"So that's that." Steve said, awkwardly.

"I have a question. Why didn't you just get a parachute and jump out of the plane?" Rhodey asked. "I didn't think of it." Steve answered.

"I do have an announcement before we start this next one. You all know that Loki used the scepter to control Agent Barton and Dr. Selvig, but what you all don't know is that the scepter was also influencing him, but in a different way." "I knew it." Coulson whispered. "I had a feeling there was an outside force here, ever since that conversation in the heli-carrier." Natasha said.

"What?" Thor asked. Loki looked uncomfortable. "It did always bug me that he was so compliant after we found him" Tony said.

"It doesn't make much of a difference anyway, after the control broke, those things still happened and I still did them." Loki said.

"I'm not saying he's innocent of all of his crimes, all I'm saying is that there is more to this story than what meets the eye." Loraine said.

"But his eyes were never glowing." Clint protested, not wanting to believe this. "It was a different type of mind control, Agent Barton. While yours was direct and he made you essentially do his bidding, Loki was under the influence of the scepter but he was also the wielder The scepter was amplifying his rage, and resentment. Not entirely making him do things, the choices were still his, but pointing him in that direction." Lorraine

"So if you weren't necessarily forced to subjugate us through the scepter then why, or how?" Bruce asked. "I had an agreement, I owed a debt to someone sort of. If I disagreed then-" Loki said. "So you came here for repayment?" Bruce asked. "He saved my life and asked this in return and if I didn't then I was to long for something so sweet as pain." Loki said.

"Who was this man that you met?" Thor asked, remembering his words on the cliff when he was arguing with Loki. 'Who controls the would be King?' He knew from the beginning that Loki couldn't have been working alone- the scepter and the army had to come from somehwere. "As I said before, when I fell through the void, I came into contact with The Mad Titan himself, and through him... The Other. They saved my life so I went to Earth for them."

"I never understand your motives for anything." Tony sighed.

'Up next: The Avengers'