Authors Note: All characters belong to the Marvel. The first chapter contains slight recap of the big chase scene in detail in my own words, and the story begins to tell Agent Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s story during the events of the Avengers, the original story belongs to the movie The Avengers, but the additions come from my own mind.

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Chapter 1: The Incident

Agent Maria Hill had just returned from her latest trip to the basement vaults of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s previously used computers and technological equipment. She had been sent there by Director Fury himself, and been told only three objectives. One, enter the vaults with no other agent nor ally noticing her. Two, to delete every file in every device capable of holding memory. And three, tell no-one of her mission. She reluctantly agreed. Maria's thoughts began to drift to what she had seen in the depths of S.H.I.E.L.D., the atrocities they had hidden from every agent, every human fighting for their cause, even herself despite her high position. The horror. The horror began to fill her mind until she could hardly get herself out of her vehicle.

Then she noticed something as she unbuckled her seatbelt and began to walk through the rear entrance to the lab, she noticed an eerie silence, and immediately knew that there was a problem. Maria shook her head, needing to focus on what had happened at the lab while she was away. She stopped. Crooking her head to the left, trying to hear the normal chatter that filled the halls. She then gingerly retrieved her walkie-talkie out from from her black skintight suit in precaution and began to walk into the halls... Then before she could contact Fury, she saw Dr. Eric Selvig, Clint Barton, and a male S.H.I.E.L.D. agent walk past her with a man in green and begin to enter one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s many agents vehicles.

She slowed her pace and turned around to face Clint as Dr. Selvig sat in the passenger seat the the other man crouched in the back of the truck. He wore black and green leather outfit, and held a gold sceptre with a bright blue jewel in the centre, in his hand. He crouched over, not making eye contact with her, although she knew he knew he was being watched.

'We need these vehicles," stated Clint.

Maria became confused, she looked around for other agents but there were none.

'Who's that?" Maria asked as Clint placed a silver briefcase in the truck and walked over to the driver's seat.

'Didn't tell me…' Clint trailed off.

Maria looked around, confused, and began to turn around down the hall to the lab where N.A.S.A. and S.H.I.E.L.D. were holding and researching the tesseract. As she did, she glanced once more to the unknown man in the truck. He was looking down as before, but then slowly he lifted his chin, piercing her grey eyes with his sharp azure ones, and bringing the corners of his mouth to an evil smirk. She whipped her head away and slowly retreated, going through emergency protocols for when anyone believed an agent was compromised. She then planned to speak the emergency numbers into her mouthpiece, however, before she could begin she heard noises coming from her walkie-talkie and then Director Fury.

'Hill! Do you copy?" He yelled through her pocket. Maria stopped, hoping he would keep quiet so she could properly follow emergency instructions and then attack from behind. But it came again. 'Barton is...' he yelled. Agent Maria knew an attack was coming so she jumped and rolled to hide behind a cement pillar as Clint began to shoot at her. She knew he was compromised! She heard the engine revving up on the vehicle they had stolen and quickly looked out to see them driving out of the headquarters, and began to shoot at the man in the back who she assumed to be the big bad in charge of the heist. The man in green glared as they drove off. Nick Fury yelled once again from her walkie, 'He's got the tesseract! Track it down!' She knew that she had to stop them.

Maria ran to her jeep, throwing her walkie talkie into the back, started the engine in record speed and sped off into the direction they left. Other agents had responded to Fury's request as well, about several other cars were tailing the rogue agents. She weaved in and out in-between the other cars, and suddenly the man in green began to shoot what looked liked magic out of the end of his sceptre, totalling the car in front of her. She swerved to not be hit by the flying car parts, and got a better look at the man. Then something clicked in her mind, something she connected with what she had seen in a file in one of the old worn down computers in the vault. Loki. She didn't know how she knew it, maybe it was briefing footage or maybe it was one of the secrets of the vaults, one of the secrets she had destroyed. Although she was suburb at following authority, and knew that S.H.I.E.L.D. had done questionable things in the past, she glanced once or twice to make sure the files were being erased completely and saw things she never imagined, or wanted to see.

Agent Hill then sped into a shortcut that S.H.I.E.L.D. hardly used and came out around right in front of the rogue jeep. She held her place, trying to stop Clint. She saw a bright blue sparkle in his eye, and with a quick glance to Eric, she saw he had the same look. Staring into Clint's eyes, another word abruptly entered her head; Chitauri. She had no idea how her knowledge of the mans in green's name nor this word came to her mind, but she assumed it was found in those faith breaking moments in the dark vaults. She shook her head violently, bringing herself back to the situation at hand, and began shooting at who used to be her friend. Clint began to gain speed and pushed her vehicle out of the way, she spun around and followed them as fast as she could.

Boom! A deathly crash came from behind her as the walls, the walls meant to stay secure and safe even in nuclear war, came crumbling down around her. She sped and swerved around the on-coming rubble, and as the man in green- Loki, began to chuckle, the wreckage landed right in front of her, blocking her cars path completely.

A loud buzz came from her walkie-talkie in the backseat, she grabbed it and began to fiddle with the dials, trying to return it to the right settings. Making her jump in her seat, Agent Coulson's deep authoritative voice came from the device. 'Director. Director Fury, Do you copy?' He asked. And then came her Directors voice a moment later, 'The tesseract is with the hostile force,' Fury said calmly. 'I have men down, Hill?'

Agent Hill took a moment to breathe before responding, mustering all her confidence to sound unfazed by the recent events. 'A lot of men still under, don't know how many survivors.'

'The General called,' Nick said, 'I want every living soul in our rescue looking for that briefcase.'

'Roger that.' Maria searched her surroundings to see if any other agents were fought, she heard Coulson and Fury speak to each other, only catching the last words. 'This is a level 7. As of right now, we are at war...'

She quickly jumped out of her seat and began to run. After about ten minutes of running, gun in hand, she escaped the confinement of the tunnel and felt the fresh wind whip against her face. She heard noises of war close by, and looked up to see Nick Fury shooting at the rogue vehicle from his helicopter. She saw it explode above her and dust and debris began to fall from the sky. She saw Director Fury jump.

Maria panted as she desperately looked around, trying to track where he jumped. North-west. She took only five moments to breathe before she set off sprinting to her superior. After running through the wild thicket of grass for what seemed like ages, following the sound of gun-shots, the Agent finally reached Nick Fury. He was lying on his side, bleeding from a wound. He saw her face above his and sighed with relief.

"Agent Hill! Thank-god you're here, can you help me up?"

Maria looked into his eyes, the same eyes of the man who demanded her to disregard all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s information saving protocol and destroy the deep secrets that they had hidden since being founded. The secrets that now haunted her mind. The secrets that caused the most obedient and committed agent in the planetary defence/intelligence service at S.H.I.E.L.D. to question her entire work at the agency. Maria tackled the attempting-to-get-up Nick Fury, held him down, and put her elbow against his neck. And then Agent Hill yelled yelled with a vengeance. 'WHY?!'

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Please review and favourite if you want me to continue, I'm not sure I will because I'm not sure there will be demand for it. I really love Agent Maria Hill, she definitely didn't get enough screen time. And I've got tons of ideas for this story, hopefully twenty chapters worth. So if you like her and this story, please tell me so. Thanks! I've got another 3 chapter written but unfortunately I'm having some glitches with fan fiction right now and I can't upload, but it should be fixed soon! Thank-you for being so patient, you're going to love it!