Indian Slum
A little girl ran through the crowd, trying to force a way through.
Shack
A tiny shack. The little girl ran up the steps, only to be stopped by an attending woman. Then, the little girl spotted him. Bruce Banner, their local doctor.
"What are doing here?! Get out! You shouldn't be here!" The attending woman said.
"I have to see the doctor! It's my father!" The little girl said.
"Calm down. What's wrong?" Banner said.
"My father..." the girl said.
Banner looked behind him seeing how the girl was staring at a few people, lying down, looking very sick.
"Is he like them?" Banner said.
The little girl held out all the money she had in the world.
"Please." The little girl said.
Slums
Banner and the little girl hastily ran nearly to the edge of town. The little girl got ahead of herself. Banner spotted local government car, he turned around, blocking any view of him.
Little Girl's Shack
Banner quickly followed the little girl inside her house. As he walked in, the little girl vanished in a shimmer of white lights.
"Should have got paid up front, Banner." Banner said to himself.
Billie Jenkins, a tall, slender blonde woman all in black, then appeared from behind the curtains. Banner turned around, quietly.
"You know, for a man who's supposed to be avoiding stress, you picked a hell of a place to settle." Billie said.
"Avoiding stress isn't the secret." Banner said.
Billie smiled gently. "I know that. Sorry about the cloak and dagger."
"You brought me to the edge of the city, smart. I uh... assume the whole place is surrounded?" Banner said.
"Just you and me." Billie said. "I'm not a spy. I'm more of a liaison."
"Who are you?" Banner asked.
"Billie Jenkins," Billie said. "I was asked to come here on behalf of SHIELD by my sponsor, Reiko."
"SHIELD. How did they find me?" Banner said.
"According to them, they never lost you, doctor. They've kept their distance, even helped keep some other interested parties off your scent." Billie said.
"Why?" Banner said.
"Nick Fury seems to trust you. But now I need you to come in." Billie said.
"What if I said no?" Banner said.
"I'll persuade you." Billie said.
"And what if the... other guy says no?" Banner said.
"You've been more than a year without an incident. I don't think you wanna break that streak." Billie said.
"I don't always get what I want." Banner said.
"Doctor, we're facing a potential global catastrophe." Billie said.
"Well, those I actively try to avoid." Banner said.
"This is the Tesseract. It has the potential energy to wipe out the planet." Billie said.
She showed him a photo of the Tesseract on her cell phone. Banner took a closer look.
"What does Fury want me to do? Swallow it?" Banner asked.
"Well, he wants you to find it. It's been taken. It emits a gamma signature that's too weak for us to trace. There's no one that knows gamma radiation like you do. If there was, that's where I'd be." Billie said.
"So Fury isn't after the monster?" Banner asked.
"Not that he's told me." Billie said.
"And he tells you everything?" Banner said.
"Talk to Fury, he needs you on this." Billie said.
"He needs me in a cage?" Banner said.
"No one's gonna put you in a..." Billie said.
"STOP LYING TO ME!" Banner shouted.
The entire house melts away revealing a secluded glen, with a calming waterfall and a garden.
"This..." Billie said. "Can be your happy place. You don't want to hurt me."
Banner looked surprised, and smiled. "I'm sorry, that was mean. I just wanted to see what you'd do. Why don't we do this the easy way, where you don't use your powers, and the other guy doesn't make a mess? Okay? Billie..."
Billie spoke into her earpiece, illusion not wavering for a moment. "Stand down. We're good here."
At last the illusion fell, revealing dozens of SHIELD agents surrounding the shack outside.
Banner looked at Billie, charming a smile at her.
"Just you and me?" Banner said.
Billie smirked. "But how do you know they're real?"