The writing in the brackets is Akilah's thoughts and comments on what are happening form outside of the story and the speaking will be in italics.
Prologue
Hi there, my name is Akilah Stark; you might recognize my last name from my father, Tony Stark.
I know what your thinking 'wow your rich, you really have a good life,' well no, not really. Considering I'm a government agent but hide that fact from my dad and act like a bimbo, like Pepper Potts, only joking I love her really just not really sure if she's right for my dad even though she puts up with him better than I do some times.
The only person, who actually knows that I am part of S.H.E.I.L.D is my best friend Kenna, she is the 'apprentice' of Hawkeye, if you ask me she has a much better shot, and I'm not just saying that so she doesn't hunt me down to get revenge.
Anyway, at the moment I am sitting opposite Director Nick Fury and Maria Hill of the organisation S.H.E.I.L.D, speeding towards a research facility, because of an alarm that Hawkeye had risen about a possible malfunction involving the Tesseract.
You see not long ago, my father found this thing called the Tesseract and a man in an ice cube, called Steve.
Well Hawky and Kenna are watching the team that is researching the cube and were told to raise the alarm if something went wrong, which explains why we are rushing.
Anyway, when we arrived both me and Maria schooled our features and followed Fury, while observing the panic. "How bad is it?" he asked. "That's the problem sir we don't know." Coulson who was waiting for us to arrive replied as we made our way towards the elevator.
Leaving the lift Coulson continued to explain "Dr Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract 4 hours ago". "NASA didn't authorise Selvig to run any tests today." Fury stated in his no nonsense tone. "Wasn't a test sir, wasn't even in the room. Spontaneous event" "It just turned itself on?" Maria questioned in disbelief.
"What are the energy levels now?" Fury inquired ignoring her comment. "Climbing, When Selvig couldn't shut it down we ordered an evac." "How long 'till you get everyone out?" "Campus should be clear in the next half hour." "Do better." Fury ordered finally turning to look at him before continuing on his way toward the research part of the lab.
"Sir Evacuation could be futile." Maria said as we walked down a set of stairs. "We should tell them to go back to sleep?" fury mocked causing her to look to `me for help, but I simply shrugged not wanting to go against him on this account. "If we can't control the Tesseract's energy there may not be a minimum safe distance." She explained her case. "I need you to make sure that the phase 2 prototypes are shipped out." Fury said glancing back at her as we were almost at the lab by now.
"Sir, is that really a priority right now?" she questioned. "Until such time as the world ends we shall act as though it intends to spin on." Fury rounded on her from the small platform that led into the lab. "Clear out the deck below, every piece of phase 2 on a truck and gone." He said walking closer to the door. "Yes Sir." She replied walking past him in a huff. As fury watched her leave with two guards that had been posted at the door he signalled me with his eyes to check for anything that could pass as tempering by one of the scientists.
As we entered the lab Fury called out "Talk to me Dr." causing Selvig aged head to pop out from behind this circular thing that was holding the Tesseract. "Director?" he questioned seeing the intimidating man striding towards him. "Is there anything that we know for certain?" "Yeah he should have used iridium to make the energy mire stable." I say only to be ignored by the Dr but catch a glint in fury's eye. "The Tesseract's misbehaving." "Is that supposed to be funny?" "No it's not funny at all. The Tesseract is not only active she, behaving." He justified himself now walking side by side with my boss. "How soon can you pull the plug?" he questioned clearly not understanding the situation.
"She's an energy source. We turn the power off she turns it back on." Selvig said as if it were easy to understand. "If she reaches peak level .." he went onto say going back toward the circular thing only to be interrupted by Fury. "You should be prepared for this doctor, harnessing energy from space." Fury elaborated at my look of confusion.
"We don't have the harness. My calculations are far from complete and she's throwing off interference, radiation nothing harmful." He explained looking down at a screen, with me looking over his shoulder. "Low levels of gamma radiation," I inform fury as he looks at the Tesseract.
"That can be harmful." He replied looking back at the doctor. "Where's agent Barton?" "The hawk? Up in his nest as usual." Selvig said pointing towards a gap near the ceiling causing me to look up and way at Kenna, not that she saw. As Fury summoned 'Hawkey' as I like to call him, I wondered off looking at the equipment for anything that shouldn't have been there or didn't fit in with the project.
"Dr. its spiking again." A female scientist called form behind one of the monitors causing both me and Selvig to go and investigate as Fury continued to question Clint. I am sure Kenna is hiding somewhere among the shadows. "Oh god I surround myself with idiots. Tesseract + no Iridium = no stability= big boom!" I muttered just before the Tesseract gave a huge pulse of energy and shot a beam which opened what looked like a portal on a conveniently placed platform opposite. "Or a portal,"
The 'portal' then collapsed form the platform and reformed on the ceiling leaving a man was left with smoke rising from his clothing and crouched on the platform.
"Guns down, we don't know why he is here or who he is!" "Sir, please put down the spear." Fury called, god I wish we hadn't opened our mouths, because as soon as we had said that he looked down at the 'spear' and shot out an attack of blue energy, causing all of us to drop to the floor.
He then jumped form the platform and killed one of the guard by putting the tip of his spear through the poor man's chest, before releasing some throwing knives that landed in each if the guards throats that were shooting at him and yet he received no wound. He then proceeded to shoot at a computer monitor and slice a man's neck with the spear before some back up guards and Clint gained his attention by shooting him in the neck. As he shot an energy pulse towards them Clint was the only one with enough sense to move out of the blasts way.
After taking out every one of the guards I could see the 'alien' looking for the next threat, from my place by Fury as his protection, but upon finding that he had killed all of them, he moved towards Clint who had risen to his feet and made for the gun strapped to his thigh, caught his hand and spoke "You have heart." He stated before he touched the tip of his spear to the part of his chest that rests just over his heart. And just like that he released his gun and followed the mystery guy like a freaking sheep.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Fury take the Tesseract out of that complete failure of a machine and put it into a safe case before standing up, helping me up and then we started to quietly walk out.
When his voice stopped us "Please don't, I still need that?" "This doesn't have to get any messier." Fury replied not looking at the man. "Corse it does. I've come too far for anything else." He said causing Fury and I to turn around and look at the intruder properly. "I am Loki of Asgard. And I am burdened with glorious purpose" He introduced looking both me and Fury in the eye. Selvig then said something that I could not hear as he was only speaking quietly but still managed to gain Loki's attention. I am guessing that he did not like what he heard as a scowl had appeared on his faced. "We have no quarrel with your people." Fury said, causing him to turn his head back towards us. "An ant has no quarrel with a boot." 'Loki' remarked. "Are you planning on stepping on us?" I asked stepping out from behind Fury and moving closer towards this man.
"Hawky, what's wrong with you, why are your eyes blue?" I thought to myself walking over to him, analysing the changes that were noticeable, ignoring the rest of the conversation as I had already figured out that fury was stalling hoping to bury them and escape during the chaos.
His staring was starting to freak me out, so I started clicking my fingers in front of his eyes, with no success.
When Clint told 'him' that Fury was distracting him, until the compound collapsed on top of us, while walking towards him and dragging me along with him. I regret to say that I didn't fight him because once upon a time he was a friend. "Kilah, whatever you so don't," As they explained what would happen Loki moved closer to me, looked me in the eye and touched the tip of the spear to my chest. "Turn around I heard through the communication device in my ear.
All I felt was a numbing cold and all of a sudden I could think so much more clearly and all I wanted to do was follow this man to the ends of the earth.
"He's right the portal is collapsing in on itself we got maybe two minutes before this thing goes critical." Erik explained looking back at Loki form the computer monitor. "Well then." He replied looking at Clint who suddenly shot at fury. When I heard the body of Fury crash to the ground, I knew it was wrong but I didn't feel anything for the man who had taken care of me for most of my life.
As we walked past Fury's body on the ground I heard "Akilah, you are about to have your head bashed in." through the com and all of a sudden everything went black, I did however feel myself being picked up but was too tired to find out by who.
When I did eventually come to it was to see myself looking at a crouched Loki as we travelled at high speeds away from the research lab in one of the jeeps that was meant to be loading the prototypes, with the sound of the blades of an helicopter in my head. All of a sudden I realised what was happening but instead of attacking the culprit I tried to get to the Tesseract.
Unfortunately Selvig had a pretty tight grip on the case and Fury was shooting at the car making it more difficult to move around without the possibility of getting injured. Sitting back down and looking at Loki I noticed that the travel from where ever to here must have drained him as he was hunched and had a light sheen of sweat covering his brow. Finally getting annoyed at the shooting he readied his spear and just as he was about to let the energy bolt lose I pushed his arm knowing that it would give Fury enough time to escape the carriage of the copter, however to get back at me Loki grabbed my arm looked into my eyes with what could have possibly been remorse and threw me off the back of the truck panting.
Instead of hitting the cold hard ground like what would normally happen I activated my suite and flew over to my boss with the suggestion of my trailing the truck since I could fly and it would be easy to keep up with the speed they were travelling at.
After Fury turned down the idea and sent out a message on all of the com's that we are now officially at war I turned to Kenna and asked if she was okay, her reply was
"Fine;" then she turned tome "except from a twisted ankle, aching back, grazed elbow and a pounding headache." I know what you're thinking and yes she is a whiner. (I love you really.)
After arriving back on the Hellicarrier SHIELD's headquarters Director Fury and I were ushered straight into the council meeting chamber where a live video feed of the world's council of protection were waiting to converse with Fury while I stood in the shadows looking like a good little soldier who was there to add different types of input that Fury did not yet have. "This is outta line Director, you're dealing with forces that you cannot control." One of them said with a smug tone as if he were berating a small child instead of the head of the biggest secret military. "You ever been in a war council man? In a fire fight? Did you feel an overabundance of control?" Fury questioned back. "Your saying that this Asgard is declaring war on pour planet?" he questioned as if he hadn't read the report that was probably sent to each of them courtesy of Maria Hill
"Not Asgard, Loki." Fury stated and if his expression is anything to go by he was just as annoyed at them as I was. "He can't be working alone. What about the other one, his brother?" the only female council member questioned, at least she had read some of the report. "Our intelligence says that Thor's not a hostile but he's worlds away. We can't depend on him to help either. It's up to us." He informed them. "Which is why you should be focusing on phase two it was designed for exactly this." Spoke the middle council man "Phase two isn't ready council man, our enemy is!" I spoke while stepping forward to stand by Fury's side. "We need a response team." I said looking at Fury but talking to the council.
"The avengers initiative was shut down." He replied looking at me and Fury as if he wanted nothing more than to get rid of us, we all know that they only got rid of it because they were too scared to put their faith in five people. "This isn't about the Avengers." Fury explained calmly before being interrupted. "We're saying to running the world greatest covert security network is going to leave the fate of the human race to a handful of freaks." He argued, causing Fury to bite back before I could insult the old geezer. "I'm not leaving anything to anyone, we need a response team." Fury explained once again maybe just to piss them off for me. "These people may be isolated, unbalanced even but I believe with the right push they can be exactly what we need." "You believe." The female repeated, I personally thought she was warming up to the idea.
"War is not won by sentiment, Director." "No it's won by soldiers." I said cutting in once again looking the council man right in the eye. Before leaving the room toward the flight deck as I had understood that Fury would be included in the recruiting.
After landing in where ever we had landed I followed Fury, holding a file containing all the information that whichever of the avengers we were taking would need, into a gym that was surprisingly still open. My guess Steve Rodger AKA Captain America, Kenna hates him for some reason.
We stopped at the entrance gate and watched as he started to punch a bag before fury called out "Having trouble sleeping?" "Slept for seventy years sir, think I've had my fill." He replied going back to punching the bag. "Then you should get out, celebrating." Fury said walking forward but looking back at me for that part showing that he was up to something "Seeing the world." For some reason this little comment made him stop with the exercise and move to unbind his hands. "When I went under there was a war, when I wake up they say we won. They didn't say what we lost" He explained.
"we have made some mistakes along the way, some very recently." Fury told him holding his hand out for the folder, which I promptly placed in his hand. "You here with a mission, sir?" "He is." I said feeling kinda left out of the mix. "Trying to get me back into the world?" "Trying to save it." He replied handing the folder to the supposed super soldier, before nodding for me to continue. "Hydra's secret weapon?" Stave whispered to himself as he started to flick through the file. "Our Stark fished that out of the ocean, when he was looking for you. He thought what we think the Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world sorely needs." I explained while fury looked around. "Who took it from you?" "He's called Loki." Fury answered before I could. "He's not from around here." I said watching the good ole Captain's reaction. "There's a lot we will have to bring you up to speed on if you're in." Fury said nodding his head to me acknowledging that I had to leave for Stark towers so my father didn't get worried about me. "The world has gotten even more stranger than you already know." I said before turning to leave but not before hearing "At this point I doubt anything will surprise me." "Ten bucks says your wrong." Was the last thing I heard as the door swung shut, so that was what he was planning cunning old spy. I thought as I activated the thrusters of my suit so I could fly home to spend some quality time with the family.