"Can you hear me Bruce Banner?" came a silky smooth voice. Bruce's senses were shaken at the moment. He shook his head trying to clear his mind when he realized that he was so disoriented because he had a bag over his head. He felt his heart begin to pick up and had force himself to calm down in fear of unleashing the Hulk blindly. He hadn't had any transformation since New York almost six months ago.
He searched his memory trying to figure out where he could possibly be, he had been moving through Alaska last he remembered. The air was too warm to still be that far north which meant he had been moved from where he was. "I know you're awake" came the voice again which sounded so familiar to Bruce.
A hand grabbed the top of the bag and pulled allowing Bruce to visually take in his surroundings, the ground was dirt and he was sitting inside a basement. He looked up and saw a man with long jet black hair, pale skin, and a green set of eyes. "You!" he said prompting a smile from the man "You were at the temple in Japan, you unleashed the Hulk on the squad sent to capture me."
"Yes I was, my name is Loki. I'm from Asgard and you and I are about to be very well acquainted" he spoke. Loki knew he needed to be careful, he had cast the spell but he wouldn't know if it worked until the Hulk was unleashed.
Bruce maintained his composure while he weighed his options, he could let the Hulk out to play and smash his way out which he was fairly certain would work, but the other side of that was that he had no idea where he was innocents could be close by and get caught in the crossfire and if Shield wasn't around to keep people out of harm's way he could not risk the public's safety.
Loki noticed quite a few changes about Banner pretty quickly the most important of which is that the man had clearly accepted his other side, when Loki last encountered the man he could see a hint of fear in his eyes and that fear was clearly gone. Bruce was analyzing his situation at the moment probably deciding whether the Hulk would be better suited for the current scenario, Loki had the time to wait he knew after Japan that he could control the Hulk with a simple control spell and he had spent all the time since finding a more long term solution to controlling the monster. He had been patient, it had been nearly a year since he fell through the portal at the Raven's Spire and building up his power since then had been quite the journey.
Now with the key to his victory sitting right in front of him, he soon felt the anticipation build up in his body, but he needed to wait just a little longer. He had infiltrated Shield, read their files, all their little schemes that Nick Fury had been planning. He had met Stark, watched the solider who had been frozen in time, and Fury's top two agents. Shield was active all over the world, but most of its focus the last few weeks was in the land called Africa, which is where he planned to get started.
"You can't hold me here" stated Bruce hoping that he might be able to talk his way out of this, Loki turned to face him. "If you don't let me go something really bad is going to happen to you."
"Oh really? What exactly are you going to do to me?"
"Not me…the other guy" replied Bruce as Loki leaned in bringing his green eyes up to Bruce's brown ones.
"I'm counting on him" he said with a smile as Bruce felt sleep overtake him.