Avengers HP Crossover Chapter 3

Chapter 3

On Harry’s part there was nothing further needing to be done other than agreeing to meet with Nick Fury on his flying boat.  All the paperwork between SHIELD and the ICW had been massive, but thankfully Harry didn’t ever see a single piece of it.  No signatures, nothing, it was just how the young man liked it.

The only thing the job even came with the gig was a thank you note from the Supreme Mugwump, a nice paycheck, and now an airplane ride with a beautiful black haired woman that didn’t seem to want to give him the time of day.  Her hair was fairly short and tied neatly behind her head.  Her uniform however was skin tight, and Harry could definitely appreciate this young woman, and wondered what her specialty was that got her into this elite intelligence agency.

The woman spoke as the plane sailed over the water, “Have you been briefed on all the candidates for this response team?”

The young man gave her a small smile, “Yes I have seen all of our supposed Avengers.  Some are quite impressive I have to say.  I am a big fan of how the big guy goes green and destroys burrows of major cities.”

The woman rolled her eyes, “Great, another snarky one to get along with Mr. Stark.”

Harry chuckled, “I am usually serious, but you seem a lot more normal than what I am about to walk into so I am just enjoying normality while I can.”

The woman seemed to nod at this, “No one on the team really knows who you are or what you can do.  I am level  9 clearance of SHIELD, and I only know a few things about you.”

Harry offered his hand, “Harry Potter, please call me Harry.”

The woman looked at his hand and shook it tightly, “Maria Hill, please call me Agent Hill.”

Harry rolled his eyes at the woman as her grip tightened and he let go, “So Agent Hill how did you get on with SHIELD?”

Deciding to give the boy a slightly honest answer she replied, “I started in the army as intelligence, and from there I was recruited to SHIELD.  Director Fury personally liked the results I could get on a computer, and as a field agent I had commendable marks so I quickly ascended through the ranks.”

Harry’s eyes rose, “Am I being escorted by one of the highest SHIELD officers?”

The woman looked out into the ocean clearly seeing something Harry didn’t, “3rd in the line of command actually.  You must be important.”

Harry smiled at this, “Oh how nice it is not to be recognized by people.  I think I am going to like this new gig.”

The woman looked like she wanted to ask more questions, but the pilot announced their arrival, and they buckled back up for landing on what appeared to be a giant battleship.  Now if Harry wasn’t mistaken this boat was supposed to be able to fly.  This was something he could not wait to witness.  He had only heard rumors growing up in muggle primary school of what the American Military was capable of, but it seemed this SHIELD group was about to give him a first hand presentation that he actually found himself excited to see.

When the plane landed Maria walked Harry across the deck to where two other planes had just arrived.  A red head was talking to two familiar looking men and Harry made his way across the ship behind the young SHIELD Commander, and upon arrival the woman straightened up and greeted her superior while Maria said, “Agent Romanoff I think it's time to get our team inside.  We will be taking off soon.”

The red headed woman nodded, and offered her hand, “Harry Potter right?  Haven’t heard much, but it’s a real pleasure.”

Harry looked the woman over and thought she was probably one of most attractive women he had ever seen.  Long red hair, and with the very tight suit on it left little to his imagination, however by her sarcastic greeting he was unsure of how well they would get along.  As he reached out to shake her hand he saw a lone woman standing out towards the edge of the helicarrier.  He recognized the girl and her white night dress along with stunning red hair instantly.  He swallowed thickly as he ignored the ghost of his past and offered greetings,  “I am always at a disadvantage with names.  I heard you were agent Romanoff, but I prefer first names.”

“Natasha.” She smiled at him, but those eyes were not as deceptive as the smile.  She was sizing him up, and if Harry was guessing correctly, figuring out the easiest way to kill him.

Harry smiled at the woman and he turned to the other two, “Captain Rogers, Doctor Banner.  Pleasure to meet you.”

“Mr. Potter, please call me Steve.”

“Bruce.” The nervous other man raised his hand in greeting.

Harry gave the two men a grin, “Then of course please call me Harry.  If we are going to be a team I think being on a first name basis is going to be a good start.  At least for casual conversation.”

The three all shared a short awkward silence as they began to hear the engines fire up, and Bruce looked over the side,  but Steve spoke first, “It’s a submarine?

“Fury wants to put me in a metal box under water?  This should be good.” Bruce said sarcastically

Harry put a calming hand on the man’s shoulder and even forced some calmness into him with wandless magic, “Relax Bruce we are going into the air.  It’s not a submarine, it's a Plane.

The next words died in Bruce’s throat when he looked at Harry in surprise, “How did you do that?”

Confusion flicked across the Captain’s eyes and Harry gave the man a nod, “Did it help?”

“It did thank you, but-“

“It’s just a little trick Doctor Banner. I think I may even be able to calm the hulk if we are given some time to experiment.” Harry said with thought.

Steve however interjected, “Maybe we should try that when we aren’t flying high in the sky.”

Harry bowed his head slightly to the man, “Of course.  Wouldn’t want to endanger everyone on the ship.”

Steve nodded, and Natasha spoke, “Unless you three have a way of breathing really high in the sky then I suggest we all take this show inside.  Fury wants a quick word with everyone.”

As the group began walking towards the main deck through the ship Harry spoke to Steve, “I am sorry about your loss by the way Captain.”

The man stopped and turned to face the young wizard with a questioning look, but Harry stared back compassionately, “You go down saving millions of lives, but you wake up 70 years later and everyone you know and love is dead.  I may not know a whole lot about being asleep for 70 years, but I know what it's like to lose everyone.  You have my condolences for all those you may have lost.”

Cap looked at the boy in surprise, “Have you ever fought in a war?”

The boy gave a sad smile, “It's kind of all I know.  I have been in the fight since I was just a baby, but I really started fighting when I was 14.  Took me over thirteen years to end it.”

Rogers desperately wanted to know more about his potential team mate, but they had made it to the bridge, and Fury was waiting, “Ah Mr. Potter.  Glad we can finally meet.  The ICW speaks very highly of your skills and we are glad to have you aboard.”

Harry shook hands with one eyed black man and gave him a strong smile, “Well I hope I can be of some help here.  I think everyone is a little out of their depth at the moment.”

Steve asked, “ICW?  I’m not familiar with that term.”

Harry gave the man a grin, “You wouldn’t believe us if we told you.  I’ll give you a chance to see my abilities before I explain that one to you. Makes it easier on Director Fury and I.  I’m just here to offer my strengths to the team.”

“And every different strength counts which is why we are all here.” The Director said, looking at Doctor Banner.

“Is this the whole team?” Harry asked curiously, hoping to spot Thor or Iron Man somewhere else.

“Not yet.  Mr. Stark is waiting for our cue to go after Loki, and Thor…well we are hoping for his appearance any day now.”  The one eyed man explained and Harry nodded.

“So right now we are just waiting on Loki to make a move?” Harry asked, not liking the idea of sitting around waiting.

Fury shook his head, “No that is actually why we invited Doctor Banner here.  We are hoping he will be able to track the weapon Loki is using through the Gamma Radiation.”

Bruce looked surprised, “Is that the only reason I was brought here?”

Fury raised an eyebrow, “Well I didn’t bring you here to break my ship.”

Bruce nodded at this gravely then asked, “The scepter is using Gamma Radiation?”

Fury nodded and Bruce looked in deep thought, “Well how many spectrometers do we have access to?”

“How many are there?” A nearby agent asked.

Bruce answered right away, “Just start calling labs and tell them to turn all their diagnostics to Gamma.  That will be enough to pick up a signature.  It's not something that just happens every day or all the time so any fluctuations will most likely be our guy.”

Harry watched on, impressed as everyone across the bridge began picking up phones making phone calls.  Another man from the side announced, “We are also running facial recognition software across the planet. If he peeps his head out anywhere near a camera we are going to know about it.”

This man was wearing a dark black suit, and had short receding gray hair.  He looked to be around his early to mid forties, and looked like he had been in the game for a long time.  Fury spoke, “With agent Coulson working on facial recognition, and all the spectrometers going to Gamma, we are hoping to find our guy in the next hour.  Until then gentlemen feel free to take a seat in the conference room and get acquainted as we prepare our plan of attack.”

The young wizard nodded and followed the motion into the next room where a long table sat.  Bruce, Harry, and Steve went and took a seat at the table in the next room.  Steve, being most curious about the new arrival, sat across from the young looking man, “So you’re a soldier.”

It wasn’t a question, it was a statement so Harry didn’t answer it, but explained, “My parents were murdered when I was a baby.  I fought their murderer my entire life until I finally got him three years ago.  A lifetime of hunting.  We lost all the battles, and everyone along the way, but in the end we won the war.”

“A true Avenger.”  Steve said sadly.

“That was all there was left to do.” Harry replied.

Steve questioned, “I honestly don’t know a lot about your…abilities?  You didn’t have the same highlight reel as the rest of us.”

Harry grinned as he conjured up a ball of flame, “Magic.  Magic is a lot about intent.  I can will it to do whatever I want.  The more powerful the wizard the more amazing things they can do.”

“What determines your strength?” Steve asked curiously, and Bruce seemed to stop what he was doing to watch and learn as well.

“Each witch and wizard is born with a magical core.  For most people it’s all about the same.  I would say 90% of witches and wizards can all be of the same power, but it’s about how they exercised the muscle per say that controls your magic.  I trained teenagers how to use their magic in a fight and a lot of them were just as good as the adults, because adults never trained in combat.  Especially not organized combat.  The other 9.9% is weaker than the average witch or wizard.  They can still do most of the cool stuff, but not on a very high level.  Part of this could be lack of education, and not exercising the muscle so they never learn.  Or it's also possible that the magical gene in their bloodline was just going out.  So they were born on the low end of the spectrometer.”

Taking a breath Harry continued, “Then there is the .1%, and honestly it's probably less than that which stands above the rest.  They are born with abnormal magical cores and can start accidental magic at super young ages.  Accidental magic is fueled by pure emotion, and you don’t really have a focus like a wand that causes it.  Like the words suggest, most children don’t have any actual cognizance to perform magic; they just really want something to happen and then it does.  The world just kind of bends its will to you temporarily.  The more powerful you are the more crazy your accidental magic can be.  I once turned my aunt basically into a balloon when I was 13.  Teleported several blocks one time when I was 7 running away from some bullies.”

Steve and Bruce both seemed to think on this for a while.  In the meantime Harry played with his flame, and turned it into a little ball of ice, and then turned it into a small animal.  The two were fascinated by the wizard.  Steve however thought of something he said.  If the average wizard can train and be something pretty extraordinary, what was Harry like with his magic considering he was most likely in that .1% and had been fighting in combat his whole life.  Steve was suddenly glad he had Harry on this team, and began to wonder what it would be like to have another experienced soldier out there in the field with him.

Some time passed, and before any of the machines could go off Harry dropped his ball of magic that was ice at the moment, and looked like he was in great pain.  Steve noticed it first, “Potter are you okay?”

Harry seemed zoned out and Steve started shouting for a medic when Harry grabbed his arm roughly, “No need.  We need to go.  I know where Loki is.”

Harry walked to the front of the ship, “Stuttgart Germany.  We have to go.  Now.”

Cap got the urgency in Harry’s voice and ran off quickly, most likely to change when Fury came over to Harry, “I wasn’t told you were a seer.”

Shaking his head quickly Harry said, “I’m not, but my magic is very in tune with the world, and when bad things happen like extreme violence that could wrack up a death toll I am usually the first to know.  Trust me we need to be in Stuttgart and I think we needed to be there an hour ago.”

Scene Break

Harry and Cap had posted up outside, and when Loki appeared he began multiplying and laughing as people began to panic.  Once the people realized they were surrounded Loki screamed at people to kneel.  Harry could see the reluctance of the crowd, but as soon as some began to bend the knee others followed.

Loki spoke, “Is this not simpler?  Is this not your natural state?  It’s the unspoken truth of humanity.  That you crave subjugation.  You were made to be ruled.  In the end you will always be ruled.”

A lone old man stood in the crowd.  He was balding and wearing a trench coach.  Harry looked at the man and wondered just what he was thinking, “Not to men like you.”

Loki looked angry at the old man’s words, “There are no men like me.”

“There will always be men like you.” The man said defiantly.

“Look to your elders people.  Let him be an example.”  Loki said as he leveled the scepter towards the old man.

Flashing Cap a look the man nodded and sprang forward intercepting a blast intended for the old man deflecting it back at Loki knocking him off his feet, “You know last time I was in Germany I saw a man standing above everyone else.  We ended up disagreeing.”

“Ah the soldier!” Loki said delightedly, “The man out of time.”

Harry came from behind him, “He isn’t the one out of time.”

Loki looked at Harry and immediately became puzzled.  At this, however A voice came over a PA system as a jet flew overhead, “LOKI DROP THE WEAPON AND STAND DOWN!”

At this Loki reacted first firing a blue beam of power at the jet which Natasha barely managed to dodge.  This caused Cap to throw his shield at Loki and start to engage in close quarters combat.  Harry was sneaking around the two as they fought back and forth with rapid speed.  Cap took a hard hit with the Scepter sending him spiraling to the ground a few feet away and Harry came in hard.  With a whirl of his wand it was bombarda, reductor, confringo, relashio, and stupefy over and over again.  The man couldn’t keep up.  He was trying to deflect the magic with his staff, but it wasn’t enough.  Harry pushed the man to one knee with how many curses he was throwing, and just when Loki slashed through a spell with good timing and sent a beam of power at Harry, Cap came up behind the man and grabbed the scepter pulling it to his neck hard.

With this Harry rolled back to his feet and walked up to Loki, “You like playing with people's minds, try this one out, Imperio.”

Loki’s eyes glazed, but only a little bit.  Harry poured power into the Elder Wand, “Submit to us and let go of the spear.”

Loki didn’t quite let go, but his hands loosened up enough that Cap was able to pull the weapon from his hands.  Harry got on the open radio channel, “We have the scepter, and we will be taking Loki into custody.”

“Need a little escort gentleman?”  Harry didn’t recognize the voice, but quickly saw something descending on their location quickly.

Iron man landed directly in front of the pair and had all his weapons trained on Loki, “Not a move reindeer games.”

Harry gave the man a wild look, “You’re a little late to be making threats Mr. Stark.  Captain Rogers and I have already bested Loki.”

When it was clear Loki was about to argue, Harry flashed a bright massive red light into the man’s face making him drop like a sack of potatoes.

Stark shrugged his shoulders, “Ah no hard feelings.  The job got done, and you guys didn’t get hurt.  Got here as fast as I could, but Germany is a hike, and I was a few thousand miles behind you guys.  What are you anyway, the male version of Hocus Pocus?”

Harry rolled his eyes, “I’m not gonna grace that with an answer.  Glad you are here now.  You can ride back with us, and make sure nothing happens with the prisoner.”

Nodding to Steve, Harry flicked his wrist and Loki began to levitate next to him.

Surveying the scene Harry realized the boys had done good work when it came to not wrecking the area.  There was minimal damage, and the panic had cleared out more than 90% of the crowd, though Harry was sure they would be on the internet within hours.

Harry could feel the man’s power.  They needed to keep him under wraps, because Loki would not underestimate him again.  If the man had known the imperious was coming Harry somehow doubted it would have worked.

Ironman followed the wizard and the captain closely behind, “So you’re the wizard?”

Harry nodded his head looking around, “Be careful not to say that too loudly.  My people have laws and regulations that must be kept in place.  You guys got me, but at great personal risk to my people.  Please do your best from bringing it up in public.  Let the media make their assumptions.”

Stark held up his hands, “Fair enough let’s shake on it, Tony.”

Harry agreed, taking the man’s hand, “Harry, glad to have you with us.  I hear we are still waiting on a few more.”

Tony nodded, “Things must not be looking good if old one eye is bringing back the Avengers Initiative.

“Loki is no joke, and he is definitely a threat.  I think we got lucky tonight, and I definitely don’t think this is over.  Loki was mind controlling a bunch of SHIELD agents, and I can’t help but notice none of them were to be seen during our fight.  What do you want to bet they will be popping up somewhere?”

Tony looked around as if someone was going to pop out of the bushes, but shook his head, “Let's just get him on board and get out of here.  The faster we get above water the less likely something will go wrong.”

Harry nodded in agreement and followed the man onto the jet.