"What do you mean?" Tony snapped. He swerved around, knocking his $1000 coffee machine to the ground, where it shattered to pieces. Steve stared at the broken thing, whereas Tony seemed not to have even noticed it was there.
"What I literally said, Tony," Steve replied. "Loki escaped out of his cell, and somehow ended up with Thor in bed. It's all over the S.H.I.E.L.D network. Technically, they aren't allowed to track Thor, but yesterday people were celebrating Thor's crowning, and they tracked Banner, who was there as the Hulk."
"Are you serious?" Tony demanded. He walked over the Steve, who sighed and pinched his nose bridge.
"Yeah."
"Brilliant. And what else were you going to say?"
Steve sighed. The next bit of the news had made him slip…the matter would definitely be worse with Tony.
"Thor contacted me today morning. He said that Loki had escaped out of his room, and that there was a stolen spaceship from Asgard. They tracked the ship and found that it was heading towards Earth. So yes, Loki has returned once again…to Earth. And Thor commented that…that Loki is in heat."
"What? The damn bastard? Has he no fu—"
"Language, Tony!" Steve called. He heard an impressive crash, and watched as Tony's metal fist broke through the window and made a grand entrance into the room.
"That's it. Rogers, I'm going to go find the little twerp."
"Tony! That window costed $500, and it's Christmas! The repair people aren't going to be coming around today!" Pepper called from somewhere below. It was obvious that the fist had made quite some racket below as well, then.
Tony flew out of the room, cussing and groaning something along the lines of, "Watch my language?"
"Great," Steve mumbled.
He heard Pepper walk up the stairs pretty clearly. Maybe the fact that her heels were super loud when they made contact with the marble was reason why. The first thing Pepper said when she came into the room was, "Steve, maybe saying something else other than 'Watch you language' would've helped a lot more. Anyways, I've got some news for you."
"Are there any bad ones?" he asked.
"Um…yeah," she replied.
"Great. Alright, what is it?"
"I have received news that a villain has begun spreading a certain type of virus around the world in the water system that causes all Omegas to reach their heat early. Not only that, but the Alphas also now have a problem of controlling themselves when they sense the smell of an omega in heat. Rapes are spreading across the world rapidly, and suicide rates have gone up."
"Good news?"
"We have the location of Loki narrowed down to Manhattan."
"Again? He went there last time too!" Steve remarked exasperatedly. He couldn't believe that so many things were going downhill…
"I remember that," Pepper agreed, a slight smile forming on her face. "Oh, and, Thor has decided to come down and take a visit to Earth as well."
"Alright, thanks, Pepper. Not everything's going pretty well, huh? So, I need to ask you to do two things. Can you possibly find a way to make a medicine for this virus, and can you also make a filter system that might prevent the virus from infecting too much of the drinking water?"
"Sure," Pepper said.
"Thanks…now, I got a bloody bastard in stupid junk metal to chase down."
"Language, Steve," Pepper said, a smile on her face. Steve sighed, then obliged.
"Yeah. Sorry, Pepper. Thanks a lot."
"No problem."
Steve leapt out of the broken window after Tony, sliding down the building on his shield's surface, and coming into contact with the ground hard.
He brushed off the dust on his suit, then took off. This was going to be a huge problem for the Avengers now that Loki and another villain and his problem is an issue. And well, jumping of the building kind of hurt.
It truly was faster than riding the elevator though.
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