Author's Note: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I love it when I can start with a bang. Anyway, continuing on. I own nothing.
2 Missing
SHEILD was on the scene in less than five minutes, the rest of the Avengers not far behind them. Tony was panicking. He'd gotten a call from Fury that Thor had been fighting a frost giant when something had happened, that his daughter and several of her schoolmates had been in the room at the time. That his daughter was missing. He landed in the museum using the hole Thor must have created to get into the building, the man really had no regard for architecture. Piper's schoolmates were being escorted out of the building and into the bus they must have ridden there. Mary Jane was sobbing in Eddie's arms and Tony's heart clenched. He stepped over to them and stepped out of the armor.
"Tell me what happened." It wasn't a request, it almost sounded like he was begging as Captain America and the Black Widow ushered the remaining students back onto their bus. One of the guys in a letterman jacket seemed particularly interested in what was going on. But a glare from Natasha and he was scurrying onto the bus. MJ and Eddie told them what they knew, which wasn't much. Nor was it very heartening. Tony had to restrain himself from marching onto that bus and tearing Coulson apart, at least verbally for not keeping a better eye on his child. But Piper didn't want the world to know, he didn't want the world to know she was his daughter. They would never leave her alone if they knew. So instead he stepped back into the armor as Cap escorted Eddie and MJ back to the bus.
"Jarvis, scan the area, tell me there's something please." He knew the AI could hear how close to tears he was and complied quickly.
'Sir there appears to be a vast amount of energy from another world here.' Tony frowned.
"That would be from Thor right?" Tony zoomed in on one of the scorch marks a few feet away from the dead frost giant.
'No sir, the energy appears to be closer to that the is left behind when an Einstein-Rosen Bridge is opened.' Hope leapt into his heart as Jarvis zoomed in closer and he spotted the tell tale runic markings in all six scorch marks. Tony whooped surprising everyone in the room.
"They aren't dead! They just teleported! They're not dead!" Now he just had to figure out how to get to Asguard to save his daughter from whatever mess Thor had gotten her and her friends into.
Piper groaned as cold pulled her back to reality. It hurt, reality usually did after lightning passed through her. But cold was not a symptom she recognized from that particular attack. She shot to her feet and slipped on a patch of ice. She landed hard on her back and groaned. This seemed to stir another pile of snow and Sam's head poked out of the drift. He was shivering. He pulled out his helmet, which he had just put away at the museum and slipped it back on. He shuddered as the snow melted under his glow. Piper drew a bit closer to him as three other piles of snow revealed themselves to be her friends. They put their costumes back on and Piper activated her heating system again. They finally looked around, and found that none of them recognized their surroundings. A large gate stood in front of them, one of the doors, which looked like they had once been beautiful gold, was missing. The other was hanging off its giant hinges. She looked around, someone was missing.
"THOR?" She called out, her voice snatched away by the frozen wind. There was a tremble in the snow in front of her and then a frog dressed in her uncles clothes leapt forth wielding Thor's hammer. Piper stared. He glanced at her.
"What?" The team blinked at him for a moment behind masks before Piper spoke.
"Why are you a frog?" He looked down and a surprised ribbit tore itself from his throat. Piper held back a laugh.
"This is impossible! There is but one man who could have conjured such magic. But he is dead!" The ground shook and Thor looked up and gasped.
"Asguard!" He hopped off and Piper raced after him, the others following close behind.
"I thought you said Asguard is a golden city, and you know warm." Piper questioned as they raced through the snow after the frog that had been her uncle. The frog stopped cold staring ahead of him. Piper caught up and gasped.
In front of them was what had clearly once been a busy market. This was clear because the people were still there, but they were all frozen in solid blocks of ice. Piper swore under her breath as she looked around. A woman and her child were frozen feet away from them looks of shock on their faces. Ava was the first to speak, the yellow eyes of her costume fixed on the same ice block Piper was looking at.
"Are they dead?" Piper tapped her wrist and her SHEILD watch glowed. She flicked her finger across the screen to some of the things she'd added to the watch and scanned the ice block.
"No. They're alive, its almost like hibernation. But they are alive." The others looked relieved as Piper stepped a bit closer to Nova shivering even with her heater on in her suit. He seemed to raise an eyebrow at her.
"What? There's a reason you don't see spiders outside in winter. We don't like cold, don't do so well in it either." She commented and Nova let out a short laugh before Thor the Frog took off towards the large gold palace. Piper swore and took off after him, the others close behind. They heard him cry out as he reached the golden gates of the palace of Asguard. Two large ice blocks stood there, one with three people in it another containing a woman with beautiful flowing black hair a sword in her hand. Piper recognized them from the stories Thor had told her about the Lady Sif and the Warriors Three. Thor was croaking out something that sounded like an angry growl. Piper used her watch to scan them.
"They're still alive." Thor wasn't to be distracted through.
"The throne of Asguard has been usurped!" Piper stepped in front of the frog, scooping him off the ground as she did, her pouted and croaked at her.
"Thor! You need to tell us what's going on here! One minute we're in the museum now we're on a frozen Asguard and you're a frog! Context is important!" The frog croaked and then nodded.
"My brother lives and has usurped the throne of Asguard." Piper frowned.
"How is he alive? You said he was stabbed in the chest when the Dark Elves tried to take over." The others were looking at them like they were speaking a different language. She waved them off, holding her Uncle the Frog in one hand.
"Aye, he was. But he must have used his magic to survive. Now he has gotten what he wished for all these years. He has claimed the throne of Asguard, with the help of the Frost Giants." Piper nodded slightly.
"What do the Frost Giants have to do with this though?" Thor never got to answer her question as the ground shook and the ice split disgorging three very angry looking Frost Giants. The frog leapt from her hands and was instantly struck by a blast of ice from one of the giants. Piper dove to the side of another giant. She turned to her team so they could fight off the threat, maybe figure out a way to save Thor too but they were already frozen in a solid block of ice. Something struck her in her back and she felt her body shutting down. Her eyes remained open though as one of the giants picked up the small ice block that contained her uncle, another picked up her team and the last one picked her up. They were carried into the throne room as Piper tried to keep her head on straight, she had to figure out a way out of this but she couldn't move. Her heater was slowly melting the ice but not nearly fast enough to do her any good. She had no idea how they were going to get out of this.
