AN: I do not appreciate flames. While there are parts that are similar, a lot is still changing. I am open to ideas and constructive criticism, but blatant flames like "this sucks," "you suck," are unnecessary. No one is forcing you to read this.

Once securing God of Mischief on the quinjet, Harry cast several binding and restraining curses on him. Harry also remembered a spell of his own design to cast; when he was helping to raise Teddy, he created it to be the magical equivalent of child leash, preventing the one tethered by it from going more than a set distance away from Harry. In this case, Harry had set the distance as sixty-five feet. Turning around he faced the group. "that should keep him restrained long enough for us to get him in a cell back at SHIELD."

Everyone nodded and took seats as the quinjet took off. They had been flying for little over an hour when a storm started brewing over-head. Loki began to look uncomfortable. Tony, who was keeping an eye on him smirked, "what? don't tell me your afraid of a little bit thunder."

Loki looked up at Tony, a frown on his face. "I am not particularly fond of what follows." No sooner had Loki said this that there was a loud THUNK on the roof of the quinjet followed immediately by two more THUNKs in quick succession.

Standing up, Harry used his staff to quickly suit up. The gemstones on the Staff lit up representing his magic currently pulsing from Harry into the Staff ready to fight off whatever potential threat was on the roof. Pushing the button on wall, Harry opened the hatch, however before he could do anything else, the figure flew off the roof and in the now open hatch. "Thor? What are you doing here?" Harry, although he had a sneaking suspicion of why Thor was present, needed to ensure he wasn't being controlled by whatever force Loki was apparently now capable of wielding.

Thor looked up, "Seidr?" Thor took a minute to study the situation and noticed Loki seemed barely able to move before nodding. "Heimdall noticed Loki's arrival here on Earth. He attempted to send me immediately, but something was blocking the power of the Bifrost from crossing to Midgard. Fearing the worst, once the Bifrost was able to be opened I came with two of the Asgard's finest with more ready to be sent here if the situation was truly dire."

Harry nodded, allowing his Armour to return to the pocket dimension inside the Staff, "from what we know so far, Loki used the power of Tesseract to come here to Earth using a yet to be determined power contained within his Scepter…" Harry pointed to Loki's Scepter inside a container against the wall. "…he was able to take control of the minds of several mid to high ranking SHIELD agents who assisted Loki in stealing the Tesseract for a yet to be determined purpose. while attempting to locate the Tesseract, we managed to find Loki who was very clearly not hiding as he attempted to subjugate several men and women…"

Before Harry could continue, Thor turned an angry expression on his brother "WHAT HAS COME OVER YOU LOKI? YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO ENSLAVE THE MIDGARDIANS NOW? BEFORE I THOUGHT YOU WERE SIMPLY LASHING OUT IN ANGER BUT NOW THIS!" Thor began advancing on his brother looking ready to use his godly strength.

Harry however was quick to intervene, "easy there big guy, I know you'd like to beat some sense into the man, we still need him however. we don't know his plans for the Tesseract, what he has done with it, or what he plans to do with it. So, for now he has to remain in one piece."

Thor paused to consider before nodding, seeing the wisdom in Harry's words. "we will locate the Tesseract and then I will bring Loki to Asgard where he will pay for his crimes here on Midgard."

Tony cleared his throat, "that is all well and good, though I would appreciate it Magic Man if you would introduce us to your friend," Tony joked. Tony, Steve, and Natasha had been watching the exchange.

Harry laughed turning around, "Tony, Steve, Natasha, this is Thor, Norse God of Thunder, brother to Loki here…" turning to face Thor, Harry pointed out and introduced the team. "Thor this is Steve Rogers also known as Captain America, Anthony 'Tony' Stark known by many as Iron Man, and finally the ever lovely and charming Natasha Romanoff known to quite a few as Black Widow."

Thor took Natasha's hand brushing her knuckles against his lips, "my fair lady it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

Natasha was quick to pull her hand away "I am anything but fair…" turning around she resumed control of the quinjet. "we are arriving back at the SHIELD helicarrier; prepare the prisoner for transport to his cell." Sliding a headset on she activated the call feature to signal approach. "Helicarrier, this is quinjet T requesting clearance to land…" Natasha paused to listen, "we have eight souls on board, command. seven friendly and one prisoner for immediate transfer to GMC2008." Nodding Natasha slowly brought the quinjet in for a landing.

After landing, the back hatch of the quinjet opened and several SHIELD agents were standing by ready to take Loki to the containment unit. Thor turned to the guards he brought with him, "accompany my brother ensure he is unable to escape his shackles." The pair nodded taking up a place on either side of Loki before the agents closed ranks around them leading them off to the containment unit.

Natasha stood up, "let's get inside so we can brief Fury on the situation," the assembled group nodded and filed off the quinjet heading towards the command center.

Harry was the first to arrive. He took a seat at one head of the table, leaning the Staff against the side. Steve followed next, taking the seat to his left. Tony was behind him taking the seat on Harry's right and Thor was quick to take the seat to the left of Steve, and Natasha the seat next to Tony on the left, leaving three seats open. Harry waved his hand, casting his Patronus. "Prongs could you go and fetch Bruce; bring him here please, he should here this."

Prongs flew off in search of Bruce to deliver the message. A few minutes later, Bruce walked in taking a seat next to Natasha. "I received your message sent by the ghostly deer," Bruce said, mirth evident in his voice.

"We can discuss what it was later, for now Fury take a seat, we have a lot to discuss." Harry gestured to the empty seat across the table from him. After Fury was sitting, Harry kicked things off. "I know I am not the only one thinking it, but that was entirely too easy to capture Loki... for a God, he gave up much to easy."

"Harry, did you not block much of his power when he escaped from Asgard through the void?" Thor was wearing a very confused look upon his face.

Harry nodded. "I did, and the ritual I cast had only one way to undo it by binding it to the blood of you and your father it made so that it would require the combined presence of you and your father to break the block. However he was also far stronger then he should have been…"

While Harry was pausing to consider, the group moved on to discuss other things, "what was he doing in Struttgart, Germany anyway?" Fury spoke up from his place at the table.

"Iridium; it works as a stabilizing agent. He would be able to make a portal as big and as wide as he wants that wouldn't collapse upon itself like the one in New Mexico did… The only issue he would have would be the power requirement to open something that size. Based on the amount that was taken, he would take out the power grid of several cities," Tony explained.

"That Staff of his is how he is so powerful. I don't know what it is, but it was able to put up quite the fight against my mental shields... it must also be able to power him up regardless of the block I placed on him."

Fury slammed his hand down on the table "unimportant! what matters right now is finding out what he did with the Tesseract, and where and how he plans to open this portal." Pausing, he looked over the assembled group, "dismissed!"

R

Tony, Bruce, and Harry headed towards the lab Bruce had been working in, taking the Staff with them to analyze it. No one talked while Bruce and Tony worked their technological scans. Harry worked his diagnostic magic to determine what the Staff was. Finally, Harry was the first to break the silence. "What was SHIELD doing with the Tesseract anyway? If they were in clean energy why not bring Tony? You are quite literally the only name in clean energy; with your mind they would have been able to figure it out in weeks, or days."

Pulling up a console, Tony studied it. "I'm not sure, but in approximately 1 hour all their secrets will be mine."

While neither Harry or Bruce were comfortable with the idea of hacking into SHIELD. They needed the information Fury wasn't giving them. Harry reached into his moleskin pouch and pulled out a calming draught. "Bruce, I want you to drink this. while personally I would love to meet Big and Green, whatever is going to happen in the next hour, we want you to stay calm."

Bruce looked at it unsure what to say, but nodded and knocked it back shuddering a bit at the taste. "What was in that? I've never felt the Hulk so calm before."

"It's a calming draught. it will keep you calm no matter what, which right now I think we would do better with Bruce Banner over the so-called 'Incredible Hulk'."

R

While the three were working on attempting to locate the Tesseract, Steve had other ideas in mind for figuring out what SHIELD was up to. Sneaking down into the bowels of the Heli-carrier and avoiding the agents who were patrolling, eventually he came upon several crates marked Phase II.

"Phase II... what are you working on here, Fury?" Reaching down, he pulled his knife from his belt and used it to slice open one of the crates. Opening it, he was horrified to find several weapons which reminded him quite vividly to those that were used by Hydra during World War II.

Slamming the crate shut, he grabbed it, intending to bring it up to show the rest of the team.

R

Arriving in the lab, Steve found Tony jabbing Bruce with a needle in several places. "Stark, knock it off we don't need any incidents while we are this high up in the air."

Harry waved him off. "I have taken care of that particular eventuality, Captain, for the next several hours Bruce is well under control. There will be no Hulk sightings for the near future. if we end up needing him, however, I can coax him out..." Pausing, Harry noticed the crate resting on his shoulder, "what's that?"

Placing it on the lab table in front of him, "SHIELD's Phase II they were making weapons that were powered by the Tesseract. There were quite a few other crates contained down there as well that I didn't go through. But I am quite sure there are several more of these in there as well."

At that moment there was a beep on the computer. "well my hack finished, let's see what other secrets they're hiding."

Pulling up his virtual console in front of him, Tony started browsing through the information he had access to, whereas Bruce and Harry had been ok with Tony hacking, Steve who was still adjusting to being in this world where people kept secrets like this, "you're hacking SHIELD?!"

"They are a spy organization, Captain. their secrets have secrets. I doubt these weapons are the extent of what Fury has been covering up from us."

Just as Tony had finished speaking, Fury and Natasha showed up. Steve who was prepared to go off on Tony again, chose that moment to round on the man. "WHAT IS SHEILD DOING WITH TESSERACT WEAPONS!"

Fury groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose. while he knew this was going to happen sooner or later, he would have preferred later. "it's because of them!" Fury pointed in the direction of Thor, who had arrived during the argument, and Harry. "One of you shows up out of the blue wielding powers you got from who knows where and while he says he is on our side that could all change in a moment if we piss him off…" Turning to face Thor he continued "the other shows up in a swirling RAINBOW FUCKING VORTEX and the proceeds to level half a town in New Mexico in some form of grudge match between him and his brother, SHIELD needed a "nuclear" deterrent."

While most everyone in the room was agreeable to needing something to keep threats from going off the deep-end, Thor was not. "THE TESSERACT IS A SYMBOL THAT MIDGARD IS READY FOR A HIGHER FORM OF WAR BY MESSING WITH IT YOU HAVE OPENED THE DOORWAY FOR ALL FORMS OF THREATS!"

Fury took stock of the situation in front of him. "Banner, perhaps you want to remove yourself from the situation?"

Bruce giggled a smile present on his face, "I was pretty far removed when you guys dug me up and brought me here but don't worry Harry has taken care of the Big Green situation, gave me some kind of drink and I have never felt better."

Fury turned, raising an eyebrow at Harry who just shrugged in response. Before either man could say anything, an explosion rocked the ship. Harry was the first to regain his bearings "the other side is making their move Tony, Steve you go with Fury to the bridge, figure out what's broken and fix it keep this bird in the sky, Thor go and make sure your brother is contained and don't let him get away."

The group nodded Tony spoke up, "and what about you Mr. Leader what are you going to do?"

Harry pointed down through the hole that Bruce and Natasha had fallen through "I am going to make sure the two of them are ok, then meet up with Thor to help him secure Loki." Summoning the Staff to his hand Harry willed his armour into existence before diving through the hole after them.

R

Fury arrived on the bridge with Tony and Rogers and quickly took command of the chaos "What are we looking at people?"

Hill, who had been looking over the consoles in front of her stood up, "sir, rotors 1 and 2 are operating at 100 %, 3 is functioning at 50 %, and 4 is down completely if we don't get it online soon, we are toast."

"Rogers, Stark, quit standing around. you know what you have to do get that rotor back online and keep this bird in the air."

R

Touching down one level below the lab, Harry found Natasha struggling to get loose from a piece of the structure that had pinned her leg. "Worry not, beautiful. Your knight in shining Armour has appeared." Natasha rolled her eyes, but welcomed his help. Waving the Staff, he turned the structure into bubbles which floated up and away allowing her to get up. "Now where did Bruce -?" A loud roar echoed through the hallway, cutting Harry off.

Natasha groaned. "I thought you took care of that!"

"Well I'm sorry that my potions weren't ever tested on men who could turn into the Jolly JOLLY GREEN FUCKING GIANT before." Reaching into his pouch, he pulled out several flasks of calming drought. "I am going to distract and restrain him. Once I do start pouring those down his throat 'til he turns back."

Waving his hand, Harry turned her invisible just as the Hulk came rushing in. "Hey big guy, you don't want to do this. I don't want to have to hurt you."

Hulk just roared and began charging at Harry Waving the Staff, he turned the floor in front of him into quicksand, hoping to slow his approach while conjuring foam blocks around the Hulk's fists.

Hulk wasn't affected at all by Harry. He charged across the quicksand, which seemed to have no impact on the green behemoth, smashing his hand together several times, the blocks eventually shattered and he went to punch Harry directly in the gut, but was stopped by a well-placed shield at the last second.

Placing some distance between himself and the Hulk, Harry began twirling the Staff, taking control of the rubble and debris around them. He began transforming into chains and bindings. Natasha, who Harry had lost track of by this point, whispered in his ear "those aren't going to hold long."

Harry nodded. "I know that. I just need them to hold him in place long enough for this." Twirling the Staff once more he cast one of the spells he had learned from Osiris. "Vincula umbra" from the swirling vortex in the center of the Staff, black chains sprung forth wrapping themselves around the Hulk and pinning him to the ground. Not done, however, he continued using his knowledge from his time on Asgard as well. "Inneholder utyret", the chains that Harry had cast before suddenly the Hulk was down on his back stuck to the ground attempting to free himself from the chains. "Natasha, NOW!"

The invisibility dropped and Natasha rushed forward and began uncapping the flasks and dumping into Hulks mouth who was roaring in outrage, slowly the beast began turning back into the man and Harry allowed the magic to fade. "You handle it from here I have a god to make sure stays chained up." No sooner had Harry finished his statement had he teleported from the room.

R

Harry arrived in the containment area just in time to see Loki about to press a button; the button to drop the containment module, which was now holding Thor, instead of Loki, out of the ship. "Dammit Loki," casting several stunners at Loki, Harry went running and dove out of the bottom of the ship after Thor. He didn't see the stunners pass right through where Loki should have been.

As he fell Harry placed the Staff in the holster on his back angling himself towards the containment module, pushing his magic to give him more speed he slowly caught up with the containment module and faded inside.

"Seidr, what are you doing? Loki is going to get away," Thor was more concerned with containing Loki than his own safety.

"I should have stunned him before I came after you now hold on and this might get a little uncomfortable." Harry wrapped an arm around Thor's arm and teleported them out of the containment module back to the heli-carrier just as the module smashed into the ground shattering.

Re-appearing back inside the containment Harry and Thor were disheartened to discover Loki was gone. Thor let his anger known as he punched a hole through the wall of ship.

AN: The spells in this chapter

Inneholder utyret – Norwegian Translates to Contain Beast

Vincula umbra – Latin translates to Shadow Chains