Alarm
As I made my way toward the lab I passed the cupboard where we were keeping most of the phase 2 prototypes, only to find that the door had been bust open and someone had taken a weapon out of its safety lined box. I guess JARVIS was too slow for Captain Steve Rogers. Walking the rest of the way I arrived to see Fury, Dad, Kenna, Banner and the capsicile.
Entering the room form one of the two doors I heard Steve explain something "Phase 2 is S.H.I.E.L.D uses the cube…" "To build weapons of mass defence." I say interrupting his little rant, not taking notice of Kenna's signal to stop. "Rogers, this does not mean…" fury started only for my dad to interrupt him. (What can I say, us stark's like to interrupt.) "I'm sorry Nick, what were you lying?" he asked turning a screen to show the rest of the room a file on one of the prototypes. Looking closely I could see that my name was mentioned in said file.
"Hi Daddy, when'd you get here? Better yet where is here? Am I in Oz?" I questioned trying to back out of the room, fearing my father's wrath. "I had nothing to do with … never mind I did." Kenna admitted after seeing my glare, while moving so Banner was in between us. "You liar! You are in as deep as me!" I shouted at her. "Yeah but I didn't lie to my dad." She amended. "You don't know who he is." I threw back at her. "Still a valid point, and I wouldn't lie to him if I did." She tried to reason while leaning over the table to look at me. "So your telling me that you would tell him everything." I said trying to pry the truth that I knew she was hiding out of her. "Just not the whole truth."
"You sure about that?" I questioned knowing she was about to crack and give me what I wanted. "Well I just wouldn't tell them the whole truth. And if they didn't ask then it's not lying." She reasoned looking proud of herself. "Then what have I been doing with my dad?" I replied bursting her little bubble. "You implied it." "But didn't lie." Came my comeback.
"Because of him." I heard Fury say drawing my attention from Kenna to my surroundings. "Me?" Thor asked pointing to himself. "Last year Earth had a visitor from another planet that had a destructive force to level a small town, not only are we not armed but we are hopelessly, hilariously out gunned." He elaborated looking at each member, that didn't already know this information, in the eye. "My people want nothing but peace with your planet." Thor stated trying to defend what happened last year. "But you're not the only people out there, are you?" me, Kenna and Fury questioned at the same time. (We sometimes do that just to piss people off.) "And you're not the only threat, the world's filling up with people that can't be matched, that can't be controlled." Fury continued for us.
"Like you control the cube?" question the 'good' ol' captain. I really cannot stand that man. "The Tesseract is what drew Loki and his allies; it is a signal to everyone out there that the earth is ready for a higher form of war." Thor tried to explain. Wait a higher form of war? "You forced our hand; we had to come up with…" Fury started only to be interrupted by my dad once again, I wish he would have stayed out of it. "Nucleur deterrent, cause that always solves everything." He stated knowing form experience. "Remind me how you made your fortune Stark." Fury defended, I don't know which one I'm supposed to defend. "I'm sure if Stark still made weapons he would be neck deep in it." The capsicile just had to add his input didn't he? "Wait a minute, how is this now about me." Dad asked curious as to why he was being targeted by Rogers.
"Oh, I'm sorry isn't everything." He was attacking my father verbally. What a bastard! "I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor said confused as to why they were arguing so much. "Excuse me do we come to your planet and blow stuff up." Fury questioned trying to throw the teddy bear off. "Technically we would if we could find it." I muttered making sure Fury couldn't hear me. "Excuse me, S.H.I.E.L.D monitors potential threats." Black Widow said finally defending her work. "Hang on, how can I be a threat if you don't know me?" Kenna questioned trying to make some sense of the entire conversation. "We all are." Natasha stated. "Hey, I'm not a threat." I defended myself 'because I'm harmless most of the time. "Black outs." Kenna reminded me, earning her a glare while I moved closer to my father and gave him a hug to comfort myself, resulting in me blanking everything happening around me once again.
"You speak of control and yet cause destruction." Thor said bringing my attention back to the unbelievably long argument. "That' his M.O isn't it. You think we're a team no; no we're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're a time bomb." Banner said finally adding his input. "You need to step away." Fury ordered calmly. "Why should he blow of a little steam?" Daddy said putting one of his hands on Rogers shoulder. "You know damn well why." He said hitting my dad's arm away. "Don't touch my daddy." I said taking a step closer to him. "Back off!" ordered the Captain.
"Ooo I'm starting to want you to make me." Dad replied getting defence at the order. "Oh yeah, big man in a suit of armour take that away and what are you?" he questions trying to get one up one him. "A genius billionaire playboy philanthropist." Daddy, me and Kenna all replies at the same time. "I know guys with none of that, worth ten of you. I've seen the footage the only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the man who'd lie down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you." "I think I would just cut the wire. "Always away out, you know you may not be a threat, but you better stop trying to be the hero." Captain said to my dad not realising that my dad is a bigger hero than he will ever be. "Not a threat, arc reactor that can fit into his chest, iron man and mechanical genius. Who's not a threat?" I asked defending my dad. "Hypocrite, you try too much." And apparently so was Kenna. "Like you, you're a laboratory experiment everything special about you came out of a bottle." Dad said defending himself but shooting Kenna and me, a grateful glance. "Yeah put on your suit and we'll find out." Why do males always solve everything through fighting?
"You people are so petty; and tiny." Thor said laughing before getting a thoughtful expression on his face. "Yeah, this is a team." Banner muttered quietly to himself. "Agent Romanoff, would you please escort Dr Banner.., " Fury started to say only to be cut off by Banner "To where? You rented my room." "The cell was just in case… ""You needed to kill me. But you can't I know, I tried." Banner said interrupting Fury again. "I got low. I didn't see an end so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it back out. So I moved on. I focused on helping other people and I was good until you dragged me back into this freak show.
You wanna know my secret Agent Romanoff, you wanna know how I stay calm?" Banner questioned unconsciously raising the sceptre that he had picked up. I noticed that Kenna had summoned her bow, while I drew one of my Sais from its sheath inside my trousers. Noticing that Banner had the sceptre Fury and Natasha put their hands onto the hilt of their guns ready to use them if the need arose.
"Dr Banner, put down the sceptre." Steve ordered calmly, although it was easy to tell that he was just as tense as the rest of us. Looking down at his hand Banner seemed to notice that he had picked up the deadly weapon.
Beep! Beep!
Everyone turned around to face the computer that was tracking the gamma radiation that the Tesseract gave off. "Sorry kids, you don't get to see my party trick after all." Banner said placing the sceptre back and walking over to the monitor with Black Widow trailing him.
"You've located the Tesseract?" Thor questioned with the intent of knowing the location first. "I can get there faster." Daddy said turning to leave the room only to be stopped by Thor's next words. "The Tesseract belongs on Asgard." "You're not going alone." Steve said grabbing my dad's arm. "And you're going to stop me?" my father asked half sarcastically half threatening. "Put on the suit let's find out." He challenged back. "I'm not scared of you old man." "Put on the suit."
"Oh my god." I heard Banner mutter by the computer and as I turned to check what was wrong we were all blasted.
BANG!