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Loki walked towards the door of the dark bedroom dressed in his newly-cleaned black and green attire. He had used his magic to clean them of all the blood. As his hand turned the handle, he was stopped by Natasha who had awoken at the sound.
"Where are you going?" Her eyes adjusted to the dark and she joined him by the door.
"I dreamt of a memory," he explained. "Odin once told me about the Infinity Gauntlet."
She kept her eyes fixed on his face as he talked.
"I believe it can possibly bring back Thor." He stared down at her with a grave expression.
"But what is it?"
"It is in Thanos's possession," he continued. "Odin returned it to him yesterday… The gauntlet harnesses the power to wipe out everything in existence."
Natasha wanted to complain about him failing to tell them about this earlier, but he had been through so much already. "We have to warn the others." She went to her dresser and quickly changed into a pair of jeans and a shirt.
"He is locked up, is he not?"
"In the same place you were," she told him as she slipped on her wrist blasters and grabbed her gun.
"He was stripped of his armor, I hope," he added.
"If he escaped, we would've known by now. Don't worry," she assured him. The time on her phone read 2:37 AM. She didn't think that any of the other Avengers would be up at this hour. She led Loki out of her suite and down to the parking garage level. The two got into her car and she drove off to the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility.
Natasha swiped her ID at the door and the two were allowed in. The security guards were wary upon seeing Loki with her, but she assured them that he meant no harm. A guard escorted them up to the floor where Thanos was being kept in confinement.
"I need to see any possessions of his," Natasha told the guard as he opened the door for them.
"Commander Fury has them locked up in his care," he informed her.
She turned to glance at Loki, then to the guard. "We can handle the rest from here." She walked down a hall with Loki at her side until they reached a familiar glass cage that held its latest prisoner.
Thanos turned his head to glare in their direction. "If it isn't the traitor," he growled at Loki. "And the wench whom brought me down." He now stared in Natasha's direction.
"We are in need of some information," began Loki. He folded his hands behind his back as he began to pace before the glass container. "Tell us about the gauntlet given to you on Asgard."
"Bring it to me and I'll show you," he smirked.
Loki began to chuckle under his breath. "You shouldn't mistake us for fools." His smirk formed into a thin line as he glared into Thanos's eyes. "I know the power that the gauntlet possesses."
"What brings you here, then?"
"Tell me," Loki continued, his tone growing fierce, "what are the limits to its infinite power?"
Thanos' laughter boomed throughout his cage. "There are no limits!"
"Can this power conquer death?" he asked suddenly. His hands squeezed together behind his back as he awaited a response.
"You wish to bring back the man you killed?" He smiled widely.
Loki kept a rather calm composure, despite the anger boiling inside of him. "Precisely. He died a meaningless death."
"Of course!" Thanos exclaimed. "As I said, the Infinity Gauntlet has no limits."
"Then why do you need the Tesseract?" Natasha interrupted. "Why need that when this gauntlet can do anything?"
"Because then all power will be under my control," he explained darkly. "No one could surpass me!"
"How unfortunate to be locked away and stripped of such power," added Loki.
"You know you crave such power, too, god."
"Our business here is finished." He coolly turned on his heel and began to walk away with Natasha following closely behind.
"You will return. Do not forget that you owe me. You have betrayed me several times now," he taunted.
Without a word in response, Loki and Natasha left the room.