Ok, this is going to be my first story. I hope you guys like it because I had to watch Avengers a bunch of times to make it. Enjoy! And please please please review!

I really wish I could say I owned Avengers.

Kallie was standing watch by the door to the Tesseract chamber. In front of her, frightened scientists worked to control a power source they didn't understand and was getting more dangerous by the minute. Kallie had voted against trying to experiment on the blue cube, but she had only been in the organization for four years, and there were still some who thought she might be a sleeper agent. She couldn't quite blame them- she had only been hired onto SHIELD so they could keep an eye on her. Hawkeye and the Black Widow came across her with no memory while they were on assignment in Norway and had no clue what to do with her. They eventually decided to take her back to Fury and make him decide.

And here I am. Kallie thought, turning her gaze back over the chaos in the massive room.

"Kallie! Can you come over here and read these numbers out to me?" Doctor Selvig shouted, breaking into her thoughts.

She walked over to him. "Sure. Why, what's up?"

"I think the energy in the cube is spiking, and we can't harness it yet. I need to know if that's the case, otherwise we might all be vaporized by space radiation."

Kallie swallowed hard. "Got it. Reading the numbers." She peered at the constantly changing list while Selvig waited, ready to sound the alarm. "Ok, the numbers are 98… 104… 126?"

Selvig slapped the alarm button. "Anything over one hundred is bad news." He explained, a shocked look on his face. "That big of a jump to that high of a number means we're probably screwed."

Kallie sighed. "Great, well, if you survive, please tell people I died with awesomeness."

Selvig frowned. "I think the phrase you're looking for is 'died with honor.'"

Kallie shook her head vigorously. "That's what boring people say. I strive to avoid being boring."

This drew a small smile from Selvig. "It appears you're succeeding."

Just then Director Fury strode in, black trench coat flapping behind him. "Talk to me, Doctor!" he shouted over the roar of the machines now fighting to contain the Tesseract energy.

"Well, sir, the Tesseract is not only active, she's… behaving." Selvig said as a scientist poked at the cube with a metal probe. The probe flew out of the man's hand and clattered on the floor as soon as it made contact with the Tesseract energy.

"Is that supposed to be funny, Doctor?" Fury asked accusingly.

"No, no, it's not funny at all!" Selvig burst. "A power spike is coming and I really hope you're getting everyone out. Kallie here was just reading me the power levels and they are dangerously high."

Fury turned to Kallie. "I thought you were guarding the door, agent."

"Door duty is boring. Sir, you're literally the first person to enter this room all day. Would it make you feel better if I shot you?" Kallie asked.

Fury chose to ignore her and instead turned back to Selvig. "I thought you were prepared for this, Doctor. Harnessing energy from space."

Selvig shrugged helplessly. "We don't have the harness. My calculations are far from complete. It'll be a long time before- oh. Sorry, Kallie."

Kallie blurted, "Three days, six hours, forty-seven minutes and twelve seconds."

Selvig sighed. "Sorry, Kallie, I forgot about your prediction thing again. My bad." He then paused and analyzed what Kallie had actually said. "Wait, only three days? That can't be right."

Kallie shrugged. "Look, I don't know much about my predictions, except they're always right. But I'll bet it has something to do with that." She said, pointing to the rapidly climbing numbers on the small screen.

Fury swore on seeing the numbers, which were now well over three hundred. "Look, where's Agent Barton?"

Selvig smirked. "The hawk? Up in his nest, as usual."

Fury groaned and radioed Clint to 'report in' which Kallie knew was SHIELD code for 'get your butt down here now, you lazy bum.' It worked- in a couple seconds Clint was right there in front of them. He saluted Fury formally, and said hi to Kallie.

Fury nodded to him. "Anything to report, agent?"

Clint shook his head. "Nope. Nothing, sir. Selvig is clean, no outside contacts… If there was any tampering, it wasn't on this end."

Fury raised his only eyebrow. "This end."

Clint nodded, and elaborated. "Yeah, the cube, it's a door to the other end of space, right?" When he received no argument, he continued, "Doors open from both sides."

Right on cue, Selvig's screen turned red and the cube sparked and crackled, releasing tendrils of whirling blue energy. It created a whirling blue tornado with the cube at the center, until it released a deadly beam of energy that came to rest on a platform at the end of the room. The beam then widened, pulling open a rip in the air through which empty space could be seen. Then the portal energy suddenly dispersed, gathering in the domed ceiling of the room, leaving in its place only the shape of a man crouching.

Kallie could swear she had seen him before.

The lights had been put out by the energy surge- the only light now was the eerie blue glow of the thrashing energy. The man raised his head, and the look on his face was one that intended to kill. Four SHIELD agents stepped forward, warily aiming their guns at the man.

Fury raised his voice and called, "Sir, please put down the spear!"

The man looked down at the spear almost although he was surprised to find himself holding it, then without warning loosed half a dozen blue bolts around the room and stabbed at least one guard. He threw Selvig's lab assistant into a wall and she slid down it and moved no more. The fight, if you could call it that, lasted mere seconds.

Clint pulled himself to his feet from where he had been thrown by a blast of energy and caught the man's wrist as he went to stab him. His opponent only chuckled. "You have heart." He placed his specter on Clint's chest and his eyes glazed over, turning black, then blue.

Kallie very nearly broke from her position covering Fury as he removed the Tesseract to go see what had happened to her friend. As it was, he had to yank her arm to pull her away from the grim scene. But as they were leaving, the man spoke up. "Please don't." he spread his arms wide, but the gesture was made scary by the fact that he was carrying a certified death stick. "I still need that."

Fury leveled a glare at him. "And who might you be?"

The man gave a dark chuckle, but it was cut off the moment he saw Kallie. "Kaloke." He whispers in a voice with none of the previous hostility.

Kallie only glared. "Yeah, I'm gonna echo my boss's question… Who the heck are you?"

Yay! I got through Chapter One! Please please please review. It makes me write faster!