London
"Darcy," Jane complained, "I don't even see why you brought me here or why you have an intern." They both turn around to look at Ian, Darcy's new intern, who gives a genuine smile in which Darcy flirtatiously returns. "It was going so good with Richard." Fortunately and unfortunately, Darcy had to come crash and 'kidnap' Jane away while she was on her, dare she think, date.
"Look," Darcy started. "One, it was not 'going good', Humph, talk about awkward. Sea bass, sea bass!" she laughed "And two, your toaster, GPS thingy started going all wonky while you were on your 'date'" Jane gave Darcy a dirty look for interrupting the thing. "And the squiggly lines and circles all led here. But the thing is, the readings look exactly the same as–"
"As New Mexico", Jane finished when she saw the small hieroglyphics and squiggles on the astronomical spectrometer.
The trio came to a halt when they saw several shadows through the barracks and a large flock of birds fly from out of nowhere.
"Hello! Anyone here!?" Darcy obnoxiously shouted. "Don't shoot me, I'm American!"
"Really?" Jane asked with sarcasm. "Could you be any louder?"
"Actually I–" was all Darcy spit out before Ian covered her mouth with his free hand.
"Thank you," Jane breathed. Walking a few meters ahead she saw the shadows again, but they appeared to look short and, human? "Hello? It's okay, we won't hurt you" she said in the nicest voice possible.
Just following that statement, three children, roughly about twelve, came out from behind the stairs they were hiding behind. "Are you the police?" the youngest asked in a shy timid voice. It sounded adorable accompanied with her British accent.
"Oh, no!" Jane replied. "We are –" she turned, seeing Darcy look cluelessly around and Ian still with his hand on her mouth. "I'm a scientist."
"Hey!" Darcy tried to say but it came out as if she were making a whale call.
"We weren't doing anything bad. We just found it here," said the boy walking a bit forward.
"Found what? Can you show us?" Jane said. The youngest, a female, nodded her head and grabbed Jane's hand and followed the two older kids to it. The three scientist were all taken aback by what they laid their eyes on. A floating semi-truck, which seemed to be held up by nothing. No possible thing other than –
"Magic!" squealed the little girl holding onto Jane's hand.
Jane quickly gave her a reassuring smile. Had this been two years ago, before, the windstorm, before Thor and before the Avengers. She would've never believe it. But since she's actually experienced it first hand, she had but nothing to do than believe it.
"Come," said the other girl. Gesturing to the top of the stairs. "This is really cool".
Led up the stairs by the children, the scientists gaped in astonishment as they came to a halt and witnessed the young boy drop an empty pop bottle once they reached midway to the top.
The bottle went straight down almost past two levels of stairs down, then vanished.
Jane, Darcy, and Ian all held confused looks upon their faces as they looked at the oldest of the children.
"Where did it go?" Jane asked.
The boy did not answer but simple pointed up. The trio followed his finger and alas; they saw the bottle come back down. Disappear, then fall back down from a couple of levels higher up than they were.
Jane looked at her thingy and Darcy gave her a knowing look.
"Don't touch anything," she ordered, more to Darcy than anyone else as she took off and started after the signal to where it was strongest.
beep. Beep. BEEP. The sounds coming from her device got louder and stronger the longer she walked in the direction of the signal.
Whoosh.
A sudden random wind from seemingly nowhere came and blew around Jane. Somehow it seemed as if the wind was pushing her back, as if it was trying to keep her away from where the signal was coming from. Jane ignored the uneasy feeling she felt in her stomach and kept trudging forward. She finally made it past the wind barrier and after that it stopped pushing her back and started to pull her forward. Fast. So fast she nearly dropped the spectrometer.
Thump.
She landed harshly, yet gracefully on hard gravel. For a couple of seconds she was seeing stars until she realized what she was doing.
Jane got up, dusted herself off, then realized her surrounds. It seemed that she was on an isle that only led to a large rock pillar that suspiciously glowed red. Curious as a scientist will ever get, she walked up to it and peeped in. She got even more curious and stuck her hand in and tried to grab it.
The red mist flowed around her hand for a second the rammed itself into her hand. It felt as if she were at the doctor getting the flu shot but ten times worse and not just in the arm. The mist flowed throughout her body and eventually was fully inside her. Her unwilling eyes glowed red until Jane couldn't take it anymore and she fainted from what was going on. It all happened so fast. One second she was looking at this, the next she was injected with this, this- thing and it felt so freezing cold but from the inside, then she just let go.
Her unconscious body lay on the floor next to the pillar.
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"Thanos" the Other squealed in that inhumane voice.
"Yes?" he responded. After the chitauri defeat at New York, Thanos was upset but vengeful. He constantly planned on his revenge against the Avengers but mainly a specific silver-tongued demigod who promised he would not fail.
"The god has failed us. I suggest we send chitauri to re-claim him from the realms of Asgard and we can begin the torture. He knows. There is no barren moon, no wasteland, no realm, no crevice where we cannot find him. When should we begin?"
"No, not yet. We will be acquiring the god soon though. First, we need to pay a visit to a certain dark elf. Prepare the ship."
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