Building the Dream: Assembling the Avengers Page #2

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- Talk to Fury, he needs you on this.

- He needs me in a cage?

- No one's gonna put you in a...

- Stop lying to me!

I'm sorry, that was mean.

I just wanted to see what you'd do.

Why don't we do this the easy way, where you don't use that,

and the other guy doesn't make a mess? Okay?

Natasha.

Stand down. We're good here.

Just you and me?

This is out of line, Director.

You're dealing with forces you can't control.

You ever been in a war, Councilman? In a firefight?

Did you feel an over abundance of control?

You saying that this Asgard has declared war on our planet?

Not Asgard. Loki.

He can't be working alone.

What about the other one? His brother.

Our intelligence says, Thor is not a hostile.

But he's worlds away, we can't depend on him to help either.

It's up to us.

Which is why you should be focusing on phase 2,

- it was designed for exactly...

- Phase 2 isn't ready, our enemy is.

- We need a response team.

- The Avengers Initiative was shut down.

- This isn't about The Avengers.

- We have seen the list.

We're running the world's greatest

covert security network

and you're gonna leave the fate of

human race to a handful of freaks.

I'm not leaving anything to anyone.

We need a response team.

These people may be isolated, unbalanced even,

but I believe with the right push

they can be exactly what we need.

- You believe?

- War isn't won by sentiment, Director.

No, it's won by soldiers.

There's not enough time. I'm gotta

pull into the water.

- You wont be alone.

- .Oh God.

This guy is still alive.

Trouble sleeping?

I slept for 70 years, Sir.

I think I've had my fill.

Then you should be out, celebrating, seeing the world.

I went under, the world was at war,

I wake up, they say we won.

They didn't say what we lost.

We've made some mistakes along the way.

Some very recently.

- You here with a mission, sir?

- I am.

- Trying to get me back in the world?

- Trying to save it.

Hydra's secret weapon.

Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you.

He thought what we think, the Tesseract could be the key to

unlimited sustainable energy.

That's something the world sorely needs.

- Who took it from you?

- He's called Loki.

He's not from around here.

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.

At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me.

Ten bucks says you're wrong.

There's a debriefing package waiting

for you back at your apartment.

Is there anything you can tell us

about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?

You should have left it in the ocean.

You're good to go on this end.

The rest is up to you.

You disconnected the transition lines?

Are we off the grid?

Stark Towers is about to become a

beacon of self sustaining clean energy.

Wow, so maybe our reactor takes over

and it actually works?

I assume. Light her up.

- How does it look?

- Like Christmas, but with more...me.

Gotta go wider on the public awareness campaign.

You need to do some press.

I can do some more tomorrow,

I'm working on the zoning for the next billboards.

Pepper, you're killing me. Remember?

Enjoy the moment.

I remember.

Sir, Agent Coulson of SHIELD is on the line.

I'm not in. I'm actually out.

Sir, I'm afraid he's insisting.

Close the line Jarvis. I got a date.

Levels are holding steady...I think.

Of course they are, I was directly involved.

Which brings me to my next question.

- How does it feel to be a genius?

- Well, ha, I really wouldn't know now, would I?

What do you mean? All this, came from you.

No. All this, came from that.

Give yourself some credit, please.

Stark Tower -

Stark Tower is your baby. Give yourself, twelve percent of the credit.

- Twelve percent?

- An argument can be made for fifteen.

- Twelve percent for my baby?

- Well, I did do all the heavy lifting.

Literally, I lifted the heavy things.

And sorry, but the security snafu? That was on you.

- My private elevator.

- You mean our elevator?

It was teeming with sweaty workmen.

I'm going to pay for that comment about

percentages in some subtle way later on, aren't I?

Not gonna be that subtle.

I'll tell you what. Next building

is gonna say 'Potts' on the tower.

- On the lease.

- Call your mom, can you bunk over?

Sir, the telephone. I'm afraid

my protocol's are being overwritten.

Stark, we need to talk.

You have reached the life model

decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message.

- This is urgent.

- Then leave it urgently.

- Security breach. That's on you.

- Mr Stark.

- Phil! Come in.

- Phil.

- I can't stay.

- Uh...his first name is Agent.

- Come on in, we're celebrating.

- Which is why he can't stay.Soon as possible.

- I don't like being handed things

- That's alright, cause I love to be handed things.

So, let's trade.

Thank you.

Official consulting hours are between eight and five every other Thursday.

- This isn't a consultation.

- Is this about The Avengers?

- Which I...I know nothing about.

- The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought.

- And I didn't even qualify.

- I didn't know that either.

Yeah, apparently I'm volatile, self obsessed, don't play well with others.

- That I did know.

- This isn't about personality profiles anymore.

- Whatever. Miss Potts, got a sec?

- You know, I thought we were having a moment.

- I was having twelve percent of a moment.

This seems so serious, Phil's pretty shaken.

- How did you notice? Why is he Phil?

- What is all this?

This is uh...

This.

- I'm going to take the jet to D.C. tonight.

- Tomorrow.

You have homework. You have a lot of homework.

Well, what if I didn't?

If you didn't?

You mean if you finished?

Then ...

Square deal. It's the last date.

Work hard.

- Do you drive past the airport, by chance?

- I can drop you.

Oh, fantastic. Does the cellist

You? Is it true relationship?

- He moved back to Portland.

- What?

We are a forty-minute

from the base, sir.

So this Dr. Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me?

A lot of people were. You were the world's first superhero.

Banner thought gammer radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine's original formula.

- Didn't really go his way, did it?

- Not so much.

When he's got that thing though, guy's like a Stephen Hawking.

He's like a smart person.

I gotta say, it's an honor to meet you, officially.

I sort of met you, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping.

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.

- Well, I hope I'm the man for the job.

- Oh, you are. Absolutely.

Uh...we've made some modifications to the uniform. I had a little design input.

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

Everything that's happening, the things that are about to come to light,

people might just need a little old fashioned.

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