Chapter 1
The night was everything but slow at a S.H.I.E.L.D. science facility, people rushed for their research and equipment. A voice sounded from a helicopter flying low and into the vicinity.
"All personal, the evacuation order has been confirmed."
The helicopter kept giving out instructions of the evacuation as it landed on a helicopter pad, containing two high-valued agents. The helicopter door opened and revealed Agent Maria Hill and Director Nick Fury. They were joined by an agent waiting for them on the ground, Agent Phil Coulson. Fury walked over to him and spoke.
"How bad is it?"
"That's problem, sir." Phil said. "We don't know."
The three agents walked to a nearby elevator and descended to the floors below the ground. When they arrived to the sub-level floors, Coulson contiuned.
"Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hours ago."
"NASA didn't authorize Selvig to go test phase." Fury said.
"He wasn't testing it, he wasn't even in the room." the agent corrected. "Spontaneous event."
"It just turned itself on?" Maria questioned from behind.
"Where are the energy levels now?" Fury asked.
"Climbing." Phil answered. "When Selvig couldn't shut it down, we ordered evac."
"How long to get everyone out?" the director asked.
"Campus should be clear in the next half-hour." Coulson replied.
"Do better." Fury ordered as Agent Coulson left them.
"Sir, evacuation may be futile." Maria sounding her opinion.
"Should we tell them to go back to sleep?" he seriously joked.
"If we can't control the Tesseract's energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance." she continued.
"I need you to make sure the phase 2 prototypes are shipped out." Fury said.
"Sir, is that really a priority right now?" Maria questioning him.
"Until such time as the world ends, we will act though it intends to spin on." the director giving his philosophy. "Clear out the tech below. Every piece of Phase 2 on a truck and gone."
"Yes, sir." Maria replied, she didn't like it but she couldn't have said no to him.
Fury made his way to the room where the Tesseract was contained and joined Dr. Selvig and other scientist's.
"Talk to me, Doctor" Fury spoke.
"Director." Selvig said gaining his attention.
"Is there anything we know for certain?" Fury wondered.
"The Tesseract is misbehaving." Selvig answered.
"Is that supposed to be funny?" Fury seriously hoped it wasn't.
"No, it's not funny at all." Selvig replied. "The Tesseract is not only active, she's behaving."
"I assume you tried to pull the plug." Fury said.
"She's an energy source." Selvig explained. "We turn off the power, she flip it back on. If she reaches peak level..."
"We prepared for this, Doctor." The director cut off. "Harnessing energy from space."
"But we don't have the harness." Selvig shot back. "My calculations are far from complete. And she's throwing off interference, radiation. Nothing harmful, low levels of gamma radiation."
"That can be harmful." Fury corrected as he knew what it could make. "Where's Agent Barton?"
"The Hawk?" the doctor said as he scoffed. "Up in his neat, as usual."
"Agent Barton, report." Fury said over comms. "I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things."
"Well, I see better from a distance." the agent explained.
"Have you seen anything that might set this thing off?"
"Doctor, it's spiking again." sounding a scientist.
"No one's come or gone." Barton answered. "And Selvig's clean. No contacts, no IMs. If there was any tampering , sir, wasn't at this end."
"At this end?" Fury questioned while having a confused look upon his face.
"Yeah, the Cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right?" Barton explained as best he can. "Doors open both sides."
Suddenly, a small explosion sounded from the Cube. Fury and Barton looked concerned as the Cube started to make the entire place shake. The Cube started to make small explosion like a sun and energy began to come off of it, making a huge sphere containing a being. The sphere burst and gave a wave of energy off. But where the sphere once was now a man, a man of green and gold with a spear, with stream rising from his body as well as, devious smile from him too.
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to put down the spear." Fury asked not knowing if he was friend or a foe.
The man looked at his surroundings and saw men and women with guns pointed coming towards him. He looked at his spear and fired upon them, they retaliated by doing the same, only their weapons had no effect on him once so ever. The men and woman were easily dispatched. But matters was about to get worse has the Cube started to power up again and shot out another sphere, this time, containing a woman with a green dress, gold necklace, black stocking that rode up to her knees, green shoes and with a green tiara to match. The man saw Barton come to his feet, ran over to him and grabbed his arm before he shot him. His grip was too strong for him overcome and the man spoke.
"You have heart."
The man put the tip of his spear on upon Barton chest and his eyes glowed dark then to a blue color that his spear gave off. Fury, on the ground and made his way to the Cube, saw his agent holster his weapon and wait for orders from the man. Fury took hold of the Cube and put it in a case suited for it. He then turned his attention to the woman who walked past him, thinking he was dead, make her way to the few surviving agent and kissed them, he saw with shocked eyes of them bowing to her and calling her their love, he then saw a wicked laugh crawl on her face. He then closed the case and tried to leave only to be stopped by the man's voice.
"Please don't. We still need that."
"This doesn't have to get any messier." Fury said.
"Of course it does." the man shot back. "We've come to far for anything else. I am Loki."
"I am Enchantress." the woman sounded while holding a man by chin and kissing him.
"We are of Asgard and we are burdened with glorious purpose." Loki finished.
"Loki, brother of Thor." sounding Selvig by a downed fellow scientist.
"We have no quarrel with your people." Fury said.
"An ant has no quarrel with a boot." Enchantress shot.
"Are you two planning to step on us?" the director questioned.
"Oh no, we come with glad tidings of a world made free." Loki replied.
"Freedom from what?" he continued questioning.
"Freedom." the god of mischief answered. "Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart..."
he turn to Dr. Selvig and used the tip of his spear to do what he did Barton to him and continued to speak.
"you will know peace."
"Yeah, you say 'peace', I kind of think you mean the other thing." Fury said.
"Sir, Director Fury is stalling." sounding Barton from the side. "This place is about to blow and drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us."
"Like the pharaohs of old." Fury philosophized.
"He's right. The portal is collapsing in on itself." Selvig announced. "We've got maybe two minutes before this goes critical."
"Well, then." Loki said turning to the agent as Barton shot Fury making him fly back.
Barton came, picked up the case and handed it to Selvig while following Loki. He turned his head to see them walking away, but his attention was destroyed when a pair of legs dropped down to the sides of his torso and knelt to him.
"Hmm, you would be a perfect addition to my collection." Enchantress said seductively while having her finger side down his face.
She was just getting ready to kiss him until she heard her name coming from Loki.
"Amora, let us push on."
"Another time perhaps." she said looking back to Fury and made her way to the exit.
Fury struggled to his feet and grabbed his walkie to radio Agent Hill.
"Hill, do you copy?" he said hoping she did. "Barton has turned."
He then heard shots being fired and stumbled to his feet making his way the exit.
"They have the Tesseract!" He yelled into the walkie. "Shut them down!"
Fury ran through the corridor as fast as he could to get to the upper floors, he then heard Agent Coulson from his walkie.
"We're clear upstairs, sir. You need to go."
Fury ran to the helicopter and flew into the air. He saw with widen eye of way the Cube could do as the entire facility was destroyed from underground. Fury ordered the pilot to go to the underground exit and found the escaping enemy. He fired round after round but it only seemed to annoy didn't them, he saw Loki point his spear towards him and told the pilot to hold on. Loki fired upon the helicopter, making it crash and escaped with Enchantress and the Cube, along with Agent Barton and Selvig. He survived the crash but didn't know if the pilot did. Coulson's voice, once again, sounded from his walkie.
"Director Fury, do you copy?"
"The Tesseract is with a hostile force." the director announced. "I have people down. Hill?"
"A lot people still under." Maria answered. "I don't know how many survivors."
"Sound the general call." Fury ordered. "I want every living soul not working rescue looking for that case."
"Roger that." she agreed.
"Coulson, get back to base." Fury continued ordering. "This is a Level Seven. As of right now, we are at war."
"What do we do?" Coulson questioned.
"We get ready." the director answered with determination.
It's here, the first Chapter to The Avengers (Anna's Avengers). Hope you enjoy.