Clint turned to look at Thor. "Well that was great and all, but aren't you going to go after her?"
"I believe that would be most unwise. If Lady Scarlett is angered she possesses the ability to kill the inhabitants of all the nine realms."
"Wait a second." Tony looked worried. "Are you telling me that we have an emotionally unstable teenage girl with the power to basically destroy the universe, is on the loose." He turned to look at Bucky. "And you thought that it would actually be a good idea to not tell us any of this."
Bucky shrugged. "It wasn't my choice, it was hers and anyway, I owed her. She saved my life." Bruce looked intrigued
"What do you mean 'she saved my life'?" Steve leaned forwards "Remember how Bucky 'just turned up' at the Triskelion? That was Scarlett." "Yeah, she used her freaky magic powers to find me and fix me up before dropping me at SHIELD headquarters." Steve rested his head on Buckys shoulders "Without her I wouldn't have gotten you back." Bucky looked at Steve. "You're such a sap." He said fondly "You love me anyway." Bucky leaned in to kiss his boyfriend.
Clint waved his hands around. "Hey, can we get back to the issue at hand?" They didn't make any moves to separate themselves."That means break it up lovebirds." The couple reluctantly pulled away from each other and turned back towards the team. "Thor. What do you think she's planning?" Thor contemplated Clint's question."I believe that she will make an attempt to free Loki."
Tony swore under his breath. "Does she know what will happen if she frees Loki?! It could end up being like New York all over." Tony stood up, no doubt going to retrieve his suit when Thor spoke "I believe that we should trust her judgment. She would not free my brother without a reason. I worry that she will do something drastic."
Tony sat back down looking annoyed. "So you're suggesting that we just let her free the maniac that almost destroyed New York!? Hell she's probably more dangerous than Loki anyway, you said that she could kill us easily anyway."
Natasha stood up. "During my time in the Red Room HYDRA would often allow them to study her in an attempt to figure out what exactly made her tick. When they weren't literally cutting her up while she was still awake they had her room with us. The first time I met her I was an eleven year old girl in training to be an assassin along with twenty-eight other eleven or twelve year old assassins-in-training and she stumbled into our dormitory covered in her own blood and flesh and proceeded to apologize for getting blood on the floor. She never fought her handlers no-matter how much they tortured her because she knew that they would hurt us if she did. We can trust her."
The other Avengers looked at Natasha in shock. She was never very open about her past and it was very rare that she ever told them anything but small tidbits of information about her past.
(-_-)
In Asgard
The palace guards watched in shock as a teenage girl in a tank-top and sweatpants ran past them as she made her way towards Odin's throne room.
"Miss, you need to stop." One of the guards attempted to stop her but she wouldn't slow down or listen to them. She pushed open the golden doors of the throne room to see Loki restrained by magic-suppressing chains and surrounded by at least half a dozen guards. Odin was sitting on his throne talking quietly to his wife, Frigga, as several dozen Asgardian officials sat on either side of Odin. When Scarlett burst through the doors he looked up. "This is a private trial. Midgardians are not allowed here on Asgard. You must leave. Who let you in here?"
Scarlett smirked "I let myself in." She waved a hand towards Loki, who was chained to a post in the center of the room, a dozen guards who were armed to the teeth standing over him, making sure that he didn't escape."You call this a trial?" She spat the words at him. "You mean you're going to put on a show in front of your 'friends' so that you can look like a good and 'just' ruler. This isn't a trial, this is a death sentence." Odin looked slightly taken aback by her words. "How dare you make such accusations. Who are you?!"
Scarlett walked closer to Odin eyes filled with rage. "Do you not recognize me Odin?" A green aura surrounded her as she shifted into Asgardian armor, not unlike Sif's, and huge black and silver wings burst from her back as her skin took on a blueish tint.
Odin stood up a look of sudden realization on his face, his one eye wide open in shock. "Stryker, you swore that you would never return to Asgard. Your presence is unwelcome here."The court officials chattered to each other. The Frost Giants rarely left Jotunnheim and a small Frost Giant with wings was unheard of "Yeah well, you swore that Loki was not to be harmed. You changed the game so I changed the rules." Scarlett declared defiantly.
Loki's chains rattled as he turned to look at Scarlett, a hint of mirth in his eyes, to him Scarlett was like a little sister, they had spent almost a decade traveling together throughout the nine realms and she was just as stubborn as he remembered.
"If you want to have a trial, fine. We'll have a trial. But we're doing it my way." Odin realized that there was no way to escape the situation Scarlett had put him in. If he backed out he would look weak and afraid. The only option he had left was to go along with her plan.