Chapter 8
A couple of hours passed before captain douche came to check on them just as tony was being an ass and he got a little bit upset “can’t you control him?”
She turned to Steve “I'm his sister not his mother ice for brains, I couldn’t control him even if I wanted to”
“So you'd rather put the safety of everyone on this ship in danger? No offence doc” Steve glanced at Bruce “its fine I wouldn’t have come aboard if I couldn’t handle pointy things"
“tony don't stab your coworkers” she snapped at him “Instead of playing around you should be focusing on the problem” she stood up and pushed at the captains shoulder “I'm sorry do you think we aren’t? We’re not in here playing computer games cap and we don't even know what the hell were working with yet”
Tony jumped in before she could get to pissed “we can’t solve a problem without all of the variables” Steve looked between them “you think fury’s hiding something?” she rolled her eyes with an exasperated sound and moved away from the larger man “he is THE spy not just a spy, his secrets have secrets, its bugging all of us even him” she nodded toured Bruce who sputtered about denials
“doc” he looked at her then Steve and tony and sighed “a warm light for all mankind to share Loki’s jab at fury about the cube, I think it was meant for them” Bruce pointed at Beth and tony tony held out his pilfered bag of blue berries as she put pieces together “even if Barton didn’t tell the whack job about the tower it was all over the news” she looked at her brother
“the stark tower that big ugly” when her and Tony’s eyes shot to him he rephrased the twitching of his lips smoothed by force “building in new York?” she rolled her eyes and brought out a sandwich from her bag she was starving and she just listened to them argue until she herd ‘breaking into all of shields secure files’ Her head shot up and she bolted at her brother “what the hell” he spoke over her and the captain “Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge in a few hours I’ll know every dirty secret shield has ever tried to hide, blueberry?” he offered to Steve as she groaned and rubbed her face “yet your confused why they didn’t want you two around”
Her head shot to the side “don't you dare group me in with this hair brained plot, what the hell are you thinking tony?” she demanded he looked at her unimpressed “it’s an intelligence organization that fears intelligence historically not awesome”
She groaned again “I think Loki’s trying to wind us up, he's trying to start a war and if we don't focus he’ll succeed we have orders we should follow them” she raked back her hair “followings not really my style” tony said
She turned to Bruce hating their arguing “their giving me a headache” she told the man who grunting in agreement “your all about style aren’t you, both of you” she glanced back but stayed quiet “of the people here which one is A; wearing a spangly outfit and B; not of use” she turned back around “you can’t tell us none of this smells funky to you”
He looked at them then just turned “just find the cube” and he walked out about 1 minute later she also left but she was in search of food, she hated her metabolism sometimes.
After some food she wound up finding someplace to take a nap, she’d been up for almost two days and despite her better system and stronger body she still got tired sometimes, surprisingly so.
She was jerked awake by a very bad feeling and got up rushing to the lab everyone was arguing but the one between her brother and steve seemed worst “big man in a suit of armor take that off what are you, or your sister!” tony turned toured the man “genius billionaire playboy philanthropist” he said they were the only ones arguing now everyone else stopped to watch “I know guys with none of that, worth ten of both of you” Steve glanced up to include her “and I've seen the footage she was nowhere to be seen and all you fought for is yourself neither of you are the ones to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you”
She could see her brother getting angry even she was getting angry “I think I’d just cut the wire” Steve tilted his head a little “always a way out, ya know you might not be a threat but you both better stop pretending to be heroes” she started to step forward “heroes? Like you? You’re a laboratory experiment Rogers everything special about you came out of a bottle”
When something made a loud crashing noise they all looked at Beth who had her head bowed but one hand had smashed into a solid steel cabinet and made it buckle, she was shaking and her breathing was jagged her brother started to say her name but she cut him off
“Is that what you think? Everything special came from a bottle” tony seemed to realize what he said wrong “wait Lizzy I didn’t” she lunged and graved him by the shirt shoving rogers out of the way “that bottle is the only reason I'm standing here today, I’m no hero I know that, I don't want to be a hero, I only ever wanted to stay with you”
Her voice had become deathly quiet so much so even her brother could barely hear it “I made you a promise when we were still children, now I see how much it means to you” she dropped him from where she’d been holding him a couple inches off the ground
“you need to calm down” she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned shoving Steve away “and you need to step the fuck off, your way isn’t the only way for these things to get done, it isn’t the forties anymore, your way is outdated” he stepped up to her “put on the suit and we’ll see which ones better” he challenged “I aint scared to hit an old man you sure you want to hit a woman?!” she challenged as something beeped “put on the suit” he said again then suddenly something exploded
She was weightless for a moment felt the heat and the force and then she landed hard something on top of her, with her ears ringing she glanced up at a star and saw Steve roll off of her groaning then he looked at her “put on the suit!” she scrambled to her feet “yeah” she tripped and felt his hands on her waist and arm the moment she was steady she took off
Getting down to the storage level she looked at Steve “level three we’ll meet you there” she told him as tony opened the crate and he took off “listen” tony started as she reached for her suit “later” she said as it strapped on and then shot off.
“stark I'm here!” Steve shouted as they flew out “good, tony get the cooling unit back on line while I deal with the debris see if I can jerry rig the rotter” she said he jerked his head and she looked at Steve “Steve get to that control panel and tell us which ones are in overload position” she ordered he jumped while she went into the turbine using the lasers on her arms to clear the debris there was a lot of it.
"What's it look like in there?” she asked after silence rained “it seems to run on some form of electricity” he replied and she rolled her eyes “we’ll you aint wrong” she muttered and get to work, she herd Steve asking about what to do next but she was distracted “even with the debris gone this thing wont reengage without a jump” tony said from beside her “I’m gonna have to give it a push” she said tony jerked and looked at her
“If that thing gets up to speed you’ll get shredded” Steve seemed to speak her brother’s thoughts “the stator control unit can reverse” he cut her off “speak English!” she rolled her eyes fondly “see the red lever? It’ll slow them down long enough for her to get out stand by it wait for our word”
When finally she cleared the debris she shifted hearing the hulk going nuts and looked at her brother “I got this! Go help with the hulk, engines won’t matter if everything else is wrecked” he nodded “be careful” she grunted and he moved away
“stark were losing altitude” fury said after a few minutes “working on it!” she yelled and placed her hands against a rotter “Jarvis max power” she said and started to push she felt she wasn’t going anywhere at first then finally it started to move “come on jar I need more!” she yelled “max power ma’am” he announced and then a moment later she herd it whirring to life but no time to celebrate
“Cap hit the lever”
“I'm gonna need a sec here” she cursed and tried to keep up “lever. now!” she cried no reply then suddenly the rotter started pulling away from her “uh-oh” she said just before she got sucked in being ground between the bottom and middle she felt pain “help!” she yelped and groaned as her armor sparked then she was falling “Jarvis” the boots kicked back on and disoriented she flew into a hole and into a bad guy trying to shoot Steve her helm retracted and she groaned softly in pain
Then she heard the bad news.
Coulson was dead.