Own Nothing
Darcy's eyes opened slowly, she blinked as she looked around to see the clearness around her. She reached up and rubbed her eyes and noticed that her glasses were gone. She lifted her head up and looked around for them but couldn't find them anywhere. She blinked rapidly in session as she touched around her face, she didn't have them on, but she could see clearly. She looked down to see that she was in a bed, she lifted up the covers and slipped out of the bed and stood up, she made her way to the door, she looked around the sides to see how to get it open. "How the hell?" She whispered to herself. She placed her hand on the side of the door and accidently pressed the right button and opened the door. "There you go." She smiled softly as she walked out of the room and looked down the small hallway, she could hear talking nearby, so she went towards it.
She walked up the staircase to another level to see people and a raccoon talking. "Uh, hi." Darcy stated as she pulled herself up to the level. She stood there staring at them. "Do any of you knows what happened to my glasses? Or how I got here?"
"You know you sing in your sleep?" Stated the man in the front seat. He was turned halfway away from her to watch where they were stirring.
"Awesome, don't be a dick about it." Darcy scrunched her eyebrows and gave him a look. "Where am I?"
"You're on our ship." The raccoon stated. "You called out to us, and we picked you up."
"What?" Darcy looked down at him. "Back up Davie Crockett's hat, rewind, how did I call you? I don't have a phone, and I was in Asgard last I check."
"Who the hell is Davie Crockett?" Rocket asked as he looked at his friends. The man in the pilot seat started laughing loudly. "Quill! What the hell?"
"What were you doing in Asgard?" A green woman asked her as she stepped forward.
Darcy looked her up and down, the woman reminded slightly like Natasha and May, deadly and graceful. "Thor, I am his Lighting Sister." She explained. "We're friends, he was helping me because some dick head Kree left this Kree Stone on Earth and it swallowed one of my friends and I'm not strong enough to get her out on my own."
The green woman's face darkened at the mention of Kree and she turned to look at Quill and a big muscled man. "She is an enemy of the Kree."
"Is that answer going to get me thrown off the ship, because I don't think I can breathe?" Darcy looked past them all to see that they were in space. "Shit, we're in space."
"Where the hell did you think we were lady?" Rocket sneered.
"Earth." She looked at him. "What the actual fuck happened to me, for me to land here?" She ran her fingers through her hair.
"You do not remember?" The bigger man asked. "You called for us to help you."
She snorted. "It's my stupid powers." She rubbed her face. "Every time, I get stronger, I get closer to find out what I am, they erase my memory, so every step closer, and its two steps back." She looked at him. "I was left on Earth to be protected, apparently the rest of my kind aren't nice and it's hopeful that if nurtured right, my powers will be used for good."
"Terra." The pilot stated. "They call it Terra out here." He explained as he turned away from her to look where they were flying.
"They call it Midgard on Asgard." She quipped. "It's still home. No matter what I am." She sighed and looked down at her hands and watched as they glowed a soft green light.
"I am Groot." A small voice stated from down by her ankles. Darcy looked down to see a small tree like man, only a foot tall, staring up at her. He smiled brightly at her and reached up with one of his branch like arms. She bent down and with her finger they joined their limbs. "I am Groot." He stated again as a bright light shot through the ship blinding everyone. When the light dimmed they were all disoriented.
"Holy shit!" Quill shouted as he looked behind him to fully look around at the crew and the new girl. He saw that that she was passed out next to Groot. Groot was smiling down at her and petting her hair. "What the hell Groot!"
"I am Groot!" Groot smiled at him.
"I think Groot likes her." Rocket stated.
"She has immense power." Drax stated. "She will be a great ally in battle."
Gamora nodded grimly in agreement as she stated down at the girl before she looked at Peter. "She is dangerous."
"Yea, well so are you." He replied. "She was calling out for help, in the middle of space Gamora. We can't just kick her out."
Darcy woke up again to see the small tree staring up at her from the bed. She blinked and saw that she was laying on a cot on the bridge of the ship. She turned her eyes to the tree and frowned. "Are you going to do that again?"
"I am Groot." He replied.
"Good, because that wasn't fun." She whispered as she sat up. She stretched and looked around. "Is there a bathroom on this ship?"
"I am Groot."
Darcy nodded and lifted him up into her arms. "Lead the way." She whispered as he gave her directions to the restroom. A few minutes later she was back on the bridge after using it. She walked back up the stairs to see the rest of the crew waiting for her. "Groot, your friends are weird." She whispered to the tree.
"I am Groot."
She hummed as she set him on the table as she stood in the circle next to Gamora and Quill. "Where should we start?"
"What is your name woman?" Drax asked her as he glared at her.
"Tone down that attitude muscle milk, it isn't pleasant." Darcy replied as she returned his glare. "My name is Darcy Lewis, I am from Earth, Terra, or Midgard. Whatever you would like to call it." She looked around the table. "I work with S.H.I.E.L.D Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. I am what you call gifted." She rolled her eyes at that. "I am labeled a telepath. I can read minds, make you hear, say, or think things that I want you too. I can do so much more than that. Your thoughts and minds are musical notes to me, your souls are Songs to me." She looked around them and saw that Quill was looking intensely at her. "My power grows in bounds daily, I don't know what I am, only that I am an ancient being and that I am powerful. And that I have to more Songs bond to me before I am strong enough to know." She shrugged. "That's me, in a nutshell."
"So hold on, why can't you just look into the minds of people who know what you are and see what you are?" Rocket asked her.
"Because." She sighed. "My powers will erase my memory of it, I have whole days that are wiped away. It was only just a short time ago that I was strong enough that my mind was able to handle to concept that I apparently glow with my powers." She held up her hands to show the light green glow, the light dimmed and vanished. "I was brought to Asgard to get answers about the Kree Stone but I was… I think was attacked but I don't remember by who." She rubbed her eyes. "It's frustrating because, I should know this, I want to know this." She looked down and frowned. "But I'm not strong enough, and Heimdall said that there is someone out there who will use my powers, take them from me. So I have to be stronger to protect myself." She took a deep breath and exhaled. "So I will become stronger."
"I am Groot."
Darcy looked down at him and smiled. "You did what?" She arched an eyebrow.
He nodded at her. "I am Groot."
She took another deep breath and stepped back from the table and leaned down, her arms stretched out on the table to balance herself. "I Bonded with a tree man." She whispered. "Five people and a talking tree."
"I am Groot."
"I'm sorry." She lifted her head to look at him. "An ancient alien monarch of Planet X." Darcy stared at him. "Is that even a real thing?" Groot shrugged at her. "How is this my life?" She asked herself. "Okay, Groot, welcome aboard the crazy train." She stood up and nodded to him. "It'll explain how I know what you're saying I guess."
"I am Groot." Groot smiled at her and turned to Rocket who stared at his friend. Rocket looked up at her in confusion and Darcy looked at him.
"I'm good." Rocket replied.
"Awesome." Darcy replied and gave him a thumbs up. "So." She flicked her eyes around the table to the rest of the crew. "Not to be rude, but I'm not being so open because you have trusting faces and all."
"Oh, I'm Peter Quill, but you can call me Starlord." Peter smirked at her.
Darcy looked at him and bit the inside of her cheek. "I know your name. I did just tell you I was a telepath. I read all of your minds when I first woke up. It's a reflex when I don't know where I am. I send out a cursory flare. I was just in shock, sometimes it takes a second and then Groot shocked me when we touched." She tilted her head down to the tree. "Just basic info, names, what you guys are, if you're a threat or not."
"But do you pose a threat to us?" Gamora asked Darcy, her hand on the hilt of her sword.
"I can be." Darcy replied honestly. "But let's not poke that theory." She smiled at Gamora. "Not to be an ungrateful guest, but do you have any food?" She looked between Gamora and Peter. "It's been awhile since I ate."
"I am Groot."
"Thank you Groot." Darcy smiled down at her new Song. She picked him up and he pointed to the small kitchen and Rocket followed behind. "Do you guys want me to make you something?" She called back. "I can try to earn my keep, until you decide if you want to drop me back off at Terra or Asgard?"
Drax, Gamora and Peter all looked at each other and glanced around the ship before they glanced at each other again. "Hey, have you even cooked on a space ship before?" Peter called to her.
"Nope!" Darcy replied and laughed. "But you learned to do by doing!"
Darcy sat next to Peter in the chairs up front as they flew. The others already sleep or working on things down below. "My friend Jane would kill someone for a view like this." She whispered.
"It is pretty sweet." Peter agreed. "So what's Terra like nowadays?"
She hummed and turned her head to look at him. "You were only a kid when you left weren't you? What 80's, judging by that cassette tape we've been listening too?"
He glanced at her and nodded before looking forward again. "Yea, Yandu, A ravanger, picked me up outside the hospital the night my Mom died."
"You don't have to tell me this." She whispered to him.
"Why not, you can get the information easy enough anyway." He replied roughly. "Being a telepath and all."
"I try to have the most normal life that I can." She replied as she looked forward. She shifted in the chair. "Even after I Bonded with the others. I still wanted to have some conversations out loud. And I now, I remember that only a few months before, I would rather talk telepathically, have whole conversations in my head with someone else. But I think now, that I'm getting closer to the truth, I'm afraid of letting go of being human." She snorted. "And I'm not even human."
"My Dad wasn't Terran, my Mom always called him an angel. Said he was coming back for me." Peter replied. "So far he never did." He shrugged against his seat as Darcy watched him. "I don't know who or what is he. Just that even Nova Corps thinks that he is an ancient being."
"God, I hope we're not related. I'd hate for you to have my bad luck." Darcy stated.
He looked at her as she stared out into space. He frowned as he wondered what went bad in her life for her to want the truth so bad but fear it so much. "So Earth."
She huffed out a laugh. "Calling it that for me?" She looked down at her hands. "It's Earth." She sighed. "That last few years though." She whistled lightly. "Captain America was found and unfrozen, Tony Stark became Iron Man, the Avengers were created and in the span of four years we've have about four alien invasions, three of them with Infinity stones."
"Shit, really?" He asked her. "Xander was almost destroyed by Ronan, a Kree with an axe to grind with the Orb." He put the ship on auto pilot and swerved to look at her. "That was an Infinity Stone too. Nova Corps is protecting it."
Darcy's eyes widened and she sat up straight. "That's four and Thor said that there are six Stones. Why are they all of the sudden activating?"
"I don't know. But Thanos sent Ronan to get the Orb, so the chances are, he would want the others too."
"That's who Thor said Loki was working for." Darcy paled. "This is bad."
"Fucking yeah is it." Peter turned off the auto pilot and started stirring the ship. "We're going to have a word with Nova Corps."
Darcy sat back in her chair and felt a wave of unease wash over her and she wished that she could speak to Fitz and the others. "I'm okay guys" She sent out a thought to them. Though she had no Idea if they would ever get it. "I miss you. I love you guys and I'm sorry."
...
Fitz looked up from the parts he was working with a start. "I'm okay guys. I miss you. I love you guys and I'm sorry." It sounded so far away, so distant, he wasn't sure if he made it up or if it was actually Darcy that said it.
"Fitz!" Skye screamed at the top of her lungs as the Playground shook. "Did you hear that?" She raced into the garage and almost knocked him over. "It was Darcy!" He looked at her and saw that she was crying, tears falling down her face.
He nodded slowly and smiled. "I heard it. She's okay."
"She sounded so small, so far away." Skye whispered. "When is she coming home?" Skye cried as she hugged Fitz, he wrapped his arms around his friend and held her close.
"Did you guys hear her too?" Hunter asked as he walked into the garage. "I went to check on Coulson but he's locked in the office with May." Fitz nodded into Skye's shoulder and Hunter's face softened as he walked over and hugged the younger two. "She'll be okay. She's just in Asgard trying to find a way to get Jemma back. Coulson said she'll be fine." Hunter tried to reassure them.
...
Coulson stood there in the office with May and glared at the screen of Thor. "What do you mean she isn't with you?"
"My dear Lighting Sister was attacked in her bedchamber in the midst of the night and she used her powers to get away, and Heimdall has yet been able to locate her. She seemed to be blocking his sight to protect herself. I believe she is doing it unbeknownst to herself. Her attacker must also be someone who is strong or equal to her power of skill."
"Who can be her equal in Asgard?" May asked as she gave Coulson a stare to calm himself. He was becoming irrational since his and Darcy's fight earlier that week.
Thor frowned and looked pensive for a moment. "Lady Sif had said that since Lady Darcy had been in her head, that she has noticed someone using magic around Asgard." He paused.
"Who is it?" Coulson asked, almost seething.
"Lady Sif, believes it to be Loki, though I don't believe it so, my brother died in my arms."
"I died once." Coulson bit back.
"Coulson." May warned. She turned back to Thor. "What did Darcy say?"
"She said that he would use the opportunity to fake his own death as the ultimate prank, no one would be looking for him." Thor sighed. "My brother would be free to do as he pleased. He would be equal enough to challenge Lady Darcy as she is not at the height of her power."
"What is she?" Coulson asked him. "She isn't here, she isn't in Asgard. She can't read our minds. Can you tell us what she is?"
Thor frowned at him. "Do you not still feel a connection between you?"
Coulson stopped and he thought to the words he heard, Darcy's words. The sorry was to him and he knew it. "It was so small, and so far away."
"If you knew her secret, her power would seek it out. And it would wipe your memory, she is not ready yet." Thor stated solemnly. "Please remember Son of Coul, Lady Darcy is many things, but she has never shown the tendencies to be like the others of her kind. I have seen the light in her eyes and the love in her heart. Do not let her fall into darkness. If she does, all is lost." He closed the video comm.
May turned to look at Coulson and arch her brow. "That wasn't ominous or anything."
"So we just need to keep treating Darcy like we normally do." He stated.
"You sent her away." May replied. "Like her parents did. You're not doing a very good job."
He sighed and rubbed his forehead. "The stone was attacking her, I was scared it was going to get her. I panicked."
"Panic less, Lewis is a smart kid and she's close to Fitz and Skye, as long as she doesn't lose them, she'll be okay." May stated.