Meeting the Avengers
"Well, my plan is going better than I thought." Loki thought to himself as he took in his surroundings, he was strapped into a chair on some sort of flying contraption, with a man dressed in blue with stars and red stripes decorating the blue suit he wore, and a large A on his cap, and another man dressed in a red and gold suit. He could hear their conversation yet it didn't intrigue him that they were talking about Loki himself.
"I don't like this." The man in blood muttered, eyeing Loki suspiciously.
"What, Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" The man in metal asked.
"I don't remember it being that easy, this guy packs a wallop."
"Still, you were pretty spry for an older fellow. What's your thing, Pilates?"
Loki held back a smirk as he listened to what was going on between the two men, but he droned off when their conversation suddenly changed to not being about him. Then, suddenly as there was a loud clap of thunder, he looked up his whole body tensing. He knew what the sound of thunder and lightning meant, and he was slightly unhappy about it since he had hoped for his wife and not his stupid 'brother'.
"What's the matter, scared of a little lightning?" The man in blue asked him, obviously catching Loki's reaction.
"I'm not overly fond of what follows." Loki told him as he looked around, almost jumping clear of the seat when there was a loud crash from above them, and he noticed the man in the iron suit open the door to the flying contraption, and then the moment that he dreaded came as Thor landed on it. He watched the God walk to him and pick him up, walking back towards the exit, but as he got there, he swung Mjolnir around and they were suddenly flying.
Whilst all of this was going on, Eris was knelt on the roof in order to stop herself being swept away with the high winds, and she watched Thor fly off with Loki. Before she saw the man of iron and the man in blue go off after them, and she simply sunk through the roof of the flying contraption and landed inside.
"Um, who are you?"
At the question Eris turned around and found a woman with curled red hair and a thick Russian accent standing behind her, holding a gun, ready to shoot her if necessary.
"Really, you see someone you don't know and you go to shoot them?" Eris asked her.
"You have two large swords strapped to your belt, and a dagger in each sandal, forgive me for being a bit cautious." The woman told her.
"Well, how about we behave civilised, and you put that thing away and I will tell you who I am, providing that you tell me who you are?" Eris asked, looking at her, and folding her arms across her chest.
"Sounds, fair." The woman nodded, putting her gun back in its holster. "So, who are you?"
"My name is Eris, the Goddess of Chaos." Eris held out a hand for the woman to shake.
"Natasha Romanoff, though people call me the Black Widow." She took Eris' hand and they shook at their new introduction.
"Pleasure, Natasha Romanoff." Eris nodded, looking around, letting go of the woman's hand. "So, what is this?"
"It's called a jet." Natasha told her. "It's a mode of transport."
"Ah right, I've seen quite a few of these, I just wasn't sure since I haven't seen much by the roof and inside." Eris shrugged. "Oh, and Thor will bring Loki back shortly, he just wants a little brotherly chat with him."
Natasha nodded. "Okay." She watched Eris sit in a random seat, tapping her knees and now Natasha noticed how little her armour covered. "That's interesting armour."
"Thank you, it's Tartian, we tend to wear less because we don't like being limited in our movement." Eris rested her head back against the wall of the jet.
It took longer than Eris thought for the men to return, and the minute Stark and Rogers saw her, they both stopped and just seemed to freeze staring at her, Steve's mouth hanging open.
"Why does everyone have to stare, I haven't suddenly shifted have I" Eris asked, looking over her arms and legs.
"No Eris, you're fine." He suddenly threw Loki into a chair.
Loki didn't react to hitting the chair, he was just staring at his wife, her slender tanned body, and her long slightly curled brunette hair, her beautiful face, full pale lips and lastly her glistening hazel eyes. Because of the amount of time that they had been apart, he wanted to let his eyes ghost over her, drinking in their fill of his beautiful and exotic wife, but he was distracted by the way the man in blue and the man of iron were talking to her.
"Um, hello, ma'am." The man in blue addressed her, and Eris looked at him which made whatever else he was going to say get lost in her beauty, and this made Loki extremely jealous.
"Tony Stark, Billionaire, Playboy and a Philanthropist." The man of iron told her as he walked to her. "And all round superhero."
"You will talk to a princess of Asgard with respect." Thor told them. "Or you will not speak to her at all."
At hearing this, Loki seemed to smirk for once, who knew that his brother would stick up for Eris the way he did, the last Loki knew, there was hatred on both sides towards each other.
Eris lightly touched Thor's arm. "Relax Thor, I can handle myself." She smiled, before she looked at Stark. "Unfortunately, I'm not like the usual girls that you happen to pick up, and my husband would not approve even if I was."
"Whoa, you're married." The man in blue asked in surprise.
"Yes, do I really look that young?" Eris asked.
"Well, no offence ma'am, but you look to be in your late teens." The man in blue told her.
"Well, don't have a heart attack, but I'm actually twenty four years old." Eris told them. "My kind just age differently to yours."
Everyone but Thor and Loki looked at her in amazement and downright surprise, but they composed themselves in time to watch Loki be taken away and Commander Fury joins them.
"Take the prisoner to the detention level." The man looked at Loki, who recognised him as the darker skinned man from when he first started all of this, and he looked back at Eris as he was led away, before he watched the route in front of him, silently memorising it.
"Ah, Thor is it?" Commander Fury asked, shaking Thor's hand. "My name is Commander Nick Fury, but you call me Fury." At Thor's nod, he looked at Stark and Rogers. "Stark, Rogers report to the conference table, I need to speak to our guests alone, Romanoff goes with them please."
"Yes Sir." The redheaded woman walked away with Stark and the man that had now been identified as Rogers, and when they were completely out of earshot, Fury looked at Eris.
"Hello, I don't believe I have heard about you."
Eris looked at him. "The Lady Eris of Asgard, the Goddess of Chaos and wife to Loki." Eris told him, looking at him, holding her hand out, and they shook each other's hand.
"I was wondering why you were both here." Fury smiled. "Please, come on inside." He led them inside and through the helicarrier to the conference table where Romanoff, Rogers and Stark were gathered, but also another man with messy hair, tanned skin and glasses lent into a chair.
"Ah, Eris Thor, this is Dr Bruce Banner, also known as the Hulk, and he will be building us something which can help us track the cube." Fury explained.
"It's nice to meet you, Dr Banner." Eris smiled.
"Likewise, Eris." The man smiled, before everyone but Thor looked at the table and a video display of Loki's cell showed them what was going on as Fury spoke to him, and occasionally Loki would look towards where the camera was looking at him.
Loki walked around his cell, and he smirked to himself, before he went expressionless as Fury spoke to him.
"In case this is unclear, if you try to escape of even cause a scratch on that glass…" Fury started as he pressed a button. "It's 30,000 straight down in a steel trap, do you understand how that works?"
This made Loki smile. "It's an impressive cage, though I don't think that it was built for me."
"It was built for something that is a lot stronger than you."
"So I've heard, the mindless beast, that makes play he is still a man…" He could almost see the people gathered around the table look at Dr Banner, as he continued. "How desperate have you become to call upon such lost creatures to defend you?"
"How desperate am I? Well let's see, you threaten my world with war, steal a force which you can't hope to imagine and you speak of peace yet kill because you find it fun. You have made me very desperate."
"It really does burn you doesn't it, it burns you o know that you came so close to unlimited power, only to have it taken away in seconds and to be reminded what real power is."
This turn Fury smiled at his words. "Well, please let me know if 'real power' would like to have a magazine or something." He then proceeded to leave the detention level and he walked back to the conference table where he found the group and he looked straight at Thor. "Did he tell you anything?"
"No, and he wouldn't, he absolutely hates me." Thor told them. "You had best ask Eris, she is his wife." At his words, everyone looked at Eris who was sitting in a chair shocked.
"You married him?" Rogers asked her.
"Yes, believe it or not, Loki was never like he is now, he was kinder, more loving and not as sadistic." Eris told them, pulling her necklace from her neck. "Let me talk to him, try and convince him to tell me what his plan is and where this object is." She looked up at Fury as she said it.
Fury looked at Thor, who nodded and then he looked back at Eris. "Alright, but first let me show you where you can train, I know that you and Thor require specific training times."
"Actually, it's just me." Eris stood up. "But fine, show me." She walked to him, and as she left, everyone looked at Thor.
"She's tiny, how the hell could she be with Loki?" Romanoff asked.
"Loki would occasionally pick her up, so that she was at the right height." Thor smiled at the memory. "But they were best friends before anything else, so they know each other better than anyone."
"Which means, she could convince Loki better than any of us." Dr Banner told them.
"Didn't I just tell you that?" Eris asked, and as everyone looked around, well except Thor, she slid up through the middle of the table. "I don't appreciate being talked about, especially when I can hear you." She looked at Thor. "And you should know better."
Thor looked at her. "Sorry Eris."
"Yeah, you had better be." Eris looked down at the table, then she decided to walk out of it. "Sorry to scare you like that."
"You're a ghost?" Rogers asked.
"Far from it, I'm a shade." She smiled, her black veins coming back as with her black eyes, and she smiled showing a pair of slightly elongated canines.
"Whoa…" The 'mortals' whispered.
"Does Loki know about this" An agent asked. "By the way, I'm Maria Hill, put people call me Agent Hill."
"Eris, and of course he does, I have no secrets from my husband." Eris told her, as she looked back at her.
"Are you going to see him now?" Thor asked her.
Eris looked at him, and she nodded, her hands clasping each other behind her back and she slid through the floor and was gone, not stopping until she got outside of the detention centre, and before the guards could notice her, she slid through the wall and into where Loki's cell was being kept. This was going to be a very interesting conversation.