Chapitre 139: Chapter 133: A Low-key comeback (part1)
"Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable with Loki on the ship?" I asked my teammates while looking at the big monitors on the wall that showed our new prisoner.
Loki was staring into the camera, We were victorious, yet the six of us sat around the table like we lost.
Banner was looking at his feet, trying to avoid eye contact. Tony was playing with his Iron Man glove he was still wearing. Clearly not wanting to socialize.
Natasha sat slumped in her seat, her mind probably drifting of to something else.
The awkwardness was almost visible in the air.
Now I looked again I realized that the people who sat around the table had almost nothing in common. I had heard a little about them but what I heard was not particularly good. Bruce was a failed science experiment. Tony was a vigilante who was still trying to make up for his time as a weapon inventor, Steve was a soldier from the past who only came out of his bubble to save the world (again), Natasha was an assassin and Thor was a god from Asgard.
I suddenly felt like I was not the odd one out.
"He's fun." Bruce said sarcastically, trying to break the ice.
"He's playing," Steve said. "He's going to drag this out. Trying to play the game his way."
Steve turned to the god standing in the corner. "Thor, what's Loki's game?"
Thor flinched, I had the idea he did not want to talk about Loki's game. Nonetheless he did. "He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract."
"Space?" I said. "That's a new one."
"He's building a portal right?" Bruce asked. "Like the one that brought him here. That's why he kidnapped Doctor Selvig."
"Doctor Selvig?" I asked, "Who's that?"
"He's an astrophysicist." Banner said.
"He's a friend." Thor corrected him.
"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours." Natasha said.
"The arrow dude?" I asked. Natasha frowned, "What?"
"That dude with the bow!" I said, "I saw him. He shot me."
"You seem oddly fine," Natasha noticed.
"Super Healing." I shrugged.
Steve had a small smile on his face. "Anyway. Let's focus on Loki's plan."
"Leading an Army?" Tony said casually. "I don't see Reindeer games leading an army from his cell."
"I think we should not focus on Loki," Banner said. "He's like a parasite, the more attention we give him the more influence he has."
"Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother." Thor said.
"He killed 80 people in two days." Natasha frowned.
"He's adopted."
I chuckled, which resulted in a glare from Tony and Thor.
"Iridium," Banner said. "What does he needs Iridium for?"
I frowned. "What's Iridium?"
"Iridium is the stuff Loki stole." Tony said. "It's found in meteorites. Loki was stealing it, and he succeeded."
"O." I plainly muttered.
"Look kid," Tony said with annoyance in his voice. "Iridium is a stabilizing component. The portal Loki used to enter our world, it collapsed on itself. But if he gets Iridium…"
"The portal won't close this time." Banner finished his sentence.
"So he can build his portal right now?" I asked. "If he was not in his cell I mean."
"Almost," Tony said. "The rest of the materials are not hard to get, the only thing he now needs is a high power source. Something to kick start the cube."
"Wow," I said, "How'd you know."
"Some of us actually have brains instead of superpowers." Tony said with a smug smile.
"Stop it," Steve said, "focus on Loki instead of bickering with a 14 year old."
Tony opened his mouth to say something but Natasha glared at him, Which was a bit scary.
Thor coughed uncomfortably, "Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?"
"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Banner explained, sounding a bit more confident than before.
"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Tony added.
"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet."
"At last" Tony opened his arms wide, "Someone who speaks English."
"Nerds." I coughed.
Both scientist glared at me but I shot them my most innocent smile. "Sorry. Sore throat."
Steve frowned but nonetheless focused on the mission. "Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon."
Hydra, why does everyone cares about the Hydra Fury hides in his basement?
"Whatever it is," Natasha said. "It turned two of our men into brainless zombies."
"What are zombies?" Thor asked confused.
"Zombies," Steve said looking proud, "I got the reference."
I grinned, "Great man!"
"Seriously." Tony said. "Why did Fury call us here? I mean, the entire Loki situation could've been avoided if he was careful with the Tesseract."
Tony looked at us expectantly.
"Come on," he said. "You guys don't you think it's a bit suspicious that Fury called all of us, now?"
"You think Fury is hiding something?" Steve asked.
"He is a spy." Thor said. "Spies always hide things."
"Right!" Tony said, "Goldilocks is right. What was Fury doing with the Tesseract in the first place?"
"Clean energy," I said, remembering the details in the file.
"Barton has been posting that speech from Loki all over the internet." Natasha said. "It's to poke fun at Fury. A warm light for all of mankind."
Tony snorted. "Since when is SHIELD working on clean energy?"
"Isn't that your division?" Banner asked. "The Stark Tower's yours right?"
Tony nodded proudly.
"The Stark Tower?" Steve asked. "You mean that ugly building in New…"
Then he saw Tony glaring at him and kept his mouth shut.
"Ugly building?" Tony snorted, "It's the most advanced high tech building in the world! Powered by the Stark Reactor. A self- sustaining energy source I build."
"That's a good one." Thor said, trying to hook in on the conversation.
"But why didn't SHIELD ask you to help with the Tesseract?"
Tony frowned, "I should look into that."
Banner shook his head, "I'm just here for the research."
He stood up and looked at all of us. "I'm going to my lab. Try to research the scepter. You guys just do the superhero stuff."
"Come on green guy," Tony said. "Don't you think it's exciting to find out SHIELD's dirty secrets?"
Bruce shook his head. "Stress is not good for me."
Tony stood up, "Come on Bruce. Live a little."
"Live a little?" I asked. "You know that your kind of risking the lives of everyone on the ship, right?"
Tony rolled his eyes and walked away with Bruce. Bruce was clearly not happy with the billionaire playboy assisting him.
Natasha suddenly got up. "I'm not going to sit here and do nothing."
"What are you going to do?" Thor asked.
"Interrogate Loki."
Thor looked like he wanted to protest but a glare from Natasha made him reconsider his words. "He's not talking."
"He will talk to me," Natasha said. Without waiting for Thor Natasha walked past him and left the room.
"I'm going to investigate Fury's plans as well." Steve said.
"You know how to hack?" I wondered.
"Nope," Steve said. "I'm going to do it my way."
With a determined look on his face he left the room. Wonder what he was going to accomplish.
"Well," Thor said. "This is awkward."
I coughed, now Thor and I were the only one left in the room.
I nodded. "So ... you like Netflix?"
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Hey It's been a while since I post. Any chapters sorry for that.
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