Love, Agent Delacroix

Ten Bucks

BRIDGE, CARRIER - MINUTES LATER-

We follow Natasha into the bridge. Natasha peels away from them as they stare and observe in awe. It's very busy, with SHIELD personnel working at stations, and communicating over earpieces. "Maximum performance take off, increase output to capacity." "Power plant performing at capacity. We are clear."

"All engines operating. SHIELD emergency protocol one nine three point six in effect. We're at level, sir." Agent Hill says turning to Fury. "Good! Let's vanish."

"Engage retro reflection panels."

"Reflection panels engaged."

"Gentlemen. Agent." Steve slips Fury the ten dollars he bet earlier, in regards to nothing being able to surprise him. "Doctor, thank you for coming." Banner shakes Fury's hand. "Thanks for asking nicely. So, um, how long am I staying?"

"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the wind."

"Well where are you with that?"

"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones..." Steve stands in the b.g. confused of what's being said. While Coulson is talking, Natasha moves over to a computer screen where we see Barton's face trace in progress. She checks the stats.

"...laptops, if it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us."

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

"You have to narrow your 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, basic cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?" Banner takes off his jacket.

"Agent Romanoff, would you show Doctor Banner to his laboratory, please?" Natasha walks over to Banner and they begin walking out of the bridge area. "You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys."

"Really? Do you have the com-meter sixty-four?"

"I'm not sure"

"Oh you're very young."

Fury walks up to Hill. "Hill, did you tell the council that Barton had been compromised? not procedure?" Fury walks off the bridge and onto the air deck, where he looks out. "Did you tell them who exactly is on your response team?" Fury looks over his shoulder.

"Doesn't appear that I have to."

BRIDGE, CARRIER - DAY-

Coulson, Steve and Brianna are standing in the bridge, just waiting. AGENT JASPER SITWELL is in the b.g. running the face trace. "I mean, if it's not too much trouble."

"No-no, it's fine."

"It's a vintage set. 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. Wait- cross-match, seventy nine percent."

"Location?"

"Stuttgart, Germany. Twenty eight, Königstraße. He's not exactly hiding."

"Captain, Delacroix, you're up." We nod and walk off.

ROOM, CARRIER - DAY-

Steve and I walk through a door and in a case is the new and improved CAPTAIN AMERICA suit. He walks over to it and Stares. I see my new suit. Its different. More Weapon-like. Dangerous. A stark contrast to Steves Suit. Who designed this?

QUINJET, SKIES - NIGHT-

The quinjet is speeding across the cloudy skies, making its

way to Germany.

FANCY BUILDING, STUTTGART - NIGHT-

People flee the gala, screaming, and Loki follows, taking on his Asgardian attire. He blasts a Polizei (police) car speeding toward him, flipping it over. He creates duplicates of himself, surrounding a mob of gala people.

"Kneel before me. I said- KNEEL!" The people hurry, dropping to their knees. Loki walks through the crowd. "Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble forpower, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end- you will always kneel."

A German old man gets to his feet. "Not to men like you."

"There are no men like me."

"There are always men like you."

"Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example." Loki fires his scepter but Steve jumps in front of the man -- deflecting the beam off his shield causing it to hit Loki, who falls to the ground. I land Next to Steve. I Take off my mask. Damn its hard to breathe in that thing.

"You know, the last time We were in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing."

"The soldier and the Agent" Loki rises to his feet. "-the man and Woman out of time"

"Were not the ones who are out of time." I smirk, Twirling a dagger in my hand. The quinjet comes in behind Cap with Black Widow inside. A gun unfolds from the underside of the plane.

"Loki, drop the weapon and stand down." Loki fires at the jet and it banks hard to avoid it. Cap attacks Loki and the two fight. Loki knocks Cap's shield to the side and forces him down with his scepter. "Kneel!"

"Not today." Brianna jumps up and does a spin-kick to Loki's face. The three continue to fight.

COCKPIT, QUINJET - NIGHT-

Natasha, in her Black Widow suit, is trying to figure out how to take a shot. "Guy's all over the place."

"Agent Romanoff, you miss me?" The computer screen shows the message 'PA SYSTEMS OVERRIDE', and AC/DC's, 'Shoot to Thrill' begins to play. Natasha smiles heavily. Iron Man flies down and fires a repulsor blast, knocking Loki down.

"Make a move reindeer games." Loki's Asgardian garb fades away and he raises his hands.

"Good move." Cap walks over to Iron Man. I smirk at the two. The quinjet begins to land in the b.g.

"Mister Stark."

"Captain."

"Tony" I smile, I push Loki along in cuffs. "Bri."

DARKENED CLOUDY SKIES - NIGHT-

some mountains in the distance...the quinjet speeds by.