"I am not Fury's lap dog." I say and Bruce looks in between us, worried we might start something.

"Hey. I'm just sayin'. You've never been a "sir, yes sir"—following orders type. Neither of us are." Tony says as he gets comfortable behind a desk.

"I'm not–ya know. I'm not going to explain this to you right now Tony. We've got things to do." I say while avoiding looking at Tony. He doesn't exactly know my secret and I think right now isn't the best time.

"The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it can take weeks to figure out." Bruce says breaking the building tension between Tony and I.

"If we bypass their mainframe and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster—"

"We can clock this around six hundred teraflops." Tony finishes my thought while sifting through some information on the screens.

"And all I packed was a tooth brush." Bruce says with a chuckle.

"You know," Tony says looking at Bruce, "you should come by Stark Tower sometime. Top ten floors, all R&D you'd love it. It's like candy land."

"He isn't lying  you know, it is pretty great." I say with a smile, while looking through some of  the algorithms and data we have so far.

"Thanks guys, but the last time I was in New York...I kinda broke Harlem."

"Well I can promise a stress free environment –"

"You? Stress free? Stress kind of comes with you Tony.." I say with a smirk to which he ignores.

"–No tension, no surprises." He says as he sneaks up behind Bruce who's focused on scanning the scepter, and suddenly jabs him with an electrical probe I hadn't seen him with before.

"Ow!" Bruce jumps a couple feet in the air, but shows no sign of turning green. Thankfully.

"Nothing?" Tony asks while looking closely at Bruce.

"Anthony really?!" I say as I step closer to intercept my idiot brother.

"Hey! Are you crazy?" I hear from behind us, turning to see Steve come through the lab doors.

"Jury's out." Making me snort back a laugh. "You really have 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?" Steve asks.

"Pretty much." I mumble earning a glare from my brother.

"Funny things are." He says nonchalantly as he strides back to the desk.

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

"No it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things." Bruce says calmly.

"You're tiptoeing big man. You need to strut."

"Not the time Tony."

"And you need to focus on the problem, Mr. Stark." Steve says crossing his arms across his toned chest.

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

I can honestly agree...something been fishy ever sense Coulson and I came back from New Mexico..

"You think Fury's hiding something?"

"He's a spy. Captain, he is the spy. His secrets have secrets. It's bugging him and Clara too, isn't it?" Tony asks pointing at Bruce, who is trying and failing to stay out of the conversation.

"He's not wrong Cap. Even I can tell something isn't adding up."

"I–I just wanna finish my work here and.."

"Doctor?"

"Bruce?" Steve and I say at the same time. Bruce looks to the both of us, and Tony before sighing and pinching the bridge of his nose.

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

"I heard it." He nods for him to go on.

"Well I think that was meant for you." Pointing at Tony. "Even if Barton didn't tell him, it would be all over the news."

"The Stark Tower? That big ugly..." Tony cuts him off with a nasty look, "building in New York?"

"It's powered by the arc reactors isn't it? Giving it a self-sustaining energy source. It could run for what? About a year?" I say and Tony looks surprised.

"Uh..yeah. It's only a prototype." Then he puffs put his chest—the Stark pride showing through. "I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now."

"So why didn't SHIELD bring him in on the Tesseract project? I mean what are they doing in the energy business anyways?" They pause to look at me for answers, and I just shrug my shoulders.

"Honestly, I've never heard of an energy program, to begin with. I have a high security clearance, but Fury hardly tells anyone anything. He like to compartmentalize things."

"Well I should probably look into that once my decryption programmer breaks into all of SHIELD's secure files." Tony answers and my blood runs cold. I'm a secure file...

"I'm sorry did you say..."

"Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours we'll know every dirty secret SHIELD has ever tried to hide."

"Tony—"

"Blueberry?" He offers to Steve, completely ignoring my interjection. Son of a–this was not how I wanted him to find out...

"And yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around?" Steve completely ignores his gesture, glaring at Tony.

"An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically not awesome." Tony says simply munching on his blueberries. That's one thing about Tony, he doesn't like not knowing things.

"I think Loki is trying to wind us up." I say coming in between the two, feeling the increased tension.

"She's right. This is a man who means to start a war. If we don't stay focused, he'll succeed. We have orders. We should follow them."

"Followings not really my style. Right Clara?" I ignore his jab about his earlier lapdog comment.

"And you're all about style aren't you?" He says with a sarcastic smile.

"Of all the people in this room, which one is; A. wearing a spangly outfit, and B. not of use?" Great now he's pissed, we really don't need this now..

"Seriously Anthony. That's enough, quit acting like a child."

"Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you?" Bruce asks, realizing just how much shit we might be in..

"Just find the cube." Steve says turning in his heel and leaving the lab.

"Really Tony? Could you have been any less of an ass?" I shake my head and follow Steve out of the lab.