One Body, Two Personalities

The Helicarrier

Marcus and Zack are now in a specialized jet where they're being flown to an unknown location. Zack is sitting down and assembling his weapons together while Marcus just leans against the wall. 

Marcus retracts his mask and looks at Zack. "Call me crazy-" 

"Okay. You're crazy." Zack snickers. 

"But I'm getting a weird vibe since we set foot in this thing." 

Zack inserts a mag into his pistol. "How so?" 

Marcus sighs. "I don't know. But just, keep your eyes and ears open." 

Zack puts his pistols in his holsters and grabs his helmet. "You're the boss." 

"Even if something does happen, I've got your back Marcus." 

~Thanks Venom.~ 

Marcus and Zack then look through the cockpit and and see a large boat with a number of jets and soldiers on board. 

"We're nearing the ship. Prep up boys." The pilot tells them. Marcus and Zack nod as they then walk towards the ramp and watch it descend. Marcus and Zack hop out onto the deck and watch the ship land elsewhere. 

Marcus and Zack look around and watch a number of men handle the jets or train on the deck. 

"Mr. Striker. Mr. Todd." Marcus and Zack turn and see a blonde man in his early thirties and a woman with red hair. The woman nods at them and says, "Steve Rogers, meet Marcus Striker AKA Venom and Zack Todd AKA Red Hood. I'm Agent Romanoff. Boys, meet Captain America." 

The teens drop their jaws at that statement. Captain America?! 

Marcus shakes his head and clears his throat. "Pleasure to meet you Captain." 

Captain America just chuckles. "Just call me Steve." 

Zack scoffs. "As if! Sir, it's a complete honor." 

Captain America smiles and looks past them. "Dr. Banner!" 

Marcus and Zack freeze. They look behind them and see a 5'9' man around his mid-thirties that walks up to them. 

Captain America shakes Banner's hand. "Oh yeah, hi. They told me you'd be coming." Banner looks at the two teens. "Who're they?" 

"You're THE Dr. Bruce Banner!" Marcus says shocked. 

"The Hulk!" Zack adds. 

Banner gives a look of disappointment. "Yeah well, sometimes I wish I was known more for my brains and not my quote unquote 'brawn'." 

"Word is you can find the Cube." Rogers says. 

"Is that the only word on me?" Banner asks. 

"Only word I care about." 

"Gentlemen, you might wanna step inside a minute." Romanoff says. "It's gonna get a little hard to breathe." 

Suddenly large mechanical whirring is heard and the four men walk to the edge of the ship. 

"Is this a submarine?" Marcus asks as he retracts his suit. 

"Really?" Banner says not surprised. "They want me in a submerged, pressurized, metal container?" 

Four giant spinning blades then emerge from the water starting lift the ship upward. 

Banner shakes his head. "No, no, this is much worse." 

"No. Freaking. Way." Zack breathes. 

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Once inside, Romanoff leads the four men onto the bridge. Marcus and Zack gasp in awe at the view of the sky. Zack sees a table and sits down, trying to process. 

Fury turns to them and smiles. "Gentlemen." 

Marcus takes out his wallet and hands Fury a $10. "Don't spend it all in one place." Marcus and Captain America walk down the bridge and just stare. 

Fury walks up to Banner. "Dr. Banner thank you for coming." 

Banner hesitantly shakes his hand. "Thanks for asking nicely. So, how long am I staying?" 

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

Zack raises his hand. "And where are you exactly with that?" 

Agent Coulson answers, "We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones, laptops, if it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us." 

"Sheesh, and I thought my Grandpa didn't give me enough privacy." Marcus mutters. 

"You have to narrow your field." Banner explains. "How many spectrometers do you have access to?" 

Fury crosses his arms. "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?" 

"Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory, please?" Fury asks. 

"You're gonna love it Doc. We've got all the toys." Romanoff states as she leads him off the bridge. 

Marcus sits down next to Zack. "So, lost a $10 bet and now we're flying the world's biggest ship, made for the sea and sky, that can turn invisible." 

Zack laughs. "Man we definitely have been missing out on some serious stuff." 

Fury looks at them and smirks. "You boys have no idea." 

Marcus looks at Fury. "So this Loki dude, what's he like? What about his brother? Thor?" 

Fury widens his eye. "How in the hell do you know about Thor?" 

Marcus raises his hands. "I study my mythology. Loki's his brother, God of Mischief. And then Thor's the God of Thunder and Lightning." 

Fury sits down in front of them. "You kids are very surprising." 

Zack kicks his feet up on the table. "We aim to please." 

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Later that night, Coulson was talking to Steve as Marcus and Zack just walked along the bridge, watching people work their monitors. 

"I mean, if it's not too much trouble." Coulson says to Steve. 

Steve shakes his head. "No, no, it's fine." 

"It's a vintage set. Took me a couple years to collect them all. Near mint, slight foxy around the edges but-" 

"We got a hit! 67% match. Wait, cross-match. 79%." 

Fury looks at his screen as Marcus and Zack walk with Coulson up to the agent at the table. 

"Location?" Coulson inquires. 

"Stuttgart Germany. The Kuomin Straza, he's not exactly hiding in plain sight." 

"Captain, Striker, Todd, you're up." Fury orders. 

Steve nods and heads to the weapons bay, where he watches his suit and shield appear on one of the walls. 

Marcus cracks his neck and Venom appears around his body, giving him his Symbiote armor. 

Zack pulls his gloves on and loads his pistols, holstering them in his jacket pockets. 

The three look at each other and nod. 

"Let's go catch a god." Captain America says.