Stargazing • MCU/S. Rogers Fanfic•

2-17: Flying Monkeys

Helicarrier

May 4, 2012

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Everyone watched as Loki and Fury talked on the screens on the table.

"It's an impressive cage." Loki spoke. "Not built, I think, for me."

"Built for something a lot stronger than you."

"Oh I've heard." Loki looked right into the camera. "The mindless beast. Makes plays to the man. How desperate are you? You call on such lost creature to defend you. The girl. You do not know what she is capable of. Not even she knows the power within her. Probably the most lost of all." Astra shifted her seat, feeling a few glances in her direction.

"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace and you kill cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did."

"It burns you to have come so close. To have the tesseract. To have power. Unlimited power. But for what? A warm light for all mankind to share. And then to be reminded what real power is."

"Well let me know if real power wants a magazine or something." Fury said and left the room.

"He really grows on you doesn't he?" Bruce joked.

"Loki's gonna drag this out." Astra mumbled.

"Thor, what's his play?" The Captain asked the long-haired blonde.

"He has an army, called the Chitauri." Thor answered. "They are 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 the Tesseract."

"An army? From outer space?" Captain asked.

"So he's building another portal." Astra pieced while spinning in her chair. "That's what he needs Eric Selvig for."

"Selvig?" Thor asked.

"He's an astrophysicist." Bruce responded.

"He's a friend."

"Loki has them under some kind of spell." Natasha pointed out. "Including one of ours."

"I wonder why Loki would let us take him." Steve said. "He's not leading an army from here."

"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki." Bruce voiced his thought. "That guys brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him."

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

"He killed 80 people in two days." Natasha said.

"He's adopted." Thor looked embarrassed for a moment.

"I think it's about the mechanics." Bruce said. "Iridium. What do they need the Iridium for?"

"It's a stabilizing agent." Tony piped in as he walks in the room and finished his conversation with Coulson. "Means portal won't collapse on itself like it did at S.H.I.E.L.D. No hard feeling Point Break you got a mean swing." He tapped Thor's bicep. "Also means the portal can open as wide and stay open as long as Loki wants. That man is paying Galaga" He pointed to a poor agent and poor Cap looked confused. "Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. How does Fury even see these?"

"He turns." Hill answered.

"Sounds exhausting." He muttered and tapped the screen in front of him. "The rest of the raw materials Agent Barton could get his hands on pretty easily. The major component he still needs is a power source, of high energy density. Something to kickstart the thing."

"When did you become and expert in thermo-nuclear-astrophysics?" Hill asked him.

"Last night." He answered. "The packet. Selvig's notes. The extraction theory papers Am I the only one who did the reading?" Astra raised her hand and he pointed towards her.

"Does Loki need and specific kind of power source?" Captain asked.

"He'd have to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Calvin just to break through the cooling barrier." Bruce informed.

"Unless Selvig have figured out how to stabilized the quantum component factor." Astra added.

"If he could do that he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor in the planet." Bruce pointed out.

"Finally, someone who speaks English." The billionaire motioned to Bruce.

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

"It's good to meet you Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collusion's is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster." Tony said inconsiderately as Astra buried her face in her hands.

"Thanks." Bruce spoke awkwardly.

"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube." Fury made clear. "I was hoping you would join him."

"I'd start with that stick of his." The captain suggested. "It may be magical but if works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon."

"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."

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

"I do." Steve jumped in. "I understood that reference." Astra snorted lightly as the soldier looked at her, a lit embarrassed.

"Shall we play Dr?" Tony asked Bruce.

"This way, sure." Bruce lead.

"I'm gonna join you two in a bit. I'm going out for a bit." Astra announced.

"Going out?" Fury asked the female.

"Yeah." She stood up from her seat. "I'll be back in an hour or two. Need to get a few things for my suit."

"Are you really concerned about you outfit?" Fury questioned, when she used to work for S.H.I.E.L.D she would leave mid-mission at times, but she never concerned over how she looked.

"Yeah. Don't worry Banner and Tony will find the cube then everything will be a piece of cake.I think I'm going to stop at Chick-fil-a, too. You want anything?" She looked around the room. Thor and Capcicle looked utterly confused and Fury just rolled his eyes.

"I'll have a chicken sandwich with a coke." Hill said.

"I'll have the same but with a frosted lemonade." Natasha said right after.

"Gotcha." The brunette replied and left the room to her motorcycle. Once she kicked up the stand, she zoomed off.

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