Prologue: After all these years

Jack was studying in his room when the 'very important e-mail alert' he had set in his Laptop ran off. The Laptop was a gift from a friend, whom he had met years ago, and was really thankful of the fate that had led him to that friend. He went to the desk and glanced at the Laptop that was nicely kept in the middle of the desk. It looked like what the other Laptops looked like, but this was special. It had the 'Stark Industries' logo on it.

Jack touched at the upper right corner of the closed Laptop, and a small digital blue box showed up, like he had pressed an invisible button on it. The small box got enlarged, almost looking like a fingerprint pad - well, it was one—and kept his whole hand on it. A digital horizontal blue line went vertically from up to down, and the same process happened from left to right. Suddenly, JARVIS's voice emerged from the laptop: 'Access Granted. Identity: Agent Daniels.' He sighed. The type of e-mail alert which had gone off meant that the e-mail was from SHIELD HQ. He sat on the chair in front of the desk, and JARVIS told him that Nick Fury is requesting a live video feed. Jack sighed.

'Sir?'

"Put him through."

JARVIS automatically played the video feed that had come to his Laptop, and the face of SHIELD Director Nick Fury appeared on the screen. He smirked and said, "Hey Nicky, Y'know, I'm really starting to think that you have only one dress, dude!"

'Agent Daniels, do you really know how hard it was to track you down?'

"Yup! I know perfectly know how hard it was to track me down. If you wanna say thanks, go say that to my mom. And now I wanna just know why were you searching me." Jack, or rather Agent Daniels, said the last part rather sternly.

'Just like you…' Nick Fury sighed, and said, 'I want you back on SHIELD just for some time. The-'

"No!" Agent Daniels/Jack stopped him abruptly, and continued, "I am not going to come back to SHIELD again. Last time, it was about kidnapping mutants. What gross work are you going to put me on now?"

His vision wasn't on the screen now but somewhere else, so he could practically hear the SHIELD Director take a deep breath, and Nick Fury continued, 'You are currently living in Nevada now, aren't you? In Jasper?'

The Agent calmed himself down and replied "Yes."

'Then I am sending in Tony Stark to bring you in tomorrow. No buts, I am telling him to take you and supply the information tomorrow. Your knowledge and research in Asgardian technology might come in handy.'

"W-Wait a…" Agent Daniels/Jack trailed off, realizing that Nick Fury has already cut off the transmission. The voice of JARVIS got him out of his trance: 'What would you like to do now, Sir?'

Jack was still confused about what was the matter, and he felt that it was a big problem. He connected himself to JARVIS by his Technopathy (ability to communicate to machines, robots, etc. and control them using the mind only), and asked him to hack into SHIELD's servers. He saw every bit of data in binary codes for further use, but unfortunately the data was moving to fast for him to read. JARVIS's voice rang through his mind, because he was now connected to Jack's entire mind, telling him to cover his tracks. Jack gave his thanks through the same medium, and was now searching any recent accidents related to Asgard. There was none, but he accidentally found a small update of an accident. He opened it and the clip played on.

After the clip ended, he realized that it was the Tessaract on which they were messing on, and that's why Nick Fury contacted him, to track down the Tessaract and Loki, who escaped with it. He then got out all the information he had researched and SHIELD had found out about the Tessaract in his aptop, and exited the mental connection. He printed those out, and decided to work on it later. Human or alien, 11:50 pm was something they all called a night.

A/N: So, basically, this is a one-shot prologue. Updates might be fast for this one, but might abruptly stop suddenly (I'm using a USB stick). I have already started off for the second chapter, but will not post it until I get ten reviews from ten different people. And 'sides, I am overly happy for constructive criticism, but no flames (Offensive comments) or else I will not hesitate to block comments from those who do that. And, if any confusion, then you can PM or review me (reviewing is only for non-registered reviewers). So, until then, Goodbye, Osuari, fhir milenge and pasot log pam!

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