She continued to live her life as best as she could after her brother was lost in the ice. A super Soldier like him, but with a unique gift. Follow Steve's sister as spent 70 years trying to live without him but they finally find Steve.
She fought against the multiple men who came at he at full force but for training purposes. Her movements were fluid that you could barely see what her next movement was.
Once all men were lying on the ground, she smiled then helped them all up.
"Quite impressive. It's like you could do that in your sleep."
She smiled at the comment knowing exactly who it was, "Thanks guys. We're done for today." She turned around, "Well, I probably could. Been at this for so long, but you already know are you doing here Coulson?" She asked as she walked up to him.
"Well I'm glad you asked. But first, I have to ask, you have trained for hours and you still have energy?"
She laughed, "And I taught mixed martial arts classes before that. That's what happens when you're a super soldier. Too much energy"
"Wow!" He paused, then got all serious, "We need your help and just not with training"
"Sounds bad, what is it Coulson?"
"Barton has been compromised and…" he paused. "They found him… and he is on his way to also help us"
She looked at him in disbelief, "What do you mean found him? When? How?" She had been waiting for any news on her brother for a long time now.
Coulson smiled, "Yes, I was quite surprised myself. Now if you come with me, I will take you to see him and so we can help Barton."
She was frozen in place, "Really, they found him?"
"Yes" Coulson answered.
She smiled, "What are we waiting for? Let's go" she said as she grabbed her belongings and followed Coulson out of the gym.
Sometime later she was standing at the window waiting for when the Quinjet would land. She didn't have to wait too long, as soon as she saw it she smiled and quickly made her way to the deck.
"Agent Romanoff, Captain Rogers," Coulson introduced the two, nodding at Steve. There was still a bit of a fanboy in Coulson at the moment, and it made the corner of Natasha's mouth tilt up in amusement.
"Hi." Natasha glanced at Steve once, checking him over, before turning her attention to Coulson.
Natasha turned to Coulson, "They need you on the bridge; they're starting the face-trace."
"See you there." Coulson shot one last look at both of them before heading across the deck, heading to the inside of the Helicarrier.
Natasha managed to shoot a small smile at Steve. "It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice," Natasha said as the pair started across the deck. "I thought Coulson was going to swoon."
"Steve!"
Steve stopped dead in their tracks and looks ahead.
He couldn't believe what he was seeing, his sister in front of him after being separated after 70 years.
"Sonya", he said in disbelief, "how are you here? It's been…"
"70 years since we have seen each other. I can't believe you're here" she said as she ran to him and hugged him tight.
Steve pulled back a bit to look at her. "How are you here? Please tell me you didn't"
"I did, to help you but never got the chance. I'm so glad that they found you"
Steve smiled at her and hugged her again, "I'm so glad that you're here"
Natasha cleared her throat, "sorry to interrupt but we need to keep moving"
Both Sonya and Steve nodded and continued walking, "We'll catch up later" Sonya said as she bumped his shoulder with hers.
"Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?" Sonya asked.
"Trading cards?" Steve repeated as he glanced at Sonya.
"They're vintage," the red headed assassin explained, shrugging casually as she looked ahead. "He's very proud."
"And protective," Sonya added, nodding as she recalled seeing the cards in their glass cases in Coulson's office. "You don't screw with Coulson's trading cards."
Steve just shot her a look before glancing ahead, pausing when he noticed a man whose picture he had been looking at less than an hour ago. "Doctor Banner," Steve called over, taking several steps forward. Sonya stayed behind; she stood next to Natasha as she watched Steve introduced himself to Bruce Banner.
"I bet you still can't believe he is here now.," the Russian spy noted once Steve was out of earshot. Natasha raised an eyebrow, glancing at Sonya before looking at Steve.
"You have no idea, knowing your own brother was lost for over 70 years, I never thought I would see him ever again. Alive anyway." Sonya replied, shooting Natasha a smile.
Natasha smiled back.
Natasha and Sonya looked back at the guys just as the man Steve had greeted took a step forward, glancing at Natasha a bit warily before turning his attention to Sonya.
"I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name," Doctor Banner mentioned, looking her over. Sonya had recognised him instantly. She had seen photos of him before.
Sonya put a pleasant smile on her face and held out a hand as she replied, "Agent Rogers. It's a pleasure to meet you, Doctor Banner."
"Rogers? As in…" he paused.
Sonya smiled, "Yes, Steve is my brother"
Bruce nodded slowly before glancing back at Steve. "Must be strange for you, all of this," he mentioned, glancing around at the Helicarrier.
Steve gave a small smile. "Well… this is actually kind of familiar," the super soldier admitted easily.
Natasha stepped forward. "Gentlemen. You might want to step inside in a minute," she advised, nodding over to the edge of the Helicarrier. "It's going to get a little hard to breathe." Natasha almost sounded faintly amused.
"Flight crew, secure the deck…" the PA system called out. The deck of the Helicarrier exploded into action, and the group watched the organised chaos around them as planes were strapped down and everything else was prepared for what Sonya and Natasha knew was coming.
"Is this a submarine?" Steve asked, glancing over at Sonya before looking out on the water.
Bruce, meanwhile, appeared to have been put into a state of absolute disbelief. "Really?" he demanded, exchanging a look with Steve. "They want me in a submerged, pressurised, metal container?"
"Wrong direction," Sonya replied, her tone taking a slightly sing song quality to it, ignoring Steve's startled look at the realisation hit him. She remained with Natasha as the two men stepped forward, heading over to the edge to watch as the engines slipped from the water to bring the Helicarrier into the sky.
"You okay?" Sonya asked quietly, not moving her gaze from Steve.
"Now's not the time or place, Rogers," Natasha replied, keeping an eye on the two men.
"If this gets ugly, it's the only time and place," Sonya snapped, shooting a quick glare over at her. "Tasha, are you okay?"
The redhead shot the older blonde a serious, hard look. "I'll talk to you later," Natasha promised after a few short, tense beats. Sonya sighed, knowing it was better than nothing as she nodded, turning her attention back to the two men.
"Oh no. This is much worse," Bruce said loudly over the engines. The doctor was looking more and more uncomfortable the more time he spent at SHIELD. Sonya barely managed to catch his words, but she knew that Natasha did.
Natasha squeezed Sonya's shoulder. "Let's go," she murmured, her voice almost inaudible over the whirl of the engines. The red head took off after that, heading towards the doors across the deck. Sonya took a few steps to follow, glancing back at the boys, who were still staring in amazement over the edge as the Helicarrier began to rise.
"You boys coming?" Sonya called, shooting them a confident grin as they both looked over. Sonya paused as she looked at Steve directly, shrugging slightly. She followed Natasha after that, catching up to her fellow spy a moment later.
The super soldier was barely able to hold back a grin, though he did catch the surprised look Banner had. "Coming" Steve replied, his voice barely a whisper as he followed.
The four made their way off the deck of the Helicarrier and into the command centre. A number of SHIELD personal nodded at Sonya and Natasha, and she caught more than a few awed stares directed towards not only herself but Steve too, along with a few fearful ones directed at Bruce. She and Natasha led the super soldier and the scientist onto into the commander centre, and Sonya couldn't hold back the confident little half smile that came over her.
She hadn't been in her element like this in a long while. Not only had she trained Clint and Natasha for crisis, for high risk and dangerous missions, and this was about as high risk and dangerous as it could be. Sonya had disappeared into Agent Rogers of SHIELD.
As Sonya, all she would be able to do would be worry about Clint but as Agent Rogers, as Psych, she could do something. It was just a matter of finding Clint.
The command centre was abuzz with activity, but Sonya didn't focus on any of it. Instead, she kept an eye on Banner and Steve in particular, though the super soldier admittedly was taking more of his attention. The look on his face could only be described as stunned, and Rogers only smirked as he looked around, staring in amazement.
She was able to read the nervousness surrounding Banner though. Didn't even need to use your abilities. Sonya could have caught the nervous glances he shot the guards in the back if she had been blindfolded, but as far as she knew, there wasn't anything she was going to be able to do help him.
For a few moments, as the chaos surrounding her got louder, Sonya let her mind drift, even as she slowly moved towards the middle of the command centre, sticking halfway between Natasha and Steve.
Sonya didn't speak as she stood a bit behind Fury, just keeping her eye on everything. There was a tenser atmosphere than normal in the command centre. Working at SHIELD was never easy, but everyone seemed to realise how dangerous that this could be.
Sonya just closed her eyes as the engineers and operators chatted around her. She opened them a moment later, meeting Natasha's eyes and giving the redhead a weak smile. Natasha only nodded, and Sonya made a mental note to make sure that she did speak to Natasha in private at one point. She honestly had no idea how the redhead was handling Barton being compromised.
Given Sonya's suspicions about Natasha and Clint's relationship, the blonde had a strong feeling that Natasha was freaking out just as much as she was. The redhead was just better at hiding it.
Maria Hill's voice cut through Sonya's thoughts a moment later, and Sonya turned her head to look at the brunette. Her eyes met Hill's for a second, and she shot her a brisk nod. It was returned a moment later. Sonya actually had never spent much time with Maria Hill, though she did have the utmost respect for her. She had a ton of respect for anyone who could deal with Fury for extended periods of time.
"All engines operating. SHIELD Emergency Protocol 193.6 in effect." Hill turned back to Fury, shooting him a nod of confirmation. "We are at level, sir."
Fury shot a look of approval at his second in command. "Good. Let's vanish."
Hill turned back to the other agents. "Engage retro-reflection panels."
A different agent nodded at his console. "Reflection panels engaged."
Fury turned back to Bruce and Steve, and Sonya forced herself to pay attention to what was actually happening around her. "Gentlemen."
Sonya watched as Steve stepped forward and handed Fury a ten dollar bill. He didn't say a word before walking forward, almost seeming to head to the large windows in the front of the Helicarrier. Sonya just watched carefully, smirking in bemusement at the act with the ten dollars. She was going to have to ask what that was about later on, when they weren't focusing on trying to save the world.
Fury had gone over to talk to Bruce, and Sonya just watched as Steve paused at the very front of the command centre, looking out at the ocean below. Sonya bit her lip before walking forward, carefully making sure that she was looking at Steve, not at the ocean below or the fact that they were so far up in the air.
It wasn't as if Sonya was afraid of heights. She flew constantly due to her time in SHIELD. If she was anything, it was claustrophobic, but that was a whole other can of worms. She was simply just nervous when she was up high, and being on the Helicarrier wasn't any different.
"You look a little startled," Sonya said, smirking as she walked up to him, heading to the front windows of the command centre. Sonya shot a quick nod at Hill as the two passed the agent, and caught the little quirk of the eyebrow that Hill gave.
Steve shook his head, looking partially stunned. "It can fly and turn invisible," he said, shaking his head as he took in the bridge of the Helicarrier. Steve had seen some advanced weaponry during his days fighting HYDRA, but even this was far beyond what he would have been capable of dreaming of. Sonya only smirked as he looked down at her. "I can honestly say I didn't expect that."
"You reacted better than I did. I freaked out for an hour, and Barton never stopped making fun of me for it," she admitted, wondering again if they really were going to be able to find him.
Steve seemed to recognise what was going through her head."We'll find him,Sonya," he promised.
Sonya was taken back, "What do you mean?" She asked.
"I can tell you care about Agent Barton. You trained him didn't you? It happens"
Sonya sighed, "Wow! I'm supposed to be the one where can read people easy, but here you are reading me like an open book. Just like when we were kids."
They stood in silence. She let herself fear for Clint in that moment, for herself and everyone she knew in SHIELD. Everyone she worked with and trained was family to her.
She let that moment disappear a second later. Sonya knew that the fight wasn't over yet, that Barton wasn't lost just yet. She knew that there was so much more that they all had to do.
"I have to get to work." She said walking forward, crossing her arms across her chest as she and Steve made their way over to the computer sets, where Fury, Coulson, Banner, and Natasha were already discussing what their options were at the moment.
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet," Coulson was explaining, shooting a quick look over the super soldier, super agent and the agent, going back to his explanation without missing a beat. "Cell phones, laptops… if it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us.
"It's still not going to find them in time," Natasha pointed out. She was leaning down next to a computer, sneaking a peak at the picture of Barton sitting on the computer.
Sonya exchanged a quick, concerned look with Natasha. The redhead was right. There was no way that this Loki would be moving without a plan. SHIELD had no idea what that plan was, and that left them with a huge disadvantage.
They were already at a disadvantage with Barton compromised. Sonya had a feeling that everything was only going to get worse before it got better.
"You have to narrow your field," Bruce explained, frowning slightly as his thought process began. Sonya was amazed at how quickly he had gotten down to business, despite how clearly uncomfortable he was being surrounded by SHIELD agents. "How many spectrometers do you have access to?"
"How many are there?" Fury asked. His tone was calm and simple, and Sonya had no doubt that he would get his hands on every spectrometer in the world if it meant they were going to find the Tesseract sooner.
Nick Fury was nothing if not determined.
Bruce nodded, and Sonya could practically see the gears spinning in the scientist's head. "Call every lab you know. Tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places."
While the doctor had lost Sonya somewhere around spectrometers, Fury kept his cool, merely nodding at the man. "Do you have somewhere for me to work?" Bruce finally asked, watching Fury carefully.
Fury turned to look at Natasha. "Agent Romanoff? Would you show Doctor Banner to his laboratory, please?" he asked, like it was a request rather than a command.
Natasha stood, nodding once in confirmation before starting her way out of the room, Bruce not far behind her. "You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys."
Fury looked over at Sonya, who raised an eyebrow, her back straightening automatically. Steve glanced at her, and she realized that he was just watching how she was in this type of environment. "Agent Rogers, if you would assist Agent Sitwell with the face-trace?"
"Of course." Sonya shot a quick look at Steve before moving forward, slipping over to the computers and the SHIELD agent in question.
"Hey," Sonya greeted, shooting a quick smile at Sitwell before she sat down next to him.
"Wow! I can't believe you are here…."she just looked at him. "Right, the face trace… You remember how to run a face-trace?" Sitwell asked her, shooting her a quick nod in greeting. SHIELD rarely bothered with pleasantries.
"That's Loki," Sitwell confirmed, nodding once. Sonya's body went even stiffer for a few seconds. She glared at the image of Loki for a few seconds, her hand going into a fist as Sitwell continued, "For right now, we don't have anything. You're looking for Barton."
Sonya looked at her own screen, sighing at the familiar face of her former pupil "We'll find him," she murmured, shaking her head before going back to the face-trace. "We're going to find him."
She checked everything she could think of. Sonya had even messaged Natasha, asking if there was anything that Clint had never told Sonya about, a safe house or bank account that he kept hidden. It was like Clint had absolutely vanished, and the blonde agent was quickly realising that she was drowning in frustration.
"I'm double checking Barton's hidden accounts," Sonya muttered about a half an hour later, running a hand through her light hair as she glared at the screen.
"You checked those three times," Sitwell replied, not taking his gaze away from his own screen.
Sonya took a few seconds to glare at the picture of Loki. She really hoped she was going to have a chance to throw something at that monster, preferably her staff "Fourth time's the charm."
"Sonya." Sonya looked over sharply at Sitwell, who had merely raised a calm eyebrow at her. Sitwell had never used her first name before. It was always Agent Rogers with him, just like how it was with Fury. "Breathe."
"I'm breathing." She resisted the urge to either sigh or roll her eyes, or possibly do both. Instead, Sonya swirled in her seat a few times, breathing as she tried to force herself to refocus. Her gaze hit Steve and Coulson, who were standing off the side, and she smirked over at Steve.
Steve had merely shot her a warm half smile, though she caught the concern in his blue eyes. Sonya knew that both had probably recognised her frustration at the moment. Sonya hated doing nothing. She hated waiting. Hated that she was powerful with her abilities but couldn't do anything for now.
But most of all, Sonya hated the fact that Clint was out there somewhere, brainwashed, and there was not a damn thing she could do to help him.
"I hate technology sometimes," Sonya muttered, glaring at the picture of Clint on the screen when her chair had turned to the right way. She shot another death glare at the picture of Loki, her hand slipping into a fist.
Clint and Natasha might have been protective of her, but that protection went both ways. To her they were like her niece and nephew and she would no anything for them.
Sitwell's next four words came out of the blue and nearly stopped her heart.
"We got a hit." Everyone's attention turned to Sitwell instantly, Sonya whirling in her chair sharply enough for a small crack to sound from her neck. She stared at the screen, her eyes narrowing when she saw the picture on the screen. It was Loki, alright.
"A 67% match. Wait." Sitwell double checked the screen before correcting, "Cross match. 79%."
"Location?" Coulson asked. He crossed over to peer at the screen in front of Sitwell. Sonya leaned over, frowning as she tried to take another look as well.
"Stuttgart, Germany. 28 Königstrasse. He's not exactly hiding." Sonya raised an eyebrow at that, exchanging a confused look with Steve. Judging from the picture on Sitwell's screen, the god wasn't hiding. There was no way that meant anything good was going on.
Sonya frowned as she turned back to her own console. The blonde agent bit her lip as she typed in the address. "It's a museum… has a science compound in the back of it," she reported, frowning. There was no way that was a coincidence, and dread began to form a dead weight in her gut.
"Captain." The four turned back to Fury, who merely watched the super soldier carefully. "You're up."
Steve only hesitated for a second before giving a brief nod. Fury turned his attention over to Sonya, who stood from her chair, raising an eyebrow. It was instinct that caused her one hand to go to her hip, the other clutching the knife strapped to her thigh.
"Agent Rogers, please show Captain Rogers to the lockers." Sonya nodded, glancing over at her brother before she started to lead the way out of the command centre, Steve a few feet behind her. Sonya and Steve paused as Fury spoke again.
"And Agent Rogers?" Sonya turned back to look at him, crossing her arms as she waited. Steve frowned, keeping his attention on her. Fury glanced at the super soldier before adding, "Suit up. You're going with them."
Five minutes later, as she led him down the shadowed hallways of the Helicarrier, Sonya turned, walking backwards as she watched Steve carefully.
"Are you ready for this...Captain?"
"I was born ready" Steve replied stopping outside of a room.
Steve merely smirked before slipping completely into the room, letting the door slide shut behind him. Steve's face turned serious a moment later as he looked at the end of the room, a familiar sight welcoming him.
Red. White. Blue. A single star in the middle of his shield. Steve's hand clenched into a fist at his side as he stepped forward.
Captain America was about to make a comeback with his sister by his side.
Loki walk casually through out the streets, wearing a gentlemen suit with a green scarf as his scepter became a walking stick.
Loki walked through the back door and reached the balcony that overlooked the party and saw his target, who was starting to give a speech.
He flips his cane, whamming the guard in the face sending him to the floor, Loki walks up to the target, grabs his throat, forcing him walk backward and flips the man onto a table, Loki then took out his eye scan device and plunge it into the man's eye. The people began to scream and shout as they ran.
Loki watched them flee with a smile of excitement on his face, He left the corpse on the table statue and walk at a slow pace, his formal midgardian clothing change into his Asgardian clothing.
The people try to escape, but copies of Loki appeared around them, "Kneel before me." Loki demands them, as his clones box them in.
"I said. . ." Loki states, him and his clones, slam their scepters down, a blue light shines from all of them. "KNEEL!" he shouts at them.
The people stagger a bit, then slowly go on their knees before them.
Loki just laughs at them, "Is this not simpler?" he asks them walking through the crowd, "Is this not your natural state?" he asks them.
"It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom, diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled, in the end, you will always kneel" Loki tells them, then an old man stood up, making Loki stop in his tracks.
"Not to men like you." he tells Loki, but Loki just laugh.
"There are no men like me." Loki assures him,
"There are always men like you." he shot back.
Loki raise him scepter. "Look to your elder, people." he tells them, aiming his scepter at him. "Let him be an example." he states.
Then Loki fires at the old man, but suddenly the blast was reflected back at Loki, knocking him off his feet, Captain America blocks the shot with his shield and Sonya places her hand on the elder man's shoulder, smiling at him then walks over next to Captain America.
Both glaring at the two. "You know the last time my I were in Germany, I saw a man, standing above everybody else. We ended up disagreeing." he tells them, as Loki pulls himself up.
"The soldier and the super agent. The siblings out of time." Loki states. "We're not the one who's out of time." Steve tells him as an S.H.E.I.L.D flight craft, hover a for way out.
"Loki drop the weapon and stand down." Natasha orders him.
But Loki just fires at the craft, which misses, Steve threw his shield a Loki, which also had no effect, the people began to clear out of the area as Steve punch Loki in the face, who show no effect of the punch.
The fight between the siblings and Loki continued, Sonya got thrown back when Loki thrusted his hand out using his magic
She pants and slouches over a bit. Then ACDC played catching everyone's attention.
Tony flew in and fires at Loki, making him fly back.
He then lands and aims his weapons at them, "Make you move, reindeer games." he dares them Sonya and Steve stood next to him.
Tony place away his weapons, "Good move." he tells them. "Mr. Stark." Steve states, "Cap'n, Aunt Sonya." he said back to them.
Steve looked at Sonya raising his eyebrow, "I'll explain later" she said without looking at him.
Loki was strapped into the seat, being taken S.H.E.I.L.D headquarters,
"Is he saying anything?" Fury asks over the comm.
"Not a word." Natasha informs him.
"Just get them here, we're low on time." Fury tells her and close the comm link.
"I don't like it." Steve mumbles to Tony.
"What rock or giving up so easily?" he asks him,
"I don't remember it being that easy. This guy packs a wallop." Steve states, eyeing Loki.
"Well you still are sprite for an older fellow." Tony states.
Then lightning dances across the clouds, "Where is this coming from?" Natasha asks, then lighting roared out, making Loki move uncomfortably.
"What? Scared of a little thunder?" Steve asks them.
"I'm not over fond of what follows after." Loki tells him, then something lands on top of the flight craft, shaking it a bit.
Tony and Steve place on their masks as Sonya looks around. "What are you doing?" Steve asks Tony as he walks to the back, press a button, opening the back and Thor appears.
Tony went to fire at him, but Thor knock him back and crash him into Steve.
Sonya pulls herself off the seat and kneels next to Steve and looks at the thunder God.
Thor grabs Loki by his throat, twirls his hammer and flew out stealing the prisoner.
"What was that?" Sonya asks.
"Another Asgardian?" Natasha asks. Sonya look at her as her and Steve stood.
"Wait, you're saying, they're real?" Sonya asks her. She had been alive for 90 odd years and have never heard anything about it.
"Stark we need a plan of attack." Steve calls out to him.
"I do have a plan. Attack." Tony states and turns to Sonya, "Are you coming Aunt?" and took off, Sonya looks out the ramp.
"Been awhile since I have done this" Sonya said, inhaled and ran then jumps out of the Qin-jet. "Sonya!" Steve calls out.
Sonya focus on her powers and then green flames shoot out surrounding her she then flew after Tony. Steve sighs and pulls on a parachute.
"I'd sit this one out, Captain." Natasha warns him.
"I don't see how I can." he tells her, tightening the belt.
"Those two come from legend, they're basically Gods." she tells him.
"There only one God ma'am, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." Steve tells her, grabbing shield and jumps out the back.
After flying for a while, Thor throws Loki against the surface of a cliff. Loki just groans than laughs.
"Where is the Tesseract?" Thor demands of him.
"I miss you too." Loki said in a joke way.
"Do I look to be in a gaming mood?" Thor growls at him.
"You should thank me. With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have to conger just to muster you here, your precious earth?" Loki states, sitting up.
Thor drops his hammer, growls at him then grips him by the collar "I thought you both dead." Thor tells them in a soft voice.
"Did you moan?" Loki asks him.
"We all did. Our father -" Thor starts and drops him but Loki cuts him off.
"Your father." Loki growls, "He did tell you about my true parentage, did he not?" Loki asks him, walking away while holding his back, "We were raised together, we've played together, we've fought together. Do you remember none of that?" Thor asks him.
"I remember shadows." Loki states, "Living in the shadow of your greatness, I remember you tossing me into an abyss, I who was and should be ruler." Loki growls at him.
"Oh, so you take the world I love for recompense for your imaged sites?" Thor question them, "No the Earth is under my protection, Loki." Thor informs him, but Loki just laughs.
"And you're doing a marvelous job at that. The humans are slaughtering each other drones while you Idly fret." Loki tells him, "I mean to rule them, why not." he states.
"You think yourself above them?" Thor asks.
"Well yes." Loki answers.
"Then you miss the truth means to rule brother, the throne suits you ill," Thor tells him.
Loki growls at him, shove him out of the way and walks away, "I've seen worlds you have never known about." Loki shouts at him, "I have grown, Odinson, in my exile. I have seen the true power of the Tesseract and when I will it -" Loki states, standing in front of Thor
"Who show you this power? Who controls the would-be king?" Thor demands him.
"I am a king!" Loki shouts back at him.
Then Thor grips his shoulders. "Not here! You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream!" Thor shouted back, then cup the side of his neck, "You come home" Thor begged him.
Loki looks at him, "We don't have it." he answers.
Thor pushed him away, and his hammer flew into his hand, ready to strike Loki.
"You need the cube to bring us home, but I sent it off, I know not where." Loki informs him.
Thor points his hammer at him, "Listen well brother, I-" Thor starts, but was suddenly gone.
"I'm listening." Loki states, then they both saw Sonya fly over them and land in between Thor and Tony.
Loki watched on as Thor fights off both Sonya and Tony, then Sonya falls straight on her back, groaning, then as she pulls herself up, a hand offers itself to her, she looks up and saw Thor, offering help.
She blew a strand of hair out of her face and threw her hand up, gripping onto his arm and was pulled onto her feet.
She looks at him and nods, he returns the nod and lets go of her hand. They all pant, seeing that they destroy the whole forest and then they look at Loki.
"Like a moth to a flame." Loki says quietly.
Loki was escorted by a whole squadron of soldiers, hands cuffed behind him.
Dr. Banner got a good look at him, Loki gives of a crazy smile as they press on. They walking into a glass room container, the door shut tight.
"Just so it's clear, if you try to escape." Fury tells them, pressing a few buttons, "You so much as scratch that glass. . ." he states, then the door below them opens as the air was being suck into the door.
Loki looks over down the hole, "30,000 feet, straight down in a steel trap." Fury states, "Caught the meaning?" he asks, closing the door below them, "Ant, boot." he jest between Loki to the panel.
Loki just laughs, "It's an impressive cage. Not built for me I think." he states.
"Built for something a lot stronger than you." Fury tells him.
"Oh, I've heard. A mindless beast, and makes play a man." Loki states,
"Just how desperate are you. You call on such lost creatures to defend you." Loki shoots.
"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force that you can't hope to control, you talks about peace, but you kills cause it's fun." he states.
"You have made me very desperate. And might not be glad that you did." he tells Loki,
"Oh, it burns you to have come so close." he taunts him, "To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what?" he continually taunts him,
"A war for all mankind to share and to be reminded of what real power is." he growls at him.
Fury smirks a little. "Yeah let me know if real power wants a magazine or something." he said and walk away, leaving them in the cell.
Everyone sat down at the table after hearing everything Loki's talk with Fury.
Sonya sat there lost in her thoughts, she was then pulled out of her thoughts as Bruce and Tony talk about science that threw right over her head.
She looks at them in confusion. She may have an advance mind thanks to her powers, but it's not that advance.
"Dr. Banner is only here to track the Cube. I was hoping you might join him." Fury tells him.
"I'd start with that stick of his, it may be magical, but it works a horribly like a Hydra weapon." Steve adds.
"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube and I like to know how he turned the two most sharpest minds I know into his flying monkeys." Fury questions them.
Sonya sighs, understanding what he meant, running her fingers through her hair. But Thor was confused by this, but Steve caught it or so he thought.
Loki saw Natasha standing before him, "Not many people can sneak up on me." Loki tells her as he stood up.
"But you figured I'd come." she states,
"After what ever torches that Fury can decors. He would appear as a friend, as a bum. And I would of cooperated." he tells her.
"I want to know what you've done to agent Barton?" she asks him.
"I would say I expanded his mind." he puts it plainly.
"And once you've won. Once you're king of the mountain, what happens to his mind?" she asks him, stepping in front of their cage.
"Is this love, Agent Romanoff?" Loki asks her.
"Love is for children, I owe him a debt." Natasha tells him.
Loki backed off, "Tell me." Loki said as he took a seat on the beach.
She sighs, "Before I work for shield, I um. . ." she starts, taking a seat,
"Well I made a name for myself, I have a very specific skill set, I didn't care who I use it for or on." she tells him, "I got on S.H.E.I.L.D's radar, in a bad way. Agent Barton was sent to kill me, he made a different call." she tells her side of her story. She just didn't mention it was Sonya who actually made the call.
"And what will you do if I decide to spear him?" Loki asks her.
"Not let you out." Natasha tells him.
Loki just laughs. "Oh no, but I like this, your world in the balance and you bargain for one man's life." Loki states.
"Regensma falls everyday. I tend not to weep over that, I'm Russian, or I was." she tells him.
"And what are you now?" Loki asks her.
"It's really not that complicated, I got red in my ledger, now I want to clean it out." she tells him, standing up from the chair and crossed her arms.
"Can you? Can you wipe out that much red? Drakeoff's daughter?" Loki asks, hitting a nerve. "Salcalf? The hospital fire? Barton told me everything." Loki states, standing up and walks over to her, "Your ledger is dripping. It's gushing red and you think saving a man no ventures than you will change anything?" he questions her,
"This is the abashment senility, this is a child, pear, pathetic. You lie and kill, in the services of liars and killers." Loki raise his voice at her, "You pretend to be separated, to have your own code. Something that makes up for the horrors, but they're apart of you. And they will never go away."
Then Loki slams his fist against the glass, startling Natasha, "I will not touch Barton, not until he kills you. Slowly, intimately, and very way he knows you fear. And when he wakes, just long enough to see his good work." Loki informs her, she turns away from them. "And when he screams, I'll split his skull. This is my bargain, you mewling quim." Loki promise her.
Natasha starts to cry. "You're a monster." she whimpers a bit.
"No, you brought the monster." she tells her, then Natasha turns, and she was completely fine.
"So Banner. That's your play?" she states.
Loki looked surprise."What?" he states.
"Loki means to unleash the Hulk." Natasha states as she starts to leave the room. "Keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way. And Thor as well." she said to her comm link, then turns to them. Thank you for your cooperation." she tells them, and left.
"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Fury questions him.
"Uh, kind been wondering the same thing about you." Tony answers him
"You're suppose to be locating that Tesseract." he tells him,
"Yeah, the model's lock and we're looking for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location in half a mile." Banner informs him.
"Yeah you're gonna get your cube back, no muss no fuss." Tony states, then a beep went off. "What is phase 2?" Tony asks him and right on time, Steve drops a big silver gun on the table.
"Phase 2 is that S.H.E.I.L.D uses the cube to make weapons. Sorry your computer was moving a little slow for me." Steve states.
"Rogers, we've gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean -" Fury starts to explain.
"I'm sorry Nick. what were you lying?" Tony states, showing a panel of a weapon designed by S.H.E.I.L.D for the Tesseract.
"I was wrong Director, the world hasn't change a bit." Steve states as Thor, Sonya and Natasha walk in.
"Did you know about this?" Banner asks Natasha.
"You want to think about removing yourself from this environment?" Natasha asks him.
"Sonya, did you know about this?" Steve asked his sister.
"No, I'm just an agent, I helped found SHIELD but I was never really one for politics" she explained.
"She's right, she always complained that they were trying to get her involved in the politics because of who she is but she always turned them down"
Sonya looked at Fury, "Maybe I should have, then I would have been able to put a stop to it," she walked up to Fury, "what else is there that I don't know" she asked dangerously.
Everyone started to argue among themselves; Sonya face palms and shakes her head, not believing this, so she puts her foot down. "Shut the hell up!All of you!" she shouts at them, making them stop and looks at her.
"Look at yourselves, you're playing right into Loki's hands, all acting like children." she snaps, they look at themselves.
"You're scared, hell even terrified, have personal grudges with one another, some of you are arrogant morons and I get that, but right now, and focus on what really matter and then after everything is over, I swear to you. You guys can then kill each other all you want. But before that happens, man up and be adults instead of teenagers with petty grudges." she tells them, everyone looks at each other seeing that she was right.
They all sigh and nod at each other, then the tracker for the Tesseract went off, Bruce walks over to the panel and looks at it, Bruce removed his glasses, not liking where the Tesseract was. Then BAM; explosions went off, sending everyone flying back, Natasha, Bruce and Sonya fell back and into another room.
Sonya lands on her back as Natasha got her foot pinned under some pipes and Bruce fall flat on his chest and groans, feeling the Hulk coming out.
Sonya rolled over and looks at him. "Bruce, breathe. You just need to breathe." Sonya tells him.
"Bruce, you got to fight it, it's just what Loki wants. Listen to me, we're going to be okay." Natasha tells him.
Sonya pulls herself onto her hands and knees, looking at Banner, seeing that he was losing it, "Bruce after this, all of this, you can walk away, find another place to hide. I swear it on my life." Sonya promises him, he glares at her,
"Your life?!" he question her, "I make a promise and I intend to keep my promises." she assure him.
Then saw his skin turn green, Sonya then crawls over and lift the poles off of Natasha's foot. They then saw him stumble away, his shirt ripping off his chest, then looks at the two.
"Bruce..." Natasha mumbles and Bruce stumbles away from them. "Come on, get up." Sonya orders her, pulling her to her feet and they look over at Bruce who was now the Hulk.
Sonya gasp at the sight as he looks over at the two of them, they exchange looks and both took off in different directions, but Hulk went after Natasha, smashing everything in his way.
"Natasha!" Sonya calls out, Hulk looks over at her, she stiffens in her skin, Hulk turns to her and towers over her, making Sonya back up until was back into a pipe.
Hulk pulls his face close to her's, she held her breath, his green eyes look into her blue eyes, he growls lowly at her and slowly pulled his finger to her cheek.
"Hey, over here!" Natasha calls out, getting Hulks attention, he roars and ran after her, Sonya lets out a breath, she then looks down at her hand, seeing it was shaking, she grips her wrist and took in deep breathes.
"Why Natasha, I'm supposed to look out for you. Damnit!." she tells herself, what made the Hulk not attack her?
The sound of a roar reaches Loki's ears then the door slides open and he starts to walk out once he stood, then Thor appeared in front of him.
"NO!" he shouts, running at him, but went right through them; an illusion, the door slides shut and Loki was standing next to the panel.
"Are you not going to fall for at?" Loki asks him, Thor scrambles onto his feet and hit the glass, making a crack and the cage shifted sharply. Making him stop.
Loki just chuckles. "The humans think us immortal." Loki states as he presses a few buttons and flip open a small case containing the red button. "Shall we test?" He asks him, but the sound of a man being knock out and Coulson points a laser gun at her.
"Move away please." he asked.
Loki eyes the laser gun, "You like this? Started working on the the prototype after you sent the destroyer to kill us." he tells him, walking closer.
"Even I don't know what it does, you want to find out?" he asks him, starting up the gun, but then was suddenly stab through the chest with the scepter by Loki.
"No!" Thor yells, feeling helpless. Coulson crumbles against the wall as the other Loki vanished and walks up to the panel and presses a button causing the door below them to open below the cage, then his hand snakes down to hover over another button.
He looked at Thor one more time and pressed the button, sending the god of thunder to fall 30,000 feet to the ground then begins to walk away.
"You're going to lose." Coulson tells him, he stops and turns around and looks at him.
"I might." he tells him.
"It's in your nature." Coulson tells him.
"With heroes scattered, your floating fortress sent to crash. Where is my disadvantage?" Loki asks him.
"Your lack conviction." Coulson answers him.
Loki asks him again but Coulson pulls the trigger, firing at him. He gets launched across the room.
He got up slowly and then he started running to the S.H.E.I.L.D craft.
Sonya ran along the walkway, then saw an arrow flying at her, she pulls up her gauntlet and repels the incoming arrow.
It bounces off the metal and lands on the ground, she then ran straight ahead and saw Clint and Natasha fighting.
She then ran at him and jumps onto his back, "Sonya!" Natasha yells.
Clint stumbles back then grabs Sonya by her hair and pulls her right off his back, she lands on her feet and grips his bow arm.
Sonya snatches the bow out of his hands and pull it onto her back. He then pulls out his knife, but Sonya tosses the knife to the side and left him defenseless.
He then went at her, Sonya tosses the bow to Natasha and kicks him hard in the head. He stumbles and lands on his ass, then pulls himself onto his knees, looking at the two.
"Natasha, Sonya?" he asks them, then Sonya right hooks him in the face, knocking him out cold.
"You think, he'll come around?" Natasha asks her, propping the bow on her shoulder as she stood next to the blonde agent.
"He better or else I'll hit him even harder." Sonya promises, Natasha giggles and pulls the bow over her shoulder and they drag Clint back to a medical room.
Natasha and Sonya sat in the medical room, Clint was strap into the bed shaking his head, trying to fight off Loki's control.
"Clint... you're going to be alright." Natasha tell him.
"You know that? Is that what you know?" he questions her. "I got no window, I got to flush him out." Clint states.
Sonya sat down next to him and place her hand on his, giving him support. He looks into her eyes, "You'll be alright." she tells him.
"You got to level out, it's going to take time." Natasha states, pouring a cup of water.
"You don't understand. . . Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Pull you out , stuff something else in." he asks the two. Sonya sighs as Natasha looks at him.
"You know what it's like to be unmade." he said.
Sonya nods, "You know we do. . . But remember I'm the telepath." she mumbles.
"But you don't go into people's minds without permission. Only enemy's."
He pants, "Why am I back, how did you get him out?" he asks.
"I could of easily pushed him out, but not without doing damage though, so I improvised." she tells her and Natasha handed her a cup, Sonya accepted and drank the cold water.
"How?" Clint asks her.
Sonya looks over at Natasha. "She hit you on the head pretty hard." she answers and Sonya place the cup to the side.
"N wonder my head hurts… but Thank you." Clint states, Sonya smiles and nods at him, then works on the restrains. "Sonya... how many agents. . ." he starts.
"Don't. Don't do that to yourself Clint." she shuts him off. "This is Loki we're talking about here. This is monsters and magic, nothing you were trained for. I couldn't train you for this" she tells him, then works on the other restrain.
"Loki? he get away?" he asks her, she nods at him.
"Don't suppose you know where." she asks of him.
"I didn't need to know, I didn't ask." he informs them, Natasha walks over to the window as Sonya stood up and took her cup of water, then poured him a cup and handed it to him.
"He's going to make his play soon through, today." he said and takes the cup.
Natasha then turns to them. "We have to stop him." she tells them.
"Yeah. Who's we?" he asks her.
"Who Evers left and willing to fight, that might be quite a few right now." Sonya states.
"Well. . . if I put an arrow through Loki's eye socket, I can sleep better, I suppose." he states.
Sonya smirks, setting her cup down and sat down next to him. Natasha sat in the chair. "Now you sound like you." she states.
"Yeah, but you two don't." he states, Sonya swallows. "Natasha is a spy, you're a super agent, not soldiers. And now you two want to walk into a war, why?" he asks them.
Sonya sighs and looks down at her hands. "What did Loki do to you?" he asks his friends.
"Loki didn't do a thing to me, it's just. . ." she remembers Bucky's hand slipping through Steve's and he plummeted to his snowy grave. A memory she had gotten from Steve.
"Natasha and I are compromised. My hands are dirty and I want to wipe them clean." Sonya tells him.
He nods and looks at Natasha, "I want to get rid of my ledger, wipe it clean." she answers him.
Clint looks back at Sonya seeing her hands shaking a little bit, then he grips her hand tightly.
After a half an hour the door to the room slides open, Natasha and Sonya look over and saw Steve standing there. "Time to go." he states.
"Go where?" Natasha asks him.
"I'll tell you on the way, can you fly one of those jets?" he asked.
Then the rest room door opens, Clint steps out of the room drying off his hands, "I can." he answers.
Steve looks at him then back at Sonya and Natasha, they both nod at him saying he was alright. Steve then looks back at Clint, "You got a suit?" he asks the archer.
"Yeah." Clint answers.
"Then suit up." Steve said and walks away.
Sonya looks at the two assassins, they nod at her and they all walk out of the bathroom.
Sonya pulls on a belt with guns and ammo; Clint suited up, placing his quiver of arrows on his back; Natasha checks her tazers in her suit and Steve pulls his shield on his arm and pulls on his mask.
The four them walk along the hangar and onto a Qin-jet, an engineer walks up to the.
"Hey you're not authorized to be in here." he tells them.
"Son, just don't." Steve shuts him down. He nods and walks off the Qin-jet, then Clint walks over the the controls and started up the Qin-jet. The back then closes and they took off.
Fury watches from the control bridge as Tony flew off in his Iron suit and the others followed him. "Sir." Hill walks up to him, "Agent Hill." he said shuffling the cards of Steve and Sonya. "Those cards. . . they were in Coulson's locker, not in his jacket." she states. Fury just sighs. "They needed the push."
Until next chapter...
