The Princess

F O U R

I look our and I notice everyone tying down the quinjets and planes. Others are rushing to get inside, I step in between the men as Natasha steps beside me.

"Gentlemen, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breath."

The Helicarrier starts to shake as it prepares to take "sail". Others abord strap down planes and Quinjets in preparation

"Is this a submarine?"

"Really? They wanted me in a submerged, pressurized metal container?"

The two both move closer to the edge of the Helicarrier. Four huge lift fans mounted on the sides starts to lift into the air as the ship takes flight. Rogers watches in awe while Bruce and I just smile.

"Oh, no. This is much worse."

The doors part and we enter the bridge of the ship. A flurry of activity, dozens of agents sit in front of their view screens. I see Agent Hill shouting at the others. Fury is sitting in the command chair.

"We're at lock, sir."

"Good. Let's vanish."

The Helicarrier rises high into the heavens. Suddenly the entire ship is covered in reflecting mirrors, which then camouflages in the sky.

"Gentlemen."

I glance over to see Rogers gives Fury 10 bucks. Fury walks over Bruce and extends his hand. Bruce slowly starts to shake it.

"Doctor, thank you for coming."

"Thanks for asking nicely. So, uh... how long am I staying?"

"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you and Miss Schade are in the clear."

"Where are you with that?"

Fury turns to Agent Coulson to explain, while I walk over to see Natasha looking at an image of Clint on a computer screen. I grab her shoulder and she looks at me.

"We'll get him back, I know it."

She hasn't ever shown much emotion, but I seen the small smile.

"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cellphones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us."

"That's still not gonna find them in time."

They glance at me and Natasha as Bruce starts to talk.

"You have to narrow the field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?"

"How many are there?"

"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?"

"Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner and Miss Schade to the laboratory, please."

She nods and walks off, I follow behind the two as I roll my eyes.

"You're gonna love it. We got all the toys."

I lightly laugh as we start walking down a few different hallways. We eventually get to the room, I look around for a moment. I turn back to Natasha and smile, she walks out. I turn to the doctor.

"So how have you been, you know with the Hulk."

"Well I'm here, aren't I."

I nod and grab a small tube and walk over to the computers.

"Why are you with them, if you're a princess."

I look at him and quietly laugh, I watch as he seems tense.

"You don't have to be afraid to ask anything."

I walk over to where he's begin working, I set down in a chair next to him.

"I'm not from earth, I'm originally from a planet called Brosie SP. We were a planet that was connected with the other 9 realms."

"Why'd you leave."

I look at my hands for a moment before sadly smiling at him.

"If I hadn't of left then I'd be dead. My uncle and the people who followed him, they tried to take over our planet. They must have miscalculated something because most of the planet exploded, I was able to get into one of our natural pods. My parents weren't so lucky, but I believe they're at peace with our ancestors."

He nods, I know it's a lot for someone to comprehend more less respond to it. I set the tunes down and watch him work.

"So why'd you stay on earth."

"Well when I arrived, I was bloody from the crash. My adoptive father took me in and got me cleaned up, he's the reason why I fight so hard to protect earth."

"I'm glad you got a chance."

"Me too, not many people get second chances."

He doesn't say anything, I watch as he stops working. I know what he's thinking about, The Hulk. We don't say anything else about the subject, we start looking for the extra gamma rays or any high concentrations of radiation.

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That night in the Helicarrier bridge. We're waiting to locate Loki using satellite facial recognition, Coulson is standing with next to Rogers. They're talking about his trading cards.

"I mean, if it's not too much trouble."

"No, no. It's fine."

I look at them and smile, he seems confused but impressed. Agent Coulson is very protective over his trading cards, I think it's nice to have something you really love.

"It's a vintage set. It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint, slight foxing around the edges, but..."

"We got a hit. Sixty-seven percent match. Weight, cross match, seventy-nine percent."

"Location?"

"Stuttgart, Germany. 28, Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding."

"Captain, you're up."

He nods and leaves, Fury looks to me. I nod my head in understanding and follow after the man.

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I follow him to where his locker is, we walk into the locker room. As he approaches to the steel cabinet, the doors already reveal the updated Captain America uniform, along with the famous shield. He stands in silence, he looks over at me and I smile.

"Are you coming with me"

"Yes I am."

"Then suit up"

"Oh am I taking orders from you."

"No but..."

"I'm messing with you."

I laugh and hold up my watch, I press the purple button, my suit slowly starts to over take my body. Rodgers just watches me, I smile and walk out of the room.