Three shots fell directly into the center of the target on the wall. Catherine put the pistol back on the table next to her and looked at Loki with a smile. Loki, however, just stood beside her with his arms crossed, without a blink of an eye.
„So, you really think pistols are better than daggers?" asked Loki incredulously as he took the weapon and examined it.
„Yes, they are more effective for targets that are farther away. Daggers are only useful for close combat.", she explained, taking the weapon from his hands again so he wouldn't accidentally release a shot.
„Whatever you say.", Loki raised his eyebrows and lifted his hands, „So I'll make you a deal. You show me how to shoot, I'll teach you how to use daggers. At the end we decide if we could change each other's minds or not."
Catherine held out her hand to him to seal the deal, but Loki just looked at her hand in confusion, „That's what we do here on Earth to seal the deal."
„Well you're not from Earth, so it doesn't apply to you," Loki explained mischievously. However, the while he said the words, took her hand in his.
„I grew up here, the people I care about live here. Home is not where you were born, it's where your heart is. Where is your heart?", Loki pondered as the two were interrupted and pulled their hands from each other. Monica joined them in the room with a tablet and hastily typed something on it.
„To what do we owe the pleasure, Miss Rambeau?", Loki asked without taking his eyes off Catherine. He did finally turn to Monica and clasped his hands behind his back.
„Monica, you're supposed to be resting," Catherine says worriedly.
„There's no time for that now," Monica turns the tablet with the screen over to Loki and Catherine. A video was playing on it. Wanda flew with her power to the courtyard in the base. She fought two of the enemy soldiers and flings them away. But all of a sudden, Wanda held the sides of her head and doubled over in pain before falling unconscious on the ground. The scene of the video changed to show Vision. He was flying towards an enemy jet, trying to take it out, when the jet shoots an electric force field at Vision. This causes him to fall to the ground like a stone, motionless. Bucky is shown next as the scene of the video changes again. He is fighting with two soldiers. Bucky manages to punch the one soldier in the face. The other soldier slams Bucky into a wall and the Winter Soldier also sinks to the ground unconscious. Loki averts his eyes from the video, he knew how it would turn out with the other members of his team on the video.
„What are we looking at? When is this video from?"
„It's surveillance footage of the SWORD base, it was taken an hour ago," Monica explained, turning on a new surveillance video. She tells Loki to look at the tablet again. The time travel machine can be seen. One of the soldiers was at one of the computers copying, Loki could visibly see, the blueprints of the machine onto a USB stick. Another soldier installed a bomb on the completed time machine and pressed a button to start the bomb. The soldiers left the base. Monica fast-forwarded the video as the bomb exploded. A power source went all over the base and made a vacuum appear above it. The scenes change, showing each of the Avengers being engulfed by the vacuum.
„Where did they go?" asks Catherine, confused.
„The explosion caused a time vacuum to form around the base. We assume this sent the Avengers to different times," Monica explains.
„Then get them the hell back!" says Loki excitedly.
„It's not that easy, Loki."
„How many agents disappeared with?", Catherine tries to change the subject so the situation doesn't escalate.
„The base was evacuated by Director Hayward when the base was attacked," Monica explains, turning off the tablet.
„What do we do now?", Loki curiously asks Monica.
„We have contacted Stark. He will build the machine again with a few modifications, but we need a team to carry out the mission for us," Monica explains to the two.
„Well I count three in the room here," Loki says, pointing around between the three.
„So when do we start?" asks Catherine, putting her gun back in the holster on her belt.
„Right now," Loki says. He spins and hurls a dagger into the middle of the target with ease.
A/N: Tell me in the comments what you think of the chapter, pls!
