The Avengers

Chapter 8

As they are waiting, in the Helicarrier Bridge, to locate Loki using satellite facial recognition, Coulson and Steve stand side by side, waiting. AGENT COULSON "I mean, if it's not too much trouble". STEVE "No, no. It's fine". AGENT COULSON "It's a vintage set. It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint, slight foxing around the edges but... AGENT SITWELL "We got a hit. Sixty-seven percent match. Weight, cross match, seventy-nine percent". AGENT COULSON "Location?". AGENT SITWELL "Stuttgart, Germany. 28 , Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding". FURY "Captain, you're up". Steve nods. Leaves.

Loki is standing in front of the museum, dressed in 21st-century attire, and with the scepter, disguised as a cane, walks up to the entrance of the gala. Inside, a lavished gala with an orchestra playing is interrupted as the head doctor walks up to the mic.

Steve walks into his locker room. As he approaches the steel cabinet, the doors already reveal the updated Captain America's uniform, along with the famous shield. He stands in silence. 

Outside the museum, German guards stand in their positions. One of them is standing on top of the roof, scoping. He then hears a thwack! He looks down. One of his guards is shot with an arrow. He raises his gun. He is shot dead by an arrow and he falls. Alex and her crew arrive at the doors of the locked science building. Alex looks at the retinal scanner. He pulls out a SHIELD eye scanner instrument.

Back at the gala Loki looks from above the museum and descends to where the head doctor is. As he makes it down and near the stage, he flips his cane to the other end. The guard there notices him, pulls out his gun, but Loki clubs his head in. Chaos erupts. Guests begin to leave the museum. Loki grabs the doctor and flips him over onto a marble table of the mythological creatures, Bilchsteim. Loki pulls out an optical torture device. He plunges down the doctor's eye. The doctor twists in pain.

In the museum, suddenly from Alex's instrument, a holographic eye of the head doctor appears and the image of the doctor appears. The doors to the facility open. Alex walks in and finds in a cabinet, a glass thermos with a cylinder of iridium.

At the gala, the crowd runs away and Loki slowly walks out and materializes in his gold armor and helmet. The police arrive and with no hesitation, he blasts the cars, flipping them over and over. LOKI "Kneel before me". The crowd ignores him. Another Loki appears, blocking the crowd. Loki after Loki appears they all grin as they raise their spears, encircling the crowd. LOKI "I said KNEEL!!!". Everyone becomes quiet and kneels in front of him. Loki embracing his arms out, smiling. LOKI "Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel". As the words resonate to kneeling crowd, an elder german man refuses to kneel and stands, heroic. ELDER GERMAN MAN "Not to men like you". LOKI "There are no men like me". ELDER GERMAN MAN "There are always men like you". LOKI "Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example". Loki is about to execute him with his scepter as the light glows blue. Just as the energy beam shoots out. Captain America arrives. He dives in just in time and blocks the blast with his shield, knocking down Loki on his ass. CAPTAIN AMERICA "You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing". Loki stands up. LOKI "The soldier. A man out of time". CAPTAIN AMERICA "I'm not the one who's out of time". From above Cap, the Quinjet arrives. A machine gun is pointed towards Loki. NATASHA "Loki, drop the weapon and stand down". Like greased lightning, Loki sends a blast of blue at the Quinjet. Natasha maneuvers it just in time, giving Cap the time to throw his shield at Loki. They both begin to duck it out. Loki flings Cap to the ground. Cap, using all the moves he's got, still gets knocked down by Loki. Standing over him, he points the scepter's tip on his helmet. LOKI "Kneel!". CAPTAIN AMERICA "Not today!". Cap flips and knocks him out with his leg. Loki grabs him and flips him over.

In the Quinjet, everyone is all over the place. Suddenly, AC/DC's 'Shoot to Thrill' overdrives the Quinjet's speakers. IRON MAN "Agent Romanoff, did you miss me?". Both Cap and Loki look up at the sky. Tony flies over in his Iron Man suit and blasts Loki right back to the ground. Iron Man touches down. He stands up and pulls out every piece of weaponry the suit has. IRON MAN "Make your move, reindeer games". Loki puts up his hands and surrenders. His armor materializes away. IRON MAN "Good move". CAPTAIN AMERICA "Mr. Stark". IRON MAN "Captain". 

In the Quinjet, Natasha watches the skies. Thunder coming out of nowhere. Fury speaks over her headset. FURY "Said anything?". NATASHA "Not a word". FURY "Just get him here. We're low on time". With Loki tied up and cuffed to his seat, Tony and Steve watch from a distance, whispering. STEVE "I don't like it". TONY "What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?". STEVE "I don't remember it being ever that easy. This guy packs a wallop". TONY "Still, you are pretty spry, for an older fellow. What's your thing? Pilates?". STEVE "What?". TONY "It's like calisthenics. You might have missed a couple of things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle", Steve looks at Tony, finally meeting his ego match. STEVE "Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in". TONY "Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you". Thunder and lightning nearly hit the jet, making it shake violently. NATASHA "Where's this coming from?". Thunder rumbles overhead. Loki stares out the window intently. STEVE "What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?". LOKI "I'm not overly fond of what follows. What the fuck?". 

Outside the jet, a blinding light hits the jet. Not a light. A king. The Mighty Thor. Thor opens the ramp and grabs Loki by the throat and flies out. Steve and Tony are left dumbstruck. Tony puts the Iron Man helmet on. IRON MAN "Now there's that guy". NATASHA "Another Asgardian?". CAPTAIN AMERICA "Think the guy's friendly?". IRON MAN "Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost. Tony turns and gets ready to jump off the jet to chase after Thor. CAPTAIN AMERICA "Stark, we need a plan of attack!". IRON MAN "I have a plan. Attack". Iron Man jumps out of the jet and chases after Thor. Cap grabs a parachute to follow. NATASHA "I'd sit this one out, Cap". CAPTAIN AMERICA "I don't see how I can". NATASHA "These guys come from legends, they're basically gods". CAPTAIN AMERICA "There's only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that". Cap jumps out of the jet.