And so the drama begins. During the attack sequence, I would listen to Frost Giant Battle and Brothers Fight. It has that right tempo for this.

Chapter Ten - Under siege

Agent Maria Hill was working on the computer keyboard, typing words and a searches faster than Jane had ever seen a typical human type before.

Must be nice to be a hacker and technology expert, she thought.

Darcy stood behind her chair, hands near her head.

"And that is all of it?" Fury asked her.

"Yes," Jane nodded. "That is everything."

"So Loki comes to Earth to simply kill you," Barton or the one they knew as Hawkeye blurted. "Seems like overkill."

"Could you blame him?" Agent Romanoff added in. "She is the reason that he lost everything."

"What do you mean Widow?" Fury inquired.

"Think about this," Widow spoke as she stood up straight from the computer console she was leaning on. "Thor comes to Earth, banished, alone, and unable to communicate with his family back...where was..."

"Asgard," Darcy and Jane said in unison.

"Right," the agent continued. "Loki, now without his brother in the way is free to take over their world and become the king he wants to be."

Everyone looked to the large plasma screen that showed Loki, now without shackles, walking around his cell. He seemed to be smiling and acting like he was happy to be where he was.

"Thor interacts with Ms. Foster and her friends, learns about what it means to be a good person," Agent Coulson chimed in. "Redeems himself and gets his powers back."

"Leaving him free to return to his realm," Darcy added to the campfire.

"Thereby taking away the power and control that Loki had over their home," Widow added. "Loki has been dishonored."

Jane was using a pen and scrap paper to draw a picture of Mjolnir, Thor's legendary hammer that she had seen in the mythology book that she kept with her at all times.

How she wished that Thor and Mjolnir were here now. She was the one that needed rescuing now.

"So, why is he here?" Fury asked.

"Got it!" Maria shouted. "Lucas Daniel Kenton, United States Coast Guard." She put the newspaper clipping and the incident report that SHIELD had filed with the main office on screen for all to see. "SHIELD investigated a radio transmission of Officer Kenton spotting something crashing into Lake Tahoe, California nearly four weeks ago. He reported back it was nothing. However a week later, the frozen body of Officer Kenton was pulled from the water by ice fisherman. DNA was just was matched to him a week ago. Three weeks after the incident."

"Then how did a dead guy radio in that he saw nothing crash into Lake Tahoe only to have to be the catch of the day a week later?" Barton asked aloud.

Everyone was silent for a second.

"He doesn't," Darcy blurted out.

It all made sense. The crashing object in Lake Tahoe, the name of Luke Kenton, the getting close to her by saving her, and now revealing who he was to torture her.

Loki had come to Midgard for one simple mission: to kill her.

"You should feel honored Ms. Foster," Hawkeye told her. "It's not everyday that you are the target of a god's wrath."

"Oh thanks," she replied.

"Maybe he came here so he could be redeemed?" Darcy said to her. "You helped Thor to get his powers and honor back. Maybe Loki feels the same and he can be redeemed too."

"What am I?" Jane said. "Dr. Phil. No, he is here to kill me...after all I did to him. I am the object of his rage."

"Oh Jane," a voice came from the plasma. It was a long-drawn out call for her that came from Loki's containment unit. "I can see you."

She snapped up from the chair and slowly walked toward the screen.

The eyes of the captured and she were locked onto one another.

"Why do you cry Jane?" Loki asked.

"I am not crying," she whispered. "I will never shed a tear for you."

"Then explain the one coming down your cheek...now," he said.

And indeed one did slip down her right eye. Jane brushed it away and turned away.

"You are only delaying the inevitable Jane," the mischief maker said to her back. "You can either die very slowly and painfully at my hands or you can join me. Your guardians cannot keep you from me."

"Mute that," Fury ordered and Widow muted the TV.

Loki could not be heard in the room anymore.

"What do we do?" Coulson asked. "We cannot keep them here together and we cannot take her to Dr Selvig since he wants the cube as well."

"No place is safe for her," Barton said.

"What?" Fury said.

"No, he's right," Jane interjected before the commander could speak. "Every human has an energy field. An aura life-force. Every single person's is different. If he is looking for me, he will find me."

The SHIELD agents all looked around at one another.

"Then where do we stash her?" Widow asked.

Jane thought for a second and stared back at her doodle that she had done. "There is only one place where I can be safe. The one place that Loki would dare not go."

Darcy reached and grabbed the doodle. "Jane, you have to be kidding."

If she was going to be protected from Loki, then she was going to have to find a way to get to Asgard.

"Asgard?" Darcy said. "Jane, Dr. Selvig hasn't even located Asgard yet, let alone opened an actual portal. There is no way to get you there."

"Oh yes there is," Fury stated and reached for a phone near Agent Hill's console. "Extraction team, this is Commander Fury. Begin Relocation Module Alpha."

Cube Laboratory

Guards moved in on the laboratory where Dr. Erik Selvig and the scientists were working. They were heavily armed and ready to proceed with their assignment: move the cube to a new location.

"Come with us Dr. Selvig," the guard with his mask over his face told him.

"What is the meaning of this?" Dr. Selvig replied.

"You are being relocated to a new facility. Due the sensitive nature of the relocation, I cannot tell you where you are going. Just come with us now."

The leader watched as the cube was removed from platform in its containment cell and locked into a secure case.

The extraction team then grabbed the doctor and they moved out.

SHIELD Command Communications Room

"We're on the move," Commander Fury said to everyone. "Now to you Ms. Foster."

Suddenly, there was a power surge and a large vibration.

"What was that?" Darcy asked.

Another shaking of the facility.

Jane was terrified as she knew what was happening.

Loki was on the verge of escaping.

Loki's Prison

Prince Loki channeled all the energy that he left within him. His energy was being suffocated by the denseness of the metal walls.

He reached deep within his body into his core for all his magic and all his Jotun energy. He brought it all into his hands, shaping it into a large blue orb.

The lights around him began to flicker as his prized creation began to absorb them for even greater power.

It was time for him to leave this place.

And he unleashed it upon the doors of his prison.

Several armed soldiers attempted to fire on him with their primitive weapons, but he blocked them all.

Loki was furious and took out his rage upon the mortals that tried to stop him.

He pulled the lapels of his cloak up correctly so that he looked distinguished before proceeding forward.

SHIELD Command

The command center was shaking and power was going to fail within a matter of minutes.

Commander Fury went through the flashing darkness, searching for Ms. Foster. If he knew his enemy like he did, Loki was coming for her.

Jane was attempting to leave the center, following Darcy and several other technicians. He grabbed her shoulder and yanked her back inside; before he sealed the door to the command center.

She had screamed for her friend, but she did not get back inside.

"You are going elsewhere," Fury said.

Another attack hit the facility.

Maria was trying to keep the computer system running, but it was proving to be difficult with all the power surges.

"Where is he?" he asked.

"I show him going up the main corridor," Agent Hill replied. "He's marching very boldly, killing only that he needs, but leaving the rest of the people alone."

"ETA?"

"He'll be here in a few minutes," she reported.

"Coulson!"

Phil came to him after putting on Kevlar armor that was stashed in an emergency evacuation cabinet. Agent Romanoff was loading her gun and Barton was slipping on his quiver.

They were going to fight to the last.

"Yes sir," Coulson came to him.

"You are to remove her from this facility at once," he ordered. "Call the consultant and have him put her up at one of his safe houses."

"Understood," Phil replied and took possession of Jane Foster by her upper arm. "Come on Ms. Foster."

She was dragged by him through a small access shaft door that they both had duck down to gain access.

Coulson watched as something blasted against the main access door.

However, Barton, Romanoff, and Commander Fury would be able to help themselves.

He had a mission.

Maria Hill reached for a pump-load shotgun from underneath the desk, Agent Romanoff had her two semi-automatic pistols aimed high, Barton had an arrow ready to release, and Fury kept his shotgun ready at his side.

The blast to the door had shaken the facility, but they were agents. They were going to fight to the end.

Another blast from the God of Mischief left another dent in the metal.

All of SHIELD was ready to defend their base.

Maria stood and looked at everyone.

Each member that stepped up to the plate and took a look at each one that stood there.

Finally, the door blasted down and there was a flurry of smoke and fire that singed the metal.

A dark shadow walked toward them.

And everyone opened fire on Commander Fury's order.

Escape Shaft - Parking Garage

Jane Foster was dragged through the large access shaft and pulled into the hectic parking garage.

People were loading equipment into large trucks and vans while also fleeing in their own private cars.

They were nearly parted when she got knocked down.

Agent Coulson retreated and picked her back up by the arm.

She was "guided" to a large, metal paneled van, and tossed like a bag of potatoes.

"Coulson!" she cried out pounding on the wall.

Jane looked out the window and watched the commotion. People were screaming and panicking.

Her protector climbed into the van with another agent, revved the engine, and pounded the gas.

She was thrown toward the back of the van.

Jane had nowhere to sit in the van and found that she needed to brace herself against the metal wheelwall and a crate.

"Hang on Ms. Foster," the agent told her.

"Yeah, I will get right on that," she shouted back.

The van charged into the tunnel and raced underneath the Hudson River to get back to Manhattan.

It was a race to get into the traffic pattern with the rest of the vans and transports. They filtered in with the rest of the cars.

Jane looked out the front window as Coulson continued to drive like a madman.

"Where are you taking me?" she demanded to know.

"Somewhere safe," he answered. "Just sit tight Ms. Foster."

She was not going to be able to sit tight. They had just escaped Loki insurgence on the SHIELD base. He was no doubt hurting or killing innocent people.

And the worst part was that it was her fault. All of those people, Darcy, and scores of innocent people were going to die and it was all her fault.

For the first time in a long time, she began to pray.

The armored battalion had been taken care of and now Loki, god amongst mortals walked across the smoking rooftop of their base.

It was a triumphant victory against the militia known as SHIELD who thought that they could imprison him.

The mortals did not stand a chance against his power.

However, many of the soldiers and persons had been able to escape the base and made it to the city that rested on the other side of the vast river below him.

The city was filled with life-energy sources that could sustain him, but mortals that filled the streets would not know what hit them.

Loki staked his recovered golden spear into the ground beside his foot.

Jane had escaped him. The militia had aided in her flight from him and she must be insulated as he could not feel her aura.

But he would find her.

His shimmered and vanished; leaving the terrorized people of SHIELD to recover their wounded.

Loki is loose and Jane is on the run. This cannot be good. Please review and let me know what you thought.