Misbehavior
Coulson was waiting for us at the Helipad platform when Hill and I arrived. He called while we were in route to the J.D.F.E. facility to tell me that the Tesseract is still unstable, and he wanted confirmation for the order to evacuate. I gave him the confirmation and told him we were less than fifteen minutes out. "How bad is it?" I asked him as soon as I saw him.
"That's the problem. Sir. We don't know."
"Ok. Take me to where it is". I said while we walked towards the elevator. Around us, people are running and rushing by while completing their different tasks. The facility is called Joint Dark Forces Energy, as to why we called it J.D.F.E., which turned out to be a rather ironic name considering the events that followed later on.
J.D.F.E. is a large facility with three floors above ground and three more floors underground. It's used for weapons development and research on hazardous components. The elevator took us down to the underground levels where the Tesseract is located. Since the underground levels are only used for storage and testing of dangerous weapons, the appearance of the place is that of a commercial building's mechanical room basement. It has polished gray metal, square and rounded vents and pipes running across the ceiling, with some of them even going from floor to ceiling, and the walls and floors are unpolished concrete.
Coulson continues to explain the situation to me while we walk to the Tesseract's location. "Doctor Selvig read an energy source in the Tesseract four hours ago."
"Were there any test authorized in this thing?" I asked.
"He wasn't testing it. He wasn't even in the room. It was a spontaneous event."
"It just turned itself on?" Hill who is walking behind both of us asked.
"What are the energy levels at?" I asked Coulson.
"Climbing. Since he couldn't shut it down, I ordered the Evac." Coulson answered.
"How long to get everyone out?"
"The campus should be clear in the next half hour."
"Do better." "Yes. Sir." With that, Coulson left to take care of the last arrangements for the evacuation.
"Sir an evacuation may be futile." Deputy Hill said.
"Should we tell them to go back to sleep?" I asked her.
"If we can't control the Tesseract there may not be a minimum safe distance."
"I need you to make sure that the Phase-Two prototypes are shipped out."
"Sir. Is that a priority right now?"
"Until such time when the world ends, we will act as if it has every intention to spin on. Clear up the tech below. I want every piece of Phase-Two on a truck and gone."
"Yes. Sir." Hill said. She called the two guards by the entrance to the Tesseract room and told them to go with her as she is walking pass me.
I entered the room where the Tesseract is being kept in and called Doctor Selvig. "Talk to me, Doctor."
"Director," He said.
"Is there anything we know for certain?"
"The Tesseract is misbehaving."
"is that supposed to be funny?" "Ohh. It isn't funny at all. The tesseract is not only active. She is….behaving."
"I assume you pulled the plug."
"She is an energy source. We turn off the power. She turns it back on. She reaches peak level."
"You prepared for this Doctor. How to harness energy from space."
"We don't know how to harness it. My calculations are far from complete. She is throwing out interference. Radiation. Nothing harmful. Low levels of gamma radiation."
"That could be harmful. Where is Agent Barton?"
"The Hawk? Up in his nest as usual." I left him to continue working with the Tesseract while I went looking for Agent Barton.
"Agent Barton, report," I said on the comms unit.
The room that the Tesseract is in is a large open room at least three stories high, with a dome, and metal beams with trusses on the side of the walls and across the ceiling. The walls and floor are the same as the rest of the underground space. Since at the moment the room is being used as a lab of sorts, it has a few tables with lab equipment and other big machines. At the center of the space, the Tesseract is embedded in the middle of a vertical circular-shaped device with connections that transfer the blue energy of the Cube to the edges of the circle so that the Cube's power can be analyzed and directed.
Barton is perched in one of those metal trusses that wrap around the walls, and he is at least two stories from the ground. Agent Barton came down from his perch using a rope that he attached to one of the trusses. "I gave you this detail so that you could keep a close eye on things," I told him when he reached my side.
"Sir. I see better from a distance." He said while walking next to me.
"Have you seen anything that might have set this thing up?" I asked.
"No one come or gone, and Selvig is clean, no contacts. If there is any tampering Sir, is not on this end."
"At this end?"
"Yeah, the Cube is a doorway to the other end of space. Doors open from both sides."
After he said that, the Tesseract let out an energy wave that shocked the entire facility. The glowing blue cube started to emit a laser type beam which created a portal that is expanding to at least nine feet high. The portal then began to contract and imploded, giving out a light blue energy shock wave that expanded across the entire room. After the portal imploded, a man appeared in the place where the portal used to be. The man has black long shoulder length hair that is swept back behind his ears. He looks like an average Caucasian human man with an oval shaped face, blue eyes, and thin lips.
If it weren't for the green and yellow leather clothing he is wearing and the weird looking spear he is holding, he would have appeared no different than anyone else on the planet. The spear has a long sharp, curved, pointed blade at the end and has a blue glowing circular jewel embedded in it. After the man appeared, the energy left over from the shock wave started to rise towards the ceiling and accumulate in there. The place is going to cave in soon. The energy is eating away the dome's supporting structure. We are going to be buried under at least one hundred feet of concrete and rubble.