ΣΙΓΜΑ and Avengers Phase I

Chapter XI: The Avengers

Thor lands next to Captain America and Sigma who are trying their best to keep the aliens from entering buildings. Steve turns to Thor and asks, "What's the story upstairs?"

"The powers surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor walks up to Steve right after Steve takes down the last Chitauri in the area.

"Thor's right. We have to deal with these guys!" Iron Man says through his communicator as he flies by, trying to shake off pursuing chariots.

Wendy grabs the back of one of the chariots, her hand radiating pain from the movement. She chucks the vehicle back over her shoulder and it slams into another Chitauri chariot, making it explode. "And they don't seem like they're gonna let up anytime soon."

Adrena lands roughly on the ground next to Thor, but regains her stance after walking forward a couple of paces. "I can feel the energy radiating from the Tesseract and the forcefield from miles away. There is nothing near that holds that kind of power to take down the portal as of this moment."

"Miss fancy drama-let-down-queen over here." Clint puts one of his feet on top of a dead Chitauri. He grips the end of his arrow and rips it out to try and restock his ammo.

"I didn't see you helping out earlier." Natasha smartly replies, loading her guns and smirking at her archer friend.

Adrena gives Clint an amused look with her eyebrows raised. "She got you there."

Clint chuckles, glad that even though their end is getting nearer and nearer every second his team still has a sense of humor. "In all seriousness, what Thor's saying is I'm not going to be able to shoot an arrow right through the Tesseract."

"So, how do we do this?" Lauren asks, a bit out of breath. She holds her spear with one hand in front of her protectively, watching out for any more Chitauri that could catch her off guard like before.

Steve gives her a reassuring nod and says, "As a team."

"I have unfinished business with Loki." Thor's tone is angered, the knife trick Loki pulled on him still fresh in his mind.

"Yeah? Well, get in line." Clint starts counting the different arrow heads he has. He unscrews the tops and loads them back in his quiver so he can pick more trick arrows for later on.

"That's what I've been trying to tell them from the very beginning." Adrena mumbles, though everyone hears her comment.

"Oh please, I thought we put that debacle behind us already." Lauren says playfully. Adrena smiles as she remembers that petty fight they had in the small section of the forest when they first met.

Steve gives Adrena and Lauren an are you serious look. "Save it. Loki's gonna keep this fight on us and that's what we need."

"I agree. Without him, these things can run wild." Adrena says as she gets back into her serious mode.

"Right." Natasha nods and straps her extra guns to her hips. "So, what's the plan?"

"We got Stark and Evans up top." Steve points upward, referring to the two who are still trying to keep the aliens from attacking them while they formulate a plan. "They're gonna need us to-"

The sound of a motorcycle sounds up from behind Steve. Captain America sees everyone's expression as they look behind him. He turns around and can't believe it when he sees Bruce Banner parking the motorcycle before walking up to them. "Well, this all seems... horrible."

"I've seen worse." Natasha comments. Adrena and Thor silently agree with the red headed assassin. Fighting the Hulk was way more scary than fighting these aliens. The Hulk is more unpredictable, and after all, he's part of the team. No one wanted to hurt him.