Italics means over comms speech
3rd Person POV
As Ash flies on her own for the first time, she pulls ahead of the Quinjet Nat, Steve, and Clint are in to join Tony in his Iron Man suit as he was flying ahead of them all.
"Good to see you finally operating on your own for once." Tony tells her as she flies right by his side.
"Figured the end of the world is as good a time as any other." Ash side shrugs as they make it to Stark Tower in New York, where Dr. Selvig is seen on the roof with the portal opening machine running.
"Shut it down, Dr. Selvig." Tony instructs Selvig, but in his mind-controlled state, he doesn't relent.
"It's too late! It can't stop now. He wants to show us something! A new universe." Selvig looks at the two of them with a wonder in his light blue eyes that was not fully his own.
"Okay." Tony raises a hand and fires at the machine, but the light blue forcefield around it repels the shot, ricocheting it to strike Selvig, throwing him against a small structure on the roof.
The barrier is pure energy. It's unbreachable. JARVIS announces before Tony tells Ash,
"New plan, you check to make sure the doc's alright and I'll deal with the Trickster King." Ash nodded to show she understood before she landed, albeit a bit off-balance, to check on Dr. Selvig as Tony walks to the indoor bar inside the building, his damaged suit being taken off before Loki tells Tony,
"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity."
"Uh...actually, I'm planning to threaten you." Tony responded casually as he makes it to the bar.
"You should have left your armor on for that."
"Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage. You've got the blue stick of destiny. Would you like a drink?"
"Stalling me won't change anything."
"No, no, no! Threatening. No drink? You sure? I'm having one."
"The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that. What have I to fear?"
"The Avengers." Tony pours himself a drink as Loki looks at him confused before explaining, "It's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes' type of thing."
"Yes, I've met them."
"Yeah, takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one." As Tony begins his count off he pulls on a pair of metal bracelets while Loki is turned around,
"But, let's do a headcount here. Your brother, the demi-God; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; an alien who is a literal hothead underneath all the quiet; a couple of master assassins, and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them."
"That was the plan."
"Not a great plan. When they come, and they will, they'll come for you."
"I have an army."
"We have a Hulk."
"I thought the beast had wandered off."
"You're missing the point. There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it." Ash slowly gets up from where she's crouched near Selvig when she sees Loki walking closer to Tony as he says,
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