And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born-to fight the foes no single superhero could withstand! Through the years, their roster has prospered, changing many times, but their glory has never been denied! Heed the call, then-for now, the Avengers Assemble!"
Throne Room, Space
A figure wearing a long green gown with blonde hair and red tips known as Cosmos stood in front of a throne. Cosmos had not changed since she had lead the Jotuns into Asgard. Cosmos was unchanging.
"The Tesseract has awakened. It is on a little world. A human world. They would wield its power,..." Cosmos said.
Cosmos faced a dark shadow. It was Kuri, but she was changed, older.
Kuri looked like a more mature version of herself. However, in this form, her hair was longer and black as deep space. Her eyes were like black holes. She was the same height as Cosmos. She wore a long black dress with a slit on each side. The sleeve and chest portions were navy blue. The fabric of her skirt was also the same color as the shawl that she was usually seen with. Also, the sleeve cuffs and collars had diamonds on them. Her footwear consisted of satin high heels. She also wore black crystal earrings.
Kuri was handed the Chitauri Scepter, a long golden handle, fitted with a blue gem encircled with silver blades.
"But our ally knows its workings as they never will. She is ready to lead. And our force, our Chitauri, will follow." Cosmos said.
Tens of thousands of Chitauri stood ready in a seething mass of neat rows and columns...the ground simply quaked.
"The world will be hers. The universe mine. And the humans, what can they do but burn?" Cosmos said.
SHIELD Project PEGASUS Facility
Out in the Kansas desert, a remote research facility was in a state of panic. It's an evacuation. A swooping helicopter flew in.
Men in suits ran around in panic. Soldiers on foot jumped onto Humvees, accelerating the hell out of there. A voice bellowed from hidden loudspeakers.
Helicopter Pad
Standing a few yards from the landing pad, A Fed in a suit with badass shades, peered at the helicopter as it lands. This was SHIELD agent Phil Coulson.
Walking out of the helicopter is SHIELD agent Maria Hill, sexy, fierce and determined. Following her, SHIELD director Nick Fury climbed out. Hill and Fury approached Agent Coulson.
"How bad is it?" Fury asked.
"That's the problem, sir. We don't know." Coulson said.
Facility Floor
Agent Coulson lead Hill and Fury through the radiation section of the facility. Hundreds of technicians and other staff run around, taking only the essentials.
"Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hours ago." Coulson said.
"NASA didn't authorize Selvig to test phase." Fury said.
"He wasn't testing it, he wasn't even in the room. Spontaneous advancement." Coulson said.
"It just turned itself on?" Hill said.
"What are the energy levels now?" Fury said.
"Climbing. When Selvig couldn't shut it down, we ordered the evac." Coulson said.
"How long to get everyone out?" Fury said.
"Campus should be clear in the next half hour." Coulson said.
"Do better." Fury said.
Heading Down to Radiation Facility Floor
"Sir, evacuation may be futile." Hill said.
"We should tell them to go back to sleep?" Fury said.
"If we can't control the Tesseract's energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance." Hill said.
"I need you to make sure that PHASE 2 prototypes are shipped out." Fury said.
"Sir, is that really a priority right now?" Hill said.
"Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on. Clear out the tech below. Every piece of PHASE 2 on a truck and gone." Fury said.
"Yes, sir." Hill turned to standing agents. "With me."
NASA Space Radiation Facility, Vacuum Chamber
Fury entered the lab facility where the Tesseract was being held by a compact muon solenoid coil chamber.
"Talk to me, doctor." Fury said.
Dr Erik Selvig emerged from behind the CMS machine, concerned. The Tesseract was glowing unusually brighter and flare rings shot out at random.
"Director." Selvig said.
"Is there anything we know for certain?" Fury said.
"Tesseract is misbehaving." Selvig said.
"Is that supposed to be funny?" Fury said.
"No, it's not funny at all. The Tesseract is not only active, she's...misbehaving." Selvig said.
"How soon until you pull the plug?" Fury said.
"She's an energy source. If we turn off the power, she turns it back on. If she reaches peak level..." Selvig said.
"We've prepared for this, doctor. Harnessing energy from space." Fury said.
"We don't have the harness. Our calculations are far from complete. Now she's throwing off interference, radiation. Nothing harmful, low levels of gamma radiation." Selvig said.
"That can be harmful. Where's Barton?" Fury said.
"The Hawk? Up in his nest, as usual." Selvig said.
Clint Barton, dressed in black tactical gear, was up on the railings watching them below, Fury calls Barton on his earpiece.
"Agent Barton, report." Fury said.
Barton rappelled down from the catwalk and walked up to Fury. They both walked around the facility in a discreet manner.
"I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things." Fury said.
"Well, I see better from a distance." Barton said.
"Are you seeing anything that might set this thing off?" Fury said.
"Doctor, it's spiking again." A NASA scientist said to Selvig.
"No one's come or gone. It's oven is clean. No contacts, no I.M.'s. If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end." Barton said.
"At this end?" Fury said.
"Yeah, the cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right? The doors open from both sides." Barton said.
Dr Selvig clacked away at the keyboard and saw on the monitoring his worst nightmares. Suddenly- the Tesseract thundered and shook the entire facility. Big enough where both Agents Hill and Coulson could feel and they were at different ends of the facility.
The flaring rings and glows of the cube spouted out brighter and louder, like a boiling pot of water. The Tesseract's energy built up into a beam much like the Bifrost Bridge, which hit at the end of a platform that was wired to the CMS device. The great maelstrom beam fired the Tesseract energy. The beam then formed a vortex, which then opened up a portal.
A black hole was created. From the portal, the blackness of space, beautiful and mysterious, strewn with a billion stars appeared and a gust of blue energy clouds filled the room, blinding everyone.
The Tesseract's energy formed into a cloud that reached to the top the facility's vacuum chamber ceiling. It's abnormally quiet. Then... heavy breathing was heard from the platform. SHIELD guards slowly approach, weapons in hands. A figure was kneeling on the platform, smoke coming off it. It was Kuri, smiling wickedly. She raised her head, and frowned. She looked deep into the eyes of Fury, Barton and Selvig. She stood up, holding the scepter.
"Ma'am, please put down the spear!" Fury said.
With a wicked smirk, Kuri looked at her spear then suddenly points it at where Fury and Barton were standing and shot out a blue exploding light towards them. Barton tackled Fury and they both barely missed Kuri's fired shot.
Machine gun fire was shot at Kuri, but the bullets bounced off her. Kuri jumped high from the platform and attacked those firing at him.
In the blink of an eye, Kuri took down several guards with black orbs and energy blasts from the scepter. She stopped and waited to see who would attack her next.
Barton tried to stand up. Kuri quickly walked towards him. Barton raised his gun, but Kuri grabbed Barton's hand.
"You have heart." Kuri said.
Kuri pointed the head of her spear at Barton's head. Barton's eyes suddenly glowed BLACK. The ability to control Barton's mind was now in Kuri's hand. Barton put his piece away and stood straight.
As Kuri was busy using her abilities to control the minds of several SHIELD personnel, Fury took the Tesseract, placing it back into its case and tried to leave the lab.
"Please don't. I still need that." Kuri said.
"This doesn't have to get any messier." Fury said.
"Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else. I am Kurisuta Selvig, Demon of Fire and Chaos, and I am burdened with glorious purpose."
"Kuri?" Selvig said. "It's me! It's your father! What happened?"
"We have no quarrel with you." Fury said.
"An ant has no quarrel with a boot." Kuri said.
"You planning to step on us?" Fury said.
"I come with glad tidings, of a world made free." Kuri said.
"Free from what?" Fury said.
"Freedom and peace are only illusions. History is nothing but a repetition of wars. We are going to return the Earth to its proper course." Kuri said.
Kuri turned to face Selvig who was standing behind him and placed her spear against Selvig's heart.
Selvig's eyes glowed black.
"You will know true peace." Kuri said.
"Yeah, you say peace, I kind of think you mean the other thing." Fury said.
From the vacuum chamber ceiling, Tesseract's energy cloud rapidly built into what would be an implosion.
"Ma'am, Director Fury is stalling. This place is about to blow. Drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us."
"He's right. The portal is collapsing in on itself. You got maybe two minutes before this goes critical." Selvig said.
"Well, then..." Kuri said.
Kuri, looked at Barton, who didn't even hesitate, shot Fury, who fell to the ground. Barton grabbed the case containing the Tesseract and left the lab with Kuri, Selvig and the other SHIELD personnel Kuri was controlling.
PEGASUS Bunker, Entrance of Exiting Tunnel
Kuri, Barton, Selvig and the other SHIELD personnel were in the parking lot of the facility, quickly gathering certain weapons. Agent Hill watched in confusion, referring to Kuri.
Barton pointed to Kuri's team. "Need these vehicles."
"Who's that?" Hill said.
"He didn't tell me." Barton said.
Agent Hill looked suspiciously at them as they got into the truck and turned to leave, as she was walking away...
"Hill, do you copy?!" Fury said through the walkie.
Kuri and Barton sharply looked at Agent Hill.
Back at the Lab
Fury was sitting up, pulling out the bullet, breathing heavily.
"Barton is..." Fury said.
PEGASUS Bunker
Suddenly, Hill turned to shoot at Barton, but Barton was already pointing his gun at her and starts shooting, he moved the driver's seat of the truck and drove off as Hill kept shooting.
Back at the Lab
Fury was holding his side, running.
"He's got the Tesseract! Track it down!" Fury said.
The energy was brewing a storm from the vacuum chamber ceiling.
PEGASUS Bunker/Tunnel
Agent Hill slipped into a jeep and followed after Barton's truck. Kuri's trucks screeched across the tunnel. Several SHIELD trucks pulled up to them. A drive-by shooting ensued.
Kuri, who stood on top of the bed of the truck, used her scepter and emitted energy blasts, flipping over SHIELD trucks.
They got in, the cars roar out after them. Agent Hill put herself at a distance.
Facility Floor
Fury raced out of the hallway, avoiding falling pipes. The entire facility was now in a full earthquake.
Facility Floor, Elsewhere
Agent Coulson and several SHIELD agents fell down the steps, dropping silver cases of information. They attempted to grab them, but...
"No! Leave it!" Coulson said.
They ran out of there like a bat from hell.
PEGASUS Tunnel
Agent Hill's Jeep roared out of a side of Barton's truck and pulled up alongside them on the left. She went way ahead and pulled her brake, swerving into a 360, facing Barton's truck and driving in reverse.
Barton's arms reached out the open window and opened fire. Agent Hill shot her windshield opening fire on Barton.
Van
Agent Coulson jumps into a SHIELD van.
"You're clear, sir! You need to go!" He said on his walkie.
Helicopter
Fury bolted out of the facility and jumped into a helicopter. The surface of the pad gave way, plunging the helicopter through the surface. But Fury's chopper barely made it out.
PEGASUS Tunnel
Still being chased, Barton pushed the pedal harder, which caused Agent Hill's jeep to wobble out and put her back behind.
Radiation Facility, Vacuum Chamber
The Tesseract's energy cloud now shrank into a small ball of white light. Then...
A cloud of blue light consumed the entire facility and parts of the desert. Fury watched from below, a rapid build-up into what would be an implosion. Several miles away, Agent Coulson's van felt a jolt of the Tesseract's blast wave. The entire facility swallowed into itself—a terrifying, unimaginable implosion.
PEGASUS Tunnel
The blast wave of the Tesseract caused the tunnel to cave in. Like an ocean wave, blinding crumbles of falling rock, fell onto Agent Hill's jeep, leaving her nearly trapped under this blanket of rock.
On the Barton's truck, they escaped the tunnel and drove into the desert landscape. Fury's helicopter roared over Barton's truck.
Kuri looked up.
From the chopper's door, it slid open and Fury stood there, holding a gun, shot at Barton's.
Kuri looked at Fury and in a fit of rage, pointed her scepter and shot out the blue light.
The chopper caught on fire, going down in a fiery ball. Fury jumped out and touched down onto the desert floor. The chopper barreled along the ground.
Fury, coming back to his senses, fired at Kuri, but they were too far and too late. Kuri looked back, smiling wickedly. Fury stood there, mind reeling. Then...
"Director? Director Fury, do you copy?" Coulson said in the walkie.
"The Tesseract is with the hostile force. I have men down. Hill?" Fury replied.
PEGASUS Tunnel
Agent Hill climbed out her jeep, which was sandwiched in, but luckily, not her.
"A lot of men still under, don't know how many survivors." Hill said.
Cornfield
"Sound the general call. I want every living soul not working rescue looking for that brief case." Fury said.
"Roger that." Hill said.
"Coulson, get back to base. This is a level seven. As of right now, we are at war." Fury said.
There was a silence.
"What do we do?" Coulson said.
Fury stood there. Thinking. He looked up. On his face was a sign of hope.