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Five : "Treat spiders the way you want to be treated."

Y/N : "Killed without hesitation."

Five : "No."

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Ardent ~ Chp. 33

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3rd Pov.

Louise stabs down a final Chitauri, her ki stick staking the last warrior down in her current building. Her right arm sleeve torn at the seam from an energy shot, a light blood rail scaling down her arm as she helped a young man stand back up.

"Thank you. Thank you." Many people clamored about, moving to stand back up. Louise escorts them out to enter the subway entrance just outside. Letting others run forth in small groups, exiting to beat down a couple Chitauri with her last ki stick and the last of her throwing knives. The last civilians stop, a young set of twins staring at Louise in awe as she kicks and hits down a Chitauri with ease, her broken stick held in her left hand as she turns to face the twins.

"You better run back down to catch up with your family." She gestures down, lowering to one knee to speak with them.

"Our family is gone, they were stuck in that building before it fell. An old man grabbed us to bring us here, to be safe." One twin speaks up, holding the other close to protect them. Louise pauses, glancing at the collapsed building in the vague area they mentioned, a sigh leaving her lips. She grips her right arm sleeve, the scarlet fabric tearing at her strength. She folds the sleeve neatly, grabbing her flip phone given to her by S.H.I.E.L.D. to wrap it in the sleeve.

"How about you save this, a phone that can reach me anytime, yeah? Keep this sleeve to protect it, also to let me know you made it safe. Just hang it on a place you can see it in the street once everything is safe. Now, go on. I still have a job to do, and I need to know you'll be safe down there." The twins nod, the small one takes the folded sleeve, clutching it as they both scrabble down the stairs, a few civilians waiting for them to join and escape.

A screech fills the air behind her, a few Chitauri surrounding her as she turns back around. She drops the stick, grabbing the short spear from her back to fight the group. Louise takes a breath, lowering slightly to a stance before charging forward. She sprints around fastly, swinging the spear around to slice across the midriff of the Chitauri reptilian abdomen. The creatures crying out as Lou used to sword end to slice them down.

A screech shouts right next to Louise, a chariot slamming into her side to lift her in the air. She groans in pain as the sharp metal in front cuts her left side, her hands gripping the metal landing to stay attached. Her hands crushing the metal beneath it as the chariot surges forward towards a building, a bank specifically.

The stone and concrete of the bank roof crumbles under Louise and the chariot, the spy and warriors breaking apart to crash heavily on a 4th level. Many civilians were screaming as they hid in the building as well as the floor below them. Louise tries to steady her breathing, her body aching from the pain as the Chitauri chatter loudly, pointing their weapons down at the civilians.

"Captain, the bank on 42nd past Madison. They've cornered a lot of civilians there." Louise hears their chatter in her ear, her fists slamming down onto a Chitauri warrior, killing the alien before kicking its body from her way.

"I'm on it." She hears Steve respond, as she grabs another warrior. Savagely disarming them before snapping its neck, and tossing it over the railing.

Louise hears another chariot fly through the hole in the roof, her body jumping to catch the chariot spearing through the glass ceiling. She ducks as the glass shatters, raining onto the ground as she snatches the driving Chitauri back, stabbing it with a metal shard through the back. The chariot loses its acceleration after the kill, the second warrior grabbing Louise to tackle her back to the ground. The chariot lands first as they free fall; Louise twirls the warrior down, slamming its body onto the crumbled chariot, breaking it down as they land in a cloud of smoke upon the building's rubble. The crowd watches in astonishment as they see Louise standing upon the dead warrior, showing her victory over the army.

The sounds of more Chitauri on the second level alert her, to which she jumps onto the floor level, pulling up the second floor railing to jump up. She flips over the railing, just catching Steve knocking down a warrior to hit another. The beeping sound of a bomb taking her priority as she kicks the Chitauri attacking Steve, knocking it down before Steve shoves her back to misses the bomb explosion. Both of the super soldier duo fly through a window behind them, the blast killing the Chitauri as the duo slams down onto a vehicle, Louise crashing onto a car before falling to the pavement.

"Lou!" Steve groans, a blood streak from an earlier accident covering the left side of Louise's face, a cut on her chin lightly bleeding to match. She pushes to her hands and knees, exhausted from falling. Firefighters begin to evacuate the civilians from the bank, many glancing to see Steve helping Louise stand. She jerks him off, holding the left side of her head in pain as she stumbles off to the next area.

Louise stumbles slightly, catching her footing as she pulls her blades free. Clearing another way through a Chitauri squad to free another route of escape. Steve shouts towards her, watching as she slayed down any warriors without delay. She moves swiftly and violently to get to her goal; many civilians rush past her, running to the emergency services packed all over the streets.

"Louise, stop!" Steve commands, having fought on his own for sometime before reaching her. Jerking her shoulder to keep her from harming herself anymore, Louise swings back, knocking Steve to the ground with her blades readied at his throat.

"It's me, Lou. It's Steve!" He shouts back, holding his hands up in the surrender on the ground. She lets a breath free, instantly slacking her arms to step away. Thor storming towards them in caution as Steve pushes to his knees then to a stand. Louise turns in shame, having lost control over her own bodily movements for a time; catching the sight of her attack for many blocks behind them. Chitauri bodies scattered across the ground in different ways, a strange liquid covering her hands and the bodies, to which she assumed to be their blood.

"Are you back; as you say Captain, Lady Grant?" Thor questions, continuing to hold his cautious stance as some strays of Chitauri begin to approach them.

"Yes, your majesty." She replies, stepping away with Steve on her trail.

"You're with me, on me or you're done." Cap orders, holding in his anger to continue on.

"On your left, Captain." She responds dutifully, following his attacks with her blades as Thor backed them up.

"I can close it. Can anybody copy? I can shut the portal down." Nat speaks through the comms, most looking up to the source of the portal.

"Do it." Steve confirms; Tony interrupting him.

"No, wait."

"Stark, these things are still coming." Steve pushes, staring into the sky.

"I got a nuke coming in. It's gonna blow in less than a minute... And I know just where to put it." Tony responds; Louise jumps away from Steve and Thor on the street, jumping onto another chariot to bring her far in the air.

"Louise!" Steve shouts, Thor glancing up to see her speed up the side of Stark Tower towards Loki in the landing floor high in the sky. Her comms falls from her ear after a hit from the warrior next to her, she slams it to the side, continuing to control the destination.

Louise jumps from the chariot, using extra force to crash it and the single warrior into the side of the building as she lands onto the walkway. Rolling to a kneel, before sprinting to a stand to reach Loki inside. She slides to her knees, landing just before Loki, who laid motionless on some damaged concrete of the floor. Her hands quickly grip his forehead, laying her thumbs on both of his temples to breach his mind.

"What are you doing-"

"They're of a Hive mind, I felt it when I connected earlier. I just might have a shot through you." Louise simplifies, adding pressure to her hold to enter his head.

"Don't touch me- Agh!" Loki shouts in pain, tensing his body as Louise gains control of his memories, his thoughts and some of his gifts. Her eyes completely whiten suddenly, her pupils no longer in sight as she connects to the Hive. Loki stares in pain, his godly body handling the massive surge of energy and raw power emanating from her body. His eyes lose focus as he yells out more in numbing pain, practically seeing two figures above him, controlling his very being to find an answer.

Louise grunts in pain, a shadow of herself forming next to her, the figure foggily appearing in her peripherals, a masculine form attaining it as it matched the same stance as her. The connection she felt through Loki earlier fully established through the figure, not of herself. She stares down, seeing Loki facing towards the figure to calm himself. Her powers surges through the Hive line, finding the neural route that connects to the Chitauri.

Louise murmurs to herself, commanding the Chitauri to freeze their attacks. Many blasts and explosions ceased below as she held the army back from attacking, hearing Stark's Iron suit thrusters speed past the building towards the sky. She struggles with the connection, pushing Loki's mind farther before the breaking point of his will. Screams rip from his mouth as a deafening explosion ripples through the air, the explosion destroying the Hive connection violently. Louise jerks from Loki, the source severed as she feels the destruction of the army, her body flying from inside the tower onto the landing, sliding across before tipping over the edge. The figure fights to keep her hanging close to the edge as her body has lost most of its will from overexertion.

"Come on!" The figure shouts, a deep but familiar voice speaking as she hazily hears it talk. It pulls hard, Louise finally using her fist to push herself up and back on the concrete. She sees Stark's suit falling rapidly down, her head turning to hang off the edge to see him caught by the Hulk before landing down on the bridge below the Tower. She sighs in pain, laying back to see the figure laying just like her at her side.

"I know you." She whispers tiredly, and the figure just nods foggily before merging back towards her body. A groan leaves her as she sits up, seeing Natasha give her a sign for success confirmation above her on the roof. She sighs, staring back inside the tower at Loki, who still ached from her attack.

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Loki crawls to sit up, Louise hot on his trail as she steps to him, her body already trying to heal after finally calming. She steps to him, throwing his body back around to face her, making him jerk.

"Sorry about that attack, it was necessary." He groans back as an answer and she speaks again.

"Before they arrive, you felt that source of connection did you not?"

"I did, pet. Well, barely, based on the numbness I feel from your ascension." He responds, glaring at her in disdain at the moment. Louise moves to her side, nabbing a token of her's from her original time, a simple golden band that passed to her from her father. A crest and saying inscribed on the inside of it.

"You will take this with you to your home land, Prince. I've been working on something for a while now, something secret, take this with you and I will find you." Louise promises, slipping the ring inside his suit before stepping away. The rest of the Avengers quickly assemble next to Louise, ready to attack Loki as he stares at them.

"If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now." Loki jest to simmer the mood, making Louise smirk slightly as the rest were ready to end his games.

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A loose tank covered Louise's chest, her toned arms on display as only light bruises and cuts were left on her body to heal. She steps next to Steve, everyone watching as Thor escorted Loki to an open area in Central Park, readying for their departure. Bruce and Dr. Selvic moved the Tesseract to an appropriate case, before exchanging it to Thor who held the opposite side ready for Loki. Louise catches Loki's gaze, letting the connection open to speak with him privately.

'I will find you, to speak. Wait till this goes over first.' She promises, as he stares at her.

'I do not know how you will accomplish this, pet. I will be looking forward to it.' He gives a nod like a bow and takes the handle Thor offers him, switching it over to open a portal to their realm. They evaporate into the sky in a blue energy hue, disappearing in a snap as everyone stood around their last stepping place. Louise steps to the assassins, greeting Clint officially and saying goodbye to Natasha. She does the same for Tony and Bruce, brushing off Tony's one-liners to continue towards her motorcycle with Steve. Steve steps back to Louise, smiling after her as she straddles her seat, awaiting for him to climb on.

"Hop on, Captain. I'm driving." She states with a smile, slipping on a jacket to zip up for the ride.

"As you wish, ma'am." Steve responds, climbing on behind her as she gives him a glare at the title. He chuckles as she takes off, speeding away to their next adventure. Louise knowing, that some things will begin to change very soon for them all.

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The Avengers slowly chew their Shawarma meals, silence overtaking them, as two employees clean up the floor from the attack. Louise sighs, sharing a meal with Steve next to Thor, staring off into nothingness as everyone else does the same. The silence deafening as they processed everything to ready for the future.

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START - Past Chp.

"What do you mean I've lost him?" Louise's mother shouts in strong Italian at her midwife. Louise's father keeps strong, holding his precious newborn daughter tight in his arms. His wife screamed in agony as she was notified of her second child, her new daughter's sibling, laid still born, separate from her crying child. The father steps away as women try to calm his wife, taking time to treasure and soothing his daughter.

"You are perfect in every way, Cara Mia. You are one with your brother, do not ever think you will be alone, for you will always be looking out for him. After all, you are the eldest, so take care of him here, in your heart, then in your mind. And then you will be one." Louise's father states, returning to the room to let her mother connect with her. A breeze calms her mother in the mid day, as Louise lets her mind soothe her aching mother, easing her sadness with love for her children. Letting her feel the love from every person around her, to savor her life.

"Oh, my beautiful Louisa." Her mother cries, holding her close as the parents curl around the child to bond.

"Our beautiful, Luca. Our son." The father adds, a nod confirming his words from his wife.

END - Past Chp.

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A.N. So this is the last chapter for now, completing the first Avengers movie, finally. I've had the first half of it drafted for a long time. Hopefully, I get to keep some inspiration for my other projects for the future. Let me know if you have any questions or requests for updates or requests for the one-shot book I have, that I always forget about writing for. I hope you enjoyed this installment, and maybe throw some ideas out for the future, I'd love some feedback.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 32

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3rd Pov.

Glass shards and burnt metal pieces covered the floor of the lab, desks and view screens, broken and shattered. The photos of the attack showcasing Loki's infiltration, Louise's eyes scanning over the scenes. She stood outside the medical bay, gazing off in thought, within silence. A pair of footsteps move to her, the signature not making any motion to pass her from in front.

"I heard you let him go." Clint's voice speaks up from in front of her, clear and unburdened from the mystical scepter.

"Not exactly." She answers vaguely, not caring for anyone's criticism.

"Then, how about your powers? Can you elaborate on those?" He pushes, moving to stand next to her.

"Not really. I wouldn't trust myself at the moment to invade your mind and persuade you. It's a bit unstable at the moment." She answers truthfully, wondering why her emotions want to explode through her powers.

"So you can do mind control?" Clint assumes, digging casually but unsubtly.

"Nope. Let Fury know, he's always getting others to ask the same question for that exact answer. I doubt I'd change it now." Louise retorts, giving him a small glance before turning away to return to the main command center.

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Louise feels Steve's mental presence nearby, her head lifting to the door behind her bunkroom made small for reminisce sake. She softly grabs her holster, sliding her arms up and through her back straps, settling her ki sticks to her back. A holstered gun on her left thigh, two small rows of throwing knives attached to her right thigh, secured tightly along with two matching knives on each ankle connected to her black boots. She adds some blades to the straps of her upper holster at her rib height, securing the last of her weapons to her body. Her scarlet body suit armour made to seem thin, her suit made to withstand her strength force, matching flat boots to keep traction and balance.

"Lou." Steve speaks as he stands in her doorway, watching her pause at his voice.

"I'm ready, Steve. I didn't really get a suit like everyone else, after all, I did all my missions in a dress. Coulson had a few blueprints for me, but who knows where those are." Louise distracts, adjusting her long sleeved top. Her "suit" consisted of a tight crimson thinly armoured top that ended at her bottom ribs, her high waisted pants a dark brown colour with several holsters.

"We'll work on it." Steve jokes, trying to get her to face him. She sighs, double checking her equipment one last time before turning.

"Of course. That is unless you try putting me into that dress again." She returns the joking manner with a light smirk, making Steve match it in energy.

"About earlier, I-"

"You said your peace, Steve. I've said my stance subtly, and maybe I'll explain one day." Louise pauses, as she hopes to figure out her feelings in time. Giving Steve the hope he wanted for the past months.

"Let's get this gang moving, we've got a god to chase." Steve accepts her reasoning and steps out of the room, navigating her to meet in the docking bay with the others of the mighty Avengers.

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A.N. I just wanted to use this chapter spot as a author's note, so I wouldn't have to use another part for it. I was just wondering if anyone had an questions for this series, like about the main character,  inspirations or hopes for the future parts.

Also, a slight warning, after practically over two years of no inspiration for anything, I finally got a rush of inspiration. So, I sped through the last basic chapters of the series in a few days. I also rewrote some parts I didn't like originally, and practically rushed through the fighting scenes (I dread those with a passion, it's so hard to describe them sometimes). As well as I finished the final long fight scenes, I double checked the spelling and left it be. So, hopefully it flows halfway decently.

Finally, If any one wants a sort of list of the movies my OC's will be in as a main or just featured character, let me know and I'll make a rough draft for the moment, if anyone is interested.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 31

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3rd Pov.

Louise attacks first, swinging at his face, his reflexes moving faster, dodging her hit. He punches back, missing her abdomen. A quick jump back on her part, sparing a hard hit to his face as she landed back. She switches her legs, swinging a kick to the other side of his face; Loki snatches her leg jerking her body against his own. Her legs wrap around his chest, one over his shoulder another in his hand, gripping her thigh and back. Louise squeezes heavily, to which he struggles back and lands hits to her sides.

"Be grateful for your position, god. No unworthy man has ever gotten closer." Louise teases as he slams her back into a wall, making her choke his body harder, as he tries to shove her off.

"Well, then, let's enjoy this moment then." Loki counters, disappearing completely which makes her collapse onto the ground. She rushes back to a stand, scanning around to find him. Arms entrap her torso, locking her arms against her chest as Loki tightens his grip, holding her close.

"Pet, we are more alike than you wish." He husks into her ear, making her close her eyes.

"Use your power, control me." Loki taunts, wanting her to break free from her own cage. She shakes harder, trying to control herself, as his strength increases in his hold, keeping her frozen.

"No!" She shouts, her mind losing control of itself in her underlying rage. His own talents, having coaxed her power to emerge from their last meeting.

"Let out that anger that has been eating you, Louisa. I've been in your mind, pet. I've seen things that you've never shown another." He whispers, feeling her body loosen in tension, making him slack his hold.

"There we are, Louisa." Loki says with a grin, as Louise lets her mind unfurl and her power grow. The mercenary with a shoulder wound cries out in pain, clutching his head in agony. They watch as the man screams and jerks to a stop in death. Loki smiles wider as shouts fill the air around them as her power reaches many with easy minds.

"Let them fear you, pet. Come with me. Let's show them their god, their ruler." He speaks out, making her turn to face him with a frown.

"I won't hurt them." She tries to control herself, making Loki grab her shoulder.

"You will obey, pet." He orders, speaking in her ear as his hand clasped her jaw.

"I've taken a liking to you, mortal. Let go. Come with me." He entices, as Louise felt her resolution stagger, begging for a reprieve.

"I can't. I-"

"You will be free, Louisa." He whispers her name, making her eyelids flutter from the seduction. She grasps his coat, trying to ground herself as she feels a need to go with him. To let him free, to be free herself.

"No, your majesty. I won't leave them. Not today, anyway." Louise answers with her head down, his body tensing as she grabs his coat tighter. Her leg kicks up suddenly, knocking them apart. He grunts; her feet kicking up at his chest to which he ducked back.

Louise twirls around, backing away to fight as Loki storms towards her. She swings her fist, his reflexes narrowly dodging them, barely landing a few hits to his side. His left hand catches her abdomen, his right flying around to latch onto the back of her neck. She gasps, his left hand catching both her wrists in his palm, holding her still.

"Pathetic, pet." He grumbles, jerking her back before launching her over his shoulder. Louise's body flies over his head, slamming many feet away into the walls above the platform. Her being falls heavily to the ground, making her groan as she stumbles to get back on her knees.

Two more mercenaries appear, a hazy look from Louise shows Loki standing before the glass cage entrance. She pushes to stand on her knees, her body aching from Loki's throw. A mercenary knocking her back onto her hands; a deep sudden voice shouts through the room.

"No!"

"Are you ever not going to fall for that?" She hears Loki's voice from in front of her. He gestures for the merc to step away, squatting next to Louise who had gotten her grip back.

"The humans think us immortal. Should we test that?" Loki questions Thor, who Louise saw once she looked up.

"Move away please." Coulson says from the lower platform, all of them looking at him. Coulson raises the large weapon in his arms, taking a few steps before pausing.

"Do you like this? We started working on the prototype after you sent The Destroyer."

"Even I don't know what it does. Do you wanna find out?" Coulson threatens, holding the large weapon in his arms. Loki smirks, lowering back into a squat to stare at Louise. His hand strays down the side of her dark pants, his right hand drawing down her ankle before touching her boot. His fingers softly grasped the scepter, making her jerk up.

A shimmer of gold appears before Louise, Loki teleporting behind Coulson. The full scepter stabbing into Coulson's back, Loki dislodging it quickly before appearing back next to her.

"No!" Thor shouts again, watching from inside the cage. Louise stares in slight shock, scrambling to a stand in which Loki points the scepter to her chest. A blue light draws from the tip of the fully sized scepter, entering her chest and filling her eyes with a glowing blue haze. Thor stands away from the glass, having seen what would happen if he hit the walls again. Loki steps back to the panel with the red button, giving Thor a last glance before hitting it. Launching the giant glass cage into the air below, many thousands of feet above land.

"You're gonna lose." Coulson says from the ground, his back against a side wall, the weapon sat upon his lap. Louise stayed at Loki's side, having been corrupted by the power of the scepter, making Loki grin before he turned around.

"Am I?" Loki plays along, taking a step to the dying man.

"It's in your nature." Coulson responds. Louise keeps quiet, her mind unfurling to fight the domination of power, as the god spoke.

"Your heroes are scattered, your floating fortress falls from the sky. Where is my disadvantage?" Loki points out, awaiting Coulson's response. Louise pushes through the control, making her feet stumble forward before entering Coulson's mind.

"You lack conviction." He says, making Loki chuckle. She enters Coulson's mind, speaking to him.

'Do it.' She orders with a nod at him, knowing he heard her from his wide eyes.

"I don't think I..." Loki speaks, an orange blast firing from the weapon at him. The force shoots Loki through the metal walls behind Louise, making a large hole.

"So that's what it does." Coulson speaks aloud; Louise on the ground from the blast force. She crawls to the opening of the hole, capturing Loki rising to a stand with smoke still lingering off his body.

"My mind is my own, boy prince." Louise taunts, giving him a nod as his release, granting him freedom this once. She pushes back, turning to step to Coulson. He gives her a lazy smile, knowing his death to be soon.

"You should foll-"

"I'm fine right here." Louise interrupts his soft speech, stepping close to kneel at his dying form. She softly lays her hands on top of his own, adding pressure to his wound.

"They need-"

"Unless you feel like telling me about some of your Captain America obsessions, you better be saving your energy to keep going." She orders with a light smile, comforting him enough to hear a pained chuckle escape his bloody lips.

"You see, you have me there." He responds, glancing up at her as her eyes stare at his blood.

"So, I have these limited edition Captain America hardware that were supposed devices that the Captain used in his early days..."

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The water below her hovering hands drained a soft pink tone, blood slowly fading from her hands as she rubbed them softly. Louise's mind elsewhere, her movements slow and short. She sighs once the water becomes clear, soap sliding in the drain as she pulls back to dry her hands. A light creak from the metal platform below her feet signaling another presence entering the room. Bright stunning blue eyes catching her own light ones in the small mirror before her.

"Do you feel like explaining?" His voice spoke more words than his statement, a sense of disappointment, a hint of anger in the mix as well. She scoffs, watching the faucet on the sink stopping from no movement. Her head turns to the side, catching his glance before turning her whole body to face Steve against the counter she washed from.

"What would be the explanation?" Louise rephrases, giving him a soft once over for wounds from the Helicarrier infiltration.

"You let him go. You barely fought him, I've seen you fight. I know your motives, Lou." Steve pursues, forcing his point across by using his larger stature to block the entrance of the washroom.

"You don't know much anymore, Steve. Not really. Move aside, I need to change and find some old tech." Louise dodges his accusations as she takes a step forward to exit the room.

"Then speak openly to me, Louise. Now, for the first time in a long time." She shakes her head at his plea, pushing his arm lightly to nudge him aside. Steve hardens his upper body to convey his seriousness, another scoff escaping her mouth at his persistence.

"Steve, understand, I'm still not in the best state. I do not know when I will ever be able to tell you that I am ready. Accept it, and move." Louise retorts with a threatening undertone, Steve catching the meaning as he took a step forward.

Steve slowly raises his arms, preparing to grab her body into a locked hold. Louise glances at his arms, sucking in a deep breath before she jumps up. Her bare hands tear through the metal ceiling of the room, grasping a support beam above to swing kick Steve back. The power from her feet smacked into his chest full force to send him flying backwards into the main hall of the Helicarrier. Steve slammed into the metal hall wall, an imprint conforming to his body shape from the back.

Agents and a few others in the hall rushing with their weapons raised towards Captain America on the ground in a kneeling position. Steve coughs to let a breath in his chest, pain growing from his torso where Louise's lower body met his upper half. Louise takes a step out from the bathroom, the agents raising their weapons in alert before lowering them in confusion.

"We have other things to worry about, Steve. Let's put our focus into that then expand accordingly." Louise compromises softly, lowering her right hand out to help lift him up. Steve glances at it, reluctantly grabbing it before standing and backing away.

"You'll stay with me when we go on the ground. That's an order." Steve orders, Louise glaring lightly at him from the order.

"I'm not a soldier." She counters and turns away, stepping through the small crowd of agents to go to the main command center.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 30

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3rd Pov.

"You speak of control, yet you court chaos." Thor claims towards Fury, everyone in the room is a part to keep calm.

"It's his M.O., isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're...we're a time-bomb." Bruce proposes in front of the table displaying the scepter.

"You need to step away." Fury responds,

"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Tony speaks behind him, laying an arm on Steve's shoulders.

"You know damn well why! Back off!" Steve orders out, throwing Tony's arm away.

"Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me." He counters back, squaring back up.

"Yeah, big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?"

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Tony replies easily to Steve; Louise and everyone around them listen in.

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you." Steve continues,

"I think I would just cut the wire." Tony adds back wittedly, Steve smirks and glances around before looking back.

"Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero." Steve pursues.

"A hero, like you? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. You and your girlfriend. Everything special about you came out of a bottle." Louise looks to him, uncrossing her arms as she feels her control slip for a moment. She takes a step to the duo, Fury grabbing her shoulder to stop her movement. She glares at him, clenching her fist, which catches the eyes of everyone but the clashing heroes.

"Put on the suit. Let's go a few rounds." Steve taunts, taking a step closer to Tony to intimidate him.

"You people are so petty, and tiny." Thor speaks up for the other side of the lab, Bruce pitching in.

"Yeah, this is a team." Bruce jokes, glancing around the room.

"Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his-" Fury tries, Bruce speaking up again.

"Where? You're renting my room."

"The cell was just..."

"In case you needed to kill me. But you can't! I know, I tried." Bruce yells back to Fury's excuse, everyone staring at him to continue.

"I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on, I focused on helping other people. I was good until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk. You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?" Bruce explains, a menacing tone filling under his words as he spoke.

"Dr. Banner. Put down the scepter." Steve calmly said, everyone one on alert except Louise, who had basically stayed silent the entire time. An alert rings in the air, making them tense, as Bruce lowers the scepter from his hand back onto the table.

"Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my party trick after all." Bruce speaks up after a few seconds of silence, stepping past everyone to see the view screen with the gamma signature alert.

"You located the tesseract." Thor says, turning slightly to face Bruce.

"I could get there faster." Tony adds, Thor turning back to speak again.

"The tesseract belongs on Asgard. No human is a match for it."

"I agree with the god. Somewhat." Louise finally pitches in, making all of them give her a ridiculous look.

"Really? You've been silent this entire time." Nat pitches at her, her eyes accusing her of something after their last meeting

"You're not going alone." Steve skips over her response grabbing Tony who tried to leave.

"You're gonna stop me?" He rhetorically questions, glaring back at Steve.

"Put on the suit, let's find out." Steve replies, both of them bickering back and forth.

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man."

"Put on the suit."

"Oh my god." Bruce says quietly, the screen showcasing the location search.

A rumble sounds through the lab, only seconds later an explosion erupts from beneath the lab, throwing the team apart. Bruce and Natasha flying through windows at a side. Tony, Steve, and Fury thrown around in the lab as Louise and Thor fly through another window onto another sector of the helicarrier.

Louise grunts as she pushes up to her hands and knees, Thor doing the same. She raises to her knees, pushing to stand as Thor shakes off some dust from his armour.

"Hey, Tarzan. Go after Bruce, I got the scepter." She jokes, glancing up to see the destroyed lab above them.

"Mortal, I will go after the-"

"Do shut up and go already." Louise rolls her eyes, stretching her shoulders as she goes to jump to grab a hanging pipe. Quickly scaling up the metal piped wall, reaching the same story height of the lab and jumping across to grasp the window ledge. She lifts up quickly seeing Steve and Tony scramble out, Fury already gone as well as she searches for the scepter.

Her hands grasp the golden staff of the scepter, pulling it out from under a table. The scepter shrinks in size, the staff shortening to be the size of a modern ki stick; an easier weapon to control in a fight. She shakes the glass shards from it, standing up to search for the intruders in her comms. She runs from the lab, her hair flying free behind her, still dressed in her dirtied white tank top and fighting pants; passing S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as she goes towards the detention level holding Loki.

Louise slows to a stop, hearing the Hulk's roar from another level of the helicarrier. Alerting everyone aboard of his unleashed presence. She runs down through walkways, trying to locate a way towards the cage that held the mischievous god. She hears thundering steps pass her in an opposite room, her body moving quickly to help. Throwing the door open in the room she sees Natasha sprinting away from the Hulk. His green fist catching her side as she was tossed back, the Hulk pausing above her to attack again.

Louise runs silently behind him, keeping her steps light as she sees Thor doing the same from a different direction. She drops to her knees, sliding across the ground and slicing at his calf with the scepter, taking his attention away as Thor collided into him and smashed through a metal vent into another area. She rushes back to a stand, leaving to catch Loki and his mercenaries.

Louise dodges bullets from two men after exiting the room, ducking against a wall before a corner. She sighs, grasping the scepter tighter as she prepares to fire. She leaps out, jumping across to the other side of the walkway, firing an energy blast at the men from the scepter. She lands easily, taking off in a sprint at the ducked men. Fastly striking the men down, no remorse in her movements as she lands easy kicks and hits to knock them down, almost killing them to protect herself. She pauses before moving on, her actions keeping her from continuing on. Guilt begins to emerge, her head shaking off the feeling and justifying it as she runs on towards the detention center.

Louise slows before the room, willing the scepter to change form. The scepter shrinks in her palm, the weapon no more than a large pen length as she hides it in her boot, hoping to keep it hidden. She enters slowly, the door sliding open as she pulls a gun out from behind her back. Having taken one from an agent; her movements were silent as she took a step inside the room.

The glass cage empty before her, her light eye glancing around to see a mercenary before the panel at a platform ahead. She shoots first, catching the man's shoulder and aiming at another that appeared with its gun raised.

"Lower your weapon." Loki spoke up, stepping out on the platform, connecting to Louise's gaze as she stopped many feet away. She fires another bullet, killing the mercenary still standing, before lowering her gun to her side.

"I doubt these will work with you, your highness." She speaks up, dropping the gun to the ground. Loki watches her closely, stepping down the platform to come closer.

"Pet, did you come to stop me? After what we shared." He gloats with a chuckle, a grin on his lips as she stops some space before her.

"Yes, I have. No offense." She responds, as he nods with a smile.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 29

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3rd Pov.

Soft footsteps alert Tony and Bruce to Louise's approach, both men gathered behind a vaulted viewscreen. Her body pausing as she sees the information of the clear screen backwards, she sees weapon plans, secure files signaling S.H.I.E.L.D. 's insignia. She steps next to Tony, staring over the information silently; louder footsteps this time echoing down the hall before the lab.

"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?" Fury speaks as he enters the lab, Louise leant against the longer table near the window of the lab. Tony sitting on it at the edge in front of a screen, Bruce behind them on the other side.

"Kind of been wondering the same thing about you." Tony replies, all of them looking at Fury in the middle of the room.

"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract."

"We are, the model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile." Banner spoke up, gesturing to an elevated table screen that searched for gamma signatures.

"And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss." Tony says, an alert beeping from the screen in front of him.

"What is Phase 2?" He asks, Steve appearing and slamming down a H.Y.D.R.A. gun on a table next to him in the lab.

"Phase 2, is S.H.I.E.L.D. uses the cube to make weapons. Sorry, the computer was moving a little slow for me." Steve speaks, Louise staring at the weapon with distaste.

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're-"

"I'm sorry, Nick. What were you lying about?" Tony pipes in turning his screen around to show a blueprint for a tesseract powered bullet/missile.

"I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Steve adds on, making Louise stand straight as Thor and Nat enter into the room, moving to the side by Fury.

"Did you know about this?" Bruce questions Nat as she stops some space away from him.

"You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?" She says, watching as he stepped a few steps away as she began a closer approach.

"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed." He retorts, as she speaks.

"Loki's manipulating you."

"And you've been doing what exactly?" Bruce asks, continuing their banter.

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy." Bruce pauses, grabbing the edge of Tony's screen and pointing to it.

"I'd like to know why S.H.I.E.L.D. is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."

"Because of him." Fury speaks up, Thor catching his point.

"Me?" He questions a few members in the room looking at Thor.

"Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge mass that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned." Fury states, glancing around to connect eyesight with the people in the lab.

"My people want nothing but peace with your planet." Thor adds, making Fury look back.

"But you're not the only people out there, are you? And, you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched-"

"That can't be controlled?" Louise speaks, trying to calm the glare in her eyes.

"Like you controlled the cube?" Steve says, affirming her assumption.

"Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for a higher form of war." Thor states, stepping forward slightly as Steve spoke.

"A higher form?"

"You forced our hand. We had to come up with something." Fury tries to differ,

"A nuclear deterrent. Cause that always calms everything right down." Tony rebutts.

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Fury snipes back,

"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep-" Steve goes on, Tony interrupting again.

"Wait, Wait, Hold on. How is this now about me?" Tony says, taking a step to confront him.

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Steve responds, Louise herself starting to get a headache from their clashing emotions.

"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor adds, making Fury turn to face him as he speaks.

"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?"

"You treat your champions with such distrust." Thor speaks, Tony and Steve begin their argument as well behind them.

"Are you boys really that naive? S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors potential threats." Nat joins in Fury's and Thor's words.

"Captain America is on threat watch?" Bruce questions, their mental state making Louise stumble back as her head began to ache as the scepter behind her began to hum softly.

"We all are." Nat replies, words becoming muddled as Louise tries to calm her desire to control them, a lust of some kind urging her to attack in some form or another.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 28

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3rd Pov.

Louise shakes off her slight change of thought towards Loki, feeling some resistance that appeared filling her mind. She exits the quinjet with Steve, Tony ahead of them, and Thor trailing behind as twelve armoured agents approach and arrest Loki with cuffs, leading him by Fury's orders, disappearing from sight as the group enters the Helicarrier.

Louise stepped away to check herself, entering an empty restroom to unzip the top half of her suit. She pulls off the jacket, her white tank top underneath it showing as she lifts her arms. Large dark blue and purple bruises covered the majority of her lower forearm. Louise shakes her head, knowing they'd go down in a few hours or even faster from the super serum. She grabs the jacket again, pulling it on and adjusting it to keep it open in the front to expose her chest some.

Her steps are soft as she heads to the command center, Nat and Steve sitting at different ends of the round table at the front of the room, Bruce at the same side of Steve, standing up, Thor in front of it and Tony at Fury's stand speaking to them. Louise keeps quiet, moving to lean against the wall next to the table, not too far from Bruce.

"How does Fury even see these?" Tony asks, covering his left eyes to look around at the view screens before him.

"He turns." Agent Hill responds with crossed arms, at the side of the center command.

"Sounds exhausting." Tony add ons, going over and tapping the view screens.

"The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube." Before he turns back after touching the stand of the view screen that Louise caught with an interest.

"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Hill questions Tony looking at her.

"Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" Tony rambles, Steve breaking his track.

"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve speaks, Louise remembering the briefing they had many hours ago.

"He would have to heat the cube to 120-million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier." Bruce speaks up, Tony striding towards him.

"Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Tony adds on, getting closer as they speak.

"Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy-"

"Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." Louise finishes before Bruce, speaking accidently from her thoughts, making Tony stop and the rest glance at her with some shock or confusion.

"Finally, people who speak English." Tony states, going to Bruce for a hand shake.

"Is that what just happened?" Steve says to no one, as Tony spoke up again.

"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster." Tony rambles once again.

"Thanks." Bruce responds, Fury taking the spotlight next.

"Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him." He states,

"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon." Steve speaks up, Louise nodding in agreement.

"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube." Fury replies, Louise speaking up from her spot.

"It's the closest thing to a H.Y.D.R.A. weapon on this ship. Trust me, I've survived one." She pursues, a few of them looking at her as Fury gives her a nod.

"And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys." He says next, Thor staring in confusion from the sentence.

"Monkeys? I do not understand." He adds, Steve pitching in next.

"I do. I understood that reference." Steve speaks with a slight smile, and it is met with silence.

"Shall we play it, Doctor?" Tony dismisses them, Bruce turning to show him the way to his lab.

"This way, Sir." Bruce says as he leads Tony away, letting everyone split as they await any results.

-

Louise takes her jacket off in the lab that held Tony and Bruce, entering just as Steve left. Tony glanced at her as Bruce worked at a vaulted screen.

"What is it you do, Ms. Grant?" Tony asks, Louise knowing he already knew, or else he'd be rather ill equipped.

"Louise, if you please." She replies, leaning against a table to the side with a screen in front of her.

"I'll explain if you'd like, but you'd be very dull if you already didn't know." She adds, making the genius men look to her to continue.

"Okay, men. I am an experiment just like Steven, your father being at the forefront of it along with Steve's doctor. I was given a specific serum that differed slightly from Steve's. It was only made a specific amount needed for an injection. So the only evidence of it is in forced records and in my veins." She pauses, tapping the view screen ahead of her with ease, having picked up technology faster than Steve, from her sleepless nights from their return.

"You'll see that I have confirmed kills and was a more hidden member of the Commandos. I fought alongside them, even helped in breaking them out. I was there with the attack on the H.Y.D.R.A., fighting off the soldiers there and helped stop Schmidt. Though you will also have seen on my file that I was technically dead till I was defrosted. Now you're mostly caught up." Louise finishes, letting them look over the file she pulled up of herself, the men glancing at her after seeing a few strange things.

"You were an assassin?" Bruce speaks up, still scanning the file.

"For your government, forcefully."

"Forcefully?" He questions Louise, nodding in affirmation as she stood up to step to them in the middle of the lab.

"I was threatened, and decided to do it. I saved my life, and was forced to take many others. Great, right?" She jokes with her words, ignoring their looks as she stares at them unfazed.

"What about your abilities?" Tony asks, sliding the file away from his screen.

"Those are none of your concern, neither S.H.I.E.L.D.'s. I am free of my bonds since I was pronounced dead." She retorts with no anger, keeping wits easily.

"I mean they are, if your abilities do this much damage." A classified government video playing on a tablet in Tony's hands, showcasing Louise's power to control men around her.

"No, they are not. You had a taste, that's all you get. I refuse to be your playtoy, along with anyone else here. Though I'd enjoy you trying." She says with a fake smirk, giving Tony a hard look.

"If you'll excuse me, gentlemen. I have to return to the center, I have a few words for the blonde child." She dismisses herself, leaving her jacket as she steps in the opposite way to go to speak to Loki.

--

START - Past CHP.

A soft breeze blew through a small apartment window, the soft curtain next to the window flying out from the air. Louise sat quietly, writing a letter for her parents to be sent later in the day. She details light parts of her mission with the military, not explicitly stating her problems or worries. She slows to a stop, thinking of a lie to convince her parents of her safety.

A hand pauses on her shoulder, making her glance up through her soft wavy dark hair. James, Bucky, smiles down at her, moving to take a seat next to her at the wooden table she occupied.

"Afternoon, doll." He greets, taking her paused hand to give it a soft kiss. She gives him a small smile, warmth rising in her cheeks at the display of affection.

"Hello, James." She replies, looking back down at her letter.

"What is that?" He inquires, looking at her letter.

"Something for my parents, I do not know how to end it in a way to show I'm safe." Louise responds, hovering over the page to write.

"How about distracting them with a question for them, telling them to respond back so you can keep from answering longer." He suggests, knowing he did the same to his own family.

"That may just work, Buck." She states, quickly writing a send off to her letter. She sets it aside to dry the ink and looks at Bucky fully.

"Are you here to escort me back from my break?" Louise questions, and Bucky gives her a small nod. She sighs, her hand moving to hold the back of his neck to usher him closer. Their heads slowly touch after a second, both savoring the moment for a time. He opens his eyes after a minute, deciding to reach for her neck to lift her face.

Bucky pulls her head up, catching her eyes open slowly. He leans forward slightly, capturing her lips in his lightly chapped ones for a kiss. Louise pushes forward to deepen the kiss, leaning up to move into Bucky's lap. He jerks her closer earlier than planned, breaking their kiss to stop her falling into his chest.

"How about we leave tomorrow morning?" Louise suggested, her eyes giving a sultry look as Bucky responded with a hungrier look.

"I believe we could work that out." He answers huskily, surging forward to connect their lips once again. Louise responds in kind, wrapping her arms around his neck as he stands swiftly to lift her bridal style. Bucky moves them to sit at the edge of her bedding, keeping their closeness as she pulls away to speak.

"Let's go back together, when we get a chance. To Brooklyn." Louise murmurs the promise, one Bucky reciprocates with a nod and seals with a kiss.

END - Past CHP.

--

Louise slows as she sees agents spread around the Helicarrier complex Loki was held in, her head tilting slightly from her hidden space at a corner before the main entrance. She sighs, knowing she'll have a harder time getting in without using her powers. A breath in and she releases a soft wave of manipulation, letting her power seep into the minds of the four men and two women agents around and passing the door. A few groans alert her to the after effects, her eyes glimpsing over the side to see the agents stumbling slightly but not listening to her commands. Another deep breath in and Louise induces a state of alert, this time the agents speaking loudly and stepping away. Quickly diverting their attention and a few random agents they met in their pursuit to leave the complex Loki was in.

Louise keeps silent, entering the doors easily, not sneaking any further as she knew cameras could see her, her focus specifically on Loki who looked up from his seated position. A small grin held his lips, watching her small ascent up a few stairs before stepping to a platform ahead of the large reinforced glass cage.

"My, my, what do I owe the pleasure of your company, pet?" Loki toys, also noting the cameras listening in on them. She gives a look of acknowledgement, tilting her head in a nod to continue.

"What, tongue tied all of a sudden, Midgardian?" Loki says, lowering to sit on the glass floor as Louise matched on the metal grate flooring below her feet.

'Do you have gifts of your own, your highness?' Louise speaks in her mind, wondering as he had mentioned knowledge of her powers. The grin on his lips widened before shrinking, giving her a subtle answer as she spoke mentally again.

'Speak then, here, in privacy.' She proposes, before he glances to the camera to his left.

"Just boredom, your majesty. Silence is better." Louise speaks aloud, giving him incentive to speak to her as a confirmation.

'Well, pet, you get your wish.' She hears Loki's smooth voice speak in her mind, making her close her eyes at the sound.

"I do not need to indulge your puny activities, mortal." Loki responds aloud to her last spoken statement. Both of them kept verbal banter as they spoke in clarity in their minds.

-

'So, what are your gifts, majesty?' Louise converses, making Loki chuckle quietly. Their verbal words just bashed back and forth, the real conversation in their minds.

'Many I have learned and mastered, magic, and sorcery. Things taught to me in Asgard.' He responds, keeping his head down, but his eyes on her ahead of him, who had her own closed.

'Your turn, pet.'

'Find a new nickname, prince. Or you may not enjoy my mental after effects.' She teases with a small grin, her voice sweetly soothing Loki's thoughts in his own mind.

'Little dove, little bird, little girl, little snake, little fox.' Loki rambles some animals, always including a slight demeaning term.

'Those hardly fit me, boy-prince.' She pursues, letting the conversation hitch back and forth through their powers and some names popping up.

'Little dove, little girl, or tiny ghost? Choose.' Loki orders after ten minutes of swapping back and forth in their minds, a chuckle leaving Louise's lips.

'No, I refuse.'

'Tiny ghost in three, two, on-'

'My lady. I'll compromise.' Louise replies with a sigh, a small victory smirk on his lips ahead of her.

'You're hardly a lady of high standing, mortal.' Loki adds, and she rolls her eyes.

'Louisa. That's the name I was given before it changed when my family moved to America.' Loki gives her a nod to which she pauses after a second.

"Why did you save me?" She spoke out, catching him off guard as he frowned at the mention of it aloud.

"I didn't, little girl." A small smile wants to fill her lips, her head shaking the thought off as she speaks again.

"You did, I could've survived and healed in a few hours. But you didn't know that as being a god, though your hand is the one that grabbed mine, I did not ask for you." She pushes, a snarl ticking across his face.

"You are insolent, mortal. You think I'd spare you the light given by Sól, just because of your circumstances?" He challenges, and Louise stands to court back.

"I held you from escaping, though I knew you'd want to watch your brother fight. Just answer why you grabbed my hand and lifted me, simple." She stands strong, feeling another presence coming closer as Loki takes a step forward.

"Because, woman, you'll be a special item to my collection." Giving up some information, Louise unknowing if on purpose or not as Natasha stood from outside the entrance doors. Louise steps back, giving him a nod as she exited and stopped before Nat.

"Why were you in there?" Natasha questions, Louise knowing easily that she didn't trust her.

"Need some silence to concentrate, noise bothers my focus as I try to keep calm in these strange circumstances." Louise deceives, giving an easy confession of belief as Natasha dismisses her, knowing the cameras were working around them.

"I need to return to the lab to grab my jacket, my bruises are still healing." Louise says, leaving Nat behind as she went to the lab to get away.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 27

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3rd Pov.

"I mean, if it's not too much trouble." Agent Coulson says next to Steve, who stood close with his arms crossed.

"No, no it's fine." Steve replies, Coulson glancing at him everytime he speaks. Louise chuckled at his enthusiasm from her sitting position on the round table ahead of the command controls.

"It's a vintage set. It took me a couple years to collect them all. Near mint. Slight foxing around the edges, but-"

"We got a hit. A 67% match. Wait. Cross match, 79%." An agent says from his screen on a lower level, Coulson approaches him.

"Location." He orders.

"Stuttgart, Germany. 28 Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding." The agent responds, Louise nodding as she remembered faintly of the address for some reason.

"Captain, Ms. Grant, you're up." Fury speaks from command, Louise jumping up as she stood to face Fury.

"I need the faster way there, sir. I'm usually interfering or undercover ops." She states, Fury nodding in agreement as Steve awaited at the doors for her to join him.

"Agreed, Ms. Grant." Fury responds and gives a nod to Agent HIll, the agent of command earlier.

"You'll need to be out immediately, we have your equipment ready." She states, quickly escorting her to a ship with her things.

"Louise, we should go together." Steve says as he quickly steps in time with her down the Helicarrier halls.

"Steve, you know I'm more of an infiltrator than the people we know. Which means I need to go in before a rash attack. Besides, being undercover never held me back, you gotta trust me, Rogers." Loiuse says fastly, leaving Steve behind as she was handed a bag and shuttled towards the fastest ship to bring her to Germany.

--

The bright marble walls of the museum surround the gathering guests and aristocrats. Louise softly stepped through the second floor exhibit, before the main speech began. A soft mossy coloured gown adorning her glowing honey toned skin, the dress clinging to her larger curves from her breasts to her toned hips and backside. She sips a flute of champagne, staring over a large art piece. One of two men fighting, one above and another below, reaching for one another. Her eyes scanned it in interest as a few whispers spoke behind her before traveling to the main event down the stairs.

"A beautiful piece, is it not?" Louise speaks softly, a surprised look capturing the God's face as he approaches from behind her.

"Yes, but nothing compared to you, my pet." He responds a few feet away, holding his glowing golden scepter as a cane in his palm. Louise gives him a smile at his compliment, making him smirk wider with his gleaming teeth.

"Are you among your people, Sir?" She plays along, keeping her gaze ahead to keep anonymity.

"Not quite, my lady. Rather farther than you could fathom." He responds, stepping to her side to get a better view of her composure.

"Most would be far from these crowds, living off others' work and tireless effort, not one cent really of their own devices." Louise states, giving into some complex that could be a part of Loki's ego.

"Are you one of these people?" Loki questions, completely engaging into her views.

"I must be, inheriting the family business and using it to its efficiency. I never wished for this life but many things come with perks." She states with disdain, taking a sip from her flute of champagne.

"That indeed, my lady. The truth behind the distinguished and the royalty. You are rather astute in your own society than I'd have expected." He praises, keeping his hands behind his back to appear studious. Louise mimics the stance to seem engaged, glancing to his eyes for intent.

A loud voice over takes the marble and stone building, a man's voice speaking pleasant German informing the guests of the party. The couple take a step from one another, separating from their exchange. They share a look, a tie, that begins its stemming to root in one another. Loki is the first to speak, his tongue sneaking a peak as he wet his lips.

"I must bid you adieu, my pet. This has been a dazzling meeting, I do hope you keep that view, it makes you rather admirable." He gently gramps her free hand, laying a soft wisp of touch from his lips before moving back and stepping away to the staircase. Louise lets a breath free, a calmness over taking her senses as she tries to decipher the feelings she suddenly holds.

The soft clicks of her heels add to the noise from below her, her gaze following Loki as he descends away. Her azure coloured eyes flit behind him as she admired his coat and dark verdant scarf with gold accents. She pauses her savoring to see him hit the landing of the staircase, his demeanor changing.

Loki flips his specter in the air, catching the golden handle to smack the gleaming blue grip across a guard's face, making the crowd gasp as they shuffled back. Loki's left hand latched around the curator's throat as he dragged him across the floor; to the main exhibit of the museum, a sculpted bull with a golden slab in the middle; flipping the man across it as the crowd scattered back.

Louise takes slow steps to disappear from sight, quietly sleuthing down the staircase as shouts fill the air before voices clamor and bodies begin to sprint away. Many still rush the stairs, keeping Louise to the side to hear screams fill the air. She shoves and rushes down to catch up, slowing as she sees the curator hanging limp from the statue's slab, blood leaking from his eye socket, quickly presuming him to be dead.

A sigh leaves her lips, her head shaking at her carelessness as she lifts the side of her dress. Notching the fabric high on her thigh on a strapped holster for her throwing knives, pulling out three black blades for her hand. Her golden heeled feet sprint to the exit as she hears shrieks and crashing sounds from outside. Louise's feet move faster as she stops to the sight before her outside the museum. Many guests and civilians were surrounded and blocked by four separate Lokis' in the performance pavilion ahead of her.

"I said...kneel!" Loki demands, the civilians slowly moving to kneel on their knees as the main Loki takes steps forwards and through the crowd. Louise slowly approached from behind, keeping distance as he began to speak.

"Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity." Loki says heading to the middle of the area, many surrounding him on their knees, Louise herself listening at the sidelines, watching, catching her gaze to his speech.

"You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel." Loki states, an elder man rising back to his feet to speak out.

"Not to men like you." The man speaks, making Louise smile just slightly, the knives in her left hand itching to be thrown.

"There are no men like me." Loki retorts,

"There are always men like you." the man responds, making Loki chuckle as he raises his fully bladed scepter in the air.

"Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example." Loki speaks, Louise jumping to action as she feels a familiar presence near.

Louise flips athletically forward into the crowd, landing between civilians to hurl her knives into the three decoys, illusions. Quickly taking Loki's attention as he shoots an energy blast at the elder man; Steve lands in front, ricocheting the energy blast back to Loki, who falls back to the ground. Louise gives Cap a nod, pulling a fourth knife free, readying up for a fight as Steve spoke up.

"You know, the last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." Steve distracts, taking steps to move closer to Loki, the crowd still kneeling in fear.

"The soldier. The man out of time." Loki claims with a laugh as he pushes back up to a stance. His head turns to Louise, who gives him a smirk, twirling the knife in her left hand.

"I'm not the one who's out of time." Steve replies, a quinjet essentially appearing and hovering high in the air behind him with a heavy gun targeting Loki from under it.

'Loki, drop the weapon and stand down.' Natahsa speaks from the jet on speaker, Loki easily blasting energy from the scepter at it. The jet dodges it and sweeps away; Steve takes his chance and throws his shield at him. The crowd shoots up in screams, scrambling away as Steve charges, catching his shield back and punching Loki. Using the scepter, Loki hits the shield, Steve blocking it before Loki beats the shield away, nabbing an abdominal attack making Steve shoot back on the ground.

Louise sprints forward, dodging the crowd and throwing a knife at Loki, the blade hitting off his scepter as he turns to face her. She charges a hit, the scepter blocking her arm and swinging back to her stomach. Louise lurches down swiftly, ducking and kicking his leg down, making him kneel before her. He snatches her right leg, catching the edge of her dress.

Loki smirks wider, throwing her up to which she flipped back onto her feet; Steve charges back with a shield hurl. Loki knocks the shield down, Steve taking the second for a swing, which Loki dodges back and twists around, swiping the scepter at Steve's torso again. Steve ducks back, missing another swipe before throwing a rib shot to only get slammed back from the scepter, making him fly forward onto the ground behind Loki. He stands back to him, shoving the ferrule of the golden scepter at Steve's bowed head.

"Kneel." Loki commands, Louise taking her shot and lifting up her dress to let her legs move freely.

"Not today." Steve responds, hitting the scepter up and landing a kick at Loki's face. Louise mimics the hit, kicking from the other side, causing him to stumble away. Steve takes back over, dodging and taking hits from the scepter. Loki takes a chance, grabbing Steve and tossing him away as he approaches Louise.

Louise sees the quinjet hovering, another light in the dark sky appearing as she takes a breath in and hopes her made up plan works. She throws a weak punch, easily letting Loki envelope her in his arms, his mouth next to her ear.

"Are you even trying, pet?" He murmurs, a loud song playing suddenly from the jet's speakers as the light appears closer, a red and gold figure appearing closer in the night sky.

"No, not really." Louise responds as the figure gets closer, her feet jumping up as she twists her body, breaking contact as her heeled foot knocks hard across his face, making him stumble back but open for attack.

A golden energy fires against Loki's chest, making him hurl through the air and crash into a small staircase of the pavilion. The figure lands heavily behind Louise holding its metal hand up ready to fire from its hand, and rockets elevating from his shoulders and arms. Louise nods to herself, now understanding who it was, Iron Man.

"Make your move, Reindeer Games." Tony Stark says from inside the red and gold metal suit, Steve joining his side, as Loki stares at the trio before him. His Asgardian armour shimmers away in a gold light, his hands slowly rising as he still wears his Asgardian coat and regular dark green clothes, Tony standing down the rockets as they stare down at him.

"Good move." Tony says, Loki giving a glance to Louise who steadied her breathing easier than Steve.

"Mr. Stark." Steve greets, Louise giving Stark a nod of acknowledgement instead of words.

"Captain, Grant." Stark responds, as the quinjet lowered to a hover behind them.

Louise picked up the throwing knives, sighing at them, as she thought to herself of better materials. Nat and Steve, taking Loki into the jet as Tony stepped to Louise who turned back around to face him.

"So, you're Howard's kid?" Louise says, no real question as he gave her a nod, his mask lifting to show his face. She stares at his face, smiling only slightly, seeing some resemblance.

"You're what he spent years on, right?" He retorts, making Louise chuckle as she steps in tandem with him to the jet.

"Yup, maybe more on Steve, though. It was a secret project, nothing more."

"Why did you let Reindeer Games grab you at the last moment, I could see the fight from the air. You-" Tony starts, Louise interrupting him. "Because I got an easy opening, Stark. Nothing easier than temptation, and trickery." She responded as she stepped into the jet. Letting him look in as she grabbed a bag, taking some clothing other than the dirtied dress she wore. Loki gives her a smirk, which she shakes her head too, moving to a side she set up to change in from others, that Steve stood to guard, just in case.

--

"Is he saying anything?" Fury's voice fills the air, Nat and another piloting the jet, Steve and Tony standing just behind the pilot pit.

"Not a word." Nat replies, Louise pausing to listen lightly.

"Just get him here. We're low on time." Fury says, Nat ending the call by pressing a button at her side, before looking back out through the glass.

Louise sat across from Loki, adjusting her black combat suit. Her suit was equipped with many throwing knives along her thighs and calves, a gun holstered at her back waistband, her brunette hair braided back as she fixed her matching boots as well. Loki stares over her, taking in her essence, smirking to himself as he thought over her then back to his plans.

"I don't like it." Steve says with his back facing Louise and Loki.

"What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" Tony responds back, glancing at him.

"I don't remember it being that easy. This guy packs a wallop." Steve continues, Louise pausing, fixing her zipper at her chest that was high up.

"Still, you were pretty spry, for an older fellow. Oh, and woman." Tony plays off, gesturing to Louise to not give offense.

"What's your thing? Pilates?" Tony says, playing around as Louise shook her head, catching Loki's stare.

"What?"

"It's like calisthenics." Tony adds on, speaking to Steve who had a confused/frustrated expression on his face.

"You might have missed a couple things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle." Louise chuckles at the name, making Steve give her a glare which she gave a fake smile in return.

"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in." Steve says as he turns back, Tony glancing back at the duo in front of him before looking at Steve.

"Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you." The sound of thunder and a bright flash of lightning near the jet sounds out, Natasha glancing to the side to see out.

"Where's this coming from?" She speaks up, making Louise rise as she feels something approaching from her mind. More lightning strikes closer around the jet, making it shake slightly from the force. Loki jerks forward slightly, looking up around the jet, alerted as Steve looked back to scan the back.

"What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?" Steve sets up, Louise glancing up as Loki looks over at her as he speaks.

"I'm not overly fond of what follows." Lightning crashes harder around them, a force speeding from the clouded sky above; Louise feeling the powerful energy force rocketing near them.

"Lou?" Steve says, Loki catching onto her action as her pupils widen from her mental abilities.

Lightning strikes harder, a hard jolt landing above them shakes the jet, making Steve and Tony regear their helmets and his shield. Nat steadies the jet as Louise focuses her power, stepping to Loki to block him in between his sitting feet position. Tony steps forward, hitting a button on a side panel to open the rear hatch, passing Loki and Louise.

"What're you doing?" Steve says, Tony stopping as a person lands on the hatch in a kneel before rising. Long golden hair, large shining chest plate, a fiery red cape, and a large hammer laced in his right fist. Thor.

Tony goes to shoot from his hand cannon, Thor, Louise presumed, hitting Tony's suited body with his hammer, knocking him back farther into the jet. He steps to Loki, Louise snatching a parachute from behind him, and kicks Thor's chest. Making him jerk back a step before he swings his hammer at her, Louise blocks quickly with her forearms, the force of the hammer slamming her into the opposite metal side of the jet.

Thor rips the straps holding back Loki, lifting him easily to stand before grabbing his neck securely and twirling his hammer at his side. Taking off into the stormy night, as Louise clenched her hands with a deep grunt, moving to a position on all fours on the jet floor. She grabs the parachute back as Tony and Steve speak, Steve heading to her in slight worry.

"And now there's that guy." Tony phrases, going to jump from the hatch to follow the gods, glancing at Louise who jumped to a stand with an irritated look.

"Another Asgardian? Think the guy's friendly?" Steve shouts, Louise quickly strapping a parachute to her back, hiding her grunt from the last attack.

"Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost." Tony states back through his helmet, moving to the hatch, which Louise moved to next to jump off.

"Stark, we need a plan of attack." Steve pushes, finally seeing Louise ready to jump.

"I have a plan. Attack." Tony states, about to take off as Louise slid a helmet over her head to see easier.

"Can I get a ride down?" She jokes, Tony grabbing her chute and taking over into the night, leaving Steve and the quinjet far behind.

Wind hurls past them, as Tony soars through the air, tracking after Thor and Loki. Louise keeps her eyes peeled, trying to stay prepared as he flies harder, coming closer and closer to the godly brothers.

'Drop me here.'

Louise orders since it would've been harder to say, using her power for the first time in many years. Tony's body jerks from her unintentionally powerful mind manipulation, dropping her into the air far above where she saw the two gods from below. She pulls her chute, hurdling through the cloudy air straight towards the cliff top. She pulls hard on the cords, her speed high as she jerks back from the chute deploying. Louise races close to the cliff, hitting the red handle and freeing her chute completely off, skydiving towards the cliff from over a hundred feet. Her body collides into the cliff top, landing in a kneeling position before standing tall. Tony slams into Thor at full force with his suit and takes him down into the woods far below the cliffside past her. Louise steps to Loki, looking more intimidating with the covering black helmet, as she approaches with purpose. Loki stared back, ready to fight, his attention becoming taken slightly from hearing Tony and Thor crashing down to the forest floor. Louise grabs Loki's coat, making him face her, mind battling on whether or not to use her power.

"Tell me, pet, what's your little gift?" Loki dares with a grin, Louise kicks out his legs, making him fall onto his back. She stands over him, lifting him into a sitting position of control, both of them facing the small battle on the ground.

They watch as Stark gets thrown back by Thor's hammer, seeing Tony blast Thor in the same way. Thor then summons lightning to this hammer, charging it for a few seconds before firing it at Tony, sparks flying from the suit and force, burning some of the metal his suit was made from. The lightning stops, Stark resituating his stance before firing an even higher powered blast at Thor, flipping to land at a stump from the force.

"Enjoying the show?" Loki asks to displace the silence, as Tony flys him and Thor into the sky and into the side of a cliff, dragging him across it going up. Thor kicks back, sending them back onto the forest ground before fighting more hand to hand.

"It seems you do, your majesty." Louise responds, making Loki smirk at the presentation.

"So you do want to be ruled, Midgardian." He states back, Louise slaps the back of his head for his words, his chuckles disarming it as he watches on.

"You couldn't handle me, your highness." She retorts with a smirk under the helmet, watching as the men fight fist to metal, both hitting back and forth. Tony gets stuck on the ground before shooting out from under Thor knocking him down, vearing back around and hitting him. The Captain America shield shoots across both of the fighters heads, Tony and Thor's attention going to Steve who stood on a tall broken tree stump.

"That's enough!" Steve shouts to them, jumping from the stump to land in a pose before standing.

"Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here." He continues as Thor speaks up,

"I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes!" Thor states, making Loki look in with interest as Louise kept pressure on his back with her knee.

"Then prove it. Put that hammer down." Steve pushes, trying to disarm him and the situation.

"Uh...yep! No! Bad call! He loves his hammer!" Tony yells through his suit, Thor jerking his hammer up and slamming Tony back with a hit to silence him.

"You want me to put the hammer down?" Thor shouts, running and jumping high into the air at Steve. He ducks down using his shield to block his hammer as he lands his hit. Lightning flashes from the contact the force waves from it sending them all back. The force flying above at Louise, making her fall back along with Loki who landed before her as she tumbled to the edge of the cliff on the opposite side.

A hand catches her rock clenching fist, another grasping for her left hand that lost grip. Loki appears and lifts Louise from the edge, having her crawl back onto the ground. She sighs deeply, staring at him as he was crouched from helping her, she moves to a stand, removing her helmet off to see him unfiltered.

"Don't get cocky, little prince." Louise speaks, an underlying tease in her voice, as she gives him a nod in acknowledgement of his action. He rolls his eyes at the name as they see the trio below stand and cautiously glance up at them from below.

"Be grateful, pet."

"Not a chance, your highness." Louise responds back to him, as Louise goes to signal for Natasha for pickup up, an earpiece at her side.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 26

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3rd Pov.

The quinjet sped towards the Helicarrier that came in sight, many other jets and agents standing on deck. The Helicarrier hovered like a naval ship, many people running it and many jets attached to it.

The pilot maneuvered the jet swiftly to turn and land on the hangar, smoothly disengage their engines and open the back ramp. Louise takes steps behind Steve and Agent Coulson; wearing a dark blue jacket with a nude shaded shirt and dark jeans, her feet clad in black combat boots and a pair of glasses in her hand.

As they begin to exit she slips on the glasses, the frames reminiscent of her original pair in the 1940's she owned. Steve gives her a confused glance as they step down onto the Helicarrier.

"Stow the Captain's and Ms. Grant's gear." Coulson orders the deckmen at the side of the ramp, a woman dressed in black and a short styled scarlett hair approaching.

"Agent Romanoff, Captain Rogers. Ms. Grant." Coulson introduces them, Louise moving to stand next to Steve to see.

"Ma'am." Steve greets, Louise giving her a nod in acknowledgement.

"Hi." She responds, then looks to Agent Coulson.

"They need you on the bridge. They're starting the face-trace."

"See you there." Coulson says, giving them a nod as he steps away. The super duo moves along with Agent Romanoff, Natasha, Steve at her right with Louise at her left.

"It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was gonna swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?" Natasha asks as they walk a few feet, conversing lightly.

"Trading cards?" Steve quirks up with a grin, Louise chuckling at the notion.

"They're vintage, he's very proud. He's even collected a few things of yours, Ms. Grant." Natasha speaks to them, making Louise glance up in disbelief.

"Well, that's definitely something." Louise responds, making them chuckle. A man who steps out of the way of a few agents working takes their attention, everyone recognizing it as Dr. Banner.

"Dr. Banner." Steve says, taking some steps away as Louise follows to introduce herself. Bruce shook his hand, and turned to Louise who gave him a light smile as she shook his hand.

"Oh, yeah. Hi. They told me you'd be coming." Bruce conveys, all of them nodding in agreement.

"Word is you can find the cube." Steve speaks, making Bruce glance at them.

"Is that the only word on me?" He replies, Louise speaking this time.

"Only word he cares about." She confirms, knowing Steve almost as much as she knows herself. Steve gives him a nod as Bruce takes a second to understand the sentiment.

"It must be strange for you, all of this." Bruce says as they had turned back towards the ocean side taking small steps towards the edge of the carrier.

"Well, this is actually kind of familiar." Steve responds as a small group of soldiers jogged in tandem some ways ahead of them.

"Gentlemen and lady, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breathe." Natasha says next to Louise as Steve was on her right and Bruce on Nat's left.

'Flight crew, secure the deck.' An agent on PA speaks loudly, many men running around as mechanical sounds fill the air around them. The quad group glanced around to understand what's happening. Others around them are strapping down planes and quinjets in preparation, more whirring loudening as waves begin to appear at the edge of the deck.

"Is this a submarine?" Steve speaks out, Louise stepping before them as she takes steps to the warning rail line, glancing over as the others join her.

"Really? They wanted me in a submerged, pressurized metal container?" Bruce says as the men stop at her sides, looking over the edge. Four huge lift fans mounted on the sides start to spin, clearing water and creating waves as the turbines of the fans begin to get into order and spin freely. As the turbines increase in speed, the Helicarrier begins its ascent into flight as Steve watches in awe while Bruce just smiles.

"Oh, no. This is much worse." Bruce adds on, as wind blows in their faces, making their hair and some clothing begin to fly back. Agents scurry around checking their strap downs as the Helicarrier lifts higher into the air.

-

The trio follows Natasha through the halls of the Helicarrier, leading them to a central command area that has a giant pane view of the sky ahead of them. Doors opened up as Natsha walked through, the trio following as they glanced around their surroundings. The bridge of the ship filled with activity, dozens of agents at view screens spread throughout the large area.

The trio split, Banner stepping to the left side, Steve stepping to the right as he looked around the center. Louise took a few steps towards circular space made for Fury to stand in with view screens at his side with head command.

Agents speak around the area, confirming things related to the status of the Helicarrier. An agent sat at a lower stand with its own screens, listening to agents around the room as she took a side step to speak up.

"All engines operating. S.H.I.E.L.D. Emergency Protocol 193.6 in effect. We're at level, sir." The agent states to Fury, who stood in the center of the room staring out at the large glass panes at the front of the area.

"Good. Let's vanish." Colonel Fury responds to her, the agent turning back to command.

"Engage retro-reflection panels." The Helicarrier thousands of feet in the cloudy sky begins to seemingly disappear, the panels reflecting the sky around it to demonstrate camouflage. The entire ship disappeared in the sky as Fury turned around to greet the trio.

"Gentlemen and Lady." Fury says, taking a step forward as Steve approaches him. He pulled some money out, handing Fury ten bucks as he passed to greet Dr. Banner. Louise hands Steve ten dollars this time, having changed her bet as they walked down the center walkway. Louise took a detour, stepping past screens of lower agents, taking small looks at the information as she listened to Fury.

"Doctor, thank you for coming."

"Thanks for asking nicely. So, uh... how long am I staying?" Bruce asks after reluctantly shaking Fury's hand.

"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the wind."

"Where are you with that?" Bruce asks, Fury gesturing to Coulson on a pathway before the.

"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cellphones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us." Coulson speaks up, Natasha glancing at a picture file on an agent's screen.

"That's still not gonna find them in time." She speaks up, as Louise thinks to herself.

"You'd have to narrow your field, would you not?" She says aloud towards Banner, who nods in agreement.

"How many spectrometers do you have access to?" Bruce asks, fidgeting his jacket as he looks at Fury.

"How many are there?" Fury questions back, before Bruce looks to Coulson.

"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?" Bruce asks, having taken his brown jacket off and rolled his purple shirt sleeves

"Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory, please." Fury states, as Nat nods and walks to lead Bruce.

"You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys." Natasha says as she passes him, leading out down another hall. Louise chuckles at that as she stepped to stand against the railing near the center command. Her eyes staring at a picture of Loki at an agent's screen below her, seeing some file reports from his last attack.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 25

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3rd Pov.

Tony Stark stared at the secured tablet from S.H.I.E.L.D., Pepper Potts next to him, as Agent Coulson stood back. His hand spreads across the screen to shoot out the profiles in the supposed Avengers task force into projected files in the air ahead of him. Going through each one lightly, his eyes pausing at one that he thought was more familiar than the rest. He taps the Captain America file, seeing enhanced vintage videos of Steve Roger's fighting skills.

An adjacent file is attached to his, a photo showing Louise Grant's dark hair from the 40's. She had her own video; one of her easily attacking and using her mental powers to command men behind her. Tony continues his search as he clicks on redacted files of her off the books assignments for the government, backing out to find some connection to her and his father. Discovering that his father was part of the experiment that was used on her, also off the books. Tony goes back to her original file, staring at her face as he reads off her supposed classified powers.

-

Louise sat before Steve, silent as most days, Steve himself immersing in the debrief set by Fury. Her mind stayed moving, trying to understand as she focused on nothing and listened for it as well. Steve, himself, slowly begins to worry in silence at her difference in character. Her draining of life, if you will, seeing as she no longer could hold a real smile. Every reaction being empty or easily manipulated to seem normal.

Steve knew in their time they had returned neither really talked as hoped, knowing daily that new things separated them, new being a relative term. Louise, herself, no longer using her powers or at least trying to adapt.

"Have you decided what you want? Or at least in the moment?" Steve speaks up after a few hours of silence in his apartment. Louise slowly glances at him, their eyes connecting easily.

"On what to eat? What will the next day bring? On whether or not I want to fight again? What is it you mean, Steven?" She returns back; a fire simmering in her bones that has just released a small spark, evident in its meaning as Steve seems slightly taken back.

"Do you not want to fight?" Steve asks, never having realized her feelings, or noticing at least.

"Louise." He pushes after she doesn't answer, making her stare back at him again.

"I do not know, Steve. Something is different in the air for me, and I haven't decided if I would want to be in control once again." She responds, and she stands from his table to lean against it to face him fully.

"You're not going to be controlled, we both know you wouldn't let anyone do that." Steve replies, staring up at her from his couch.

"Steven, I was controlled the entire time I was in the military. Even with Dr. Erskine, though he wanted to help me. I was a government's pawn for years Steve, as you were, till we stood up." Louise pursues as he looks down and stares at the file.

"If you want to stay, be here. I will not stop you, I won't let anyone else either. It is your decision, Louise." Steve responds after a minute, looking back up to see her approaching him. She sits down next to him glancing over the debrief before connecting their eyes again.

"You know I wouldn't let you do anything without me. It's how I got here, Rogers." She jokes at the end, making him give a dry chuckle as they stare at the debrief.

"Another war, hmm? In a special way, I suppose." Louise speaks out as she stares over the picture pertaining to the short file of Loki, an attached file connecting to another man named Thor.

--

Wind breezed past the quinjet, as it flew towards a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Steve sat with a tablet in hand, watching footage of Bruce Banner or rather his alter ego, the Hulk. Hulk attacked army soldiers at a university some time ago.

"We're about forty minutes out from base, sir." The pilot says to Agent Coulson, who stands to approach Steve. Louise, herself, sitting a few seats away with her head resting back against the metal siding of the jet.

"So, this Doctor Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me? Us?" Steve speaks to him, gesturing lightly with the tablet.

"A lot of people were. You were the world's first super heroes. Banner thought gamma radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine's original formula." Coulson responds, as more footage shows Hulk roaring in fury and crushing a jeep into parts.

"Didn't really go his way, did it?" Louise quirks up with her eyes closed, making them glance at her. She opens her light eyes giving Coulson a dead panned stare that made him turn back to Steve.

"Not so much. When he's not that thing though, guy's like a Stephen Hawking." Coulson said to her while looking, making her chuckle under her breath as she stood. Steve stares up in confusion, making Coulson speak up.

"He's like a smart person." Louise passes them, stepping ahead to stand behind the pilot seats to stare out the glass.

"I gotta say, it's an honor to meet you both, officially." Steve gives Coulson a small smile at his statement, making Louise glance back.

"I sort of met you, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping." Coulson continues on; Steve looks back to the tablet, setting it to the side and standing up to step towards Louise.

"I mean, I was... I was present while you were unconscious from the ice. You know, it's really, it's just a... just a huge honor to have you on board." Coulson finishes, with a light stumble as he joins Steve behind her.

"Well, I hope I'm the man for the job." Steve responds, Louise glancing back at his words.

"If you weren't Steven, then they'd certainly have a weak standing." She says, giving him a small boost of encouragement.

"Oh, you are. Absolutely. Uh... we've made some modifications to the uniforms. I had a little design input."

"The uniform? Aren't the stars and stripes a little... old fashioned?"

"With everything that's happening, the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old-fashioned." Coulson replies as Louise speaks up , still staring forward.

"To add on to the uniforms, I don't think many would find my old dress in use these days, Agent Coulson." She jokes with a small smirk, making the men chuckle as he nods in agreement.

"I had a thought to request Fury have it made, but I put it in the books for a rainy day. I had a crimson suit made to attend to your needs, we also have a black version." Coulson states proudly, making her chuckle again, which made Steve smile.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 24

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3rd Pov.

Midday light always shined the brightest, she always thought, her head aching from all the noise around her. She kept to herself, making a mental tick every time someone looked her way as she continued down a busy street in New York. Her body clad in modern light jeans, a light peach coloured t-shirt and a gray jacket. Soft brown fashionable boots she wore clacked against pavements and sidewalks as she moved swiftly through crowds. Louise. Louise Grant, her name, no longer feeling like her own in this busy 21st Century. Her clothing was strange, her hair different, her surroundings unusual. Everything around her being a constant reminder she doesn’t belong, not anymore. She pushes many thoughts in the back of her mind, keeping in control of her emotions and her powers.

Louise pauses before a red bricked apartment complex, taking a deep breath before entering the building and stepping to the second floor. She goes down the hall, entering the last door facing the street. Her entrance is quiet as she tooks steps inside the apartment, her bright eyes looking to scan the walls as always. Capturing the plainness of it, the feel of supposed 1940s decoration shining though as she knew S.H.I.E.L.D. tried to make it familiar. Her eyes land on a figure sitting ahead of her, a S.H.I.E.L.D. tablet before him on a table, files set neatly around it as the figure looked up. “Hey, Lou.” Steve says quietly, his head turning back to its previous position, facing the landline phone on a side table across from him. She shares his look before stepping forward, looking over the files she sees. “Steve.” Louise replies as she takes a freeing breath, trying to relax in the light silence in his apartment. Her eyes see Jim Morita and Jacques Dernier, their files stamped with a large red seal of ‘DECEASED’. Peggy Carter’s file is set next to them, along with Tony Stark’s modern file laid in front of him.  Louise lays her hand on Steve’s right shoulder, his left hand taking it instantly to hold her hand. “Let’s go to that deli I found the other day. It’ll be a good distraction.” Steve proposes, standing up tall to face her as he grabs his jacket. She gives him a light smile in return, knowing she would have done the same thing. Steve takes her hand, leading her out of his apartment and back onto the busy streets.

-

Louise stood before an agent, training quietly against her male opponent. She does standard hand to hand, listening to the trainer at the side teaching her modern techniques. Her eyes mentally rolled, as she easily took the Agent before her down with her olden techniques. Knowing she needs to keep her mind open to new training, keeping some secrets to herself of course.

More training proved she could still wield her blades, her mind thanking nothing as she smirked to herself just for a moment before going back to a stoic expression. Guns were next, newer ones easily being handled by her with ease, some staring in wonder at the focus. The focus though, nothing but a facade as she releases tensions, vents frustrations- No, that wasn’t it. It was anger. She knew it was anger, she had too. Or it would eat her alive till it would’ve been released.

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‘ ‘We need to sedate her deeper, doctor.’ A muffle male voice says near Louise, her body immoble, and her eyes shut. ‘She’s calm enough, man. Keep it together. We’re on a tight schedule. We must finish her swipe before having to return her. Now hand me the syringe, we need to hurry.’ Louise lays silent, her body calm before pain takes over her senses, overwhelming her in fear.’

Louise shoots up on the couch she laid in, her head swiping around to find something. Her hands twist on a lamp light, giving the darkness of an office its light. She sighs, shaking off her naps dreariness and going to stand. She moves to look around, seeing that she is still at a gym. Grunts fill the air as she takes a step out the door to the small office. Her head perks up to see Steve knocking down and destroying another punching bag.

“Trouble sleeping?” She hears a voice speak up, seeing Nick Fury once again holding a file. His eye looked towards Louise then back to Steve who did the same. Louise took a few steps to meet them halfway, Steve grabbing another punching bag and hanging it up, as she neared him. “You’re here with a mission, sir?” Steve speaks up as Louise intended to listen. “I am.” Fury responds to Steve. “Trying to get us back in the world?” Steve continues, glancing at Louise as she looks solemn at the moment. Steve stepped from the punching bag, moving to his bag. Unwrapping his hands of his wrist bindings and shoving them into his bag, Fury follows him to approach them both. “Trying to save it.” Fury adds with his arm at his back, handing a file to Steve who paused and opened it. He turns it to show Louise, who sees H.Y.D.R.A. 's energy weapon (the Tesseract) before looking back up to him.

“The Tesseract, huh?” Louise finally speaks, reading the file for the energy source.. “Hydra's secret weapon.” Steve says, staring at the file. “Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you. He thought that the Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world sorely needs.” Colonel Fury responds as Steve hands him the file back.

“Who took it from you?” Steve asks, fixing his bag as Louise leans against a post. “He's called Loki. He's not from around here.” Fury declares, the statement catching Louise’s interest a little. “There's a lot we'll have to bring you up to speed on if you're in. The world has gotten even stranger than you already know.” Fury adds on as Steve checks his things trying to hurry this meeting along. “At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me.” Steve speaks as he grabs his bag and gestures for Louise to get ready as he turns to lift a punching bag easily from the ground and puts it on his left shoulder.

“Ten bucks says you're wrong.” Fury says as they glance back at him. “I’ll get in on that.” Louise adds with a scoff, and Steve rolls his eyes at her meddling. “There's a debriefing package waiting for you back at your apartment.” Fury says as Steve begins to leave, Louise takes time behind him as she had nowhere to be, only to be close to Steve. “Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?” Fury inquired louder from behind them, neither of them turning as they got closer to the exit. “You should have left it in the ocean.” Steve replies as they exit, giving each other a look of understanding as they walk together.

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Ardent ~ A.N.

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I hope you guys enjoyed this series so far. It took me months to be able to finish writing and finalizing everything. I really think, writing wise, this is my best written fic without revising after it is published. I am taking a break from continuing the story, but please come back whenever I finally update or let you know when I begin writing again. I currently revising and updating some of my other stories on here, so feel free to check them out (even though some of them are bad).

I have other accounts on Quotev, and Wattpad. I've also just started publishing Ardent on my new Webnovel account under my same name. I hope you guys enjoyed the story once again, and hope you come back for future updates.

P.S : The picture is the other cover for Ardent I made, the original was made specifically to fit so that's the one I used for this site. I also have on like 'deleted scene' I kept from the story because personally it didn't fit . I'll post it if any of you want to read it.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 23

- no real warnings except some fluff..

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Bright lights are the first thing seen above her, blinding her sensitive eyes as her body softly moved. Her bones, joints, and brain aching from disuse. She grunts, hearing soft noises in the background as her eyes blink to adjust.

“Curve ball, high and outside for ball one. So the Dodgers are tied, 4-4. And the crowd well knows that with one swing of his bat, this fellow’s capable of making it a brand-new game again. Just an absolutely gorgeous day here at Ebbets Field. The Phillies have managed to tie up at 4-4. But the Dodgers have three men on. Pearson beaned Reiser in Philadelphia last month. Wouldn’t the youngster like a hit here to return the favour? Pete leans in. Here’s the pitch. Swung on. A line to the right. And it gets past Rizzo. Three runs will score. Reiser heads to third. Durocher’s going to wave him in. Here comes the relay, but they won’t get him.”

She grunts as she finally decides to move, letting her muscles contract and release as she sits up in a plain twin bed, the sheets a stiff cotton and the blanket a soft beige colour. Her mind feeling the baseball game on the radio was familiar, letting it go as she pushed to stand. Her legs wobble as she stumbles to touch a wall, her eyes seeing two windows covered with a thin curtain to block sunlight.

“Ms. Grant! You’re awake. You need to lay back, you’re very sick ma’am.” A woman dressed as a nurse says, her light hair softly tucked into her hat.

“Where am I?” She grumbles out, her voice rough as she turns and goes to take a drink of water that was next to the bed on an end table. Her eyes finally noticing her medical dress, making her pause before looking back.

“The Dodgers take the lead, 8-4. Oh, Dodgers! Everyone is on their feet. What a game we have here today, folks. What a game indeed.” 

“Ms. Grant? Please, you need to calm and lay back down.” The nurse says, watching her glance back to the small radio set on a dresser next to the nurse.

“Louise.” She mumbles out her name, glancing back to the radio as the nurse stood more tense than before.

“Where am I?” Louise asks again, her body now moving swiftly as she took a step to the radio next to the nurse. She switches it off softly glancing to the woman with no emotion, connecting their eyes.

“A hospital in New York City.” The nurse responds almost robotically, as Louise’s mind already invaded her brain without much effort.

“The game, it’s from May, nineteen forty one. I was there, I saw the winning hit.” Louise speaks up looking at herself in a mirror. Staring at her brunette shoulder length hair, her smooth skin; her hands fumbly tear the side of the medical dress. Finding the scar from her energy gunshot wrapped in gauze, a soft red spot leaking through it.

“Open the door.” Louise commands, and the nurse opens it showcasing the modern exterior of the room. The nurse moves to sit on the bed, being released from command as Louise leaves. Men ran towards her, their guns raised high as they were dressed in black and stopped many feet before her.

“Stop, ma’am.” A man yells with his helmet on, Louise’s influence spreading to each man as she spoke.

“Who do you work for?” 

“S.H.I.E.L.D.” The man says and their guns lower as Louise nods and passes them. She stops before one, checking his brown trousers and grey and white jacket.

“Give me your jacket and pants.” She orders and the man, the other guards touring their back along with the now half naked one. She changed into the pants and the jacket, letting the men free and forgetful as she left. Leaving the building she was hidden in, freezing as she exited and heard car horns screech, bright signs hanging around her showcasing videos and vibrant pictures absurdly different from what she was used to.

Louise walked freely, her feet bare as she walked across a sidewalk, her head turned up and staring at the signs. Many people bypass her, slowing as they watched her walk quietly along. She disappears among the crowd, going to places she knows by heart through New York, quickly picking information from signs as she walks peacefully. 

Hours and hours surpass, her body finally freezing before an abandoned building in Brooklyn. She sits at a wooden bench before it, just staring at its emptiness and down. Her hands are folded across her lap, just staring, slight thoughts fill her mind as her hand absentmindedly reaches beneath her shirt to grab her dog tags, rather Bucky’s.

The tags jingle as she pulls them out and stares down at the name. Running her finger over his  rusted name, his numbers. Louise’s feet quickly move to make her stand, her body moving to the closed door of the building. She takes a step close to the door, her hand jerking the handle to open. A cracking sound alerts her to the door breaking through old wood as it opens slowly.

She takes soft steps into the old, musty room, memories filling her mind in reminiscence.

‘Luisa’ Louise hears her mother shout from the kitchen, her head looking up from the opened counter surface in the bakery display.

‘Luisa, hai fatto fiori??’ (Luisa,did you make flowers?) Her mother asks, staring at her from the back.

‘Yes, mamma.’ She replies as she piped a final petal on a specialty cake for one of her mother’s co-workers. Her mother moves near her, seeing her beautiful display of flowers along to the top of the cake.

‘È perfetto, il mio fiore.’ (It’s perfect, my flower.)

Louise smiles at the memory, stepping to a small box in the large empty dark building. She kneels down, grabbing the first thing sticking out. She pulls back a dusty picture frame, blowing lightly to clear a layer of dust off. She smiles widely as she sees the aged photo; her father holding her 3 year old self upon his shoulder, her mother hugging his side as they stood before the bakery at it’s opening. She sets the frame to the side next to her, her hand grabbing another one that was smaller.

Her hands wipe the dust off this time, pausing at the photo inside it. Her smile widens before a few tears fall down her cheeks.

‘Bucky. You need to look at the camera.’ Louise’s father yells, trying to get a photo of the Golden Trio’s last carnival celebration for the summer. Steve stands next to Bucky on his right, smiling and laughing at Bucky’s excuses. Louise next to him on his left wearing a light blue dress with a smile from laughing.

‘Okay, last one.’ Her father yells as the photographer readies his camera and goes to take the picture. Bucky had his arms around each of their shoulders, his head once again turned to look as Louise next to him. Steve smiles at the camera as Louise shares a glimpse with Bucky, as the camera takes its picture.’

Footsteps sound next to her, causing her to tense till she feels a familiar presence behind her. Louise rises to a stand, turning softly as she looks back.

“Steve?” She says, seeing her best friend in perfect health in a white shirt and khaki pants. She quickly steps from the bench, jogging near Steve as he takes steps near her. Their arms barely reach each other before they both cling to one another. She holds him tightly, keeping her emotions intact as she immersed herself into him, his smell, the feeling of their bonds.

Steve pulls back after a minute, brushing her hair from her face so he could see her. He leans in and kisses her forehead once before leaning back slightly and speaking.

“You scared me for a second.” Steve speaks up, his feelings evident in his voice and his eyes that were tired and saddened.

“Same here, Steven.” She jokes with a smile, making her ache as it's been a long time since she’d last done it. Steve glances to the frame in her hand, lifting it to see the photo of them.

“He wouldn’t stop looking at you that day.” Steve murmurs, making Louise chuckle as her tears dried and she wiped her eyes.

“It seems your adjustment was rather quick, Miss Grant.” A voice says behind them, and she calms her mind to control and turns from Steve.

“It was.” She responds as she sees the dark skinned man standing a few feet away in all black with a long black coat and eye patch on his left side.

“You’ve been asleep for about seventy years, Miss Grant. Along with you companion Mr. Rogers, who awoke just days ago.”

“Who are you and what year is it?” Lousie plays along, feeling Steve hold her hand in assurance as the man spoke.

“Name’s Nick Fury, the year is 2011.” Fury says and Louise tenses, feeling something unknown fill her mind and thoughts with doubt. She glances to Steve with his own eyes giving her a look of agreement as they look back at Fury in uncertainty and hesitancy.

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‘We need to sedate her deeper, doctor.’ A muffle male voice says near Louise, her body immoble, and her eyes shut.

‘She’s calm enough, man. Keep it together. We’re on a tight schedule. We must finish her swipe before having to return her. Now hand me the syringe, we need to hurry.’ Louise lays silent, her body calm before pain takes over her senses, overwhelming her in fear.

Louise shoots up on the couch she laid in, her head shooting around to find something. Her hands twist on a lamp light, giving the darkness of an office it’s light. She sighs, shaking of her dreariness and going to stand. She moves to look around, seeing that she is still at a gym.

Grunts fill the air as she takes a step out the door to the small office. Her head perks up to see Steve knocking and destroying another punching bag.

“Trouble sleeping?” She hears a voice speak up, seeing Nick Fury once again holding a file. His eye looked towards Louise then back to Steve who did the same. Louise took a few steps to meet them halfway, Steve grabbing another punching bag and hanging it up, as she neared him.

“You’re here with a mission, sir?” Steve speaks up as Louise intended to listen.

“I am.” Fury responds and hands the file to Louise.

“Trying to get us back in the world?” Steve continues, glancing at Louise and the file.

“Trying to save it.” Fury adds with his arm at his back, Louise reads a few lines before looking back up to him.

“Stark, huh?” Louise finally speaks, reading the file for an operation, a team, the Avengers.

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Ardent ~ Chp. 22

- warnings: fighting, blood descriptions

- gif is not mine

Louise sprints forward, dashing past soldiers who part to let her pass from her mental control, lingering only for seconds before moving onto the next soldier in her way. Her movements are swift and quick as she catches up slightly to the giant aircraft Schmidt sped down the runway in. Steve gets held back by kicking two men out of his way before running faster to catch a chain to jump over crates and land closer to the runway.

Louise dodges the propellers that accelerate faster as the plane, the Valkyrie, speeds closer to the opening hatch. She jumps as the ladder to the plane slowly rises to the hatch that was left open by Schmidt. Wind blazes past her, making her grip harden as she struggles to stay attached. Her eyes catch the speeding car that raced to reach the plane before it’s takeoff.

The car boosts into a faster speed, her eyes catching Steve’s movements in his Captain America suit. Gazing as Peggy stops him and kisses before catching a look from Colonel Phillips who spoke muddled words. Louise smiled slightly at the tender moment before taking action and lowering to catch Steve who saw her dangling close to the speeding ground.

Steve signals for her to climb in, making her stop before she pushed up and entered the plane.

Her body jumps as she feels the aircraft take flight, the loud sounds of the tires lifting and shutting into the plane. She hears grunts louden from the back of the plane, her hiding spot above the entrance she came in. 

Louise jumps down softly, keeping silence as she hears the sound of air being sucked out appear as well. She rolls her eyes, knowing she should keep hidden and attack but goes against it and runs into the takeoff dock of sorts. She sees Steve jump onto a small aircraft, her eyes identifying the words “New York” near the nose of it as another H.Y.D.R.A. soldier jumps on Steve and the small ship falls from the dock.

“Shit!” She yells, catching the attention of two already beaten soldiers who stumble to a stand. Louise flips forward a few times, reaching the two guards and kicking them down towards the open hatch. One free falls through it into the open sky, the second clinging on to fight back but screams as it falls out from a crash into the back of the ship, causing Louise to do the same as she flies across the area and slams into a metal column from the impact. She grunts in pain as her side aches, holding it with her left hand as she tries to grab the gun she lost once again a few feet in front of her.

Louise freezes as boots stand before her, her mind moving to take control as she feels a gun press against her temple.

“I’d stop your concentration here, fraulein.” She hears Schmidt say, her eyes raising up to see his red face, or rather muscular structure that was beneath his skin. She pauses as the gun moves, not noticing as he pointed it at her abdomen and shot through her back. She grunts loudly, feelling blood pool and begins to drip down to the ground. The pain excruciating as she feels the burn from the energy increase as she lays on the ground, coughing up some blood.

“Now he’ll be distracted.” Schmidt mutters as he steps away back to the piloting area, as Louise lays in pain, helpless for the first time in awhile.

Steve fights off Schmidt, trying to keep him from completing his mission, his mind moving sometimes to Louise and her location, which causes him to slack a few times. Louise groans as she had flipped onto her back, tearing the torso half of her suit off. Her light blue tank top she wore under it, covered in blood in the lower half. 

Her hands quickly move at her side to tear off the sleeves of her suit, tying the ripped sleeves to wrap around her stomach, putting pressure on her wounds and soaking up the blood. She pushes to a crawl before gripping a bar and lifting herself to stand. She pushes through her pain, rubbing her blood from her hands onto the walls as she rushes down a close corridor into the pilot’s area.

Louise sees Schmidt shooting at Steve to her right, her eyes lowering to Steve’s shield on the ground as she crumbles down onto the platform she stood on. Making Steve shout and make a run for it.

“Not my future!” Steve yells as he jumps across and rolls down to the bottom level and grabs his shield, deflecting an energy shot before swinging back and launching his shield at Schmidt, knocking him back into the energy reactor in the middle of the area.

“What have you done?” Schmidt, Red Skull, yells out, as streams and clusters of blue hued energy erupt from the broken reactor.

Louise lays flat on the ground, her right arm hanging down the stairs of the platform towards Steve and Schmidt. She lets her mind free, reaching out to Schmidt to take control. Her mind bypassing his restraint to have complete sentient control. She controls Schmidt as if she’s seeing through his eyes, making him grab the Tesseract.

The Tesseract bightens, more streams of energy flying through the air as a cluster explodes, opening a portal to space, showcasing stars and a galaxy in full view. The energy streams heavily, eating away at Schmidt’s entire hand before moving across his body.

“No!” He shouts, as a stream expands, taking over Schmidt’s body as he screams, breaking Louise’s focus to keep him locked with the stream. The energy brightens, making the super duo cover their eyes as the stream shoots out into space, disappearing into the portal as it closes and the Tesseract falls to the ground.

Steve glances around watching the Tesseract quickly melt through grates and through the metal of the plane till it melted the last layer and fell through the sky. He turns back to see Louise leaning against the stairs, holding her bloodied waist.

“Hey!” Steve yells to her, falling to his knees as he grabs her hand and pushes on her wound.

“Lou! Look at me.” He tries, as she lazily glances around with no focus.

“Louise.” He pushes and grabs her face, her blood smearing onto her cheeks as Steve makes her look.

“I’m healing, Steve. Go fix the controls, before it’s too late. Go.” Louise urges as Steve lays her back onto the platform, moving to the pilot’s seat and turning back to face the controls. Louise knows her wound is moving to slow, her blood pooling around her as her body tried to replenish just as fast. Her ears pick up some of Steve’s words, her head lolling as he tries to stay conscious.

“Come in. This is Captain Rogers.” She hears Steve say, missing words that became muddles.

“Steve, is that you?” She hears a lighter, more feminine voice, Peggy.

“Schmidt’s dead. Louise is hurt badly, I have nothing to help her!” She hears Steve speak again, not seeing his head glance back.

“What about the plane?” Peggy’s voice responds through the radio system.

“A safe landing site...” Louise misses many words, her eyes blinking slowly as her head felt light.

“There’s not going to be a safe landing. There’s not enough time. This thing’s moving… heading for New York.” Steve pauses, watching from the large windows in front of him, he sees his location and his distance from New York.

“I gotta put her in the water.” Steve states, jumping to stand and jogging to Louise who was just seconds from becoming unconscious.

“Please, don’t do this.” He hears Peggy say as he lifts Louise’s head to check her pulse. His body trembles, no longer feeling a pulse as Louise’s eyes closed. Her body’s enhanced heat leaving quickly as Steve felt her life leave. He lays Louise back holding his emotions back as he grabs wires, tying Louise down so she’ll stay on the platform as he goes back to the pilot seat and readies himself.

“She’s gone.” Steve says almost silently, Peggy on her side letting tears fall as she knows what is happening.

“Right now I’m in the middle of nowhere. If I wait any longer a lot of people are gonna die.” Steve responds to Peggy and a bit of silence, figuring out the controls.

“I want a rain check on that dance. Alright. A week, next Saturday.” Peggy pushes trying to figure out something as Steve nodded agreeing as tears began to slide down his cheek, his mask long gone as he tore it off before Louise--.

“You got it.” Steve replies, setting the controls fly down straight towards the water, icebergs and plains coming into view. 

“Eight o’clock on the dot. Don’t you dare be late.”

“You know, I still don’t know how to dance.

“I’ll teach you how.” 

“We’ll have the band play something’ slow.” Words go amiss as he nears the sight, remembering visions, scenes, moments with his friends.

Steve stands before Bucky and Louise, both young once again, all of them together laughing and smiling. Bucky stared at Louise with such admiration, watching her laugh, imprinting the moment in his memory forever.

Steve smiles to the thought, speaking once again as he neared his crash site.

“I’d hate to step on your…”

The plane crashes, scraping, tearing, and slamming into the ice, separating pieces and scattering them far and wide. The thick ice beneath the front of the plane collapsed, swallowing the wreckage into the icy water, filling every crack and crevice. The back half shifts, snapping from the front as it sinks down cracking the large ice into an iceberg, causing the last broken piece of the plane to separate across the water. The ice itself migrated from the wind, traveling slowly for miles and miles before crashing into another ice berg, causing the ship to snap through the ice and sink into the frozen water depths, far away from its original wreckage.

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