His heart felt cold, it felt like it was no longer his own. It felt like someone had ripped it out of his chest and placed it with a icy hollow shell. How could he have been so foolish? The email was obviously too good to be true. But he went. He went regardless of the costs. Foolishness is man's downfall, the would-be heir would whisper to him constantly. And he was right. Of course he was right. Everything he said was right, it all made sense now. The tesseract had shown him the truth. Bruce felt a certain calmness, a reassurance flow through him as he stalked the halls of Stark Tower, collecting files of information all about J.A.R.V.I.S, S.H.I.E.L.D and the Avengers. No one confronted him about it, no one really noticed or cared that he was there. They were used to him popping in from time to time to visit Tony in the lab. When the doctor felt like he was satisfied that he had collected enough information, he made his way to the rather impressive lab built by the billionaire himself. It was empty, and gave Bruce the perfect opportunity to drop off a little present into J.A.R.V.I.S' system. The man's eyes reflected back at him through the computer's screen as he searched. Eyes that were cold. Eyes that were not his own.

After a few minutes, Tony walked into the lab casually, placing a screwdriver in his pocket. Not really suprised to see Banner there, he simply smiled and walked over to a piece of his suit he had been working on. "Hey Bruce, what're you doing?" He asked, oblivious to any change in the doctor. Bruce smiled to himself as he searched through the different files. "O-oh..just a bit of research Tony.. that's all. Y'know, science stuff." He smiled at the other, through the reflection of the screen. "What are you doing Tony?" His hands typed away furiously as he attempted to gain any last scrap of information that might be useful to him. Tony walked away from the suit and logged onto his laptop, sitting down on the workbench. "Just coming in here to look for you and make sure you're all right. Did you hear about Natasha and Clint getting brainwashed? It's crazy.." he said, not taking his eyes off the screen. Conversations were often like this with these two, they normally never took their eyes off the screens of their computers, or away from their projects they were working on. "Really..? That's crazy" Bruce replied, he couldn't help but smile. "Out of everyone, you came looking for little old me, Tony? That's unusual of you.." He finished with his upload and drew up the last of the required data, putting the memory stick in his pocket and logged out. He smiled at Tony as he put his jacket on. "Well.. I'll see you later." Bruce quickly walked out, he had been sucsessful. He had been sucsessful and gotten away with it. Hacking into the computer had been child's play, and Bruce wasn't even a master hacker. "Psh! Of course I look out for you, see you later Banner." he looked over the computer as the man in the purple shirt left and the his eyes focused back on the screen. After a few moments, he raised his eyebrow, frustrated. "J.A.R.V.I.S...someone just got into our system, undetected at the time." His eyes were wide and his voice heavy with annoyance. Who could have done this? he looked into it with more detail. "Data was just recentley downloaded, sir." Tony was confused, he hadn't downloaded anything.. and only he and.. Bruce knew the the password.

Banner got into the elevator and laughed as the doors closed. That had been ten times easier than he thought it would be. He hated doing this, but he had no choice or say in the matter. He was a pawn in a game of chess. His heart was cold, and Loki needed the information. He needed Bruce. As he reached the ground floor, he sighed as he realised it was raining. Not habing brought an umbrella, he simply walked out into the rain and down the street, merging in with the crowd but trying to keep in the shelter. Back at the Tower, Tony cursed over and over at how simply Bruce had gotten away with all that. "J.A.R.V.I.S! I want the suit on NOW!" He bellowed, J.A.R.V.I.S already attatching the suit. The mask closed and Stark gritted his teeth. "Track down our little doctor.." Tony felt so angry at not only Bruce, but at himself for trusting him. "Tracking.." And within a few seconds, J.A.R.V.I.S responded. "Target found, sir." Tony went to the window and flew out, going to get back what was rightfully his.

Bruce had managed to distance himself quite far from the tower, and a lot closer to his destination. He carried on walking until he got to a tunnel. Hair dripping over his face, he smiled as he combed it back with his hand and unfogged his glasses, placing them in his pocket with the memory stick, eyes still the shade of pale blue. He stood, awaiting for the car that was to pick him up to escort him to Loki's new hideout. This is what Loki wanted. Last time, he merely wished to test the Hulk. Now he owned him. He owned the monster and was more than eager to test out the new... capabilities he had been testing out on the doctor through the power of the tesseract. This time, Loki would not lose.