"Shakespeare in the Park"
When I arrived at Loki's location, he was busy practicing his world-conquering act with the good citizens of Stuttgart. After we had apprehended him, Rogers told me that he interrupted his villain speech. Loki was about to teach a "lesson" to an elderly man that stood up to him when he had intimidated a group of people into kneeling in front of him in a plaza located outside the building where he killed the man from the video Seraphine showed me. Although, I find very suspicious the fact that Loki didn't try to put much of a fight when we went to capture him.
Based on the fact that Loki is acting so calm right now, handcuffed in the back of the jet, I thought that maybe he wanted to get captured. The whole thing with him walking around in the open drawing attention to himself was maybe for that purpose. I told Seraphine to keep trying to locate Barton. We can't discard the possibility that Loki was playing distraction, but the fact that he didn't put up a fight is giving me an uneasy feeling. That makes no sense unless he intends to get inside S.H.I.E.L.D's base. Why would he want to do that? I had decided to go back to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s base onboard the jet in case Loki tries to escape.
"He wanted to get captured. He is trying to get inside S.H.I.E.L.D.'s base. There was a break in at Xabcom Labs twenty-three miles from where Loki was located. The break in was reported eight minutes after Loki was captured. The lab analyzes and stores volatile and rare minerals and metals. There were six security personnel killed, and three more injured. It might have been Agent Barton, but I could not get any confirmation because the buildings surveillance system was disabled. It has not been reported yet what was stolen." Seraphine said to me.
"I think so too about both Loki and Barton. We need to figure out what was stolen." I said quietly to her.
"We will." She replied, and I took out my helmet.
As if reading mine and Seraphine's minds, Rogers said something similar to me, "I don't like this."
"What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" I said to him looking at Loki.
"That's the thing. It shouldn't have been that easy. That guy packs up a wallop." The Captain replied to me momentarily turning his head to look at Loki and then returning his attention to me.
"I know. Though you are really sprite for an older fellow. What's your secret? Pilates? It's like calisthenics. You might have missed a couple of things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle." I said to him shifting my attention to him.
"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in."
"Well. There are a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you." I said to him referring to all the secrets that I know Fury is keeping about this situation and all the others I'm not aware of.
At that moment, Lightning started to strike around the Quinjet. "Where is this coming from?" Romanoff asked.
Loki started looking worriedly around. "What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?" Rogers asked him.
"I'm not overly fond of what follows," Loki said looking warily at the ceiling.
After that, we heard something land hard on top of the jet, and the Jet shocked once with the impact. After the Jet shocked a second time, I put on my helmet and opened the back ramp of the Jet intending to go out and investigate what it was.
"What are you doing?" Rogers asked me.
At that moment, a man landed on the opened ramp of the jet. He is tall with blond shoulder length hair and built with muscles. He has a red cape, a hammer in his right hand, and is wearing a black leather outfit with metal plated chest armor. He punched me in the chest with the hammer when I was raising my right hand to send a blast at him with my repulsor, which sent me flying towards the front of the jet, in Rogers's direction. I ended landing on top of Rogers. The blond man unclasped Loki's seat belt, grabbed him by the neck, hauled him out of his chair, and flew out with him.
"Now there is that guy," I said when I picked myself up.
"Another Asgardian?" Romanoff asked.
"Do you think he is friendly?" came from Rogers as he was standing up.
"It doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, we lose the Tesseract." I answered him.
"Stark we need a plan of attack," Rogers said as I was walking towards the opened ramp.
"I have a plan. Attack." I said to him before I jumped out of the jet to follow the blond man.
"The man is the Asgardian Prince Thor. He is Loki's brother. I read about him on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files. He is an ally. He may be here to take Loki back to Asgard." Seraphine said.
"Well, we can't let him take him. Loki is our only lead to find the Tesseract."
"He may be willing to work with the team to locate the Tesseract, but he is going to want to take both of them with him to Asgard afterward."
"Do you think that I can talk him into releasing Loki into our custody?"
"Probably not. Loki may be a criminal here, but he is Thor's brother and a member of the Asgardian royal family. Thor is going to want to protect Loki despite Loki's misdeeds. He is probably not going to trust your government with Loki's custody, and he has good reasons."
"That's what I think too. Well. I wouldn't blame the guy for not trusting S.H.I.E.L.D. The organization and Fury are not the most trustworthy people, but they do prioritize the general safety of the public. The hard way it is, then. I'm not really in the mood to negotiate, anyway." I said to her.
I found the blond man Thor talking with Loki near the edge of a cliff, in the highest part of a mountain. I flew at him and tackled him into some trees that were in a forest at the bottom of the mountain. We landed/crashed into the ground. I landed on my feet, and he crashed and rolled a few feet before coming to a stop.
He stood up and said to me "do not touch me again."
I pulled up my faceplate. "Then don't take my stuff," I said to him.
"You have no idea who you are dealing with."
I looked around and said "Shakespeare in the Park. Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?" I said mockingly to him and gesturing with my arms.
"This is beyond you. Little man. Loki needs to face Asgardian justice."
"If he gives up the Cube he is all yours. Until them. Stay out of the way." I said to him, pulling down my face plate and turning around. "Tourist," I said turning around to walk away.
I was about to fly back to the cliff to collect Loki when I heard a sound of something coming my way.
"Watch out." Seraphine tried to warn me.
I turned just in time to be hit in the chest with the hammer that he previously had in his hand. The hammer hit me so hard that it sent me flying backward, and I went crashing through a tree. I landed on my back about twenty feet from where I was previously standing. The red drape dude stretched his arm in my direction, and the hammer flew back into his hand.
"Ok," I said.
"The Hammer Mjoin is a dangerous sentient weapon that can summon and control lighting. You need to be careful with it." Seraphine said while I was lying on the floor.
I sat on the forest floor and fired a blast at him with my repulsors while he was spinning the hammer intending to throw it back at me. He flew back and landed upright with his back to a tree.
"You could have told me about that little detail before. How about you start with details like that the next time. A warning like the big dude has a hammer that can summon lighting and pack a hell of a punch, so try not to get smacked with it would have been greatly appreciated." I said to her while I flew at Thor and kicked him in the chest.
"Sorry, I forgot. You really are sarcastic." I don't think she sounded that sorry.
The blond man called back his hammer, raised it to the sky, collected lighting with it, and sent the lightning at me. The lighting hit me, and JARVIS announced that the suit's power was at four hundred percent capacity.
"How about that?" I blasted him back with the powered up repulsors and took a fight stance.
"Seraphine. You and I are going to continue talking about this later, when I'm not busy trying not to get my ass kicked by a pissed off Asgardian with a magical hammer, which you forgot to mention to me about." I said to her while I flew towards the blond dude, tackled him, and flew with him into the side of another mountain.
She sighed, "Ok. Fine." She said.
"I can.."
"No." I immediately said, interrupting her before she could finish the sentence. I don't need to hear the rest of the sentence to know that she wants to fight the Asgardian.
"But, I can…" She started saying.
"I know you can beat him, and the answer is still no."
"I don't like being idle while you and the rest of the team fight." She said annoyed at me and probably frustrated because I won't even let her finish saying the suggestion before refusing it.
"you agreed to that, remember." She didn't respond to my comment, which I guess means that she is angry with the current situation.
When the magic hammer guy and I came crashing back down to the forest floor, we continued fighting. He punched me. I swung my right arm to punch him in the face, but he caught it grabbing my forearm with his left hand. When I tried to punch him with my free left arm, he stopped the punch with his open palm and grabbed my closed fist. Now with both of my hands restrained, a beeping noise was notifying me that the armor's integrity was being compromised.
"I also forgot to tell you that Thor has inhuman strength," Seraphine said. Thor was crushing the metal of my right forearm with his hand.
"Well, I'm becoming aware of it already," I said to her while I open my right palm facing Thor and send a repulsor blast at his face.
He let go of my arms, and I headbutted him. He headbutted me too, and the force of it sent me flying backward. I used my left hand, dragging it through the ground, to stop the momentum and flew at him. When I reached him, I grabbed him by the back, lifted him, and threw him against a fallen tree.
We continued fighting until the captain threw his shield at both of us, and we stopped fighting. "Hey. That's enough." He said and jumped down from an upturned tree high up from the ground.
"I don't know what you are planning on doing here." He continued to say.
"I came to put a stop to Loki schemes," Thor said.
"Then prove it. Put the hammer down." Rogers replied to him.
"Ooh. No. Bad call. He loves his ha…" I was saying to Rogers when red drape dude hit me in the chest with the hammer and sent me flying back again.
I heard Thor say, "You want me to put the hammer down?" from my position on the floor, and I knew that Rogers was about to get hit by the thing.
I saw Thor leaped into the air in Rogers direction intending to strike him with the hammer. The Captain put up his shield and blocked Thor's attack with it. The shield took the energy of the lighting and reflected it back in the form of a shock wave that sent the blond man flying backward. We introduced each other after we stood back on our feet and agreed to stop fighting. The Captain told him about the Tesseract and that Loki is going to stay in S.H.I.E.L.D's custody until he gave us the Cube's location. Thor didn't argue with him and told us that he is coming with us.