Sigh!
If it had been another god, Atreus would have already stabbed him with a white blade going in and a red blade coming out, teaching him what a god-slayer really means.
Even though taking out a Leviathan would grant him 5 points of strength and a permanent "Beast Killer" buff (where each Leviathan killed stacks 5% additional damage against cosmic beasts), it just doesn't compare to the thrill of taking down a real god.
Just thinking about Loki's illusions and resistances made Atreus drool with excitement.
Unfortunately, he couldn't make a move.
He felt Thor's gaze.
From a distance, Atreus tossed the piece of trash named Loki over.
Coincidentally, Thor was too busy dealing with grunts to pay attention to Loki.
So, Loki hit the pavement hard, leaving a deep, human-shaped crater, embedding himself in the ground.
Oh, and on his way down, he managed to crush a few Chitauri soldiers.
"Your brother looks like he's about to die?" Captain America frowned as he fought alongside Thor.
Thor smashed a car into pieces with Mjolnir, sending a few Chitauri flying, and glanced at Loki. Coldly, he replied, "He'll be fine! He's been through worse. Trust me, I know."
"Well, he is your brother after all," Cap shrugged, too busy to worry about Loki's condition.
Meanwhile, Thor took a moment to shout up at Kratos on Stark Tower's roof, "Thanks again, buddy!"
Loki was beaten, and Thor was giving him a thumbs up.
You still claim you're not his real brother? Atreus's not buying it.
Atreus looked around and noticed the situation was getting worse:
The Hulk's weakness to long-rangee attacks was obvious. The Chitauri didn't even try to get close, blasting him from afar with their flying ships. Every time Hulk leapt high, he'd be shot down by lasers mid-air. The lasers couldn't kill him, but they sure hurt and kept him grounded.
Tony's suit was heavily damaged, and he'd resorted to hand-to-hand combat with grunts.
Hawkeye and Black Widow were out of arrows, now just big infantry soldiers.
The only ones still flying were Batman and Catwoman, along with four F22s from the US military, but even they were being swarmed by the Chitauri like ants attacking an elephant.
Most of Atreus's female allies were reduced to ground troops.
Only Wonder Woman and the Queen's chariot still rampaged through the battlefield, unstoppable.
Down below, the National Guard had suffered over half their casualties and were in full retreat.
So, when Atreus heard Tony announce that the White House had launched a nuke, he wasn't even surprised.
Nick Fury, in a fit of desperation, even shot down one of his own planes with a rocket launcher to stop it from taking off with a nuke from the helicarrier.
But one modified F-35 still managed to take off.
"Damn it! Two and a half minutes until that nuke hits Manhattan!" Tony cursed over the comms.
Atreus spoke into his earpiece, "You or me?"
"I'll go."
Atreus calmly replied, "I'm in better shape."
"If a Greek touches the nuke, it might explode on the spot." Tony quipped in the Avengers' internal comms.
Atreus stayed silent.
True, Atreus knew more about 'history,' but Tony understood the American government's mindset better.
If Atreus touched that nuke, it wouldn't be surprising if someone up top got nervous and changed the trigger from timed or impact to remote detonation.
"I'll cover you!" Atreus summoned the power of the wind element, letting out a sharp whistle. Immediately, the Queen's divine chariot raced toward him from the horizon, and on the way, it picked up the battle-crazed Wonder Woman.
Thor wanted to help too, but at that moment, the exhausted Captain America took a laser blast straight to the stomach.
Give credit to super-soldier serum—if that had been a regular soldier, they wouldn't even have time to scream.
Cap groaned in pain but didn't die.
Thor had no choice but to smash more Chitauri grunts to protect him.
Up in the sky over New York City, countless people watched the scene unfold.
Soaring upward was Iron Man, and alongside him, a magnificent golden chariot raced upward, perpendicular to the ground.
Wonder Woman perched on the chariot, nocking arrow after arrow, shooting down any Chitauri foolish enough to approach Iron Man.
Perhaps her archery wasn't as flashy as Atreus's, but with each shot, she took down an enemy with ruthless efficiency.
Iron Man couldn't help but shout, "Why the hell are you messing with my building's lightning rod?"
Atreus laughed and pointed to the mothership beyond the portal, "You sure you don't need me to clear a path?"
Tony flipped Atreus the bird.
Beyond the round void portal, the X-shaped mothership was surrounded by a faint blue energy shield.
Of course, a starship shield wouldn't be missing.
Atreus found the original storyline ridiculous. Did the alien motherships really rely solely on their hulls to withstand asteroids and such?
The two old friends bantered as they neared the portal. Just before passing through, Atreus pulled the massive lightning rod behind him.
In that moment, he seemed to channel the spirit of a centaur, transforming himself into a 'bow.'
With a mighty exhale, he roared, "Meteor Spear (Star's Spear of the Heavens)!"
As a Greek warrior, the javelin was one of Achilles' signature skills, though Atreus rarely had the chance to use it.
The moment he released the skill, Atreus felt the wind element within him completely drain.
A fierce tornado swirled around the two-meter-long lightning rod, accelerating it into a blazing bolt of lightning that sliced through the void.
"Zzz!"
The massive 'javelin' shot from zero to over a hundred kilometers per hour in an instant, surpassing Tony and slamming into the Chitauri mothership's energy shield.
To be honest, Atreus alone couldn't destroy the mothership's shield.
But breaking through at a single point? No problem.
With a prompt from Jarvis, Tony saw it—a basketball-sized hole in the previously impenetrable shield.
Though the mothership's shield generator began repairing the breach, Tony thought—this is in the bag.
He didn't even think about making a final call to his beloved Pepper.
Without hesitation, he directed all available power to his thrusters, rocketing through the sky, into the void.
He watched as the white mushroom-shaped nuke slipped through the shield just before it closed.
"Boom!"
There's no sound in space, but when the massive explosion tore through the X-shaped mothership, Tony imagined the noise. He even took the time to send the footage back to Nick Fury on the helicarrier.
Almost simultaneously, the Chitauri soldiers and Leviathan beasts on Earth collapsed. As the Leviathans fell, they crushed several skyscrapers.
"Oh yeah!"
"Victory!"
"Thank God!"
The bridge of the helicarrier erupted into cheers, whistles, and tearful exclamations.
At the portal, even though a strange spatial barrier blocked the airflow, there was none of that movie magic where Iron Man fell back to Earth due to gravity. Instead, Atreus and his demigod allies powered through the void, pulling Tony back into the chariot.
As Tony, barely alive, looked at the two women, his eyes lit up, and his flirty nature returned: "Wow, who are these beautiful ladies? Aren't you going to introduce me?"
Atreus had planned to let Tony ride in the chariot.
But he changed his mind.
With just a look, Wonder Woman pulled out the Lasso of Truth and looped it around the powerless Iron Man's leg.
And dragged him away!
The chariot made a sharp 180-degree turn, racing back into the portal, with a certain Iron Man kite trailing behind…
"Kratos, you bastard—Fxck! Fxck! Fxck!"
The comms were filled with joyful banter.