A life together

Bad Memories

Anyone who knew him could see that he was putting up a front for the public. Anyone who didn't know him would probably just think he's an asshole.

Coulson led him to where the meeting with the other weirdos was taking place. Tony was a little doubtful about Thor's acting power, but somehow they were going to handle it and no one was going to know that they already knew each other.

"I think it's about the mechanics. Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?" He heard Doctor Banner say.

Time to crash the meeting.

"It's a stabilizing agent," he said. He leaned over to Coulson and whispered, "Thanks for distracting me, Agent. I'll fly you to a private island, have a little vacation." He smirked and then continued, "Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD."

He could notice the god looking at him with a spark of amusement, so he walked over to where he was and, patting him on the back, said, "No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing. Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Tyr and his lackeys want. "

Scanning the room and looking for the best way to plant the device to hack the agency, Tony dramatically turned to where the dozens of computers with agents were.

"Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did," he covered one eye and turned both ways. Then he asked, "How does Fury do it?"

"He turns," Agent Hill replied.

"Sounds exhausting," he planted from the hacking device under a desk. "The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube."

"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?"

"Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?"

"Does Tyr need any particular kind of power source?" Asked the good captain.

"He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier," Banner explained.

"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect."

"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet."

"Finally, someone who speaks English."

Tony wasn't going to lie. He was excited to work with the scientist, it was the only thing that was going to save him from losing his mind.

Almost bouncing, he approached the man and shook his hand. "It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster."

"Thanks"

"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him," Fury said, making his typical dramatic entrance.

He could see that his uncle was stressed, and he could also see that he was hiding things. Important things. Usually he could ignore the agency's morally dubious methods and practices, but not this time.

"Let's start with that stick of his from him. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon."

"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Tyr used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys."