"Like the Pharaohs of Old"
The strange thing that happened is that the Girl is wearing bracelets on each wrist and one of them is melting. The metal bracelet is forming drops of liquid metal and floating in the air on top of the Girl inside the energy bubble. Loki seems as surprised as I am, "what is happening?" He said with his attention still entirely focused on what is going on inside the energy bubble. I'm starting to get worried about what this new development means. By this point, the drops of metal are accumulating together and forming a shape that looks like a Barbie doll made of metal with pointed ears instead of human ears.
As the doll took shape, Barton and the other Agent Loki brainwashed took out their guns and pointed then at the thing. "Aaah. I see. This must be one of the treasure's weapons. I heard that her protector likes to gift her with sentient weapons that can be hidden on her person. Lower your weapons gentleman. We don't want to spook our little friend." Loki said to Barton and the Agent. Both of them lowered their guns but didn't shelve them. The new piece of information did nothing to appease my worries. Even Loki is looking wary now.
The "weapon" in question has already finished taking shape and is floating in the air still inside the energy bubble. Based on her angry expression, I would say that it isn't happy to be awake now, which probably has more to do with Loki's insane expression and the wicked looking spear in his hand. I really can't blame her. Anyone with eyes can see that the man is up to no good. I would be pissed off too if I'm awoken from a nap by some evil psycho trying to brainwash the person I'm with, and the first thing I see when I open my eyes is said psycho pointing a very sharp, dangerous looking spear at me. I guess the fact that the rest of us don't look any friendly isn't helping to improve the little doll's mood.
The metal doll is doing what appears to be analyzing the situation and looking for threats by scanning with her eyes each person in the room for a moment before switching to the next person. She started with Loki and is going over each individual left in the space. After she had looked me over, she went back to watching Loki. My assessment of her actions appears to be right when she paused on each person with a weapon and seen to only spared a brief glance at Dr. Selvig, who is the only one in the room not armed. Loki seems to realize this as well because he lowered the spear, and relaxed his posture. The metal doll thing doesn't appear to be fooled by that because it looks like it has decided that Loki is the biggest threat in the room. She turned all her attention on him and is opting to ignore the rest of us.
After a moment, when the doll hasn't made any moves and has only continued to stare at Loki, he smiled again. "How interesting, I have never seen a weapon like this before. It seems to be completely sentient. However, it doesn't look like is going to attack unless someone makes a move against the living gem." Then, he turned his attention to me and said, "now about the Tesseract. I can't leave without it, and it looks like our little friend here isn't happy with us right now. We can avoid any unpleasant accidents if you cooperate and give me the suitcase before it decides that it wants to kill all of us. I'm sure that won't be much of a problem for me, but everyone else in this room isn't as resilient as me."
At that moment, I decided that I'm going to take my chances with the little doll weapon thing since it seems to be the only thing keeping Loki from using the magic spear to try to blast me and take the Tesseract. I know he was lying to me when he said he isn't worried about it if he is still trying to appear non-threatening. Even though I doubt that something as small as that can do much damage, Loki is wary of it, which meant that the little thing is probably very dangerous as to warrant that reaction from the Asgardian.
I opted to continue with my intention of stalling when I responded to him. "If you are not worried about the little thing then, why are you still not trying to take the Tesseract from me?"
Loki glared at me, raised his spear, and sent a blast with it at me. I was in the process of trying to dodge it when the doll appeared in front of me and stopped the blast from hitting me by creating the same type of energy bubble that is currently enveloping the Girl. Loki stared angrily at it with the spear still raised.
His angry face made me smile. "Well look at that. It looks like out of everyone in this room you are the only one the little doll doesn't like." I taunted him. Loki seems to turn even angrier at that.
"Sir. Director Fury is stalling. This place is bound to blow and drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us." Barton who up until that moment has been silent said to Loki.
"Like the Pharaohs of old," I said.
"He is right. The portal is collapsing in on itself. We got maybe two minutes before this goes critical." Doctor Selvig added looking at the little doll.
"Get the Tesseract while I deal with our little problem," Loki said. He then turned towards the Girl and was raising the spear to send a blast to her, when the little doll left my side and attacked him.