Thank you for all the hearts! It makes me very happy! Hopefully, you'll check out my other stories as well if they interest you. I'm flipping over how close we are to Age of Ultron! I can't wait to see Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver on the big screen. Not to mention James Spader as Ultron is going to be boss! Okay, back on track, I'll dial down my excitement. Alice Lance is played by Emily Browning as a blonde. Look her up if you want to see.
Following Agent Natasha Romanoff to the inside of the ship, Alice would be lying if she said she didn't gape in amazement. In her life, she had seen very impressive things, but the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier was now at the top of the list.
There was a large glass wall, showing off the brilliant blue sky that surrounded them. In the entrance to the bridge, there was a circular meeting table. At least forty workers were in the bridge, all stationed at computers doing various things. "Is one of them playing Frogger?" Alice wondered as she caught a glimpse of an agents computer.
"Incredible." Alice breathed, Agent Romanoff giving her a wry smile at her amazement. The redheaded woman parted from the others as the two woman and two men both broke away from one another.
Placing herself onto the meeting table, Alice crossed her legs and saw a familiar one eyed man turn to them, "Gentlemen and woman," Captain America, Steve Rogers, walked to the Director and handed him what looked like money, before further observing the bridge.
"Miss Lance," Fury held out his hand for her to shake, "I hope it wasn't too much trouble to get you to come."
"No trouble at all, Director Fury. As long as I'm payed, we'll be on great terms." Alice said, returning his hand with a firm grip.
Director Fury gave her a look of disappointment. She had potential to be something great, but she wasted that potential too often, "Of course. Once you finish locating the Tesseract and Loki, you will have your money and we can part ways."
Alice gave a humorless laugh, "I better be payed, Fury, or I'm going to make your life a living Hell. Literally,"
Unfazed, Fury moved to Bruce Banner and began a conversation with him. Alice still wondered how the hell Fury came to the decision of having her as a candidate.
As much as she denied it, she agreed with most of the things people said about her. As stable as she played, she was broken, her sanity shattered. She was only able to keep up the charade of perfection from her secluded and isolated life and behavior.
But it wasn't her fault she was like this. As she had said, she was broken. Judas had made sure of that before he disposed, or rather her with him. The memory of her blade piercing through his chest was etched into her mind forever and she could never let that memory go, sometimes Alice wonders if she even wants that memory gone.
To her, it was a reminder for when she woke up. When she woke up from her nightmares that resembled dreams, that memory helped her to recognize that the deaths, the blood, the fear...were all real.
Coulson's voice brought her back from her thoughts, "We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet; cellphones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us."
"It's still not gonna find them in time." Agent Romanoff said, being negative. "Then again, it is hard to be optimistic when you're doing something like this." Alice rethought.
"You have to narrow your field," Banner responded, "How many spectrometers you have access to?"
"How many are there?" Alice took that as a 'I can get your every single one' type of answer.
Bruce began to take off his jacket, "Call every lab you know. Tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays," He turned to Alice, "I'll ruff out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition, with help from your powers. At least we could rule out a few places," He looked at Fury, "Do you have somewhere for me to work?"
"Agent Romanoff," Fury called, "Could you show Doctor Banner to his laboratory please? Along with Miss Lance."
The redheaded woman turned to the shorter girl and older man, "You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys."
"Ow...Ow...Ow, ow...Ow!"
Banner sent Alice an apologetic look, "I warned you it would hurt."
Alice scoffed, "Please, I've felt more pain than this. It's just annoying to have someone poking me nonstop," The doctor typed on the computer and pulled the needles off Alice, "Is the algorithm done?"
"Yes," Bruce nodded, "Calibrating your powers usual energy pattern and a simple tracking algorithm for normal gamma radiation," Alice bet that 'simple' was equal to complex in Banner's book, "I've created an algorithm that will allow us to find both the cube and hopefully Loki. My best guess is Loki first since your powers appear to track things that have consciousness."
"Those were a lot of words," Alice said in her usual monotone voice, "And now you've sent that to the bridge?"
"Uh huh," Banner looked over at the younger girl. There was silence between them. What else did they have to talk about?
That quiet was there for a good ten minutes before Banner asked, pointing to her hands, "What's with the gloves?"
Alice looked down at her hands, which were both clad in black leather gloves, "Oh, these?" She raised her hands, clenching and unclenching them, "Keeps me from making things go boom with my other power."
"Which is…?"
"Pure white energy, light - whatever you wanna call it," Alice answered, "Unless it's blocked by something, like this leather that's actually holy cloth, it creates something of a mini nuc going off in my hands. Like I said, it's pure energy that I don't control it." Alice didn't think about her past as she answered. Once upon a time, she could control her light, but with one more extra persons light in her, it was too much for her to contain without some holy help.
Bruce gave her a look of mutual understanding. He couldn't control the Hulk, she couldn't control her other power, "So, what do we-" He was cut off by Agent Romanoff and Steve Rogers, both dressed in uniform, entering into the lab.
"Sorry to interrupt, but we need you, Miss Lance." Captain America said.
Alice cocked her head in confusion and Agent Romanoff answered, "We found Loki. Suit up."
I know it was short, sorry. I just wanted to get it out before I went to bed. Hope you all enjoyed that. Please review to make me happy. I've had a bit of a rough day and would like some comments to cheer me up. See you all later and keep one being awesome! Next up, Loki vs. Wonder!