The sky was dark and stormy, rain was pelting down to earth so hard it hurt. Loki sat on a giant throne, but something was different about this throne. I inched forward getting closer to him, and I realized what the throne was made of.
The throne was made of hundreds of bodies all of people I knew and loved, even my grandmother and mother laid under his feet.
A wail ripped from my throat making Loki rise from the throne and pull me into his arms.
"I told you Cade, you will always be mine. You always have been always will be." He purred into my hair.
I looked down and the throne had turned into a mountain of bodies, rising from the ground beneath our feet. Thor's cold body lay right under our feet.
"Always will be mine." Loki's voice echoed through the space loudly, and as I opened my mouth to scream I was swept away.
I was swept away into a giant field, with a dark forest on the edge, rising menacingly from the earth. My grandmother was standing in the field and I ran to her, but the more I ran forward the further away she was. A dark shape rose from the ground behind her, a figure that I couldn't see. A sword slashed through my grandmother's body, and her ungodly scream ripped me from my sleep.
I woke up screaming.
"Cade, it's okay." I heard a voice say. Large arms wrapped around my body, pulling me against a warm chest.
I opened my eyes and realized that Thor was holding me against him. Hot tears ran down my face as the images played over and over in my head. I sobbed into his chest, and tried to gain control of myself.
"Shhhh. It's okay, it was just a dream Cade." Thor whispered into my hair.
I choked on another sob, but started to slow down my breathing.
"Was it the same dream? The one in the field?" He murmured.
I nodded and held onto him tighter.
"It seems so real, like I've been there before." I choked out. "But I can never see the person that kills my grandmother. It's like a shadow of a memory, but I can never grasp it." I felt Echo, nuzzle his head into my back, able to sense my distress.
"It's just a dream Cade. It will all be okay." Thor soothed stroking my hair.
"Cade are you okay?" I heard Loki's voice in my head.
A shiver of remembrance ran through me, listening to the voice in my dreams.
I could sense his concern, but even now I wondered if it was real.
"I'm fine Loki." I said blandly.
I concentrated on stopping the sobs that were coming out of my mouth, within a few moments I had calmed down enough to slowly pull myself from Thor's arms.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Thor said, concern thick in his voice. I turned back to look at him. He almost looked disappointed, but I couldn't think about that now.
I nodded and walked into the bathroom, shutting the door behind me.
"We still need to talk." Loki said.
"Yes I know." I replied, running my fingers through my hair.
"I expect to see you sometime today."
I shook my head and stripped off my clothes. The warm water made me feel alot better, but I still had dark circles under my eyes from last night when I looked in the mirror after my shower.
I conjured up my armor on my body, and stepped out of the bathroom.
Thor was sitting on the bed dressed in his armor. He gave me a smile when he saw me and stood up. Echo jumped off the bed happily.
"Echo how about you rest for a little." I said giving his head a rub behind the ears.
I drew him back onto my skin, letting his shape form a shadow of a wolf that wrapped around my left arm.
"I think they are all waiting for us." Thor murmured.
I sighed. "Of course they are."
We walked out of the bedroom and back into the main room at the end of the hall, Agent Coulson was waiting for us. He smiled as he saw Thor and led him over to a computer screen, that displayed a picture of Jane.
"As soon as Loki took the doctor we moved Jane to a remote location." He said calmly.
"Thank you." Thor replied, but he shifted from foot to foot uncomfortable. "I don't think Loki taking Erik is a mistake. He has a bigger plan here, and I want to know what it is."
"We will find out Thor." I said confidently, as I rested my hand on his arm trying to comfort him.
"Asgardians believe that they are more advanced that humanity, but then we come down here battling like Bilgesnipe." Thor said angrily.
I laughed at his comparison, because honestly he was right.
"Like what?" Coulson asked a smile on his face.
"Bilgesnipe? Huge scaly, big antlers?" I said confused.
"Nope, we don't have that." Coulson replied.
"Well they are repulsive creatures, and they trample everything in their path." I clarified.
Thor looked out the large windows at the front of the ship. "The last time I came here Loki's wrath followed me. I used to ask for war, but now..." He trailed off.
"War hasn't started." A deep voice said. I turned around and spotted Fury, who had apparently just materialized out of nowhere. "Do you think you can get Loki to tell us where the tesseract is?"
Thor sighed. "I do not know. Loki is so focused on his hatred of me that he won't tell me anything." Thor looked over at me. "Do you think he would tell you?"
I shrugged. "It's possible, but I don't know how much pull I have with Loki now. It's been a year Thor, he might not feel the same way he used to."
"I've seen the way he looks at you Cade. There is still something there if you pry at it." Thor replied.
"Wait. You and Loki..." Coulson began to say.
Fury's gaze shot to me, and in that moment I knew we had said too much.
Fury won't let me go now either, I can see it on his face. He will keep me here to use me to get to Loki.
"We were something at one point, but that was a while ago." I said vaguely, trying to get Fury's gaze off of me.
"Then it's possible he will tell you." Fury replied raising an eyebrow.
"Possible." I murmured.
"Let's see what Agent Romanoff can make him say." Fury said turning to a monitor where a thin brunette stood.
I saw the reflection of the screen and saw that Loki was talking to Natasha.
A microphone on Fury's wrist repeated Natasha's voice.
"He means to use the Hulk to break free, meet me at the lab." I saw her turn and leave the room quickly.
"This way." Coulson said motioning for Thor and I to follow him, down the same hallway we had come from.
We finally arrived at a small room that was set up with several screens and types of equipment I had never seen. Tony and Bruce stood in the far corner of the room and on the desk, sat a golden scepter. I took a step forward, enthralled in the glow that emanated from the blue tip.
It called me forward. I just have to hold it.
Thor's hand on my arm grounded me back to reality.
"Cade what are you doing?" Thor asked me raising an eyebrow.
"I honestly don't know. There was a voice calling me towards it Thor. I just lost my head for a second." I replied.
He shook his head smiling at me.
Fury stalked into the room. "What are you doing Mr. Stark?"
"I could ask you the same thing." Tony replied smugly from behind the desk.
"You are supposed to be focused on finding the tesseract." Fury challenged.
"We are. We have a tracker looking for it right now, when it picks up the signal it will notify us immediately." Bruce said calmly.
"I'm more concerned about what phase 2 is." Tony teased.
"Phase 2 is SHIELD using the tesseract to make weapons." Steve interrupted coming into the room and slapping several guns on the table. "Sorry the computer was moving a little slow." Steve said looking over at Tony.
"Steve those are just from hydra, we haven't been-" Fury began to say.
"I'm sorry what were you saying?" Tony interrupted swinging his monitor around to show us a series of serious looking weapons.
Steve clenched his teeth. "I was wrong, the world hasn't changed."
"Wait, humanity can't have the tesseract, that power is too much for this planet." I said to Thor.
Thor sighed. "Humanity does not understand what they have. When this is over we will take it with us."
"Did you know about this?" Bruce said to Natasha who had just walked into the room.
"Are you sure you don't want to remove yourself from this situation doctor?" Natasha replied, narrowing her eyes.
"I was in Calcutta , I was pretty far removed. You brought me into this." Bruce replied, moving around the table.
"Loki is manipulating you." Natasha said calmly.
"I'm not going to leave until I find out why SHIELD is making weapons of mass destruction!" Bruce shouted.
Fury sighed dramatically. "Because of them." He pointed at Thor and me.
"What?" I sputtered.
"We have no quarrel with you." Thor replied, confused.
"Last year Earth had a visitor from another planet and it leveled a small town. We learned that we are not alone in the universe and that humanity is hopelessly outgunned." Fury continued.
"Our people want nothing but peace." Thor reasoned.
Obsidian began to wind itself around my wrist, sensing a fight. I could feel Echo shifting against my arm, itching to jump off my skin.
"But you're not the only people out there, are you?" Fury urged. "The world is filling up with people who can't be matched people who can't be controlled." As he said this his eye shot to me.
I'm here one day and I'm already being looked at like I'm the next science project.
Something inside of me began to burn white hot beneath the surface.
Thor positioned himself between me and Fury, rage pouring off him. "Cade is here to help, not to become a prisoner. I have allowed you to lock away my brother, but if you touch her I will not be as forgiving."
Fury opened his mouth to speak, but I shut him up.
"Your experiments on the tesseract drew Loki and his friends here. It broadcasted to the rest of the universe that Earth is ready for a higher form of war." I snarled. "It is not out fault."
"A higher form?" Steve repeated.
"Yes. If you think that my sword is something incredible," I chuckled darkly. "You ain't seen nothing yet."
"You forced our hand, we had to come up with something." Fury roared.
"You messed with a power you do not understand, and now it is too late. Midgard will reap what it has sown." I replied coldly.
"I thought that humans were more evolved than this." Thor murmured.
"Excuse me did we come to your planet and blow things up?" Fury shouted, his hand twitching towards his belt.
Thor was taken aback. "Do you treat all of your champions with this much mistrust?"
"Captain America is even on SHIELD'S watch list." Natasha added, motioning to Steve.
I was suddenly aware of the energy in the room. I glanced towards the table where the scepter sat, it was glowing brighter than it had been.
Loki isn't just manipulating Bruce, he's manipulating all of us.
I closed my eyes and attempted to get a hold of myself, purging my mind from what the scepter had done.
"You all want control, but you welcome chaos." Thor said angrily.
Tony and Steve began to get closer to each other, both trying to spit on the other.
This isn't good.
Thor moved forward towards Fury, but I caught his hand in mine, turning him to face me.
"Something's wrong." I said to him.
"They want a fight and I shall give them one."Thor roared in my head.
I placed my hands on the sides of his head.
"Loki is manipulating all of us and we need to calm down. Something big is about to happen." I replied soothingly. I calmed his mind trying to let him see what Loki was doing. Thor opened his eyes slowly, the piercing blue almost taking my breath away.
"It's going to be okay. I can stop this." I said to him, calming him down.
"Dr. Banner put the scepter down." I heard Steve say.
I looked around Thor and saw Bruce holding the scepter.
"Bruce you need to calm down. We all need to calm down, Loki wants us all at each other's throats." I said taking a step towards him.
I sent soothing thoughts towards his mind, trying to calm him, but I couldn't.
A beeping noise went off and everyone looked towards the tracker.
"Found it." Tony said typing something against the screen. "I can get there the fastest, I'll go."
"The tesseract belongs in Asgard, no human is a match for it." Thor said moving towards Tony.
An explosion shook the ship and I jolted towards the wall. Thor, jumped towards me and caught me before I hit, steadying me against him.
"Are you alright?" He whispered.
I nodded. "I'm pretty sure this is Loki's prison break."
I looked back to where Bruce and Natasha had been standing, but a huge hole in the floor took up most of the room.
"Hill!" Fury yelled into his headset. He nodded at the information coming in. "We've lost an engine. Stark I need you out there fixing it now."
Tony and Steve shot from the room. A piercing alarm wailed throughout the ship, lighting the hallways red.
"Coulson lock down the detention room then go to the armory." Fury said into his headset running from the room.
Thor looked down into the hole that Natasha and Bruce had fallen into.
A roar ripped through the hole in the floor and echoed all over the ship.
Thor and I jumped at the same time