A Car Crash of a First Meeting

America, New York.

Rumble!

The city forest, once bustling with traffic, was now thick with smoke and flames. Scorch marks and fallen corpses lay everywhere. Chitauri cybernetic soldiers rode disc-shaped aircraft between the skyscrapers, constantly searching for survivors and shooting them dead.

Yet no one marched in the city that represented freedom today, because this was not oppression. It was simply a war—a war of destruction!

"Tony, they're heading for the children!!"

With his overwhelming strength, Thor of the Avengers smashed a Chitauri troop carrier out of the sky with a single hammer blow. But as he descended, his godly eyesight suddenly caught sight of three to five Chitauri soldiers slipping past the group's defenses and charging toward civilians being evacuated in the distance.

A yellow school bus had overturned by the roadside. Children crawled out through its shattered windows one after another, screaming in terror as the aliens flew toward them.

"Damn it, give me time to drink a cup of coffee and I'll be right there!"

Though he said that, Iron Man Tony Stark, who was entangled by a group of Chitauri soldiers, opened the red back plating of his armor and fired a dense barrage of tiny rockets regardless of the energy cost. As he cleared the field, he used the blast waves to rocket out of the encirclement.

But he was still too late.

The Chitauri soldiers had already flown over and raised their bizarre-looking weapons.

"Ah!!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Black steel arrows tore through the air.

Every one of them struck precisely at the weak points in the Chitauri soldiers' back armor. They were not deep enough to kill them, but the red lights blinking "beep beep" on the arrowheads proved these arrows were far from simple.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Before the attacked Chitauri soldiers