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*Thor throws Loki into the side of a mountain top.* Thor: Where is the Tesseract? Loki: I missed you too. Thor: Do I look to be in a gaming mood?! Loki: Oh, you should thank me. With the Bifrost gone how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you here? Your precious Earth. *Thor drops Mjolnir and picks Loki up. Pissed off for what he did.* Thor: I thought you died. Loki: Did you mourn? Thor: We all did. Our father- Loki: Your father. He did tell you my true parentage, did he not? *Thor lets go of him.* Thor: We were raised together, we played together, we fought together. Do you remember none of that? Loki: I remember a shadow. Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I was and should be king! Thor: So you take the world I love as recompense for your imagined slights. No, the Earth is under my protection, Loki. Loki: And you're doing a marvelous job with that. The humans slaughter each other in droves, while you idly threat. I mean to rule them. And why should I not? Thor: You think yourself above them. Loki: Well, yes. Thor: Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. Throne would suit you ill. Loki: I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it… Thor: Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be-king? Loki: I am a king! Thor: Not here! You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream! You come home. Loki: I don't have it. You need the cube to bring me home, but I've sent it off. I know not where. *Mjolnir flies back into Thor’s hand.* Thor: You listen well, brother. I- *Thor is knocked off the mountain when Iron Man tackles him.* Loki: I'm listening. *They then crash into the forest below. Tony opens his helmet.* Thor: Do not touch me again! Tony: Then don't take my stuff. Thor: You have no idea what you're dealing with. Tony: Shakespeare in the park? Doth mother know you weareth her drapes? Thor: This is beyond you, metal man. Loki will face Asgardian justice! Tony: He gives up the Cube, he's all yours. Until then, stay out of my way... tourist. *Just as Tony flips his helmet back on, Thor throws his hammer at him. Causing Tony to crash into a tree.* Iron Man: Okay. *Loki watches from the mountaintop for his own amusement. Iron Man shoots a repulsor beam at Thor and flies into him, making Thor crash into a tree. Thor then raises Mjolnir in the air and summons a lightning bolt. He then uses it to shoot a bolt of it at Iron Man. While this does stun him momentarily, it also increases the suit’s power.* JARVIS: Power at 400% capacity. Iron Man: How about that? *Iron Man retaliates by shooting repulsor beams at Thor from his hands and chest. He then flies into Thor and ascends into the sky. Iron Man then proceeds to smash Thor on the side of a mountain. But Thor manages to leap off it, taking Iron Man with him. Once they are on the ground again, Iron Man tries to attack him. But Thor grabs his wrists and begins to crush his repulsors. He manages to shoot a repulsor beam at Thor and headbutts him. But Thor delivers a stronger headbutt and throws him. Iron man boosters up and flies back and manages to swing Thor into a tree. Thor gets up just as Iron Man attacks him. Thor manages to gain the upper hand and flip him over. After bringing Mjolnir back to him, Thor prepares to hit him but Iron Man skids across the ground and knocks Thor over. He then proceeds to fly back and punch Thor in the face. The two of them prepare to hit each other again.* Captain America: Hey! *Captain America throws his shield and it ricochets off Thor and Iron Man.* Captain America: That's enough! Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here. Thor: I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes! Captain America: Then prove it! Put the hammer down. Iron Man: Um, yeah, no! Bad call! He loves his hammer! *Thor backhand swings Mjolnir and hits Iron Man, knocking him back.* Thor: You want me to put the hammer down?! *Thor leaps towards Captain America, raising his hammer. But Captain America attempts to block it with his shield. The hammer colliding with the shield causes a massive shockwave that knocks down several trees. Once the dust settles, they all stand up.* Captain America: Are we done here? *Luffy arrives, covered in tree branches and dirt.* Luffy: Whoa! What happened here?! Iron Man: Oh nothing. Just a little argument. A few fists were thrown. Nothing major. What about you? Luffy: I jumped out of that jet thing and fell through a tree. Captain America: You should’ve worn a parachute. Don’t know how you’re still alive. Luffy; Because I’m made of rubber. Now why did I jump out again? Thor: So we meet again, Straw Hat. Luffy: Oh, right! Good to see you, Thor! *Loki is brought upon the SHIELD Helicarrier. Escorted by several armed guards. They pass by Dr. Banner and Morbius working in a lab. He smiles as he walks by them.* Morbius: Guessing that’s Loki. *Loki is placed inside a large glass cell held by a hydraulic press. Fury approaches a control panel near the cell.* Fury: In case it's unclear. You try to escape. You so much as scratch that glass… *Fury opens a hatch underneath the cell using the control panel.* Fury: Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?! *He then closes the hatch.* Fury: Ant. Boot. Loki: It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me. Fury: Built for something a lot stronger than you. Loki: Oh, I've heard. *Loki looks over at a security camera. The footage is being looked over by others on the Helicarrier.* Loki: The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man. How desperate are you, that you call upon such lost creatures to defend you? Fury: 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. Loki: 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. Fury: Well, you let me know if Real Power wants a magazine or something. *Fury leaves the room, but Loki is left smirking at the camera.* *Luffy, Morbius. Steve, Bruce and Natasha watch the security footage from the briefing room.* Bruce: He really grows on you, doesn't he? Luffy: He sure talks about how great he is. Morbius: Certainly has a bigger ego than Usopp. 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. Luffy: An evil army of aliens. Bruce: So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for. Thor: Selvig? Bruce: He's an astrophysicist. Thor: He's a friend. Morbius: Yeah, we know him too. He was one of the people that helped out Thor when he came to Earth. Luffy: That old science guy. I remember him, 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. Morbius: Not unless he’s physic. Is he? Bruce: 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. Bruce: I think it's about the mechanics. Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for? Morbius: Well, he certainly isn’t going to add it to his collection of metals found on meteorites. Luffy: I thought those were made of rocks that float in space? Morbius: That’s an asteroid. But anyway, Banner does bring up a good question. Why would he need iridium? There’s not much uses for it. At least any that I know of that could be of use to Loki. Tony: It's a stabilizing agent. *Tony enters the meeting with Coulson.* Tony: I’m just saying, pick a weekend. I’ll fly you to Portland. Keep love alive. 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. Raise the mizzenmast. Jib the topsails. *The crew on the bridge looks confused.* Tony: That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did. *He covers his eye real quick.* Tony: How does Fury even see these? Hill: He turns. Tony: Well, that sounds exhausting. 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. *He places a small hacking device under one of the monitors without anyone noticing.* Hill: When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics? Tony: Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading? Steve: Does Loki need any particular kind of power source? Bruce: He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier. Tony: Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect. Bruce: Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet. Tony: Finally, someone who speaks English. Steve: Is that what just happened? Morbius: I just know Luffy didn’t follow any of it. Luffy: Uuuuuuuhhh… *Morbius pats Luffy's back. Knowing his mind is incapable of comprehending the science behind it.* Tony: 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. Bruce: Thanks. Fury: Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. Along with Dr. Morbius. I was hoping you might join them. Steve: Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon. Fury: 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. Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand. Steve: I do! I understood that reference. Luffy: So do I! Tony: Shall we play, doctor? Bruce: This way, sir. Morbius: Hey, wait for me! You know, I'm something of a scientist myself. *The three of them return to the lab. While no one is looking, one of the agents on the monitors continues playing Galaga.* *In the lab, Bruce uses a gamma ray scanner while examining Loki’s scepter.* Bruce: The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks to process. Tony: If we bypass their mainframe and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster, we can clock this around six hundred teraflops. Bruce: All I packed was a toothbrush. Morbius: Whatever this staff thing is made from certainly doesn’t have any materials from earth. The metal used for it doesn’t match any of the ones on the periodic table. Must be a new discovery! Tony: You know, for a bio chemist, you seem to know a bit about other fields of science. Morbius: Well, yes I did study in different fields. I was a bit of a prodigy in fact. I did machinery for a bit. Saved my best friend from dying to blood clots by fixing his life support and made practice of those skills. But I mostly majored in biochemistry, because that came closer to fulfilling my goals. Tony: Right, you're the young man who invented chimera cells and turned down the nobel prize for it a year ago. Ballsy move of yours. But that little invention of yours helped with my arc reactor poisoning for a little while. So thanks. Morbius: Glad I can be of help. Bruce: Was that before or after you turned yourself into a creature of the night that feeds off the blood of others? Morbius: Before. *He takes out a packet of blood and slurps it down.* Tony: How often do you have to do that? Drink blood? Morbius: On average I have to drink blood every 6 hours, but it slows down if I'm sleeping or relaxing, or speeds up if I'm more active. I need a lot more if I'm “going red”. Bruce: And you never thought of… I don’t know, try drinking animal blood or something? Morbius: I did. But it didn’t give me nourishment like human blood does. Animal blood has different levels of Iron and biochemistry makeup down to the DNA itself. Which means I hypothesized that only members of the hominoidea’ blood can give me the maximum nourishment I need to keep me from dying. Tony: Ah, so you'd hunt down Chimps and stuff. Morbius: I'd rather not kill endangered species to be honest. Which all the non-human great apes are. Tony: And how do you get human blood, exactly? Morbius: Well, I have to steal it from hospitals. Yeah I know it’s not ethical, but it’s either that or I go on a killing spree. Tony: Fair. Plus pirates are all about stealing so... Makes sense. You know, you both should come by Stark Tower sometime. Top ten floors, all R&D. You'd love it, it's candy land. Bruce: Thanks, but the last time I was in New York I kind of broke...Harlem. Morbius: And last time I was in New York I was framed for murder and got myself wanted by the navy. Tony: Well, I promise a stress free environment. No tension. No surprises. *Tony shocks Bruce with a small electrical prod.* Bruce: OW! *Morbius backs away a little.* Steve: Hey! Tony: Nothing? Steve: Are you nuts? Tony: Jury’s out. You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed? Steve: Is everything a joke to you? Tony: Funny things are. Steve: Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny. No offense, Doctor. Bruce: No, it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things. Morbius: And I wouldn’t either if I didn’t bring some snacks. I think we can handle our triggers, Mr. Rogers. Tony: You're tiptoeing, big man. You need to strut. Steve: And you need to focus on the problem, Mr. Stark. 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. *He grabs a small bag of blueberries.* Steve: You think Fury's hiding something? Tony: He's a spy. Captain, he's the spy. His secrets have secrets. It's bugging them too, isn't it? Bruce: Uh...I just wanna finish my work here and… Morbius: I probably shouldn’t say anything… Steve: Doctor? Bruce: “'A warm light for all mankind”, Loki's jab at Fury about the cube. Steve: I heard it. Bruce: Well, I think that was meant for you. Even if Barton didn't tell Loki, it was all over the news. *He takes some blueberries that Tony offered him.* Steve: Stark Tower? That big ugly *Tony gives him a look.* Steve:...building in New York? Bruce: It's powered by Stark Reactors, self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for what, a year? Tony: That's just the prototype. I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now. That’s what he’s getting at. Bruce: 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? Morbius: And why experiment on it to begin with? HYDRA used it years ago and was put in storage for decades. Only time it was taken out was for a secret project involving the Air Force. But even then, it was placed back in storage once it failed. At least, based on the files I read about on the Tesseract. Why use this project involving it again? Tony: I should probably look into that once my decryption programmer finishes breaking into all of SHIELD's secure files. Steve: I'm sorry, did you say...? Tony: Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours we'll know every dirty secret SHIELD has ever tried to hide. Blueberry? *He offers him some blueberries.* Morbius: Impressive, Mr. Stark. Steve: Yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around? Tony: An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome. Steve: I think Loki's trying to wind us up. This is a man who means to start a war, and if don't stay focused, he'll succeed. We have orders, we should follow them. Tony: Following is not really my style. Morbius: Only orders I follow are Luffy’s. But then again, half of them don’t work so I just ignore them. Tony: He gets it. *He offers Morbius some blueberries and he takes some.* Steve: And you're all about style, aren't you? Tony: Of the people in this room, which one is; A. wearing a spangly outfit, and B. not of use? Bruce: Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you? Morbius: Yeah. SHIELD’s gotta have some kind of ulterior motive. *Steve takes in the possibility, but as an obedient soldier, shakes it off.* Steve: Just find the cube. *Steve leaves the lab. Still torn about the possibly. He then starts walking to the hull of the ship.* Tony: That's the guy my dad never shut up about? Wondering if they shouldn't have kept him on ice. Bruce: The guy's not wrong about Loki. He does have the jump on us. Tony: What he's got is an ACME dynamite kit. It's gonna blow up in his face, and I'm gonna be there when it does. Morbius: Me too. And I bet it will be just as funny when it happens to him when it happens to Willie E Coyote. Bruce: Yeah. I'll read all about it. Tony: Uh-huh. Or you'll be suiting up like the rest of us. Bruce: Ah, see. I don't get a suit of armor. I'm exposed, like a nerve. It's a nightmare. Tony: You know, I've got a cluster of shrapnel, trying every second to crawl its way into my heart. *He taps the arc reactor on his chest.* Tony: This stops it. This little circle of light. It's part of me now, not just armor. It's a... terrible privilege. Morbius: Same kind of deal with me. I don’t consume enough blood… all hell breaks loose. Bruce: But you can control it. Tony: Because I learned how. Morbius: Me too. Bruce: It's different. Tony: Hey, I've read all about your accident. That much gamma exposure should have killed you. Bruce: So you're saying that the Hulk... the other guy... saved my life? That's nice. It's a nice sentiment. Saved it for what? Tony: I guess we'll find out. *They all return to their respective computers.* Bruce: You might not like that. Tony: You just might. Morbius: Anything’s possible, Dr. Banner. After all, my monster side seems to be more aware of whose the good guy and bad guy. Have a little more faith. *Steve passes by Luffy while exploring the Helicarrier.* Luffy: Hey, Cap. Whatcha doing? Steve: No time for talk right now, Straw Hat. Not unless you can tell me where the storage room is. Luffy: The storage room? I know where it is. Steve: You do? *Luffy brings Steve to the storage room. Which is blocked off by a large steel door.* Luffy: I saw Eyepatch walk in and out of here a few times after I visited the cafeteria. I thought about going in there, but forgot every time I ate. Steve: Well, why don’t we? *Steve uses high super strength to force the door open. They then enter the room and see it’s filled with metal crates. Steve sees another level of railing and leaps up onto it. He continues moving forward. Luffy stretches his arm and climbs up onto the railing and follows him.* *Meanwhile, a van drives through a tunnel on the road. In it, Dr. Erik Selvig places a cylinder made of iridium in a CMS machine.*