Alice changed her clothes and waited in the gym for Natasha to arrive, but she didn't arrive yet. Looking at the time Alice noticed Natasha was around fifteen minutes late, this wasn't like her at all. She decided to go look for her then. When she walked outside she saw Natasha walk into Bruce's lab, she raised her eyebrow in confusion and followed her into the lab.
They were all talking and when Alice entered the room she didn't know what was going on or what they were talking about.
"You want to think about removing yourself from this environment, Dr. Banner?" Natasha suggested and Bruce chuckled and shook his head.
"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed." He answered smartly and Natasha sighed.
"Loki's manipulating you." She pointed out and he laughed sarcastically.
"And you have been doing what exactly?" He asked. "I would like to know why S.H.I.E.L.D. is using the Tesseract to built weapons of mass destruction." Fury sighed.
"Because of him." Fury answered while pointing at Thor who raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Me?" He asked even more surprised.
"Last year Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that levelled a small town. We then learned that not only are we not alone but we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned." Fury explained.
"My people are nothing but peace with your planet." Thor pointed out.
"But you're not the only people out there are you?" Fury said, not really wanting an answer. Alice could only watch as they talked back and forth to one another, that's when she realized that Stark was in the room, she just scowled at him.
"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark." Fury asked, this made Alice listen in on the conversation.
"I'm sure if they still made weapons Stark would be getting a fortune." Alice said and Tony frowned.
"How is this now about me?" He asked defensively, Alice gave a sarcastic surprised look.
"I'm sorry, isn't everything?" She answered sarcastically, earning a scowl. They all talked over each other, none of them recognizing the Tesseract was making a strange noise.
"What are we? A team? No we're a chemical mixture that makes chaos, we're a time bomb." Bruce pointed out and Fury looked at him in worry.
"Dr. Banner I would suggest you step away." Fury suggested and Tony stepped in.
"Why shouldn't the guy let out a little steam?" Tony said and Alice scowled at him.
"You know damn well why so back off." She ordered him and he looked impatient.
"Oh I'm starting to want you to make me." He challenged earning another glare from Alice.
"Ah yeah, big man in a suit of armour, take that off and what are you?" She asked, he looked at her and gave her probably one of the smartest comebacks she's ever heard.
"Billionaire, genius, playboy, philanthropist." He replied and she chuckled slightly in anger.
"I know people with none of that and worth ten of you. The only thing you really right for is yourself. You better just stop pretending to be a hero, because you're not." She answered him and he took a step closer to her, this time she wasn't scared, just angry.
"A hero, like you? All you are is a smart girl with super strength, you're scared of everything and don't complain to me about fighting for myself. The only reason you fight is to prove your better than everyone else. So don't dare insult me without looking at yourself first." He answered her, she knew he was right, but as usual, she would never dare to tell him.
"Put on the suit, have a real fight, it's what your asking for isn't it?" She challenged, then heard Thor chuckling.
"You people are petty, and tiny." He commented, Alice wanted to laugh at him comment.
"Agent Romanoff will you escort Dr. Banner to his room." Fury ordered.
"How? You rented out my room!" Bruce pointed out to him.
"The cell was just in case-" Fury started.
"In case you needed to kill me, I've tried, you can't." Bruce interrupted, everyone in the room looked at him. "I got low, 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, to do good. Until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk." He explained. "You want to know my secret agent Romanoff, you want to know how I stay calm?-" He was cut off by Fury who was keeping a safe distance at his gun.
"Dr. Banner, put down the sceptre." Fury ordered, Bruce was about to say something until there was a bleeping noise from the computer.
"Sorry kids, I guess you don't get to see my party trick after all." He said as he walked over to the computer.
"You found the Tesseract?" Steve asked and Bruce nodded.
"The Tesseract belongs in Asgard, no human is a match for it." Thor said and Fury looked at him.
"I'll go find it." Tony said heading for the door before Alice grabbed him by the arm.
"You're not going alone!" She told him and he looked at her angrily.
"Care to stop me?" He demanded stepping towards her again.
"Put on the suit and we'll find out." She said stepping closer to him.
"I'm not afraid of you." He commented.
"Then put on the suit." She answered. Bruce looked at the computer screen with a worried look on his face.
"Oh my God." He muttered and everyone looked at him, apart from Tony and Alice who were too busy giving each other death glares. Then there was an explosion and they went flying in different directions. Tony and Alice quickly got up, but Alice fell back again so Tony had to help her up.
"I think you should go put on the suit." She suggested and he nodded then he ran to his lab while Alice ran to her room to change.