Daddy's blunt little instrument
I do not own The Avengers in any way.
Madison was awoken in the middle of the night by someone shaking her.
"Get up", Coulson said.
"Why? Go away", she said.
"Orders are orders. We need to clear out", he said.
She sighed and packed what little she had and got dressed. She slung her bow and arrows over her back. She followed Coulson out to the truck. "Where's my father?" she asked.
"He's coming with Director Fury", Coulson told her.
As they were walking to the truck, she heard Fury say over the radio, "Barton has turned".
"What?!" Madison yelled. She turned and started to run back to S.H.E.I.L.D. headquarters.
One of the other agents grabbed her.
"Let me go!" she screamed, "I need to get my father".
"He turned Madison", Coulson told her.
"I don't care! I'll knock some sense into him!" she yelled. She suddenly blacked out.
One of the agents had tranquilized her.
She woke up on the helicarrier. She shot out of bed and went straight to the control room. She marched straight up to Fury.
"Now Madison…" he started.
"What happened back at headquarters?" she asked.
"Loki, from Asgard, took your father. Brainwashed him", Fury said.
"So that's it? You're just going to terminate him? My father. One of your best agents", she said, "Please Uncle Nick. If you kill him, I'll have nowhere to go. He's my only family. And you had better not mention Trickshot, because there's no way in Hell I'm living with him after what he tried to do to my father".
"We'll find him and bring him back. We've already called in Natasha", Coulson told her.
"You'd better, or I'll do it myself", she said and stalked out of the control room. She went to the training room.
"Fancy meeting you here", a voice said.
"Not now Coop", she said.
"C'mon. I know you're worried about your father", he said, "We all are".
"Could you just leave me alone right now?" she asked.
Cooper frowned and said, "Okay. I'll be in my room if you need me". He kissed her head and left the training room.
She picked up her bow and notched an arrow. She fired the arrow and hit the target dead on. She kept firing arrows as she thought about Natasha and her father. She knew her father liked Natasha. She didn't mind it though. She liked Natasha. She had taught her how to fight, whereas her father had only taught her to fire a bow. Her father and Natasha were much friendlier than they put off. She caught the looks between the two.
A few days later, Fury approached her. "We need you to bring in the Captain", he told her.
"The Captain. Like Captain America? You're serious?" she asked him.
"He's the sensitive type", Fury said.
"Oh, so you want me to play the poor orphan girl?" she asked him, "Whatever. I'll do it".
She walked in the 1950's style gym. She found him punching a bag. She watched the way his muscles flexed with every punch.
He hit the bag particularly hard and it went crashing into the wall, sand pouring out of it. He went over and picked up another one and hung it up and began punching again.
"Trouble sleeping?" she asked.
Steve turned to find Madison standing there. "I slept for 70 years, ma'am. I think I've had my fill", he said.
"No need to call me ma'am. I'm not that old", Madison said, "You should out celebrating, seeing the world".
He walked over to his bag and begun unwrapping his knuckles. "When I went under, the world was at war. I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost", he said putting the wrap in his bag.
"We've made some mistakes along the way. Some, very recently", she said.
"Are you here with a mission?" Steve asked her.
"I am", she said giving him a small smile.
"Trying to get me back in the world?" Steve asked.
"Trying to save it, actually", she said holding out the file to him.
"HYDRA's secret weapon", Steve said sitting down.
"They say Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you", she said sitting down next to him on the bench, "He thought what S.H.E.I.L.D. thinks. The Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world really needs".
"Who took it from you?" Steve asked, handing the file back to her.
"He's called Loki. He's…not exactly from around here. There's a lot of things you're going to have to know before we can bring you in", she told him, "The world has gotten even stranger than you already know. Believe me".
"At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me", Steve said standing up.
"Will you kiss me if you're wrong?" Madison asked him smiling.
Steve looked at her with wide eyes.
"I'm totally kidding. Ten bucks says you're wrong", she said, "There's a debriefing packet waiting for you at your apartment".
Steve walked over and grabbed one of the punching bags. He slung it over his shoulder and began to walk off.
"Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?" Madison asked him.
"You should have left it in the ocean", he said.
"Cap?" she asked, "Just so you know, Loki took my father".
Steve stopped walking. "He's the only person in the world I have left", she told him, "Without him, I'll have nowhere to go".
Steve felt bad for the girl. He knew what it was like to be an orphan. He paused for a moment before walking out. Madison smiled.
She had gotten Captain America in on the Avengers. Her father would've been proud.