With a lot of effort I managed to climb onto the roof of the cell, first onto the window, and then with a lot of effort and balance from there to the roof. Thialfi promised to catch me if I fell, but given the size of the ledge I wasn't all that hopeful. When it came to his turn, he managed to get up with relative ease, but took my offered hand for extra support on getting onto the roof where we lay flat for a while to make sure that any suspicions that had been roused would fade.

"Now how do we get up to that window?" asked the Asgardian and I looked over. To describe it properly, the cell was like a garage attached to a warehouse- it was a big, long building with window spread about at seemingly odd intervals. It was built of that same marble-like substance, and a sloping roof with what looked like a helicopter landing area towards the back- with a ship there.

Now that seemed like a good weapon to have, a dragonfly spaceship or like one of those X-Wing Fighters from Star Wars with the four long wings in the middle with engines rather than guns- they were attached to the bottom of the front like mandibles.

"How would you feel about stealing that instead," I said, pointing it out to Thialfi. "We shall call it Dragonfly and… it doesn't look like a Chitauri ship."

"Who do you think it belongs to then?"

"How the hell am I supposed to know?" I protested, looking about for any signs of movement. "It doesn't look like its guarded or anything."

I thought about it- they definitely weren't going to leave the Tesseract here, especially if they were planning to capture the Avengers and then to invade Earth. The best thing to do was to go through the portal, we couldn't stay here if we were to do anything to help anyone and that ship was the best thing to help up- a shield and a sword in one.

"And do you know how to fly that?" he asked, and I grinned at him.

"Of course not," I replied cheerfully. "But there is no better time to learn."

Before he could protest I got to my feet, keeping low though as I crept across the rooftop towards the main building and looking for footing to get up. There was a window past the end of the cell, which would require a small jump and a huge fall if missed. Above that was a row of ridges barely an inch wide which I could use to climb up onto the roof.

I didn't stop to think, knowing it would only panic me and force me to give up this pursuit. But I couldn't, I did practically nothing last time- when it was the movie that played, and I had resolved to do more, to show that I could play the hero should it be required.

With a running start I leapt to the window, my head narrowly missing the side of the window and grabbed hold of both sides in order to stop me from falling. I took a few moments to catch my breath before leaning backwards and reaching upwards to find the ridges. My hands gripped tightly to the smooth surface, inching forwards to find the roof as I stood up slowly and upon finding it gripped tightly.

"Allons-y," I said before pulling myself up.

Or at least trying to, my arms were tired from all the earlier efforts and I was never a person with upper arm strength. It was mainly determination that gave me strength, all my will focusing on getting up and on the roof.

"Are you mad?" asked Thialfi, sitting on the edge of the roof and watching me as I slowly pulled myself upwards.

"Jury's out," I replied, stealing Tony's line and feeling a pang of loss as I thought of the playboy. With one final heave I pulled myself up and crawled onto the roof with some relief, waiting for Thialfi to join me as I massaged my aching muscles. "Wasn't that fun?"

"I think and hope you meant that sarcastically," Thialfi commented as he sat next to me. "Otherwise I might question your interpretation of fun."

"And I might question your actions," I countered, and he looked at me with confusion. "From what I've seen of Asgardians you don't act like them."

"And you would know how all Asgardians act?" he pointed out and I faltered slightly. He was right, I shouldn't presume things- things like gods who lived in basically a long past era and who were supposed to be battle-loving warriors should act as such. "Besides, sometimes the lie is preferable to the truth."

It took a moment for the words to register- hadn't I said those exact words to…

I looked after Thialfi as he got up and head on his was way towards the ship.

"Wait up," I said, jumping up- nearly slipping off the roof in the process and hurrying after him. It was a slow progress though, neither of our us had shoes that were made for gripping onto this stuff and there were many slips and slides before we reached the platform. "It looks smaller up close."

Thialfi nodded in agreement, following me now as I went over to the open hatch to see if anyone was inside. It was empty.

"It feels like a trap," said the Asgardian as he climbed inside, checking properly before allowing me to come up and join him. "Why would they leave this ship unattended and open?"

"Because they think they have nothing to worry about?" I guessed, and made my way over to sit in the pilots seat. In front of me was a touch screen, rows of buttons and the familiar control, steering thingy (I had no idea what it's called)- basically like a two handled joystick with two buttons on the top. Holding said stick, I moved it about experimentally and say the wings move about, the engines at the end rotating slightly as well. "I'm guessing this is meant to me manoeuvrable.

"Do you have any clue as to how to fly this?" asked Thialfi as he took the seat next to me, looking across the alien writing with confusion. "It would not do well for our escape if we could not get off the ground."

I huffed, pushing a button which I hoped close the hatch- and it did. Now to turn it on, I looked to see a red button and a green one- two buttons which brought a familiar conflict into my mind. One probably would start this thing and the other… who knew what it would do.

Deciding it was safer to go with the green button. There was a whining noise that lasted only a few seconds, but nothing otherwise happened and I drummed the dashboard impatiently.

"Well that was a waste of-" my comment was cut off as I accidently pressed one of the buttons on the stick-thing and a burst of energy shot out the gun, making a nice hole in the roof. "My bad."

I pressed the red button quickly, which was the correct one as it turned out and the engines hummed into life- the ones underneath this thing anyway and it slowly climbed into the air until it was hovering about a couple of metres above the ground. Chitauri could be seen rushing up onto the roof on the stairs in front of us (I'm thinking we should have taken an indoor route) and I angled the nose down before firing the guns again, collapsing the roof above them.

"You are a skilled pilot," commented the Asgardian, just as the lower two wings hit the roof with a loud clang and I pulled up quickly to avoid us crashing. "Never mind."

The engines attach too the wing came to life when I moved the joystick, speedily propelling us upwards and sometimes sideways as I came to grips with the controls.

"Thank god for all those movies and games," I commented as I managed to get it moving forwards, flying past the building in a matter of seconds and turning it around as we overshot the portal. The Chitauri were all screeching at us, firing their weapons and dodging as I fired our own. "Is it wrong to enjoy this?"

"Verily."

The ship must have been equipped with a force field or something- not an unfeasible idea here- because I couldn't feel anything hitting Dragonfly although it- or she I suppose- shook as the two guns at the front fired alternatively, each taking a few seconds to charge and recharge.

"Do we have anything… faster?" I questioned, looking at the array of buttons and the screen. "Try searching on that screen."

"And how do you expect me to know what it says?" he countered.

"Guess! Look for pictures, use your gut instinct," I said, firing the big guns again. "I can't fly this thing and surf the web at the same time."

There was a loud explosion and the ship shook horrendously, for a second I saw a blue-transparent thing flash around us as fire engulfed Dragonfly. I guess we did have force fields.

"Anytime now would be nice," I said, banking sharply to the left as another missile shot past us. "Since when did Chitauri have bazookas?"

I looked over to the screen Thialfi was attempting to navigate and spotted an image that looked helpful. I clicked it and the whole ship vibrated before something small and round shot out of the nose and hit the winding path, there was a pause before a huge explosion destroyed it and sent us reeling back with its shockwaves.

"How did you know what that would do?" asked Thialfi as he looked over, the path gone leaving many Chitauri stranded next to the building.

"I didn't, it looked like something that might go boom though," I replied. "We'd better get to that portal though, it'll be closing any second now."

Sure enough, the portal seemed to shiver slightly before shrinking, and without waiting I turned the ship around and headed straight towards it. Ignoring the weapons aimed at us, the rocks which partially shielded it and the fact that I was a rookie pilot I went straight for it. There was a loud screech as we skimmed the rocks, the whole ship shaking before we bounced off the ground slightly and went through it.

"Well that was easy," I commented.

That's when I noticed the huge army camp, thousands of ships, leviathans and seemingly millions of Chitauri marching across this barren planet.

"Oh crap."