Avengers Assemble

Team Science!

We walk to Banner's lab . Tony shifting his gaze to Banner and mocking him from behind . I didn't find this funny . I could finally relate to someone who was scared or ashamed of their powers. The steel door opens and we walk inside . There is equipment everywhere and in the centre , Loki's sceptre . I shiver looking at the blue orb in the middle .

" That wasn't funny ," I whisper to Tony as he eats some raisins.

" What ?" He exclaims softly and widens his eyes.

" What you did back there ... you know he's ashamed of ...hulking out ," I explain , starting up the monitor.

" Well soooorrrry , not my fault you are being so grumpy now ," Tony slurs and shoves raisins into his mouth.

I turn and glare at him . My hands burning ," Excuse me?" I say in shock , then place my hand on the back of his head lightly, not wanting to intentionally hurt him," You're not the one who had a loved one return from the dead . You're not the one who has a best friend under control . You're not the one who Fury admits has a special cell just for me . You're not the one who has someone trying to get into your head and YOU'RE NOT THE ONE WHO IS ASHAMED OF THEIR POWERS !" I let go of his head and push him back .

" Look I'm sorry , I didn't know you were ashamed of yourself. Your powers are apart of you , you shouldn't be disappointed in them . You are the only one that can control them , and you're doing a marvellous job at it. You are amazing, wonderful, smart, never fail to make me smile and beautiful. You should never feel this way about yourself," Tony apologises and stares at what I'm doing on the monitor. We lock eyes with each other and I feel that same tension again. He looks at my lips, then the screen.

Banner continuously scans with a gamma ray detection scanner on the scepter for radiation. Tony turns and looks at his own monitors, shifting and solving as many algorithms and equations. I on the other hand , was trying to find a way to track down the Tesseract by calculating its energy source.

" The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks to process," Banner tells us and looks frustrated with the report.

I groan . We don't have weeks . With Iridium, Loki's hypnotised minions are working on the plan right now .

" If we bypass their mainframe and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster, we can clock this around six hundred teraflops," Tony suggests and is now eating a chocolate bar.

" All I packed was a toothbrush," Banner laughs , frustrated.

" Well at least you packed something , I didn't get the chance . You know I was captured during a short visit ," I joke , they look at me with uncertainty.

"You know ... how do we know that you're not hypnotised too ?" Banner questions walking my way .

I don't have a response and gulp a little .

" Well , her eyes are not a cloudy blue and she has full awareness of what she's doing from the last time I checked ," Tony says breaking up the heat between me and Banner.

Tony then smiles ," You know, you should come by Stark Tower sometime. Top ten floors, all R&D. You'd love it, it's candy land."

" Thanks , but the last time I was in New York I kind of broke ... Harlem," Banner nods his apologies.

" I've seen it enough ," I say rolling my eyes in laughter.

Tony does a dramatic gasp . I notice something in his hand.

" Well, I promise a stress free environment, Dr Banner , No tension. No... surprises," Tony promises then suddenly he pokes Banner with a miniature electrical rod and Banner lets out a yelp before his heart beat races. Steve walks in on us three , raging at Tony .