A/N: Hey y'all new to this but I've always wanted to try and write a fanfic so please be gentle but constructive!
What if some marvel loving girl gets transported to the MCU? A mess of feelings, powers, and action is what!
"Fuck it's hot out," I whined to my stout friend while trying not to bump into cosplayers, "can we got back to the dealers room, Opal? I want to see if they're selling those Loki and Thor plushies!" Said girl just rolls a pair of dark eyes at me, heat seemingly getting to her as well. We hobbled down the streets of Atlanta, Sunday of Dragoncon coming to a slow swing.
"Naw, if we go back through there were gonna lose the last of our paychecks. I'm also your ride so the driver gets to decide when we go" Her face firm but tired as she said it. I was not weaseling another minute here out of her after being here for the entire weekend.
"Fair enough, maybe next year we should cosplay though!" I replied, a tired grin playing on my lips. Heading towards the parking deck I felt a chill crept up my spine, despite the choking heat of the late summer sun. I scanned the parking deck shifting my hefty duffel bag over my shoulder so I could reach my pocket knife.
Reaching the car, I stopped. Why won't my body move so suddenly? Opal got into the car before noticing me stuck in place.
"Dahlia, what's up?" she asked with confusion spread across her face.
"I don't kno-" I'm interrupted with the floor beneath me giving way. As the parking deck flies out of my vision with a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes flying past me I hear someone screaming. It takes me a minute but I realize the screams are coming from me. I see many things, figures, and objects fly past me. My throat becomes sore as I feel something well up inside me. I felt something burst forth like a light from the core of my being to the very ends of myself. My veins burned with it as my body glowed. I think I'm dieing.
With a flash of gold and blue I suddenly become very well acquainted with some concrete, the Atlanta hot afternoon suddenly meet with a cool night. I stopped glowing as my body cooled against the concrete when I hear a startled gasp from behind me. I start to stand up when I'm sudden whacked from behind with my obese duffel bag, sending me flat on my face.
"Ooowww..." I wheezed out, pretty scratched up but otherwise unharmed. I get to my knees and look up to see what I assumed to be bewilder Loki and Captain America cosplayer staring mid mock battle at me.
"Sorry but um… are you with him?" the Captain cosplayer jerked his head towards the Loki cosplayer. I shake my head no, abashment plain on my face as I try to breath. Panic started to set in, I don't see the streets or feel the heat of Atlanta anymore. No more cosplayers, no car deck, and no Opal to be seen as I whip my head around. It looked like the Struggert scene straight out of the movie! It was just a cool, dark night i Germany with a deceptively real Steve And Loki.
I start shaking, going into a panic attack, my heart and mind racing as I overflowed with with white hot panic and sudden sense of nothing being right. My body starts to ache either from the landing or what happened during the fall. Tears threaten ellipse my face as Loki took my distraction as a chance to try and attack Steve. Suddenly rock music burst forth from the helicopter above as Loki was blasted backwards.
"Make your move, Reindeer Games." Iron Man shouted over head, armed to the teeth. It was was all a little too much for me after that, seeing Iron Man just flying there. I've seen it on screen about a million times but seeing someone actually flying kind of fucking upturned my world. Blackness crept into my vision as I heard someone call out to me.
SUPER ROUGH TURBULENCE
"Fuck!" I shouted from being violently awoken from my comatose state by hitting my head on something hard.
"Language!" came calmly from the Captain America cosplayer. Scratch that, from the real deal. My eyes meet his for a brief moment, his face an unclear expression before Tony Stark walked into my view.
"Hey, your head okay? Turbulence, am I right? Tony Stark," he greets me while extending a metal hand towards me. I shake it numbly, still quite shocked and without even thinking I respond with,
"Dahlia Murphy." I do a quick scan of the area and realize that I've been moved and strapped into the helicopter, and no Thor yet. Steve and Loki sit on the opposite side of the rather large helicopter, Steve to my left and Loki to my right. Black Widow and an unnamed co-pilot sat in the cockpit. They all could have been twins or siblings to their actor counterparts that it was hard to believe that they're real.
"I know everything's pretty cool, especially me, but eyes up here. Now we got a couple of questions for you considering you fell out of a portal smack dab in the middle of us capturing Loki. Also what's up with your shirt I had JARVIS check and a shirt like that doesn't come up anywhere," Tony prattled off. I realized I was wearing my 'Trust me I'm a Hero' t-shirt with the silver age versions of Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man on it. I really wanted to be cool and say something cool like 'What's up doc?' or 'Ask away…' but honestly I'm not cool enough nor calm enough for something like that. I panicked and just started word vomiting,
"I'msorryIwaspulleddownaholeitwassoscaryIthoughtIwasgonnadieand-."
"What? Hey calm down what now" Tony spoke, baffled by babbling. Him, Steve, and Loki are just staring at me like I lost my mind.
"Slow down and tell me what you're babbling on about, okay?" Tony asked nicely.
"T-to put it simply, I-I what pulled down some c-crazy hole and popped out there I guess. Also with the shirt, I-imma some a bit crazier b-but where I was pulled from, you guys don't exist outside of comic books and movies." I get even weirder looks, "I have proof" I finished. Tony doesn't look impressed as he opens his mouth to say more when thunder and lightening interrupted him as Natasha was having trouble controlling the helicopter. Loki Looked pretty nervous and squirmed in his seat a little. Steve took notice and taunted,
"What scared of a little lightening?"
"I'm not overly fond of what follows," Loki cooly quipped back. A sudden thud from the roof of the copter alerted me, and probably Loki, to Thor's arrival. I held onto my seat tightly and finally figured out that my bag was at my feet. I hooked a leg through the straps to keep it from flying out as Tony opened the door. I knew it was coming but it didn't scare me any less when Thor popped in from the sky and tore Loki from his seat. I couldn't help but letting out a small yelp.
I was as suddenly aware this was my first time flying as my fear of the situation replaced my fear of heights. As Tony started to follow the two adopted brothers out he turned to me and said,
"We're not done here." I nod my head in response as he left. For a moment it was just me and Steve just looking at eachother for a moment, his face seemingly kinder than before, whether to my distress or pity for a crazy woman I did not know. Goodness he must think I'm wuss, not that I'm not one but I don't want him thinking that.
"While I don't know really what to make of ya, but you don't seem too bad, so don't worry'" he said with a kind smile before jumping out of the helicopter. My heart was beating in my ears and I felt my cheeks heat up. I'm a total wuss in his eyes, I'm sure of it. I try to calm down and have a moment to collect myself as Natasha told the co-pilot to hang tight as she made her way back towards me. Hot damn she looks so good in person that it's intimidating, but is it her being intimidating or just me being shy. She sits across from me and says,
"Natasha Romanoff, unless you already knew that Miss Murphy."
"I-I did," I pause, "and I do have proof aside from the shirt, if you don't mind me digging through my bag for a moment. Also you can just call me Dahlia," I quip, with a new confidence from knowing what's in my bag. She looks me dead in my soul for a moment, so I tried to come across as honest and nonthreatening as possible. I guess she saw something at least okay in me because she gives me a nod and breaks eye contact. I start to dig through my bag as she watched closely. I found some of the things I bought from Dragon-con, some comic from now and the silver age from various booths and some fan-art from the MCU. I didn't have anything from The Avengers, besides fan-art, or beyond and for that i was thankful. Can't spoil any futures if I don't talk about them or have them.
I hand over the fan art and comic books and explain, "I was at a con before being wrapped here and picked these comic books and this fan made art." I would say I made a decent case with comics from now and the silver age with great fan art to boot. It was some nice digital art with the the silver age versions of themselves looking at their modern movie-selfs. I see she get to the Hawkeye one and pauses before having a small but warm smile from his ridiculously purple outfit.
"I don't want to get your hopes up but with your cooperation and these we might not have to detain you for long. Now what is-" I interrupted her, very confused.
"Detained? Why am I being detained I've done nothing wrong?" Any kindness I might have seen before vanished from her face, she was defiantly in job mode now.
"Yes you are. I'm sorry but when's the last time someone has fallen from the sky and not been detained immediately?" She questioned me. Without even thinking I pop off,
"Thor didn't get detained until he broke into a shield setup to get his hammer back!" She froze a little, must have surprised her that I even knew that.
"How, how do you even know that? That's classified information." she furrowed her brows as she spoke. Caught her off guard with that one, probably shouldn't have said that. Since I couldn't back out now I continued my stupidity,
"I know that because I saw it happen in theaters back home, in my world. You know the one I just told everyone on board about ten minutes ago. Know what else I saw? Barton was there that night, and wasn't allowed to shoot Thor. I also watch that you infiltrated Stark industries as Natalie Rushman and got all the was to assistant to the then new CEO Pepper Potts to get close to Tony for Nick Fury and SHIELD before Fury revealed you. I know a lot of things Miss Romanoff, I understand that it's hard for comprehend. It's hard to comprehend that I'm actually here talking to you and not back in Atlanta playing a pancake on the sidewalk but some crazy shit has already happened, and it's only gonna get crazier from here."
Where the fuck did that backbone come from? Natasha was quiet for a while, before pulling out her earpiece and turning it off.
"You're still being detained, Fury didn't like that one bit. But I'll help you if you can confirm one thing. Is Barton going to be okay?" she asked quietly, eyes on the man in the cockpit who was distracted with landing. I give her the warmest smile I can muster,
"Yes." She turn the earpiece back on, a cool look on her face while she tells other end that there was some interference. With a small jerk we've landed and Romanoff had re-opened the back of the copter. Eventually Steve, Thor, Tony, and Loki have returned to the copter, looking worse for wear, and off we went into the night.
"Now where were we, oh yeah! What proof?" Tony questioned in a farless of a good mood than before. Gliding in before I could answer Natasha called Tony to the cock pick and said,
"I bet you to the punch."
They both start talking off to the side quietly, I couldn't hear what they saying but I could take an educated guess. Steve and Thor were off to the side talking about God and Gods while Thor chirped away cheerfully Steve looked a bit irritated.
I looked over to Loki and meet his eyes. How long had he been staring? I must have made a face because he slyly grinned at my confusion. Fuck he's cute too. It reminds me of what I thought when I first watched Thor and Avengers back to back. Don't like the bad guy, fuck I really like the bad guy. Best not to mess with him, I will definitely get into trouble so I break the eye contact. I feel my pockets and actually find my phone and with nothing better to do booted up 'Skull-girls' and started playing.
I distract myself till we land and Natasha comes up to me,
"Since we're not prepared for you and you still need to be detained you're going to be held with Loki for the time being-"
"What!?"