Disclaimer:I do not own the Avengers or Marvel or anything awesome. Ellie is my character, but I guess that she is pretty awesome herself.
Ellie jumped off of the roof and onto the ground in front of the building, taking only a second to reassure a passerby that she hadn't seen someone jump off of the roof. As she stepped into the gym, she was greeted by the sound of a punching bag being absolutely slaughtered. Ellie looked towards the maker of the sound and saw a blonde man whose shoulders were twice the size of his waist. Just like a dorito, Ellie thought.
She walked towards one of the many pillars and leaned against it, silently watching the man take out all of his anger on the punching bag, his blonde hair whipping back and forth with each punch. Ellie winced at the sound of sand spilling out onto the hard floors.
"I wonder who the other guy was," Ellie pondered out loud, making sure her voice sounded smooth. She pushed herself off of the pillar as the man turned around quickly, trying to find the source of the sultry voice.
"Agent Peters," Ellie greeted, stepping forward with an outstretched hand. The man stared at her perfect, tan hand before grasping it in his own sweaty, cloth covered one.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Captain Rogers. I see you've been working hard on getting back in shape." Ellie gestured to the many punching bags laying in a row beside the Captain.
Steve's cheeks turned a light shade of pink at her words. "There's not much else that I can do now," he admitted, rubbing the back of his neck. Ellie nodded knowingly before handing him a file.
"You have a mission for me?" Ellie didn't say anything as Steve skimmed over the file quickly.
"HYDRA's secret weapon," he muttered, his fingers lightly tracing the image of the blue cube.
"Howard Stark found it in the ocean while he was searching for you," Ellie explained, trailing behind Steve as he walked over to a nearby bench with a bag set on top of it. Steve read over the paragraph concerning it again before looking back up at the agent before him.
"Who took it from you?" Steve asked, handing the file back as he looked at her expectantly.
"A guy named Loki. He's not...from around here I guess you could say," Ellie paused, her lips pursed. "There's a lot that we will have to bring you up to speed on. The world has changed a lot since you've been here, lot of strange things have happened, some even stranger than that." Ellie took a step back as Steve stood up suddenly, throwing the cloth he had been unwrapping from his hands into his bag. She analyzed his movements quickly, realizing that she should be careful about her next words seeing as he towered over her by almost a foot.
"I doubt anything will surprise me," Steve muttered, his face set into a grim sort of smirk. Ellie crossed her arms.
"10 bucks says you wrong. There's a packet at your apartment with all the things you'll need to know about the situation and the people you will be working with." Ellie said, staring at the Captain yet again as he picked up a punching bag and started to walk out the door. "Is there anything that you could tell me about the Tesseract now?"
Steve stopped, turning back to look at her with softening blue eyes. He noticed how beautiful she looked, just like the way Peggy-. His eyes turned hard and he turned back around. "You should have left it in the ocean." With that, he left the gym, leaving Ellie to stand alone.
"That went well."
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"Natasha!" Ellie yelled, working her skinny jean covered legs faster to match the taller woman's stride. Natasha glanced at her quickly before turning her head to look straight ahead.
"Evelyn," Natasha replied, her green eyes following a quinjet down to its landing spot.
"How many times have I told you? It's Ellie," Ellie cried, biting her lip to stop herself from smiling at Natasha's smile. Natasha opened her mouth to say something but the mirth was gone from her eyes and she closed her mouth shut.
"Natasha, it'll all work out, don't worry," Ellie reassured the red head, noticing with a small smile that Natasha eyes' turned red for not even a second before returning back to their normal color.
"Yeah, it will be alright," Natasha said to herself before looking back down at Ellie. Ellie smiled quickly at her friend before turning her attention to the same quinjet that Natasha had been watching. Natasha caught what Ellie was looking at and sped up her pace to meet the passengers as the doors opened up.
"Agent Romanoff, Agent Peters," Phil greeted with a nod and a smile in Ellie's case. "This is Captain Rogers." Phil grinned slightly at the mention of the man standing beside him, much to the amusement of the two agents.
"Ma'am, Ma'am," Steve said, rolling his shoulders back with unease at Natasha's hard stare.
"Phil, they need you inside. They're starting the face trace," Ellie cut in quickly, breaking the awkward silence that had settled over the four. Phil nodded, hesitantly patting Steve on the shoulder before making his way indoors.
"Hello again, Captain," Ellie said, winking at the super soldier. Steve's face flushed red, making Natasha raise an eyebrow before clearing her throat.
"It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice and all," Natasha said, walking away slightly. "I thought that Coulson was going to swoon for sure." Ellie shook her head before following her friend with Steve right at her heels. Phil had actually swooned, and to make it even more entertaining, he swooned all over Fury, but Ellie wasn't going to say anything at her ex-handler's expense without him there.
"Uh," Steve stuttered, his face resembling a strawberry when Natasha and Ellie looked at him.
"Dr. Banner!" Steve waved, changing the subject. Ellie smiled warmly at said doctor as they walked over to him, watching on as Steve outstretched his hand towards the frazzled looking doctor.
"They, uh, told me that you would be here," he said, hesitantly shaking the hand Steve offered. Ellie gave the scientist a dazzling smile when the he looked over in her direction. He smiled back sheepishly, but as he turned away Ellie noted a trace of a blush on top of his cheeks.
"Word is that you can find the cube," Steve said, not noticing the exchange between the two.
"Is that the only word about me around here?"
"Only word I care about," Steve told the man honestly. Bruce beamed before clearing his throat.
"It must be new to you, all of this," Bruce said, gesturing to the landing deck. A squadron of pilots passed behind the four as Steve answered the doctor's question.
"Not really." Ellie looked around the landing deck and noticed that many of the personnel were going inside or putting on oxygen masks. Ellie nudged Natasha in the ribs, her eyes darting over to the people leaving the landing deck. Natasha nodded.
"Gentleman, might I suggest that we go inside?" Natasha asked, her eyebrows raised sarcastically. "It's gonna get a little hard to breath." Ellie stopped herself short from latching her arms around Natasha, instead holding her breath as the deck started to move. Ellie already knew what was happening since she was already five steps away from the others when Steve's voice called out.
"Is this a submarine?" Ellie shook her head but was stopped from saying anything by Bruce.
"Really, they want me in a submerged, pressurized container?" Ellie simply raised an eyebrow at the seemingly calm man's response. She took a step closer to the two as they walked over to the edge where two of the four engines were lifting the helicarrier into the air.
"Oh no," Bruce started, his curly hair flying in the wind. "This is much worse."