A/N: Wow! Two favourites overnight...That was more than I was expecting! So, as a thank-you...Here's another chapter early! Cookies to KelseyHalliwell and Lorelee13!
Disclaimer: I do not own The Avengers. The Avengers are owned by Marvel. Rebekah was created and is owned by me, however.
Red Carpet Event-Rendezvous Point
"Steve, we couldn't find him at all...I went inside the buildings...A one mile radius and he wasn't anywhere" Natasha said, and Clint nodded.
"I couldn't find him either,"
"Nothing..." Tony said, and Steve's heart sank just a little more, settling in the nether regions of his stomach.
"Me neither"
Tony whipped out his phone, his fingers flying over the screen. There was a short pause, and then Happy's face appeared. "What's up Boss?"
"Can you bring the jet? Urgently?"
"Sure, I'll only be able to land on the rooftop, though"
"Doesn't matter, just be quick with it"
"Sure, Boss" Happy hung up. Steve walked over to the stairs of the hall.
"Why the jet?" He asked, The Avengers followed him, and stopped at the door.
Tony smiled, and his armour flickered and disappeared as he walked inside.
"To see Fury"
Chapter Three- A White-Hot Helping Hand
Tony rushed past multiple S.H.I.E.L.D members as he headed for the meeting room, Steve kept up easily.
"So, do you really think he will know?"
"99.9 percent sure" Tony said "If what Clint says he heard is fact"
Natasha walked behind them.
"Do we have any idea where Banner might have gone? If he left of his own choice?" Natasha said, and Tony looked briefly over his shoulder.
" India...Russia, China...Anywhere he would be hard to find" he said, Natasha sighed.
"That doesn't make it much easier, does it?"
"Wait...Didn't S.H.I.E.L.D keep tabs on Doctor Banner before the Chitauri?" Steve interjected, and Natasha nodded.
"But S.H.I.E.L.D took them off after it, give him some time on his own" Clint said, having caught up. "Took me ages to get clearance to put the jet in the hangar" He explained.
They all bustled into the meeting room, on an unsuspecting Nick Fury, he looked up from a small pile of papers, and his hand slid over them as they all took seats.
"Where is Doctor Banner?" Steve asked, getting to the point immediately, Nick's hand fluttered over the papers, Tony reached over and pulled them out from under him. Fury sent Tony a warning look, but Tony read them anyway. Eyes scanning the paper quickly, he put it down, a shocked look plastered on his face. Steve looked over Tony's shoulder, and it wasn't long before he wrenched the papers out of Tony's hand and gave it to Natasha
"You did it" Tony said incredulously, "You perfected the cure" Fury shook his head.
"No, we advanced on it, we still don't know if it works, and now it has gone missing"
"How did R&D do it?"
"Not Research and Development, a special agent did it" Fury explained "She had been working on it for quite some time, the first serum was...volatile" He pressed a button on the table and a large horizontal screen slid down, "This is the footage of the first serum"
The screen flashed, and a young woman with light blonde hair appeared at a bench, she smiled at the camera, the light flashed off her straight, white teeth. "This is Doctor Rebekah" Fury said, pausing the footage.
"Rebekah?" Clint quieried, "That's the one with..."
"No known last name, yes" Fury said, slightly annoyed at the interruption "She has been working with S.H.I.E.L.D for quite some time"
"She was here when Clint became an agent" Natasha said "And when I came as well"
"She has been working with S.H.I.E.L.D for a very long time..."
Steve froze, she didn't look that old, at all. "How old is she?"
Fury smiled "She's one hundred and twenty-two"
"I didn't think we lived that long, or did that change too?" Steve said, confused, Fury shook his head.
"No, we don't," The video unfroze and continued, he paused it to a shot where the woman's arm is outsretched, reaching for a bottle of undiluted phosphate. "Dr. Rebekah isn't exactly human-" Fury stopped speaking as the doors slid open and a raven flew in, landing on the edge of the table, Natasha raised a perfect eyebrow.
"I thought security was tight here, Fury" Tony said snarkily. Nick glared at him.
"Agent Rebekah, no animals on the carrier" Fury said slowly, speaking to apparently no-one. The bird hopped down onto the metal floor with a short but sweet note, it looked up at Fury with bright emerald eyes, and a gaze that was too steady.
There was a flash of blinding white light that seemed to emit from the small raven, and when it cleared, and The Avengers could see again, a young woman stood in its place.
She was rubbing her left arm and scowling. Steve's eyes widened as he noticed that a series of curling tattoos, all conjoined, worked their way down her arm, curling around her fingers. They seemed to be embossed into her pale skin, the a bright green colour was receding from it, heading upwards. She sighed when the colour had disappeared, and pushed a long, curly lock of blonde hair so light it seemed to be a white colour behind her ear, smiling at them all with perfectly straight teeth. It seemed as if the colour from the markings on her arm had retreated to her eyes, for they were the very same bright jade, and the colour seemed to swirl within them. Her gaze travelled around the room and she blushed, the pink highlighting the bunches of freckles on either of her high-set cheeks.
She started to open her mouth, then she closed it with a snap, turned to Fury, and her hands began moving wildly, yet in some kind of coordinated order Steve couldn't place. Fury sighed, and pressed the same button. The screen blacked out and retreated into the panels in the walls again.
"Speech form, please" Fury said simply, and Rebekah grimaced. There was a much shorter burst of white light, and when it dissipated, Rebekah was still there, but with an exception.
The ornate markings down her left arm were now flowing with the same emerald colour as her eyes, and this time it didn't recede. She rolled her wrists and turned away from Fury.
"Sorry" She said, her voice clear and smooth, it rang through the cavernous room like church bells.
"Woah, hang on...What just happened?" Clint asked, holding up a hand, Fury and Rebekah smiled.
"I'm Agent Rebekah, AKA Morph" Rebekah said . "Fury's right, I'm not human...I'm actually a genetic anomaly, nowadays you would call them mutants, they had a name for people like me in my time too...Freak." Tony nudged Steve, who glared at him. "I am the agent in charge of project H" Rebekah continued, her tone brightened considerably.
"Project H?" Tony interjected, not looking at Rebekah, but at the place where the Raven had been. What on earth is Project H? And how is it gonna help us find the Big Guy? Is this even relevant?
"Project Hulk; finding a cure, or at least, a sedative serum" Fury said, and Tony nodded, still looking confused. "Apart from Banner, Agent Rebekah is the world's leading mind in Gamma radiation, that's why she is head of that department" Fury continued, Rebekah smiled and bowed her head modestly, her plaitnum ringlets swining free. Natasha nudged Clint, who was staring out the window absentmindedly. "Can she do field work?" Clint asked, rubbing the spot where Natasha had elbowed him. Rebekah looked at her boots.
"I'm not a field agent at all" she said simply "I cannot follow orders, so I work in Research and Development" She looked at Fury reminescently, Fury shook his head, smiling slightly.
"You are now" He replied, and her eyes widened.
"Why Sir?"
"Doctor Banner is missing" Steve said, and she looked at him, her jade eyes concerned.
"And we need your help to find him" Tony interjected. We're gonna find you, Big Guy.
