I woke up in some white room. This isn't the typical hospital that I have been in before. This isn't the loony bin. This is nothing I have ever been in before and I can assure myself of that. The bed is too soft. Too silky. The walls are way too bright. I can't feel anything. I try lifting my head but it is just too painful. I groan and wish for the pain in the back of my neck to end. How did this happen. I was at the party. Blayne and I went to the pond. Blayne! I had to save him where is he? I didn't care about the pain anymore I had to save him, at least figure out where he was and if he's ok. I yelled out his name and tried to free myself from whatever was holding me down but nothing. Finally I heard a door open. Maybe it was him. I turned my head to look at the person joining me. And the eye patch was not exactly something that made me feel comfortable.

"Miss. McTassery, it's a pleasure to see you. You're quite the trick."

"What? Who are you? Where am I? Is Blayne ok?"

"Calm down McTassery. I ensure you are safe and you are, to the best of our knowledge, in good standing health. And who is this Blayne you speak of?"

"He's my boyfriend he was drowning in the pond! Did someone save him?"

"There was no one else in the pond."

"No he was there! That's why I dove in! He's there! You guys let him die!"

"McTassery if you don't calm down then you will ruin the healing process. We weren't the first ones on scene. You were at the hospital and when they noticed your skin was well, not right, we came in."

"And who are you?"

"Nick Fury, from S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Well Nick of S.H.I.E.L.D. do my parents know that I'm here? I want them to take me home."

"They do not know your current condition and we will not tell them until we are sure of your condition ourselves."

"My condition? …My skin…. What is the matter with me?"

"Well I'd tell you but I can't put it in simple terms for you."

"…Am I dying?"

"No quite the opposite really and it's nothing you should be afraid of yet. I have a very good Doctor with me now and she is due here any minute."

"Why am I here? What do you have that's so much better for me than the hospital?" This Nick guy said nothing just smirked and left. I was alone again. Blayne was probably dead and it was all my fault. My parents don't know if I'm alive or dead. They had to know that I'm ok. I lifted my head again and saw that the only restraints I had on were on my wrists. If I pull hard enough surely the flimsy things will come undone. I was right. A good focused pull and my hands fell right out. My skin through was feeling tingly and I couldn't really feel anything now. But I had to find a phone. I looked at myself, all appendages are accounted for and nothing is bleeding. My skin looks a little redder than usual but I seem fine. Walking around was easy enough but the second I got out of the door I knew nothing. These walls were blank and empty of life. I walked down the vast space and tried to find some kind of communication device. Surely if there were people here they would need to contact others some way. I rounded one corner and there were the people all running my direction armed with guns. Oh crap. I ran and turned back down the hall and knew they were catching up because my legs didn't feel like they used to. I stumbled a few times but they were gaining. And right before they hit me I just hoped it wouldn't hurt. I fell and lay on the ground. They must have stopped and called in more because I never felt them trample me and I heard more footsteps coming. I looked up and they were walking on top of me and in me. Like I was a ghost. They couldn't see me either. I am dead! Oh God! I heard the intercom go off.

"Miss. McTassery, please return to your room. We will explain everything." Well I guess it was worth a try. I made my way back and saw Nick in my room waiting with another pair of females and the S.W.A.T. team that tried to kill me earlier. I stood in front of Nick but he paid me no mind. No one in the room did.

"'I'm here you unobservant morons!" I said. They all snapped their heads to the sound of my voice.

"Kiera stop with the trick, come out so we can see you!" Nick said. The brunette female kept searching around the room for something, or someone. I looked down at myself. Oh god. I was invisible. No wait I saw myself when I moved. Like the gas that leaks when you pump your gas or the mirage on the road on a hot day.

"Oh shit. Guys make it stop!" I yelled. They could hear the panic in my voice. Fury just rolled his eye and sat down on my hospital bed. The brunette looked concerned and tried to reach out and find me. Her hand went right through me. She looked and stared right into what would have been my eyes. She looked like my older sister. And for some reason seeing some familiarity of home calmed me down and I could be seen again. She smiled and stuck her hand out for me. I took it and shook.

"My name is Jane Foster, I've been studying you and uh," she looked down at her notebook then back at me. "You've been exposed to quite a few things that should've killed you, however the chemicals and radiation you've been exposed to seems to be balancing each other out very well and yet, subject displays- I mean you, show characteristics of everything you were exposed to. It seems as though your skin is very hard to see when you are not focused. You can change into all forms of matter-"

"You gathered all of that while I was sleeping? Geez I've only been out like a day right?" No one met my eyes. "Right? I mean I was in the hospital for a day I remember, and I've been out since I got here."

"You've been out for a few days." Said the red head next to Fury.

"What?" I was starting to fade again. I could feel it.

"Agent Romanoff! You cannot shock her into information!" Fury said. She just looked at him with a quizzical look.

"Well how is she supposed to learn anything if we keep it all form her?" She retorted. I calmed down. She was right. I needed to keep an open mind. These guys knew things about me that I didn't. And that scared me. But if I wanted to see my parents I would have to trust these guys. I took a deep breath in and felt everything pull back together.

"She's right Mr. Fury. Go ahead and tell me everything. I want to know." He looked at me not quite sure of that was the best move. But really what did he have to lose?

" Foster, continue." Fury said. She gulped nervously and continued to read her notes. She had to read each sentence before she said it so she could put it in simple terms for me.

"You can change into a form less dense than the objects around you, such as air, so flight, if that's what you want to call it, is a side effect. As is walking through objects. Your body becomes the particles and it just travels through, it could be anything, however the ease could vary. You are currently in solid form and this is your most normal form. From my tests you operate just as usual in this form, however you lose feeling and emotion control in the other forms. It's exactly the reason you would think, your brain is scattered so your feeling are as well. Uh, we should be able to fix that." She looked at me trying to give me a hopeful look but apparently my glare made her retreat back to the walls of her notes. "And finally you are practically indestructible. In solid form the bonds that your skin create are so tough and rebuild fast enough that you can't easily be hurt, and even when you are in another form your atoms do not move away from each other so you are fully you even if you are a … gas…" She looked up again seeing that that was all the useful information she could present me with at the time.

"Thank you Foster, now McTassery this makes you very valuable to me. You see we have a certain problem, and as Foster failed to mention, you can't be detected very well. You lack body heat, you lack a sense of solidness for anything to pick up. The only way a camera can pick you up is if you are completely in your solid form and even that's a betting game. However the human eye can see you without difficulty unless you are, you know." He motioned out towards the hallway.

"So what you're saying to me Fury, is that I'm a freak and you want me for some tests and projects? Nice try but I'm not something you can just buy."

"I wasn't trying to, I was simply telling you that you have a set of skills, and we would like to help you prefect them."

"And what's in it for you? You can't honestly expect me to believe the crap you're trying to sell."

"We only ask that you become part of S.H.I.E.L.D., an agent to be more specific"

"Why would you need me? A weird lost college girl who can go unseen. Surely your agents already have invisibility mastered."

"They do but they still put off body heat. Now I'm going to tell you a little something, there is a 'project' that I need you for. I call it Operation Lost Mischief. You remember a few months ago when New York was under attack?"

"Yeah, but the good guys won and everything's better."

"Yeah the good guys won, but the bad guy came back. We were hoping you could help us find him."

"Not until I see my parents. I want to see them before I get mixed up in any of this crazy shit."

"Fair enough. You can visit them tomorrow and be back here-"

"Oh hell no Fury! If I do this crazy mission there is a chance I don't make it out alive. I haven't seen my parents in a long time and they have no idea how I'm holding up! I get a whole week with them!" Fury glared at me. And Agent Romanoff looked pretty pleased with me. I guess not a lot of people argue with Fury.

"Fine, but at least train with us over the weekend so that you don't go out there completely unprepared." Alright I could deal with that.

"Deal. And what's the name of the bad guy I should be looking out for?"

"Loki, God of Mischief."