I'm Iron Man, And I'm Agent Coulson

Chapter 31 Avengers

2 month 3 weeks later

"Agent (l/n), is there anything else worth mentioning, besides what's in this report?" Fury asked as he, Agent Maria Hill, and myself, approached the J.D.E. facility by chopper.
"No sir, I've watched and continued checks on all of Selvig's team and they've come out clean. The Tesseract hasn't been moved, and Dr. Selvig hasn't run any unscheduled tests," I replied as steadily as I could, seeing the facility coming up over the mountains, disregarding my sweaty hands and shadows hanging over the facility, "I went ahead and started the evacuation of all personnel, along with Phase II weaponry, as ordered sir. The facility should be clear within the hour."

I'd been stationed at the dark energy facility with Clint for almost three months off and on, keeping a watchful eye on the newly recruited Selvig and the Tesseract.
It was tedious, and tiring, but the information we were receiving from the Tesseract, along with it's shady past, helped pass the time.
Although, since I'd been here, and with every new anomaly, a deeper sense of dread seemed to grow in my stomach.
Nightmares revolving around the cube plagued my dreams, making my sleep paterns even worse, and I couldn't seem to get comfortable around the Tesseract, or the work we were doing with it.
I couldn't explain it, or the rumblings of warnings going off whenever I came back.
It seemed like the more time I spent around the cube, the more powerful the whispers became, the internal warnings, and the constant burning in my hands. The questions as to why also became more prevalent.
Hence why I sent the alarm, overriding Selvig and Clint, but my internal alarms screamed, and could no longer be ignored, not when I felt like something horrible was coming.
Clint noticed my unease, but put it down to the long hours of watching, and boredom, but it was more than that. It was a constant of adrenaline and my battle between fight or flight.
I really couldn't explain, not without making myself sound crazy, like I did during my last flight, which ended my career in the marines.
So I fought through it, and doubled my vigilance, making sure everyone was following protocol, but it wasn't enough, and I was running out of time to stop it.
I said to myself I wouldn't hide my warnings, not anymore, that I would make them known and hopefully people would listen this time, but that remained to be seen, since I'd made my misgivings prevalent since I first arrived at the facility, and no one listened, until now.

In those three months, it didn't seem to matter when learned the cube, SHIELD had located at the bottom of the ocean, was only being studied in order to erase our dependency on fossil fuels, since it was deemed a proprietor of clean and unlimited energy, but regardless of Fury and Selvig' reassurances I continually warned them something wasn't right.
Yet, after many rather angry discussions, along with the knowledge we weren't alone in the universe with the arrival of Thor, the council decided to move forward with a new weapons program.
In just eight weeks SHIELD had already begun weaponizing the Tesseract, which seemed strange and unbelievable they were able to move so quickly. It also made me extremely uneasy, like I was involved in more than just company secrets.
Although, with my new clearance, I was made privy after the fact, SHIELD began to build weapons, labeled only as PHASE II, and these weapons were being built to protect humanity against a higher form of war.
The battle out in the desert against a nearly indestructible robot, from Asgard, had forced SHIELD's hand.
I understood their detriment, but was uneasy about the slippery slope SHIELD was now on, and made those misgivings known to both Fury and Coulson.
I continuously toyed with the idea Fury wasn't being completely honest with any of us when it came to the Tesseract, but I did my job, and complained when I had the chance.

For three months, of and on, Clint and I had kept a watchful eye over every doctor and scientist who had access to the Tesseract, monitoring its strange behavior, while I stumbled under a heavy weight of shadows hanging over the facility, but this past week, the cube began to act on it's own, with no known precursors as to how or why, and all of us had been put on high alert after I requested evacuations and Fury's presence.
The nervousness of everyone at the facility made my dread more pronounced, plus I was exhausted, and aching to get the fuck away from the Tesseract.