Infinity's Pov

I look at Fury as he enters the room, looking at Tony and Bruce. I look down to the black bag that is hanging from his shoulder. My. Black. Bag.

Crap.

"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Fury questions, placing my bag on the ground near his feet.

"Uh...kind of been wondering the same thing about you." Tony replies, looking through the files on his computer screen.

I start to walk up behind Fury slowly, getting closer to my bag. Needing to get the bag away from him.

"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract." Fury says, starting to sound angry.

"We are. The model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile." Bruce says, looking at Fury with a hard expression.

"Quarter of a mile if my work is right." I whisper quietly, looking around the lab.

" What she said," Tony says, pointing over to me. "And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss." Tony continues just as his computer shows a collection of secret files. "What is PHASE 2?" I ask, looking at the screen, walking closer to the computer and my bag.

Suddenly there is a loud bang causing me to turn and see Steve slamming a big heavy looking gun down on the table.

I look up at Steve's face to see fire in his eyes.

"PHASE 2 is SHIELD uses the cube to make weapons." He says before looking over to Tony. "Sorry, the computer was moving a little slow." He says, still looking mad.

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're..."

I give a small silent laugh at the word everything. Not everything Fury. You missed the one with bright blue hair and legs.

"I'm sorry, Nick." Tony says as he moves the screen to show weapons designs. " What were you lying?" Tony asks, making me gasp at the designs.

Suddenly a group of pictures flash across my eyes as I see men in silos, and as mushroom clouds cover the earth.

I am pulled back into the present and realize that the memory or vision only lasted a few seconds.

They felt like memories. Strange.

"I was wrong, director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Steve says, becoming even more mad with every second that passes.

"Did you know about this?" Bruce asks Natasha as she and Thor finally walk in.

"You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?" Natasha asks Bruce, trying to stay calm.

"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed." Bruce spits back at Natasha.

"Loki's manipulating you." Natasha replies before looking over to me.

"And you've been doing what exactly?" Bruce asks, making Natasha look back to him.

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you." Natasha says, making me wonder how she actually got him here.

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy. I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction." Bruce demands. pointing at the screen. I silently nod my head at the question, wanting to know the answer as well.

"Because of him." Fury says, pointing at Thor, then quickly turns to me, "and because of her." Fury finishes, dropping his arm.

"Me?" Thor and I asked at the same time.

"Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned." Fury says, giving Thor a pointed look.

"My people want nothing but peace with your planet." Thor says, trying to explain what happened.

I remember that day. I was having lunch with Phil before he made a sudden exit. We should have lunch again soon and actually catch up on stuff.

"But you're not the only people out there, are you? And, you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled. Like Infinity here. She literally teleported into a secret base like she was doing a waltz. Let's not forget that the power from the scepter that Loki shot at her had no affect on either." Fury says, making everyone look at me.

"I only went into that base because I read radiation spikes coming from an empty freaking dessert." I replied, pointing at Fury.

"You are trying to control something that you have no idea what it is, or what it has done." I say, walking up to Fury and poking him in the chest.

"Don't play with fire if you don't have the protection to keep from getting burned." I whisper, poking him in the chest a little harder.

"We were only trying to control the fire." Fury says as I step away from him.

"Like you controlled the cube?" Steve asks Fury, trying his attention away from me as I look down at my bag, not even realizing how close I actually got to it.

"You're work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for a higher form of war." Thor states, looking around till he meets my eye, seeing understanding in them. Which only seems to confuse both of us.

"A higher form?" Steve asks, looking over to Thor.

With Fury's back to me, I quickly and silently slide my bag away from his feet and under my lab table. Finally.

"You forced our hand. We had to come up with something." Fury says, trying to reason his want for building weapons.

"Nuclear deterrent. 'Cause that always calms everything right down." Tony says with so much sarcasm I can feel it drip off his words.

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Fury asks, making me look at him with narrowed eyes. I started my company the same way he did! Of course, I did get out of that rut but you know.

"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep..." Steve says but is soon cut of by Tony.

"Wait! Wait! Hold on! How is this now about me?" Tony asks, looking over at Steve.

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Steve asks, making me start to walk between the two men, holding my arms out.

"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor asks, making me bite my lip to not laugh out loud.

"Excuse me, did WE come to YOUR planet and blow stuff up?" Fury asks Thor, raising an eyebrow.

"You would if you could, Fury." I reply, getting a look from the man himself.

"Did you always give your champions such mistrust?" Thor asks, making us all look at him.

"Are you all really that naive? S.H.I.E.L.D monitors all potential threats." Natasha says, looking over to Bruce but quickly looks away.

Tony turns to Steve and look him in the eye. "You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?" Tony says, making Steve step closer, making me place my hands on their chests.

"I swear to God, Tony, one more..." Steve starts before Tony has to say something.

"Threatening! I feel threatened!" Tony yells as I gently push both Steve and Tony away from each other.

As they keep yelling at each other, my gaze is pulled to Loki's scepter. The blue gem is starting to glow brightly and I suddenly know what is happening. Loki is causing this madness.

"You speak of control, yet you court chaos." Thor says, catching my attention.

Why am I not affected by the magic? It has never worked on me. Why?

"It's his M.O., isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're... we're a time-bomb." Bruce says, making my twitch at the word chemical.

"You need to step away." Fury says, now looking over to Bruce, seeing that he is starting to get agitated.

Tony puts his arm around Steve and look at all of us. "Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Tony asks, looking over to Bruce.

"You know damn well why! Back off!" Steve says loudly, pushing Tony off.

Tony turns and getting in Steve's face. "Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me." He says, looking annoyed is anything.

"Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?" Steve asks, making me giggle at my own answer.

Stark. Stark naked. God I'm horrible. I need help.

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Replies, making me tilt my head. There is that too... I am so going to hell. Free bus ride underground. Holy water not included!

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. Yeah, I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you." Steve says back, making me frown and think about what I do in my night time activities.

"I think I would just cut the wire." Tony replies.

"Always a way out... You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero." Steve says, making me look away from the two, only to spot Natasha looking at me. She gives me a small nod, letting me know that I'm good.

But coming from an assassin, I dont think that counts for much. Does it?

At Steve's words, Tony seemed to snap. "A hero? Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle!" Tony says, making me look over to Tony.

"Tony. Enough." I growl. The magic might not work on me. But talking about things he could't even comprehend or understand was enough to make my blood boil. Both of the men seem to have not heard me but I know Fury has by the look he's giving me. That and his confused look when he looked at his feet to see my black bag gone. He must be connecting the dots that I seem to just leave around.

"Put on the suit, let's go a few rounds." Steve says as Thor laughs at the two of them.

"You people are so petty... and tiny." Thor says as Tony moves away from Steve.

"Hey. Don't bring my height and size into this." I joke saying to Thor, making him laugh a little.

"Yeah, this is a tee..." Bruce says before trailing off.

"Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr.Banner back to his..." Fury says before he is cut off by Bruce himself.

"Where? You rented my room." Bruce yells, making us all look at the man.

"The cell was just in case..." Fury starts, only to be interrupted again.

"In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know! I tried!" He yells, making me feel sad again.

"I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk!" He says, but stops when he looks over to Natasha.

"You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?" Bruce asks, reaching for the scepter.

Slowly Fury and Natasha place their hands down on their guns.

"Doctor Banner... put down the scepter." Steve says, as I move behind Tony just as the computer beeps, making us all pause.

"Got it." Bruce says as he puts the scepter down and walks over to the computer.

"Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my little party trick after all." Bruce mutters, looking over the computer screen.

"I bet it would have been a smashing party trick." I whisper, causing a snort to come from Tony and a glare from Fury.

"To soon?" I whisper to Tony, looking at him from the corner of my eye.

"Located the Tesseract?" Thor asks, looking over to Bruce.

Tony looks at the computer and sees the location as well as Steve.

"I can get there faster." Tony says, looking away from the screen.

"Look, all of us..." Steve starts before Thor has to butt in.

"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it." Thor says as Tony turns to leave, only for Steve to stop him.

"I am." I say, not meaning to say it so loud.

"What?" Fury asked, turning to look at me.

"You saw me touch it bare handed Fury. I can handle the Tesseract." I say louder, looking only at Fury instead of the others faces looking at me.

"Impossible. No human can hold or even touch the Tesseract with a naked hand. I can not even grab it with covered hands without feeling some affects." Thor says, stepping toward me. "Do you not feel any symptoms, Lady Infinity?" He asks, reaching out for me.

"No. I am not. I don't know why. But we will have a better chance of gaining the Tesseract if we stop arguing like five year olds and grow a damn pair!"

At that Tony starts walking toward the door again.

"What are you doing?" Steve asks, stopping Tony again.

"Growing a damn pair." Tony says, stepping close to Steve.

"You're not going alone!" Steve says, catching what Tony is going to do.

"You gonna stop me?" Tony asks, starting to get mad again.

"Put on the suit, let's find out." Steve replies, sounding eager to hit Tony.

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man." Tony replies back, coming chest to chest with Steve.

"Put on the suit." Steve says again just as start to feel dizzy.

I grab for the table, feeling my world tip.

"Loki." I say, right as Bruce yells an "Oh, my God," And the world explodes.

I am thrown back into the metal lab table, feeling bones break but not feeling the pain. I keep going after the table to finally hit my head on the wall, making my ears ring.

Right before my vision goes black, I hear a roar.

Tony's Pov

I look around to see Steve laying next to me as we try to get our bearing back. I turn to the other side of me to see a sight that makes my blood go cold.

Infinity. She's laying on her stomach with her right arm at a wired angle. I also see blood. Or. Well. What would be blood it it wasn't smoking and bright blue where it hit the flood.

I start to stand and look over to Steve just as he starts talking.

"Put on the suit!" He yells as he helps me up and he takes off running.

"Yep." I yell after him, heading for the door.

I look at infinity one last time and see she is still breathing, taking a small weight off my shoulders. I quickly run and spot a SHIELD agent about to run past. I quickly grab his arm and stop him.

"I need you to get a medical team to the lab. Infinity is very injured." I quickly yell before running to my suit.

Infinity's Pov

I see flashing lights behind my eyelids and hear what sounds like a radio.

Where am I? What happened?

I instantly see the lab exploding in my mind.

Oh. Right. I hate explosions... unless I am the one making them. Then, they are useful.

I try to tune into the radio again of what I would guess to be the Medical team since I feel a back bored against my skin. I can't make out many words but Coulson and talking about holding on, until I hear deafening silence. Then words came through the radio that shattered what little heart I thought I had left.

"They called it." Is all I hear, and I know at that moment, they were talking about Phil. I could feel my heart break into pieces, but I knew no one would know it did. I learned quite quickly what Mike meant when he said, "A heart break isn't always as loud as a bomb exploding.Sometimes, it could be as quiet as a feather falling and the most painful thing is. Nobody hears it except you." He told me this only hours before he died.

I repeat that in my head as darkness takes me. I'm ready to go. Here I come Mike.