I do not own the LOZ series or the Marvel characters/places/items within this story. They are owned by Nintendo and Marvel/Disney respectively. Or for that matter Stephonika Kaye's interpretation on Twilight Princess. This is fan-fiction. Yes, it is referring to other fan-fiction, but it is still fan-fiction.
The story takes place two weeks after the Ilia+Link end of Stephonika Kaye's interpretation of Twilight Princess and about a month after Malekith had been defeated in Thor: the Dark World. Enjoy.
Chapter One (Normal POV)
Jane Foster sat at her computer looking at the readings of the sensors that had been set up over a good part of the globe, access being a gift from S.H.I.E.L.D. It had been a month since the convergence and there had not really been anything exciting for a while. The last big disturbance was when Thor had left for Asgard using the Bifrost. She looked at the computer's clock. 11:34 in small, white numbers. Any minute now Darcy would come downstairs yelling at her to get some sleep. For that matter, she would probably also notice the overflowing trash bin at her desk and tell her to take it out. Might as well get it done now. And so, when some of her own sensors started beeping a few moments later, she was already out of the house.
As Jane set the lid of the large dumpster down, a small wind came from behind her, not really a surprise at night in the New Mexico's desert. She turned around, took a few steps toward the door, and then it suddenly wasn't night anymore. She stopped still.
"What.." was the only thing that came from her mouth. She was no longer in the desert, she was now standing in a forest, a cool breeze flowing through the trees above her. She was no longer standing on sand, now there was rock beneath her feet. Jane looked down and noticed that she was standing on an old stone stairway. When she turned to face down the stairs, she saw that they just ended a few meters ahead, terminating in a small drop off into a circular room. She could see people in the clearing, three men and one woman. Jane couldn't help listening in on their conversation.
A young man with short red hair and holding some sort of device Jane assumed was a weapon was speaking at this point, "So, Link just wants to go look at the remains of the Temple of Time, is that what you've told me?"
The dark-haired woman sighed out loud, her armor clanking as she sat down. When she spoke, her tone had a hint of anger, "Yes, and we are all here because you wanted to look at this place as well, Shad."
An older man stopped her before the dark-haired woman could continue harassing the man called Shad. "We are here because Link is going to propose to Ilia tomorrow."
In the silence that followed, Jane could see both the smiles on the older man and the sandy-haired man and the surprise on the red-headed man and the armored woman. She couldn't help smiling herself, actually.
The dark-haired woman started speaking,"I presumed Link would marry another Hylian, maybe even Princess Zelda."
Shad started again, "Well, you can't blame him, Ashei. He lived in Ordona for what, seventeen years before the Twilight Invasion, Rusl?"
The sandy-haired man answered. "Yes, it was around seventeen years. And is that really what you're going to call it, Shad? I thought we were naming the events the Return of Ganondorf."
"I think the Twilight Invasion is a little more clear, given the nature of the war." Shad crossed his arms.
"Hello!" Jane finally decided to call out. In an instant, four sets of eyes turned towards her; and Ashei pulled a bow from the ground, strung it with an arrow, and aimed it at Jane. Jane immediately raised her arms above her head. "Hi, um, I'm not an enemy."
Ashei spoke, keeping the arrow for Jane, "Okay, then who are you?"
"My name is Jane Foster, and I'm an, well, I'm a Midgardian." Jane Foster simply received several blank stares at that.
Rusl started his own question, "How did you come to get so far within the sacred grove?"
Jane decided not to show too much, "I was walking around in the desert near my home, and then I guess I stepped through a portal and then I was right here."
Shad perked up and asked: "What kind of portal? What did it look like?"
"You couldn't see the portal. It was invisible."
"So was there any object causing it that you could see?"
"No, I think maybe whatever activated it was on this side, here."
Rusl interjected, "Well, the door me and Link went through to enter the past is nearby, maybe that caused it?"
"What do you mean, entered the past! How is that possible?" Jane yelled out.
The older man then suggested something, "Well, maybe we could get you down here so we can show you and Shad." The red-headed man was visibly excited at the disclosure of this door.
Ashei put the bow and arrow down, and then directed her attention to Shad, "Give me the claw-shot Link left us, Shad." Shad obliged, handing the weapon-like object to Ashei. "You might want to get behind those trees, Jane Foster." Jane obeyed, and a few seconds later there was a whizzing sound and then a thump, at which the tree Jane was behind shook. Jane looked around the tree and saw a claw embedded into it, a chain streaming behind to the device Ashei was holding. Both Ashei and Jane were open-mouthed.
Rusl called up to Jane, "Well, what are you waiting for, climb down!" Jane grabbed the chain, testing its stability, at which Ashei started walking towards the wall, reeling the chain back into the claw-shot until she was at the wall. Ashei motioned for Jane to start descending.
Once Jane reached the bottom, she immediately asked Rusl a question, "Where is the door you were talking about?"
Rusl smiled, then said: "Shad, the door you noticed earlier that you said was just right in the middle of everything is the Gate of Time. Ashei, you stay with Shad and Jane Foster as they go explore the past while me and Auru wait for Link."
Shad immediately dashed off through the passageway on the opposite side of the clearing, and Ashei and Jane immediately followed calling on him to wait. They entered the next room, and Jane gasped at what she saw. Shad stood on a broken stairway, looking up at a door just out of his reach. Two statues of what she assumed to be bronze stood on either side of her. The clearing had many shattered remains, though she could see it had once been a building.
Ashei was just about to offer a suggestion to Shad when a deep rumble filled the ground, and a sound like that of thunder behind them. Jane turned around and saw that a pillar of what seemingly black lightning and dark specks rose up out of the thick forest behind where she had appeared. Jane heard the two men yell in surprise and she rushed back into the chamber.
The raised pentagonal section in the middle of the room glowed with blue light, and suddenly a set of glowing transparent stairs appeared, linking where Jane had popped into existence with the ground. The pillar of dark power faded within a few moments, and Rusl immediately dashed up the stairs, calling everyone else to follow to find Link and help him.
I'll try to get a chapter done every week. If you see anything I missed spelling, grammar, or story-wise, don't hesitate to tell me. I highly recommend reading Stephonika Kaye's work, but the basic differences are that Rusl knows Link's story, Link destroyed the shadow crystal after fighting Ganondorf, and I really can't think of anymore that influence my story. If you want to read it, it is at . . Thanks for reading and please review!
