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An alarm blared through the dark night. The swishing of blades from the helicopters could be heard overhead as they hovered above the base. A loud voice cracked through the speakers. “All personnel, the evacuation order has been confirmed. Proceed to your designated vehicles for our assisted evacuation. This is not a drill.” People are pushing out of the building, darting in and out between other people and personnel trying not to get trampled as they get to their cars safely. “Emergency personnel please proceed to your designated vehicles.” The voice calmly repeated.
One of the helicopters in the air slowly descends to the helicopter pad spinning its tail around. The door slides open and a woman wearing A navy blue suit steps out followed by a man with a black eye patch who was clad in all black. They both walk up to a man in a suit who had been waiting for them to arrive next to where the helicopter landed. “How bad is it?” The man with an eye patch asked, having to yell over the sound of the blades spinning on the helicopter and the alarm blaring below.
The suited man pulls off his sunglasses and faces them. “That’s the problem, sir. We don’t know.” He turned around and started walking towards the building. “We should continue talking inside.” He motions for the others to follow him into the building without looking back behind him. The moment they were out of possible civilian earshot the man continued.
“Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the tesseract four hours ago.”
Fury raised his eyebrow slightly. “NASA didn’t authorize Selvig to go past the test phase.”
“He wasn’t testing it; he wasn’t even in the room. Spontaneous event.” The man explained. Dodging in and out between the scientists who were scrambling to retrieve as much of their research as they could before evacuating.
The woman leaned forward slightly, putting herself more into their conversation. “It just turned itself on?” She questioned.
“-Where are the energy levels now?” Fury butted in, not managing Agent Hill’s question.
“Climbing. When Selvig couldn’t shut it down we ordered the evacuation.” He explained as they walked without changing their pace.
“How long will it take to get everyone out?”
“We should be clear in the next half hour sir.”
“Do better,” Fury stated dryly. The agent nodded and turned around to walk in the other direction while the other two continued on.
“Sir.” The girl chipped in. “Evacuation may be futile. If we can’t control the tesseract’s energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance.” Her voice was calm and collected for the severity of the situation before them
“I need you to make sure that the phase two prototypes are all shipped out.”
The girl raised her eyebrow. “Sir, is that really a priority right now, there are still people-”
Nick spins around to face her. “-Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.” He turns back around and continues to walk. “Clear out the tech below. Every piece of phase two on a truck and gone.”
“Yes sir.” The woman says somewhat bitterly as she walks away followed by two armed guards.
Fury sighs and turns into a large room. “Talk to me, doctor.” He commands.
A man stands up and walks towards him, stumbling a bit. “Director.”
“Is there anything we know for certain?” He glances up at the large machine holding the glowing cube in place.
“The tesseract is misbehaving.”
Fury glances back to Selvig. “Is that supposed to be funny?”
“No, it's not funny at all. The tesseract is not only active, but she is also… behaving.” The man stated worriedly.
“I assume you pulled the plug?”
“She is an energy source. You turn off the power, she turns it back on. If she reaches peak level- “
“We prepared for this doctor. Harnessing energy from space.” Fury crossed his arms over his chest.
“But we don’t have the harness. My calculations are far from complete. And she is throwing off interference, radiation. Nothing harmful, just low levels of gamma radiation. It is surprisingly similar energy-wise to a substance known as ectoplasm, I haven’t tested on any myself, but others have. It is extremely difficult to get your hands on.” The man explained while roughing up a few papers on the desk.
Nick looked back and forth between the man and the tesseract. “Where is Agent Barton?”
The man lets out a light chuckle and shakes his head. “The hawk? Up in his nest, as usual.” He jerks his thumb in the direction behind him pointing up slightly.
Fury walks away in that direction, paying the doctor no more mind as he gathers his things. He stares at the man who is polishing an arrow with his thumb up on some of the rafters. He singles for Clint to come down to talk.
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“I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things.” Was the first thing Fury stated when Hawkeye got down from his perch.
“Well, I see better from a distance.” He had a light smirk on his lip.
“Have you seen anything that might set this thing off?”
“No one has come and gone, Selvig is clean. No outer contacts, no unknown access.” He paused. “If there was any tampering sir it was not from this end.”
Nick stops. “At this end?”
“Yeah, the cube is a doorway to the other side of space, right?” He turns around gesturing vaguely at the cube. “Doors open from both sides, don’t they?”
Suddenly there was a spark that shot out of the Tesseract, causing the two to stumble back. The cube continued to spark blue lightning out around it and the building started to shake. Everyone froze bracing themselves for what was about to come. The blue light and energy start to spin around it and a blue beam shoots out the back of it ripping a hole in the air where it hit. Now there was a blue portal, the blue energy crackling around the edges. A few seconds after forming the portal exploded into a burst of blue light that filled the lab crackling up the walls.
Where the portal once was, stood a man with his head down. Other agents in the room started to close in on him, their guns were drawn. He was wearing green and black, had black hair, and was holding a spear with a blue glowing orb embedded in the hooked blade.
Nick called out to the man. “Sir, please put down the spear.” The unknown looked between Fury and the spear before holding it out and trying to blast the director. The guards opened fire on the man as he leaped through the air. He landed on one of the agents and killed him with the spear through his chest. More people opened fire on his back, he spun around throwing a spray of daggers at the men killing them both. Some embed themselves in the wall behind them.
Loki walked over to Barton who was trying to get up off of the floor and grabbed his shirt, tilting his head to the side. “You have heart.” He raised his staff and pressed the tip of it to his chest, blue energy radiating off it. Instead of placing it through his skin, he keeps it still. Barton looks up at Loki, his eyes slowly starting to glow an electric blue, he looks at him and puts the gun back in his holster standing at attention.
Fury sees that Loki is starting to go around the room, mind-controlling most of the survivors. The ones he cares not for he just leaves to bleed out or die once he is done. Fury slowly gets up and starts to grab the tesseract off its pedestal placing it nicely into a briefcase that had been left on Dr. Selvig’s desk. As he clips it shut and starts to walk to the exit, Loki’s voice rang out.
“Please don’t. I still need that.”
“This doesn’t have to get any messier,” Fury called out slowly, turning around back to face the man who had just taken out some of the best agents he had without another look.
“Of course it does. I have come too far for anything else. I am Loki of Asgard. And I am burdened with glorious purpose.” The doctor stands up and starts stumbling forward with a surprised look on his face.
“Loki, brother of Thor.” He calls out causing Loki to turn and look at him, his eyes narrowing bitterly.
Fury continues. Snapping Loki's attention back to him, and away from the Dr. “We have no quarrel with your people.”
“An ant has no quarrel with a boot.” Loki flipped his wrist to the side.
“Are you planning on stepping on us?”
Loki ignored the question and continued his monologue. “I come with glad tidings of a world made free.”
“Free from what?” the director pressed, he held the briefcase a little further behind him this time, behind his body and hopefully less out of sight of the dubbed god.
“Freedom…” The man hummed thoughtfully. “Freedom is life’s great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart-,” He spins around and touches his staff to the doctor’s chest causing his eyes to turn blue. “-You will know peace.”
“Yeah, you say peace, I kind of think you mean the other thing.” Fury jerked his head to the side.
Barton walks forward, his eyes glossed over with the same blue “Sir Director Fury is stalling; this place is about to blow and drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us.” He turns his gaze to Fury
He smirks in response. “Like the pharaohs of old.”
The doctor speaks up too. “He is right, the portal is collapsing in on itself. We got maybe two minutes before this place goes critical.”
Loki turns to Barton. “Well then.” Clint nods and quickly raises his gun placing two shots directly in the center of Fury’s chest causing him to collapse to the ground dropping the tesseract. They start walking for the door and Barton picks up the briefcase passing it to the doctor.
X
Coulson’s voice calls out over the radio talking to Nick, who had just managed to get up and start walking out of the building, trying to get as far away as possible. “We’re clear upstairs sir. We need to go.”
Fury opens the door on the roof and rushes out to the Helicopter he used earlier to get here. The roof cracked behind him from the power of the tesseract. Just as the helicopter takes off, the helipad beneath it starts to collapse in on itself. The helicopter takes to the air trying to get as far away from the building as possible before it explodes.
The earth shakes as the building that they were just in implodes into itself before collapsing on the ground leaving behind a large creator where it was. The helicopter continued to follow where Loki and the others were going. They hover over the car they escaped in, Nick pulls out his gun and opens the door, firing on the car trying to take out the driver and hopefully hit Loki.
Loki raises his staff an energy bubble building up on the end of the spear before launching out and blasting the helicopter out of the sky, causing it to spin in a descent to the ground. Nick quickly leaps out of the helicopter landing on the ground with a roll, so he didn’t break his legs. He once again opens fire at the car as it is driving away, but they are too far. His radio sounds off again.
“Director? Director Fury, do you copy?” There was a tinge of worry and urgency in Coulson's voice.
Fury pulls up his radio. “The tesseract is with a hostile force. I have men down.” He turns to face the destroyed flaming helicopter. “Hill?”
The woman from before calls through the radio now. “We have a lot of men still under. I don’t know how many survivors.”
“Sound a general call. I want every living soul not working rescue looking for that briefcase.” Fury responds.
She sighs. “Roger that.”
“Coulson get back to base. This is a level seven. As of right now, we are at war.”
Coulson’s eyes dart around as he picks up his radio again. “What do we do?”
“We need a team.”
X
A small jet lands just outside the small town of Amity Park, out from the jet walks Agent Hill and Director Fury. It is early morning. Hill jogs up to Nick who had a bit of a head start walking toward the city. “Sir, are you sure we can find him here?”
“Our intel says he will be here, he has never left his home before. We just need to find him.”
“Our intel also says that he is hostile, and a criminal.” Hill spat. “Are you sure we should be trying to find him?”
“I believe he is one of our best chances for winning this. And I have a backup plan if things don’t work out with him.”
Suddenly there was a huge explosion of debris in front of them as dirt and grass started flying up as something crashed into it at high speeds. Inside the small crater in front of them was a boy with snow-white hair and a hazmat suit, the one who they were looking for.