"Agent Barton, Agent Jackson, report."
Clint stood up instantly as Raven grabbed the bar in front of her to pull herself up. Sliding down to where Director Fury was with Doctor Selvig as they discussed the Tesseract, the Space Stone, one of the six infinity stones Raven was chosen to protect.
"I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things." Fury gave Clint a disapproving look.
Clint didn't hesitate. "Well, I see better from a distance."
"Are you seeing anything that might set this thing off?" Fury cornered him.
Raven attention was momentarily taken away from Fury as she heard a scientist warn Doctor Selvig, about the Tesseract spiking again.
"No one's come or gone. And Selvig's clean. No contacts, no I.M.'s. If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end." Clint finished up his report with a slight smirk.
Nick looked up sharply to Barton "At this end?" he asked.
Raven decided that this was her time to step in. "The cube is a doorway to the other end of space." She started. "And doors open from both sides."
Clint gave her an approving nod and turned back to Fury, before he could say a word, Raven's eyes unfocused and a flash of white over took her vison. A tall man stood where the Tesseract is, holding a scepter with a glowing blue stone in the middle of its crown.
"BEWARE!"A voice shouts to her."For destiny has started it's trial and arrives."
Her eyes focused back on to Director Fury, who gave her a concerned look before the whole building shakes and the Tesseract begins to glow, brighter and brighter as it builds up into a beam, blinding Raven as it grows, before forming a vortex that turns into a portal.
A black hole is created. From the portal, she can see the blackness of space and a billion stars, it's mesmerizing, before a gust of blue energy fills the room, blinding Raven for a second time and the others in the room. A glowing form crouches on the platform, she moves slowly toward the form, several SHEILD guards follow suit. It's quiet for a split second before Raven hears heavy breathing from the platform. She quickly pulls out her gun at the labored sound.
The figure looks up the light hitting his face just right, to show a smiling man. The man locks eyes with Fury, Barton and Selvig before the smile slips from his face, he stands up showing the scepter in his hands.
Raven's eyes widen in recognition at the sight of the scepter, the object that had been plaguing her dreams for months now stood just a few feet in front of her. Destiny sure has arrived. She thought.
"Sir, please put down the spear!" Fury's loud voice echoes slightly around the silent room, as Raven backs up to Barton and Fury. She knows something dangerous is about to happen every muscle screaming for her to run.
The man looks at his scepter then suddenly points it at where Fury, Barton and Raven are standing sending out a blue exploding light towards them. Barton tackles Fury while Raven ducks down to the ground to save herself just as the light reaches them and they barley miss getting hit.
All hell breaks loose. Machine gun fire is shot at the man, but the bullets bounce off him like a boss. He jumps high from the platform and attacks those firing at him.
Killing several SHEILD guards with his knives and energy blast from his scepter. He stops and waits to see who will attack him next. Honestly, the whole lab has gone to shit, sparks fly around the room illuminating the bodies sprinkling the ground. Barton tries to stand up. But the man quickly turns and walks towards him. Clint begins to raise his gun, but the man grabs his hand.
"You have heart." The man murmurs. He points the head of his scepter at Barton's chest. Clint's eyes suddenly fill in to a black colour then settling to a blue. He puts his gun away into his holster and stands straight. The man turns to Raven and his Cheshire cat like smile widens. "You." He breaths out "You have power." He raises his scepter to her chest. Raven freezes and waits for the scepter to take her over but nothing happens. The mans smile drops. "What?" His eyes narrow at her. "This is impossible…You're just a mortal" He regains his composure and shoots the blue energy at her, hoping to take out the Agent.
As the man becomes busy using his abilities to control the minds of several SHIELD personnel. Director Fury goes for the Tesseract, placing it quietly back into its silver case staring at the man hoping that he can leave with out being seen, he turns to leave the lab.
"Please don't. I still need that." The mysterious man's voice fills the room
"This doesn't have to get any messier." Fury states.
"Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else. I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose." The man-Loki sneers at him.
"Loki? Brother of Thor?" Selvig suddenly pipes up from behind one of the lab tables.
"We have no quarrel with your people" Fury states.
"An ant has no quarrel with a boot." Loki deadpans.
"Are you planning to step on us?" Fury questions.
"I come with glad tidings, of a world made free." Loki says dramatically.
Raven slowly started getting up, her back hurt like hell and she tried her best not to grab the attention of any of the controlled agents, or the Asgardian himself.
"Free from what?" Fury inquired.
Raven made her way over to Fury, staying a few feet away and in the shadows to make sure she wasn't seen, even Clint's sharp eyes wouldn't spot her.
"Freedom." Loki began. "Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart…" Loki turns to face Selvig who's standing behind him and places his spear against Selvig's heart, his eyes turn black then to blue, like Clint's. "You will know peace." Loki finishes.
"Yeah, you say peace, I kind of think you mean the other thing." Fury goes on.
Raven glances up to the vacuum chamber ceiling, Tesseract's energy cloud glow stealing away her attention, as it rapidly builds into what may be an implosion.
"Sir, Director Fury is stalling. This place is about to blow. Drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us." Clint pipes up from behind the Asgardian. Shut up Clint! Her mind screams. I know you're mind controlled and all but seriously?
"Like The Pharaohs of old." Fury stated.
"He's right. The portal is collapsing in on itself. You got maybe two minutes before this goes critical." Selvig reported to Loki. Shit! I have no time to get out of here with out being seen by them.
"Well, then..." Loki drew out.
Loki looks back to Barton, who doesn't even hesitate, Clint turns around and shoots Fury, then he grabs the case containing the Tesseract and leaves the lab with Loki, Selvig and the other SHIELD personnel who are mind controlled.
Once they're out of sight Raven rushed over to Fury from her spot in the shadows. Fury looked up sharply to Raven, his eye holding concern for the young SHEILD agent.
"You good?" She asked swiftly, she pulled of a first aid kit from the side of her holster armour, as he sits up and pulled the bullet out of himself, breathing heavily.
"Right as rain." He replied. Fury pulled out his walkie talkie. "Hill, do you copy?!" He shouted into it. "Barton has turned." He gets up holding his side with the gauze pad Raven handed to him, Raven follows suit and supports him as they run from the lab. "He's got the Tesseract! Shut them down!" Fury continues into the walkie. The energy is really brewing a shit storm from the vacuum chamber ceiling. They continue running up the stairs and into a long corridor, they just barely miss getting hit by some large pipes falling from the ceiling.
"This way, sir." Raven directed him to a narrower route with less falling objects. They make it to the surface where a helicopter is waiting for them.
"We're clear upstairs, sir! You need to go!" Coulson's voice calls to them on a walkie. Raven and Fury bolt out of the facility and to the waiting helicopter. Just as they get in and begins to lift off, the ground below them cracks and falls into itself, creating a large sinkhole. Fury watches as the facility falls within. Raven turned to Fury trying her best to clean up the blood that had made its way to the surface pressed an alcohol wipe to the side of Fury's body and applying proper bandaging to the wound. She had just finish putting on the medical tape when he suddenly jerks way from her and slides the door of the copter open and begins open fire on to the speeding jeep below, that just makes its way out of the collapsing building. A flash of blue comes barrelling toward then and hits the tail end to the copter sending it to the ground. Fury jumps out along with Raven as the two land Fury starts shoot at the jeep again, but its no use.
"Director? Director Fury, do you copy?" Coulson's voice comes out of the walkie once again.
"The Tesseract is with the hostile force. I have men down. Hill?" Fury responded
"A lot of men still under, don't know how many survivors." Hill's strained answer comes threw. "Small chance anyone survived that." Raven thought.
"Sound the general call. I want every living soul not working rescue looking for that brief case." Fury commanded.
"Rodger that." Hill responded.
"Coulson, get back to base. This is a LEVEL SEVEN. As of right now, we are at war."
"What do we do?" Coulson asked.
"We activate the Avengers." His cool reply came.
"I need a vacation." Raven states. Fury gives her a look.
"We're fighting a war right now, Jackson." He informs her as if she didn't already know that.
"Yeah… well… how about after the war?" She asks. He rolls his eye at her and she shoots him a smile. "Need a ride home?" She asked.
"I'll be fine." He responds.
"You sure? I'd hate to leave you alone in the desert."
"Go Jackson, I'll be fine."
"Okay, see you back at home base." A portal opens behind her and she steps through.