Beatrice and Steve were discussing some type of plan on the way to try and stop Loki. Since Beatrice had never really been in this type of situation before, she listened to Steve's every word on how to go about a situation like this. Especially since they really didn't know what they were walking into once they got there. After trying to calm her nerves and getting a somewhat solid plan, Beatrice felt ready for what was bound to happen.
"We're nearing our destination; prepare for the drop." Agent Romanoff called from her pilot seat. Beatrice had strapped on a parachute much like Steve, and he was trying to explain to her how to use it while she placed a set of goggles over her eyes.
"So just pull the string when I do, alright? You should be alright."
"Should be?" Beatrice asked with wide eyes. The loading dock door started to open and the gusting wind of the movement from the quin-jet made Beatrice's hair flutter all over the place.
"You'll be fine!" Steve yelled over the wind; fastening his cowl over his head, "Just follow my lead."
Just like that, Steve ran and jumped off the quin-jet and into the sky. Beatrice stared wide eyed at where he had jumped, Agent Romanoff yelling at her over the winds, "Babino! You have to go now!" That seemed to snap Beatrice out of her trance and she ran out of the out the quin-jet; feeling nothing but the drop of her stomach as she fell through the night clouds. She opened her eyes to see a blue figure ahead of her and knowing that it was Steve; Beatrice put her arms to her side to make her fall faster and get closer to him. Steve looked over his shoulder to see Beatrice gaining speed near him but she spread her arms and legs out when she reached his side.
She looked over at him and gave a quick thumbs up. God, I hope I survive this. Beatrice thought as the ground was getting more detailed by the second. Steve gave a thumbs up back and then pulled the string to his parachute, which lead to Beatrice pulling hers as well. The two heroes floated down to the snow covered ground, the frozen water crunching under Beatrice's boots as she moved the parachute off of her.
"I can't believe I just did that." Beatrice said, taking a couple deep breaths and throwing off her goggles to the pile of fabric that was her parachute. Adrenaline that was pumping through her body started to dwindle with each deep breath she took.
"Well, don't get too relaxed. We still have a job to do." Steve said over his shoulder as he started making his way towards the large brightness in the distance that Beatrice figured was Stuttgart. Static came through the small earpiece Agent Romanoff gave Beatrice before jumping off the jet indicating that someone was trying to get in contact with them.
"Come in Captain America, Sterling. Come in."
"Copy, both Captain America and Bea-Sterling made it safely to the ground. Now in route to Stuttgart." Steve said, putting an ear to his cowl.
"Copy that." Agent Romanoff's voice left with another batch of static and the line went dead. Beatrice and Steve started to make their way towards the German city with good time; mostly because Steve made Beatrice run a good ways before hitting the city limits. The buildings glimmered with lights, to large spotlights moved through the skyline like you would see in cities like New York or LA when they had big premieres. Beatrice took a second to admire the view before catching up to Steve who was making his way down the hill towards the lights.
"So what's the plan again?" Beatrice asked, trying to keep up with Steve's long strides.
Steve took a quick look at her before looking away and answering her question, "We go in, find Loki and take him in."
"That's it?"
"We also try to get as many civilians to safety as possible. We can't have civilian casualties on our hands."
"Got it." The two were making their way though the city as some sort of explosion went off a couple streets from where they were. That got the two to start running towards the commotion. Beatrice and Steve peered around a corner to see a big group of dressed up people kneeling before a man with a glowing staff and a golden antler hat. "I'm guessing that's Loki."
"Looks like it. Just follow my lead." Steve said as they watched an older gentleman stand up in defiance of Loki.
"Not to men like you." The older man says, standing tall. Loki looks at him pitifully, like a lamb in front of a lion.
"There are no men like me." Loki's sadistic smile played on his face as he seemed to get joy out of the fear on everyone's face.
"There are always men like you."
Loki stood up straighter and then picked up his staff and pointed it at the older man, "Look to your elder people. Let him be an example." Just as something bad was about to happen, Steve ran from his post near Beatrice and blocked the oncoming attack from Loki with his shield. Beatrice ran to Steve's side and checked on the older man before facing Loki who was getting up off the ground from his own attack hitting him after bouncing off of the shield.
"You know, last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." Steve called to Loki as he made his way over to him. Loki smirked, probably realizing who he was.
"The soldier, a man out of time." Loki said.
"I'm not the one out of time." Just then, the quin-jet flew in behind the crowd and came to a stop in the air. There was some noise that sounded mechanical then the voice of Agent Romanoff boomed over the speakers.
"Loki, drop the weapon and stand down."
Loki took that opportunity and fired his staff at the quin-jet, making it veer off to dodge the attack. Steve threw his shield at Loki's chest and started towards him, while Beatrice made sure the crowd was as far away from what was happening as possible. When she turned around, Steve was hit by the staff and pushed to the side, trying to get back on his feet. Beatrice jumped at the chance and ran towards Loki; her hand starting to form into silver as she went to punch him. Loki dodged her punch and went to hit her with his staff too, but Beatrice blocked it and pushed the staff back. Just then, Steve's shield came barreling towards the two.
Beatrice leaned back to make sure it didn't hit her but Loki hit it away from them before taking the end of his staff and jabbing Beatrice in the jut. She was sent flying from his strength; hitting the concrete a ways from them. People were still running away from the scene as Steve and Loki battled it out. Beatrice got back on her feet and made a beeline to Steve's shield which was laying a couple feet away from her. Her arm was still absorbed with silver which added a little kick to the throw of the shield to the back of Loki's head.
It bounced off his antler-crown-thing before coming back to Beatrice like a boomerang. Loki had just hit Steve away like a batter hits off a baseball; making Steve fly into the small concrete wall and go still for a while. Beatrice went into some form of a fighting stance still holding the shield as the man walked over to her, a smirk on his face. "You, I don't seem to recall knowing you."
"There wasn't really a time for a formal introduction." Beatrice spat back; preparing herself. She was about to strike, but Loki was too fast and was suddenly up in Beatrice's face; his staff right by her throat. Beatrice froze as she felt the gold metal graze her neck delicately, the smirk on Loki's face never falling.
"You would be a perfect asset to my plan, little one." Loki said in a low voice. Beatrice took a quick glance at Steve who was just now starting to get his barrings. Loki leaned back and started to move the tip of his staff to right above her heart. Before the gold could touch her skin, Beatrice focused her mind on moving the silver absorbed into her arm to her chest. She watched from her peripheral vision as the silver started to blossom on her olive skin like a flower; in time for Loki's staff to hit the metal with a *clink*. Loki's eye's widened as Beatrice's eyes did not turn to the light blue of the Tesseract, nor did she become one of his slaves. "This is not possible." He tried again, just now noticing the silver of her skin over her heart.
"Yeah, I'm kind of an Impossible Girl." As Loki was still in shock, and for some extremely odd reason, "Shoot to Kill" by AC/DC started to play out of nowhere. Beatrice, Loki and Steve turned their heads to see what looked like a rocket flying in the sky. The rocket ended up being Tony Stark in his Iron-Man suit, making the effort to shoot an energy beam from his palm at Loki that sent him flying. Iron-Man landed in what you would call the "superhero landing" pose, and raised his head in Loki and Beatrice's direction. Beatrice's eyes were very wide as she examined the new comer.
The suit was like it's always been; except for the triangle light instead of the normal circle that used to be on the armor's chest. Iron-Man stood up and quickly turned it's head in Beatrice's direction, not really knowing what to do with her. But then turned back to Loki and started to pull out every piece of weaponry the suit had; all aimed at Loki.
"Make your move, Reindeer Games." Tony Stark's voice challenged. Loki seemed to know he had lost this fight when Steve came up next to the Iron-Man suit and take his shield back from Beatrice who was holding it out for him to take. All three heroes looked at him in defiance; the man of iron holding his fate with a push of a button, the soldier ready to pounce at any minute and the mystery woman looking ready to punch his lights out when given the opportunity. So he did the smart thing and raised his hands in surrender as his antlers and staff disappeared. "Good move."
"Mr. Stark." Steve said, not taking his eyes off of Loki.
"Captain." Tony Stark said back, also not looking away from the god.
"Mr. Stark." Beatrice said like the other two. But since the man did not know who she was, he simply replied with,
"Metallica."
The heroes got Loki handcuffed with special S.H.I.E.L.D. cuffs and escorted the man onto the quin-jet. Steve and Tony were standing away from Loki as Beatrice sat in front of him; having a small stare off with him. The skies from the viewing glass were dark, and not just because it was night. Small rumbles of thunder were heard but no one seemed to notice or pay attention to it.
"Said anything?" Director Fury asked over the comm, directing his question to Agent Romanoff.
"Not a word."
"Just get him here. We're low on time." Beatrice finally had enough of the stare off and stood up, making her way to the two whispering in the back like a bunch of girls.
"I don't like it." Steve said in a low tone, still watching Loki carefully in his seat.
"What? Rock of Ages giving up so quickly?" Tony asked.
"I've watched too many movies to know that he gave up way too quickly." Beatrice whispered back. Tony looked at the girl, then back to Loki.
"I don't remember it being ever that easy; this guy packs a wallop." Steve added.
"Still, you are pretty spry, for an old fellow." Tony said, looking at Steve and starting to show more of his personality, "What's your thing? Pilates?"
"What?"
"It's like calisthenics. You might have missed a couple things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle." Beatrice looked at Tony, smiling a little at his sarcasm.
Steve though, did not seem to find him funny, "Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in."
"Yeah. There's a lot of things that Fury doesn't tell you." Tony mumbled before locking eyes with Beatrice. "You I don't know. Why don't I know you?"
"I seem to be the new kid in town." Beatrice said with a small smile.
"Tony Stark, need I say more?"
"No you don't have to; you can just call me Sterling for now."
"Ooh, a woman of mystery. I can dig that." Lightning flashed through the sky and a big roll of thunder came right after; signaling to Beatrice that they were at the heart of this odd storm.
"Where 's this coming from?" Agent Romanoff asked out loud before another strike of lightning appeared; making Loki jump.
"What's the matter?" Steve asked Loki, "Scared of a little lightning?"
"I'm not overly fond of what follows." Loki said, watching the sky from the glass plating above. Beatrice raised her eyes at what he said, not sure if he was really scared of thunder. All of the sudden, the quin-jet shook like something had landed on the top of it, making Steve, Tony and Beatrice look up at the ceiling of the jet. Tony was quick to grab his helmet as Steve went over to pull his cowl on his head and grab his shield. Beatrice watched as Tony pushed a button and the the jet's ramp opened up.
"What are you doing?" Steve asked over the howling winds.
Tony didn't answer, but watched along with everyone else on the back of the jet how a man landed on the ramp with ease. He had long hair for a man, the blonde tresses a mess from being out in the storm. He wore what Beatrice would call armor; but not like the Iron-man armor while wielding a giant silver hammer. It was like the guy was a warrior of some sort, kinda reminding her of Hercules from the Disney movie Hercules. The man in the armor and red cape walked towards Loki, but Tony tried to intimidate him with an energy pulse. Before he could even fire it, the new comer hit Tony with his giant hammer with so much force he knocked Tony into Steve and both of them went down. Beatrice was wide eyed at all of this, Who the hell was this?
The man then grabbed Loki by the throat and as he went to go fly off, Beatrice got over her shock and quickly went to punch the blonde in the face. Her silver fist met his cheek and his head moved to the side from the force of it. But as he turned back to her, he did not look pleased. With Loki still in hand, he grabbed Beatrice by the ends of her jacket and directed her to the ramp. "Stay out of my way." he said, a thunderous look upon his face. And then he did something no one saw coming;
He pushed her out of the jet.