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Chapter 8: Meeting Thor
(Molly's POV)
After Captain America jumped out as well, we all headed back to the Helicarrier. I went down to the control room and just chatted with Maria and Coulson for a while.
Eventually we heard a noise and I saw Loki walk past us with eight guards surrounding him. He looked over at me, winked and then walked away smiling. I watched after him and tried to follow.
"Don't bother, you can watch from the cameras they set up in his cell" Maria said to me
Sherlock walked in and sat down with the other Avengers at the table; I sat next to him as they loaded up the video feed of Loki's cell.
"The mindless beast, makes play that he's still a man. How desperate are you, that you call upon such lost creatures to defend you?" He said wickedly
"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace and you kill 'cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate, you might not be glad that you did." Nick Fury replied
"Ooh. It burns you to have come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to shame, and then to be reminded what real power is"
"Well, let me know if Real Power wants a magazine or something" Nick Fury said and walked out of the room smiling. Loki looked up at the camera and smirked knowing he had hit SHIELD's and some of our pressure points.
"He really grows on you doesn't he?" Dr. Banner said
"Loki's gonna wanna drag this out." Steve said
"He'll want it to be public too" Sherlock added in
"Thor, what's his play?" Steve asked
"He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract" Thor said
"An army? From outer space?" Steve said
"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Eric Selvig for." Dr. Banner said
"Selvig?" Thor asked looking worried
"He's an astrophysicist" Dr. Banner replied
"He's a friend" Thor said
"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of our own" Agent Romanoff said looking down
"What kind of spell?" Sherlock asked cutting in
"He touched his scepter to their chests, and then their eyes went blank, as if they weren't there. Then they just did everything he said" Agent Romanoff replied
"You're worried for him aren't you? It's not your fault you know? Everyone does things they aren't proud of, and you doing what you did has nothing to do with this." Sherlock replied
"What?" Agent Romanoff said
"This agent of SHIELD's that Loki took, you like him but you don't think he likes you. Possibly because something happened that you aren't proud of, something that you have spent all this time at SHIELD trying to make up for. Clearly it's something bad going by the fact that no one will mention it when I asked how you joined SHIELD, also when I checked SHIELD's database the files were blocked. So I'm guessing something happened that got you on SHIELD's radar in a bad way. He must have been sent to kill you and chose not to, you don't know why and you try to make up for it. But now he's in danger and you feel bad because you feel you should help but you can't" Sherlock replied simply and everyone turned and looked at him shocked
"I-I don't know what you're talking about" Agent Romanoff said shakily
"Don't lie to me Agent Romanoff, I figured all that out just by looking at you. I'm pretty sure if I could do that I could tell if someone's lying" Sherlock snapped "Anyway, change of subject, why has Loki let us take him in so easily? He can't lead his army from here, so obviously he's planning something"
Everyone looked at Sherlock dumbstruck, a moment later Dr. Banner replied, "I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him"
"I don't care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard and he is my brother." Thor replied
"He killed 80 people in two days" Agent Romanoff replied, finally snapping out of her state of shock.
"He's adopted" Thor replied
"Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?" Dr. Banner asked
"It's a stabilizing agent," Tony said as he walked in next to Coulson "I'll fly you there. Keep the love alive." He said to Coulson
"Means the portal wont collapse on itself like it did at SHIELD. No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing" He said to Thor as he walked past him, slapping him on the arm on his way to Fury's desk "Also it means the portal can open as wide and stay open as long as Loki wants. Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing Galaga!" Tony yelled pointing at one of the people on the computer "Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. How does Fury do this?" Tony said covering his eye with one hand looking at the holographic screens surrounding him in a semi-circle.
"He turns" Maria said looking at him unimpressed
"Well, that sounds exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. High energy densities, something to kick start the cube." He said
"When did you become an expert on thermonuclear astrophysics?" Maria asked him
"Last night." He said "The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" He asked looking at us all
"Does Loki need any particular type of power source?" I asked
"He'd have to heat the cube to 120 million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Dr. Banner replied
"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect" Sherlock said
"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." Dr. Banner replied
"Finally," Tony said "Some people who speak English."
"Is that what just happened?" Steve said, making me laugh
Tony walked up to Dr. Banner and Sherlock over the other side of the table.
"It's good to finally meet you Dr. Banner." Tony said "You're work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into a huge green rage monster."
"Thanks" Dr. Banner said, looking down awkwardly
"And the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, your deductions are extraordinary" He said "Where's your sidekick?" He asked, referring to John
"He had other plans" Sherlock said with a forced smile "Nice to meet you too."
Sherlock pulled Tony in for a hug and whispered something in his ear I didn't catch, but Tony's eyes went wide as they pulled away.
"Mr Holmes and Dr. Banner are here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join them." Nick Fury said as he walked in
"Let's start with that stick of his." Steve said "It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon."
"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys" Nick Fury said
"Monkeys? I do not understand" Thor said
"I do! I understood that reference" Steve said and Tony rolled his eyes, making the rest of us chuckle.
"Shall we play, doctor? Sherlock?" Tony said
"Let's play" Dr. Banner said as Sherlock flipped up his coat collar and walked out of the room with them. Leaving us all behind once again.