CHAPTER 1

"I'll have an Irish Crème Latte.", said Amy. Beside her sat Rose who was hyperventilating about her job interview.

"Give it a rest Rose.", I said trying to calm Rose down.

"I can't and it's not like you seem very relaxed.", Rose snapped.

"Well , you only have an interview, and there will be plenty of other job interviews. But me? I have only one chance to prove my theory on Cosmic Microwave Background.", I said defending myself.

"Guys do you mind talking a little quietly?", April asked sipping her espresso whilst reading The Law Machine.

I just went back to studying my cosmic ray detector and Rose got up , declared she was getting late and then left for her interview.

"Okay, so I'm going to run now.", April said , getting up.

"Aren't you supposed to be at the University?", Amy asked.

"Not now I've taken the afternoon classes this semester.", replied April.

"See you later.", I said, still glued to my ray detector as April got out of the coffee house.

That's when I saw it.

"Hey Amy? You might want to take a look at this." I said pointing to the ray detector screen in my hand.

"Oh my god.", she said.

"I know. I haven't seen these kind of anisotropies ever before.", I said. This was really confusing. The last time I saw disrupted isotropies like these was when...

"You don't think it's him now do you?", I asked anxiously.

"There's only one way to find out. The last time he came here you told me you took down the anisotropy readings in your notebook remember?", she asked.

"Oh yeah, let's see if those readings match these.", I said as I reached into my handbag to search for my notebook.

Only, I couldn't feel it.

I showed Amy a face flushed with horror.

"It must be in the lab.", she said flatly not at all looking scared.

We tried driving as fast as we could back to the lab.

It did take some time though since our lab wasn't located in the city, it was sort of in the outskirts.

Once we reached I ran to the desks and threw around everything searching for the notebook. I'm not exactly the type of person who keeps their workplace neat and tidy. The lab is always in a mess with heaps of paper, fragments of lab equipment, soda cans, pizza boxes and other junk lying around. It's not like we don't clean the lab. We do clean it. Just not as often as we should.

I panicked as I frantically rustled through my papers and equipment, searching for my notebook.

"Where did I keep it?", I said sounding frustrated.

"Found it!", shouted Amy, holding my small leather bound notebook in her hand.

"Oh thank God", I said, relieved.

I opened it and searched through the pages for the readings. Once I found them I compared today's readings with the ones in the notebook.

"Hmm that's odd, today's readings seem to be much higher." I said to Amy.

"How is that possible?" She asked looking just as confused as I was.

We spent the rest of the day trying to find out the cause for the abnormally high readings. Isotropies in the cosmic microwave background had never been so disrupted.

Not even the last time Thor came to visit. Which is not very often too. He keeps telling me he can't visit very often now that Odin's no more and he has become king. I would obviously understand but I'd just act like I'm mad at him and it would make him so upset!

I know it sounds kind of cruel but Thor and I have this sort of brother-sister relationship and we can never stay mad at each other for long or be serious around each other. All these thoughts reminded me that I missed him. Oh well, it's not like I can call him whenever I want right?

It was late in the evening. I was writing notes when I noticed the electromagnetic wave index installed in the laboratory was fluctuating vigorously.

"Yup, it's definitely him." Amy said looking bored.

"Now he remembers me.", I said flatly.

*THUD!*

A loud thunder roared and it started raining out of nowhere.

And another loud *THUD!*

I ran out to see a blinding blue light and sure enough there stood The Mighty Thor. Amy had seen this for the first time even though I told her all about how it would happen. I was overjoyed to see Thor after such a long time and through the rain I could see him smiling at me.

I ran up to him and we hugged each other.

"Can you make the rain stop now?", Amy asked.

Thor slowly let go of me and peeked from behind my shoulders at Amy. With all the excitement, he hadn't noticed her standing there drenched.

"Oh yes of course. Sorry about that. ", he said.

He raised Mjolnir and somehow stopped the rain.

"So are we expecting some sort of alien invasion or something? Because that's the reason why you usually come down here.", I said sarcastically.

Thor let out a loud laugh and looked at me fondly.

"No, not this time. The nine realms are nearly at peace and it is a time of celebration in Asgard. As promised, I've come to take you there for a visit.", he replied.

"Now? But I'm in the middle of my research. I don't want to drop it, I'll lose the continuity!", I said.

"Your research can wait. It is not often that the realms are all at peace. I do not wish to put you in any kind of danger. This is the most suited time for a visit.", Thor declared.

Meanwhile, Amy had already gone inside and was fiddling with the computers.

"She's probably playing Minecraft.", I said looking at her form outside.

"Is she a friend?", Thor asked. Even though Amy knew about Thor, since I told her everything, he had never met her before.

"Yeah, Best friend, coworker, and research assistant.", I answered.

"Well I must say, she is quite fetching.", Thor smirked and I just hit him playfully.

"Can I bring her along?", I asked.

"If she is willing to come."

"Oh I'm sure she will be."

I quickly barged into the lab and began shutting down all the systems.

"Why are you switching everything off? I thought I'll carry on with the research when you're gone.", Amy asked , sounding confused.

"I'm not going alone, you're coming with me! We're going to Asgard. Now. So get the keys, we'll lock up this place.", I replied.

"I was hoping you would say that, because seriously Lynet, you told me all about Thor and how he would come visit and all but you never mentioned to me before about how extremely unbelievably good looking he is!" She exclaimed.

"Umm that's because he's like a brother to me and I think it's gross for me to see him that way." I replied.

She just rolled her eyes. "Whatever Price, how can you keep a guy like that as your brother?!" She asked calling me by my last name.

"It just means there's something wrong in here." She said patting my head

"Anyway at least I don't have any competition." She joked.

"You consider me as competition? Wow thank you Amy, I'm deeply flattered!" I chuckled and she joined in too.

We closed the lab and went outside.

"Okay Thor, we can leave now." I said to Thor who was looking at our security systems like how one would look at an extremely confusing history book with a lot of dates and names. I just made that comparison because I don't like reading history.

"Hold on", he said and then dramatically looked towards the sky before yelling , "Heimdall when you're ready."

A bright column of light extended from the sky and fixated itself on the ground and within seconds the three of us disappeared with it.