I'm really enjoying writing the later chapters. Its always hard to start a story off. So if you are reading right now, please send the title around. Comments are always welcome and inspire me to continue writing. In this chapter it skims the surface of the second main conflict. The next chapter will be full detail about the conflict, Misty and Erika (I know some of you are dying to know what they are), How Chance is involved and How Demons and Angels tie into the story line. Please bare with me.

During this chapter, we experienced winds at 80mph and hail the size of quarters. We lost power shortly. Because of the heat, transformers have been burning out left and right. As of right now (8:28 PM Iowa time) my internet is not connecting. We have no internet, cable or phone lines. I do apologize about the wait, but it is out of my control.

-MikiMouze16

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Bruce

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I only left my lab for food and bathroom necessities. Sleep barely found me. Sleep and I were not on speaking terms. It was dark in the lab. I looked at the clock. It was one-thirty. Steve going to come and try to coax me out to eat something. I slipped of my stool and leaned against the cool window. The dark gray clouds started to growl. I stroked my chin, I need to shave. I looked down at myself, it wouldn't hurt to take a shower.

I grabbed a clean dark blue button dark shirt, and dark loose fitting jeans. I dropped my dirty clothes into a pile resting in the corner. I need to do laundry. I slid into the shower letting the warm water trail down my skin. It washed away some of my thoughts away. They swirled outside of the drain before stubbornly washing away.

The other guy missed her.

I missed her.

I told myself everyday that I missed her because she was nice. About a week ago I finally aloud myself to face the truth. I loved her. In less then a day, she etched herself into my DNA. I barely knew her.

I finally understood what love at first sight was.

I couldn't sleep without seeing her face behind my eyelids.

She appeared in the corner of my eye but when I turned to look at her she wasn't there.

Her lulled me to sleep when sleep was kind enough to find me.

I rinsed my the soap off my body. I slid my hand across the wall until I felt the plush towel. I dried my hair then slid it over my bottom half. I shaved and dressed feeling a bit refreshed.

"Bruce," I walked out of my bathroom sitting on my perfectly made bed. I slipped a pair of black socks on. "You should come and get something to eat," Steve looked down at me. Tony and Steve worried so much ever we got back. Tony's snaky comments subsided and Steve and Erika stepped in to make sure I got food. Erika was confused about Misty, though being told one thing and struggling to find the truth. She caught glimpses, telling us about strange lights and strange voices filling her head. She talked about rituals, Steve could pitch in helping her wipe away the fuzzy edges but it still wasn't enough. There were still too many questions that didn't have any answers.

"Yeah," I slipped on my black dress shoes and stood up. I followed Steve who walked out the door and instantly was attached to Erika. They were inseparable. There was o Steve without Erika, and there was no Erika without Steve. There bond was an interesting turn. Erika could finish Steve's thoughts. Steve could finish Erika's sentence. They seem to have a mental bond. Tony wanted to see how far their bond was. How deep it affected them. Natasha and Pepper stepped in and put their foot down. You don't mess with love. Tony walked away mumbling about how this could be a scientific breakthrough.

Natasha placed a BLT in front of me when I sat at the kitchen bar. Surprisingly not only could she kick ass but she could cook. I slowly picked at my sandwich, slowly swallowing the bread before picking out the inside.

"It's nice to see you eat," she patted my shoulder and walked over to the stove. We all lived in Steve's tower until we decided it was to business. We moved into Tony's oversized Malibu mansion. We were family. Pepper, Steve, and Natasha always trying to keep peace. Tony, Thor, and Clint were the fun jokester, making sure everyone had a good time and kept us on our toes. They kept us together.

"He has been striped of his powers! We must let him come to Migrad! It will teach, just like it tau-Bruce of Banners! You have come out!" Thor's voice boomed shaking me to my core.

"Hello Thor," I smiled and stood up.

"Fury wants us to meet in the Hellicarrier," Steve announced.

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We all sat around the main table in the bridge. Everyone looked up when the door opened. A dark broad framed man walked in, one eye cover with an eye patch.

"You were gathered here today because we are dealing with something far out of any of your league. Things that only exist in bedtime stories." He stopped starring at Erika then continuing, "we have two new members today. One of which is Erika Lace," he gesture to Erika.

No one but Steve knew how she was different. Thor asked once and Steve about through him against the wall telling him if needed to know that he would. Clint tried asking Erika while Steve was sleeping, he walked out of the room pale as a ghost and didn't sleep for the next two days. No one dared to ask after Natasha found Clint mumbling to himself in a corner.

"The last Agent should be with us any moment. She has been going through training and therapy for the last week. She has been under testing and endless integration." he stood at the front of the table.

"Therapy? What type of therapy?" Steve inquired.

"Mental and Medical." He spat out.

"Whoa, we are dealing with a mental unstable person? And she is an agent?" Tony raised an eyebrow.

"Even when she was broken she was more functional then you," Fury growled. I sat back in my chair. Who was this girl?

Misty?

No, no, she left Erika. She's hiding from the government. She knows how to fool them. They would have never caught her. Erika said she has too many secrets and joining any part of the government was a risk. Erika recalled a conversation that she never went to the hospital because it was to affiliated with the government. She wouldn't walk into the hospital.

But what was she needed for that was out of our world?

Instantly my mind raced to Steve and Erika, their bond was out of this world. But the last thing Misty told me seem to hit me like a street sign. Demons? Are we going to be introduced to Demons and the in between?

I looked up when the door closed.

No.

I felt tears spring into my eyes at the sight.

"What happened to you?" I chocked on my tears.