Chapter 13: Introductions and Loki

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Dani smiles when she sees her sister. "There's my favorite idiot, how have you been?" Natasha asks softly. Dani shrugs. "I blew up a building." Dani says proudly. Natasha's eyes widen. "But you got the case with the vials of the super soldier syrum, right?" Nat asks, raising an eyebrow. "Yes.., but I also blew up a building." Dani says with a smile to which Natasha sighs. 

Steve enters with Coulson

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Steve enters with Coulson. "Agent Romanoff and Agent Romanoff, Captain Rogers." Coulson introduces. "Ma'am." Steve says. "Hi." Dani says and then looks at Coulson. "They need you on the bridge. They're starting the face-trace." The younger redhead explains.

"See you there." Coulson says and leaves.

"You two twins?" Steve asks and the two women laugh. "Yeah, we get that a lot. She's older." Dani says motioning her head to Natasha. Steve nods, but Dani saw his surprised look. The gym was dimer, but now he could clearly see how young Dani is. Some would consider the girl a kid, despite legally being aloud to drink. Therefore, she gets a lot of these looks.

"It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was gonna swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?" Natasha quizzes. "Trading cards?" Steve says in question. "They're vintage, he's very proud." Dani says with a smirk.

Dani notices Bruce Banner trying to stay out of people's way. "Dr. Banner." Steve says. "You have any trouble with him?" Dani asks motioning to Bruce. Natasha shrugs slightly. "A little." She seemed as if something was bothering her and Dani could tell. "Are you thinking about James again?" Dani asks softly tilting her head. Natasha doesn't answer the question.

Natasha approaches Steve and Bruce. "Gentlemen, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breath." She says to the both of them. "Is this a submarine?" Steve asks. "Really? They wanted me in a submerged, pressurised metal container?" Bruce asks sarcastically. The 4 go closer to the edge and note the turbines starting to mist. "Oh, no. This is much worse." Bruce worries.

Steve had a surprised look on his face and gives Dani the 10 dollars. Dani smirks slightly and Natasha raises an eyebrow. "Where'd you get the money?" She quizzes. "Bet I made with an ice cube." She discreetly motions her head to Steve and Natasha sighs softly and shakes her head in amusement.

Dani crouches down beside a computer that was trying to find Clint. "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." Coulson explains to Bruce. Dani shakes her head. "That's still not gonna find them in time." She says and fidgets with the pendant on the necklace she had.

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"You have to narrow the field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?" Bruce asks. "How many do you need?" Fury asks back. "Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?" Bruce states.

"Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory, please." Fury orders. Natasha walks off leading Bruce down the hall. "You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys." She says.

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Dani gets to her feet and stretches her arms before hearing Sitwell's voice. "We got a hit. Sixty-seven percent match. wait, cross match, seventy-nine percent." He says. "Location?" Dani asks running over.

"Stuttgart, Germany. 28, Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding." He says. "Captain, you're up." Fury states.

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Natasha and Dani arrive in an aircraft. Dani looked quite bored. She wanted some action and would much rather be there fighting. Loki aims his scepter at an elderly man, but Steve arrives just in time to block it with his shield.

"You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." Steve states. "The soldier. A man out of time." Loki comments. "I'm not the one who's out of time." Steve replies.

"Loki, drop the weapon and stand down." Dani says lowering the jet's gun at him. He sent a blue blast to the jet, but Dani maneuvered it just in time. "That worked beautifully." Natasha says sarcastically and Dani rolls her eyes at her big sister.

"This guy's all over the place." Natasha muttered. "Wow, really?" Dani says sarcastically back. That's when rock music comes up on the speakers. "Agent Romanoff squared, did you ladies miss me?" Tony voice says threw the speakers. A smirk tugs on Dani's lips.

Tony flew over in his Iron man suit. He landed next to Steve and raised his guns, getting Loki to the floor. "Make your move, Reindeer Games." He comments. 

Dani lands the jet and the two men bring Loki in. Once everyone was in.

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"Said anything?" Fury asks. "Not a word." Dani says. "Just get him here. We're low on time." Fury says.

"I don't like it." Steve says. "What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" Tony asks. "I don't remember it being ever that easy. This guy packs a wallop." Steve replies.

"Still, you are pretty spry, for an older fellow." Tony says. "Aww, how nice, Stark." The younger redhead scoffs. "What's your thing? Pilates?" Tony asks, ignoring Dani.

"What?" Steve asks back. "It's like calisthenics. You might have missed a couple things, you know, during your time as a Capsicle." Tony says.

"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in." Steve says. "Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you." Tony replies.

"Where's this coming from?" Dani asks. "What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?" Tony asks. "I'm not overly fond of what follows." Loki replies.

The jet jolts and Dani steadies it. "What in hell?" The young woman questions in surprise. 

"Now there's that guy." Tony says. "Another Asgardian?" Natasha quizzes. "Think the guy's a friendly?" Steve questions. "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." Tony states.

Tony walks to the edge of the hatch in the jet. "Stark, we need a plan of attack!" Steve says. "I have a plan. Attack." Tony says and jumps out.

"I'd sit this one out, Cap." Dani says in warning. "I don't see how I can." Steve says. "These guys come from legends, they're basically gods." Natasha says in agreement with her little sister. "There's only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." Steve says and jumps out as well. Dani rolls her eyes and scoffs. "Men." She then turns to her sister. "Ready to round them up?" 

"How do we find them? They're bigger idiots than you." Natasha says. Dani gasps in mock offense. "Rude and I say we just look for the big explosions." Dani suggests.

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