The Great Escape is a crossover between Sekirei and The Avengers (2012). This story follows mainly the Sekirei anime plotline, but starts to diverge at the end of the first season. Basically, Minato gets pushed too far, and he and Matsu manage to use the Tesseract as a lure to get Minaka to send the Sekirei to New York to claim it, allowing them to escape. It can be found on Archive of Our Own here
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The Sekirei Plan goes a bit too far for a usually nice guy... and happens where the Avengers eventually hear about it. This has results.
AKA, Minato loses his temper. Manhattan meets super-powered teens in love. JARVIS gets a pen-pal.
And Minaka?
...Odds are, he gets popcorn.
The Great Escape has the following tropes:
- Almighty Janitor: Apparently a number of Stark Industries janitors are kidnapping targets for some reason.
- Badass Bystander: Apparently the anime convention crowd actually did pretty well against the Chitauri before Mikogami's Sekirei joined in, and a few other New Yorkers are implied to have done similar feats.
- Batman Gambit: Minato set up hints of alien tech as lures to get Minato to send the Sekirei and Ashikabi out to claim them.
- Big Brother Instinct: Minato having this to Yukari helps trigger the escape plan.
- Blessed with Suck: Ashikabi empathy can be this in Minato's opinion. He turned out all right with his Sekirei, but he wonders if the nastier Ashikabi, like Higa and Junichi, either cracked from it or were doing the mental equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears and trying to block their Sekireis out, since it's hard enough to live inside your own head.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Tony's been the target of so many kidnapping attempts that he's rather blase about it.
- Crossover: With The Avengers, the story starting at the climax of the film.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Musubi makes a couple in chapter 4, first about using treatment chi for good. Then, she points out that the Discipline Squad probably made the news, with Seo lampshading this one.
- The Empath: Ashikabi are latent empaths, whose abilities awaken after winging a Sekirei.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Sekirei all get empathy when they wing a Sekirei, and Takami's alterations have changed Minato and Yukari further.
- Exact Words: When Fury tells the Avengers about the Sekirei, Jarvis tells Fury that from the file formats, Tony's never seen them before. Tony notices the focus on him not seeing them, and Jarvis reveals that he'd known about the Sekirei for a while after Fury leaves.
- For Want Of A Nail:
- Apparently the failed attempt to capture the Sekirei revealed HYDRA's continued existence earlier than in MCU canon.
- Takami used research obtained by MBI from HYDRA to enhance Minato and Yukari with a variant of the Super-Soldier serum.
- Minaka decided to tag all the Ashikabi with a combination tracker and tetrodotoxin dispenser after the Kuno escape. Minato then called his sister on a hospital phone after getting a building dumped on him by a certain Discipline Squad member and sees it on her wrist as well, realizing that she's an Ashikabi.
- As a result of the above, not only do Kusano and Shiina meet earlier, but Minato plans a way to get everyone out of the city.
- A Glass in the Hand: Minato does this when he sees Yukari with a tracker on her wrist... with a plastic cup.
- Groin Attack: Yukari shoots some Chitauri in the groin.
- Healing Hands:
- Minato gets this power.
- One of the Sekirei has this ability.
- Heroic RRoD: Mikogami manages to shield Akitsu from the Chitauri's Hive Mind, but passed out from the effort as soon as they were defeated.
- Human Aliens: Lampshaded a couple times with the Sekirei.
- Hypocrisy Nod: Bruce acknowledges that he's being a bit hypocritical about the idea of Steve giving up on humanity being wrong when he's given up on most people years ago, but feels that since the Hulk is a flawed mirror of Captain America, he's got a right to a bit of hypocrisy.
- Mindlink Mates: Since the link is focused on more than in canon, this is brought up a lot.
- Mythology Gag: Shiina brings up the possibility that he and Yukari wouldn't have learned that Minato was Kusano's Ashikabi until they fought them, which is what happened in canon.
- Personality Powers: The MCU Super-Soldier Serum and its variations enhancing the mental as well as the physical comes up again, with the added wrinkle of it potentially working off the Ashikabi empathy and causing results based off the personality of others in the proximity when the serum is taken.
- Minato, who was dosed soon after his Sekirei were badly hurt with no way to help them, got Healing Hands, though the possibility of the bond with Kuu affecting things is also brought up.
- It's probably not a coincidence that a Healing Hands Sekirei's Ashikabi is a medical intern...
- Psychic Static: The Chitauri's Hive Mind has a minor effect like this to the Ashikabi, Minato comparing it to a saw in the background and Mutsu comparing to ghostly acid and a vast scream. Akisu is overwhelmed by it briefly, but Mikogami manages to shield her from it, though he passes out from the effort afterward.
- Rage Breaking Point: Minato's was seeing the tracker on Yukari's wrist, knowing what it could do, and realizing that not only was his sister an Ashikabi, but his mom had known that the entire time.
- Share the Male Pain: More than one character winces when seeing Yukari Groin Attack an enemy, even a Chitauri, or the results of it.
- Underestimating Badassery: Multiple characters underestimate Minato, from Minaka to Fury.
- Weirdness Magnet: HYDRA's Zed Team, and they are called as much by their bosses, who apparently exploit it as much as possible.
- What You Are in the Dark: Minato and co. waited until after the Chitauri were defeated to send the message to the other Ashikabi and Sekirei, despite it being the perfect distraction, which surprises Banner when he learns of it.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Minato wonders if some of the nastier Ashikabi, like Higa, either snapped from their empathic link with their Sekirei or repressed it because they couldn't handle the constant connection.
