"Ma'am, the decryption is done." Jarvis said.

"Tony." I called to him and he came to my side. I opened the files that Jarvis had gotten and began to look through them as Bruce drifted over behind me to look at them over my shoulder. There were folders on each of us. The Hulk, his gamma exposure. Thor, the god of thunder. Black Widow, the kick ass girl. Captain America and his experiment. Iron Man and about Tony's past life of making weapons. Then, Iron Boy and about my family who died in Afghanistan. There was more to the files but those were the things that popped out at me. The door to the lab opened and Nick appeared, his right eyes blazing with anger.

"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Nick asked.

"Ooh, I think he found out." I whispered to Tony.

"Uh, kind of been wondering the same thing about you." Tony said to Nick.

"You're supposed to locating the tesseract!" Nick declared.

"We are!" Bruce snapped. "The model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get the hit, we'll have a signature with half a mile."

"Yeah, you'll get your cube back, no mas, no fuss." Tony said as he pulled up another folder. Inside was a gun blueprint, the cube built inside. "What is phase 2?" Captain came in and dropped the same gun as the blueprint onto the table.

"Phase 2 is SHIELD using the cube to make weapons." Captain said. "Sorry, the computer was moving a little so for me."

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the tesseract, this does not mean that we…" Tony turned the screen around for Nick to see it.

"I'm sorry, Nick!" Tony said. "What were you lying?"

"I was wrong, Director." Captain said. "The world hasn't changed a bit." Natasha and Thor came in.

"Did you know about this?" Bruce questioned Natasha.

"You want to think about removing yourself from this environment, Doctor?" Natasha asked politely and Bruce laughed. "Loki's manipulating you."

"And you've been doing what exactly?"

"You didn't come here because I batted my eyelashes at you."

"Listen, I'm not leaving just because you're suddenly getting a little twitchy. I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."

"Because of him." Nick pointed to Thor. Thor looked confusingly at Nick.

"Me?" Thor questioned Nick.

"Last year, earth had a visitor from another planet, who had a grudge massed at level at a small town. We learned that not only that we are not alone but we are hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned."

"My people want nothing but peace with your planet."

"But you're not the only people out there, are you? And you're not the only threat. The world is filling up with people who can't be masked. They can't be controlled."

"Like you controlled the cube?" Captain asked.

"Your work with the tesseract is what drew Loki to it." Thor said. "And his allies. It is a signal to all the realms the earth is a higher form of war."

"A higher form?" I sat on the counter and Tony stood beside me. I took his hand into mine and watched the conversation.

"We had to come up with…"

"A nuclear intern." Tony and I said.

"Cause that always calms everything right down." Tony said.

"Remind me again how you made your fortunes, Stark." Nick requested.

"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep."

"Wait, wait, how is this now about me?" Tony asked.

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?"

"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor scoffed. Nick rounded on him.

"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Nick asked. Then Natasha began arguing with them and Bruce jumped in too. Then, Captain started to argue with Tony and it was just so much to keep up with.

"Are you really that dense?" Natasha questioned Nick and Thor. "SHIELD monitors potential threats.

"Captain America is on threat watch?" Bruce asked her.

"We all are!" I faded out of that conversation and listened to Tony and Captain.

"You're on that list?" Tony asked him. "Are you above or below angry bees?"

"I swear, Stark," Captain threatened Tony. "One more wisecrack out of you…"

"Verbal threat! Threatening! I feel threatened!"

"You speak of control, yet you court chaos." Thor said.

"It's his MO, isn't it?" Bruce asked. "I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're…we're a time bomb."

"You need to step away." Nick said. I noticed that Bruce was getting a little too close to the scepter.

"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Tony said.

"You know damn well why!" Captain snapped at him. "Back off!"

"Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me." I slipped off the counter and positioned myself between Tony and Captain.

"Well, guess what, I don't want that." I said. "Cool down, guys."

"Big man in a suit of armor." Captain taunted Tony. "Take that off, what are you?"

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Tony said.

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage." I placed one hand on Tony's reactor and my other hand on Captain's star to keep them away from each other. "The only thing that you really fight for is yourself." I could feel Tony tense up against my hand. "You're not the guy who makes sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you." Tony was straining against my hand. I dropped my hand from Captain and placed it on Tony's shoulder to keep him away.

"Come on, Tony, leave it be." I soothed him. I looked into his brown eyes but he didn't look back. He continued to stare at Captain.

"I think I would just cut the wire." Tony said.

"Always a way out..." Captain said. "You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero."

"Stop it, you two, before I put on my suit and kick both of your asses." I growled.

"A hero?" Tony ignored me. "Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. Everything about you came out of a bottle!"

"Put on that suit, let's go a few rounds." Captain said.

"You people are so petty…and tiny." Thor laughed.

"Yeah, this is a team." Bruce said sarcastically.

"Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his…" Nick began but Bruce cut him off.

"Back where? You rented my room."

"The cell was built…"

"In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know! I tried! I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth…and the other guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk." Bruce was slowly getting upset and he looked at Natasha who looked unnerved. Tony backed off from Captain only to pull me closer to him as he waited for Bruce's next move. "You want to know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You want to know how I stay calm?" Natasha and Nick both reached for their guns as Bruce grabbed the scepter.

"Dr. Banner…put down the scepter." Captain said. Bruce looked down in shock at his hand. The computer on the other side of the room beeped.

"Got it." Tony said. Bruce put the scepter down and went to the computer.

"Sorry, kids." He said. "I guess you don't get to see my party trick after all."

"Located the tesseract." Thor said.

"I can get there faster." Tony said.

"The tesseract belongs on Asgard." Tony turned to head out the door but Captain grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

"You're not going alone." Captain said.

"Amber'll come with me." Tony said.

"You two aren't going alone."

"You going to stop us?"

"Put on the suit. Let's find out."

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man."

"Put on the suit." Before Tony could shot another remark at Captain, the ground shook and flames came up. The explosion hit us and sent us flying walls. The sound was deafening, like I was standing right next to fireworks when they go off. The bright light blinded me and the heat burned my eyes and skin. I felt numb as I gripped Tony's arm. I shook my head to clear and stumbled to my feet.

"You ok?" Tony asked me.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said.

"Put on the suit." Captain said.

"Yep." Tony, Captain and I raced to the other side of the plane to out suits. "Engine three. We'll meet you there." Captain left as Tony and I put on our suits. The black and red metal coated me. The screws whirred as they were screwed into place. It was dark for a second and then I could see through the mask. "Ready?"

"Let's go." Tony said. We flew outside and went to the other side of the ship. There was a large opening in the side where Captain was. We looked down into the engine and saw metal making the blade still. Tony and I flew down to examine the scar of the ship. "We got to get the super conducting cooling system before we can access the roaders and dislodging the debris. I need you to get to that engine control panel and tell me which relays are in overload positions." Tony and I worked our way through the inside of the engine till we got to the inside of the engine.

"What does it look like it there?" I asked Captain.

"It seems to be running on some kind of electricity." Captain said.

"Well, you're not wrong there." Tony said sarcastically. The wind howled around us, whistling against the metal of our suits.

"Kay, the relays are in tact. What's our next move?"

"This is going to need a jumpstart once we get the debris out." I said.

"I'm going to have to get in there and push." Tony said.

"Well, if that engine gets up to speed, you'll get shredded." Captain said.

"That data control unit can reverse it long enough for it to disengage the mag—"

"Speak English." Tony sighed impatiently. Jarvis pulled up a diagram of the control panel for me.

"See that red lever?" I asked Captain. "It will slow the roaders down long enough for Tony to get out. Stand by it and wait for Tony's signal." I cut a laser through the debris and jumped on it to break it lost from the roader. I flew back up to Tony. "I think you're set to go." Tony got into position. "Be careful." Tony began to push and I hovered above the engine, watching it.

"Pricing, we're losing altitude." Nick said.

"Give us a second." The whirring and grinding of metal sounded as the engine kicked back in and the plane started to rise again. "I think that's good."

"Cap, hit the lever." Tony said.

"I need a minute!" Captain shouted. I looked down to see the engine going faster and faster with Tony still inside.

"Lever now!" I growled. The scraping of metal came, kind of like when you stick a fork in a garbage disposal. Doesn't sound too pretty. The engine spitted Tony out from the bottom and he came back up, his jets going in and out. Tony flew ahead of me to Captain and crashed into a guy, knocking him out. Tony fell onto his back and took his helmet off. I gracefully landed on the ground and took off helmet, the wind ripping violently at my hair. I went over to Tony and helped him up. "You ok?"

"I'm fine." Tony muttered.

"Agent Coulson is down." Nick said.

"A medical team is on the way to your location." A man said.

"They're here. They called it." Phil's dead. The color drained from my face. But that's all I felt. I mean, Phil was a great guy and everything. He was sweet and kind but I only knew him for two years. I looked over at Tony and had his head hung. Tony knew Phil many more years before me. I couldn't imagine the pain Tony was feeling right now.