Wrong Place, Right Time

Proving My Worth

Summery:

Lyric nervously starts to fight with the Avengers, trying to prove that she belongs. Will she get to Loki in time, and can she even save him?  

Notes:

I had trouble with this chapter and I hope it all makes sense. I may go through and change a few things later, if I come up with better phrasing.

Character thoughts are in italics.

Lyrics POV

At first all we could do was stop and stare, The Chitauri kept pouring through the massive portal in the sky. I started to get really worried, My powers were almost nonexistent, the only real weapon I have is my wolf side, but I doubt that Zara will be able to hold up against aliens! "What am I going to do? What am I doing here? I am CRAZY for coming here, Steve and Fury are crazy to think that I can even last 5 minutes here. And Romanoff is right, my powers are no good here, I could end up accidentally blowing up a building full of innocent people, or burst a few bottles in a aliens face.... I am useless here!" my thoughts were off running rampant. I was absolutely freaking out.

I could hear Steve talking to Tony via headset and felt even more out of place as everyone else seemed to be able to hear Tony. I kept second guessing myself silently in the background, trying not to turn and run like the scared pathetic little girl everyone thought that I was. I followed everyone quietly as they crouched down behind some abandoned cars and listened as they made some battle plans. Steve was going to run and help some trapped civilians, while Romanoff and Barton held back the advancing Chitauri. I wasn't included in the plans until Steve motioned for me to follow him. As I was getting up, Romanoff quickly pressed something into my hand, looking down I saw that it was an earpiece, so now I could at least hear what was going on. Great, I would be able to hear them talking about how pathetic I was. Or how I was going to get someone killed because they had to protect me. I put the earpiece in anyways, I am a sucker for punishment.

I tried to keep up with Steve but quickly lost him, turning around I saw a group of people trapped against a car and Chitauri closing in on them. I raised my hands and tried to blow them up, toss them away, throw something at them, I didn't care as long as it worked. And it more or less did, I was able to hit one with a garbage can and the other I managed to blow up his gun. I didn't kill them, but I sure pissed them off as they rounded on me and came at me, giving the civilians a chance to run to some relative safety. "I wish they would have taken me with them." I thought grimly as I pulled out one of the guns and shot both Chitauri before they got too close, silently thanking Natasha for the guns. "When did I start thinking of her as Natasha" I wondered as I looked around to see who else needed my help.

I looked back to see how Clint and Natasha were doing, only to see a Chitauri craft bearing down on them from behind. They didn't see it. I reacted without even thinking. I just raised my hands and blew the bastards out of the sky. It worked! Holy shit! It worked!!! I actually did it. Maybe that is the trick, I am over thinking something that used to come so naturally to me. I remember being able to blow things up so easily when I was a child, pureed green beans? Broccoli? If I didn't like it, I clearly remember raising my grubby little paws and blowing up whatever food was currently offending me, without a second thought. Much to my mother's chagrin, and my father's absolute delight. Many a food ended up on the roof and all over my mom. I didn't even realize that as I went through all these thoughts and memories that I was blowing up Chitauri left and right, I was on an absolute roll, I was unstoppable. Zara was howling in delight, so proud that I got over my own insecurities and was able to fully embrace myself again. I joined back up with everyone just as Thor arrived, looking slightly unsteady as he landed.