Chapter 14
Julia's POV:
"I have to go now."
I followed after Fury. We walked into a room, with one of the Hulk's cages.
"In case it's unclear. You try to escape. You so much as scratch that glass,"
Fury presses a button and a hatch opens underneath Loki's cage.
"Thirty thousand feet strait down, in a steel trap. You get how that works?"
He points at Loki.
"Ant."
He points at the button.
"Boot."
"It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me."
"Built for something a lot stronger than you."
"Oh I've heard.… The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man. How desperate are you, that you call upon lost creatures, to defend you?"
"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace and kill cause its fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did."
"Ooh. It burns you to have 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."
I follow Fury out, sending a grimace at Loki. His smirk faltered for a second.
We all met in the briefing room.
BANNER- "He really grows on you, doesn't he?"
STEVE- "Loki's gonna drag this out, so Thor, what's his play?"
THOR- "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."
STEVE- "An army? From outer space?"
BANNER- "So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for."
THOR- "Selvig?"
BANNER- "He's an astrophysicist."
THOR- "He's a friend."
NATASHA- "Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours."
STEVE- "I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here."
BANNER- "I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him."
THOR- "Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother."
NATASHA "He killed eighty people in two days."
THOR- "He's adopted."
BANNER- "Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?"
ME- "It's a stabilizing agent."
COULSON I'll fly you there. Keep the love alive. Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD.
TONY "No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing. Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants. Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing GALAGA! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did. How does Fury do this?"
ME "He turns. Duh."
I zone out until we all walk out.
"Julia, can we please talk?"
"Tony get out of my face."
"Please. I won't stop bugging you till you do."
"Or I can let Natalie put you in a coma for the rest of your life."
"You wouldn't."
I let Nat take over.
"She wouldn't. I would."
"Enough! Agent Allen, Mr. Stark, come with me."
Great. Now Fury's mad. We followed him to my room. One of the Inhuman rooms.
"Rogers and Thor told me what happened. You are going to stop being babies and talk this out, or else I'm taking your suit and putting you in meta bracelets."
"You don't have the tech though."
"Jules, I'm the director of SHIELD. I can get what tech I want. Plus Agent Ramon agrees with me and gave me the tech. And don't bother trying to leave."
He left the room, me trying to get out with him, but failing. Great. We're trapped in here.