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Loki listened to Wu Yang's words quietly from inside the transparent prison cell. The green-and-gold armor on his body reflected faintly beneath the cold lights of the detention chamber, making his expression appear even darker and more sinister. His eyes narrowed slowly, filled with dangerous gloom.
"You little brat," Loki said in a cold voice, "when I get out of here, I will personally turn you into a corpse."
Jack immediately made an exaggerated frightened expression, even patting his chest dramatically.
"Wow, you're scaring your father to death." Jack shook his head with a fake fearful look. "Come out if you have the skill. Why keep barking from inside the cage?"
"Tom, stop talking nonsense," Natasha said coldly from the side, her brows knitting slightly together.
"Fine, fine." Jack raised both hands innocently. "You're the boss, sir. Whatever you say."
Loki ignored Jack for the moment and shifted his gaze back toward Natasha. His eyes carried that strange, unsettling smile again, as though he could already see through every weakness hidden in her heart.
"The world stands on the edge of destruction," Loki said slowly, "yet you bargain back and forth over the life of one man."
Natasha's expression remained calm.
"The collapse of governments isn't the end of the world," she replied lightly. "And honestly, I don't feel sad about that. I was once Soviet intelligence. I've seen worse things."
Loki tilted his head slightly.
"And who are you now?"
Natasha walked several steps closer toward the glass prison. Her footsteps echoed faintly through the metallic corridor.
"That's simple," she said quietly. "I owe debts. Debts have to be repaid."
Loki suddenly smiled strangely.
"Can someone like you ever truly repay your debts?" he asked softly. "So much blood on your hands… Drakov's Daughter."
The moment those words left Loki's mouth, Natasha's expression changed instantly.
Even Jack noticed the subtle stiffness in her shoulders.
"São Paulo," Loki continued slowly, almost enjoying every word. "The hospital fire. Barton told me everything. Your ledger is overflowing with blood, Natasha Romanoff. You think saving one miserable person after another changes anything?"
Natasha's fists slowly tightened.
"That compassion of yours," Loki sneered, "is childish. Pathetic. You lie for killers. You manipulate for monsters. You become the blade in another man's hand. Yet you still beg forgiveness like an innocent little girl."
Bang!
Loki suddenly slammed both fists violently against the transparent prison wall.
The loud noise echoed through the chamber.
"I'll let Barton kill you himself," Loki hissed coldly. "Slowly. Piece by piece. He'll carve you apart with the method you fear most. Then I'll restore his mind and let him admire what he's done."
Natasha's face turned slightly pale.
For a brief moment, even her calm mask almost cracked apart.
She immediately turned around and took a deep breath, suppressing the emotions rising in her chest.
Jack, meanwhile, watched everything with great interest before suddenly clapping lightly.
"That's vicious," Jack said sincerely while giving Loki a thumbs-up. "Loki, you really are talented."
Loki's eyes shifted toward Jack again.
"Youth," Loki said darkly, "I've already imagined ten thousand ways to kill you."
Jack smiled lazily.
"Relax. Your father will definitely make good use of you first."
"You beast," Natasha muttered from behind.
"Beast?" Jack turned around with a grin. "No, no. Compared to him, I'm practically a saint."
Suddenly Natasha's eyes narrowed.
"Banner…"
Then her expression changed immediately.
"I understand now," Natasha said quickly. "Your target is Banner. You want to use Banner."
Jack shrugged casually.
"Looks like your genius plan got discovered."
Natasha immediately activated the communicator in her ear.
"This is Romanoff," she said rapidly. "Loki's plan is to force Dr. Banner to transform into the Hulk. Don't let Banner leave the lab. Contact Thor immediately."
After saying that, Natasha glanced back toward Loki with a faint smile.
"Thanks for the cooperation."
Then she turned and walked away quickly.
Loki watched her leave before looking toward Jack again.
"You're not leaving?" Loki asked.
Jack leaned casually against the railing.
"Loki, I have to admit something," he said slowly. "You really are suitable to be an intriguer."
Loki's eyes flickered faintly.
"Oh?"
"You predicted Fury would go investigate Tony Stark and Banner," Jack continued. "But Tony and Banner are smart. They'd definitely figure out that Fury was secretly researching Tesseract weapons. Tony opposes that kind of thing, which naturally creates conflict between the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D."
Loki's smile slowly widened.
"Continue."
Jack laughed softly.
"But that alone isn't enough. The Avengers themselves already have contradictions. Stark's arrogance. Steve's principles. Thor's pride. Banner's instability. Everyone has hidden conflicts."
Jack slowly raised a finger.
"What's missing is a fuse."
Loki's eyes narrowed slightly.
"And the fuse," Jack continued, "is Hawkeye."
The atmosphere inside the chamber suddenly became colder.
"If Hawkeye attacks the Helicarrier right now," Jack said slowly, "then every contradiction will explode instantly. Banner will lose control and become the green giant. Chaos spreads. The Helicarrier crashes. S.H.I.E.L.D. gets destroyed. The Avengers collapse from within."
Loki suddenly began clapping.
"Wonderful," he said sincerely. "That analysis was wonderful."
Jack grinned.
"Turning Banner into Hulk is only your method. Your real goal is the destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers. Clear away all obstacles before the Chitauri arrive."
Loki stared at Jack carefully now.
For the first time, he no longer looked at him as an ordinary young soldier.
"I underestimated you," Loki admitted slowly.
Jack shrugged.
"Your precious little plan got exposed this easily. Honestly, I won't even stop you. Watching the chaos sounds entertaining."
Loki's smile slowly faded.
"Who exactly are you?"
Jack turned around casually.
"Just a young man in your eyes," he said lazily. "You continue your performance. Your father will watch from the side."
"Wait."
Jack stopped walking.
"Hurry up and fart," he said impatiently.
Loki stared at him silently for several seconds before speaking again.
"You're not ordinary," Loki said. "I need intelligent people. Cooperate with me. When Earth falls, everything can belong to us."
Jack suddenly burst out laughing.
"You?" he said mockingly. "You can't even afford what your father wants."
Loki's expression darkened slightly.
"What do you want?"
Jack turned around slowly and grinned evilly.
"Your lower half. Willing to cut it off and give it to me?"
Loki's face became completely cold.
"You truly have no sincerity."
Jack laughed loudly.
"You think you deserve sincerity?" he said disdainfully. "A fool like you still takes himself seriously. Just perform your little tricks obediently."
Without turning back again, Jack walked away leisurely.
Behind him, Loki's face darkened completely.
"I will definitely kill you…"
—
Meanwhile, inside the laboratory aboard the Helicarrier, the atmosphere had already become tense.
Nick Fury walked in with an ugly expression on his face.
"Stark," Fury said coldly, "what exactly are you trying to do?"
Someone had breached the S.H.I.E.L.D. systems using a sophisticated virus. Fury only knew one person capable of pulling something like that off so casually.
Tony Stark.
Tony looked up lazily from the computer screen.
"That's funny," Tony replied. "I was about to ask you the same thing."
"You should be searching for the Tesseract," Fury said heavily.
Banner pointed toward the screen.
"The search model is complete," Banner explained calmly. "We can narrow the Tesseract's location down to within an eight-hundred-meter radius."
Tony crossed his arms.
"So once we get the Tesseract back, what exactly is 'Phase Two'?"
Bang!
Steve suddenly slammed a large rifle onto the table.
"Phase Two," Steve said coldly, "was S.H.I.E.L.D. using the Tesseract to build weapons."
The atmosphere instantly stiffened.
Fury frowned.
"Captain, collecting research data doesn't mean—"
"You don't need excuses, Fury," Tony interrupted immediately.
Tony tapped the computer screen beside him.
A missile design appeared on the monitor.
Steve looked at Fury with disappointment in his eyes.
"So Hydra used the Tesseract to build weapons," Steve said slowly. "And now S.H.I.E.L.D. is doing the exact same thing?"
At that moment Natasha and Thor entered from outside.
Jack followed behind them casually with his hands in his pockets.
Looking at the tense atmosphere inside the room, Jack grinned.
"Wow," he said cheerfully, "it's really lively in here. What are all you important people discussing? Mind letting an unimportant little soldier listen too?"
He paused slightly before adding shamelessly:
"So I can act cool later too."