Little Witch

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3rd P.O.V

Fury runs in to see Coulson up against the wall, life leaving his body .

"Sorry boss, they got rabbited."

"Just stay awake, eyes on me," Fury commanded as he lowered himself to Coulson's level.

"He took her... he told me she was right. Everyone underestimated her... she was putting all the pieces together... she had it all figured out... no one listened."

"Hargreeves,"Fury whispered out, everything coming together in his mind.

Coulson sent him a weak nod,"he took her... " he looked up to Fury as he struggled to get his words out,"It's okay boss. This was never going to work... if they didn't have something... to.."

That was it for Coulson, as urgent as what he never got to finish, he stood up for Hargreeves as life left his body, knowing she deserved more.

"They called it."

Steve and Tony both looked up with a numb expression forming on their devastated faces. Then Fury threw down cards on the table, "These were in Phil Coulson's jacket. I guess he never did get you to sign them."

Ignoring the fact that some of the cards were stained in blood, Steve picks them up with guilt forming inside his chest.

"We're dead in the air here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor, Hargreeves who apparently was onto something according to Loki, who took her. I got nothing for you. I lost my one good eye, maybe I had that coming."

Tony and Steve's faces fell as they were filled with guilt for not paying attention to Sabrina, especially Tony. After a moment Fury decided to continue speaking,

"Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing with something even risker. There was an idea, Stark and Hargreeves know this, called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes."

This all was too much for Tony who got up and left the room, thinking of a way to make this all right, and end this battle once and for all.

Sabrina's P.O.V

I was awaken by a boom and I felt the floor rumble beneath me. Looking outside there was pure destruction, aliens were flying around causing death, I was too late. Loki had opened the portal for the Chitauri, hopefully the avengers we able to get a location on time before the aircraft was attacked. I changed into my superhero outfit without my mask as I started wandering around trying to be as discreet as possible.

"I was wondering when you would awaken."

My whole body tensed as I recognized the ice cold voice and slowly swiveled around to come face to face with Loki. His eyes still icy blue but not that much as before when he kidnapped me, as he took a step closer to me, my heart pounding in my chest.

"Loki please,"I whispered, moving my shaking hands to the side of his arms,"you can put an end to this. Snap out of this, I know you can overcome this."

"Why do you keep saying that,"Loki said in a menacing tone, squeezing the upper part of my arms"has it ever occurred to you that I want this to happen little witch, hmm? Thor never deserved to be king, I was the rightful heir to the throne, you mere mortals of Midgard deserve to be ruled!"

Afraid of what he would do to me, I quickly considering the options to help him snap out of it. Out of the all the options that went through my head, I kissed him. Leaning forward, I pressed my lips to his, my eyes closed hoping that this doesn't turn for the worst. But, I guess my plan worked, I heard his breath hitched, as the grip on my arms loosed. Our lips stayed connected for a few more seconds before I broke for some oxygen. He just stared at me, as if he was trying to comprehend what had just happened. All I could do was look into his eyes watching the blue slowly fade away to the point where it was just a light blueish tint in his eyes as I felt my lips tingle, missing his soft icy lips. Before either one of us could do anything, I saw out of the corner of my eye Stark entering the tower and Loki's grip on my arms tightened.

"Please tell me, you're going to appeal to my humanity."

"Actually I'm here to threaten you, and save Hocus Pocus here."

"You should have left your armor for that," Loki said turning around to face him as he walked over to his bar.

"Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage, you've got the blue stick of destiny. Would you like a drink?"

"Yeah, I'll have a whiskey, neat," I called out wrestling on of my arms out of Loki's grasp.

"Stalling me won't change anything."

"No no, threatening. No drink? You sure? Can you at least let your hostage get her drink?"

I reached out my hand for the glass of whiskey to float into my hand, and drink the glass of whiskey like a shot. Only for the glass to be snatched out of my hand and thrown to the ground.

"The Chituari have arrived, nothing can change that. What do I have to fear?"

"The Avengers, it's what we call ourselves sort of like a team. 'Earth's Mightiest Heros' sort of thing."

"Yes, I've met them,"Loki said back motioning to me.

"Yeah, takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one. But, lets do a head count here. Your brother, the demi-god; a super solider, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breathtaking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins; and a retired superhero, who lives up to being a teenage witch, a very clever one," I rolled my eyes to the reference he made, talking about the tv show I stared in 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch'," and you big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them."

"That was the plan."

"Not a great plan, when the rest come, and they will, they'll come for you."

"I have an army," Loki argued.

"We have a hulk,"Stark and I shot back.

"I thought the beast wandered off," Loki snarled throwing me to the ground harshly as he made his way to Stark.

"You're missing the point,"Stark said walking towards Loki,"There is no throne, there is no version of this, where you come 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."

"How will your friends have time for me, when they're so busy fighting you," Loki snarls before tapping his scepter of Stark's chest only to hear the clang of Stark's arc reactor.

He tries a couple more times before muttering,"It should work."

"Well, performance issues. You know-",Stark starts to say before he's lifted by the throat and thrown out of the window.

I take this as my chance and when Loki whips around to face me, before he can say or do anything, I cry out,"manete!" which paralyzes him.

"Clever little witch are you,"he chuckles out, unable to move his body.

"You have no idea,"I respond back with a smirk.

As soon as I said that Stark appears in his Iron Man suit and says,"And there's one other person you pissed off, his name was Phil."

Since Loki was trapped in my paralyzed spell, Stark was easily able to shoot Loki knocking him down on his ass. Clearly angry and impatient, Loki gets back up ready for a fight only to see me standing between him and Stark, but all I do is lazily point at him and chant another spell,"Age nunc intellectum. Age nunc intellectum atque voluntatem omnem meam."

Within a few seconds, Loki is crouching as he has his ears covers screaming, blood seeping through his fingers.

"Damn Hocus Pocus, what the hell did you do?"

"A loud ringing sound, it'll make his ears bleed and then,"I was interrupted by a thud and I turned to see Loki passed out on the ground,"he'll pass out."

We're interrupted with a loud roar, only to see a large Chituari dragon creature fly out of the portal, and Stark turns to me and asks sheepishly,"need a lift?"

"Do you even need an answer, now turn around and give me a piggy back ride. We've got a world to save."