(Finally let me do this! lol)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Marvel. I just own Anna.
Chapter 1
Alien Again
It was a lovely August afternoon. The cool breeze prevented heat from claiming the title of blistering. Instead, it was soul warming. Flowers were in full bloom, bees buzzing about, birds chirping. The air held the smell of freshly cut grass on the wind.
Or, at least, that's how the lady at the bus stop described the day. To Anna, she just politely nodded to the elderly woman, and would glance to Thor on her other side silently begging him to rescue her from the conversation.
Thor was more amused by the day than the lady was. For some reason, he was completely fascinated with how fat bees were, and how their tiny wings managed to carry their fat bodies. Anna just rolled her eyes. He'd been on Earth a while now, but still, everything entertained his mind so. It had to be nice to be amused so easily like that.
They were in England, and for once, as described by the crazy old bat, that it was a beautiful day, no rain or cloud in the sky. Maybe it if had been raining, Anna would have avoided this whole conversation altogether. But with her luck, of course it had to be hot. She'd take the Belgian winter in World War II, and cuddling on uncomfortable cots with her husband over the humid heat any day.
It had taken much convincing on both Anna and Thor's part to get Odin to let Anna return to Asgard to use the library there. Anna's convincing was Thor, and Thor was the one that had to convince his father to let Anna go. It was weird though, as much as Thor said he had to ask, the father gave in rather quickly, and they hadn't spoken in person. Perhaps it had been because Anna had taken part in protecting the realms from the Dark Elves.
In the end, he permitted it. That was what the two were about to do. Since SHIELD had fallen apart and no longer had the resources it once did, Anna flew to England (funded generously by Tony) and now had to take the bus, seeing as renting a car meant leaving it someplace that could most likely get a ticket while she was on Asgard for who knew how long. And Anna wasn't going to let Thor drive, that was for sure.
So the two were taking a bus out to a rarely used football field (Soccer, thank you very much) so that Heimdall could, as Anna said, "Beam me up, Scotty." Of course, the Birost wasn't exactly that, but she didn't get to say her geeky line all too often. Once they got their, they went out to the middle of the field, where Thor called out to the man that saw all.
Traveling via the Bifrost was not a pleasant experience, Anna was reminded. She nearly puked all over the rainbow floor the second she dropped to her knees. Thor stepped away, fearing for his shoes. Heimdall seemed to get a kick out of it though.
"Good to see you again, Young One," Heimdall greeted.
"You too," Anna muttered, enthusiastically waving to him as her forehead pressed to the cool ground. Thor eventually helped Anna to her feet. She turned to him and smiled appreciatively. "Thank you, for doing this for me," she said.
Thor nodded. "Anything I can do to help a friend," he said. "And think of it as a wedding present. Stark informed me that you have been wed."
Anna rolled her eyes. "Well, thanks, I guess," she said, though really she was thinking, Some wedding present. The guy was Prince, you'd think he'd chip in for something a bit more expensive than a free ride to Asgard. Oh, well, none of that really mattered to Anna.
"The Guards will show you to the library," Thor said, nodding to the two guards making their way up to the Bifrost chamber. "When you are finished, Heimdall will bring you back safely to Earth whenever you so desire. Though I do recommend you stay confined indoors, and do not wonder. There is much of Asgard you are not familiar with."
"Sound good to me," Anna said. "Thank you, Thor. Really. This is really helpful."
Thor nodded and patted her shoulder before turning back to get sent back home. Once Anna saw him off, giving Heimdall a friendly wink, she followed the guards to the library where Anna's mission really began.
After Anna had finally decided that going back to SHIELD was the path for her after Hydra took down the organization, she was placed on a modified leave of absence by Coulson. She was on a specific mission to do research on any kind of blue alien she could find. Why? Because during the Chitauri invasion and Anna killed Phil, she really had killed Phil. The only reason that he's alive now was because of an experiment that took place with the carcass of an alien race that happened to be blue. Whatever they got from that alien allowed them to bring Phil back from the dead.
And now it was driving him to draw these bizarre symbols, so it was Anna's job to try and see what those were. And she had to figure it out before he went completely insane. So no pressure.
There were several blue species that Anna had managed to read up on a bit to start with. Interdicted were migratory humanoid aliens. From the drawing they had strong jaws, and really pointy fin like ears, and yellow eyes. The Sarks looked a lot like them, accept their eyes were not yellow, and their ears were simply just pointed.
Pheragots were massive semi-humanoid creatures. They were large, about ten feet tall. Smaller than the hulk, but bigger than human. They had massive muscles, and extraordinary strength. However, the passage emphasised that though they were strong, they were a rather wimpy race. When punched, they would cry. So chances are they weren't the invading species they had found.
Levians looked exactly like humans, except for their blue skin. Their home planets was risk with resources, but they were not very protective of them. Their mindless actions caused their world to go into disaster. In order to ensure the survival of the species, they sent a fraction of their race to live on a world-ship called Lavianon. Even though, however, they continued to stupidly use up their resources, which lead to them leaving on a primitive state aboard a crippled, drifting ship.
The Kree were a scientifically and technologically advanced militaristic race of bold blue-skinned humanoids from the planet Hala. The Kree were a race who followed strict, militaristic lifestyle. They were rulers of the Kree Empire, a large, interstellar imperial group that encompasses various planets. From what Anna read, they didn't not have the best relationship with Asgardians. They saw them as deceitful and savage.
Frost Giants were pretty much out of the question, so Anna didn't really do too much more research into them. She found it interesting, and she would've read more into them had she had more time, but Anna was a bit more pressed for time so she couldn't. Lastly, before she was too tired to keep going, was the Centaurians, which had nothing to do with Centaurs. There wasn't really too much on them, except that at some point in time, they had been experimented on.
By the point she got to the Centaurians, Anna's eyes itched, her back ached, and her head was pounding. She had spent almost all night in there. She glanced down at the watch on her wrist and realized that it was around three in the morning.
Finding much more probably wouldn't be possible at this point for her. And even with all the information she had found, she found nothing other than Frost Giants being on Earth, and that was something she already knew. But from Phil's description, it definitely wasn't a Frost Giant.
Exhausted, Anna left her spot in the library and made her way towards the rainbow bridge. It was technically quite a ways away from the castle, so she was left to trek through parts of Asgard that she hadn't really been to yet. She had seen them her first time around, and even as she was escorted to the library, but she had been more preoccupied with her thoughts on finding out who had previously been to Earth.
In the black morning hours, the stars were visible over head. It was a beautiful sight, and Asgard, of course, was always stunning. It was far roudier than she remembered the walk being though. Many species of aliens were out and about, not just Asgardians. She supposed it was prime time for the drunks to start heading back home.
Anna was just glad she kinda looked like she fit in. While she was on her way to the library, a very small older woman ran into her, and recognised the outfit she was currently wearing: the Asgardian garb she had been given the first time she had visited. The black and blue elegant warriors outfit included a tight black corset, while the inside color, the space that was left in the front where the lacing was done, was a deep navy blue. Running up the front of the bodice was lavender lace. Over her breasts was the protective breast plate, hanging with metal straps hidden under the lavender cloth. It also had two pieces of sheer cloth that were dropped off the side to the middle of her forearms, and into the back of the breast plate. Around her arms were long sleeves. The top portion of which, the part of the arm that faces outward, was navy blue, while the underside of her arms were black.
On her lower half, instead of a full bodied skirt like many of the women she had seen walking around Asgard, Anna was left in tight, light navy blue legging like material that fit perfectly, and showed off the curves of her legs, and showed how small, but muscular she was. They fit perfectly and went down into the strong black boots she had on her feet, that went all the way up to the middle of her calves. That wasn't all though. Draped around her waist was a lavender clothe. It was brought around from the back, and then tied in the front, between her belly button and the bone of front of her pelvis. It didn't drape long, just far enough to cover her rear (though not that it needed to be covered, she was wearing pants, after all), and was draped loosely to two-thirds the way up her on her thighs. It came around to the front where it was tired. The strands of the excess material hung down like a certain, though the material was short enough where it only draped down to the same length that it was draping to her thighs. Her SHIELD badge onto one of the straps hold the breast plate, and hid her gun under the draping cloth around her waist.
Apparently, she was the woman that had designed the outfit (the Royal Clothing Adviser, or something along those lines she told Anna), and since Queen Frigga was sadly deceased, she now longer was required to creature beautiful outfits for women. She still did because she found it far more enjoyable than male clothing, but she had nobody to wear them. So, before she was allowed into the library, the woman insisted on taking Anna to get a new outfit for her. Her previous one went into her bag.
Now, Anna's new Asgardian garb was a bit less elegant in the dress department, and more so in the uniformed, professional (dress blues) sort of way. It was a bit more comfortable than her other one too.
On her top half, Anna had a dark gray shirt jacket that zipped in the front down the middle, however, it didn't appear to look like it was a zipper, as there were three buttons along the blue seemes. Once the shirt got to just below her belly button, it split off into the sides. It went longer, to cover her rear end, the light blue seem going all around the bottom of the jacket as well. There sheer blue sleeves that attacked at the top to the this, she had something that resembled a shawl, but instead of being open, it buttoned to the top of her right shoulder, dipped down across to her left side, went around her back, and then buttoned again on the opposite shoulder. It was also gray, with the light blue collar of the top of her shirt appearing out of it. She pinned her SHIELD eagle to the shawl.
Around her hips were navy blue holsters for her gun, ammo, and Jern Slangen. Her bottoms were the same black, tight reinforced skin tight legging material that her other outfit utilized. Lastly, she had long black boots that went to the middle of her calves.
Now she looked more military like, than she did a cross between a warrior princess. She found it comfortable, and a bit more her style than the other. Though she definitely wasn't going to knock the other outfit.
What really stunk, though, was that it was a tad bit pretentious. It looked like she was apart of the wealthier class of the Asgardian population. At least she fit in with the rest of the clothing around, for the most part. Drawing attention to herself wasn't something she wanted to do ever, especially not on an Alien planet.
As Anna walked back towards the Bifrost, she couldn't help but be cautious of the rowdy drunkards. They were making her nervous, not just because of their perverse comments, but the way they were grabbing drunk girls and pulling them down towards an alley. Now, Anna knew she shouldn't interfere with Asgardian business, but she couldn't just let woman be handled that way.
I have a feeling I'm going to regret this, Anna thought as she moved towards the entrance of the alley. Always sticking your nose where it doesn't belong, Barnes. You're gonna end up with a black eye or something for this…
At the other end of the alley, several men with large gun were keeping guard as the drunkards loaded the terrified women into the back of a small cargo vessel. This was kidnapping. Trafficking them most likely. That was definitely not something the young SHIELD agent could stand for.
There wasn't any way for her to really secretly make her way over to them and take them out one by one. The alley was too small, and there wasn't anything to use as cover. She either had to run and get help (though she didn't know where to find that), or go all in and hope for the best. Unwisely, Anna jumped all in.
Or, at least, that was what Anna was going to do, until someone bashed her in the back of the head and knocked her out cold.
So there you have it! Anna's back in space. Let's see what kinda of trouble she can get into here! (Besides what you obviously just read, because, let's face it, Anna can do far worse.)
Thanks go to the following for their reviews on the previous chapter:
zikashigaku - I'm so excited that this has started. All next week until Friday I'm going to be bulk writing for Evermore.
Jedi Jelsa777- I know, I miss Phil so much. I miss the early days of an innocent Anna getting trained. :(
Bittersweet256- Yes, there will be more Falcon, I promise! Not too much in the very start of the next story, but he will be around after the first arc!
