The Helicarrier was amazing for what little I'd seen of it. I'd already been introduced to Bruce Banner and Natasha Romanoff known as the hulk and black widow respectively. Right now after giving Nick his ten dollars as he was right. But now as I waited for some semblance of news Phil was telling me about his trading cards. I was touched that he was a collector and indeed wanted to sign them.
"I mean, if it's not too much trouble." He asked.
"No, no. It's fine. I'd love too it's not often I meet a collector." I replied making him very happy.
"It's a vintage set. It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint, slight foxing around the edges, but..."He was cut off by an agent finding Loki's coordinates.
"We got a hit. Sixty-seven percent match. Weight, cross match, seventy-nine percent."The agent said.
"Location?"Phil asked.
"Stuttgart, Germany. 28, Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding."
"Captain, you're up." Fury said and I nodded leaving to go to my room where my new uniform was waiting for me. One thing hadn't changed and that was my shield. It felt right to have it in my hands again. Suiting up I headed for the jet where agent Romanoff was waiting.
"Looking good Rogers." She smirked.
"I just hope that I'm the girl for this." I replied. Getting closer to the location I was dropped from the plane blocking an old man from a laser from Loki's scepter. No one was dying today. "You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." I growled helping the old man up.
"Thank you." He rasped and I nodded as Loki kept speaking.
"The soldier. A woman out of time." Loki snarled but I could take him.
"I'm not the one who's out of time." I replied as Natasha flew down with the jet pointing her guns at him.
"Loki, we have you surrounded drop the weapon and stand down." She said over the comm. He wasn't going down without a fight. We began to tussle and I used my knowledge of boxing to my best ability. I tried to hit him but he pinned me down.
"Kneel." He commanded to me but I would never kneel to such a tyrant.
"Not today!"I growled and knocked him back. I was terribly outgunned as a rock song came up over Natasha's speakers. The Iron Man, Howard's son flew down shooting Loki and knocking him over.
"Make your move Reindeer Games." He said and Loki surrendered. This seemed way too easy. "Good move."
"Stark." I said acknowledging him.
"Captain, a pleasure to meet a matured woman like yourself."He said most likely flirting and referring to my age at the same time. We got into the jet. Something still didn't feel right.
"I don't like it." I told Tony.
"What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?"He asked
"I don't remember it being ever that easy. This guy packs a wallop."
"Still, you are pretty spry, for an older gal. What's your thing sweetheart? Yoga?"I was getting tired of his comments but had heard of yoga it was something the therapist from SHIELD suggested I do to relieve my stress.
"Yes actually It relieves the stress from being frozen for seventy years."
"I would imagine you'd be stressed. You might have missed a couple things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle." Tony was cocky like Bucky if I wasn't still in love with Bucky I would take a chance but I couldn't and I wouldn't.
"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in." I replied.
"Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you doll." Thunder and lightning roared around us and Loki seemed tense.
"What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?" I smirked.
"I'm not overly fond of what follows." He replied and suddenly something landed on the jet. Scratch that someone as the back door opened a man walked in and grabbed Loki before jumping out.
"Now there's that guy." Tony growled putting his helmet on.
"Another Asgardian?"Natasha asked.
"Think the guy's a friendly?"I asked.
"Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost." Tony said getting ready to also jump from the jet.
"Stark, we need a plan of attack!"I shouted among the rain and wind.
"I have a plan. Attack." He said and jumped out. I had to go after them. I quickly put on a parachute.
"I'd sit this one out, Cap." Natasha told me.
"I don't see how I can." I replied.
"These guys come from legends, they're basically gods."
"You think I don't know that?" I said and jumped out meeting the god and Tony. I quickly threw my shield to diffuse the situation. "Hey! That's enough!" I said jumping off of the fallen tree. "Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here."
"I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes!"The strange man shouted.
"Then prove it! Put the hammer down." I growled. I had nothing to lose and this guy was going to ruin everything.
"Um, yeah, no! Bad call! He loves his hammer!"Tony shouted and I was shocked as the god smacked Tony with the hammer knocking him back.
"You want me to put the hammer down?"He shouted and ran towards me before jumping he was going to hit me! I quickly raised my shield and the shockwave that he brought down was crazy knocking down many of the trees. Finally he realized that we meant no harm that we were both on the same side.
"Are we done here?" I asked and they both agreed grabbing Loki and heading back to the jet. For my first time out on a mission since I woke up I Was definitely in for it. The only thing I wanted to do now was sleep and that sure as hell wasn't going to happen with these people or gods or whatever around.