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What was that about? Creep much?
Austin thinks to herself as she heads back to her room. As she lays down on the bench she replays her conversation with the stranger in her head over and over slowly drifting to sleep.
"I'm not afraid to hit an old man," Tony's voice jolts Austin out of her sleep causing her to sit up quickly. Well someone is not happy. She hastily gets up and walks towards the sounds and looks in quietly.
"Put on the suit," says Steve in Tony's face.
"What's going on?," says the girl catching everyone's attention.
"I've already told you, you have nothing to do with this so go back to your room," Austin just scoffs and brushes off her fathers comment and crosses her arms stepping completely into the room.
"How many times do I have to tell you that you don't have the right to tell me what to do anymo-,"
"And how many times do I have to tell you I don't want you here," she drops her smirk and loses all playfulness in her face, "you are just in the way and you know what you were right I had no plans of coming to find you or your mother, not when I have a job to do!," pain and hurt was written all over Austin's face. Suddenly Fury regretted his harmful words, "Austin I-,"
"Just forget it," she interrupts, her voice cracking. As her eyes fill with angry tears she turns to leave the room, then she smirks, "I'm here to help," she turns around slowly wiping her tears, "Too bad you don't want it," and with that she spins around and walks out of the room. But I know someone who does.
"Oh my god," at that moment, Banner who's looking at the monitor notices something about the Tesseract. And a large explosion sounds as Barton's arrow blows the engine right off the helicarrier.
What the hell was that?!
Austin flies into the near hallway wall hard from the sudden explosion, her head pounding. She stands up slowly trying to catch her balance. Sirens and red blinking lights are everywhere with people running in all directions. Stay focused Austin, to the holding cell room hurry!
"It's Barton. He took our systems. He's headed for the detention level. Does anybody copy?," Fury asks as the helicarrier dangerously tilts to one side from the shut down of Engine 1. Still shaken by the Hulk ordeal, Natasha sits there, rocking back and forth, after crying for a while. Summoning back all her coolness, she touches her earpiece.
"This is Agent Romanoff. I copy," she springs up and runs for Barton.
Austin finally reaches the holding cell room where three men in black step forward,
"You can't be in here, this room is on lockdown!," the first one steps forward attempting to push her out of the room. She immediately grabs his arm pulling it towards her side and elbows his face then his gut with intense speed and strength. She then spins around and trips him causing his head to make hard contact with the metal railing. The agent lies unconscious on the floor.
"Stand down agent!," says one of the other agents. The two move towards the girl.
"I'm not an agent," Austin states as she kicks the first one in the face. Soon Loki is on his feet watching the scene intently. The second agent comes behind and wraps his arms around her chest holding her arms down when she lifts her legs up and kicks the railing sending the agent backwards into the opposite railing. With the wind knocked out of him, Austin easily slides from underneath his grip and begins to swing. The other agent comes from behind as she grabs his arm pulling it forward then elbows his forearm downward nearly breaking it. The man lets out a cry of pain as she kicks back her left leg into his shin sending him to the ground and finishes with an elbow to the face. Finally she grabs the breathless agent's head and slams it into the metal railing leaving all three grown agents unconscious at her feet.
"I do have to say I'm quite impressed," says the prisoner. Austin turns towards the speaker and walks toward the glass wall.
"You'd be the first," Loki simply looks at her with his signature sneer.
"Hmm well," he backs away from the window and turns around," I am curious though," he takes a seat, "why go through all this trouble…just to see me?," she places a similar smirk on her face as she answers him.
"I have a proposition," a more serious version of his sneer made its way to his face.
"Do tell," the girl crosses her arms and explains.
"I was here to meet my father, turns out neither did he want to meet me nor did he want my help, so I'm offering it to you," the convict smiled slyly.
"What if I said I don't need your help-,"
"You'd be lying," Austin interrupts. He merely scoffs and stands.
"So what's in it for you may I ask?," she smiles and continues.
"You take me with you," and for the first time, the girl sees his face expressionless. No smile, no sneer or smirk. She takes this as her que as she walks to the control panel, "Do we have a deal?," He motions his head down keeping eye contact with her and smiles.
"Deal," and with that she presses the release button and the glass door releases open. The prisoner slowly walks out.
"No!," yells Thor as he charges at his brother. Loki walks up to him and crouches down to attack. Thor only goes through him. Austin speechless stands perplexed. The false Loki dissipates into nothingness. The real Loki comes out from the behind the control panel next the to the confused girl. He quickly shuts the cell door locking his brother inside.
"Are you ever not going to fall for that?," asks Loki with a smile. Austin looks at him realizing he is much taller than she thought. He looks down at her with the same sneer then back at his captive.
"H-how did you- how did you do that?," she says finally getting the words out. He returns her gaze and begins his sentence but is quickly interrupted.
"Move away, please," Loki moves away from the control panel as Agent Coulson stands there, holding the Phase 2 Weapon Prototype, "You like this? We started working on the prototype after you sent the Destroyer. Even I don't know what it does. Do you wanna find out?," suddenly a loud gasp is heard. Agent Coulson is impaled through the heart, the real Loki stands behind Coulson. Austin covers her mouth in astonishment. Did that just happen..
"Nooo!," yells Thor as his friend falls to the floor. Loki makes his way to the control panel swiftly around the speechless girl. He gives his brother one last look. Thor looks at him, hopeful. Loki opens the hatch. Thor still hopes. Loki hit's the button and drops Thor out of the ship.
"You're gonna lose," says a dying Agent Coulson.
"Am I?," Loki turns towards his victim while Austin merely stands in silence still astounded of the series of events.
"It's in your nature," Agent Coulson scoffs after his comment.
"Your heroes are scattered you floating fortress falls from the sky…where is my disadvantage?," the dying man smiles slightly.
"You lack conviction," Loki's signature smirk drops as he makes his way towards the man on the floor.
"I don't think I…-," his argument is interrupted by Coulson shooting him with the Phase 2 Weapon Prototype, causing him to be thrown back against the wall behind him. The bewildered girl gasps covering her mouth once more. Well there goes your ride.
"So that's what it does," Coulson humors even in his last minutes. Austin sits down on the floor next to the control panel with her head in her hands. She had let out a criminal. What were you thinking? Suddenly, movement is hear behind her. No. He can't be. She slowly turns around to see Loki standing and brushing off his long suit.
"That wasn't very nice," he steps forward towards Austin but she stands quickly and steps away.
"I won't go. I'm sorry. I let you go. So leave," says the regretful girl backing up slowly. Unfortunately, one of Loki's illusions stands behind her preventing her from moving any further. He takes several steps towards her slyly smiling.
"That wasn't part of the deal, now was it?," the mischievous fellow moves even closer to her, their faces inches apart.
"Loki!," yells Fury as he darts into the room. Loki turns his head towards the man, his body still facing the girl. Austin turns her head towards her father as well, "Austin,"
"Dad," her eyes soften but Loki's grow big.
"Now that…is interesting," says Loki as a loud cry is heard from Austin. Her eyes slowly begin to shut as the once embedded scepter is pulled out of her back in a bloody mess. The girl becomes limp in the arms of her assaulter.
"NO!," yells Fury as he watches his daughter grow unconscious.
"Shh," he smirks, "I have no reason to kill her. It's just a little sedation that can only be delivered directly to the spine. She'll be fine. For now," Quickly Fury runs toward the pair but only to run right through. The illusion quickly dissipates leaving a frustrated Fury behind. Without his Avengers, without his team, and without his daughter.