The Demigod From Asgard - A Steve Rogers x Reader Story

Chapter 85: Time to Brainstorm

Warnings: Language! Angst!

The next morning everyone gathered to start the first official brainstorming session of the time heist. Monitors showed all the information they already had on the stones ready for them to try and decide where to strike.

"Okay so the how works, now we gotta figure out the when and the where," Steve says as he turns from the monitors towards the team "almost everyone in this room has had an encounter with at least one of the six infinity stones"

"or substitute the word 'encounter' for 'damn near been killed' by one of the six infinity stones" Tony interrupts, Steve humming quietly since he couldn't argue with that.

"well I haven't" Scott points out "but I don't even know what the hell you're all talking about" he admits with a shrug.

"Regardless we only have enough Pym particles for one round trip each and these stones have been in a lot of different places throughout history," Bruce says as he walks around the conference room.

"our history" Tony corrects "so not a lot of convenient spots to just drop in yeah?"

"which means we have to pick our targets," Clint says with a sigh.

"Correct" Tony nods taking a sip of his coffee.

"so let's start with the Aether," Steve says before turning to Thor "Thor what do you know?"

Everyone else turns to face Thor who was sat in the corner of the room, a can of beer in one hand, shades covering his eyes. He remained completely motionless making the team glance around at each other.

"Is he asleep?" Nat questions.

"no, no I'm pretty sure he's dead" Rhodey mutters.

Everyone glances back over at Steve, but despite the recent progress they'd made in rebuilding their friendship Steve didn't think it was wise for him to wake him up. Especially since he didn't know where Stormbreaker was.

"um, Rocket do you mind?" Steve asks nodding over to Thor.

"why me? he's your brother-in-law" Rocket argues.

"because he's less likely to accidentally kill you," Nat reasons.

"yep, c'mon build-a-bear," Tony says nudging Rocket over towards Thor.

"urgh, fine" Rocket grumbles as he walks over to Thor "hey Thor, wake up buddy" Rocket says lightly kicking Thor's foot earning no response.

Rocket grumbles in annoyance before jumping up onto Thor's lap and slapping him hard across the face "Wake up!" he shouts, Thor jumping in surprise.

"what the devil are you doing rabbit!" Thor sputters as he wakes up.

"We need you to tell us about the aether" Rocket says pointing over to the screen as he jumps off Thor's lap.

Thor clears his throat readjusting his shades as he walks over to the screen "uh where to start? Um..." Thor says as pulls off his shades and tapped them against the screen "the aether, firstly is not a stone, someone called it a stone before" he starts pointing over to Steve with a small glare.

Steve frowns slightly since he thought Thor was just asleep, and not just ignoring him.

"um, it's more of an angry sludge sort of thing so someone's gonna need to amend that" Thor explains as he drops a couple of eyedrops into his eye "here's an interesting story though about the aether my grandfather many years ago had to hide the stone from the Dark Elves, ooh scary beings" Thor chuckled.

Steve glances around the room to see everyone had a similar expression to himself, one of complete confusion and slight despair as they listened to Thor rattle off information that actually wasn't that useful. The only person who looked interested was Scott who was smiling and nodding along, hanging on to Thor's every word.