Author's Note: Sorry for taking so long there is a little thing called Finals that interferes with my writing.

I'd also like to thank everyone who reads this for being so patient.

Chapter 10 Loki Makes a Computer, Tony Builds a Weapon

Loki had spent two hours after the meeting drawing up blueprints and part lists while Tony drove everyone around in the ship gathering every scrap of metal they could find before turning the ship over to Natasha so he could start the machine.

While Tony was gone Weyland had cleared out everything from the hanger and set up the tools he was sure they would need. Thankfully most of the equipment needed only a good dusting to get it working again. By the time Loki was done with the rough sketches of the machine, Tony had arrived back with the scavenged items. Together they dismantled the machines, cleaned them and laid out the parts they needed.

They started to work on the machine, and Tony found the design similar. Three hours latter he finally recognized the design as one of the older repulsor rays from his suit, just bigger and with other parts added to it. "Loki how did you get this design?"

"F.A.D.E. picked it up when he went through your computer," Loki said muttering as he used tweezers and some sort of laser to weld a tiny wire to an equally small circuit broad. "F.A.D.E. logged it away with some other info. I pulled it out and made changes to it to make it better. I figured you would be able to put it together if the technology was similar."

"How did your computer get into my system," Tony asked.

Loki shrugged, "Ask F.A.D.E. how it did it. Can you hand me that wire." Tony handed the wire over and watched as Loki went back to work.

Weyland snickered behind him and Tony turned around. "What?"

"Don't be worried about anything F.A.D.E. found," the other man said. He looked over the blueprints and started assembling some small part of the machine. "F.A.D.E. has gotten into so much stuff he's not supposed to its not funny. Loki found out with F.A.D.E. that I was leaving the planet before I did."

Tony glanced side long at Loki then lowered his voice. "Why did you leave? Wasn't Loki really young when you left? "

"I had to; when powerful leaders tell you to come to their planet to do something for them you do it. I didn't want to leave him but I had no choice. Still it turned out all right in the end. Hand me that screwdriver please and get to work. We need this done by the time Loki finishes the hardware." Tony nodded and got back to work. They finished after hours of wielding Tony collapsing on to the edge of the workbench eyeing his creation.

Well his, Weyland and Loki's creation. It was simple, one switch, and a set of prisms inside to reflect and change the energy and a set of dead batteries in the back to store the converted energy. All that was needed was the rather complicated circuit broad Loki was finishing. It was small, about the size of two of Loki's fingers, with equally small electronics that Tony wanted to experiment with badly. With that kind of circuitry he could update his suits to be lighter, therefore using less energy so he wouldn't run the risk of falling out of the sky like he had when he had to fight Loki. Also he could have more energy for his weapons if he could get circuits that small. He made a note to ask Loki about that latter.

Currently though Loki was out of the world, a look Tony knew to well from all the times he had done the same thing, so absorbed with a project that he forgot about everything outside a few feet. Finally Loki looked up from installing the circuits, eyes tired but bright as he slid the cover over the side and screwed in the last screw.

"I think I got it," Loki said voice raspy. Steve placed a glass of water in front of him and Loki drained the glass immediately.

"So what does this machine dost," Thor asked looking at the object. The machine in question was as long as Tony's arm and as wide as a tricycle tire.

"It is designed to counter the effects the crown," Loki said, "it takes the energy the crown shots and converts it into regular energy."

"How are we supposed to use it," Clint asked. "That thing is too big to be a handheld weapon."

"Does it work," Steve asked. "I mean is there anyway we can test it. I have complete confidence in you Loki but I'd rather not have it fail in the middle of battle because it wasn't tested out first."

"I was thinking we could mount it on the ship," Loki said nodding over at the ground ship.

"We wouldn't be able to actively chase Dr. Doom if we did that," Steve pointed out.

"I thought of that. Tony can your armor move independently?"

"Umm, yes," Tony replied. "What are you planning Loki?"

Loki grinned and removed a disk from his computer. He set the disk spinning in the air and ordered F.A.D.E. to start the program. "I was thinking if we parked the ship on a hill hidden we could lead Dr. Doom to the machine."

"You need the Man of Iron to run the machine," Hogun said. "This Dr. of Doom will be suspicious if we are all not present, so you need the armor of the Man of Iron to move to give the impression that he is present."

Loki nodded, "I was thinking having Thor in front of the machine. If he does not get out of the way in time he will most likely not be injured as badly."

"Fandral and Thor can stand in front of the machine," Hogun remarked touching the hologram of the battle. He moved the little figures of himself and Sif, so that they flanked the little figure of the Dr. "Volstagg can stand right behind him and make sure he does not retreat. The rest of the Avengers can fill in between us."

"That sounds like a plan," Steve said. "But you still haven't answered my question Loki. Does this weapon work or not?"

"I'm not sure, it should but I do know how to test it." Loki turned to Thor. "Can you call down lightning anywhere?"

"Yes, but how doest this help?"

"Lightning is just raw energy," Bruce broke in. "If the machine works it should turn the energy from the lightning into a safer form of energy."

"Exactly," Loki said. "If someone could help me move this outside we can try it out before mounting it onto the ship. Also I don't want the ship fried if something goes wrong."

"Sounds like a plan," Natasha said. "But how are we going to get Dr. Doom where we want him to be?" she looked around at the confounded faces and sighed, "Let me guess you don't know?"

"He was wearing seven league boots," Weyland said breaking the silence. "The pair he stole was the pair from the same museum as the crown, which means that they belonged to an old friend of mine. He was always getting lost so he programmed them to appear where he told them to go or to a previously imputed destination. One of those destinations has a hill nearby, and I still have the assess codes. I just need to send a signal out and the boots will automatically take him to the place the next time he tries to use them."

"Perfect," Thor said. "Then it is settled." He picked up the machine and headed outside with it. "Now shall we test this out?"

I was just wondering if anyone would be intrested in a story just about Loki. Such as when he was a little child growing up with Weyland. The story would just be the backstory and perhaps a chapter about how he ended up on Earth with Sasha (A prequel to Loki of Asgard). If I get enough people asking for it I'll post the story.