"In case it's unclear" Fury said to Loki after his agents had secured him in a glass cage. "if you try to escape, if you so much as scratch that glass…" Fury pressed a button and the floor beneath the cage opened, allowing a lot of air to come in, Loki could feel the threatening and deafening wind enter the room. "thirty thousand feet," Fury said, bringing Loki's attention back to him. "straight down, in a steel trap." He added as he pressed another button and closed the floor. "You get how that works? Ant…" Fury gestured to Loki, then to the controls for the cage. "boot." He said, remembering how Loki had called called him an ant when they had first met.
"It's an impressive cage," Loki smiled at Fury. "but I do not think that it was built for me, unless your architects are faster than I had originally thought."
"This was built for something a whole lot stronger than you." Fury replied, looking almost offended that Loki was still smiling.
"Oh I've heard," Loki glanced towards the security cameras in the room. "a mindless beast, makes play he's still a man." Loki smirked before looking back towards Fury. "Then we have the Iron Man, the man with a suit. Then there's your redheaded seductress, your soldier in the wrong time and that wizard. How desperate are you? You call on such lost creatures to defend you?"
"How desperate am I?" Fury took a few steps forward "You threaten my world with war, you steal a force you can't control, you talk about peace but you kill because it's fun. You have made me very desperate."
"Kill because it's fun?" Loki grinned. "Oh no, I think you have me confused with your walking, talking, magical gun. You've seen how much destruction he causes, how many people he can kill in a single evening, he's killed more in one evening than I have in the limited time I have been here. He's a mad dog on a leash, how long do you think it will take before he turns on you?"
"I have faith that he won't." Fury responded. "Besides, as of the moment, I am not the one who has to worry about him, I see that your still twitching." Fury smirked when he saw Loki twitch.
"When I escape from here, I will kill him and you!" Loki growled.
"You think you can escape here?" Fury asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You think I won't?" Loki looked at him. "I am superior to you and all of the filthy mortals on this ship, you have already lost the tesseract to me. And I know that you hate that, 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."
"Well, let me know if real power wants a magazine or something." Fury rolled his eye as he walked off, he was acting unbothered, when in truth he was thinking on Loki's words, replaying them each in his head.
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"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Banner said after he watched the conversation between Fury and Loki using the cameras, he was on the bridge with Steve and Natasha sitting at a table and Thor standing on the opposite side of the table. Harry had arrived just in time to hear the conversation, he wore black trainers, blue jeans, and grey shirt under an open zipped black hoodie. Harry had chosen to to stand in a corner and lean on against a wall, making sure to keep his eyes on everyone. His eyes usually went back between Thor and Bruce as they were both considered the biggest threats in the room.
"Loki's going to drag this out, Thor, what's his play?" Steve asked Thor, seeing as Thor knew Loki better than any of them.
"He has an army, called the Chitauri." Thor replied. "they are not of Asgard, or of any world known. He means to lead them against your people, they will win him the Earth, in return I suspect for the tesseract."
"An army?" Steve repeated, looking less than pleased. "From out of space?"
"So he's building another portal," Banner replied. "that's what he needed Erik Selvig for."
"Selvig?" Thor asked.
"He's an astrophysicist."
"He's a friend." Thor frowned.
"Loki has him under some spell, along with one of ours." Natasha said, looking down. Harry knew that she was worried about Barton, the two were close friends, so much so that many who did not know about Barton's wife thought that they were a couple or would be a couple.
"I want to know why Loki let us take him, he's not leading an army from here." Steve said.
"You're not the only one," Harry agreed with Steve's line of thought. "he has a plan, that much is obvious."
"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki," Banner replied. "that guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you can smell crazy on him."
"Yeah but being crazy, annoying and homicidal does not mean mean he's an idiot." Harry argued.
"Have care how you speak," Thor said. "Loki is beyond reason but he is of Asgard and he is my brother."
"He killed eighty people in two days." Natasha gave Thor a look that clearly said 'well, are you going to defend that?'.
"He's adopted." Thor admitted.
"I can kill more than that in a single hour." Harry reminded Natasha.
"Are you saying it's a competition?" She raised an eyebrow at him.
"Merely saying we shouldn't judge people by their body count."
"I think it's about the mechanics," Bruce spoke, bringing the conversation back on track. "iridium, what does he need the iridium for?" He asked.
"It's a stabilizing agent," Tony's voice said as Tony arrived along with Coulson, Tony was now wearing a regular suit, "look pick a weekend, I'll fly you out to see her, keep love alive." Tony whispered to Coulson just before Coulson gave him an embarrassed but pleased nod and walked off to the side while Tony continued talking to the rest. "it means the portal won't collapse in on itself like it did at Shield, also it means the portal can stay open as wide and as long as Loki wants." Tony then walked over to the computer screens, he barked a couple of commands to Shield agents before suddenly blurting out "that man is playing Galaga!" He said as pointed to his right at a Shield agent a little way down. "thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. How does Fury even see all these?" Tony wondered as he looked at the multiple screens in front of him and placed a hand over his own eye to mimic Fury's eyepatch.
"He turns." Hill answered, looking slightly amused but also as if she hated herself for her amusement.
"Sounds exhausting," Tony replied before he shrugged and continued talking while messing with the screens. "the rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. The only major component he still needs is a power source of high energy density," Tony said before sneaking a small device on the underside of one of the screens, "something to kick start the cube."
"When did you become an expert in thermo-nuclear astrophysics?" Hill asked, trying to hide how impressed she was feeling.
"Last night," Tony answered in a 'I know I'm awesome but it's no big deal' kind of way. "the packet, Selvig's notes, the extraction theory papers… am I the only one who did the reading?" Tony asked in a disappointed voice.
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