Thank you lovely people for reading this ^^ And thank you Mad as Hats for reviewing, it is much appreciated! There's not a lot of Loki in this one, but bear with me, it'll get better.


Two weeks flew by and everything started out relatively quiet. Ava had noticed that something was going on with the thing they had in one of the basements. Hawkeye had told her too much already. Everybody seemed on edge these past few days, nobody ever spoke about anything, that was the magic of S.H.I.E.L.D. Information was one of the most valuable things. Not the most valuable though. It was that thing in the basement. She knew it was none of her business and she tried to suppress her curiosity whenever she spoke to Hawkeye, Agent Coulson, or one of her other agent friends. It wasn't hard to befriend people here, it had probably to do with her cooking, she figured.

She was working on a revision of next weeks' menu when Agent Coulson walked into the kitchen with a message. Ava looked up from her papers.

'Where is everybody?' he asked. Normally the kitchen would have been filled with a dozen other cooks who worked under her command.

'I sent them out, no one is going to see the new menu! It's top secret!' she smirked, hinting at all the other stuff at the station that was labeled "top secret." Phil Coulson rolled his eyes and walked to the cookie jar to steal a few. It had been a real improvement since Ava had arrived. 'Good,' he said while putting the jar back, 'I need to talk to you.'


'I thought this was going to be important' Ava said a bit annoyed while walking next to Coulson holding a platter of snacks and drinks.

'Food is important. Dr. Fury is going to be in the basement 24/7 now, so he will need his food delivered to him. And to us of course, we also need to eat.' Together they walked all the way to the door of the basement, with Coulsons' permission. Ava had never been there before, it sure was a lot darker and gloomier than the rest of the station. Agent Coulson opened the door and she caught a quick glimpse of the inside of the basement. 'Step back, it's for your own safety.' He brought the first platter into the basement, then walked back to take over the second one from Ava. 'Thank you' he said and smiled. At that very moment the computers started to bleep erratically, and they could hear one of the doctors say that the Tess-something was misbehaving. Dr. Fury commanded the door to be closed. Ava had never seen Fury before, but he didn't sound like someone you should mess with. 'Get back upstairs, now' Coulson commanded, more strict and serious than ever. She obeyed and hurried back upstairs. The huge doors closed behind her.

A few minutes had already passed when she heard a loud rumble from underneath the station. Alarm sirens went off and the intercom announced code Red, which meant evacuation. It was like an earthquake had hit them. She did what they had told her to do in case of code Red and she sped to one of the places where some of the trucks would be picking up people. It was like hell was breaking loose. She climbed into the nearest truck she could find and started it up. She was one of the first ones to be there. She could feel her heart almost pound out of her chest. Suddenly, out of nowhere she saw Hawkeye speeding towards her, together with one of the doctors. He jumped into the truck, shoved her roughly to the passenger side and started to drive away without even waiting for the Doctor, who was struggling to get into the car. Ava helped him get in. A few moments later she heard someone jump into the back of the truck, the weight shifted the truck but she was happy that more people where getting out of this. In the meantime the walls started to crumble and she could hear numerous people yelling. Was it Coulson she heard?

'Clint, we need to get Phil, he's still there!' He ignored her. 'Clint!' she yanked his arm but he didn't budge. It was almost as if she wasn't there.

'Doctor? There are more people out there, we need to help them!' he too ignored her. There was nothing she could do now. She looked through the rearview mirror and saw two huge horns and a staff of some sorts. This did not look well.