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Chapter 03 – Almost losing a friend.
In the Helicarrier, lower equipment room.
Natasha looks over to Banner, who is breathing heavy, having landed hard. He is gripping the grated floor to maintain control, but his eyes are green, his face intense.
"I'm okay. We're okay, right?" She said quietly to herself.
On the Helicarrier deck.
Barton leads his men into the air ducts of the ship. They rappel down into a corridor.
"Keep that engine down! Detention, wait for cameras to go dark. Stay close." Barton ordered, as two of his men follow him. They head towards the bridge.
On the Helicarrier hanger.
Tony and Rogers going through the hanger's staff.
"Engine 3. I'll meet you there." Tony tells to Rogers. He nodded and he goes running. Tony pulls his phone out of his back-pocket to initialize his armor.
In the Helicarrier, lower equipment room.
Banner, in the dim light, struggles to suppress the rage, but his body is growing, changing slowly. Natasha is pulling herself painfully free, talking to Banner...
"Doctor... Bruce, you got to fight it. This is just what Loki wants. We're gonna be okay. Listen to me." Two approaching S.H.I.E.L.D soldiers arrive to check on her. She furiously waves them away. They bolt out of there.
"We're going to be okay. All right? I swear on my life I will get you out of this, you will walk away and never..." And she was interrupted by him.
"Your life?!" His voice has the change in it - the bitter amusement is morphing to a growled threat. Another explosion rocks the carrier - and he turns to look at her, transforming just as the lights go out.
"Bruce..."She pleaded, as Banner suddenly starts transforming into the Hulk and gives Natasha one last knowing look. Natasha Struggles free of the rubble. She stops. The Hulk, sensing her, turns his head and puts on a face of a disturb monster. Natasha jolts up the stairs with the Hulk chasing after her. Natasha maneuvers like a black widow should do, she rolls under a turbine, starts to crawl within the maze of pipes. The Hulk pulls them out from above the catwalk. Natasha falls through under the catwalks and quickly and stealthily escapes. The Hulk lets out a roar of rage. Primal. Not human.
In the Helicarrier Bridge.
Fury runs in with Naruto and sees the chaos has increased even more than before.
"Bring the carrier about to a 1-8-0, heading south. Take us to the water." Fury ordered at Helmsman.
"We're flying blind. Navigations recalibrated after the engine failure." He said to Fury.
"Is the sun coming up?!" Fury asks him.
"Yes, sir." Helmsman replied fearfully.
"Then put it on the left! Get us over water! One more turbine goes down and we drop." Nick demanded, before giving nervous sigh.
In the Helicarrier port side.
Rogers, pushing with all his strength the door to portside, sees S.H.I.E.L.D tech in full oxygen masks shoot fire extinguishers and cover from sparks - largely unable to do anything. Engine 3 is totally dead. A large chunk of the port side was torn off.
"Stark. Stark, I'm here!" Rogers shouted through the earpiece.
"Good. Let's see what we've got." Tony flies in his Iron Man suit and gets close to the damaged engine. Inside of his suit, Stark observes within his view screen at the damaged engine and its layouts.
"I got to get this superconducting coolant system back online before I can access the rotors and work on dislodging the debris." He said to himself. Stark begins pulling on the stuck rotors. Looks over at Steve.
"I need you to get to that engine control panel and tell me which relays are in overload position." He said pointing at the control panel on the other side of the broken railing. Stark flies into giant cooling conductors. Rogers jumps over to the other side of the broken railing. Captain America gets himself to the control panel and opens it up. For a man who grew up as a yank, everything was looking the same for him.
"What does it look like in there?" Stark asks him
"It seems to run on some form of electricity." He answers.
"Well, you're not wrong." Stark tells him.
In the Helicarrier, lower equipment room.
Natasha continuously crawls under the catwalk. She stops. Then...Boom. Boom. Boom. The room vibrates. Rhythmically. Natasha pulls out her gun and slowly walks out onto the catwalk and spins...and then a Roar. The Hulk. Natasha fires a shot into a liquid nitrogen pipe that hits the Hulk in face. The Hulk smashes out of the way. Natasha begins to run through the maze of corridors. The sound the monster is coming. Finally, she reaches and a long corridor. As she runs, behind her, the Hulk tears up the hallway, coming at her. Natasha turns to see, but the Hulk slaps her into the wall, smashing into the ground. The Hulk marks his territory. Natasha looks up. A fear she has never felt begins to seep out. The Hulk raises his hand and is knocked off his feet by Thor who tackles him into the next room.
Both Thor and Hulk roll across the floor. Every person runs the hell out of the room. Thor looks up at this magnificent beast. The Hulk stands up and moving like a boxer, wants Thor to make his move. Thor slowly move on his feet's, walking around Hulk, who was slowly getting piss off. The Hulk makes his move. Swing and a miss. Thor punches on his head and almost knocks him off his feet. Hulk keeps swinging and missing, pissing him off. Finally, he brings down his arm, but Thor defends himself with his left arm and grabs it with his right arm and holds it.
"We are not your enemies, Banner. Try to think!" Thor says to him, make him to see reason.
Then Hulk suddenly punches Thor's face, sending him flying through boxes and containers.
In the Helicarrier Port Side.
Stark continuously blasts broken debris off the turbine engine. It's bad, but still fixable.
"Ok, the relays are intact. What's our next move?" Rogers tells him.
"Even if I clear the rotors, this thing won't re-engage without a jump. I'm going to have to get in there and push." Stark explained to him via comlink.
With Rogers.
"Well if that thing gets up to speed, you'll get shredded!" Rogers yelled.
"That stator control unit can reverse the polarity long enough to disengage maglev and that could…" Stark starts to explain him.
"Speak English!" Rogers demanded interrupt him.
"See that red lever? It will slow the rotors down long enough for me to get out. Stand by it. Wait for my word." Stark said to him as he sign.
Rogers looks over at the other side where he was. He sees the red lever and jumps towards it.
On the Helicarrier Aircraft Port.
Thor crashes into another stack of crates. As he raises his head, the roar of the Hulk is not too far. Thor cleans the blood on his nose. The roar gets louder and closer. Thor raises his right arm to call his hammer Mjolnir. When his hammer shows at the same time when Hulk runs right at him. At the last second, Thor uppercuts him with Mjolnir, who crashes into a fighter jet.
Hulk stands up, shakes it off and angrily rips off the wing of the jet, torques his body like a greek discus thrower and hurls the massive plate at Thor. Thor dash at him, slides underneath the jet wing and throws his hammer to Hulk. Hulk crabs the hammer and that makes him go with it. Hulk stops flying and stops on the floor. Hulk gets up and tries to lift it without success. But Thor shows up and hit him with a flying knee. He crabs his hammer and climbs on Hulk's back to try to put him to sleep but Hulk try to get rid of Thor and then, he Jump.
In the Helicarrier Bridge.
Fury and Agent Hill look over their monitors.
But Naruto starts to look at the door because he senses that someone is there making his glaive show up on his right hand and his helmet shows up too.
"We need a full evac on the lower hangar bay." Fury ordered and Agent Hill nods. She leaves to exit out, but she was stop by Naruto when a sliding grenade appears.
"Grenade!" Naruto shouts as the grenade goes off, he protects her with his shield of the explosion.
"You are ok, Hill?" Naruto asks her while he throws his glaive at the entrance and kills a couple bad guys.
"Yes, I'm fine. Thanks. I own you one." She answers him.
"Good. Come on, get up." He tells her show his left hand when he caught his glaive with his right. Hill crabs his hand and gets up.
Naruto draws his hand gun and start to shoot at the open entrance and moves at the left of it. Fury also shoots at the open entrance and moves over at the right side of the entrance. And orders Naruto by signals.
"When they go through us, we finish them off. Got it?"
"Got it." Naruto confirms with signals also.
A handful of Barton's men enter. Watchful, ready, waiting... Fury steps out, his gun drawn. But Naruto is already on them. Attacking them with a mix of Kempo, Aikido, Krav Maga and gun shooting. Fury starts to do the same thing. When it is almost done, one of them shows up at the entrance and points his gun at Naruto and Fury, which is why he is shot in the head by Agent Hill.
"Well, I think we are even." Naruto said to Hill.
"Yes, we are." She tells him.
"Naruto." Coulson calls him on his comlink.
"Yes. Coulson." Naruto complies while shoots at the entrance.
"I'm going check Loki. Give me a hand." He orders him.
Naruto looks at Fury.
"Go." Fury tells him while he shoots at the entrance.
"I'm on my way." Naruto confirms at Coulson while he throws his glaive at the entrance that kills one of them and go to the stairs nearby, he jumps at the fence of it and caught the glaive while he on the air. He lands on the stairs and goes were Loki is.
In the Helicarrier Armory Section.
Agent Coulson walks up the armory door. He places his head into a facial recognition scanner. Walks into the room.
"We've got a perimeter breach! Hostiles are in SHIELD gear. Call-outs at every junction."
In the Helicarrier Labs.
Hulk crashes from under the floor with Thor on his back, sending Thor on his ass. Hulk grabs him by the neck.
In the Helicarrier Bridge.
A gunfight opens up. Agents exchange fire with brutally efficient tactical soldiers.
"We have the Hulk and Thor on Research level 4! Levels 2 and 3 are dark."
"Sir, the Hulk will tear this place apart!" Hill shouted to Fury.
"Get his attention." He replied, shooting another soldier.
"Escort 60, proceed to Wishbone and engage hostile. Don't get too close." She said on her earpiece.
In Sky.
Escort 60'S jet banks to the right, heading towards the shuttle.
"Copy." Pilot complies.
Escort 60 Pilot slowly makes his way in. Sees the action going between Thor and the Hulk.
"Target acquired. Target engaged." A shower of bullets sprays at Hulk everywhere. While Thor escape to the lab's door.
The Hulk turns around, letting out his primal roar. Hulk takes running start and leaps at jet.
"Target angry, Target angry!" Escort 60 Pilot cried as Hulk lands on the jet's nose.
The jet spins wildly. As the Hulk tears it apart, Escort 60 Pilot pulls his ejection seat, but Hulk catches him, waves him around and then throws him away. Escort 60 Pilot pulls his parachute.
The jet explodes. The Hulk plummets to earth, roaring his swan song.
In the Helicarrier Port Side.
Stark laser cuts a big piece of broken metal. He then jumps on it, relieving the rotors.
On the other side, Barton's men enter the port side. Rogers looks down, pondering if they are to help. Evidently not as they begin shooting at him and throwing grenades. He jumps to the other railing and down with Barton's men. He begins to take them down with ease, then goes as far as throwing one off. A few more enter, firing at him. Rogers grabs a gun and jumps back up to his position, firing down at them.
On the Helicarrier Bridge.
The gunfight has gone down, but more of Barton's men enter.
"They're not getting through here, so what the hell.." Fury ponders.
Suddenly, Barton shoots an arrow down to the bridge and explodes in critical spots. Barton releases a multi-tipped arrow towards Fury, but instead hits his command desk, right above a USB. Fury quickly turns to the source of those arrows and saw Barton leaving his spot while he shoots at him. The arrow then self- activates and inserts itself into the outlets, hacking every single monitor and main frame. The hacking causes Engine 1 to shut off. Suddenly, the Helicarrier begins to dangerously tilt to one side.
"Engine one is now in shut-down."
"We are in an uncontrolled descent."
"Sir, we've lost all power in engine one."
"It's Barton. He took out our systems. He's headed for the detention level. Does anybody copy?" Fury tries to find someone on his comlink.
In the Helicarrier, Lower equipment room.
Still shaken by the Hulk ordeal, Natasha sits there, rocking back and forth, after crying for a while. Summoning back all her coolness, she touches her comlink.
"This is Agent Romanoff. I copy." Natasha springs up and runs for Barton.
In the Helicarrier Port Side.
Stark begins to push the rotor using boosters from his boots.
"Stark, we're losing altitude" Rogers tells him.
"Yeah, I noticed." He replied with sigh.
The rotors start propelling faster and faster as Iron Man's boosters get more and more bright. On the other side, Rogers continuously shoots at Barton's men. Blinking at the wrong moment, he loses the upper hand and slides off the railing, but grabs onto a loose cable.
In the Helicarrier Detention Section.
Thor runs into the detention section where he finds Loki, escaping.
"No!" He shouted as he charges at his brother. Loki walks up to him and crouches down to attack. Thor only goes through him. The false Loki dissipates into nothingness. The real Loki comes out from behind the cell door, which closes on Thor, locking him up. Loki smiles.
"Are you ever not going to fall for that?" He asked rhetorically.
In the Helicarrier Lower equipment room.
Barton walks alone down the catwalk. In a lightning fast move, Barton nocks an arrow, and points it at Natasha. A hand-to-hand fight ensues. Natasha crawls her way around Barton, making Barton to drop his bow, but he pulls out a knife on her.
In the Helicarrier Detention Section.
Thor, in a fit of anger, slams his Hammer onto the glass cell. To his surprise, the cell door only cracks, but violently shakes the ship. Loki stands there in caution, as does his guarding soldier. Loki smiles, as he walks over to the control panel.
"The humans think us immortals. Should we test that?" He inquired.
Suddenly, guarding soldier falls down like a tree. Coulson stands there, holding phase 2 weapon prototype and with him, Naruto holding his glaive ready to throw at Loki.
"Move away, please." He ordered and Loki step away from switch.
"You like this? We started working on the prototype after you sent the Destroyer. Even I don't know what it does." Coulson tells Loki and he turns on the weapon.
"Do you wanna find out?"
A loud gasp. Coulson is impaled almost through his heart, if Naruto didn't catch the scepter with his right hand at the last second. The real Loki stood behind them.
"No!" Thor shouted, as his Brother struggle with Naruto to get his scepter out of Coulson's back. Slowly, the tip of the scepter starts to crack with the strength of Naruto's right hand.
"Impossible. The scepter's metal is indestructible. How?" Loki angrily demands him to tell him.
"It is simple." Naruto tells him. Suddenly the tip breaks in his hand.
Naruto craps Coulson to keep him steady with his left arm and craps Loki with his organic-metallic right arm on his collar.
"Mine is stronger." Naruto said to Loki while he sends Loki against the wall by throwing him. Naruto settles Agent Coulson against the wall minding the injury.
"Easy, Coulson. You have the scepter's tip on your back." Naruto said to him and Coulson nods him. Naruto starts to look at Loki that shakily gets up and makes his way to the control switch.
"Don't even think about that." Naruto warns him while he readies his glaive glowing.
Loki gives at his brother one last look and looks at Naruto taunting him. Thor looks at him, hopeful. Loki opens the hatch making Naruto ready to throw his glaive. Thor still hopes. Loki hits the button and drops Thor out of the ship.
"Son of a bitch." Naruto courses at him throwing him his glowing glaive.
In the Helicarrier, Lower equipment room.
Barton and Natasha continue attacking each other. Natasha kick boxes Barton's face. Feeling that, Barton takes a swing at her, but she grabs his arm, twisting it. Barton writhes in pain. Using his other arm, he tosses the knife over and begins to slash at Natasha. She dodges every move, but finds herself in a lock hold with him. As he forces the knife down, she bites his wrist. Barton lets go of the knife. Natasha wraps her legs around his neck, flips him over and arm locks him. She slams his head into a pipes rail. Barton goes down, hard. He looks up her, almost coming to his real senses.
"Natasha?" Natasha coldcocks him and Barton is out.
In the Sky.
The cell is falling at terminal speed and inside of it, is Thor going around of it. But he is enabling to keep steady and get out of it through the cell's window before the cell crashes on the floor. While he tumbles and lands on the floor.
In the Helicarrier Detention Section.
Loki has no remorse as he dodges the throwing glaive from Naruto. He closes the hatch and proceeds to pointing his scepter at Coulson making Naruto to stop. But a weak voice said to Loki.
"You're gonna lose." It was Coulson.
"Am I?" He inquired turning to fallen Agent.
"Coulson, you shouldn't talk." Naruto warns Coulson.
"Oh, no. Let him speak. I want to hear what he says." Loki tells Naruto.
"It's in your nature." He explained.
"Your heroes are scattered. Your floating fortress falls from the sky. Where is my disadvantage?" He asked curiously. Loki was amused at how this man was.
"You lack conviction." Coulson retorted.
"I don't think I'm..." Loki starts to tell him but Coulson shoots him with his Phase 2 weapon, causing Demi-God to be blown through the wall behind him.
"That was...awesome." Naruto remarked but he remembers Coulson.
"Coulson, you are still with me?" Naruto asks him.
"So, that's what it does." Coulson tell him.
"You wasn't bluffing?" Naruto asks him with a deadpan face.
In the Helicarrier Bridge.
Fury sees on his monitor the altimeter going down and the rotors speed.
"All hands to crash stations immediately."
In the Helicarrier Port Side.
Stark continuously spins Engine 3, giving it all he has. The rotors are propelling properly and fast. The Helicarrier was going back to previous level. In his suit, Jarvis was showing him that he can slowly stop his work.
"Cap, hit the lever." Stark tells him.
"I need a minute here!" Rogers says to him while was climbing the loose cable.
"Lever. Now!" demanded.
With Rogers.
Rogers climbs up the loose cable and reaches the railing. Barton's Man opens fire once more.
While Stark lets the rotor fan go because is already going fast but suddenly his back is on another rotor fan.
"Oh, oh." He said to himself. And he is going to a tumbling between the rotor fans.
"Help." Stark tells to Rogers.
Rogers pulls himself up and finally pulls the lever. The rotors slowdown enough to make Stark falls out of it, but the suit heavily damaged, hardly keeping him up. He heads for Rogers. Barton's Man turns his aim to Stark, who tackles him into the wall. He rolls over, tired. Rogers lets out a sigh of relief.
Outside of Helicarrier.
The carrier that brought Barton and his team now leaves, taking Loki and his scepter. The carrier flies into the distance.
In the Helicarrier Detention Section.
Fury runs into Detention Section to find Agent Coulson still alive, but barely and with him Naruto checking Coulson.
"Sorry, boss. The god rabbited." He apologizes with light chuckle.
"Just stay awake. Eyes on me" Fury demanded.
"No. I'm clocking out here." Coulson replies at him
"Not an option." Fury tells him.
"It's okay, boss. This was never going to work... if they didn't have something... to..." Agent Coulson looks away, passing out. Naruto checks his pulse in Coulson's neck.
"He just unconscious. But he lost a lot blood. We need medics now." Naruto orders through his comlink.
Nick Fury looks with relief at Coulson. The medical team arrives.
In the Helicarrier Bridge.
"Agent Coulson is down." Fury tells them.
Agent Hill is being treated for a gash on her head, listens on her comlink and she stands up.
"A medical team is on its way to your location." Rogers said to Fury.
"They're here." Fury tells him.
In the Helicarrier Port side.
Steve and Tony listen in as well. They were taken that Coulson got almost kill. They didn't except that.
"They don't know if he going to make it."
Back at Helicarrier Bridge.
Fury gathers Stark and Rogers back into the briefing room everyone there has a look as if in a daze. A look of numb shock is shown on their devastated faces. Naruto had his head on the table to cool and resting, but he was listening to the conversation.
"These were in Phil Coulson's jacket. I guess he never did get you to sign them." Fury throws Coulson's Captain America trading cards on the table towards Steve. Steve picks them up, stained with blood.
"We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor. I got nothing for you. I don't have my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming." He said giving a dry chuckle.
"Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing something even riskier. There was an idea, Stark knows this, called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson almost died still believing in that idea, in heroes." Tony gets up and walks off, not wanting to hear it anymore.
"Well, it's an old-fashioned notion." Fury finish what he was saying.
On an Abandoned building.
Banner wakes up, in human form. He looks around and sees he is in a pile of rubble and looks up at the open ceiling he crashed in. and he completely naked. A Security Guard stands there, amazed.
"You fell out of the sky." Guard said with small smile.
"Did I hurt anybody?" Bruce asked, once he spots the Guard.
"There's nobody around here to get hurt. You did scare the hell out of some pigeons though." He replied with chuckle.
"Lucky." Banner tells him sighing.
"Or just good aim. You were awake when you fell." Guard remarked.
"You saw?" He asked a bit anxious.
"The whole thing, right through the ceiling. Big and green and buck ass nude. Here." He throws Banner a pair of big pants. Banner pulls on his pants.
"I didn't think those would fit you until you shrunk down to a regular size fella." Guard said to him.
"Thank you." Bruce tells him.
"Are you an alien?" Guard inquired.
"What?" Bruce asked confused as he stood up.
"From outer space, an alien?" He asked more specific.
"No." Banner answers.
"Well, then, son, you've got a condition." Guard tells him.
In the Helicarrier Medical Room.
Barton is strapped down. Natasha watches over him as Barton tries to shake off Loki's mind control.
"Clint, you're going to be alright." Natasha assures him.
"You know that? Is that what you know? I got...I got no window. I have to flush him out." He answers her.
"You got to level out. it's going to take time." She replies while she fills up a glass of water.
"You don't understand. Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Pull you out and stuff something else in? Do you know what it's like to be unmade?" He asked, finally understanding what Natasha went through.
"You know that I do." She answered frowning.
"Why am I back? How did you get him out?" He inquired.
"Cognitive recalibration. I hit you really hard in the head." She explains with a smile. Then Natasha unfastens the restraints.
"Thanks." Barton tells her.
"Natasha, how many agents did i…" She only shook her head, while looking at Clint.
"Don't. Don't do that to yourself, Clint. This is Loki. This is monsters and magic and nothing we were ever trained for."
At that Barton snorted.
"Loki, he got away?" Nat give a long sigh before nodding.
"Yeah. I don't suppose you know where?" At that Clint shake his head.
"I didn't need to know. I didn't ask. He's going to make his play soon though. Today." Barton said as he sits on the bed.
"We got to stop him." She said as it was simple task.
"Yeah? Who's We?" He asked curiously.
"I don't know. Whoever's left." She replies with shrug.
"Well, if I put an arrow through Loki's eye socket, I'd sleep better I suppose." He laughed, while Nat chuckled.
"Now you sound like you." Natasha sits next to her partner and friend.
"But you don't. You're a spy, not a soldier. Now you want to wade into a war. Why? What did Loki do to you?" He asked worried about his friend.
"He didn't, I just..." She look down, while Clint narrow his eyes at her.
"Natasha?" He calls her name, to get her attention.
"I've been compromised. I got red in my ledger. I'd like to wipe it out." She said to him.
In the Helicarrier Detention Section.
Stark look at the empty cell container. He stands not saying a word. Naruto and Rogers walks in.
"Was he married?" Steve asked referring to Phil.
"No. There was a...cellist, I think." He replies.
"I'm sorry. He looks like a good man." He confessed looking down at first then at the empty cell.
"He was an idiot..." Stark remarked with chuckle.
"Why? For believing?" Rogers inquired.
"For almost got kill by Loki." He admitted shaking his head.
"He was doing his job." Naruto said trying to convince Tony.
"He was out of his league. He should have waited. He should have..." Stark said.
"Sometimes there isn't a way out, Tony." Rogers said to him.
"Right. I've heard that before." He said to them rhetorically, while walking away.
"Is this the first time you've lost a soldier?" Steve asked with his arms crossed. At hearing that, Stark turn sharply.
"We are not soldiers! I am not marching to Fury's fife!" He tells him.
"Neither We are! He's got the same blood on his hands as Loki does. Right now we've got to put that behind us and get this done. Now Loki needs a power source, if we can put together a list." Rogers pondered. Stark glance at the blood strain on the wall with frown.
"He made it personal." Stark tells them.
"That's not the point..." Naruto said.
"That is the point. That's Loki's point. He hit us all right where we live. Why?" Stark inquired.
"To tear us apart." Naruto answered.
"Yeah, divide and conquer is great but he knows he has to take us out to win, right? That's what he wants. He wants to beat us and he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience." He concluded.
"Right, I caught his act in Stuttgart." Rogers pondered.
"Yeah, that was just previews. This is opening night. And Loki's a full-tilt diva, right? He wants flowers, he wants parades. He wants a monument built in the skies with his name plastered..." He pauses at the sudden realization.
"Son of a bitch!" Stark saying while he goes out of the room.
"Loki is at Stark's tower. Come on Captain." Naruto tells him while he does the same thing.
END.
Yes. I didn't kill Coulson like in the movie. He is going to live. Just deal with it.
If you guys have ideas or suggestions, I'm open for it.
Please review if you can. Just remember this is my 2ª fanfiction.
I'm look for a Beta Reader.
