A/N: Sorry this took me so long to update! I keep forgetting, I'm an idiot. But it's here now, and the next chapter will be in the next couple of days, I promise. Time to introduce a few Avengers in detail, I think... I hope you like it :)

Disclaimer: I don't own the Avengers, except the newest one...

Still Anna's POV

Finally Fury had to step in:

"Alright, stop your gawking. We have work to do. Stark, Rogers, I want you in the lab. Banner, you can set up your equipment with them. Barton, Thor, Romanov, come with me. We need to try and find Loki before he knows we're onto him. Lin, you make yourself useful wherever you can, and for god's sake don't get in the way." I nodded, intimidated, and everyone followed where they had been told. Except Doctor Banner. He moved to sit next me.

"Hey, Flame." He said gently. "You don't mind if I call you Flame, do you?"

"Most people call me Bree. Or Anna. I prefer Anna."

"Okay." He nodded. "Anna. So, are you okay? You look lost."

"I am. I'm… Incredibly worried."

"What about?"

"Well, what if I let you all down? What if I let Loki in? What then?"

"Anna, if you knocked Natasha Romanov down and she stayed there, you have nothing to worry about. Not one of us has managed that. Not whilst in a… normal state, at least." I frowned in confusion, but suddenly something clicked, a fragment of memory from the stories I had been told in the Academy.

"Oh. Oh! You're the one who changes, aren't you? The Hulk? You knocked her down when you changed, right?"

"Yeah. This is why I'm so interested in you. You and me, we're the only people who have been through a physical change that was not deliberate. I mean, Tony has his metal suit, Steve had a weird concoction injected into him, Thor's a demigod, and Hawkeye and Black Widow are just incredibly skilled fighters."

"How do they manage that?"

"They're like you; they were trained as assassins."

"Oh." I thought back over the last few minutes of our conversation. "Hold on. You find me interesting?"

"Of course. We all do. Did you see Fury's face? He's curious about you, about how someone so young could have done what you did."

"Wow. At least I made an impression."

"You did that alright. Hey, do you want to come to the lab with me?"

"Uh, yeah, sure."

"I need to set up my instruments. Last time Loki was here, he stole the Tesseract, and we used its gamma signature to track him. Now, radiation tends to stick around, so with any luck, he'll still be full of it, and we can track him down again."

"Good plan. But what if he isn't still full of enough gamma?"

"Then we have a problem." We set off towards the lab in silence. I let him lead, as he seemed to know what he was doing, although we did retrace our steps a couple of times. As we passed through a narrow, quiet corridor, I was struck with an idea, seeing the security cameras at each end.

"You know, I've heard a lot about all of you; they used to tell us that you Avengers were 'the enemy'." I laughed at how ridiculous that sounded. "Obviously you aren't, but they used to tell us a lot about Tony Stark. And I heard he's pretty good at hacking into things. Do you think you could narrow down the area that Loki might be in, then get Tony to hack into the security cameras in that area? That'd certainly let you see him."

"You know, that isn't bad. For a rookie." He joked. I mock-glared at him, and he laughed. "I'm kidding. Yeah, that's good, I'll ask Tony later. Thank you."

"My pleasure, sir."

"Not, sir, please. Don't even call me Doctor Banner. You're part of the team now. Just call me Bruce."

When Bruce and I arrived in the lab, Tony was arm-wrestling with Steve, still wearing his metal suit.

"Yep, it's looking real productive in here." Bruce said sarcastically, rolling his eyes at me.

"Hold on!" I heard Tony exclaim. "I'm almost winning!" However, his concentration slipped, and Steve slammed his hand down on the table, much to my amusement.

"Aw, man." Stark flexed his arm and continued. "I could've won that. This suit is incredible."

"Alright, Tony, we believe you. Now go take it off, we have better things to do." Bruce looked like he was telling him off, but I saw the glint in his eye that told me he wanted to laugh.

"On it." He left the room, humming tunelessly inside his iron shell. Bruce put down his case full of instruments on the long metal bench and said:

"Okay, d'you two think you could give me a hand with these?"

"Sure." Steve got up and began to carefully unpack the delicate equipment. I went over and started to sort the components into sections, finding the ones which seemed to go together. When everything was out and organised, Bruce made a few quiet adjustments to the piles. I blushed and watched as he started to put them all together, occasionally asking us to hold things or hand him other parts. After a while, he had just a little left to do, so he told Steve:

"You can go if you want. There's not a left to do, and you look bored. I'm sure Director Fury would appreciate your help."

"Will you be okay?" Steve replied.

"I think Anna and I have it under control." Bruce smiled, and Steve departed with a nod. Within a few seconds of him leaving though, Tony came back in.

"Took you an awfully long time just to take off a suit." Bruce said.

"Sorry, I, uh, got busy suddenly. Y'know, doing… stuff. Anyway, doesn't seem like you're doing too badly here with our friend Flame." I sighed.

"Call me Anna, please."

"I certainly will. Call you." He winked and made a hand gesture resembling a phone. I blushed, cringed slightly, and turned back to what I was doing. But after a few more minutes, we finished putting the instruments back together, and Bruce started calibrating them to trace Loki's faint gamma signature. He said:

"Tony, we have a plan relating to this, and it involves you."

"Oh, really? Care to explain?"

"Well, it was Anna's idea… Can I leave it to you to explain?" I nodded and turned back to Tony, beginning to explain.

"Once the instruments have narrowed down the area we think Loki could be in, you'll hack all the security cameras in that area, and hopefully we can see him that way."

"Hm. Good idea; I'm involved but I don't have to do too much work. Great. I like it."

"Thanks." I sat down one stool next to the bench, watching Tony as he stood in the corner reading an old file.

"So, Bruce," He said, "How long is it gonna take to find him?"

"Anything from two hours to two days. I've recalibrated the energy parameters though, so hopefully it'll be sooner rather than later."

"Well, I'm glad you two know what you're doing." I said, fairly bewildered.

"I don't." Tony responded. He hesitated as Bruce looked at him over his glasses. "What? I don't. Just throwing it out there." Bruce shook his head and stood up.

"Look, I'm not feeling great. I think I'm gonna call it a day."

"Are you okay?" I asked him.

"Yeah, just… I don't know. I'll be fine in the morning. Could you two stay here and look after the instruments? Make sure nothing happens."

"Sure."

"Thanks, Anna." He smiled. "Goodnight." He walked out of the lab, leaving me alone with Tony Stark.

So much dialogue! Still, what do you think about Anna and her Avenger buddies? Let me know :)