AN – Here is chapter 2! As always Marvel own most things, except El, Cass and our writing. Enjoy! :)


Cass walked down the corridor as Eloise trailed behind talking to the S.H.I.E.L.D agent.

"They're all on the bridge, Miss." The female agent pointed in the general direction of conversation. Eloise thanked her and ran to catch up with her friend.

"It's mental, isn't it?" Eloise looked around with wide eyes. "All the rest of the team are up on the bridge." Cass huffed loudly.

"I'm getting a headache." She massaged her temples. "The electrical signals are messing with my grey matter. It's like…" She threw up her hands in annoyance. "…A fiesta in my head." Eloise gave her a smile laced with sympathy.

"Perhaps we could have some fun in here?" She suggested. "Get the party started seen as we are 'at war'?" She held out her hand for them to stop and pulled her friend to the side.

"What do you have in mind?" Cass grimaced as she readjusted her beanie hat. Eloise tapped her ear and dragged her friend round the corner until they were close enough to hear what the Avengers were saying. They stood there, looking casual, as not to bring too much attention upon themselves.

"He got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." A quiet male voice said.

"122 million." Cass corrected under her breath, causing Eloise to smile slightly.

"Unless Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Another male voice added.

"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." The first replied.

"Finally, someone who speaks English." The other voice commented.

"Is that what just happened?" A third male voice added his in a whisper.

"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. You're work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster." The second voice said, presumably to Bruce Banner. There was silence for a moment.

"Maybe we should make an entrance?" Cass suggested and Eloise groaned.

"Fury will kill you for it." She raised an eyebrow and tuned back into the conversation happening next door.

"Thanks." The first voice, Dr. Banner, replied.

Cass concentrated for a moment and they all heard ticking.

"Cass! You took over the sound system." Eloise swatted her shoulder.

"Fine, you can go all invisible and I'll go on my own then." Her friend walked off towards the ticking.

"Am I the only person that hears the clock from Peter Pan?" A female voice asked from inside the bridge.

"Peter Pan?" Another male voice asked.


On the bridge, a guitar suddenly kicked in through the speakers and all eyes looked towards Tony Stark.

"Hey." He held his hands up in a defensive manner. "Just because it's AC/DC and involved computer hacking, doesn't mean it was me."

"I know it wasn't you." Nick Fury walked over to the group. "It was our newest recruits." He sighed and walked over to his monitors. "One of them has a liking for technology."

"Well, I like them already."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Stark." A new voice said. It was Cass. She walked alone over to where Director Fury was standing and looked over his shoulder at his work. She could feel the others gazes piercing her back.

"Stop that out-of-tune rubbish, Cassandra, and tell me where Eloise is right now." The music came to a sudden halt and the sound of talking increased once again.

"Where's Agent Hunter?"

"El is around…" She trailed off and noticed a slight fluctuation in the electron levels in the corner. "Observing." Fury cleared her throat and gave her a stern look.

"I'm here, Director Fury." Another voice came from the right and everyone turned and saw Eloise standing awkwardly over at the side. He beckoned her over with a gloved hand and came and stood next to her friend.

"Avengers, I want you to meet your last two members: Cassandra Richardson and Eloise Hunter." Eloise gave everyone a smile and Cass simply nodded her head. "Ladies, meet Dr. Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Thor of Asgard and Captain Steve Rogers." He gestured towards each person.

"Pleased to meet you all." Eloise said softly. Thor walked towards her, wearing a large smile.

"You speak in the tongue of Asgard, tiny Midgardian." He was referring to the British accents that both parties had. He engulfed her slight frame in her giant arms and gave her a tight embrace. Once he'd let her go, he turned to Cass with open arms.

"I'm good thanks, Muscles." She patted his biceps and he ruffled her hair.

"That is quite alright, Lady Cassandra." Thor gave out a hearty laugh and walked back over to lean on the table. Fury cleared his throat again.

"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him, Mr. Stark, Miss. Richardson."

"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon." Steve said. Cass felt Eloise's body tense up beside her and caught a look of fear penetrate her friends face. She thought no one else had noticed, that was, until she saw Steve's eyes on her Eloise's now neutral face.

"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys." Fury gave everyone a hard look.

"Monkeys? I do not understand." Thor thought for a moment.

"I do." Steve pointed at Thor with a gloved hand. Tony rolled his eyes. "I understood that reference." Eloise couldn't help but smile at the sound of his understanding.

"Hunter, Richardson, I'm going to get Coulson to do a physical on you both, so we know where your powers are at." Fury looked from one to the other.

"Yes, sir." They said in unison and shared an amused glance. It was like being in the army.

"Yeah, about them." Stark interrupted their staring competition. He pointed at the pair as if they were children. "Why can't I find any of their personal data on the S.H.I.E.L.D database?"

"I could." Cass held up her hand. Stark gave her a smirk.

"You should still be in diapers, little girl, not playing around with mummy and daddy's computers." He crossed his arms over her chest and saw that Cass had shut her eyes and was now breathing deeply. "What's she doing? Going into self-destruct mode?" Her eyes opened and the lights above the bridge began to flicker. The agents working on the computers and the rest of the team, minus Tony who looked amused, began to look anxiously towards the Cass's angry form.

"Cass." Eloise stood in front of her and gripped her upper arms. "You can get him when he's wearing his Iron Man suit, not right now." Within a few seconds, the lights stopped flickering and Eloise moved back to her original place.

"A technopath." Stark actually looked mildly impressed. "Nice." He turned to Eloise. "So you're her babysitter then?"

"Enough, Stark." Fury glared at the man, who backed away towards Bruce, holding his hands up in surrender. "Coulson, could you take Hunter and Richardson to collect some more comfortable clothing and then initiate testing within the next hour. They need to be rested for the morning." Agent Coulson nodded and left the bridge. The rest of the team began dispersing. With a quick grin in the direction of her friend, Eloise followed after Coulson.

"Hey, Rogers." Fury called, as Steve started to walk to the lab with Banner, Stark and Cass. "I think I just found you another training partner." Steve looked over at El, and then back to Fury, who gave him a sly grin before sweeping off towards the lower section of the bridge.


A/N: Ta Da! We hope you enjoyed it. As always, reviews, comments, criticism etc. are very welcome. Also trying to keep the characters in…well…character, is a big focus for us, so we'd love you to let us know how we did on that front. That's all. Thanks for reading.

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