"It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice" Natasha said to Steve as the trio began walking. "thought Coulson was going to swoon." Natasha added, earning a snort from Harry. "Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?"
"Trading cards?" Steve asked, he looked partly amused and partly as if he was wondering if those cards actually existed.
"They're vintage," Natasha said with a small smile. "he's very proud."
"You know, if you sign a photo for him he will probably sleep with it, if he doesn't frame it and place it above his bed." Harry said.
"Hey, be nice." Natasha said, though the smile was still on her face. "Coulson's just a big fan, at least he knows when to be professional."
"I suppose." Harry conceded, in that regard Coulson was a lot better than most of Harry's old fans.
"Doctor Banner." Steve said as he noticed Doctor Banner who was dressed like a teacher, he was looking very nervous as he looked around in all directions and was trying not to get in anyone's way.
"Oh yeah, hello." Bruce said as Steve shook his hand. "they told me you were coming." Bruce added.
"Word is you can find the cube?" Steve asked in a questioning voice.
"Is that the only word on me?" Bruce asked knowingly.
"It's the only word I care about." Steve said in an honest voice.
"And who are you?" Bruce asked Harry.
"Harry Potter." Harry said as he offered Bruce a hand, Bruce shook it and nodded in greeting.
"And what is it that you do?"
"Mr Potter is simply here to provide assistance if it's required." Natasha said.
"And what kind of assistance does he provide? If you don't mind me asking," Steve asked in a curious voice. "I know you're an ex-soldier," He said to Harry. "what exactly is it that you do?"
"A lot of things," Harry replied. "I…"
"Boy's you might want to step inside" Natasha said, interrupting whatever lie or half-truth that was about to come out of Harry's mouth. "it's about to get hard to breath." She nodded at Harry who gave a slight nod back in appreciation for bringing the attention off of himself.
"What is this thing?" Banner asked as he followed Steve towards the edge of the hellicarrier.
"Is this a submarine?" Steve asked as he look over.
"Really?" Bruce couldn't help but blurt out. "They want me in a submerged, pressurized metal container?" He said in a disbelieving tone. Any further words were cut off when Bruce and Steve saw something big rising out of the water, eventually they saw that it was a massive turbine. Soon the whole ship began to rise, the waters were batted away as air slapped against Bruce and Steve. "Oh no, this is much worse."
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Eventually everyone had got inside where Director Fury was waiting for them, Fury did not say anything and instead waited for Steve and Bruce to finish looking around. Bruce looked very nervous, even if he hid it decently well, it was clear he was worried about what would happen if Fury decided to not keep his word. Steve on the other hand was clearly impressed by what he was seeing. For some reason or the other he walked up to Fury and handed him ten bucks, more than likely the result of some bet. Harry glanced towards Hill and saw an unhappy expression on her face as she looked between Bruce and Steve, he saw her glance at him but she tried to play it off, Harry decided to ask her about it later.
"Doctor, thank you for coming." Fury said to Bruce as the two shook hands.
"Well… thank you for asking nicely," Bruce replied. "so how long am I staying?"
"Once we get our hands on the tesseract, you're in the wind."
"Okay, and how's that going?" Bruce asked.
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet," Coulson answered. "cell phones, laptops, etc. If it's connected to a satellite then it's just another eye and ear for us."
"That's still not going to find them in time." Natasha frowned.
"You need to narrow down your field," Bruce said. "how many spectrometers do you have access to?" He asked.
"How many are there?" Fury asked.
"Call every lab you know," Bruce said. "tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and have them calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition, that way we can at least rule out a few places. Is there somewhere I can work?" Bruce asked.
"Agent Romanoff," Fury called. "can you escort Doctor Banner to his laboratory please?" Natasha nodded before gesturing Bruce to follow her.
"You're going to love it doc," She said as the two walked away. "we got all the toys."
"Really?" Bruce asked. "You have a Commodore 64?"
"Uh… I'm not sure…"
"Oh you're very young." Bruce chuckled.
"Agent Hill," Fury said to Hill once he saw Steve follow Coulson out of the room. "did you tell the council that Barton had been compromised?"
"Was that not procedure?" She raised an eyebrow at him, Fury didn't respond. "Did you tell them who exactly is on your 'response team'?"
"It doesn't appear that I have to," Fury said with a false smile before turning back to Harry. "Mr Potter, I need you on standby."
"I sense that there is something here that you don't really want to talk about." Harry commented as he gestured between Hill and Fury. "Response team? Council? I assume the 'World Security Council', something you want to tell me Fury?" Harry asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Later," Fury sighed. "I promise." He added when Harry looked like he was about to protest.
"Fine," Harry replied. "by the way, what about operation RS-3?" Harry asked.
"I've been working on it," Fury nodded. "however now is not the time for it, as soon as Loki is dealt with for good, we can act on it."
"Fine, call me when I am needed." Harry said before he walked out of the room, he found an abandoned room before he teleported back home, half an hour later Harry got a call. "Yeah?" Harry answered the call.
"You're needed." Fury's voice responded.
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