Hi Everybody!
I know that I still haven't finished 'Time's Avenger' but I really wanted to post this idea. In a way it is almost 'Time's Avenger' however this has an OC in that I made up. This story starts at the beginning of The Avengers.
I hope you like this idea and any confusing parts please comment and tell me and I'll do my best to explain in the next chapter.
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"Put down the knives now!" Voices ricocheted like bullets around the empty room and I sighed. Why could nothing ever be easy?
"What knives?" I asked. "These are just over-sized toothpicks." I said holding the knives up.
"Right and I'm a talking crab." An African-American man walked forward, hands behind his back.
"Wouldn't be the weirdest thing that's ever happened." I shot back, strapping the sheath to my waist.
"I said put the knives down!" A voice shouted and several clicks could be heard as people took the safety off of their guns.
"I did. They were in my hands now their on my waist, below my hands." I waved my hands around for emphasis.
"Clever." The 'talking crab' man said. "You're coming with us." As he stepped into the light I finally got a good look at him. He was all in black, down to the trench coat and eye-patch which made him look like a pirate.
"Damn looks like Halloween came early, if you told me I would have dressed up too."
"Stop talking, target!" The same voice shouted as before.
"Stand down Agent Rumlow." Pirate guy said. "Miss Roxhan, if you could follow me."
"On one condition."
Pirate raised an eyebrow.
"Name and what agency." I raised an eyebrow mocking him.
"Director Fury of SHIELD."
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An incredibly awkward and boring helicopter ride later we touched down at a 'pit stop' as Fury called it and he motioned for me to get out. A middle aged man with short brown hair wearing sunglasses stood to greet us on the grass. Lights lit up the area from the glass fronted building in the close distance.
"Who's this?" The man asked.
"This is Roxhan, Roxhan this is Agent Coulson. Play nice." Director Fury stated sending me a warning look.
Coulson took this time to evaluate me. To be honest I probably didn't look like much, a twenty three year old girl with blonde hair, sea-green eyes decked out in converse, jeans, white t-shirt and a brown leather jacket. And the knives around my waist. Not suspicious at all.
"Pleasure, I'm sure."
"Do you guys have a thing for last names or something because last time I checked, most people have first names for a reason. Personally mine's Azia, but call me that I'll have to kill you, call me Azi."
"Phil." Coulson said.
"Nice to meet you Phil." I replied, a goofy grin on my face. Finally someone human. The pilots were mutes, Fury glared at me if i Spoke and the woman that had been their was on some tablet device the whole time. Said women entered the building that we were outside of, her dark pristine bun unnaturally neat.
"If you could follow me." Phil Coulson walked off, clearly expecting us to follow.
Once inside the building, I took in the very modern, very clean look the place had. There was an alarm going off and people rushing around with briefcases and possessions, evacuating the building. Odd. Instinctively my eyes roamed the layout of the floor, looking for exits, entrances, strategic vantage points et cetera. We stepped into a lift and began our decent as Phil pressed a button.
"How bad is it?" Fury stared straight ahead, emotionless mask in place.
There was silence.
"That's the problem, sir, we don't know." We stepped out of the elevator as we had reached our destination. "Sir the following information is in fact Level 7 or above, I do not believe that a target should be hearing-"
"Anything about the tesseract can be said in front of Roxhan considering her chosen weaponry." Fury interrupted in a clipped tone. Well last time I checked, you didn't normally tell 'targets' your security secrets.
Coulson looked between us and nodded once slowly. "Dr Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract 4 hours ago."
"NASA didn't authorise Selvig to begin the test phase." Director Fury replied.
"He wasn't testing it. He wasn't even in the room." We walked passed agents and workers alike, frantically running around towards the exit. The further we walked the lower the noise and higher the security. Coulson took a retinal scan before opening a door. "Spontaneous event."
"It just turned it self on?" I asked. I hope this 'Tesseract' isn't what I think it is.
"What are the energy levels now?" Fury cut across me, ignoring my question completely.
"Climbing. When he couldn't shut it down, we ordered evac."
"How long to get everyone out?"
"The place should be clear in under 30."
Fury looked at Coulson with his one eye. "Do better."
Coulson stopped walking and stared as the Director and I continued walking. I threw him a small smile over my shoulder; he smiled back. Yep, he was definitely the most humane.
Fury lead me down some stairs, winding down further into the ground.
"You know," I started conversationally, "Even if you do evacuate, it's not going to be much use."
Fury paused before continuing down the last couple of steps. "What makes you say a thing like that then, Roxhan?"
"If this is what I think it is then the country's borders are going to be the minimum safe range at the very least."
"You know something Azi, I hate it when targets are right."
"Thanks I guess." We walked into a huge open room with all the gismos for any science experiment or test and enough cables to last a lifetime of a mortal. Director Fury entered the room with a styled flair that only secret spies could pull off.
"Talk to me Doctor." Fury called to an slightly older man who had grey hair, grey-blue eyes and rounded torso.
"Director." The man greeted. "The only thing we know for certain is that the tesseract is misbehaving."
"Is that supposed to be funny?" The Director's eyes brushed over an upright metal circle with an ominous glowing blue cube in a i paled. So we were screwed. The 'Tesseract' as the mortals were calling it, was actually one of the infinity stones. Now I know this thing could potentially blow up the entire planet. "Do you know something about this Roxhan?"
"Ask Thor." Was my only reply before walking off to stand in the corner, out of sight.
I did however, continue to listen to their conversation.
Selvig looked at me oddly before continuing. "How do you know Thor?"
"Family friend." My tone was clipped. It was true, the Olympian council had often got me to sit through their meeting with Gods from other pantheons in my time meaning I often joked around with Loki and Thor when it was with the Asgardians.
Selvig turned back to Fury who was giving me the 'Explain later' look. "The tesseract's not jsut active, she's behaving."
"I assume you pulled the plug." Fury replied.
"She's an energy source; we turn off the power, she turn's it back on." He reached a screen with scientific gibberish on. "If she reaches peak level..."
Fury cocked his head slightly to the side with an annoyed look on his face. "We prepared for this doctor. Harnessing energy from outer space."
" But we don't have the harness. My calculations are far from complete. And, she's throwing off interference, radiation. Low level gamma radiation; nothing harmful."
"That can be harmful." Fury said deadpanned. "Where's Agent Barton?" That name sounds familiar...
"The Hawk? He's in his nest."
Fury said something to his wrist. I walked the edge of the room to have a brief look.
A mid-thirties, late twenties man appeared from a rope attached to the rafters and he proceeded to have a conversation with the Director.
The Tesseract gave off little plumes of blue power and glowed brighter momentarily causing the room to hush.
"Agent Barton I'd like you to meet Azi Roxhan, a potential target or recruit." Fury said and brandished his hand towards the corner I had been standing in.
"On your two o'clock Fury." I walked over to the pair. "Azi." I held out a hand in greeting.
"Clint." He shook my hand.
"We were just saying how there had been no tinkering with the cube from 'this end'."
"Doors work both ways Director." I said shifting my weight from foot to foot.
As if on cue the Tesseract began sending out pulses of power making the building shudder and everyone left stumble back. Suddenly the light from the cube began twisting in a clockwise direction. It began to whistle. A Blue white beam shot out at least fifteen meters and everyone scrambled away apart from Clint and the end of the beam a circle began to grow and I sighed. Brilliant. Just Brilliant. Then a huge power surge erupted and the pair of us fell back, hitting the floor beneath us. when it stopped a crouching figure could easily be seen, clad in Green, Gold and Black armour, spectre in hand. That could only be one person. Armed soldiers walked forward ready to fire.
"Stop!" I shouted. "Your bullets will do nothing but be a hindrance."
"Didn't know you knew words that long, Azia, I'm proud of you." The figure sarcastically stated standing up as I did.
"And I thought you had a better memory, I suppose be both have things we don't know Loki."
"Loki, brother of Thor." Selvig whispered in awe from his place on the floor.
Fury tried to regain his composure. "Sir, please put down the spear." Each word was accentuated.
Loki looked down at the spectre as if seeing it for the first time. He looked up. In a flash he tilted his body, spectre forward and blue energy fired from the end and Barton tackled Fury to the ground just in time. Soldiers and guards opened fire and that just set Loki off. He launched himself forward stabbing a guard through the chest. I watched hopelessly as Loki proceeded in killing his attackers. I grabbed a knife from my belt and threw it with pin point precision, hitting him in the shoulder. I saw Fury in my peripheral vision reaching for the cube and I knew I had to help.
"Hey Loki! Remember that time when I beat you in hand-to-hand contact." I called over to him.
"You cheater!" Loki yelled and sent a blast at me.
I hit the floor on my elbows and flipped back up. I pulled out a knife just in time to block a strike to my neck. However, since the knife was only meant for throwing it wasn't long enough to block the hit completely, opening up a gash on my shoulder. I yelled out and fell back, allowing Loki to get another hit to my arm. He sneered before turning away. He walked over to Clint and grabbed him by the wrist, flicking the gun to the floor. He put the point of the spectre at Clint's chest and grinned maliciously. Everyone stopped and stared in horror at Loki gaining control of one of SHEILD's best agents. Eric Selvig tried to creep up on him only for the same result. I realised looking at Fury's face that now we were at an extreme disadvantage.
"Who are you?" Fury spoke and both of us turned to stare at him.
"I am Loki of Asgard." Loki spread his arms wide. "And I am burdened with glorious purpose."
I snorted. "More like burdened with a huge ego."
Fury sent me a harsh glare. "We have no quarrel with your people." He raised a placating hand.
"An ant has no quarrel with a boot."
"So you intend to step on us?" Fury asked subtly moving towards the door.
"I come with glad tidings," Loki started and I sighed; a stupidly godly monologue. "Of a world made free. A world made free from freedom. Whats mortals don't see is that freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that in your very own heart, you will know peace. True pea-."
"Yeah, you say peae," Fury interrupted, "But I kinda think you mean the other thing."
Barton looked directly at me. "Sir she's been stalling you. She intends to bury us."
"Like the pharaohs of old." I replied sarcastically. Athena and Annabeth would be proud of me for that
SElvig added in his two cents. "He's right. The portal's collapsing in on it's self."
"Well then," Loki said looking at Barton. "It's been a pleasure as always." Barton raised his arm and took three shots at Fury.
Panicking, I threw up a water shield in front of him causing the bullets to hit the floor.
"Stay out of this Azia." Loki said darkly, facing straight ahead.
Quietly I moved towards Loki. "I know about the arena Loki." I whispered.
Loki tensed and before I could react tackled me to the ground and we went rolling. My mind briefly flashed back to a time when we had done this on Asgard. Nostalgia choked me as Loki landed a punch on my jawline, tears streaming down his face.
"Loki," I choked "Don't do this."
"Don't mention that horror." He growled
"Loki Bear, stop it." I cried, changing to a six year old form.
Loki stumbled back in shock and horror.
For a moment there was deafening silence.
"Azi Cub?" Loki took a step backwards.
Deciding to milk it I nodded with big doe eyes and pouty lips. "Where's Thorie?" I shifted.
"I..I.." Loki briskly turned and walked out the door, shaking and glancing back.
I quickly shifted back once all of Loki's monkeys were gone. Fury looked at me as if I was going to spontaneously combust.
"What are you Roxhan and you owe me answers." Director Fury said
"I owe you nothing and what I am is none of your business." I growled. "Now get up and let's get going because I don't want to die any day soon."
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In the end I had vapour-travelled Director Fury and I to what he called the Helicarrier which happened to be over DC.
"Listen up Agents," Fury addressed the people in the room we were in which seemed to be a command hub of sorts. "From as of minutes ago, we are now at war. This is a Level 7, understood?"
Yes sirs rang out.
"This is Azi Roxhan. Treat her as you would treat Coulson."
Que WTFs in 3...2..1.
