Hey, so here's another chapter and this one is hopefully a lot better and has a bit of angst and other shizzle in there, so enjoy!

Chapter 10

"Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm lost now." Amy said to herself, as she wandered the Helicarrier absentmindedly. She was originally headed towards the room that her and Thor were in before but had somehow took a wrong turn and got lost.
She saw the door of something open ajar and walked slowly towards it but stopped when she heard voices.
"I won't touch Barton, not until I make him kill you." Loki's threatening voice said, as Amy slowly snuck closer, listening intently. "Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear, and then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work and when he screams I'll split his skull. This is my bargain you mewling quim!" Loki hissed and Amy heard a small whimper; it took a second for her to realise that it was her.
"You're a monster." Someone said and Amy realised with a jolt that it was Natasha.
"Oh no, you brought the monster." Loki said.
"So, Banner, that's your play?" Natasha asked, suddenly perfectly calm.
"What?" Loki asked, bewildered and Amy smirked, imagining the look of confusion on his face.
"Loki means to unleash the Hulk, keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way, send Thor as well." Natasha said, presumably into her earpiece and she stopped just outside the door, nodding at Loki.
"Thank you, for your cooperation." She said, before turning and walking away, ignoring Amy completely.
"Mortal, I know you are there." Loki called and Amy froze, terror filling her.
"No I'm not." She whimpered and she could just imagine the God rolling his eyes.
"You clearly are, now show yourself to me!" He snapped and Amy timidly walked into the room, her head down, refusing to look at him, frightened of his harsh and cold glare.
"What power do you have, mortal?" He asked and Amy swallowed.
"Element control." Amy said quietly and Loki grinned.
"You could be of use to me. How do you fancy joining me?" Loki asked, a malicious glint in his green-blue eyes and Amy raised her eyebrows.
"Me? Join… you?" She asked sceptically and Loki shrugged.
"Well, yes." He answered and she snorted.
"Yeah, right. Because I'd really betray my friends to join a man who wants to enslave my race… Sounds legit… NOT!" Amy screamed at the God, and his eyes narrowed, eyes growing dark.
"I will make you join me, mortal, and I will make you kill each and every one of your friends. Do not think I won't." He threatened and Amy whimpered, running out of the room and back towards the lab and she ran in, panting, tears streaming down her face. Everyone turned to her and Harriett ran forward, encasing her youngest friend in a comforting hug, stroking her hair gently, as Tony, Bruce and Grace looked on. Grace walked closer and placed a hand on Amy's shoulder as she pulled away from Harriett and wiped her eyes.
"Amy, what happened?" Harriett asked quietly but she shook her head, determined not to tell, and Harriett put an arm around her comfortingly.
Fury entered at that moment and Harriett realised with a jolt that the Helicarrier was soon going to explode.
"What are you doing Mr Stark?" Fury asked and the two elder brunettes exchanged a look.
"Err, kind of been wondering the same about you." Tony retorted, casually leaning against the table, fidgeting with a control and something on the screen.
"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract." Fury snapped.
"We are. The model's locked and we're searching for the signature now." Bruce said. "When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile." Grace explained calmly, pointing to a computer in the far room.
"Yeah, then you get your Cube back: no muss, no fuss. What is Phase 2?" Tony asked curiously not even bothering to look at Fury.
A loud bang made them all turn around to look at Steve, as he slammed a weird type of gun down onto the table.
"Phase 2 is S.H.I.E.L.D uses the Cube to make weapons. Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for me." Steve snapped.
"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract, this does not mean that we're making-" Fury began, trying to cover up his tracks but Tony interrupted him.
"I'm sorry Nick: what were you lying?" Tony asked, showing Fury the blueprints for what looked like a bomb, probably.
"I was wrong Director, the world hasn't changed a bit." Steve retorted, as Natasha entered the room.
"Did you know about this?" Bruce asked the red-head.
"You want to think about removing yourself from this environment, Doctor?" She asked.
"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed."
"Loki is manipulating you."
"And you've been doing what exactly?"
"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."
"Yes, and I'm not leaving because all of a sudden you get a little twitchy. I want to know, why S.H.I.E.L.D is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction." Bruce snapped, pointing at the screen and Fury paused before answering.
"Because of him." He said, pointing at Thor, who looked back, confused.
"Me?" He asked, blinking.
"Last year Earth had a visitor from another planet who's grudge match levelled a small town – we learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned." Fury explained.
"My people want nothing but peace with your planet." Thor snapped.
"But you're not the only people out there, are you?" Fury retorted. "And, you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people that can't be matched… That can't be controlled."
"Like you controlled the Cube?" Steve answered sarcastically.
"Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is a signal to all the realms that the Earth is ready for a higher form of war." Thor boomed and Steve frowned.
"A higher form?" He questioned, as Tony caught on.
"A nuclear deterrent. Cause that always clears everything up."
"Remind me again how you made your fortune Stark." Fury snapped dryly.
"I'm sure if he still made weapons Stark would be neck deep-" Steve began and Grace's jaw clenched as Tony interrupted him.
"Hang on, how is this now about me?" Tony asked and Steve turned to him.
"Oh I'm sorry, isn't everything?"
"Steve, that's enough." Grace cut in, moving to stand next to Tony but Steve swiftly rounded on her.
"Stay out of this kid, this is nothing to do with you." He snapped.
"Hey, don't talk to her like that!" Harriett snapped, as Amy moved away from everyone, putting her hands over her ears, as Harriett went to stand by Grace.
"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor started but Fury turned to him indignantly.
"Excuse me, do we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Fury asked.
"You treat your champions with such mistrust."
"They're not my champions!"
"Are you boys really that naïve? S.H.I.E.L.D monitors potential threats." Natasha said and Bruce raised an eyebrow.
"And Captain America's on threat watch?"
"We all are." Natasha said and Tony cocked his head to the side.
"Wait a minute, you're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?" He asked.
"Stark, so help me god, you make one more wise crack…" Steve threatened but Tony put his hands up in the air.
"Verbal threat! I feel threatened!" Tony said.
"Show some respect."
"Respect what?"
The argument went on and on and the three girls couldn't stand it anymore.
"Yeah, big man in a suit of armour… Take that off, what are you?" Steve asked and Amy raised an eyebrow.
"Kind of like everyone else… Naked." She said sarcastically, rolling her eyes and Harriett grinned, while everyone else ignored her.
"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Tony answered easily, smirking.
"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you… And I've seen the footage. The only thing you fight for is yourself – you're not the guy to make the sacrifice play. To lay down on a wire, and let the other guy crawl over you."
"I think I would just cut the wire." Tony said and Steve grinned.
"Always a way out. You know you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero." Steve snapped and Tony raised his eyebrows.
"A hero? Like you? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle." Tony snapped and Harriett stepped in between them, forcing them apart as best she could.
"That's enough, both of you." She snapped as Thor chuckled.
"You people are so petty… And tiny…"
"Yeah this is a team." Bruce said sarcastically.
"Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his-" Fury began but Bruce cut him off.
"Where? You rented my room." He gestured, meaning Loki.
"The cell was just in case-"
"In case you needed to kill me, but you can't, I know I tried." Bruce snapped and everyone looked at him, surprised, apart from Harriett and Grace. "I got low, I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on, I focused on helping other people, I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk. You want to know my secret Agent Romanoff, you want to know how I stay calm?" He asked, grinning madly; Natasha and Fury both went to their belts, for their pistols and Grace walked over to Bruce, putting a hand gently on his arm.
"Bruce, put down the Sceptre." She said gently and he looked down, surprised to see Loki's sceptre in his hand. He looked around, at everyone's faces, and he put the Sceptre down quickly as a loud beeping filled the air, coming from the computer on the other side of the room.
"Sorry kids, you don't get to see my party trick after all." He muttered, walking towards the computer.
"You located the Tesseract?" Thor asked.
"I can get there fastest." Tony said, heading for the door.
"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it." Thor boomed.
"You're not going alone!" Steve snapped, grabbing Tony's arm.
"You going to stop me?"
"Put on the suit, let's find out."
"Guys, just stop arguing!" Amy yelled desperately, over all the noise, as Bruce muttered "oh my god…"
And then the Helicarrier exploded…