Notes: So before anything else... Rating went up for language. I always got the impression that Tony Stark would say a whole lot of "fucks" if Avengers weren't PG.
Secondly... Wow. Thank you so much for the reviews. You guys are awesome.
We will keep going deeper into the movie. I copied a lot of the scenes and cut another bunch, because what really matters here is Toni. Hope you all enjoy it.
Chapter 3
"Captain, ETA in 10 minutes."
Steve knew that a lot of things could go wrong in ten minutes. He dearly hoped this was not the case.
As soon as SHIELD scanners found Loki, Captain and the Widow jumped on a quinjet and flew to Germany. Steve felt anxious in a way that was not normal for him. He knew that, in a way, people were putting too much faith in him. What if he was a fossil? A memory of a past that didn't matter anymore? What if he was not as solid and firm as he once was?
However, now was not the moment for self-doubts. Loki had managed to make too big of a mess in a couple of days of running around. He needed to be stopped.
"There he is." Natasha's voice informed through the communicator.
Steve could clearly see Loki in the middle of the square, between kneeled people, but there was an old man, confronting the villain. This could not end well.
"Agent Romanoff, I will be jumping from here."
Natasha must have heard weirder things in her time, because she didn't even blink before opening the ramp for Steve to jump. Loki was so entertained by his Super Villain role that he didn't even see the Captain, until his attack hit the shield and threw him to the ground.
"You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." Steve said gripping his shield tighter.
Loki stood slowly, pure hatred in his eyes. "The soldier," He sneered. "The man out of time."
"I'm not the one who's out of time." Steve replied calmly. He had not lost control in face of HYDRA and its men, so it wouldn't be this man who ridiculed him with such petty insults to snap his patience.
He could clearly hear the quinjet behind him. Natasha had Loki in sight.
"Loki, drop the weapon and stand down."
Loki laughed maliciously before throwing an attack against the jet. Natasha managed to evade him and Steve took the chance to jump on Loki.
The demi-god might be a bully, but he could hold his own. Maybe it should have been expected, with everything Steve had heard about the Asgardians. Suddenly the tables had turned and the soldier was the one on the ground with Loki looming over him.
"Kneel." The demi-god ordered.
"Not today." Steve managed a punch at Loki and stood.
Then there was this loud music coming from the speakers on the quinjet, something about not caring about a bad reputation. Steve did not think this was Natasha`s doing.
Loki and he looked up to the sky at the same time, just at the right moment to see the Iron Lady coming towards them. She fired against Loki before he could do anything else and he went tumbling to the ground.
The Lady landed and pointed quite an arsenal to the villain. "Make your move, Reindeer Games." Loki's armour disappeared and he had his hands up in surrender. "Good move."
"Miss Stark." Steve greeted, still trying to catch his breath.
"Captain."
Steve was under the impression that her presence should worry him. A lot.
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Toni heard Natasha talking quietly to Fury, but ignored for the moment. There was something about Steve Rogers and it was not the fact that he had an amazing ass or a chin that begged to be bitten. Or a six pack that had to be licked. Repeatedly.
Okay, she was missing the point.
She heard her father talking about Captain America a million times through the years. In the beginning she hated the super soldier, because her father obviously had wanted a son like him, instead of her.
After a heart to heart with Fury (who would've thought) Toni was starting to consider that maybe – and that was a fucking huge maybe – she had seen her father as a tyrant that hated her for being a woman because it was easier. Easier to resent him. Still, she planned on keeping some of her doubts. In the meantime it was interesting to meet the soldier that Howard admired so much.
It was also quite funny to see the Captain feeling so uncomfortable in her presence. He kept looking to any direction that wasn't the one she was in, like her eyes on him made him nervous. She could vaguely remember Howard saying something about him… He was shy and awkward around women, like he couldn't handle them.
Would Captain America be a virgin? Now that was a patriotic act that Toni would love to take care of.
"I don't like it." Steve said suddenly, his eyes on Loki.
"What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" Toni asked, her eyes sliding to the quiet villain.
Loki could be crazier than Lindsay Lohan, but he had such symmetric face. What were those cheekbones? Pure art.
"I don't remember it ever being that easy," Steve said "This guy packs a wallop."
Toni shrugged, or as much as one could in the suit.
"Still, you're pretty spry for an older fellow. What's your thing? Pilates?" She knew she probably shouldn't be trying to annoy her new bestie, but what else could she do right now?
Steve threw her a confused look. "What?"
"It's like calisthenics" She used an affected air on purpose. "You might have missed a couple of things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle. Rock'n'roll, drugs… The sexual revolution."
Steve narrowed his eyes. He was not looking very happy right now.
"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in." It wasn't a question.
Toni rolled her eyes. "Yeah, that's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you, honey."
Steve opened his mouth to reply when lightning struck and the quinjet trembled.
"Where's this coming from?" Natasha asked to who knows who.
Steve caught Loki looking out the window, worry clear in his face.
"What's the matter?" He nettled, "Scared of a little lightning?"
"I'm not overly fond of what follows" was the answer he got.
The quinjet shook once more and Toni marched to the ramp.
"What are you doing?" Steve demanded.
Toni ignored him and opened the ramp. In the next second a huge blond dude entered the quinjet, knocked Toni with a fucking hammer, grabbed Loki and left.
Toni knew very well to whom that amazing body belonged. "Now there's that guy." She grumbled. That was Thor and he was in the archives SHIELD had shown her.
"Another Asgardian?" Natasha asked from the cockpit.
"Think the guy's a friendly?" Steve asked.
"Doesn't matter. If the asshole frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost," she said marching down the ramp.
"Stark, we need a plan of attack!"
"I have a plan, baby. Attack." And then she jumped to the skies.
Toni was an only child and had always been – and still was – really selfish. What belonged to her, was hers and hers alone. And Loki was her prisoner. Sexy and built would have to wait his turn.
"Jarvis, can you trace them?"
"Loki and Thor have landed on that rock formation at your three o'clock." Jarvis said. "May I advise on a more diplomatic approach, madam? We may be able to prevent an intergalactic incident."
Toni laughed, "Sometimes I wonder if you don't know me at all or if you enjoy getting frustrated, Jarvis."
Toni could see Thor arguing with Loki and didn't even hesitated - she tackled the blond wonder.
They both rolled around the forest ground, but what matters was that Toni was the one standing.
The Greek god – opsie, the Nordic one, actually –got up and Toni raised her face plate.
"Do not touch me again!" The god thundered.
"Then don't touch my fucking stuff." Toni replied.
"You have no idea what you're dealing with."
"Shakespeare in the park?" She retorted, because the whole thing was ridiculous and kind of pointless "Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?"
"This is beyond you, Metal Woman. Loki will face Asgardian justice!"
"He gives up the Cube, he's all yours. Until then…" She lowered the plate to show she meant business and things could go south very fast now. "Stay out of the way." She turned her back and started going back. Now she had to find the Prince of Darkness. "Fucking tourist." She grumbled.
That was when something hit her from the back. Her sensors had taken quiet the beating.
"Oh, he didn't!" She growled.
Fuck diplomacy. She was going to kick that idiot's ass.
She managed to tackle him again, but then he hit her with that fucking hammer, sending the billionaire far. He spun the weapon, attracting a lightning that hit Toni right in the middle of her chest.
"Power at 400% capacity." Jarvis informed.
A smirk crossed Toni's lips. "Suck it."
She sent a blast that threw Thor against a tree, but the giant refused to stay down, and soon was coming at her again. After that Toni lost the notion of what the Hell was going on.
She knew that at some point they had flown around and she had rubbed his face against some mountain. She also could remember many punches and being thrown around.
Toni was absolutely confident that, had the fight been allowed to continue, she would have been the winner, but the annoying boy scout threw his shield in the middle of it.
"Hey!"
Thor and Toni looked on Steve's direction. He must be felling damn hot in the top of that tree.
"That's enough." He jumped to the ground, staring at them. "Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here…"
"I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes." Thor cried.
"Then prove it. Put that hammer down."
"Hum, yeah, no. Bad call. He loves his hammer." Even before Toni could finish that thought, Thor knocked her far with his hammer.
"You want me to put the hammer down?" He yelled.
He jumped on Steve, who used his shield to protect himself. The force of the impact was such that everything around them was flattened. Thor included.
The three of them got up slowly. They looked at each other. "Are we done here?"
Notes: There it is. Hope you enjoyed it.
Ah the song is Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation". I thought it was kind of fitting.
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