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INT. WISHBONE LAB, CARRIER - MORNING 91
Fury enters.
FURY What are you doing, Mr. Stark?
TONY Uh- kind of been wondering the same thing about you.
FURY You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract.
BANNER We are, 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.
TONY And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss. What is Phase Two?
Steve enters, and slams a large HYDRA gun on the table.
STEVE Phase Two is SHIELD used the Cube to make weapons.(to Tony)Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for me.
FURY Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're
TONY I'm sorry, Nick. Tony turns the screen towards Fury. It shows a plan for some a missile. What were you lying?
STEVE I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit.
Thor and Natasha enters with Anya and Ivanna. Banner looks to her.
BANNER Did you know about this?
IVANNA You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?
BANNER (laughs)I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed.
NATASHA Loki's manipulating you.
BANNER And you've been doing what exactly?
NATASHA You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you.
BANNER Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy.
BANNER (CONT'D)I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction.
The hall looked at the screen in horror 'Mass destruction'?
FURY (pointing at Thor)Because of him.
THOR Me?
FURY Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly hilariously, out-gunned.
THOR My people want nothing but peace with your planet.
FURY But you're not the only people out there, are you? And, you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled.
STEVE Like you controlled the cube!
THOR Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for A HIGHER FORM OF WAR.
Steve mutters something under his breath that sounded like 'should have left it in the ocean'
STEVE A higher form?!
FURY You forced our hand! We had to come up with some
TONY Nuclear deterrent! 'Cause that always calms everything right down.
Everyone becomes hostile and begin cutting each other off.
FURY Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?
STEVE I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep
"You made weapons?" A first year asked
"Yeah, a long time ago kid."
TONY Wait-Wait! Hold on! How is this now about me?
STEVE I'm sorry, isn't everything?
THOR I thought humans were more evolved than this.
Everyone begins arguing over each other.
IVANNA (To Anya) You should think that they were the teenagers, not us
Anya tried and failed to hold in a chuckle
FURY Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?
THOR (to Thor)Tis your champion.
FURY YOU'RE NOT MY CHAMPION!
NATASHA Are you boys really that naïve? S.H.I.E.L.D monitors potential threats.
TONY (to Thor and Steve)You furious? I'm furious.
BANNER (to Natasha)And Captain America is on the threat poll?
ANYA (to Banner)We all are!
"Two kids are on your threat poll?" Dumbledore asked in a amusing voice, clearly still not getting what the two teens was capable of.
"Yes." Natasha said giving Dumbledore a cold look
Lily rolled her eyes "Aren't that a bit unnecessary?"
Natasha looked like she was ready to skin the women alive.
FURY That's not your concern doctor! As they argue over one another & the scepter glows strongly.
TONY(to Steve)You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?
STEVE I swear to God, Stark, one more crack...
TONY You're a threat. Verbal threat! I FEEL THREATENED!
STEVE SHOW SOME RESPECT.
TONY RESPECT WHAT!
BANNER(to Thor)YEAH MAN HANDLE ME NOW,THAT'LL BE GOOD!
92 INT. BARTON'S JET - CONTINUOUS 92
On a screen in the jet is Loki's scepter. Inside men working for Loki put on masks and load weapons. Barton readies his bow.
INTERCOM VOICE Transport six-six-five-oh. Please relay your form code. Got you onthe computer but not on the datalog. What is your haul? Over.
PILOT Arms to ammunition. Over.
INT. WISHBONE LAB, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS (MORNING)
THOR You speak of control, yet you court chaos!
BANNER It's his MO, isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos .We're- we're a time bomb.
FURY You need to step away.
TONY Why shouldn't they guy let off a little steam?
STEVE You know damn well why! Back off!
TONY Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me.
STEVE Yeah, big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?
TONY Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
ANYA (muttering to herself) He is not wrong
Natasha sent her a look clearly having heard the young girl.
STEVE I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to laydown on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.
TONY I think I would just cut the wire.
STEVE Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero.
TONY A hero, like you? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle.
INT. BARTON'S JET
The ramp opens and Barton nocks an arrow, takes aim and let sit loose. The arrow swings in the air and attaches to the side of one of the carrier's enormous engines, flashing.
"Yeah go uncle Clint!" Ivanna yelled.
the people in the hall sent her looks of disbelief.
Anna shrugs her shoulders. " What? My mama raised me to support my family. Rights and wrongs."
Anya snorted, Natasha just shook her head in amusement.
INT. WISHBONE LAB, CARRIER
Steve smirks.
STEVE Put on the suit, let's go a few rounds.
THOR (laughs)You people are so petty, and tiny.
BANNER Yeah, this is a team.
FURY Agent Romanoffs, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his
BANNER WHERE? YOU RENTED MY ROOM!
FURY The cell was just
BANNER IN CASE YOU NEEDED TO KILL ME. BUTYOU CAN'T, I KNOW, I TRIED! (He stops, everyone is staring at him.) I got low. I didn't see an end so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on, I focused on helping other people. I was good until you dragged me back into this freakshow and put everyone here at risk. You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?
Everyone is watching Banner, Fury, Ivanna, Anya and Natasha reach for their guns.
STEVE Doctor Banner, put down the scepter.
Banner looks down, surprised, to see the spear in his hand. The monitor makes a noise, signaling the Tesseract has been located. Banner puts the scepter back on the table and walks over to the screen on the other side of the room.
FURY Got it!
BANNER Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my party trick after all.
ANYA Bummer
THOR Located the Tesseract?
TONY I can get there faster.
STEVE Look, all of us NOVAR The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a matchfor it.
Stark turns to leave and Rogers holds him back.
STEVE You're not going alone!
Tony smacks his hand.
TONY You gonna stop me?
STEVE Put on the suit, let's find out!
TONY I'm not afraid to hit an old man.
STEVE Put on the suit.
Banner sees something on the monitor.
BANNER Oh-my-god.
INT. BARTON'S JET
Barton kneels down and presses a button on his bow. The arrow head explodes.
HELICARRIER
The blast destroys one of the engines.
INT. WISHBONE LAB, CARRIER
Everyone in the lab flying in different directions. Fury and Thor fall to the ground behind a table. Tony and Steve are blown to the entry way. Banner, Anya and Natasha fly out the Wishbone lab and into the lower equipment room.
"Oh my god" Narcissa hand snaps up to her mouth, the great hall looked on in horror
ENGINE 3, HELICARRIER
Pieces of flaming debris fall to earth.
WISHBONE LAB, CARRIER -
Steve and Tony scramble to their feet.
STEVE Put on the suit.
TONY Yep.
Steve helps Tony up and the run out of the lab.
INT. BRIDGE, CARRIER -
People are running around, yelling and grabbing guns whil ethe monitors are beeping wildly. SHIELD Techs are panicking. SHIELD Agents are gearing up and running to their stations.
INTERCOM VOICE All hands engaged.
The whole place is hectic.
. CORNER HALLWAY, CARRIER
An agent frantically runs down the hall, smoke is dispensing from some pipes.
INT. WISHBONE LAB, CARRIER
Fury sits up, groaning.
FURY(into earpiece)Hill!
INT. BRIDGE, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS
Hill is standing her command area. She is looking at a screen.
MARIA HILL Number Three engine is down.
FEMALE CARRIER BRIDGE TECH We've been hit.
Hill runs over to a bridge tech's station.
MARIA HILL Did we get a run in? Talk to me.
OFF SCREEN WORKER We got a fire in Engine Three.
CARRIER BRIDGE TECH 1The line looks mostly in tact but it's impossible to get out there to make repairs while we're in the air.
MARIA HILL We lose one more engine we won't be.(into earpiece)Somebody's gotta get outside and patch that engine.
INT. WISHBONE LAB, CARRIER -
FURY (into earpiece)Stark, you copy that?
TONY (over Fury's earpiece)I'm on it.
INT. BRIDGE, CARRIER -
Coulson runs down some steps.
FURY (over Coulson's earpiece)Coulson, initiate defensive lockdown in the contingent center. Then get to the armory.
INT. WISHBONE HALL, CARRIER
FURY (into earpiece)Romanoff!
INT. LOWER EQUIPMENT ROOM, CARRIER
Natasha's leg is trapped under a very large pipe. And Anya is passed out on the other side of the room. Natasha tries pulling herself painfully free. She groans in pain. She gives up. Banner is in the corner spazing out, he is fine but he is making very wired moments.
James looked livid how could Natasha put his daughter in such dangerous situations?!
NATASHA (into earpiece)Okay!
She looks over to Banner, who is breathing heavy, having landed hard. He is gripping the grated flooring to maintain control, but his eyes are green, his face intense.
NATASHA (CONT'D)(quietly, to herself) We're okay, right?
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