As he spoke, a stream of light flew over buildings and above Tony in his suit. Balls of fire shot out and incinerated Chitauri that rode on their chariots. The Chitauri found a new target to follow and caught on the firey tail of Johnny Storm. But the speed that he flew at was unmatched, leading for him to fly up and around to be behind them. He shot a blast of angry flames out of his hands and burned the aliens to ashes.

'There he is,' Tony mumbled but Sue caught it in her earpiece.

'Johnny?! What took you so long?!' she cried.

'I stopped for drive-thru,' Johnny said into his earpiece that was made to resist his thousand degree temperature.

Sue moved with the ground crew down the streets of the city. Clint fired arrows with fine precision and Natasha used her handguns against the Chitauri that littered the roads. Steve spun his shield through the air and took out multiple Chitauri at a time, while Sue helped the civilians. Loki had gotten hold of a chariot and rode from above, leading his army that fired their weapons below.

Loki fired his scepter down as he passed the four and watched in pleasure as the civilians screamed. His evil grin dropped when his shots made no damage to the people who huddled against a building. He looked to Sue who stood with her hands above her to form the barrier around herself and the group behind her. Loki grumbled and circled around to pass again, determined to create some damage.

'Those people need assistance down there!' Steve called as an overpass was crumbled over more civilians. The Chitauri sneaked towards them and Natasha fired her guns to defend the innocent.

'We got this! Go!' she said to Steve and he turned to Clint.

'You think you can hold them off?'

'Captain,' Clint pressed a trigger on his bow and his arrows rotated in their holder on his back. 'It would be my genuine pleasure.'

As Clint fired his arrows, Steve turned to Sue who was further down the street. She helped civilians down an alleyway where they could find the subway below the city to hide. A blast of purple soared past her shoulder, singeing her red suit. Its tech prevented an injury, but it was enough for Sue to turn around and form spheres around her fists. Chitauri fired their bayonets at the woman who dodged and blocked their blasts with the spheres, before throwing them as quick as she formed them. The aliens fell one by one from the force and Loki flew off before Sue could land a hit on him. Steve knew Sue could hold her own.

As he moved off, Sue headed into the next street. The Chitauri noticed her entrance from the alleyway and turned on her, firing their weapons. Sue disappeared and the creatures looked side to side, searching for the human they thought was ordinary. She appeared next to one that stood near a lamppost, swiping a thin yet sharp disk of blue through its throat. It fell to the ground and alerted its group, but she disappeared again and moved to the next. She sliced their necks and stomachs, one being able to swipe its sharp end of it's bayonet past her cheek. The skin broke and crimson fell down to her chin.

After finishing off the last of the group, Sue fell forward at the impact of a blast against her back. She stumbled and whipped around, ignoring the pain that shot through her body. The suit took a majority of the hit, but the force would leave a large bruise.

Sue threw a blue spike and watched as it impaled the lone Chitauri. It fell to the ground, and she was left in silence for the first time in half an hour. She groaned at the ache in her back and attempted to wipe away the blood from her cheek. But it continued its staining of her skin and she took the time to catch her breath.

The cry of Johnny soaring through the sky made her look up with squinting eyes. She saw his impending flare come from the left and watched as he landed on the road with his flames dying down. He let out a breath of air and ran his hand down his face, his flight fatiguing him slightly.

'Are you good?' Sue asked her brother who appeared unharmed.

'Yeah. You?'

Sue lowered her head in a nod. Johnny saw how much dust and dirt covered her usually pristine red suit and skin. Her ponytail was secured at the back of her head with patches of grey from the rubble that fell from damaged buildings. A few cuts could be seen on her face, but there was yet to be any incisions in her suit from injuries.

'Cap, what's your situation?' Johnny said into his earpiece, hovering his finger over it as he spoke.

'We're meeting near the overpass. Get here as soon as you can,' Steve was heard through the siblings' earpieces.

The two jogged through the streets to get back to the fallen overpass. Natasha, Clint, Thor and Steve stood together with bodies of Chitauri around them. The group turned with their own wounds and covered in rubble. Sue and Johnny stopped next to them, and the group checked that they weren't too injured. A wound was yet to land on Johnny's skin, but he wasn't confident there wouldn't be by the end of the battle.

'What's the story upstairs?' Steve asked Thor.

'The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable.'

'Thor is right. We gotta deal with these guys,' Tony was heard through everyone's earpieces.

'How do we do this?' Natasha said.

'As a team,' Steve said.

'I can cover the sky with Stark,' Johnny piped up.

'I'll allow you in my air space, torch,' Tony was heard again.

'Once I catch my breath, I can get down to the subways and make sure civilians are safe,' Sue suggested.

'I have unfinished business with Loki,' Thor made sure it was known.

'Yeah, get in line,' Clint scoffed.

'Save it,' Steve cut the two off. 'Loki's gonna 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...'

The hum of an engine made the group turn to see Bruce Banner pull to a stop on a motorbike. He pulled the stand out and turned the key, dismounting the bike and faced the group. His shirt was oversized and hanging half unbuttoned up, his pants lose and his hair a mess. He looked around at the broken sidewalks and unearthed street littered with dead Chitauri.

'So, this all seems horrible,' he stated at the scene.

'We've seen worse,' Sue mentioned as she and Natasha stared at the man that nearly turned them to dust on the helicarrier.

'Sorry...' he looked between the women.

'No, we could use a little worse,' Natasha shook her head and offered a small smile to show there were no hard feelings.

'Stark? We got him,' Steve informed Tony through his earpiece.

'Then tell him to suit up,' Tony said. 'I'm bringing the party to you.'

Just as he finished, Tony flew around a building and saw the group standing in the middle of the street. They watched as a Chitauri leviathan roared as it followed behind the suit that proved to be difficult to kill. Its spikes scraped past buildings and swayed its body like a worm through the air. Tony flew low and the leviathan did the same, its belly inches off the ground.

'I don't want to be an Avenger anymore...' Johnny said with his eyes wide.

'Dr. Banner,' Steve called as the man himself walked towards the impending beast. 'Now might be a really good time for you get angry.'

'That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry.'

Bruce turned back to the leviathan as his skin turned green and his body swelled. The Hulk ripped through Bruce's shirt and left him in the pants that turned to shorts on his large legs. His height grew to its monstrous seven feet and just as the leviathan began to open its mouth to consume him, he planted his large first into its nose. Bruce's feet dug into the road as the leviathan was forced to a stop and its tail went over the top at Bruce's strength.

Tony flew back and fired a missile into the tail that threatened to flatten the team below. Armour and meat of the creature exploded everywhere, raining down as Sue produced a forcefield to cover everyone around her. The dome materialised and the falling pieces collided with it, sending them down to the floor in a perfect circle around the Avengers.

The Chitauri roared as their creature was destroyed by the group of superhumans and singular demi-god. They covered the walls of buildings and growled in anger as they gathered in a circle, looking up at the aliens who were trespassing on their planet. Tony hovered above as The Hulk roared and Thor spun his hammer in his hand in preparation. Clint loaded another arrow into his bow and Natasha reloaded her handguns. Steve held his shield at the ready and Sue surged her energy to her hands to produce disks of invisibility. Johnny ignited his flames, their heat smoking off his shoulders and arms as he prepared for flight. They were the Avengers, and their planet didn't belong to the Chitauri.