"Said anything?"

"Not a word," Natasha answered. Briefly after the altercation, Loki was taken prisoner and was guarded by Steve, Zach and Tony. The night had started to become stormy, and thunder coming out of nowhere. Yet this kept Loki on edge, he seemed very nervous.

"Just get him here. We're low on time."

"I don't like it," Steve said as they watched Loki, cuffed to his seat. "What?" Tony asked. "Rock of Ages giving up so easily?"

"I don't remember it being ever that easy." Steve recalled. "This guy packs a wallop."

"So... you're the Norse God of Mischief, huh?" Zach asked Loki. "How's Jörmungand? Fenrir? Sleipnir?" Loki's eyes hinted with confusion and looked at Zach. "I beg your pardon?"

"Your children?" Zach asked once more. "The World Serpent, a giant wolf, and Odin's eight-legged horse?"

"Where did you get that preposterous idea?"

"It's your mythology–"

"Still, you are pretty spry, for an older fellow," Tony complimented. "What's your thing? Pilates?"

"What?" Steve asked. "It's like calisthenics." Tony explained coyly. "You might have missed a couple things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle."

"Fury never said he was calling you in, Dad." Zach stated. "Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you." Tony said to his son.

Suddenly, thunder and lightning nearly strike down the jet, making it shake violently. The nature of the storm was unnatural, like the strikes were precise, meaning it wanted to strike them down. And Loki stared out the window, still just as nervous.

"What's the matter?" Steve asked Loki. "Scared of a little lightning?"

"I'm not overly fond of what follows," Loki calmly answered. "The fuck's that supposed to mean?" Zach asked as Steve and Tony looked at each other. And moments later, a thud was made on the top of the Quinjet, shaking it slightly, but grabbed everyone's attention.

Tony grabbed his loose helmet and placed it on his head, sealing itself on him, while Cap put on his cowl and Zach's mask materialized over his face, leaving room for the top of his head. Tony had opened the ramp and marched out to see what the object was, but he didn't have to wait.

A man appeared on the ramp, in similar attire to Loki, however, he was blonde, his upper arms were shown and he had a red cape, opposed to the green Loki paraded around with. In his right arm, he gripped a hammer with a big head, with what looked like ancient runes.

Tony was ready to fire at him, but the figure pushed him away with the hammer, and grabbed Loki by the throat and proceeded to escape. "Now there's that guy..." Tony growled from the interior of the suit.

"Another Asgardian?" Natasha asked from the cockpit.

"Seems like it," Zach answered. "And if I were to guess, that was probably Thor."

"Think he's a friendly?" Steve asked.

"Doesn't matter," Tony answered. "If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost." Tony marched to the ramp angrily, ready to confront Thor. "Stark!" Steve called after him. "We need a plan of attack!"

"I have a plan." Tony said as he turned his head to him. "Attack." He said before blasting off after Thor, while Steve grabbed a parachute to follow after. "I'd sit this one out, guys," Natasha told the two.

"I don't see how I can." Steve answered her. "I'm with her, Cap," Zach rebutalled. "Especially when Thor can command lighting and thunder with his hammer, he's the actual god of it!"

"These guys come from legends, Cap," Natasha told him. "They're basically gods."

"There's only one God, ma'am," Steve said as he fixed his harness and armed himself with his shield. "And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." With that, he jumped out of the Quinjet.

"Am I the only one who read Norse Mythology here?" Zach asked Natasha, who sighed. "I just hope they don't get themselves killed..."

– Some time later –

After yet another altercation with another God, Thor had proven himself to be an ally of Earth, having come to stop Loki so he may face Asgardian justice, and to protect Earth. Loki was now in a prison cell aboard the Helicarrier, a large glass jar held with hydraulic rigs, all under Fury's control.

"In case it's unclear, you try to escape," Fury instructed Loki as he pressed a few buttons on a panel near him. "You so much as scratch that glass..." With a push of a button, a hatch opened up under Loki's cell, revealing how high of a drop it was, right into the ocean.

"Thirty-thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap." Fury explained. "You get how that works?!" Fury closed the hatch, looking back to Loki, pointing his hands at him. "Ant..." He then pointed to the control console. "Boot."

"It's an impressive cage," Loki admired the prowess of his enemies. "Not built... i think... for me?"

"Built for something a lot stronger than you." Fury retorted.

"Oh, I've heard," Loki snarled as he turned to a nearby camera, knowing he was being watched through another monitor. "The mindless beast makes play, he's still a man," Loki jousted. "How desperate are you, that you call upon such lost creatures to defend you?"

"How desperate am I?" Fury repeated with such anger in his voice. "You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace, and you kill because it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did."

"Ooh," Loki winced in a not-so-fearful manner. "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."

Fury smirked. "Well, let me know if "real power" wants a magazine or something." He sarcastically answered before walking away.

Briefing Room

Steve watched the conversation live on the monitor, watching Loki walk up to the camera facing him before it went dark. "He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Bruce sarcastically asked.

"Loki's gonna drag this out." Steve said. "So Thor, what's his play?" Thor spoke by himself, pondering in thought as to who Loki's master was, who would have controlled the "would-be king". "He has an army called the Chitauri," Thor answered. "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."

"An army?" Steve asked. "From outer space?"

"Yep, like something out of a movie," Zach answered in a mutter.

"So he's building another portal," Bruce deduced. "That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." "Selvig?" Thor asked, recognizing the name.

"He's an astrophysicist." "He's a friend."

"Loki has him under some kind of spell," Natasha said. "Along with one of ours."

"I wanna know why Loki let us take him," Steve spoke up to the group. "He's not leading an army from here."

"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki," Banner suggested. "That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him."

"Have care how you speak," Thor warned Banner. "Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard." Even if Loki was completely nuts, Thor still cared and loved him like a brother. "And he's my brother."

"He killed eighty people in two days." Natasha rebutted. Thor hesitated for a moment, thinking of how he should respond to that. "He's adopted." was the best answer he could have given.

"I think it's about the mechanics," Banner deduced once again. "Iridium... what did they need the Iridium for?" Zach leaned back in his chair, striking to think. "It's an element that's able to create anti-protons," he recalled. "And it can bond with Iron, it's as old as the planet itself."

"More like a stabilizing agent too, Junior," Tony spoke up as he entered the room, just as he walked in with Coulson, engaging in a conversation with him. "I'm saying, pick a weekend, I'll fly you to Portland, keep the love alive." He told him before he turned to the group. "Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did with SHIELD."

The billionaire approached Thor with wide eyes. "No hard feelings, Point Break," He told Thor, as he had nearly fried him in his suit. "You've got a mean swing..." he complimented before going back to the Iridium. "Also it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long as Loki wants."

Tony then approached the center console of the Helicarrier, and began making false orders, as if he was a captain of a pirate ship. "Uh, raise the mizzenmast, job the topsails..." he joked before looking towards a man on his computer.

"That man is playing GALAGA!" He called him out. "Thought we wouldn't notice, but... we did." He then covered his left eye, and turned around, standing still. "How does Fury even see these?" He asked them.

"He turns," answered Maria Mill.

"Sounds exhausting," Tony replied as he walked to another computer, interacting with them as he so wished. "The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily... only major component he still needs is a power source. A high-energy density, something to kick start the cube." But as no-one was looking, Stark placed a circular hacking implant on Fury's consoles.

"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Maria asked.

"Last night." Tony replied again, "The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers... were the kid and I the only ones who did the reading?"

"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asked, ignoring Stark's quips.

"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin," Banner explained, knowing this by heart. "Just enough to break through the Coulomb barrier."

"Unless, Selvig figured the problems for the quantum tunneling effect," Zach added to the two scientists.

"Well, if he could do that," Banner added to the two Starks. "He could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet."

"Finally, someone who speaks English!" Tony and Zach both said, finding another science geek at heart, while Steve asked, "Is that what just happened?" to everyone.

"Zachy loves science," Natasha smiled, admiring her partner's dedication. "He may not be a Stark by blood, but he's got the mind of one. It's kind of adorable when he goes into detail."

"It's good to meet you, Doctor Banner," Tony said as he shook his hand. "Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled." He appreciated his work. "And I'm a huge fan of you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster."

Banner pursed his lips, and muttered, "Thanks."

"Doctor Banner is only here to track the cube," Fury sternly said to Stark, just as he walked in. "I was hoping you'd might join him and your son."

"Let's start with that stick of his," Steve pondered. "It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon."

"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube," Fury explained. "And I'd like to know how Loki turned it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys."

"Monkeys?" Thor asked. "I do not understand..."

"I do!" Steve exclaimed, finally hearing something he recognized. "I understood that reference."

Tony rolled his eyes, and looked at Banner and his son, "Dr. Banner, Zach, shall we play?"

"Let's play some," Banner replied while Zach nodded.

Banner's laboratory.

While Tony and Banner were talking about the scepter, and Bruce's not-so-jolly green giant, Zach used a scanner while thinking to himself. In the past four years, he'd accomplished a lot, like being a proud uncle of a six-year-old, a proud brother to Amara, a well-decorated SHIELD agent/spy (an accomplishment Natasha took pride in.) and a scientist. However, there were things that still bothered him.

Questions kept him awake at night when he was lucky not to have nightmares. Questions like "How the hell did Ella Monroe disappear from the face of the planet?"

"What happened to Eddie & Amelia?"

"Who is the other Stark?"

"Where is my mother in space?"

"Will I find love again?"

Those two were the ones he mostly had. It had been sixteen years since he's seen his mother, and he always remembered, if he missed her, he'd look to the sky and say "Hi, mom." And somehow, it was like her voice was in his head saying, "Hi, my beautiful boy." Every time he thought about it, it'd bring tears to his eyes. He missed her so much, he wished he could find her, and tell her everything.

The former of the two questions was particularly interesting. Ever since he and Natasha first had their "escapade," it happened more ever since he became a part of SHIELD. Even if they were "Friends with Benefits," Natasha would worry about his safety, not just as his Supervising officer, but as his friend as well.

As he dwelled in his thoughts, his hands ran up to the head of the scepter, but as his hand unconsciously touched the glowing part of it, his head perked up and his eyes glowed it's usual hue of blue. His body went rigid, as he saw himself in an unfamiliar place, but the sky above him was red, filled with red energy coursing through the sky into an object hovering above him.

He squinted his eyes as he looked upward, and saw the object in the sky, wasn't an object at all.

It was a woman.

From what he saw, she was in normal clothing; gray sweatpants, a blue shirt, and a red zip-up jacket with white and black on the shoulders. But suddenly, a red crownlet formed on her forehead, and her eyes glowed as red as the sky itself.

But as all the energy drained into her, she reappeared in red robes with a cape stemming from the waist. She had gloves going up to her elbows, black trousers, and black boots. Then Zach saw her face for the first time. She was powerful...

And she was beautiful.

Zach couldn't help but watch her. This goddess on Earth, mesmerizing him, he couldn't help but wonder who this woman was. Something about her was connected to him.

"Zach!" Natasha's voice drew him back to reality, as he snapped out of his dreams, finding the Black Widow behind him. "You alright?" She asked as she moved in front of him. "You were just kinda zoned out."

"Yeah–yeah, I'm alright, Nat." He whispered, just for her to smile and peck his cheek. "I thought I'd check in, see how my favorite agent's doing in science land here. But you've zoned out for a while, kinda missed your dad and Steve arguing."

"Really?" Zach asked. "How long was I out."

"Nearly an hour."

"What?!" Zach exclaimed. "I've been studying this damn thing for an hour?" Natasha rubbed his cheek, just as he looked around, no-one else in the room but them. "You could use a break from this thing," She explained. "I'm going to interrogate Loki, see if he gives up anything. You're welcome to join me, of course."

Helicarrier Detention Section.

Loki paced in his cell alone for a long time in a circle, but had suddenly stopped, knowing he wasn't the only one there anymore. He smirked to himself and spoke up. "There's not many people that can sneak up on me," He quietly said as he turned to see Natasha and Zach there, ready to interrogate him.

"But you'd figured we'd come." Natasha solemnly answered.

"You, yes. Him, on the other hand, I'm very surprised by," Loki said. "After whatever tortures Fury can concoct, you would appear as friends, as a balm. And I would cooperate."

"What did you do to Agent Barton, Loki?" Zach questioned him.

"I'd say I expanded his mind." Loki hissed back. "And once you've won, once you're king of the mountain, what happens to his mind?" Natasha questioned after him.

"What is this, Agent Romanoff?" He asked. "Is this some sort of dedication?"

"There's nothing to it," Natasha answered. "I owe him a debt."

"Tell me," Loki says as he sits down, while Zach prepares himself. Natasha had told him this story before the night he joined SHIELD. "Before I worked for SHIELD... I – uh... I made a name for myself. I have a very specific skillset. I didn't care who I used it for, or on. I got on SHIELD's radar in a bad way. Agent Barton was sent to kill me, but he made a different call."

"And what will you do if I vow to spare him?"

"Not let you out."

"Ah... no. But I like this. Your world is in the balance, and you bargain for one man."

"Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep over that, I'm Russian... or was."

"What is it you want?" Loki asked them, before turning his head to Zach. "What is it you both want?"

"It's really not that complicated," Natasha answered. "I've got red in my ledger, I'd like to wipe it out."

"And you, Danvers-Stark?" Loki changed to him. "What is it you want?" Zach stayed silent, not telling him anything, cause in truth, he wanted answers. For everything, but he sure as hell wasn't going to say anything to Loki. He gripped his fists, while intently staring at Loki.

"Not much to say, do you?" Loki asked politely. "But is it that complicated, Agent Romanoff? Can you wipe out that much red? Dreykov's daughter? San Paulo? The Hospital Fire?"

Both of the agents looked shocked at what Loki knew. "Barton told me everything," He revealed. "Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything?"

"This is the basest sentimentality!" He scowled at them. "This is a child at prayer... PATHETIC! You lie and kill at the service of liars and killers. Your precious agent you've trained here, he's never killed before, has he?"

'That can be changed,'  Zach thought to himself as his fists charged up.

"You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you and they will never go away!" Loki slammed his fist against the glass, making them flinch.

"I won't touch Barton. Not until I make him kill you!" Loki threatened wildly. "Slowly, Intimately. In every way he knows you fear! And when he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you incessant worm!"

Natasha turned away in fear, while Zach charged up to the cell, raising his powered fist at the door, ready to smash it open. "You're a monster." Zach growled at him, only for Loki to chuckle at him.

"No... you brought the monster."

Zach lowered his fist, as he nodded at him. "You love the sound of your own voice, don't you?" The response shocked Loki. "What?" He asked.

"Banner," Natasha turned around, revealing she was never afraid or crying. "That's your play." The two agents left the holding facility, just as Natasha radioed in. "Loki means to unleash the Hulk." She expressed. "Keep Banner in the lab, Zach and I are on our way. Send Thor as well."

But just before they left the cell, Natasha turned back to Loki. "Thank you for your cooperation." while Zach swiftly flipped a bird at him.

Banner's Lab.

Fury marched angrily into the lab, finding Stark munching away on a bag full of blueberries. "What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" He demanded. "You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract."

"We are, the model's locked and we're sweeping for a signature now," Banner explained. "When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile." Banner also pointed to a nearby screen, indicting his words were true, and they were scanning for the Tesseract.

"Yeah, then you get your cube back, no muss, no fuss," Tony added, just as the screen near him finally unlocked. "What is PHASE 2?"

Before Fury could even answer, Steve walked in, slamming a piece of weaponry down on the table, more specifically, a HYDRA assault rifle, similar to the ones he encountered in the 40s. "Phase 2 is when SHIELD uses the Cube to make weapons." Steve interrupted. "Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for me."

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract," Fury explained carefully. "This does not mean we're making..."

"I'm sorry, Nick–" Stark interjected himself, grabbing his attention. "What were you lying?" He asked as he turned the screen to them, depicting a weapon's schematics, with the Tesseract powering it. "I was wrong, Director," Steve added. "The world hasn't changed a bit."

Thor, Natasha and Zach had entered the room, and with their added knowledge from Loki, the two SHIELD agents kept eyes on Banner. However, Banner was looking back at them, pissed, but not too angry to become the other guy.

"Did you know about this?" Banner asked the two. Natasha remained calm, but Zach watched the weapon assemble on the screen, but something about it nudged at him. He saw the Cube's energy powering it, but it felt similar. And then he realized it.

His accident with his mother with the Engine, the very one that exploded and gave them their powers, was powered by none other than the Tesseract itself. That's why he had his nightmares about it. Why the voice of the Other haunted his dreams.

The Tesseract was the source of his powers.

"You ever think about removing yourself from this environment, Doctor?"

"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed."

"Loki is manipulating you."

"And you've been doing what, exactly?"

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."

"Yes, and I'm not leaving, and all of a sudden, you get a little twitchy," Banner said. "I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build mass weapons of destruction."

"Because of him," Fury continued to stare at him, while pointing at Thor, who pointed to himself. "Me?"

"Last year, Earth had a visitor from another planet," Fury explained to the group. "Who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly– hilariously– outgunned."

"My people want nothing but peace with your planet!" Thor argued.

"Tell that to your brother in the holding cell," Zach muttered.

"But you're not the only people out there, are you?" Fury questioned him. "And... you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, that can't be controlled."

"Like you controlled the Cube?" Steve retorted.

"Your worked with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies." Thor added. "It is a signal to all the realms that the Earth is ready for a higher form of war."

"A higher form?" Steve argued. "You forced our hand," Fury spoke calmly. "We had to come up with something."

"A nuclear deterrent," Tony stated. "Because that always calms everything right down."

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark."

"Stark would be neck-deep–" Steve added, just as Tony interrupted. "Hold on, how is this about me?" The billionaire asked.

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Steve spat.

"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor claimed.

"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Fury answered.

"You treat your champions with such mistrust!" Thor yelled.

"Are you boys really that naive?" Natasha asked. "SHIELD monitors potential threats."

"Captain America's on threat watch?" Banner sarcastically asked.

"We all are."

The group began to argue more and more with each other, everyone apart from Zach, who continued to stare at the scepter, glowing and pulsing. He blocked out everything going on, and slowly walked to the object, as everyone was too busy to notice because they were arguing their asses off.

"You speak of control, yet you court chaos," Thor continued his rant. "It's his M.O, isn't it?" Banner replied, getting everyone to look at him. "I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no, we're a chemical mixture that makes chaos, we're a time bomb."

"You need to step away." Fury interjected.

"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Tony asked as he tried to put his arm on Steve's shoulder, but the soldier quickly brushed it off. "You know damn well why!" Steve yelled. "Back off!"

"Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me," Tony answered back.

"Big man in a suit of armor," Steve spat once again. "Take that off, what are you?"

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Tony spoke back in a matter-of-fact way, while Natasha nodded. She'd been undercover as his assistant, she would know how egomaniacal he could be.

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you," Steve spouted. "Yeah, I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you."

"I think I would just cut the wire." Tony replied.

"Always a way out," Steve smirked, with anger behind it, he couldn't believe this was to come from Howard's own son. "You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero."

"A hero? Like you?" Tony spoke, his voice raising up. "You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers, everything special about you came out of a bottle!"

"Put on the suit," Steve commanded. "Let's go a few rounds." Thor laughed, hearing the words and threats of humans. "You people are so petty...and tiny."

"Yeah, this is a team," Banner jousted.

"Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner to his..." "Where?" Banner answered back, referring to the cell Loki was in. "You rented my room."

"The cell was just in case–"

"In case you needed to kill me!" Banner kept getting angry, and the veins on his neck started to become green. "But you can't! I know, I tried!"

The whole room went silent, as everyone kept their eyes on Banner. "I got low. I didn't see an end," He explained to everyone. "I put a bullet in my mouth, and the other guy spit it out, and crushed my pistol. So I moved on. I focused on helping other people, I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show, and put everyone here at risk!"

Banner kept getting unnerved by everything, and turned to Natasha, recalling her words about what kept him docile. "You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff?" He riled. "You wanna know how I stay calm?!"

Fury and Natasha reached for their guns, while Steve tried to deescalate the situation. "Doctor Banner... Zach... He softly asked, while Banner was confused and turned around.

Zach was gripping the scepter, holding it in his hand and looking back to everyone. "Finally, some silence." He said as he looked at everyone. "Not a great idea to be near this thing anymore, is it?" He put the scepter back on it's pedestal, as a computer beeped. "Got it," Stark called in.

"Sorry, kids, you don't get to see my party trick after all," Banner said as he walked off, with Natasha walking behind him, and Zach stayed back with Thor, Steve and Tony. "Located the Tesseract?" Thor asked.

"I can get there faster," Tony turned. "Look, all of us," Steve tried to rally, but Thor had cut him off. "The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it."

"Really?" Zach asked the God. "I'm a human, and I got my powers from the damn thing. I can go get it, and safely hand it over, but how would we know that anyone on Asgard won't use it either? Any of the gods, like your dad, Odin?"

Tony turned to leave the room, but Steve tried to stop him, only this time, Stark brushed off his hand. "You're not going alone!"

"You gonna stop me?"

"Put on the suit, let's find out."

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man.

"Put on the suit."

"And for literal God's sake, can the two of you stop fucking arguing?!" Zach yelled. "Two grown ass men, arguing like high school rivals."

Banner stood by the computer, watching the trace grow closer and closer, and then realized...

"Oh my god."

And just outside, the rotors of the Helicarrier exploded, and was about to plummet to the ground below.

Storage of the Helicarrier.

As the raid began, moments passed as Stark flew outside and within the motors to stop the Helicarrier from falling, and Bruce had suddenly shown his greener side, chasing Natasha and making Thor and Zach try to detain the green beast.

Bruce, now transformed into the Hulk, was making mad lunges at Thor, who tried to keep him from hurting anyone during his rampage. "We are not your enemies, Banner!" Thor reasoned. "Try to think!"

However, the Hulk hated when people referred to him as "Banner," it only made him angrier than he already was. Zach leapt back to his feet and powered up, reengaging with the beast. "Oh, you don't like Banner, don't you?" Zach yelled. "That's fine, yeah – let's see the Hulk, huh?"

Hulk roared and pulled his fist up into the air, and bring it down to strike, but Zach held the giant green fist with both his hands, and pushed back, bringing one of his powered fists to punch him in the chest, knocking the Hulk back.

Thor, who also got to his feet, raised his hand out for Mjolnir, calling it from across the Helicarrier, while Zach kept the Hulk busy.

Mjolnir rushed into the grip of his hand, and as Zach saw it, he moved out of the way for Thor to make a powerful swing to the Hulk's left cheek, knocking him into a Quinjet. Still just as angry, Hulk took the wing of the Quinjet ripped it off, sending it flying towards the two.

They ducked, as the wing took off the entire top of an ATV, and Thor readied for another wing, throwing it to the Hulk, who tried to catch it, but by the charm Odin had placed on it, it brought Hulk to the ground, and made him unable to pick it up.

Hulk tried to lift it, but to no avail, and Thor got on top by his head, but Hulk immediately jumped up through the floor, leaving Zach on his own, trying to find Natasha in this mess.

Moments later... Detention Level.

After losing the Hulk to a quinjet and falling out of the sky, Thor ran to the detention level, knowing that Loki would attempt to escape in all of the madness. And just as the door opened for him, he saw Loki had somehow unlocked the cell, and he was about to be free from it.

"No!" Thor cried as he ran towards Loki, but just as Loki saw him, he bent his knees in shock of Thor finding him, and to Thor's surprise, it was nothing but an illusion, Loki's favorite kind of manipulation.

He flung himself inside the cell, landed on his face and jumped back on his feet, finding Loki staring at him. "Are you ever not going to fall for that?" Loki sighed. Thor roared and raised his hammer to break the glass, only leaving a small mark.

Loki smiled as his pawns guarded the area. "The humans think us immortal," He began, walking to the controls that kept him inside. "Shall we test that theory?"

Just before he can do anything to torture his brother, one of the guards made a sound and fell to the floor, and behind him was Coulson, holding a large weapon aimed at Loki. "Move away, please." He asked politely, as Thor and Loki both knew what the weapon was. A firearm made from the sentient Asgardian armor known as the Destroyer.

"You like this?" Coulson asked, while Loki stared at him. "We started work on the prototype after you sent the destroyer. Even I don't know what it does."

Coulson then warmed up the weapon, as the barrell lit up with orange and black circles. "Do you want to find out?" Coulson asked once more.

Little did Coulson know... it may have been one of the last things he'd ever do.

Right after powering the weapon, Coulson grunted in pain, as he was stabbed through the heart with the scepter by Loki, and the one that was in front of him was nothing more but an illusion again. Thor cried in agony as he watched his friend fall to the ground, losing blood, and slowly dying.

Loki gave no regard for killing Coulson, and smiled as he showed off the blade, now drenched in his blood. He walked to the panel, opening the glass to a button, and watched as the hatch beneath them opened up.

With the same wicked grin, he readied himself to press the button that would send Thor possibly to his death, but gave one look to his brother. Thor had some hope for Loki, that he wouldn't do it, but all that was proven to be fruitless.

Loki pressed the button without a second thought.