The doors to the opened just in time for you and Steve to see Tony zap Bruce with whatever he was holding in his hand. "Are you nuts?" Steve asked him. "Jury's out."
"Tony don't poke the bear" You said, walking over to him and pinching his arm, earning you a daggered glare. "You really have gotten a lid on it don't you?" Tony asked Bruce. "What's your secret? Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?" You laughed, going over to sit in chair, propping your legs up on the desk, resting your hands over your stomach.
"Is everything a joke to you?" Steve asked Tony, getting irritated. "Funny things are." Tone replied.
"Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny."
"Steve, calm down." You said. "Bruce is in control of the other guy, aren't ya Bruce? We're all safe." Bruce half smiled at you. "Today at least." He responded, which earned a smirk from Tony and an eye roll from Steve.
"Why did Fury call us in now? Why not before?" Tony wondered. "What isn't he telling us I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables."
"He's using the Tesseract to make weapons." You remembered. Oh crap. I said that out loud.
"He's WHAT?" Steve yelled. You winced and got up, walking over to the table.
"Once you're done decrypting Shields files, oh don't give me that look Tony, I know that's what you're doing." He looked ultra-offended. "You'll be able to pull up schematics for the weapons Fury's been working on."
"We have orders, we need to follow them." Steve said.
"Followings not my style." Tony offered.
"And you'd know all about style."
"Of the four of us in this room, who is A, wearing a spangle suit, and B, not of use?"
"Tony." You said, giving him the look. It was clear you were going to have to be the mother of this group. If not to keep Steve and Tony from killing each other, then just to keep Tony in check when Pepper wasn't around.
"Steve, tell none of this smells a little funky to you." Bruce told him.
You placed a hand on Steve's shoulder. "One of the weapons is on this ship Steve." His head snapped to look at you, and he stormed out, probably to find it.
"That's the guy my dad never shut up about? I'm wondering if they should have kept him on ice."
"Tony. Steve loved your dad. The serum was the best thing your dad ever did, second to you." Tony rolled his eyes. "No, I mean it Tony. Howard asked me before I got into the chamber if he had a family. I told him he did, and man did his face light up like a Christmas tree." Tony gave you a small smile, and you sat back down in the chair you had been previously occupying
"He's not wrong about Loki though. He does have the jump on us." Bruce said.
"He's got bupkis. We've got the Vision here, right? Can I call you that?" You grimaced at the nickname "Uh no, I have a superhero name thank you very much. It's the Guardian."
Tony smirked "Of course it is. You mentioned a display of your skills? How bout we get that now?"
"I don't think I will." You said, snatching the blueberries from Tony's hand. "That's for calling me Vision."
Tony went back to talking to Bruce, and you pulled out a pen and paper, trying to put together a timeline of what was happening, and where they would go next.
Loki takes Tesseract, Barton and Selvig.
Avengers meet, taking Loki, capturing him.
?
What came next? You were tapping your pen on the table, resting your forehead against it. Come on. I know it's been a while since you've watched this movie but come on. Think. Your head shot up. "Code green." You whispered. Tony looked over at you from the screen he and Bruce were currently working on. "What was that? What's a code green?"
"The reason Loki hasn't fought an inch since he got dragged here. Where is Natasha?" You asked, standing. Nobody had time to answer you because Fury came storming in. "What are you doing Mr. Start?"
"Uh, kind of wondering the same thing about you."
"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract."
"We are." Bruce told him. "The model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile."
"Yeah then you'll get your cube back, no muss no fuss." Tony told him. Fury turned on you. "Don't you know where it is?" You shook your head. "No, it was never shown Loki's exact location once he has the cube."
"What is phase 2?" Tony asks. You jump when you hear a bang, Steve had found the weapon.
"Phase 2 is Shield uses the cube to make weapons." Steve looks at you, and you're not sure if he's mad at you for knowing or mad at Fury for doing it more. "Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for me."
"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean we-"
"I'm sorry Nick, what were you lying?" Tony said as he turned the screen to face Fury, showing the schematics of the weapons. Thor and Natasha entered the room you could feel the tension in the room. "Did you know about this?" Bruce asked the redhead. She walked in your direction, towards Bruce. "You wanna remove yourself from this environment Doctor?" She asked him.
"I was in Calcutta; I was pretty well removed."
"Loki is manipulating you."
"And you've been doing what exactly?"
"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you." She reasoned.
"Yeah and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy."
You decided to intervene. "Hey guys, I really don't think we should be getting into this. This is exactly what Loki wants. Us fighting against each other."
"I'd like to know why Shield is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."
"Because of him." Fury said, pointing back at Thor. He looked very confused. "Me?"
Fury then spoke about Thor's visit to Earth and how he destroyed a small town and how Earth realized that they were no match. Thor insisted his people wanted nothing but peace here. Fury then went on to say that Asgardians weren't the only people out there. He made a pointed glance to you when he said that, and you threw up your hands in surrender. "Hey, don't you come at me man, I'm just trying to help."
"Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is a signal to all the realms that the Earth is ready for a higher form of war." Thor told him.
"You forced our hand, we had to come up with-"
"A nuclear deterrent." Tony interrupted. You pinched the bridge of your nose. This was getting you nowhere and you were running out of time.
"Remind me again how you made your fortune Stark."
"I'm sure if he still made weapons, he would be neck deep-"
"Hold on. How is this about me?" Tony interjected.
"I'm sorry, isn't everything?"
"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor said.
"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Fury threw at him.
"Oh my God you guys stop; this is getting nowhere!" You tried to yell, but the amount of testosterone in the room was swallowing you whole. You heard a whirring and glanced over at the staff. It was glowing. You were the only one to see it, everyone else to busy in their arguing.
You stepped next to Natasha, nudging her. "You spoke to Loki, right?" She stilled for a second, nodding to you. "Then we have about 3 minutes before Barton and his team attack. When you fight him, and you will, hit him over the head very hard. That will snap him out of whatever hold Loki has on him." Her eyes widened and she nodded to you
"Yeah, big man in a suit of armor." Steve said to Tony. "Take that off, what are you?"
"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." You shrugged. He had a point.
"Hey guys I really hate to break up whatever this is, but we're gonna have incoming-"
"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself."
"You're a laboratory experiment Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle."
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" You screamed, sending ice shards into the floor next to Tony and Steve. They both looked at you with wide eyes. "Don't you see? The staff is doing this to us. Making us fight. We have about a minute until we are attacked. Suit up." You heard a beeping and that meant they had found the Tesseract. There was an argument over who would go out and get it, Steve telling Tony to suit up, and Tony let him know that he wasn't afraid of hitting an old man.
An explosion came through the lab, knocking you through a window with Nat and Bruce. You landed next to Nat, looking over and seeing her leg trapped under a beam. Oh crap. This is not where you wanted to end up. "Nat we gotta get up." You moaned, crawling over to her. "We're okay." She said into her earpiece. "We're okay right?" She said again, looking to Bruce, who was groaning on the floor
"Nope, we are not okay, we gotta get up now, come on." You said, helping lift the beams that were on her leg. Bruce shot up, his skin turning green. "Nat, run. Now!" You told her. You both took off running, Banner close behind you. You shot some ice down on the floor, making Banner slip and fall Which pissed him off more. Good job Ally, dumbass. He knocked the two of you down, and you threw your hands up to for an ice wall, but Thor flew in and knocked him out of the way.
You turned to Natasha and held out your hand over her knee. The blue light flowed out of your hand and the pained look on her face faded. "I think I'm in love with you." She said. You smiled, helping her stand. "I'm flattered and I were going to be gay for anyone, it would be you." You teased. You began the walk back to the main area of the Helicarrier, when Barton jumped down in front of you. "Remember, hit him in the head. Hard." You told her before jumping down a level and running to the place they were keeping Loki. You knew Thor was going to be trapped in the glass prison. You entered the room just as Loki shoved the scepter through Coulson's chest.
You shot a glass shard at Loki, and he turned, just getting grazed on his cheek. "Well, hello pet, where have they been keeping you." He purred at her. And damn if he wasn't sexy when he said it. Nope. This Loki was an ass, and you weren't going to fall for it.
"Where people like you can't find me." You told him. You lunged at him, latching on to his arms, sending your ice magic through him. It doesn't work though, and you should have known that. His skin turns blue and he gives you a wicked smile. "You and I are more alike than I thought pet. That won't work on me." He flung you back and you smacked against the wall, landing on your face.
You turned your head slowly and watched as Loki walked over to the screen in front of the glass prison and opened the gate, letting Thor fall. She felt Coulson stir next to her "You're going to lose." He mumbled.
"Am I? Your heroes are scattered, your floating fortress falls from the sky. Where is my disadvantage?" Loki said tauntingly. You hand itched to reach out and heal Coulson, but you knew he was going to be fine. You knew he wasn't going to stay dead. This is what the team needed. They needed to believe he was dead to come together.
"You lack conviction" Coulson told him. Loki began to speak, getting cut off when Coulson shot him with the gun. "So, that's what it does." You lifted you head, and your eyes met his. "I'm so sorry." You told him. He smiled down at you. "It's okay." Fury ran in, kneeling down in front of Coulson. You watched their interaction, and you also watched as the light drained from his eyes. The medial team came and took him, and Fury helped you to your feet. You limped back to the control room, Steve rushing over to help you into a chair at the table. You hissed when you sat and laid your head back on the chair. You didn't have the energy to heal yourself at the moment.
"How long did you know? How long did you know we would be attacked before you said anything." Fury shot at you, anger dripping from his voice. You looked up at him. "I tried to tell..."
"When! When did you try to tell anyone!" He shouted. You stood, ignoring Steve's pleas for you to sit "I'm sorry, I tried to tell all of you in the lab! Several times! But YOU two!" You said, glaring at Steve and Tony. "Were too busy arguing over whose DICK is bigger to pay any attention to me!" You could see Steve flinch and Tony look down like a child. "I tried and you all just kept talking over me! So, I'm really fucking sorry we got attacked, because now Thor is gone, Bruce is gone, Coulson's dead, and I almost died. You know what? Fuck this. I'm done." You said, leaving, tearing your arm from Steve's grasp when he tried to stop you.
You went back to the room you had been in when you first got here, and carefully flopped down on the bed. They could sort this out themselves, they clearly didn't need your help. You took a big breath, well as big a breath as you could, you were pretty sure several of your ribs were cracked. You placed your hands a few inches above your chest and closed your eyes, feeling the ache in your chest slowly go away.
You opened your eyes and sighed, a tear falling down your face. You heard a knock on your door, and you groaned, rolling your eyes and got up. Flinging the door open, you expected to see Steve, but you were met with Tony. "What do you want?" You said, a little more harshly that you intended to.
"I wanted to check and see if you were okay." He said, looking at the ground. "Yeah, I'm good. Just needed a second to heal myself. All better now. Go make up with Steve." She told him. He raised an eyebrow but turned and left down the corridor. It was long before there was another knock on her door. This time it was Natasha. "Hey. Is Barton okay?" You asked. She nodded and handed you a stack of clothes. "I thought you might want something more comfortable to wear." You smiled and took the pile from her. "Thank you." She nodded and left, and you looked down, it was a suit just like hers. You smiled and hurried to put it on.
You headed to the armory to pick up some guns, placing two in the holsters on your thighs, along with extra bullets. You saw Clint down there and nodded to him. "Hey, I'm Allison." You said, sticking your hand out. Clint nodded, shaking it. "Clint. Nat told me about you, you know, I would say it's pretty crazy, but seeing as were about to go fight a God, I'm thinking your kind of low on the crazy meter." You laughed, shaking your head and following him up to the deck. "Well, you're not wrong."
You followed behind Clint and Nat, with Steve leading you. You didn't say a word to anyone, trying to calm yourself down, also trying to remember the events of the fight you were about to embark on. You sat in a chair behind Clint, Steve to your right. You noticed Steve staring at you.
You turned to look at him. "Look, I'm sorry I snapped okay? I was just so frustrated."
"It's okay, you had every right to. I'm sorry. I can't even imagine what goes through your head every day." You smiled at him.
"Wouldn't you like to know."
He rolled his eyes as you winked at him.