Building the Dream: Assembling the Avengers Page #5

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Wondering if they shouldn't have kept him on ice.

The guy's not wrong about Loki, he does have the jump on us.

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..

And I'll read all about it.

Or you'll be suiting up like the rest of us.

Ah, see. I don't get a suit of armor.

I'm exposed, like a nerve.

- It's a nightmare.

- You know, I've got a cluster of shrapnel,

trying every second to crawl its way into my heart.

This stops it. This little circle of light.

It's part of me now, not just armor.

- It's a terrible privilege.

- But you can control it.

- Because I learned how.

- It's different.

Hey, I've read all about your accident. That much gammer exposure should have killed you.

So you're saying that the Hulk,

the other guy, saved my life?

That's nice.

It's a nice sentiment.

Save it for what?

I guess we'll find out.

- You may not enjoy that.

- You just might.

As soon as Loki took the doctor we moved Jane Foster.

We've got an excellent observatory in Traunsee.

She was asked to consult there very suddenly yesterday.

Handsome fee, private plane, very remote.

- She'll be safe.

- Thank you.

It's no accident Loki taking Erik Selvig.

I dread what he plans for him once he's done.

- Erik is a good man.

- He talks about you a lot.

You changed his life.

- You changed everything around here.

- They were better as they were.

We pretend on Asgard that we're more advanced, but we.

We come here battling like Bilchsteim.

- Like what?

- Bilchsteim. You know; huge, scaly, big antlers.

- You don't have those?

- I don't think so.

They are repulsive, and

they trample everything in their path.

When I first came to earth, Loki's rage followed me here and your people paid the price.

And now again,

n my youth I courted war.

War hasn't started yet.

You think you can make Loki tell us what the Tesseract is?

I do not know. Loki's mind is far afield,

it's not just power he craves,

it's vengeance upon me.

There's no pain that would prise his need from him.

A lot of guys think that, until the pain stops.

- What are you asking me to do?

- I'm asking, what are you prepared to do?

Loki is a prisoner.

Then why do I feel like he's the only person on this boat that wants to be here?

There's not many people that can sneak up on me.

-But you figured I'd come after.

After whatever tortures Fury can concoct,

you would appear as a friend,

as a balm.

- And I would cooperate.

- I wanna know what you've done to Agent Barton.

I'd say I've expanded his mind.

And once you've won. Once you're king of the mountain.

What happens to his mind?

- Is this love, Agent Romanoff?

- Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

Tell me.

Before I worked for SHIELD, I

I made a name for myself.

I have a very specific skillset.

I didn't care who I used it for, or on.

I got on SHIELD's radar in a bad way.

Agent Barton was sent to kill me,

he made a different call.

And what will you do if I vow to spare him?

- I'll not let you out.

- Ah, no. But I like this

Your world in the balance, and you bargain for one man?

Regime's fall everyday.

I tend not to weep over that, I'm Russian,

Or I was.

- And what are you now?

- It's really not that complicated.

I've got red in my ledger, I'd like to wipe it out.

Can you?

Can you wipe out that much red?

Drakoff's daughter?

Sao Paulo?

The hospital file?

Barton told me everything.

Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red,

and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything?

This is the basest sentimentality.

This is a child at prayer.

Pathetic.

You lie and kill

in the service of liars and killers.

You pretend to be separate,

to have your own code,

something that makes up for the horrors.

But they are a part of you,

and they will never go away.

I won't barter Barton! Not until I make him kill you.

Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear.

And then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work,

and when he screams I'll split his skull

This is my bargain, you mewling quin!

You're a monster.

Oh, no.

You brought the monster.

- So, Banner? That's your play?

- What?

Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way.

Set the door locked.

Thank you, for your cooperation.

- What are you doing, Mr. Stark?

- kind of been wondering the same thing about you

- 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.

And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss.

What is Phase 2?

Phase 2 is SHIELD used the cube 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.

What were you lying?

- I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit.

- Do you know about this?

- You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?

- I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed.

- Loki's manipulating you.

- And you've been doing what exactly?

- 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 him.

- Me?

- Last year earth had a visitor from another planet

who had a grudge mass that levelled a small town.

We learned that not only are we not alone,

but we are hopelessly, hilariously

- out gunned.

- My people want nothing but peace with your planet.

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.

- A higher form?

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

A nuclear deterrent.

cause that always calms everything right down.

Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?

- I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep...

- Wait, Wait, Hold on. How is this now about me?

- I'm sorry, isn't everything?

- I thought humans were more evolved than this.

- Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?

- We can..

- 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...we're a time-bomb.

- You need to step away.

- Why shouldn't they guy let off a little steam?

- You know damn well why! Back off!

- Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me.

Yeah, big man in a suit of armor.

- Take that off, what are you?

- Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.

I know guys with none of that worth ten of you.

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