The Golden City

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A throat clears, then tapping on a microphone sounds.
"Excuse me? Yeah hi, can everyone see me? Can you all hear me?" The female docile tones of Rachel Stark sounds, as all the Media people zoom their cameras or point their microphones at her. She gives a slightly nervous chuckle, and clears her throat again, looking down at the podium, void of any cards for a speech. "I thank you all for coming today. I know with the battle of New York only being about two weeks ago, everyone is still slightly on edge. I am here today in the hopes to take that edge away. There will not be another hole in the sky to another planet like that. Stark Industries will be helping for the reconstruction going on, for rebuilding the city, along with Stark Tower, now Avengers Tower. The Leader of the battle has been apprehended, and due to his not being of Earth, we will not be broadcasting his name. I know in Germany, he named himself Loki of Asgard, this is not true, as we have a standing peaceful existence with Asgard by the friendship with the first prince, Thor. He, though from Asgard, is not the second Prince Loki, it was a spell to take his face and voice to discredit him to his Home and to start conflict between our two worlds. I will now be taking questions for the next 10 minutes, it will be orderly and with no one yelling-" The TV snaps off.

"That is one way to make sure if his punishment is to come back here, to make sure no one will attack him randomly," Tony says placing the remote down. Rachel scoffs off to the side with a roll of her eyes.

"From what I know, and have been told, about Odin the likelihood of Loki being able to return is far fetched at best. But what do you say, Thor?" Rachel lets her head fall back against the couch letting her look up at the man, who in turns shrugs.

"I know not of what Father will do. But I will try to sway him in that direction, maybe bind his magic until his punishment is over. Like he did with Mjolnir." Thor, who was standing right behind where Rachel is sitting, tilts his head down to look at him, his blue eyes sad and uncertain of the upcoming trial for Loki.

"If he does come back I want a few rounds with him!" Clint states from the breakfast bar, as Rachel pulls a face. With it only being two weeks from the fight the tower and New York not yet ready for the Avengers to move in, so currently they were using the mansion as a base until the time comes to move. Natasha, who is enjoying her breakfast next to Clint, rolls her eyes and pushes some fruit towards the over-excited archer.

"Yeah, even if you want to Clint, Loki still has a lot more battle prowess than you. His main weapon is his magic, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know how to fight hand to hand, or with a different weapon, like a dagger. He can and will hand you your ass. Trust me I know, despite all the martial arts classes I took, I could barely keep up with him when we spared." Rachel says rolling her eyes at Thor, who sends her a smile, in the time since the fight the two had gotten closer if for no other reason than they were the only two to advocate for Loki. Tony scoffs walking past Thor and Rachel back to the lab with two cups of coffee in hand.

"OI! I could take him!" Clint yells, then promptly chokes a little on the piece of fruit he had popped in his mouth.

"You can't even win against a blueberry, yet you want to take on Loki by yourself, not likely." Tony quibbs before walking down the steps. Clint glares after him as Steve walks in from the swimming pool, still, towel drying his hair, noticing Clints glares he looks to Natasha.

"Talking about fighting Loki again aren't they?" Natasha grunts, and gives Steve a look that basically read 'Do you really have to ask'. Steve gives her an amused smile before raising his voice garnering the other's attention. "Instead of talking about sparring with him, why not discuss what else could be done if he is indeed told to come back?"

"Loki will obviously be going with me to London, he had been working with me on parts of the UK SI programs, it's still in the stages where I need his input," Rachel states picking her head up from the back of the couch, Thor takes that time to walk around the couch and sit next to her, both of them looking to Steve.

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