Wow, writing a lot tonight. Back to the late night writing. Yay?
Disclaimer: I only own my inability to sleep at a normal time.
Peter wandered into the lab, munching on an apple he was only mostly sure hadn't been exposed to gamma radiation.
"...and then the spectral line warped, and tessellated with the energy from Mjolnir, and Loki vanished. So now we have to figure out where he's gone, and how to put him back in prison. Now, I've been looking at Asgardian energy signatures, and there's always an extremely high ratio of unbalanced pulsars, which always decay at less than the normal rate. Why is that?" A small brunette woman was speaking rapid fire at Bruce, who looked slightly perplexed.
Peter thought he would interject. Bruce didn't look like he could answer, he was busy being confused. Obviously he had been startled out of another of his deep science comas.
"Well, the pulsars need something to bond with, right? What if Asgardian DNA gives it that, and it's latching onto the structure of Asgardian mitochondria, if they even have them. I assume this weird people stealing thing doesn't happen with humans?" The tiny woman marched up to him, and slid her glasses down her nose.
"No it doesn't. But what about the rate of decay? I've only ever heard of that when cosmic energy mixes with the photons emitted by the sun on their way to earth and is exposed to solar flares...oh!" She whirled and soon was completely immersed in her work, typing so rapidly her hands were a blur.
Peter raised an eyebrow at Bruce. The man in question just shook his head, and turned back to his equations, sinking back into his science fuelled trek.
"What about the reversed polarity in Mjolnir, though?" Jane muttered. Peter peered over her shoulder at her notes, and worked through it in his head.
"Asgardian metal has weird structures in its carbon atoms, right? Like they're alive? Really irregular. But, they have power cells, like our mitochondria, which I assume is where Asgardian weapons get their 'magic' from. So what if that interacts with the pulsars, and it reacts the way a compass does, when it's attracted to the metal in the earth's poles? And just flips it?"
Jane had been scribbling from the get-go, and was currently scrawling down a huge equation, which, from what Peter could tell, would re-reverse the hammer's polarity and bring Loki back.
"And then I'd need the power grid..." She trailed off. Leaping up, she grabbed a laptop and a disk drive, and ran out the door without a goodbye.
"Does she do that a lot?" Peter asked, bemused.
"Only when she's got someone to bounce ideas off. In this case, you. Usually she just asks for poptarts, and coffee. And throws things at Tony." A busty woman leaned over the desk to talk to him.
Peter took a bite out of his apple.
"Huh."