Nadia
Shortly after bringing Loki in, Fury quickly went down to business and interrogated him. The members of the Avengers initiative were currently in the briefing room, watching the ongoing interrogation through a monitor.
"In case it's unclear, you try to escape, you so much as scratch that glass." Fury pressed a button, opening the hatch underneath the glass cell Loki was in. Loki went towards the edge and peered at the hatch.
"Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?" Fury yelled as he pressed the button, closing the hatch. "Ant." He pointed at Loki before pointing at a button and saying, "Boot."
The god of mischief merely laughed and said, "It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me."
"Built for something a lot stronger than you."
"Oh, I've heard." Loki smirked evilly and turned to the camera. "The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man."
Judging based from what he said, something was definitely strange about him. I glanced at Dr. Banner who tensed while watching this. My attention was again diverted back to the monitor when I heard Loki speak.
"How desperate are you? You call on these lost creatures to defend you."
"How desperate am I?" Fury glared at the god of mischief and continued, "You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace and you kill cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did."
"Ooh. It burns you to come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what?" Loki had a sinister smile on his face as he spoke, "A warm light for all mankind to share, and then to be reminded what real power is."
"Yeah, well, you let me know if real power wants a magazine or something." Fury then left the cell before the monitor turned off.
Dr. Banner was the first one to break the silence and say, "He really grows on you, doesn't he?"
"Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?" Cap looked at the said god who seemed to be in deep thought.
"He has an army called the Chitauri, that none of Asgard nor any world know." Thor turned to us and explained further, "He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. Return, I suspect, for the Tesseract."
"An army, from outer space?" Cap turned to me.
I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Apparently…"
"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Dr. Banner pointed out.
"Selvig?" Thor asked with knitted brows.
"He's an astrophysicist." Dr. Banner answered him.
"He's a friend."
"Loki has him under some kind of spell." I looked at the Thor.
Tasha had her head down as she muttered, "Along with one of ours."
I gave a sympathetic look to Tasha as she nodded, telling me she was okay. This made my heart sink. Clint was still missing and he was still one of Loki's compelled minions.
"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here." Steve said, looking at all of us.
"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. Something's shady about him." I heaved a sigh.
Dr. Banner nodded while saying, "She's right. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him."
Thor merely gave us a look before saying, "Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he is my brother."
"He killed eighty people in two days." Tasha emphasized.
The god of thunder paused and sighed, "He's adopted."
"I think it's about the mechanics. Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?" Banner asked to no one in particular.
"It's a stabilizing agent." I answered together with a very familiar voice, making a smile appear on my face.
He really had the best timing when it came to these things. Uncle walked in with Phil as they discussed about something. He said something to Phil again before heading towards us.
"Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD." Uncle then turned to Thor before patting his shoulder and saying, "No hard feelings Point Break, you've got a mean swing."
"Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants." Uncle walked towards the monitors before ordering the agents, "Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails."
The agents merely gave him strange looks before they continued what they were doing. Pointing at the side, Uncle Tony suddenly yelled, "That man is playing Gallaga!"
I looked at where he pointed and my expression quickly turned blank. Seriously, Carter? Carter just smiled nervously at me and shrugged his shoulders as I gave him a stern look.
This time I narrowed my eyes at him and he finally got my message that I would kick his ass if he wouldn't stop lazing around. Holding his hands up in surrender, Carter shot me one last nervous smile before returning his gaze to the monitor and avoiding the threatening looks I was giving him.
"Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did." Uncle then looked at the monitors before raising one hand and covering one of his eyes. "How does Fury even see these?"
"He turns." Maria bluntly answered.
"Sounds exhausting." He scoffed before changing a few things in the monitors. "The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube."
"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Maria crossed her arms over her chest.
"Last night." Uncle merely shrugged his shoulders, making me want to laugh. "The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?"
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asked.
As I pondered upon this, I tried to figure it out while saying, "He would have to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier."
Steve looked at me stunned while my uncle stared at me with that familiar mirth in his eyes.
I shrugged my shoulders and smirked, "I read the notes."
Smiling as he shook his head, uncle then said, "Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect."
"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." Banner finally realized it as well.
"Finally, someone who speaks English besides me and Nadia." Uncle walked towards Banner and shook his hand. A smirk made its way on my face as I watched this in amusement. Uncle Tony just found himself his science bro.
"Is that what just happened?" Steve asked as he turned to me, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Apparently." My smirk grew bigger while I shrugged my shoulders and stood up to greet the doctor as well.
"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. You're work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster."
Hearing this, I quickly elbowed him in his side as he gave me a look.
"Ouch!" Uncle rubbed his sore muscle and said, "Nadia!"
The others just watched us, entertained by how me and uncle interacted.
I rolled my eyes at him and bluntly answered, "That was rude." Ignoring my uncle's glares, I turned to Banner, who had a small amused smile on his face, and extended my hand. "I'm Nadia Hunt. It's a pleasure to meet you, Dr. Banner."
"The pleasure is all mine." Banner then shook my hand.
"Dr. Banner, I apologize in advance that you have to deal with my uncle until this mess is fixed. He can be quite… annoying." I smiled at him as he laughed.
There were also quiet sniggers coming from the rest of the Avengers. Steve was smiling at me with pure interest dancing in his eyes, making me quite confused. What the hell? Why would he do that? Uncle caught my attention again.
"Nadia, I'm your beloved uncle!" Uncle Tony gave me a look of disbelief, making me smirk.
"Yes, you are. But, sometimes I wonder if you're really older than me." I slyly smiled at him while he just looked at me in shock. The others couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into laughter.
"Thank you, my darling niece." He rolled his eyes and mockingly put a hand on his heart. "You are so sweet. I felt your love for me."
I softly chuckled at this but then, this fun was cut short when Fury came in. Everyone stopped snickering and turned serious again.
"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him." Fury told my uncle.
"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon." Steve mentioned.
"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys."
"Monkeys? I do not understand." Thor furrowed his brows while looking at us.
"I do!" Steve excitedly said. There was a slight awkward silence after as he continued, "I understood that reference." He quickly blushed out of embarrassment when he noticed the amused smirk I was giving him.
Uncle rolled his eyes at the super soldier before turning to Banner again, "Shall we play, doctor?"
"Let's play some." Banner then led him out of the room and to the lab.
"Hunt." Fury called my attention. "A word?"
I looked at him with furrowed brows and noticed Cap did as well. Something was up and I had a good guess of what he wanted to talk about. Fury led us to the part of the briefing room with more privacy
"You want me to go in there, don't you?" I asked him.
"I have this feeling that he's the only one who wants to be in this ship."
"Well, you're not alone in that. He's very fishy."
"That god of mischief is up to something and I want you to dig it up." Fury gave me a serious look. "Get something out of him. Anything."
"Copy that, boss." I then left the room with one thing in mind. Complete my mission: Get anything out of that bastard.
Unknown to me, a certain super soldier has been watching my actions out of curiosity since Fury asked to speak with me.
~~~~~X~~~~~
A few minutes has passed since I arrived here at the cell where Loki was being held. I had been observing the god as he roamed around his cell. Something was definitely sketchy. This time I finally made my presence known, making Loki stop in his tracks.
"There's not many people who can sneak up on me." The god of mischief turned to me with a smirk on his face.
"But, you figured I'd come." I walked closer to the cell.
"After. After whatever tortures Fury can concoct, you would appear as a friend, as a balm. And, I would cooperate." He still had that annoying smirk on his face.
Ignoring whatever he said, I bluntly asked, "What have you done to Barton?"
"I'd say I've expanded his mind."
"And, once you've won. Once you're king of the mountain. What happens to his mind?" I crossed my arms over my chest.
Loki's smirk just grew bigger as he said, "Is this love, Agent Hunt?"
"Barton is my mentor. I owe him many debts."
"Tell me." He walked towards the bench and sat on it.
Sitting on a nearby chair, I pretended to be troubled before starting, "Barton helped me become the person who I am today. Trained me to be one of SHIELD's best agents. On one certain mission, there was a complication and things didn't go the way me and my partner wanted. Agent Barton along with others came to our rescue but there was still a casualty."
Even though I kept a blank face, it was hard for me to talk about this. I didn't want to reminisce this nightmare.
I heaved another sigh, "Something was taken from me and I became different after that. Became distant and miserable. Barton reminded me of the things that was slowly slipping through my fingers because I couldn't pull myself together. He pulled me out of the dark and gave me hope- a reason to keep pushing."
"And, what will you do if I vow to spare him?"
"Not let you out." I frankly answered.
"Ah, no." He smirked. "But I like this. Your world in the balance, and you bargain for one man?"
"Regime's fall everyday. That's life. Things come and go. I tend not to weep over that." I shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly.
"And, what are you now?"
"It's really not that complicated." I crossed my arms over my chest. "I've got red in my ledger. I'd like to wipe it out."
"Can you? Can you wipe out that much red?" This time Loki smirked evilly at me. "The murder of Michael and Andrea Hunt? Mission in Bulgaria? And lastly, Ethan Harper?"
My face was void of any emotion but I was shocked on the inside. How the hell did he know any of this?
"Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything?"
Loki stood up and walked towards me before continuing, "This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child at prayer. Pathetic! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away." He then slammed his fist onto the glass, making me flinch.
"I won't barter Barton! Not until I make him kill you. Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. Let you feel how weak and helpless you are like how you were when you lost your beloved. And then, he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams I'll split his skull!"
"This is my bargain, you mewling quim!" He sneered while I now held nothing but anger.
Slowly standing up, I walked closer to the cell and sneered, "You're lucky. You're inside this cell. Because once I get the chance, I will put an arrow right through your head." I glared menacingly at the god of mischief and continued, "I don't care if you're a god or the devil himself. I will tear you apart limb by limb and make your life a living hell. You monster!"
Loki merely laughed wickedly and said, "Oh, no. You brought the monster."
Bingo. Suddenly, all of the emotion on my face was gone as a sly smirk appeared on my face. "So, Banner? That's your play?"
"What?" Loki was now looking at me in confusion.
I walked towards the exit while talking into my earpiece, "Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Tell Romanoff to discreetly keep an eye on Banner until he finds the cube. If things go wrong, send Thor as well."
Looking back at Loki one last time, I smirked again, "Thank you, for your cooperation."
I then walked out of the cell, leaving a very confused god of mischief. My job was done but I could still feel this negative feeling inside of me. I needed to get it out. I was compromised.
Without me knowing it, there was a set of eyes watching my fleeting figure with worry as I walked towards the only place I could let it all out.
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