Cassies body felt like it was a drift. Like she was weightlessly floating in a watery abyss. Cassie opened her eyes, but all she saw was darkness. Then she started sinking. Cassie panicked and tried to reach out her arms grabbing at nothing. She tried yelling out but all that came out were air bubbles that floated up to a non existent surface.
"Do not fear death Cassandra Jackson, for it shall not embrace you today." Cassie's eye franctly tried to find the source of the feminine voice, but all she found was blackness.
"You are a very special girl Cassandra Jackson, and I have a job for you." The voice continued to echo as Cassie sank even further into the abyss. "You have been given a second chance at life, but this second chance has a payment. You will defy fate and change the future of a few special individuals."
Cassie noticed that the sinking feeling stopped and a strange light appeared in the distance.
"I will lend you my help along the way, but this is your mission to do alone. Do not waste this second chance."
The voice faded away and Cassie's world seemed turn upside down and now instead of sinking, she was falling.
"Now go Cassandra Jackson, and save the heros."
A light opened up before Cassie and soon a hardwood floor appeared with a twist and sick thump Cassie laned on her back, a gasp of pain leaving her mouth. Black spots invaded her vision and strange gery shapes appeared above her. She could hear murmurs and suspected there were people around her. Pain erupted from her head as Cassie tried to move, but more spots just filled her vision and soon enough all she saw was darkness as she passed out.
A constant beeping caused Cassie to stir from her hibernation. Cassie tried reaching her arm out to turn off her alarm clock, but her hand found nothing but air. Confused and still half dead to the world, Cassie opened her eyes and tried to focus on her room, but as her vision cleared Cassie found that she was not in her childhood room nor her room in LA. Panic began to rise in her stomach as her eyes took in the unknown space she now occupied. High tech medical equipment told Cassie that she was in a hospital, or at least she hopped she was. All the medical supplies in the room looked too high tech to be a New York hospital.
Cassie's panic turned into anxiety, she began to pull the ivy and other needles and plugs that were hooked up to her. She needed to leave, something wasn't right.
The heart monitor started to beep frantically, until she pulled off the pulse reader and it flatlined.
That must have notified someone that something was wrong because a voice filled the room.
"Please, relax until Mr. Stark arrives." The voice startled Cassie and she sat still for a moment, looking around for the nonexistent person the voice came from.
"What?"Cassie's voice sounded horse and she noticed that her throat felt dry and unused.
"Hey, the party crashers awake." Cassie's eyes snapped to a man who entered the room. "Jarvis turn off the heart monitor and let Cap know she's awake."
"Will do sir." The voice from earlier filled the room for a brief moment.
The man walked closer to Cassie, his eyes scanning over the equipment that surrounded the bed she was in.
"Um, so what hospital am I in?" Cassie asked nervously. The last thing she remembered was leaving the town house in a fit of rage and wandering around until she came across the toy store.
Dont forget your mission.
Cassie's eyes widened, now she remembered, she was hit by the taxicab, she died. Well she thinks she did, but here she was, alive and breathing.
"Well first off this isnt a hospital, just a high tech recovery room." The man finally looked at Cassie.
Before she could ask where she was or who the man was, the door opened and another man walked in. He was the exact opposite of the first man, where the first guy had dark brown hair and facial hair, this guy had blond hair and a clean face. He was also much bigger than the first guy.
"Tony, what do you got?" The second man asked.
"Well she can speak, so thats good." The second man sent Tony a glare for his sarcastic answer then looked at Cassie. "So, whats your name?"
"Its, uh, Cassandra Jackson." Cassie tried to calm her beating heart, if these guys wanted to hurt her they would have already done it, right?
"Well Cassandra Jackson, you're not turning up on any identity search." Cassie looked at Tony who was now looking at a screen that seemed to just pulled right off the wall. It could have been mistaken for a window if it wasnt for the names that kept going across it as Tony searched for Cassie in the data base. "So who are you really? Shield? CIA? FBI?"
"I'm none of those, I'm just Cassie Jackson. And what's Shield?" Cassie obviously knew what the other two were, but Shield was new.
"Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division." Tony answered.
"Doesn't matter, what we want to know is who you are?" The blond haired man wanted to get to the point and find out if Cassie was a threat.
"And why you decided to crash through my pent house." Tony asked.
"What? I dont remember crashing through anyones penthouse." Cassie stated.
"What do you remember?" The second guy asked.
"I remember leaving my moms townhouse, um, I wasn't really heading anywhere, but I saw a kid run into the street." Cassie stared at her hands as she remembered dying. "The cab started skidding on the ice, it was heading right for the kid so ran out into the street and pushed him out of the way. I must have slipped because before I could get out of the way the cab hit me. Thats all I remember."
The two men looked at eachother. They couldn't really tell if the girl was lying or not. She seemed convinced that that was what happened, but that's not what they witnessed.
"If all that true, then how did you crash land in my penthouse three days ago?" Tony watched as the girls eyes widened.
"Three days Ago?" Cassie asked.
"Yeah, and you said the cab skidded on the ice, its the middle of summer." The second man stated.
That panic Cassie felt a while ago started to ease its way back into her. Summer? Thats impossible, the biggest blizzard of last fifty something years was keeping her in New York.
"So, want to explain that?" Tony asked almost smugly.
Cassie didn't know how to explain it. One second its the middle of winter and now it's summer? What the hell was happening?
"None of this is making sense." Cassie held her head in her hands for a second before looking back up at the men. "And who are you guys any way? How do I know you didn't kidnap me or something?"
"What? You seriously don't know who we are? I mean I understand not knowing him, but me?" Tony seemed almost offended by the fact that Cassie had no idea who they were. "I'm Tony Stark. You know Iron Man, and this guy here is Steve Rogers, aka Captain America."
"Pfft, hahahaha." Cassie's laughter escaped her lungs in a huff as she slouched over.
"I don't think she believes us Steve." Tony whispered to Steve as Cassie tried to control the relief she felt.
"Yeah, right, Iron Man and Captain America. So what is this a children's hospital or something? Was there no room at county?" Cassie asked, whipping the tears that gathered in the corner of her eyes.
The two men looked at each other before looking back at Cassie who was still trying to catch her breath. A feeling of calmness came over her, thank God, she was worried that she had been kidnapped or something. But then she noticed the silence that came from the men and she froze.
"Uh, you guys aren't serious, right?" More silence met her. "Oh my god, you guys are serious."
"Uh, yeah we're serious." Tony said.
"This isn't some children's hospital, you're in the Avengers tower." Steve answered.
"No, no you guys are crazy. You do know that they are just comic book characters right? Their made up people with superpowers." Cassie's anxiety flared with frustration. "The X-Men, Spider Man, they're all characters in comic books. None of this is real"
"Comic books?" Tony asked. "Are they making comic books about us?"
"We aren't comic book characters." Steve deemed. "Were as real as you are."
Cassie said nothing. None of this was supposed to be real, and their was some part of her that was hoping this was all some sort of elaborate joke of some kind, but another part of her, a stronger part, told her that all of this was true. She really was in the Avengers tower, and she really was sitting before Iron Man and Captain America.
Dont forget your mission.
That voice, Cassie knew that voice, but where had she heard it. Drowning. She remembers drowning, and that voice saying she had a mission, a chance to change the future. But whose? The Avengers? No. The heros.
"I remember drowning." Cassie finally said.
"Drowning? I thought you said you were hit by taxi cab?"Tony asked.
"I was hit by a cab, but after that I remember sinking. It was really dark, but a voice started talking, a woman's, she said she had a job for me. Something about changing the future, and saving the heros."
Steve and Tony didn't know what to make of girls claim. She was an unknown, she wasn't showing up on any database and her comments about them being comic book characters concerned them.
"Why don't you tell us where it is you come from, uh, Cassandra." Steve didn't want to make the girl any more uncomfortable than she already was, but they needed to know the whole story.
"It Cassie, and I'm from New York, well not this New York. In the New York, world, or what ever, you guys aren't real. You're all just comic book characters. Theres no such thing as super heros." Cassie didn't know how else to explain it. All of this shouldn't have even been possible. Well on the bright side, she was far away from her family, really far away, but her little apartment was also worlds away.
"Well, were real here kiddo." Tony couldn't help but feel a little bad for the girl, she was far from the home she knew, but she did also crash into his penthouse. He still needed figure out how that happened.
Steve listened too Cassie's story, and he believed her. For some reason this girl was sent to this world, and if what she said was true about the voice, they were going to need her.
"Listen, youve been through alot in a short amount of time, how about we introduce to you too the other Avengers and get you something to eat." Steve wanted to make Cassie as comfortable as possible while still keeping an eye on her.
"Uh, yeah, that sounds good. I'm actually really hungry now that I think about it." Cassie admitted.
"Well then, lets get some grub!" Tony lead the way out of the healing room.
Cassie got up from the bed, her feet a little unsteady, but she followed after the man with Steve right behind her. Suddenly her nerves were back, she was about to meet the rest of the Avengers.
A/N: Hello readers, thank you for taking the time to read my new story, for those who have read any of my other stories, get ready for a come back. I hope you enjoy this story and feel free to review.