A/N: Hello! I've now posted 7 chapters, so this author's note is something I'm adding for a SPECIAL REASON.
Humanities. Best made me a trailer! AND MY COVERART AAHHHHHHH. Yeah hot-topical-cas made that. So much love.
I can't link it, which is sad. It's also hard to find which is sad. *holds back a rant so people don't hate me*
Oh, well. This author's note is basically pointless. Enjoy the fic!
"Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be." -Vision
Present Day
"We can't do this alone," Steve argued. "This threat is bigger than Loki, bigger than Ultron! We need all the help we can get."
"I've told you a thousand times, Gramps," Tony replied. "The Instant Project is nowhere near finished. For a human to test it out now would be catastrophic, like all of time and space collapsing catastrophic. This is dangerous stuff I'm tampering with."
"You're not normally this cautious about your projects," Steve said, defeated.
"Well this one could not only destroy the world, it could destroy the entire galaxy. All just to defeat one woman."
"She's not just any woman. She's the Shadow."
1947 (Two years after WWII ends)
It was a warm summer night in Brooklyn. The lights on the streets were dim, and music was playing throughout the block. A party was going on, and the melody from Glen Miller's "In the Mood" drifted up from the streets below into the office of Peggy Carter. Peggy sat alone in the room reminiscing about what had happened in the past year. Along with the help of Edwin Jarvis, they had cleared Howard Stark's name. She had also been appointed as Co-Director of SHIELD, a branch off of the SSR. where she had been assigned after showing off her skills in the field. It may have been small, but Howard and Peggy had it up and fully functional in a matter of a few months.
Jarvis had come to check on Peggy not too long before. He had noticed earlier that year, that Peggy was not a person who was fond of big parties. She would make her appearance with Howard, and then slip quietly away into the crowd, eventually leaving it completely when everyone was too tipsy to notice. Since Jarvis usually had to take Howard home, he didn't drink at all. Sometimes they would leave together and they would trade stories, or just talk. It was one of Howard Stark's parties that night, yet, Peggy didn't have any intentions of making an appearance at all. Apparently, she still was doing all the filing in the agency. With that, she decided to work late that night to refile the archives.
It wasn't that long later when Peggy stumbled upon the Project Rebirth files. She found various mix-matched inventions Howard had thrown in there yet again. She quickly flipped through them, seeing some that she'd like to erase from her memory when she happened upon a manilla envelope titled: The Instant Project. Inside were indepth blueprints that Peggy was unable to comprehend. However, at the beginning, there was a summary of the project and details of the testing Howard had conducted. The files had apparently been hidden so that no one would stumble upon them, but Peggy had. The summary included in depth details of a prototype of a machine designed to travel in time. After comprehensive testing, the subject perished and the Project was instantly cut off. That must be why Howard hadn't been working on his inventions as much lately, this had happened recently.
Immediately after this discovery, a loud sound indicated the activation of the elevator. She heard the creaks and groans the elevator makes when it's preparing to come to her floor, on the third level. Peggy immediately sprang into action, hiding behind the filing cabinets and grabbing the first solid thing that was on the table behind her, which just so happened to be a stapler. The elevator sounded when it reached the floor of the current SHIELD headquarters and Peggy tried to make out a silhouette in the darkness of whoever stepped out. She heard him step out and saw him pull out something out of jacket pocket, most likely a gun. Peggy was unable to see around the corner without giving up her position. She listened for the footsteps of the man to come around the corner but she only heard a strange warble coming from his direction. She focused all of her attention on listening on him, like she had been trained. She heard the man's cautious footsteps as he made his way around the level. As soon as he came looking around the corner, her foot immediately went out and kicked him behind his knee. The man cried out and a metal stick flew from his hand. Peggy stood up and grabbed the man by the collar to see his face, because no one was supposed to be back and she didn't want to seriously injure Howard or Jarvis, that would be bad. However, the scrawny man below her was a stranger, but he didn't fight back.
"Hello, uh, I'm the Doctor," he offered, understanding that she was friendly unless provoked.
"Doctor who?" she asked in a similar accent.
"Ah British!" He said, seemingly pleased. "I've been dealing with Americans for days! I'm the Doctor and that's all you'll ever need to know."
"If you want to leave here alive, you're going to have to provide a bit more than your title, Doctor," she threatened.
"Okay, well, you see...uh…" he searched for proper words to give Peggy. "I'm looking for Peggy Carter."
"What do you want with her?" She replied a bit too quickly and she tightened her grip on his collar.
"You know her? Do you know where she is?" The Doctor pressed. "You see it's...complicated."
"I've got time."
"Captain America needs her assistance."
