Magic or just Madness (Avengers)

Chapter !: New Mission. Again.

I guess it had never been easy for me. That is until, you know, super powers.

"Madness!" I was awoken by some pounding at my door. I, being myself, knew who it was.

"What do you want Phil?" I yelled through the door.

"Fury wants to see you." Phil was never this blunt with me. Something had to be up.

"All right. Give me like fifteen minutes."

"Be quick." He added almost as an afterthought. Grumbling to myself I made my way to my bathroom.

*

"Madness! There you are." Agent Hill approached me in the hallway. I was on my way to see Fury.

"Yes Agent?" She looked a little frazzled.

"Fury needs you. Now." She grabbed my upper arm.

"Whoa. Calm down Hill." She was starting to freak me out. She was always so calm and put together.

"Madness. Now." She pulled me towards the Directors office.

"Do you know what he wants?" I asked her.

"I can't say. He has to tell you." Okay. That was so normal. She pushed me to the door. "Hurry." That was the second time someone had told me that.

"Madness? Is that you?" Fury being polite? Wait what?

"Yes sir. Hill and Coulson said you needed to see me?"

"Yes. We've discovered a few important people that we need you to go and get with Romanoff." Was that it? Why was everyone freaking out over that? And most important wasn't Natasha on a mission.

"Sir is this about what happened underground with the Tesseract? Is it still missing?" I was kind of a newbie so I wasn't really privy to this information. I had only hacked into the system this morning.

"How did you know about that Madness?" Fury was starting to become suspicious.

"I might have hacked the system again?" My voice had raised a couple octaves. Fury was scary when he was furious. Heh I made a funny.

"Madness, you can't do that anymore. I've already told you that all you have to do is ask for information and it will be given to you." Being super human did have its perks I suppose.  Then I remembered.

"Wasn't Agent Romanoff on a mission in Russia?" It had been nagging at my brain for a bit now.

"She came back as soon as she heard that Barton had been compromised." Barton had been compromised. I promised never to do this on Fury without his permission. So I'm about to ask a question that is scaring me shitless.

"May I, Fury?" He knew what I was asking to do. I was asking to go into his memories.

"I suppose it's necessary to brief you. Go ahead." I closed my eyes and concentrated. Flashes of Selvig and Barton speaking to him entered my mind. Then the stream stabilized and I got a clear picture.

~Memories~

Nick Fury: Where's Agent Barton?

[He points behind him]

Selvig: The Hawk? Up in his nest, as usual.

[I see Barton is up on the railings watching them below, Fury calls Barton on his earpiece]

Nick Fury: Agent Barton, report to me.

Nick Fury: I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things.

Clint Barton: Well I see better from a distance.

Nick Fury: Are you seeing anything that might set this thing off?

[To Selvig; referring to the reading from the Tesseract]

NASA Scientist: Doctor, it's spiking again.

Clint Barton: No one's come or gone. Its oven is clean. No contacts, no I.M.'s. If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end.

Nick Fury: At this end?

Clint Barton: Yeah, the cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right? The doors open from both sides.

[Suddenly the Tesseract is activated and opens a portal through space, from which Loki steps through]

Nick Fury: Sir, please put down the spear! [Loki looks at his spear then suddenly points it at where Fury and Barton are standing and shoots out a blue exploding light towards them]

[As Barton tries to kill Loki, Loki grabs Barton's hand]

Loki: You have heart.

[Loki points the head of his spear at Barton's heart and uses his ability to control Barton's mind]

 *END MEMORIES*

"Why would someone be sick enough to do something like that?" I still needed to be briefed on this Loki guy.

Fury was serious. Yet he stayed quiet.

"Can you brief me on this Loki dude?" I still needed to know.

"Loki is the brother of Thor. I think that is all you need to know besides the fact that he wants to enslave humanity."  Wait. Did he just say enslave humanity?

"Enslave?" It was a bit hard to believe.

"Yes. Now your new mission." Oh right I had actually come down for something.

"Of course Director." Missions were starting to get a bit boring to be honest.

"You have to help Natasha bring in the rest of the Avengers."  The rest?

"Sir if I may ask? The rest? Who else will be on this Avengers Team?" He said nothing only handed me a tablet. I took that as my dismissal.

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Hey Guys! Girls! Anyone reading this actually! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! I will try to update soon!

~Ally the weirdo with a computer.