After the demolishment of the secret underground facility that S.H.I.E.L.D tried to keep for the Tesseract, Nick Fury looked out into the desert with his usual stoic demeanor. Yet his eyes gave away what he was truly thinking. He knew that it was time to set in motion the plan of which he set into motion a long time ago. He called for a Code Seven, stating that the world was now at war and he needed his unbeatable army. He called Coulson to call Romanoff to make the arrangements ready for his soldiers, but after he had to think. Loki, being the esteemed Norse God of Mischief, and Barton, one of his top spies, he knew he needed someone who no one knew of. A little legend between the No See/No Hear means nothing happened groups. So he made another call.
He used a number that one of his younger agents extracted and sent to him before they were terminated on their assignment. The call had three rings then the line was picked up. There was no tone in the line, and to the untrained ear, it would have sound like nothing, but to agents someone was clearly listening in to the caller. "I have a job," Nick said in a stoic voice. The line was silent for a moment until a nasal raspy old female voice quoted, "You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor. You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you. How do you get out?" Nick thought only for a second and replied, "You look in the mirror you see what you saw, you take the saw and you cut the table in half, two halves make a whole, and you climb out the hole." He felt the woman smirk through the phone and she asked, "What's the job?" Nick explained, "I need a cunning young agent. I want "her."" Nick emphasized the "her." The woman cackled on the other side and questioned again, "Job?" Nick thought of his words carefully and stated, "I need her to steal something for me. A standard in and out, don't care who all she takes out, kind of job." The woman then said manically, "Why call us "Fury?" Why not one of your agents?" Nick replied without hesitation, "I need someone who is not afraid to deal with monsters." The woman then cackled again and stated, "Double her usual fee, and you have a deal." Nick then replied, "Very well. She is to meet up at the coordinates I will send, and do as ordered." The woman stated slyly, "Don't worry, she always does," and hung up the phone on Fury. Fury thought about whom he just called and said, "I hope this will work." He went out and prepared to make his preparations for his guest. On the other side of the line, the dark figure woman turned to her kneeling agents and said in a commanding tone, "VIDE, SIS EST! Extraction from S.H.I.E.L.D.. You know what to do." A young masked agent bowed her head even further to the figure before her and replied, "Yes, Guild Master."
The young agent walked to her room and found the coordinates of where she needed to head to immediately and she took off. She used her skills to harness a small jet to take her out to one of her safe houses to stock up on supplies. Standard issued guns, knives, a small blade katana, grenades, energy bars and drinks, water, a small stereo, her earphones, and her favorite weapon. She took the jet out to where the coordinates that the agent Fury sent to the Guild Master and they took her to the middle of a navy like ship out in the middle of the ocean. She landed the plane by telling them that Fury sent for her and once she landed and got off the plane, a deep brunet-haired woman stood before her in a S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform. The young agent smirked beneath her black haft-masked face that only covered her face from the nose and under eyes down, and spoked cockily, "Hill. It's been a while. Last time I remember, Imphal, right?" Hill just approached the young agent, handed her a little too big for her liking file, and stated, "Learn these. You will need them for the assignment." The young agent replied, "Alright, Capitan." The young agent walked into the large ship, a new recruit to showed her to her private quarters of the vessel, and the young agent began to study what she needed to know. As she studied, she saw a bunch of pictures with human profiles and she stated, "I'll look over those later," and she looked at the scientific part of the folder. She examined it for a moment until she remembered where she saw this before and questioned, "Thermal Nuclear Astrophysics? What would S.H.I.E.L.D. need with that?" Then she began to read the work of one Dr. Selvig and she began to understand why S.H.I.E.L.D. had this man. "An unlimited energy source, my ass," the young agent began, "I sincerely hope that anyone will not buy this bullshit." Then she thought that she needed to get into the S.H.I.E.L.D. files for her extraction assignment, but she would have to wait. She sighed heavily and read the rest of the report, starting with the Physics and ending with the people who she might have had to work with.
The young agent stayed up all night to fully read and look up details on these so called, "Avengers Initiates." A lab-cooked old school soldier boy, an over-obsessed child with big toys, a man with anger management issues that put Charlie Sheen to shame, a Pantene spokesmodel of a "god," and the woman of mystery who she had history with, that was the S.H.I.E.L.D. A-team? She went out the landing deck, hopped up on one of the jets, and basked in the sun with her black crop top that was a turtleneck with no sleeves and black shorts that went to her thighs. She had on black ankle boots with no heel extension and she wore black fingerless gloves. Her mask was still on and her medium brown hair was put into a mid-level ponytail that made it reach her upper mid back. She ignored the rustlings of the soldiers of SHEILD and listened to the rolling waves of the ocean.
She heard the sound of a helicarrier land on the landing deck and she glanced over to see who all was coming out of the plane. She saw her "dear old friend" Agent Romanoff going up to the passengers and I saw the nicely dressed man in shades introduce them to each other. The man in the brown leather jacket and shirt that was too old even for her dead grandfather to wear was none other than Captain Steve Rogers. She heard him call Romanoff "Ma'am" and the young agent resting on the plane scoffed as if he insulted her. She called off the man in the suit and began to talk to Captain Rogers as they walked over to the edge of the ship to overlook the side of the ocean. The young agent was still in her spot on the plane that was right near the edge that they were walking to, and she just intently listened to whatever they had to say. She heard "Rogers" call out to the squeamish looking man who looked like a terrified mouse within a house full of cats. She looked casually over to the men as they awkwardly communicated with each other. Romanoff told them that they might want to go inside because it was going to get a little harder to breathe. The ship then began to morph like a Transformer and then the young agent understood what Romanoff meant. Captain Rogers asked if that vessel was a submarine and the squeamish man asked if they really wanted him in a submerged, pressurized, metal container, and that is when the young agent spoke from her spot. "Oh you wish," she stated with no tone in her voice. All three of the people looked up to see the agent sit up from her spot, jump down next to the two men, and began to walk over to the side. They followed her to see that there was fan like engines getting ready to fly and the squeamish man replied, "No, no, this is much worse." The young agent bopped her head to her right shoulder, pivoted, and began to walk to the inside of the ship. Agent Romanoff glared at the young agent as she walked past her.
The young agent was the first to make it out to the control area of the ship and she sat down at the table to wait for the other guest. Fury, already being at his post, turned around to address her. "Are you briefed?" he asked her stoically. "As much as I need to be," she replied back with the same tone, her eyes not giving away any emotion. They waited a moment until the three from the landing dock arrived and watched them all diligently as they walked out to the command center. Rogers was astonish by what he saw and the squeamish man looked even more nervous than before, if that was even possible. The young agent looked at Agent Hill secure the vessel making sure every was as it was supposed to be and checked it to Fury who told his crew to vanish. Fury turned back to the table again and addressed the men who came in, "Gentlemen." The young agent noticed that Rogers slipped Fury a ten and she raised an eyebrow, but decided not to question it. Fury went up to the squeamish man while Rogers went out to admire the sky, "Doctor, thank you for coming." Fury offered him a handshake and the man didn't look to happy and responded, "Thanks for asking nicely. So, how long am I staying?" The agent perked her ears to listen carefully, because she wanted to know the answer to that as well as the "doctor" did. Fury stated that when the Tesseract was found then they could go. "Where are you with that?" the young agent spoke up emotionlessly from her seat. Both of the men turned to her with shocked expressions on their faces. The man in the suit from earlier said that they were sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. The young agent glanced swiftly over at Rogers who had a look of confusion on his face. Romanoff said that would take too long and the young agent replied, "That's too wide of a field. You need to narrow it down." Fury looked confused and the doctor asked, "How many spectrometers do you have access to?" Fury crossed his arms and asked, "How many are there?" The young agent then spoke, "Tell every lab you have access to, to get their spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma radiation." The doctor whipped around to the agent sitting at the table with no expression and continued, "I'll rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places." The doctor then walked over to the table and asked quietly, "How did you-" the young agent cut him off, "I read the report yesterday and caught up with the other logistics after I finished my folder reading, Doctor Banner. My name is Phantom." Phantom was quiet when answering him and then went back to observing the deck with complete focus in her eyes. Banner was stunned by Phantom, even with the packet briefing, it wouldn't be sufficient enough to produce enough knowledge to know how gamma radiation works. Banner chose to ask later then asked Fury if he had a workstation for him and Fury ordered Romanoff to show Banner to his laboratory. Romanoff teased Banner as they made their way out of the room.
After they left, Captain Rogers glanced over to the young girl and began to assess her within his mind. "She can't even be in her late teens yet. Her body is too small to be fully grown and her voice isn't fully developed either. She's also showing way too much skin for a child," Rogers though diligently. He made an assumption and walked over to the young girl. He began with, "Hi, I'm Captain Steve Rogers, and might I ask who you are?" The young girl glanced up to him and stated, "Phantom. That's what you may call me." He pulled up a seat next to her and tried to initiate a conversation, "So are you a S.H.I.E.L.D agent? When did you start? Are your parents S.H.I.E.L.D agents as well? How old exactly are-" Phantom raised her left hand up to him as a way to silence him and responded stoically, "No. Didn't. Never, and you don't need to know that. Captain, no disrespect, but you don't need to know anything about me." Phantom then went back to observing the control room, and Rogers took off his jacket and put it on her shoulders while stating, "I know you're too young to show that much skin. Plus, it's cold in here." She was about to object to him, by stating that she didn't need his jacket but he already walked over to Coulson. She then just kept it on her shoulders and continued to observe the room, waiting for her chances to work.
After hours of looking, Phantom heard one of the computers beeping from the left side of the controlling room. It said 79% cross match, and that was when Fury nodded to her and she dashed to her room to gather her guns, knives, earphones, IPod, and her special weapon. She put on her black leather trench coat that had a hoodie and went down to her ankle. She walked over to the quinjets and waited for the others to come, but only Romanoff and Rogers came. Rogers was in his Captain America suit while Romanoff was in her tradition black tight cat suit. When all three of them went into the quinjet and sat at the positions. Rogers looked up to Phantom and said with concern, "Just stay here. I don't want you to get hurt." Phantom then responded with no emotions, "That's sweet of you to care, but I have a job to do Rogers. I can handle myself, just as much as you can." The rest of the flight was quiet until Captain spilled out the game plan. He tried to keep Phantom out, but she told him that she was going to fight, with or without his permission by stating, "I work for Fury, not you Captain. I was hired to obtain the Tesseract by any means necessary and I fully intend to do so." The rest of the flight was quiet. Steve chose to jump out of the plane, like some daredevil, while Phantom had Romanoff drop her off on a street nearby. While she waited, Phantom took out her IPod with her wireless earbuds and put on "Not Afraid" by Eminem. Phantom ran over to an unoccupied motorcycle and hotwired it. She drove off to where she calculated Captain would be dropping and drove up to see a boatload of citizens kneeling to a man with large ram-like gold horns without the curve. She heard the man addressing Captain while Romanoff came up in the helicarrier with her big gun ready to fire. Using the moment of distraction she jumped off the motorcycle and rolled around the people who were kneeling to get closer to the target without being noticed.
When the man fired and Captain threw his shield, Phantom sprung into action to aid Captain America. When Loki hit Captain to a distance, Phantom whipped out her special weapon and locked into a strength off between her weapon and Loki's. "A scythe? A weapon of death, wouldn't you agree?" Loki taunted at Phantom. She didn't seemed phased but she put more strength into pushing Loki's scepter away and went for his left side. He managed to barely block her, but then she went for a bottom sweep and tripped him up. Using her momentum, she hit the side of his helmet with the bottom staff of the scythe, stomped him on his right foot, spun around, elbowed him in the gut, then jumped, and kicked him three feet away. She then ran towards him and he swung his scepter at her, she managed to block it, but it sent her at a distance and Captain rejoined the fight by sending his shield at Loki. Loki hit the shield with his scepter to the ground and Captain charged at him, and then they both went to go at him. When Captain fell, Loki put his scepter on Captain and commanded him to kneel. Captain responded by grabbing the scepter and kicking him in the chest. Phantom reran up to the men and fought with Loki on her own. She used spins to keep up her speed, but as soon as she went for a reverse back kick, she noticed Captain would have also been hit, so she slowed it down. Loki realized, so he grabbed her leg and used the momentum to send her over the stairs. Then out of no where AC/DC's "Shoot to Thrill" came blaring from the helicarriers PA system. A robot looking machine flew up and blasted Loki to the stairs a few steps away from Phantom. Loki hit his back hard against the stairs and the robot man had a miniature missile and a blaster pointed at Loki, and with a cocky voice the man inside challenged, "Make your move, Reindeer Games." Phantom, refusing to think that she wouldn't be the one getting the guy, appeared behind him, and put the blade of her scythe against his throat holding it with her right hand while the left held the staff, "And choose carefully, Rudolf." Captain came up with his shield, trying to look threatening, Loki's armor disappeared and he put his hands up in surrender. The robot man dropped his weapons while Phantom kept her scythe on his neck until she knew that he was incapacitated. "Good move," the robot man began. His head moved over to the girl holding a scythe against the criminals neck and said with slight mockery in his voice, "Nice side-kicking, I like you." The girl smirked beneath her mask and said with little to no emotion, "It's hard not to." The two men then addressed each other awkwardly and Romanoff came with handcuffs, and cuffed Loki while Phantom kept thinking over the scenario, "He easily fought off Captain and me. Even if Stark finally showed up, using that staff, he could have gotten away. I need to watch him. This wasn't a surrender, this was an enter the enemy base operation."
While on the helicarrier, Phantom sat at the opposite side of Loki while holding out a handheld gun aimed at his head, ready to strike if need be. While watching, Captain and Stark observed the two before them as if they were trying to enter within their heads. Captain had a look of confusion in his eyes while Stark kept eyes on them as if he was solving an advance mathematical equation. Eventually, Captain couldn't contain himself anymore and he turned his back and started to discuss with Stark, "I don't like it." Stark then commented, "What, Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" Captain then tried to object to Loki being taken was easy because he packed a punch, but Phantom knew what Stark was getting at. Loki did give up too easily. Stark then went on to tease Captain about his age and when Stark said "Capsicle," Phantom let out a snort trying not to laugh at the pun. Both the men then glanced over to Phantom who retained her usual no expression, while keeping her gun pointed at Loki. Captain then commented, "Fury didn't tell me that he was calling you in." Stark kept his gaze at Phantom, motioning over to her, replying, "Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you."
Sensing that Stark was going to ask something, Phantom turned her head over to the men, until lightning started to spring out of nowhere. Loki then leaned forward, looking onto the ceiling windows, as if he was afraid of something to appear. Captain noticed, so he decided to question, "What's the matter? Are you scared of a little lightning?" Loki looked as if he was offended and remembered something vile within his eyes, "I'm not overly fond of what follows." Phantom then evaluated what Loki said and then it clicked. She grabbed onto her scythe and hid on a small narrow corner of the helicarrier by the door. Captain and Stark both looked puzzled of why she was doing what she was doing. Then a giant thump came over the vessel and everyone felt the impact and thought of what exactly that could have been. Phantom, already aware of what or who it might be, sat quietly for the intruder. Stark put on his helmet and opened the door to face whatever was out there. Captain, not knowing Stark's plan, question him until a large muscular man appeared in the front. He had on a long red cape, and long gorgeous blond hair. Loki then looked immediately afraid of the trespasser, and Stark went up to face him. When Stark put up his blaster, the intruder hit him with his giant hammer into Captain, and walked over to Loki. He grabbed Loki by the front of his shirt, then went to his shoulder as they walked out. Before they took off, Phantom came out of her spot, wrapped her staff around the neck of the intruder, and held on while the three of them took off.
As they went through the sky, the intruder yelled, "How dare you latch onto me, Thor, Son of Odin?! Unhand me or face your demise!" He thrashed his body to shake off the pest that wouldn't dare to let go. "IF I LET YOU GO, I WILL MEET MY DEMISE!" Phantom yelled back defiantly, struggling to keep her grip. Thor landed in a cliff overlooking a forest. He threw Loki to the ground, grabbed Phantom and threw her a distance away. She put her hands up in the air, surrendering, and yelled, "HEY, HEY HEY! I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT YOU!" Thor then went up to her and asked, "Then why follow us?" Phantom knew not to lie because she knew that Loki was the God of Mischief and Lies, so she decided to tell the truth: "I was hired to get Loki, because he took something that wasn't his. My boss wants it back, so he hired me to obtain it because I am one of the best at what I do. I don't want to harm or kill Loki, but I do need him for interrogation to find what he stole." Thor then looked taken back by her confession, and he stated, "What did Loki take?" She looked up at him with her azure eyes and stated, "The Tesseract." Thor then looked deeply into her azure eyes and said, "The Tesseract doesn't belong on Mid-Guard, as for your boss. I will tell him the same and see that you will be paid for going after Loki, my young warrior." Phantom wasn't too happy about that answer, so she requested as innocently as her stomach would let her to play at Thor's gentlemanly side that she read about in his profile, "May I at least take Loki in to show my boss that I did locate and capture him and then you may barter with my superiors?" Thor then smiled at the young girl and agreed. He turned his attention over to Loki with strictness in his eyes.
Thor went up to Loki demanding to know where the Tesseract was. Loki played with Thor by saying that he missed him too. Thor asked if he looked to be "in a gaming mood," and that made Phantom raise an eyebrow at his old English. Loki then said that Thor should have been happy that the Bifrost was gone, and that made Phantom question these two even more than she did before. As Loki struggled to get up, Thor helped him, but at first, it seemed to be threatening. However, when Thor saw Loki, his eyes went soft. When Thor said, "I thought you dead," Phantom fully understood what Loki meant to Thor. Loki asked if he mourned and Thor told him that his whole family did and when Thor said, "Our father," and Loki countered, "Your father." Loki talked of his true lineage and Thor countered that they were raised together, they played together, they fought together, and if Loki remembered any of it. Loki said he remembered the shade of Thor's greatness, Thor tossing him into an abyss, and how he should have been a king. Phantom then understood why these two had their strains. Loki and Thor had "father issues." Thor probably was an heir while Loki got pushed to the side, because of his true bloodline, causing him to act out, but why to this extreme Phantom couldn't wrap her finger around. Phantom felt a twinge of jealousy towards Loki in that moment, but chose to suppress her feelings and let the men work this out themselves. Thor then thought that Loki was trying to obtain the Earth because of Thor's deep love of it and then proclaimed that it was under his protection. Loki mocked Thor with his power over the Earth. Loki then looked over to Phantom standing away from them and stated, "The humans slaughter each other in droves while you idly fret. I mean to rule them, as why should I not?" He turned his direction back to Thor and Thor rebutted challengingly, "You think yourself above them?" Loki then answered swiftly, "Well, yes." Phantom immediately gripped down on her scythe, because Loki was dangerously reminding her of someone she hated long ago. "Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. A throne would suit you ill," Thor tried to warn Loki the dangers of ruling and Loki looked offended by what Thor proposed. Loki pushed Thor away, walked up to the edge of the cliff, and announced, "I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile. I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it…" Thor interrupted, "Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be king?" Loki then yelled like a child that he was a king and Thor grabbed him by his upper arms and demanded, "Not here! You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream!"
Thor then went soft and begged Loki while gently holding the back of his as ancient civilizations did to show a bond of warriors, "You come home." Loki then replied cold heartedly "I don't have it." Phantom then lost it. She appeared behind Loki, grabbed him, threw him to the ground, and had her scythe against his throat while proclaiming, "You are a spoiled brat who cannot see the love and joy you bring to others. That love and joy is your home, not a kingdom you rule, you complete and utter dumbass." Thor then summoned his hammer to his side as Loki stated, "You need the Cube to send me home, but I've sent it off, I know not where." Phantom read his eyes and stated coldly to the deserving man, "Bullshit. You wouldn't send off your most powerful weapon without the knowledge of where it was going. I'm not stupid, Loki." Thor then raised up his hammer and stated, "You listen well, brother." Before he could finish his statement, Stark crashed into him and sent them off into the forest below. "I'm listening," Loki responded to no one. Phantom pushed her scythe down on his throat causing a little blood to spill, and said, "Shut it. You're down speaking for now."
Phantom glanced down to the men who were about to fight each other and she just sighed with an annoyed strain in her tone. Thor threatened Stark, "Do not touch me again." Stark, like the overgrown child he was, threatened back, "Then don't take my stuff." When Thor tried to explain to Stark that he didn't know what he was dealing with, Stark looked back up to Phantom and back to Thor. His immediate tease was, "Ugh, Shakespeare in the Park? Doth Mother know you wear-eth her drapes?" Phantom, being at the age she was, snorted at the comment, trying her hardest not to laugh. She knew it was unprofessional, but she couldn't help it. The man knew how to make her laugh, and she noticed that it made Stark smirk. When Thor told Stark that what was happening was beyond him and that Loki will face Asgardian justice, Stark replied, "He gives up the Cube, he's all yours. Until then," his face mask went down, "stay out of the way." Stark then muttered, "Tourist," and that caused another snort to come from Phantom. Thor then, with his patience at its limit, threw his hammer at Iron Man, causing him to ruin a couple of innocent trees. Thor looked up to Phantom and Loki who were both in their same positions watching them go at it. While Thor spun his hammer, Iron Man shot out a blaster at Thor causing him to stumble back. Iron Man took advantage of Thor's stumble and kicked him back into more trees that were innocent.
When Phantom glanced down to see Loki getting too comfy, she grabbed her heavy duty handcuffs and latched them on tightly to Loki's wrist to cause him some pain. She then put a tiny explosive on the cuffs and explained, "You try to remove these, that bomb is going off. It's small enough to blow off your hands, but not kill you, unfortunately. Only I can take them off, and if you get too far from me that will also set them off. So don't even think of running." She pushed him to the ground and continued to watch the fight play out before her. She knew Thor shot lightning at Iron Man, and Iron Man returned the favor by shooting the energy back to Thor. Both the men then flew to each other, Iron Man, having more energy in the momentum, sent them off in his direction. They flew back after they reached a mountain and that's when Phantom saw Captain parachute down to her. "Where are they," he asked as he landed. Phantom pointed at Loki first while stating, "Loki is unable to flee due to the bomb I strapped to his cuffs and Iron Man is fighting off Thor right now down that way." She point to where the men who were holding their arms to each other. She saw Iron Man head-butted Thor and Thor returned the gesture causing Iron Man to fly back a bit. When Iron Man landed, he flew back towards Thor and threw him into a dead tree. While that was happening, Captain was struggling to take off his parachute backpack, so Phantom calmed him down and helped him slowly take it off while the two men fought below.
When she finished, Captain thanked her quickly, jumped down, and threw his shield at Thor, hitting his head, then bouncing off to hit Iron Man in his jaw, and return back to him while yelling, "HEY!" Captain strapped it back on and stated proudly, "That's enough." He jumped from his position to the tired looking two men. "Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here-" Captain began. "I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes," Thor replied angrily. Captain then challenge, "Then prove it. Put that hammer down." Phantom raised her eyebrow again at the boldness of Captain America, and then Stark proclaimed like a taunting teenager, "Ugh, Yeah…no. Bad call. He loves his hammer." Thor then swung it at Stark to send him flying, while Phantom shook her head at the grown man. Thor, at his breaking point, yelled at Cap, "YOU WANT ME TO PUT THE HAMMER DOWN?!" He jumped up to strike Captain, while Captain went to his kneeling protection stance, and when the hammer met the shield, it caused the clash-wave to wipe out part of the forest. After all three men stood up, Captain asked tired, "Are we done, here?" Thor looking around, slowly nodded his head.
The three then waited for Natasha to show up, then she picked them up, while Phantom, with a gun in my hand pointed at Loki, pushed him onto the ship and said, "No more tricks." They had a steady ride back to the flying S.H.I.E.L.D quarters. When they arrive a squad of S.H.I.E.L.D agents were there and ready to take back Loki. Phantom walked over to him before they took off, and removed the bomb carefully. Loki teased her as she did that, "Oh, you do care." She then tightened the cuffs even more and responded, "I told Thor I wasn't going to kill you." She then turned her back to Loki who said with a creepy knowing tone, "I'll see you, later. Phantom." Phantom walked back to the commanding quarters and chose to just relax until the others arrived and wanted to talk about Loki. When everyone arrived, Natasha turned on the camera that showed Loki within a cell as Fury was talking to him. "In case it's unclear, if you try to escape, you so much as scratch that glass," Fury began as he opened up the bottom door under the caged threatening. Loki looked ever the side to see the final drop. "30,000 FEET STRAIGHT DOWN IN A STEEL TRAP! YOU GET HOW THAT WORKS?!" Fury asked while closing the door. He motioned to Loki then the computer while explaining, "Ant, boot." Loki then laughed at Fury's threat, while stating, "It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me." Fury then explain threateningly, "Built for something a lot stronger than you." Loki then smirked and looked to our camera and said, "Oh, I've heard. A mindless beast. Makes play he's still a man." Natasha looked up cautiously at Dr. Banner. How only nodded, knowing of his situation. "How desperate are you," Loki began. "you call on such lost creatures and children to defend you?" Phantom, who was only looking down the entire time, glanced up with hatred in her eyes. Captain noticed the look in her eyes, and knew that Loki had just offended her. "How desperate am I?" Fury requisitioned. "You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace, and you kill because it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did." Loki then mocked Fury, "It burns you to have come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share? And then to be reminded what real power is." Fury said nothing, but, "Let me know if real power wants a magazine or something."
Phantom being fed up with everything, grabbed her gun, and shot at the little projector. Everyone jumped when she did that but her eyes with closed with irritation and she let out an irritated sigh. Dr. Banner, trying to lighten the mood, asked, "He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Captain not wanting to add light to the situation stated, "Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?" Thor asked with deep thought in his mind, "He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard, nor any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth, in return, I suspect, for the Tesseract." Phantom then piped in, "So an alien army?" Banner then asked the scientific question, "So, he's building another portal. That's what he need Erik Selvig for." Thor then asked, "Selvig?" Banner answered, "He's an astrophysicist." Thor not knowing what that means stated, "He's a friend." Natasha then began to explain the situation by saying the Loki had him under a spell along with one of the S.H.I.E.L.D agents. "Barton?" Phantom asked Natasha. Natasha showed her weakness in her eyes and nodded. "I want to know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here," Captain questioned. "He's infiltrating enemy lines. He allowed us to take him to get our coordinates and information. Why? That is something I haven't reasoned yet," Phantom answered Steven. He looked at her with a surprised look on his face. "For someone so young, she is really insightful," Steve thought to himself.
"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him," Dr. Banner stated with caution. Thor stepped up and defended, "Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he is my brother." Natasha then pointed out blantly, "He killed 80 people in two days." Thor then thought of an excuse for a second and replied, "He's adopted." Phantom then stated emotionlessly sarcastically, "Oh yeah. Being adopted is a total legit reason for killing people. You know what maybe I'm adopted 'cause I kill people for a living?" "Then again, she is still young," Steve thought to himself. Banner being the voice of reason, brought the conversation back and asked, "I think it is about the mechanics. Iridium… What do they need the iridium for?"
"It's a stabilizing agent," a voice boomed while entering the room. Stark then addressed Coulson on a private matter while walking in. He continued to answer, "It means the portal won't collapse on itself like it did at S.H.I.E.L.D." He walked up to Thor and began to say in a cocky caring matter while patting Thor's bicep, "No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing." He glanced over to Phantom who had a smile underneath her black mask, and so he continued, "Also, it means the portal can open as wide and stay as open as long as Loki wants. Raise the mizzenmast. Jib the topsails." All the agents working at their stations looked up at him and Tony pointed out, "THAT MAN IS PLAYING GALAGA! Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did." Phantom then began to start laughing at the billionaires antics, and Steve watched as she continued to laugh. Tony then covered his left eye and asked, "How does Fury even see these?" Hill answered that he turns and Tony's reaction was, "Sounds exhausting." Phantom was being to die at the man before her. Tony hid his little smile and continued fiddling with the screens, "The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. The only major component he still needs is a power source of high-energy density. Something to kick-start the Cube." Phantom then noticed that Tony slipped a little hacking sticker on Fury's computer. She inwardly smirk at her chance to get the information she needed. Hill asked he became an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics and he rebutted cockily, "Last night." He then asked, "The packet, Selvig's notes, the extraction theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" Steve, being a little short fused towards this man, asked, "Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Banner then answered, "He would have to heat the Cube to 120-million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Stark questioned, "Unless Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Phantom chimed in, "Well, if he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet." Stark then stated while gesturing to Banner and Phantom, "Finally, people who speak English." Steve being completely lost at the conversation, "Is that what just happened?" Phantom turned to him and responded, "No. That was what we call a nerd moment."
Stark went up to Banner, shook his hand, and stated, "It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on antielectron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage-monster." Banner feeling uncomfortable, responded, "Thanks." Phantom piped up, "Oh, Dr. Banner. I am fan of your research of gamma infused mutation." Banner looked shocked by that and stated, "That really wasn't my research, but thank you." Fury walked in and stated, "Dr. Banner is only here to track the Cube. I was hoping you might join him." Phantom raised her hand and asked, "If it's alright with you Fury, I would also like to help in locating the Cube." Fury nodded his head at the bold request. "I would start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon," Steve suggested looking at Phantom. "I know of HYDRA. I need someone in their ranks for some questioning," Phantom thought only to herself. "I don't know about that, but it is powered by the Cube. And I would like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys," Fury questioned angrily. Thor, with no knowledge of one of the greatest film in history, questioned adorably, "Monkeys? I do not understand." Steve, remembering the film, pointed and shouted, "I do." When everyone except Stark looked at Steve, he explained, "I understood that reference." Phantom just watching the scene, was holding back her urge to yell aww at the two buff men who acted like something cute in that moment. "Oh wow, that was so adorable! Thor looked like a lost puppy and Rogers looked like a child who achieved something," Phantom thought to herself while holding the area of where her mouth was through the mask like she was only leaning on it. Stark turned to Banner and questioned, "Shall we play, Doctor?" Phantom stood up from her seat, and Steve happened to notice that she wore a similar outfit as she did yesterday. Banner motioned to the direction and said, "This way, sir." Phantom said quietly to the men, "You both go ahead, I want to see something real quick." Phantom looked over to where Stark pointed a moment ago and she saw an agent go back to playing Galaga, and she started to laugh heartily while stating, "Oh my god." She then turned around and walked back and Steve watched her as she left.
When she got to the lab, the two men were preparing to start their work. Phantom walked up, jumped, sat on the counter, pulled out her notepad, and began to write some theories about the connections of the Tesseract and Loki's scepter. When she did that, Stark looked over to her and asked, "I'm sorry, but do you have an IQ high enough to be here?" She looked up to him with a challenged look in her eyes and stated with a little challenge in her emotionless voice, "My IQ is high enough to know how the Iron Man suit works, I understood and excelled Selvig's notes, and I know the little research projects that Dr. Banner did for the FBI during the eighties while he was in college." Banner turned towards the young girl and said, "How exactly do you know about those?" She looked over to him and stated, "I knew someone who was one of the leads of those research programs." Stark then sauntered over to the girl and stated, "I'm sure the pleasure is yours, I'm Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man." He extended his hand to hers, she took it, shook it, while stating, "It's really not, but it is nice to meet you, Mr. Stark. The name's Phantom, or call me what you like. Everyone knows you're going to either way." He smirked at her, "Got a profile?" She shook her head while smirking back at him, "No, my skills on the battlefield are only things you need to know about me." He then thought of what she said and asked, "You're a mercenary?" She only glanced up to him and stated, "I come from a Guild of mercenaries. I was hired to get the Cube, then I'm gone. End of story." She then went over to one of the free computers and began to use her advance connections to see if anyone was harboring fugitives. "So does mask of yours ever come off?" Tony asked her with curiosity. She shook her head, "No it does not. I keep them on at all times. I put a clean one on everyday and I change it three times a day. First in the morning, then eight hours later, and then before only time I do not wear it, is when I take a shower, which is when I put another clean one on after." Tony was still curious and asked, "Any particular reason why?" She was silent for a moment, "It's a long and personal story that I never tell, so yes, but I won't tell you." Tony wanting to know, chose to look into it after he hacked into the S.H.I.E.L.D. secret files.
While working Banner focused on the staff and stated, "The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports of the Tesseract, but it's going to take weeks to process." Phantom walked up and read the readings while stating, "Yes but the power focuses more at the sphere at the top and then run down like a power chord. Plus this one has a slightly lower frequency than the Tesseract did, according to Selvig. It's only by points thousandths, but that might have some significance." Stark than stated what Phantom wanted to hear, "If we bypass their mainframe, and direct route to the Homer cluster, we can clock this at around 600 teraflops." Phantom walked back over to her computer and began to hack into Stark's computer with her coding skills. "All I packed was a toothbrush," Banner told Stark kiddingly. "Well I have some USB drives with calibrators, quantitative algorithms, martial arts tutorials, and videos containing lab experimentations, if either you need any of them. I also have lots of food and energy drinks. Oh, I also have lots of weapons," Phantom told the two men pointing to her backpack. Stark laughed at the two people and responded, "You know, you two should come by Stark Tower sometime. Top tens floors, all R&D. You'd love it. It's Candy Land." Phantom just laughed while Banner replied, "Thanks, but the last time I was in New York, I kind of broke Harlem."
Stark then walked behind Banner and said, "Well, I promise a stress-free environment." Phantom looked at the man with incredulous look in her eyes as he continued, "No tension, no surprises." Then Tony shocked Bruce in the side with a tiny zapper which Banner replied with ow and turned to Tony who was looking for a slight trace of Hulk. Phantom knew that it was not happening began to laugh at Tony's antics. Steve, seeing what Tony tried to do, yelled, "HEY!" Tony being upset by no reaction questioned, "Nothing?" Steve walked in and asked the billionaire, "Are you nuts?" The man in question replied, "Jurys out." Phantom snorted and commented nonchalantly, "Oh, we all know you are guilty, Stark." That caused Bruce to laugh and Tony returned his attention to Bruce and asked, "You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?" Phantom piped up emotionlessly joking, "Oh I have some of that in my bag as well." Stark looked at her with a joking smile, Banner didn't pay any attention, and Steve gave her an incredulous look and turned back to his culprit and ask the jokesters, "Is everything a joke to you?" Stark immediately replied while pointing at Rogers, "Funny things are." Phantom snorted at Tony's answer. Steve then said in a strict tone to both of them, "Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny. No offence, Doc." Phantom then walked over and put her hand on Captains left bicep gently, "Cap, I think the man has it under control. He was in a third world country and managed to not turn once. I think he'll be okay." Banner added, "It's all right, I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things."
Tony being to the diva he was shared his opinion on Banners powers, "You're tip-toeing, big man. You need to strut." Steve, growing inpatient at Tony, replied, "And you need to focus on the problem, Mr. Stark." Tony not happy with Steve's tone countered, "Do you think I'm not? Why did Fury call us in? Why now? Why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables." Steve believing what Tony was insinuating, "You think Fury's hiding something?" Phantom interrupted, "Cap, I work for Fury. I've work against Fury. Fury is a spy. We all have secrets, but spies can hold them out until their bitter ends." Tony added, "He's a spy. Captain, he's "the" spy. His spies have secrets. It's bugging them too, isn't it." He gestured to Phantom and Banner. Banner looked lost by being put into it, but Phantom said nothing. Banner tried to get the attention off of him by saying, "I just want to finish my work here, and…" Steve not being satisfied by Banner attempted questioned, "Doctor?" Bruce, finally deciding to give in quoted, ""A warm light for all mankind." Loki's jab at Fury about the Cube." Captain told him that he heard it. "Well I think that was meant for you," Bruce pointed to Tony, who in returned offered him a blueberry. As Bruce continued his speech, Tony turned the bag of blueberries over to Phantom, who sat on the table where the scepter was and refused, "Even if Barton didn't tell Loki about the tower, it was still all over the news." Steve knowing what it was, questioned, "The Stark Tower? That big, ugly…" he stopped his speech when Tony gave him a "watch it" kind of look, while Phantom only nodded her head. "Building in New York." Phantom decided to add, "It's powered by an arc reactor, a self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for, what, a year?" Stark relied instantly, "It's just the prototype. I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now. That's what they're getting at."
Captain looked a little lost so Bruce connected the dots for him, "So, why didn't S.H.I.E.L.D bring him in on the Tesseract Project? What are they doing in the energy business in the first place?" Tony finally admitting to his plan, "I should probably look into that once my decryption program finishes breaking into all of S.H.I.E.L.D's secure files. Steve, understanding what Tony just said, questioned, "I'm sorry, did you just…" Tony cut him off by stating, "Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours, I'll know every dirty secret S.H.I.E.L.D has ever tried to hide. Blueberry?" Tony extended the bag out to Rogers, who kept his focus on the issue that Tony stated, "Yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around." Tony then questioned, "An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome." Steve then said what his thoughts were, "I think Loki's trying to wind us up. This is a man who means to start a war, and if we don't stay focused, he'll succeed. We have orders. We should follow them." Tony, being the defiant child he was, claimed while plopping in a blueberry, "Following's not really my style." Captain, finally thinking he had Tony figured out, claimed, "And you're all about style, aren't you?" Tony taken the jab, decided to fire back, "Of the people in this room, which one is, A, wearing a spangly outfit, and B, not of use?" When Phantom saw the fire ignite in Steve's eyes, she got in between the two men and stated, "That's enough, both of you. Rogers, I agree Stark's going too far, but he is right in sense. S.H.I.E.L.D is hiding something, bigger than what they are letting on. Stark, I will agree that S.H.I.E.L.D is doing something different from claiming pure energy, but don't attack Rogers because of your own personal issues. We all have jobs to do and whatever we do at the side or whatever we think is our own personal business. We have to work together, so let's just attempt to get along, alright?" Steve still looking at Tony with fire in his eyes, Bruce sensing the tension, questioned, "Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you." Sensing himself being outnumber, Steve decided to leave while stating to the three, "Just find the Cube."
Letting out a deep side Phantom turned to Tony, "Was that completely necessary?" Tony ignoring her, questioned, "That's the guy my dad never shut up about? I'm wondering if they shouldn't have kept him on ice." Bruce, not wanting to play favorites, replied, "The guy's not wrong about Loki. He does have the jump on us." Tony, trying to be funny, claimed, "What he's got is an Acme dynamite kit." He turned to Phantom before continuing, "You might not know what that is due to your age. It's going to blow up in his face. And I'm going to be there when it does." Phantom, not liking what Tony insinuated, walked past him while stepping hard down on his foot, over to her work computer causing him to flinch, "Ow." Bruce smiling at the two stated, "Yeah. I'll read all about it." Tony not liking what Bruce just stated argued, "Or you'll be suiting up with the rest of us." Bruce, being the scared pacifist, stated, "You see, I don't get a suit of armor. I'm exposed. Like a nerve. It's a nightmare." Phantom feeling sympathy for the once courageous man stated, "And like a nerve, it is vital. Without it, the soul wouldn't feel anything." Tony smiled at that analogy continued, "I've got a cluster of shrapnel trying every second to crawl its way into my heart. This stops it. This little circle of light, it's a part of me now, not just armor. It's a terrible privilege." Bruce tried to argue, "But you can control it." Phantom piped in her opinion, "So can you. You haven't change in a long time. I have something I couldn't control, I can pretty much now, but ask me about two years ago, I couldn't. It's all about self-pride, training, and patience." Bruce tried to say that it was different and Tony then said his peace on Banner, "Hey, I read all about your accident. That much gamma exposure should have killed you." Bruce trying to understand what Tony was insinuating questioned, "So you're saying that the Hulk… the other guy, saved my life? That's nice. It's a nice sentiment. Saved it for what?" Tony liking to see his dots connecting replied, "I guess we'll find out." Bruce tried to warn Tony, "You may not enjoy that," but Tony argued, "And you just might."
After that the two men went back to their stations, and Phantom walked over to Tony. "Hey Stark. I have a favor to ask." Tony looking at Phantom skeptically, nodded his head, and she continued, "I need a copy of those S.H.I.E.L.D files. That's the near true reason of my being here. I saw the you place the encryption, and I've kept quiet until now. My Master wants those files, and frankly so do I." Tony thinking about the situation replied, "I'll give them to you, if you tell me your real age, and I get a name." Phantom narrowed her eyes and bargained, "You get part of my name, and I'll give you an estimate of years." Tony thinking about the answer, countered, "I get first and middle, with the estimate." Phantom sensing that the man wouldn't quit stated, "I'll give middle, birth region, and estimate." Tony's eyes then lit up and extended his hand and stated, "Deal." Phantom shook his hand, gave him an empty flash drive, and stated, "Once that flash drive has the S.H.I.E.L.D secure files, you'll get your info." Then a telephone started to ring from Phantom's backpack. She excused herself and answered it without saying a word. After a voice said "info," she asked a riddle, "When I'm used, I'm useless, once offered, soon rejected. In desperation often expressed, the intended not protected. What am I?" The person then replied, "A poor alibi or excuse." Phantom then physically relaxed and questioned, "Okay, what information do you have for me?" The person then went into a detailed description of what they saw, and said that it was in New York, but nothing else. Phantom thanked the person and hung up the phone. She then went over to her tracking model and began to do a wide spread search over the entire state of New York. "A lead just told me that an energy surged happened somewhere in the state of New York. I'm running a massive search to see where it was, but it might just be Stark Tower."
Then Phantom walked over to the projector and looked up Loki's cell and saw that Romanoff went to speak to him. She heard Natasha asked, "I want to know what you've done to Agent Barton." Loki replied with a sense of calm, "I would say that I've expanded his mind." Natasha, who was not buying it, continued her interrogation, "And once you've won, once you're king of the mountain, what happens to his mind?" Loki suspecting something from Natasha questioned, "Is this love, Agent Romanoff?" Phantom reached up to her com, and stated, "Romanoff, ask about Freya, Loki's mother." Romanoff played it off by stating, "Love is for children. I owe him a debt. Was it love for you with your mother, Freya?" Loki's eyebrow then twitched with annoyance. "Gotcha," Phantom whispered to herself. "So, you care about Freya, yet you deny Odin?" Phantom asked on her com, and Natasha repeated. Loki just stared ahead with annoyance on his face and said, "You know nothing." Phantom knowing everything countered, "I know you feared Thor's shadow. I know you hated Odin for overlooking your clear brilliance. I know Freya took you in and taught you in the ways of magic, while Odin focused on Thor with combat. You knew you were more brilliant one, yet to not be chosen. It hurt, because you knew Freya would have chosen you, if not for Odin." Natasha repeated it with more emotion in her voice than Phantom did. Loki then looking pissed off said, "And what exactly would you know of familial loyalty?" Phantom then stated, "It wasn't familial loyalty that betrayed you. It was your own hope and love that did, wasn't it?" Natasha repeated and Loki looked even more angered by that question, stopped for a moment and noticed something about that information. He then took a step back looked to the camera and stated, "Well done, Phantom. You truly have a gift for insight, but now I want to Romanoff alone," and then the camera shut down. Phantom banged her fist on the table, knowing that she almost had him. Him and Natasha began conversation with Natasha telling him how she met Barton. She made it seem like she loved him to get Loki to see that his assumption was right, luring him into her web of deception. Phantom then heard beeping from Tony's screen and saw the access denied on the screen and he just swiped it out. She knew that Fury probably found out what he was trying to do and would come any second. She then heard on her com from Natasha, "Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab. I'm on my way." Phantom then stated alright to Natasha and went over to Bruce. "Banner, I don't mean to alarm you, but I need you to stay here in the lab, okay. I promise, everything is going to be okay," Phantom told Bruce with a little care in her voice.
Fury then walked into the lab and questioned Tony, "What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Tony was fed up keeping it all hidden questioned, "Kind of been wondering the same thing about you." Fury then tried to order him, "You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract." Bruce then began to state his mind as well, "We are. The model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit we'll have the location within half a mile." Tony then began to enter again, "Yeah, then you get your Cube back. No muss, no fuss. What is Phase 2?" Steve then walked in and place a giant gun on Phantom's work table, while proclaiming, "Phase 2 is S.H.I.E.L.D uses the Cube to make weapons. Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for me." Then Fury tried to calm the situation down by stating, "Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're making…" Then Tony turned his computer screen around to show Fury that he had the detail, "I'm sorry, Nick. What were you lying?" Steve now seeing the deception before his very eyes stated, "I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit."
Bruce then turned to Natasha and asked, "Did you know about this?" Natasha not wanting to make Bruce any angrier suggested, "You want to think about removing yourself from this environment, Doctor?" Phantom then raised her hand to Natasha while stating with a little threat laced in her voice, "Don't, Romanoff. You'll only make it worse. Dr. Banner, I need you to relax. Remember what we talked about?" Bruce then calmed himself down a bit told Natasha, "I was in Calcutta. I was pretty well removed." Natasha then stepped forward and stated, "Loki is manipulating you." Phantom pulled out her gun, pointed it at Romanoff, and stated, "And you have been doing the same. Not another word, Romanoff. Back. Off." Bruce walked over to the computer and stated, "I'd like to know why S.H.I.E.L.D is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction." Fury, deciding not to lie anymore stated while pointing at Thor, "Because of him."
Poor Thor not knowing what he did made him question why it was his fault. Fury explained, "Last year, Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone but we are hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned." Thor then entered his opinion, "My people want nothing, but peace with your planet." Fury then argued, "But you're not the only people out there, are you? And you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, that can't be controlled." Steve then questioned, "Like you controlled the Cube?" Phantom putting the pieces together, "So you build massive weapons of destruction to solve the problem like World War II, and are using fear and assumptions to base this brilliant idea. You could have reached out to others. You have a special task force. I know you do, because they helped you in the seventies! What about all of us here now? Why couldn't we handle the situation rather than the Tesseract, or do you fear that we won't always follow your orders?" Fury glared at Phantom, and tried to state his case, but Thor interrupted him, "Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is a signal to all the realms that the Earth is ready for a higher form of war." Steve not liking where this was going questioned, "A higher form?" Fury then stated, "You forced our hand. We had to come up with something." Tony then recapped what Phantom stated, "A nuclear deterrent. Because that always calms everything right down." Fury took his jab at Tony, "Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark." Steve then added his opinion, "I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck-deep…" Tony interrupted this thought process, "Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. How is this now about me?" Steve then taunted, "I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Thor going back to Fury stated, "I thought humans were more evolved than this." Fury not backing down, fired back, "Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Thor then spoke his opinion, "You treat your champions with such mistrust." Natasha, trying to stick up for S.H.I.E.L.D, stated, "Are you boys really that naïve? S.H.I.E.L.D monitors potential threats." Bruce then questioned, "Captain America's on threat watch?" Natasha answered, "We all are." Catching Tony's attention he then questioned to Steve, "Wait, you're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?" Steve getting angry stated, "Stark, so help me God, if you make one more wisecrack…" Tony then alerted, "Threat! Verbal threat. I feel threatened." Steve then stated, "Show some respect." Tony, going to his rebellious side, questioned, "Respect what?" Then Phantoms monitor began to ring off the charts, but she couldn't hear due to all the arguing going on.
Thor stating his opinion once more, "You speak of control, yet you court chaos." Bruce then stated, "That's his M.O., isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no, we're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're a time bomb." Fury feeling threatened tried to step towards Bruce, but Phantom got in front of him with her gun still pointed at Natasha, "You need to step away." Tony then asked while placing his hand on Steve's shoulder, "Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Steve pushed it off and replied, "You know damn well why. Back off!" Sensing a fight, Phantom put her gun away and went over to Tony and Steve before a fight broke out. "I'm starting to want you to make me," Tony threatened as he glared at Steve. Steve walked around Tony, as if he was evaluating him, stated, "Yeah. Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?" Tony responded quickly, "Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Steve still glaring stated, "I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you." Tony argued, "I think I would just cut the wire." Steve then smirk, as if he made his point, "You may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero." Tony got offended and questioned while getting into Steve's face, "A hero? Like you? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle." Phantom got in between them trying to push them both part. Due to her height, it looked extremely difficult, with her only being about five feet compared to two men who were over 5'9". With Tony, it was easy, Steve, a tad harder, "Enough, enough! Arguing won't get us anywhere. We need the Cube, that's it. No more." Steve, not paying attention to Phantom stated, "Put on the suit. Lets go a few rounds." Thor laughed and mocked the three, "You people are so petty and tiny."
When Fury tried to have Romanoff take Bruce somewhere else, Bruce got irritated and stated, "Where? You rented my room." Fury trying to explain the cell, but was interrupted by Bruce's assumptions, "In case you needed to kill me. But you can't. I know, I tried." Phantom then turned over to Bruce and had a slight glimpse of sadness and empathy. "I got low. I didn't see an end. So, I put a bullet in my mouth, and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good. Until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk. You want to know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You want to know how I stay calm?" After Phantom saw Bruce grab the scepter and Fury and Natasha grab their guns, Phantom went up to Bruce. She held both sides of his face and made him look down at her. "Bruce, I need you calm down, and put the scepter down, okay. You're safe, you're not injured, and we don't need the big guy, okay," Phantom stated calm and slowly to get to Bruce. When Bruce looked down to her azure eyes that had a hint of gold circling her pupil, he didn't see the dullness that they usually bore, but rather the emotion of worry for a friend. He's seen those eyes before, but on a different person and they made him feel warm and safe. When he looked down to his side, he realized he had the scepter within his hand. Phantom took the scepter from him slowly and put it back to where it was. After she did that, she looked at him and asked, "Are you okay, Dr. Banner?" He only nodded his head and then one of the computers went off. Bruce went over to check the computer while Phantom walked over to Steve and Tony, to make sure that they would start another fight. Everyone then began to fight about who was going to go get it except for Phantom, who wanted to remain calm for Bruce's sake. When Tony and Steve got into each other's faces again, Phantom got in the middle and tried to push them apart once more. Bruce then stated, "Oh my god," and the room erupted in fire.
When Phantom, Tony, and Steve recovered from the shock they all agreed to put on their suits. Phantom ran to her room and grabbed her trench coat filled with weaponry and her scythe. Phantom heard on the intercom that the engine needed to be repaired, so Fury then asked, "Phantom, Stark, you both copy that?" They both answered it at the same time, "I'm on it." Phantom was one of the first to arrive on the recently shot open engine three area. She looked down to see Captain arrive, "CAP!" He looked up to see her trying to make little repairs to the navigation system. When Tony arrive, he began to speak through her come to himself, "I got to get this superconducting coolant system back online before I can access the rotors, work on dislodging the debris." He looked at Rogers and said, "I need you to get to that engine control panel and tell me which relays are in overload position." Phantom, knowing that Steve wouldn't know what anything of the caliber, finished the navigation system and swung over to Cap who was confused as he opened the panel. When Stark asked what it looked like, Steve replied that it seemed to have run on some form of electricity. Phantom then nicely pushed him out of the way and stated, "I got this, I need you to watch, in case of another attack." Steve watched her as she worked on the panel and saw that there was a whiteness in her azure eyes that surrounded the pupil, almost as if it was making her eyes glow. She worked by disconnecting some of the lines and attaching them somewhere, trying to get rid of the red lights flashing. When she finished, she nodded at Steve, who informed Tony that the relays were intact. When Steve asked what the next move was, Tony explained how he needed to push it to start. Steve contradicted what Tony said, by stating that it might tear him to shreds, but Tony told him that the scientific use of the lever that could slow down the rotors. Steve couldn't understand so he yelled, "SPEAK ENGLISH!" Phantom grabbed his shoulder and pointed to him a red lever, "You see that? Pull it down once Stark gives the word and it will slow the rotors down enough, so he can get out without being shredded." Steve nodded and then Phantom thought of something, "ROGERS! I NEED YOU TO STAY HERE AND HELP STARK! I'M GONNA HEAD TO LOKI'S CELL!" Then Phantom took off running into the ship.
When Phantom showed up, she saw Loki stab Coulson in the back. "NO!" Thor yelled from inside of the cage. She then ran up and engaged another spear/scythe combat with Loki. When she got to the other side with Coulson near, her eyes slightly changed to gray, and Loki lost his footing and she kicked him to the other side near the control panel. When she saw that Loki was going to push the button to send Thor to the ground, she tried to get to it as fast as she could but Loki pushed the button, one millisecond early. She ran to the railing, yelled, "THOR!" and saw him plummet down to his demise. She turned to Loki who had no expression and her eyes went immediately red. She shouted, "YOU MONSTER!" as she ran up to go another round with the god. Her speed increased greatly and her attacks were more fierce and determined than before, but her form was sloppy. It gave her too many openings and when Loki saw his chance he hit her back over to Coulson. Before she got up to fight again, Coulson told Loki, "You're going to lose." Loki being a little surprise, asked, "Am I?" Coulson explained, "It's in your nature." Loki began to taunt the dying man by saying, "Your heroes are scattered. Your floating fortress falls from the sky. Where is my disadvantage?" Coulson then stated, "You lack conviction." Loki tried to contradict, but was shot back by Coulson's weapon. "So, that's what it does," Coulson thought aloud. "COULSON!" Phantom yelled as she kneeled down to him. She looked at his injury, pulled out a bottle of water, and her azure eyes began to glow as she pour the water onto her hands over Coulson's injury. The water stuck to her hands while little droplets fell onto his back, and once she place her hands on the injury, the water from her hands began to stitch up the tissue slowly from the inside. "I can heal you, but not as much as I usually can. Just hold on, Coulson," Phantom said while concentrating. After healing most of his back with a slight gash, and raising his white cell count to help repair the rest, Phantom's vision began to blur. "No, not yet… need to… hang on." Then she stopped, told Coulson that Fury was on his way, and that she needed to go after Loki. She stumbled over to where his body was and while he was getting up, her strength left her, and she blacked out. Loki, intrigued by the young warrior, threw her over his shoulder, and carried her out onto his plane, leaving her scythe and a bleeding Coulson.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
I don't know anything except for Phantom's character.
Okay, so I have been wanting to due this Avenger story since I watched Avengers the first time. I'm going to follow the MCU as much as possible by having Phantom make appearances in every sequence, it can be a big role, or a very little role, it just depends. So the reason why I chose mystery for this story, is because I wanted to make Phantom's life as mysterious as possible. I do plan to finish my other stories, but I'm still waiting for Miraculous Ladybug for the so called, "New Villain." As for Magi, I'm working on it, but I think I will have this done faster due to the vast amount of time that I thought about this story. THANKS FOR READING AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY!