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Chapter 3- Earth Will Understand

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"Are you still hacking the SHIELD database?" I questioned when Tony noticed me.

I got my answer when Fury stormed into the room, "What are you doing, Mr Stark?"

"Kind of been wondering the same thing about you," Tony said casually.

"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract."

"We are. The model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile," Bruce cut in, lowkey defending Tony.

"And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss. What's Phase Two?"

Steve entered the room, slamming a gun down on the table. His eyes travelled around the room, stopping on me and softening a bit. I was pretty much the only one here who had his trust, I had that effect on people, all royalty was supposed to.

"Phase Two is SHIELD uses the cbe to make weapons. Sorry, the computer was moving a little slow for me."

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're-"

"I'm sorry, Nick," Tony flipped the computers screen, showing off the blueprints for the weapons, "Were you lying?"

"I was wrong, director. The world hasn't changed a bit," Steve scoffed in disgust.

At that moment, Thor and Nat walked into the lab. They were calm at first, before noticing the tense air.

"You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?" Nat looked to Banner.

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

"Loki's manipulating you."

"And what exactly, have you been doing?"

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

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

"Because of them," Fury motioned to me and Thor.

The two of us were instinctively standing close to each other. We trusted each other the most, and this is what Asgardian battle tactics looked like, staying close to those you trusted.

"Us?"

"Two and a half years ago Agent Altovar came to Earth. She has the ability to transform herself into any being, dead or alive. Remind me again, how SHIELD discovered you?"

"I imitated you," I grumbled, crossing my arms, "In order to gain access to the SHIELD database when I was nineteen."

"Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned."

"Our people want nothing but peace with your planet," Thor said for both of us.

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

"Like you controlled the cube?"

"You're work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for a higher form of war."

"You forced our hand. We had to come up with some-"

"A  nuclear deterrent. Cause that always calms everything right down," Tony said.

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

"I'm sure i the still made weapons, Stark would be neck-"

"Wait, wait. Hang on. How is this now about me?"

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?"

"I thought humans were more evolved than this," Thor crossed his arms, "(Y/n)'s planet does not have such petty squabbles."

"Aha! So you admit she isn't from Earth!"

"So (Y/n) was raised into not fighting, but she's an agent for SHIELD?"

"I'm choosing to help humans in the only way they seem to understand it. Deceit, powers, and fighting," I growled defensively.

"Do we come to your planet and blow stuff up Thor?"

"Are you all really that naive? SHIELD monitors potential threats."

"Captain America is on that watchlist?"

"We all are."

"Is he above or below angry bees?"

"I swear to God, Stark, one more wisecrack..."

"Threat! Verbal threat! I feel threatened!"

I closed my eyes tightly, trying to block out all of the fighting around me. The anger, the tension, the mistrust, all of it was overloading my senses. If this didn't stop soon the stress would take over.

"Show some respect," Steve scoffed.

"You speak of control, yet you court chaos."

"It's his M-O isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're a time bomb."

"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?"

"You know damn well why," Steve snapped, "Back off!"

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

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

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist."

"You need to stop," I mumbled, managing to stay in my human form for a few seconds before stress took over again.

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you," I knew exactly who Steve was talking about. James Buchanan Barnes. They were best friends, " 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 shrugged.

"You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero."

"A hero? Like you? You a lab experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle."

"Stop it," I repeated, louder this time. Again, I was ignored and the group continued to bicker, "I said stop!"

The scepter flew into my outstretched hand. Properly, my form had settled on Loki. I let out a shocked breath, shifting back into my human form.

I looked up. Nat and Fury had their hands on their guns. Thor had his hand out, ready to summon his hammer, and everyone else looked ready for a fight.

I immediately placed the scepter back down. It had been able to pick up on all the negative emotions I was feeling and fly- quite literally- into my hand.Banner broke the tension by walking over to the computer when it beeped. His eyes widened when he read the location of the Tesseract.

"Oh my God!"

An explosion went off around us, knocking everyone back. Nat and Banner were thrown out of the window, shattering it. I groaned, standing up shakily. Whoever Loki had recruited to help him in his plans was here.

I shook off the pain reverberating through my body, focusing on the task at hand. I heard through my com that the third engine was down. I knew the others would be able to handle that. My biggest worry was Loki. This was his plan, so what was he doing?

On my way there I quite literally ran into Phil. He was carrying a rather large gun in his arms.

"Status Phil," I ordered as we continued walking, ignoring the urge to tell Phil that he had to apologize. Royals never apologized. We could be stuck up.

"Loki's still on the ship. I was ordered to keep the place on lockdown."

"Loki is a god, and you think you could win a fight against him?" It seemed like a harsh insult, but Midgardians were always so sensitive so it was hard to differentiate insult from normal speak, even if I had been on the planet for two and a half years.

"There's a good chance I'll die in there actually, but that's my job."

"No, it's my job. I'm sorry Phil."

"What-"

I swiftly punched Phil across the jaw, hard enough to knock him out. I dragged his limp body over to another room and made sure he was fine before returning to the original hallway. I picked up the gun he was carrying, shifting into Phil. Loki would be less guarded around someone he thought he could easily kill.

When I entered the room I easily knocked out the guard in front of me. I pointed the gun directly at Loki. He was ready to press the giant red death button, while Thor was in the cage.

"Move away please," I requested.

Loki looked at me, but not through me like he normally did when I was in a shifted form. I mentally breathed a sigh of relief. With everything going on, he wasn't focused enough to see who I really was.

"You like this? We started working on the prototype after you sent The Destroyer," I racked my brain for what Phil told me about this weapon, "Even I don't know what it does. Do you wanna find out?"

I felt a sharp pain go through my stomach, and the Loki in front of the panel disappeared. I smiled bitterly. Looks like both of us had deceived each other. The real Loki was behind me, stabbing me with the cepter.

"No!" Thor screamed as my form flickered. It took everything I had to stay as Phil. If I wasn't him, then I didn't have as big of a chance to get information.

I fell to the floor, leaning against the wall. Loki walked over to the panel and pressed down on the button, letting Thor free fall. I couldn't hold on anymore, and allowed myself to shift back to my Trueform. Loki glanced at his scepter. The blood had changed from red to  purple.

"Purple," he muttered. His triumphant face fell, and for a moment, I saw the Loki that had become my best friend, "(Y/n)?"

Loki rushed to my side, kneeling next to me. I winced as I felt my wound stitching itself together. Loki was using the scepters magic to speed up the healing process.

"So you're healing me now?" I questioned.

"I never wanted you to die. I wanted you to rule with me," Loki muttered.

"You're going to lose," I groaned, trying to sit up. In the process, I raised my weapon, "You lack conviction."

I shot off. Loki was blown back through the wall. I let out a hum. Now I knew what it did. Putting a hand over my half-healed stomach I stood up. I needed to get to the medbay so they could patch me up the rest of the way.

"(Y/n)!" Phil ran over to me, a hand over his jaw, "Why did you do that? Oh God, you're bleeding."

"You didn't get your cards signed," I smiled weakly. I flung my arm over his shoulders, "Now bring me to the medbay. I don't think I need stitches now, but I do need a bandage at the very least."

In the medbay, the nurses easily patched up my wound, warning me to take it easy. None of us believed that I would. On top of that, they didn't seem surprised to see my Trueform. Guess they had seen weirder while working with SHIELD.

"I know you're probably getting tired of hearing this, but focusing on staying human isn't going to help anyone win this fight," Phil advised.

"Loki said the same thing to me and I'm starting to think it's true," I huffed, "I've just been so afraid of being experimented on, being hated."

"If you were trying to destroy life as you know it then yeah you would be hated, but you're trying to save it. Maybe what the world needs is someone like you to show them that not everything they don't understand is evil."

I thought about both what Loki and Phil said. Thinking about what Loki said seemed crazy, but he was right in some ways. I wasn't what society wanted me to be, but none of the heroes were. That's how they became heroes. Hiding myself would keep concentration off the fight, where all of my concentration needed to be.

"You know, I swore on the throne that I would reveal myself earlier," I gave Phil a small smile, "I was about ready to give up my status. Thank you."

~*~

I searched through the helicarrier for those who remained of the team. Bruce and Thor were gone who knows where. Nat and Clint were talking through what happened and I didn't want to intrude on that. That left Steve and Tony.

"She wasn't smart," Tony stated, not noticing my approaching footsteps."

"For believing?"

"For taking Loki on alone. With the scepter her magic doesn't compare to his. She should have waited."

"She was doing her job," Steve defended.

"I'm not marching to Fury's fife."

"Neither am I. He's got the same blood on his hands as Loki does. Right now we've got to put that aside and get this done. Now Loki needs a power source, if we can put together a list-"

"He made it personal."

"You two are talking about me like I'm dead," I announced my arrival.

Steve and Tony glanced at me briefly, before their eyes snapped back. I held out my hands in a 'surprise' sort of motion. Tony smirked triumphantly, his point of me being an alien proven true. Steve's mouth opened and closed a few times, like he wanted to say something but had no idea what to say.

"All of you wanted to see what I really looked like, here I am."

"You're still beautiful," Steve complimented.

"Thank you," I smiled, "Now, Loki wants to tear us apart and he wants an audience while he's doing it. He wants parades, flowers, a monument. All the attention he didn't get on Asg- Oh my Atreya! New York, we have to get to New York! Stark he's going for your tower!"

Tony and Steve's eyes widened in realization. Steve spoke up first, "Suit up."

The three of us went our separate ways for the short amount of time we needed to suit up. I had a spare packed away, a smart move considering the large hole in my first one from Loki stabbing me.

After I had changed, I ran to find Nat and Clint. To my surprise- Earth sarcasm there- they were still in the room Clint was being held in momentarily. I knocked slightly, before opening the door.

"So your out in the open huh?" Nat asked with a knowing smile, "About damn time."

"Glad you're getting more comfortable on Earth," Clint added, walking out of the bathroom.

"Are you feeling well enough to fly?" I asked the man.

"I can fly," Clint confirmed.

"Great. You have two minutes to suit up and met us in the bay. We're going to have to steal something," I chuckled, "I've never felt so mischievous in my life."

"What a good princess you were," Nat rolled her eyes playfully.

All of us met up in front of the bay in the five minutes. Stark had left already, flying ahead so he could get to New York faster and see the status of the situation.

"You are not authorized to be here-" A young SHIELD pilot tried to stop us as we entered a ship.

"Son," Steve started, holding up a hand, "Just don't."

The man nodded, frightened. He quickly scurried off of the quinjet, leaving the four of us with it. Clint took a seat in the pilot's chair and we took off, completely unauthorized.

"Whatever the Chitauri are they're a danger to the people," I stated, "That means we get civilians off of the streets and into safe places. Midgardian weapons, even the police, won't be a match for what they have. Trust me, space technology is more advanced than this."

"We have to find a way to shut it down," Steve added, "Destroying any aliens that may be back there as well."

"Thor," I tried to call to Thor through the com he was giving, praying it was still somewhat working, "Thor!"

"Yes, Lady (Y/n)?"

"Oh thank Atreya you're alive," I sighed in relief, "Something isn't right with Loki. I wasn't there for what went down last year, but Thor, you need to tread lightly okay? Our Loki wouldn't normally do this."

"I understand."