Underestimated
Chapter 1
"If they don't get the Tesseract's energy there will be no minimal safe distance. The Tesseract's energy-"
"I need you to get Phase 2 weapons out of here," Nick tells Agent Hill.
"Sir Phase 2-"
"Do it," He cuts her off and walks through the doors.
"What did you call me down here for?" Nick Fury, the director of shield which stands for 'Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division'.
"Being the first Tasmanian with thumbs to be here-"
"Get to the point," Nick snapped not wanting to hear the girl's nonsense.
"The Tesseract is misbehaving," Amy speaks out quickly.
Nick raises his brow in confusion. "What do you mean misbehaving?"
Phil walks up to join Amy and Nick. "It has begun radiating an unusual form of energy."
Nick and Phil walk up together towards the Tesseract. Bright blue sparks radiate from it as it glows a brighter blue than it usually is. Something is definitely wrong. Nick looks around for the agent who scouts for enemies. "Where's the hawk?"
"As usual he is up in his nest," Phil says and looks to the upper corner of the department.
Nick's trails his vision up the corner to see the brunet male crouched at the corner. The brunet is cradling his bow in his arms looking down at the department. He's attention is mostly on the glowing Tesseract. He shakes his head knowing that something horrific is going to happen.
"Hawk, come down," Nick commands through the small ear piece in Jesse's ear.
Jesse rises from his crouched position and goes to the wire which lies at the end of the bridge. He wraps his arm and legs around the small wire and starts to descend downwards. He throws his bow over his shoulder and walks over to Nick.
"Did you see anyone come that might have disturbed the Tesseract?" Nick asks Jesse with a stern voice.
"No one has walked through those doors besides you," Jesse responds.
Suddenly the Tesseract beams up to the ceiling and slowly opens up a wormhole. Suddenly a male comes through the portal. He looks human but definitely not. He wears a helmet with goat horns and something that seems like an armor which is green and yellow. He yields a staff in his hand which glows blue just like the Tesseract.
With opening the wormhole, it created a mass explosion which is slowly bringing down the isolated department. Loki walks through the department easily as everyone is trying to recover from the blast. Nick was first to recover and when he looked up he saw Bumper's staff tip on Hawkeye's chest. Jesse's eyes change from his brown eyes to a vibrant blue just like the staff and Tesseract.
Nick discreetly starts taking the Tesseract out and into a suitcase. He looks up once again and sees Amy and Jesse under the villain's control.
"Bumper! Cousin of Aubrey!" Amy says remembering very well when Aubrey visited.
Nick remembers that too. A superhuman Aubrey was and he has no doubt that Bumper is one too. He walks towards the wormhole with the suitcase since that is the only place since Bumper's now army is surrounding him. Nick knows that the wormhole is about to blow since the loud wind noises and the blue streams coming out from behind him.
"Sir, Director Fury is stalling. He's planning to bury us under a hundred feet of rock," Jesse informs Bumper.
"Like the Pharaoh of old," Nick sarcastically snaps back.
"He's right. The portal is collapsing on itself," Amy tells Bumper. "We've got about two minutes."
Bumper smirks and turns to Jesse. "Well, then."
Swiftly before Nick can react, a bullet goes straight towards his chest. He grunts and falls back leaving the metal suitcase lying on the floor, allowing free possession of the Tesseract.
On the way out, Jesse grabs the silver suitcase and quickly catches up to Bumper. He hands it to Amy while he leads the group to the escape route.
I'd be my luck that I am stuck in this dingy ceiling. Stacie sighs to herself.
Her capturer slaps her hard across the face. It barely affected her; it just increased her annoyance for these people. Stacie lets them interrogate her.
"Who do you work for?" The man speaks in Russian. "Lermontov, yes?"
One of his pawns grabs her chair and tilts her to the edge which is a long way down. She glares at him but she knows that he's not going to drop her. He asks her a question and she quickly throws a lie in to get lowered down back down on the ground.
She knows he can see pass her lie since he informs her that. Rookie move. She smirks.
"The famous Black Widow and she turns out to be simply another pretty face," He scoffs.
That did not help him at all. It just made Stacie more pissed off. "You really think I'm pretty?" She says back keeping all seriousness. He didn't answer but went on about the subject.
Can he just drop it already? It's getting old. She thinks as his pawn starts opening her mouth. She doesn't know why either and it's creeping her out. She starts to freak when he mentions that he's going to pull out her teeth. Then suddenly the other pawn's phone rings. He answers and turns to his boss with confusion.
"It's for her," His pawn informs his boss.
His boss angrily grabs the phone and starts, "You listen carefully-"
On the other line Phil talks to him back, calmly. "You're at 1-14 Silensky Plaza, 3rd floor. We have an F-22 exactly eight miles out. Put the woman on the phone or I will blow up the block before you can make the lobby."
Stacie can clearly see the horror in his face as he lowers the phone down and stares at it. He quickly walks over to her and hands her the plastic device. Once it's placed at her ear she can hear Phil. "We need you to come in."
She sighs. "Are you kidding? I'm working," she says back with annoyance.
Phil can hear it from the other line and says "This takes precedence."
"I'm in the middle of an interrogation. This moron is giving me everything," She says looking up the boss. She knows he doesn't understand her.
Never mind. "I don't give everything," He shoots back defensively.
She cocks an eyebrow at him. She decides to ignore the old man and turns her attention back to phil. "Look you can't pull me out of this right now."
"Stacie…" He wishes he doesn't have to go there, but he knows it's the only way to get her in. "Baton's been compromised."
Fear and anger rushes through her and she knows she needs to get in. "Let me put you on hold," she tells Phil.
Just as the boss takes the phone from her, she kicks his shins causing him to fall and she hits him in the head with her own forehead. He falls grunting due to the pain both in his shin and forehead. She quickly turns her attention to the pawns who are rushing at her. She kicks the first one away and easily dodges the second one's punch.
She hits up with the side of the chair and he loses his balance, falling to the ground. She rolls on the ground with the help of the chair and focuses on the first. She hits him with the back of her chair and lands the legs of the chair onto his feet, immobilising him. She then cocks her head back and hits him in the nose with her head.
She turns and kicks his legs, pulling him down to the ground as he still holds his nose. From the corner of her eye she can see the second one rise from the ground and throws around a few kicks at him. She then does a front flip to break the chair on the second guy's back. Little did she know the first one was already up on his feet and threw her under his tight hug.
She sighed and grabbed his hand, twisting it and releasing her from his grip. She hits him the leg of the chair and kicks him in the chest with both feet, falling back onto her back. Though she catches herself and pushes herself forward. She darts herself to the first one and grabs his neck by her legs, swinging him downwards again.
She now immobilised all the pawns and focuses her attention on the boss. She grabs the chain which hangs over the edge and pushes him to hit his head on the metal bar. He loses his balanced and tried to keep it by lifting up his leg. She swiftly grabs the leg and wraps the metal chain around his shin, letting him go over the edge.
She then picks up the phone and her shoes making her way to Phil. "Where is Barton now?" She asks.
"We don't know," Phil answers.
"But he's alive?"
"We think so. I'll brief you on everything when you get back," Phil says looking at the computer monitor in which shows a video of her and Jesse on a mission and their files. "But first, we need you to talk to the big guy."
"Coulson you know that stark trusts me about as far as he can throw me," Stacie replies remembering the past memories of taking on a secret identity around him.
Phil smiles at her foolishness, thinking that it is Stark. "I got Stark. You get the big guy."
She stops instantly knowing what he's talking about. She knows this won't be as easy as she thought it would be.
Benji was focused on a sick patient as a girl yielding money her hand cries out to him. "My father's not waking up!" She cries to the family trying to shoo her away. "He has a fever and he's moaning but his eyes won't open," She informs the doctor.
He holds his hand out to stop her. "Slow down."
"My father…" She begins but is stopped by a coughing patient of the doctor's.
He notices her attention and points to the sick children. "Like them?" He asks knowing this is serious and wants to help.
She holds out the currency in Calcutta and says, "Please."
Benji follows her to the outskirts of town. He stops her as the patrols drive by. Being so close to the cabin, it'd be a shame to get caught now. He looks around to make sure there are no more patrols and walks into the severally damaged house. She runs into a room, jumps onto the bed and flees out the window.
His jaw drops in surprise and he slumps his shoulders. He lets out a sign and smiles. He was fooled.
She walks out from behind drapes, "You know for a man who is supposed to be avoiding stress you've picked a hell of a place to settle," Stacie drops sarcastically. She looks around showing the dreadful house as proof.
He's actually surprised to see her here. "Avoiding stress isn't the secret," He tells her as he placed down his bag.
"Then what is it? Yoga?" She smiles at her comment. Score!
He smiles at her joke too. "You brought me to the edge of the city. Smart. Who knew the other guy would transfer over to me." He says looking outside to see if there are S.H.I.E.L.D's agents outside. "I assume the whole place is surrounded."
She places her sash down, "Just you and me."
He points to the window where the little girl fled. "And your actress buddy? Is she a spy too? They start that young?" He questions.
"I did," She answered.
"Who are you?" He asks still not knowing who she is.
"Stacie Romanoff."
He nods not knowing who she is. He has to ask her. So he does, "Are you here to kill me, Ms. Romanoff? That is not going to work out for everyone."
"No, of course not! I'm here on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D," She said assuring her.
He thinks harder. Has he ever heard of these things? "S.H.I.E.L.D," He repeats after her. Then he remembers. "How did they find me?"
"We never lost you, Doctor. We've kept our distance. Even helped keep other interested parties off your scent," She notifies him.
"Why?"
"Nick Fury seems to trust you, but now we need you to come in," She smiles at the end hoping that he'll cave in.
"What if I say no?"
"I'll persuade you," she smirks.
Benji licks his lips, his way of thinking. He needs to put the other guy into consideration here too. "What if the other guy says no?"
"You've been more than a year without an incident. I don't think you want to break that streak."
"Well I don't every time get what I want."
Stacie knows it's time to get down to business. "Doctor we're facing a potential global catastrophe."
Benji laughs knowing it's a stupid idea to drag him into this. "Well those I try to avoid."
"This…" She shows him on her phone. "…is the Tesseract. It has the potential energy to wipe out the planet."
He puts on his glasses to look closer at the phone. He looks concerned. "What does Fury want me to do, swallow it?" He asks the brunette with horror in his voice.
"He wants you to find it. It's been taken," She says for reassurance. It emits a gamma signature that's too weak for us to trace. There's no one that knows gamma radiation like you do."
After a few more questions, Benji slammed both hands on the table and yelled, "STOP LYING TO ME!"
Stacie reaches under the table and retrieves a gun from under it. She loads it and points it directly in front of his face. He puts his hands up defensively, "I just wanted to see what you'd do."
She lowers her gun after a while. She nods and talks into her device, "It is all clear here."
"Just you and me?" He mocks.
Beca steps onto the plate at the end of the hanger. She starts walking and mechanical automated parts controlled by JARVIS take the armour off bit by bit. By the end she's left without a single piece of armour. She walks into Stark tower and engulfs Chloe in a hug. "It looks amazing."
"It looks like you," Chloe jokes. "I want to be a part of the next tower."
Beca draws a rectangle with her hands, "That'd look great, to have Beale on the tower."
"I don't want that. I want it on the lease," Chloe mutters and kisses Beca on the cheek.
Beca freezes for a moment with wide eyes. "We'll see."
"Ma'am Agent Phil Coulson is on the line," JARVIS tells Beca and Chloe. "He said it's urgent."
"Tell him that consultation hours are from 7-, "Beca is cut off with the elevator opening. "Security breach! It's on you," She says pointing to Phil/
Beca's hands fall to her sides with Chloe approaches Phil. She can't help but stare at Chloe's amazing figure; certainly a turn on. She quickly catches up Phil while Chloe greets him with champagne, in which she gave Chloe. In return she gets a black file handed to her. "Hi Phil. Come in," Chloe offers.
"I can't stay," He says.
"Phil? I swear to god his name is Agent," Beca mutters to herself.
"Is this for the Avengers Initiative?" Phil looks at Beca with concern and he receives a shrug. Chloe notices the sudden change and starts to defend. "I know nothing about it."
Phil breaks a smile and Chloe hands Beca the file. Beca opens it and sees the Tesseract's picture, another picture of Bumper and the mission details. She looks through it with great detail while Chloe and Phil catch up. She transfers the files to JARVIS and all the details and pictures file float around her.
"Phil, catch me up," Beca commands noticing that her grandfather's prize possession being stolen once again. "And didn't this happen before?"
Phil nods. "It has happened with the first Avengers Initiative. The one your father was in."
"I remember quite well. He nearly died." Beca says with her voice low as a mere whisper. She shrugs at the memory.
"He nearly, but he isn't," Chloe whispers to Beca while hugging her around the waist.
"So is it the same thing that happened?" Beca asks. "If it is, I already know everything."
"It is. They have Barton and Amy."
"I'm coming with you," Chloe informs Beca.
She shakes her head quickly. "You will not-"
"If I come with you, I can give you endless about of sex," Chloe whispers into Beca's ear.
Beca lights up and shivers run through her body. She nods, "Chloe is coming but she's staying on the ship."
Phil sighs and doesn't argue. He knows better than to bother the duo. He says his farewells and start exiting the tower. "I got Stark," Phil notifies Nick Fury.
Luke is busy punching away at solid punch bags. His punches get fiercer as he digs into his memories of his dad. Each punch knocking the punching bag filled with sand further back. He starts to remember the memories he has of his dad.
"Luke, come here boy," Steve calls out with his weak voice. Ever since the invasion Loki sent, Steve has adopted a young boy and grew him to be the man is his today. He knows he's about to pass. Being stuck many decades in a block of ice does not help to live longer.
Luke comes and sat beside his dad watching as the old man tries to speak words but nothing comes out. He rises from his chair but his dad put his hand on his arm and pulled him back down onto his chair. Who know that an old man still has so much strength?
"I'm dying Luke." That is all Steve says to Luke.
Luke nods knowing it was going to happen soon. Ever since the reunion of the avengers initiative, he has been showing some symptoms. Luke just has to remain strong in order to help his dad have a peaceful death. "I know."
"I want you to take on my legacy as Captain America," Steve speaks quietly; almost too quietly.
Luke nods.
"You may not have been a scientific experiment but you're still my son. You need to train to become the hero I know and love. You need to show the public that Captain America will always be there for them." Steve pauses to take a deep breath. "Do you understand my boy?"
Luke nods again as tears slowly fall down his face mimicking his dad's. "I will try my best."
With that Steve's breathing his become slower. It seemed like a hassle to breathe now. Then all at once everything goes silent. That's when Luke knew. Captain America is now him.
The bag goes flying as sand leaks from the holes that Luke created. He wipes the sweat off his brow and hooks another sand filled punching bag to the hook. Same procedure; punch, punch and punch. Then he stops at the voice of Nick's booming through the empty gym.
"Luke, the Tesseract has been taken."
He stops punching for a second then starts again. "How did you guys manage that again?"
"Guess we didn't learn."
"Are you calling the Avengers again?" Luke asks knowing he has to step up to the role of Captain America.
Nick Fury nods.
"Are we going to make a repeat of what my dad did?"
He nods again.
Luke replies with a nod and continues to punch the bag. All he wants now is to live up to his father's legacy.
AN:This is going to somewhat follow the story line of The Avengers, but I have plans to change it up. I hope you guys like the first chapter which introduces basically all the new characters. Pitch Perfect x Avengers cross over.