The Amazing Avenger.
Recap: Loki has been banished to Earth after serving his sentence, leaving Thor rushing to warn his fellow Avengers. The team finds out Coulson still lives and they all meet their new teammate, Peter Parker, who says goodbye to Aunt May and goes to live in Avengers tower. Now on to Chapter 5.
Chapter 5.
The whole room fell silent once again. You could literally hear a mouse squeak in the whole tower. Steve and Tony exchanged looks, Bruce struggled to hold his anger in tow, Clint had gone pale, but his jaw line set, and Natasha narrowed her eyes and got into her kill-ready stance. Nick Fury delivered Thor a cold stare from just his one eye and Coulson just froze. Peter just looked from Thor to everyone else, not knowing what to do.
"What do you mean, he's back?" Fury asked coldly.
"My brother has been released from his confines in Asgard and my father has banished him here." Thor answered, in a nutshell.
"Hold on a minute." Tony rubbed his temples and tried to get a handle on what Thor just said. "Your brother-your psychotic brother who had tried taking over the planet with an army of God knows what creatures-has been released and your father decided in all his wisdom to send him back here?"
"Is that what you're telling us, Thor?" Bruce asked.
Thor sighed. "Yes."
"What the hell!" Natasha snapped, and Clint tried to calm her, but she nudged his hand away. "Two years? Just two years, for everything he has done?"
"He should've never been released at all!" Fury chimed in.
"The sentences on Asgard are different than what they are here." Thor said defensively.
"Yeah no shit!" Natasha bit at him.
"Ok, ok…let's just calm down here." Steve said, his hands up in gesture as he turned back to Thor. "Do you know what his intentions are here? Is the world in danger?"
Thor shook his head. "He said he has no intentions of attempting to take over and I believe him-"
"Of course you believe him!" Clint snapped.
"-but the Chitauri still plan to hunt my brother down and their intentions could still be the same." Thor went on, ignoring Clint's outburst. "My father had no choice but to banish him out of Asgard in order to protect our realm from them."
"Well, I'm glad he's looking out for number one." Tony said as he went to pour himself a drink.
"You all must understand. My brother may have been misguided, but during his time here on Earth, he was not himself at all. Much like Clint and Dr, Selvig, he was under the direct power of the Tesseract." Thor explained.
"Right. But unlike your brother, Clint and Dr. Selvig didn't know on a murdering rampage and try and take over an entire planet." Tony chimed.
"But Clint did shoot me." Fury stated, and Clint shot a look at Fury. "But the fact still remains, Loki is still very much a threat."
Fury looked to Coulson. "Put everyone on high alert. Put out to all units that Loki is to be detained and arrested on sight."
Thor turned toward Fury, but stopped dead when he saw Coulson standing beside him. The confused look on his face said it all and he turned to the others.
"Long story." Bruce said.
Thor stood stunned for a second, then shook his head. Again, he turned to Fury. "Look, I do not know why my brother has chosen to come here, but going after him that way will only agitate him, and he is very powerful."
"I don't care how powerful he is. He is and always will be a threat to this planet. I will not idly stand by while he roams these streets." Fury shot back.
"Look, maybe Thor is right." Steve said, earning him a glare from the others, but he maintained his stance. "I'm not saying I agree with his sentence, but he has served it regardless. I think it may be a good idea to just wait it out and see what he does."
"Then we can see if the Chitauri Army will really come for him, and see what they plan to do with us." Bruce agreed, albeit reluctantly.
"It's a gamble, yes, but going after Loki directly will just create unnecessary bloodshed." Steve said.
"I say arrest him, then when the Chitauri come for him, we use the little bastard as a bargaining chip." Tony said, Clint and Natasha nodding their heads along in approval. Steve looked at Tony, who smirked at him in return.
"That sounds like a great idea to me." Clint chimed in. "I will even volunteer to hunt down and detain him myself."
"Me too." Natasha said.
Thor had to struggle to hold back his aggravation. He understood why they were angry, but he knew the consequences of crossing Loki.
Fury spoke up after considering both sides of the argument. "As much as I hate to be a sitting duck, I do agree with Rogers. Going after Loki without merit will only create a bigger problem." Clint and Natasha threw their hands up in disgust and Tony just scoffed in his drink.
Fury then turned his attention to Thor. "BUT, if that brother of yours so much as breathes the wrong way, you better believe we will hit him with everything we got, is that clear?"
Thor stared at Fury for a moment, then nodded. "Yes."
Then Fury looked to Coulson, who was leaning against the wall, a pale look on his face.
"Hey, you ok?" Fury asked, breaking Coulson out of his trance.
"Y-Yeah." he said, but he wasn't. He could feel the walls closing in on him. He had lived with these attacks during the first six months after his 'death', before he managed to get them under control. Now he could feel his chest constricting and nausea began to creep up on him.
"Excuse me." he quickly said as he half-ran out of the room, running down the halls until he managed to find a bathroom. He slammed down on his knees and emptied his stomach in the porcelain bowl. He was sweating profusely and struggling to get his breathing under control. Whenever he shut his eyes, he could still see Loki's face as he looked down on him dying. The evil grin displayed on his pale features as Coulson struggled between staggered breaths. During times like this, he could almost feel the septar piercing through him all over again. The searing pain taking over his body as he fell to the ground. He could see Thor yelling from the sealed cage, though it was incoherent from where he was. Then came the numbness of death…
Coulson's thoughts were broken by the feeling of someone kneeling next to him. It was Steve, holding out a towel to him. He managed a half-smile, and struggled to calm himself as he took the towel. He wiped his mouth and went to flush the toilet.
"I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me." he managed weakly.
"I do." Steve answered.
Coulson looked up at him and then moved to sit against the wall, holding his head in his hands. He hated to be like this in front of the Captain, but he knew if he tried to stand, he would not stand straight. Steve sat down next to him and handed him a bottle of water and Coulson took a couple sips. "It still feels real, you know?" he looked over to Steve. "Like it feels like it's happening to me, over and over."
"I do know the feeling." Steve replied. He could still see himself in the plane, diving nose first into the ocean. He didn't expect to live. He accepted his fate. Then he woke up, seventy years later, as if he had just dreamed the whole thing. He suffered the same thing Coulson was.
"I just want you to know, I'm behind your decision." Coulson told him, and Steve looked over at him. "It's not because I wouldn't want to get that son of a bitch and lock him up forever, but it's that it's the logical choice."
Steve nodded. "I just hope that I'm right."
"He's a goddamn fool!" Clint exclaimed.
"We don't need anymore of a body count on our hands, Barton!" Fury shot back.
"Just give me one shot, Fury. I will make that bastard pay for all this!" Clint shot back.
"My orders are clear!" Fury boomed, and with that, Fury turned and left the room.
Peter had stayed seated on the sofa during the whole melee that occurred ever since Thor arrived. He decided that the best thing to do was to sit and be quiet and take everything in. Thor had left the room and Clint and Fury had been going at it since Coulson had ran off and Steve after him. Bruce, ironically, was trying to be the peacemaker. Tony just continued to drink and Natasha was busy trying to calm Clint down. 'Good first day." he thought.
"Not exactly your ideal welcoming party." Tony quipped, taking a seat next to Peter.
"It's cool. I've seen worse." Peter replied.
"I'm sure you have." Tony said, taking a drink.
"Do you think he'll attack us?" Peter asked.
"Who?"
"Loki." Peter replied.
Tony sighed. "I don't know. But if he does, we'll be ready."
Peter nodded and Tony looked at him. "Listen, why don't you come with me to the training room and show me what you got."
Peter looked at him. "Now?"
Tony shrugged. "Sure, why not? I mean, I've seen you on video and all, but I really wanna see for myself what you can do."
Peter shrugged back. "Ok, but it's been awhile."
Tony winked. "Humor me."
A/N-Sorry this is a short chapter, but I have to get to bed for work tomorrow. Just thought I'd get another one out to you guys. Thanks again for the awesome support.