(A/N) Hi guys! I got this chapter out sooner than expected. So yeah Yay! I also had a question from someone about Luna's name. Luna means moon in Latin. I didn't name her the Norse name for moon (Mani) because I've been studying Latin recently and it held more meaning to me. Also I had to name her Luna because of something coming up in later chapters. Hopefully my plan for her name will work. With that I give you chapter 14!
A couple weeks after Barton got called into mission, we got asked by Director Fury to come in. Apparently the job that Barton was on was to protect the Tesseract; the very thing that had been in the ocean with Steve and I. The Tesseract was (along with its other many uses) a doorway or portal if you prefer it that way. Growing up on Asgard meant that I've seen the Tesseract before; it had been owned by the frost giants, but after they had used it for wrong doings Father had taken it away from them.
The other information that was given to us was that the person who had walked through the portal was none other than the brother of Thor and I: Loki. I had played with Loki as a child, we we're siblings, so it was hard for me to justify that he had taken down a S.H.I.E.L.D facility and that he had killed many of there agents.
Currently Steve and I were on a quinjet, that was headed towards the helicarrier. While we waited, we studied the files of the other people that were going to be brought in.
"So this Dr. Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me?" Steve asked Agent Coulson, the man that was escorting us to the helicarrier.
"A lot of people were. You were the world's first superhero. Banner thought gamma radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine's original formula." He replied back.
As I watched the video, I felt a little guilt rise up within me. Dr. Banner was right that some gamma radiation was used, but that wasn't the full formula. My blood was a great amount of why Steve was still alive and why the serum worked in the first place. It was painful to watch people try and recreate the formula that would they would probably never be able to recreate.
"Didn't really go his way, did it?" said Steve as I zoned back into the conversation.
"Not so much." He said, then with an after thought he said, " When he's got that thing though, guy's like a Stephen Hawking."
Steve and I looked at each other to see if either one of us understood that reference. When we both shrugged at each other and turned back to look at Agent Coulson.
"He's like a smart person." He said a little awkwardly. "I gotta say, it's an honor to meet you, officially. I sort of met you, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping." And then it got even more awkward. "I mean, I was...I was present while you were unconscious from the ice.
You know, it's really, it's just a...just a huge honor to have you on board."
At that point I decided to go back and start reading the files again. Not that I wouldn't have loved to see the outcome of that conversation, but it was beginning to get really hard not to burst out laughing. Which when I looked back down to see who the next person was, wasn't that hard.
Thor, my brother, the one who I haven't seen in years, the brother who didn't remember me, he was on the list of allies who might be here. Honestly I would love to see him again, but I don't know if I'll be able to keep it together.
"You alright Vicki?" Asked Steve.
He was looking down at me with worry on his face while Agent Coulson was off to the side looking a little annoyed.
"Yeah..yeah just trying to read all the files before we get to the helicarrier."
Once we landed on the helicarrier Coulson let us get off first so that we could take a look around. The helicarrier was amazing, there were people running around in standard uniforms and the with the other quinjets around the place looked legit. While Steve and I had been looking around, a woman had come up to us.
"They need you on the bridge." She said addressing Agent Coulson.
"See you there." He said before he wandered off to the bridge.
After he left, Steve and I continued to look around the helicarrier. The woman who had come up before following closely behind us. The woman was in the file that we were given, her name is Natasha Romanoff.
"There was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was gonna swoon." She said jokingly. "Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?"
"Trading Cards?" Asked Steve surprised.
"They're vintage, he's very proud."
"At one point in the quinjet he looked a little disappointed, he was probably about to ask you Steve." I said teasingly.
"He did, did he? Not long now Captain." Said Natasha making Steve blush. "What? Can't handle a little teasing Captain? Ahh Dr. Banner."
"Oh, yeah. Hi." Said a man that I had read from the file. In fast it was the same man the experimented with the gamma radiation. "They told me you'd be coming." He said to Steve and I.
"Word is you can find the cube."
"Is that the only word on me?" He asked.
"Only word I care about." Replied Steve, making him give a faint smile.
"Must be strange for you, all of this." Said Banner a moment later.
"Well, this is actually kind of familiar." said Steve.
"Probably the only thing." I said.
"Gentlemen Vicki, you may wanna step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breath." Said Natasha from behind us.
"Is this is a submarine?" Asked Steve.
After hearing this, I perked up a little bit. I would love to go in the water again and swim around, but after everything that's going on right now that wasn't an option.
"Really? They wanted me in a submerged pressurized metal container?" Said Banner sarcastically.
We watched all around us as agents made their way inside while we stayed out in the open. The ground below us started to shake as the helicarrier started to lift off the water.
"Oh, no. This is much worse."
"All engine operating. S.H.I.E.L.D emergency protocol,1 9 3.6 in effect. We're in, sir."
I walked into the bridge with Steve and Bruce trailing behind me. To say that the helicarrier was amazing was an understatement, the place was huge. There were the techy things (I think they call them computers) lining the walls and the workspace below us that about four dozen agents were working. I turned around to see the Director Fury was coming towards us.
"Gentlemen, Vicki." He then went up to Bruce and said. "Doctor, thank you for coming."
"Thanks for asking nicely." He said sarcastically
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"So, uh...how long am I staying?" said Bruce.
"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the clear."
"Where are you with that?"
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us."
While they continued to talk, I made my way up to the front of the room. There was a huge window there that I could look through. Once I made it there I looked around; the view from where I was was amazing. It was a cloudy day so I couldn't see the ocean very much, but every once in awhile the clouds would break and I would be able to the see the ocean clearly. There were a few times I could see dolphins jumping out of the water, and some with boats either catching fish or carrying a few dozen people with games on the deck (a cruise boat). However, one of the times that I looked down I thought I saw Phobos, I blinked in surprize, but when I looked again the clouds had already washed back over. I shuddered and walked away from the window, I couldn't focus on him right now, I needed to find Loki.
(A Couple Hours Later)
I was resting on one of the chairs by Steve and Coulson. I was slowly falling asleep listening to Coulson trying to convince Steve to sign his Captain America trading cards.
"It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint, slight foxing around the edges, but…"
"We got a hit. Sixty seven percent match." Jumping up from my seat I listened to the rest of the news. "Wait, crossmatch, seventy nine percent."
"Location?" Asked Fury.
"Stuttgart, Germany. 28, Canning Strasse." The agent responded.
"He's not exactly hiding." I heard someone say.
"Captain, Vicki" Fury said. "you're up."
"Your new uniforms are amazing.." Said Coulson as he guided us down the maze like hallways."I had some input on them."
He showed me my uniform first and then left to show Steve his.
My uniform was similar to Natasha's only that it had random blue swirls running up and down the uniform. Honestly, I loved it. The blue swirls clashed with my blue eyes, and I loved how the uniform fit on me. I liked my armour from Asgard better, but I wouldn't be getting that anytime soon.
Thinking of Asgard made me think of Thor and Loki again. What would I do when we got to Loki? I know that I couldn't kill him, he was my brother after all, but what was I going to do? This thought followed me as I entered the quinjet that would be taking us to Germany.
What was I going to do?
