Hope everyone stayed safe! And hello to the year 2025!
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"So, ah. How long am I staying?" Banner asked Fury nervously.
"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the clear."
"Where are with that?"
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cellphones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us."
Natasha crouches down next to a computer and swipes at the screen, showing Clint's profile and info. "That's still not gonna find them in time."
"You have to narrow your field." Banner informed, pulling off his jacket and pulling it up around his arm. "How many spectrometers do you have access to?"
"How many are there?" Fury asks.
"Call every lab you know." Banner answered. "Tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays." Fury, Hill, Palmon, and especially Steve looked art him with lost expressions.
"A tracking algorithm." Mimi said, gaining everyone's attention on her now. "You can rough it out based on cluster recognition." She informs proudly. Bruce and Steve stare at her in wonder and surprise, while the others act like it's normal. "That's a few places to rule out."
Bruce blinked, once then twice before shaking his head to clear it. "Right, exactly." He smiles, then turns to Fury. "Do you have somewhere for me to work?"
"Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory, please?" Fury orders, then turns his attention on Mimi. "I'd like for you to join him in a bit if you wouldn't mind."
"Of course, Director."
Palmon looks towards Steve, who was watching Mimi curiously.
"You're gonna love it doc, we got all the toys." Natasha is heard as she leads Banner to a hallway.
"Captain?" Palmon asks, tilting her head to the side, like she's studying Steve. "Are you ok?"
Steve blinks and blushes at his embarrassment. "Oh, yes, yes." He quickly nods. "I." He squeaked like a mouse making him blush harder, then clears his throat. "I'm ok." He looks down at the Digimon. "Promise."
"O - ok." Palmon shrugs, she turns to Fury. "Human emotions are so weird and strange sometimes."
The Director chuckled, he turns his eye to Steve. "Captain, would you like a towel?" He asks lightly.
Mimi, who was sitting on her knees next to the computer screen that Natasha left, she looked up in surprise and turns to Steve.
"I'm fine." Steve clears his throat again, and trying hard not to look towards Mimi.
Mimi stood up. "You might wanna take that offer of a towel, Steve. You're starting to drool a little." She teases with a smile at him, before leaving to head for the lab.
Steve fell out of his chair landing hard on the floor, earning looks in his direction. Steve quickly scrambled to his feet and looked around embarrassed as he tried to straighten himself out as he looked at everybody who is looking at him.
Fury approached him. "Agent Stark is more than a pretty face, Captain." He told the blonde.
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Later. Mimi walks into the bridge and over to the computer monitor where Clint's profile is still on screen. She sighs heavily, they had to find Clint, he's a good friend very loyal, not just to the job but to his friends. Mimi moves down the alley of agent's stations, she slows to a stop at one station as she sees a picture of Loki.
Agent Jasper Sitwell, who's in front of the computer.
"Who's that?" She asks him.
"Loki, God Of Mischief." He answered.
"Hmm." Mimi hums. "Brother to Thor." She jumps startled when his computer suddenly started beeping, and Sitwell immediately starts typing.
"We got a hit!" He turns to Fury. "67% match, he looks back at his computer. "Wait, cross match, 79%."
"Location?" Phil asks as he comes over to Mimi's side.
"Stuttgart, Germany." Sitwell answers. "He's not exactly hiding."
Mimi puts her hand in a pocket to pull out her Digivice. "Palmon!" She turns to her Digimon.
"As soon as we get the order." Palmon nods.
"Captain!" Fury calls, turning to Steve who looks at him. "You're up." Steve gives a nod, before he leaves. "Stark, suit up. You're co-piloting with Romanoff."
Mimi nods. "Right. Come on Palmon!"
"Yeah!"
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Mimi is now wearing a cat jumpsuit just like Natasha's. The flight to Germany wasn't long, and it was quiet the whole way as everyone's on edge. They see Loki standing above a crowd as he forced the whole crowd to kneel.
"Is that a reindeer helmet?" Mimi asks, cocking her head to the side as she notices the helmet Loki's wearing with two giant horns. "Cap, get down there, now!" She calls as she sees an old man staring up and exchanges words with Loki, Mimi hits the button for the ramp.
"On it!" Steve calls before running and jumping out of the Quinjet.
Together, the two SHIELD agents watch as Steve fights off Loki. "Ya know, for somebody who's suppose to be a grandfather. Steve's fighting like he really is our age." Mimi comments, watching the fight between Captain America and the God Of Mischief.
"Stop drooling over the counsel, Stark." Natasha said without looking at her. Palmon giggles at the flustered look on Mimi's pink face.
"No, I'm not!" The Stark heiress denies, making Natasha roll her eyes.
"Please, you're about to flood the controls."
Mimi opened her mouth to reply when suddenly AC/DC's Shoot To Thrill came over the speakers.
"Agent Romanoff, you miss me?" Tony Stark's voice came next followed by the speakers.
"Uh oh." Mimi squeaked.
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Iron Man flies down, shooting a blast at Loki, knocking the God Of Mischief into some steps with a grunt. Iron Man drops down and weapons pop out of suit, aimed and ready to fire at Loki. "Make your move, Raindeer Games." He challenges. Loki slowly lifts his hands up in surrender while his helmet and battle gear disappear with a glimmer. Satisfied, Tony deactivates his weapons. "Good move." He lowers his arms as Steve approaches his side and putting his shield on his back.
"Mr. Stark."
"Captain."
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Now in chains, Loki is sitting in a chair inside the Quinjet as it flew back to the hellicarrior.
"I don't like it." Steve said after a bit, after glaring at Loki and turns away to face the front.
"What, Rock Of Ages giving up so easily?" Tony asks.
"I don't remember it being that easy. This guy packs a wallop."
"Still, you're pretty spry for an older fellow." Tony again keeps his voice light. Both men look at each other in a challenge. Mimi eyes both men and wonders when she's going to have to jump in. "What's your thing, Pilates?"
"What?" Steve deadpans, and Mimi facepalms.
"It's like calisthenics. You might've missed a couple things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle."
Steve narrows his eyes, getting irritated more and more. "Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in."
A small smirk forms on Tony's face as he's enjoying getting a rise out of the old fashioned solider.
"Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you."
"Dad, stop it!" Mimi finally had had enough as she moved to literarily put herself in between the two men.
"Princess, I'm disappointed in you." Tony said, giving her a look. "Keeping me in the dark like this." He made a ticking noise. "What'd I tell you about that?"
Mimi folds her arms, narrowing her eyes on him. "This is not the time or the place for you to play head games."
Suddenly, before Tony could even think of a response, a flash of lightning illuminates the cabin of the Quinjet, immediately followed by a loud clap of thunder.
"Where's this coming from?" Natasha asked with confusion.
"Whoa!" Palmon cried, instantly grabbing Steve's right leg when the storm grew more tense and the ones standing looked up at the ceiling of the jet when something lands on top of the vessel, and Loki to lean forward in his seat looking up nervously.
"What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?" Steve questions, his blue eyes hard.
"I'm not … overly fond of what follows."
Suddenly the ramp opens to reveal Thor. Instantly Steve and Tony turn separately to grab their respective helmets, while Palmon stood in front of Mimi protectively.
"Poison Ivy!" Palmon shoots her vines out, but the blonde God throws his hammer back at the attack, Palmon cries as she thrown into Steve and Tony, the three collapse in front of Mimi, the new arrival then snatches Loki by the throat easily pulling him out of his restrains and flies off.
"And now there's that guy." Tony sighs.
"Another Asgardian!?" Natasha calls out from the cockpit.
"Palmon, are you alright?" Steve asks as he helps the Digimon up from the floor of the jet.
"Yes." The Digimon nods, she smiles up at Steve. "Thank you, Captain."
Steve nods. "You're welcome." He turns to Mimi. "Mimi, are you alright?" He asks in concern.
"Yes." Mimi nods. "I'm ok."
Satisfied, Steve turns to Tony. "That guy's a friendly?"
Tony had made his way to the ramp.
"Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kill him, the Tesseract's lost." He turns back around.
"Stark, we need a plan of attack." Steve told him.
"I have a plan. Attack." With that he blasts off, disappearing in the storm.
Steve instantly straightened up and grabs a parachute.
"Steve, what are you doing?" Mimi gasps, her eyes wide as she watches him strap on the parachute.
"I'd sit this one out Cap." Natasha tells him over her shoulder.
"I don't see how I can."
"These guys come from legend. They're basically Gods." Natasha warns, glancing towards Mimi.
"There's only one God, ma'am." Steve said as he tightened the last strap. "And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." With that, Steve turns to walk down the ramp.
"Steve!" Mimi calls, making him stop and turn to her. "Be careful."
He smiled. "I will." He gives her a salute before jumping out of the jet.
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The storm finally let up, and together Mimi and Natasha were able to land the jet. Mimi quickly got out of her harness.
"Come on Palmon, Steve's signal is over there, while dad and Thor in that direction!" Mimi runs out of the jet.
"Wait for me!" Palmon cries, running after her human friend. "Mimi!"
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It was hard to see in the dark, Mimi frowns as she walks through the woods. "Captain!" She calls as she looks around. "Steve!?"
Hearing grunts and mutters nearby, Mimi jogs up to a tree. Finding Captain Steve Rogers tangled in his parachute and upside down.
"Damnit!" Steve growls as he struggles to free himself of the ropes and of course the tree branches were not helping. "Bucky made this look so damn easy!" He tugs on a rope, but his fingers slipped out and it came back with a snap. "Ow!"
"Steve!"
Steve froze, and he turns to look at an upside down Mimi staring up at him.
Mimi turns to her Digimon. "Palmon, can you pull him down?" She asks, and the creature nods.
"Yeah." The Digimon moves. "Don't move Captain!" She calls up to him, she shoots her vines out towards Steve, and yanks him down.
Steve let out a startled scream as he's suddenly broken free and falls. He lands hard on his butt.
"Ouch!" He rubs his sore rear.
"Oops." Palmon places her hands over her mouth.
"No, no." Steve reassured her as he slowly stood up. "I'm ok." He turns to the creature and smiles. "Thank you Palmon."
The Digimon returns the smile. "You're welcome!"
Steve turns to Mimi. "Are you ok?"
"I am." She smiles. "Thank you for asking."