Chapter 4
We arrived at the Helicarrier only a couple hours after we were joined by Thor. Honestly I was too pissed off to talk to anyone. I needed to keep calm or risk endangering the lives of all those on board. So I stood in the the control room away from the others taking deep breaths my eyes closed. The others were staring at the table which surface was basically a giant screen.
"In case it's unclear, you try to escape, you so much as scratch that glass. Thirty thousand feet straight down in a steel trap. You get how it works," Fury's voice carried from the footage the others were watching, I assumed he was addressing Loki. "Ant...boot," Fury continued.
"It's an impressive cage...not built, I think, for me," I heard Loki reply. My eyes flashed open at this statement. I walked over to the table and stared at the screen. My eyes narrowed as I waited for Fury's answer. "Something a lot stronger than you," Fury replied. "Oh, I've heard. The mindless beast, makes play he's still man. And the woman who could take down everyone on this ship if she loses her temper," Loki smirked his eyes on the camera, seemingly looking straight at me. Three sets of eyes were now trained on me Thor's, Captain's and Bruce's.
"How desperate are you? That you call upon such lost creatures to defend you?" Loki asked grinning maliciously. "How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war, you steal a force you can't hope to control, you talk about peace but you kill because it's fun. You have made me very desperate, you might not be glad that you did," Fury replied.
"Oh it burns you to come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what, a warm light for all of mankind to share? And to be reminded what real power is," Loki said mockingly. "Well, you let me know if real power wants a magazine or something," Fury retorted before walking out of the room.
"He really grows on you doesn't he?" I asked all eyes looking now on me. "Loki's going gonna drag this out. So Thor, what's his game play?" Steve asked. "He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or of any other world known. He means to lead to lead them against your people, they will win him the earth in return I suspect for the Tesseract," Thor replied crossing his arms across his chest.
"An army from space really?" Steve asked skeptically. "So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Eric Selvig for," I stated. "Selvig?" Thor asked. "He's an astrophysicist," Dr. Banner explained. "He's a friend," Thor replied. "Loki has him under some kind of spell along with one of ours," Nat said. I looked at her eyes widened. "He has Clint doesn't he?" I asked paying attention to her reaction. Her reaction told me everything, even though Nat was a spy, when it came to Clint she couldn't hide it.
"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked staring at her more hurt then angry. "I wanna know why Loki let us take him, he's not leading an army from here?" Steve asked bringing our attention back the matter at hand. "I don't think we should be focusing on Loki..." Dr. Banner began, "that guy is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him." "I don't care for how you speak of, Loki is beyond reason but he's of Asgard and he's my brother," Thor protested angrily.
"He killed eighty people in two days," Nat replied. "He's adopted," Thor replied awkwardly. It took everything in me not to laugh at this. "Iridium, what did they need iridium for?" Dr. Banner asked. "It's a stabilizing agent, meaning the portal won't collapse on itself like it at SHIELD," a turned to see that it was Stark walking into the room. "No hard feelings point break, you got a mean swing," Stark said addressing Thor, I rolled my eyes at this.
"Also it means the portal can open wide and stay open as Loki wants," Stark explained. "That man is playing Galaga thought we wouldn't notice but we did," Stark said pointing at one of agents at the computers who was indeed playing Galaga. Stark walked up the platform where Fury controlled the Helicarrier. "How does Fury see all of these?" Stark asked placing his left hand over his left eye. "He turns," Agent Hill replied. "Agent Barton can get all the raw materials he needs pretty easily. The only thing left is a power source a high enough energy density to kick the start the cube," Tony continued.
"When did you become an expert on thermonuclear astrophysicist," Nat asked. "Last night actually. The packet Selvig's notes the extraction theory papers am I the only one who did the reading?" Tony asked. "Does Loki need any particular power source?" I asked trying to be helpful. "He's got to heat the heat the cube of a hundred and twenty Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier," Dr. Banner stated. "Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling affect," Tony piped in. "Well if he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet," Dr. Banner continued. My head was beginning to spin from all the sciency talk.
"Finally someone who speaks English," Tony said to Dr. Banner. "Is that what just happened?" Steve asked, I nodded in agreement. "Its good to meet you Dr. Banner your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled and I'm a huge fan of how you lose control and turn into a giant green rage monster," he said. "Thanks," Dr. Banner mumbled. "Dr. Banner is only here to track down the cube. I was hoping you would join him," Fury said addressing Tony. "Let's start with that stick of his it may be magical but it works and awful lot like a hydra weapon," Steve said. "I don't know about that unit is powered by the cube and I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the smartest men I know into his personal fly monkeys," Fury stated. "Flying monkeys I don't understand," Thor said confused. "I do, I got that reference," Steve announced proudly. "Shall we play, doctor" Tony said smiling. "Let's play some," Dr. Banner replied. I watched the two walk down the long hallways disappearing into its seemingly endless twists and turns.
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