Avengers HP Crossover Chapter 4

(A/N) Sorry for the delay guys!  Been super sick and I was traveling through my sickness.  Here is the update, and barring any further disasters chapter 5 will come on Friday.  Cheers.

Chapter 4

The jet ride was quiet and smooth.  Tony Stark, Steve Rodgers, and Harry Potter were all watching their smiling prisoner uneasily.  Steve whispered to Harry in the corner, “I don’t like it.  This doesn’t seem right.”

Nodding Harry stared at the man in chains suspiciously, “I think my appearance surprised him, but not enough that we should’ve been able to so easily apprehend him.  I think he surrendered himself to us, but I am not sure why.”

Tony, catching a bit of the conversation interjected, “You think Rock of Ages gave up too easily?  We have the Wizard extraordinaire, and the Captain of Captain’s.  Give yourselves some credit.”

Cap rubbed his jaw softly, “Still the guy packs a wallop, and I don’t remember it being that easy.”

Tony shrugged, patting the guy on the arm with the back of his hand, “Well you are pretty spry for an older fellow what’s your thing palates.”

“What?” Steve asked with a puzzled and annoyed look on his face.

“It’s like calisthenics.  You may have missed a few things doing time as a capsicle.” Tony said with a straight face, and Harry felt the man wasn’t being playful.  It seemed purposefully cynical.

Without commenting on that Steve said, “Fury didn’t tell me he was calling you in.”

Tony snarked back quietly, “There are a lot of things Fury doesn’t tell you.”

Suddenly a lightning blast rocked the night sky and the plane was experiencing sudden turbulence.  Tony and Steve both braced themselves briefly, but Harry looked at Loki who suddenly looked much paler than before, “What scared of a little lightning?”

Loki looked around nervously, “I am not overly fond of what follows.”

At this time Harry felt a powerful presence enter the atmosphere he quickly shouted, “We aren’t alone brace yourselves.”

Suddenly something heavy impacted the top of the ship.  Tony immediately shifted his suit on to cover his face and began walking towards the back of the jet opening it up to see what was on them.  Suddenly a tall, familiar man stepped onto the ship walking with intent towards Loki.  Instead of even attempting conversation in the Iron Man Suit Tony held up a hand threateningly and Thor quickly hit him in the chest sending him backwards several feet.

Cap stepped forward to intervene but Harry put a hand up to stop him, “Wait.”

Thor went straight towards Loki, ripped him out of the chair, walked towards the back of the jet and jumped out with the other Asgardian.  Cap really looked like he wanted to go after him, but Harry sighed, “That is a family reunion we might want to give a moment too.”

Harry recognized from the stories that Loki and Thor were supposed to be brothers, and Harry knew the large man would not hurt his brother permanently.   Tony, who was rising to his feet, began to make his way off the plane when Steve called out, “Wait Stark, I think that's friendly.”

“Doesn’t matter.  If he frees Loki or kills him the Tesseract is lost.”

“We still need a plan of attack!” Steve cried.

“I have a plan.  Attack.” Ironman said as he jumped out of the ship.

Harry swore under his breath, and shook his head, “We better go after them.  Make sure they don’t kill each other.”

Steve shook his head quickly and grabbed a parachute while Harry stretched his neck a bit as Steve offered him another parachute Harry waved it aside, “No thanks.  After you sir.”

Natasha called out to them, “I’d sit this one out guys.  These guys are legends, they are basically Gods.”

Steve began walking towards the back of the plane with Harry in tow, “There is only one God ma’am, and I am pretty sure he doesn’t dress like that.”

Harry laughed at this and jumped right after the man as they began descending towards the ground.  Harry was in a nose dive already seeing a small battle taking place in the distance.  He easily began to guide his magic as he did some human transfiguration to make himself more aerodynamic as he quickly glided himself to a nearby spot where the fighting was taking place.

Hitting the ground Harry immediately felt the atmosphere thicken, and realized Thor must be controlling the storms.  The two men were in a death match, and both were clearly playing for keeps.  Harry cast the sonorous charm on his throat shouting out, “Cease fire!”

Thor looked at Harry in surprise and Tony, ignoring the young man, decided to blast Thor with his repulsors, and in the flash of an eye Harry stunned the man in the face with a stupefy.

When Thor came back around to fling his hammer he saw the man was on the ground out cold, “You turned on your own ally?”

Harry raised his hands in surrender, “We are all supposed to be allies here.  This is all a big misunderstanding.  We mean no harm to your brother, and if you are truly an ally of Earth and this realm you will come with us, and speak to Director Fury, and Mr. Coulson who I am told you are familiar with.  I think we can sort all this out.”

Cap landed down on the ground shortly after this and looked at the unconscious Tony and asked, “Are we good here?”

Harry looked at Thor, “What do you say?  Are we going to be friends or foes?”

The underlying tone in Harry’s voice was clearly threatening and Steve tightened the grip on his shield thinking a fight may still be coming, but thankfully the large blonde man smiled, “I think you count on us to be friend's young wizard.”

Harry didn’t want to question how Thor knew he was a wizard right off the bat, so offered his hand to be crushed by the caped individual, and introductions were given as Harry walked over to revive Tony.  The young man waved a hand over the Ironman suit and Tony sat up gasping while Harry spoke sharply, “Next time I call a cease fire I suggest you take it.”

Tony looked at the boy in surprise, “You took me down?”

Harry nodded, “With one spell.  I may not be your boss, commanding officer or whatever, but we can’t be attacking our allies.  Sometimes the pen is mightier than the sword Tony.”

Thor came up at this and said, “Man of Iron I apologize for my attack on your person.  I meant no offense, and you were great to do battle with.  I hope in the future we can fight alongside as allies.”

Happy that Thor was being the bigger man Tony nodded, “You have a mean swing Point Break glad to have you with us.”

With that Natasha landed the jet down nearby calling over the intercom, “Are you boys done comparing weapon sizes or do I need to give you a few more minutes?”

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Back on the ship the team gathered around a SHIELD table sitting calmly and quietly.  Thor was standing looking quite pensive on what was to come for his brother, while Steve asked, “Loki is going to drag this out as long as he can.  Thor, what's his play?”

Thor paused for a moment before saying, “He has an army called the Chitauri.  It is unknown what planet they are from, but he intends to lead them against your people.”

Harry asked quietly, “An army from outer space?”

“They will win him the Earth and in return I suspect that he will be given the Tesseract.  This plan is beyond my brother. I believe someone else to be pulling the strings.” Thor explained.

Natasha inquired, “How will he get them here?  Are we going to look into the sky and see invaders?”

Bruce chimed in, “No he is looking to build another portal.  That’s what he needs Erik Selvig for.”

“Selvig?  Thor asked.

Bruce explained that the man was an astrophysicist, but Thor threw out the interesting fact that he was a friend.  Harry suddenly had the very bad feeling that these things weren’t all coincidences.  Natasha then brought the team up to speed about the original attack that happened at the base in California and how Selvig was working for SHIELD until Loki put him under some type of spell.

Cap asked, “I still don’t understand why he let us take him.  He isn’t leading an army from here.”

Bruce shook his head, “I don’t think we should be focusing on Loki.  That guy’s brain is a bag of cats. I can smell crazy on him.”

“Have care how you speak.  Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard and he is my brother.”

Natasha drolly said, “He killed 80 people in two days.”

“He is adopted.”

Harry wanted to snicker at this, but wisely kept quiet.  He was still hoping to get his hands on this scepter.  The thing reeked of ancient magic and death.  There was something terribly wrong, and he felt like he was missing the big play.

Bruce continued to speak, “I think it’s about the mechanics.  What does he need the iridium for?”

“It’s a stabilizing agent.” Tony said entering the room with agent Coulson.

It was clear the two were previously engaging in an embarrassing conversation by the look on the agent's face, and Tony said something about flying him out to Portland, “It means the portal won’t collapse on itself like it did at SHIELD.  Also it means the portal can open as wide and stay open as long as Loki wants.”

Tony made a joke about raising the systems up so he could see them clearly.  When no one made a move he pointed at an agent across the deck playing Galaga and Harry rolled his eyes at the immaturity of the man.  Looking around at the rest of the systems he made a few quips and tried to gather his bearings.  It was during this exchange that Harry saw the man slip something into the machine on one of the computers.  Harry had his fair share of traitors in his midst, but knew better than to say anything right now.  He would certainly keep an eye on the man.

“What I am saying is he needs something to kick start the cube.  Agent Barton could easily acquire any of the remaining materials he would need on the black market.  To him they would be as easy as finding raw materials.  So there is no point in trying to track him that way.” Tony continued.

“Is there any particular power source that he is going to need?” Steve asked.

Bruce looked on thoughtfully, “He would need to raise the Cubes temperature to 120 million Kelvin just to break the Coulomb barrier?”

“Unless he has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunnel effect.”

“Well if he did that he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet.”

“Finally someone who speaks English!”

Steve and Harry exchanged looks at the interaction, Steve asked him, “Is that what just happened?”

Tony continued with Bruce, “It’s good to meet you Doctor Banner.  Your work on anti electron collisions is unparalleled, and I am a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into a big green rage monster.”

Harry put his palms on his head and quickly developed a headache.  The ICW did not warn him that one of his teammates was an idiot.

“Chin up mate. We can have Fred and George sort them out with well placed pranks. They will mature or suffer for it.”

Harry looked up quickly to see the smirk of his oldest friend looking at him. The boy winked casually and the young man quickly looked away as the ghost of his past disappeared.

Thankfully Fury came in at this point, “Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube.  I was hoping you would help him?”

“I would start with that stick of his.  It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon.” Steve added helpfully.

Harry cut everyone off at this, “Give me some time with the scepter.  I might be able to determine its origin, how old it is, and possibly how to control or destroy it if necessary.  I agree with Steve that the weapon seems magical in origin and possibly something developed by early sorcerers or wizards.”

Fury asked Harry “Is it common for your weapons to be of this shape, size, and power?”

“Not anymore, but in the old days many people preferred different weapons.  Instead of wands there were staves, staffs, and possibly even scepters.  Myddrin Emrys or as you all may have known him Merlin, used a stave shaped similar to the one Loki had in his possession.  It even had a gem stone of magical origin in the middle that was supposed to make his weapon the most powerful of its time.” Harry explained.

Inwardly he was thinking the Elder Wand probably came along and crushed its most powerful weapon ranking, and has held the title ever since.  Fury nodded, “Very well take a look at it and see what you can find out.  We believe the scepter is powered by the cube, and I would love to know how it controlled two of the sharpest men I know and turned them into its personal flying monkeys.”

“Flying Monkeys I don’t understand?”  Thor inquired.

Steve, looking quite pleased with himself however added, “I do!  I understood that reference.”

Harry looked to the ceiling and wondered if this was his fate, and if he really was going to have to defend the planet surrounded by idiots.  He suddenly longed for his old team that he fought in the second Wizarding war with, or even for Neville.  He knew a visit to the young man was going to have to come sooner rather than later, but only two days had passed, and he knew it was early to be checking in with his handler.

Bruce and Tony got up to leave, but before Harry could follow them out Fury asked, “Potter, let’s have a few words before you go.”

Harry nodded at the director, and followed the man off the bridge and around the labyrinth that was the helicarrier.  Harry saw soldiers stop and greet Fury all around the ship, and when they finally got into an office Fury shut the door and quickly sat behind the desk to begin typing into his computer file.  Harry in the meantime took a seat across from the man and remained silent.

After a moment Fury said, “Look Potter I am really glad you are here.  I had to practically beg Algernon Croaker just to take my appeal to the ICW.  When I heard back from him just a few days later that he was sending a wizard that could turn the tide of a war with the flick of his wrist I was ecstatic.  I haven’t worked with Wizards in over 20 years, and let me tell you last time they may have messed everything up, but their ability to recover and fix it without leaving a body count in the millions was mind boggling.  That is coming from someone who has his eye everywhere.”

Harry wasn’t sure if it was appropriate to laugh at the eye joke, so wisely just nodded his head along with what he was saying.  Fury then continued, “Imagine my surprise however when the person who arrives looks just out of his teenage years.”

“I have a young face.  I am older than I look.” Harry explained.

“How old is that exactly?” Fury asked.

“I will be 32 in July.” Harry shot back.

Fury quickly gathered that Harry did not like the interrogation so he sighed, “Look Potter the world Security Council is requiring me to submit what information I have on each of the members of this team.  Most of these guys have school records, reports, or even Thor has the legends, but with you I have nothing.  I need you to give me something.  Are you going to wear a suit?  How are we going to protect your identity?  Is there a family we need to keep safe if things go south? Is-“

“No.” Harry said simply.

“No, what?” Nick asked with a fierce look in his eyes.

Harry realized the man misunderstood, “I don’t need to wear a suit.  I will wear dragonhide armor on the battlefield, and that will protect me from most of the damage.  My body has undergone certain rituals that does not just allow me to be crushed by the force of an impact.  Whether the impact is a gun, a hammer or whatever it may be.  Basically if it doesn’t crush me to a pulp on impact I won’t be killed that way.  You don’t need to protect my identity.  The ICW has decided the world will just believe I am another enhanced individual, and we can keep it that way.  There is also no family of mine left.  I have a best friend, but he will be kept close and possibly on standby.  If things really went to shit he would be the first one to arrive on our scene to help us out.  He is of the same position as Mr. Croaker in New York.”

Fury nodded at this, “What about a bio?  What can you tell me about yourself that you are willing to share?  Give me something, anything that I can use to keep the Council off my back.”

Harry sighed in understanding, “My name is Harry James Potter.  I was born in Godric’s Hollow, which is a small magical community in Britain.  I grew up in Surrey, and you could possibly even find some of my old school records until I was ten.  I am afraid all my records after that will have been lost, because from there I attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.  I didn’t even get a chance to graduate before Voldemort rose to power and overthrew the British Government.  My school was burnt to the ground and most of my friends were killed.”

Fury spoke much softer this time, “I am sorry for your loss.”

Harry didn’t say anything, but continued, “When my school was destroyed I actually drove Voldemort away that day.  He fled, but only for a short time.  Three days later he came back with a much larger force, and made us run for it.  What was left of us anyways.  We all fled to France for 6 months after that.  In that time Voldemort kept his promise that was made in the battle.  He hunted every man, woman, and child that stood up for me, stood by me, or even had hope in me to come back and finish the fight.  Over the next 10 years we popped in and killed enemy forces.  The French Ministry of Magic helped us contain Voldemort on the Island, but they refused to cross over and help us in open combat.  After years and years of Voldemort and I facing off, and defeating his forces, and losing more and more of ours we finally met and trapped him, and made him fight me 1 on 1.  Only one of us was going to walk away, and I did.  They say he was the most powerful Dark Lord in centuries, but to me he was just a coward that killed because he was a monster.”

There was silence then Fury asked, “What is left of your people?”

Harry seemed to look past the man as he said, “Less than 100.  The economy has collapsed, and the government has disbanded.  Some have stayed and basically become farmers, but there is no business, and there is no law and regulations there.  The ICW keeps a close eye on it to make sure none of Voldemort's followers pop up, and I myself reside there on one of my family's properties.  I do my best to keep the undesirables out.  All of our communities however were razed to the ground.  Nothing is left of a society in Magical Britain.”

Harry realized he probably gave the most condensed version of one of the worst wars in magical History, but he didn’t really have the heart to dredge up all those memories.  After several moments of silence Harry asked, “Is there anything else you need to know?”

Fury looked at him for a moment before saying, “Potter you fought in a war and you won.  You paid a higher price than perhaps anyone ever who won in history.  I have to ask you though, are you going to be okay in a full scale battle?”

Smiling at the man didn’t do much to ease the nerves, but Harry said, “Sir you will probably find that I am most valuable in combat.  You don’t have to worry about me having a PTSD freak out, because I never really knew what normality was.  The ICW picked me, because all I have known in this life is war, and now they are giving me a chance to fight with a group of defenders who may never get a break from war.  Defending this planet, defending our people will be a job that can never end, and that’s why they chose me.  I made my conditions, and when they agreed to them I was happy to accept this.”

“There is more to life than war.” Fury said quietly.

“Not to me there isn’t.  Not anymore.” Harry said standing out of the chair and walking towards the exit no longer worried about a dismissal.