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chinaluv- You know, I'm not really good at making ship names, but I did think of one when you asked your question. I came up with Stego. Does that work? Let me know.

ALSO a big shout out to micknutson9 who has been a tremendous help with writing this series. I am able to test ideas and see what a reaction could be like. You're awesome dude and thanks for your help!

The Avengers: Part Five

It was all Kim could do to keep Shego away from Rogers on the flight back to the helicarrier. Kim distracted her with small tasks and gave Rogers a look that told him to stay away from Shego. When they got back, a squadron of men approached Loki and took him away to his cell. Kim quickly dragged Shego out of the jet before Rogers could get to her and led her to the bridge. Rogers was behind and he went to sit down at the table. Thor had also joined them and was pacing around the table. Hill was standing close to Rogers as was Banner. Stark was somewhere getting his suit off.

"Listen," Kim said to Shego, pulling her to the side.

"I'm going to kill him," Shego said, her hands starting to glow.

"We have bigger problems than that right now," Kim said. "And I'm not talking about Ron. This Loki guy is dangerous and he wants the Tesseract for something. My guess would be to kill everything on this planet. This is the Lowardians times ten Shego, and we don't have the mystical monkey power to help us. Plus, you've read his file, he does that all the time. If you are going to be with him, you have to get used to him putting his body on the line."

Shego glared at Kim but her face softened after a couple of seconds. She sighed and said, "I know. I just care for him so much. I don't want to see him get hurt."

"He won't," Kim said. "He knows how to handle himself. Plus, heals faster than I do with his serum. You have nothing to be afraid of."

"Okay," Shego said. "But I am still mad at him."

"Never said you couldn't be," Kim said. "Just wait for this to be over before you tear him a new one."

"Alright Agent Romanoff," Shego said with a smirk.

"Also," Kim said with a smile. "If we all survive this, we have to have a chit chat with the Captain."

"Yes," Shego said. "Yes we do."

Kim patted Shego on the back and walked over to the conference table where the rest of the boys were. Kim sat down opposite of Rogers and he looked up at the girls walking over. His eyes lit up like he wanted to say something but Shego shook her head and mouthed 'later' and sat down beside Kim. Rogers nodded and looked back to the screen that was on the table in front of him. On the screen, Fury was interrogating Loki, but it appeared to no avail. Shego leaned over and watched Kim's feed with her.

"It's an impressive cage," Loki said through the feed. "Not built for me, I think."

"Built for something a lot stronger than you," Fury responded.

"Oh I've heard," Loki said, looking right at the security camera now. "The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man."

Kim looked up at Banner to see him smirking right back at her. She kept her glance stoic and returned to watching the interrogation.

"How desperate are you?" Loki asked Fury. "That you call upon such lost creatures to defend you."

"How desperate am I?" Fury said. "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 really desperate, and you may not be glad that you did."

"Ooh," Loki said. "It burns you to have come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have unlimited power. And for what?"

Loki turns to the camera and says directly into it, "A warm light for all mankind to share?" He turns back to Fury and says, "and then to be reminded what real power is."

Fury stares him down and then chuckles, "Well let me know if real power wants a magazine or something."

Fury starts walking out and Loki turns and looks directly into the camera again before the feed is cut.

"He really grows on you," Banner said, breaking the silence.

"Loki is going to drag this out," Rogers said. "So, Thor, what's his play?"

"He has an army called the Chitauri," Thor finally spoke. "There not of Asgard or any other world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth, in return for the Tesseract, I suspect."

"Sounds like a lot more than two aliens," Shego whispered to Kim.

"We have two aliens in the helicarrier now," Kim whispered back and Shego chuckled.

"An army?" Rogers asked. "From outer space?"

"So he's building another portal," Banner said. "That's what he needs Eric Selvig for."

"Selvig?" Thor asked.

"He's an astrophysicist," Banner explained.

"He's a friend," Thor replied.

"Loki has him under some kind of spell," Kim said. "Along with one of ours."

"I wanna know why Loki let us take him," Rogers said. "He's not leading an army from here."

"I don't think that we should be focusing on Loki," Banner said. "That guy's brain is a bag of cats. You can smell crazy on him."

"Have care how you speak," Thor fired back, growing irritated. "Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother."

"He killed eighty people in two days," Kim said monotone causing Shego to snicker.

"He's adopted," Thor said quietly.

"Iridium," Banner said, coming up with a lead. "What did they need Iridum for."

"It's a stabilizing agent," a voice said from behind them.

Kim and Shego turned around and they saw Tony Stark walk onto the bridge with Coulson. He mumbled something to Coulson and then turned back to the group. He walked past Thor and patted him on the bicep.

"No hard feelings point break," Stark said. "You've got a mean swing. Also, it means that the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants."

He walked over to where Fury usually stood and started addressing the crew, "Uh raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails."

The entire crew stopped what they were doing and looked at Stark, who pointed at one poor guy in the corner.

"That man is playing Galaga," Stark said. "Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did."

Stark looked down at the screens puzzled and covered his left eye.

"How does Fury do this?" Stark asked.

"He turns," Hill replied.

"Sounds exhausting," Stark said back, and returned to the important conversation. "The rest rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube."

"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Hill asked Stark.

"Last night," Stark said. "The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?"

"Does Loki need any particular type of power source," Rogers said, trying to figure this out.

"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier."

"Unless," Stark said, walking towards Banner. "Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect."

"Well," Banner said, figuring it out. "If he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet."

"Finally," Stark said. "Someone who speaks English."

"Is that what just happened?" Rogers asked and Kim had to agree with him.

Of course she read the notes. Kim liked to be well informed about all of her missions, but this was on a different level than she was on. She talked to Wade, briefly on it, but even he had some trouble figuring it out. Kim asked Fury about it and he told her to let Banner handle it, so she did. She kinda zoned out of the conversation at that point. She had to figure this out on her own. These guys were so focused on what Loki was planning to do, but not what he was doing right now. At some point Fury walked into the room and people broke up into their separate groups. Steve stayed behind and walked over to Shego. He whispered a few things to her and she nodded. He then walked out of the bridge and towards the lab. Shego came over and sat back down next to Kim.

"Steve is going to monitor Banner and Stark," Shego said. "I don't trust them, and I don't think Steve does either but he will never say it."

"Smart," Kim said. "I haven't been too trusting of anyone as of late."

"Including me?" Shego asked.

Kim looked at her and smiled. "I trust you."

Shego looked down and sighed, "What about Steve?"

Kim closed her eyes and ran her hand through her hair. "Not yet," she replied. "We will soon find out."

Shego nodded. "I understand," she said. "I just want you to know that I trust him, and as far as I know, he trusts me."

Kim nodded and looked over to where Thor and Coulson were having a conversation about Jane Foster. Kim thought of Ron and needed to know of his safety, and there was only one person that knew that information, and maybe she could get something else out of him too.

"I'm going to go and talk to Loki," Kim said, standing up.

"Is that even allowed?" Shego asked, with a smile on her face.

"I don't ask that until I've done it," Kim said. "Go find Steve and help him. He's with you on my side for now, and I have a feeling that he won't let me down."

Shego nodded and Kim walked off the bridge towards Loki's cell.

Cell Room

Kim crept quietly through the cell block. She made her way into the giant room that held a giant cage where they needed to put Banner in case of a code green. But right now, it was encasing the most dangerous man on earth, and he wasn't of Earth. She decided to make herself know, having managed to sneak up on the Asgardian. Loki's head popped up and said,

"There's not many people who can sneak up on me."

Loki turns around and looks at Kim. He has an eerie smile on his face that Kim found mildly unsettling.

"But you figured I'd come," Kim guessed, knowing he expected her to ask about Ron.

"After," Loki said. "After whatever tortures Fury can concoct, you would appear as a friend, as a balm. And then I would cooperate."

"I want to know what you've done to Agent Barton," Kim said, getting right to the point.

"I say I've expanded his mind," Loki replied nonchalantly.

"And once you've won," Kim said. "Once you're king of the mountain, what happens to his mind?"

"Is this love, Agent Romanoff?" Loki asked.

"Love is for children, I owe him a debt," Kim lied through her teeth, finally testing if she could fool the god of mischief.

Loki seemed to buy it as he said, "Tell me."

He walked over to the bench that was in his cell as Kim took a seat on a box near the cage.

"Before I worked for SHIELD," Kim started, weaving her lie. "I, well, I made a name for myself. I have a very specific skill set. I didn't care who I used it on or for. I got on SHIELD's radar in a bad way. Agent Barton was sent to kill me, he made a different call."

"And what will you do if I vow to spare his life?" Loki asked.

"Not let you out," Kim said but was cut off.

"Oh but I like this," Loki said, leaning forward. "Your world in the balance, and you bargain for one man's life."

"Regimes fall every day," Kim said. "I tend not to weep over that. I'm Russian.. or was."

"What is it you want?" Loki asked.

"It's really not that complicated," Kim said. "I've got red in my ledger, I'd like to wipe it out."

"Can you?" Loki asked. "Can you wipe out that much red? Drakov's daughter. Sao Paulo? The hospital fire? Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change all that?"

Kim began acting more and more scared as he stood up and started walking towards her. She had him right where she wanted. When people felt in power, they felt like they can say anything they want, and that is where she would get the intel that she needed.

"This is the basest sentimentality," Loki continued. "This is a child at prayer, pathetic! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away!"

Loki slammed his fist on the glass, actually making Kim jump.

"I won't touch Barton," Loki said. "Not until I make him kill you! Slowly. Intimately. In every way he knows you fear! And when he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!"

Kim turned around, putting on her final act to try and get some info out of this guy.

"You're a monster," Kim said in her scared voice.

"No," Loki said. "You've brought the monster."

Suddenly, Kim's mind clicked. Commenting on the cage, calling Banner a beast, and then mentioning a monster. Loki didn't get captured, he came to destroy them. And who better to destroy them, then an unkillable creature. Kim wheeled around, realization all over her face and looked at Loki.

"So, Banner," Kim said. "That's your play."

Confusion immediately lit up on Loki's face as he stuttered, "what?"

Kim turned on her comm and immediately started talking into it. "Loki means to unleash the Hulk, keep Banner in the lab. I'm on my way. Send Thor as well."

She started walking away and Loki's eyes followed her. She had to take this one last chance to fire at him, just in case she never got another chance.

"Thank you," Kim said to a confused Loki. "For your cooperation."

Kim left a speechless Loki behind and made her way to the lab, hoping that she would make it in time.

A/N

There it is, the latest installment.

Welp, Kim has it all figured out and it looks like the mystical monkey power is more powerful than one of the infinity stones! What will Thanos think of that, you'll just to have to read future books to find out.

Next up, crisis on the helicarrier. Then to the battle and then an epilogue and this book should be finished.

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