Woot! Another chapter, it only took like a year to do so! :P
"We don't have time. I can answer all these questions and more back on the Helicarrier." She moved to push them out the door.
"Oh no you don't!" Iron Man countered "We've been through a lot to find you without a whole hell of a lot in the way of answers."
Captain America stepped forward before the rescued woman could answer "I'm afraid that I'm going to have to agree with Mr. Stark. We helped Mr. Ruskin and your husband because you were missing and in danger. Now that you're safe Ma'am we are going to need some answer before we proceed." He was cut off by a buzz of his earpiece. It was Clint.
"Hey, what going on in there? Have you found our kidnapping victim? Are the Chitauri neutralized or not?"
Reagan was scanning the room "Have them come in here. No point in being all spread out."
The good captain gave her an unhappy frown "guys you should come in here. The threat is neutralized and the target is secured. We're trying to get some answers now so you might as well join us." He said with resignation.
Thor approached his brother who was intently watching his wife. Loki didn't bother to turn "What now, brother? Are you going to drag me back to Asgard? Throw me back in that cell?" he asked tightly. He had not spoken more than two words to his not-brother since this whole ordeal had begun and he was hoping to keep it that way.
Thor was taken aback by the chill to his brother's words. "Brother... Come home. Mother will want to meet your new wife. Father will want to hear how you have reformed...You have reformed?" he asked in a small voice.
Loki let out a frustrated snort "Does it really matter. I am never coming home. I am finally happy and you think I would risk all that to come home, especially now that..." Loki trailed off without finishing the thought just continued to stare at Reagan.
Sean was examining their surroundings with a practiced eye"Not much of location, is it? But then again not a lot of people around so that a plus. What do you think?" he turned towards the brunette.
She shrugged "Not ideal but we've felt with worst."
Hawkeye and Black Widow walked in right as their rescued damsel in distress was arguing with Captain America and Iron Man.
"For someone who has just been rescued you're not too thankful." Iron Man snarked.
Thankful?!" she screeched. "You could not have been less helpful! Or didn't you notice the pile of corpses everywhere. I certainly didn't need you sticking around getting in the way when the real masterminds behind all this show up." Loki's wife fumed.
"We are not leaving you three to deal with whatever is coming. They attacked Earth which makes it our business Ma'am." The good captain's tone left little room to argue but somehow she found it, moving faster than anyone could react she grabbed Widow's side arm and fired a single round dead centre in Sean's chest. The bullet seemed to pass through him without doing any more than leaving a small hole in Sean's clothes. There was no blood, no mark what so ever that showed that a bullet had passed through his torso. Sean fingered the bullet hole in his suit jacket. "This was a custom suit! It cost me thousands of dollars!" he whined but he was ignored by the others. The Avengers just goggled at the unreal event.
She turned back towards the stunned heroes. "Your weapons don't hurt us. So what are you going to do? Bleed?" she sneered.
Black Widow had to wonder if she was right. What good would they be against people couldn't be hurt.
Iron Man was poking and prodding Sean's bullet hole ridden suit. "How did you do that? I mean that bullet went straight through him. Do you have some kind of phase shift ability? Do you even exists on our plane of existence?- That doesn't make sense because you wouldn't be able to interact with stuff- Oh! I know, you heal super fast so the bullet did go through you it just appeared to be unhurt." His gleeful interest on the scientific workings of the alien beings was apparent.
Sean still had not got over Reagan 's actions, ignoring the armoured man's inquiries "I can't believe you would shoot me. I loved this suit."
She was having none of Sean's whinging or Iron Man's curiosity "Do shut up Sean." She turned to towards the silent stare down the remaining occupants of the cramped office were having. "Time to be leaving , don't you agree?" she stressed.
Loki began to usher his wife out of the room "I don't think it's a good idea for you to be involved in what comes next. Now is not the time for you to take risks." He gently admonished her "There's more than just you to consider now." He said pointedly. She held his stare challenging him. He knew she wasn't likely to listen to him on this but he felt it was his job to make sure she took care of herself- even if she wouldn't.
"So it's some kind of phase device then?" Iron Man and Sean were the last to leave the cramped office space into the warehouse's main space still talking about the science behind Sean's bullet trick.
"Something like that. It's more a temporal-spatial distortion. The ring creates a temporal field over the entire body. When the wearer takes damage such as -say a bullet to the chest- then the device rewinds time to a preset point thusly undoing the damage."
"And it's the size of a ring?" he pointed to the plain gold band on Sean's hand.
"Yes."
"Amazing. When we're done can I take a look at it?"
Sean hesitated "Well I'm not sure that's such a great idea." Sean looked over at Reagan. "I'm no expert on this technology."
Suddenly both Sean and Reagan froze. "They're here." she whispered.
Another big battle coming up, hopefully it will not take nearly a year to write.