They were trained at SHIELD to do everything they could to complete missions, but they weren't taught to die for no reason.
SHIELD spent a lot of time and resources to train elite agents, and they weren't in the habit of wasting the lives of agents.
Phil, who had just come around the other way down the hill, frowned.
SHIELD's surveillance hadn't picked up Luke's first armor-piercing shell, so they hadn't known how strong the Destroyer's defense was.
Now that the Destroyer was unscathed by the rocket shower, Phil knew that he had no weapons on his side that could deal with the Destroyer.
"Stop," Phil ordered decisively.
Loki frowned and checked the state of the Destroyer. He found nothing wrong, so he ignored the inexplicable "firework attack" and looked at Thor again. "Are these your reinforcements? You've been reduced to relying on Midgardians to save your life. How pitiful."
