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Chapter 1

The helicopter descended rapidly and I followed Director Fury and Agent Hill off of it. My name is Alexandra Carter. S.H.I.E.L.D. called me in to be the bodyguard of Director Fury temporarily. I know he is perfectly capable of handling himself, but I was there in case something went wrong with their energy research. My powers made me more than qualified for the job, so when they sought me out I accepted their offer. Caulson was on the landing strip waiting on us.

"How bad is it?" Fury asked over the sound of the helicopter.

"That's the problem, sir. We don't know." Caulson led us to an elevator that we sped down. We exited and began hurriedly walking down the hall.

"Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hours ago", Caulson said.

"NASA didn't authorize Selvig to go to testing phase", Fury replied.

"He wasn't testing it. He wasn't even in the room. Spontaneous event."

Hill spoke up, "It just turned itself on?"

Fury ignored Hill's question and addressed Caulson, "Where are the energy levels now?"

"Climbing, When Selvig couldn't shut it down we ordered evac."

"How long to get everyone out?"

"Campus should be clear in the next half hour."

"Do better." Caulson abruptly stopped walking and switched directions.

"Sir", Hill said, "Evacuation may be futile." We began to descend a set of stairs.

Fury shot a look at Hill, "We should tell them to go back to sleep?"

"If we can't control the Tesseract's energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance."

"I need to make sure the Phase 2 prototypes are shipped out."

"Sir, is that really a priority right now?"

Fury stopped at the bottom of the staircase and turned towards Hill, "Until such time as the world ends we will act as though it intends to spin on. Clear out the tech below; every piece of Phase 2 on a truck and gone."

Hill looked as if she wanted to say something more, but only nodded her head, "Yes sir." She descended the staircase, taking two agents with her. Fury and I went into Selvig's lab. As soon as I stepped in, I instantly felt more alert and energetic; almost as if I had just had an energy drink. I followed Fury as he walked towards Selvig.

"Talk to me Doctor."

"Director."

"Is there anything we know for certain?"

"The Tesseract is misbehaving."

"Is that supposed to be funny?"

"No, it's not funny at all. The Tesseract is not only active, she's behaving." They walked towards the computer linked to the cube and I followed them. My proximity to the Tesseract sent a surge of adrenaline through me and blue energy crackled cross my fingertips. The cube sparked an arc of energy and caught everyone's attention.

"I assume you pulled the plug?" Fury had already directed his attention back to Selvig.

"She's an energy source. We turn off the power she turns it back on. If she reaches peak level..."

"We prepared for this, Doctor; harnessing energy from space."

Selvig looked up from the computer screen only to glance back down at it, " But we don't have the harness. My calculations are far from complete and it's throwing off interference, radiation. It's increased exponentially", he said glancing at me, "Nothing harmful, low levels of gamma radiation."

"That can be harmful. Where's Agent Barton?"

Selvig scoffed, "The Hawk? Up in his nest, as usual", he said gesturing behind him.

Fury spoke clearly into his earpiece, "Agent Barton, report." Clint descended from the rafter and quickly made his way to us.

Fury didn't waste anytime chewing him out, "I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things."

"Well I see better from a distance." He stretched his hand out to me, "Agent Carter."

I shook his hand, "Agent Barton."

We moved closer to the Tesseract and Fury turned towards Barton, "Have you seen anything that might set this thing off?"

Monitors began beeping and a blonde scientist spoke loudly to Selvig, "Doctor, it's spiking again." I felt waves of energy coursing through my body as the cube started to spark.

"No one's come or gone, and Selvig's clean. No contacts, no IMs. I f there was any tampering, sir, it wasn;t at this end", Barton said answering Fury.

Fury shot Clint a strange look, "At this end?"

"Yeah, the cube is a doorway to space right? Doors open from both sides." The cube began to spark more violently and the building began to shake. The energy started pulsing around the cube and a blue energy coated my entire body. I collapsed onto my knees beside the Tesseract as I felt the pull of the energy, and everyone seemed to be frozen watching. Energy started to whirlpool ground the cube and I, and then beam shot outwards, drawing from me and the cube. At the other end of the room a portal began opening. It grew until it collapsed in on itself and sent out a pulse of energy. The beam vanished and the energy coating me disappeared. I could feel all my power riled up, begging to be released. I stood up slowly in front of Barton and Fury, looking at the opposite side of the room. As we watched, a figure slowly raised themself from a kneeling position.