Hey ya'll! So this is Chapter 35, we're getting real close to the end now, but don't worry, I will be doing a sequel! I haven't decided the name for it yet, but I'll let you know!

This chapter is dedicated to La Bella Figura for calling me a "Cruel, evil author." (I love it) I'd hate for you to go out of town without getting to see chapter 35, so here's one for you doll!

Disclaimer: I only own Minnie.


Tony had never seen someone display as much control as Bruce was displaying right now. His fists were clenched, his breathing was shallow, he was standing against a wall, his head leaning back, and he seemed to be whispering to himself. When Natasha called and said it was urgent, Tony had been offering Bruce full time employment. Sure, he had been paying Bruce twice what he would any normal freelance scientist who came to work on a random project with them, but Tony wanted security for him, and for Minnie.

He had known early on that they were perfect material for the other. The way Minnie rolled with everything that happened, the compassion Bruce had shown her after the Loki incident when he was wrapping her knee, the two were a match made in... Well, Stark Tower.

"Minnie and I went to the grocery store to pick some things up, and we were driving home when there was an accident." Natasha sounded slightly slurred, he couldn't tell if it was from the accident, or if it was from something else.

"Is Minnie okay?" Bruce asked leaning forward in his seat.

"Tony, take me off speaker phone." Natasha said after a moment.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Tony said as he looked at Bruce who was staring intently at the phone.

"Tony, take me off speaker phone, I don't want to do this right-"

"Just Tell Me She's Okay!" Bruce shouted slamming his hands down on the desk, dark brown eyes fading slightly, hints of green threatening to make themselves known. Everything was quiet for a moment before she finally spoke again.

"We were ambushed. They shot me full of tranquilizers, and they took Minnie." she said. Bruce jumped up, running his hand through his dark, curly, slightly graying hair. His eyes were squeezed shut, and he was trying to calm himself down. "SHIELD is here." she said. "They're looking into this as quickly as possible. They're sending agents to Stark Towers."

"Right." Tony said and about three minutes later Phil Coulson, the agent that faked his death to bring the Avengers together came walking in. He cast a wary look at Banner who was now in the position that Tony was staring at him in, his back to the wall, fists clenched, trying to control the other guy.

"Stark," he said as he walked over. "Banner." he nodded to Bruce who didn't even acknowledge the existance of the agent. "They've made contact with us."

"Who are they?" Tony asked and Coulson sighed.

"They call themselves Hydra."

"Hydra? Weren't they brought down way before Rogers decided to hibernate for seventy years?" Tony asked and Phil nodded.

"We believed so, but we now believe they've been brought back, they have a new director who apparently is the one who ordered them to get his attention using whatever means possible."

"Well they've got it." Bruce said suddenly looking at Phil. "So what do we do?"

"We wait until they-"

"We wait!" he shouted, slamming his fist into the wall. Neither of the men missed the large crack in the wall when he pulled his fist back.

"Agent Coulson, there's an incoming message." Jarvis said, before the window behind Tony flickered into a screen.

"Dr. Banner, at this point I'm sure you know we've got your girlfriend. Who are we you may ask? We are-"

"Hydra, yeah, we know, mind telling us something we don't know?" Tony interrupted. "Like how you missed grabbing the Hulk and compensated by grabbing his girlfriend?"

"You... Know?" the guy on the video asked, his smile faltering slightly before he cleared his throat. "Uh- Anyway - We heard about your little stunt in New Orleans Dr. Banner. Very impressive. The young man you almost killed is walking again."

"Free to hit another woman and victimize children, good for him." Tony mumbled as he pressed a button on his keyboard.

"What do you want with me?" Bruce stepped forward.

"What else do you have to offer Dr. Banner?" the bastard smiled. "Your DNA. You give us your DNA, you get the girl back." he said and then someone rushed on screen and whispered in the guy's ear. "You're kidding." He looked at the other agent. "Well how soon can we do it?" the agent whispered. "That soon?" he grinned.

"Hey, uh, anytime you'd like to fill us in on your demands-" Coulson was saying before Tony cut him off.

"Don't bother, we've got their location." he said.

"Well you don't bother." the guy replied. "By the time you get here, we'll have his DNA and an army of Hulks." Both Coulson and Tony looked at Bruce before looking back at the screen.

"Unless this is a very good life model decoy of Bruce Banner, and you guys have the real deal, I'm kind of failing to see how that would be possible." Tony said as Bruce walked over to the desk, curiosity in his eyes.

"We have the next best thing to Banner's DNA." the agent grinned. "We have their child's DNA." Agent Coulson and Tony both looked at Bruce who was staring at the screen, his face had gone pale. "You can have your girlfriend back when we're done." the agent smirked. "Au revoir, Banner." the agent pushed a button and the screen went dead.

"I'm going to take a wild guess here and assume you didn't know that Minnie's pregnant, right?" Tony asked and Bruce numbly shook his head.

"Tony, what was that location?" Phil asked and Tony turned the screen towards him. Phil spoke into his phone for a moment then looked at the two men. "They're gearing up. Let's go." he said. They went to the roof, Tony stepped into his Iron Man suit and it all came together quickly before he flew up to the roof as a jet was landing, being flown by Barton. She stood up when Bruce got into the jet and walked over to him.

"Bruce, I'm so sor-"

"Just get me to her." he said holding up his hand to silence the Russian. She nodded and looked to Barton who was getting the coordinates from Phil.

"We'll be there in less than an hour." Barton promised. With that they closed the jet, Bruce took a seat, and they were off.

"Tell me about Hydra Cap." Banner said suddenly to Captain America who looked surprised at the request.

"Hydra? They were defeated in my time, why would-"

"Because apparently not everyone got the memo." Bruce looked up at Captain America. "And the group that took Minnie are claiming to be Hydra, so I want to know everything I can about them before I get in there and I tear them to pieces." he said making all of the Avengers look back at him. "They threatened the woman I love, and they threatened our child," he said darkly making everyone shift. Thor looked outraged, and Natasha was clenching her jaw while Captain America looked stunned. "And I want to know just what it is I've gotten them into." he said. Captain America sighed, and nodded before he told them everything he remembered about Hydra and how they were trying to steal the super soldier serum.

"Seems now they're trying to make their own super soldier." Tony said softly.

"Just because it's half my DNA doesn't mean it will be… Like me." Bruce said and Tony put his hand on his friend's shoulder.

"We'll find out when we get them back." He said and looked down at Bruce. "When we get them back Banner." Banner sighed and nodded.