Chapter 2
I do not own The Avengers in any way.
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When Madison returned to base, she went straight for the training room.
This is where Natasha found her. "How are you holding up?" she asked the young girl.
"I'm fine. No different from when he left on missions", Madison said firing an arrow. She notched another arrow and got ready to fire.
Natasha placed her hand on the girl's forearm and lowered the bow. "You don't have to be so strong all the time", she told her.
Madison turned to the only mother she'd ever known. "I miss him", she said, "But I can't help S.H.E.I.L.D. if I'm lying on the floor crying".
"Agents Romanoff and Barton. You're needed outside. Rogers and Banner are arriving", Fury said over the earpiece.
Natasha didn't miss the small smile that appeared on Madison's mouth when Steve's name was mentioned.
Madison went to the target to retrieve her arrows and put them in her quiver. She slung her bow over her back and followed Natasha outside.
They walked up to the jet as Coulson and Steve were coming out.
"Agent Romanoff, Captain Rogers. Captain, I believe you've met Junior Agent Barton", Coulson said.
"Yeah", Steve said smiling as Madison blushed. Steve turned to Natasha and said, "Ma'am".
"Hi", Natasha said, "They need you on the bridge. They're starting the face-trace".
"See you there", Coulson said walking off.
"It was quite the buzz around, finding you in the ice", Natasha said as they walked away from the jet, "Thought Coulson was gonna swoon".
Madison giggled.
"Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?" Natasha asked.
"Trading cards?" Steve asked her.
"They're vintage. He's very proud", Natasha said.
"Dr. Banner", Steve called.
A man in a suit walked up to them. "Yeah, hi", he said, "They told me you would be coming".
"Word is, you can find the Cube", Steve said.
"Is that the only word on me?" Banner asked.
"Only word I care about", Steve said.
"It must be strange for you, all of this", Banner said.
"Well, this is actually kind of familiar", Steve said.
Madison smiled.
"Gentlemen, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breathe", Natasha told them.
The engines revved up.
"Is this a submarine?" Steve asked.
"Think again, big guy", Madison quipped.
"Really?" Banner asked, "They want me in a submerged pressurized, metal container?"
They glanced over the edge and noticed they had begun to rise.
"No, no, this is much worse", Banner said.
Steve and Banner followed Madison and Natasha inside to the control room. Steve looked around in amazement.
"Gentlemen", Fury said.
Steve walked over to Madison and handed her a ten dollar bill.
"Thank you", she said. She grabbed onto his bomber jacket and said softly, "You still owe me that kiss".
"Agent Barton", Fury snapped.
She let go of Steve and took her place next to Natasha.
"Doctor, thank you for coming", Fury said and held out a hand to Banner.
He hesitated, but shook the Director's hand saying, "Thanks for asking nicely. So how long am I staying?"
"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the wind", Director Fury said.
"Where are you with that?" Banner asked.
"We're sweeping every wireless accessible camera on the planet", Coulson told him, "Cell phones, laptops… If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us".
"It's still not gonna find them in time", Natasha said.
She and Madison knew full well how hard it was to track her father.
"You have to narrow your field", Banner said, "How many spectrometers do you have access to?"
"How many are there?" Fury asked.
"Call every lab you know", Banner said, "Tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?"
"Agent Romanoff, could you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory, please?" Fury asked.
"You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys", Natasha said leading Banner out of the room.
Coulson once again was talking to Steve.
Madison crawled up into her nest as they continued the face-trace.
"We got a hit. A 67% match. Wait. Cross match, 79%", one of the agents said.
"Location?" Coulson asked walking up to him.
"Stuttgart, Germany. 29 Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding", the agent said.
'How incredibly ironic', Madison thought to herself.
"Captain, you're up", Fury said. He turned to look for Madison. "Agent Barton", he said looking around.
"Right here, sir", she said appearing behind Steve.
"Please show Captain Rogers to his room", Fury said.
Steve followed her out of the control. "Did you understand anything back there?" he asked.
"Not a word", she said.
They both laughed.
When they reached Steve's room, he went in and came back out in his Captain America suit.
Madison smiled and looked up at him. She leaned up and kissed him. She pulled back and said, "I knew you weren't going to do it. Now go get 'em, big boy". She walked off leaving Steve confused as hell.