Now Betaed

This is not Betaed

mainly cos I got up this morning and went;

'I wonder what day it is, cos it must be getting closer to Saturday and I need to work on my chapter'

yeah...

so that happened

but what is important is that I didn't forget

and I'll upload the Betaed version later

Tony's POV

As much as it had annoyed Tony that he was not allowed to integrate Jarvis with the computer network in the Helicarrier, he had decided that he was just going to have to make do. Especially since Fury seemed to be keeping a permanent eye on him through the CCTV. Once Banner had become a little less green he had come to help Tony in the lab, and with his help, they had managed to get some results.

The first thing that they had done was to test the cell for any residual energy. They had found two sets and as one of them belonged to Loki, they assumed that the other one belonged to Frosty. It was actually a very similar process to how they had found Loki the first time he had invaded Earth. They had set the computers to bounce a few beams off of the satellites then sat down to await the results. Having gotten the results, Tony was beginning to feel a bit overwhelmed.

According to the data there were energy signatures nearly covering the entire globe, each with minute differences which probably indicated different sources. Before they had only been able to detect Loki, but due to being able to add in Frosty's energy signature, they had been able to widen it to detect all forms of magical energy. Tony wasn't sure if he wanted to tell Fury or not. Partially because he had no doubt that the man's face would be superb but partially because he knew that whoever was going to be the one to deliver the information was likely to be yelled at for no other reason than for being the only one there. Honestly, Tony thought that Fury should apply the saying 'don't shoot the messenger' just a little bit more.

He and Banner had played rock paper scissors to decide who would go and annoyingly they seemed to keep getting draws. After five rounds (rock, rock, paper, scissors, rock) Banner had given up trying to win and simply given Tony the amazing bit of logic that was 'if you don't go I'm liable to Hulk out on Director Fury' No matter how much Tony enjoyed seeing the Hulk messing things up for everyone else, he did admit that it was a bad idea for it to be unleashed on a flying metal container.

So that was how Tony had found himself knocking on the door to Fury's study. When he got no answer Tony poked his head around the door to see what Fury was doing that required so much attention. Then man was sitting at his computer.

"I understand, Loki."

At that simple sentence Tony's blood ran cold. Fury was talking to Loki yet there was not a hint of animosity in his voice. He sounded calm, accepting, he sounded as though he was being controlled.

Tony backed out of the study and practically ran through the Helicarrier to find the team. They had to know about this. If he was right, and Tony was all but certain that he was, then their biggest threat currently came from within SHIELD, not from without.