Welcome back to the story of the life and times of Hermione Banner. This chapter, if you are following it is an Avengers based chapter. All even chapters are Avengers and the odd ones are Harry Potter. This story is set in the summer before Hermione's sixth year of Hogwarts. There is a chance that this chapter will be v. long but as this is the start, I don't know as of yet. Hermione has been travelling with her dad since she got home from the tragedy of the previous chapter. Enjoy and thanks for the reviews, follows and favourites.
HPOV:
Dad and I are currently in Calcutta, India. Dad and I are travelling through India, helping the sick and injured in the country. Dad asked me last year about travelling with him the following year and after not seeing him for a year and loosing Sirius, my only tie to my mother, I wanted to get away. I'm helping dad as his assistant, like handing him bandages and calming down the patients.
As of this moment, dad and I were in a family's house, whose one of the children and the father had come down with a severe sickness that Dad was trying to work out what was the cause of it and how to cure it. We were asking questions like; what did you eat the day before? What is your usual day-to-day activities? What they are allergic to? Etc. when a small child ran up the stairs, gripping money in her hand. The wife and mother of the two that were sick tried to tell her to leave the home, but the small girl called out that her father was sick and dad asked if it was like the two lying in front of us. The girl didn't say, just said, "Please?" and held up the money.
Me and dad looked at each other and had a conversation with our eyes. Should we go? I asked well, it could be very severe. Tell these people what is wrong and then we'll go. Dad replied back.
"Hello, I'm Hermione. You can come over here and sit with me, whilst the doctor explains to this family what is wrong and then you can bring us to your father." I told her in her native language. She walked into the room and sat on the floor with me and dad told the family what they were sick with and the medication they need to take. The woman gave my dad a couple of rupee notes to my father and left the house with the young girl, who brought us to the edge of the city and into a small hut of a house -it reminded me a bit of Hagrids hut on the grounds of Hogwarts- the small girl nearly ran in front of a car but dad held her back before she moved and then we went into the hut and the small girl ran through it whilst dad and I followed her and then she escaped through the window at the back of the house. Dad and I looked at each other, with annoyed expressions.
"You know for a man, who's trying to avoid stress, you've picked a hell of a place to settle." A woman's voice said behind us. We spun around to see an average height, short red haired woman who was dressed as a local.
"Avoiding stress isn't the secret." Dad told her, placing himself in front of me in case something happened.
"Then what is it? Yoga? Your daughter?" The woman questioned as Dad set down his doctor bag.
"You brought us to the edge of the city. Smart." Dad commented, avoiding the question and looked out the window. "I assume we're surrounded?" He then questioned, turning back to the woman.
"It's just the three of us." She said back and took her shawl off.
"And your actress buddy? Is she a spy too? Do they start that young?" Dad started to move away from the window and closer to me again.
"I did." Was her simple reply back, biting her lip.
"Who are you?" I asked her, sitting down on one of the chairs.
"Natasha Romanoff."
"Are you here to kill me Miss Romanoff?" Dad then questioned, "Because that's… that's not going to work, for everyone." Dad bluntly told her, looking over to me at the end.
"I'm here on behalf of SHIELD." She said, more confidently to dad. I just watched their conversation from my seat.
"Shield… how did they find us?" Dad turned around asking her.
"We never lost you doctor, we just kept our distance. Even kept some other interested parties off your scent." She told dad, smugly.
"Why?" I piped up asking.
"Nick Fury seems to trust the two of you," She said looking at both dad and I "But now we need you to come in." She then said, looking directly to dad.
"What if I say no?" Dad then questioned
"I'll persuade you." She smirked
"And what if the… other guy says no?" dad then questioned, more quietly.
"You've went a couple of years without an incident, and I don't think you want to break that streak." She then told and walked around the room.
Natasha and my dad then went and continued their conversation, about a potential global catastrophe and showed us a blue glowing cube that she called the Tesseract and told us that it has the energy to wipe out the planet. Dad thought that Fury wanted the hulk to dispose of it but Natasha then explained that it had been taken and that Shield wanted dad to find it, I was going with seeing as I have no other relatives and because I can help dad with finding the glowing cube of destruction. Then dad got frustrated at Natasha and started questioning the motive of the organisation and what Fury and her were concocting up and if they were telling the truth. He slammed his hands on the table and shouted at the redhead, making me jump from the sound and Natasha reaching under the table and pointing a gun at dad. Dad quickly apologised to her and she lowered the gun and asked for people to 'stand down' through a hidden ear-piece.
"Just the three of us, Miss Romanoff?" I said, crossing my arms and leaning back in my chair.
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Dad and I landed on a plane track near water. Dad and I lifted our things from the plane and started making our way over to the door of the building. "What is this?" I asked dad.
"I really don't know Mia." Dad told me, placing his arm around my shoulders as we walked.
"Ah, you both have made it. Dr Banner, Hermione, this is Captain America." Natasha said stepping in front of Dad and I, with who I'm assuming, is Captain America. This must be awkward for dad, seeing as he tried to replicate the serum that made Steve Rodgers, Captain America.
"Hello, I'm Hermione Banner. It's an honour to meet you Captain." I said to the taller man and held my hand out to shake his.
"It's nice to meet you ma'am. Please call me Steve." He said and shook my out stretched hand, "the word on your father is that he can find the cube." He then told me.
"Is that the only word on me?" Dad slowly said.
"Only word I care about." Steve told my dad placing his hand on dads shoulder. He didn't mind that Dad turned into the Hulk when he was mad, due to trying to recreate his super soldier serum.
"It's about to get a bit hard to breath everyone." Natasha said coming up to us.
"Why is this a submarine?" Steve questioned, the three of us walking close to the edge of the plane runways.
"Really? They want me in a pressurised container?" Dad questioned, with a tone questioning the people that decided to bring him on the ship.
Then the ship began to rise out of the ground and turbines began to appear through the water. "No, no this is much worse." I quietly said to the two gentlemen. We turned away from the edge and followed Natasha to the door on the top of the ship and made our way down to a control room.
Natasha looked over her shoulder and gave us a smirk as we looked around the big room with at least twenty or more people on computers, and another twenty walking around and guarding entrances. There also was a man, dressed all in black standing, in what looked like the main control centre for the ship.
"Welcome to the Helicarrier." The man in the centre said, who I'm assuming is Nick Fury. Steve walked up to him, and handed him out a 10 dollar note from his front pocket and walked down to the computers and windows looking out of the, helicarrier.
"Dr and Miss Banner, thank-you for accepting the invitation." Fury said turning to dad and I.
"We didn't really have an option to refuse," Dad told him, "How long will we be staying?" Dad asked, taking off his jacket and rolling up his sleeves.
"Once we get the Tesseract back, you're both in the clear." Fury said looking over at both dad and I.
"How is the look for the cube going?" I questioned.
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cellphones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us." An older agent turned around and told us.
"That's not going to find them in time, and you know it Coulson." Natasha turned around and said to the agent.
"You have to narrow down the field," I started to say, "How many spectrometers do you have access to?" I asked, moving to stand level with dad.
"How many are there?" Fury questioned, raising his eyebrow that wasn't covered by his eye patch.
"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for us to work?" Dad said, fidgeting with his hands.
"Agent Romanoff will be showing the two of you to your rooms and to the lab." Fury told us, Natasha moved away from one of the computers and began to walk toward the big set of doors, with Dad and I following her and leaving the control room.
"You're both gonna love it, we have all the toys." She smugly told the two us as we walked down a corridor.
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Dad and I had set ourselves up in the lab and sorted through all of the tech and how we –mostly dad- were going to start up the algorithm for the search of the Tesseract, when we were called into a meeting in the control room.
We walked in to see the Captain, Natasha sitting at a table and a tall, blonde hair man dress in what I assume is armour. Dad and I sat down watching a screen that everyone seemed to be transfixed with. It was showing Fury and a man in similar clothing to the blonde man standing next to the table, but he had black, slicked back hair and a very different physic to the man in the room with us.
Fury seemed to be questioning the man that was currently in a cage like contraption, obviously meant to put dad in if he has one of his moments, but it was currently the black haired man's holding cell. We watched them swap words about what was the man's plan and then Fury left with a sarcastic quote and the screen turned black.
"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Dad started looking around the room at the people.
"Loki's going to drag this out." Steve started to say, so the man in the cell was Loki, like the God of Mischief, "So, Thor, what's his play?" He then questioned the blonde haired man, now known as Thor the God of Thunder.
Thor jumped from his thoughts at Steve's words, "He has an army called the Chitauri. They are not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract." Thor explained to the group of Loki's plans for world dominance.
"An Army? From outer space?" Steve said in disbelief, glancing over to me as if he was asking what the world had come to.
"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Dad added to the conversation, obviously he knew more on this than I did.
"Selvig?" Thor asked in confusion.
"He's an astrophysicist." I told him, thinking he didn't understand the word.
"He's a friend." Thor explained.
Then Natasha, Steve, Thor and dad had a talk over the mentality of Loki and Thor got angry over the others comments until Natasha told him how many had died and his comeback remark was, "He's adopted."
Then Dad said, "Iridium, what did he need Iridium for?" and he pulled his thinking face. It must be used in stabilising something of Loki's plans to get the alien army here.
"It's a stabilising agent." The voice of Tony Stark said behind me, he said a small comment to an agent before walking into everyone's view. He clapped his hand onto Thor's shoulder, talked to him before turning to the rest of us, "Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants." So he explained to reason for Iridium and walked over to the main control unit on the helicarrier and started to pretend to be captaining a ship then asked how Fury see's everything and put a hand over his eye and looked around until a female agent told him that Fury turns.
"Well, that sounds exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube." Uncle Tony spun around to explain to everyone what Loki's plan could involve.
"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" the female agent questioned Uncle Tony in disbelief with her arms crossed.
"Last night." Tony told her, "The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" he looked over to us when he made the last comment.
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asked looking at Uncle Tony with a raised eyebrow.
"He's got to heat the cube to a Hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Dad said, placing clasped hands onto the table and leaning forward.
"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Uncle Tony said back to dad, reminding me of the times that I would be in Uncle Tony's lab with him and dad.
"But, if he could do that then he might be able to achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." I added on to their conversation.
"Finally, people that speak English." Uncle Tony said, stretching his arms out to dad and I.
"Is that what just happened?" Steve asked looking over to me.
Dad and I got up from the table and walked over to Tony. "Hello Tony." Dad greeted Uncle Tony and then I moved over, "Hey Uncle T." I said and gave him a hug.
"Hey squirt, how's you? Enjoy your time, travelling India with your old man?" Uncle Tony asked me.
"I'm nearly taller than you Tony. And yes I did, it was nice to get away from England." I told him, neither Tony or Dad knew what was happening over in England with Voldemort arising as I made sure to keep them away from it.
"Excuse me, young maiden, but I have not introduced myself, I apologise. I am Thor, Prince of Asgard and who may you be?" Thor had walked over to where Tony, dad and I were standing.
"Oh, apology accepted. I'm Hermione Banner, my dad is Bruce and I'm here to help him find the cube." I said, introducing myself to the taller man. He grabbed my hand and kissed my knuckles.
"It is a pleasure to be in the presence of such a powerful, magical being as yourself." Thor told me and let go of my hand. He just outted me to Shield.
"Excuse me, did you just say that Miss Banner, is powerful and has magical qualities?" The female agent said.
"Why yes, Miss Banner is written in the prophesy of my people to help the chosen one. She is foretold to be the Brightest Witch of her Generation." He boasted whilst I bit my lip.
"Well, I wouldn't go that far…" I said in a low tone, I didn't want dad knowing of anything that was about to happen in the future with Harry and Voldemort.
"Miss Banner, I think you have some explaining to do." Fury said to me.
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I was sitting in an interrogation room with Fury and the female agent – Agent Hill I had found out- sitting opposite me.
"So Miss Banner, what did Thor mean when you are to be the Brightest Witch of her Generation?" Agent Hill questioned.
I placed my hands onto the top of the table, "When I was eleven, a woman came to the apartment that Dad and I were staying in, in Orlando. She told me that I was a witch and as my birth mother was originally from England and her family were magical, my name was down on the school roster for their school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I had the chose to go there so stay in America. I decided to go to the school over in the UK. I've been going since I was eleven and I have excelled in my work there and have been given the title as I am best friends with Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived he has been written into a prophesy about him and an evil wizard called, Voldemort. He has it in his mind that only Purebloods should be the only ones with magic and anyone lesser should not possess any magical abilities." I explained to them.
"What the hell is a pureblood?" Fury asked me.
"In the magical community there is purebloods, half-bloods, muggleborns and squibs. A pureblood is someone with their whole family possessing magic, a half-blood is someone that comes from maybe a set of parents where one is a muggle, muggleborn or a squib and the other is pureblood, a muggleborn is someone that their parents are muggles- non magical people- or no-maj if you are American. A squib is someone that is not magical at all but is from a magical family. I am a half-blood, as my mother was a squib and my dad is a muggle." I thoroughly explained to them.
"What of the prophesy?" Agent Hill then asked next.
"I want you to tell me that the only people listening to the conversation are in this room first." I told her. Hill moved her eyes to an area of the room that were taking in and nodded her head to it. "My father is to have no knowledge of what I am about to tell the two of you. I don't know the exact words of the prophesy but from what my friend Harry told me; it has to do with him and a very dark wizard, that I spoke of previous, and they have to fight each other. He told me that it was along the lines of 'for neither can live while the other survives' and I will most likely be roped into helping him defeat Voldemort." I elucidated to the pair sitting opposite me.
"So what you're telling us, is that there is a whole secret wizard world in England, you're a part of it and you got some messed up man after your friend?" Fury exasperated to me, squinting his one visible eye.
"Well, when you put it like that… yes." I told them, biting my lip.
"You can leave the room now Miss Banner." Agent Hill told me and I quickly got up and power walked it out of the room.
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After that interrogation I tried to walk back to the lab that dad was working in, key word being tried. I walked taking lefts and rights and on my route I bumped into Steve.
"Afternoon ma'am." Steve said to me when we walked past each other.
"Afternoon Cap, how are you? Have you adjusted well to the 21st century?" I asked him.
"I'm swell ma'am. I only recently woke up from the ice, so I haven't had the time to adjust just yet." He explained to me.
"You can call me Hermione. If you want help getting a hold on what's happened, I can help if you want." I told him.
"Okay, Hermione if you call me Steve and I would like that very much. I have only been awake for just over a month now and there are so many things that have confused me." He said to me.
"Well I'll help in any way I can. Are you off to somewhere?" I asked him.
"Not really, I just like to know my surroundings a bit more if I walk around it." He explained
"Well, you don't mind me joining? I am very lost in this helicarrier and you might be able to help me."
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I went to the lab that Dad and Tony were working in and sat down on one of the stools in the lab. "Hey kiddo." Tony said to me when he walked over to one of the screens near where I was sitting.
"Hi Tony." I said back to him and rested my head on my hand. I sat and watched Dad and Tony look at Loki's sceptre and work out an algorithm for the blue glowing cube of wonder. Tony was messing around with Dad, and poked him with a metal rod, right when Steve walked in.
Steve gave off to Tony and then Natasha and Fury came in and told Dad that he needs to leave the room, as a safety precaution and Thor came into the lab making it seem so much smaller than normal. The adults all started to complain and argue and I could feel the magic from the sceptre fluctuate and feed on their fighting.
Dad then told them about one of his lowest times of his life, before I was introduced to him, that he had to try and commit suicide but the other guy spit out the bullet. He told me that story before, but it was still a sore subject. All the shouting and complaining came to a standstill when Dad grabbed the sceptre and Steve asked him to put it down. After that they got the location of the Tesseract and Steve, Tony and Thor started to argue over who retrieved it when the helicarrier took a hit from outside and I was thrown away from my dad and Natasha and out of the room with Tony, Steve, Fury and Thor.
All hell went loose because 10 minutes later, dad in his Hulk form went running through the helicarrier. Fury turned to me, "Follow me to get a comm and then I want you with Stark and Cap helping to keep this helicarrier in the air." I nodded my head and followed him down the winding hallway to the main control centre where Hill was commanding people. Fury pointed me over to a table where I received and in-ear comm and placed it into my ear.
"Uncle T, Cap, where are you?" I said making my way out of the control room.
"Left back engine Hermes." Tony told me through the comms. I checked that I had my wand on me and made my way over the engine. I walked through the ship to see an opening on the ship and saw a fist knocking out, what I'm guessing was one of the bad guys. I could see Cap fighting a couple of guys in black.
"T, I'm here what do you need?" I asked him through the comms.
"HIT THE LEVER!" I heard shouted back through the comms, I walked around cap and the guy he was fighting and started making my way over to the red lever that was on the wall. I was carefully walking over when one of the people in black jumped down in front of me and was blocking my path. He started to throw punches at me that I moved around and avoided, thanks to the times that Dad got me set up with defence classes, and kicked the legs from underneath him and he fell off the edge and I got over to the lever and pulled it down and Tony flew out and went flew into the hole in the wall of the ship and knocked the guy that Cap was fighting off the ship. I made my way back to the hole and once we got in and started making our way from the turbine, Fury spoke over the comms.
Coulson was dead.
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I stayed with Cap and Tony as my father was no-where to be found on the ship, as was Thor and Natasha was looking over Clint. Tony and Steve went to the containment unit that held Loki and where Coulson had bled out; there was a dark red patch on the floor to show where.
"Was he married?" Steve asked, with his arms crossed and a stern expression on his face.
"No he wasn't." I softly answered him.
"There was a… uh, cellist I think." Tony added, with his hands in his pockets and a sombre expression on his face.
"I'm sorry, he seemed like a good man. Is this your first time losing a soldier?" Steve asked looking between both Tony and I.
"No." I answered back.
"WE ARE NOT SODIERS!" Tony all but screamed at Steve, "I am not marching to Fury's fife." he said more calmly.
"Neither am I!" Steve shouted at him, he took a deep breath the calm himself before saying, "He's got the same blood on his hands as Loki does. Right now we've got to put that aside and get this done. Now Loki needs a power source, if we can put together a list..." he trailed off
"He made this personal." I said to the two men.
"Huh?" Steve said.
"I get it kid; he hit us all where we live, why?" Tony questioned.
"To tear us apart." Steve simply said.
"He had to conquer his greed, but he knows he has to take us out to win, right? That's what he wants. He wants to beat us and he wants to be seen doing it." Tony starting going off into a tangent.
"He wants an audience." I added.
"Right, I caught his act at Stuttengard." Steve nodded, understanding what Tony and I were putting down.
"Yeah. That's just a preview, this is opening night. Loki's gone full-tilt diva." Tony nodded with what he was saying and walking closer to Steve.
"He wants…he wants flowers, he wants parades," I started to say, making my way over to the men, "he wants a monument built in the skies with his name plastered..." I trailed off, looking over to Tony realising where Loki was heading.
"Son of a bitch." Tony said and made his way out of the room
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We fought the chitauri and Loki in New York. Thor and dad came back and we fought them, I stayed with Cap on the ground, throwing spells left and right and also throwing some fists and kicks if there was too many at once. Tony went into the worm hole with a nuke and fell back out after Natasha closed it using Loki's sceptre. We went for shawarma after the battle, I was so tired and sore that I nearly fell face first into my plate.
No-one was seriously injured during the fight, but I hurt my leg when I pushed by one of the chitauri into a wall and landing awkwardly. Dad said that I might have a slight limp in my leg but I would be fine. I had to go back to Hogwarts in a week or so, so dad and I will be leaving for England in the next couple of days.
Fury made me a consultant like Tony for the Avengers, meaning I will only really be brought in dire situations. Tony invited dad and I to stay with him before we have to go back to England. And because the tower was basically un-liveable, we were staying in another house that he owns in New York, whilst the tower was fixed and he was making it into 'Avengers tower' where each of the Avengers and then some could stay and live in New York.
I wonder what Hogwarts will be like this year.
Sorry for this being so late after the previous chapter, I did intend for this to be done not that long after the last chapter. And the next chapter will be 6th year. I was very close to make this chapter 2 parts but it wouldn't have worked into the story the way that I intend to go. If a new chapter isn't posted in the v near future, Happy Christmas and New Year.
Emma X