Bend Around the Wind by Scyllaya

Chapter 36: Plot and Play

Chapter Thirty-Six

Plot and Play

Fornax Galaxy

Tayo System

Sakaar Orbit

'We're fucking pirates,' Tony said.

'It's useless to deny it any longer,' Loki agreed.

The general idea of Loki's plan was pretty straight-forward, and yeah... kind of pirate-esque. It was a good kind of piracy though, they were stealing people from bad guys after all. So, simple plan. Ambush and take over the transporter, use it to get on the Moon Aakar, find the children, get them in the transporter, get the hell out of dodge, take them to the tribe. The devil was in the details of course.

They were all still in the cargo area, but now everyone was paying attention to Loki instead of Drongo. Tony was still not over that one. He was very-very much not over that, genocide stories did that to a man. Juyu looked a little pale herself and Loki was still behaving in a way that spoke louder than words. It meant that he was hiding something - probably anger - he had that calm before the storm thing going for him. Bee looked like she always did, she had a problem with displaying emotions, so it was hard to guess what she was thinking. Drongo though, the man was so fucking zen it was unbelievable, he was putting Bruce Banner to shame and Tony knew that the big guy had hell of a control. He suddenly had a mental image of the two them in the same room, but he pushed the thought away. His mind was running away with him, it was probably still the shock of what he just listened to. He should focus more.

'What do you mean we can't ambush the transporter before it takes off?' Juyu asked and Tony realized that the conversation continued while he got lost in his head.

'It's too risky,' Loki answered. 'Who knows how many soldiers are going to be around?'

'Where then?' Tony asked.

'When it's already on the way to Aakar,' Loki replied. Tony frowned.

'Okay, do you also have an idea about how we're supposed to go from one ship to another out in space? Because my suit is not yet space-proof,' Tony told him. "Yet" was an important expression here, he had plans, he had ideas, but he was constantly working on two-three things at the same time and he only had two hands.

'We fly in close, I teleport inside and open up a way for you to connect either the Drake or the IronMage to the transporter. Preferably the Drake, it's a faster.'

Tony blinked in surprise and saw from the corner of his eyes how Drongo's eyes narrowed in interest.

'Um, Loki, correct me if I'm wrong here, but you passed out cold from hiding the girls. Are you sure you have enough juice to pull this off safely?' Tony was pretty sure he could pull it off, but there was no way in hell he wanted him to overexert himself again.

Loki held up a finger in a "wait" gesture then stood up and swiftly walked over to the workshop area. Tony did not see what he grabbed from one of the tables at first, but then he recognized the box. He frowned again. He filled up a bunch of crystal cylinders with energy for testing and stuff and Loki grabbed a box from those. It took a moment for him to remember.

'You mean you can-'

'Yes,' Loki answered even before he could finish.

'Like you did with the-'

'Yes.'

'Do you mind including the rest of us in this conversation?' Juyu interrupted before Tony could speak again. Loki looked over Tony's shoulder.

'I can safely teleport into the transporter,' Loki said. 'That's the important part.'

'And after you're in?' Tony asked.