Addison tried to clean the blood off her hands. Once the fire fight in the control room had been under control, she went to where Loki was held. However she found a missing cage and Phil Coulson on the ground bleeding from the chest. She tried to add pressure, but it didn't work. She couldn't save him. "Addy," a voice from behind spoke as she scrubbed her hands. "You okay?"
Addison took a deep breath, "I'm alright." She said as the clear water was still running crimson. "If we figured this out sooner..."
Arms wrapped around her shoulders holding her tightly. "There was nothing we could do."
"Steve some one is dead because we didn't want to play nice." She stopped washing her hands. "If we actually played as a team, things might have ended up differently."
Steve grabbed her shoulders and spun her to face him. "You don't know that, Loki planned this and now we have to find him."
"With what means? Banner is gone, so is Thor. Our communications are down we have to figure it out before Loki rains hell on Earth." She combed her fingers through her hair and gave a loud sigh.
"I just need to talk to Stark. You should talk to your team mates." He said just before pressing his lips to the top of her head.
She nodded as she went to the med ward. It was chaotic was the best word the describe the place, agents that were injured was too much for her liking as she moved around the frantic doctors to meet Brent, Connor, and Max. "Hey," Max said softly as he could still see the blood on her hands.
She gave them a strained smile, "Hey guys." Brent put his good arm around her shoulder. "You guys look worse than you feel." She joked.
"Yeah, but at least we're alive." Connor teased, but everyone looked at the ground.
"Yeah," Max whispered. "I heard you were the first one to find Coulson." He looked at his old leader.
"I couldn't save him." Brent held Addison's shoulders tighter.
Connor placed his hand on top of her head. He gave his best friend a serious look. "This isn't your fault. It's Loki's and if I ever hear you blame yourself ever again I'll beat you up." He said the last part a little playfully.
She let out a small laugh, "Yeah, I would love to see you try. I still believe that you still haven't beaten me after what? 17 years give or take."
"Hey Addy they need you on the bridge." Rachel said to the group.
Addison smiled at her friend, "You don't want to check out the rusty lazy boys?" She asked her. "I mean you and I don't have a scratch...well more like broken things that we needed to see the nurse about." She teased the three.
Rachel laughed, "I see, come on Fury is waiting on us." She grabbed her friend's arm and dragged her away.
"Hey Addy!" Brent hollered, "Kick some ass."
"Consider it done." Addison yelled back.
Once Rachel and Addison were alone Rachel spoke, "What are we going to do?" She asked.
Addison slowed her pace and leaned against the wall. Rachel stood in front of her waiting for her answer. "I have no clue, half of the team is gone and I don't know if they'll play nice."
"You think they will now?"
"There are many egos afoot, but I think they can." She nodded slowly. "Didn't we need to be at the bridge or something?"
Rachel shrugged, "I think Fury needed Steve and Tony to talk to. Romanoff is taking care of Barton at the moment."
"Right she knocked out Barton," Addison grinned. Both rivals trained together as they were looking for Loki and the tesseract. "You know when I see him, I am giving him so much grief."
"Giving who grief?" Steve stood behind her.
"Barton," She turned to stare at him. "We've got Rachel, but I want her out of harms way. She's good at making weapons not using them."
"Hey," Rachel yelled.
She looked back at her friend with a sincere smile on her face, "You know it's true."
Rachel sighed and crossed her arms over her chest, "Doesn't mean that I want to hear it."
"Take care of the boys." She placed her hand on Rachel's shoulder.
"I will, you just don't die." She grumbled as she went back to the ward.
Addison turned her attention towards Steve. "How was the meeting with Fury?" She asked as they started to walk towards the room where Loki was once held.
"Tony left in the middle of it. We need a plan of action."
"I agree," they stopped to see Tony at one of the other ledges. Addison sat on the edge. "We need a plan Tony."
"This isn't our fight." Tony replied.
"If not ours then who's?" Steve retaliated with.
"The man with the star spangled plan is right." Addison agreed. "I know you haven't lost any one in the crossfire."
"But we lose soldiers all the time."
Tony glared at him, "We are not soldiers. Whatever Fury is planning."
"I don't trust Fury, he has much blood on his hands as Loki."
"We're the only one's that can." Addison stood up.
"What's the plan?"
Steve spoke, "We need to figure out where he is."
Tony wasn't paying attention to him, but to the blood stained wall. "He made it personal."
"We know he did." Addison agreed in an annoyed tone.
"No, Germany was just the dress rehearsal. Loki is a full scale diva, wants his name in lights...son of a bitch."
"Stark Tower?"
Steve scrunched up his nose and said, "You mean that ugly building in downtown?" Addison let out a laugh.
Addison pulled on a pair of jeans and slipped the belt around her waist. She began to slip magazine clips into the holders. The door opened, but Addison was too focused with getting ready. "Ah are you almost ready?" Steve's voice made her jump as she looked up from the mirror to see him looking at the floor. She suddenly remembered she wasn't wearing a top other than a sports bra. She grabbed her tank top and pulled it over her head.
"I'm decent," she declared as she placed a gun on each hip and a knife underneath each gun. She turned around and smiled at him. "Is it time to go?" She asked.
He nodded, "We got to go." She followed him out of her room.
"I guess Tony is meeting us there?"
"You are correct," once they walked toward the air hanger Barton and Natasha were waiting for the two.
"Took you long enough Smith." Barton teased her.
She laughed, "At least I know I can take you down old man." She boarded the jet along with the two spies and the super soldier.
He laughed dryly, "I know I'm only a few years older than you..."
"I heard Natasha beat you down, no lectures." She cut him off.
"Excuse me, but you're not permitted," the young pilot spoke.
"Son," Steve gave him a very stern look. "Just don't," was the only thing he said before he kicked him out of the plane.
Addison tried to hold in the giggle, but didn't work. "Way to scare the young ones." She stood behind Steve, who turned to look at her with a smile. He combed his fingers through his hair and laughed along with her. "We'll win," she said seriously.
"We have to," he gave her a serious face and placed his hands on her shoulders.
"We will, don't you worry about that." Her eyes were slowly turning cold. "Just be careful."
His grip tightened, "Addy don't." His voice was stern. She blinked for a moment. He smiled as her eyes went to her normal warm look. He kissed her forehead.
"How long till we get there?" She asked Clint.
"I hope soon," he gave her a face. "You two are sickening together."
Addison laughed at him. "I can't wait till I fight you old man. It's been a while." Once they arrived to the city, the portal was opened and aliens were flooding the sky.
"This doesn't look good." She mumbled as she pulled a gun case out from under her seat.
"How did you get that?" Steve asked, but then answered with, "I don't want to know do I?"
She grinned as she pulled out an assault riffle. "I might have had a little fairy drop it off." She put the gun strap over her shoulder.
"Isn't a single fire gun going to be bad?" Steve looked oddly between Addison and Natasha.
"I only need one bullet right?" Addison shrugged, "Plus I just need the take down power. Wait isn't that Tony?" She said as he flew past them. Suddenly the plane began to spin. Addison fell forward, but was caught by Steve. She gave him a grateful smile as he held her as they crashed.
He pressed her against the wall of the jet. "You alright," he checked every inch of her before she nodded. Once they were out they saw chaos all around them. "Stay by me," he ordered.
Addison pointed her gun to the closest enemy and fired. "Roger that," she said smoothly.
"We need to get down there, they're are people in the cross fire." Addison said before jumping down the bridge and on to a stopped truck. She provided cover as the rest of them came down.
