I was standing near the window of the Hellicarrier and behind me was the conference room. Steve, Thor, Natasha, and Banner.
Natasha was looking at an LCD screen in hand. I walked towards her and sat beside her. She glanced at me and then focused again on the screen without saying anything.
[It is an impressive cage. But perhaps, it isn't made for me.] Loki said to Furry walking around in the chamber.
[It is made for something more powerful than you."]
[Oh! I heard. A mindless monster seems like a human. How desperate have you become, to call such lost creatures to defend you?] Loki said, still trying to awaken the alter ego of Banner.
"He is definitely up to something. He was captured very easily. I am just thinking, what is here that he wants to take from our base? He has already taken the Tesseract. He has possessed one of the best agents, and physicist." I voiced my thoughts in a slow voice enough for everyone in the room to hear.
"Yeah! But what is that?" Natasha inquired with a *sigh and again focusing on the screen.
[and I meant to remind you what real power is?]
[Well! Let me know what real power needs for time pass, magazine or something?]
"Well! I think I need some time with him alone and I will tell you what he is up to?" I just casually said.
"I guess, he must have an army to attack. He cannot take over the earth alone and he needs the Tesseract to open a gateway for them to enter our planet." I said while maintaining my tone as if I was trying to figure things out. It made me the center of attention for everyone.
"What made you think that he's planning to take over the earth?" (Natasha)
"What else can he do? He always talks about superiority type of stuff."
Then I got up and walked towards Banner. I thought he must have been feeling really bad, because he was called a monster. "You know doctor? About a century ago, some alien species from outer galaxies came to earth." I took a pause and then continued, "They discovered that humans have the potential to mutate. So, they experimented on a few humans. It is unknown what happened after that, but the mutated humans remained among our people. Sometimes, the successors of those people go through a process by exposing themselves to a stone from the aliens' homeland that is called the Diviner, and this exposure unlocks the alien DNA. This process of mutation is known as Terrigenesis."
"So, what are you trying to say? And what does that has to do with this situation?" Bruce and Steve asked simultaneously.
"The thing I wanna explain is that for Bruce, that radiation served the purpose of the Diviner and activated his alien DNA. No ordinary human could have survived that kind of radiation."
"So, you think that I was not human from the beginning, non-sense!."
"We all know what happened to Red-Skull when he was injected with the serum, but it didn't do anything to Steve. Instead, he became super-strong." I pointed towards Steve, whose mouth opened in shock probably, couldn't find any words to say. Everyone in the room was staring at me as if I was an alien.
"The world is undergoing mutation. You won't probably believe me now. But you will, once a lot more people show up with superpowers."
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"This too much, but we have to focus on the current issue now. Thor, what is his plan?" Captain America asked Thor because he thought that Thor was well informed about something they don't know.
"He has an army called the 'Chatauri', well known in Asgard. He's leading them to rule over your people. They will win him the earth." Said Thor to confirm my guess.
"An army. From outer space." Said Captain America.
"So, as he's building another portal. That's why he needed Sylvig for." Banner expressed his own thoughts.
"Sylvig…?" Asked Thor
"He's an astro-physicist." Dr. Banner replied to Thor's question.
"He's a friend." Thor said probably, remembering his first visit to earth.
"Loki has him under some kind of spell along with one of us." Talked Natasha for the first time at the conference.
"I wonder, why Loki let us take him. He cannot lead an army from here." Enquired Captain American while sensing something strange in incidents.
"So, we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is full of cats. He smells crazy…." (Bruce)
"Watch, how you speak? Loki is beyond reason but he's of Asgard and he's my brother." (Thor)
I felt clearly annoyed because of what Thor just said. I walked over to him and looked him in the eye. "You know, Thor? This is what makes me crazy. Just imagine if someone tries to take over Asgard and threatens to enslave your family. What will you do?" I put off my emotions. I clearly may not belong really belong to this world but this is now my home. I cannot leave it. Nor can I let someone destroy it. I don't understand, why am I feeling such kinds of emotions but it is clear that it has something to do with the body I am possessing.
"I will rip them apart." Thor said clearly angered.
"I will do the same when I get my hands on him and you won't be able to stop me." I said with venom in my voice and an intimidating aura. And guess what, Thor took a step backward which shocked the whole crew that gathered here.
"I wonder, what they need the iridium for." Said Dr. Banner scratching his head.
"It's a stabilizing agent." A voice came from the entrance of the hall. We looked there and there was the famous playboy, Tony, and fan-boy, Agent Coulson.
He wandered around the hall doing something in computer interfaces while talking about Nuclear-astrophysics.
He pointed to a few people sitting on the computers, who were playing games. But I knew what was he doing Then he secretly planted a chip on the computer.
"When did you become an expert in Thermonuclear Physics?" Asked Maria Hill rolling her eyes.
"Last night!" Tony said plainly.
"By reading Sylvig's notes and papers."
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Enquired Captain America in his usual tone which I like the most because he always takes the conversation to the main point skipping the crap.
"He had to heat up the cube to a hundred million kelvin to pass the cooling barrier." (Bruce)
"Unless Sylvig has found a way to stabilize the quantum tunnel." (Tony)
"If he gets that he can achieve a heavy eye on fusion than any reactor on this planet." (Bruce)
Hearing their comments on eachother I went near the screens and started working on the interface screens.
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"Dr. Banner is only here to track the Tesseract and so I was hoping you and Agent Tennyson might join him." I was attracted by a different sound that came from the doorstep, Fury as he entered the room.
"Let's start with that stick he had, it might be magical but it has enough powers like the hydra weapons." Captain America expressed his own thoughts.
"I don't know about that but I know that it is powered by the cube. I would like to know how Loki used it to turn our sharpest man into a personal flying monkey." Asked Director Fury glancing towards everyone in the room especially Banner and Tony.
"Monkey!?" Thor asked, clearly confused.
"I got it, I clearly got this," Steve interjected
"Hhhh, the monkey is an animal, mostly trained in zoos to entertain people by performing tricks and dancing," I explained, knowing the truth that there are no monkeys in Asgard. Or I haven't seen it in the movies.
"But I think the powers of both the artifacts are different; the Tesseract can warp space and Loki's Stuff can control people. So, I believe there must be different energy cores inside both these artifacts." I said to make people correct but I didn't want to sound like someone who's completely sure.
"It is possible, but the Tesseract has many more uses than just warping the space, and Loki's staff also has many uses like shooting rays with it." Said Fury but I just nodded.
"Yeah! But it is clear that these both are separate entities." I said with clarity in my tone.
Then Tony and Dr. Banner went into the lab where the Scepter was kept. And Captain America followed them.
I had nothing to do, so I also went after them to the lab.
Soon, I was greeted by the scene where Tony was teasing Bruce and Steve went to stop him and the argument began.
"You need to focus on the problem." (Steve)
"You think I am not? Why didn't he call us before? Why now?" (Tony)
"Do you think he's hiding something?" (Steve)
"Definitely, even I as Level – 6 Agent, don't have permission to go there." I interfered. I myself am against this idea of building advanced weapons which our world is not ready for. He is just labeling our world on a different level. I believe these technologies of Phase 2 are ranked Level 2 or 3 in the plumber's database, which I accessed from my Omnitrix.
"Yeah, he is a spy. Captain, he is THE spy. His secrets have secrets. Doc thinks too." (Bruce)
As Tony pointed Bruce. He hesitated in speaking.
"Aaaaaaaa, I just wanna finish my work here. Aii..." (Bruce) Before Dr. Banner could finish, Steve interrupted him.
"Doctor…" Steve
"Huuuh! 'A warm life for all mankind to share.' Loki's jab, Furry about the cube…." Bruce started speaking. Not to mention, I also put my attention to their conversation because I didn't have the opportunity to understand all the stuff from just movies. And didn't have the opportunity to study the comics.
"Waaa! I think that was meant for you." Bruce said pointing towards Tony.
"Even if Barton didn't tell Loki about the tower, he would still be on the move." (Bruce)
"The Stark Tower, that big ugly….. tower in New York." As Steve said that I couldn't stop myself and burst into laughter.
"Come on fan-boy that is the most amazing thing I have ever created." Tony retorted to my laugh.
Steve was also holding himself but I could see his smiling face, "OK, what about the tower."
"That's powered by an arc-reactor sustaining energy source. That building may work on itself for more than, what a year?" (Bruce)
"That's just a prototype." (Tony)
"So, you are more knowledgeable in terms of understanding energy than anyone here." I voiced my own thoughts.
"OK, guys see you later. But I know what's going on inside Phase 2. They are creating weapons using the power of the Tesseract. Tony won't be of much help here. Steve, you have to figure it out yourself. I installed the security to the Hellicarrier yesterday. It is definitely not possible for Jarvis to pass through Mr. X."
"Mr. X?" (Tony)
"Yep, my self-made AI." I said and went outside without looking back at Tony's expressions.
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I went and sat near Natasha. She gave me an inquiring look, but I ignored her and sat next to her.
"Let's get some information from Loki." I knew she would do it definitely but I just wanted to be something in their eyes.
"Yeah, you are right. We have to find a way to bring Barton back." She instantly went towards the cell where Loki was kept.
"I will come along." I informed her.
Tony and Bruce were busy in the lab. Furry, Coulson, and Thor were talking to eachother.
Natasha moved forward and I lazed for a bit to let her talk to him for a bit.
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"You brought the monster." Just the last words of the interrogation.
"So, Banner, that's your play." Natasha said and turned around to face Loki from behind the glass. Just as I heard this I went towards the lab.
"Loki means to unleash the hulk. Hold Banner in the lab. I'm on my way. Send Thor as well." Natasha reported on the coms.
After a few minutes of interrogation, she found out Loki's plan. It proves how excellent her acting and interrogation capabilities were.
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As I entered the lab Steve put a gun on the table, while I went near Bruce.
When everyone was gathered in the lab with Banner and Tony, I went inside. The weapon Captain America brought was made using the Tesseract.
"I just want to know why S.H.I.E.L.D. is using the Tesseract to make weapons." Dr. Banner asked Fury pointing towards a design of war missiles on the screen.
"Because of him." Fury answered pointing towards Thor. Thor was astonished and asked while raising his eyebrows.
"Last time, when you came, a weapon came along you whom we couldn't protect against, so, I had to come up with something." (Fury)
"But your using the Tesseract has led Loki and others like him are just led to it. They understood that earth is ready for higher technology." Thor informed which definitely has sense. If Fury hadn't used the Tesseract, that wouldn't have sent the signal to attract someone's attention.
But again they started accusing one another and lost concentration on the monitor. My sharp senses detected a little sound as if the room we were in was hit by a stone.
"Put on the suit, Stark." I said loudly. But he was not even paying attention to me.
"Put on the suit. We don't have much time." I said again.
*BOOM
A blast occurred. Captain America and Stark fell down through the broken floor. Everyone got scattered.
I along with Fury stayed in the blasted room but we were fine. I was not sure about Fury though.
"I think one of the engines is down from outside." I told Fury and he issued orders to Stark and Coulson to take measures. I went towards the room where the big guy and Natasha fell. But before going there, I replaced the scepter's stone with a crystal I created from pure-mana. I removed the stone first, then focused my mana on the scepter. Mana started gathering around the tip of the scepter where the stone was located. I condensed the mana so much that a crystal of pink colour got a hold there. Then I let a little of Mind-stone's power flow into it and its colour changed to light-blue again. Then I put the scepter back and jumped into the pit that was created in the Hellicarrier due to the blast towards Banner and Natasha. I knew she was in danger.
"Hey, Bruce calm down." I talked to Bruce as I saw him on the floor.
"This is just what Loki wants, you have to calm down and think clearly."
"Bruce!" I tried talking to him but he just went out of control. He fell from the platform and started transforming. In the meantime, I helped Natasha get free as her foot was stuck between pipes due to the fall. But after a few seconds, Bruce was fully transformed into a green giant monster.
*ROAR.
Hulk roared, completely transformed and looked at us with extreme hate and anger.
"Hey Dweeb, didn't I tell you that we are friends." I talked to him and tried to remind him of our telepathic communication when I was bringing Bruce to the base.
"We are not friends. Hulk has no friends. Everybody hates him." Bruce, the now transformed Hulk said while shouting. But I continued using my calming aura of the Anodite.
"I already said we are friends and we will always be friends Hulk. We need you, my friend. Someone is tampering with your mind using some powerful artifact. Would you let him do whatever he wants?" I said to Bruce, in a friendly and calm manner. I approached him and extended my hand towards him.
"But you only needed Banner, not me," Hulk said again becoming angry but waiting for my response.
"Hhhh! Do you think Banner will be able to stop the enemy who is attacking our world? Do you think Banner is as amazing as Hulk to smash the enemy?" I chuckled and directed a question in a sarcastic tone towards Hulk.
"Hulk, help us, please. We are all friends and we need you. So, we could protect our world. Would you let some punny god enslave us and YOU?" I talked and I could see the effects of my efforts making progress. Hulk considered me as a friend, I don't know if that is because of the Omnitrix, which contains his DNA. Ben 10 from the show was also the same; like he was able to build a friendship with the high-breads and crystal-sapiens.
"But you are Bruce's friend, not mine." (Hulk)
"Who said, I'm Bruce's friend didn't I talk to you before talking to Bruce, so you were already my friend before Bruce." I talked to Hulk. I was about to get successful when a sudden jerk shook Hulk's attention again and he became angry. But I was ready this time, and I cast
"Just, what did you do?" Natasha saw everything that happened here and asked in confusion.
"I actually put him to sleep using a magic spell. Talking to him really paid off, he considers me as a friend." I informed her.
"That magic spell, sounds like Harry Potter to me, so you are a Wizard or something?" She asked but I could clearly see relief in her eyes.
"I call myself Mage. Keep it a secret, will you?" I asked her because I knew she had feelings for me and she would definitely keep my secret.
"Of course, I can keep a secret." (Natasha) I walked towards her and sat beside her on the ground.
She looked at me in the eye then lowered her eyes a little and I understood what she wanted. I leaned forward and tilted my head a little. As I was getting closer, Natasha closed her eyes. That was good enough permission. I pressed my lips against hers and started sucking it slowly. I held her by the waist. She got up and sat on my lap, surrounding both her feet around my waist. I reached towards the back of her head and gently started patting her hair. We kissed for a long time. Then I separated from her because I couldn't afford to deeper in our current situation therefore with a little reluctance we separated. Then I leaned forward again and kissed her on the forehead.
"After this is over, we are going to go hunting together." I told her. She just nodded. I wanted to hunt down the Red Rooms as soon as possible. Maybe I could find a few skilled assassins. Even if I don't find any assassins, it will strengthen my place in Natasha's heart.
"What kind of hunting?" She asked and rested her head on my shoulder.
"I will tell you later. Once we get rid of the issue on hand. I've traced a group of experimenters and I got some clues about a secret organization. We gonna investigate and shut down that organization." I told her.
"*sigh! Why do you always find yourself missions? Can't you take a holiday or something?" I asked but I knew where she was going.
"I think this mission will take us less than a week. Then we will take a holiday and visit some beautiful places. What do you say?"
"Well, it isn't a bad idea." She said will a pretty smile on her face. I could sense relief in her eyes. Honestly, I did not have enough information regarding these heroes. They looked pretty charming and happy every now and then when I watched the movies but now, looking at her I can see a very distinctive version of MCU. How Hulk agreed to be my friend, so easily? Just talking to him casually like a friend changed his raging behavior.
*
[Mr. Tennyson, a breach in SHIELD database has been detected.] Just as we were enjoying our moments together, an emotionless voice resounded from the upper part of my Ultimatrix's gauntlet and blinked with a greenish-yellow colour. That was my main AI, Julie. Julie is a female-based character that I created in these years since I arrived on this planet by combining several AIs that I created and then merged together. Julie's main system is lying in my BASE. Julie is more powerful than any computer on this planet. It doesn't even need a satellite to work, because it is connected to the magnetism of the earth itself. Magnetic lines always travel from one pole to another on earth. My magnetic communication system uses these lines to send and receive data.
Aside from JULIE, Mr. X is just an inferior version AI with a little advanced coding but it is powerful enough to stop JARVIS from hacking SHIELD's database.
"Allow X to stop the breach and don't interfere yourself." I gave command to JULIE, I didn't want her to come into contact with any kind of technology in SHIELD, while I used some of her previous functions to hack into SHIELD's database before joining SHIELD Academy.
[Roger that sir.]
"Who was that? Another AI?" (Natasha)
"Yep, her name's JULIE. She is the most advanced AI on the planet." I explained to her but looks like she was in a completely different world.
"Who's JULIE? Your girlfriend?" (Natasha)
"Seriously!? That the only thing you heard." I asked completely astonished by her unusual behavior. Honestly, I can't understand women. I could predict Loki's moves, Thor's thinking, Tony's remarks, etc. but this is completely unexpected.
"Just answer the question." She grabbed my jacket and looked deeply into my eyes.
"No, it means, [Just Ultimate Lining of Intelligence Entities.]"
"So, there is nothing like that."
"No, definitely not." I answered somehow, but I could feel drops of cold sweat going down my spine. Only then I took a sigh of relief when Fury's voice resounded through the intercom.
"This is Barton. He is taking down our main system. He's headed for the detention level. Does anybody copy?"
Thor was giving me a strange look, but I left him and ran towards the control system.
"Agent Tennyson, copy." I answered on the intercom. Then Natasha also voiced her answer.
"Agent Romanoff copy, Sir."
She just went forward without running. I just followed slowly. The reason why I am not interfering too much in their fights is to let them gain experience otherwise in the end I would be stuck with all the hard work.
When I reached Romanoff's position, Barton was already unconscious. So I just went near Barton.
I put my hand on his head and used
I left Natasha there and ran outside to the main control room. When I passed through the corridors, I met with a group of men that Barton brought. I activated another magic spell called,
On the other side of the door, Captain America was waiting with the lever to slow down the engine. So, unconsciously I changed many things such as; stopping Banner from falling off the plane.
My train of thought was disrupted by the announcement of Director Fury, "Agent Coulson is down."
Coulson!? Just as I heard these words, I ran towards the cage where Loki was kept. In a few moments, I was already there. I saw Coulson's body there, leaning against the wall holding a beam projector in his hands. Honestly speaking, he was one of the very few people who were completely honest with me. On every mission I went along with him, I enjoyed my time beside him. I know that there is something going on in Tahiti and Coulson will be revived again. But I wanted to pay for what Loki has done. Before I was holding back, but not anymore. I will have to let him feel this pain and I will have to think of what to pay him.
Everyone gathered in the conference room while I headed towards Clint and Natasha.
They noticed my arrival as I reached there. "How're you feeling, Clint?" I posed towards Barton, the Hawk Eye.
"My head is little numb, but I am fine. Natasha told me what you did? Thank you so much." (Barton)
"Don't mention it. Loki will pay for whatever he did, today. To you, Sylvig, and Coulson." I replied while gritting my teeth. I was even thinking about the plot anymore, I just want to get rid of him so he couldn't do more damage now.
"You wouldn't probably know where he is? Right?" I asked Barton.
"I didn't need to know. So, I never asked." Replied Clint while sighing in regret.
"We got to stop him." Natasha said and looked towards Clinton.
"Yea!" Answered Clint while taking a sip from a can. "Who's we?"
"I don't know. Whoever is left?" Answered Natasha shrugging her shoulders.
"We need to be together, now." I intervened in their conversation. "Get back to work, Clint. We need not to let that trickster take control over us. Natasha, you're coming right? We need to drive the Quinn Jet." I just said this and went out.
When I came out of the room, I saw Captain America heading to our location.
"What's up, Cap?" I asked him. As a matter of fact, I knew what he was going to tell me.
"Suit up, Ben. We have to go." Captain said in his usual tone and went in to inform the two inside the room.
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3rd Person POV
Steve, Tony, Barton, and Natasha along with Ben came up the Hellicarrier. Then Captain, Natasha, Clint, and Ben went inside. Ben and Natasha sat on the driver seats and the others sat on the seats in the back of the Quinn Jet. After a few moments, the Quinn Jet reached the center of New York.
A blue portal could be seen in the sky, looked like a giant black hole but instead of black, it was blue coloured.
Guess, What?
The war is about to begin…..
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