Phase One: Marvel's The Avengers by Alex Irvine

Author:Alex Irvine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General, Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In, Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes, Juvenile Fiction / Media Tie-In
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Nick Fury came into the lab with a look on his face that said it wasn’t just a social call. He singled Tony out right away. “What are you doing, Mr. Stark?”

So S.H.I.E.L.D. cybersecurity had finally noticed Jarvis’s infiltration. “Uh, kind of been wondering the same thing about you,” Tony answered. He didn’t look upset that Fury had found him out. Instead he looked ready for a confrontation. They needed answers.

“You’re supposed to be locating the Tesseract,” Fury reminded them.

“We are,” Bruce said. He pointed at a screen running his search algorithm using all of the spectrometers S.H.I.E.L.D. had been able to commandeer. “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.”

“Yeah, then you get the cube back. No muss, no fuss.” Tony kept going and changed the subject. “What is Phase Two?”

Something banged on a table near the lab door, and they all turned to see that Captain America had entered and set down a prototype rifle of some kind, loud enough to purposely draw their attention.

No, Tony realized when he’d gotten a closer look at the rifle. Not a prototype. An old weapon. A Hydra weapon from World War II.

“Phase Two is S.H.I.E.L.D. uses the cube to make weapons,” Cap said. “Sorry,” he added to Tony. “Computer was moving a little slow for me.” He’d been worried by what Tony and Bruce had said. He wasn’t going to tell them that, but it was true. When he’d left the lab, he’d headed for an archive level deep down inside the Helicarrier. It was a hangar space filled with steel crates, extending many levels above and below him.…

And in some of those crates, he had found a lot of weapons like the one he was now showing the rest of the team.

Fury saw that he couldn’t duck their questions anymore. He started trying to explain. “Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract,” Fury said. “This does not mean that we’re making—”

“I’m sorry, Nick,” Tony interrupted. He spun a display around so it showed classified S.H.I.E.L.D. designs for Tesseract-powered weaponry. “Why were you lying?”

“I was wrong, Director,” Cap said. “The world hasn’t changed a bit.” He looked angry and disappointed. Captain America was a big believer in shooting straight and telling the truth. He didn’t like spies and he didn’t like lies, and now he saw he was knee-deep in both.

“Did you know about this?” Bruce asked Natasha as she came in with Thor.

She glanced at Fury and then said calmly, “You want to think about removing yourself from this environment, Doctor.”

“I was in Calcutta,” Bruce said. “I was pretty well removed.”

“Loki is manipulating you,” she said.

“And you’ve been doing what, exactly?”

Natasha gave him an are-you-serious? look. “You didn’t come here because I batted my eyelashes at you.”

“Yes, and I’m not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy,” Bruce said. He kept his calm, but they could all tell he wasn’t happy. None

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