Chapter Three-
The healer flew the sky searching for where he companions had landed, when she heard a gruff voice scream. "Don't touch me again."
"Then don't take my stuff," Tony's voice snapped towards Thor.
"You have no idea what you're dealing with." Aelia landed on the ground in seconds and glanced at the blonde haired man. Who had noticed her presence and looked her up and down bewildered mouth agape. "A-Adephile?" The blonde God stuttered in disbelief slowly moving towards her.
Aelia looked from Tony to Thor unsure of what he was saying, until he reached her, over towering her by a foot smiling a sweet smiling. "I would never forget a face like this." He breathed. "Adephile. My dear brother's Adephile."
Tony cleared his throat earning the God's attention once more. "Uh... Shakespeare in the park? Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?"
"This is beyond you metal man. Loki will face Asgardian justice."
"He gives up the cube and he's all yours until then stay out of the way. Tourist." Tony started walking away, the other man threw his weapon at Tony sending him flying off his feet. While the men fought, Aelia flew off to find the God of Mischief.
"Surrender or else Loki." Aelia demanded with a threatening tone.
"Oh, the navitas tractatior." Loki said with a grin moving towards her. "Audi me angelus, qui vis ut dem tibi illa libertate."(Listen to me angel, I shall give you that freedom on which you desire." He moved a piece of hair behind her ear looking her dead in the eyes. Aelia was frozen was if all her muscles were thick blocks of ice, he moved closer to her small frame.
"Back away Loki!" Steve called pulling Aelia behind him. The God of Mischief looked around him, he was trapped.
Aelia stood with Steve, Banner, and Tony in a grand hall. Bruce tapped on the table twice, causing a screen to appear. The screen showed the God, Loki. Steve leant on the back of Aelia's chair to look at the screen over her shoulder.
"In case it's unclear, you try to escape. You so much as scratch that glass." Fury's voice said. Loki walked to the edge of the cage and raised his eyebrows. "Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how it works? Ant. Boot."
"It's an impressive cage. Not built for me." Aelia stared at Loki once again getting transfixed on him. Until she felt a strong grip on her shoulder, glancing she saw it to be Steve.
"Built for something a lot stronger than you." Aelia reached up and grasped the hand.
"Oh I've heard," Loki began with a smirk, looking towards the camera, "Mindless beast. Makes play he is still human. How desperate are you? You call on these lost creatures to defend you." Mocking could be heard in his voice.
"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with a war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace and you kill because it's fun. You have made me very desperate. And you may not be glad that you did."
Aelia couldn't believe this, it was all over power. That's all anyone ever wanted power and more power. "Yeah, well you let me know if 'Real Power' want's a magazine." Director Fury said as the screen went black.
"He really grows on you doesn't he?" Bruce said.
"Loki's going to drag this out. So Thor, what's his play?" Steve asked letting go of Aelia's hand. Thor looked towards Aelia and sighed.
"You're friend looks so much like his Adephile, he'll probably try to brainwash her to get what he lost." Steve scrunched up his face looking to Thor. "He believes that after his army, Chitauri that none of Asgard nor any worlds know. Win him his war he will need himself to share the power with, no?" Aelia gulped and stared intently into Thor's eyes. "He means to lead them against you're people. They will win him the earth. And I suspect in return is the teseract." Thor concluded.
Steve looked down to the woman beside him, "We won't let him get to you, I promise on my life." He whispered in her ear. Then moved his gaze to Thor, "An army. From outer space?" Steve said with a look around the table.
"So, he's building another portal." Bruce said with a frown.
"That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Aelia breathed out.
"Selig?" Thor questioned.
"He's an astrophysicist." She replied.
"He's a friend."
"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's no leading an army from here."
"I agree with Steve..." Aelia put in.
"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him." Thor looked towards Bruce, a scowl was on his face.
"Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he's still of Asgard. And my brother." He muttered to Banner with irritation.
"He killed eight people in two days."
"He's adopted." A few people chuckled at ths.
"I think," The healer pondered looking at Bruce. "It's about the mechanics." Bruce nodded his head to agree with her.
"Iridium, what did they need Iridium for?" Agent Coulson walked into the room with Tony following behind.
"It's a stabilizing agent." Tony called to the group, earning their attention.
"Which means, the portal won't collapse on itself." Aelia looked to Tony, who grinned at her.
"Exactly, like it did at S.H.I.E.L.D. No hard feelings point break, you've got a mean swing." Tony said giving Thor a few taps on the arm. "Also," he continued. "The portal can open as wide, and stay open as long as Loki wants." Tony covered one eye and looked between the monitors. "How does Fury even see these?"
"He turns"
Tony sighed, "Sounds exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Energy density, something to kick start the cube."
"When did you become an expert in the thermonuclear astrophysics?"
"Last night, 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 Tony.
"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million kelvin, just to break through the coulomb barrier."
"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect."
"Well, if he could do that he could achieve heavy Ion at any reactor on the planet." Bruce added.
"Finally," Tony smirked moving closer to Banner, shaking hands with the doctor. "Someone who speaks English. It's good to meet you Doctor Banner. You're work on antielectron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into a giant green rage monster." Bruce scoffed, unsure if it was to be taking as a complement.
"Thanks."
Fury moved between the doctors and Tony, "Doctor Banner s only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him and Doctor Aelia."