Soft footsteps alert Tony and Bruce to Louise's approach, both men gathered behind a vaulted viewscreen. Her body pausing as she sees the information of the clear screen backwards, she sees weapon plans, secure files signaling S.H.I.E.L.D. 's insignia. She steps next to Tony, staring over the information silently; louder footsteps this time echoing down the hall before the lab.
"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Fury speaks as he enters the lab, Louise leant against the longer table near the window of the lab. Tony sitting on it at the edge in front of a screen, Bruce behind them on the other side.
"Kind of been wondering the same thing about you." Tony replies, all of them looking at Fury in the middle of the room.
"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract."
"We are, 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." Banner spoke up, gesturing to an elevated table screen that searched for gamma signatures.
"And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss." Tony says, an alert beeping from the screen in front of him.
"What is Phase 2?" He asks, Steve appearing and slamming down a H.Y.D.R.A. gun on a table next to him in the lab.
"Phase 2, is S.H.I.E.L.D. uses the cube to make weapons. Sorry, the computer was moving a little slow for me." Steve speaks, Louise staring at the weapon with distaste.
"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're-"
"I'm sorry, Nick. What were you lying about?" Tony pipes in turning his screen around to show a blueprint for a tesseract powered bullet/missile.
"I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Steve adds on, making Louise stand straight as Thor and Nat enter into the room, moving to the side by Fury.
"Did you know about this?" Bruce questions Nat as she stops some space away from him.
"You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?" She says, watching as he stepped a few steps away as she began a closer approach.
"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed." He retorts, as she speaks.
"Loki's manipulating you."
"And you've been doing what exactly?" Bruce asks, continuing their banter.
"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 pauses, grabbing the edge of Tony's screen and pointing to it.
"I'd like to know why S.H.I.E.L.D. is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."
"Because of him." Fury speaks up, Thor catching his point.
"Me?" He questions a few members in the room looking at Thor.
"Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge mass that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned." Fury states, glancing around to connect eyesight with the people in the lab.
"My people want nothing but peace with your planet." Thor adds, making Fury look back.
"But you're not the only people out there, are you? And, you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched-"
"That can't be controlled?" Louise speaks, trying to calm the glare in her eyes.
"Like you controlled the cube?" Steve says, affirming her assumption.
"Your 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 states, stepping forward slightly as Steve spoke.
"A higher form?"
"You forced our hand. We had to come up with something." Fury tries to differ,
"A nuclear deterrent. Cause that always calms everything right down." Tony rebutts.
"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Fury snipes back,
"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep-" Steve goes on, Tony interrupting again.
"Wait, Wait, Hold on. How is this now about me?" Tony says, taking a step to confront him.
"I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Steve responds, Louise herself starting to get a headache from their clashing emotions.
"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor adds, making Fury turn to face him as he speaks.
"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?"
"You treat your champions with such distrust." Thor speaks, Tony and Steve begin their argument as well behind them.
"Are you boys really that naive? S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors potential threats." Nat joins in Fury's and Thor's words.
"Captain America is on threat watch?" Bruce questions, their mental state making Louise stumble back as her head began to ache as the scepter behind her began to hum softly.
"We all are." Nat replies, words becoming muddled as Louise tries to calm her desire to control them, a lust of some kind urging her to attack in some form or another.
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Ardent || MCU
Fanfiction"Are you ever gonna let me save you?" "I'm not your typical damsel, James." Louise was a woman with many skills, baking, dancing, knife throwing, undercover ops, etc. Well, she learned the last two while her best friends fought in the second World...
