章 12: The Battle
Kieran was at the table he was sitting at earlier when he was speaking with Tony. He left the Galaga man alone when he started to lose, no fun watching him lose.
And as he was yawning, awfully bored he heard a giant explosion. His face instantly changed from bored to alert even as he was sent back flying.
The sound made his ears feel like they were bleeding. The ship rocked, sending people across floors and sending Kieran into a railing, his back not appreciating the position.
He stood quickly seeing chaos in the explosions' wake, people were scurrying and shouting as they quickly regrouped and got back to work, Agent Hill leading them through the procedures.
He heard his comms going off in his pocket as he put them in his ear hearing Fury speak. "Romanoff!" He said his voice sounded pained.
"We're okay…we're okay right?" Romanoff replied, sounding worried. He wasn't sure who she was talking too but Fury made it clear quickly.
"Tora, get down there and help Romanoff, she's with Banner. Under the lab, get here quickly!" Fury barked, Kieran nodded before making his way there.
"Tora! Are you there!?" Fury barked again making Kieran's eyebrows rise in surprise and annoyance as he rolled his eyes.
"Yep I'm here, I just responded a second ago" he said with annoyance in his tone "I'm on my way now" he added as he weaved his way through the people on board.
—-
He was calm as he weaved between the people on the ship, he knew Romanoff would still be alive, well she might be. 'Butterfly effect and everything might screw us over' he thought to himself, still simply jogging.
His mind went into a frenzy after hearing a familiar roar, he started to run, truly run something he hadn't done since that day. Using all of his strength, agility and speed to run.
The scene he came upon was frighteningly familiar to some of his nightmares, The Hulk standing above a body, this time however this time the body does not wear red shoes. This body was a woman with red hair laid against the wall as the hulk was about to strike.
He froze, as he remembered The Hulks strength and speed, its vicious attacks as it destroyed people.
As he remembered it wildly attacking him with no restraint, leaving behind compassion, morality and ethics turning itself against the values of humanity and turning to Rage fully embracing the monstrosity it holds within.
His eyes watched as its hands came down towards the Black Widow, watching her eyes close in fear. 'I wonder if that is what happened to the kid' he thought somberly.
He felt his breathing speed and heart rate increase just thinking about the kid he swallowed as the whole world seemingly kept slowing as he just pondered.
He was interrupted by Thor who smashed into The Hulk sending him through multiple walls and into a large room.
His frozen stupor was interrupted as he heard the Black Widow breathing heavily, he looked over to the woman who looked awfully calm. Although still on her back and panting she still looked calm, it was humbling.
A normal human, no superpowers or anything just calm, just tired after her escape from the hulk. After his first real glance at the hulk since that night he froze, she would have been killed if not for Thor.
He shook his head pushing those thoughts down, just like he always does. He walked over tentatively to the Black Widow who was now sitting down breathing heavily.
He offered his hand to her, gaining her attention as she took it, he pulled her up so she was standing. "Ar-are you alright?" He asked, still feeling shameful over freezing at the sight of the hulk.
As she regained her balance she let go of his hand and looked him in the eye "Yes I'm fine, are you?"she sounded breathless as her chest heaved.
"Uh-yeah I'm good" he replied quickly, his voice tense, "a-anyway I uh better get going" he said as he headed towards the Hulk.
"This time will be better" he promised himself as he started to speed up, the black widow heard this and furrowed her eyebrows.
Almost a blur he swiftly switched directions, losing no speed his face tracking the Hulks movements.
The hulk's head was turned as he faced Thor. The fight he was currently in clearly challenging as they were both dodging and taking hits and the Hulk roared to the sky.
Kieran's fist the hulks jaw interrupting his roar. The hulks jaw was broken, Kieran followed through, ending up next to Thor, his tigers prowling just behind the Hulk.
And as the Hulks jaw snapped back into place with a gruesome roar, Kieran's blood started to pump, and his eyes narrowed before him and Thor moved.
The speed they moved at made the ground underneath them crack, Thor meeting the hulk with a hit to his face with his Hammer. Kieran slid through the hulks legs before he turned and kicked the hulks knee from the side, and as the hulk stumbled Thor hit him again sending the hulk twirling back to Kieran.
Kieran dodged under the feral swipe before getting in close, lighting the hulk's body with several punches.
Thor, using the distraction, threw his hammer at the Hulk's back.
Kieran stepped out of the way of the hulk as he turned towards Thor and then kicked the hulks knee again making him stumble and fall to a knee, allowing Thor to send him flying with a hammer to the jaw.
—-
Mike was watching from the sidelines absolutely stunned. 'They really just jumping that guy huh' watching as a guy in mediaeval armour and a guy in a leather jacket both jumped a giant green man.
He doesn't think the green guy has actually hit any of them. "What did he do to get them that mad?" he said out loud to his co-worker, who just watched stunned both of them hiding behind a crate.
They both jumped as a jet started to shoot at the trio, watching as Kieran and Thor jumped out the way leaving the hulk to the onslaught.
The hulk roared at the jet before jumping onto it and tearing it out of the sky, while also leaving himself stranded, quickly falling to the ground.
—-
"That was fun!" Kieran exclaimed his smile infectious, Thor heartily agreed his grin just as large as he laughed while holding his stomach.
Kieran's previous anxiety at the fight, at the mere sight of the Hulk had disappeared at this moment.
"Truly a fun battle! We shall do it again one day Tiger Avatar!" Thor roared still laughing, his laughter ending however his grin still remaining.
"Now Tiger Avatar I must be off to check on my brother, I shall be seeing you" he said nodding to Kieran and flying off to his brother's cage, leaving Kieran alone still smiling.
Kieran's grin didn't falter, his blood pumping faster than it ever had, a haze overriding his senses. He could feel his adrenaline just seeming to increase every second as he looked at the people surrounding him.
Many of them had the nerve to hold there back to him, prey instincts almost screaming at him to take advantage. His smile still remained as he heard another smaller explosion blowing a hole in the wall.
And even as armed men entered the hanger Kieran's smile remained even as he used his speed to his advantage, ripping and tearing them apart, leaving bloody chunks in his wake.
His smile remained as he hunted down each and every member of the Mercenary group invading the Helicarrier. His smile remained even as he ignored the screams of mercy.
Caught in the frenzy and excitement of battle his only thought on why he was doing this was. 'They are animals, animals who acted out of line and I'm just doing my duty in putting these beasts down!'
—-
His smile still on his face, he briefly slowed at hearing of the Agent Coulson's death over his comms however he continued his stride, smile still standing.
He was covered in blood as he prowled into the bridge, seeing Stark, Fury and Steve all around a table seeing cards covered in blood on the table. He sat down startling Steve and Stark before they quickly returned to their sombre mood.
Anyone who saw him as he was making his way to the bridge gave him slightly fearful looks, and it wasn't any different for Fury, Steve and Stark as they all took glances at the blood all over his uniform and soaking his hair and face.
Fury gave him another look before pointing towards the bloody cards on the table.
"There was an idea, Stark knows this, called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring a group of remarkable people together, and let them become something more. To fight the battles we never could" Fury spoke passion laced through his voice before ending on a sombre note.
"Well it was old fashioned anyway" his voice leaking despair as he stood and walked away leaving Stark and Steve in a thoughtful silence. Kieran however was just easing his battle lust.
—-
Stark and Steve had walked off minutes ago leaving Kieran sat at the table, blood stained and having lost his smile.
He's then of course surprised as Tony rushes over to him, grabbing his arm and dragging him to a lab. His busted up iron man suit in the back.
"Listen I'm fixing my suit right now, so to make this quick get a shower or something then get ready to suit up we've got a plan" he said before pushing Kieran back out of the lab.
'What the fuck'
—-
He followed Steve who had just picked him up with Black widow and Hawkeye. They eyed his bloody clothes with suspicion as they first picked him up but all seemed to quickly brush it aside before telling him to follow.
He did and as they led him to a Quinjet he watched as Captain America hijacked the jet letting Black Widow and Hawkeye fly the thing.
He sat down and leant his head back, worried and excited for the fight ahead.
—-
The jet crashed to the ground and jolted Kieran who was holding on to the handles on the roof, he landed on the floor steady following the captain as they left the jet.
He continued following until Cap stopped and looked up, they all followed looking into a portal as a Leviathan flew through. It looked the size of a skyscraper as it fluidly swims through the air.
Of course during said swim it released hundreds of Chitauri foot soldiers before flying off with Stark following behind.
Kieran decided now was the time to leave and fight alone. He ran through the streets weaving around bystanders quickly executing the alien soldiers with his brute strength.
And as he was gracefully dodging the lasers they shot at him and he avoided strikes from their weapons a smile started to form on his face.
The excitement, the battle, the blood and gore all mixing with his adrenaline all created a deadly combination of Kieran brutally killing dozens of these beasts by the minute.
He avoided a slice from a spear before punching through an alien's chest, pulling his hand back and grabbing its own spear before finishing the rest of the group with simple but quick swipes.
He quickly summoned his tigers to finish these fights all the quicker, they grew before Shere and Khan both started to kill and just as brutally as their master.
He watched with slight fascination as Shere and Khan both ran through each other, and as they did he saw something in his mind, a green tiger the size of a bus.
The bystanders were watching with a mix of emotions, joy, anger, disgust and sadness at the sight but it didn't matter what they felt nor what they didn't feel. There was one common factor in all of these bystanders and it was they were all feeling another overwhelming emotion, fear. They felt fear watching this young man slaughter and tear apart these aliens.
—-
Kieran was running down a street, his grin manic looking for more aliens to kill, this…this was really getting his blood pumping.
He eventually came across a rubble strewn street seeing 5 familiar figures all watching as Dr Banner was about to go Hulk.
'I remember this scene' and what a scene it was as Banner transformed in The Hulk and using all his strength to tip the charging leviathan over their heads, letting stark get a bomb inside the leviathan causing it to explode above them.
And as the group of 7 stood back to back a bond was formed. "Call it captain" stark said as he looked to the 4 new leviathans approaching with hundreds more aliens on board.
"All right, listen up, Until we close that portal our main objective is containment. Now Tora you stick to the ground and do what you've been doing-" not even letting cap finish Kieran bolted off getting ready to kill some aliens.
He simply executed a few aliens getting more and more bored by these guys, they were weak. As if by fate a Leviathan flew around the corner towards him it's form gigantic.
"Shere, Khan both of you follow me okay?" He said letting the tigers know to follow him and not be completely reckless. He started to run towards the leviathan.
And as they met in the middle Kieran jumped, he jumped over the leviathan landing on its back before crawling through the gaps in its armour and started to destroy as much as he could.
He and the tigers started ripping it to shreds using brute force, claws and teeth. He could hear its roars of pain as it crashed to the ground, as soon as it did he climbed back out and ran to its head before he did as much damage as possible making it stay down.
With his tiger's help this didn't take long. And as he heard the chittering and roars of the foot soldiers behind him he turned and gave them a grin.
—-
Caught in a battle frenzy he didn't notice what was going through the comms until all the aliens suddenly dropped to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.
His mind regained some form of clarity as his frenzy dropped and in its place came confusion.
His mind seemed cloudy as he stumbled, hitting his knee against a red cars door, asking himself what happened.
However he quickly came to the conclusion that this was the nuke shield sent, and that Tony guided through the portal. He quickly started to try and find his comrades.
He did remember they were at the street where the hulk punched the leviathan so he used that when he ran through the streets to find this spot.
He found Hulk, Steve and Thor all gathered around a panicked looking stark on the ground. "Have you ever tried shawarma? I don't know what it is but I want to try some." Tony said, his voice slightly frantic.
Thor answered his ramblings "We're not finished yet" he said as he looked towards Stark tower.
—-
They came to the pitiful scene of Loki crawling across the floor. Kieran stayed at the back and watched as the avengers all pointed their weapons at Loki.
"If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now" he said almost breathlessly. He was panting in exertion even as Tony gave him a deadpan look.
Kieran merely looked around, seeing the chaos around them, the city in flames and ruins. Thousands died most definitely. He sighed knowing Loki wouldn't even be imprisoned for more than 2 years for this crime.
—-
A very content silence gripped the small table as they all ate shawarma, Thor almost throwing it in his mouth. Bruce was nodding while eating his and Tony was just staring into the air. Natasha and Clint both just looking at each other with Steve just slowly eating Shawarma his first ever time having it.
Kieran however was still covered in the purple alien blood as he almost stuffed his face with the tasty food, "jheez boss man this is amazing!" He said to the owners behind the bar, his tigers helping them move rubble.
He pulled out his phone, before realising he didn't have Fury's number so he passed his phone to Natasha.
He didn't have time to tell her what he wanted before she spoke "huh asking for my number sorry but i'm a bit too old for you" she said with a teasing smile on her face.
He raised his eyebrows as the rest of the table chucked "I don't want your number, you're right you are too old for me. I want you to put Fury's number in there he owes 350k" he explained bluntly.
The rest of the table slightly chucked and gave him odd looks as Natasha chuckled, putting Fury's professional phone number in Kieran's phone. 'Tora is going to spam the Director' she thought to herself with a slight smile on her face.
Her eyebrows then furrowed and then her eyes narrowed slightly on the oblivious Tora who's gone back to shoving food down his mouth 'Little bastard didn't need to call me old though'.
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