Chapter Six

Chapter Six

Reuben

Thirty minutes later, we arrived at the Helicarrier. As soon as we got of the Helicopter, Scoot handed me a manila folder, which read a large number.

“I hope this number isn’t for what I think it is.”

“The power core for the ship.”

“You're gunna want to slit your wrists with this folder.”

“What? NO!”

“You're gunna wish you did if I can't fix this!”

I yell as I run into the ship with Scott close behind me. We disappeared into the bellows of the ship. I was sprinting as fast as I could, trying to make sense of what was happening. I don't know what those scientists were thinking, but these numbers were way too high for the power core to handle!

I ran into the room, and was utterly struck stupid. I didn't understand, how this could be!? There was a main core in the center of the room, with four surrounding backup core in each corner of the room. The main core was basically “charging” the other four cores. I walked up to the board that controlled everything in that room.

“What is the Tesseract doing in the core?”

“Nick thought it’d be a good idea.” Replied one of the workers.

“Well, Nick now qualifies to be suicidal and homicidal. Shut it down, now.”

The power of the Tesseract was way too high for the ship to handle, even a big one like this.

“It’s shut down, ma’am.”

“It’s not enough!”

I knew what I had to do. I had to take the tesseract out from the core. I’m not sure how much more of this “connecting to the tesseract” I can handle, but if I don't die from this, it’ll definitely be the radiation.  I’d much rather one life taken than thousands. Slowly walking towards the entire power source of the ship, my hands began to sweat, and each step I took got heavier and heavier. I felt as if I were walking in a spider web, and if I made any sudden movements, I was dead.

“Reuben, what are you doing?” Scott asked, I heard the fear in his voice. He knew what I had to do, but he didn’t want to believe it.

“I have to get the Tesseract.”

I was at the middle of my forearms of reaching into the core when Dad, Nick, and the Avengers team came into the room. Instantly, their facial expressions all changed at once to the same, terrified, concerned expression. All of a sudden, the Tesseract shot out of the core, and I was pulled in. All I could see was white. All around me. I could hear Dad screaming my name, but I couldn’t move. I couldn’t speak. It was as if all my nerves had shut down. I couldn’t feel anything, I was completely numb. I began to see flashes, memories of my life. It was as if I were back with Dad in the living room and we were watching a movie off of a projector, except my brain was the projector, and my eyes were the screen.