Chapter Two:

Aphrodite Escapes the Cell

When morning came the Avengers were allowed a break from their babysitting. David took their place, determined to interrogate Aph again. And if he didn't know any better he'd say this was one of the worst interrogations ever yet. She stayed on her bench, her back to David, completely ignoring all the questions. She wouldn't even mumble or 'hmp' at some questions like before. She didn't look at him and stayed perfectly still on the bench. This time instead of giving up, he would try to provoke her. He knew it wasn't such a good idea but he had no choice. He had to know what she had done to herself those years back. He stuffed his hands into his pockets again, preparing himself for the war he is going to cause in mere minutes. He coughed twice, a signal for all the security cameras to be ready for anything that may happen. "You wouldn't be in this situation in the first place if you hadn't attacked one of our bases, or multiple should I say."

"No," she finally opened her mouth for the time in two hours and her words didn't come out kindly either, "I wouldn't be in this situation if you had just stopped following me everywhere I went or recorded every movement I did. If there's one thing I hate the most is people constantly keeping a close eye on me."

"We had to start following you. You were an abnormal human walking amongst other vulnerable humans. We didn't know why you were able to do things others can't. You then made everything worse for yourself when you broke into a steel company, killing three workers, and stole precious metals and materials. Why did you need so much metal?" She had two questions to choose from but he already knew which one she was going to choose.

Aph turned around on the bench with a small smile on her face. "I thought that company belonged to my father."

"It still doesn't give you the right to break into his company, steal, then kill three workers." David replied. His plan to anger her was going much better than he originally thought. So to anger her more he said, "To make matters worse we have seen amazing amounts of radiation where ever you go. Why is that? Building a weapon?" He would show her just how close of a observation they kept on her.

Aph stood up from her bench and carefully eyed a camera as she walked towards the agent. "You sneaky rats, have you got pictures of me bathing too? Just let me tell you something right now, everything that you see me doing is because of you. You blame me for everything that I have done but you don't blame yourselves for everything you have done either. Remember case number 10f4?"

David flinched at hearing the case number. He remembered that case perfectly like it was just yesterday.

Aph smiled at his flinch, knowing he fully remembered. "Do you also remember case number 10f5? Ah, you do remember, too? What about case number 10f6? Do you remember that case number too?" Aph screamed at him and punched the glass wall, sending little cracks out on the glass. David took a step back expecting this. But what he didn't expect was her knowing about the case numbers.

Aph scowled at the man and yelled, "Don't pretend to be stupid! I know about those cases! I know everything and anything there is to know...I know you were involved in all those cases, I know it was your fault case 10f5 died, I know you and my father happily killed case 10f4!"

"That's enough!" David ordered. Aph grinned and backed away from the cracked glass panel. He thought he was here to make her angry but she managed to make him angry as well. He took a deep breath and said, "We were trying to make her like you; we were trying to make her outstanding." She had no right to blame him. He would not blame himself for the death of that case, nor the other. He was just doing his job; he was doing as he was told.

"But you didn't," Aph replied quietly, but not kindly, "you killed case number 10f5 and 10f4. You killed two people and don't scold yourself yet you scold me! No, now that I think of it you killed three people, including me! Everything I am now and everything I will do is because of you!"

"Don't blame-"

"I do blame you!" Aph cut him off and yelled at him again. She walked over to the glass panel and pressed both her hands on it, looking straight into the agent's eyes. "You had the chance to do the right thing, agent! I understand it was your job, I do! But things change when there is right or wrong in a situation. And in that situation years ago you had the chance to do the right thing but you didn't! Am I wrong for being right when I have been wronged in so many ways? Don't you see that no matter how depraved I am right now I still know what is right?" She spoke to him quietly and sadly. The back of her eye balls stung now but she would not dare cry. She will not show just how broken she is to the agent. She bitterly smiled at him and said "Am I still case 10f6, or am I under a new case number?"

"I ask the questions here," he replied angrily, but he was at loss for words. As he looked into her eyes he knew she spoke the truth. He had so many chances to do the right thing yet he chose to do everything wrong. Seeing the blame she put on him he could no longer look into her eyes. He looked away and walked out of the room. As he walked out of the room he thought that this was his job, this was the right thing to do. Yet why did he feel everything he does in his job is wrong now? How can wrong be right in his job yet right be wrong...how?

She would never stop blaming him, never. It was his fault her little sister died, it was his fault her mother died. It was his fault and her father's for everything this is happening now. She will punish David and her father one way or another. She will show them just how strong she is just like they wanted to see her. As the Avengers walked back in after David left a few minutes ago, she was going to take her chance. She was going to escape fighting the Avengers. This was crossing her limits she had set again, but this way she will show to everyone just how strong she is like they wanted her to be. This will prove to herself just how strong she is.

"Looks like someone else has daddy issues." Tony remarked. Loki glared at him once again, but this time Tony ignored his glare.

"I'm going to escape," Aph said looking at Tony and ignoring his remark, "where is your suit, Mr. Stark?"

Tony laughed at her, "Just how exactly will you escape? You can't use my suit to escape, it only responds to me."

Aph took her eyes off Tony and looked at them all one by one, starting with Natasha. "Agent Romanoff, you are quite skilled in combat skills. I can take you down easily. Barton, very wonderfully skilled with archery but you too I can take down easily. Captain, super soldier, you are another who I can easily defeat. But you four are going to prove a challenge to me, especially two gods."

"I can see your not worrying a lot about our Hulk," Tony said smugly. Bruce swears he was starting to feel like a trophy to Tony. "Or even about me," Tony added.

Aph walked over to another glass panel closer to Tony and said, "Take that suit off and your nothing but a man. The same goes if your suit doesn't function properly, right? As for you Doctor Banner," she said changing her gaze over to him, "you won't change into the hulk because you're afraid you'll hurt someone. And even if you do, you'll end up hurting children who are exactly one floor below us. Will you risk hurting innocent children just to stop me?"

"There are no children here." Captain said, sounding unsure.

Aph took in his doubt to gain more control and said, "I think you saw our little conversation about those cases. Those cases are assigned to children who are being tested to become more...outstanding."

"That's awful and cruel and I'm sure that doesn't happen." Romanoff replied, not believing what she said.

Aph looked over to Tony and said, "Mr. Stark, you know I'm not fond of you. But Doc there doesn't want to hurt the children as much as I do. Mind if I borrow JARVIS just for quick moment?"

"If you can borrow him how can I give it to you? I'm sure I can't open the doors." Tony replied shrugging.

She knew he could open the doors, he just wouldn't. So just like the night before, instead of a hamburger, his device which he used to keep in touch with his AI suddenly flew out of his pocket and into the hands of Aph. "Hey!" Tony yelled in protest, running to open the doors but Captain stopped him. Ignoring the fight the started between Tony and Steve, Aph focused into hacking into the database of the corporation. She entered into the database rather quickly already knowing the secret back door the system contained. Once locating the floor below and the cameras she flung out the device back to Tony who easily caught it in his hands. Tony was too shocked at was he was seeing to be angry at Aph.

"Damn, she was right..." Clint mumbled as he saw children no older than ten strapped to beds either sleeping or being tested.

"Don't feel so bad," Aph said to him, "all of those children in there were personally brought here by their own parents."

"But why and how? Is this even allowed?" Romanoff began to say angrily.

"Of course not, they just know how to secretly get around it." Aph said as she walked closer to the panel.

Captain looked up from the device to Aph and said, "Ma'am, is this what happened to you?"

Aph glared at Captain and stuck her head a little higher in the air. Walking straight out of the cell through the glass wall she stoped ten feet away from Steve and bitterly said, "No, that's what happened to my sister. This is what happened to me!"

Without warning Captain had been flung back so fast and hard into a wall, he landed on the floor not comprehending what had just happened. Romanoff quickly went to Aph with a kick, but she too was mysteriously flung back out of midair and was knocked unconscious instantly. Aph scowled as she spotted Tony run out quickly to retrieve his suit. By now alarms were ringing all over the room, giving Aph an adrenaline rush. She stopped every arrow that was aimed at her from Clint, earning a confused look from him. But he still shot at her until one arrow had rebutted back at him and ripped apart his bow string. And just like the others he too was flung back and into a wall and knocked some-what unconscious. Aph turned her gaze to Bruce, Thor, and Loki. Tony still hadn't arrived.

"Do not do this!" Thor said, swinging his hammer once showing her.

Aph looked at Bruce and said rather calmly, "You can go. You don't want to hurt the children, trust me. They have been hurt long enough."

"Yeah," Bruce mumbled and walked out as quickly as he could.

"Now for you two. Two gods, one with a hammer and the other with magic." Aph looked to Thor and noticed his most determined face she had ever seen in her life. She laughed at him and said, "Come at me Thor if you dare!"

Thor smirked at her and ran at her, simply planning to grab her by the arm and knock her to the floor. He grabbed her arm alright but was stunned when Aph managed to turn herself and himself around and just like the others was mysteriously flung away from her. But he was flung into the cell instead of a wall, his body somehow going through the glass wall. Landing on his side and rolling a couple of times on the floor he smacked his hammer onto the floor angrily as he got on his hands and knees to look at Aph, "Not again," he mumbled.

"Oh, so you have been in there before?" Aph asked laughing.

"This is not funny, Aphrodite. You have no reason to be doing such things." Thor began to say as he stood.

"Oh, but I do. I have many reasons to do the things I am doing." She felt someone try to grab her from behind. Turning quickly she swung at Loki but was stunned when her hand simply when through him. He had fooled her with an illusion. He was now actually behind her and had grabbed her arms behind her back, tightly holding in her in place.

"Good job, brother!" Thor praised him.

As Loki was about to reply to his brother he found his world upside down and then on the floor on his back, with his breath knocked out of his lungs. Aph had managed to jump into the air along with Loki attached to her, flip, and land on his chest as hard as she could. It worked as Loki laid on the metal floor staring blankly up at the ceiling. As Aph stood and looked down at him, she felt a pang of laughter ripple from her throat and out her mouth. Then she heard him mutter quietly to himself, "This brings back an awful memory..."

"Alright that's enough Aphro!" Tony warned as he pointed his hand towards Aph, ready to shoot.

Aph carefully eyed him with a grin on her face. Noticing out of the corner of her eye Romanoff and the others gaining conscious, she had to escape as quickly as she could now. "You wouldn't hurt a woman, Mr. Stark."

"Try me. But if you surrender I promise I will get you all the hamburgers you want, Aphro." He replied from his suit.

Aph could practically see his teasing smile behind his mask. Smiling to herself she kneeled on the ground and replied, "I will try you!" Smacking her hands onto the metal floor, metal began to quickly change its from. It bended itself like a snake with shiny scales heading towards Tony's feet without him noticing what was happening. It wasn't until a few seconds later that a few warnings set off in Tony's view and JARVIS said, "Sir, it seems the metal from your feet has been fused with the metal on the floor."

"What!" Tony said bewildered and sure enough when he tried to move his legs, they were fused to the metal floor. Too busy trying to move his legs he didn't notice when Aph kicked him down and the metal from his back fused with the metal floor as well. "What the hell is happening?" Tony asked not comprehending how his metal suit had fused with the metal on the floor. That would take extreme heat to accomplish! In his view appeared Aph's face with a proud smirk plastered on it.

"Come out of your suit if you dare now, Mr. Stark And oh, by the way, I tried you and you're just plain crap. I really thought you'd be better!" Aph laughed at him and not standing the humiliation she just put him through he noticed his arms were not fused to the floor and he punched Aph on her left lower cheek.

Aph flew back from the force and crashed into Loki as he was standing up. Both their bodies contained enough force when they hit the cracked glass panel and finally shattered it. Once again Aph had landed on Loki's chest as they hit the floor and slid, almost knocking Thor upon them as well. Noticing Thor heading towards her she growled with anger and disappeared into the floor. Thor halted so quick he slid to a stop as he watched his brother and the woman diminish into the floor underneath his feet.

"Stark, they have gone down the level below us!" Thor boomed loudly from the cell.

"Um, yeah, hello I'm kind of stuck here...literally. Capsicle seems to be fine, see, go after her with him." Tony said annoyed as he tried to get up, hoping somehow he would magically get unstuck.

Aph had yet again landed on Loki making him yell at her, "Would you stop landing on me!"

"Would you stop getting in my way!" She screamed back at his face. "Why are you even here anyway? Aren't you supposed to be back home getting a punishment!"

"I don't have to answer to the likes of you, you petty human!"

"Good, then talk because I'm not a human!" She would not get off the god until she knew why he was here. She knew this god must've gotten a big punishment yet he was back on Earth with his brother. Why? This will just make all her plans the more difficult.

If he could have spat venom he would have as he looked at her seething with anger. Why did he have to explain himself to this pathetic mortal? In fact, he will not explain himself to the pathetic mortal. He threw the woman off him and stood, and just as he was about to hit the woman again he noticed his surroundings. He was in a large, empty, dirty room. The lights above flickered barely giving enough light to see in the room. "Where are the children?"

Aph eyed the god carefully before her and said, "They are kept in building far from here. But you don't care about that, and really neither do I. So will I get out of here easily or the hard way."

Her boldness really annoyed something inside Loki. "I do not know," he said and then smiled, "I could care less of what you do. Yet if I let you go just like that I will be back in a cell in Asgard...which is something I do not want."

"I will also be back in a cell, which is something I don't want either." Aph replied. If one of them were going to end up in a cell she'll see to it that it'd be the god.

Loki revealed a dagger from his pocket and lunged at her. But as he swung at her his dagger went through her. He gasped and quickly thought how she had made herself disappear just like he could. A hit to the back of his arm caused him to release his dagger. He swung at her with a bare fist but she stopped his arm with her own. She swung at him but missed and as she moved to dodge a punch her feet slightly slipped on the gravel floor. His punch hit full force exactly where Tony had punched her as well. She hissed in anger as she stumbled back. Ignoring her tickling pain she began to stare at Loki with intense focus. Loki let out a small yelp of surprise as he started to float above the ground. Twisting in mid air he looked at woman, noticing her eyes had gone from a light brown to a sparkly light blue.

"Loki!"

Loki twisted in the air again to get a look at his brother who was running down the stairs with loud footsteps. "Put him down!" Thor demanded from Aph as he stood a bit far from her. She let him down alright, throwing him to the direction of his brother. Thor caught his own brother in arms as both were thrown back onto the floor and crashed into Captain as well. Aph took her chance and ran the opposite way down a dark narrow hall of the room. Thor yelled in anger as he watched her run and pushing his brother off him, he threw Mjolnir at her.

It was a moment of shock for her. Never in her life had she been hit with such a force that caused her to feel pain after so many years. As the hammer made contact with her back, she felt in slow motion her feet loosing their grip with the floor. Pain shot up her spine as her back arced and found herself dashing through the air. But that moment of sweet flying in slow motion quickly came to an end as she collided with the far last wall of the room, the hammer smacking her even harder into the wall. The wall instantly crumbled and came down, raining large pieces of rocks and debris on the woman as she fell to the ground. She laid there on the floor for a moment, shocked, trying to put the pieces back together of what had just happened. Her mind scrambled to grasp anything from reality but the pain emitting from her back was preventing her from doing so.

"Why did you do that!" Captain yelled at Thor as they all stood. Never in his life did he ever think this god would throw his weapon onto a woman, even if she was trying to escape. Things aren't resolved like that.

"You big headed buffoon! Have you realized what you have done, you have injured her! Look, brother, she seems to be dead!" Loki yelled at Thor as well. Loki knew the power Mjolnir held and not even he in a million years would he think to throw it at a maiden. Looking over to the woman on the floor Loki knew they were going to be in a huge mess of trouble. All because his big headed brother didn't think before he released his weapon upon a human woman.