Assemble (Book 2)

1.10

August 17, 2012

Past Midnight

Flying Back to HQ

We were back in the Quinjet, Loki handcuffed and sitting in one of the seats. Both Steve and Tony were standing, watching him. I expected more from Loki. He's a god, I expected a larger and longer fight from him. As I fly the jet, I watch the skies. The sky was clear but then there was thunder and lightning coming from out of nowhere. I told myself it was nothing. "Has he said anything?" Fury asks me from the coms. "Nothing. Not a word." I sigh. "Just get him here. We're low on time." Fury responded, then left the coms. I noticed Steve and Tony whispering about something but paid no attention, focusing my eyes back on the skies in front of me. Thunder and lightning nearly hit the jet, making it shake violently. "Where's this coming from?" I ask no one in particular. Thunder continues to rumble overhead. I look back, seeing Loki look out the window intently. Is he nervous? Looking back to the sky, I bite my lip. Didn't Selvig mention something about Loki having a brother?

Outside the jet, a blinding light hits the jet, making the jet shake. I try to control the jet again and I hear someone open the ramp. Suddenly a man walks up the ramp, punches Tony down with a hammer like object and grabs Loki by the throat, flying out. "What the hell!" I yell. Both boys look at me. "Another Asgardian?" I ask Tony, knowing that he knows more about this than I do. "Think the guy's a friendly?" Steve asks him. "Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost." Tony replies to both of us. He makes a fair point. Tony turns and gets ready to jump off the jet to chase after the thunder man. "Stark, we need a plan of attack!" Steve yells at him before Tony jumps off. "I have a plan. Attack." Tony, in his Iron Man suit, jumps out of the jet, chasing after the two. Steve grabs a parachute, though he probably won't actually use it. "I'd sit this one out Steve." I tell him, though I know he won't listen. "I don't see how I can." He replies, putting on the parachute. "They're basically gods, Steve. If they want to, they can kill you." I tell him, looking for a place to land the jet. "There's only one God, Clara. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." I chuckle a little as Steve salutes me sarcastically and then jumps off the jet. Boys.

I wait patiently for the boys to be done, waiting for Steve to call me on the coms. "Are we done here?" Steve asks who I'm assuming to be Tony and thunder man. "Clara, where are you?" Steve asks. I give them my location and they emerge from the woods, thunder man guiding Loki to the jet. "You joining us?" I ask the long haired blonde man. He nods. "I am Thor, son of Odin." I smile at him. "Clara Williams. Welcome aboard Thor." The five of us load onto the jet and set out to HQ, where we should've been by now, if we hadn't had a little detour.

We reached HQ, and Fury and dozens of SHIELD police take and escort Loki to where his "cell" would be. "Boys, let's go." I ordered them, all three following me to the conference room. I open the door and see Nat there already. "Agent Romanoff, miss me?" Tony asks her, making her raise her eyebrows at him. "Nat, this is Thor. New recruit." I tell her, as I sit beside her. We all sit in the chairs, a video screen popping up for us all to see. Bruce joins us a few minutes after we arrived. I smile at him as he takes a seat nearby.

On the screen, we watch the live footage of Fury and Loki. Loki is put into the large "cell", see-through material much like glass surrounding it. "In case it's unclear. You try to escape. You so much as scratch that glass..." Fury presses a button which opens the hatch underneath the cell. Loki peers as much as he can from the glass. Without seeing, the sounds of strong winds would make anyone scared. Not Loki, though. "Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?!" Fury asks Loki, though I'm sure he doesn't care much for a reply. Fury closes the hatch and points at Loki. "Ant." then he points to the machine. "Boot."