บท 87: The war (1)

Tony received a call from Drift saying Eric Selvig was in the roof of Stark Tower. Drift wanted to come up and stop Erik from doing anything but Tony told him to stop as he was sure if Drift took any step in broad daylight it might cause more panic as the people would definitely see such a huge humanoid robot. More problems would pop up afterwards.

It can be said that Drift helped him in this regard instead of figuring out the location of the Cube itself by deep thinking. The plot followed exactly like it was supposed to as Tony was thrown down by Loki and Mark VII flew down to catch him.

The portal had already opened when Batwing and the quinjet reached New York. Tony was flying and fighting. Wayne and Diana went to the Stark Tower directly as Diana saw Loki in the Stark Tower while the quinjet landed in a big square.

"We need a plan. Wayne how is it looking up there?" Steve said over communications.

"Diana used the lasso of truth on Loki. It seems like he doesn't know how to close the portal. We need to find another way out. And stop these aliens from spreading around the whole city."

As Batman was talking they we suddenly shot by a laser gun from one of the flying alien aircrafts. Diana who saw it incoming covered herself and Bruce but were still flung away by few meters.

"Are you both alright?" Steve asked as he too heard the blast over the call. After few seconds Diana's voice came

"We are alright. We all need to work together to combat the situation." Steve said.

John noticed that the Chitauri came with greater force than the original one. He saw that there were already two leviathans from the beginning of the attack with higher number of aliens. It was much different from the movie.

"The butterfly effect does impact in a larger scale than I expected. I suppose Loki asked for more help as he had seen Diana before." John murmured. Batman and Wonder Woman came flying (gliding) down the next minute from the Stark Tower.

"Where's Loki?" Thor asked.

"He sneaked away in that blast." Diana said

As they were thinking of an action plan, Tony said over the call.

"Guys! everybody is here? Good. I am bringing the party to you." He said as he led a leviathan towards their direction.

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

"Banner I think it's time to get angry." Wayne said.

"That's my secret Bats. I am always angry." Banner turned to Hulk the next second and stopped the leviathan with one punch. But the inertia of the leviathan was too huge to stop it's read end. John knew he had to take action here.

He stretched his arm towards the huge moving body and snapped his fingers. A huge spark was sent to the body of the Leviathan and it created a huge explosion of fire on it. The fire blast was so huge that all had to take cover to get away from the heat of it.

"Remind me never to be an enemy of you." Clint said.

"Batman we need a plan. Till we can close the portal we need to limit the destruction." Steve said.

"We need to set a perimeter of 6 to 10 blocks. Nothing should cross that. Me and you can fight the aliens here as this is almost the center. Clint go up and scan everything and relay back to us and on the way blow them up as much as you can. Natasha you are good at spy. Try to find ways to close the portal. Go to the roof of Stark Tower. John go around the perimeter and blow them up. Tony if you can't kill them lead the strays to us. And Hulk smash!!"

"Good. Diana and Thor you both can almost fly. Thor kill them as much as you when they come out. Use your lightning. Diana help Tony in controlling everything around. Let's work for a living, people" Steve said.

Everybody went into work. John ran around the perimeter. In order not to be in danger he called Sasuke to secretly follow him and help him if he is in danger. Sasuke and other jonins had always been secretly protecting John. After the confrontation with Sitwell, John had to take certain measures against Hydra.

The shielding technology wasn't mature yet. It would take a few more months to be used as Bruce said so. John had ordered Sasuke to be with him till then. He went around using flame alchemy on any moving alien and those who came close to him he used the alchemy of decomposition and reconstruction to kill them.

Truth to be said John was having fun killing the aliens. Sasuke killed a few who tried to snipe John from far with the laser guns. John even saw some ninjas moving very fast and taking away the stranded strangers.

There were screams around as the people didn't realize who were taking them away but they calmed down as they saw that all of them were much further away from the invasion. Even though they didn't see the face of their saviors, all of them were grateful.