Mischief's Shield

Chapter 10 - Time Bomb

On my way back from the prison I couldn't stop thinking about what just happened back in there. My plan was to anger him and cause him to lose control and let something slip but instead I made him almost depressed.

Loki had been even too weak to stand up at my words then all of a sudden he was able to fight me back and almost escaped. I guess you can really never trust a trickster.

His plan was a lot better than mine, he must've picked up on my intentions and made his own little scheme to counter it. Just when I thought the villain wasn't as bad as people said he was he decided to show me who he truly was and make a fool out of me in front of the entire helicarrier.

People had said Loki was more of a demon than a god, they said he killed when he was bored and tortured people to make himself laugh. They said he enjoyed pain and laughed at suicide. They said he killed his family. They said he tried to kill himself just because he couldn't get his own way.

I had told everyone that they were all made up rumours, just like the one Roman and Larse set up about me killing all the SHIELD personnel. After I did a lot of persuading I got at least 15 people to believe Loki wasn't evil but right now I've lowered that to 14. He's a monster. He's a broken, cursed, inconsiderate monster and I'm going to end that monster with my own two hands.

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"I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Steve was arguing with Director Fury when I entered the lab. I had completely forgotten about Thor, who had been walking with me all the way there since I thought I should pick him up now that he's technically an Avenger, and just got lost in my own little world of thoughts about the God of Mischief and Lies.

"Did you know about this?" Banner turned to me and asked impatiently. I really didn't have time for this, he just needed to be heavily guarded and stayed away from: end of.

"Do you want to consider removing yourself from the lab, Doctor?" I hated it when I had to answer a question with a question but I really didn't want to reply to his. To be honest I didn't really know what they had been talking about but I knew it was bad just by the uncertain tone in Banner's voice.

"If your buddy wouldn't of picked me up I would've been pretty well removed." A fake laugh escaped his lips and at that moment I knew I was playing with fire. But lucky for me, I can fight fire with fire.

"Loki's manipulating you." Natasha walked into the room, talking like she knew exactly what was going on. She walked a bit in front of me and stared at the scientist as she spoke.

"And you've been doing what exactly?" Bruce moved about an inch closer to the silver, sharp end of the sceptre which was the opposite end of the white table to Natasha who was still slowly decreasing the space between her and the momentarily calm Hulk.

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you." Natasha stopped approaching him and finally started to blink instead of just staring at him like a psychopath. She glared once at Thor and I before turning back to the main problem to hear it's response.

He walked out from behind the table and came closer to the Agent that had originally picked him up.
"Yes, and I'm not not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy."
"I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction." Bruce grabbed the holographic-screened computer that was attached to the ceiling and pointed to the blueprints of a missile that was signed it the corner saying 'Property of SHIELD.'

"Because of her." Nick lifted his right arm and pointed directly at me, not turning his head away from the blueprints or anything. "Six years ago SHIELD had a visitor. An apparent werwolf, stalker of the night, which told us that not only are we not alone even on this planet, but we are more than likely not the only planet which isn't alone. We didn't just find Agent Strange all happy and dandy, she was being attacked by hostiles: hostiles that killed 30 of my best men in a record time of 17.48 seconds. Not only did this teach us that we have alien friends, it taught us that we are massively, hilariously, under-powered."