The sound of the roaring helicopter surrounded her as they flew across an evacuating town. "I still don't think it's the right thing to do." Adira announced. Fury's opinions were always different than hers in terms of peace.
"It's for the good of everyone's safety." He said.
"We have no idea what's capable of!" She argued. "Sir, I have read everything regarding it, you cannot simply harness it powers and use it for our own selfish needs!" She raised her voice trying to get through to him. She didn't like the idea of using a power source from another realm.
"We have a duty to protect our world if we're threatened by another species more advanced than us we would have no chance." Fury said raising his voice higher. There must be another way. She thought as she stared at him solemnly. Leala placed a gentle hand on her shoulder giving her an apologetic look.
They landed on the pad minutes later where Agent Phil Coulson was waiting to give Nick Fury and Agent Maria Hill an update on the situation. Leala and Adria walked behind them as they discussed the matters of the Tesseract, which was told to have been acting strange.
"How bad is it?" Fury asked as they walked into SHIELD's PROJECT Base.
"That's the problem sir, we don't know." Agent Phil answered as they walked down into the radiation part of the facility. Hundreds of technicians and other staff are running around, taking only the essentials including scientific equipment and important data.
"Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract an hour ago." Phil said.
"NASA didn't authorize Selvig to test phase."
"He wasn't testing it, he wasn't even in the room. Spontaneous advancement."
"I told you! We shouldn't use something we don't even know how to work!." Adira asked cutting into their conversation. It wasn't safe, people could get seriously injured or killed
"What are the energy levels at right now?" Fury asked looking angrier than before.
"It's climbing. When Dr. Selvig couldn't shut it down, we ordered an evacuation." Phil answered, with his usual calm tone. "Everyone should be out in a half hour."
"Well do better, we don't want any casualties." Fury said as Phil turned around to and head back in the opposite direction.
"Sir evacuation may be futile. If we can't control the Tesseracts energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance." Agent Hill broke her silence presenting her concern on the issue. Thank you Agent Hill, someone who cares about the safety of others.
"I need you to make sure that PHASE 2 prototypes are shipped out." Fury said. Are those weapons really that important to you?
"Is that really a priority right now?" Agent Hill said, stealing the words out of her head.
"Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on. Clear out the tech below. Every piece of PHASE 2 on a truck and gone." Fury barked.
"Yes, sir." Agent Hill responded, then left.
We entered the lab facility where the Tesseract was being held in the Compact Chamber. Everyone was either in white lab coats or in all black carrying heavy machine guns watching or running around collecting data in panic.
She gazed into the light of the small blue cube. "Wow," Adira mouthed in awe. It was as if she were a small child again, witnessing her first white Christmas. Leala walked around her to follow Fury but, Adira continued to admire its elegance. "It looks so beautiful." She had only seen the Tesseract in pictures in the files she examined and had not fully appreciated it until now. How could something so attractive have the potential to destroy an entire planet.
"Adira! Step away from the Tesseract!" Fury barked. She had not realized her hand was hovering closer and closer to the cube. She broke her trance and quickly took her position next to her sister, away from Fury and Barton who continued their dialogue.
"No one's come or gone. It's oven is clean. No contacts, no I.M.'s. If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end." Barton said eyeing the Tesseract.
"At this end?" Fury questioned pointing at the glowing cube.
"Wait," Adira said drawing her attention to their discussion. "are you saying someone else is at the other end trying to get over here?"
"Yeah, the cube acts like it's a doorway to the other end of space, right? And doors open from both sides." Barton said.
"Leala, do you think it's someone from Asgard?" She whispered excitedly. Leala shrugged. "You used to tell me anything's possible. So why not? Then again didn't you tell me they could come and go through the Biofrosty thingy?"
"Bifrost." She corrected. "And I guess you're right. I hope who is on the other end is peace loving." She sighed.
A thunderous roar erupts from the Tesseract, shaking the whole facility. The flaring rings of the cube surges out brighter and louder. The energy began to build up into a beam causing everyone to squint their eyes (or in Fury's case... eye). The beam strikes the end of the platform, forming a black vortex opening up a portal. Leala takes a single step back slightly frightened while Adira stares at it with admiration.
She gazes into the portal, full of gorgeous shimmering stars. A blast of blue energy shoots out from the portal, everyone covers their eyes. When it's all done Adira and the others look up to find a man kneeling on the platform in strange clothes, smiling mischievously as he stands up with a mysterious scepter at hand. His smile fades slightly when he sees what surrounds him.
"Sir, please put down the spear!" Fury's voice echoed.
The man looked at his scepter for a moment before pointing it in the direction of Fury and Barton. Barton then tackles Fury to the ground seconds before the blast of energy hits them both.
"Dad!" Leala yells across the room as shots ring out pelting him with bullets but having no effect as the man kills all the armed SHIELD agents. Leala breaks out in a run towards Fury, Adira following close behind with her eyes directed at the man who smiled on the other side of the room pointing his glowing scepter at the two.
"Leala watch out!" Adira runs in front pushing Leala to the side as his scepter shoots another energy blast. Leala is moments from landing onto the ground when the projectile strikes Adira, hurling her back. She landed only inches away from the cement wall. She laid stretched out on the floor, her whole body aching with pain from both collisions. She passed in and out of consciousness her hearing as well as eyesight are now slightly impaired, she could barely make out the figure of her sister crouching next to her and Fury stumbling his way to the Tesseract. Leala looked frantic. "Are you alright? Can you get up? Here let me help."
She shooed her sister away. "Go... You have to g-" She recoiled in pain, her head was now threatening to split in-half. Leala could only watch as she layed on the floor in agony. "Go to the helicopter."
"I won't leave you." She whispered, a single tear fell down her cheek. Adira weakly grabbed her sister's shaking hand and stared into her chocolate brown eyes. "You must." A tear rolled down Adira's eye stinging her cut cheek. She closed her eyes tightly, laying her head back before saying her final statement. "Stay safe." and released her weak grip. She slipped out of consciousness before she could hear Leala's final words. "I will, sister.".
She could only see the shadowy shapes of people standing in the distance when she awoke moments after her sister departed. She could understand only pieces of the conversation. "Purpose...boot...freedom...peace... collapsing."
The whole building shook and she heard a shot echo and the sound a body fall to the ground with a loud thud. She laid helplessly on the verge of crying she. Adira could the handle physical pain, but not the thought of one of her family members laying dead on the ground. Now it was her time to die, the roof will fall and she'll be crushed underneath it.
The sound of shoes walking closer echoed in her ear, with her vision blackened she couldn't see who it was as they lifted her up off the ground, carrying her in both arms. Pain coursed through her body and the throbbing that had subsided began once more.
No longer a small child her arms, legs and head dangled as the person (who she assumed to me a male) walked. He was holding something else as well and she could tell he was struggling slightly. She heard a door open and the familiar tone of Barton's voice.
"We need these vehicles." Barton demanded.
"Who's that?" Agent Hill asked with a tone full of suspicion.
"He didn't tell me." Barton lied.
Agent Hill was too distracted by the unknown man to notice what he was carrying. Agent Hill turned and walked away, she wasn't going to get much of an answer out of them.
They piled into the cars, the man who was carrying her gently placed her onto back of the truck so that she was now laying down. Her vision became clear as he climbed into the truck to sit next to her; he had a pale narrow face, with dull green eyes and long black hair that was slicked back neatly. She was now in the hands of the villain.
The sound of women's boots began to fade away when she heard the static a hand radio.
"Hill do you copy?!" Fury said, his voice in distress. They're not dead! A rush of relief flushed over her knowing he wasn't lying dead on the cold floor. The man however did not look relieved as he and Barton sharply turned to look at Agent Hill.
"Barton is..." His sentence was drowned by the sound Barton and Agent Hill's gunshots. Hill hide behind the wall and Barton wasted no time jumping into the truck and drove off. A few seconds later, Hills gunshots were being shot towards them. The bullets not even affecting him, they just bounced off.
The SHIELD vehicles now in full pursuit of the rogue agents and alien who now stands on top of the bed of the truck shooting more energy blasts from his scepter, flipping one of the trucks. "Stop, please." She breathed. She felt helpless, chaos happening everywhere around her and there was nothing she could do. A surge of pain traveled down her spine as she rolled over onto her side where she could not see Agent Hill's jeep speed up from behind them, and drive beside them. She could only hear the deafening pitch of gunshots and the sound of rubber screeching. Adira rolled as the truck accelerated and swerved violently. The man grabbed a hold her arm to hold her steady. She closed her eyes once more and began praying for comfort. "Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me..."
Adira open her eyes as she heard a crash come from behind them knocking her head into the trucks side. Her eyes began to fog up, the familiar blur was taking over once again. She felt her muscles weakening. How did this happen so quickly? She thought as her world began to blacken.