Chapter 5- Capturing Loki and Debriefing
Yelizaveta and Captain Rogers both landed in time to see Thor and Iron Man fighting. Loki was standing stock still some distance away. "Look after hum. I'm going to stop them," Captain Rogers said, indicating Loki with one hand and gesturing towards Stark and Thor with the other.
Yelizaveta pulled out her sword wordlessly and made her way to Loki, pointing the blade at the troublemaker's throat. "Don't even move. You may be the god of mischief, but something tells me you aren't immortal," Yelizaveta threatened.
The battle between Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor lasted only minutes, but it felt like hours before the three of them came through the trees. "Loki hasn't escaped," Thor said.
"Of course not. I make sure no one escapes my watch," Yelizaveta said, sheathing her sword.
"You have some skill with a blade," Thor commented with a small thread of admiration in his voice.
""Enough I suppose. Where I lived, we were all given a weapon of choice. I chose a sword and learned how to use it. Nat, we're ready," Yelizaveta said into her earwig.
The jet came out of the clouds and they quickly got Loki onto the helicarrier and locked away. They all sat in the conference room, watching as Nick Fury entered the room where Loki was contained and shut the container and opened the bottom so Loki could see how far he would drop if he tried anything. "In case it's unclear, if you try to escape, if you so much as scratch that glass, it's 30,000 feet down in a steel trap. You get how that works? Ant, boot," Fury said, indicating the floor and the console.
Loki started to laugh. "It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me," Loki said.
"Built for something a lot stronger than you," Fury said.
"Oh, I've heard. A mindless beast. Makes play he's still a man," Loki said, causing both Natasha and Yelizaveta to look up at Banner and his son. Loki obviously meant Banner. He was the only one who could turn into a monster when angry. "How desperate are you, that you call on such lost creatures to defend you?" Loki mocked.
"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace, and you kill because it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did," Fury said, with barely controlled anger as he leveled Loki with a look that Yelizaveta and others had cringed at. But Apparently Loki was too stupid to be afraid of it.
"Ooh. It burns you to have come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share. And then to be reminded what real power is," Loki said.
Fury turned and walked away. "Well let me know if "real power" wants a magazine or something," Fury said derisively.
"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" James asked as they turned off the monitors looking in on Loki's prison.
"Loki's gonna drag this out," Rogers said.
"So, Thor, what's his play?" Yelizaveta asked, the brooding man who stood there with his muscled arms folded.
"He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth in return, I suspect, for the Tesseract," Thor said, turning to face them as he walked to the table.
"An army from outer space," Rogers said.
"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for," Banner said.
"Selvig?" Thor asked, with a look of concern on his face.
"He's an astrophysicist and a friend of Dad's," James said.
"He's a friend," Thor said.
"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours," Natasha said.
"I want to know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here," Yelizaveta said.
"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," James said.
"Have care how you speak, boy. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard. And he is my brother," Thor said sharply.
"He killed 80 people in two days," Natasha said.
"He's adopted," Thor said. Yelizaveta bit the inside of her cheek. Adoption was an interesting argument and really quite laughable.
"I think it's about the mechanics. Iridium...What do they need the iridium for?" Banner asked as Stark entered the room with Coulson.
"It's a stabilizing agent. I'm just saying, pick a weekend. I'll fly you to Portland. Keep love alive," Stark said to Coulson. Coulson had a girl in Portland and obviously Stark wanted to help him plan a romantic date.
"it means the portal won't collapse on itself like it did at S.H.I.E.L.D. No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing," Stark said, tapping Thor's muscled bicep with the back of his hand. "Also, it means the portal can open as wide and stay open as long, as Loki wants. Raise the mizzenmast. Jib the topsails. That man is playing Galaga. He thought we wouldn't notice, but we did," Stark said, talking to Thor and the crew at the same time. "How does Fury even see these?" Stark asked Maria Hill.
"He turns," Hill said.
"Sounds exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. The only major component he still needs is a power source of high-energy density. Something to kickstart the cube," Stark said as he touched computer screens.
"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Hill asked the question that Yelizaveta was thinking and by the looks on everyone else's face was thinking too.
"Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the extraction theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" Stark asked as he looked around the table.
"I'm Russian. I am not the type to study papers in the terms of science. Hit first, wonder about it later," Yelizaveta said.
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Rogers asked Stark.
"He would have to heat the Cube to 120-million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier," Banner said.
"Unless Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect," Stark said.
"Well, if he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet," Banner said.
"Finally someone who speaks English," Stark said, holding out his hand to shake Banner's.
"Is that what just happened, Dad?" James asked in a side whisper.
"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on antielectron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green-rage monster," Stark said.
"Thanks," Banner said, looking uncomfortable at that. From what James had told Yelizaveta, his father hated turning into the Hulk and he was still looking for a cure for his problem.
"Dr. Banner and his son are only here to track the Cube. I was hoping you might join them," Fury said, walking into the room.
"I'd start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon," Rogers said, a sentiment Yelizaveta agreed with as the Red Room was funded by the KGB and HYDRA and used the same kind of weapon.
"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the Cube. And I would like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys," Fury said. From the look of confusion on Thor's face, he didn't get The Wizard of Oz reference. Yelizaveta hadn't seen the movie until she was almost nine, but she got what Fury was saying.
"Monkeys? I do not understand," Thor said.
"I do. I understood that reference," Rogers said. Yelizaveta choked back a laugh. Of course he did. Captain America was from the time frame of World War II. He probably went to the movies when The Wizard of Oz came out in 1939.
"Shall we play, Doctor?" Stark asked Banner.
"This way, Sir," Banner said as he and James led Stark to his lab. Yelizaveta looked back at the man Stark said was playing Galaga and the game came back up.
A/N: I decided to turn this into a crossover between the Avengers and Captain America as Yelizaveta does play heavily into the Captain America films being Bucky's daughter. So if anyone is looking for the story, lookin the Xover section for it.