Faced with Captain America's rather feeble jab, Sherlock could not even be bothered to respond. He simply lowered his head and rubbed little Doro's head as he held Doro in his arms, then said,
"Go wild, Doro!"
Doro's eyes lit up almost instantly at Sherlock's words. Wearing the same eager, "waku waku" expression as Anya, Doro grabbed his clothes and kept asking for confirmation, afraid of having misheard him.
"Human~ Can Doro really go wild? Human~"
Sherlock chuckled and nodded at Doro's question, though he did not forget to add a caveat.
"Of course, but only against the aliens pouring out of that big hole. And make sure you stay safe."
Doro cheered, pulled out a little cloud, and leaped onto it from Sherlock's arms, ready to charge toward the battlefield.
But before getting very far, Doro seemed to suddenly remember something and zipped back, hugging Sherlock's head and planting a big kiss on his cheek.
"Human~ Doro loves you the most~"
Only then did Doro hurry off toward the battlefield.
The communicator in Sherlock's ear relayed practically every word of their conversation to everyone else. Apart from Hulk and Thor, everyone frowned a little upon hearing that Sherlock had actually given Doro permission to "go wild" on the battlefield.
Captain America, that old stick-in-the-mud, was particularly troubled. After holding back for a long while, he finally gave in to his conscience.
"Sherlock, this is a battlefield. You shouldn't let a little kid like Doro-"
Before Captain America could finish his lecture, a massive pillar of fire more than ten meters across and a hundred meters long shot through the air over the entire battlefield.
Countless Chitauri Soldiers and several war beasts were engulfed by that enormous pillar of fire, leaving not even a speck of ash behind.
And that