INT. BROOKLYN GYM � NIGHT

Somewhere in an old, almost WWII-esque boxing gym, STEVE ROGERS is pummeling a punching bag. With every swing, it's like a memory he's trying to fight off and repress.

EXT. HYDRA BASE � DAY (FLASHBACK)

Captain America is running through the forest, dodging mortars, gunfire and the Tesseract's energy firearms.

STEVE (V.O.):
There's not enough time! I gotta put her in the water!

INT. BROOKLYN GYM � NIGHT

Steve's rage keeps building as he punches the bag. It gets harder...

INT. HORTEN H.XVIII, RED SKULL'S SHIP � DAY (FLASHBACK)

Steve places his COMPASS with an image of PEGGY CARTER. The time is here for him to crash the plane.

INT. BROOKLYN GYM � NIGHT

Steve closes his eyes. Goes at the bag harder.

PEGGY (V.O.):
You won't be alone.

Steve smiles in memory of Peggy.

INT. HORTEN H.XVIII, RED SKULL'S SHIP � DAY (FLASHBACK)

The RED SKULL picks up the TESSERACT.

INT. BROOKLYN GYM � NIGHT

Steve opens his eyes and tears the bag as the last memory kicks in. I don't think he can physically stop...

SHIELD SCIENTIST (V.O.):
Oh my god!

INT. PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S, ANTARCTICA � DAY (FLASHBACK)

A half frozen Steve Roger is lying down on a medical slab. Two SHIELD SCIENTISTS run over hi-tech devices to see if his vitals are up. And it seems...

SHIELD SCIENTIST
This guy is still alive!

Everyone but the avengers were confused by that. Many questions went through their heads.

INT. BROOKLYN GYM � NIGHT

Steve tears the bag open, off its chain, spilling out the sand. He stands, breathing hard, letting out 70 years of over repressed feeling. After taking a few breathers, Steve picks up another punching bag, which is laying next to another dozen bags. He hooks the bag up and starts punching again. Regulus walks in.

REGULUS:
Trouble sleeping?

STEVE:
I slept for seventy years, sir. I think I've had my fill.

"WHAT"

"HOW"

That had answered many questions for the wizards and witches who already knew of Captain America while the ones that didn't were in awe and confusion. How was able to stay alive that long and still not age.

"If you don't mind me asking how, my boy" asked Dumbldore with the same twinkle he always has in his eyes.

Steve smiles politely and answers "Basic science" making the Avengers chuckle and leaving Dumbledore frowning and unsatisfied.

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

Steve stops punching and walks over to the bench, unraveling the tape off his hands. He sits down.

STEVE:
I went under, the world was at war, I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost.

REGULUS:
We've made some mistakes along the way. Some very recently. Before I left Britain there was a war going on, still is, we lost so many people and sometimes it's too much to bear to remember. But enough of that there seems to be a situation.

Those who have been fighting in the war since it started stare look down remembering those they lost. Those who firmly believed in what Dumbldore says, can't but still think at what cost is this worth if it means they will continue to lose more people.

Some froze realized what Regulus had said. The war was still going on in the future. How long do they need to continue fighting.

STEVE:
You here with a mission, sir?

REGULUS:
I am.

STEVE:
Trying to get me back in the world?

REGULUS:
Trying to save it.

Regulus hands Steve a file on the Tesseract, along with other files on HYDRA'S projects.

STEVE:
Hydra's secret weapon.

"What's Hydra?' question a young Hufflepuff . Steve, trying to find a softer way to answer, but Regulus beats him to it "What the dark lord wishes he was" That alarmed many people in the room.

REGULUS:
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.

STEVE:
Who took it from you?

REGULUS:
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.

STEVE:
At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me.

REGULUS:
Ten bucks says you're wrong. There's a debriefing package waiting for you back at your apartment.

"Never make a bet with Regulus" mutters Sirius remembering all those bets he had lost to his younger brother.

"Never make a bet Reggie if you don't wanna lose" Says Clint with bitterness making Regulus and Natasha laugh.

Sirius can't help but feel even more jealous and annoyed of their relationship.

REGULUS:
Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?

STEVE:
You should have left it in the ocean.

REGULUS:
(SCOFFS)
Yeah no shit.

INT. OCEAN � NIGHT

Out in the Atlantic Ocean, TONY STARK, in his iron man suit, is cutting a pipeline transport with a laser cutter coming from his hand. He then places a Stark energy reactor. It lights up. IRON MAN rockets out of the water and flies towards STARK TOWER.

TONY:
You're good on this end. The rest is up to you.

Both purebloods and halfblood look at the screen in awe on how advance muggles have become without magic.

PEPPER POTTS :
(on the other line)
You disconnected the transition lines? Are we off the grid?

INSIDE THE SUIT -- PEPPER APPEARS ON HIS HUD MONITOR.

TONY:
Stark Tower is about to become a beacon of self-sustaining clean energy.

PEPPER:
Wow. So maybe our reactor takes over and it actually works?

TONY:
I assume. Light her up.

As IRON MAN flies to the STARK TOWER BUILDING, the power is switched on and the STARK sign LIGHTS UP.

PEPPER:
How does it look?

TONY:
Like Christmas, but with more... me.

PEPPER:
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.

TONY:
Pepper, you're killing me. Remember? Enjoy the moment.

PEPPER:
Then get in here and I will.

"Its like watching your parents flirt" gags Regulus

TONY arrives at his skyscraper penthouse and is in the process of taking off his IRON MAN suit through a hi-tech gauntlet of gadgets.

JARVIS:
Sir, Agent Coulson of SHIELD is on the line.

TONY:

JARVIS:
Sir, I'm afraid he's insisting.

TONY:
Close the line Jarvis. I got a date.

Yet again many look at the screen in awe

INT. TONY'S PENTHOUSE � NIGHT
PEPPER POTTS stares up at the monitors of the reactor device.

PEPPER:
Levels are holding steady... I think.

TONY:
Of course they are, I was directly involved. Which brings me to my next question: how does it feel to be a genius?

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

TONY:
What do you mean? All this came from you.

PEPPER:
No. All this came from that. Points to the energy in his chest plate.

"What is that?" questions James yet no one bothers to answer leaving the boy confused and slightly annoyed.

TONY:
Give yourself some credit, please. Stark Tower is your baby. Give yourself... twelve percent of the credit.

PEPPER:
Twelve percent?

TONY:
An argument can be made for fifteen.

PEPPER:
Twelve percent? For my baby?

"Twelve percent?" scoffs Lily honestly was this man's ego so big.

TONY:
Well, I did do all the heavy lifting. Literally, I lifted the heavy things. And sorry, but the security snafu? That was on you.

PEPPER:
Oooooh.

TONY:
My private elevator...

PEPPER:
You mean OUR elevator?

"EWWW make it stop" moans Regulus. Tony rolls his eyes, good to know he still the same little shit he is in the future.

TONY:
...was teeming with sweaty workmen. I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages in some subtle way later,aren't I?

Pepper pours herself and Tony a glass of champagne.

PEPPER:
Not gonna be that subtle.

TONY:
I'll tell you what. Next building's gonna say 'Potts' on the tower.

PEPPER:
On the lease.

TONY:
...Call your mom, can you bunk over?

JARVIS:
Sir, the telephone. I'm afraid my protocols are being overwritten.

AGENT PHIL COULSON:
Stark, we need to talk. Tony picks up his phone and looks into it at Coulson.

TONY:
You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message.

AGENT PHIL COULSON:
This is urgent.

TONY:
Then leave it urgently.

At that moment the elevator door opens and Coulson appears.

TONY:
Security breach.

TONY:
(TO PEPPER):
That's on you.

AGENT PHIL COULSON:
Mr. Stark.

PEPPER:
Phil! Come in.

TONY:
Phil? Uh, his first name is Agent.

"Did you seriously" asked Regulus with a certain look on his face he wouldn't pass Tony if he did.

"Ptfff noooo" says Tony not looking Regulus in the eyes.

PEPPER:
Come on in, we're celebrating.

TONY:
Which is why he can't stay.

AGENT PHIL COULSON:
We need you to look this over.

TONY:
I don't like being handed things.

PEPPER:
That's alright, 'cause I love to be handed things. So, let's trade.

She passes her glass of champagne to Coulson and takes the file from him, then takes her champagne glass back from Coulson and passes the file over to Stark.

PEPPER:
Thank you.

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

AGENT PHIL COULSON:
This isn't a consultation.

PEPPER
Is this about The Avengers? Which I...I know nothing about.

"You told her" scoffed Molly

"of course i told her. I dont hide anything from Pepper" said Tony because honestly who could ever hide ANYTHING from Pepper.

TONY:
The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify.

PEPPER:
I didn't know that either.

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

PEPPER:
That I did know.

AGENT PHIL COULSON:
This isn't about personality profiles anymore.

TONY:
Whatever. Miss Potts, got a minute? Pepper walks over to Tony who places the files into his own databases.

TONY:
You know, I thought we were having a moment.

PEPPER:
I was having twelve percent of a moment. This seems serious, Phil's pretty shaken.

TONY:
How did you notice? Why is he Phil?

PEPPER:
What is all of this?

TONY:
This is, uh...

Tony EXPANDS his arms and different profiles appear in holographic form floating in the air in front of Tony and Pepper.

TONY:
This.

Screens appear of Captain America in action, the HULK ROARING AS HE ATTACKS THE ARMY AT CULVER UNIVERSITY, THOR FIGHTING THE DESTROYER and another is of Loki and the Tesseract, to which Stark and Pepper look on in awe.

The whole great whole stared at the screen in shock and awe. Some even looked in wonder and amazement.

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

TONY:
Tomorrow.

PEPPER:
You've got homework. You've got a lot of homework.

TONY:
Well, what if I didn't?

PEPPER:
If you didn't?

TONY:
Yeah.

PEPPER:
You mean if you finished?
(Stark nods his head)
Well, um...then...

She whispers something in his ear. Tony GASPS. Coulson looks away in embarrassment.

TONY
Square deal. It's the last date.

Pepper kisses him.

"UGHHHH" moans Regulus yet again