Doctor Stark, PhD

"Oh uh...hi, they told me you would be coming," Dr. Banner said, holding out his hand to Steve.

"Word is you can find the cube," Steve said with a smile.

"Is that the only word?" Dr. Banner questioned with a small chuckle.

"The only one I care about," Steve replied.

An alarm sounded and I put a hand on each of the males arms. "We need to get in, it's gonna get hard to breathe out here."

"Is this a submarine?" Steve questioned.

"Really? Me being in a submerged, pressurized container is not the best idea," Dr. Banner added.

"Oh boys, it's a good thing you're both pretty...What would happen to all the quinjets around us if we went under water?" I questioned.

Slowly what I said sank in and made even more of impact as the helocarrier began it rise out of the water.

"Oh this is so much worse," Dr. Banner yelled over the wind

I guided the two men to the bridge of the helicarrier where Fury, Nat, Coulson, and Maria Hill were waiting.

"Thank you for coming Doctors, Cap..." Fury said as we reached them.

"How long do I have to stay?" Dr. Banner asked.

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

"Any luck with it so far?" I questioned as I leaned against the railing of the bridge.

"We're sweeping all wireless accessable camera on the planet, if it has a camera on it, we're sweeping it," Coulson replied.

"That won't be fast enough even then," I said walking towards Fury, "May I?"

"Be my guest, Doc," he said moving away from the monitors.

As I started re-calibrating the system I felt a presence next to me and saw Dr. Banner looking at what I was doing. "If you can call every lab you know and tell them to put the spectrometers to look for gamma rays then we can set a tracking system for that and rule that out as you go...is there some where I can work?"

"Right this way doctor," Natasha said.

"I'm sending a mass alert to all known labs to set to gamma rays, right now Dr. Banner, we should be set within the next few hours," I said.

"Thanks," he replied.

"Go get suited up, doc," Fury said, "It's not just your brains that we're going to need this time. We're going up against an Asgardian, are you ready to fight?"

"Isn't this what I've been training for?" I questioned, tilting my head with a smirk, "The scanning program is running a bit faster now."

STUTTGART, GERMANY

As the Quinjet that we were in flew over the Struttgart Museum we could see a crowd of people kneeled outside of it in front of a man wearing green and gold robes and a helm that was also gold, adorned with horns.

Upon seeing the quinjet, the man...or god....or what ever the hell he wanted to call himself, raised the sceptor in his hand and a blue beam of light shot from it at us, Nat's quick reflexes narrowly saving us.

During this Cap had jumped from the jet, landing swiftly on the ground.

"Need me to get closer to the ground?" Nat asked, as she looked over at me as I peered out the back of the quinjet at the ground.

"No...no..." I replied, "It's just far and I wasn't aware that this was going to be part of the gig."

"Well, it’s your time to shine so get a move on,” she said.

I gulped before taking a deep breath and jumping from the back of the quinjet and landing in a well...superhero fashion behind Cap.

‘I love this serum sometimes,’ I thought before standing up straight, ‘Though that is hard on the knees.’

“Well aren’t you a sight for sore eyes,” Loki said looking from Cap to me, “But unfortunately for you, that does not stop you from being out of time.”

“The only one out of time is you,” Cap said as the quinjet lowered down from the cloud cover, machine gun pointed right at Loki.

Loki sent a blast of energy from the sceptor at the quinjet and it narrowly missed it. Cap threw his shield and I sent a shock wave behind it giving it more momentum as it hurled towards Loki, knocking him back a few feet.

The civilians began to scramble as we started to fight. I did my best to keep my distance and keep Loki occupied from a distance, while Cap went in for the close combat.

As Loki tried to fend Cap off he shot a beam at me and I put up my shield, the blue light splintering off the purple hue and scattering into multiple directions.

"What are you?" I heard faintly as he knocked Cap back.

"Me?" I asked as I made the shield disappear, "Billonaire, genius, Doctor...oh yeah." I stopped hand held my fists out towards him. "And the girl who's gonna kick your-."

"'Cause I shoot to thrill, and I'm ready to kill I can't get enough and I can't get my fill I shoot to thrill, play to kill Yeah"

"Uuuuh....Doc you have an incoming," I heard through my earpiece just before a repulsor ray went past me, knocking Loki back.

I turned and looked at Tony. "Again with stealing my thunder?!"

"Snooze you loose little duck," he replied, before turning back to Loki, "Make your move reindeer games."

As Loki sat on the ground with his hands up his armor disappeared and we were able to take him into custody along with the sceptor.

As I sat next to Nat on the quinjet I could hear Tony and Steve talking about how it was deceptively easy to take Loki into custody, meanwhile I was still slightly brooding over Tony stealing my thunder. I didn't want to be the star, but I had Loki where I wanted him.

"Everything okay...little duck?" Nat quipped.

I sighed. "You heard that huh?"

"That some childhood nickname?"

"I've always been a very independent person...but as a child I would always follow my big brother around because I wanted to hang out with him. I didn't have real friends my age that were as smart as me and Tony was always there for me until our parents death put a wedge between us a little."

"But little duck?"

"Because I would follow him every where like a baby duck would to a mama duck. It's embarrassing, but I let him use the nickname."

"What's your nickname for him?"

I called him Toto when I was really little, but other than that I've never had a nickname for him unless you count, Iron Jerkface, Titanium Turd..."

"Did you call me?" Tony asked walking over.

"Nat was asking about our nicknames that we have for each other and-" There was a crash and a thud as the thunder from the storm clapped. "Did that sound like something was one the roof?"

Tony quickly suited up and hit the button for the door of the quinjet and as he walked towards it a man dropped onto the ramp.

"That must be the other asgardian that Coulson was talking about," I said, as he flug Tony back before grabbing Loki and jumping from the plane.

Tony and Cap soon followed and I stood on the edge of the ramp looking down into the forest at the fight that was happening. "I think I need more training on the whole jumping from a plane thing, cause this is a little too high for me."

"Don't worry about it Doc...looks like the boys have got it handled," Nat said, "Lord knows they need to get out whatever frustration they have."

Thankfully they guys did get everything handled and everybody found themselves on the quinjet and headed back to the helicarrier...in a very awkward silence.