03. PHASE TWO

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CHAPTER THREE
PHASE TWO

     "HE REALLY GROWS ON YOU, doesn't he?" Bruce said

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"HE REALLY GROWS ON YOU, doesn't he?" Bruce said. "Loki's gonna drag this out," Steve pointed out, "so, Thor, what's his play?"

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

"An army," Steve stared at him, obviously tired of the 21st Century already, "from outer space."

"So, he's building another portal," Jane butted in, "that's what he needs Erik Selvig for." She finished. "Selvig?" Thor asked her. "He's an astrophysicist." She said. "He's a friend." Thor corrected.

"Loki has him under some kind of spell. Along with one of ours." She slightly put her head down. "I wanna know why Loki let us take him, he's not leading an army here." Steve said.

"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki, that guy's brain is a bag full of cats — you can smell crazy on him." Bruce said.

"Have care how you speak, Loki is beyond reason but he is of Asgard, and he is my brother." Thor stated.

    "He killed eighty people in two days." Natasha pointed out.

     "He's adopted."

"Iridium, what did he need the Iridium for?" Bruce questioned.

    "It's a stabilizing agent." Tony Stark replied as he entered the room with agent Coulson next to him. "It means the portal won't collapse on itself like it did at S.H.I.E.L.D."

"No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing." He added for the God of Thunder.

"Also, it means the portal can open as wide and stay open as long as Loki wants." He continued as he walked to Nick Fury's control panel. "How does Fury even see these?" He looked around.

"He turns." Maria said. "Sounds exhausting," Tony said, "the rest of the raw materials, agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily."

"The only major component he still needs is a power source of high-energy density," the man said as he sticked a device under the panel — which Jane can easily see, "something to kick-start the cube." He finished.

"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Maria sassed. "Last night." Tony shut down. "The packet, Selvig's notes, the extraction theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?"

"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" The Captain asked.

"He'd have to heat the cube to 120 million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Bruce informed.

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