Avengers HP Crossover Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Harry was wary after his conversation with Fury.  It was clear the man didn’t trust him, but that wasn’t all surprising considering his position as the head of an intelligence agency.  Pretty much being the most powerful man in any room you walk into, and having dirt on every person must be nice until you run into someone like Harry.  He didn’t want to fault the man, but still he knew his mission, and he would get it done at any cost.  If for no other reason than to go home.

Harry didn’t want to wander through the ship, so he made his way down to the science labs where he knew Dr. Banner and Mr. Stark would be.  Any familiar faces would be preferable at the moment.

When he arrived he saw Tony and Steve arguing over what Fury wasn’t telling them about this whole mission.  Harry had to admit the whole thing did seem rushed together, and their desperation to get the Tesseract back was interesting, but he didn’t care enough to pursue it.

“Speaking of well kept secrets.  Gandalf, what do you have for us?” Tony inquired, making both Steve and Bruce look over at the young man.

Harry’s eyes narrowed, “What do you want to know?”

Tony smiled, “Is that an invitation to ask anything?  How about a Date of Birth?  Where did you go to school?  How does your magic work?  Why do you use a stick sometimes, and other times you don’t?  You’re a wizard do you-“

Harry flicked his wrist, and Tony kept talking, but no sound came out.  Steve looked impressed, “So there is a way to make him shut up.”

Smirking at the man Harry began to speak, “My date of Birth is July 31st 1980.  I was born in Godric’s Hollow, England. Good luck finding that on a map.  Magic allows me to bend matter, reality, and pretty much anything else I want at will.  I can carve through your mind and delve into your past, I could flick my wrist and cause you agonizing pain.  I could make you live your wildest day dreams, and I could make your worst nightmares look tame.  I can also fix things in the blink of an eye, and rip apart the world.  Magic is a tool that's all about how powerful the user is, and what his intent is to do with such a tool.  The wand merely acts as a focus.  If I use it I am more powerful, but I am also a lot slower.  My wand is like a shotgun though, and my hand is like a rifle.  I can do almost everything without a wand these days, but I will admit that is more than most of my people can accomplish.”

Bruce and Steve eyed Harry warily after his proclamation, but Harry merely shook his head, “Now please can we stay on topic.  You guys are arguing thinking that Fury is hiding something, and you’re absolutely right.”

Harry waved his hand at Tony removing the spell, but still no sounds came from his mouth as he stared at the boy in shock.  Steve asked, “How can you be sure?”

Sitting in a chair nearby Harry closed his eyes and concentrated.  He wanted to clear his mind and get a full look at the picture in front of him, “Fury went through a lot of effort and trouble to get me onto this team.  To convince my people as a society that the threat that was coming was big enough that it might be worth the exposure of my world.  Something like this has been feared in the magical communities for centuries, because exposure can mean war.  People seek to destroy what they don’t understand, and the situation must be more desperate than it seems for them to call us.”

Harry looked to Tony, “Can you pull up an image of the Tesseract on one of the screens?”

Tony looked at Harry for a moment, and then nodded.  When the image came up Harry sighed, “My people have legends about artifacts of magical origin that could rip apart entire planets.  Fury said this item might be the key to unlimited power, and I have a bad feeling that when he says unlimited it actually means unlimited.  Like this thing will rip apart the world as they are trying to harness its power.  I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to weaponize it.”

Steve looked at Harry for a moment, and then seemed to be struck with realization, and departed the room quickly.  Tony chimed in, “Well whatever secrets they are hiding we will know in a few hours.”

Bruce asked Harry, “Harry you said your birthday was in July of 1980, but that puts us closer in age than I thought.  You hardly look to be even in your twenties.  Is that normal for your people?”

Harry nodded, “It is not uncommon for my people to live to be nearly 200 years old, and the more powerful they are the longer they will.  However you will find that I am once again a rare case in my people for I will never age again, not until I leave this world.”

Bruce and Tony both looked at the boy in surprise.  Tony asked, “You’re an immortal wizard?”

“The jury is still out on that one honestly.  My people have a legend about three artifacts that were gifts from Death.  Supposedly no one in history had ever assembled the items until me.  The legend says whoever held all three items would be the master of Death.  It’s been 13 years since I did it, and I have not aged a day.  I don’t know if that means I will grow old, and one day just die, or if I am truly immortal like the legends say.” Harry said sadly.

Bruce looked skeptical, “Shouldn’t you have made that a very well kept secret though?  I mean if the legends are true won’t every wizard in the world with any sort of power lust be coming after you?”

“They certainly have tried.  Many have fallen in their quest to assassinate me.  I think many believe that I am currently the most powerful wizard in the world, and perhaps I am, but I couldn’t be sure.  The current head of the ICW is a very powerful wizard, and I would hate to be on any battlefield across from him.  Same with several of the other world leaders, however it is possible.  Also it couldn’t be kept a secret, because I have done something impossible multiple times.  I have survived a curse that no other person in history has before me dozens of times.  They say I am immune, and they are right. I just don’t know why.   It could be because of the objects I have assembled, or it could be because of the protection my mother gave me when I was baby.”

Taking  a breath Harry sighed, “The curse is designed to kill anything it touches.  As I said I am the sole survivor.   I first survived it when I was a baby because of some ancient ritualistic sacrifice my mother tricked the Dark Lord into doing, so it's possible that is why I am immune, but the truth is no one knows.  What everyone does know is that I can’t be killed by the spell, and they know for a fact I have at least one of the objects.  Most of the fanatics and the public have made their own assumptions from there.”

“This makes you very difficult to kill, and a powerful ally to have here, which we are grateful for.” Fury said calmly as he walked into the room.

Harry nodded at the director, but the man wasn’t looking at him he was looking at Stark, while the machines were beeping behind him and Banner’s eyes widened, while Fury said, “You however Stark are trying to overstay your welcome.  Is there something you would like to share with the class?  I thought the top priority was going to find the cube.”

Tony rolled his eyes, “I have every load out in the world looking for its levels of gamma radiation. If it peaks out anywhere in the sunshine we will find it.”

Bruce chimed in, “Is there something you would like to share with us director about the intention of this project?”

Thor and Steve come in at this point, “Phase two is to weaponize it.  Sorry the computers were moving a bit slow.  I thought the world was better than this, but it looks like you were wrong, Director, the world hasn’t changed one bit.”

Bruce turned to Natasha, “Did you know about this?”

“Do you want to think about removing yourself from this environment doctor?”

“I was in Calcutta.  I was pretty well removed.”.

“Loki is manipulating you.”

“And you’ve been doing what exactly?”

“You didn’t come here because I bat my eyelashes at you.”

“And I am not going to leave just because you’re getting a little twitchy.”

Bruce and Natasha stared at each other for a hard moment when Bruce said, “I want to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction?”

“Because of him!” Fury pointed at Thor.

“Me?”

“Last year you had a grudge match that leveled a small town.  We learned that not only are we alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned.” Fury explained.

Thor looked outraged, “My people have wanted nothing, but peace with your planet.”

“But you're not the only people out there are you?  And you are not the only threat.  The world is filling up with people who can’t be matched.  They can’t be controlled.”

“Like you controlled the cube?”  Steve accused.

“Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki and his allies to it.  This showed that your world is ready for a higher form of war.” Thor explained.

“A higher form?” Steve questioned.  Even to Harry this did not sound good.

“You forced our hand.  We had to come up with something.”  Fury explained defensively.

“So it’s a nuclear deterrent, because that always goes down so well.”  Tony quipped, clearly annoyed.

Harry felt a magical disturbance in the room.  It was a lot like the befuddlement charm in nature, and it seemed to be coming from the scepter.  Like a mind altering charm.  This had Harry’s attention as the group delved into further argument.

“Remind me again of how you got your fortune Stark?” Fury argued.

“I’m sure if he was still in weapons he would be neck deep.” Steve said snarkily.

Harry snapped at this, “Enough we do not need to turn on each other.  We are supposed to be a team.”

Bruce snapped back, “No no no, we are a chemical mixture that makes chaos.  We’re a time bomb.”

The arguing continued, but Harry closed his eyes and reinforced his Occlumency shields and resisted the temptation that was angering all his supposed teammates.  Suddenly his eyes shot open and he casted a small protego charm around the scepter, “Dr. Banner.  Step away from the scepter.”

This caused everyone in the room to come up short.  Bruce looked shocked that he was reaching for anything, and looked disgusted that he almost pulled the scepter into his hand.  The beeping in the room suddenly started and it was clear the Tesseract had been located.  Bruce immediately shook his head from the cobwebs saying, “Sorry kids, it doesn't look like you get to see my party tricks.”

Bruce went over to the machine, and began punching in some codes as the argument then continued about who would go after the cube.  Suddenly Bruce paled and Harry stared at the man in worry, “It’s here.”

Suddenly Harry felt a disturbance, but it was too late to even get up a shield as the entire ship was rocked hard.  Everything was chaos for a moment as things were thrown across the room including Harry.  When it settled Harry growled out, “Ow.”

Then he apparated to the top of the ship, and saw the enemy was boarding.  He quickly began casting lethal curses at the men, taking them down with ease as some were escaping into a hatch that definitely took most of them into the air ducts of the ship.  He heard in his ear, “Potter are you on coms?”

It was Fury, “Yes sir, go ahead.”

“We are going to need you to repair the engine if you can.  We will work on tracking down the intruders.” Fury commanded.

Harry nodded, but called back, “The pieces of the engine will have fallen. I can’t just create parts I know nothing about.  I can clear the debris, but I am going to need someone to get the blades moving again.”

“Don’t worry Gandalf, I can take care of that.” Tony said on Comms.

Harry nodded as he apparated back towards the engine area.  He easily saw the problem and banished it without question.  Shortly after Tony appeared, “Go over to the breaker box and reset the fuses.”

Nodding quickly Harry began to apparate towards a nearby ledge, but Natasha came on the radio, “We have hulk out of containment!  Thor is engaging.”

Tony swore, “Kid looks like that’s you.  Rogers and I will handle things up here.”

Harry nodded and sighed, apparating back across the ship only to see Thor get thrown violently across the room.  Now Harry had seen some pretty terrifying things in his lifetime, but looking down at a beast that was easily 8 feet tall, and what appeared to be at least a thousand pounds of muscle was slightly intimidating.  Harry took another deep breath, steeling his nerves for battle, at least the beast couldn’t fly.

Hulk finally stopped going after Thor when he noticed Harry.  The creature roared flexing his muscles as if it was sizing the wizard up.  After a moment it smashed its fist into the ground, and began charging.  Harry flicked the elder wand into his hands cursing his luck, and just as Hulk began to swing down on him Harry slashed his wand creating a powerful shield that Hulk hit with an incredible bang.

Feeling the pressure on his magic from the sheer force of the collision Harry apparated across the room, and began firing his best defensive magic at the hulk.  He was trying to refrain from anything too crazy, but right away he realized the skin of the hulk was easily as tough as a dragon or a giant, so he just kept stepping up the power level and then moving away.  It was clear he was pissing off the giant creature to no end, but then some SHIELD agents got in his way, and that’s when things really got hazy.

Harry apparated between himself and soldiers screaming at them to run as he blocked strike after strike from The Hulk when suddenly the beast was hit in the side of the head by a powerful hammer.  Thor had returned, and this time he had his weapon.  Harry shouted at the man, “We got to get Banner off this ship.  He is going to tear the whole thing apart.”

Thor nodded as he slipped under one of Hulk’s attacks, and Fury called out, “We have a fighter Jet getting ready to grab his attention.”

Harry shouted back, “Stand down.  The more we hurt this creature the more powerful it is.  If you start shooting at it with a turret you are just going to piss it off.  I have a better idea, call off your men and handle Loki, we will handle this.”

At this Harry stepped forward drawing his other wand screaming, “Protego Totalum!”

At this the Hulk seemed to be encased in a giant invisible force field.  He couldn’t move at all.  Thor looked in amazement at what Harry had done, but the boy was looking at Thor with a baseball in his hand, “I have kept Hulk still, I need you to get this in his hands.  If we do it will Portkey him out of here, and knock him out.  I have other ideas, but I don’t have any of them on me so this will have to do for now.  It won’t work unless it is in his hand though.  I can create as many as it takes, but he has to be touching it.”

Thor nodded in understanding and with a final flex the Hulk shattered through the Ward Harry created, and if the creature was mad earlier it was absolutely livid now.  Harry and Thor were now running, flying, apparating, jumping, ducking, and diving out of the way of the furious creatures blow throwing baseballs at the side of its head.  When suddenly Hulk caught one of the ones Thor threw at his head, Harry screamed out, “PORTUS.”

This caused the massive creature to disappear with a giant pop, and Thor to cry out with triumph, “That was incredible!  We must do battle again together Wizard.  We made an unbeatable team.”

Harry grinned at the man’s enthusiasm but rolled his shoulders in the meantime trying to stay loose, “This battle isn’t over.  We need to get to the prisoner chambers and secure your brother.  If he escapes things could get a lot worse.”

Thor shook his head, a grim look coming upon his face, but before he could respond Agent Hill came over the radio, “Perimeter breach.  Hostels are in SHIELD clothing.  Call out all the corners.”

Harry growled, “I’ll go help on the bridge.  You go to your brother.”

Suddenly the ship lurched, and Harry felt the drop in his stomach as they began to plummet towards the ground. “WE’VE LOST ALL POWER IN ENGINE 1.”

Harry heard the shout go over the radio by an unknown agent, and then Fury got on the coms, “Its Agent Barton he took out our systems.  He’s heading to the detention level.  Does anyone copy?”

Harry was about to key up when he heard Natasha’s voice, “This is Agent Romanoff, I copy.”

“Potter copies too.  I will help capture the man.  Thor is en route to Loki to secure the prisoner.” Harry called out.

Harry looked to Thor and he nodded to him, and they both took off in opposite directions.  Harry had never been to the bottom levels of the ship so he couldn’t blindly apparate to Natasha’s position.  He heard Fury talking to Stark about losing altitude, and he was cutting through the ship hitting every staircase he could find to get lower into the ship.

He heard the familiar sounds of combat as he reached the lower levels, and had to quickly summon a shield as an arrow came soaring right at his face.  Amazingly he realized he was not the target as he saw Natasha in a brutal dance with a stout man who had just dropped his bow drawing a knife in a long stance prepared to gut Agent Romanoff.  At this Harry attempted to drop the man with a long range stunner, but as if having a sixth sense the man easily dodged the jet of red light, and began attacking Natasha once again.  They were engaged in such close combat that Harry no longer had a clean shot.  He prepared for his opening when Natasha slammed his head against the railing and he dropped to the ground holding his head.  Harry approached cautiously, “You alright?”

She nodded as the man stirred a bit groggily, “Natasha?”

“Clint?”  The man began to nod his head, and she punched him in the face knocking him out cold.

She looked up to Harry, “Is the Hulk down?”

“Yes I sent him to a safe house, and knocked him out in the process.  Some good it's gonna do us if we end up crashing the ship and killing everyone on board anyways.” Harry said, searching around for the next target.

Suddenly however the ship stopped falling, and Harry heard Stark on the radio, “Engines back online.”

Radio silence followed, but only for a few moments.  Fury came over the radio next sounding incredibly somber, “Agent Coulson is down.”

“Medical team is on the way to your location.” An agent called.

“They’re here.  They called it.  Loki has escaped as well.”

Harry swore quietly.  Loki getting away could only mean bad news.  Agent Coulson was also a loss.  He didn’t know the man personally, but the devastation that flickered through Natasha’s eyes.  He could see the hurt, and knew the loss was tremendous to SHIELD.  Looking down at the ground the man shook his head, and cast a levitation charm on Agent Barton, and began walking back towards the ship command center.