I don't own Harry Potter or the Avengers, which is a shame – cause Fred Weasley and Steve Rogers are both really hot... (And so's George I guess, but Freddie's my fave Weasley)
Chapter Seven
24/07/12
14:55
Location: Aircraft, JFK International Airport; Manhattan, New York; United States of America
Honey popped her head up over a crate. Her dad and Pepper were in the middle of a tearful goodbye so nobody would notice if she just slipped onto the plane that was taking her dad's things to the super secret S.H.E.I.L.D base.
Honey looked towards to hanger doors before running up the ramp into the plane. She found a nice spot behind two tall boxes and soon got comfortable.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt to get some sleep... god knows how long I'm going to be on this thing...
-:-
22:21
Location: S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier; Moving Above the sea.
Honey jerked awake when she heard voices. The craft was (once again) in a hanger but it seemed bigger.
Struggling slightly, she squeezed her way out of her (now considerably smaller) hiding spot and slipped off the jet.
"Oh wow." she breathed.
Honey was stood in a state of the art hanger! It was slightly more impressive than the Starks' at JFK (not that she'd ever tell her dad that.)
"Hey, you!" A voice broke Honey out of her musings. Spinning round, she saw a S.H.I.E.L.D agent standing at her six reaching for his gun and – wait, what?
"Stay right where you are!" the agent called out, holding his gun shakily and advancing towards her slowly.
Now, there are two paths a person can take when faced with this situation: fight or flight. However, Honey wasn't her father and as such she turned and ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
"Oi, come back!"
Honey could hear the pounding of army boots on the metal floor growing louder and louder as she rushed down the seemingly endless corridors.
"Crap!" She blurted out as she came to a dead end. Panicking, she thought as loudly as she could:
I need to be somewhere safe!
And naturally, her magic acquiesced to her request.
Loki, God of Mischief, Magic and Lies, smirked. So there was another magical on board, one who was maybe as powerful as Loki himself – given time. Now to find her...
22:26
Location: Main Deck, S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier; Moving above the Sea
Honey appeared outside of two glass doors in a swirl of red and dark blue, gasping and slightly disorientated. That had certainly never happened before. Now, where was she?
The young girl nudged one of the doors open carefully and slipped into the room as soon as the gap was big enough.
The first thing she saw was Agent Hill stood by the railings, which made Honey duck back behind the door. Hill still hadn't forgiven her for accidentally on purpose cracking the codes for S.H.I.E.L.D's mainframe and sending everyone a copy of Hill drunkenly singing 'Waterloo' at some party (but hey, her dad had been pretty impressed).
Moving on, there were also three men in the room:
"The guy's as mad as a bag of cats." The guy Honey recognised as Bruce Banner remarked dryly, "You can smell crazy on him."
"Take care how you speak," the standing blonde man who was wearing weird(er) armour practically growled, "For Loki may be beyond reason, but he is of Asgard and he is my brother."
"He's killed eighty people in two days." A cynical sounding voice told the man. A voice Honey remembered.
"He's adopted..." the blonde muttered dejectedly as Honey detached herself for her hiding spot.
"Nat!" she cried out, attracting (maybe too much) attention as she vaulted into the super spy/assassin's lap. The surrounding men and Agent Hill blinked as Natasha hugged the little girl tightly.
"Since when did kids work for S.H.I.E.L.D?" Captain America asked the room. Banner and the other man shrugged, probably still finding hard to believe that the infamous Black Widow cared about someone (like most of the Agents in the room).
"Miss Stark," Hill began acidly, that was auspicious, "does your father know you're here?".
"You're Howard's granddaughter?" the Captain spluttered.
"Well...he should." Honey replied vaguely, "And I'm adopted."
"Anyway, I think it's about the mechanics." Banner restarted the first conversation, "I mean; iridium? What does he need iridium for?"
"It's a stabilising agent." Tony Stark's voice proclaimed as he walked into the room with Coulson. "Seriously, I'll fly you to Portland...No?" Tony sighed and turned to the room, "Selvig has to make sure that the portal won't close in on itself like it did at S.H.E.I.L.D." Catching sight of Honey, Tony changed into his 'stern parent' persona, "And you and I, young lady, will have a serious discussion about sneaking onto jets and not getting caught at it."
Honey sighed dramatically, relaxing against Nat as her dad was...well, her dad.
"Dr. Banner is only here to locate the cube," Fury told Tony sharply, "I was hoping you would join him."
"I say we look at that stick of his, it maybe magical but it works a lot like a HYDRA weapon." Captain America pointed out.
"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."
The big guy – Point Break – frowned,
"Monkeys? I do not-"
"I do!" the Cap blurted out, flushing slightly when everyone looked at him, "I-I understood that reference."
"Hmm, shall we play Doctor?" Tony asked Banner, "C'mon kiddo." Gesturing for Honey to follow them.
22:52
Location: Bruce and Tony's Lab, the Helicarrier
While Bruce busied himself with Loki's staff, the two Starks had a 'team meeting';
"I thought you going to Washington with Pepper." Tony started matter-of-factly, staring down at his daughter in a disappointed fashion.
"I-I wasn't going to leave you!" the tiny redhead defended herself, "You never go anywhere possibly dangerous without Happy! And he's practically on holiday; Pepper's got to carry on with the whole 'business as usual' thing and even though Nat's here you're still on your own and...And I don't want to lose you." She ended on a whisper.
Tony blinked, before rubbing his five o'clock shadow and smiling ruefully.
"Well, I can't make you go back now...just make sure you stay here or with Romanoff."
"Okay Daddy."
Bruce coughed awkwardly, catching their attentions.
"Well, the gamma readings are consistent with Selvig's notes on the Tesseract, but it'll take weeks to process."
"If we bypass their main frame," Tony began, snapping into 'genius' mode, "We can clock this in...Six hundred teraflops."
Banner laughed dryly
"And all I packed was a toothbrush."
"You should come by Stark Tower sometime. The first ten floors, all R&D."
"It's his personal candy land." Honey butted in, hopping up on a unit near the pair, "You'd love it."
"Thanks, but last time I was in New York I kinda broke...Harlem." Bruce muttered uncomfortably.
"Well I promise a stress free environment," Tony remarked, ignoring Honey's 'Pepper' look, "No tension, no surprises." With that he jabbed Bruce with an electric prod, causing the other genius to yelp.
"You really have got a lid on it haven't you?"
"Are you nuts." The Captain asked, walking up to the trio.
"Jury's out." Tony quipped, "What's your secret? Bongo drums? Jazz music? Huge bag of weed?"
"Is everything a joke to you?"
"Funny things are."
"Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship is not funny... No offense doc."
"It's alright; I wouldn't have come if I couldn't handle being poked." Bruce tried to play it off.
"You're tip-toeing big guy – you need to strut!" Tony pulled out of bag of blueberries, offering some to Honey; who took what could probably be considered half the bag.
"And you need to focus on the problem Mr. Stark."
"Here we go." Honey muttered through a mouthful of blueberries.
"Oh I am, but I can't do the equation until I have all the variables." Tony tried to explain, "Why did Fury call us in, why now."
"You think he's hiding something?"
"Captain he's a spy – he's the spy, his secrets have secrets." Tony felt like rolling his eyes, "It's bugging him to." Pointing to Bruce.
"I-I-"
"Doctor?"
Bruce sighed, taking his glasses off.
"'A warm light for all mankind'...Loki's jab at Fury about the cube."
"I heard it."
"Well I think that was meant for you." Bruce glanced at Tony and (to a lesser extent) Honey. Tony handed him the bag of blueberries, "Even if Barton didn't tell him about the Tower, it was still all over the news."
"The Stark Tower? That big ugly-"
Both the Starks present levelled the Captain with a fierce glare.
"-building in New York."
"Which is powered by an arc reactor; a self sustaining energy source...That thing will run itself for what – a year?"
"It's just a prototype." Tony smirked, before glancing at the clueless looking Captain, "I'm kinda the only big name in clean energy right now, that's what he's getting at."
"So why didn't S.H.I.E.L.D bring him in on the Tesseract project? What is S.H.I.E.L.D even doing in the clean energy business anyway?" Bruce questioned.
"I should probably look into that, once my decryption programme manages to break through to all of S.H.I.E.L.D's secure files."
"I sorry, did you just say-"
"Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours I'll know every dirty secret S.H.I.E.L.D has ever tried to hide...Blueberry?"
"And you wonder why they didn't want you around?" the Captain asked dryly
"An intelligence organisation that fears intelligence? Historically not cool."
"I think Loki's trying to wind us up. He's a man trying to start a war and if we don't stay focused, he'll succeed. We have orders, we should follow them."
"Following's never been my style."
"And you're all about style aren't you?"
Tony went to retort viciously, but stopped when he saw Honey shaking her head.
"Steve, tell me none of this seems a little funky to you."
Steve puffed up momentarily, before leaving with only a murmur of 'Just find the cube'.
"So that's the guy my dad would never shut up about?" Tony asked the others dryly, "They should've kept him on ice."
You're probably all going to kill me for finishing the chapter here but it feels wrong writing any more...
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