, including killing them, and rescuing as many civilians as you can. Good luck X-Men, the fate of the world is in your hands."

With a wave of his hand, Mason creates a circular portal with an alley within New York City on the other side. They could hear the busy streets of NYC from the portal, cars honking and people yelling as they usually do. Which meant the battle hadn't begun yet.

The team barely startles at the portal creation, since they were used to it happening thanks to Blink, but there was no shortage of looks directed at Aves for what else he might be hiding.

Teleportation, Healing, Super Strength, Agility, Telepathy. What else can this Wizard-mutant do?

As Mason takes the first step through the portal, the others follow soon after. They turn back to look at the gathered students, as well as the X-Men that had chosen(or forced) to remain behind, and nod at them. And then, the portal closes, leaving half of the X-Men alone with a stranger, as far as they could tell.

A stranger that had just kicked their collective ass, barely 10 minutes ago.

He opens his mouth to say something, but suddenly there's a loud boom that makes them all wince, their hands automatically going to their ears. With wide eyes, they run out to the street and turn towards the direction of the sound, only to see a bright blue beam shooting up into the sky.

The beam had poked a hole in Space itself, creating a portal to somewhere else.

"And so it begins." Aves whispers, as the Aliens start pouring out in droves.

Seeing the familiar form of Iron Man start flying up to fight against the alien invaders, Logan throws his Cigar down, and says, "Storm, get up there, do what you can, but don't die."

Storm nods, and as her eyes turn white, starts flying up into the sky.

"Good luck, Ororo." Scott calls out, no doubt worried about his girlfriend.

Mason floats up into the air, surprising him with the flight, and says, "I'll join her. We'll take care of the aerial side of things. You take care of things down here."

Logan nods, and says, "Right. You and I are gonna have a talk, bub. Once all this is over." As Mason nods and flies off, Logan turns back to his team, and says, "Psylocke, Kitty, Hank, Blink. Go towards Stark tower as quickly as you can. There will be places to evacuate and people to rescue closest to the.. whatever the fuck that blue light is."

And Hank will be able to protect them from anything that comes to stop them.

Blink nods, and creates a pink coloured portal that most definitely leads to somewhere near Stark Tower. Kitty, Hank, and Psylocke jump in after her, not needing any prompting.

Turning towards the remaining X-Men, Logan looks at Scott, and says, "Colossus and I will be focusing on killing the ground soldiers. You and Kurt try and snipe the fliers. Don't put yourself in unnecessary danger, elf. Get in, kill them, get out."

Kurt frowns, and nods hesitantly. Logan knows that he doesn't like killing, he isn't used to killing, but this is war. Killing is a necessity, not a choice.

Scott says nothing, but Logan could smell that hesitance at killing from a mile away. 

Logan nods at them, and says, "Good. Now let's go."

The first wave of the aliens, Chitauri, Thor had said, was very large in numbers. Almost a thousand, in fact. As soon as the first alien had appeared through the Portal that had opened up in the air, Tony had flown towards it, repulsors raised to attack. 

He had a lot of missiles on his suit, and a lot of other, not so insignificant, ammunition. However, 'a lot' is not infinite. His repulsors, however, don't follow the spatial limitations for their charge. It is still finite energy, created by the Arc Reactor in his chest, but it is Energy.

Raising his hand, Iron Man fires one repulsor after another, blowing the Chitauri.. floating-bike-things up into balls of fire, as he keeps flying towards the Portal. This leads, however, to the Chitauri immediately seeing him as an enemy, and attacking him too.

As a second Chitauri blast hits Iron Man on the shoulder, followed immediately by the metallic flying bike they were riding, Tony grunts, and calls out, "Jarvis, flares."

Multiple tiny rocket powered explosives fly out of a hatch in his suit, his targeting system taking care of aiming. 

As the chitauri blew up all around him, Tony gets some respite, only to see literally dozens of Chitauri flying towards the city, weapons already firing at the buildings and streets. Turning his body, Tony steers the armour towards the city, another horde of Chitauri right after him, and starts blowing them up one after another, using just his Repulsors for now.

"Sir, you seem to have a large group right behind you." The surprisingly unhelpful voice of Jarvis interjects.

Tony turns his head down, and while still flying forward, he aims his repulsors at two of the Chitauri in the centre and fires them. He hits bullseye, causing the chariots to explode, taking a few of their friends with them. Unfortunately, that still left Tony with around twenty or so Chitauri still right behind him.

As he opens his mouth to give Jarvis the order to fire more missiles, suddenly the sky lights up brightly and multiple Lightning bolts slam down from the sky, hitting not just all of the Chitauri behind him, but also those he was following.

"Thank you, Point Break." Tony mumbles, as he starts tracking more Chitauri to kill.

"I don't think that was Mr Odinson, Sir." Jarvis calmly says, and suddenly brings up the footage from on top of the Stark Tower, shot from a nearby skyscraper. It showed Thor and his Lightning summoning magic Hammer fighting with Loki and his scepter.

"Huh. That's odd." Tony says, and opens his flaps to stop with the help of his repulsors, only to enter a side street where he could see seven or eight chitauri chariots flying.

One of them is hit by a red beam of light that came from somewhere down on the street, while another is hit by a car door, taking them both down.

"Did Hulk show up, J?" Tony asks, as his cameras try to pinpoint where the door came from.

As his cameras suddenly capture the culprits, and zoom in, Jarvis says, "It seems we are receiving some help in the form of the X-Men, sir."

X-Men. Tony knew what X-Men were, of course he did. Mutants, people with different powers than normal. Like.. Mason Aves.

"Son of a bitch. So that's what he meant when he said he was bringing help. Aves is a mutant!" Tony exclaims to himself, as he leaves the mutants to their task, and goes on killing the Chitauri.

As he flies into open air, little to no buildings around him, the sky lights up once again, and one lighting bolt after another is thrown around, hitting multiple Chitauri at a time.

Tony's armor cameras focuses on the origin point, and he sees a woman floating in the air, lightning emitting off of her in quick bursts.

"If I wasn't in love with Pepper." Tony mumbles, looking at the Goddess in front of him.

Jarvis says, "I shall be sure to inform Ms Potts, Sir."

His alarm systems suddenly flare up, warning him of an incoming horde of Chitauri. Tony turns around, his repulsors raised to kill at least a few of them, before something else happens.

Someone flies through a Chitauri chariot, with Tony making out a sword in his hands, throwing guts, body parts, and metal flying everywhere, and jumps from chariot to chariot, killing one Chitauri after another.

In the single second between Tony's alarm system blaring and the chitauri finally reaching him, there was just a single out of twenty Chitauri remaining, whom Tony kills with a punch to the head.

As he lays his eyes on the culprit of this madness, Tony frowns, and asks, "Can every mutant fly, Avalon?"

Mason Aves, Captain Avalon, looks at Tony, blue blood covering not just his face, but the sword and his clothes too. The clothes looked highly reminiscent of his old SSR uniform, as far as Tony could tell, and maybe they were the same. Whatever it was, Tony could not help but be baffled by the number of powers this man kept pulling out of his ass.

Aves slaps his sword sideways to get rid of the blood, and Tony didn't even know that was possible outside of anime and Japanese historical action movies, and he says, "Nope, very few can. Neither can all Wizards, so you can say I'm just special."

Tony scoffs, and producing something from his armour compartments, throws it at Aves, who catches it easily. Tony says, "Put it in your ear, Rogers and the rest are on their way."

And then, Tony flies off.

A woman version of Thor who doesn't need a hammer, a man made completely out of some shiny metal, a man with laser emitters for eyes, a man who had knives sticking out of his knuckles, and finally, a man who can fly, teleport, heal himself, and use Magic.

"You know what, J. Maybe we're winning after all." Tony says, as he flies up back towards the portal, to fight the next wave.

Of course, it barely takes a minute after his words that Hawkeye crashes the Jet in the streets of New York, and a fucking whale enters through the portal. A space whale. With teeth made out of metal, wearing a metal armour.

"Stark, you seeing this?" Steve Rogers asks. 

Tony swallows his instinctual response, 'The fuck am I even supposed to do about it?', and instead says, "Seeing.. still working on believing. Has Banner shown up yet?"

Because if there is one person who can take care of this gravity defying space whale, it is Hulk. Or maybe Thor, but Tony didn't think Thor had as much.. oomph.. as Hulk.

"Banner?" Steve asks, confused, because of course he is. 

Sighing, Tony returns to killing Chitauri as he starts flying towards the whale, and says, "Just, keep me posted."

Logan ducked, letting a purple glowing spear pass through where his head just was, and snarling, he pushes his hands forward, stabbing the offending alien with his Adamantium claws. Taking one hand out, Logan kicks the alien back into one of its brethren, and then runs forward, this time his claws landing right inside their foreheads.

Turning away from the dead aliens, Logan glances at Cyclops, who was fighting an alien hand to hand, trying not to die, and immediately jumps in. Colossus had his own share of aliens handled well. Their weapons, whatever they were made out of, couldn't harm his metal skin at all. But then again, even Logan had had some trouble in damaging his skin with his Adamantium claws.

And it was supposed to be the sharpest and strongest metal on Earth.

Once the group they were fighting was dead, Logan picks up one of the guns fallen out of the alien hands, and throwing it towards Cyclops, he says, "Why don't you let us do the grunt work, bub. Just stick to taking pot shots at the aliens."

Scott scowls at the insult, and says, "I can take care of myself, Logan."

Colossus steps between Logan and Scott before he can say anything, and as Scott looks up at him, he says, "No one's saying you cannot, Cyclops. But while Wolverine and I can take multiple close up hits, you cannot. It is better for not just you, but for the team, if you don't risk yourself unnecessarily."

Scott nods, although a bit reluctantly, and after throwing the weapon down, he says, "I'll stick to pot shots, Colossus."

Logan suddenly sniffs his nose, and says, "There's a few aliens hiding inside a building. I smell a lot of people in there."

Colossus lifts his hands with a smile, and in his heavy Russian voice, he says, "Shall we go then?"

As they start jogging towards the building in question, a voice in Logan's head asks, 'How's things looking on your end, Wolvie?'

Logan scowls, and says, 'We're doing your job, missy. The aliens have over 30 hostages inside a hotel lobby on the 36th. We're going there now.'

Psylocke, the telepath on the field, replies, 'Well we're moving towards Stark tower. A few cops joined us and are leading the civilians underground, through the subway right now. They say the army will take a while to appear. But thankfully, we aren't alone in defending the city.'

Logan nods, knowing that to be true. On top of the X-Men, Logan had already seen Iron Man and Captain Avalon fighting in the skies, helped by Storm. And now, barely a minute ago, a highly advanced Jet had flown into the city, no doubt bringing in more helpers.

Somehow, though, Logan wasn't surprised by the absence of any military power save for the cops, and even they were in way over their heads.

Coming to a stop outside the hotel where the Chitauri were holding people hostage, Logan thinks to himself that maybe the entirety of the X-Men should have shown up.

A/N: I couldn't think more for this chapter. Maybe I'll finish the Battle of New York in the next chapter, or I'll take one more. Probably the former.

Anyway, Charles has a lot of questions for Mason, but he's holding his tongue because there's a war right at the door. Scott is over Jean(finally, at least in one Universe), and is in a relationship with Ororo.

How? Idk, I was going to have Emma be it, but then remembered that she's in the UK and like, 20 years older than him.

Scott, Ororo, Piotr, Kurt are all around 35. Rogue, Kitty, Bobby are younger, at around 25. Hank is in his 70s, same for Charles and Erik. Psylocke is also 30-40. Anyone left?

Jean: I understand this backstory is not enough so I'll write this. Basically, when Mason asked Phoenix to heal the planet for his use, Phoenix asked for a favor. Jean was the favor.

His task was to ensure she doesn't go mad, because Jean is a perfect Host or something, but Mason failed. Charles got Jean, and Mason didn't bother challenging Charles because the father himself gave her to him. 

And when the Dark Phoenix movie happened, at the end Charles and Erik were in France when they saw the Phoenix appear in the sky. Mason managed to convince her to come with him, and then taught her how to properly control her powers.

Where is she now? That you'll learn after the Battle is over.

Please tell me how this chapter was, reviews are appreciated and welcomed!

Thank you for your support! Tata!


Kapitel 115: New York-2

A/N: Pat-reon: HelloDarkness07

Two Chapters today. This is the SECOND one!

Betsy Braddock, Psylocke could honestly say that she had never seen herself doing this in her entire 45 years of life; fighting aliens, that is.

The last time that mutants had encountered aliens in the form of the D'Bari, Betsy was still a mercenary and enforcer working with Caliban. She only learned about the aliens when she joined the X-Men, which was around a decade or so ago.

Ducking under an energy blast, Psylocke rolls forward and slashes her katana through the alien that had attacked her. Her Psionic energy comes to life, and a glowing pink whip emerges from her left hand, which she then uses to grab another alien and pull it towards herself.

Mid-flight, however, the whip of energy suddenly turns sharp and constricts on the Alien's neck, beheading it.

A burst of blue smoke above her makes her look up, and Psylocke sees Kurt Wagner, or Nightcrawler, skewer an alien who had tried to jump on her, with his sharp, pointy tail.

Another alien flies from in front of her, missing her and Kurt with a hair's breadth, while a pink portal appears midair, cutting another alien in two.

As Blink appears out of the portal she had created, Psylocke looks at the approaching blue furred form of Hank McAvoy, with annoyance, and says, "A little warning would have been nice, Beast."

Beast smiles at her abashedly, and says, "I.. keep getting told that. I apologize, Psylocke."

The alien group that had converged on this place was now gone, dead by their hands. Blink and Kurt had made sure that no one fled, while Kitty and Blink together had ensured no human got injured.

Looking around, Psylocke closes her eyes and focusing on her telepathy, she says, "Clear. Where's Shadowcat?"

Kitty Pryde takes that moment to appear out of the ground right in front of her, and as Psylocke barely stops herself from stabbing the girl, Kitty says, "The people are safely underground inside the subway. There are cops with them, and I've given them our communicator if aliens attack them again."

Psylocke nods, thankful for it. They'd been fighting for almost fifteen minutes now, and it didn't look like it was ending anytime soon. 

Hank suddenly looks to the side with a frown, right before they all hear a loud series of booms, and says, "Blink, a portal to three streets over, if you please. A large number of aliens have just rained fire on a crowded street and there aren't any of the defenders there."

Blink nods, and without even saying anything opens a portal with a snap of her hands. As soon as they walk through, they're faced with fire, and destruction, the aliens already having left. Psylocke immediately begins using her Telepathy to look for survivors, as Kurt and Blink start waving the injured towards another Subway station.

Steve jumps over the upturned bus, and on top of the Bridge that Natasha and Clint had commandeered for themselves, as their stronghold. While Clint used his slowly decreasing arrows with an amazing accuracy, Natasha did the same with her guns.

Steve had taken a short detour to help the frankly overwhelmed Police officers, giving them the orders they desperately needed. He knew how it is: people inexperienced in combat need to be given precise orders, they need to be told what to do. Sometimes, orders are all that people need to get them to fight.

Thankfully, he had seen a group of enhanced people helping them evacuate, no doubt these X-Men that Stark had spoken about. Mason's friends, Stark had said. So they weren't completely helpless after his departure, but still, he would have appreciated at least the Air Force to have come. 

He knows just how fast the new Jets can be deployed, and now, around 20 minutes since the attack had begun, they should have at least joined the battle.

And now, he was back to his friends, if he can call them that, using his shield to slam an alien away from Natasha and Clint. They weren't alone however, surprisingly enough.

Along with Clint and Natasha, fighting the aliens were three people, one of them looking vaguely familiar to him. One of them was made completely out of metal, punching and kicking them with a strength somewhere in the middle between himself and the God of Thunder. Thankfully, however, he at least seemed somewhat immune to those energy blasts, which just ricocheted off of him, even if they left a scorch mark on his metal skin.

The second one had a single red spectacle on his eyes, through which he was shooting.. light?.. at the aliens. Some attacks missed, but those that hit caused the aliens to either get thrown back with tremendous force, get holes carved into them, or get burned to a crisp.

Lastly, the familiar man had shiny knives growing out of his fists, three for each hand, which he was using to cut through the aliens with wonderful ease. In the single second that Steve had taken to observe that man, however, he could tell that the man healed almost as fast as Mason did.

'Were they related?' he wondered to himself, before joining the fight.

As the aliens keep approaching them, Steve throws his shield forward. It slams into one alien, and after multiple ricochets, returns back into his own hands.

As the aliens drop down, not yet unconscious or dead, suddenly, bright white beams of Lightning slam into each of them as Thor drops down.

Steve looks at him, a frown marrying his face when he notices that Thor was wounded on his abdomen, and asks, "What's the story upstairs?"

As much as he wants to mention the wound, Steve knows he can't. Seeing a God be injured in a fight is definitely not a boost of morale.

Thor looks just annoyed at the injury, however, as he uses a car to support himself, and looking at all the defenders there, he says, "The Barrier surrounding the cube is impenetrable."

"Thor's right. We gotta deal with these guys first." Stark says in his earpiece.

"How do we do this? Even with the X-Men's help we'll have a hard time dealing with the portal and the aliens at the same time." Natasha asks, as Clint starts gathering his thrown arrows back up.

The man with the knives sticking out of his hands scoffs, and says, "You getting tired, little spy?"

"Now's really not the time, Wolverine. Deal with your heart break later." The metal man says, suddenly not made out of metal anymore.

Steve looks at Natasha, who just shrugs, and says, "Long story, cap."

The spectacled mutant steps forward, and Steve immediately recognises that while the other two were the stronger ones of the team of mutants, this one was the more strategic one. He says, "Look, we've had our differences with SHIELD, but this is bigger than both of us. Unless we want to see the aliens win, we need to work together."

And that explained to Steve why Fury didn't call them in. There were no doubts that Fury knew about the X-Men, since they were apparently a public Superhero team, but no doubt Fury would have been reluctant to ask for help from the same team that he probably tried to spy on.

Steve looks at his own team, and says, "He's right, we do it as a single team. Not two teams working together, but one team."

"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor interjects, which Steve understands, but this was really not the time.

"Yeah? Get in line." Clint says, and Steve understands that too. But once again, not the time.

"Save it." Steve orders, and knows that it's been accepted. "Loki wants to keep this fight focused on us, and that's what we need. Without him to direct them these things could run wild. We got Stark, Mason," who can apparently fly on top of all his other powers, "and your friend with the lightning up top."

"Call her Storm. I'm Cyclops, and these two are Wolverine and Colossus." The mutant team leader interjects.

Steve nods, all the names making a lot of sense to him based on their gifts, and continues, "They're going to need us to.."

Even before he can finish it, however, he stops, his attention taken by the sound of an approaching motorcycle. As Steve turns back, he notices the man named Wolverine, who still looked very familiar to him, sniffing his nose a few times, and tense in preparation for a fight.

Steve raises his hand, smiles in relief, and says, "He's a friend."

Steve, Thor, Natasha, and Clint, followed from the back by the mutants, all approach the motorcycle, which was being ridden by Dr Bruce Banner.

Banner gets off of the bike, and resting it against a car, he says, "So.. this all seems.. horrible."

"I've seen worse." Natasha says, casually shrugging.

Banner smiles a bit sadly, and says, "Sorry about that."

"No.. we could.. use a little worse." Natasha says, reminding Steve of Stark.

"Stark, we got him." Steve says into the earpiece.

"Banner? Tell him to suit up, I'm bringing the party to you." Stark says, making Steve frown in thought.

'Party? What Party?' he wonders.

Suddenly, a loud roar sounds off in the distance, and Stark appears from behind a building more than a few blocks away from them. And following after him, was the giant fish-like alien, its wings cutting into the sides of the buildings.

Steve didn't even turn back after hearing a snikt like sound from behind him, as he kept watching the giant creature follow after Stark. Who was apparently leading it towards them.

"I don't see how that's a party." Natasha says, but Steve understands.

"Doctor Banner?" He calls out, as Banner starts walking towards the alien. When Banner looks at him, Steve says, "Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."

Banner smiles a sad smile, and says, "That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry."

And then, Banner turns around, already turning big and green. Right as Stark passes Banner and floats above the rest of the Avengers, Banner.. Hulk's out, and slams his fist into the creature's nose.

It was as if an almost unstoppable force met an almost immovable object, but instead of causing a paradox the almost immovable object won.

Hulk got pushed back, more than a dozen yards, but similarly, the fish-like flying alien got stopped in its tracks. Its back bent awkwardly, raised up in the air as Hulk stopped it so suddenly, and the metal armour it was covered by cracked in multiple places, as it began breaking up.

"Hang on." Stark says, and pointing a hand at the raised alien, shoots a small missile at a large wound Steve could see.

The missile explodes, and destroys the part it was connected to, cutting the alien in two. A bright red light slams into the two pieces, destroying the shorter piece, the tail, completely, while the second piece simply gets pushed away from them. Multiple small pieces, however, fall down on them, covering them with no small amounts of purple-blue blood, and liquid flesh.

"SCREEEEEE!!!"

"GRRROWL!"

Multiple growls, screeches, yells, sound from all over Manhattan, the aliens showing their anger at Hulk killing their biggest gun in one single hit, and right now, Steve could feel the chances of their win improving.

Hulk takes a deep breath, and growls out loudly in return, showing his own anger, "ROOOAAARRR!!!!"

Nine people here, right now, the five other mutants clearing the grounds and helping people evacuate, the woman named Storm, and Mason. Instead of just six people that Fury had planned for to defend the world, they had gotten sixteen defenders.

Sixteen Avengers, instead of the measly six.

Yes, the chances of winning are very high now.

So of course, it is natural that Loki takes this moment to call for even more of the Chitauri. Three more of the large fishes, and hundreds more of the chariot riding Chitauri enter through the portal, and spread out over New York, raining destruction on to the city.

Steve could see Mason and the woman named Storm fighting the Aliens up in the sky, at least the smaller ones. The bigger flying.. Leviathans.. seemed to be out of their league. But they would get tired soon, maybe not Mason but the woman would. Probably, he doesn't know much about mutants to be sure about it.

"Call it cap." Stark says, as they form into a circle, so they could watch one another's backs.

Steve gives the flying Mason another look, and says, "Alright, listen up. Until we close that portal our priority is containment. Half of the X-Men are already carrying out rescue efforts, we help them when they need it but otherwise leave them to it. They've got it handled."

Or at least, that's what he had seen in his brief glimpse of them.

"Hawkeye, Cyclops, I want you on that roof. Eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays, and snipe as much as you can. Cyclops, take anyone that approaches your position out with extreme prejudice."

Despite the red glasses he wore, most likely to help with the laser beam Power he has, Steve had noticed that Cyclops had a very good eyesight. Maybe it came from having to look at things clearly to aim properly, but Steve knew that he and Clint were perfect partners for one another.

Turning towards Stark, he says, "Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything goes more than three blocks out of your Tower, you turn it back or you turn it to ash."

Stark nods, and after a short conversation with Hawkeye and Cyclops, takes them along with him as he flies off.

Steve turns towards Thor next, thankful that the thousand year old God had remained to listen to the orders, and says, "Thor, you and Storm try to bottleneck that portal, slow them down. You two got the lightning, light those bastards up."

Wolverine's gruff voice interjects, and says, "Tell her Logan sent you, she'll listen."

Thor nods at the man, and swinging his hammer, flies off into the sky.

Steve looks at the remaining people, and says, "Us, we remain here on the ground. Wolverine and Natasha, I have no idea what history you have, but get over it right now. I need you two to go two blocks in that direction and fight the bastards. Keep them focused on us."

Natasha nods and looks at Wolverine with a raised eyebrow. He just scoffs, and starts running, his nose already sniffing for aliens. Which left Colossus, him, and..

"And Hulk." Hulk snaps his head towards him, making Steve realise that specific orders would not be appreciated for this guy. So, he just says one word. "Smash."

Hulk grins, clearly happy about the order, and jumps up high into the air, swatting the fliers as he goes.

Colossus sighs, and as the aliens drop down around them, he says, "I would not want to fight the Hulk at all."

"You and I both, buddy. You and I both." Steve says, and as one, the two grounded Avengers rush at the aliens that had them surrounded, fists and Shield flying in frenzy.

Thor lands on top of a tall building, which was one of the very few ones here covered by metal and not glass. He raises his Hammer up into the air, and calls up a Lightning storm. Dark clouds gather above him, as the metallic tower works as a Lightning rod, pulling more and more lightning towards him.

This has an unintended side effect of bringing the attention of the woman named Storm towards him, and as she approaches him, Thor yells, "We have to prevent more of those creatures from invading! If you can, join me in smiting them, Lady Storm." Almost as an afterthought, he adds, "Logan sent me."

Storm just raises an eyebrow, and as dark clouds gathers above on Thor's command, she spreads out her hands, joining in his task of gathering lightning.

"I will join your efforts, Prince Thor." Storm says, and as her eyes turn completely white, she sends out her own Magic into the air, joining his divine Magic in conjuring Lightning straight from Nature itself.

And then, Thor points his Hammer at the Portal, sending all the collected burst of Lightning straight towards it in the form of a thick, bright, beam of Lightning.

"So much Power.. I've never felt anything like this before!" Storm exclaims, as the combined might of an Avatar of Gaea, and the God of Thunder fly towards the portal. 

It completely destroys the first giant Leviathan that it encounters, along with the tiny creatures that had found themselves in the way, while the following two Leviathans find themselves pushed back, injured from the Lightning.

As the first attack dies down, Thor looks at Storm, who was staring at him in awe, Thor says in a warning tone, "I advise you not to get used to it, Lady Storm. I am a God, and you will not be able to handle too much of my full power."

But when he gathers his Lightning for a second attack, Storm is right there with him, her own Lightning joining him in killing the invading aliens in droves.

Snarling in anger, I dropped down on top of a Leviathan, joining Thor and Hulk in their battle. Swiping Glamdring, I cut through a Chitauri running towards me, and kick at another, sending him flying right at Thor, who slams his hammer at him, crushing his head.

Flipping back, I dodge an energy blast, and run towards the attacker. I dodge another blast and cut into the alien's neck, beheading him in two.

Noticing that I'm on the Leviathan's head, and that the Leviathan was speeding towards a building, I yell, "THOR!" and with as much force as I can muster, slam the sword into the metallic armour covering the head of the space whale.

Thor looks at me, and immediately seeing my plan, jumps up. His Hammer charges up with his lightning which he then slams into my sword, discharging it all through Glamdring.

The Leviathan drops down, a God's lightning coursing through its body, and crashes into the street. It still crashes into the building, only instead of the top, it crashes into the large ground floor, and goes through.

Dropping down before it even touches the building, I point my hand towards the dropping alien and pull with my Magic. My sword cuts through the side of the alien's head, and rushes towards me, stopping in my hand.

I look at the Leviathan crashing into the ground and wince when Hulk punches Thor away from him. Thor shrugs off the wound, thankfully enough, and flies off to continue with the fight.

Bending my knees, I leap into the air once again, and continue attacking the flying aliens. It was all I'd been doing since the battle began, keeping the skies clear. Or mostly clean, there was only so much I could do while holding myself back.

The X-Men had the rescue handled, their unique gifts allowing them to carry on with their task with amazing efficiency. Steve had taken command almost immediately, and thankfully, the X-Men didn't seem to have any doubts regarding his leading capacity. 

I guess Essex's death and later Jean's disappearance allowed Scott to mature properly, unlike what was in fate for him.

But despite the dozen and a half defenders fighting the aliens, New York wasn't unaffected. Already the death toll had reached 500, and more than that were injured, which could lead to more deaths. Gods, I just wonder what it would have been like if I hadn't brought in the X-Men.

I haven't used the Time Stone in a long time, except for looking to see if Selene had revealed herself to me in the future. And the visions I saw in the past were very.. inaccurate, thanks to how far apart the two events were.

Thankfully, the US National Guard was just now coming in with their tanks, joining the cops and the Avengers in fighting the aliens. 

Gods, Selene would have loved being here, loved being allowed to let loose even if only a little. 

Seeing something terrible about to happen, I drop down on the ground right in front of the half of the X-Men that were focused on rescuing people and kick the alien away from the mutant holding it tightly. Right as a pink coloured psionic blade speeds towards my neck, I duck down and slam my palm into her stomach, sending the mutant flying back just a little.

The other mutants surround me, Hank between the woman and I, Kitty Pryde behind me, and Kurt and Blink to each side.

She stares at me, startled at not just my sudden appearance, but also by me attacking her, and asks, "What the hell? Aren't you on our side?!"

I look at the alien I had kicked out of her hands, and says, "I just stopped you from making the worst, and possibly last mistake you could have committed in your life, Psylocke. A little appreciation would be nice."

Beast, who had gotten in a fighting stance at my appearance, stops the others from attacking me, and asks, "What do you mean?"

I wave my hand towards the chitauri, and say, "These creatures run on a hive mind. Your telepathy no doubt caught it, am I right? And you thought, why not stop them from the source, hack into their signal? Didn't you?"

Psylocke stares at me, and slowly nods.

Snorting, I say, "That's just an illusion, Psylocke. The Hive mind isn't just allowing them to work together, it's allowing them to take orders from someone not here. Allowing that someone to watch us as we fight them. If you had succeeded in hacking into their connection, you would have given them access to your own body. Trust me, you do not have a strong enough mind to fight that person."

"And I suppose you do?" Psylocke asks bitingly, not willing to admit her mistake.

It would really have been really fucking bad if I hadn't seen it happen. The Chitauri have a hive mind, and someone has the Master Control over it, so to speak. Someone who is on the Mothership in space, right now.

Looking at her with a sigh, I say, "Yes. Yes I do. As a matter of fact, Psylocke, you may ask Charles just how good my telepathy is the next time you see him. But until then, stay out of their minds unless you want an Alien to have control over your body."

Not waiting for her to say anything, I fly up once again, hoping that she takes my words to heart. I do not want The Other, or God forbid Thanos, to have access to anyone's mind on Earth. Catastrophic, no better word to describe it.

Nicholas Fury stared at the monitor, which showed the newly re-established News channels. It showed them exactly what was going on, even if the scenes weren't complete.

"New York City is under attack by what seems to be an Alien Force…"

"...Iron Man has been seen fighting the invaders along with some known, and some unknown defenders…"

"...Hulk, and two people dressed as Captain America and Captain Avalon…"

"Are these Mutants? Where is the Military?"

The destruction that the aliens were causing was clearly visible to him, even if in multiple instances. One news channel showed one side of the city, while another showed a different. But Fury just had a grim face, staring at Captain America fighting on the ground, while Captain Avalon flew around the city, his sword cutting swathes through the flying aliens.

'Motherfucker didn't even mention that he could fly.' Fury thought to himself, wondering just what else was the man hiding.

"Sir." His second in command, Maria Hill, says, as she approaches his station. "The council is on." She looks sorry as she says it, no doubt knowing how annoyed Fury was right now with the Council.

Putting the monitors to sleep, he says, "Try and establish communication with Xavier. I need to know how he even learned about the attack. And find out just where the hell our National Guard is."

As Hill nods and walks away, Fury swipes on his screen, pulling up the secure server that had been ready for the meeting with the World Security Council, beginning his next few minutes of endless annoyance and anger.

He had listened to them ask about the state of the battle, uselessly since he barely knew anything at all, and then about the helpers.

Avengers, they knew, yet they refused to use that title. Refused to accept the Avengers as one of their own.

And then there was this.

"They're mutants, Director Fury. What's to say that after this Battle is won that they won't turn their backs on us. They clearly outnumber our troops there." One old man says, making Fury just scowl in instinct.

Turning towards that screen, Fury says, "They're our men now, councilman?" Snorting when the councilman doesn't say anything, Fury asks, "You seriously want to brand them as enemies? The same people who have been working tirelessly since the beginning of this battle to save as many civilians as they can? Admit it, Councilman, without the X-Men, without these mutants, this battle would have been ten times worse."

"But it hasn't ended yet. We have no idea if it will ever end, Director Fury. The Council has made a decision." A female Council member says, bringing his attention, and his ire, over to herself.

Using as much of his remaining patience as he could, Fury snaps at her, "I recognise the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision I've elected to ignore it."

"Director, you're closer than any of our subs. You scramble that jet.." the Council head begins, only to be interrupted by Fury's furious voice.

Fury snarls, "That.. is the island of Manhattan, Councilman, with a population of 1.5 million. Until I'm certain my team can't hold it, I will not order a nuclear strike on the civilian population. I will not be committing a genocide against our own people while being unsure if it will even work."

"If we don't stop them now, we lose everything." The councilman argues.

Fury looks at him, and says, "I send that bird out, and we already have."

Not wanting to listen to them drone on anymore, Fury swipes down on his screen, shutting the council meeting off.

He could already feel his tiredness creeping in, making him wonder how those on the field were feeling right now.

A/N: So, yeah. One more chapter for the battle. 

Sorry about being late to upload, I've been having a rough week. My health has taken a downturn, and I've only just begun to feel better. Not good, but better than the last three days. 

And it isn't just one thing either. Cold, coughs, allergies, headaches, and as of the last few days, ear ache. One by one I'm collecting illnesses like Infinity Stones lol. So, since I didn't write and upload Ch 121 on Pat-reon until half an hour ago, the uploads here had been put on hold.

Sorry!

Anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. 

Thank you for your support! Tata!


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