Nick Fury watched patiently as the bright blue cube hooked to all sorts of machinery hummed and sprouted blue energy bursts. It had been doing this for almost ten minutes now, and the humming was getting louder and the energy bursts more erratic.
Erik Selvig was at his computer, running all sorts of diagnostics on the cosmic cube, while Clint Barton fingered the thread of his bow beside Fury.
Finally, the Tesseract began to glow brighter than it had before. Fury put a cautionary hand up to his eyes, but kept the latter part of his body hooked on the cube.
The cube suddenly shot a jet of light at the opposing wall. The light soon coalesced into a portal of some sort, revealing starry skies beyond. The portal suddenly began to dissipate in a violent manner, finally exploding into a ball of pure light.
Fury fully shielded his eyes, as did Barton, Selvig, and various guards and technicians. Once the light dissipated, they could tell that a new figure had appeared in the room.
A man was kneeling where the portal had been moments before. He was wearing green attire, and carrying a long spear, that also glowed with blue energy. He tilted his head up, revealing a glistening, shark-like smile.
"Welcome to Earth.", muttered Barton, as Fury himself said, "I am Director Nicholas J..."
"I know who you are.", said the man, oozing charm and grace.
"Well, maybe you could enlighten us to who you are?", said Fury, fingering the holster on his side.
"I am Loki, of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose."
Fury now put his hand fully on his gun, not liking the man one bit. Partly because of the intel he had received from New Mexico, one year ago, but also because the man looked straight out of a supervillain convention.
"I'm afraid you'll have to come with us, Mr... Loki. Think of it as going through Earth's customs.", said Fury, nodding to a nearby guard.
The guard moved to detain the Asgardian, only for Loki to jab his spear directly at his chest. Fury and Barton drew their weapons, only to see that the spear barely tapped his abdomen. That wasn't the interesting part, however, as the man's eyes clouded over with inky blackness, before taking on a blueish tinge. The guard put his hand off his gun, and stood at Loki's attention.
Loki turned to the duo of Fury and Barton. Barton was seconds away from releasing his drawstring, until Fury put up a hand.
"We mean you no harm."
"An ant doesn't mean a boot harm.", said Loki, advancing on a nearby Selvig. The Asgardian proceeded to repeat the process that hypnotized the guard, and Selvig smiled a vacant grin.
"I'm afraid if you're looking for a fight, you're going to get one.", threatened Fury, causing Loki to laugh uproariously at the ceiling.
"My partner hopes as much from you Earthlings. My benefactor, however, wants this done as smoothly as possible, so..."
The sound of an opening door in Fury's office broke him out of his time in memory lane. It was one day after the events in Nevada. Loki had proceeded to hypnotize Barton as well, before making off with Tesseract around the imploding building. The Tesseract apparently had quite the side effect of its use.
Maria Hill walked into the office, and handed Fury several physical files.
"This is all you asked for on the selected members of the Initiative.", said Hill, professional as always.
"Thank you, commander.", said Fury, opening the files, as well as pulling up the videos he was watching prior to Hill's arrival. On his three desktop, semi-holographic computers, Fury watched various videos pertaining to the initiates, while Hill waited patiently for more orders.
The pictures, videos, and documents all painted a picture of the various meta-humans of Earth. There was grainy photographs of a man in a green hood firing an arrow, a video of a boy with white hair zooming through a wall like a ghost, and documentation on the effects of Gamma radiation.
One file caught Fury's eye, before he piled them all up in a pile and stood up.
"We need to assemble taskforces for each of the initiates. Contact Romanoff and Coulson; they need to be here. I'll personally take care of a few."
"Yes, sir.", said Hill, turning and leaving the office. Though, not before Fury could take a glimpse of the file he had previously noticed: a picture of a young adult male with unruly black hair, green eyes, spectacles, and a jagged scar on the side of his forehead...
So, I've decided to go through with this idea right now, after all. Don't expect a lot of chapter posts at one time, however; the time between posts should be pretty long. Anyway, here's the roster for the original Avenger Initiative in this fic:
Anthony "Tony" Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.)
Steven "Steve" Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans)
Thor Odinson (Chris Hemsworth)
Dr. Robert Bruce Banner/The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson)
Clinton "Clint" Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner)
Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman (Henry Cavill)
Bruce Wayne/Batman (Ben Affleck)
Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot)
Bartholomew "Barry" Allen/The Flash (Ezra Miller)
Arthur Curry/Aquaman (Jason Momoa)
Victor Stone/Cyborg (Ray Fisher)
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe)
Oliver Queen/The Arrow (Stephen Amell)
Benjamin "Ben" Tennyson/Ben 10 (Tara Strong)
Daniel "Danny" Fenton/Danny Phantom (David Kaufman)
Kimberley "Kim" Possible (Christy Carlson Romano)
Ronald "Ron" Stoppable (Will Friedle)
X-J9/Jennifer "Jenny" Wakeman (Janice Kawaye)
Jake Long/The American Dragon (Dante Basco)
Samurai Jack (Phil LaMarr)
Steven Universe (Zach Callison)
Garnet (Estelle)
Amethyst (Michaela Dietz)
Pearl (DeeDee Magno Hall)