Chapter 7
It was two months before one agent Coulson came to the tower, she was just getting out of the shower hair still wet and tony and pepper were sitting with a glass of wine each.
“hello Phil” she greeted moving passed to pick up a bottle from behind the bar tony looked at her weird “um his first name is agent” agent Coulson looked at her “hello Beth, Mr. stark we have something we need you to look over”
The man held out an object and tony sputtered trying to get him to leave but she could tell he was giving up she walked over and snatched up the computer like device “he doesn't like being handed things” she said rolling her eyes and turned away walking toured a desk she opened it and looked at the files inside.
She barely heard tony grilling Coulson about the avengers she was more concerned by the items on the screen profiles “tony, got a sec” she questioned and herd her brother approaching “now I know why Phil’s shaken” her brother gave her a look “ok why is he Phil and why are you Beth?” she glanced at him “long story, pepper, take the jet tonight” she said to the woman who walked up to look at the screen just as Beth dragged the files onto the holographic screens around them expanding gunshot sounds filled the air along with yelling.
Tony was trying to argue but pepper told him something she didn’t want to know anything about she was too busy reviewing the files one in particular “what?” her brother asked knowing the look on her face he'd seen it only once before, she glanced at him hen enlarged the file she was looking at “now I know why I recognized the name Erskine” she was looking at Steve rogers aka captain Americas file.
“What they gave him, they gave you?” he asked and she nodded slowly “they gave me one created from his blood, it took them 70 years to perfect it” if that wasn’t a head trip she didn’t know what was.
She threw herself into the files until her head hurt so bad even with her glasses she couldn’t stand to look at a computer screen anymore, since she received the serum she had become stronger but she had also gained a better memory so she remembered almost every single detail she read, when a separate screen doing a trace for Loki beeped alerting them to his location she and her brother both marched to the lab and donned their suits. It was time to kick some azgardians ass.
While she herself didn’t get to go she heard plenty about it from her brother when he arrived limping his armor on of the repulsers malfunctioning she rolled her eyes chewed him out for getting into a pissing contest with a ‘GOD’ and then went to the main deck of the hellicarrier as thor was telling them Loki was his brother.
She paused and looked at the god before placing her hands on her hips “he killed 80 people in 2 days, I've herd of dysfunctional family’s but damn” everyone looked at her “he's adopted?”
She snorted and went to one of the monitors just as her brother came in “what do the need iridium for?” Bruce was asking “it’s a stabilizing agent” tony said then turned to agent Coulson and she rolled her eyes “it’s to keep the portal from collapsing like it did at shield” she explained watching her brother closely he said something to thor but she didn’t catch it she sighed and rubbed her forehead she was starting to get a headache “also makes it so the portal can stay open as wide and as long as Loki wants”
Suddenly tony pointed at something “that man is playing galiga he thought we wouldn’t notice but we did” he looked to the left “I'm sorry how dose fury even see these?”
Beth turned toured her brother “he turns, don't screw with anything please?” she asked he waved a hand at her and she collapsed into a chair with a sigh she knew he wouldn’t listen to her
“The rest of the raw materials needed agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily” she said rubbing her eyes “only thing left he needs is a power source of high energy density something to kick start the cube”
Agent hill a woman Beth had met only a few times before was looking very unimpressed “when did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?” she turned to the woman and propped up her feet on another chair “last night, stayed up forever looking at that crap, notes theory papers” tony walked up beside her “are we the only ones to do the reading?” she thumped him in the stomach
“Does he need any specific kind of power source?” Mr. High and mighty captain America asked
“he'd have to heat the cube to 120 million kelvin just to breath though the coulomb barrier” Bruce said “unless selvig knows how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect” tony said approaching the man “if he knew how to do that he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet” tony was happy saying he finally found someone who spoke English “is that what just happened?” rogers muttered to himself “well yeah” that made the capsicle look at her and she had to admit, he didn’t look as frost bitten as she thought he would “you weren't in the briefing who are you” he asked she rolled her eyes then turned and looked at him “it’s a long story babe”
Just about that time fury walked in so she couldn’t enjoy the faint reddening of his cheeks and soon after she was sent with her brother and Bruce to do science which meant they were being sciency and she was repairing her brothers suit.
Oh what a wonderful life she lead being the repair man.