First ever story on FanFic pls review
FYI This is a PJO & The Avengers crossover, after The Blood of Olympus before The Trials of Apollo
Obviously I own neither the Avengers or Percy Jackson, Disney does :(
Out in the New Mexico desert, a remote research facility is in a state of panic. It's an evacuation. A helicopter flies in, for drop off.
Men in suits run around like in the typical `we have to leave' fashion. Soldiers on foot jump onto Humvees, accelerating the hell out of there. A booming bellows from hidden loudspeakers.
" Evacuate the facility "
Standing a few yards from the landing pad, A Fed in a suit with badass shades, peers at the helicopter as it lands. This is Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division agent Phil Coulson. Call them SHIELD
Walking out of the helicopter is SHIELD Agent Maria Hill, sexy, fierce and determined. Following her, SHIELD Director Nick Fury climbs out. Hill and Fury approach Agent Coulson.
" How bad is it," The Director asks.
Agent Coulson takes a breath. " That's the problem, sir. We don't know. "
Fury contorts into a scowl and nods to Coulson who takes them down under the facility.
Agent Coulson leads Hill and Fury through the radiation section of the facility. Hundreds of technicians and other staff eagerly scamper around, taking only the essentials.
Coulson nodded back to Fury and Hill. " Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hours ago. "
Fury deepened his scowl. " NASA didn't authorize Dr, Selvig to begin the testing
Phase. "
Coulson frowned. " He wasn't testing it, he wasn't even in the room. Spontaneous advancement. "
Hill spoke up " So it just turned itself on? "
Fury asked Coulson " Energy levels? "
" Climbing, when Selvig couldn't shut it off, we ordered the evac. Estimated complete desertion in a little under thirty minutes. "
" Do it better. " With that Fury continued down the hall.
Maria Hill cleared her throat. "Sir, evacuation may be futile."
Fury frowned. " We should tell them to go back to sleep?
" If we can't control the Tesseract's energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance. " Hill noted
" I need you to make sure that Phase 2 prototypes are shipped out. " Fury ordered.
This time Agent Hill frowned. " Sir, is that really a priority right now?
Raising an eyebrow Fury replied, " Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on. Clear out the tech below. Every piece of Phase 2 on a truck and gone. "
" Yes, sir. " Hill turned to three agents, " With me."
Nick Fury and Agent Phil Coulson enter the radiation facility housing the Tesseract, the area cluttered with machines and people leaving.
"Talk to me doctor"
The doctor shot up behind a CMS machine, looking anxious, starting at an occasionally sparking Tesseract.
" Director "
" Is there anything we know for certain? "
" The Tesseract is misbehaving. "
Fury shot a glare. " Is that supposed to be funny? "
Erik Selvig frowned. " No, it's not funny at all. The Tesseract is not only active, but she's also... misbehaving. "
" How soon until you pull the plug? "
Selvig shook his head. " She's an energy source. If we turn off the power, she turns it back on. If she reaches peak level… "
We've prepared for this doctor. Harnessing energy from space.
We don't have the harness. Our calculations are far from complete. Now she's throwing off interference, radiation. Nothing harmful, low levels of gamma radiation.
Fury shot an eyebrow " That can be harmful. Where's Barton "
Selvig rolled his eyes " The Hawk? Up in his nest, as usual. "
Up in the railings, a man wearing black tactical gear tapped his fingers on his bow, keeping a hawk's stare at the Tesseract.
Fury tapped his earpiece, " Agent Barton, report. "
Barton rappels down from the catwalk and walks up to Fury. They both walk around the bottom of the facility in a discreet manner.
"I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things."
Barton smirked. " Well, I see better from a distance. "
" Are you seeing anything that might set this thing off? "
A NASA Doctor looked up from the monitor. " Doctor, it's spiking again! "
Barton turned back to the Director. " No one's come or gone. Its oven is clean. No contacts, no I.M.'s. If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end."
Fury shot him a look. " At this end? "
"Yeah, the cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right? The doors open from both sides."
Dr. Erik Selvig types on his keyboard and the monitor flashes. Suddenly, the Tesseract thunders and shakes the entire facility. Both Agent Coulson nearby, and Maria Hill topside, feel the tremors. The cube glows brighter and emits a ring of light, and builds like a beam, similar to the Bifrost bridge. The power hits the edge of the platform and begins to form a vortex, which becomes a portal. Space appears through the portal, and a gust of blue energy knocks people back. The cloud shoots to the ceiling, and the portal on the platform opens up as Loki steps through. The portal vanishes, and Loki grins at everyone, holding his spear. He frowns as he sees them looking at him.
Fury speaks evenly and firm. "Sir please put down the spear."
Loki responds with firing a blast of blue energy from his spear, while Barton narrowly tackles Fury out of the way. Everyone shoots at Loki, but the bullets deflect off of him. Loki immediately takes down everyone shooting at him easily, with knives and energy blasts from his scepter. He pauses, grinning, and looks to who will attack him next. Barton attempts to attack him, but Loki grabs his wrist, disarming him.
Loki smiles. " You have heart. "
Loki places the tip of the spear against Barton's chest. Barton's eye glow black, and he stops resisting. Loki begins controlling other agents around the room. Fury sneak up, grabs the Tesseract, and places it in a briefcase, trying to sneak out.
Loki playfully frowns. "Please don't. I still need that."
Fury spun around to face Loki. " This doesn't have to get any messier. "
Loki smiles while shaking his head. "Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else. I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose."
Selving walks up " Loki, brother of Thor? "
" We have no quarrel with your people. "
Loki smiles. " An ant had no quarrel with a boot. "
Fury shoots back. " You planning to step on us? "
" I come with glad tidings, of a world made free. "
" Free from what? " Fury questioned
" Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart… "
Like a gunslinger, Loki turns to face Selvig who's standing behind him and places his spear against Selvig's heart. Selvig's eyes glow black.
Loki turn back to Fury, " You will know peace. "
Fury's eye narrowed. " Yeah, you say peace, I kind of think you mean the other thing. "
From the vacuum chamber ceiling, the Tesseract's energy cloud rapidly builds into what may be an implosion.
Suddenly a voice rings through only Loki's ears.
" LOKI LAUEFYSON YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE TREATY OF OLYMPUS AND ASGARD. " The voice boomed, " I DO HOPE YOU ARE PREPARED TO BE HUNTED BY OLYMPUS'S FINEST HERO! "
Loki smirked, and under his breath muttered, " Please Heracles was quite easy to fool "
Barton stared at Fury. " Sir, Director Fury is stalling. This place is about to blow. Drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us. "
Selvig nodded, "He's right. The portal is collapsing in on itself. You got maybe two minutes before this goes critical."
Loki smiled and looked down at the director. "Well then."
Loki looks to Barton, who without hesitation shoots Fury, who falls to the ground. Barton grabs the case containing the Tesseract and leaves the lab with Loki, Selvig, and the other controlled SHIELD personnel, unaware of who's week they'd end up ruining by being thrust in another war.
Break
The controlled SHEILD personnel are gathering weapons and getting ready to leave the facility. Agent Hill watches in confusion.
" Who's that? "
"He didn't tell me" Barton didn't even look back.
Through a walkie talkie, "Hill, do you copy?"
Loki and his crew look back at Agent Hill. Back at the lab, Fury is sitting up, pulling the bullet out, and breathing hard.
"Barton is…" Maria turns around and shoots Barton, who is already shooting at her, and they drive away while she takes cover, still firing at them. Running out of the lab, holding his side, Fury shouted through the walkie talkie. " He's got the Tesseract! Track it down! "
The energy discharge from the Tesseract is building up on the ceiling, rumbling and growing recklessly, destroying structures and cracking the walls.
Maria Hill jumps into a Jeep and takes chase on Loki and crew. Several other trucks begin to attack Loki's truck as well, and Loki releases a blast of energy, obliterating SHEILD trucks and causing a blockage in the tunnel. Agent Hill is forced to keep distance on her pursuit.
Down below, Fury is racing against the clock as pipes burst around him. The walls are cracking, and the facility is suffering an internal earthquake.
Agent Coulson is grabbing cases, and trips down the stairs while the ground shudders. Others with him drop cases full of information and equipment.
" No! Leave it! " Coulson shouted to those attempting to pick up the cases.
Barton and Agent Hill are caught in a truck race, where she pulls in front of him to try and block him. He responds with firing at her at close range, which causes Agent Hill to shoot out her own windshield to try and hit him.
Agent Coulson and his group take a Jeep and evacuate as well. On the Jeep Coulson picks up a walkie talkie. " You're clear, sir! You need to go! "
Fury runs across the tarmac to a helicopter. The ground gives way seconds after the helicopter leaves the ground, falling into a sinkhole.
Still racing down the tunnel, Agent Hill and Barton are locked in combat. A blast wave from the Tesseract causes the tunnel to collapse partially. One of Loki's trucks makes it out, but Maria's truck is stuck.
The Tesseract's energy cloud now shrinks into a small ball of white light, hovering in the air. In a flash of blue light, the facility is consumed along with its surroundings. Fury watches from below as a rapid build up into an implosion.
Several miles away, Agent Coulson's van jolts from the blastwave on the horizon behind them.
The entire facility implodes with terrifying magnitude, and the implosion rocks the ground.
Maria Hill is stuck by her jeep behind as the full force of the blast tears down on the tunnel, covering herself by being inside of the jeep, light from the night spilling in close by.
Barton's truck drives away, but Fury's helicopter hovers over it, and Fury opens fire with his pistol. Loki, in a fit of rage, fires an energy blast at the helicopter. The helicopter is skimmed my the blast, but catches fire. He jumps out of the flaming helicopter seconds before it hits the ground and shreds itself into debris. Fury stands back up, dazed, and shoots at Loki, but they're too far away.
Coulson calls out over a walkie talkie " Director? Director Fury, do you copy? "
The tesseract is with the hostile force. I have men down. Hill?
Climbing out of the wreckage of her jeep she picks up the walkie talkie. " A lot of men still under, don't know how many survivors. "
From the ground, Fury surveys the wreckage.
" Sound the general call. I want every living soul not working rescue looking for that briefcase. "
Hill responded "Yes sir"
" Coulson, get back to base. This is a Level Seven. As of right now, we are at war. "
The second in command asked the obvious, "What do we do?"\
Little did they know an eighteen year old was walking from the Empire State Building, twirling a pen in his pocket. His sea green eyes flashed annoyance, annoyance at having to save the world.
For the third damn time.
