The Artifact



OOC Thread

An ancient artifact is found that has an unknown code written on it. SHIELD has spent months trying to figure it out but hasn't had any luck. They decide to recruit two hackers to figure it out, but are having a hard time convincing these hackers to help them. What happens when SHIELD has the Avengers ask them will they refuse and what could be so important about this artifact?

Pairings:
OC/Banner
OC/Steve

Writers:
hillary84
Ranebow

Name: Kaylee Amarose
Age: 24
Race: Elemental Angel (Angelic Being)
Gender: Female
Info: Kaylee goes under the code name "Angelic" and she has the power to control electrical currencies. Meaning in short terms she can use electricity to her will power without hurting herself. She can even heal some people, but, only minor things and she cannot heal herself yet. Too much electricity to do that and stay awake or use her powers in offense or defense at the same time.
Looks: Kaylee's Photo

Kaylee sits in an abandoned building as she whispers to those asleep and who are ill as well as homeless. So many people who live out on the streets and this world can only think of helping those in wealth or higher powered. Kaylee hated it and she hated money since it was the top main form of greed. One of the deadly seven sins which could corrupt you until you died.

Looking around she realized that something in the atmosphere was different, but, she didn't do anything about it. She just sat there singing softly to herself as she placed her hands on a young child's shoulder while she slept. The girl had been ill for the past several weeks unable to get any better. It made it hard on the big sister she had who tried so hard to help her sister get better. Once she finished, she snuck back out, and was gone instantly.

Walking down the street, she made her way to a local, and old traditional coffee shop that she loved to go to. Taking in the sights and wondering if she should take pictures along the way. She really wanted to get a picture of the two famous heroes: Tony Stark aka Iron Man & Steve Rogers aka Captain America. She thought that Mr. Rogers was the perfect man out there that no one would ever get. She knew she was out of that league no matter how much power she could hold or wield.

~ Mule of Ranebow ~

Name: Moria Flannery
Age:26
Appearance: image_zps39c2868e.jpg Photo by hilldill | Photobucket
Info: Moria is the daughter of Irish immigrants and had been born in New York City. Her dad taught her about computers and she caught on quickly. She majored in Computer Science and minored in physics. She's a freelance hacker and has been nervous lately.

Moria looked at the screen and yawned. She had been here for the last 12 hours working on a project and was almost done. What she really wanted to do was eat the leftover pizza in her fridge and then take a nap. She didn't want to go outside, since she had been approached by some strange people over the last few days. She knew they were SHIELD agents and was a bit cautious of them. Moria had become a fan of the Avengers since the battle of New York and especially Bruce Banner. Moria had minored in physics and was fascinated by his reasearch. Moria had badly wanted to double major in physics but her dad had discouraged her to do so. He said that computer science was more practical and earned more money. She didn't care about the money, but the science part of it.

Moria sent off her project and switched off her computer for the night. Food was she wanted now and then would take a nap , hoping that no one would bother her. Moria also needed to call her dad and ask him where he wanted to go for lunch. Lunch together on Saturday had been a tradition of theirs after her mom died when Moria was 14. She missed her mom very much p, since her mom would have encouraged her to pursue her love of science.

Something made Moria's computer started shining brightly and flashing colors as if trying to get someone's attention. Whether or not the computer was still on, it would still affect it, and wouldn't stop until someone looked at the mail that was sent to her. Inside the email message was a picture of a cherry wood box enclosed without any way to open it or seems to show it could be open. There was a message attached to it saying "Find it, save them" it was a weird short message.

Kaylee spent her few hours walking until she heard a noise heading towards the park. Glancing up, something shot out of the sky and disappeared. "Okay I am going to pretend I didn't see that" and shook her head. She didn't want to have to deal with anything at the moment and it didn't seem life threatening. Just then a cherry wood polished box containing something fell from the sky and landed in her hands as she stretched up in the air. "Huh? What's this? A box?" Kaylee stared at it for a moment until she scanned it over looking for a way to open it. Sitting on the ground with the shining bright moon above her, she looked around to make sure no one was close to her, and started looking for a way to open it again. Kaylee loved challenges and puzzles, it was a great amusement to her, and being above earth now made them seem even more interesting.

Moria saw her computer shining bright and turned it on. " What's going on here?" She thought feeling alamed. She looked in her mail box and saw the message about the object in the picture " That's odd. Save who. She thought and sent a message back. Moria didn't recognize the email address and hoped it wasn't a virus of some kind.

" I wonder if I should contact SHIELD. It seems someone told me that they were experts in this sort of thing. " Moria thought and wondered who had told her that. She knew it had been in the last few days. Moria was nervous about working for SHIELD and had turned down job offers before. Moria sent an email to a contact of hers hoping they could contact SHIELD for her.

She heard a slight tune coming from the box wondering if it was a music box or not. It sure didn't look like one and there was no way to really open it; Kaylee looked it over and over for quite awhile wondering where the opening would be. "Hm...that is strange...where..." something about the tune encircled her making her eyes look almost lifeless, but, still conscious. Starting to whisper it's words, her appearance began to change, and everything about her made her seem...different than the kind girl you had seen before you just moments before. "It's seems everything I touch, turns to dust" the words repeated in her mind as the song said one last verse "All unworthy of life, must be sacrificed"

Standing up revealing her new appearance drenched in black creating a darker look. Her nice light blue dress with simple flowers painted upon it was now solid black and her matching flats turned into dark boots as her eyes darkened to a dark midnight blue. Her hair was pinned back in a high ponytail and she looked far more dark or evil than she ever had before in her life. "The sphere will rule, the life must die, and everything will turn to dust" looking around her as a sword appeared in her hands allowing the cube to be hidden within her, she turned towards some people looking at her strangely, and one of them approached her. "Excuse me, are you alright?" the little boy asked, he seemed about twelve years of age.

Kaylee smiled at him "I'm just not feeling too well, there are too many lives around here" "Lives? What do you mean?" he asked her after she had replied and upon her next reply she had said "You all must die" with that she swung the blade creating a loud destruction noise throughout the street she was on killing all those within a 1/2 of a mile. Smiling at being somewhat content she moved onto her path and had gotten the attention of Shield. The night was young and there was still so much killing fun for her to do. The good inside her was asleep, she had even forgotten she met Captain America one night, and he helped her out after she almost got robbed. She could have done it herself, but, playing the damsel just once sounded like fun.

"Sir, there are abnormal power rates rising from the eastern side of the city" Jarvis echoed throughout the mansion as he told Tony about the new attacks going on. "Alright, get my suit ready" Tony responded "Should I alert the others?" Tony heard Jarvis say as he shook his head "No, I can handle this" Jarvis didn't say what sort of power level it was, but, then again Tony didn't really ask. Not that he needed to, he would learn soon enough, and who the new enemy was.

Bruce was staying up late working on a new way to help out the Avengers team since they seemed to have been stuck with this group now. He was half asleep knowing that even Hulk inside him was asleep already by all the science he had gone through by now. Natasha aka Black Widow was on vacation along with Hawkeye in another part of the world. So everyone was off on their own doing their own thing. Bruce had gotten the same email that Moria had received just a moment before and wondered what it was. The same message was applied before a voice spoke from the computer itself with the Rhyme that Kaylee had whispered before going on a killing spree and changed. However, only one would fall under the power of darkness, those closes to the light, and most power.

"Find it, save them" then that message was over powered as a female voice spoke "It's seems everything I touch, turns to dust" the words repeated in her mind as the song said one last verse "All unworthy of life, must be sacrificed" over and over the computer annoyed him...constantly repeating it in an angry voice...Bruce punched the computer and still okay with staying away from rage level that would release the Hulk. Hulk was now aware of what was going on and wondered why it bothered him to hear it, but, as a final whisper to the broken computer, the rhyme continued..."It's seems everything I touch, turns to dust. All unworthy of life, must be sacrificed"

( sorry about taking so long. Had an interview today. )

Moria was glad she got an email for Bruce Banner but didn't want to know how her contact got that sort of information. She had to let someone know that something was wrong. Doctor Banner. You don't know me but I need help. I have attached to this message a picture what I was sent several minutes ago. The message that was with this photo was Find it, save them. Im a hacker in the New York area and am trying to trace where the message came from. Please contact me. Sincerely Moria Flannery.
Moria hoped that the Avengers could help her and grabbed her purse. She had to find this artifact.

Steve had been working on some paperwork when he had heard the message coming from where Bruce was. He had a feeling that something was wrong and went t check on Bruce hoping his friend was alright. " What was that message all about ?" He asked as he saw the broken computer on the desk. He still didn't understand modern technology but was slowly learning. From what he knew he didn't think these machines could make noise when they were off , unless it was something else entirely. Something wasn't right in the air and had a feeling that soon a new threat would be revealed to them.

Bruce was against the wall trying not to go all Hulk rage on everything as Steve had walked into the room. Bruce's eyes grew a more vibrant green than before, but, shifted slowly back to their natural color as he calmed down standing up slowly. "I don't know, but, I think something is going to happen soon" Bruce was still shook up, however, he was best at controlling his anger.

Kaylee created a path of blood as she walked, the distorted faces staring back at her as she faded away, and the light of this world leaving their eyes. "It seems everything I touch, turns to dust" she started to sing that verse as she walked along the path filled with destruction and others running from her. Just then Kaylee heard a noise and was shot by a large beam into a side building.

Iron Man hovered in their air over where she landed looking for her since the rubble fell on top of her. "That's enough, little Alice" like the Alice, Madness returns game where she leaves a path of blood and death. It seemed to have fit and for some reason, Kaylee liked that; Mad Alice was better than Mad Hatter that was for sure in any case. Iron Man noticed Kaylee had gotten up and armed himself ready "Ooh robot man wants to die, all right then, let's play" she grinned swinging the blade she held in her hands throwing him off to the side where a bunch of trees were. "You can't stop me, for everything I touch turns to dust"

The battle went on for quite awhile and Iron Man eventually had to call in the others that he could where ever they were. Banner got the message from Jarvis over the intercom "Mr. Banner, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Stark has asked me to call you to battle near the old fountain park. A being with tremendous power is attacking the city and killing people" Banner didn't wait, he stood up knowing this would be a good time to release anger, and let Hulk out on a little fun.

Moira was getting nervous when she hadn't heard anything back and stared to look on the internet for anything that resembled an energy signature. " I have a bad feeling about all this. I don't want people to die."She thought as she wrote out a tracking code. Moria knew she had to shut down this energy signal before something bad did happen to her or someone she loved.

Moria heard a ping on her second computer and saw there was some sort of code that was coming from a park that was close by." This better work."She thought to herself as she started to crack the code. It wasn't easy, since most of the numbers she didn't recognize.


" Hulk, wait here. I won't be long." Steve said and hurried to get into his uniform wondering what Tony had encountered out there. He was surprised at how quickly Bruce had transformed, but had a feeling that message had set him off. He didn't like hearing that people were being killed and had to know more about what they were facing. " Hulk ready to do some smashing?" He said once he was in uniform and had his shield with him. The Fountain park wasn't too far from here and hoped they would make it in time to help Tony with this being.

Hulk grinned as they took off towards the park taking just a few minutes to get there in time to see the girl floating above Iron Man who seemed to be out or the suit shut down, one of the two. Hulk didn't wait even for a second more as he ran straight at the girl getting her attention and slamming right into her knocking her off to the side.

Tony finally got Jarvis back up as the suit lit up and he stood back up with the help of Hulk. "Thanks, what took you guys?" Tony asked as he noticed the girl was getting back up again "Get ready, she uses magic, you have to stay away from her, she will kill anyone she touches" Tony hadn't gotten the message earlier, but, Hulk surely remembered that stupid, annoying little rhyme he heard before smashing up the computer to bits.

Moria couldn't break this code. She didn't want to hack into this code blind and was surprised to see a message flash on the screen This will temporarily stop the effects but be warned the next time you won't be so lucky Human. Moria felt a cold chill come over her and shuddered as she used the code that had been left behind. She was recording what she was doing as the codes started to unravel.

" We had a bit of a delay. " Steve said. He looking at the woman that was headed toward them and had a feel he had seen her before, but where he had seen her, he didn't remember. " Stay out of her path when fighting her. We don't want to lose anyone. " He said. Something didn't seem right about all this.

Hulk was thrown far off to the side crashing into a building shaking it, but, not destroying it. The girl had alot of power until she felt different and staggered back to the ground. Tony noticed an opening to attack her, so he shot rockets that would explode on contact at her, and watched as they went off. She didn't put up a fight before they exploded, so he assumed he had gotten her; Kaylee laid on the ground feeling weaker before, she remembered the box, and then she was standing up again as the darkness had completely faded from her appearance. She was looking as sweet and confused as before it took over her body. "Huh, wait, what's going on?" Kaylee looked around and didn't know she attacked Hulk or the others at all.

Tony noticed the levels of dark energy were gone completely, but, he didn't seem so convinced that this girl was innocent right now. If shield got their hands onto her, it wouldn't be very good, and she would probably turn back into the one that killed all the innocents. Then he watched her look down at her outfit, she was covered in blood, but, the blade was gone. 'Wait, why am I covered in blood?' Kaylee thought to herself and shuddered. She remembered blood before....it wasn't a pretty memory in any state...and she hated blood. At least while it was on her; Tony walked over to her "We'll explain everything later, for now, we need to get you back to headquarters before SHIELD gets here" Tony said wanting to know more about this dark energy.

Hulk hadn't gotten up right away, but, when he did, he was back in his human form laying on someone's stoop to an apartment. "Damn that girl hits hard if she was able to take the big guy down" he knew that better than anyone, but, she did turn at the last minute surprising Hulk, so that was where she probably got lucky at.

Moria had seen something land on the stoop close to her apartment. The buildings were so close on this side, she could have walked across the gap. She had been downloading the data of the last half hour in an external hard drive , in case someone stole her main files. Moria had heard of hackers losing their important files to the government and she didn't want to lose this. " Are you alright sir?" She said to the man. He looked vaguely familiar but couldn't see too well in the dark.


" Tony is right. You'll be safe with us. " Steve said. He wondered what caused the girl to become that way and where it was now. He had a feeling someone else knew about all this and they needed to be found. " There has to be something around here that caused all this. " He said and looking for either the Hulk or Bruce. " We better get going. " Steve said knowing that SHIELD would want a full explanation of all this but they couldn't let this girl fall into their hands till things were sorted out.

Banner looked at the young woman who stood above him "Moria Flannery?" Banner asked, he had good night vision thanks to the Hulk liking dark areas, and less with light. "You wouldn't happen to have an extra pair of pants by any chance would you?" he asked as he waited for her reply while keeping the bit of pants he had left, still on.

Kaylee listened to Captain America and knew who he was instantly without any outfit or introduction. "Okay..." Kaylee levitated herself "Where too?" she wondered if the Captain would need help getting back since flying was the fastest way in her opinion. She had thought Iron Man's outfit was cool, but, her mind wandered back to things she shouldn't be trying to remember.

" You would be correct. I do have a extra pair. I'll be right back." Moria said feeling excited that she was right about the man being Doctor Banner, but was confused how he knew it was her. " Did he get the message I sent or does he know who my source is?She thought as she got into the closet of the second bedroom her maternal cousin Patrick often stayed in. Patrick worked for an American company in Dublin and often was sent to the New York office for training.

" I hope these pants fit. They are my cousin Patrick's pants." She said handing over the pants. "Would you like to come in? I have leftover pizza that I was just about to re heat." Moria offered.

"Stark Tower. You'll be safe there. Just try to relax. Do you need any help getting there?"Steve offered. He wasn't going to leave her alone, since he had a feeling things might get bad quickly. He heard sirens in the distance and knew they had to get out of this area quickly.

Banner slides the pants on quickly without showing anything and then stood up fastening them at the belt line. "Thanks" they seemed to fit just fine and he was going to say he should get back to his team, but, he could call them later and explain since it wasn't really easy to kill himself or get killed. "That would be nice" he stated to answer her question about coming inside.

Kaylee knew where it was, but, being shown the way would be cool too. She might not get another chance to be more around Steve, so she nodded "Actually I only know where it is, I've never taken the path to get there" Kaylee floated back to the ground "Could you show me?" she asked nicely.

"What's happening out there? I don't get a view of the street and all I could hear was screaming." Moria said as she put the leftover pizza on a baking sheet. She had only eaten two pieces of it and had plenty left.She didn't think he would tell her what had been happening out there, but had a feeling that she needed to tell someone about the message she had got to stop that energy.

"That would be my pleasure Ma'am. Have we met before this?" He asked as he headed toward Stark Tower. He hoped Bruce contacted them so he could be told the fighting was over. He had a feeling that the next time something like this happened it wouldn't be this easy. He just hoped Tony or Bruce could figure out what had happened.

"All you need to know is there is something bad out there and we need to find a way to end it before it gets out" of course he didn't even know what he was talking about, only about the rhyme that he had gotten through an email as well. "Has anything strange happened to you today?" Bruce asked wondering who all had something happen to others.

Tony was already back at the tower taking his suit off as he walked down his usual route to get himself a drink and get to work instantly. There had to be something and he would question the girl once he could. Kaylee stayed with Steve as they made their way to the tower, once there she answered his question "Yea, actually once before, but, it was for a short time I believe" it was while Loki came to earth just last year, she had been running through the fight trying to keep the other humans out of the way while staying out of the way of the Avengers. She remembered seeing him fighting along side Black Widow and then by himself as the battle dragged out. She even had stopped and stared not sure if she was seen or not.

"Actually yes. About an hour ago I got an odd email with a picture attached of this strange looking box. The message was even stranger. It was: Find it , save them. After that some odd rhyme started and it took me forever to stop it. I also was able to track an energy signature to the fountain park. The code was impossible to hack and that's not an exaggeration. I then got a message that said : This will temporarily stop the effects but be warned the next time you won't be so lucky Human. After it faded there was a code that I was able to use to stop the energy. " Moria said and shuddered again at the memory of the messages. She had a feeling that something terrible had sent that odd looking box.

" It was during the Battle of New York I'm guessing. " Steve said as they made it back to the tower. He punched in his code and waited for the doors to open. Some parts of modern living he could do, but others he still didn't understand. He didn't understand the point of Facebook or those other social networking sites, since to him it all felt superficial. " After you. " He said politely once the doors opened and figured Tony was already working. He would do the best he could to help, most likely waiting for any word from Bruce.

Bruce nodded in agreement "I received the same message earlier, and couldn't get the thing to stop" that was when he was going all Hulk rage on the computer destroying. "I wonder who sent that message and who all got it" he thought out loud wondering the exact same thing he just said.

"During the whole 'Loki's attempt to take over the world' thing, yes" Kaylee confirmed smiling then walked in a bit slowly since she wasn't used to others doing things for her. She liked to be the one to help others and do things for them. "Would you mind if I asked you a question?" Kaylee said as they walked.

Tony was working with Jarvis explaining the code that was found in several emails throughout the countries, but, only very few were sent out or those who had received it, had survived the little bit of time. There may have been just one cube, but, the code was linked throughout countries. So each country had a person, most likely female for many reasons, that would be going around, and killing people whether or not they were human.

" I wonder that too. I have a feeling in the wrong hands this artifact would be used for much destruction. " She said with a shudder, since the memory of the fight with those aliens still bothered her . I have all the data saved to an external hard drive if you need to look at it. " Moria offered. She still wanted to track the messages but knew her system wasn't strong enough to do so. " Pizza is done. What would you like to drink? I have an apple soda that's surprisingly good. " She said as she got the baking sheet out with a lot holder. She hoped that she was able to help with this.

" I don't mind at all. " Steve said. He was used now to the questions people asked, but sometimes felt his like he didn't want to answer. He didn't like to be rude to people so he gave an answer anyway. He had a hard time trying to hove that a hour ago this woman had been killing people. He hoped that the death toll wasn't as high as the battle of New York had been. 209 people that had families and had thier lives cut short because of Loki.

Bruce nodded "Apple soda...sounds interesting" meaning he would try it, then he noticed that she said she had the back up information and that could help out greatly on their side. "Would you mind if we looked at it on my computer at the headquarters?" he asked, they could probably work on it together, three heads were better than two, or just one. Bruce had to count Hulk, he was apart of him anyways, and if not, then the big guy might get jealous.

"Is there a roof to this place that I could get a high view at?" Kaylee asked, she was going to ask what was it like being back in this world, but, in a different time. However, she didn't really think that was a good idea right now, and she started to have a feeling she was forgetting something. Something big and important that happened about an hour or less ago.

( sorry about taking so long. Been playing Sims3 all day. )
" I don't mind at all. I think the more people who take a look at what I got the better. " Moria said as she poured the apple soda into ice glasses. She liked foods that were different and had tried falafel a few weeks ago. " I need to call my dad before wee go anywhere. We were supposed to have lunch togeather tomorrow but I have a feeling this is going to take a while. " She said and handed Bruce a glass. She then divided what was left of the pizza and hoped eventually she was going to get some sleep.


" There is. There's an elevator that will take you there , unless you want me to go with you. " Steve offered. He wanted to get into civilian clothes since it was going to be a long night. " I'm sorry to have been rude , but what is your name?" He asked. He had a feeling that they would be seeing quite a bit if each other and wanted to get off on the right foot.

"Good, then we'll go, and show Tony in a bit. He'll want to see it too probably" Bruce spoke as he took the glass then said "Since it's late why don't you get some sleep, I will take a walk, and return tomorrow" of course he knew he needed sleep, but, he already invaded once and knew it rude be rude without an invitation to sleep on the couch or something. He didn't mind though, Hulk was asleep, and a peaceful walk wasn't too bad sounding.

"No, it's fine, I can find it myself. Thank you though" Kaylee said as she headed the way to the elevator and before she stepped into it, she said "My name is Kaylee, Kaylee Amarose, and sorry, but, shaking hands is too formal for my tastes" Kaylee was more of a person who hugged rather than shook hands. The doors closed as she felt it moved and went up to the roof where she sat against the side and leaned over the edge watching over it. Her head on her arms as she tried to think more about what happened earlier. Kaylee was up there for quite awhile, it felt nice to her, and so she passed out as the stars above her twinkled.

" Sounds good to me. I'll give you my cell number so you can call me before you get here. " Moria said. She hated being unready for guests and wanted to look decent. Her mom had always said appearance was the first step to a good first impression. She felt sad sometimes thinking about Shannon O'Shea-Flannery and was glad her mom's family was as encouraging to her goals in life.

Steve got back into civilian clothes and figured it was best to check on Tony before he went back to sleep. " Any word from Bruce yet?" He asked concerned. Steve knew Bruce would be here soon enough but something in his head kept bothering him. What it was he couldn't figure out.