Battle of New York/Sakaarian Iron Man

The Battle of New York was an attempted attack on Earth by the Chitauri.
==Background==
Loki made a deal with Thanos in which the latter would supply Loki with an army of Chitauri and the Scepter, enabling him to rule Earth, while Loki would bring Thanos back the Scepter along with the Tesseract once the job was done. Arriving on Earth, Loki killed Phil Coulson, a good friend of Tony Stark.
==Battle==
Loki launched his attack, herding the Chitauri to New York City via a wormhole. The army attacked, devastating the city; however, the Avengers fought back. A nuclear missile was sent to New York, and Iron Man grabbed it and redirected it into the wormhole, where it crashed into and destroyed the Chitauri Command Center, deactivating every Chitauri. Iron Man began to fall back towards New York City, but the wormhole closed before he could pass through, leaving him in space.
==Aftermath==
While New Yorkers celebrated the victory of the Avengers and the saving of their city, the news reported that Pepper Potts, Iron Man's girlfriend, had become the acting CEO of Stark Industries due to Stark's assumed death. Potts was devastated by the apparent loss of the man she loved.
Meanwhile, Stark crash-landed on the planet Sakaar, where he was taken to meet the Grandmaster, who took an instant liking to him. Stark attended a Grand Prix, in which racers such as Valkyrie and Korg competed. During the race, Korg was attacked by Snuffy, leading Stark to fly onto the track to attempt to save him. However, Gamora emerged and attacked Stark, as she was sent by her father Thanos as retaliation for Stark stopping the Chitauri Invasion.
Topaz captured the two and imprisoned them. Stark escaped and planned to leave the planet, but decided to stay and help overthrow the tyrannical Grandmaster after learning why Gamora had come. Stark recruited Korg and Valkyrie and challenged Grandmaster to a race in new armor, one in which the winner would become the ruler of Sakaar. Grandmaster accepted, and despite him cheating numerous times during the race, Stark beat him.
Grandmaster declared the race a tie and claimed that as Sakaar's ruler, the burden of breaking the tie fell on him. He chose himself, to the crowd's disapproval, but when Valkyrie crashed her car into Topaz's, the latter's Melt Stick touched Grandmaster, who melted into a puddle. Because of this, Valkyrie was crowned the ruler of Sakaar by the people, and Stark celebrated with his new friends before traveling to the Sanctuary with Gamora and helping her kill Thanos.
==References==
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