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Chapter 10- The Lab

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After Loki was lead to a different glass cell the others were led to a large meeting area with a table and many chairs around it. A video feed of what was going on in Loki's cell was pulled up.

"In case it's unclear. You try to escape. You so much as scratch that glass," Nick Fury - whom (Y/n) was briefly introduced to - pressed a button which opened up a hatch beneath the cell, "Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works? Ant. Boot."

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

"Built for something a lot stronger than you."

"Oh, I've heard," Loki looked straight into the camera, "The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man. 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."

"Ooh. 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."

(Y/n) sighed, twisting her ring on her finger. Her wedding ring had been returned to Asgard by Thor in one of their meetings after (Y/n) found Loki, seeing as how Loki was alive she was able to wear her ring of promise. Though, the Loki there now wasn't hers, he was in there somewhere, stuck behind powerful magic.

"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Bruce asked sarcastically.

"Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, (Y/n), what's his play?"

"There is an army called the Chitauri. They are not of any land known but they follow The Other. Loki was forced into submission and was given the scepter as a way to keep an eye on him. The Chitauri will win him in the Earth, for the Tesseract."

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

"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for."

"He chose Selvig to spite Thor," (Y/n) crossed her arms, "But yes, he is trying to build a portal."

"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours," Nat pointed out.

"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here," Steve stated. The group turned to (Y/n).

"Loki did not share the majority of his plans with me, there was no reason for him to. However, I do know, my fiance, and he can fight much better than he did against you Captain, no offense. He was holding back."

"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. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother, and (Y/n)'s betrothed."

"He killed eighty people in two days," Nat pointed out.

"He's adopted."

"Thor," (Y/n) punched Thor in the arm.

"Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?"

"It's a stabilizing agent," Tony entered the area, "Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD. 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." Tony looked to the crew, "Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did. 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."

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

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

"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?"

"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier."

"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect. Finally, someone who speaks English."

(Y/n) looked at the two scientists in confusion. Earth science seemed to be very different from Asgardian science.

"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."

"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him, and I want you two to examine Loki's scepter. Find out how it turned two of our best people into his personal flying monkeys," Fury entered the meeting area.

"I'll look over it as well," (Y/n) offered, "It is of Asgardian origin, and the power is familiar."

"I'll let you go when you give me one reason as to why I shouldn't put you in that cell with Loki."

"It wouldn't be able to hold me, first off. A normal Asgardian perhaps, but my power is beyond that of any being-"

"Humble," Tony muttered sarcastically.

(Y/n) ignored him, "And I joined Loki to gain information. I hated doing it, but I was the only one who could get close enough."

"Where's Agent Barton then?" Nat asked.

"On the move," was all (Y/n) said, "If you want to know how dangerous the scepter is, let me see it."

"Lady (Y/n) tells the truth." Thor defended.

"One last question then. Did you hate the other side because you were tricking Loki, or because people were hurt?"

(Y/n) stayed silent, leaving the room to go find the lab.

"You must forgive Lady (Y/n). She and Loki were to be married in the near future before he was lost. The ring she wears is an Asgardian ring of promise, what may be called an engagement ring here."

(Y/n) followed Tony and Bruce to the lab holding the scepter.

"Sister."

"Did you say something?" (Y/n) asked, keeping her eye on the scepter.

"Nothing, Powerhouse."

"Sister."

The voice was coming from the scepter, the blue stone was talking to her, to the Infinity Stone that was a part of her, well, going to be a part of her. The connection was still there, it seemed.

"Pick me up," the stone ordered, "I shall lead you to your true power."

"It's an Infinity Stone," (Y/n) whispered.

Her hand twitched at her side, wanting to reach out and take the scepter from its stand.

"Pick me up."

(Y/n) could feel the stone in her mind, searching for the darker side of it, the uncontrollable side that craved power, that craved to sow fear and show everyone that (Y/n) was more powerful than anyone else.

(Y/n) was destined to be more powerful than anyone else. She would be able to control all of reality. She could warp the world until the nations were on their knees, and they agreed to stop the wars, stop all the fighting. If she took the scepter she could find her stone. She could release Loki, and they could rule together. Like he was raised to do, like (Y/n) craved. And if someone tried to fight-

"No!" (Y/n) suddenly yelled.

Tony and Bruce both turned to her, confusion covering their faces at her sudden outburst.

"The scepter contains an ancient stone called the Mind Stone, it's how Loki gains control of people, and how he's controlled. It calls out to the stone I will possess."

"You have an Infinity Stone?"

"Will, and I rightfully possess it," (Y/n) said defensively, "That's what these markings mean. Very few people can hold an Infinity Stone without dying instantly. Before myself, there was never a person who could control the full power of my stone."

"The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks to process," Bruce reported.

"If we bypass their mainframe and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster, we can clock this around six hundred teraflops. You know, you should come by STARK TOWERS sometime. Top ten floors, all R and D. You'd love it, it's candyland."

"Thanks, but the last time I was in New York I kind of broke...Harlem."

"Thor and I broke Puente Antiguo," (Y/n) shrugged, "They rebuild. It is the way of mortals."

Tony poked Bruce with a mini electrocution rod, making him jump.

"Hey! Are you nuts?" Steve yelled.

"You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?"

"Tony, are you ever able to take anything seriously?" (Y/n) questioned.

"No, it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things," Bruce assured.

"You need to focus on the problem," Steve turned to Tony.

"You think I'm not? Why did Fury call us and why now? Why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables."

"All men have their secrets," (Y/n) nodded.

"'A warm light for all mankind,' Loki's speech was a jab at Fury about the cube," Bruce pointed at Tony, "Well, I think that was meant for you. Even if Barton didn't post that all over the news."

"The Stark Tower? That big ugly- building in New York?"

"It's powered by Stark Reactors, self- sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for what, a year?"

"That's just the prototype. I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now."

"So, why didn't SHIELD bring him in on the Tesseract project? I mean, what are they doing in the energy business in the first place?"

"I should probably look into that once my decryption programmer finishes breaking into all of SHIELD's secure files," Tony said casually

(Y/n) walked over to one of the screens, looking over the information SHIELD had already gathered about the Tesseract. She knew less about the object than Loki did, but she knew it held the space stone.

(Y/n) faintly heard Steve and Tony arguing lightly, but she kept her focus on the information. It didn't make sense for an infinity stone to be used for endless energy. Their power was beyond that, it was meant for more.

"That's the guy my dad never shut up about? Wondering if they shouldn't have kept him on ice."

"The guy's not wrong about Loki. He does have the jump on us."

"Powerhouse, is there anything else you can tell us about anything?" Tony questioned.

"It doesn't make sense for the Tesseract to be used as a power source, its power is beyond tht," (Y/n) sighed, "As for Loki's plans I'm not entirely sure. I was told bits moments before they were put into action. I wish that Loki trusted me more."

(Y/n) stayed in the lab for another few minutes, assisting Tony and Bruce in researching the scepter and in pinpointing the Tesseract. Every so often she would look over at a small screen i the corner of the room that showed the feed of Loki's cell. Suddenly, she began to walk out of the room.

"I must talk to him."