Peggy stared. She didn't know what to say, or how to react. That orb had sent her almost seventy years into the future. How was she supposed to handle this? What about her time? Wasn't everything going to be skewed?

"2015? Are you serious? This has to be some sort of trick correct?" Her eyes didn't move away from Tony's face and the grip on the thing in her hand tightened.

"No trick. Uh, and please be careful with the phone. It's new." He said stepping a tiny bit closer and gently removed it from her hand.

"This is a telephone?" She gasped eyes moving down to the gadget he was now holding.

"Mhmm. Cellphone. It runs on cellular towers and 4G technology. Pretty awesome actually."

"Tony maybe now isn't the time." Bruce said, coming to Peggy's side and taking her arm. "Would you like to take a seat Agent Carter?"

Peggy nodded and let him lead her to a black leather chair in the corner by a nice wooden desk. She sat heavily onto it and used all the restraint she had not to put her face into her hands. "This is absolutely unbelievable. What about the timeline? My being here is going to completely muck it up isn't it?"

"No idea." Tony said walking over to join her and Bruce, giving her a little smile that reminded her of Howard.

"Oh? Are you not the 2015 expert in time travel then?" She asked giving him a small smile in return.

"Actually Agent Carter, we don't have any sort of time travel as of yet. " Bruce answered for him.

"Really? Is there any research into it?" She asked genuinely intrigued now, the idea of what could have happened in seventy years sinking in.

"Not by us or what's left of S.H.I.E.L.D." Tony answered. "That's why we were so shocked to see you. Why were intrigued by that thing." He pointed at the object in her hand.

"I'm unsure what you can find out." She lifted it up and glared at the thing. "Wait a second; did you say what is left of S.H.I.E.L.D?"

The two men stopped in their movements to pull up chairs and exchanged looks. "That's, a really long story and not something we should get into yet." Bruce said sitting down on the stool behind him.

"Yeah it could be problematic if you went back and knew all that." Tony said with a bite of his lip and shake of his head.

"And you think that thing will send me back?" She asked handing it over to him.

"Not sure. How about you tell us how it sent you here in the first place? That might be useful in knowing if it works in reverse." Bruce suggested with a reassuring smile.

"As I said, I am unsure what use it will be, but if you believe it will help, of course." She shifted in her seat and crossed her legs, resting her clasped hands over her raised knee. "When Howard first showed it to me, it had a faint blue glow, almost exactly like the Tesseract. You know what that is right?"

"Oh we know all about that damned cube." Tony remarked with a little glower. "It hasn't been researched very much in '49 has it?"

"No we haven't had much of a chance. Howard only recently recovered it while he was searching for Steve." Her voice tapered off at the end and her expression turned momentarily sad. She shook it off and continued. "Even had we had the time, I'm not sure we would have. Whatever that thing is it destroyed Red Skull when he touched it and controlled thousands of deadly weapons. It is not something to be messed with."

She took in their expressions, both of them apprehensive. "Let me guess, someone did decide to mess with it and you know quite a bit more then is safe?"

"That is a very long story." Bruce said slowly, obviously playing with the words in his mind before he spoke them. "And extremely complicated. "

"Another time altering tidbit of history?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah pretty much." Tony agreed nodding. "Let's just say that isn't a toy that should be played with."

"As I thought." She stared at the sphere in his hand for a moment and then looked back up into his face. "Despite that, you seem to have a lot of information on the Cube. Is there any chance you can compare the two?"

"We no longer have the Tesseract." Bruce replied. "I could test it for gamma radiation? See if they compare at all in that aspect?"

"What do you mean you no longer have it?" She frowned, an almost fearful expression on her face.

"Don't worry!" Bruce said quickly with a reassuring raise of his hand. "It's not in enemy hands. We sent it back to where it came from. It's safe we promise."

"Super-duper safe." Tony agreed absent mindedly, his eyes stuck on the runes along the sphere. "Where it is from? So you know its origin?" She asked. "That seems incredible. No other 084 has been given an origin."

"One other, coincidently from the same place." Tony remarked, lifting his left hand and prodding at the runes.

"Wait, don't do that!" She said standing part way up. "I didn't finish. It was just a regular glowing metal sphere until I pressed on one of those, and then suddenly the entire lab was bright white light and the object was vibrating."

Tony's hand was halted in midair until she was finished speaking, at which point he slowly brought it back to his side. "Alrighty then. Do you remember what one it was?"

She shook her head. "No idea. I was doing basically what you were, studying the runes. Do you know anyone who would understand them?"

"If its Asgardian, then yes." Bruce replied coming over to their side.

"Asgardian? Is that what the Tesseract and your other 084 were?" She questioned.

"Yep. And our buddy Thor is from there. So if this baby is Asgardian, he will be able to tell us." Tony said tossing the object up and catching it. "We should still test it for gamma rays and what not, maybe even vita ones."

She nodded along with his words. "Yes, both very good ideas. However, I have no idea what an Asgardian is, nor will I be much of a help if I am to know nothing of the world past 1949. Do you have any way of checking I won't mess anything up my life?"

The two men shared another look and she sighed. They seemed to possess one mind and it was exhausting already, the feeling of being very left out.

"Yeah I think so?" Tony said after a moment. "Let me check in my dad's files, maybe he has something that can shed light on all this."

He made to move back to where they were when she arrived, but Bruce caught his arm and shook his head. Tony sighed and then walked behind her to the beautiful desk with a large amount of computer screens on it that she had been ignoring.

"What was the date?" He asked, his hands positioned over the thin sleek keyboard and his head lifted up to look at her.

She recited the date and he typed onto the keys. After a moment of pursuing his screen he lifted his head back up. "Yep, dear old dad has a file on that day. But his is quite different."

"What do you mean?" She asked, making a movement to go around to his side, but halted when he swung the screen around to her.

"According to Howard, as well as yourself, the room filled with light and then boom, gone, as was the 084."

She quickly read the words before her and then frowned at her own signature. "So this means I will be able to go back?"

The men did their irritating mind sharing look again and Tony shrugged. "Not necessarily. There is another explanation. "

"Which is?" She asked standing up straight and looking between them.

"That that thing had some sort of paradox fixing power and made a duplicate version of you that got left in 1949 and then you came here." Bruce answered.

Peggy's eyes widened a fraction. "Do you think that's what happened?"

"If we were to send you back would you lie and tell Howard that nothing happened?" Tony asked.

"No I probably wouldn't. I would tell him what happened and then be sure to keep the information classified, as well as lock the sphere up so it couldn't happen again."

"That's another thing that makes me think this is a duplicate you situation." Bruce said. "According to your files the sphere was gone, but if you were to use it to return, it would go back with you."

Peggy sighed and sat back down. "So what you're saying is that I am now permanently stuck here?"

Bruce nodded. "Yes, it appears that way. But it's not as bad as it could be! We promise."

She gave him a disbelieving look. "I don't see how that could be. I know nothing and no one. Also, identification."

"Just trust us okay." Bruce said, taking a step forward and resting a hand on her shoulder. "Tony and I will help you with everything. "

"Bruce is really right. We got this. We might need a few others, but we will have everything figured out." Tony reassured her with a grin. "2015 has lots of nice little secrets and surprises."

She gave him a nod. "As I am seeing. Speaking of secrets, what do you mean by what is left of S.H.I.E.L.D?"

The look they shared made her sigh, completely sure she would not be liking the response that she would receive.