So here's chapter one. You know all the crap about disclaimers and such, so here you go. I do not own any of the characters, nor do I own the storyline, the only thing I have credit for is my character...blah blah blah. Read and enjoy? Leave reviews, I'd like to know if anyone would like me to continue or not. Plus, I'm on summer vacation, so updates should happen often.

I also know that some of you are the gods of grammar and corrections and whatnot, but I know that I have probably missed a few things, don't crack the whip on me, or at least don't be that harsh with it.


It was a nice night for flying; the air was crisp and cool, which felt nice when it was flowing through her hair and past her face. The moon shone brightly, what few clouds were in the dark sky looked like a painter had gotten lazy with a sponge and just casually blotted them on. Cora flapped her wings powerfully, moving all the faster towards her destination.

Tonight was the night that she was going to be told something not for others ears, or as Coulson had told her, top secret. Humans and their secrets, Averians weren't very secretive at all, yes, there were always the select few of every race that kept secrets like an Earthly child keeps candy, but humans are by far the most secretive. At least that's how Cora saw it; she'd only made it so far through the planets on her class field trip so many years ago.

Also according to Coulson the secret was about something that glowed, which was enough to catch Cora's attention, which Phil knew, she was always the curious type. Once she'd flown into a volcano to see if there were any diamonds in there, a tourist had spewed random information that was very wrong, but Cora didn't know that. She didn't find any diamonds, but it was certainly very interesting in there.

Flying right above the huge research area Cora smiled happily before taking a dive towards the ground, she'd been there once before, so she knew where she was diving. Right to where the information desk was, they promised to have someone there in order to guide Cora to where she was supposed to go, else she would have a little exploration of her own of the whole building. S.H.I.E.L.D certainly didn't want that, even if the one wandering around was one of their own.

Coming to a quick stop right on top of the roof she allowed herself to slip through the first floor of the building, freaking out a security guard and a cleaning lady before moving down through the next floor, there was no one there to freak out, which made Cora a little sad. She liked it when people reacted with funny faces.

She was just about to sink through another floor when she heard shouting, someone was calling her name rather loudly, but she couldn't recognize the voice.

"Cora!" A lady agent rushed down the hall as soon as she'd seen the white girl drop through the floor slowly. "Cora wait!" She said again. This unfortunate human was called Breanna Stroth, she was given the task of making sure the Averian Cora Adams showed up to the correct room. At first she thought the job was an easy task, but that was only hopeful, she heard from Hawkeye that Cora was a handful, if you could even find her that is.

Breanna sighed with relief when Cora stood on the current floor looking at her with a curious stare.

"Hi," she said with a happy smile. Breanna nodded to her before speaking.

"Follow me please. I'll take you to where you're supposed to be," she said sternly. It was everyone spoke here, short, curt, crisp, and unemotional, very boring to Cora who like to put emphasis on things.

"Okay," she said following the agent with a sort of skip in her steps. "Is Phil there?" Cora asked hopefully.

"I don't think so," Breanna said in a cold tone. Cora sighed bored, this agent was no fun, she seemed dead set on walking at an alarmingly fast pace towards their destination, perhaps she had something else that she needed to do.

"That's lame," Cora said looking around the hallway. Phil Coulson was a good friend of hers, they'd met up many times, her favorite was when he was in Roswell. She'd gone there to see what humans thought aliens looked like, which was very comical, he'd been assigned to something there and they met by mistake. Which is how she's gotten into S.H.I.E.L.D in the first place.

Pulling her wings into her back she looked around more, spotting places she decided she would explore later, rooms that looked interesting, and other things like that.

Breanna sighed with relief when they got to the room and she was done with her babysitting, Cora had disappeared twice while they made their trek through the building. She had been informed of Cora's 'powers' but that didn't mean she would get used to them in a few minutes.

"Here you go, right through this door," she said before walking away even faster than she had come.

"Thank you," Cora shouted after her.

Looking back towards the door that she was supposed to go through Cora was almost tempted to turn around and go on her exploring right away, but she knew better than that. Plus if Coulson was not behind the door then there was a good chance that it was Fury, and he did not like it when she was late, he didn't seem to like much of anything.

Walking through the door Cora smiled at one of the guys by the door.

"What's up?" She asked with a smile before she saw something that was glowing.

"Cora," someone acknowledged her but her eyes were fixed on the glowy thing. She walked over to it cautiously, Fury had not caught her yet, maybe she could get away with touching it if she was careful.

"Don't touch that Cora," a voice said from above. With a disappointed grumble she looked up to see Hawkeye watching her like, well, a hawk. She looked up at him with a smile as he shook his head while holding her gaze.

"You're no fun, I just wanted to poke it," she said with a frown before walking away from the glowing thing.

Fury came in from god knows where and gave her a nod, then proceeded to talk to Hawkeye.

"I'll talk to you in a little bit Cora," he said in a strict tone that meant don't touch anything.

"Okay," she said getting a little defensive. They acted like she broke everything she touched, which usually tended to happen, but she wasn't about to admit that. Flapping her wings lightly she flew up to where Hawkeye had once been and looked over the whole place, something was happening to glowing thing, it seemed to be growing bigger and bigger until it ate the tower that was holding it up.

"Whoa," she murmured looking at the mess the thing was creating.

"Oh my goodness, is that a person?" One of the scientists said in dismay, he was almost bald.

There was, in fact, a person that was coming out of the glowing portal, he stood tall and proud as soon as he was clear of the portal.

The first thought that popped into Cora's head was a little embarrassing after she thought it.

'Handsome,' was what her brain said. The guy was wearing some cool looking armor, gold and green, matching his eyes quite nicely, with a striking face and eyes that looked down with superiority. The only flaw was that Cora thought his hair looked a little greasy; nothing a shower wouldn't change.

Getting ready to jump down next to Fury Cora heard a voice.

"Stay there," Hawkeye said up towards her. Immediately the strange man's eyes were on her, he gave her a dark smirk before looking back at Fury.

"We have no argument with your people," Fury said looking at the man. Green eyes looked dangerous as he stood there, definitely not human was what came to Cora's mind.

"An ant has no quarry with a boot," the man said with a creepy grin.

Cora looked down towards Hawkeye to see if he was looking at her, which he wasn't, so she quickly jumped to the ground, landing behind him without a sound as she sunk into the ground slightly.

Suddenly there was a wave of blue that shot out towards them, throwing Cora into one of the security guards, she smashed her head against his. With a groan she apologized to the person she landed on before pulling herself to her feet, if only she'd been thrown against a wall it wouldn't have hurt as much, she could've just gone through it.

She held her head, looking up just in time to see Fury go down with a shot of blue.

"What?..." Cora said in slight shock, looking over to Hawkeye to see the man standing next to him. He mumbled something to him before touching him with his staff, something was happening to Hawk, and she couldn't do anything, everything was all happening so fast, blows to the head were bad news. Standing up quickly she ran at the man and kicked him out of the way, not watching what happened to him further but instead looking towards Hawk so see what damage had been done.

"Birdy are you okay?" She asked slapping his cheeks lightly. He didn't respond at all, and there was an eerie blue light that seemed to glaze over his eyes.

"Deal with her," a voice said from her side. Cora looked to see that Greasy head was the one that had spoken, and he did not look happy at all, Cora glared at him before she felt a hand grab her arm. Turning back to face Hawkeye Cora saw that he was about to hit her, what was wrong with him?

"Hey!" She complained when she dodged his first punch. Still unable to get out of his ironclad grip she took the next hit in the stomach, losing her breath she sunk into the ground, avoiding the next blow to her head. "Jerk face," she grumbled before opening her wings and propelling herself into the air above their heads.

A quick glance at Fury told her that whatever he was holding was important, he did give his life for it. The man followed her eyes and he quite quickly lunged for it just as she dove towards it, realizing that he would not beat her to it he sent a blue wave at her, which sent her hurtling towards the wall. He waited for her to hit it, and when she didn't he watched as she disappeared through it.

As the walls began to crumble Loki looked after the white girl that he'd just sent into the wall with a little bit of disappointment. She was a curious creature, when their eyes had first met she did not look away, definitely not human she looked like a priestess of some sort.

When she'd jumped down from the ledge she'd been on her hair cascaded around her, a glance at her strong eyes said she knew there was trouble and that he was the bad guy.

There was something about her that he couldn't place his finger on, something that made him want to know more about her, perhaps he just wanted to rid her eyes of the strength that he'd seen in them. He wanted to see her grovel. Loki was going to break her.

Cora had been thrown through three rooms before she came to a complete stop against one of the walls, having the breath knocked from her lungs she gasped like a fish while she got up and proceeded to run back in the direction that she'd come from.

When she got back to the room half of it was already coming down on her, everyone was gone, even Fury for that matter, so the man wasn't dead, that was good. The room started to fall even more around her before she flew out of the place. Flying around above the collapsing building Cora mourned slightly for Hawkeye, he was gone, he tried to hurt her.

"What an ass," she growled concluding that when he was back to his normal self she was going to punch him in the face as payback. And that other man, the one that sent her through the wall, he was going to get it, is she ever saw him again it would be bad for his health.

Waiting around for a little while longer Cora was about to ditch everything when her cell phone started beeping. If it was up to her she wouldn't have one of those awful cell phones, but since Coulson had insisted that she have one in order for him to contact her she kept one, but that was the only reason.

"Yes?" She answered unsure of who it would be on the other end.

"We need you," Coulson's voice said sternly but friendly.

"Where are we meeting?" Cora asked with a hint of urgency in her voice, she had a knuckle sandwich with Hawkeyes name on it, of course she was going to punch the other guy first though, he was the one that caused everything to happen. With him appearing out of nowhere and all, almost like Fury did.

"You can find him," he said in response to her. She wanted to laugh at him, but she knew that he was serious.

"But I," she started to talk back before he cut her off.

"Cora," he almost sounded like he was shouting into the phone. "Don't get lost," he said before hanging up.

In a slight fit of rage she mimicked what he said, ' don't get lost,' it was inevitable, getting lost was almost second nature for her. If she'd been to the place before it was easy, she could memorize routes like none other, but if she had to follow directions, or no directions at all, she was not going to be able to do it.

Making a steep dive she started flying quickly in a random direction.

"I'm gonna get lost," she cried jokingly into her arm.