Reborn By JustBored21

Chapter 21

Bruce Banner sat on a jet with Agent Romanoff as they flew to the Shield hellicarrier, the only other person inside the jet was the pilot. 'Grim', as he was apparently called, had told Agent Romanoff that he would be making his own way back. That had made Bruce a bit curious but he decided not to think too much about that as he was already focusing on other things.

For example the tesseract, he was reading the information that Agent Romanoff had given him about it, it looked really interesting and Bruce was in fact very tempted to ask Nick Fury if he could study it after they found it, but he knew that that was unlikely. Bruce was really hoping that Fury would keep his word and let him go, because he really did not want to see what would happen if Fury suddenly decided to change his mind about putting the Hulk in a cage. Though Grim said he wouldn't do that, but then that brought up the problem of how much he he would be willing to put his faith in the hands of a man who goes by 'Grim'.

"I'm sorry about him by the way." Natasha commented, earning Bruce's attention, he looked up from the information he was reading about the tesseract and looked at her.

"I beg your pardon?" Bruce gave her a questioning look.

"Grim," Natasha said. "I hope he didn't bother you too much. He didn't mean anything bad, he is...just not really good around new people."

"I think the other guy might have had an affect on him." Bruce said in a dry voice.

"Without a doubt," Natasha replied. not even bothering to deny that Harry was thinking about the Hulk. "Grim's an enhanced like you, but he is also a former soldier who had fought plenty of other enhanced individual. He was testing you."

"Testing me?" Bruce frowned. "You mean my self-control?" Bruce asked.

"Exactly," Natasha nodded. "it was a test. How you reacted would decide how he would react, if you were easily provoked then he would probably be keeping a closer eye on you, if it makes you feel better then it's not really a personal thing, plus I think you passed." She finished with a small smile.

"Joy," Bruce rolled his eyes. "how strong is this guy supposed to be? You said he is an enhanced, what are his powers?"

"You'll have to ask him that," Natasha said with an apologetic voice. "I'm not really permitted to tell you. However, if you want my honest opinion, then I think that he is a good man underneath all the shadows and threats. Fury won't do anything to you, especially not with Grim making sure you're treated right."

Bruce looked like he really did not believe her, even if it was clear that he wanted to.

Natasha was on the hellicarrier, waiting for the second jet to arrive with Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, and surprisingly Coulson was the one on the jet with him. Which to be honest wasn't that surprising since Coulson was a high level agent and a great friend of Nick Fury's, the question on most people's mind was did Fury place Coulson there for any reason beyond knowing that Coulson was a big Captain America fan? Natasha was brought out of her thoughts when the jet did finally arrive and Coulson exited along with Steve who was wearing some clothing that looked rather old fashioned clothing when compared to what most people that looked his age would wear.

"Agent Romanoff." Phil Coulson said in greeting upon seeing her. "Captain Rogers" He gestured with his head to Steve. "Captain Rogers, meet Agent Romanoff."

"Ma'am." Steve nodded to her.

"A pleasure." Natasha smiled at them both before turning to Coulson, she was about to speak when another voice suddenly spoke.

"They need you on the bridge," Harry said to Coulson as he walked up to the group. "they are about to start the face trace." Harry added in the form of an explanation.