Tsunami (Avengers Fanfic)

Chapter 4

*DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything but Arabella*

Steve watches until the monitor goes black. Thor, who didn't even look, just listened, stands there, torn apart. Bella sighed and looked around the room at everyone. They all just stood there in silence.

"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Banner said breaking the silence.

"Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?" Steve said.

"He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or 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 said coming out of his trance.

"An army? From outer space?" Steve said in shock. Bella just looked ahead and sighed. Natasha looked at her questionably and Bella shook her head and mouthed 'I'll tell you later', Natasha nodded and went back to listening.

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

"Selvig?" Thor asked.

"He's an astrophysicist." Banner told him.

"He's a friend." Thor said looking solemn.

"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours." Natasha said looking away.

"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here." Steve said looking around at everyone.

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

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

"He killed eighty people in two days." Natasha said bluntly.

"He's adopted." Thor was quick to reply.

"Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?" Banner asked suddenly.

"It's a stabilizing agent." Tony said walking in with Coulson "I'll fly you there. Keep the love alive." he said to Coulson. "Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD." He continued going on about the Iridium. "No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing." he said to Thor who looked at him funnily. "Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants." he then went back to talking about the iridium before turning to the crew flying the Helicarrier. "Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing GALAGA! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did." he said before looking around while covering one of his eyes. "How does Fury do this?" he asks.

"He turns." Hill said without emotion.

Tony looks around the monitors and places a button size hacking implant under Fury's desk, without anyone noticing.

"Well, that sounds exhausting." he says. "The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube." he says about the Tesseract.

"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Hill asked Tony.

"Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" Tony asked.

"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asked Tony.

"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Banner answered instead.

"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Tony continued.

"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." Banner finished.

"Finally, someone who speaks English." Tony said going up to Banner shaking his hand.

"Is that what just happened?" Steve asked no one in particular.

"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. You're work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster." Tony said to Banner.

"Thanks." Banner said looking down.

"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him." Fury said walking in.

"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon." Steve said thoughtfully.

"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys." Fury said.

"Monkeys? I do not understand." Thor said confused.

"I do! I understood that reference." Cap says looking proud of himself.

"Shall we play, doctor?" Tony asked Bruce.

"Let's play some." Banner says.

*********TIME SKIP*********

After all of that went down Bella stayed around the bridge with Thor and Coulson. There was a file on Jane Foster on the computer screen. "As soon as Loki took the doctor we moved Jane Foster. We've got an excellent observatory in Traunsee. She was asked to consult there very suddenly yesterday. Handsome fee, private plane, very remote. She'll be safe." Coulson said to Thor.

"Thank you." Thor said gratefully. "It's no accident Loki taking Erik Selvig. I dread what he plans for him once he's done. Erik is a good man." Thor continued.

"He talks about you a lot. You changed his life. You changed everything around here." Coulson said.

"They were better as they were. We pretend on Asgard that we're more advanced, but we...we come here battling like bilchsteim."

"Like what?" Bella asked confused finally joining the conversation. Bella looked at Phil to see he was just as confused.

"Bilchsteim? You know; huge, scaly, big antlers. You don't have those?" Thor said describing them to the two.

"Don't think so." Phil said.

"It would be the first time to even hear of them for me." Bella said looking thoughtful.

"They are repulsive, and they trample everything in their path." Thor said to them. Thor walks over to the side of the ship and looks out the window, thinking about what has happened and what may come. "When I first came to earth, Loki's rage followed me here and your people paid the price. And now again. In my youth I courted war." Thor continued lost in thought.

"War hasn't started yet. You think you can make Loki tell us what the Tesseract is?" Fury said walking in and directing the question towards Thor.

"I do not know. Loki's mind is far afield, it's not just power he craves, it's vengeance upon me. There's no pain that would prize his need from him." Thor answered the question.

"A lot of guys think that, until the pain stops." Bella said. Nick looked at her before looking back at Thor.

"What are you asking me to do?" Thor asked.

"I'm asking. What are you prepared to do?" Fury said.

"Loki is a prisoner." Thor stated.

"Then why do I feel like he's the only person on this boat that wants to be here?" Fury asked. Thor doesn't answer.