Nick and I exit his office, anger leaking from his face as he slams the door. As Nick storms out, I trail behind him. I then hear Natasha's voice from my earpiece, "Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way. Send in Thor as well. Does anyone copy?" She probably just interrogated Loki. Good. We start exiting the hallway as soon as Natasha informed that.

"Copy that, Nat." I respond, as I then turn to Nick as I trail behind him as he storms into the science bros' lab. "Nick, did you hear that?" He stops, then faces me. My blood ran cold as I saw anger plastered on his face. "Yeah, did you help Stark with this?" he asks, referring that the detected virus with unauthorized access belongs to J.A.R.V.I.S and Tony's decryption programmer.

I remember that afterwards Nick's first interrogation with Loki, Tony did sneakily place a button- sized hacking implant underneath one of Nick's monitors in that debriefing room. Well, except I noticed so not really sneakily.

"He asked me, sir. I said no," I reply quickly, as he seems satisfied with my honest answer. "Good, because we have enough master hacktivists in this helicarrier." He remarks as he began storming off once again. As I walked side to side with him, the agents stop in their tracks and start watching their angry director with a rookie S.H.I.E.L.D agent with level 8 clearance pass them by. All eyes are on us as we passed hallways and rooms.

We finally arrive at our destination, with some of Fury's anger removed from his face, yet still hidden inside. The pair of metal doors slide open, revealing the science bros no longer working on the scepter, technically doing really nothing. Tony casually sat on their table while busily occupied with whatever's on his monitor. "What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Nick asks with a slightly enraged tone. I guess I'll just watch as everything escalates really quickly.

"Uh... Kind of wondering the same about you," Tony argues back. Ten...

"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract." Nine...

"We are," Bruce answers calmly for Tony as he does something on his monitor. Eight... Bruce continues explaining, "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." Seven...

Keeping my arms crossed, watching the brewing argument that I see coming, Tony adds, "and you'll get your cube back, no fuss, no muss." Six... Tony keeps eyeing his monitor, with a collection of secret files opening and feeding him information, I assume. Weapons? What's with the weapons? "What is Phase 2?" Five...

Steve, pissed, surprised us by dropping a HYDRA weapon, as it looks like it, on a table nearby. It startles me, especially the sight of a Nazi dead cult's weapon revived those six decades ago is in the same room as I am. I didn't even notice Steve entering the laboratory. "Phase 2 is S.H.I.E.L.D uses the cube to make weapons," Steve then turns to Tony as I approach the table with the weapon laying on top of it, "sorry, the computer was moving a little slow." Four...

"What is a HYDRA assault rifle doing in the present day?" I cautiously move my fingers towards the weapon to touch it but Steve's prevents me from doing so as his hand grasps my wrist. He shakes his head as he asks, "how'd you know its a HYDRA weapon?" Three...

"I read, a lot." I reply as I kept eyeing and examining the weapon that I thought would've been extinct. "See? She doesn't know stuff about it," Tony comments as I turn to Nick and narrow my eyes towards him. Two... "What the hell is an almost extinct Tesseract energy sustained weapon is doing in S.H.I.E.L.D, especially the fact that it was originally used by HYDRA?" One, and its on ladies and gents.

Tony and Steve glare at Nick as I try calculating on what to expect next. He tries to explain, "Rogers and Vale, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're--"

"Oh I'm sorry, Nick," Tony firmly cuts him off as he faces the computer screen towards Nick, showing the rest of the plans about the weapons, proving my hypothesis. I cock an eyebrow, Tony retorts and raises his voice, "what were you lying?" Nick's blood looked like it stopped, uncertain on how respond or explain. I can tell.

The monitor contained and display Phase Two files, weapons. Blueprints and documents continuously pop up on the screen, fueling me with curiosity and anger. Angry that all of this was kept to from people that deserves to know.

"I was wrong, Director," Steve butts in, adding another remark, "the world hasn't changed a bit." At that moment, Thor and Natasha walk into the laboratory, with Thor unsure on what's going on. Me too, well kinda. I noticed Natasha kept her eyes on Banner, which reminded me that we should station him in a safe place, not a cage.

But there's one thing I can tell, Bruce was more pissed towards Natasha as soon as he met her eyes. Oh yay. "Did you know about this?"

"You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?" Natasha asks, slightly enraging Bruce inside himself. I watch as everything starts escalating to an unstable state of tension between all of us.

"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed," Bruce snaps back like a snake, but Natasha stayed calm and determined to not cause a green monster outbreak.

"Loki's manipulating you." Should've watch that interrogation...

"And you've been doing what exactly?"

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy." Bruce then uses his glasses and points towards the monitor where it displays the secret files and blueprints, "I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction," Bruce questions and retorts towards Nick.

Secretly, I'm furious to due to the fact that they carelessly would use an energy source that they couldn't control. And from the blueprints and secret files that Tony has recently discovered, they look like to be based on HYDRA weapons during the Red Skull's time. Like HYDRA agents are really in S.H.I.E.L.D designing them right now, even though if that organization is long extinct. (A/N: Project 45 is where she learned about them...)

Nick finally reveals the answer in its most simplest form, "because of him." He points towards Thor, who looked like he became inflicted with electricity and was stunned. "Me?" Tony's look softens, surprised at his brief 'explanation'.

"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." Nick headed towards the center of the laboratory as he continues explaining, while I stay standing between Thor and Steve. Everyone's looks were exchanged with one another.

"My people want nothing but peace with your planet," Thor reasons with his deep voice.

"But you're not the only people, are you?" Nick counters back, turning to face him. I kept my arms crossed as the rest of us continues to watch. "And, you're not the only threat." He faces use once again, "the world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled."

"Like you controlled the cube?" Steve retorts, as Thor backs him up, "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."

Steve misunderstood, because he thinks the consequences of the second world war will surpass any war, because its at its peak of the highest form. "A higher form?"

"You forced our hand, we had to come up with something," Nick reasons.

"Nuclear deterrent. 'Cause that always calms everything right down," Tony sarcastically remarks.

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Nick questions back.

Steve steps forward while I stay behind, "I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep..."

"Wait! Wait! Hold on! How is this now about me?" Tony questions on behalf of his defense, while Steve simply replies, "I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Ooh.

"I thought humans were more evolved than this," Thor comments, making me glare at him except he didn't notice. "Excuse me, did WE come to YOUR planet to blow stuff up?" Nick retorts, while I shut my eyes off and my head down at the floor, awkwardly stay away and silent. I kept my arms crossed as everybody's arguing boils to a point where their egos start rubbing onto each other and the shit will just hit the fan. Like when I'm at my friend's house and their parents start arguing with their child. That is so me right now.

Wow, throughout my body, I feel and sense anger boil inside of me, I forced to blow snowy winds in the lab. They better notice so they could shut the hell up. Facing my head up, my attention draws towards the blue gem resting on top of Loki's scepter. Why the hell is it glowing?

Taking a step towards the scepter situated on its stand, I felt the tip of my foot freeze an area on the floor, and the winds kept blowing heavier, bringing the snow. Whoa... I stare down at the floor with my arms crossed, as the winds blew harder yet they haven't noticed. Should I just explode one of the science bros' toys in the room or freeze their mouths? Wait, no, just do it quietly. They'll notice...

"Guys." I heard Tony attempt to gather their attentions, but failed first try. "GUYS!"

Ice kept freezing the floor, while I glare daggers towards everyone in this room, even Stevie. Everyone's attention besides me were drawn to Tony, as I suddenly kept staring at the gem. What's it doing? The way it glows looks so beautiful, and, and mesmerizing... wait, what the fuck am I saying?

~Tony's POV~

Okay, is it just me, or did it get colder every second we keep blabbing our mouths off our face?

"Guys..." I try grabbing their attention as soon as a snowflake landed on my nose. Whoa, did Amy--? Spandex just blabbed and spit at my face but I try to ignore it as I attempt at grabbing their attention once again. "GUYS!"

All at once, the arguing shut down after I just yelled. Thank you! "Has a snowflake just landed on your noses or am I seeing and feeling things?"

"How about did you take lots of shots of scotch before any of this?" Rogers questionably retorts. Huh. "You don't know that! Have you been in the ice for too long to not feel cold?" Boo-yah.

Snowflakes lands on my eyelashes, and I guess Spandex noticed because his reaction is that his eyes widened. I look over to Amelia behind him, whose mouth is slightly gaped and her pupils were slightly blue-- wait, blue?! But those eyes really suit her though, just complimenting...

Steve followed my gaze, and I look down, the floor is fucking frozen. Ice keeps gradually spreading across the floor as I witnessed that as soon as his eyes met hers, he quickly approached her and grasped at her shoulders, shaking and trying to grab her attention. Oh well, its really obvious that they-- but that should be less prioritized! The wind blew harder, that Nat's and Amy's hair is gliding with it. Its freaking freezing here too... Bruce's and Thor's arms were wrapped around their bodies, same goes to me. "Amelia? Snap. Out. Of. It... Please..." But Steve's words and constant shaking her like a maraca isn't working.

He continuously tried preventing from her from focusing on the-- the scepter! "Stark, its really freezing..." Natasha states, who is shivering. "Is she manipulating the weather in here?"

"She is. She demonstrated to us once, before..." Bruce answers for her, as Natasha just nods.

"That's impossible. Only when she wears the gloves could that only happen though... Phil even told us," I add, while Steve just turned to me, annoyance and anger still inside him. "Amelia, she isn't snapping back..."

"Do we have to knock her out?" Natasha questions out of concern, as I realized Amelia did the snowing on purpose to stop us from arguing. "Everyone, Loki is manipulating her," Thor states, while Steve finally lets go of her still shoulders, I ask, "do you have to slap her?"

"NO!" Steve answers instantly, "no."

"Amelia?" Steve calls out her name softly, aw, I mean, he raised her chin making her gaze into their eyes. Okay, I sound like third person Nicholas Sparks for a second there... "She isn't snapping!"

"Alright, who volunteers as tribute to slap her?" I ask, as I receive daggers from everyone's eyes in the room. "Or at least knock her out?" I sheepishly ask. Okay...

"Stark, if you couldn't control eagerness of snapping her out, then why won't you?" Nick asks, as I give him a look.

Thor scoffs, "you speak of control, yet you cause chaos." And we're off to rubbing-off-each-other's-ego land, again. It seems like every time words come out of Fury's mouth, Thor or anyone would harshly retaliate. Wow, its still freaking freezing in here. How many times have I said that?! It turns out that she finally stopped transforming the lab into an ice skating rink, but cold winds continue to blow.

"Bu-but, that's his M.O is it?" I can tell Bruce is shivering as well, as he says through gritted teeth. "I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a che- chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're... we're a time- bo- bomb." Everyone, besides snow queen over there, is shivering, but we all took a minute to listen to his meaningful words. Until Nick has to ruin the moment.

"You, need to step away." To this point, everyone forgot about Amelia's trance unto the scepter, besides Steve who's also listening at the same time.

Steve, who's next to me, I hand out my hand to his shoulder, "why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?"

He shrugs off the hand immediately, letting the hypnotized Amelia go. I realized her mouth is no longer gaping, yet she's positioned straight and her eyes narrowed a little bit. "You know damn well why, back off!" I also realized Amelia turns back and forth, watching our still brewing arguments.

To Cap, we then face face-to-face, "oh, I'm starting to want you to make me."

Spangles then turns his whole body in front of me, leaving Amelia. She should really stop the cold, its really bothering everyone in this lab... (A/N: The cold never bothered me anyway... Sorry, trying to fight the urge to not it but I can't help it.) He scoffs, "big man in a suit of armor. Take that off and what are you?"

Ha, simple. "Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist."

Natasha jokingly nods in approval from the corner of my eye. I look at him straight in the eye as he counters, "I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. Yeah, I've seen the footage." Cocking an eyebrow, he continues, "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, " I retaliate.

He then smiles, amused with my answer. "Always a way out... You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero." Okay, that really did it...

"A hero? Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle!" Both of us just stood there, God's so-called righteous man puffing his chest. Damn right, you better be pissed.

"Put on the suit, let's go a few rounds."

Then Thor, who is watching, laughs in amusement, "you people are so petty... and tiny."

I slightly walk away from Cap as he glare daggers, I keep my eyes wide open. Then Bruce tries clearing the air, "yeah, this is a tea-" He was about to say team...

"Agent Romanoff," Fury cuts him off, not wanting to continue letting all of us try to piss off one another, "would escort Dr. Banner back to his--"

"Where?" Bruce snaps at him, "you rented my room." I then realized at this point, the snowing and cold, harsh winds stopped blowing. Oh thank God, but its still fucking cold!

"The cell was just in case--"

"In case you wanted to kill me, but you can't! I know! I tried!" Wow. I look at Bruce with horror, displeased with his response. It may be immediate, but its terrible to, be suicidal... "I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth 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 scolds Fury, with rage and hatred. We all listen in pity and intently as his tone is filled with depression. "Look at Amelia! She's under the trance of that puny god and is damned when her mother just died like hours ago!"

As he gotten more upset, he then looks over to Nat, who gets slightly unnerved as well. "You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm? " He retorts harshly as I notice he slowly removed the scepter off its stand and table, clinging onto it like, like Loki.

Both Fury and Natasha, I notice from the corner of my eye, began dispatching their guns from their holsters, wary about the slightly unnoticed action. I bet Steve notices as well, "Dr. Banner... put down the scepter."

As soon as Bruce was alarmed of his command, he looks down, shocked. In his grasp is the scepter, the blue gem glowing brightly and continuing to lure Amelia into its trance. I almost forgot about her...-- Then all a sudden, we were all alerted of repetitive beeping from one of the computers in the lab. What's it now...

Bruce returns the scepter back to its table, familiar with the meaning of the alarm. "Got it," I say, familiar with the alarm as well. "Sorry kids, you don't get to see my little party trick after all."

"Located the Tesseract?" Thor asks, curious about the mysterious beeping.

"I can get there faster!"

Then Spandex walks towards to Amelia, probably he never forgot about her, hypnotized. "Look, all of us..."

"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it," Thor reasons, as I turn my heel to leave and find the damn thing once and for all. Until someone grabbed my arm, preventing me from doing it any further. "You're not going alone!" Steve cries out, Amelia watching us blankly.

Ha, "you gonna stop me?"

He furrows his eyebrows and stands a little taller, towering me. "Put on the suit, let's find out."

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man," I mockingly counter, no hints of sarcasm.

"Put on the suit."

Bruce notices something wrong within the location of the Tesseract from his monitor, and mumbles that I can hear, "Oh my god!"

Amelia immediately turns her face towards Bruce, she walks towards him. But her little traveling is interrupted when the whole room exploded.