FIREFLY || Pietro Maximoff

Edited 17/11/2024

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Banner and Stark are working on tracking the Cube. Banner is scanning the scepter with a device while Stark was working on a screen.

"The Gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks to process" Bruce pushed his glasses further up the bridge of his nose.

"If we bypass their mainframe and direct route to the Homer cluster we can clock this at around six hundred teraflops"

"All I packed was a toothbrush" Banner joked with a heavy sigh.

"You know, you should come by Stark Tower some time. Top ten floors...all R and D. You'd love it, it's a candy land" Tony giggled a bit.

"Thanks but...last time I was in New York I kind of broke...Harlem"

"Well, I promise a stress free environment. No tension, no surprises"

He zaps Banner in the side with a small stick.

"Ow!" Bruce winces at the slight pain "Hey!"

"Nothing?"

Steve approaches them as he had seen what Stark had done to the doctor.

"Are you nuts?"

"Jury's out!" Tony turns to Banner "You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?"

"Is everything a joke to you?"

"Funny things are" the billionaire snarked back.

"Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny. No offense, Doc"

"No it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things" Olivia arrived in that moment.

"You're tip"toeing, big man. You need to strut" Stark smiled when Olivia's lips twitched into a small smile she tried to hide.

"And you need to focus on the problem, Mister Stark" Steve retorted.

"You think I'm not? Why did Fury call us in? Why now, why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables"

"You think Fury's hiding something?" Steve questioned.

"He's a spy. Captain, he's the spy. His secrets have secrets" he gestures to Banner "It's bugging him to, isn't it?"

"And with good reason" Olivia mumbled to herself.

"Uh, Aah, I just wanna finish my work here and..." Bruce being the pacifist he was tried not to get involved in the two grown men's petty discussion.

"Doctor?" Steve said.

"'A warm light for all mankind'" the doctor quoted Loki's jab at Fury about the Cube.

"I heard it" Steve furrowed his eyebrows.

"That was meant for you" Olivia snarked.

She gestures to Stark, who offers her a blueberry. Knowing how selfish he usually was with his treats she took the opportunity and grabbed the small fruit, popping it into her mouth.

"Even if Barton didn't tell Loki about the tower, it was still all over the news"

"The Stark Tower? That big ugly..." Steve is cut off when Stark gives him a look "...building in New York?"