Vertigo (Book Three of The Avengers Reports)

Chapter Nine (Picture of Steve Rogers/Captain America and Tony Stark/Iron Man)

Awesome. Longest update yet! :D Enjoy!

Dedicated to RavenHolmes1994 for the idea! And yes, I know NCIS fans, one guy in here is supposed to be dead. Well, in here, he's not. :) Seriously, that girl right there saved this story.

Anywho . . . UPDATE! WITH FREDDIE!

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The Pentagon

Washington D.C., Capitol of the United States of America

Loki sat on top of the Pentagon, looking down over the lawn. He was just simply thinking for once, not going about killing people. He had his chin in is hands, and he was looking over all of Washington D.C. He sighed. It would be a pity to attack them.

He heard a sound behind him, then a voice he didn't exactly want to hear: "Brother."

Loki threw a look behind him. Thor stood behind him in full Asgardian armor, hammer clutched in his hand. "Not in the mood, Thor."

"You know that I want to help in any way possible."

Loki shook his head. "You can't help me, Thor."

"I can't, or you won't let me?"

Loki cursed in his head. Thor had him. "Both!"

Thor tilted his head innocently. "Both? How is that possible?"

Loki growled. Thor was playing with him for some reason. "Just go, Thor!"

Thor hesitated, then Loki jumped up, his scepter in his hand. "GO!"

Thor was gone in seconds. Loki sighed, then frowned. That wasn't like Thor. So what had he been doing here?

***

Stark tapped on his keyboard with Steve, Natasha, Abby, and Bruce standing around the projector Stark had set up. The door opened and closed, and Thor came in, the gauntlets and the cape of his armor gone. "I dropped Freddie off," he reported.

"Good," Stark replied, and he tapped another key on the board. The screen lit up with a fuzzy image of Loki. "Can you hear me, little guy?"

There was a few seconds, then a soft robotic beep echoed throughout the room. "Good job," Stark praised him, not feeling stupid at all for talking to a robot. "Now, don't let Loki - " There was a beep of confusion, and Stark rolled his eyes. "The green and gold armored idiot Thor was talking to."

"Hey!" Thor whined. "My brother is not an idiot!"

"Sure he isn't," Natasha murmured sarcastically. "He just has a helmet that looks like reindeer horns. That isn't idiotic at all."

Abby giggled.

"Anyway . . . " Stark held the word out, and the girls shut up. "Don't let him out of our sight, but don't let him hear you, either."

There was a metallic beep of confirmation, then Freddie ran across the roof and clung onto the underside of Loki's armor.

Stark looked up at the screen, watching from Freddie's point of view.

***

Freddie clung onto Loki's cape with his feet, then beeped softly and looked around for Sam's friends to see. He beeped contentedly to himself, then let out a small electronic gasp as Loki stood up. He looked up at Loki's face, which was full of confusion.

"Loki, confused?" Freddie heard an incredulous female voice over Stark's microphone say. "That's a first."

"Shut it, Nat," Stark hissed. "Freddie, keep on him."