[Center][b]Loki 
Tony[/b][/center]

As SHIELD helped begin clean up with Tony's office and reception room the billionaire was helped onto a stretcher. Sighing angry to himself as he finally pulled off the remaining glove on his good hand. Throwing it away violently, grunting and immediately hurting in his bad arm from the movement.

"Piece of shit!" Tony grunted frustrated to say the least. With the fear subsiding Tony was in his own mind in a bad place. The suit went from being a success to a critical failure in a matter of hours. Sure he wasn't really prepared for taking on Tarene, and whatever that hammer that now sits in the middle of his reception room is packs a much bigger punch than he previously thought. Still he designed the suit to take on anything, and it failed horribly. He glanced up at the two SHIELD agents as they started to wheel him out of the area.

"Hey if the helicarrier is high enough to not be considered in US territory can you guys slip me some booze? I've never drank before but this feels like a great time to start..." Tony asked glancing over at them, before seeing out of the corner of his eye James Rhodes coming up to him with Pepper next to him.

"Swear to God James if you so much as hint to saying 'I told you so' you're fired. I know its probably illegal to fire someone over that but I'll figure out a way to do it!" Tony though sighed, his hand coming up to his eyes and covering them.

"I'm not going to say it..." James assured his young boss. "Hell I'm willing to wager that was one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't situations."

"Tony don't be too hard on yourself about this. No one could of possibly seen this coming." Pepper tried to assure Tony. Which only reminded him of something as he glanced over at the God nearby.

"Well almost no one..." Tony casually stated.

It was still morning, but Loki just knew that today was going to be a very, very long day.

The confrontation with Tarene had been something that he had known would have to come to a head sooner or later, but even he hadn't expected it to go down the way that it had. Granted there were much different, worse ways that it could have gone and the fact that there was now one less person out there that wanted him dead because he was able to talk them down made him feel better good about the whole thing but the fact that innocent people were hurt in the process...

Walking towards the stretcher that one Tony Stark was currently laid out on, Loki offered those standing around it a respectful nod of his head before he started talking. "It's good to see you again Tony... Though I cannot help but feel that if our track record of meeting each other before or while shit like this is going down continues, SHIELD is going to formally ask us to stop having these little get togethers." While the greeting was rather upbeat and with good cheer, the smile quickly faded as Loki actually started to look rather awkward as he started to shuffle his feet.

"For what it's worth, I really am sorry that this whole situation came about. While I was well aware that Tarene would be coming after me with a nearly mindless vengeance and that I would have had to face her sooner rather then later, I didn't foresee her being this reckless and stupid in her desire to track me down. As far as I am concerned I owe you, your friend here-" A nod was sent in the way James, even if Loki didn't actually know his name "- and this rather fetching young lady whom I remember from the charity event but whom I didn't actually get the pleasure of being introduced to due to the arrival of giant snakes,-" Unlike her male companions, Ms Pots was gifted with a smile that Loki reserved only for people whom he was actually pleased to be introduced too "big time after you got needlessly caught up in my mess. How you feeling Stark?" 

"Oh trust me, I could live a long happy life if I never see you again..." Tony stated with a sarcastic grin as he looked over at the guy who has been a weird constant the last two days. He quickly realized how bad he sounded considering Loki did just save his life from the crazy lady with the hammer. So he sighed, closing his eyes and shaking his head.

"No I mean seriously. I owe you my life man. I would've been smashed in blood and guts if you hadn't shown up." Tony was still seriously smarting from the battle itself as he readjusted himself very carefully on the stretcher. Because there was possible damage to the elbow his bad arm was carefully put into a straight position and, assuming Tony could even move it at the moment, meant to stay that way.

James returned the respected nod to Loki before extending out a hand. "James Rhodes, former US Marine." It was an introduction he could recite in his sleep.

"And royal pain in my ass..." Tony quipped which got him a mean look from James.

"Tony, may I remind you of the horrible pain I can put you in if I so much as poke that arm?" James asked, with an evil grin and a finger extended skyward to do the honors if Tony chose his next words poorly.

"Oh no no no I'm good sorry..." Tony meekly let out.

Pepper though smiled as well at Loki's greeting to her. The man certainly knew how to charm and he was quite handsome, she didn't see the look Tony gave her and Loki when he realized she was looking into his eyes. "Very nice to meet you, Pepper Potts." She told him, giving him a polite nod of the head.

"If I may Mr. Rhodes and Ms. Potts." A SHIELD agent had arrived over, in a suit with an ear piece and shades on. Toned in what seemed like a Hispanic heritage. "I don't mean to interrupt things but Mr. Fury wanted me to rely some information over since we have the both of you available. Agent Sam Wilson is going to be running a super powered operative soon, and Fury was interested in the both of you cooperating if you would."

Tony just glanced at the man for a moment wondering if the man's glasses meant he was blind or something. Tony Stark was laying on a stretcher, having his ass just pounded into him by some crazy lady with a hammer. Now all of the sudden Fury wants him to be in some big Government group? "Tell Fury to just get me Victoria and I'll think about it." Tony sighed irritated, and right now the farthest thing from his mind was doing anything else with that God awful suit. The agent gestured to some others. The other two nodded and they helped wheel Tony Stark out of the building to awaiting medical attention.

While the introductions were brief they were respectful and were a solid foundation upon which to build up something more. Loki couldn't help but note that Ms Pots had actually looked him in the eyes and presented herself rather well; A woman of strong will that hadn't even began to come into her own if he was any judge of character. Only time would tell what she would become through.

Glancing towards the as of yet unnamed Shield agent that had been the messenger of the so called 'Mr. Fury', Loki actually seemed rather relaxed and carefree while his brain processed the information that a super powered team was being formed; While Tony had lost the fight against a Mjolnir empowered Tarene he had lasted much, much longer then any natural human had any real right too and Loki suspected that was largely because Tony hadn't expected someone like Tarene to come after him so soon. Not a bad person to work beside...

Turning to the SHIELD agent fully, Loki tilted his head as he made the counter offer "I would like to meet with this Mr. Fury before I make any commitment to this team of his. I'm sure he wouldn't have any objections to that."