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Anyway, here is chapter 10 everybody.
Chapter 10: The Prophecy and Loki's Play.
The Quinjet that carried Steve, Tony, Natasha, Danny, Thor and their prisoner Loki arrived back at the Helicarrier. Upon landing, the five heroes were met by armed S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, who are waiting to escort Loki to his prison cell. Loki and the guards passed Doctor Banner's lab along the way. Loki looked at Bruce and smirked at him. Bruce didn't like the look at all. Meanwhile, Steve, Natasha, Thor, and Danny were making their way to the bridge when Steve broke the silence.
"Danny, back at Germany, Loki mentioned something about a legendary prophecy will not do you good. What did he mean by that?" Steve asked.
"I have no idea." Danny shrugged.
Danny didn't have a answer to that question. Thor, however, did.
"Ah yes. Back in Asgard, there is an ancient prophecy called the Phantom Prophecy. It talks about the tales of a young half draugr-half Midgardian warrior known as the Phantom. His glorious battles against the evil draugrs, mostly Ghost King Pariah Dark, is praised by my father Odin." Thor said cheerfully.
"Pariah Dark?" Steve asked.
"He's the King of all ghosts." Danny answered.
"He is one of the most powerful Midgardian draugrs ever known in existence. Many years ago, before my father and myself were born, he tried to invade Midgard and Valhalla, but was stop by the Asgardian Army and the Draugr Ancients. The Ancients overthrown Pariah out of power and locks him in the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep." Thor said, grimly.
"That's what happen here at Earth. He tried to invade my home, and the ghosts of the Ghost Zone ran in shelter here because he was on a war path. But, I defeat him, but with help of course." Danny said, but then he realized something what Thor just said. "Wait, what do you mean Midgardian draugr?"
"This Ghost Zone, as you call it, is not just here at Earth. It is connected to other worlds of the universe. In other words, it's the flipped side of the universe itself. At the Asgardian dimensional plane, one of the Nine Dimensional Planes in Paranormal Yggdrasil of the ghost dimension, Asgardian draugrs are very powerful. Asgard even has its own portal that access to the draugr world." Thor said.
This is shocking news to Danny as the realization hits him.
'If the Ghost Zone is the flipped side of the entire universe, that means there are more ghosts from the realms beyond the Ghost Zone. I wonder if any will try to come here?' Danny thought. "Let's hope none of these ghosts from those other realm areas of the Ghost Zone doesn't come here."
"You are very humble for a warrior." Thor said.
"Thanks." Danny said with a smile.
'In due time, Phantom, you'll know that the prophecy doesn't just talk about you, but your sister the She-Phantom as well.' Thor thought.
"I've read the reports about this ghost army invading Amity Park. I didn't know how bad it was until afterwards when S.H.I.E.L.D. send undercover agents to check the aftermath." Natasha said.
As they arrived at the bridge, they are met by Bruce and Maria Hill, who has informed them that Fury is about to interrogate Loki face-to-face. Everyone took their seats around a conference table to observe the interrogation.
"In case it's unclear, if you try to escape, you so much as scratch that glass." Fury said as he press a button, which cause the floor to open up beneath the cell. "It's 30,000 feet straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?" Fury press the button again and the floor closes. He gestures to Loki. "Ant." he then gestures the console. "Boot."
Loki chuckled and walks backwards before saying...
"It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me."
"Built for something a lot stronger than you." Fury commented, making Loki grinned even more.
"Oh, I've heard." Loki said before looking at the camera at one of the corners of the cell's ceiling. "A mindless beast. Makes play he's still a man. How desperate are you, that you call on such lost creatures to defend you?"
"How desperate am I?" Fury scowled as he walks toward the cell. "You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace, and you kill because it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did."
"Ooh. It burns you to have come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share. And then to be reminded what real power is." Loki said.
Fury has had enough listening to Loki. As he leaves, he says...
"Well, let me know if 'real power' wants a magazine or something."
Back at the bridge, the group of heroes finds themselves troubled by the interrogation.
"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Bruce said trying to lighten the mood.
"Please, he reminds me of some mad-men I've fought before." Danny said.
"Loki's gonna drag this out." Steve said cutting to the chase. "So, Thor, what's his play?"
"He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard, nor any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth, in return, I suspect, for the Tesseract." Thor answered.
"An army from outer space." Steve said in disbelief.
"Great, as if knowing ghosts are real and having to fight against them most of the time, now there's aliens too?" Danny said in disbelief.
Danny couldn't hardly believe it, but of course, he's is a half ghost hybird, working with a legend dressed as the American flag, a figure from Norse mythology, a guy that dresses like a gold and red robot and a dangerous assassin.
"So, he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Bruce said, which cause Thor to look at him at the mention of Selvig's name.
"Selvig?" Thor asked.
"He's an astrophysicist." Bruce explained.
"He's a friend." Thor clarified.
"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours." Natasha said.
"I want to know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here." Steve said.
"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You could smell crazy on him." Bruce said.
"Not to mention he's one seriously crazed-up fruitloop. I knew someone just like him." Danny said mentioning Vlad Masters, aka Vlad Plasmius, who was Danny's arch-enemy until last year, during the Dis-asteriod Incident, when he got banished in outer space after his ego got the best of him. He hasn't been seen or heard since.
Thor was taken back by Bruce's and Danny's comments.
"Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard. And he is my brother." Thor warned, which cause Natasha to frown.
"He killed 80 people in two days." Natasha said.
"He's adopted." Thor clarified.
"I think it's about the mechanics. Iridium... What do they need the iridium for?" Bruce asked.
Iridium is a rare element. It's found in meteorites and it forms anti-protons. It is very hard to get hold of. It is also the same element that Loki and Clint steal back at the gala in Germany.
"It's a stabilizing agent." Tony said suddenly walking in, saying something to Coulson. "It means the portal won't collapse on itself like it did at S.H.I.E.L.D.." Tony said before patting Thor's arm. "No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing." Tony then returns back to the subject at hand. "Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants. Raise the mizzenmast. Jib the topsails." Tony then pointed to an agent in the corner. "That man is playing Galaga. He thought we wouldn't notice, but we did." Tony said.
"Well Tin Can, my parents ghost portal has trouble keeping it on and open, so they use a device call the ecto-filtrator. It keeps the portal open by filtering out negative ecto-plasmic radiation, and if not, game over, just like the Tesseract's portal back at S.H.I.E.L.D.." Danny said with a smirked.
"See, even Casper knows what I'm talking about." Tony said, looked impressed, before walking to Fury's consoles and places his hand over his left eye. "How does Fury even see these?"
"He turns." Hill replied.
"Sounds exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. The only major component he still needs is a power source of high-energy density. Something to kick-start the Cube." Tony said before planting a small device underneath the console, which no one notices.
"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Hill asked.
"Last night." Tony replied. "The packet, Selvig's notes, the extraction theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?"
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asked.
"I hope not." Danny said. He was worried that Loki would go after his family, his friends, and the ghost tech. Hopefully, Dani will keep Amity Park safe. Danny is also getting bored since he feels like he's at one of Mr. Lancer's classes at school.
"He would have to heat the Cube to 120-million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Bruce said.
"Unless, Selvig has to figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Tony said.
"Well, if he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet." Bruce said.
"Finally, someone who speaks English." Tony commented.
"Is that what just happened?" Steve said looking at the others.
"I guess." Danny shrugged.
Tony and Bruce shook hands.
"It's good to meet you, Doctor Banner. Your work on antielectron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage-monster." Tony said.
"Thanks." Bruce said awkwardly before Fury walked in.
"Doctor Banner is only here to track the Cube. I was hoping you and Danny might join him." Fury said.
"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon." Steve said.
"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the Cube. And I would like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys." Fury said.
"Monkeys? I do not understand." Thor said, confused by the statement.
Steve snapped his fingers before saying...
"I do." Steve said before getting weird looks from the others. "I understood that reference."
"Shall we play, Doctor? Casper?" Tony asked Bruce and Danny.
"Just don't get any crazed ideas, Tin Can." Danny said, making Tony smirk.
"This way." Bruce said leading Tony and Danny to his lab before an S.H.I.E.L.D. agent returns to playing Galaga.
That's the end of this chapter. Please review.
