Life Dies In The End

Chapter 3

I leaned back in my chair and put my feet on the briefing room's table. We had secured Loki and he was being locked up right now. My eyes stayed locked on the other Asgardian. Stark and Rogers had somehow come to an agreement with the god, not after destroying half a forest first. Something felt really off about everything that was happening. My gut was twisting, something bad was going to happen, I could feel it. I couldn't tell Fury, he had some sort of altermotive to all of this. What was Fury even doing with the Tesseract in the first place?

My thoughts were broken by Banner entering the room. He looked around nervously before finding a spot by the wall. He still hadn't had any luck tracking down the Tesseract and with Loki on board I could tell he was starting to get nervous.

Everyone who was a part of the Avengers initiative, minus Stark, and Thor were in the room now. Fury had ordered all of us to be here, and yet he wasn't here himself. Classic Fury, leaving everyone guessing what the hell he was going to do next.

Thankfully we weren't left guessing for too much longer. An image appeared on the screens around the table, causing many of us to sit forward. It was a live feed of Loki being locked into his cell. I watched as the door shut and locked to Loki's cell, yet something still nagged at me. Part of me didn't think the cell could hold Loki, while the other part knew it was made to hold someone much stronger.

"In case it's unclear, you try to escape you so much as scratch that glass," Fury's voice came from off screen, as the tunnel beneath the cell opened to reveal the wide open sky. "It's 30 thousand feet straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?" The tunnel closed as Fury resumed talking. "Ant, boot."

"It's an impressive cage." Loki chuckled. "Not built, I think, for me."

"Built for something a lot stronger than you." Fury answered.

"Oh, I've heard." Loki's glance shifted from Fury to the camera we were watching from. "A mindless beast. Makes play he's still a man."

I glanced up at Banner, who shifted nervously. He knew the cage was built for him and yet he still came aboard the helicarrier. I glanced back down at the screen as Loki began speaking again.

"How desperate are you, that you call on such lost creatures to defend you?"

"How desperate am I?" Fury stepped slightly into view on the camera. "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 you did."

"Ohh," Loki smiled. "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."

"Well, let me know if 'real power' wants a magazine or something." Fury walked off screen and the end of his words was accompanied by the sound of a closing door.

Loki glanced back into the camera and for a second it felt as though I really was making eye contact with him. I glanced away, once the screen went black. Silence wasn't held for long before Banner spoke.

"He really grows on you, doesn't he?"

"Loki's gonna drag this out." Rogers looked over to Thor. "So, Thor, what's his play?"

"He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard, nor any world known." Thor turned and walked towards the table. "He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth, in return, I suspect, for the Tesseract."

"An army from outer space." Rogers raised an eyebrow at Thor's words.

"So, he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Banner pieced together.