Blue Fire and Green Ice

Ch.11

A week later

Alex had been shuffled between Clint and everyone on the team for the past week, the first day she was with Clint and had gave him the cold shoulder, she didn't speak to him she didn't give any sign of acknowledgement towards him.

The next day she had spent the day with Natasha, the Russian spy had just sat with her quietly, she had asked why she had attacked Ivanski and Alex told her she didn't and that was the end of it, she knew that Natasha knew that she was planning something and if she continued talking with her she'd let something out so the day consisted of yes and no answers in the most neutral tone and facial way ever.

The day she spent with Steve had been the most nerve-wracking on her plans, instead of her playing the silent game, he did and she avoided his gaze at all times, she could feel his eyes on her all day long and it took everything not to snap and yell, "Why do you look at me like some kind of monster!" but when she finally glanced at him all she saw was disappointment in his eyes.

When she had been shuffled to Tony he had tried everything to speak with her, and she had accommodated the conversation but unbeknownst to Tony throughout the whole conversation she had been studying the monitors, she tracked them like a hawk knowing that they were being used to find Schmidt and she knew that they were the monitors used to know when a Bifrost was opened or when the system crashed, she kept her tone a mixture of friendly and calm, bantering with the scientist, distracting him while she rigged certain things and manipulated certain control panels, by the end of the day half her plan was laid and Tony believed that Alex was on her way to going back to what he considered normal.

Bruce had been next and he would play a very important part in her game, he usually stuck to his labs and she needed to play her cards right to get what she needed. Bruce was not as easy as Tony to distract, he had pried about what happened between Loki and her and she had been curt, saying that nothing had gone on and Bruce only shook his head, she watched him work on the computers and took a seat across from him and when she reached for a keyboard he had stopped her, "No, I can't have you trying to rig the system." He said seriously and Alex had let her face fall down-casted, "Bruce all I wanted to do was play a game…please don't treat me like some criminal like the others, even if you think I did attack Ivanski I don't want you to be afraid I'll do something to hurt the others…" Bruce had paused. He knew what she felt like and this was the part where Alex feared that he wouldn't let her go on the computer because he took so long answering her, but finally he nodded and Alex had to suppress the grin as she played Pac man while getting into the system and setting the second step of her plan.

When she spent time with Thor it had been the most awkward time of her life, the thunder god kept talking about how he was so sure that she would've been the one to change him but instead his brother had changed her, Alex took calm breaths and tried to beat at the feelings that threatened her plans and had small talk with him, slowly working her way to the topic of Asgard, she had begun with talking about how Loki used to talk about how Asgard was and how they mistreated him which Thor had countered back with many stories of Asgard, during the stories she asked for him to describe Asgard to her and he did in great detail, she felt smug knowing that almost all her plans were in motion now but before she left Thor that day he said something that had shocked her, "I'm sorry Lady Nixon…I could see in your expression and the way you started to act around my brother that you felt something for him…I'm sorry that you two were taken apart…for I really think that you could have broken the darkness surrounding him…and I do not think you attacked that old man, for I could see the truth in yours and my brother's eyes as you two spoke to defend each others honor." He said his normally booming voice solemn.

The last day she planned to execute her plans she had been saddled with Thor, they had been strolling along the corridors when the alarm went off, red lights flashing, Thor had turned to Alex to tell her to follow him down to the avengers meeting room but Alex had super charged her punch and had landed a perfect punch to his jaw, he fell back and raised Mjolnir to strike but Alex quickly teleported behind and hit the god right in back of his skull with a giant burst of power that drained the god and knocked him out, it was a move Alex hated using because it was extremely deadly but Thor was a god and judging by how much of power she got from him he was still very much alive.

She dragged him to an empty room that she had planned on using, she opened it and grabbed a pair of cuffs that were used on Loki and placed them on Thor and took out the mouth guard, as much as she hated the thing, she needed to keep Thor quiet in order to have her plan make it and that included making sure Thor could not interfere for as long as possible.

She took advantage of the alarms to make her way as fast as possible down to the storage room, suddenly the power went out and Alex summoned a small flame to her hand so she could see her way and smiled, happy to know that the rigged programming on the security mainframe went off at the right time.

She moved swiftly past frantic guards and personnel that had no idea what was going on. She reached the storage room and pried the doors open and than closed them, she froze in the dark and heard the click of a gun.

"Who's there!" a guard yelled in the dark, Alex smirked before creeping over to his position silently and came right behind him. "Sorry." She whispered quickly before knocking him out and taking his gun, she lit a flame in her hand and saw Loki looking at her in surprise, "Look, you said there's some object on Asgard that can help with my training right? Well I'm going to get it now, I want you to help me get stronger so I can finally show that I'm not some wild child that likes to set fire to things, so I have guesstimated that I have at least 20-25 minutes to get to Asgard and back with the item, I need to know what it is so I can retrieve it and I need to know if there might be anything protecting it." Alex said her tone serious and Loki hesitated for a minute.

He almost seemed not to want her to go to Asgard but he didn't know how to back out and proceeded to tell her quickly that she was searching for an item called the tessaract and that she would also have to get a scepter that would have a blue gem in it, he told her to let him out so he could cast a cloaking spell on her and she let him free after that he told her the vault was on the lowest level of the palace and what it looked like and that it was protected by what was a called a Destroyer, "It has the same unique energy that you carry in your fire power, I believe you will be able to manipulate it but I'm not sure so be careful." He said and Alex nodded before summoning the Bifrost.

Ooo

Alex flew through the Bifrost and when she saw what looked like Asgard she let herself fall from the Bifrost into a field of tall grass, she slowly picked herself up and froze for a minute, stunned by the scenery, it was beautiful, the sky was so Blue and clear and when she looked across the field she saw a magnificent kingdom, that had to be where Odin and Frigga lived, she slowly shook herself from her sight-seeing and broke into a run across the field remembering that she was a time schedule.

She reached the castle in a short time, she had sprinted most of the way, she had ran through the kingdom and was assured that Loki's spell worked when she bumped into people or when she shouted in surprise at things, they could not see, hear nor feel her.

She paused at the castle, it was amazing, tall and shined as bright a star, it was golden and shimmered in the sun, as she walked up the stair she was convinced now that everything was made of gold, it something out of a fairytale!

She quickly entered the building and had to stop herself from pausing to look at everything, she needed to find the vault and needed to find it fast, she had searched several stairways now and still found nothing, knowing that her time was dwindling she hurried on but just as she passed a room she froze when she heard a deep old voice speak and back-tracked and peered inside, there she found what she assumed was the throne room and sitting at the throne was Odin, the kind of Asgard, his face was worn and looked tired, he looked so intimidating but as she dared to get closer she saw that he looked grief- stricken and suddenly a woman walked past her, slightly brushing her shoulder and the woman took Odin's hand in her small one, "Please, you must rest, you can not stay like this, you can not continue to punish yourself like this." The woman said and Alex realized that the woman was Frigga.

"I failed Frigga, Loki has ran twice now, he tried to destroy the Jotuns and tried to enslave the mortals, I wonder where I went wrong and yet I know the answer, I took hi child yet I never treated him as a true son, I let Thor overshadow him and I ignored him and look what that has got me, my two sons fight with each other in hate, one trying to bring back the other while the other fights to run and stay away, he despise all and I know it is my fault…" Odin spoke, his voice thick and heavy.

Alex was in awe of this, she had heard stories of the mighty Odin, the all-powerful Odin yet what she saw before her was a father who seemed to think he had lost everything. Frigga looked lost at what to say and Alex wanted to yell that Loki has changed and that maybe he would come home now but she knew it would probably be a lie, that and they couldn't hear her, she quietly moved away form the two and went back to her search.

She walked down one of the winding hallways and saw a guard; he stopped to talk to another.

"I'll take over the shift for the vault now."

"Fine."

Alex followed the guard who said they were going to watch the vault and prayed it was the weapons vault.

She followed the guard from behind and when he reached the vault she shouted in joy, it was the weapons vault, now to just open it. She came behind the guard and grabbed his throat, she watched as the man frantically clawed at her hand, confusion and fear in his eyes as he tried to fight off an invisible foe, he passed out and Alex let him drop to the floor, she went to vault door and started working on opening it, remembering what Loki had told her about how to work it, she finally managed to open it and stepped back so the doors could open.

She entered the vault and instantly hunted for the scepter which she found on a display and grabbed it and to her relief didn't see any type of Destroyer some out, she move on looking for the cube now, she finally saw it, the tessaract, she move towards it and when she reached it she suddenly felt herself grow ten times more powerful, she felt like someone had doused her with cold water as she felt refreshed, she grabbed it and that's when she heard the vault doors slam close and she watched in a mixture of horror and awe as a giant metal-like being came out of the wall.

She dashed to door and tried to open it but it would not budge, she whirled around as she heard the sound of a furnace heating up she barley managed to dodge out of the Destroyers' blast and quickly set the scepter and cube down, she focused on the cube and was surprised to find it practically pouring energy into her, she turned to the Destroyer and when it released a blast of fire she countered back, the heat built up quickly and she felt sweat pour down her face, she forced more energy into her attack but she was pushed back.

Her foot bumped the cube and like that, she suddenly sent out a massive blast of fire that forced the Destroyer back, she used her power to shove it's own fire back into itself and manipulated it so that the metal-giants mask snapped close, she felt through it energy and pinpointed the source of it power, it heart.

She slowly squeezed her hand shut and watched in glee as the metal being begin to melt, it clawed at it face mask, trying to force it open but slowly it fell to one knee than the next and she watched as it still try to get her and she merely backed more into the cube, taking more power from it and just as the giant reached out to grab her she squeezed her hand shut and the Destroyer exploded.

Alex ducked behind a pillar and when she was certain it was over she grabbed the tessaract and scepter, she hadn't felt this powerful since she was a child and she hadn't used her power like that since her time in Costa Rica, the vault was opened and she watched as soldiers filled the room followed by Odin, she took this time to run out of the castle and back to the field, she had no problem summoning the Bifrost as she held the cube and even when she travelled back through she didn't need to add more power to stabilize the Bifrost thanks to the cube.

'This will definitely be the thing that will make me stronger…better…' she thought as she saw her destination soon appear. She crashed to the floor from the Bifrost and felt two strong arms start to pull her up. She looked up at Loki and he was staring intently at the tessaract. "You did it." He said and Alex straightened up, "This is it right? It's amazing when I hold it I feel so powerful, like its practically pouring energy into me!" Alex exclaimed and Loki looked at her surprise.

She looked like an excited puppy and he couldn't help but smile and nod, "You have done every well." He said his eyes soft but still one question in his mind.

'The tessaract molds to her power?' he thought but he didn't voice this thought, he just took the cube and than the scepter, he let his armor appeared, complete with his helmet and he felt the power of the tessaract. "Excellent." He said, an evil grin took over his features and Alex didn't like the look. But before she could speak the avengers came crashing through the door and Loki spun to meet them.

"What is going on here! Why does Loki have the tessaract!" Steve yelled in confusion, Loki smirked and set a blast of power at Steve which sent him flying back and Iron man step forwarded charging up his blast but Loki knocked away the blast where it exploded half the wall, Alex grabbed Loki's arm as he raised it to attack again and Loki turned to face her, Alex was shocked by what she saw, his eyes were not the warm green she had just seen, his expression twisted and a sick smirk on his lips, but when he saw Alex his smirk disappear.

"Loki! Please you must stop! What the hell is wrong with you! Stop attacking them!" Alex yelled as she tried to hold him back, Loki felt himself stop his attack, he felt himself start to surrender and than a part of him that told him he was weak, telling him that because of the girl he had become soft and now when he surrender he would taken back to Asgard in shame. Loki barred his teeth at Alex.

"Foolish girl, did you honestly believe that I would change, that I was training you because I felt you needed it, HA! I was training you because I knew your powers would get me what I wanted, you have no idea what the tessaract and this scepter can do, you played right into my hand, believing every word I said, and I laughed at it all, how you were so trusting of me how you confided in me even the feelings I know you have for me! That was the best part knowing that because you felt something for me, and you thinking I felt something back, it only made it easier to use you!" Loki snarled coldly, laughing.

Alex froze, she felt like someone had just taken her heart and shredded it bits than stepped on all the pieces until they were dust. Loki faltered at her expression and hated the guilt that gnawed at him and growled when Alex still didn't let go of him, he slapped her away sending her flying into his glass prison, Alex slammed against it and Loki paused when he saw her slump to the ground his mind screaming in triumph while his heart pounded with guilt.

He threw the avengers (Thor in particular) one last glare before using the tessaract to teleport away. Clint was the first to move after hearing Loki's speech, he felt a rush of anger at the god but moved quickly to Alex, "Alex are you ok?" he asked as he helped into a better sitting position.

Alex did not feel fine.

She felt like someone had punched her in the heart.

She looked at Clint and his face was a mask of worry, she opened her mouth to speak but Fury came in, she hadn't even notice him enter and it looked like Steve had already explained what had happened. He turned to Alex and he had a stern but regretful look on his face. "I'm sorry Alex, but you stripped of your status as an Avenger and an agent, you are also now under arrest for the association and freeing of Loki." He said and Alex felt something in her snap.

No…

No she wasn't going to let them arrest her and keep her locked up…

She knew even if she explained how Loki had tricked her it wouldn't mean anything.

She looked the avengers who looked at her in a mixture of disappointment and surprise.

Clint looked at her regretfully as she notices him start to pull cuffs from his belt.

And that's when she sprang into action.

Alex summoned all the power in her and released it in a blast of pure energy sending everyone flying back into the walls and temporally off-lining Tony's suit. Alex wobbled to her feet as she ran out the door, her head spun from the overuse of power, she tried to teleport but the last blast of power had rendered her power useless, she made her way to the vehicles underground, already planning her escape.

'I'll go Mexico! I already know Spanish from Costa Rica, or I can go to Canada, it a small population and I could change my name easily, stay on the down-low.' She thought as she heard the alarms blare. She rounded the corner to the vehicles hangar and when she opened the door she didn't even have time to react as a long black object slammed into her head.

She crumpled to the ground, moaning softly as she clutched her head, she felt a sharp kick to the stomach and the air left her body, "Poor little specimen… specimen shows that it was capable of falling in love for another and than allowing her feelings to be manipulated." Ivanski purred as he knelt beside her head as he brushed a gloved hand over her head and she flinched, she had no power and she couldn't focus.

"Don't worry little A13, I'll make sure to rid you of all those troublesome emotions so you can be the perfect little solider." He said before he placed his hand on her the side of her head and next thing she knew was a burst of electricity was coursing through her, the last thing she heard and saw was the sound of her screams and Ivanski black beady eyes staring at her with evil joy as he watched her pass out.

"Nighty-night A13"

Ooo

Loki found himself back at the old base he had arrived on earth the first time when he came to enslave the mortals. It was abandoned and Loki let the silence fill him. The look of Alex's shocked and hurt face still fresh in his mind, he stared at the tessaract in his hands and than at the staff in his other, he gotten what he wanted and while in his mind he was pleased that his plan had gone through, his heart was being ravaged with guilt.

"I have what I want yet I can not get the girl from my mind…" Loki said to softly to the silence. He thought about what he said and he knew that most of it was a lie…when she had come to him telling him that she could go get the tessaract a big part of him had held him back, knowing what he would have to do…SAY after he took the cube and scepter…but she had already thought out a plan and like a coward he didn't stop her, he let her go because he did not want to tell her why he didn't want her to go.

She had tried to stop him and he had almost back down, but than the part of him that still wanted to prove that he was just as good as Thor and to father and that he was an equal to Thor had won out and the next thing he knew he was spitting lie after lie in her face, watching as he knew he had deeply hurt her and than he thrown her away from him.

Physically, mentally but emotionally she was still there in his mind, Loki grit his teeth as he tried not think about it but the silence mocked him and he raised the scepter sending a blast of energy from him that destroyed a nearby wall, he spent a good half hour destroying things in his frustration and rage before calming down.

He sat down heavily, the cube at his feet and the scepter still gripped tightly in his hand. Loki took a deep breath as he tried to think of what he would do next but his mind kept drifting back to the girl.

"Why can't I get her out of my mind! Loki yelled as he picked up the cube and threw it away from him, it crashed in a pile of debris and the sound of trash and broken cement ruined the silence, he breathed heavily, his mind and heart torn between his plans and his emotions…the silence returned after all had settled down.

Loki placed his head in his palms, "What have I done…" he whispered and all he got back in reply was silence.

Ooo

Alex slowly woke up, her head throbbed slowly and she winced as she was met with a harsh light, she tried to move her arms so she could shield her eyes but when she went to move them she than realized that she was bound to a metal chair, her hands cuffed together behind her, "Well hello sleepy head." She heard a voice say and she slowly opened her eyes, she saw Ivanski and than Schmidt. "Hmm…I worried that you might've accidently killed her." Schmidt said and Ivanski looked offended. "Hardly! She is my greatest creation!" Ivanski said and he smiled proudly. "She is like a daughter!" he declared proudly.

Alex glared at him, "I'm glad that you're such a psychopath, because if you even managed to snag a lady and have a kid, I'd feel real sorry for the child." Alex said coldly and Ivanski glared at her. "Seems if she lacks manners." Schmidt pointed out casually. "She will only need some more discipline, than she will learn her place." He replied curtly. "Ha! What would you know about discipline, it looks like you can't even stop yourself from taking a second helping of desert!" Alex declared a smirk on her lips and Ivanski lashed out, slapping her across the face and splitting her lip.

"You will behave!" He yelled but she merely turned and spit blood from her split lip into his face. "Fuck you old man." She snarled, her head hurt, she was bound to a chair, she felt utterly broken and betrayed so she now acted on the one emotion she trusted the most at the moment.

Anger.

Ivanski grabbed her shoulder and sent a jolt of electricity through her and Alex screamed in pain as he did it three more times. She stayed silent. "See, discipline." Ivanski said as he wiped the blood from his face but as he turned his back on her she kicked him in the back of the knees, her legs being the only thing not bound and the old man went crashing to the ground.

Schmidt laughed and Ivanski looked pissed. "Ha! Why aren't you just a brave one!" Schmidt said as Ivanski got to his feet, the doctor went to shock her gain but Schmidt held him back. "You are excused doctor, go clean yourself up while I talk to her." Schmidt said and Alex gave Ivanski a smirk as the doctor left the room swiftly.

Schmidt turned his attention to the girl, Alex met his gaze with a glare, "Hmm…such power, you know the doctor only wishes to use you as a means to get money but I see you doing something bigger in the future than just being used as a pawn for money." He said a calm smile on his face and Alex didn't like the look. "I'm not helping you!" she snarled and Schmidt laughed.

"Dear girl you are going to help me whether you want to or not, you are going to get me my tessaract and I might be able to offer you something in return." He said and Alex snorted, "The avengers won't come for me and even if they did they do not have the tessaract, Loki does." She said and her heart gave a painful throb at the mention of Loki. "I know that already, but I also know what had transpired between you and the Norse god…" he said and Alex's head snapped up at those words and her expression darkened.

"If you think he would hand over the tessaract in exchange for me, your delusional, he was only using me to get the cube and his scepter." Alex said bitterly, looking away. "Hmm…I don't think so girl, some people just say things they don't mean, but if that is true it does not matter, I have been informed of your gifts and you will supply the way to Asgard for me and my skrulls." He said as he looked at her a smirk on his gruesome face, "I can only travel that far by myself, I don't even think I could just transport you so your plan fails." Alex said, smug that she had thwarted him.

Schmidt smiled.

"Did the doctor ever tell you what he used to give you such powers?" he asked casually and Alex looked at him suspiciously, "No." she said. "Do ever wonder why you are able to make a Bifrost, something that can only be done on Asgard or with the use of the tessaract?" he continued to question calmly. "Maybe." she answered again, unsure where he was going with his questioning.

He came to stand in front her and leaned in close to her face but she looked away, he grabbed her chin in his strong grip, forcing her to look at him. "The doctor's program was to be quite a success but he needed a very strong component to make the perfect solider, he couldn't get Howard Stark's formula so he got something from the government as a starter. A piece of the tessaract that was found years after Steve was dug out, they gave it to him to study and he infused it with your embryo, you were the only test subject to be born healthy and able to use the powers the cube bestowed to you." He said and Alex's eyes widened in shock.

That would explain why her power seemed to mold so well with cube and why the cube's power had been so easy to channel through her.

"You hold immense power you haven't even touched, you can open a Bifrost big enough to transport me and my army and you will if I can not get my cube!" he said and Alex was still reeling at the fact that she had a piece of one the most powerful objects residing in her.

"You know…I wouldn't need to do this by force if you just joined me.." he said and Alex opened her mouth to protest but he cut her off. "The avengers turned on you, they only took you in because of your abilities and because one of them wanted you and even if you got away from me, you'd be on the run from them, from Ivanski, and if I let Ivanski keep you he will only make you a drone, a weapon with no mind…I can offer safety…I can offer you a high seat in my army, second-in-command! You would help me in my quest and you would never have to worry about betrayal as long as you served me loyally."

He said as his grip became softer on her chin, his eyes locked with hers. "I see you serving better as a commander in my army than as some cheap lab experiment that will tossed around or as some animal that the Avengers all took pity on, so please reconsider my offer." He said before standing up and taking his leave.

Alex looked down, left with only her thoughts on the offer and her still hurting heart.

Chapter 11! Whoo! I really like this chapter to be honest, a lot; I think it came out good especially the last part. I got a lot of reviews for the last chapter and was surprised by the anger for Nick, Ivanski was expected but Nick wasn't, I don't if that was a good thing or not to honest, I was having him treat Alex like I think he would treat any dangerous person with a temper and dangerous powers, I was trying to get him in character, he treats her how he treats Tony in way was what I was aiming for.

Well any who thanks to all who reviewed that last chap, my heart soared with how much everyone really likes this story because I'll be honest when I wrote it I didn't expect to get so many reviews and favs and followers of it, most of my stories don't have many reviews so when I wrote this I was just kind of like "Eh, I'll do it for fun and see what happens." But I am deeply happily that so many people like this story and are always asking for updates, I try to make every chapter as long or as good as the last and I'm always happy to know I have when you guys review, seriously guys, your guys reviews make my day.

And I know this a really long author note but I'm not done, I'm not sure if this asking for too much but I want to see if I can get at least 100 reviews before the story is over, I think I can do it. Oh and after this story is finished I'm currently collaborating with a friend of mine for a new fic that I will premiere after this, all I'm going to say about it is avengers + teachers +ocs +humor= should be a funny fic, it'll be very light hearted and funny and than some mini fics.

Oh and before I forget, next chapter might take a little longer getting out because I'm going camping for the week.

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