"You fight like the Valkyrie. I like you." Thor said as she landed near Ciri.
"What is a Valkyrie?" Ciri was confused and Thor went on a whole description of the Valkyrie while also dueling against the Chitauri, and Ciri looked genuinely interested. And Thor seemed to be
at the moment. [A/N : Yeah, I know what I wrote]
Down below, Geralt and Vesemir fought back-to-back in a brutal dance of silver and fire. Every Chitauri that lunged at them was met with a sword through its throat or a burst of Igni flame. Keira and Triss floated behind them, unleashing arcane storms, hurling meteors and fireballs, each blast sending bodies flying like ragdolls.
"Watch your left!" Triss shouted.
"I see it!" Geralt growled.
Not far away, Natasha, Yennefer, and Gwen Stacy had formed a deadly triangle of finesse and fury. Yennefer's portals blinked open mid-air, allowing Gwen to swing through them and reappear at unpredictable angles, webbing enemies before Natasha's pistols delivered the finishing blow.
Yeah, Gwen even without any proper communication was able to bond with them quite fast and showed how tough she was.
"This is a weird combo, but I like it," Gwen muttered, catching a Leviathan's attention as it flew too low.
"Let's make it weirder." Yennefer yelled. A flash of violet lightning struck the Leviathan mid-wing, sending it crashing down. Peni and her spider robot roared past overhead, their mech arms extending to catch debris before it crushed civilians.
"I got the south sector cleared!" she radioed. "Someone get eyes on the next platoon!"
"I'm on it!" called Miles, flipping between buildings. He electrocuted a wave of Chitauri with a venom blast mid-swing, then slingshotted himself upward. Down below, Peter B. Parker took a deep breath and threw a manhole cover at a group of aliens.
"Y'know," he muttered to no one, "for once, I miss fighting bank robbers."
But what he got in response was a huge roar from Hulk who had landed beside him.
And the proceeded to land on a nearby Leviathan and punch it repeatedly. Since Liam couldn't fly he brought out his Interceptor javelin. Hovering above the city, he unleashed twin barrages of arcane fire infused missiles. Chitauri pods exploded in all directions. With a twist of his staff, he summoned binding sigils midair that froze smaller beasts in place, allowing Iron Man to sweep in with coordinated repulsor fire.
"You've gotten way too flashy recently," Tony muttered.
"Jealous?" Liam replied over comms.
"Hell yes."
But Liam wasn't just done with it, as he flew around hurling his staff and sending death blows and more death blows. The leviathans were crumbling down fast, but they continued coming down from the portals. Thankfully the other portals weren't connected to the one near the Chitauri spaceship, or else it might have been a problem.
While chaos raged above, the people below huddled in wrecked cafes, overturned buses, and shattered storefronts, trying to make sense of the skies breaking open. Inside a corner deli on 43rd, a family crouched behind a freezer unit. A father held his son tight, while the mother whispered reassurances that felt hollow. Through the shattered windows, they could see a Leviathan barreling down the avenue.
The father braced for impact. He was already moving to shield his family with his own body when the windows exploded inward—not from the Leviathan, but from something else.
A massive blast of flame surged past the entrance. The deli door blew open, and in strode Geralt of Rivia. A flick of his wrist, and a sign of Aard flung a dozen Chitauri into the air. He wasn't wearing any mask, so everyone was able to see him.
The little boy, no more than seven, peeked around his father's shoulder and saw a man with white hair, a scar running down from forehead to cheek. And the eyes. Those eyes didn't seem human at all.
"Daddy… was that a knight?"
"I… I don't know. Maybe."
Three blocks away, a young girl huddled beneath a collapsed scaffolding near Bryant Park. Among them was a young teenager—Kate Bishop. Her mother sat behind her, coughing from the dust and smoke. Chitauri troops dropped from a pod near the park fountain and began advancing, firing their alien rifles at anything that moved.
Then a change occurred.
With a soft
, a swirling black portal opened midair—and out stepped Yennefer of Vengerberg.
Kate's mouth dropped open. Yennefer turned slightly, eyes locking onto her and her mother. With a flick of her fingers, a shimmering violet dome enveloped them—just as an energy blast ricocheted off the shield harmlessly.
"Stay close. And breathe slowly," Yennefer said calmly before disappearing in a blink, only to reappear
the enemy line, raining chaos down upon them.
Kate clutched her sister tightly.
"Who
that?" she whispered.
"I don't know. But she just saved us."
Kate's eyes didn't leave the ground, where Yennefer now stood, her hands glowing like twin stars, striking down Chitauri with a grace and fury that burned itself into Kate's memory.
"She's
," Kate whispered. If Liam was here, he would have recognized her already and would have been more surprised that it was Kate Bishop who got to see Yennefer and made her the god in her eyes. Instead of having Hawkeye as her god.
Back in the sky, Liam and Iron Man were syncing up. Liam spun mid-flight, his javelin's thrusters kicking back as he caught a falling Peni midair before she slammed into a crumbling tower.
"Thanks!" she yelled.
"Don't mention it," Liam replied.
Down below, Hulk had ripped the wing off a grounded Leviathan and was using it as a bat to swat flying Chitauri out of the sky like flies.
"Monsters!" he roared.
"Yeah, yeah! Big monsters! Keep yelling, big guy!" Peter B. Parker zipped by overhead. Not far off, Ciri blinked through several enemies, her short sword flickering with Elder Blood energy. Thor flew beside her, spinning Mjolnir like a drill and carving a path through enemy lines.