Chapter 3: Some Assembly Required
Me: Here we go. Another chapter here for you lovely readers, so without further ado here is the next chapter.
Godzilla:Wow that was short...Oh well SKREEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOONK!
Characters and their species:
Nick Fury-(Methanosian) Swamp Fury
Agent Hill-(Human)-
Agent Coulson-(Human)-
Hawkeye-(Classified) KickinHawkeye/Clint Barton
Black Widow-(Anodite) Natasha Romanov
Hulk-(Vaxasaurian) Hult/Bruce Banner
Thor-(Tetramand) Thor Boltson
Iron Man-(Pyronite) Tony Blast/Fire Man
Captain America-(Petrosapien) Steve Rogers/Diamond America
Loki-(Necrofriggian) Loki Chillson
Dr. Selvig-(Human)-
The Other-(Ectonurite)-
Chitauri-(DNAliens)-
Tesseract-(Alpha Rune) Alphax
Inside a S.H.I.E.L.D. jet, Steve Rogers sits on one of the benches holding a tablet and watching the footage of The Hult's attack on the Army at the University of Montevallo. He was wearing a brown leather jacket, a light blue undershirt, a pair of blue jeans and some steel-toe boots. He was watching at the footage with a lightly raised eyebrow.
"We're about forty minutes out from base sir." Notified one of the Pilots.
Agent Coulson stands from his seat and walks over to Steve.
"So, this Doctor Banner was trying to replicate the serum used on me?" Steve asked
"A lot of people were. You were the first superhero. Banner thought that gamma radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine's original formula.
The Hult roars with fury as he slams a jeep against one of the University's monuments.
"Didn't really go his way, did it?"
Agent Coulson made a face as he said, "Not so much. When he's not that thing though, he is like an Albert Mindmatter."
The Petrosapien looked confused, He didnt know about the Galvin scientist who discovered the theory of relativity.
Agent Coulson made a embarassed face and tried to explain the best he could. "He is like a really smart person. I gotta say, it's an honor to meet you, officially."
Steve smiles at the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in front of him. Coulson continues.
"I sort of met you, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping."
Steve looks down, stands up and walks over to the front of the jet near the cockpit, Coulson follows realizing the awkward comment he just said to his childhood Hero. "I mean, I was...present while you were unconsious from the ice. You know, it's really, it's just a...Just a huge honor to have you onboard."
Steve looks outside from the window, at the passing waves and small fishing boats.
"Well, I hope I'm the man for the job." he said.
Agent Coulson shifted a bit to look at the Petrosapien super-soldier. "Oh, You are. Absolutely. Uh...we've made some modifications to your uniform, I had a little design input, made it look more modern."
Steve looks at the human next to him with a raised eyebrow. "The uniform? Aren't the stars and stripes a little...old fashioned?"
Coulson looked down at the floor then back up a steve with a reassuring smile as he said, "With everything going on, the things that are about to happen soon, people might just need a little old fashioned.
Coulson looks out the window, leaving the diamond-like being to digest Agent Coulson's sentiment.
In a set of underground tunnels, Several soldiers under Loki's mind control run towards their base of operations, ready to execute whatever Loki has planned. Loki himself sat on the floor, a good distance away from all of the activity going on in the tunnel. He watched Selvig work with a CMS device. Loki meditates, until the scepter materializes him back to the throne room of The Other, fully armed in his armor and his antennae turned gold, were curved upward and resembled horns. The Other appears from the steps.
The Other soon levitated ten feet to the right of Loki and said, "The Chitauri grow restless."
"Let them garb themselves. I will lead them into a glorious battle." Loki replied.
The Other laughed a laugh that would send shivers down a normal human's spine.
"Battle? Against the meager might of Earth?"
Loki paced around a short distance. "Glorious, not lengthy. That is if your force is as formidable as you claim?" Loki stopped to look at the cloaked Ectorunite.
The Other frowned and turned his head at Loki's direction. "You dare question us?!" The Other then gasped and touched the nearby boulder and spoke slightly quieter as he continued his outburst, "You question HIM? He who put the scepter in your hand, who gave you ancient knowledge and new purpose when you were cast out, Defeated?"
Loki looked up and glared at The Other with rage and gripped the Chitauri scepter in his hand tightly
"I was a king! The rightful king of Asgard! Betrayed!"
The Other scowled and levitated away from the boulders and lashed his black and white tail furiously, "Your ambition is little, born of childish need. We look beyond the Earth to greater worlds the Alphax will reveal."
"You don't have the Alphax yet." Loki pointed out coldly.
The Other rushes over to attack him, but stops as Loki points his scepter and said, "I don't threaten, but until I open the doors, Until your force is mine to command, you are but words." Loki finished the last word with a puff of cold white mist.
"You will have your war, Asgardian. If you fail, If the Alphax is kept from us, there will be no realm, no barren moon, no crevice where he can't find you! You think you know pain? He will make you long for something as sweet as PAIN!"
The Other places his clawed hand on Loki's head and transports him back to Earth. Loki looks around taking deep breaths releasing more cold mist, he had a menacing look in his eyes.
The jet holding Steve Rogers and Agent Phil Coulson lands down on a massive battleship known as the Helicarrier. It has two runways, one with direct access to a hangar at the rear is aligned along the spine of the vessel.
Agent Coulson and Steve walk down the ramp, meeting up with Natasha Romanov.
Coulson then introduces Steve and Natasha. "Agent Romanov. Captain Steve Rogers.
Steve tilts his head to Natasha. "Ma'am?"
Natasha exchanged the greeting with a small smile. "Hi.." She then turned to Agent Coulson and said, "They need you on the bridge. Face Time."
Coulson nodded, "See you there."
Agent Coulson walks away leaving the Petrosapien super-soldier with the Anodite spy, walking towards the railing of the ship.
"It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was gonna swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Diamond America trading cards yet?" Natasha asks while smirking
Steve looked at Natasha with a smile, "Trading Cards?"
Natasha replied, "Their Vintage, He's very proud."
Without realizing the two saw Dr. Bruce Banner, he was pacing back and forth and almost into the two people next to him, he was as nervous as a squirrel surrounded by a pack of dogs. He moves around as people keep walking in his way.
Steve calls out to the Vaxasaurian, "Doctor Banner." Steve walks up to Banner and shakes his hand.
"Oh, Yeah. Hi. They told me you'd be coming." Banner said smiling lightly as he looked at the Super-soldier before him.
"Word is that you can find the stone."
"Is that the only word on me?"
"Only word I care about."
Banner takes in the sentiment as he gestured to everything around him. "Must be strange for you, all of this.."
"Well, this is actually kind of familiar."
Natasha steps forward with a small smile on her face. "Gentlemen, you may wanna step inside in a minute. It's going to get a little hard to breathe."
Suddenly the Helicarrier starts shaking as it's engines powered up as it prepares to set "Sail"
Steve and Banner walked towards the edge a bit more curious for their own good, Steve asks, "Is this a submarine?"
"Really? They want ME in a submerged pressurized metal container?"
They both move closer to the edge of the Helicarrier. Four huge lift fans mounted on the sides starts to lift into the air in vtol flight. Steve watches in awe and amazement, while Bruce just smiles.
"OH, NO. THIS IS MUCH WORSE." He yells over the sound of the engines.
The three enter the Helicarrier and pass through two big doors and enter the Bridge of the ship. There was a lot of activity as dozens of Agents human and alien sit in front of their viewscreens. Agent Hill shouts out orders and Instructions, she then turns to Swamp Fury, who is at the command chair. "We are at a lock, Sir"
"Good. Let's Vanish."
The Helicarrier rises high in the air. The reflective mirrors helps the giant ship blend into the sky.
Steve and Banner walk through the bridge staring at the huge room in awe. Fury stood up and walked towards his guests, Steve smiles and says, "You win." The Petrosapien hands the one eyed Methanosian ten bucks, this makes Fury chuckle as he slips the bill in his pocket. Fury then walks over to Bruce and extends his hand. Banner, reluctantly shakes it gently.
Fury then smiles at Bruce, "Doctor, Thank you for coming."
Banner smiles back nervously and looked around. "Thanks for asking so nicely Swamp. So, Uh...How long am I staying?"
"Once we retrieve the Alphax, You can leave." came the reply.
"Where are you with that?" Banner asks
Swamp Fury turns to Coulson so that he could explain. Natasha snuck a glance at an agent of Clint Barton on the screen of a computer.
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell Phones, Laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, It's eyes and ears for us."
Natasha spoke up, "That's still not gonna find them in time."
"You'll have to narrow our field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?" Banner asked
Swamp crosses his arms and raised his eyebrow curiously. "How many are there?"
"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we canrule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?"
Fury called out, "Agent Romanov, would you show Dr. Banner his laboratory please."
Natasha nods and walks off with Bruce following her
"You're gonna love it Doc. We got all the toys."
In an underground lab, The brainwashed Dr. Selvig and several scientists work around the CMS machine. Barton walks in, holding a tablet.
"Put it over there!" Selvig ordered some of the other scientists then looked at Clint and asked, "Where did you find all of these people?"
"S.H.I.E.L.D. has no shortage of enemies, Doctor." Clint replied, he holds up a screen showing an image of a glowing purple rock. "This the stuff you need?"
"Yeah, Corrodium. It's found in meteorites, it forms anti-protons. It's very rare and is very dificult to get a hold of, most scientists don't even get to study it up close."
"Especially if S.H.I.E.L.D. knows you need it."
Selvig shrugs, "Well, I didn't know!" The doctor then sees Loki and smiles, "Hey! The Alphax is showing me so much. It's more than knowledge, it's...truth."
Loki smiled at the human's naivete, "I know. What did it show you, Agent Barton?"
Clint grabs a box and and looks at Loki, "My next target."
"What do you need." asked the Necrofriggian.
Clint opens the box before saying, "First, I'll need a distraction.." Clint then grabs his bow, "..and an eyeball."
In the Helicarrier, Steve and Coulson were waiting for the computers to locate Loki using facial recognition. Both Steve and Agent Coulson were in the middle of a conversation.
Phil looked at Steve as he said, "I mean, if its not too much trouble."
"Steve still looked out the window as he answered back, "No, no. It's fine."
"It's a vintage set. It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint, slight foxing around the edges but..."
Coulson was interrupted by one of the agents yelling, "We got a hit! Sixty seven percent match! Wait scratch that, cross match says its seventy nine percent."
Coulson walks over to the Agent, "Location?" "Stuttgart, Germany. 10, Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding."
Fury walks up to Steve and places a hand on his shoulder while saying, "Captain, you're up."
The super-soldier nods then leaves.
Loki is standing in front of the Stuttgart Museum at night, dressed in 21st century attire and with the scepter, disguised as a cane, walks up to the entrance of the gala. Inside, the fancy gala had an orchestra playing after a few minutes the head doctor walks up to the microphone and started his speech.
In the Helicarrier, Steve walks into his own locker room. As he approaches a giant steel cabinet, the doors reveal the updated Diamond America uniform, along with his famous nearly indestructable Taydenite shield. He stands in silence as he takes it all in a smile creeps up on his face.
Back in Germany, behind the Stuttgart museum. German guards stand in their positions. one of them is standing on top of the roof, keeping a close watch on the area. He then hears a loud THWACK! He looks down and sees one of his fellow guards shot by an arrow. He raises his gun, but is shot dead by an arrow to the heart. Clint and his team arrive at the doors of the locked science building. Clint looks at the retinal scanner and narrowed his glowing pink eyes. He then pulls out an eye scanner instrument.
Inside of the Museum, Loki looks from above the gala and descends down the stairs to where the head doctor is. As he makes it down near the stage, he flips his cane to the other end. The guard there notices him, pulls out his gun but Loki clubs his head in causing chaos to erupt from inside the museum. Loki grabs the head doctor as guests started to leave the museum in a panic and flips him over on a marble table with the image of a mystical creature Sugilite. Loki then unfurls his wings and pulls out a optical torture device before he plunges it down the poor human's eye, the doctor twists in pain before dying from the shock.
Meanwhile outside of the museum, a holigraphic eye that belonged to the good doctor appears from Clint's device and the computer recognizes his severed optic. The doors swing open, Clint and his men find the cabinet with the Corrodium and place the thermos of the rock in a duffle bag.
As the crowd runs away, Loki slowly walks out and materializes in his gold armor and his antennae match his armor and resemble horns again, his scepter turns back to normal again. The police arrive, without hesitation Loki freezes the street with his breath, then blasts the cars flipping them over and crashing into a building.
Loki opens his wings to their full length and stood before the crowd and said, "Kneel before me."
The crowd ignores the god and tried to get away from the crazy Necrofriggian, however another Loki appears blocking the crowd as four more appear, all of them grinning as they held up their spears trapping the crowd. Loki slams the bottom of his spear against the ground causing it to glow bright pink and blue. "I said. KNEEL!"
Everyone becomes quiet and they all kneel in front of him. Loki holds his arms out, smiling.
"Is this not simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of weaker species, that you thirst for subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad rush for power, for identity. You were all made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel..." Loki says while slowly walking between the crowd of kneeling people. As his words reach the crowd, an elderly Florauna refuses to kneel and stands, Heroic despite his old age.
"Not to men like you." He said with a look of defiance in his blue eye as he looked directly at Loki.
Loki chuckles. "There are no men like me."
The Florauna shook his head, "There are always men like you."
Loki points his spear at the old alien ready to execute him as his scepter lights up and said, "Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example."
A purple energy blast shoots out of the spear, but just before it hit it's target, Diamond America dives in time and blocks the blast with his shield, the beam bounces off the shield and hits Loki making him fall forward. The Super soldier helps the Old Florauna up and patted his shoulder and asked, "You okay, soldier?"
"Yes Captain...thank you." said the old alien.
Steve then turns to Loki as people around him started to stand up and said, "You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing."
Loki stood up using the scepter to help support his weight and smiled.
"The soldier. A man out of time." Loki said snarkly.
"I am not the one who's out of time." Steve stated.
From above Diam, the Quinjet arrives, a machine gun is pointed towards the Necrofriggian. Natasha's voice came from the speakers of said Quinjet, "Loki, drop the weapon and stand down."
Loki sends a powerful blast of purple energy at the Quinjet. Natasha maneuvers it before the blast hit the wing, giving Steve the time to throw his shield at Loki. They then begin to fight. Loki flings Diam to the ground. Diam then throws his shield, but Loki swats it away using his scepter. Diam then used his skills in many martial arts, but was knocked down by Loki. Standing over the Petrasapien, Loki points the end of his spear at his helmet.
"Kneel."
Steve then smacks away the scepter and said, "Not today!"
Diam then delivers a poweful roundhouse kick directly across Loki's face. Loki then grabs him and throws him five feet away. Natasha was trying to find an opening in the Quinjet, while the two were combating each other.
"This guy's all over the place..." she said worriedly.
"Agent Romanov, did you miss me?" came Tony's voice from her headset as the song Fuel My Fire from The Prodigy overdrives the Quinjet's speakers.
Both Loki and Steve look up at the sky. Tony flies in using his Volcanic armor and blasts Loki in the face causing him to fall to the ground with a hiss. Fire Man touches down, then stands up and pulls out every piece of weaponry his form had, Magma missiles, Lava Lazers, and even Ash Grenades, and Granite Grapples. (Yes. I know it's cheesy and obvious but hey, I couldnt resist.)
"Make your move, Freezemeiser." Tony says in a Try-Something-I-Dare-You, tone.
Loki puts his hands up in surrrender and lets his armor disappear and returning his antennae back to normal.
"Good move." Fire Man says as the weapons returned back to their individual places. Steve walks up to Fire Man hoding his shield and out of breath.
"Mr. Blast."
"Captain."
Sooo, That is chapter three. Tell me how I did and if it was satisfactory for your tastes. I promis that Thor will make an appearance in the next chapter, but I will not spoil anything. Till the next chapter.