Rising from the Ashes

More Tensions

Ash's POV

Bruce, Tony, and I continued to work in the lab, but not on the scepter as we were originally ordered to do. Instead, Tony was teaching me to hack into secure files as he explained that the device he attached to the main console when he first showed up was doing so.

"So if this is equal to that unless...?" I looked up to Tony questioningly as he nodded and I continued with the line of code all the way to the end. I had finished it when I looked over to the "loading" sign, as I found out it was called when Fury walked in looking aggravated as he demanded,

"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?"

"Uh...kind of been wondering the same thing about you." Tony responded pulling away from where he had been helping me to go over to the larger adjustable screen.

"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract."

"We are. The model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile." Bruce told him as he came over to where I was sitting instinctively.

"And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss." Tony tapped at the screen in front of him as some encrypted files showed up, "What is PHASE 2?"

Abruptly, Steve smacked a giant weapon onto the lab table with enough force to scare me off my seat and nearly fall onto the floor had Bruce not caught me and pulled me behind him.

"PHASE 2 is SHIELD uses the cube to make weapons." Steve looked furious at the use of weaponry, looking over to the three of us, Tony in particular before adding, "Sorry, the computer was moving a little slow."

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're..." Fury started to explain before Tony pulled up a file that contained blueprints for a missile using the Tesseract's energy as a power source,

"I'm sorry, Nick." He moved the screen to show everyone the plans for the weapon, "What were you lying?"

"I was wrong, director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Steve was practically seething with disappointment as Thor and Natasha entered the room, Nat keeping her gaze on me and Bruce before he asked her with slight agitation in his voice,

"Did you know about this?"

"You wanna think about removing yourselves from this environment, doctor?"

"Oh, we were in Calcutta, we were pretty well removed."

"Loki's manipulating you."

"And you've been doing what exactly?"

"Aside from pretending to be on our side." I spoke up upset at this turn of events, just as I was beginning to think that these people were trustworthy.

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."

"Yeah, 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." Bruce pointed to the screen and Fury hesitated before he answered, pointing to me and Thor,

"Because of them."

"Me?" We both questioned in confusion and we looked at each other in concern before facing back to Fury as he explained,

"Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. A year before that, we got call of an alien who could light fires just by walking by, spreading radiation poisoning wherever they went, and we learned that not only are we not alone, not just in this galaxy, but we are hopelessly, and hilariously, outgunned.