3rd Person POV with Ash and Bruce

An hour later, they were working on the Chitauri scepter that had been brought in from the recent mission to Germany when they saw a man being escorted by several SHIELD agents in the hallway closest to the lab. The man had long black hair, was wearing green robes, and had piercing eyes that looked at them both through the glass as he smirked at Bruce in particular.

Bruce rubbed his head tiredly and glanced down at Ash when she grimaced,

"I have a bad feeling about that man..."

"Don't worry, we'll be out of here soon." He assured her and she just held onto his hand like a child would to their parents.

"Come on," Natasha appeared in the doorway, "They're about to brief us on a new development."

"Alright," Bruce nodded and they left.

Ash's POV

We were led back to the main bridge, after Nat explained the situation, where there was a new person on board. He had on what looked like armor from ancient times, long blonde hair and a beard, and he carried a giant hammer in his hand.

"I'm sorry who is this?" Bruce asked.

"I am Thor, son of Odin and brother to your prisoner Loki. Who might you two be?" 'Thor spoke in a deep voice that frightened me a bit.

"Uh Bruce Banner and this is Ash."

"You're a Chrysinthean?" Thor asked pointing to me.

"A what?" Nat questioned in disbelief.

"A race of beings I thought was only a myth until just now."

"I can assure you that I am very real." I told him.

"Do you know about where she came from?" Bruce questioned.

"No, all I know is that they were everywhere, yet nowhere with powers beyond mortal belief."

"Shouldn't she know all this?" Hill questioned but I responded with a quiet,

"No..." Before putting a hand in my pocket and grasping my pendant.

"When she crashed in Narora, she lost most of her memories. She remembers her family because of a photo and her planet's destruction because of the... circumstances she came here for, but not much else." Bruce explained for me as I looked down in sadness.

Just before they could say anymore, we saw on a monitor that Fury was talking to Loki as he was locked into a large, cylindrical glass cell.

"In case it's unclear. You try to escape. You so much as scratch that glass." After pushing a button on a console the hatch below the cage opened up to the outside, making wind rush inside.

"Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?!" After closing the hatch, Fury he points at Loki and says,

"Ant."

Fury points back to the button he pushed to open up the hatch.

"Boot." Fury closed up the drop hatch, still glaring pointedly at Loki.

"It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me." Loki confessed.

"Built for something a lot stronger than you."

"Oh, I've heard." Loki looks directly into the camera that was being viewed in the bridge.

"The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man." Bruce watched the screen and I looked up at him with concern before Loki decided to continue, "How desperate are you, that you call upon such 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 you kill cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did." Fury addressed Loki with seriousness.

"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, you let me know if Real Power wants a magazine or something." Fury scoffs before he walks off leaving Loki in his cell as he smirks to the camera again. It was silent until Bruce broke it with,

"He really grows on you, doesn't he?"

"Loki's gonna drag this out." Steve announced before turning to Thor asking, "So, Thor, what's his play?"

"He has an army called the Chitauri." I felt a chill down my spine at the mere mention of that name, but I had no idea why as Thor continued, "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? From outer space?" Steve asked dubiously.

"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Bruce started to explain.

"Selvig?" Thor questioned and I could tell he was worried about said human.

"He's an astrophysicist."

"He's a friend."

"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours." Nat told Thor with intensity in her voice.

"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here." Steve thought out loud, but Bruce countered with,

"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."

"Have care how you speak." Thor warned Bruce as he told him, "Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother."

"He killed eighty people in two days." Nat bluntly stated.

"He's adopted."

"I think it's about the mechanics." Bruce announced and asked, "Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?"

"It's a stabilizing agent." Another man wearing a suit with a glowing light in his chest with Coulson by his side as they talked in low voices about 'keeping love alive', whatever that meant.

"Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD." The man casually sauntered over to the main console as I whispered to Bruce,

"Who is that?"

"Tony Stark." 

I recalled him telling me a few things about Tony Stark, about how he created weapons in his company, Stark Industries, but recently began working on clean energy sources, including one in a building of his.

"No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing." Tony went over to Thor to pat him on the shoulder before referring back to the Iridium, "Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long as Loki wants." He stopped at the main console before pointing to outside the windows,

"Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the topsails." Making everyone working on a computer stop and look at him in disbelief right before he shouted, "That man is playing GALAGA! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did." He then proceeds to cover his eye and look around where he's standing asking,

"How does Fury see these?"

"He turns." Hill answered straightforward.

"Sounds exhausting." Tony began to tap and swipe away at the screens in front of him as he continued his explanation,

"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, "

As Tony continued to tap away at the screens, I noticed him place a small device under the desk of one of the consoles, but no one else seemed to notice so I kept quiet,

"Something to kick start the cube." Clapping his hands together for dramatic emphasis, which I suspected he enjoyed doing.

"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Hill questioned him looking, almost, impressed.

"Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" Tony asked in disbelief.

"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asked and Bruce started with,

"He'd have to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin-"

"And that would just be to break through the Coulomb barrier." I finished the sentence, making everyone look at me in surprise, but Tony continued still,

"Unless Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect."

"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion."

"And with any reactor on the planet." I finished Bruce's explanation and everyone was still looking at me.

"I do my reading." I meekly informed before Tony told us,

"Finally, people who speak English."

"Is that what just happened?" Steve asked in disbelief as Tony reached out to shake our hands, pausing a moment to look at my bracelet.

"You're the nuclearly unstable alien?"

"Yes... and I'm already aware that I'm not what you expect in extraterrestrial life." I told Tony unamused.

"Cool." He let go of my hand to shake Bruce's, leaving me stunned that that was all he had to say after everyone else had been more questioning of me.

"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster."

"Thanks." Bruce answered looking down.

"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him and... Ash." Fury explained to Tony as he walked into the room.

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

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

"Monkeys? I do not understand." Thor started but Steve answered quickly,

"I do! I understood that reference." Everyone looked at him as he smiled, proud to have understood at least one topic from the conversation.

"Shall we play, doctor and... mini doc?" Tony asked Bruce and directed the last part to me questioningly.

"Let's play some." Bruce responded as we left the room and made our way back to the lab.

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