05 - Preparation

Somewhere Underground (Loki's temporary base)

At the deep underground, in one of the tunnels, which expanded into a large square room packed with strange machinery and full of people; (hypnotized) scientists and SHIELD's agents.

"Put it over there," ordered Erik Selvig, waving a screwdriver towards a table. He was working carefully, operating some of the devices. "Where do you get all these people, Barton?" he asked.

"SHIELD has no shortage of enemies, doctor." the hypnotized Clint said, fiddling with a monitor before holding it up. "This is the stuff you need?"

"Yeah, Iridium," Selvig said, holding a piece of metal in his hand. "It's found in meteorites and forms anti-protons. Very hard to get."

"Especially if SHIELD knows you needed it."

"I did not know that," said Selvid, then he saw the certain god coming towards him. "Hey! the Tesseract has shown me so much, it's more than knowledge, it's a truth."

"I know," Loki said. "What did it show you, Agent Barton?" he asked the brainwashed SHIELD agent.

Clint turned around. "My next target."

"Tell me what you need?"

The agent walked over to a briefcase and pulled out a black bow. "I need a distraction." his eyes glowed blue "And an eyeball."

Helicarrier (Medical Room), Great South Bay, New York

Tsuna woke up holding his head, it felt heavy. Suddenly he remembered everything; about the attack, about a certain god, about his uncle. His eyes widened and he looked around, he was in a dimly lit room with two beds, he was the only one in that room; it must be some kind of infirmary.

"SODCA, what's my status?"

The light from his watch lit up and a familiar voice answered, "The heart rate has returned to normal, the wounds in your body have been treated, all of your vitals are fine, and your flames energy should have returned, but I suggest taking one Sun pill, boss. You have been unconscious for fourteen hours." a pause, "Using Lightning and Mist Flames all day long, what do you think, boss?" Ouch, really... having your A.I. scolded you? "You should be careful next time."

"Si, si..." sighed Tsuna, he wondered who programmed SODCA to be a mother-hen? "Anyway, what's the situation right now?" the brunet asked as he sits up. He also spotted a surveillance camera on the corner of the room, Tsuna released a bit of Mist Flame and made the illusion of him doing something else.

In the sleep mode, SODCA is designed to record surrounding events, even when Tsuna is unconscious.

"You are currently at one of SHIELD's base, kind of large ship in Great South Bay, New York, they call it a Helicarrier. Mr. Fury visited you three hours ago. Oh, and there is someone who checks your DNA when you are brought here."

"My DNA?"

"Mr. Fury is suspecting you. After seeing your flame on yesterday's events, he suspects you are not a full human being and thinks you are a mutant or something like that. But, even though the results show that you are 100% human, Mr. Fury is still suspicious of how you got that power."

"Hmm, that's troublesome... I have a feeling that I need to use more flames later. Maybe I should discuss it with Bermuda?" Tsuna mumbled, "By the way, SODCA, do you have information about the man who 'kidnapped' Uncle Clint? Primo called him a god."

"...the information about him is really classified, even in SHIELD, at least you need to be Clearance Level 7 agents to access the information... do you want to hack the SHIELD's system, boss?" asked his A.I.

"Not now." Tsuna didn't want to be caught after all. "Just tell me what do you heard."

"Roger boss... His name is Loki. A god from the different realm; Asgard. Power: Unknown. Reason to come to earth: Unknown. Current enemy of SHIELD."

"My uncle was really kidnapped by a god?!" Tsuna never really paid attention to the history of mythical gods or anything like that. He only knew about Japanese gods and little about Roman gods (and even Greek gods), and that was also because he often listened to his Right Hand Man who sometimes talked about them. "How do I save him?"

"...boss, did you forget about the tracker you put on Mr. Barton?"

"Trac- ah...!" Honestly, Tsuna completely forgot that he had slipped a tracking device on his uncle the day after he was interrogated by Fury.

"SODCA, call him, the sound mode only!" Tsuna ordered as he put the small orange communication device on his right ear.

Seconds later the call is connected and without saying hello (that's rude), Tsuna said, "I will use VSatellite via SODCA, I need you to distract the others so that I don't get caught."

"... What happened?!" a frantic voice yelled.

"No time... Please it's important."

"Okay, I only can give five minutes. The others still searching you after all."

"Thanks, call you later." and the connection is cut off.

VSatellites were a system of satellites designed by Vongola (of course). There are a total of four satellites available with their respective functions; Communication satellite (for telecommunications purpose), Navigational satellite (for navigation and tracking purpose), Reconnaissance satellite (or spy satellite; for Communications eavesdropping, Covert communications, and etc.) and Killer Satellite (for offensive purpose).

"SODCA, connect with VSatellite II and look for tracking device number forty-eight."

Usually, for using the tracking system, even with the VSatellite, it requires some minutes or hours to track one single person on the earth. But because Tsuna put a (Vongola) tracker in the target, it only needs some seconds to search.

"Roger, boss. Connecting... Searching... Searching..." a pause, "Found it." A hologram immediately popped out, showing the earth, before zooming in to the Atlantic Ocean, some kilometers from Biscay Bay, Canada, and showing a red dot. "Location: 45°59'55.3"N 51°32'54.1"W. and slowly moving."

Tsuna frowned, what is his uncle doing in the middle of the ocean? "Is he flying?" he wondered as looking at the moving red dot. "SODCA, can you predict where he will go?"

"It was a little difficult, it seems he just left the USA an hour ago. I need time to try to find out."

"Take your time."

While waiting for his A.I., Tsuna played the record when he was unconscious.

"The Tesseract has been taken by the enemy, I have one person (the pilot) down and one person unconscious." Tsuna saw (in hologram video) Fury was talking on his walkie-talkie. "Coulson, go back to the base. This is Level Seven. Right now, we're in the war."

Tsuna went still and his eyes wide in shock. The war...

"I need you to call Agent Romanoff and tell her to get Doctor Banner. Then, Coulson, I want you to get Stark after that. I will get Rogers myself." a pause, "Yes, the Avengers Initiative will be activated."

Tsuna kept the names in his head, also frowning at certain someone's name. And the Avengers Initiative... what's that?

Another video, this time Tsuna saw the woman agent, Agent Hill who was talking.

"Sir, why bring him to the Helicarrier? Even though he was Agent Barton's nephew, Tsunayoshi was still an ordinary civilian. Wouldn't it be better if he was taken to a hospital?"

Fury paused for the moment, his gaze was pointing to the front (Tsuna who was unconscious). "This is for safety."

"From what?"

"From Loki, and himself..."

He was silent hearing this, so Fury thought that power- no, his flame was dangerous for himself? Well, he wasn't completely wrong. And Loki... it's bad knowing your enemy is aware of the existence of it. He must be careful the next time.

The latest recording shows Fury again (why always him?), accompanied by a man in white uniform (a doctor or scientist?) shown a file to Fury, "Director Fury, sir! We have a result of his DNA."

"And?"

"He is one hundred percent human. There is no foreign blood, chemical serum, or anything like those."

Tsuna can't help to chuckled, 'Of course I'm human. What do they think? Alien? Demigod? or some Supranatural?'

"How about his condition? Is there a sign that he is being manipulated?"

"We can only find out when he woke up."

Fury saw how Loki could control others, so he was afraid that Tsuna would be in the god's influence too. Fortunately, he is no stranger to the power of mind control. Of course, it was not the first time Tsuna dealt with people who possess such skill, usually people who have a strong Mist Flame.

Mind control... he really hates it. A flashback of how a certain someone used the mind control to control his friends and force them to fight him. He shuddered at the memory. At least, right now that person is one of his friends (well, somehow) and strongest Guardian in Vongola.

Loki's power... it's similar to the Mist Flames. And with Clint under the influence of the god, was Tsuna forced to fight his uncle?

Tsuna swore, that he will definitely save his uncle. No matter what.

Fifteen minutes later, a voice from his A.I. woke him from his daydream.

"Results have been obtained, boss. Judging from the hours of departure, the speed, the route, the current location, and other things, it has been predicted that the destination is somewhere in Western Europe."

With a groan, the brunet mumbled, "Why? Why must in Western Europe?" It was not far from Italy, in other words, if he went there, the chances of Vongola finding him would be greater. "Continue," he ordered.

"France 40%, Germany 30%, Belgium 15%, Austria 10%, and others 5%."

Tsuna frowned, "SODCA, disconnect with VSatelite and open the map of Germany."

"Why Germany, boss?"

"My Intuition."

Tsuna stood in front of a bar located just bellow street level. The sign over the entrance glowed yellow and bore the word, 'Scales Bar'.

"Boss, why are you here? Aren't you going to go after Mr. Barton?" came a voice from his watch.

The Scales Bar, is one of the hidden bars situated in the easy-going, slightly removed corner district of Pennsylvania, near Schuylkill River and at Walnut Street, was one of the best-known drinking establishments in the area. The Bar isn't a tourist trap like some of the other mainstream bars around; it's just a business that enjoys serving people drinks and information that they can actually afford. And perhaps that was why it was so inviting to locals and outsiders alike.

"Honestly, SODCA... Do you expect me to fly to Germany? It's too far, even I use full Sky Flame." said the brunet, "Since I don't bring my passport or can't use the public plane, I will go there using a quick way." Tsuna opened the door and walked into the bar as his eyes adjusted to the dim light. Roughly a dozen booths occupied the wall to his left the bar filled the wall to his right, it was well stocked; with at least a half dozen brands of Scotch and an equal number of Irish whiskeys. The bar was fairly free of clutter, with only a few pictures or posters.

The bar was quite empty (it's still noon after all), only three people in there; two males and one female. A young dark brown-haired male dressed in baggy blue and white sweatshirt with goggles hanging around his neck and matching blue sweat pants and sneakers, standing behind the counter and wiping some glasses. A tall, lanky, white-haired man with dark skin who wears a black, long-sleeved muscle-shirt under a white suit and shoes, sitting on the stool and smoking a cigar. On the corner of the room, leaning against the window was an attractive and tall young woman with chin-length black hair, dark purple eyes, and a slim body. She wears a clad in a black suit with a white shirt underneath it, black pants and shoes.

When Tsuna entered, as expected the three of them turned to him. "Sorry, but we are not open yet..." the young man behind the counter said but paused when he sees his 'customer' is a young teenager. He tilted his head curiously, "Hello, are you lost?"

"Is Mr. Klaus here?" asked Tsuna, "Miss Chain?" the last part directed at the woman who didn't say anything. She only nodded and told the teen to come with her to the back door.

"Ah wait..." the young man was about to follow them but stopped by the white-haired man.

"Idiot! Let them be."

"Mr. Zapp? Who exactly is he? Why is he looking for Mr. Klaus?"

Smirk turning into a chuckle. The white-haired man opened his mouth, paused with a contemplative look on his face, and then smirked back, "That, my dear Leo, is one of the most influential people in the underworld."

"What? But he's still young?!"

"He's only 2 years younger than you, stupid." The white-haired man snorted, "You often hear it: Don't judge a book by the cover."

Back to Tsuna

Following the woman to the back door, Tsuna arrived in the nicely furnished room. It had two couches and a tall backed armchair arranged neatly around a coffee table. Pushed up against one wall were a fridge and a huge rack of wines and whiskeys. There are two men in there.

One man was a rather large, well-muscled man standing well over six and a half feet tall with rich, red hair and side-burns with bright green eyes behind a pair of rectangular glasses. He was wearing a white long sleeve shirt with a red tie under a black waistcoat, as well as black pants with white and brown dress shoes. He was at the desk to his left typing away on the computer. The second man was watering plants on the other side of the room. He was an older male with wavy gray hair and a mustache, clad in typical butler attire with the exception of bandages that covered most of his face save for his eyes, nose, and mouth.

Upon hearing the door open, the red-haired man glanced up from his screen to see who had come in. "Oh, such a rare guest we get. Ciao, young Tsunayoshi."

"Hello, Mr. Klaus," Tsuna replied with a small smile. "Hello to you too Gilbert," he also added to the elderly butler who had also gazed towards his direction.

"Nice to see you again, Young Master Tsunayoshi," he replied with a polite nod and bow before he finished tending to the last of the plants.

The red-haired man stood up from his desk, making his way over to the teen. "What can we, Libra help you?" he sit down on one of the couches as Tsuna took a seat opposite him. "Vongola Decimo?"

Libra, is (one of) a secret organization within the USA. Libra itself is a freelance organization, they operate both inside and outside underworld, although they're not Mafia. Basically, they can do any work; selling information, assassination, thievery, protection, etc. as long you can pay them.

"I'm here to collect your debt, Mr. Klaus." the brunet calmly stated, "First, lend me a private jet. And second..." paused, "Tell me what you know about SHIELD."

Two hours later, at Helicarrier

Fury stalked through the Helicarrier, a dark look on his face that had his agents hurrying to avoid his gaze.

After Fury informed Steve Rogers about Loki, the Tesseract, and his next mission, the director of SHIELD went back to the Helicarrier because of certain reports.

"Sir! We have a problem!" came the voice of his subordinate from the com.

"What's going on?!"

"That's... the teen in the medical bay has disappeared!"

"WHAT?!" Fury barked, ignoring the looks Rogers give him. "How can you lose a teenager?!"

What happened at the faculty yesterday and the sudden arrival of Loki had incensed him. The fact that Tsunayoshi was involved in their affair caused the teenager to be injured by it, a civilian who was under Fury's watch (somehow), enraged him almost past the point of reason. And now the said teen is missing?

Fury entered the main room of Helicarrier, a massive room with almost a hundred monitors blinking some data and information.

"Show the camera footage in the medical bay!"

One of the monitors showed a recording of Tsunayoshi sleeping on a white bed. Then a few minutes later the teen woke up, looked around, sit up, and started talking to his watch (his A.I.). Then all of sudden Tsunayoshi paused and staring off into space (this time, Tsuna start to use the Mist) for quite a long time, around 15-20 minutes. And for some reason suddenly there was a problem with the camera (become blank) for a few seconds. And when the camera worked again, Tsunayoshi had disappeared from the bed. The room becomes empty, there are no signs of his existence. Then the scene changes, showing the view from outside the medical room; there, in front of the door were two people, his subordinates that Fury ordered to guard Tsunayoshi, lying on the floor.

"They die?"

"No, sir," said Agent Hill, "They just... fell asleep."

Fury frowned. What exactly happened? more important, Where did Tsunayoshi go?

"Hill! Besides Loki, Barton, and other controlled people, I want you to track the whereabouts of Tsunayoshi too."

Some minutes later, the Helicarrier began to lift off, three new people entered the main room; a short red-haired woman, a sandy blonde haired man and a black-haired man with glasses.

"We're at a level, sir," informed Agent Hill.

"Good," Fury said. "Then let's vanish."

Fury turned around to his 'guests', "Gentlemen."

Steve Rogers walked to Fury and handing ten dollars to the Director who stared it for a moment, remembering he made a bet with the Captain earlier, before pocketing the money. Then Fury turned to the other man. "Doctor Banner, thank you for coming." He stated, shaking the doctor's hand.

The bespectacled doctor looked at Fury warily before replying, "Thanks for asking nicely. So, uh, how long am I staying?"

"Until we get our hands on the Tesseract. Then you're free to go"

Bruce Banner nodded, "And where are we with that?" Fury turns to Phil Coulson for the answer.

Coulson clears his throat and began to explain. Then the agent and Bruce began to discuss some things.

In corner of his eye, Fury saw the redhead woman was looking Clint's picture on one of the monitors, she paused and curiously watched the monitor next to Clint's, which contained pictures and information about Tsunayoshi. "Agent Romanoff..." Fury called the woman and asked her to follow him to the corner of the room.

"Sir?" Natasha Romanoff questioned her boss.

"You saw the picture next to Barton's, right?" asked Fury. "His name is Tsunayoshi, and he's Barton's nephew."

"What?!" yelled Natasha. "But Cli- I mean Agent Barton didn't have any siblings!"

"He is Laura's. You can read about him later," answered Fury. "Tsunayoshi was involved in yesterday's incident with Loki."

"I see." frowned the redhead woman, "How exactly Barton change his side, sir?"

"Loki had a specter that when he placed on people's chest, their eyes went blue and they went into a trance, Barton fell victim of it." a pause, "Actually Loki tried it on Tsunayoshi too."

"You mean Barton's nephew is being controlled by Loki too?"

"I do not know, Agen Romanoff. When Loki tried it, nothing happened to him, at least that was what I thought. Although there was nothing wrong with Tsunayoshi, for some reason he did not want to wake up."

"He's in here? Can I see him, sir?"

"That is the problem. Tsunayoshi woke up about an hour or more ago, but he's currently missing..." then Fury showed the recording in the medical room earlier. In certain parts, Natasha frowned as Fury said, "What we fear is that whatever happened with Tsunayoshi has something to do with Loki."

Natasha was about to say something, but stopped when Hill yelled, "Director Fury, sir! We got a video call from an unknown source!"

Bruce and Coulson stop talking. Steve stands up from the chair. Everyone stopped what they're doing for the moment and turned to the middle of the room where one big screen flickered. When it became clear they saw a brunette haired teen with brown eyes looking at all of them at first and then his gaze was fixed on one person, "Mr. Fury." said the teen calmly.

"Tsunayoshi. Where are you?" Fury said, he checked Tsunayoshi's background carefully. The teen was sitting on a comfortable (and expensive) looking sofa that was made out of beige leather, a small bookcase in the corner, pen, papers, food (strawberry cake), and a can of coca-cola on the table in his left. Also, the scenery on the small round window in his right made Fury narrowed his eye. It's the scenery of the moving clouds in the night sky. "Seriously, where are you?!"

"Right now I'm around Strasbourg, but I'm on my way to Germany, more precisely to Stuttgart. Will arrived in..." paused to look at his watch, "five minutes."

"How did you get to France quickly? More importantly, what will you do in Germany?" Looking at his eyes once again, Fury decided that Tsunayoshi was not in Loki's influence.

"Mr. Fury, I have people that owe us- uh, me some favors (plus some blackmailed). Getting to the other side of the world in fast isn't very difficult." the teen said as if he commenting about the weather.

Honestly, who exactly is that kid? Why could he talk like that with the most feared person in SHIELD? it was a thought that was on the minds of almost everyone in the room.

"And what I'm going to do in Germany... is because uncle is there." finished the teen.

"What do you mean Barton is in Germany?!" Fury demanded.

There was chaos in the room, SHIELD people who had not known who the teenager was (even though they knew that their boss took the brunet to the Helicarrier yesterday for some reason), surprised to learn that he was the nephew of one of their best agents. People like Bruce Banner and Steve Rogers looked at Fury with disappointed eyes, thinking that the director had employ Tsunayoshi. Why did SHIELD recruit a young teenager?

On the other hand, Natasha Romanoff examined the brunet on the monitor closely. Tsunayoshi, as her boss called him, is the nephew of Clint Barton, her friend and partner (who unfortunately on the enemy side right now). Like Fury, she had many questions about the teen; is he really Clint and Laura's nephew? If so, why hasn't she heard about Tsunayoshi from them? Is he alright, considering that the boy was involved in yesterday's incident, or is he under the influence of Loki? How can the teen escape from the Helicarrier and go to other countries quickly? And most importantly...

"How did you find out?!" Fury shout the question Natasha (and maybe everyone else) was thinking about, after all, SHIELD had tried to track Clint down for several hours, but there is no progress.

"Ah, the tracking device that I put on uncle told me, of course." Tsunayoshi nodded as if there was nothing wrong with what he said.

Fury stared at the brunet, hard. "And why did you put the tracking device on your own uncle, Tsunayoshi?"

The teen almost seemed to flush in embarrassment, "Well, I-I have a bad feeling when we parted some days ago. So I- uh, slipped a tracker on uncle in the case something will happen."

Before Fury can respond, an older man's voice came from Tsunayoshi's background. "Giovane Maestro, siamo arrivati." (Young Master, we've arrived.)

"Grazie Gilbert," (Thanks Gilbert,) answered the teen, eyes switch from the monitor for a moment. "Si prega di atterrare in un'area deserta." (Please land in a deserted area.) Then he turned back, "Well Mr. Fury, will you come here or not?"

"I am not sure I trust you, Tsunayoshi." said the director.

"I don't trust you either if that makes you feel better." the teen's easygoing tone was misplaced on his calm facade. Then Tsunayoshi looked at the window and frowned, "Your enemy; the strange man who 'kidnapped' uncle, most likely he was here too." paused, "Hurry up, Mr. Fury."

Connection lost, the screen turned off once again, and the atmosphere becomes silent for a few seconds until a beep can be heard from one of the monitors. An agent quickly typed in and said, "We've got a hit," he said, drawing everyone's attention. "Which one?" cut Fury.

"Uh, Loki, sir." the agent gesturing to the computer. "67% match. Wait- cross-match, 79%. Location: Stuttgart, Germany, Koningstrasse. He's not exactly hiding."

"Sir, that means Tsunayoshi is right." said Natasha, "What should we do?"

"Agent Romanoff, I want you to take the Quinjet to Germany." Fury gave the order to the female agent, then he turned to Steve Rogers, "Captain," he called the blonde man "You're up."

~Owari~

AN~

First, I want to say thank you to Cielly27 for your correction about Tsuna's birthday, I didn't realize it before you mentioned it XD

Anyone is free to give me correction if you spot anywhere, ne~ ^^

Second, I don't know where exactly Loki's temporary base is or what he uses to go to Germany, but I set his base somewhere in New York and he goes to Germany by jet (stolen SHIELD's jet).

Third, like (maybe) you know, I don't like to use any OC except for unnamed people like some agents, etc. So, I'll use the character(s) from different anime/manga/movie for minor characters.

Hmm, do you know any character who appears in this chapter? ;D

Ah, by the way, the time difference between the USA and France & Germany is about 6 hours. Noon in the USA (1 pm) and night in Germany (7 pm).

The distance between the USA to Germany about 4.882 mi or 7.8568174 kilometers

The speed of Tsuna's jet = 3.661 km/h

So Tsuna arrived in Germany in 2.14 hours (more or less)

Let's say it's a special jet XD

Lastly, as usual, thank you for the Followers, Favorites, and Reviews :)

Ciao~