"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Fury asked walking into the lab.
"Uh, kinda been wondering the same thing about you." Stark replied.
"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract." Fury said his anger apparent.
"We have the models locked and we're sweeping for the signature now." Bruce said gesturing to the staff that now had a glowing shifting map hovering over it. "When we get a hit we'll have the location within a half mile."
"Yeah then you get your cube back. No muss, no fuss." Stark said distractedly. "What is phase two?"
"Phase two is S.H.I.E.L.D. uses the cube to make weapons." Steve said as he dropped the hydra weapon onto a nearby table. "Sorry computer was moving a little slow for me."
"That's what this is all about; forget saving the world, you just want your weapons power source back." Vanessa said with a glare.
"We gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're making…" Fury started but was cut off by Stark.
"I'm sorry Nick what were you lying." Stark said as he pulled a monitor around showing the schematics for a bomb.
"A missile with enough power to take out a country and then some." Vanessa said crossing her arms. "My goodness your nose has grown so long Pinocchio."
"I was wrong director the world hasn't changed a bit." Steve said with a glare as Thor and Natasha walked in.
"Did you know about this?" Bruce asked Natasha.
"You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment Doctor?" Natasha asked calmly.
"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed." Bruce seethed silently.
"Loki's manipulating you," Natasha said.
"And you've been doing what exactly?" Bruce asked Natasha.
"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes," Natasha said.
"And I'm not leaving because suddenly you become a little twitchy." Bruce said and looked at the monitor, "I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of Mass Destruction."
"Because of him," Fury said and pointed at Thor.
"Me?" Thor asked.
"Last year Earth had a visitor from another planet and 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 explained in a forced voice.
"My people want nothing but peace with your planet," Thor said.
"But you're not the only people out there are you? And you're not the only threat," Fury said, "The World's filling up with people that can't be matched."
"If you're referring to the mutant phenomenon then you need to back up real quick." Vanessa said with a dark glare.
"Not everyone has your good intentions. They can't be controlled." Fury said making Vanessa even angrier.
"Like you controlled the cube?" Cap asked.
"Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is a signal to all the other realms that the Earth is ready for a higher form of war." Thor said.
"You forced our hand, we had to come up with something-" Fury started.
"-A nuclear deterrent, because that's what always calms everything right down." Stark said interrupting Fury.
"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Steve asked.
"I'm sure if he didn't make weapons Stark would still be neck deep-" Steve continued.
"-Hold on, how is this now about me?" Stark asked cutting off Cap.
"I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Steve asked.
"I thought humans were more evolved than this," Thor said.
"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Fury asked and then all heck broke loose.
"No, you keep the blowing up pretty much contained on earth." Vanessa snapped. "Hurray for you."
"You speak of control yet you cause chaos." Thor said.
"Says the guy that tried to blow up Jotunhiem." Vanessa growled.
"That's the M.O. isn't it? What are we a team? No, no, no, we're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're, we're a time bomb," Bruce said as tension grew.
"You need to step away," Fury said in a warning voice.
"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Stark asked throwing his hands up in the air.
"You know damn well, why. Back off." Steve said getting angry.
"Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me." Stark said getting into Steve's face.
"Yeah, big man in a suit of armor, take that off, what are you?" Cap asked.
"Genius, playboy, billionaire, philanthropist," Stark said.
"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play. To lie down on the wire and let the other guy crawl over you," Cap said.
"I think I would just cut the wire," Stark smarted off.
"Always a way out," Cap said. "You know you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending you're a hero."
"A hero? Like you?" Stark asked, "You're a laboratory experiment Rodgers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle."
"Put on the suit, let's go a few rounds," Cap said and while they were fighting other fights were breaking out at the same time.
"You want to control us why don't you just slap a number on us and send us into the camps already." Vanessa snapped at Fury.
"We are not starting another Holocaust." Fury ground out.
"You sure fooled me." Vanessa growled. "You've been watching us since the beginning. You sent Phil after us."
"We were only taking precautions…" Fury started to say.
"You were waiting for an opportunity and weaknesses." Vanessa countered. "How do we know you weren't working with Stryker all along?!"
"Hahahahaha, you people are so petty, and tiny." Thor said.
"You're one to talk! This is all your fault in the first place." Vanessa rounded on Thor. "You and your father drove Loki to this."
The fighting started to blend together as a strange humming filled the air. It kept escalating until it was a roar. Fury, Natasha, and Banner were arguing as Steve and Tony butted heads while Thor and Vanessa were yelling at each other at the top of their lungs.
"Agent Romanov, would you escort Dr. Banner to-" Fury started to say breaking through the fight.
"-Where? You rented out my room," Banner said.
"The cell was just-" Fury said.
"-In-case you needed to kill me, but you can't. I know, I tried," Banner said. Everything seemed to freeze and focus on Banner. "I got low, didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth, and the other guy spit it out," Bruce said. "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. You wanna know my secret Agent Romanov? You wanna know how I stay calm?"
Everyone went silent and tensed as they watched the Doctor nervously. He didn't even seem aware of what was in his hand.
"Dr. Banner. Put down the scepter." Steve said. Banner hadn't even realized he was holding it until he looked down. There was a beep, and Banner put down the scepter, and walked over to the computer.
"Sorry kids, look like you don't get to see my party trick after all." Bruce said as he typed into the computer.
"You located the Tesseract." Thor said.
"Oh my God." Bruce said. Then there was an explosion, and they were flung back through a window, along with Natasha and Bruce to a sub level. Thor grabbed Vanessa and they were slammed into a wall, Thor taking the brunt of the damage.
Slowly Vanessa came back to her senses and the ringing in her ears lessened. She could her chaos and panic all over the ship.
"Vanessa, you ok?" Tony asked urgently as he ran over to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Vanessa said standing up straight followed by Thor.
"Somebody's got to get outside to patch that engine." Someone yelled.
"Stark, you copy that?" Fury asked.
"Got it," Stark said giving Vanessa one more concerned look before he ran off to fix the engine.
"Vanessa, Thor, go guard Loki." Fury ordered.
"On it." Vanessa said and ran down the hall without another word followed by Thor. Up ahead she spotted two enemy soldiers and formed her psionic knife in her right hand and her shield on her left. "Thor, keep going, I got this." Thor Nodded and ran ahead. "Here I go."
With a scream she charged them deflecting the bullets with her shield and after a brief fight burying her knife into them. She noticed that right before they fell to the ground their eyes lost the eerie blue color. Looking closely at their faces she recognized them as the two men she had knocked out at the donut shop during her dads near death crisis.
She shoved them both into a nearby room locking it behind her then ran the rest of the way to the detention center informing Fury to their whereabouts through her comm.
