Loki was looking around lost as if someone took his favorite puppy and kicked it of a bridge. (Watched The Anchorman the other day. Fucking amazing movie just like the new Twilight. I cried cause I'm a pussy.)Why didn't he just disappear? Fury said he was magic.

Red Scull always tried to get away if the allies moved too close. Why didn't he? Are villains not as strongly willed anymore?

Then I noticed something. We were above the forest where Peggy, Howard, and I first headed to my first Hydra base.

-Flashback-
Howard was in the cockpit flying the plane a tad roughly as Peggy went on explaining what they knew of the HYDRA base. After that we were stuck in a constant almost awkward silence. As kept looking around and my eyes kept falling onto Howard. Until Peggy noticed and killed the silence.

"Soooo…" she looked at me with a smirk before turning to Howard."Howard when we get back want to get some fondue" she said normally looking at her nails.

"So you guys Fondue?..." I asked trying to sound normal as Howard let out a big laugh and Peggy just shook her head at me,

Then at the base after almost getting my face sucked of by a random solider, (thank gosh for my strength) Peggy told me what fondue was and was teased relentlessly.

-EndOfFlashback-

"I don't like it." I shared my thoughts as I stood up from my seat and walked toward Stark & Natasha.

"What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily? Or that he got you pinned." Stark joked. Rock of ages? Was it that terrible movie Natasha had me see where all those hideous people were singing that odd music in super tight clothing?

"Yes. I don't remember it being that easy. This guy packs a wallop." I said ignoring the pinning thing. That was just a matter of luck. Not gonna happen again. (Wallop is 40's slang for hit/punch right? My friends grandpa says it when he threatens my friend/me so it must be right. Right? Or am I wrong here. *sigh* … Old people rule :3)

Natasha gave me a shrug & continued to drive the plane.

"Well you never answered me on the pinning thing. Did you like it? Do you like it rough?" Stark said casually getting everyone's attention. And I mean EVERYONE'S.

"Please be quiet for the ride will you Stark" I said as I raised my hand to my temple.

"Hey I'm just asking. It's important to know these things." Stark said raising his hands up in a surrender pose.

I just raised an eyebrow toward him.

"We didn't have the best of meetings. Tony Stark" He said with a charismatic smile almost exact to his fathers.

"Stephanie Rogers, I'm one of you fathers old friends." I said rubbing my neck awkwardly. "You look almost exact to your dad. Except you have better hair and he had better eyebrows" I said pointing to my eyebrows and cracked a toothy grin as his hand flew up to touch his eyebrows.

"Yeah... It's always nice to meet of my father's girls. But I always thought Captain America was a man." he said with a smirk still touching his eyebrows. That's it my last nerve just popped. I raised my fist just as lighting sounded in the background and Loki jumped.

"What? Scared of a little thunder?" I asked my motherly side came out taking my attention away from Stark. As I walked toward him crouching to his sitting height.

"I'm not overly fond of what follows" he said looking toward the widow toward the hatch.

"What do y-" I was cut off with a loud thump on the roof as Loki flinched into me.

"What was that?" Natasha asked looking at us in the corner of her eyes as she navigated threw the storm.

"I don't know I'm going to find out" Tony said as he set on his mask and opened the hatch. I'm not sure if I should stop him. (…Nahh)

Just as a blonde long haired man, not as long as Loki's, came in looked at everyone quickly before looking back toward Loki & I as his eyes narrowed toward Loki, who leaned closer to me, before graving him and jumping out of the plane. Is he one of the bad guys? Great now we got to get him.

I graved a parachute and headed toward the hatch. Where'd I put my shield? Before Stark pushed past me yelling 'ME FIRST!'

"Captain you might want to leave this one alone, their gods?" Gods? I don't think so.

"There's only one god Natasha. And I doubt he dresses like that." i said as i quickly thought of god, he wears white robes actually no armor. Still weird but shhh they don't have to know that. And jumped off.

I may have accidentally pulled the parachute string too early. So now I'm just going down slowly. Nice night. I could see Stark's suit's light and the blond guys shape only as they fought. They were going back & forth like a cat & dog. I hope they land somewhere close. It'll make the whole thing a lot simpler for me.

Oh, I also saw Loki sitting on a mountain just watching them with a satisfied look.

Well that's just darn creepy. Does he relies he can escape? He shot me a mischievous look before turning his attention back to the fight. 'Creepy' I thought as I blamed my sudden shudder on the cold.

WHOA! One of Starks blast got my uniform. My backs exposed! I feel dirty…and cold. It was brand new too! Now I got to get the dreaded spare. Ok I feel the sizzle.

Oh hey look at that, I was about 20 feet from the ground. Stark and the blond guy were still fighting like children. I took off my shield as the blond guy graved Starks already broken arm armor. And I tossed my shield just as I pulled the release string from the parachute.

"Hey!"

My shield bounced off both their chests and back to my hand as i landed onto a broken tree, probably from the recent fight, to the ground. It got both their attentions, as they glared at me. Well I think Stark was glaring? It's hard to tell with the mask.

"That's enough!" I commanded in a tone I often used as Captain America when I when we faced Hydra or when I had rowdy boys who didn't want to listen. (oooh sounds dirty)

They both sort of listened as they stood a tad straighter. I stood straight as I looked at them both and suddenly felt like a mother.

"Why are you both fighting like children" and crossed my arms.

"I've come here to put and end to Loki's schemes, Maiden." he said in an angry booming voice like the thunder he commands. Wait? ... Maiden?… I am not a maid.

"Prove it." I said stepping forward as he glared at me. "Put your hammer down" I stood strait and shot his glare back at him.

"Uh...yep! No! Bad call! He loves his hammer!" Stark was interrupted as he was hit with the hammer as the blonde guy began to twirl it in one hand. Very nice control.

"Put the hammer down!" he repeated out loud, either to me or himself I don't know so I just nodded.

"I'll show you how I put the hammer down!" he yelled and jumped at me hammer raised. I ducked with my shield up and waited.

I heard a loud almost no existent bang sounded off as my shield reflected the hit and sent the blonde guy far away from me. Thank gosh he was in my bubble. I got up to see him standing up and dusty as if he came out of a dust storm, Stark was up looking at his damaged armor, but that wasn't the worst part.

THE WHOLE FOREST IS GONE!

Now I feel like a bad person. The blonde guy and I. Just took down. A forest full of memories. We're both in the wrong here. We SUCK.

A laugh took my attention from my own self pity as I looked up and saw Loki giggling on the same rock as earlier.

Still there.

Really?

What is wrong with this villain. He's obviously planning something we shouldn't bring him on board.

Too late. Natasha got him handcuffed. Why can't we tie him to a tree? It will make the whole thing simpler. Ok. Now they're just leaving me. How rude. And I ran to catch up as everyone boarded the plane.

Fury sent a crew to get Loki after a terrible hour long flight of awkwardness. I got to change out of the ruined suit into some fitting blue jeans, a white V-neck, and some flats. These new cloths are a lot comfier then dresses.

I also happened to learn the blonde guys name was Thor. Creepy that I had a dog named that, Very. Now when I see him I picture that adorable golden mutt with soft brown eyes. Not that Thor's not cute or anything but I had a thing for brown eyes not blue, sometimes green?... forget it I lost my train of thought.

Loki shot me specificity a grin as I inched slowly behind Thor's large frame who just grinned down at me. I feel so small. Even with the serum. We watched as Fury interrogated & lock Loki into 'his' cell. I shot a look toward Bruce who's fists tightened onto the leather chair.

"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Bruce said trying to lighten up the air. Whether he means Loki or Fury I'm not sure. Honestly at the moment I really don't like either.

"Loki's going to drag this out." I said looking at the monitor as Loki shot us a grin. Aww he has a perfect smile. I mean creepy."So, Thor, what's his play?" I said looking at Loki's 'brother.' I don't see the resemblance.

"He has an army called the Chitauri, that none of Asgard nor any world know. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. Return, I suspect, for the Tesseract." Thor explained. Yeah only got parts of that. He lost me at army, win earth, and Tesseract.

"So, he pretty much brought an army, from outer space?" I asked getting confused.

"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Bruce said. Oh I get it now. That helped me piece it together. Thank you Bruce. Thor looked up at the name though. Possibly a friend.

"Selvig?" he asked and Bruce nodded.

Bruce nodded "He's an astrophysicist." don't know what it is just going to nod and act like I do. Astro means space so I has something to do with that.

"He's a friend." Thor explained.

"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours." Natasha said bitterly. Aww poor Clint. Only knew him for that 3 hour shopping trip. Carried all the bags and allowed a girl to give him a make over. Strong man.

That's it no one is questioning this I'm all alone on this one. "I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here."

Bruce looked up at me as everyone began to think "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." he joked as I cracked a smile.

"I don't care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother." Thor said standing up abruptly making the table slide into my stomach. Oww

Natasha looked at him in the corner of her eye "He killed eighty people in two days."

Thor faltered. "He's adopted." As I raised my hand to my mouth to hide my smile.

Bruce & Tony meeting was one of the oddest/most interesting meeting I've ever had the pleasure of hearing and seeing. They hit it off like long time friends even if I didn't understand a word they said about anti-electron collisions. What did catch my attention was Nicks reaction to my questioning to Loki's magical stick thing.

"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon." I explained shuddering still remembering the cool breeze that radiated off Hydra's weaponry when a shot was too close.

Nick looked stunned before quickly replying "I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys."

As much as I enjoyed the reference to The Wizard of Oz, I do not like that he simply overlooked my questioning. People only do that when they are hiding something.

Nick excused himself and gave us a moment to speak to one another. Joy.

There was an awkward silence till I broke it my turning toward Thor.

"Stephanie Rogers, a pleasure to meet you." I said with a friendly grin holding my hand out to him ignoring Starks scoff.

He smiled before taking my hand gently facing it up making me lose my smile and furrow my eyebrows. 'What's he doing?' "Pleasures all mine, Maiden" and kissed my hand. I turned red nodding my head, tugging my hand away, as I studied the sudden extremely interesting floor.

"I Am Thor Odison Prince Of Asgard." he announced to everyone.

"Tony Stark, or Iron man I don't really care what you call me." I heard Stark say arrogantly as everyone began introducing themselves. I looked at Bruce and I wonder. Out of everyone in the room who could win a fight against him? Not me he'd crush me. Thor maybe. Iron man? Errr no. Then I thought briefly of our prisoner. He wouldn't win. As I looked on the monitor to see him relaxed in his cot. Something's up. He's not looking for escape and actually seems content here. I'm sure as hell not.:(

I quickly made my way toward the prisons. I'm going to pay our guest a small visit.

Unaware I was being watched the whole time.

I brought him his lunch. It's better than nothing we've been here for 4 hours already I bet he's hungry. When I came in he was sleeping in his cot. I put in the override code:

NICKNEEDSAWIG

And it flashed green and let me in. I can't believe that worked. In the mess hall a teenager told me the password as she passed me Loki's lunch and disappeared into black smoke?

Loki stirred as the door closed behind me and looked shocked to see me with food.

"Ah, they sent the Captain" he said faking happiness as he gave a happy clap.

"Stephanie please, I'm not in uniform." I said nicely as my 40's manners were taking the best of me, so I had to be polite and courteous to everyone I meet.

"Nether less, I've never imagined I'd have the chance to speak with the Captain by herself without her guard dogs or a prince to save you from the beast" He said mockingly as he approached me. Making me grind my teeth at the sexism.

"Lovely. That's not very smart thing to say, especially to someone who's trying to show some kindness." I said as I roughly shoved the lunch tray into his arms.

"Kindness?" he said almost in shock as he placed his tray of food to the side.

"Since when is locking someone inside a glass container millions of feet off the ground, threatened to drop off if there is one scratch onto the glass that surrounds us an act of kindness" Loki said making his arm show the surrounding glass.

And I stepped forward so our noses were almost touching even thought he was a good 6 inches taller than me. (Tom Hiddelston is 6'2 so Loki is too)

"I believe that we both know you had a perfectly good period of time to escape as we were settling our differences with your brother" I said as he glared at me.

"He is not my brother, I was adopted" he expressed pressing his nose to mine.

"I am well aware. I had a somewhat similar experience. But that doesn't explain why you refused to escape when you had the chance" I explained feeling a piece of dread remembering Bucky's family who took me in the ripe age of 7 when my parents passed in the first war.

Loki shot me an almost normal smile, "Nothing gets past you does it." He said cocking his head to the side.

"Wha?"

"It's fascinating. You are the best female fighter I've encountered yet you still possess a childish naïvety that everything's going to be alright." he said with a laugh getting even closer to me making me back into the glass wall.

"Wait what!? Stop ignoring my question." I asked as I looked him in the eye seeing him look down.

"It's quite refreshing" he said sounding distracted as he leaned forward.

"HEY!" a voice yelled making me turn my head to see an angry Stark as cool lips touched my cheek.

"What do you think you were doing!" Stark yelled as he scolded me after pulling me out of Loki's cell. I leaned against the wall with my arms crossed stubbornly.

"I was just trying to get some more information since everyone doesn't have their boots on.(understand what happening)" I said.

"What?" He said all anger gone and replaced with confusion.

"They do not understand what to do or what's happening" I explained.

"That still doesn't mean you should go in and suck faces with the enemy." he said anger returning.

"Not Eveeennn! He kissed me! I was only trying to find out why he didn't run when he had the chance. Since no one could put together a reason." I said refusing to meet Starks eyes.

"That's not your job. If anyone's its Natasha's." Stark said calmer but still angry.

I gasped almost comically "That's just plain disrespectful."

"You know what I mean. Don't tell Tasha though, she'll have my balls on a silver platter." he said. Not sure if he was joking.

"You know what I'm done with this. What is your problem with me. I've hardly done anything to you yet you hate me" I said tired. I'm done with this. Nick wants to kill us with this damn team. No one is good at teamwork other then me and I'm getting tired of being the only one contributing. Why couldn't we have Batman or Superman? What I've seen in the paper they are extremely good.

"Tony I got the calibrations for the- whoa am I interrupting something" Bruce came in looking at a MyPad (I will not give apple or Stark industries the privilege to gain profit/benefit from my story.)thats when I noticed during our argument we were up in each others face. He smelled really good actually like oil and some very nice cologne. No. Bad Stephanie.

"N-no not at all" I said stepping away from Tony turning beet red. "Excuse me" and ran like hell.

"Did I interrupt something?" Bruce asked as he watched Stephanie run off.

"Nope. Just one of the best arguments I've had in a while. So what'd you find out doc" Tony said looking at the MyPad in disgust. (SUCK IT)

Hello everyone, I know you missed my story and sorry I couldn't update for a while. I have a couple projects due & I've been in Mexico. I got this chapter done in like 2 1/2 hours so bear with me.

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