The Captain's daughter | Rogers ¹ ✔️

7

It was about night time and Barry, Bruce, Tony, Morgan, and I were in the lab. Morgan was scrolling through Instagram, Barry and I were playing chess, and Tony and Bruce were working on the gamma ray scanner.

"The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks to process." Banner said. "If we bypass their mainframe and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster, we can clock this around six hundred teraflops." Tony said.

"All I packed was a tooth brush." Barry said. "Same" Bruce replied.

Tony smiled. "You know, you two 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." Bruce said. I moved my Queen over while Barry was distracted. "HA checkmate! I won!"

"Dude, you cheated." Barry replied. We both laughed. "Well, I promise a stress free environment. No tension. No surprises." Tony continued. Then he poked Bruce with a miniature electrical Prod. Bruce jumped and Steve ran in all flustered.

"OW." Tony looked at Banner.  "Hey!"

"Nothing?"

"Are you nuts?" Steve yelled. "You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?" Tony asked again.

"Is everything a joke to you?"

"Funny things are."

"Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny. No offense, Doctor."

"No, it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things." Banner said.

"You're tiptoeing, big man. You need to strut." Tony said.

"And you need to focus on the problem, Mr. Stark." Now Steve was angry.

"You think I'm not? Why did Fury call us and why now? Why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables"

"He's not wrong." I said. ARG I shouldn't have butted in. Tony looked a bit worried. Is Tony hiding something?

"You think Fury's hiding something?" Steve asked me. "He's a spy. Captain, he's the spy. His secrets have secrets." I said. Steve pointed to Barry. "It's bugging him too, isn't it?"

"Leave me out of this!" Barry said. "Uh...Im just gonna finish my work here and..." Bruce mumbled.

"Doctor?"

"A warm light for all mankind, Loki's jab at Fury about the cube."

"I heard it."

Bruce pointed to Tony. "Well, I think that was meant for you. Even if Barton didn't post that all over the news."

"Stark Tower? That big ugly.." Steve started.

"Watch what you say Captain." Morgan said.

" ...building in New York?" Steve finished.

"It's powered by Stark Reactors, self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for what, a year?"

"That's just the prototype. I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now." Tony explained. "So, why didn't SHIELD bring him in on the Tesseract project? I mean, what are they doing in the energy business in the first place?" Bruce questioned. "I should probably look into that once my decryption programmer finishes breaking into all of SHIELD's secure files." Tony answered.

"I'm sorry, did you say...?"

"Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours we'll know every dirty secret SHIELD has ever tried to hide." Tony held out a bag of blueberries. "Blueberry?"

"Yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around?" Steve asked. "An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not possible." Tony suggested.

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

"Following is not really my style."

"And you're all about style, aren't you?" Steve said while smiling. Oh gosh. Now Steve is really mad.

"Of the people in this room, which one is; A. wearing a spangly outfit, and B. not of use?"

"Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you?" Bruce said.

"Just find the cube." Steve walked out and I quickly followed.

"Hey." He said. "I think Stark might be right." I said.

"Oh yeah."

"Yeah. Think about it a very intelligent spy telling everyone his plan. Not likely. Either he is telling only someone about this...or he's been lying to us all." Steve smiled. "Your a smart cookie."

"I like cookies."

Steve chuckled and walked away.

A/N: oooh we are getting to the good stuff!!

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