Missing Piece// Steve Rogers [1]

Lab Time

Third POV:
      As the trio work on tracking the tesseract, Tony decides to try something on Bruce. He shocks Bruce with a little taser to see if he would get angry.   "Hey! Are you nuts?" Steve yells to Tony as he walks into the lab.  

      "Jury's out." Tony says, "You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?" He asks Bruce. 

      "Is everything a joke to you?" Steve questions Tony. 

      "Funny things are." He retorts as he points a stick towards Steve.

      "Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship, isn't funny." Steve states flatly, "No offense, Doc." He apologizes.

      "It's all right, I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things." Bruce says as he gazes over at Tony.  

      "You're tip-toeing, big man." Tony says as he walks away from Bruce. "You need to strut."

      "And you need to focus on the problem, Stark." Steve says, slightly raising his voice. 

      "Do you think I'm not? Why did Fury call us in? Why now? Why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I have all of the variables." Tony replies as he opens a small bag of blueberries.

      "You think Fury's hiding something?" Steve asks. 

      "He's a spy. Captain, he's 'the' spy. His secrets have secrets." Tony says as he pops blueberries into his mouth. "It's bugging them too. Isn't it?" He says as he motions towards Bruce and Sarah.

       "Uh..." Bruce and Sarah trail off together. They shake their heads.m, "I just want to finish my work here..." Bruce mumbles.  

      "I'm just here because I'm being payed and I'm poor..." Sarah says awkwardly.

      "Doctor?" Steve asks him. He looks at Tony and sighs.  

      "A warm light for all mankind." Bruce starts as he took off his glasses. "Loki's jab at Fury about the cube." He begins.

      "I heard it." Steve notes.

      "Well, I think that was meant for you," he says as he points to Tony. Tony holds out his bag of blueberries and Bruce digs through the bag. "Even if Barton didn't tell Loki about the tower, it was still all over the news." He finishes.

      "The Stark Tower?" Steve asks, "That big, ugly-" Steve stops when Tony shoots him a look of annoyance. "-Building in New York?" Sarah tried to hold back a laugh at the Captain's words. 

      "It's powered by an arc reactor, a self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for what, a year?" Bruce asks Tony.  

      "It's just a prototype. I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now. That's what he's getting at." He replies.

      "So, why didn't S.H.I.E.L.D. bring him in on the Tesseract project? I mean, what are they doing in the energy business in the first place?" Bruce asks. 

       "I should probably look into that once my decryption program finished breaking into all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secure files." Tony says as he takes out a small tablet out of his pocket. 

      "I'm sorry. Did you say-" Steve was cut off. 

      "JARVIS has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours, I'll know every dirty secret S.H.I.E.L.D. has ever tried to hide. Blueberry?" He offers Steve and I.  

      "Yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around." Sarah states flatly.  

      "An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome." Tony retorts.

      "I think Loki's trying to wind us up." Steve says, "This is a man who means to start a war, and if we don't stay focused, he'll succeed. We have orders and we should follow them." Steve states.

      "Following's not really my style." Tony says as he pops more blueberries into his mouth. Steve slowly nods his head. 

      "And you're all about style, aren't you?" He asks with a hint of sarcasm. 

      "Of the people in this room, which ones are, A, wearing a spangly outfit, and B, not of use?" Tony insults.

      "Steve and Sarah, tell me none of this smells a little to you two?" Bruce asks. I look at Steve and he begins walk out the lab.  

      "Just find the cube." He orders, leaving. I glare at Tony before following after Steve.

"Hey are you ok Captain Rogers? Tony was kind of rude back there." I say.

"Ya. I'm fine. You can call me Steve by the way." He says with small smile. I blush and nod. He starts walking towards a door being guarded and I follow. "You don't have to come with me you know." He laughs.

"I know. But I needed to get out of there before I hit the guy." I joke, referring to Tony.

     "I don't blame you." He smiles, "Come on."