Building the Dream: Assembling the Avengers Page #4

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Uh...Shakespeare in the park.

Doth mother know, you weareth her drapes?

This is beyond you, metal man.

Loki will face Asgardian justice.

He gives up the cube and he's all yours. Until then,

stay out of the way.

Tourist.

Okay.

How about that.

Thats enough!

- Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here.

- I've come here to put and end to Loki's schemes!

Then prove it. Put that hammer down.

Uh...yep! No! Bad call! He loves his hammer!

You want me to put the hammer down?

Are we done here?

In case it's unclear, you try to escape,

you so much as scratch that glass.

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.

Built for something a lot stronger than you.

Oh, I've heard.

The mindless beast, makes play to be the man.

How desperate are you? You call on these 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 world for all mankind to share,

- and then to be reminded what real power is.

\- Well let me know if real power will want some magazine or something./

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

- Loki's gonna drag this out.

- So, Thor, what's his play?

- He has an army called the Chitauri,

that none of Asgard nor any world know.

He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth.

- Return, I suspect, for the Tesseract.

- An army,

- from outer space.

- So he's building another portal.

- That's what he needs Erik Selvig for.

- Selvig?

- He's an astrophysicist.

- He's a friend.

Loki has him under some kind of spell,

- along with one of ours.

- I wanna know why Loki let us take him.

- He's not leading an army from here.

- 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.

I don't care how you speak.

Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother.

He killed eighty people in two days.

- He's adopted.

- I think its about the mechanics.

- Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?

- It's a stabilizing agent.

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.

That man is playing gallaga.

Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.

- How does Fury even see these?

- He turns.

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.

When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?

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 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 tunnelling effect.

Well, if he could do that he could achieve

Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet.

Finally, someone who speaks English.

- Is that what just happened?

- It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner.

You're 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.

- Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube.

- I was hoping you might join him.

- Let's start with that stick of his

It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon.

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.

- Monkeys? I do not understand.

- I do.

- I understood that reference.

- Shall we play it, Doctor?

- This way, Sir.

The gamma readings are definitely

consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract.

- But it's gonna take weeks to process.

- If we bypass their mainframe

and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster,

we can clock this around six hundred teraflops.

All I packed was a tooth brush.

You know, you should come by Stark Towers sometime.Top ten floors, all R and D.

- You'd love it, it's candy land.

- Thanks, but the last time I was in New York I

kind of broke Harlem.

Well, I promise a stress free environment. No tension.

No surprises.

- Nothing?

- Are you nuts?

You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret?

- Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?

- Is everything a joke to you?

- Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny.

- No offense, Doctor.

- No, it....it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't

- handle pointy things.

- You're tiptoeing, big man.

- You need to strut.

- And you need to focus on the problem, Mr. Stark.

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.

- You think Fury's hiding something?

- He is a spy.

He's a spy. Captain, he's the spy. His secrets have secrets.

It's bugging him too, isn't it?

- Uh, I just wanna finish my work here and...

- Doctor?

A world for all mankind, Loki's jab at Fury about the cube.

- I heard it.

- 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 programme finishes breaking into all of SHIELD's secure files.

- I'm sorry, did you say.....?

- 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?

- Yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around?

An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically not possible.

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.

Following is not really my style.

And you're all about style, aren't you?

Of the people in this room, which one is; a-wearing a spangly outfit, and b- not of use?

Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you?

Just find the cube.

That's the guy my dad never shut up about?

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