Chapter 3
Thor did not want to admit it but the woman had a point. Even he would be an utter imbecile if he did not see it. Thor hated to think that Loki was taken purely through a strategic maneuvor, but he could not discount it either. His father may be many things, but even Thor would have hoped such a thing beyond his span of cruelty. Their war with Jotunheim had crippled the planet, and even still they remain Asgard's largest threat. It was far too late to try and reconcile, Loki...the things he had done in his madness, and even himself, the things that Thor had done while arrogant and bull headed...he hated to think about the current tensions...and hated even more so when he thought about what he should do should they manage to get Loki's mind back on track. Something which he, unfortunatly, was not even entirely certain was possible anymore.
"What should we do then? We need to talk to him, there is little more that we can do, and any information that we can get from him, if what Thor says is in fact correct, would be better than where we are now. We have no idea where the Tesseract was sent, no clue how it is we are supposed to find it, and our current method is lacking severely. It could take days, weeks, even months to accurately pinpoint where it is, unless we are incredibly lucky." Tony said, his arms crossed, staring contemplatively at the video of where Loki was currently held. It was a cage, Tony knew, that was made for the Hulk...even if Bruce had not pieced it together yet, something he doubted. The scientist was a genuis in his work, putting two and two together would not be all that difficult. Though Tony doubted that even a cell like that would be able to hold the sheer amoung of strength Bruce gets from the Hulk when angry.
Why was it holding Loki? Come to think of it, when it came down to how they got Loki again, Captain may have been right...this was too easy. Tony had thought originally the Captain was just over reacting, but if Thor was right...Loki should be able to easily desimate all of them...so why was he not doing so? Why did he even allow himself to be captured. In fact, Tony could not really remember a sing moment that Loki seemed...unrobotic...outside of when Thor first came...that emotion was too hard for Tony to say it was fake...it realistic, even through whatever facade it was that he had built up over however many centuries.
"So who wants to talk to him?" Captain questioned. "Thor...what do you think?" Thor hummed, as though attempting to actually put thought into something. Tony got the distinct impression this did not happen much. In fact this whole conversation seemed to be draining on him greatly, more so than he would have figured having a homocidal brother as an enemy, particularly if Loki was not their enemy, but the one behind him that was pulling strings. Honestly, he was inclined to believe Thor's words at face value, something he did not normally do. When it came down to it, none of them knew Loki at all, and Thor was the only one who did. All they knew was from stories that were thousands upon thousands of years old, if they were lucky, and even then...there was not much when it came to mythology on Loki. Everything they did have was contradictory if they were lucky, and what was not they could not be certain was not biased information, or taken from the wrong source. Suffice it to say, Thor was the only one who would know if Loki was acting odd in the first place, and it hurt to admit that. Knowing so damn little on the enemy was not something he particualrly liked, he had gone through something like that already, and he was not really keen to go through it again.
"I would say whoever is best with words...or smart enough to at least play with them...otherwise, it is unwise to attempt to go up with him."
"I can do it," Natasha said, her voice confident. "This is what my job is, though I can't be certain I will be able to get anything, but I can at least try to...it is better than what little we have anyways, and if I don't manage to do anything, well at least we tried." Thor sighed. He hated leaving his brother to deal with this alone, he should have been there for him in the first place, and was horribly ashamed that he was not...it was not the vote of a good brother, and he was saddened that things had come to this. He hoped, for his sake and Loki's, that this woman was able to get something, as she seemed quite confident in her ability to manage it, even if Thor himself was not.