Chapter 6: Someone Who Speaks English

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Previously on R.W.L.B.W.o.t.A….

"Hey!" Captain Rogers shouted out, "That's enough."

The two men turned to face the man out of time as he jumped down from his landing from the parachute, "Now I don't know what you plan on doing here, but I-"

"I've come to put an end to Loki's schemes." Thor declared loudly.

"Then prove it, put the hammer down."

…

"Uh..yea-no, bad call. He loves his hamm-oof!" Tony grunted as he was knocked away from the duo. He only heard Thor shout, "You want me to out the hammer down?!", before a loud gong-like sound permeated the air and creating a huge air-wave, the strength of the impact blew made him groan as he was knocked down again. 'At least Capsicle put that shield into good use', Tony thought as he huffed and rolled onto his hands and knees before getting up, the entire forest around them was almost completely demolished.

"Are we done here?" Steve asked rhetorically.

As soon as their airlift landed on S.H.I.E.L.D's airship; Artemis purposely stayed behind the large group of SHIELD agents guiding Loki inside with Nick at the front and Iron Man, Thor, and Steve Rogers by his sides, Natasha had already went ahead to prepare Loki's confinement room. Her reason for staying in the back was because of Loki's all-knowing leer; he knows about the wizarding world, the purebloods, about magic and maybe even the war, he probably even knows who Hermione is, who she is. But how? As far as she knew, in the muggle world, the war had caused an earthquake and a slight flood, there were no casualties, and no one was injured…although quite a few homes were destroyed, but it was nothing the muggles couldn't fix…with a little help from wizarding constructors of course. Could Loki see through that? Or is this just something he already knew of?

And that's not all, throughout the whole ride back after retrieving the 'Quarrelling Three', Thor had not taken his eyes off the ravenette. His expression seem curious but absolute, Artemis had been tempted to perform Ligilimens on the half god for his thoughts, but with the others around them not knowing of her magic, she held back the urge to do so. However, Thor is a god and Loki's half-brother, there's no doubt that he probably knows a thing or two about witches or wizards as well.

With this in mind, Artemis quickened her steps, ignoring the sharp leering gaze the God of Mischief sent her she took a different path from the large group and paced towards Hermione's research lab.

"-No, Harry! You're not suppose to mix frog's breath or deadly nightshade together that makes a person sick, hence the reason why it's deadly-" Hermione looked up as she came in; walking up to the petite brunette, Artemis swiftly swiped the phone from her friend's hand.

"Hello Harry."

"Artemis, I heard you decided to finally take a break from Aurors and Potions duty."

"I didn't exactly have much of a choice; besides, I could use a break from the Ministry's bullshit…no offense to Kingsley though." She waved away Hermione's attempt to take the mobile back, "I'm going to need to borrow Hermione for a bit, I promise we'll call you later."

"…fine, but I'm holding you on to that promise, Teddy and James miss their Aunty Mione and Aunty Missy."

"We'll make it up to them when we get back, give them our love."

"Will do, both of you be safe alright?"

"No promises, but we'll try." And with that, Artemis hung up and tossed the small electronic device onto the table before turning to her friend, "What was that all about?"

"He's trying to make Ginny a headache potion-"

"But a headache potion doesn't involve frog's breath or deadly nightshade…"

"Exactly, which is why I am going to send him a list of ingredients and directions to him before he gives anybody a headache." Hermione rolled her eyes before turning to look for a pencil and some paper. "How did everything go with the mission? We lost you after Thor almost brought down your airship."

"It took forever to get Stark to shut up his music and convince Thor to ride inside the plane and not above it…and Steve Rogers still wanted to know what a Slytherin was." The ravenette answered nonchalantly as she slipped her wand out of its invisible holster around her wrist and nonverbally casted a Muffliato.

"Why do I get the feeling that you're not telling me everything?" Hermione stopped in mid-writing as the spell took effect.

"Loki knows about us Hermione."

"What?"

"Loki knows that wizards and witches exist, he knows about the purebloods, he knows about the bloody war…and he didn't even bother to hide the fact that he was displeased at the Dark sides' loss. Not only that, if Loki knows, then Thor must know as well." Artemis said as she slowly paced around the lab, "Something else is going on Hermione, and I know you know it too. Loki's capture was way too easy, but why would he sacrifice himself and get captured by his own enemies?"

Realization dawned onto Hermione's face as she quickly ran to her computers, "A distraction…it was a distraction! That was why he sacrificed himself! By doing that, he distracted us to stop us from getting to what he really wanted." The Gryffindor princess declared as she manipulated the cameras and observed video clips from the scene of Loki's capture. "The gathering they had tonight was full of famous scientists, chemists, and important founders, or providers, of chemical substances. One of the substances found there at that same location that reacts the safest with powerful energy like the Tessaract…is iridium."

"Do you think that was what they were after? Iridium?"

"It's a possibility, though I'm not sure what use iridium could be be used for other than scientific or chemical experiments."

"Should we tell the others?" Artemis asked as she took down her muffling spell and sat down on another computer to hack through SHIELD's profiles and documents. "I honestly don't think Nick Fury knows what he's doing going up against Loki…even with the Avengers on his side."

"I think they just don't realize how much is at stake either." Hermione commented as she surfed through the information SHIELD had given her.

"Hey now, what is this? Hermione, come take a look at this!" the ravenette ushered.

"What is it? Oh Merlin, this is crazy, the Tessaract is too powerful to create all of this equipment and still maintain a balanced energy source! This is..it's-"

"Something incredibly dangerous and completely reckless", Artemis added as she swiped her hand on the screen and everything in the system before it was hacked returned. "C'mon, let's go see what they're doing now."

"How desperate are you? You've called on such lost creatures to defend you." Loki said just as Hermione and Artemis entered the room.

"How desperate am I?" Nick repeated, "You threaten my world with war, you steal a force you can't hope to control, and you talk about peace but you kill others for fun…you have made me very desperate."

As they listened, Hermione noticed Steve stare at Artemis as she swiftly pull up another screen in front of her to watch and listen while Thor eyed both her and the ravenette curiously; the demi-god's face was as Artemis had noted, curious and absolute, not suspicious or intimidating. A few words later, Hermione shifted with unease as the God of Mischief turned towards the camera screen and smirked evilly, as if he knew something none of them knew.

"He really knows how to glower at the screen, and he seems to love me being green." Bruce commented after the screen went blank.

"And he really plans to bring down the Earth." Hermione added.

After a moment of silence, Steve spoke up. "So Thor, what's his plan?"

"He plans to use an army called the Chitauri and fight against your kind." Thor said as he swiftly glanced around the room.

"An army from outer space?" Steve said looking at Natasha who lifted an eyebrow cooly and slightly shrugged.

"So he's building another portal." Bruce said at the same time Hermione said. "That's why he has Dr. Selvig!"

"Selvig? He's a friend of mine."

"And Loki has him under some kind of spell." Natasha pointed out as she looked pointedly at Artemis and Hermione.

"I just want to know why Loki let us take him." Steve said before anybody could add on to Natasha's comment.

"But I don't think we should be focusing on Loki, he's not right in the head, I smell crazy from him." Bruce commented, "I really think we-"

"I don't care what you say", Thor interjected, "Loki is beyond reason but he is of Asgard…and he's my brother."

"He killed 80 people in two days." Artemis stated calmly, though her expression was anything but.

"He's adopted…" was all Thor said.

"Never mind that, I want to know what he would need iridium for and why it was taken." Hermione said as she stood next to Artemis.

"It's a stabilizing agent in whatever experiment or project he's having Selvig work on." A new voice said from the entrance of the room. "It keeps the portal he's creating from collapsing on itself, like it did with SHIELD, and creates some type of shield, it also helps keep the portal open for as wide and as long as Loki wants it to and-that man is playing Galaga!" The new personof the room announced, "He thought we wouldn't notice, but we did." Artemis rolled her eyes that.

"Who is this man?" Hermione asked.

"I…am Tony Stark, or Iron Man, you might've heard of me from Blue-eyes over there." Tony said pointing to Artemis, who shrugged, he looked around at the glass monitor screen around him. "How does Fury even see all of this?"

"He turns." Agent Hill answered.

"Sounds exhausting…anyways, any of the raw materials they would need is what Agent Barton can get his hands on easily, but the only thing he really needs now is a power source of high-energy density."

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

"Last night, with Selvig's notes and theories packets…am I the only one who did the readings?" Tony said gesturing to all of them with his hands.

"He would have to heat the Cube to 120-million Kelvin to be able to break through the Coulomb Barrier..." Banner said.

"Unless he has learned how to stabilize the quantum tunnel effect." Hermione continued, "and if he did that-"

"Then he can achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet." Tony finished, "Finally, some people who speaks real English." He walked towards Bruce and shook his hand while faintly hearing Steve say 'Is that what just happened?'

"It's good to meet you Dr. Banner, "Tony ignored Steve's comment and continued, "I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into a huge green-rage monster."

"Um…thanks."

"And who are these two little Missies'?" Tony said walking to Hermione and Artemis.

"Artemis Leonhart, pleasure to meet you Mr. Stark." Artemis shook his hand more firmly than he had expected, "This is Hermione, you would know her as Dr. Potter-Black."

Intelligent stormy grey eyes met wise almond brown ones as the two brilliant minds slowly shook hands.

A/N: Yay! They finally meet, but sadly this chapter has come to an end. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next chapter when everyone find out the two witches real abilities!