"So that's that." Steve said, awkwardly.
"I have a question. Why didn't you just get a parachute and jump out of the plane?" Rhodey asked. "I didn't think of it." Steve answered.
"I do have an announcement before we start this next one. You all know that Loki used the scepter to control Agent Barton and Dr. Selvig, but what you all don't know is that the scepter was also influencing him, but in a different way." "I knew it." Coulson whispered. "I had a feeling there was an outside force here, ever since that conversation in the heli-carrier." Natasha said.
"What?" Thor asked. Loki looked uncomfortable. "Why didn't you say anything?" Thor asked. "Well one thing: would you have believed me if I had?" Loki asked, Thor stayed quiet, admittedly he probably wouldn't have. "It did always bug me that he was so compliant after we found him" Clint said. "And for another: it wouldn't have made much of a difference after the control broke, those things still happened and I still did them."
"I'm not saying he's innocent of all of his crimes, all I'm saying is that there is more to this story than what meets the eye." Loraine said.
"But his eyes were never glowing." Clint protested, not wanting to believe this. "It was a different type of mind control, Agent Barton. While yours was direct and he made you essentially do his bidding, Loki was under the influence of the scepter but he was also the wielder, he didn't know he was controlled until it broke, he remembers everything. The scepter was amplifying his rage, resentment and betrayal not entirely making him do things, but pointing him in that direction." Lorraine
"So if you weren't necessarily forced to subjugate us through the scepter then why, or how?" Bruce asked. "I had an agreement, I owed a debt to someone sort of. If I disagreed then-" Loki said. "So you came here for repayment?" Bruce asked. "He saved my life and asked this in return and if I didn't then I was to long for something so sweet as pain." Loki said.
"Who was this man that controlled you?" Thor asked, remembering his words on the cliff when he was arguing with Loki. 'Who controls the would be King?' "As I said before, when I fell through the void, I came into contact with The Mad Titan himself, and through him... The Other. It was a collective effort to break me."
"And why should we believe what you have to say? You're a pathological liar, a story teller." Tony accused. "Well it's simple, you see me now, 5 years later and you knew the me 5 years ago for about a week, I ask you what differences do you see?" Loki asked. "No more bag of cats, your mind seems much clearer now, even if you still don't rub me the right way." Bruce said.
"I still don't like him." Clint said. "Nobody's asking you to like him Clint." Natasha said. "How do we know you're telling us the truth, Lorraine?" Fury asked. "What reason do I have to lie to you? Look I don't care whether you believe me or not, all I ask is that you all pay closer attention to Loki's actions in the upcoming film." Fury nodded.
'Up next: The Avengers'