AN: I lied. I only added one day, and I also lied about wanting 5 reviews. I wanted to get something up, so here it is! I don't really like this chapter. :|
Disclaimer: I only own Charlotte.
Charlotte was exhausted. She had just gotten out of another negotiation session with Loki. It was filled with taunting and tension. She entered the giant computer room which Linda called "the bridge."
"He's hopeless. I give up," Charlotte stated with a slightly crazed smile on her face. Only Natasha was there.
"I'll try in hour." Charlotte nodded before signaling Linda over to her.
"Stand outside the door when Natasha goes to talk with Loki. I wanna be ready if he tries something," she whispered to Linda. Linda gave a nod.
She wondered about Charlotte. Linda thought she was odd. She managed to make friends with one of their best assassins, but failed to talk to her colleagues at work.
Charlotte strolled into the Stark/Banner lab. Steve was looked as if he had just scolded Tony. Tony was facing the other direction and holding blueberries to Bruce.
"What's going on?" Charlotte asked warily. Tony spun around and asked,
"Do you trust Fury?" Charlotte gave A humorless laugh.
"No. He's THE spy. His secrets have secrets. I was one of them," she said with an eyebrow raised, "Why do you ask?"
"That's what I said, but something's going on and I'm going to figure it out as soon as Jarvis finishes hacking." Charlotte gaped at him.
"Did you say hacking? Stark you aren't supposed to do that," Charlotte said with her eyes closed and her fingers pinching the bridge of her nose.
"That's what I said," Steve muttered, "We have orders, we should follow them."
Tony snorted before saying, "Following's not really my style."
"And you're all about style, aren't you?" Steve said with a touch of bitterness.
"Of the people in this room, which one is A - wearing a spangled outfit and B - not of use?" Charlotte eyes widened as Steve turned and stalled out of the room.
"Tony," she hissed, "Why would you say that? It's only been 3 weeks he's in shock. His world is dead and you just called him useless." Tony rolled his eyes and popped a blueberry into his mouth. Charlotte left the room and followed after Steve.
"Hey sorry about them. They just- Oh no I know that look. My brother used to make it all the time. What are you planning?" Charlotte said with nervous voice.
Steve looked at her and said, "Computer's working a bit slow for me." Charlotte nodded and had speed walk to keep up with Steve. When they reached the door Charlotte kneeled by the lock.
"It need a code," she muttered and began to type away furiously at the keys," Give me a second Steve this there are still a few more," she paused and looked up and saw the Captain using his enhanced strength to pull back the door.
"Or we can do that." The pair entered the large room. Steve grabbed the rail on a catwalk above them. He reached down his hand for Charlotte but she was opening a box that had caught her eye. The Captain walked along the Catwalk until he found what he was looking for.
Charlotte couldn't believe it. They had promised. Why didn't they get rid of them? They were evil. The one of the evilest thing in the universe was sitting in a box in S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters.
"What is this?" Charlotte snarled at Fury as she threw an eyestalk that belonged to some sort of robot.
"I was wondering the same thing," Steve said holding a HYDRA weapon,
"Sorry. Computer working a little to slow for us," he said looking at Tony and Bruce.
"I'm pretty sure U.N.I.T or Torchwood needs that," Charlotte hissed. Fury glared at her.
"U.N.I.T was around back then and we got there before Torchwood. Captain we collected everything related to the Tesseract." Tony pulled up an image of a missile.
"You were saying."
Steve gave a snort, "Phase Two is all about using the Tesseract to make weapons! I thought you brought us together to save the world, not bring you a weapon!"
"Phase Two wasn't about you. It was about them," Fury said pointing to Thor and Charlotte who had stood next to him.
"Us?" Thor asked.
Fury replied, "When the arrival of a visitor from another world confirmed that we are not alone in this universe, people got worried."
"Our race means no harm, only peace!" Thor said with worry.
"But you're not the ONLY race in the universe!" Nick said looking at Charlotte.
"Okay so there are more races in the universe. That's why I'm here! But Earth is just drawing attention to itself. Sending up probes and satellite. Earth is such a noisy planet!" Charlotte retorted.
"Are you all really that naive? S.H.I.E.L.D monitors potential threats," Natasha said, as the bickering got worse.
"Captain America and a Sun Chaser is on potential threat watch list?" Bruce asked with disbelief in his voice.
"You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?" Tony asked aiming the comment at Steve
"I swear to God, Stark, one more crack," The Captain threatened.
"Threatening! I feel threatened!" Tony said sarcastically.
"Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?" Steve retorted.
"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Natasha gave a nod.
"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you."
"I think I would just cut the wire," Tony said.
"Always a way out... You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero," Steve said looked at him in disbelief.
"A hero? Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. Everything that you are came out of a bottle!"
"Put on the suit. Let's have it out." Thor gave a laugh.
"You are all so petty," he looked at Charlotte and said," And tiny."
"Agent Romanoff," Fury began, "Would you escort Dr. Banner back to his-"
"Back where?" Bruce asked slightly angry. "You rented my room."
"The cell was built-" Director Fury began.
"In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know! I tried!... I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth," Charlotte covered her mouth with a hand, and her eyes grew wide. He tried to commit suicide. "And the other guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk!" Bruce finished off with growing anger.
He gave a look to Natasha who looked unnerved. "You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?"
The whole team tensed up. The two spies put there hands on the gun, Charlotte's fingers grew tingly with a warm light, and Steve slightly tensed before saying,
"Doctor Banner... put down the scepter."
Bruce looked down in shock, and apparently he hadn't noticed he grabbed Loki's scepter. The computer gave an awkward beep before Bruce put the scepter down and checked the computer.
"Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my little party trick after all," Bruce said with a touch of humor. Charlotte rolled her eyes. She was happy at the moment. They were going to find the Tesseract and everything was going to be okay. She had no idea of what was about to happen.
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