Chapter 134: A Low-key comeback (part2)

I pushed the labdoor open and entered the lab.

Tony and Banner both looked tired. Tony was munching away a bag with blue berries; staring at a holographic screen while Banner was studying Loki's scepter while sipping away at his coffee.

"Hi," I said.

Both scientist looked up, startled. "Oh, hey kid." Tony said, "Want some blueberries?"

"No thanks," I said, ignoring the fact that Tony called me a kid again.

"Is something wrong?" Tony asked.

He waved his hands across the holographic screen in front of him, windows closed and popped up.

"No," I said. "I was just wondering if I could borrow your phone."

Tony raised an eyebrow, "you want to borrow my phone?"

My face turned red, "Yeah. I'm trying to figure out Loki's plan but I kinda need internet access. I think I can figure out Loki's plan if I read just enough information."

"Is this one of your other Mutant powers?" Tony asked.

I shrugged. "I'm like a sponge when it comes to absorbing information. The point is, I don't have a phone."

It was true, I could maybe figure out Loki's plan with a little help from my mind palace. The point was, I had absolutely no knowledge about this world.

It was similar to my own but there were a few distinct differences. I needed to know what those were. I can't solve an equation without all the variables.

Tony frowned. "You don't have a phone? Everyone has a phone nowadays."

"Not me," I said.

"'Why not?" Tony asked, clearly not letting it go.

I decided to give him a little bit of information. "When I use things like computers and phones they tend to cause troubles."

"Troubles?" Tony asked, sarcastically.

"Well," I said. "Let's say that I have a lot of enemies who can track me if I use something electric. But since we're in the sky I think it's safe,"

And because there were not monsters in this world. Well except for the Hydra SHIELD apparently hassomewhere.

"Can't you ask someone elses?" Tony said. "I'm kind of in the middle of something."

"You're actually the only one I know on this ship with a working phone. Natasha and Steve both don't use on. Or atleast, a normal one. Thor does not have a smartphone and the same for the Banner. I could ask any of the SHIELD employers but I don't want them to track me."

"Oh," Tony said, "In that case."

He fished up his phone, it looked like a blueish glass plate instead of a phone. But I guess it was his own design.

"Good luck kid." Tony said, "And don't mess with the settings."

With that he pushed me out of his lab and I was back in the corridor.

"Well," I said. "That went better than expected."

'You could've asked me.' Chaos said suddenly.

'You have a phone?'

'No.' Chaos said.

'Do you know how to use a phone?' I Asked.

'No.'

"See," I said out loud. "Now let's find a place I can use my mind palace properly."

...

"I am Loki," Loki said. "From Asgard."

My eyes widened and for a second I was silent, then I said: "I am Percy Jackson. From Manhattan."

I frowned, and swiped my hand through the video in front of me.

I walked around the past version of Loki, trying to see what my mind palace was trying to tell me.

While I was revisiting my old memory; real time me was googling everything the media had to say about: Hulk, Iron Man and Captain America.

Past me tackled Loki to the ground and the God dropped to the ground.

The scepter fell out of his hands and rolled a few inches away.

"Stop!" I said and the memory froze.

"What's it I need to see?" I asked my mind Palace politely.

The memory in front of me began to zoom in on Loki's face, first I thought it was zooming in on Loki but when it kept zooming in I was lost again.

It stopped zooming in on Loki when the only thing left were Loki's eyes.

His green eyes.

"Green?" I said out loud, I thought his eyes were blue.

"Mind Palace," I said, "Show me other memories of Loki. Focus on the eye color."

The image in front of me shattered to pieces and I was standing in a black void again.

Then several images popped up, all floating around me.

I saw Loki standing in front of the crowd, Loki lying on the ground after Tony, Steve and I had beaten him. Loki standing on top of the cliff when Thor had abducted him and Loki shooting an energy blast at the helicopter I had been in.

In two of the images Loki had green eyes. In the other two images Loki had blue eyes.

'Why?' I wondered.

I knew that gods could change their appearance but this one was to subtle.

"Mind Palace," I said, "Try to figure out why Loki's eye color changed."

The images in front of me began to play, like a regular video.

The first video showed Loki standing in front of the crowd with the scepter in his hand. Then the video skipped to the part we had beaten him.

My eyes widened, "The Scepter!" I said out loud.

I glanced at all the images and it suddenly snapped. The scepter changes Loki's eyes color.

When he had been firing at us he had blue eyes. And he was holding the scepter.

When he was standing in front of the crowd, in Germany, he had blue eyes and a scepter in his hand.

When we had beaten him his eyes were green, and the scepter was no longer in his hands.

I gasped. "Mind Palace," I said. "Does the Scepter affects Loki's eye color?"

The images in front of me shattered.

A white word floated in front of me, YES

I grinned, "Thanks Mind Palace."

I frowned, "Al though, I should give you a name at some point."

Maybe I could make my mind palace work like Jarvis, as an AI that could summon up information at will.

Maybe….I had to look into this a bit more.

I swiped my hand through the word YES and sighed.

"Okay, next question. Why is the Scepter changing Loki's eye color?"

When nothing popped up I sighed. This was going to be a long session.

"Okay, search everything I know about the Scepter and try to find a link with colors."

More things popped up, News articles (Duel of Harlem), SHIELD files about Thor and Loki and a live footage of Loki grinning in his cell (this guy was up to something)

I sighed, this was going to be a long brainstorm session.