Circuit Breaker
"And that man is playing Galaga! He thought we wouldn't notice but we did." Georgia heard a voice from down the hall. It was distorted, but she had a good idea of who it was.
As Georgia entered the room, she found Tony Stark immediately. He was talking to Thor, Natasha, Agent Hill, and Steve. They were all seated around a white table, and they seemed to be kind of distressed about something.
"How does Fury do this?" Stark asked, looking at the monitors in front of him while covering one eye.
"He turns." Agent Hill said dryly.
"Sounds exhausting." Tony retorted, and he slipped his hand under the structure as he walked away. Georgia scanned the area quickly, and found a small decrypting device. She smirked lightly, and said nothing.
When she could see normally again, everyone was looking at her with strange looks. Her eyes, of course, had turned blue when she scanned.
"Okay, is everyone going to stare at me every time that happens? Yes, my eyes turn blue when I connect to technology or use my ability in any way. There's two Norse gods, a super soldier, and a man who runs around in a fully functional mechanical suit of armor also on this aircraft that has the ability to turn basically invisible and is run by an espionage agency made up of spies. I am not the most interesting person here, people!" she said, pursing her lips.
With that, everyone looked down and away.
Captain America cleared his throat. "Thor, what's his play?" he asked.
He has an army, called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract." Thor answered, crossing his arms.
"An army. From outer space." Steve said, shaking his head.
Bruce suddenly appeared beside Georgia. "So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." he said.
Thor looked up. "Selvig?" he asked.
"He's an astrophysicist." Bruce answered.
"He's a friend." the Norse god mumbled, looking down.
"Loki has them under some kind of spell. Along with one of ours." Natasha said, her voice turning melancholy when speaking of the S.H.I.E.L.D agent. Georgia glanced at her for a minute, before dismissing her tone of voice.
"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here." Rogers said, glancing around.
" I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him." Bruce said, moving forward to the table. Georgia followed and sat at one of the empty chairs, she smiled slightly at his comment.
"Have a care how you speak! Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard and he is my brother!" Thor said, his voice slightly heated at the insults to his brother.
"He killed eighty people in two days." Romanoff commented coldly.
Thor glanced around. "He's adopted." he admitted.
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asked.
"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Banner responded.
"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Stark cut in, moving to behind Georgia. She glanced up at him.
"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." Bruce answered, seeming amused.
Tony stared at Banner for a minute. "Finally, someone who speaks English." he said happily.
Steve glanced around, confused. "Is that what just happened?" he asked.
"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. You're work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster." Tony said, shaking the man's hand.
It was Georgia's turn to be confused. Green rage monster? She didn't understand. But then, she never did follow superhero claims.
Bruce smiled softly. "Thanks." he answered ironically.
Nick Fury entered the room. "Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. The same for Miss. McGuiness. I was hoping you might join them." he said, approaching the table.
"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon." Steve said, continuing with the discussion of Loki.
Nick Fury looked down at Steve. "I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys." he said sourly.
"Monkeys? I do not understand" Thor said after a pause.
"I do!" Rogers said proudly from his seat. Stark rolled his eyes. "I understood that reference."
Georgia grinned at Steve's behavior. It wasn't hard to believe that he had been frozen for seventy years.
Then, she remembered why she had came here. "Oh, by the way, Stark. I need to borrow your cell phone." Georgia said in the pause of conversation.
He stared at her. "My cell phone? Why, want to look through my texts? Maybe add your number?" he asked, grinning. Georgia rolled her eyes.
"No, Stark. I need it to connect to a spectrometer from up here." she said shortly. "Since I know shit about gamma radiation, it's the best I can do to help. I'm going to scan for the rays myself."
He shrugged. "Sure, fine, cool. Let's just get back to the lab, we can work from there." he said, and Georgia followed Banner and Stark back to their place of work.
When they arrived, Georgia sat on a stool by one of the computers.
"Okay, send a text message to somebody that won't answer right away. If you receive a text message when I'm still connecting with the sent one, the interference will bring me back here and we'll have to start all over." she instructed as he brought out his phone.
He typed something, and got ready to send it. "Just press send when you're prepared." he said, setting it down on the countertop.
"Right-o." Georgia answered. "And do me a favor and at least try not to distract me?"
Tony pretended not to hear her, and she scowled at the back of his head.
She was getting ready to connect with the message, when she heard a small electrical zap from the other side of the room.
She whipped her head around, and glared at Tony. "Did you just shock him?" she demanded. "Real professional."
Tony shrugged. "You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?" he asked Banner. Georgia rolled her eyes again, and scanned the room, preparing herself.
She hadn't noticed before, but Loki's scepter was on the other side of the room. She cocked her head and scanned it further.
Georgia was surprised when she realized that she could see the gamma radiation emittance flowing off of it. She smiled to herself as she turned back to the cell phone. But As she turned, she noticed the same gamma emittance coming of of Bruce.
"You know, it's really creepy when your eyes are like that." Tony said.
"I'd think you'd be more creeped out by the fact that Dr. Banner turns into... what did you call it? An 'enormous green rage monster'? Yet you are obviously trying to get him to do so." she snapped, turning her eyes on him. As she did, she noticed the arc reactor plate on his chest.
"Why do you have an arc reactor on your chest, Stark?" she asked, her voice losing it's hostility and taking on a more curious tone.
Tony glanced down. "Oh, an accident from way back. I have shrapnel in my chest, and this reactor in my chest is the only thing stopping it from reaching my heart and ultimately killing me." he explained.
"Interesting. So if you pissed me off enough, I could easily shut down your arc reactor. I looking at the wiring right now." she said, smiling.
Stark shrugged. "Sure, if you wanna look at it that way. I prefer to view it as if my arc reactor ever malfunctions, you'd be able to start it right back up."
Georgia smiled wryly. "I thought you didn't want me repairing your inventions, Tony." she said, looking back down at the cell phone, thinking of the ride back on the Quinjet.
He matched her smile. "Not in easy-fix situations like that. But in dire emergencies, I'd like to think of you as my personal, instant AutoZone." he said, grinning wider.
Georgia rolled her eyes. "Great, now I'm a mechanic." she mumbled. "Now if you'll excuse me, Stark. I have tracking to do."
With that, she brought her powers up to speed, and pressed 'Send' on Tony's phone. She instantly connected to the digital message, and followed it down to the power lines.
She followed the electrical currents on the lines, letting go of the text message and heading towards the place where the most electrical currents were heading.
For a while, she coasted. She was partially aware of what was happening in the lab, but her focus was mostly on her scanning job. Captain America had entered, and he seemed to be agitated with Stark.
She was almost to where she believed the lab was located, when she felt someone next to her back in the lab. It was strange, it was like she was two people. It was hard to concentrate on the lab when she was following the power lines. It was hazy, like a dream had in semi-consciousness.
Georgia realized that Steve was about to shake her, possibly, he was worried about her in this state of mind. She began to panic. No one could touch her when she was in that state.
She instantly pulled back, out of the power lines and all the way back to the lab.
"Don't!" she roared, falling out of the stool with the force of her return. She smacked her head as she fell. Her eyes glanced back and forth wildly.
"Nobody. Can touch me. When I'm using. My power. Extensively." she said, her words were said in pauses because of her heaving breaths.
Steve, Tony, and Bruce all stared at her. Steve extended his hand to help her up. She took it, her whole body was shaking as she stood.
"I'm sorry, Miss. McGuiness." he said earnestly. She nodded as she held her head and sat down.
"It's alright, Steve." she said, smiling slightly. "First of all, call me Georgia. All of you. There's too much of this 'Miss. McGuiness' shit here."
"Second of all, when I'm in that state for an extended period of time... which is like more than five minutes... I... Let me put it this way. You know the blue electricity that I emit?" She let a bit of it crackle around her fingers. "That builds up inside of me, like I'm a generator. It gets stronger, and it flies all around my body. It ebbs away when I come back to my right mind, and it doesn't hurt me because my body creates it. But you..."
She put a hand on his arm and let a tiny bit crackle out. Steve pulled back in pain, it had shocked him.
"It hurts everyone else. And that hurt a good amount, although it was just a little, right?" Steve nodded. "Well think of how much it would hurt if you touched me when I'm working with it? A lot. It stays in my body for the most part, but as soon as someone or something else touches me... it all rushes into their body. I don't think that even Captain America could have survived that." she explained, and then fell silent.
All three of them stared at her, she kept her eyes aimed at her black heels. Her cheeks burned red in embarrassment and shame. She could have killed the man because she forgot to warn them.
"Well, it's done now. Nobody got hurt, right?" Tony said from the other side of the room. He walked over to stand next to Steve. Georgia turned her dark eyes up to look at him. "Don't worry about it. We all have our little... quirks. I happen to have shrapnel lodged in my chest and Banner has his anger management issues involving a raging green transformation. You just happen to be a walking electrical outlet. No biggie. We're all just human, after all."
Georgia couldn't help but smile a bit at the irony of Stark's statement. "Sure. All just human." she repeated, sitting back down on her stool.
"Blueberry?" Stark asked, holding out a bag of berries to the woman. She stuck her hand in the bag, popping a few of them in her mouth.
"I should probably try that again." she said through the berries. "You able to control your wandering hands, soldier?"
Steve smiled. "Yes, ma'am." he said. "I have something to get to, anyway." With that, he walked out of the room, his face set and serious.
"Where's he off to?" Georgia asked, handing the phone back to Stark so she could follow yet another text message down to the surface.
"Probably to prove me right. As I always am." Stark answered, typing something. Georgia gave him a questioning look as she took back the phone.
"I have a decryption device going through and opening all of S.H.I.E.L.D's private files to me. In a few hours, I'll know absolutely everything about S.H.I.E.L.D's inner workings." he explained.
"You know I can just... do that, right?" Georgia said, crossing her legs. "And it would be done within minutes."
Tony shrugged. "I like doing things myself." he replied. "If you want to, feel free."
"I have a few more important things to do, actually. Like finding this damned thing." Georgia responded. "But as soon as you have the information, I'll be glad to hear everything you have to offer. You're right not to trust Fury. My presence should make you wary. A technopath brought to an espionage agency for unsteady reasonings? Doubtful that their intentions for me are noble."
With that, Georgia turned back to the cell phone and began the process of finding the spectrometer and ultimately, the Tesseract.
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Ohhhh. A little bit of emotion from Georgia. Interesting.
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