Ain't No Hero | Male Reader X MCU

Chapter IX

Fury gathered Y/n, Tony and Steve back into the briefing room, everyone there has a look as if in a daze. A look of numb shock is shown on their devastated faces.]

Nick: These were in Phil Coulson's jacket. Guess he never did get you to sign them.

[Fury throws Coulson's Captain America trading cards on the table towards Steve. Steve picks them up, stained with blood.]

NICK FURY: We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor. I got nothing for you. Lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming. (A BEAT) Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing something even riskier.

There was an idea, Stark knows this, and Y/n use to, called The Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes.

Tony gets up and walks off, not wanting to hear it anymore.

Nick: Well, it's an old fashioned notion.

In an abandoned building, Banner wakes up, in human form. He looks around and sees he is IN a pile of rubble and looks up at the open ceiling he crashed in. and is completely naked. a security guard stands there, amazed.

Security Guard: You fell out of the sky.

Bruce(coming to): Did I hurt anybody?

Security Guard: There's nobody around here to get hurt. You did scare the **** out of some pigeons though.

Bruce: Lucky.

Security Guard: Or just good aim. You were awake when you fell.

Bruce: You saw?

Security Guard: The whole thing, right through the ceiling. Big and green and buck ass nude. Here...

[He throws Banner a pair of big pants. Banner pulls on his pants.]

Security Guard: I didn't think those would fit you until you shrunk down to a regular size fella.

Bruce: Thank you.

Security Guard: Are you an alien?

Bruce: What?

Security Guard: From outer space, an alien?

Bruce: No.

Security Guard: Well then, son, you've got a condition.

Back on the ship Barton is strapped down. Natasha watches over him as Barton tries to shake off Loki's mind control.

Natasha: Clint, you're gonna be alright.

Clint Barton: You know that? Is that what you know? I got...I gotta go in though. I gotta flush him out.

Natasha: We don't have that long, it's gonna take time.

Clint: I don't understand. Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Pull you out and send something else in? Do you know what it's like to be unmade?

Natasha: You know that I do.

Clint: Why am I back? How did you get him out?

Natasha: Cognitive recalibration. I hit you really hard in the head.

Clint: Thanks. (Natasha unfastens the restraints) Tasha, how many agents?

Natasha: Don't. Don't do that to yourself, Clint. This is Loki. This is monsters and magic and nothing we were ever trained for.