Chapter 11

"So you think this stuff would reactivate the septor?" Tony asked in awe, staring at the black and blue gunk.

"I don't know, it seems to have worked in the tests," Bruce replied.

"Does anyone else know? I'm thinking of the feather brain when I say anyone else..." Tony said, obviously knowing Clint would hate the thought of reactivating the septor.

"Well, it works the same way the tesseract would, but less powerful. So, my theory is, we could use it for unlimited energy," Bruce told Tony, pulling out a metallic case from under his workbench.

"Is that?..." Tony began, but didn't need to finish.

"Yeah," Bruce replied, lifting the lid slowly, exposing the golden staff connected to the dead-blue core, which appeared to be inactive.

"He tried that thing on me, yah know," Tony said, realizing he'd never told anyone.

Bruce stopped his work and looked over to Tony, "Why didn't it work?"

"Well, apparently, I'm immune," Tony replied sarcastically, lifting his shirt to show that his arc reactor was positioned directly in the center of his chest.

"I can't imagine what would've happened if..." Bruce trailed off, knowing that without every single one of them, the island of Manhattan would've been long gone.

Tony nodded understandingly, dropping his shirt back down, "So have you told Thor? He probably understands this thing's magic better than us."

"I don't know, I guess he might be helpful," Bruce replied, wondering whether he'd made a mistake telling Tony about his plans.

"When are you gonna try to reactivate it?" Tony asked.

"Depending on what everyone says when I tell them... Later today," Bruce told him, picking up the tray with the blue and black gunk and moving it into a compartment in the case next to the septor.

"Well then let's go, they're all out there," Tony said, pointing to the door leading to the main room.

Bruce nodded and followed Tony out the door.

"Clint," Bruce said, then changed his approach, "I've got something in the lab to show to you guys, if you're not busy."

No one was.

They gathered around the metallic case and you could see the unease forming along Clint's brow.

"What has this got to do with me? Or any of us?" Clint asked as Bruce undid the lock on the case.

In answer, Bruce opened the case.

Clint's eyes showed terror, anger, fright, and something that could only be explained as the inability to move.

His eyes locked on the septor.

"Clint?" Natasha asked, shaking his shoulder.

He shook his head to clear the memories.

"Whatever you're asking, I say no," Clint said through clenched teeth.

"I want to reactivate it, to see what I could do with the septor's core's energy," Bruce explained.

"What?!" Clint yelled, as if that were the craziest idea ever.

"I agree with the archer, reactivating that septor could do things unimaginable," Thor said in agreement to Clint.

Clint looked to Natasha, hoping to have another person on their side of the argument.

"It's worth a try," Natasha said, knowing he was reading her thoughts already.

Clint shook his head, turned away from Natasha, then to Tony.

"This was your idea, wasn't it?!" Clint yelled, pushing past Natasha and grabbing the shoulders of Tony's shirt and pinning him against the lab's wall.

"Clint! Stop!" Steve yelled, not entirely against the septor idea himself.

"It wasn't his idea!" Bruce yelled, ripping his glasses off his face and grabbing Clint's arm.

"What? It was yours?!" Clint let go of Tony just as fast as he grabbed on.

"You'd better be glad I prefer tan over green," Clint snapped at Bruce.

Tony was still shocked by Clint's initial reaction, keeping his distance from the man by standing on the opposite side of the table.

"Sorry," Clint threw at Tony, not entirely sincerely, but not threateningly either.

Tony nodded in masked understanding.

"If you don't want to me, I won't," Bruce said, really hoping he wouldn't have to forget the entire project.

"On no! Why don't we try it! It only has untold power and tesseract energy! What the hell could go wrong with that?!" Clint yelled back, grabbing the septor out of the case, knocking the tube full of black and blue gunk onto the handle.

"Clint! No! That stuff reactivates-" Bruce was cut off by a brilliant blue light filling not only the septor's tip, but the entire room. There was no sound, no... anything.

Then the light diminished, leaving the walls and floor. It stayed only in the tip of the septor.

The septor had flown out of Clint's grasp and was now laid on top of the empty tube of black and blue gunk.

Thor and Bruce were on one side of the room where the energy had thrown them. Natasha was against a metal wall with a half conscious super soldier propped up against her.

Tony and Clint had flown threw the glass window of the lab, and now laid in the shards on the opposite side of the wall.

This was not an experience Clint had wanted to relive after the time he flew through a window after grappling-arrowing off a building.

There was glass embedded in the palm of Tony's hand, and somehow that was the only place he seemed to have been hurt.

Clint's left arm, which went through the window first, had multiple pieces of glass sticking out, but none that were very large.

"Oh my odin! They went through the see-through panel!" Thor bellowed as he, Bruce, Natasha, and Steve brushed ripped papers, metal tools, and other unnamed debris off them as they stood and saw where Thor was pointing.

"Oh my... what?" Natasha wondered aloud, swiftly exiting the lab through the door and brushing glass off of Clint and Tony.

"You really should be more careful with that thing," Natasha told Clint, being extra gentle with his injured arm as she helped him away from the large pile of glass.

"Honestly, I hated that window anyway," Tony quipped from where he stood against the wall, brushing glass off his jeans and shirt.

"So, who wants to put the septor back in the case?" Tony asked, tossing humor off the tip of his tongue.

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