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Kayla was angry. She was angrier than she had ever been before. She stormed down the hallway, randomly punching metal cabinets as she went. She burst open the door to the training room, rage and tears in her gray eyes.
She stalked up to Natasha, and demanded politely, "I hope you just got here, because I need to hit someone."
"Yeah, I did. And you'd better warm up. I need to hit someone too." Kayla and Natasha stretched briefly, then snapped into their stances.
"Who bugged you?" Kayla asked as she ducked a punch from Natasha.
"Loki. How about you?" Natasha dodged a kick, then tried to trip Kayla.
"Same," Kayla replied, as she jumped over Natasha's leg, then grabbed her arm, and flipped the older woman over her shoulder. "He's just so calm about everything! He tries to make you believe that he's your friend, and that he feel sorry for something terrible he's done. He's just... Argh!"
She yelled in frustration, and, with a burst of energy, tackled Natasha to the ground, flipped her so she was face down, and pulled the agent's arms behind her back.
At that moment, the alarms started blaring. Kayla leapt off Natasha, pulled her up, and then the pair raced to the briefing room.
"What's going on?" Kayla asked.
"Loki's got a rescue team," Fury said grimly. Kayla sat in a chair, put her head in her hands, and squeezed her eyes shut.
After several minutes, she shot out of the chair. "Banner!" she practically shouted. She looked at the assembled Avengers in dread. "Banner is all part of his plan... Oh, no, no, no, no. This isn't good."
As Banner wasn't in the room, she bolted to the lab, followed by Natasha, who tossed her an earpiece. The two burst into the lab. They made it just in time for it to be blown up.
The three Avengers were buried under the rubble, but one was green. The two women struggled to pull themselves from the metal. Kayla began to get frustrated. With a scream of defiance, she used a blast of ice to heave the metal off of herself. She rush to free Natasha, and they faced the Hulk.
Just then, Fury's voice buzzed in her ear. "Thor, Kayla, get to the confinement room, now!"
Kayla took off and met Thor outside the door. They saw the glass case gaping open, and Loki standing in the mouth.
"No!" Thor leapt for Loki.
"Thor, wait! It's not him!" Kayla couldn't sense thoughts or an aura. It was just an image.
Before she even finished her sentence, Thor was trapped behind several inches of glass. She put her hands in front of her body like she was holding something. Kayla concentrated intensely. The temperature dropped ten degrees. Ice began forming on the glass. A tiny fissure appeared.
"Now, now. Let's not do that." Loki's voice was velvety, yet deadly. And it whispered in her right ear. Her concentration broke as the tip of the bronze staff rested gently on her throat and a strong arm snuck across her waist, pinning her arms to her sides. Kayla froze in her fear, but her instincts kicked in. She pushed her body weight backwards and she sputtered as the staff jammed into her throat.
"Loki, get away from Secc." Phil Coulson's calm voice echoed quietly. Loki stood, and Kayla went on her hands and knees, coughing up a bit of blood. "I don't know what this does, but I'm willing to find out." Phil was pointing an elaborate gun at the god.
Loki smirked, and dematerialized. He appeared behind Phil, and buried his staff in the agent's back.
"No!" Kayla cried. She ran to him.
"Kayla... Help me with this." He budged the gun feebly. She hefted the bulky gun, and pointed it at the god. Phil pulled the trigger, and a huge ball of golden energy hit Loki square in the chest.
"So, that's what it does." Phil's hand pawed at a blood-soaked pocket on the inside of his coat. He drew out several cards featuring Captain America. "Please... Give these to Steve." They were sticky with blood.
"Don't you die on me agent, don't you die..."
"Everyone has their time to die, Kayla," Phil murmured.
"Yes, but now is not your time! You swear to me you're going to make it. Swear!" Tears streamed down Kayla's cheeks as she saw the life drain from Phil in the form of crimson blood. She pressed her hand on the wound, trying to stop the bleeding.
"Just let it go. Now is my time. I know it."
"I am not giving up on you, Agent! Don't you give up either... Don't you dare!" Kayla was sobbing uncontrollably.
"I'm not giving up. You should know that I never give up. I'm just accepting the truth." Kayla's tears mingled with the life-giving fluid on Phil's chest. He smiled weakly, then his eyes glazed over with death.
Kayla turned to the god, anger and hatred written all over her usually expressionless face.
Loki's hand hovered over the button to release the cage. Kayla attacked with renewed vigor. Loki barely managed to deflect the balls of ice that were hurtling through the air at him. A cylinder of ice rose from the ground, and she slid her hands over the top, one after the other. Discs of ice broke against Loki's armor. A dome of ice rose around Loki, and began to grow smaller, crushing him. One flash of blue light, and the dome shattered. Ice spears launched themselves at Loki, but he smashed them with his staff. He began to blast energy repeatedly.
Kayla took several blasts before she went down and began to sink into unconsciousness. Loki went to her and his soft hand stroked her cheekbones, her eyebrows. She wanted to scream at him, but darkness overtook her.
Now there's a long chapter. XD