I'm here! Sorry I'm late! I say that every time, don't I? Umm...I have no excuse. I didn't have it edited. Or concluded. Yeah...Thanks to everyone who reviewed/followed the last chapter! I give you virtual carrot cake with little orange icing carrots on top!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Avengers. Or Loki. Or SHIELD, or Cadbury creme eggs, or Walgreens, or any other vague references that I make.

"Banner's hulking out?" Steve can practically feel those evil green blob things having a party in his skull. After this was over, he is definitely going to take a long vacation. A very long vacation. Preferably on the moon.

"Yes. He heard the screaming all the way from his room. You know he doesn't like high-pitched noises."

Loki stops screaming for a moment to make an indignant noise, and then looks at Steve and continues to scream.

"Bring him in here." says Tony.

"What?" Everyone in the room looks at Tony like he had just suggested giving Loki a unicorn.

"Either he's going to a. hulk out and kill whatever's making him angry – in this case, the two Asgardian gods who are, by the way, immortal, or b. not hulk out, and fix this whole thing."

"He makes a good point there, Agent." Fury concedes.

"Your call." Natasha walks out of the room. Tony is a little freaked out by the fact that her face didn't change at all from the time that she walked in to when she left.

Steve has been nursing a tiny suspicious feeling ever since Natasha came in the room. He decides to keep the fact that Banner's room is soundproof to himself, at least until Bruce arrives.

"I believe my presence was requested." Bruce walks in. The green vein pulsing in his forehead is painfully visible to everyone in the room. "Let's get this over with."

Everyone is silent, excepting the gods, who are otherwise occupied.

"Steve volunteered to monitor Loki, but as soon as Loki woke up and saw him, he started screaming his lungs out. Then Thor the overprotective stormed in here with his hammer, and started screaming too. I have no idea what caused it, and my ears are really really really starting to hurt." Tony talks ridiculously fast.

Bruce is trying so, so hard not to laugh, and is failing miserably.

"What? Is there coffee on my shirt?" Tony looks down at his shirt. Bruce is still in hysterics. Natasha's face is horrifically calm.

"Tony, look at Steve's lap." she says, her mouth twitching just a little teeny itty bit. She's definitely not smiling. No. The Black Widow doesn't smile.

"What? The cat? Mr. Fluffypants? Steve insisted." Steve is slowly realizing what is going on.

"Banner," he says, rather menacingly. "I knew it was you."

Tony looks between Bruce, Steve, and Mr. Fluffypants until his brain finally catches up.

"Romanoff! You were in on it all along?!" Natasha is laughing so hard she can't respond.

"Yes, she was, Tony." Bruce answers. Fury is completely lost.

"Excuse me, folks. Can you please clarify the situation for the non-geniuses around here?"

Tony, still fuming, explains what is going on to Fury. However, because of Tony's currently unstable emotional state, all Fury can hear is, "grrLoki'n'ThormmphSteve!grrwhoorderedgrragrrliong rrfromagrronlinecatalogue!andthengrrblackoutgrrtra itoroohBanner!atepieandgrrreadgrrVogue."

Fury turns to Captain America.

"Captain?"

"After the briefing, Director Fury, sir, I had a bad migraine, so Banner told me that I should volunteer to watch Loki, because Loki was sleeping and so it would be nice and quiet and then he also asked me to take care of his cat, sir."

"When did Banner get a cat?"

"After Tony ate the last piece of cake."

"Ah." Fury nods and smiles, mentally making a list of psychologists that could deal with an angry superhero. "I see."

"It was a very innocent request, sir, you see? So I said yes, and I went to watch Loki. And then-"

"Ooh ooh ooh! Can I do this part?" Bruce is jumping up and down, quite out of character.

"But I wanna-"-Steve is about to refuse, but Natasha's Glare© (find it in locations near you!) scares him off. Fury nods towards Bruce.

"Continue, Banner."

"So, I, like, told Loki and Thor that cats are, like, the supreme overlords of Earth, and they, like, totally believed me! And then I, like, told them that if a cat, like, looked at them, they were, like, so dead, and they were all, like, "We're immortal." and I said that it didn't matter if they were, like the Doctor, or something, the cat could still, like kill them, so now they're scared of cats! But little kitties are so cute!"

"Hill, I hope you got that."

"Don't worry, Director Fury. I'm well trained in deciphering code. We'll get whoever was behind this."

They walk out of the room.

"But what about the screaming?" Clint is so lost right now, he doesn't even have words to describe it. Tony gets up and picks the cat up off of Steve's lap and walks out of the room.

The screaming stops. Thor and Loki sit cross-legged on the floor, eyes as wide as Steve's kicked-puppy look.

"Can we have some ice-cream, please?" Thor asks.

"And maybe some hot chocolate, or coffee, if you don't mind." Loki adds.

Clint climbs into the vents. He is going to go do something very, very, normal, thank you very much. A good two hours of Caillou should cheer him up.

Natasha and Steve look at each other. With surprisingly similar long-suffering sighs, the two walk out of the room.

"What about my ice-cream?"

"And my hot-chocolate?"

The door locks shut.

"What do you think happened to Banner?" Steve asks, quite composed after the events of the past two hours.

"Coffee. And some carrot cake. And quite a few Cadbury creme eggs." Natasha replies.

Steve's jaw drops, but he covers it up efficiently.

"Can I get some at Walgreens?"

"Yup."

Natasha wonders if the next SHIELD crisis should be bunny-related. Captain America and bunnies. Yes...and more Cadbury eggs.

Don't look at me like that. I like Cadbury creme eggs. You can't blame me. I'm not sure what the next chappie will be. I'll take prompts! I have absolutely nothing planned. Review! Prompts fit very nicely inside reviews!

This is the tenth chapter! Aaaaah! Yes, me and my loyal imaginary condominiums have worked hard to bring you this tenth chapter of The Mission! Oh, yeah! I bet you didn't notice. Or you noticed and thought that I didn't care, or that I forgot. But no! Mwahaha! :)