Chapter Four-

Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and Aelia all stood inside the laboratory. No words were muttered between the three, the one navitas tractatori sat side-long n her chair as she stared at her computer screen for some time. Something was calling her in her mind, pulling her towards it. Bruce looked to his lab partner slowly moving her way.

"Aelia?" Bruce called to her.

"Hmm?" She answered still transfixed in her thoughts.

"Are you... alright?" Banner asked with a touch of her shoulder.

Aelia seemed to have awoke from her dream. "A te postulo aere. Excusationis." (I need some fresh air. Excuse me.) Aelia said, somehow still in a trance. Bruce and Tony looked at her dubiously.

"What?" They both called, as she walked out blankly down to the elevator at the end of the hall. She hadn't noticed the super solider had been inside of the elevator as well. She looked up at him after pushing the floor level where she was told to go through her mind. Her face showed no emotion, her eyes where lifeless, no realization of the woman she was before was there now.

"Aelia?" Steve grasped her shoulders, only to have her shrug him off.

"Clamabit ad me," (He calls to me.) She vacuously said as she walked out the elevator leaving Steve dumbfounded, staring at her retreating form.

"Vendi ad me, meum novum facundos." (Come to me my new pet.) The voice inside her mind called, leading way to a chamber where Loki stood inside his glass prison.

"Tu nunc habes omnes me praceptis vestris." (You now have all of me to your command.) Loki grinned evilly at what her mind said, she was so easy to manipulate, way more than he though.

"I need you, love, to kill the Super Solider for he is way too close to your heart. And will only get in the way.. Pulchra tractatori." Aelia fought against the inner self that had taken over her body, she would never want to harm Steve, she couldn't.

"DO IT." Loki roared, this control over her was too much to handle. Her feet fell from underneath her, collapsing to the ground she breathed out.

"No," Before her vision back fuzzy and the world around her black.

Aelia slowly opened her eyes, looking around the room before her. She was in the infirmary a bandage wrapped around her head, with a closer look to her right side she saw Steve asleep on the guest chair. Aelia couldn't remember how she had come here.

With one abrupt movement she made, Steve awoke from his short slumber with a startled look. "Are */you feeling alright, Aelia?" He questioned her feeling her forehead for a fever, the small woman slowly nodded her head.

"I'm fine."

"Can you tell me why you were down in Loki's cell room?" Aelia looked up to Steve with an unsettled expression. "That's where I found you, sprawled across the floor." Steve looked concerned for her, she laid in thought for a moment, her eyes growing wider.

"O mi bonitas… non credo em." (Oh my goodness I don't believe it) She breathed in disbelief tears threatening to slip from her eyes, "Loki's been using me to get to all of you. I heard a voice inside my head that pulled me to his cell."

Aelia hummed quietly at her station in the laboratory, Steve told everyone to keep an eye out for Aelia. To make sure that Loki will not try to use her again. "The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Teseract."

"However," Bruce began with a frown looking at the spear, "It's going to take a few weeks."

"If we bypass their mainframe and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster, we can clock this around six hundred teraflops." Tony said, typing on his computer once done he moved towards Banner.

"All I packed was a tooth brush." Bruce said with a smile.

"You know you should come by Stark Tower sometime. Top ten floors, all R and D. You'd love it. You too Aelia. It's candy land."

"Thanks but. The last time I was in New York, I kind of broke… Harlem."

"I promise a stress free environment. No tension, no surprises. No innocent people." Tony said before poking Bruce with an electrical rod, causing Doctor Banner to call out in surprise.

"Nothing?" Tony asked.

"Hey! Are you nuts?" Steve yelled from the doorway, startling the female doctor.

"Jury's out. Nothing? You have a lid on it, don't you? What is your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo Drums? Hot spring membership? Huge bag of weed?" The millionaire questioned.

Steve wasn't amused by Tony's personality at the time, "Is everything a joke to you?" He questioned sternly.

"Funny things are." Tony simply replied with a small smile, testing Steve. Aelia got up quickly from her chair and walked to the soldier gripping his arm.

"Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship is not funny. No offence Doctor."

"No, it's alright I wouldn't have come if I couldn't handle pointy things." Doctor Banner said glancing over to Tony.

"You're tip-toeing you need to strut." Tony said pointing to Bruce.

"And you need to focus on the problem, ." Steve said with a scowl, Aelia lightly tugged on his arm, causing him to look down at her. She gave him a warning look and shook her head.

"You think I'm not? Fury calls us and why now? Why not before?" Tony questioned Steve while he picked up a silver bag containing blue berries. "What isn't he telling us? We can't do the equation unless we have all the variable."

"You think Fury's hiding something?"

"He's a spy Captain, he's THE Spy. His secrets got secrets."

"It's bugging them too, isn't it?" Tony questioned the doctors.

"I just want to locate the cube." Aelia called from beside the super soldier.

"Uh. I just want to do my job here and-"

"Doctor?" Bruce sighed heavily, taking off his glasses.

"A warm light for all of mankind to share; Loki's jab about Fury's cube."

"I heard it." Steve said, turning his head to the healer beside him as she exclaimed.

"It was meant for Stark."

"The Stark Tower? That big ugly… building in New York?"

"It's powered by Stark reactors, self-sustaining energy source." Banner said as he glanced towards Tony. "The building could run itself for what a year?"

"That's just the prototype." Tony stated proudly. "I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now." He explained to Steve with a wide grin.

"So why did S.H.I.E.L.D bring hi on the teseract project?"

"I should probably look into that once my decryption progam finishes breaking into S.H.I.E.L.D's secure files."

"What did you say?"

"Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours, We'll know every dirty little secret S.H.I.E.L.D has ever tried to hide, blueberry?" Tony said offering Steve the bag.

"Yet, you're confused on why they didn't want you around?"

"An intelligence organization that fears intelligence?" Tony snorted, "Historically not awesome."