"Banner, that's his play. Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way. Bring Thor as well." Nat's voice was speaking through the intercom.

"Roger." Hill said. They all ran to the lab room, but Atea slipped away without them noticing.

She ran to Loki's holding cell. She needed to talk to him, to explain. And this was her only chance.

The door opened for her, and she walked in, her heart racing and her breaths quick. He was right there. When he looked up, a mixture of surprise and anger swept across his face. He straightened his back, his face unreadable.

"I didn't know you were here."

"I-" Atea choked, she couldn't speak. She coughed, clearing her throat and tried again, "I need to explain. I need to explain why I left."

"I know fully well why you left, you wanted to see your dear parents again, oh how they must have missed you," he smiled bitterly.

"I never made it back to my home. Are you saying you restored their memory."

"It was by my brother's orders. I had no choice."

"They - they know I'm alive?"

"They must be so worried." He said sarcastically.

"Loki, I'm sorry. I am so sorry I left. But I needed to. Everything was happening so quickly, all I could think about was escaping. I never thought about how you might feel."
"I feel nothing!" He roared, "If you think that I was ever being kind towards you because I wanted to, you are dafter than I thought."

His words frightened her, but she moved closer to the cell, "I am dumb. I'm an idiot. How could I not know about my powers until know? I couldn't think things through. I couldn't even see clearly. I still can't, but now I'm better. My powers have grown, and I'm stronger."

"Are they now? I don't care! I don't need you! You are not important, you are an insect to me. No larger than an ant." His fury lashed out, she could see it in his eyes.

What's with this ant thing?

Atea grew angry, "We can help you Loki! I saw what happened to you! You're a Frost Giant, I know that! And that creature, he tortured you!" Atea was crying, "You were hurt, and no one could help you. Now you are subjugated to his orders. Stop this madness. Return to Asgard before it's too late."

"You know nothing. Your visions are false. I thought you said you were improving your skills, but maybe you were wrong."

Atea's anger reacted through her powers, the cell dropped a few inches. Nothing drastic, but enough to make Loki jump.

"Do not call me a liar."

"That is new. What else are you able to do, Atea? Show me."

"No."

"No? Are you defying me yet again? I see they haven't taught you to be obedient. You are still as stubborn and independent as you were in Asgard. Maybe I should come out and show you some obedience again."

"If you try and come out, I will drop this cell quicker than you can blink." Atea was bluffing, but she hoped he wouldn't notice.

"I don't believe you."

She approached his cell, she was only an inch or two from the glass, "Try me."

Loki came close to the glass, his nose almost touching. He looked down at her, his eyes dark with rage. She looked up at him and mustered all her courage into that look. She tried to show him how she felt, angry, sad, brave and scared. Everything in her head and heart were battling. She wanted to hate him, she did hate him, but if there was one thing she learned, you could always be forgiven.

Atea brought her hand to the glass, "I'm sorry," she whispered.

"Leave." He turned away, refusing to look her in the eye.

"Loki, please, forgive me."

"I said leave!" He bellowed.

"Loki . . ."

"Do not make me say it again."

"Please just think. That's all I'm asking, look at what you've done, is this really you? You can leave it be-"

"Atea, leave. Before I hurt you."

Atea looked at him, he was facing the other wall, not looking at her. She turned and walked out the door, heading to the lab.

When she got there, they were all fighting, Fury was arguing with Banner, Steve and Tony were down each other's throats, and Thor and Natasha were quarrelling.

"STOP!" She screamed. Nobody heard her. Atea was furious, her attempt at an apology backfired, and now the only people capable of stopping him were fighting.

She focused her anger on all of the screens in the room, they are not going to be happy with me for this, Atea thought, but she did it anyway. The screens shattered, causing everyone to scream and cover their faces. It got incredibly quiet afterwards, and they all looked at her.

"What in God's name do you think you're doing, Atea?" Fury growled.

"Look at yourselves! You're screaming at each other! These people are our friends -"

"I wouldn't get ahead of ourselves," Tony interrupted.

"Shut it, Stark. You are not helping. I don't know what's gotten into any of you. Do you think this is how we're going to stop Loki? I tried to talk to him, but he won't listen. He's past that. This is what he wants. He wants us to be seen for what we really are, a bunch of odd jobs that hate each other. This isn't going to stop him. Not like this, in fact, he's probably already gone."

"Nothing can get out of that cage." Fury told her, but Atea didn't believe him.

"He told me that he could, and right now, I wouldn't be so quick to call his bluff."

"Are you telling me that you went there on your own? Without anyone else?"

"I had to! Besides, Natasha was there before. If she could go, then so can I."

"Natasha is stronger, faster, and more prepared for a fight than you are Atea. So I would say there's a pretty big difference between her and you."

"It's too late. We have to trust each other. I don't care if Fury is building weapons of mass destruction, he does have a point."

They all started to object, but she held up her hand, glaring at every single one of them, "If Banner is what Loki wants, we can't give him away."

"You don't understand, Atea," Steve said, "Banner isn't just a scientist. He's a -"

Bruce interrupted Steve, "If she wants to know what I am, let me tell her myself."

Steve nodded, signalling for Bruce to keep talking, "I'm human, that's one thing, but something went wrong in one of my experiments, it was an accident," he swallowed, but continued, "I basically overdosed on gamma rays, causing me to become a huge green monster that is fuelled by my anger. It's almost like how your powers come out when you're angry."

"So, a giant green monster capable of mass destruction. Does that mean it was you when Harlem was broken? That was crazy."

Bruce nodded, he wasn't smiling at all.

"That's what I meant by 'Loki means to release the Hulk,'" Natasha explained.

"Got it. So, Loki can't have him, and Bruce, are you alright?" Banner nodded again, "Good. So everyone's here . . . Now we have to get ready."

Sorry I haven't really posted a new chapter!

The ending isn't going the way I wanted it to, so I'm trying to figure it out.

But it's still going well!