Kayla woke up sitting upright on an armchair, a very comfortable one at that. Her vision blurred at first, she took in her surroundings. A lot of furniture and modern art on the walls and then a large bar full of alcohol. She then realised where she was, as there was one man who would have that much alcohol in one room.

"Stark place, great" Kayla muttered to herself. She then looked to see a figure with shiny, slick black hair staring out the widows. Definitely Loki. Kayla went to stand up but felt dizzy, holding onto the arms of the chair for support. Loki turned around to see her getting up and rushed over to her.

"Slowly my dear" He said putting her back in the chair

"Don't give me pet names" Kayla snapped "Why?"

Loki gave her a confused look "Why?"

"Why am I here? Why did you take me?" Kayla then looked at herself to see she was fully armed and in her catsuit that she wore when on missions "And how did you arm me and and change my uniform? That's never a good idea"

Loki smiled "You're very much like the female warriors back on Asgard, so full of fire and fight" he tucked a strand of hair behind her ear "And to answer your questions I want you to join me and Agent Barton gave me the code to your locker in the armoury"

"I would never joined you" Kayla spat

"Think about it. We would be unstoppable, your powers, you're the only one who has ever been able to burn me. It takes great power to do that" Loki said "And because once I take over the world, you will be my beautiful queen"

Kayla let out a small laugh, though it was humourless "You murdered one of the only people who ever gave a shit about me, the only great father figure I'd ever had and you want me to join you?" she scoffed "You're crazier than I thought"

"Oh Katya" Kayla flinched at the use of her old name "Maybe you'll need some persuasion" Loki drawled

"It seems the people you care about seem to always die in your name" Loki grinned "Your mother and now your father 'figure', maybe Agent Barton will end up killing Agent Romanoff and then I'll snap his skull in half..."

"I'm pretty sure Natasha has literally knocked sense back into Clint by now" Kayla shot at the god

Loki then pointed with his scepter at her "You're right. Maybe I'll have to drag some more people into this. Melinda May or The Calvary as your agency call her, how is she?"

"You leave her out of this" Kayla growled quietly

Loki leaned in, putting his hands on the arms of the chair. Now he was face to face with Kayla "Oh so much red in your ledger. Agent Barton told me everything he knows about you too, Agent Clark. The Red Room, Bosnia, Ukraine, Sao Paulo. Like your 'sister' your ledger is gushing red but you will never be able to wipe it out! How many more will die in your name? Maybe I'll take control of you and force you to kill them all and then when you wake up from the trance, you will have their dead bodies lying in front of you and you will have to live with that for the rest of your life!"

Kayla chocked at the thought "Now wonder Odin loved Thor more than you. You're a homicidal maniac"

Loki grinned before kissing her roughly on the lips "You're very creative with your words but you will join me" He walked out onto the platform

Kayla sank in her seat before muttering "Someone better get me soon or I'm jumping off the balcony"

-Meanwhile on the Helicarrier-

Fury walked to the Conference Table looking grumpy as ever where Tony and Steve were sitting. Tony was in a Black Sabbath shirt and jeans and Steve was in a blue long sleeved fitted shirt with black cargo pants.

"Paramedics just called it" He announced "We're dead up in the air here. Lost Banner, Thor, the cube and my one good eye" he chuckled slightly to himself and muttered "Maybe I had that coming"

"Sir, where is Kay- Agent Clark?" Steve asked fearing Loki had killed her

Fury looked up "That bastard Loki decided to take her" Steve breathed in harshly. Sure maybe they weren't quite friends, he didn't know what they were but she treated him like Steve Rogers, not Captain America.

Fury threw a stack of blood covered Captain America trading cards onto the table "These were in his pocket, guess he never did get you to sign them" Steve picked one up looking at it in sorrow whereas Tony stayed quiet

"Yes,we were going to use the cube to create arsenal but we had an even more dangerous idea" Fury began "To bring together a group of remarkable people, they would fight the battles we never could. Stark will know this, we called it The Avengers Initiative, they would be heroes" Fury glanced at the cards on the table "Phil Coulson died believing in the idea of heroes"

Tony, deciding he'd had enough, got up from his seat and walked out. "It's an old fashioned notion" Fury said before walking away

Steve followed Tony to where Loki's cell had previously been and saw him staring at the bloodstained wall the paramedics hadn't cleaned up

"Was he married?" Steve asked quietly. Tony shrugged

"He mentioned a cellist, I'm not sure"

"He seemed like a good man"

"He was an idiot" Tony stated stiffly

Steve looked confused "For believing?"

"For taking on Loki on his own, he should've waited.." Tony trailed off

"Sometimes there isn't a way out" Steve argued

"Yeah" Tony scoffed "I've heard that one before"

"Is this the first time you've lost a soldier?" Steve asked

"We are not a soldiers!" Tony snapped "I am not marching to Fury's fife!"

"Neither am I" Steve protested "But right now he's got the same blood on his hands that Loki does, so we need to put our heads together..."

"He made this personal" Tony said

"That's not the point" Steve said

"No, that's exactly the point" Tony looked at the wall "Killing Agent, taking Kayla, he hit us where we all live, why?"

"To tear us apart" Steve answered "Distract us"

"Yeah but he likes to put on a show" Tony said

"Right, I caught his act in Stuggart" Steve said

"No, that was just opening night" Tony explained walking towards the captain "Loki, he's a full tilt diva, he wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the skies with his name plastered..." Tony realised something

"Son of a bitch" Tony said walking away

"What Stark?" Steve called after him

Tony stopped and turned around"I know where he's going, get Romanoff and Barton in medbay and get a jet!"

Steve grabbed his Captain America suit and made his way to the infirmary, making a beeline to Agent Barton's room. He opened the door to see Natasha standing

"Cap, where's Kayla?" Natasha asked

"Loki took her" Natasha's face darkened "Does anyone know how to fly those jets?"

"I can" a voice said and out of the bathroom came Hawkeye wiping his hands on a towel "And what's this I hear that Loki's got Kayla?"

Steve looked at Natasha in uncertainty but she nodded signalling that he was okay "You got suits?" He asked the pair

"Yeah" Clint answered

"Suit up"

The three left the infirmary to go to the armoury to collect any weapons they might need. Hawkeye got his bow and assortment of arrows and arrowheads, Natasha getting her Widows Bite, guns and knives when she noticed the case next to hers was empty.

"Guys" she called to Steve and Clint who turned to her when she finished changing "Phoenix's suit and weapons are gone"

Clint looked down in guilt and cursed to himself "shit, shit, shit"

"Clint?" Natasha asked

"Before we left for Stuggart he asked me to tell him everything I knew about you two which is practically everything and then asked me for the codes for Kayla's armoury" Clint breathed in "I'm sorry for compromising you guys"

Steve looked uncertainly again at the Black Widow but looked away when she shot him a threating look before hitting Hawkeye upside the head

"Oww!" Clint cried "I said I was sorry"

Natasha smirked "I know, it's just I haven't done that in over 24 hours and I needed to. Let's go"

The trio, made their way to a quinjet, where they were stopped by an pilot.

"Excuse me but you can't be in here" He said tying to be intimidating

"Son" Steve began in his Captain America voice "Just don't" the pilot scurried off when he saw the looks Natasha and Clint were shooting him

"I'm pretty sure he just crapped his pants" Clit smirked getting in the pilot seat while Natasha was co piloting and Steve standing as the jet took off and Iron Man was flying by their side.

If Loki wanted war, that's exactly what he was gonna get.