After hours of flying they had finally found the helicarrier, though just before they landed Fury's voice sounds over the intercoms of the helmets.
"Ah Mr Stark, and Miss Stark. It seems as though you've made a long journey to start another, Captain America and Agent Romanoff needs you in Stuttgart, Germany. 28 Konigstrasse. We've found Loki." Before Fury had stopped Rachel had already turned her body and set it into her GPS, and she was off.
"Thanks Fury, we'll set our radio frequencies to make that of the Quinjet Romanoff is using." Tony says taking off after Rachel, "Ready to kick it into overdrive Chele?" Tony asks when he catches up to his sister.
"Must you ask, you dolt?" Rachel says a smirk on her face, as the rocket boosters take effect and the Iron Siblings shoot off to Germany. Upon getting close enough to que into the Quinjet stereo system Tony started blaring AC/DC's song Shoot to Thrill.
"Agent Romanoff, miss me?" Tony asks, causing Rachel to laugh, they came rocketing around a tower, both adjusting themselves to land quickly. Tony shoots Loki away from Captain America, causing Loki to be thrown backwards hitting his back into the stairs.
"Make your move, Reindeer Games." Rachel snips at the horn helmeted brother of hers, her voice hard as stone as her and Tony aim all of the arm held weapons at him, Captain America quickly gathering his shield and joining the siblings side, as the jet centers the gun on him. Loki slowly raises his hands and make his armor disappear.
"Good move." Tony says and powers down his weapons, Rachel's helmet moves from her face as she stares hard at Loki, who had yet to look away from her.
"Mr. Stark." Cap tilts his head a little acknowledging the metal clad man, Tony tilts his head back.
"Captain." Rachel huffs gently as the quinjet lands behind them.
"I guess I'm chopped liver then?" Tony's helmet slides away from his face as he smirked at Rachel.
"It goes with the accent doesn't it?"
"Tsk! More like the country we are in Tony, and you call yourself a genius. A pleasure Mr Rogers." Rachel turns her head and smiles gently at the super soldier, though it was clear to see that the smile didn't reach her eyes.
"The pleasure is mine Ms. Stark." The gentleman replies, as Rachel turns back to Loki. Loki was looking at his twin sister sadly, as she glares at him.
"Rachel-" Loki starts but is quickly cut off by Rachel snapping at him.
"No! Do not! You best get on that jet or I will truly figure out if you are immortal Loki. I don't know what is going on with you, but I do not like it a bit. MOVE!" Loki shrunk in on himself a little hearing Rachel's harsh words and quickly jumps to his feet at her bellow, that sounded almost like a growl. Tony and Steve stare at the younger girl in surprise.
"She knows him?" Steve asks Tony curiously.
"Not my story to tell Cap." Tony says turning and following his sister to the jet.
~~*Sometime Later, they're in the sky*~~
Natasha's soft voice runs to Rachel's ears as she sits across from Loki glaring at him, daring him to do something.
"I don't like it." Steve says out of the blue.
"What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" Tony says trying to get a reaction out of Loki, who was to afraid of what Rachel would do if he did try anything at that moment in time.
"I don't remember it ever being that easy. This guy packs a wallop."
"Still, you're pretty spry for an older fellow. What's your thing? Pilates?" Tony says smirking at the perplexed Cap.
"What?"
"It's like calisthenics. You might have missed a couple of things, you know doing time as a Capsicle." Steve looks at Tony, finally meeting his ego match.
"Tony be nice." Rachel called to her older brother, who promptly ignored her.
"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you two in."
"Yeah, there is a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you." Tony replies just ask thunder rolls and lightning almost strikes the jet.
"Where is all of this coming from?" Natasha asks rhetorically, Loki stares out the window intently, as thunder rumbles around them.
"What don't like a little lightening?" Rachel sneers rudely at her twin, causing Tony to sit next to his sister at the jet shakes.
"Not overly fond of what follows." Loki says rather sadly as Rachel's treatment, just as a bright bolt of lightning streaks across the sky, and the ramp opens revealing a blonde body builder, who promptly snatches Loki up and flies from the jet.
"Loki!" Rachel screams, her greens eyes instantly softening and growing wide as she dons on her helmet and flies after.
"Rachel!" Tony calls after, "Now there's that guy!"
"Another Asgardian?" Natasha's voice filters from the speakers in the jet.
"Think the guy's friendly?" Steve asks out of nowhere.
"Doesn't matter, if he frees Loki, or kills him the tesseract is lost." Tony turns to follow his sister off the jet.
"Stark! We need a plan of attack." Cap tries to stop him.
"I have a plan, attack." Tony says donning on his helmet and jumps out. Cap grabs a parachute and goes to follow Tony.
"I'd sit this one out." Natasha advises.
"I don't see how I can."
"These guys come from legends, they are basically G-ds."
"There is only one true G-d Ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." And with that said Captain jumps from the jet.
~~*Quick POV change LOKI*~
Thor throws Loki into a mountain, and raises his hammer, before looking down at Loki rather crossly.
"Where is the Tesseract?" Thor growls, and Loki starts to chuckle.
"I've missed you too, Brother."
"Do I look to be in a gaming mood!"
"You should be thanking me, with the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have muster to conjure you here? Your precious Earth." Thor drops Mjolnir, making the ground quake ever so slightly, as he picks up Loki, although Thor was rather cross with Loki, family is everything to him.
"I thought you dead." Thor's voice breaks on the last word, Loki's small chuckles silent.
"Did you mourn?" He asks almost sarcastically, though it's lost on Thor.
"We all did. Our Father-"
"Your Father. He did tell you of my true parentage, did he not?" Thor lets go of his little brother who then walks away from him, creating a bigger rift between the two.
"We were raised together, played together, we fought together, do you remember none of that?" Thor pleads with the lost Prince of Asgard.
"I remember a shadow! Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I was and should be a king!" Loki growls out turning back to Thor.
"So you take Midgard as recompense of your imagined slight? No, Midgard is under my protections, Loki." Thor points at the ground trying to stand firm, the first part Loki looked a bit hurt, then chuckles at Thor tried to lay down the law.
"And you are doing a marvelous job with that. Humans slaughter each other in droves, while you idly fret. I mean to rule them, and why should I not?"
"You think yourself above them."
"Well, yes." Loki smirks at Thor.
"Then you miss the truth of ruling, Brother. Throne would suit you ill." Loki roughly shoves Thor to the side as he goes to stand on the ledge, and turns towards his elder brother.
"I have seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it-" Loki states, spitting Thor's last name with tangible sarcasm, his electric blue eyes shining.
"Who showed you this power? Who controls this would-be-king?" Thor asks, interrupting Loki.
"I AM KING!" Loki yells.
"Not here! You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream! You come home." Thor states taking steps to Loki, grabbing his shoulders and shaking him slightly, not even noticing the eye color change. Loki looks into Thor's ocean blue eyes for a moment, almost as if he wishes he could, before chuckling.
"I don't have it." Thor pushes Loki away as Mjolnir suddenly flies into Thor's grasp. You need the cube to bring me back home, but I have sent it off I know not where." Thor points his hammer at Loki.
"You listen well, Brother. I-" Suddenly a blur of black and blue rams into Thor that hurtles them both into the forest below.
"I'm listening." Loki stands there before sitting on the ledge to watch the fight.
~~*POV CHANGE AGAIN! Back to Rachel*~~
Rachel carries Thor away from Loki, and into the forest before letting him go, and turning her blasters in reverse quickly enough that Thor continues but slows her enough so she lands on her feet, two seconds later Tony lands next to her, both helmets move from their faces, letting Thor quickly get to his feet, his breaths short from surprise of being whisked away from his brother.
"Do not touch me again!"
"Then don't take my stuff." Rachel replies cooly.
"You have no idea what you are dealing with." Thor rumbles.
"Uh, Shakespeare in the park? Doth Mother know, you weareth her drapes?" Tony quickly intervenes causing Thor more aggravation, and Rachel to smile, which Tony caught
"This is beyond you, metal man. Loki will face Asgardian justice!"
"He gives up the cube he's all yours." Tony states stepping forward and practically in front of Rachel, "Until then, stay out of my way Tourist-" The helmets then close and Tony turns to go gather Loki, in a quickly move that Rachel saw coming Thor throws his hammer at Tony, quickly moving Rachel pushes Tony out of the way and takes the hit, screaming in pain and surprise. Rachel is thrown into three different trees, each breaking until she is forced to stop by a rock. Inside her helmet Jarvis fritzes a bit, causing Tony's video of her to fade before coming back, both getting alerts of what had happened.
"Ok!" Rachel growls standing, from the ledge in which Loki still sat he looked rather alarmed, though full of relief as Rachel stood, his face quickly twisting into amusement to see the fight between his 'brother' and his twin sister. Mjolnir races back to Thor after he lifted his hand, and casts a look at Loki who was smirking at the scene below him. Thor starts to spin Mjolnir by the leather strap but before he can throw it Rachel and Tony hit him in the chest with the palm blasters.
"Rachel?" Tony quickly utters.
"I'm fine, but I believe we will be having roasted blonde for dinner tonight." She states growling her jaw clenching and unclenching in rage. Rachel quickly launched herself into the sky flying towards Thor who was resting against a tree from being pushed back. She kicks him in the chest sending the God of Thunder threw the tree and to the ground 20 feet away. Thor loses his hammer in being tossed back and holds his hand up for Mjolnir to fly into, upon grasping it he raises his hammer to the sky and gathers lightning into it, before pointing it at Rachel. The lightning quickly zooms and hits Rachel in the chest knocking her back a few feet, though she is able to use the knives she had installed as claws into her boots to stay upright. From inside the suit, Rachel's gadgets frits until the lightning stops and Jarvis fills her ears, and thus Tony's.
"Power at 400% capacity." Rachel grins quickly evilly as her eyes bloom in mischief.
"How about that." She quickly loads both her hand blasters, chest blaster and her whip before sending them all at Thor, knocking him about a 100 yards away, Thor twists himself so that he lands with his feet at the base of the tree and rock that he was tossed. Tony quickly runs to Rachel's side as all three of them ready themselves to launch. Thor throws his hammer up and uses it at momentum to fly through the air, Rachel and Tony expecting this blast up to him, each grabbing an arm and the three fly into the air above the forest. The Iron siblings fly Thor threw some of the canopy of the forest before hitting him against a mountain and flying up, Thor being able to get his feet under him runs up the mountain a bit before pushing himself off causing all three of them to loop up and back. They fly through the forest, hitting quite a few trees, upon hitting the last one Thor drops Mjolnir and the three hit the ground, hard. Rachel tumbles and has to quickly move to the side of the last tree they had hit would have fallen on her, as Tony and Thor tumble and are able to regain their footing from the momentum. Thor realizing he hadn't had his hammer in his hand chooses to hit the helmeted Tony in the face, who then reeled back to hit Thor in his, Thor catched Tony's arm, then his free hand as Tony tried to hit him again. In Thor's left hand he starts to crush the Iron Man suit, causing sparks to fly and a screeching type cry to fill the air as the metal moved unwillingly. Tony opens his hand and blasts Thor in the face, using the distraction to headbutt Thor, and free himself. Not liking it Thor headbutts Tony back and sends Tony flying through the forest floor, tumbling Tony is able to stop himself and get his footing using the blasters. Tony shoots himself at Thor, grabs the Thunder God and quite literally throws Thor into a tree. Upon standing Thor and Tony get into an old fashioned brawl, until Tony is on the ground and Thor is standing above him, holding his hand out to where Mjolnir waited to be summoned, and quickly fly into Thor's hand. Tony quickly uses his blasters to knock Thor off of his feet and away from danger after Thor lifted the hammer to hit Tony. Rachel used this moment as Tony got back to his feet to fly at Thor and land a good punch as Thor got up, Rachel moved her arm to shoot the marble grenades at Thor as he drew back his hand that had Mjolnir, before a disk hits the two in the chest, getting their attention.
"Hey!" Captain America says catching his shield as if it were a boomerang, "That's enough." Tony uses this time to come stand next to Rachel as Cap jumps from his perch, "Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here."
"I've come to put an end to Loki's schemes!" Thor shouts at Cap.
"Then prove it! Put. The. Hammer. Down."
"Um no! Bad call, he loves his hammer!" Thor back hands both Rachel and Tony into a fallen tree.
"YOU WANT ME TO PUT THE HAMMER DOWN!?" Thor jumps into the air and brings the hammer down onto Cap, who raises his shield in time for Mjolnir to hit, an implosion of light ensues, as a shockwave mighty enough to bring down anything within a mile radius of the three. The shockwave strong enough to send Thor flying back, as Cap waits in his crowch for things to calm down before standing and staring down Thor. Rachel and Tony stand and look around before at each other.
"Holy shite!" Rachel mutters, looking at her brother in alarm. All four of them breathing hard.
"Are we done here?" Cap asks as the Iron siblings size up both Cap and Thor. Upon Thor's nod, Rachel's helmet retreats from her face.
"Next time do not take my brother without telling us." She states coldly at Thor before turning and flying up next to Loki, who stands and looks at her face.
"Rachel-"
"I am still quite cross with you Loki." She stares at him, her eyes cold and calculating, before softening immensely, "But that scared the living tar out of me." Her suit quickly moves away from her body as she rushes into his embrace, tucking her head under his chin, he stands there in surprise before smiling a little and folds her in his arms. From the ground the three boys stand there in shock.
"Brother? He is not her brother!" Thor states, agrilly, the first to snap out of it.
"Actually, they are twins." Tony says turning to Thor as his own mask slips from his face.
"Twins?!" Steve and Thor ask in unison, Thor more sceptical than surprised like Steve.
"Yep, Rachel did a blood test, and Jarvis, my A.I. butler, did a face test, then Loki seemed to do his own test to prove it. Rachel and Loki are twins." Tony states before joining the two on the ledge.
"You are still in so much trouble Loki. I don't care what your excuse is." Rachel finally back up and glares at Loki, who seemed to have the courtesy to at least LOOK slightly ashamed.
"Come on Chele, we need to get him back to S.H.I.E.L.D." Tony speaks up as Rachel backs into her suit.
~~*Time Skip, they are now on the Helicarrier*~~
Landing was a simple job, and maybe two squads of agents came and lead Loki to his holding cell as Tony and Rachel took off their suits, Rachel looking rather longingly to go with Loki. The group, minus Dr. Banner who was in his lab, sat around a large table with a video feed of Nick Fury placing Loki into a cell, this cell was a cylinder, all sides besides the top and bottom were glass, and only a bench to sit on, inside.
"In case it wasn't clear, and you so much as try to scratch that glass." Fury plays with a computer before pressing a button that opens a hatch under the cell. Loki looks over the edge enough to see what Fury meant, though it held little to no amusement to him. "Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap, see how this works?!" Fury then closes the hatch and points at Loki, "Ant." He then points at the red button on the panel, "Boot."
"Impressive cage." Loki smirks at Fury, "Not built, for I, I suppose."
"Built for something a lot stronger than you." Fury shrugs and cocks his head a little.
"Oh I've heard." Loki practically purrs, then looks at the camera. "A mindless beast, makes play he's still a man. How desperate are you to call on such lost creatures to defend you?"
"How desperate am I? You threaten a world with war, you steal a force you can't hope to control." Fury scoffs, "You talk about peace, yet you kill cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did."
"Ohhh~ It burns you that you have come so close. To have had the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all of mankind to share, then be reminded what real power is." Fury then smiles at Loki before walking off saying over his shoulder.
"Well let me know if 'Real Power' wants a magazine or something." Loki looks at the camera again and smirks. In the briefing room that the group had gathered, this time including Dr. Banner, though excluding Tony and Rachel, the camera feed shuts off.
"He really grows on you doesn't he?" Bruce said with a smirk, amusement laced in his every word.
"Loki is going to drag this out. So, Thor what's his play?" Steve turns to Thor who was standing with his back to the table, his chin in his hand.
"He has an army called the Chitauri. They are not of Asgard or any known world. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the world, and in return, I suspect, the Tesseract."
"An army? From outer space?" Steve asks curiously.
"He's building another portal. That's why he needed Erik Selvig." Bruce suddenly pipes up.
"Selvig?" Thor asks turning around.
"He's an astrophysicist." Bruce supplies.
"He's a friend." Thor replies, turning back around.
"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours." Natasha decided to use that moment to add in.
"I wanna know why Loki let us take him in. He's not leading an army form here." Steve tries to keep the focus on the way Loki is thinking, his strategy.
"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell the crazy off of him." Bruce said looking at Steve.
"Have care how you speak." Thor reprimands Bruce, "Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother."
"He's killed eighty people in two days." Natasha points out, Thor's eyebrows furrow.
"He's adopted." Thor quickly says, much to the other's amusement.
"I think it's about the mechanics. What does he need Iridium for?" Bruce asks trying to get the conversation back on track.
"It's a stabilizing element." Rachel says as she and Tony walk in, Tony in a nice suit and tie, though he wore a leather jacket over it. Rachel in black cut off jeans and a black tank top, her own leather jacket on.
"So I'm just saying, pick a weekend, I'll fly you to Portland. Keep the love alive." Tony mutters to Coulson before turning to the table. "It means the portal won't collapse in on itself, like it did at SHIELD." Tony then turns to Thor as he and Rachel stop at the table. "No hard feelings, Point Break, you have a mean swing." Rachel then takes over the explanation.
"It also means the portal can be as wide and will stay open for as long as they want. And as for that crazy comment, Loki happens to be my twin brother." Tony ruffles Rachel's hair as Natasha and Bruce sit in surprise, while Thor and Steve had gotten their minds wrapped around it, Tony walks over to Fury's computers.
"Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice but we did!" Tony states pointing at the man playing the game, who looked embarrassed and quickly shut down the game, Tony then covers the eye that Fury had to wear an eyepatch on. "How does Fury do this?"
"He turns" Agent Maria Hill states. Tony looks around at the monitors and uses his body to hide him placing a tiny hacking chip on the computers as Rachel takes over.
"Well that sounds rather exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton would be able to access quite easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, to, well kick start the cube."
"And where did you two become experts in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Agent Hill inquired hautly.
"Well I technically went to school for it. Just like most sciences." Rachel says sticking her nose in the air and turning from Hill.
"Last night, I read the packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Were Rachel and I the only ones to do the homework?"
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve then asks taking the attention away that Tony and Rachel had read, whilst none of the others did.
"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Bruce spoke up.
"Unless Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Tony says, as Rachel pulls out her phone to check the progress Jarvis was doing with the hacking.
"Well if he could do that, he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." Bruce replies.
"Ah someone who finally speaks English!" Rachel exclaims raising her head and beaming brightly at Bruce.
"Is that was that just was?" Steve asked incredulously.
"Good to meet you Dr. Banner. You're work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled." Rachel states shaking hands with Bruce.
"Oh! And I personally like when you turn into a giant green rage monster." Tony states popping up next to Rachel shaking Bruce's hand as well, then grunts as Rachel hits him in the stomach.
"Oh Anthony do be nice! Where are your manners!" Rachel scolds him like a child as Bruce looks down.
"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube." Fury states as he enters the room. "I was hoping you two might join him."
"Let's start with his stick. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon." Steve says looking up at Fury.
"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys." Fury says looking over at the three genius'.
"Flying monkeys, I do not understand." Thor states.
"I do! I understood that reference." Steve says almost like a giddy school child.
"Shall we play Doctor?" Tony asks, as Rachel starts to jump in place from excitement.
"This way." Bruce turns and shows the other two to the lab. Along the walk Rachel's excitement quickly flees her, and she walks quietly next to the two chatting men, contemplating on what she should do about Loki.
"Go talk to him Tonie." Rachel almost jumped from her skin when a hand fell on her shoulder, she turned and looked at her brother.
"I'm sorry, did you say something?" Rachel looked at her brother, who rolls his eyes.
"Dr. Banner and I will go play, you need to go talk to him." Rachel blinks then shakes her head.
"Oh no, I couldn't possibly. He deserves to be alone right now."
"Rachel, go." Tony says forcefully and pushes her to the cell. "We'll be ok if you want to go spend time with him."
"Are you sure?" Rachel looks up at Tony from her eyelashes.
"Yes Chele, now go." Rachel kisses Tony's cheek gives a small bow to Bruce for no reason and heads off to the cell they put Loki in.
Tony's POV
Tony looked over to Bruce who was busy trying to find the Tesseract.
"The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks process." Bruce states feeling Tony's eyes on him. Tony shrugs and turns back to his own monitor solving as many algorithms and equations as possible.
"If we bypass their mainframe and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster, we can clock this around six hundred teraflops." Bruce scoffs.
"And all I packed was a toothbrush." Tony gets up from his station and walks around playing with a metal rod in his hand.
"You should come by STARK Tower sometime. Top ten levels, all R&D. You'd love it, it's like candy land."
"Thanks, but the last time I was in New York, I kind of broke…..Harlem." Bruce said sheepishly giving Tony a small smile.
"Well I promise a stress free environment. No tension. No surprises." Tony prods Bruce with the miniature electrical rod, causing the latter man to jump and look at Tony in surprise.
"Ow!" Tony looks at Bruce closely, as disappointment takes over his features.
"Nothing?"
"Hay! Are you nuts Stark!" Steve exclaims announcing his presence.
"You really have a lid on it haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? A huge bag of weed?" Tony says to Bruce ignoring Steve.
"Is everything a joke to you?" Steve asks finally getting Tony's attention.
"Only the funny things." Tony sends Steve a million dollar smirk.
"Threatening the safety of everyone this ship isn't. No offence, Doctor." Steve fights back.
"No, it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things." Bruce gives Tony a look, who scoffs at Bruce.
"You are tiptoeing, Big Man. You need to strut."
"And you need to focus on the mission, Mr. Stark." Steve calls Tony out.
"You think I'm not? Why did Fury call us, and why now? Why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equations if I don't have all the variables." Tony says going back to his computer screen.
"You think he's hiding something from us." Steve states, making an observation.
"He's a spy. Captain, he's THE spy, his secrets has secrets." Tony then suddenly points to Bruce, "It's bugging him too, isn't it?" Bruce jumps as the attention in the room changed to him.
"Uh...I just wanna finish my work here and…."
"Doctor." Steve stops him and gives him a pointed look, there is a pause of silence before Bruce sighs.
"'A warm light for all of mankind', Loki's jab at Fury about the cube."
"I heard it." Steve said still skeptical. Bruce points at Tony.
"Well, I think that was meant for you. Even if Barton didn't post it all over the news."
"Stark Tower? That big ugly-" Tony throws Steve a look, who at least had the decency to look a little guilty, "Building in New York?"
"It's powered by Stark Reactors, self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for what, a year?" Tony looks quite proud of it.
"It's a prototype, I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now." Bruce turned back to Steve.
"So why didn't SHIELD bring him in on the Tesseract project? I mean, what are they doing in the energy business in the first place?"
"I should probably look into that once my decryption program finishes breaking into all of SHIELD's secure files." Tony says pulling it up on his computer screen, Steve turns to Tony in surprise.
"I'm sorry, did you just say….?"
"Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. Rachel helped me distract you of course. In a few hours we'll know every dirty, little secret SHIELD has ever tried to hide." Tony holds a bag of blueberries out to Steve. "Blueberry?"
"Yet you are confused why they didn't want you around?" Steve asks ignoring the blueberries.
"An intelligence organization fearing intelligence? Historically, not possible." Tony rolls his eyes and pops a few more blueberries in his mouth.
"I think Loki is just trying to wind us all up. This man means to start a war, and if we don't stay focused, he'll succeed. We have orders, we should follow them."
"Ah~" Tony smirks, "Following isn't really my style."
"And you're all about style." Steve sends Tony a condescending smirk.
"Of the people in the room, which one is; A. Wearing a spangly outfit, and B. Not of use?" Tony smirks back at the Captain leaning against one of the tables.
"Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky?" Bruce decides at that moment to step in between the two.
"Just find the cube." Steve orders, taking the conversation to heart and exits the lab.
"That's the guy my old man never shut up about? I wonder if they should have left him on ice." Tony said pointing to the door.
"He's right about Loki. The guy has the jump on us."
"What that guy has is ACME dynamite kit." Tony gets up and continues to try and help Jarvis with the hacking, "It's gonna blow up in his face, and I want front row tickets to see it."
"I'm sure I'll read all about it."
"Uh-huh. Or you'd be suiting up with the rest of us."
"Ah. See I don't get a suit of armor. I'm exposed, like a nerve. It's a nightmare."
"You know, I've got a cluster of shrapnel, trying every second, to inch its way into my heart." Tony points at the arc reactor on his chest. "This stops it. This little circle of light. It's a part of me now, not just armor. It's a…...terrible privilege."
"You can control it." Bruce tries to worm his way out of it.
"Because I learned how." Tony states, as Bruce tries to hide behind his computer screen. Tony flicks the information out of the way, so he could see Bruce's face.
"Hay, I've read all about your accident. That much Gamma exposure should have killed you.
"So you're saying the Hulk…..the other guy….saved my life? That's nice. A nice sentiment. Saved it for what?"
"I guess we'll find out." At that both men went back to their work stations and back to work.
"You might not like it." Bruce states after a few moments of silence.
"And you just might."