Nick Fury certainly wasn't the kind of man one said no to without good reason, so after checking to make sure Loki was still sleeping both Banner and Tony went to the garage to procure a car. Naturally as he was going to S.H.I.E.L.D. he chose the flashiest car he owned just to make sure they knew it was him coming before he even entered the building. Tony and Banner walked in through the door immersed in conversation and both stopped dead in their tracks as they looked up to see who was standing in the centre of the room. None other than Thor, the god of thunder, was standing in the centre of the room commanding everyone's attention simply by being there. As soon as they realised they both looked incredibly suspicious stood in the doorway for no reason they proceeded to try and act natural as they crossed the room to sit down. In any other situation it would have looked comical, the both of them trying to look natural as if they knew nothing; however it seemed an incredibly serious situation and not at all a time to be laughing. As Thor cleared his throat, rather loudly, everyone provided their full attention; he made sure everyone was listening intently before he started to speak.
"Loki has escaped." There was a small wave of murmuring across the room at this statement, although Tony and Banner remained silent not wanting to give any indication as to who was currently in Stark tower. Thor continued to speak,
"It is most likely that Loki will be forming a small army or gathering followers to seek out retribution for being caught. While at Asgard Loki continued in his awful ways, he was offered kind forgiveness from the Allfather but threw it back in his face which upset Odin deeply." Tony just could not understand how Thor was standing in front of everyone and lying about what had happened so easily, it wasn't just a little white lie it was the taking of the truth and distorting it so much it shattered. He felt his hands starting to ball into fists but luckily the voice of Banner distracted him as he questioned Thor,
"What makes you think Loki would be here? He has other places to go and he would be found here too easily."
"Well, Dr Banner, I am not too familiar with it but it seems that when Loki left some form of residual energy trail led us to Midgard." Tony started to panic at this, figuring they would be able to find Loki straight away though it appeared Banner also had the same idea.
"Well if you can trace him then where is he?"
"We could not find out exactly, nonetheless we know he is in the eastern part of this kingdom." Tony stood up slowly, with purposeful control and ignoring everyone else looked straight at Nick Fury,
"If this is the case then why are we here, because I am certainly not walking around streets looking for him."
"Well, you won't be walking around the streets but we need you and Dr Banner here to do your 'science' thing to see if you can trace this energy trail thing and Thor will be there to help."
"No offence, but how on earth can he help?"
"Don't worry, Thor won't be in the way, he will just be there to apprehend Loki when he is found." Tony made a mental note of the fact Fury had said when and not if, at the same time Banner noted the calculating look on Tony's face and cut in quickly,
"Yeah, sure. We will head off now and get started on designing a tracking program. Thor, just meet us at the tower." Banner took the top of Tony's arm in a light grip and steered him out of the room and straight to the car. The drive back over to the tower was incredibly tense, both men were frantically trying to think of a plan that first and foremost would not get them caught. As soon as they had pulled into the garage and exited the car Tony started to ramble in panic,
"We really cannot let them find him, they will hurt him again and I can't let that happen. But oh my god! What if they find him?! He will be hurt, and he won't be with me and he will be gone. What if he can't get away again?!" He let out a frustrated growl and ran his hand through is hair in annoyance.
"Listen Tony, we can easily design a program that will pretend to look for Loki and never find him. All we need to do is trace this energy and have it searching for him to make it seem real but JARVIS will stop the program from actually seeking him out."
"Ohh, why couldn't I think of that?" Tony pulled a face at Banner that could only be described as annoyed confusion.
"Maybe it is because at the moment you are slightly preoccupied?"
"Stop being so clever." Tony pouted like a child as he said this causing Banner to laugh and soon Tony had joined in, after they had both managed to stop laughing at each other they decided that maybe they should head up to the lab where Thor would be waiting. They both walked in at the same time to see Thor wasting space in the middle of the lab,
"Let me guess? You flew here."
"It was the most efficient way of travel, and I had no qualms about waiting in the lab for you man of iron."
"Okay I would like to refer your attention back to a point I have previously made, please do NOT call me man of iron, it sounds weird. Anyways, I don't know what you're going to do while we work."
"It is fine, I can simply wait." With that Thor located somewhere to sit and decided he was definitely not leaving that lab. Both Banner and Tony started to work on developing the program together, with what little they had to go on, lines and lines of computer code were flashing across the screen while JARVIS accessed equipment necessary for the location.
"I'm going to get some coffee, do either of you want anything?" Tony jumped at the chance of coffee while just Thor gave a noncommittal grunt which Banner took as a no.
"That should be finished soon Tony so finish the last few lines of code and set it off searching." Tony heard Banner discretely emphasize the word 'searching' as he left to acquire the coffee. While Tony was finishing the coding his mind would only let him think of the proximity of Thor to Loki and how all hell would break loose if he was found, he was also thinking how much he wanted to punch Thor in the face for lying to everyone like that. He refocused his attention back to the computer and pressed a few more keys before setting JARVIS to search, Banner re-entered the room holding the coffee when he saw Tony's jaw drop.
"What's wrong Tony?"
"I may have made an incredibly large mistake."
"What are you going on about?" Tony's panicked look turned to computer and at the same moment Banner realised what he had done the voice of JARVIS filled the room.
"Sir, Loki Laufeyson has been located."
