Liam studied Barton for a moment, and then, without a word, he reached behind him, produg a bow unlike anything Barton had ever seen.

  Sleek and elegant, the bow was crafted from mithril and a mixture of alloys along with the toughest wood he could find. Delicate yet unbreakable, the limbs of the bow curved with an artistry no human craftsman could replicate. Strange runes, etched in a nguage unknown to Barton, pulsed faintly along its surface.

  Barton's breath hitched. He didn't o be told—this was no ordinary on. He khis because he had seen the same kind of bow on Liam's hand before.

  "This is an Elvish bow," Liam stated. "I crafted it myself. It is superior to any bow made by human hands."

  "The runes on its limbs," Liam tinued, pointing at two distinct markings he grip. "Oivates freezing arrows, the other—" He tapped the sed rune. "—turns them into explosive arrows. Focus your will on the rune you want to activate before releasing your shot."

  "You're serious?" Barton's grip tightened.

  "I'm lending it to you for this battle. But when the war is over, I expect it back."

  "Uh.." Barton looked around. He could see many eyes were now focused on him, even Fury was looking at him in one from the aer.

  "You don't have to look at them. They will never be able to uhe secrets the bow holds in their lifetime. Those who , will never work of SHIELD." Liam said. This made Natasha smile. It seemed Liam didn't have a good view of their SHIELD, but here he was. Helping them. What a hypocrite.

  Barto out a low chuckle before pulling the string back experimentally. He barely had to apply force—the bow responded as if it were aension of his own body. Smooth. Precise. Deadly.

  "This is insane," he muttered. "I don't even know what to say."

  "Then don't," Liam replied simply. "Just make every shot t."

  Suddenly, the temperature dropped.

  Frost began creeping along the edges of the makeshift camp, crag over the ground in delicate but menag patterns. The SHIELD agents shivered.

  "He's here." Thor ith Liam decred. Everyone came running out only to see Loki standing quite a distance away from their camp, and on his sides tall, imposing beings with ice-blue skin and burning red eyes emerged from the fog that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. The SHIELD couldn't eve when the Rainbe had opened.

  Loki was draped in his Asgardian finery, the green and gold of his robes and of course his horned helmet.

  "Brother." Thor stepped forward.

  "Thor. You sound almost pleased to see me." Loki said desdingly. "I wish I could say the same, but I have e only for you." He flicked his wrist, and the Frost Giants fanned out behind him, ons of jagged iing in their hands.

  "It is time to go home, dear brother."

  "I will go home, if you dissociate yourself and accept your crimes of killing Laufey." Thor said.

  "Brother, who are you fooling here. Everyone knows who killed the King of Jotunheim. You even threatened him, right on his face at his own Pace." Loki ughed. Suddenly a streak of silver and gold shot through the sky as he nded beside Thor.

  "I'm guessing you don't do social calls, reindeer games?" It was Tony who had appeared.

  "What are you called around here? Tin-man."

  "Actually I have a more faname, but we wait for the introdus." Tony replied as he eyed the frost giants and also the ultra rge ones. He wasn't thrilled at all. "And yht guests. How thoughtful, too bad I hate uninvited pany. Alright, big guy. You're up."

  A deep meical rumble filled the air as something massive fell from very high up. The ground trembled beh its weight it nded.

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  The Titan's t form loomed over them all, its armored pting gleaming uhe cold light. The massive mae halted beside Tony, its glowing visor sing the area. Liam had already known that his good old friend would be here, and he had underwent some upgrades to his tech. Thanks to the eology of Arist and the Fe.

  Loki didn't have a good look on his face as he looked at Wraithborn who hadn't spoken a single word but just like Thor, he could tell that he was a great warrior. There were also Natasha and Barton along with the Warrior Three. And aside that he also sensed soldiers with ons on the far side ready to mow them down.

  "So brother, you have opted for war. War you shall recieve." Then, with a mere flick of his fingers, the Frost Giants lunged forward like a tidal wave of id fury

  Tony was the first to strike. He shot skyward, and unleashed a devastating Lightning Strike. Arcs of electricity split the battlefield, momentarily halting the advance of the Frost Giants as their bodies vulsed uhe high-voltage onsught."That get your attention, popsicles?" Tony quipped, dodging a spear of ice hurled his way.Barton wasted no time, eling his will into Liam's Elvish bow. The runes fred as his arrow ignited in a bze of fire. The arrow found its mark, striking a Frost Giant in the chest, detonating on impact with a fiery explosion that sent shards of id charred flesh flying."Yeah, okay, I'm in love with this thing," Barton muttered before nog another arrow.

  The Warriors Three charged forward, engaging the Frost Giants in brutal close bat. Volstagg's axe cleaved through icy flesh, Fandral dahrough the battlefield with swordpy, and Hogun's mace shattered their frozen enemies with every devastating swing.

  Then Liam moved.

  A wraith-like blur, he vanished into Spectral Dash, appearing above a Frost Giant before plunging his spectral bde into its skull. He Shadow Pulled aoward him, driving his dagger through its chest before tossing the lifeless body aside.