This was Loki's seventh day aboard the Sky Carrier. The ever-confident Asgardian Prince had rarely shown such agitation and unease.
Things were not supposed to go this way...
In his original plan, he would use words to sow discord among the Avengers and intensify their conflicts—provoking Hulk into anger and causing greater chaos, or exploiting the distrust between Iron Man and Captain America, along with the truths S.H.I.E.L.D. had concealed.
In fact, Loki's series of actions had achieved their intended effect. Tony Stark exposed the fact that Nick Fury had developed the Tesseract not to create an infinite energy source, but to develop advanced weapons. Jarvis had made all of it public, while Steve Rogers had found the energy weapons already being put into production in the warehouse.
The Avengers were riddled with conflicts, and it had been easy to find openings to exploit. But what happened afterward caught Loki completely off guard.
Hawkeye Barton never came to rescue him, and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s tracking signal for the Tesseract had abruptly vanished as well. The situation had reached a deadlock.
The Asgardian Prince, so skilled in schemes and deception, had truly become a prisoner locked in a cell, cut off from all contact with the outside world. The mind-controlling scepter was no longer by his side, either.
It was like writing a script only to discover that the entire story had been altered. An inexplicable fury filled Loki's chest. Even more suffocating was the fact that Nick Fury came every few days to interrogate him about his plan. Where exactly was the Tesseract hidden? What was Dr. Selvig trying to build?
As for those questions, Loki wanted to know as well. Why had Dr. Selvig not yet activated the Tesseract and established a portal? And why was he still locked inside this