Tsunami (Avengers Fanfic)

Chapter 6

*DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything but Arabella*

"I was wrong, director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Bella heard Steve say to the director.

At that moment, Thor, Natasha, and Bella walk into the lab. Natasha keeps her eyes right on Banner. Banner looks at her angrily. "Did you know about this?" he asked her.

"You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?" she says eyeing him.

"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed." he said sarcastically.

"Loki's manipulating you." Natasha said.

"And you've been doing what exactly?" Banner kept his sarcastic tone while giving Natasha a look.

"You didn't come here so I can bat my eyelashes at you." Natasha retorted.

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy. I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction." Banner got serious after that last statement.

"Because of them." Fury said pointing at Bella and Thor.

"Us?" Bella and Thor said in union, stunned.

"Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. Also that there is a whole school of people that has powers. Most of them even have abilities that they can get whatever they want. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned." Nick said in answer to their question.

"My people want nothing but peace with your planet." Thor said.

"We teach those children to be heroes, at least we haven't pulled a stunt like this." Bella said emphasizing the word children.

"But you're not the only people out there, are you? And, you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled." Nick said defending their reasons.

"Like you controlled the cube?" Steve retorted.

"People can't be controlled, they have minds of their own. They are entitled to their own opinion." Arabella was getting mad.

"You're work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for a higher form of war."

"A higher form?" Steve asked worried.

"You forced our hand. We had to come up with something." Nick said.

"I still don't get why mutants get to be a part of the 'getting blown up with vaporizing guns' part." Bella stated. "Is it because we are different? 'Cause if that is so, we didn't want this. We were born with it. Ya hear no chose, born with." Bella emphasized parts of that sentence hoping to get that through Fury's thick skull.

"Nuclear deterrent. 'Cause that always calms everything right down." Tony said.

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Fury asked Tony.

"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck-" Steve started.

"Wait! Wait! Hold on! How is this now about me?"

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?"

"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor chuckled to himself.

"Excuse me, did WE come to YOUR planet and blow stuff up?" Fury asked Thor angrily.

"Did you always give your champions such mistrust?" Thor asked.

"Are you all naive- really Captain America is on watch list?" Banner asked.

"S.H.I.E.L.D monitors potential threats." Natasha stated.

"Potential threats? watch list?" Banner asked her.

"I swear to God, Stark, one more crack..." Steve let that threat hang.

"You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?" Tony retorted. "Threatening! I feel threatened!"

As the 'team' argues, they don't realize the blue gem on Loki's scepter is glowing brightly. At this point the egos of these people keeping rubbing off each other.

"You speak of control, yet you court chaos." Thor says.

"It's his M.O., isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're... we're a time-bomb." Banner put his opinion in about the team.

"You need to step away." Nick says.

"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Tony says putting his arm around Steve.

"You know damn well why! Back off!" Steve says pushing him off.

"Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me." Tony says coming face-to-face with Steve.

"Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?" Steve asked rhetorically.

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Stark listed off.

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. Yeah, I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you." Steve said.

"I think I would just cut the wire." Tony retorted.

"Always a way out... You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero." Steve said smiling.

"A hero? Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle!" Tony said. Steve had obviously hit a nerve. Steve puffs up his chest at Tony, who just stands there, unmoving.

"Put on the suit, let's go a few rounds." Steve told him.

Thor laughs at them. "You people are so petty..." he started then looked at Bella and Natasha and says, "and tiny.

Tony rubs his head and moves away from Cap.

"Yeah, this is a team..."

"Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his..." Fury starts.

"Where? You rented my room." Banner stated.

"The cell was just in case..." Nick began.

"In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know! I tried!." There was a beat of silence before Banner continued. "I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk!" Banner slowly gets upset as he looks at Romanoff, who gets unnerved. "You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?" Black Widow and Fury have their hands down to grab their guns.

"Doctor Banner... put down the scepter." Bella says as she slowly walks towards him with her hands outstretched. Banner looks down and is shocked to see he is holding the scepter. The computer beeps. They all turn to it.

"Got it." Tony says. Banner puts down the scepter and walks over to the computer with Bella.

"Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my little party trick after all." Banner said.

"Located the Tesseract?" Thor asks.

"I can get there faster." Tony said.

"Look, all of us..." Steve says.

"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it." Thor says.

Tony turns to leave, but Steve stops him. "You're not going alone!"

"You gonna stop me?" Tony says.

"Put on the suit, let's find out." Steve says.

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man." Tony rudely says to Steve.

"Put on the suit." Steve tells Tony.

At that moment Banner who's looking at the monitor notices something about the Tesseract. "Oh, my God!" Banner said before everything exploded.