Flame

Chapter 4

With Loki safely in his cell, Fury has gone down there to question him. As gald as i am that we have Loki, I still can't help but worry for what he hasn't done to Clint as his whereabouts are still unclear.

"In case it's unclear. You try to escape. You so much as scratch that glass."Fury explains as he presses a button which opens up a hatch underneath Loki's cell releasing a gush of wind "Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?!"Fury questions as he closes the hatch and points at Loki. "Ant." Then points at the button which would drop Loki into the steel trap "Boot".

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

"Built for something a lot stronger than you." Fury tells him and spare a quick look at Bruce who just stares at the screen in front of him

"Oh, I've heard."Loki says as he looks into the camera straight at us "The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man. How desperate are you, that you call upon such lost creatures to defend you?" Loki asks Fury with a sickening smirk making me want to punch that face of his

"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control" Fury replies. "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." Fury fires at him with true authority laced in his voice

"Ooh. It burns you to come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share, and then to be reminded what real power is" Loki replies walking closes to the glass smirking, like seriously can't he make any other facial expressions that aren't creepy?

"Well, you let me know if Real Power wants a magazine or something."Fury sashes as he walks off leaving Loki in his glass cell who looks back at the camera, smirking before the screen goes off.

The conference room falls silent and we all stare at the black screen still processing the scene that just unfolded "He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Bruce asks breaking the silence

"Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?" Steve asks going into 'Captain mode'

"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 explains to us making me send a worrying glance at Nat who returns it.

"An army? From outer space?" Steve questions slightly confused and I can't blame him, he was asleep for 70 years

"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." I add in making Thor turn to me

"Selvig?" Thor questions

"He's an astrophysicist." Bruce explains

"He's a friend." Thor adds

"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours." Nat adds in the worry in her voice clearly directed at Clint

"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here" Steve questions us

"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." Bruce says making the corner of my lip twitch into a smile

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

"He killed eighty people in two days" I tell Thor leaning back in my chair and propping my legs up on the table

"He's adopted." Thor quickly adds

"Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?" Bruce questions quickly changing the topic, clearly uncomfortable with talking about Loki

"It's a stabilizing agent." Tony says making me look at him as he walks in with Coulson "Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD. No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing. Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants." Tony says before turning to the crew "Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing galaga ! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did.How does Fury do this?" Tony questions as he stands at Fury's control panels

"He turns." Maria says and I notice Tony placing something under the desk making me raise my eyebrow but no one else's seems to notice it

"Well, that sounds exhausting. 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." Tony quickly explains facing us

"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" I ask amused at Tony's sudden gain of knowledge

"Last night while you poped of for a late night shopping spree before coming here" Tony says with a smirk making me roll my eyes, I mean a girls got to do what a girls got to do."The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" Tony asks everyone

"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asks a little unsure

"He's got to heat the cube to a hundredand twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Bruce answers him

"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." I tell Bruce

"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." Tony adds into our conversation as he walks over to Bruce "Finally, someone else who speaks English" Tony adds.

"Is that what just happened? " Steve asks looking at me raising an eyebrow

"Don't worry Cap you'll catch up" I say with a smile, I mean he's cute when he's confused

"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 says making Bruce look rather uncomfortable

"Thanks." Bruce replies looking down as Fury walk in the room

"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him along with Agent Stark." Fury tells Tony who turns to look at him

"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon." Steve says and I look over to Fury

"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 says to Steve before looking at us all

"Monkeys? I do not understand" Thor says in confusion

"I do! I understood that reference." Steve quickly adds looking rather happy with himself which makes me smile but causes Tony to roll his eyes

"Shall we play, doctor?" Tony asks patting his arm

"Let's play some."