All our lives we are told that everything happens for a reason, that we don't always have control over our destinies. I always wondered if that was true though, how does anyone know that for sure though. I always felt like things just happened to me, but it was never my fault. I know that sounds so stupid, and emo. Why me, why is it always me? But the truth is, I never caused any of the slightly illegal things that normally happen to me. I owe all that chaotic stuff to my friend AJ. I was twenty, and she was sixteen, but believe me that girl had the mind capabilities of Charles Xavier when she's under pressure.
Don't get me wrong, AJ wasn't a bad kid, she just pulled a lot of pranks that happened to be felonies. Like the time she swiped someone's mail box and replaced it with a life size paper Mache replacement. And then hid it inside her dad's house. Or the time she decided to go with another group of kids and do graffiti at the rail road tracks. Cops around here knew AJ. Which was not something to brag about, although she always insisted it was.
Wherever I go she goes and vice versa, we're kind of inseparable. I've always thought our lives were kind of interesting but I think there is more in the world for us. I always wished something amazing would happen to us, something to really push our potential. but what I didn't realize is that it would happen so sudden. Guess I should be careful for what I wish for.
It was a regular day like any other day of my life, I had attempted to talk AJ out of doing a 'prank' and I had failed. She had gotten taken home by the cops, grounded, and then she snuck out and came over to my house. I lived a few houses down from her dad's, so he could come over here and drag her home if he wanted, but ever since her parents divorced, he just stopped punishing them. That caused her younger sister to start hating her mother, because she was now the only parent who stepped up to discipline her. So AJ could get away with murder at her dad's, and the divorce had put a lot of pressure on her, although she tried not to show it. She had thrown herself into MMA training, which I was a bit concerned about since her class was made up of men all older than twenty. But she just saw it as a challenge to meet, being the only kid, and the only girl in class.
She said most of them tried to be gentle men at first, tried to make sparring easier on her, but she put a stop to it immediately. By doing more push ups than all of them. I had seen that, and I'm still laughing at it.
I wasn't shocked at her skill, before she had moved into town she had been raised with what she described as "Real red necks." And from what I've heard that means cousins that took her to bars when she was twelve so she could be the designated driver, but before she could get them home, they picked a fight, got arrested, and she had to testify in court three weeks later that her cousin had acted in self defense (even though he hadn't). That's not even the worst story.
Like I said, normal. Well except for the fact that there was a weird package on the table addressed to AJ and I. It looked weird, it even had a weird note, saying On behalf of all the Marvel Universe, we present you with a once in a life time gift! Which was proceeded by another note that said Open carefully, keep arms and legs close to your body at all times of your trip, and please no screaming.
"What the fuck does this mean?" AJ asked, running a hand through her incredibly short, red hair. She stood at not even five foot two, but I don't think it ever fully registered with her that she was short. In her own eyes, she was probably a giant. Yes, her ego is so powerful and mighty!
"How should I know, maybe it's a prank." I offered, shaking myself out of my contemplation about my friend.
"So should we open it?" Asked AJ, looking a bit hesitant for once.
"Sure, what's the harm? I kind of want to know what's inside, maybe it's an internship at marvel comics for the both of us!" I pointed out, excited.
"In your dreams, but we can hope." AJ smirked.
"Ok, let's open it at the same time." I said.
"Ok on three, please don't be a bomb." pleaded AJ.
"One, two, THREE," We chorused.
It felt like we were getting sucked into some sort of black hole, well a black hole filled with a whole rainbow of colors. I grabbed onto AJ out of pure fear and closed my eyes as we fell to are possible dooms. Then out of know were we suddenly came crashing to what felt like a hardwood floor. Yes, it was painful.
AJ was already up and brushing her orange hoodie off when I finally opened my eyes. We were in what looked like a board room, but it was completely empty, but something seemed familiar about it.
"AJ, is it me or does this place look very familiar to you?" I asked, trying to sit up and failing.
"Kind of looks like the board room in the hammer building in the dark avengers comics," Said AJ, offering me a hand which I gladly took.
"Cool, that would be so sweet, wait is that even scientifically possible?" I asked. But before I could question the physics, we were interrupted.
"Hey what are you doing in there," Said a loud male voice.
"Holy crap, that's Aries, Jess get your ass up, run!" Said AJ frantically, yanking me up and running out of the door not occupied by the god of war. I followed, not sure how a sixteen year old was taking charge, but hey, that's my ginger midget!
What the hell did we get ourselves into, when I wished for something interesting to happen I meant something like us getting winning like a million dollars or something, not this! This place is like a damn maze and keeping us with AJ was like trying to outrun a gazelle. How does someone so short run so fast? Finally, I thought we were in the clear when I noticed AJ stop, but I realized that I was horribly wrong, it was a dead end.
"What now!? I don't want to die a virgin! damn it I've never even kissed a guy before!" I said freaking out.
"Calm down, there has to be a way out." Said AJ. Did MMA train her for this!?
"Stop running I don't want to hurt you." Came Aries' voice, we both turned around, seeing that he was less than ten feet from us.
"Why should we believe you? You're the bloody god of war, for fucks sake." Said AJ.
"I just want to know how you got in here, I swear by the honor of the gods no harm shall fall upon you," Said Aries.
AJ took a step closer to him, "No, swear on your honor as a god of Olympus that you won't allow any harm to fall upon me, or Jess in any way, by anyone's hand."
Ares hesitated for a brief moment, before nodding, "I swear on my honor as a god of Olympus, that I shall let no harm fall upon either one of you girls in any way, by anyone's hand."
AJ grinned, "Sweet."
"Fine, just let us out of here." I begged.
"Not so fast my dears," Came another voice.
"So boss what should we do with them, I could use them as targets until they talk, or maybe leave them with me for a bit," Came another voice. I felt AJ take in a sharp breath, we both knew who this guy was. Bullseye. One of the world's deadliest assassins.
"No, hello girls my name is Norman Osborne." Osborne. Yeah, we know. The hair gives you away.
"Hi," I said meekly.
"Uh hi, let me just say first of all, your hair, ya need ta change that. Now can we just leave?" Said AJ bluntly.
"Oh you can't let you leave, from what I saw on my security cameras, you came out of what looked like a portal on the ceiling, and I would like an explanation," Said Osborne.
"Uh well we… We come from an alternate universe were your world is part of different comic books." I blurted out.
"Really?" Said Osborne curiously.
"Real smooth Jess, from now on, I do the talking!" Snapped AJ.
"What did I say?" I asked.
"You just admitted that we read comic books of all of them, what do you think they're all going to assume?" She asked. I was a bit lost.
Bullseye chuckled, "It means you both have info."
Oops.
"Well now it seems we can't let you leave, I hope you don't mind, but this building will be your temporary home," Said Osborne.
"Wait, just, just one moment, let me get all this straight. You want us to live in a building with the god of war, a Kree warrior with a shoulder width half the size of the Brooklyn bridge, a blond flying dude with mental issues, a chick with anger issues rivaling my own, a psychotic bow and arrow wielding maniac who also happens to be the worlds greatest assassin, and a psychotic sex addicted megalomaniac with daddy issues. your joking right?" Asked AJ.
"No, Ms. Hand will show you to were you will be staying, and oh girls don't try to escape because anyone of us can catch you and I would rather not have any harm come to you," Said Osborne, obviously lying.
"Great, why did I have to get out of bed today," I said miserably.
AJ crossed her arms at Osborne, "You realize I'm a minor right? Jess isn't my legal guardian, and since you're so willing to cooperate with the legal system, you can't keep me here unless one of you is a foster parent, which I doubt."
"You think I can't fake papers?" Osborne pointed out, in a tone that seeped superiority and demanded conformity. From AJ? Good luck to you.
"You think it won't seem suspicious if you, a public icon, just suddenly happen to be a foster parent? Enough digging by an average joe cop would turn those up as invalid." She said, one eyebrow raised, arms crossed, feet shoulder width apart. Oh no, I've seen this look before, she's in lawyer mode. "Once that rolls over and dies, you're looking at several misdemeanors, negligence, kidnapping, endangerment of a minor, and since all your employees are easily pissed off, and you're responsible for them, I can get you for five charges of assault, maybe rape if I really pissed off the sex addicted one known as Daken. And all I need is twenty four hours."
This right here proves two things, that AJ has been watching far to much Law and Order, and she's completely insane, or ignorant, to say that to Norman Osborne.
Osborne laughed, "You think anyone would believe you? Even if you did manage to get out of here?"
"I know that if I walk into the police station, crying my eyes out, shiver and shudder the whole interrogation, any officer would believe me. Then it's just a matter of going to the press with this. What jury wouldn't believe me? I could have a lawyer just out of law school arguing my case, and I'd still get you." She was convincing me now.
Norman raised an eyebrow, "Well, are you just the little actress? I'd best encourage you not to leave then. Bullseye."
Damn.
Norman turned to walk away, "Take our young attorney in the making… well, where you feel would be best. No internal organs punctured, no broken bones, do not permanently disable her, and try not to leave any large scars."
Norman walked away, and Bullseye grabbed AJ's shirt collar, dragging her away.
Ares stopped Bullseye, grabbing him and yanking him into the air, "No, you will not harm the girl. I have sworn to both of them no harm shall fall upon them."
AJ crossed her arms, cocking a grin up at Bullseye, "And since you can't hurt me for this now, fuck you."
Bullseye looked ready to kill her, but she shook her head, "You know what Ares will have to do to you if you hurt me, or try to, right?"
Ares finished her thought, "I would be forced to kill you, archer."
Ms. Hand cleared her throat, "Girls, that's enough. Both of you come with me."
AJ fell into step behind her, me trailing behind, "AJ, how are you so calm?"
She laughed, "How can I not be? In a facility filled with the most dangerous people in the world, I made the god of war my bitch.",
Cliffhanger, hahaha. Hi everyone, this is my second fanfiction, which is also being written by my partner in crime imaninja41, she's my co-writer, who basically rewrites any mistakes and adds her ideas. Jessie is my character and AJ is imagininja41's character, basically its us, just tweaked a little bit. Yeah I know some of you will be going this is so marysue, but we don't really care about marysue and don't believe in it. So we hope you enjoy the story and no flames please and we do except helpful criticism, we don't except anything that tells us that we need to stop writing or etc. So again we hope you enjoy and chapter two is already in the making and almost done, so see you soon everyone and please review it's very helpful to us.