Rebecca followed behind Natasha as they walked along the deck, passing many people and jets, Natasha not even giving them a second glance as if this was all perfectly normal. Rebecca, on the other hand, was looking around at everything, wondering how many people and equipment actually fit on this craft. Soon, Natasha slowed up next to a man who seemed rather out of place, as if he too was shocked at what was going on around him. Rebecca looked at him curiously, wondering who he was.

''Dr. Banner,'' Natasha nodded as if they had already seen each other earlier. ''This is Rebecca Stark.''

Dr. Banner smiled politely as he looked to the girl next to Natasha. She looked familiar, as if he had seen her before, but he knew that wasn't possible. The name Stark rung in his head again, and that's when he remembered who her father was, Tony Stark. He had been cut off from society for a long time, but he knew who Iron Man was, and the resemblance between Tony and his daughter was surprising.

''Uh, it's nice to meet you,'' he told her. He expected her to just stare back at him blankly, as many people did, since everyone knew he was the Hulk and preferred to keep their distance, not that he could blame them.

''Nice to meet you too, Dr. Banner.'' she smiled, offering her hand to shake, which surprised him but he gladly greeted her in return. ''I've read almost all your papers, it's nice to finally meet you.''

Bruce didn't expect her to be so warm, most of the people he met that worked for Shield were very professional and intimidating, not to mention downright rude when it came to dealing with his situation with the Hulk. They looked at him as if he was going to kill them any minute, either that or he disgusted people. He wasn't used to feeling like an ordinary person, but Rebecca just looked past all of the things that made other people wary. He supposed being brought up by Tony Stark made you see a lot of things differently, especially when the whole world was watching your every move.

''Thanks,''

Rebecca took note of how uncomfortable he was around so many people, wondering why they were looking at him as they passed. She knew his story, she had read about him after reading his paper on gamma radiation, studying how it effected him. She didn't see an angry man though, she saw an ordinary man who happened to be extremely intelligent and had a lot of her respect.

When she turned to her side, Natasha called over another man who Rebecca immediately recognized as Steve Rogers. Natasha introduced him to Dr. Banner first, and then turned to Rebecca. She didn't know how to feel about this man, after all, just like Tony, she grew up with the stories that Howard told about Captain America and how he basically turned him into a super solider with his technology. Howard spent years searching for Steve in the ocean, and Tony grew up to despise the whole story of Captain America since it seemed as though Howard cared more to find him than give Tony a childhood. She tried to forget all of that and be professional, putting aside any mixed feelings she had.

''Captain, this is Rebecca Stark.''

Steve looked over to the girl, instantly seeing the resemblance to his friend Howard. She must have been Tony's daughter. From what he knew, Howard only had one child, a son, and this must be Howard's granddaughter. He had no idea that Tony Stark had a daughter, and from the media footage he had seen of Tony, he didn't know how someone with such an ego and reputation could be a father, but he didn't know either of them, and he couldn't judge so quickly.

''It's a pleasure to meet you, ma'am.'' he smiled politely.

Rebecca smiled back, but she didn't extend her hand to greet him as she did Bruce. ''You too, Captain.''

Natasha turned to Coulson who had been standing beside Steve. ''Fury needs you on the bridge.''

Silence fell over them quickly before the hellicarrier began making noises as if it were starting up. Natasha smirked and looked over to Dr. Banner and Steve, and Rebecca noticed their confusion as to what was going on.

''You might want to step inside, it's gonna get a little hard to breathe.'' she told them.

Rebecca and Natasha watched, humored by their confusion, as the two man walked over to the side of the hellicarrier, watching to see how it was going to work.

''Really?'' Dr. Banner spoke. ''They want me in a submerged metal container?'' Then, the craft began to lift into the air slightly, letting the water run off it's edge, and he realized it wasn't going underwater. ''Oh no, this is much worse.''

Natasha and Rebecca went ahead to inside the hellicarrier, in search of the control room where Fury would be, leaving Bruce and Steve to follow shortly after. Steve had so many questions, and Bruce seemed like he would know since he hadn't been frozen for seventy years and completely missed everything that had gone on.

''Is that Tony Stark's daughter?'' he asked cautiously.

''Uh, yeah, it is.'' Bruce nodded, turning away from the edge.

''I didn't know he had children.''

''Just the one.'' Bruce told him.

''It was hard enough to believe Howard had a son I could meet one day, and now his granddaughter.'' Steve thought out loud.

Bruce began walking, Steve following beside him. ''Yeah, well I'd prepare yourself for Stark if you ever meet him, he's a little...upfront.''

Steve narrowed his eyes. ''What do you mean?''

''I'm just saying, don't think he's going to be like Howard Stark.''

''Howard was a good man, I imagine his son would be quite alike.'' Steve told him.

''Well I didn't know him, but I know that Howard spent most of his life searching for you, he devoted many years to it.''

Steve was saddened by that fact. ''How many years?''

''All of them.''

''What about his family?''

Bruce shook his head. ''Look, I don't know Tony or his family, but it couldn't have been much fun growing up when your dad couldn't find time for you. I don't know, I've never met him either, I couldn't tell you what he's like, sorry.''

Steve nodded his understanding and walked alongside Bruce in silence, thinking about what Howard had done to try and find him. He had a family, a son to be with, yet he sacrificed all of that for him. Steve wondered what Tony would be like, because from what he had seen in footage, he was very obnoxious, but he hoped he would be more like Howard once the cameras were away. As for Rebecca, he didn't know what to think since he didn't know she existed until a few moments ago. He had a lot to learn about what happened while he was missing.

Rebecca walked into the control room inside the hellicarrier, noticing everyone working frantically as the craft lifted into the air. All of the people in the room were working to get the Tesseract back, and she knew that Shield had a plan now, unlike previously. She walked over to where Coulson was, and Fury noticed she had arrived.

''Miss Stark,'' he greeted her. ''You ready for this?''

Rebecca nodded confidently. ''I am.''

Then he turned. ''Gentlemen,''

The others forwarded into the room, looking around curiously at everything in the room. Fury passed Steve with a simple gesture to greet him, and Steve handed him a few notes, maybe about ten dollars, and Fury smiled as he understood why. Steve stood by the railing, looking at the people working on their computers. The technology that surrounded him must have been overwhelming, it made him speechless. Fury then made his way over to Dr. Banner, welcoming him.

''Doctor, thank you for coming.''

Dr. Banner shook his hand. ''Thanks for asking nicely.'' Rebecca walked over and joined them all, standing around the table that was before them. ''So, how long am I staying?''

''Once we get our hands on the Tesseract.''

Bruce nodded. ''Where are you with that?''

Rebecca's ears pricked, listening for Fury's response, but Coulson answered instead. ''We're sweeping every wireless accessible camera on the planet. ''Cell phones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us.''

Steve looked terribly confused at Coulson's words, not understanding what a cell phone or laptop was, however he didn't bother slowing everyone down by asking. They all nodded in understanding, but Natasha was looking down at the computer at Barton's bio, knowing they were also searching for him.

''That's still not gonna find them in time.'' she spoke up.

''You'll have to narrow the field.'' Rebecca told them.

Dr. Banner agreed. ''How many spectrometers do you have access to?''

''How many are there?'' Fury asked.

''Call every lab you know. Tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays.'' he took off his coat. ''Ill rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition.'' Fury nodded, impressed by his initiative already. ''Do you have somewhere for me to work?''

Fury looked over to Natasha. ''Agent Romanoff, will you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory please?'' he instructed. ''And Stark, you should go as well and look at what you'll be using to work with.''

Rebecca followed Natasha alongside Bruce until they reached a small room, but inside it was just the right size. There were computers everywhere, cases of testing equipment, monitoring kits and tracking devices, all to which they had unlimited access to. Natasha showed them where they were working and then left them to it, hoping they could find something as soon as possible.

That left Bruce and Rebecca in the lab by themselves, but they didn't mind, they went about their business and started up a few monitors to begin tracking the spectrometers.

''I thought your dad might have turned up for this one.'' Bruce told her, making conversation, which he knew he wasn't good at.

Rebecca chuckled lightly. ''You never know when he'll turn up, he didn't exactly tell me.''

''What about you?'' he asked.

Rebecca looked over to him. ''What about me?''

''Will you be..working, alongside them?'' he asked, referring to the team Fury had lined up.

''No,'' she shook her head. ''I'm only here to find the Tesseract, I have nothing to do with the fighting business that I know of. My dad would kill me.''

Bruce nodded in understanding, putting some data into the computer he was working on. ''I'm surprised he let you do this.'' he said absentmindedly, looking over at her with immediate regret. ''J-just because he seems very protective...of you.''

''I'm surprised too.'' she agreed, easing Bruce's worries that he had said the wrong thing. ''He's very protective, I had to put up a fight just to work with Shield on the Tesseract to begin with.''

''Did you want to do it, or did they ask you to?'' he wondered.

Rebecca was also inputting data into a computer, her eyes focused on the screen. ''Well, I done something that caught Shield's attention, and, long story short, they wanted me to analyse the Tesseract. I don't really trust them given their track record, but when I figured out how powerful the Tesseract was, I wanted to make sure they didn't do anything with it.''

Bruce listened in, understanding that she was here to protect, not fight. The Tesseract had unlimited power, and she didn't trust Shield with it, it all made sense. Rebecca was much different to what he thought, and he cursed himself for thinking she would be completely different. She was warm and friendly, and she didn't jump at Bruce's movements out of fear of the Hulk, which everyone else seemed to.

''What about you?'' she asked him. ''Did they ask you?''

Bruce chuckled. ''Depends what Shield considers 'asking'.'' Rebecca looked up, confused. ''I was working, helping people who were sick, very far away where I thought Shield or any other spies couldn't find me, but they did.'' he lowered his head, looking almost sad. ''They sent in Agent Romanoff and lured me to the edge of the city I was working in, and she told me Fury wanted me in.''

''You didn't want to come in.'' Rebecca spoke.

Bruce shrugged. ''I wanted to help, sure, but where I was...I was happy, I was comfortable, I hadn't had any problems for over a year. I didn't want to be brought into this again, but...here I am.''

Rebecca sighed. ''They shouldn't have pulled you away like that. You could have said no.''

Bruce looked up. ''I don't think they would like it very much if I said no.''

''That's their problem, they'd get over it.'' she shrugged. ''I just don't think it's right, making someone leave their life and stop everything to come help them.''

Bruce smiled at her taking his side between Shield. ''Well, I guess it is a matter of the world's future.''

Rebecca nodded. ''I guess. Anyway, I'm glad you're here, I know that with you helping out we'll get this thing.'' she complimented. ''I mean, I'm sorry Shield kind of forced it onto you, but I do appreciate you being here. I have a lot of respect for you work.''

Bruce smiled. He hadn't received such a lovely compliment in a long time. The way Rebecca spoke to him, ignoring all of the bad things about him and the fear, it reminded him of the way Betty spoke to him, so innocently, as if she didn't know what sort of terrible things were going on underneath his exterior.

''Thanks,''

''I mean, if it's not too much trouble.'' Coulson looked at Steve as he stood beside him. He had asked if Steve would sign his Captain American trading cards as Natasha warned he would.

''No, no, it's fine.'' Steve smiled.

''It's a vintage set. It took me a couple of years to collect them all.'' he explained proudly. ''Near mint, slight foxing around the edges but-''

''We got a hit.'' One of the men at the computers shouted. ''A 67% match. Wait, 79%.''

They found Loki. They'd been monitoring the camera's, and they found him.

''Location?'' Coulson rushed over.

''Stuttgart, Germany.'' The man told him.

Fury looked over at Steve seriously. ''Captain, you're up.''

He nodded his head understandingly before walking off to put on his uniform. Natasha was informed to fly the jet to Germany with Steve, and Fury advised that she let Bruce and Rebecca know what was going on so they could study accordingly, but Fury knew what Rebecca would do.

''We've got Loki in Germany, you might want to scan to see if the Tesseract is with him nearby. The coordinates should be up now.'' she told them hurriedly. ''Captain's going in.''

Rebecca stood up urgently. ''Wait, I'm going with you.''

Natasha shook her head. ''No, you're staying here and working on finding the Tesseract.''

''If the Tesseract is there with him, I'm making sure it comes back.''

''It's Shield's job to bring it back.''

''It was Shield's job to make sure it didn't get stolen, too.'' Rebecca pointed out. ''I'm coming.''

''Let her go Agent Romanoff,'' Fury's voice came from beside them. ''She's right, she needs to bring it back.''

Natasha sighed, turning to Fury seriously. ''I can't be sure she'll be safe.''

''Then we'll leave it to Miss Stark to make that decision.''

They both turned to her, and Bruce watched on from where he was working. Rebecca knew it was dangerous and things might happen, but she wanted to do this, she had to bring the Tesseract back.

''I'm going.''

Eeek, I hope you guys liked this chapter! I hope the introductions between Rebecca/Steve/Bruce were good, and that moment with Bruce in the lab. I wanted to establish a friendship between the two of them, sort of like Tony and Bruce in the movie. I know Tony wasn't in this chapter, but I had a lot to go over before I brought him in, and he'll be in the next chapter! Please review, and thanks for reading!