Clint ascended the stairs which held the tesseract. "Bring her back!" He yelled at Selvig. "What was that?" Clint couldn't find it in himself to calm down.

"I don't know some sort of anomaly, in all that time you never felt as though you were being sucked into the field?" He asked with wonder.

"No, but we have to bring her back now! Can't you replicate the conditions and either send someone else through or bring her back."

Selvig looked over the data. "No of course not, these sorts of reading are unimaginable and unrepeatable. We have just witnessed the greatest evolution of physics in human history, to analysis every small sequence and then replicate them each would decades alone but to try to recreate an instance of that magnitude would be a life time of work. That girl may very well be the reason that our idea of science and its application explode. Even if we could somehow send someone through to retrieve her there is no guarantee that where she's gone is hospitable for humans or that the individual we send will actually end up in the same location."

"Then I would suggest you start, because that girl is almost a daughter to Nick Fury and had irreplaceable talents not to mention only being nineteen. Is the back of science going to be built upon a dead girl's corpse?" Clint stormed out as he did putting in his ear piece. "Hill we have a problem."

"What sort of problem?"

"Agent Viper Carter is missing in action and presumed dead."

"Where could you have lost her?"

"Inside the tesseract. Hill, what do we do? I am not going to tell Fury that we have misplaced her."

"No, that wouldn't be wise. Fury is not scheduled to inspect it for a few weeks until then we can hold off contact between the two while you try to get her back."

"Copy that Hill."

Viper didn't stop to think she found a good footing and began to launch into attack; SHIELD had been useful for honing skills in street fighting and basic martial arts. Viper held her blade in front of her face and began to slash out left right and centre, the squeals from the things which she cut were deafening but she had to keep going. Viper tumbled along the ground preferring to keep low as she took out their ankles and legs anything which clear them away. One of them caught Viper by the leg and hoisted her into air, Viper cut its arm and as she fell back down to the ground, she noticed a figure standing across from her. He looked human enough with his longish black hair and medieval get up.

Viper found her feet, still clutching her knife in her hand. "You've come a long way now haven't you?" The man said as he stepped closer, Viper held her ground she could tell by the way he held himself that he wasn't all that he seemed. There was a grace to the predatory way in which he approached. "I am Loki…"

"The god of mischief." Viper finished without thinking about it, she could feel something was strange with him. "If you're from Asgard where exactly are we, because this is definitely not it." She said as she took in landscape which surrounded them it was rocky and crumbling.

Loki took another step toward her. "Tell me how this couldn't possibly be Asgard. What would an insignificant little ant like you know about a realm which has become fiction to your people?"

Viper watched his feet before looking him right in the eye. "I know what anyone with a basic knowledge of Norse mythology knows, that Asgard is the realm of the gods connected to all the other realms by the bifrost, the rainbow bridge. It is a city of legend, not a wasteland."

Loki smiled. "While it has been lovely chatting to you, I have more important things to do mortal." He raised the spear which he'd concealed behind his cloak and as he did Viper turned launching her knife behind her as she watched it grazed the cheek of the real Loki while the other one the one she'd been talking to, faded to nothing. "How?" He mouthed wiping the blood from his cheek as he held her knife.

Viper smirked. "I may be mortal by my eyes are open wider than most, your little tricks won't work on me. That was just energy manipulated to look like a person, an impressive trick."

The real Loki brought himself face to face with Viper. He stared at her golden brown eyes, how they went with her long brown hair that ran in kinks down to the middle on her back. She didn't seem at all extraordinary. "Bring her." He called as two Chitauri seized one arm each, following behind as they escorted Viper away. "Do you have a name mortal?"

"It's Viper." Viper began to smile to herself. Like shooting fish in a barrel, she thought as she went with them. They brought her to what would be described as a modest fortress far below what she would expect from a god. Viper settled into her little cell she was given it was a room with four walls, a bed and a single chair. For lack of anything better to do Viper paced, she tried to figure out how exactly she was going to get out of here she didn't have much to go back to but she wasn't be saddled with this for the rest of her life.

Hours passed, Viper sat on the ground taking inventory of her possessions everything she had on her had made the jump through the tesseract as useless as some of it was she had her phone which had no reception, her grandmother's jacket which she'd been wearing, the single photo of her grandmother she always kept on her it was one of the few things to remind Viper of her, as she handled the photo with care since it was from the second world war, she stared at it as she so often had since her grandmother died, people said they looked alike but Viper knew the differences so well their hair was the same colour and they had a similar facial structure but it was all in the eyes that you could tell the two of them were completely different people. There were also the keys to Viper's apartment, twenty bucks, a stick of gum and the two remaining knives she had on her. As the door began to open Viper scrambled to hide the photo it was the most important thing she had. She looked up from the ground in her t-shirt and jeans to watch Loki enter with a plate of food.

"You mortal's need to be fed regularly as I understand it." He sneered sitting in the chair placing the food on the ground at his feet. "Now you and I are going to talk."