Asgardian Goddess of Beauty and Battle (Book 1) *Currently Under Editing*

CHAPTER 8

A slam of an object to a table made me jump. I looked up to see Steve's face filled with frustration.

He took his hand off a Hydra assault rifle. 'Phase 2 is SHIELD uses the cube to make weapons.' He looked to Tony. 'Sorry, the computer was moving a little slow for me.'

Nick tried to explain himself. 'Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we are-

'I'm sorry Nick.' Tony quickly cute in, revealing a weapon design of Fury's. 'What were you lying?'

Steve looked to Fury. 'I was wrong director. This world hasn't changed a bit.'

Thor entered the room with confusion, followed by Natasha.

Banner looked to Natasha, moving from behind his desk, to the front. 'Did you know about this?'

Natasha questioned Banner. 'You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment Doctor?'

Banner chuckled and smiled. 'I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed.'

Natasha walked up to him with a serious expression. 'Loki's manipulating you.'

Banner frowned. 'And you've been doing what exactly?'

'You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you.' Natasha stated.

'Yes, and I'm not leaving just because suddenly you get a little twitchy.' Banner painted to the weapon design on the screen. 'I wanna know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction.'

Nick pointed at Thor. 'Because of him.'

Thor was taken aback raising his eyebrows. 'Me?'

Nick began to explain, slowly walking around to everyone while doing so. 'Last year, earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that levelled a small town. We learned that, not only are we alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned.'

Thor spoke for Asgard. 'My people want nothing but peace with your planet.'

Nick stepped slowly towards Thor. 'But you're not the only people our there, are you? And you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled.'

'Like you control the cube?' Steve threw in.

Thor looked at Fury, slowly approaching him. 'You're work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is a signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for a higher form of war.'

Steve questioned. 'A higher form?'

Nick explained. 'You forced our hand. We had to come up with some-

'Nuclear deterrent.' Tony quickly cut in. 'Cause that always calms everything right down.'

I had no comment or part in this argument. I had no idea what was even happening with all this war and weapons topic, so I just let the scene unfolded, moving my head and eyes to whoever spoke at the time.

Nick turned around to meet Tony. 'Remind me again how you made your fortune Stark?'

Steve added. 'I'm sure if he still made weapons Stark would be neck-deep-

'Wait, wait! Hold on! How is this now about me?' Tony cut in. He was good at this interrupting peoples sentences thing.

'I'm sorry. Isn't everything?' Steve replied.

Thor commented. 'I thought humans were more evolved than this.'

Nick turned to see Thor, offended by his comment. 'Excuse me! Did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?'