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You know me, I like my chaos, especially with Loki and Kaleria.

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Kaleria stormed the hallways, her hands heating as she did. She shook them in hopes to cool them down. She was livid, she was angry with Loki for his arrogance and inability to see reason above his own selfish desires. She was mad at SHIELD, at Fury, at Coulson, everyone, for having the ability to send her home and not doing so.

She saw him, her first victim to her yelling tirade; Coulson. He was at the end of the hall, speaking to another Agent as she approached him. He saw the anger and rage in her eyes, telling the Agent to leave them. "Kali?"

"You knew, didn't you?" She accused him.

"I'm not sure I understand what you mean."

"The Tesseract, you knew SHIELD had it, you knew it had the power to send me home!"

"Kali, listen-"Coulson tried.

"No, you listen!" She barked. "I trusted you; I trusted all of you with my life and with finding a way home for me. You had a way home for me right in your hands!" She felt her body overheat more as tears filled her eyes. "How could you, Coulson? You even said to me that you were going to watch me go home one day. Was that even in the plan for me? Was I never to go home and just be kept here like some experiment?"

"No Kali, that's not it at all." Coulson tried to explain, she was having none of it.

"How can I believe you after this?" She asked. "How can I ever believe you again?"

"It was for your safety, Kali." Coulson said. "We didn't know how to control the Tesseract to accomplish such a feat."

"Don't make excuses, Phil." Kaleria glared. "It's not very becoming of you." She turned, walking away from Coulson, her heart racing as she did. She felt betrayed by one of the most important people to her. Coulson was her sanity and here he was betraying her.

She continued walking down the hallway, seeing the familiar Captain America suit, trying to gain access to a certain door. "You know, you can always just ask me to open doors for you."

Steve quickly turned, relief washing over him as she saw Kaleria. "I don't exactly want people to know I'm going in."

"Fair enough." Kaleria shrugged.

"How was your talk with Loki?" He asked.

Kaleria bit her lip nervously. "Not as expected."

Steve wasn't the type of guy to tell her 'he told her so'; he simply smiled apologetically as he turned to the door, opening it forcefully. "Are you coming in?" He said to her.

Kaleria, going against any and all training and lessons from SHIELD, nodded as she followed Steve through the door. "What are we looking for?"

"Stark believes SHIELD is using the Tesseract to create weapons of mass destruction." Steve said bluntly. "I'm hoping that isn't the case."

"Well, SHIELD is apparently full of liars." Kaleria muttered, receiving a questioning look from Steve.

"What do you mean?"

"They apparently had the means to send me home all this time. The Tesseract is powerful enough to send me back to Asgard." She sighed in frustration. "I could have gone home."

"Even Coulson knew this?" Steve asked.

"Even Coulson." She confirmed, sadness filling her voice.

"Well, there is some good out of this whole situation." Steve said.

"Like?" Kaleria asked.

"You wouldn't be sneaking into a room full of weapons with me." He smiled charmingly, Kaleria couldn't help but blush.

"No, I suppose I would not have met you." Kaleria watched Steve jump up to a higher area, like a spider monkey, he did so with ease. He began rummaging through different crates, trying to find some incriminating evidence. "And what happens when you find these weapons? What happens to the Avengers Initiative?"

"That's a good question." Steve replied, opening another container. "We have a lot to worry about, the Tesseract being in the wrong hands."

"Any hands are the wrong hands."

"We have to worry about SHIELD making weapons and your husband trying to enslave all of mankind." He looked to Kaleria who gave him a dirty look. "Sorry."

Kaleria sighed. "It's fine, Steve. I get it; my husband is a little crazy these days."

Steve felt bad now. "That's not what I'm saying."

"That's what everyone is saying. I get it, he's lost his mind and here I am, being the wife of a psychopath."

"The talk really didn't go that well, did it?" He asked.

"Not as well as I had hoped." She groaned. "He was so happy to see me, Steve." Her heart sank the more she thought about it. "Yet, he is still stuck in his ways."

"Love is love." Steve replied. "That doesn't change."

"I suppose not."

"Damn." Steve muttered as he opened one last container, staring down at an unknown weapon.

"What happened?"

"I found those weapons of mass destruction." Steve said defeated.

"I guess we need to tell Stark?" Kaleria practically groaned as Steve nodded.

"C'mon, we gotta head back." Steve said, grabbing the gun and headed to the lab with Kaleria.

"It's still not safe in here, Kali." Banner said as Steve and Kaleria walked into the lab. "The radiation could hurt the baby."

"She knows." Stark said, eyeing the two. "Don't you, fireball?" Kaleria twitched at her new nickname. Stark looked to the Captain, a knowing smirk on his lips as he eyed the weapon in Steve's grasp. "Find something you didn't like, Cap?"

"Have you?" Steve asked him, referring to an earlier conversation that Kaleria had missed.

"Almost, actually." Stark replied as he paced. "I don't think I'm wrong; no surprise there, I'm never wrong."
"I highly doubt that." Kaleria said.

"Well, it won't be long before Fury discovers a security breech and then-"As Stark was about to finish, Fury stormed in. "He's quick that guy."

"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Fury asked.

"Uh, kind-of been wondering the same about you." Stark replied.

"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract." Fury reminded him.

"You mean the item that could have sent me home." Kaleria spat.

"Sent her home?" Stark replied feigning shock as he looked to Fury. "Fury, you'd never keep someone from going home, now would you? While you're trying to find a way out of that predicament, mind explaining what exactly is Phase 2?"

Fury just glared. Before he could explain himself to the angry fire goddess, Steve threw the gun down on the table. "Phase 2 is SHIELD using the Tesseract to make weapons, isn't it?" Steve accused, looking to Stark. "Sorry, the computer was moving too slow."

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean-"Fury began.

"Sorry Nick." Tony interrupted, turning the computer screen to show the plans for weapons.

"I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed one bit." Steve remarked.

At that moment, Thor and Natasha walked into the room, Natasha seemed to have something to say, only to have Banner interrupt. "Did you know about this?" He asked her.

"You might want to remove yourself from this environment, Doctor." She said. "Loki's been manipulating you."

"And you've been doing what, exactly?" He retorted.

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes." Her tone was flat.

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because you suddenly get a little twitchy." Banner argued. "I'd like to know why SHIELD is making weapons with the Tesseract."

"It's because of them." Fury motioned to Thor and Kaleria.

"Us?" Kaleria gasped. "What did we do?"

"We realized just how ill prepared we were for an invasion of any sort."

"My people want nothing but peace for your planet." Thor defended.

"But you're not the only people out there, are you?" Fury continued. "And you're not the only threat. The world is filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled."

"Like you controlled the cube?" Steve remarked.

"Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all realms that the earth is ready for a higher war." Thor argued.

"A higher form?" Steve asked.

"You forced our hand." Fury defended.

"Nuclear deterrent. Cause that always calms everything right down." Stark commented.

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Fury narrowed his eyes.

"This is just ridiculous; you mortals shouldn't have the Tesseract in the first place." Kaleria said.

The group began to argue with one another, turning against the other, arguing for the sake of arguing. Something was making them this way; something was controlling their actions now. They were being irrational and quite childish. "We're a time bomb!" Kaleria heard Banner say.

"You need to step away." Fury warned.

"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Stark replied.

"You know damn well why!" Steve yelled. "Back off!"

"Oh I'm starting to want you to make me." The two turned to each other.

"Steve." Kaleria turned to Steve, placing a gentle hand on his arm to try and calm him down.

"Hey, I thought she was married to the prisoner." Stark said.

Kaleria's free hand immediately ignited. "Talk to me like that again, Stark."

"Easy fireball, it's a joke." Stark replied.

"He's no trouble, Kali. Big man in a suit of armor; take that off, what are you?" Steve narrowed his eyes to Stark.

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." He replied without missing a beat.

Kaleria rolled her eyes as the two continued to argue, her attention back to Banner. "You want to know my secret Agent Romanoff; you want to know how I stay calm?"

Everyone went quiet, stopping to stare at Banner whom was now holding Loki's scepter. "Doctor Banner, put down the scepter." Steve said calmly.

Bruce looked to his hand realizing he had been holding the scepter this whole time. He quickly put it down on the table just as the nearby computer beeps. Stark ran to it first, followed by Banner.

"Have you located the Tesseract?" Thor asked.

"I can get there faster." Tony Stark said.

"Look, all of us-"Steve started, trying to make peace with the group.

"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard." Thor chimed in.

"He's right, it does." Kaleria said, looking apologetically to Steve for interrupting him.

Steve was about to say something to Kaleria, only to eye Stark about to leave. "Hey! You're not going alone!" The two were arguing again.

"Oh my god…" Banner said, before anything else registered in Kaleria's mind, she found herself forcefully being pushed to her right towards Steve and Tony. The room filled with smoke almost immediately as lights became unhinged from the ceiling, glass shattering all around. They were under attack.

She landed with a thud on her side, pain rushing through her as her ears rang. Immediately, she forced herself up to a sitting position, seeing the fire around her. She used her gifts, extinguishing the flames as Fury ran over to her. "Are you all right?" He asked.

"I'm fine." She nodded breathlessly as Fury helped her to her feet. "What happened?"

"We're under attack, Agent."

She looked around the room. "Where are Steve and the others?"

"Scattered; you need to get to safety." Kaleria was about to argue but, Fury used her weakness. "Do it for the baby."

Kaleria nodded as Fury began talking into his ear piece. She left the laboratory and headed towards her room, anger still filling her. She knew who was to blame and she knew exactly where to find him.

Hobbling as fast as she could, the adrenaline pulsing through her veins and distracting her from the pain in her side; she was on a mission. Kaleria found a few rogue soldiers along the way, easily enough (and without too much of a care) she would blast them with a fireball. One Agent however, was unlucky enough to receive a burning hand to the face. His face melting under the intense heat as Kaleria's eyes began to change to a bright orange color.

She was overusing her magic yet; she did not care at this point. She was angry, she was hormonal, and she had a bone to pick with a certain God of Mischief. As her body cooled down, she found her way to the familiar door, the same door that led to her husband's cage. She was going to make sure he stayed locked up at all costs.

Kaleria walked through the door with more confidence than the last time; she pushed her body further down the corridor until she was in the room. Her eyes first locked on to the missing cage and the open claws that were once holding the cage. Someone released the cage. Her next view was the giant gaping hole with smoke coming from the far wall to her right. That's when she saw him. "No…" She barely whispered as she hobbled over to the familiar, injured Agent. Kaleria knelt down next to him, her hand on her stomach to steady her as she placed a gentle hand on his knee. "Phil… what happened?" He was bleeding from the mouth, holding a weapon on his lap, his eyes locking to her.

"Kali…" He smiled slightly. "It's not as bad as it looks." He tried to joke. "Loki got the jump on me, he's a sneaky one." Phil's breathing was harsh as he tried to make light of the situation. "I at least got one good hit in."

"I'm so sorry, Phil." She said as tears began to form in her eyes, the pain and betrayal she was feeling was overwhelming. Her support from the beginning had been stabbed, and he had been stabbed by her love. She eyed the wound in his chest, it was deep and bleeding. "You need help; I'm going to find you help." She gasped as the tears fell freely now.

"Kali, just stay for a minute…" He breathed.

"No, Phil…" She breathed harshly. "You have to be okay, I have to make sure you're okay."

"I'll be okay." His voice was growing weaker yet his smile never faded as he looked at her. "Everything's going to be okay, you're going to go home." He coughed. "And you're going to have a beautiful baby, on Asgard, and you'll be happy."

"I'm so sorry for yelling at you before." She cried. "I know you were never against me, you are always on my side, Phil."

"I deserved it." He forced a laugh, causing a small smile from Kaleria.

"Don't break your promise to me, Phil. You promised you'd see me go home."

"I will but, you have to promise me that you'll be safe." He breathed. "Go find a safe place."

Kaleria nodded, tears still falling freely. "I'm going to call for help." She said, forcing herself to stand as quickly as possible. "Just stay with me, Phil, stay awake." Coulson just nodded as Kaleria rushed out of the room, looking for any sign of help.

As she traveled the corridors in a panic, looking for any signs of an Agent that could help her "Somebody help!" She shouted down the hallways. She turned down a few more corridors but this time she found herself face to face with a familiar God of Mischief. He stood at the end of the hallway, holding his scepter in hand. He looked to Kaleria, raising his hands up in peace. "Kali… you need to come with me."

Kaleria's eyes were still filled with tears as she looked to him. "So you can kill me too?" She hissed.

"What are you talking about, love?" He asked calmly.

"Do not call me that." Her voice was shaking from crying. "He's dying and it's your fault!"

"This is war, my love. We've been through this before, death happens."

"Not to this man!" She was enraged. "He was different!"

"And I'm sorry it had to happen this way but, you need to calm down and come with me." Loki's voice was soft. "Think about the baby."

"I am thinking about the baby!" She roared, her hands igniting as she glared at him. Her body was weakening from so much energy being used. She was tired, especially now that she was pregnant, her gifts were much harder to use. "I'm doing everything in my power to keep it away from you!"

"You don't mean that." Loki saw right through her, he knew she was weaker, he knew she was fading. He saw the fire on her hands diminishing slowly. She was cornered and she was coming with him whether she liked it or not. He had a plan, and his plan involved the silent Agent Barton that was sneaking up behind Kaleria with a syringe filled with a tranquilizer, harmless to the baby.

"You're delusional if you believe I don't." Kaleria said. "I will never go with you, I will never forgive you for this, and you will never see your child." She threatened as a sharp pain in her neck, releasing a cool liquid through her body. The fire on her hands extinguished almost immediately as her body grew weaker. She was falling into Agent Barton's arms as the world around her swirled, turning black. The last thing she remembered was the God of Mischief, her husband, Loki, coming closer.

Final Thoughts: I just love leaving off on a cliffhanger. It's much more fun this way! Anyway, thanks again for reading, thank you so much for the reviews. Let's see if we can get over 75 before the next chapter!