“Damn! These Chitauri are too persistent! We are shooting them down like flies yet they still continue to come at us without a single thought.” Mr. Stark cursed as both of us continued to shoot every single Chitauri in the Stark Tower’s victiny while going upwards to support Ms. Ororo, Thor and Loki.

“That's true. Maybe they have a hive mind or something similar which gives them absolute commands.” I hypothesized while shooting down yet another Chitauri.

“It could be like what you say. But I am not going to dissect a Chitauri after this battle is over to check if it's true or not.” Mr. Stark replied.

Rumble!

We were about to move towards the Stark Tower when the skies above us suddenly darkened and lightning started crackling out of them.

The lightning in the dark clouds started striking one of the two Leviathans, causing it heavy damage.

Looks like Ms. Ororo had finally decided to go all out.

Suddenly, a massive thunderbolt emerged from the clouds and hit Thor’s hammer, causing it to glow brightly with lightning.

“Heeyah!” Thor shot his hammer towards the other Leviathan with a battle cry which could be heard even from here.

As the hammer shrouded in lightning hit the Leviathan, it easily pierced through it, causing it to burst into pieces from the lightning.

“Looks like they can handle it on their— Oops!” Mr. Stark stopped his words as three more Leviathans descended from the portal.

“Me and my big mouth.” Mr. Stark said with a sigh.

Two of the Leviathans were blocked by Ms. Ororo and Thor but a third one continued on and descended down the Stark Tower towards us.

“Damn it, you bastards! Stay still!” Right on the Leviathan's heels was Loki on a hoverboard, launching energy blades at the Chitauri on board the Leviathan.

“I think you need to train your magic a little more, God of Mischief!” Mr. Stark said mockingly to Loki as he shot several missiles at the Leviathan.

“I will show you, Stark! The true power of Loki!” Loki said furiously as he prepared a powerful magic spell because of Mr. Stark’s mockery.

Several clones of Loki appeared in mid air around the Leviathan, each one equipped with twin magic daggers similar to Loki.

Then, every single one of these clones shot energy blades simultaneously from the daggers, finishing every Chitauri on board and causing deep cuts in the Leviathan, thus exposing its inner parts.

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This spell proved why Loki was called the God of Magic in the ancient times. It was no small feat to create such powerful corporal illusions.

Roar!

I was about to shoot a lightning bolt to finish the Leviathan when Hulk suddenly jumped atop it.

“At least give a warning before you attack, big guy. I had almost shot you there.” Mr. Stark complained.

Hulk, however, ignored Mr. Stark's complaint and struck where the Leviathan had a deep cut from Loki's attack with his tremendous strength.

As a result, the Leviathan exploded in flames but the Hulk jumped away and continued to attack the Chitauri, simply unaffected by the explosion.

“He is quite a beast, this Hulk. I have seen Giants before but even they do not have such tremendous strength.” Loki commented as he saw Hulk ripping apart the Chitauri.

As I saw Captain America along with the others handling the situation smoothly on the ground and the Chitauri falling down like flies, I felt that we could actually manage this invasion.

Once the military arrived and the Chitauri could be handled for a while, I was going to take every single heavy hitter and pierce that barrier to retrieve the Tessaract and shut down that fucking portal.

Boom!

Suddenly, a giant explosion happened near the portal where Thor and Ms. Ororo were blockading the Chitauri!

I could see the two of them falling down in the air and was about to rush to save them when they managed to stabilize themselves in the air.

“What happened? Are you alright?” Mr. Stark asked as we reached them.

“This but a scratch!” Thor answered proudly.

“Thankfully, I had the shield bracelet on standby so I was able to defend myself.” Ms. Ororo said.

“Just what exactly happened?” I asked.

“The Chitauri had exploded a bomb right at the entrance of the portal.” Ms. Ororo answered.

“But why would they do so?” I couldn't understand the logic behind it.

“Look at the portal, everyone!” Mr. Stark shouted, drawing our attention to the portal.

As our sight fell upon the portal, everything became clear.

Because a literal flood of Chitauri were coming out of the portal. Literally hundreds of them were coming out every single second.

“They were just cleaning the way for the main army to enter.” Loki said, realising what the whole explosion was about.

“What can we even do now? Even if we stop the portal right now, the Chitauri present here would take us hours to defeat at the very least. Who knows how many people would die by the time we finished every single one of them.” Mr. Stark said in a sorrowful tone.

His words were true because even with all our might, the numbers were just too high for us to do anything instantly.

“Albion!” Agent Natasha's call suddenly came on my receiver.

“Call Ancient One right now. Tell her to do something about this Chitauri army. The Senators are calling for a nuclear strike to destroy the Chitauri.” Agent Natasha said, pleading for me to call Ancient One so that she could stop this army.

“Have they gone mad? Tell them to stop that thought right now. I have a way to destroy this army. So, stop them for as long as possible.” I said to Agent Natasha, assuring her that there was still a way for us to win.

“Indeed, only Ancient One can stop this army now. If she acts, this massive army would disappear into the Mirror Dimension and the portal would also be stopped.” Thor said as he recalled Ancient One's might.

“No, it will not be Ancient One who will act. It will be me.” I said as I took out a silver card gleaming with magic runes with the symbol of a dragon head on it.

When I had received this card from Spider Supreme, I had said that there would never come a time when I have to use it.

And now I had to use it just a month later.