Bab 141: Chapter 135: A Low-key comeback (part3)
With the rising sun visible behind the windows I ran through the Helicarrier, trying to get to Tony's lab as fast as I could. Not that I had an idea where I was actually going, seriously. The Helicarrier layout made no sense.
I turned around a corner and bumped into a red haired spy.
Sadly, said spy had better reflexes than I had (even with Chaos' help). Before I realized I had bumped into someone she had grabbed my wrist and thrown me over her shoulder.
"Ouch!" I cried out as I hit the ground.
"Percy?" Natasha asked confused, then she realised what she had done. "Oh, God. I'm sorry."
She offered her hand and helped me up.
"Thanks," I said after the pain had faded away.
"I'm so sorry." Natasha apologized. "I was-"
"No problem," I said. "But first, we need to get to Tony and Banner. I figured out Loki's plan. He's trying to turn Bruce into the Hulk."
Natasha's eyes widened, "Wait, you know that too?"
I stopped. "What do you mean with too? I just figured it out."
Natasha chuckled, "Same for me. I was just done interrogating Loki. He's trying to manipulate-"
"Banner, using the Scepter." I finished her sentence.
"What has Loki's Scepter to do with it?" Natasha asked. "I only figured out he's trying to manipulate Banner."
I showed her the news articles on Stark's phone, directly after that I showed her some security cam footage of Loki using his Scepter to brainwash Hawkeye.
"The Scepter has the power to brainwash people .Who knows what it could do with Bruce."
She narrowed her eyes, "How did you hack into SHIELD's data?"
"Just did it," I said, "This is not even my phone. I borrowed Stark's."
"You borrowed Stark´s phone and he was already hacked into the SHIELD database?"
I groaned, "Seriously? We still have a walking timebomb on this ship remember?"
Natasha nodded and she tapped her earpiece, "Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way. Send Thor as well. Percy and I will be there very soon."
She turned to me and took Tony's phone without asking me, "Also, this is not yours."
I blinked, "Hey you can't do that, it's Stark's."
"I'll give it back to him, once I disconnected it from SHIELD's database." Natasha said with a tone that told me she challenged me to defy her.
I groaned but there was not much I could do.
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(Third POV)
Fury entered the lab.
He frowned when he saw Tony and Bruce were not working on the scepter. Instead he saw Tony opening up different files on his screen.
"What are you doing Mr. Stark." Fury asked angrily.
Tony was not impressed. "Uh...kind of been wondering the same thing about you."
"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract." Fury said on a demanding tone.
"We are." Tony said with a smirk. "The model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile."
"And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss." Fury said and he turned around, intending to leave he room but Tony stopped him.
"Oh," he said with a cheerful tone. "What do we have here?"
Fury turned around, the monitor showed a collection of files.
"Phase two?" Tony asked. "What is Phase 2?"
Suddenly the Lab door slid open and Steve marched in.
He looked pissed, the reason for this was in his hand. The soldier stopped in front of Fury and put down the assault rifle he had found.
"Hydra weaponry." Steve spoke out loud. "SHIELD uses the Tesseract to make weapons."
Tony and Bruce were looking at him, stumped.
Steve shrugged. "Computer took me to long."
Nick Fury was now not so certain anymore. He was looking nervous, which was understandable considering the people who were in the room with him.
"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're…"
Tony slid open the PHASE2 file. "I'm sorry, Nick. But Jarvis, could you show us PHASE2 please?"
The holographic monitor in front of Fury changed and showed the blue prints of high tech weapons.
Tony had a smug smile on his face while Bruce looked concerned.
Steve on the other hand was still pissed.
"It turns out, the world has not changed that much after all."
"Please Steve," Tony said with a denigrating tone, "Fury was lying something. Let him finish."
If Fury believed in god with capital G, he would ask him if it could get any worse.
It did.
Three more people entered the lab, an exhausted looking Percy, an angry Natasha and an annoyed thundergod.
"Banner! You nee-"
Natasha put her hand on Percy's mouth, silencing him.
Although she did not say it out loud, the message was clear: Lets see how this plays out.
"Did you know about this?" Banner asked Natasha.
Natasha frowned, she followed Nick Fury's gaze to the weapon blueprints.
"Look," Tony said, "Turns out, SHIELD was trying to turn the Tesseract into a weapon. Funny huh?"
"What?" Percy cried out.
She slowly nodded. "Yes I did. But that's not important right now. We need to remove you from the environment."
Bruce huffed. "Remove myself from the environment? I was pretty much removed in Calcutta but you brought me here."
"The spear," Percy said. "It's manipulating you."
"Manipulating me?" Banner asked sarcastically. "And why do you think the scepter is doing this instead of Natasha?"
Percy frowned, "What?"
"You brought me here," Banner said glaring at Natasha. "And I'm not leaving because I feel a bit itchy. I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."
"SHIELD is doing what?" Percy asked flabbergasted, then he turned to Fury. "What are they talking about?"
"Hey," Tony said. "The Kid finally catches up."
Percy shook his head, "Look. We need to calm down. The Scepter is-"
"We're not leaving until Fury tells us why he is building weapons." Tony said determined.
"Because of him." Fury said and pointed at Thor.
Thor looked stunned. "Me?"
Nick Fury nodded. "Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned."
"So you make weapons?" Percy said accusingly.
"My people want nothing but peace with your planet." Thor said.
"Percy," Fury said. "You know how powerful Gods can be. Maybe Thor is peaceful. But the universe is filled with beings who can't be matched, they can't be controlled. And lets not even begin about how you got here and what that means."
Percy gritted his teeth, "So you make weapons?"
"You tried to turn the Tesseract into a weapon," Steve said, clenching his fist. "It should've stayed at the bottom of the ocean."
"You're work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for a higher form of war." Thor scolded Fury.
"A higher form?" Tony asked.
"You forced our hand. We had to come up with something." Fury said, looking at Thor.
"Look," Percy said. "Can we continue this discussion after I take the Scepter to a safe place?"
"No!" said all the Avengers in unison.
Percy flinched, "But the scepter-"
"I want to know what you were thinking," Steve said pointing at Fury. "I almost died trying to secure the cube. Now you tried to turn it into a weapon."
"Nuclear deterrent." Tony laughed sarcastically. "Cause that always calms everything right down."
"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Fury countered.
Steve stepped closer to Fury. "I'm sure if he still made-"
"Wait! Wait!" Tony raised his hand and stepped closer to Steve. Like he tried to intimidate the supersoldier. "Hold on! How the heck is this now about me? I thought this was about Thor."
"Guys-" Percy muttered.
Thor laughed. "I thought humans were more evolved than this."
"Excuse me," Fury glared at Thor. "Did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?"
"Did you always give your champions such mistrust?" Thor snapped.
"Loki killed 80 people before you had the time to show up." Natasha said.
"I feel fights coming up." Percy muttered to himself.
'Yeah, a civil war.' Chaos agreed.
"SHIELD Monitors potential threats." Natasha said coldly.
"Potential threats?" Percy asked.
"The world is filled with people who can't be controlled." Fury explained, which led to more arguing.
"Captain America is a threat?" Bruce asked Natasha.
"Don't be naive," Natasha said. "We all are."
Steve glared at Natasha while Tony laughed at Cap. "You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?"
"I swear to God, Stark," Steve said threateningly, which did not impress Tony at all. "one more crack…"
Tony raised his hands in a mock surrender. "Threatening! I feel threatened!"
"Rogers step back." Fury ordered calmly.
"No," Stark snapped. "I want to see where this is going."
"Nice team." Bruce said sarcastically. "You really did a good job putting us together."
"Calm down," Natasha demanded but the normally calm scientist just laughed.
"Now I need to calm down?" Bruce groaned, "You put this chemical mixture together that causes chaos,"
Percy chuckled randomly.
"We're a timebomb. Just waiting to explode." Bruce finished.
"You should calm down now." Fury said, a bit more demanding than Natasha.
"Oh, come on." Tony said, "Can't he just blow off some steam?"
"You know he can't." Steve said angrily.
"Oh, you are the scientist here?" Tony asked.
"Says the men who's just a big men with a suit of armor," he glared at Tony, "but what are you without it?"
"Genius, millionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Tony said without hesitation.
"Genius," Steve snorted. "I heard about your genius. All the weapons you build, used against you. I know men like you who are worth ten times as much as you are." Steve said, stepping inside Tony's comfort zone.
Tony seemed to be unfazed by it, though he kept glaring at Steve.
"I've seen the footage, you're no hero. You only fight for yourself."
"Oh," Tony said. "That's a good one. What am I without a suit?"
He turned around, mockingly. "You are the one who was nothing without the super soldier serum."
"It's about the inside," Steve snapped, "Are you someone who lays down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you?"
"I would cut the wire." Tony said with a triumphant grin.
Steve shook his head, "Always a snappy remark. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero."
"Sorry," Tony said, "Did someone hear the labrat speaking?"
Steve puffed up his chest at Tony. "Put on the suit, let's go a few rounds."
Thor laughed, "Pathetic humans." he laughed.
"Sorry," Percy said. "But didn't I restrain you and Iron Man at the same time?"
Tony rubbed his head and moved away from Cap.
"Amazing team." Bruce said.
" Agent Romanoff," Fury turned to Natasha, "Would you escort back to his…"
"Where? You rented my room." Bruce laughed.
"The cell was just in case…"
"You need to kill me," Bruce said bitterly.
"It's not like-"
"It won't work," Bruce said. Sounding desperate, "I tried it."
Everyone stared at Bruce, he sighed and leaned back against the table with the scepter.
"I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out!"
"Bruce," Natasha whispered but Bruce cut her off.
"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 said, getting angrier.
He sighed, "You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?"
Natasha reached for her gun and stepped away from Bruce.
"Doctor Banner," Fury said, "Please put down the scepter."
Bruce looked down at the Scepter and his eyes widened as he saw he was holding it.
But he was not the only one who was surprised, the tension was almost solid.
Although, no one was actually threatening each other, it was clear everyone was ready to fight the moment it was required at all.
"Oops," Dr. Banner said, not sounding remorseful at all.
He put the Scepter back on the table and gave the others an apologetic shrug. "Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my little party trick after all."
'Why do I have the feeling I don't like his party trick?' Percy wondered.
Suddenly a holographic screen started blinking, showing all kinds of stats and information.
"Finally." Bruce said.
"Located the tesseract?" Thor asked.
"I can get it faster," Tony said while studying the map displayed on the screen.
"Look, all of us…" Steve huffed.
"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it." Thor scoffed but Tony ignored him and walked towards the door, only to be stopped by Steve.
"You're not going alone-" Steve said, shooting a glare.
"What are you going to do?" Tony smirked, "Stop me?"
"Put on the suit, let's find out." Steve said threateningly.
"Guys-" Percy uttered.
"I'm not afraid to hit an old man." Tony joked, but his eyes said he was not joking.
Suddenly an explosion filled the room.
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