Marvel and their characters don't belong to me. Just my OCs.
Thanks to Delta808th for beta reading!
And thanks to kaylinthehuman, ParanoidSchizo91, BiancaDiAngelo, tywingfieldtbs42 for reviewing!
All of ya'll had some interesting ideas about who could be storming Stark Tower. Only one of ya had it right though... The winner will be announced at the end of the chapter, since I don't won't to spoil it. :)
"Agent Sawyer, come in. Agent Sawyer, where are you?"
The sudden voice caused Jenny to drop into a low defensive crouch, one hand touching the floor and nearly every muscle in her body tensed and readied to spring. Thor's grip on Mjolnir tightened and he pulled his arm back slightly, getting ready to throw.
"Agent Sawyer, this is Agent Hicks. Where are you?!" A crackle of static finally drew Jenny's attention to the military-grade radio lying on the floor by the men that Thor had just fried. It must have fallen off one of them before they'd been hit by lightening, given that it still worked.
She looked over at Thor and gulped. She didn't like showing off her abilities in front of strangers, past experience taught her that most never reacted well. But this was Thor. Chances were he was well acquainted with different.
Jenny straightened and met Thor's questioning gaze, "This is going to sound really weird."
"I'm sorry, what are you speaking-"
"Shhh!"
"Agent Sawyer!"
Jenny literally dive-bombed at the radio, grasping it firmly. She gave a mental sigh of relief when she recognized the model, Thank you, Danger Room sessions, and hit the call button.
"Agent Hicks, this is Agent Sawyer." But it wasn't her voice that she'd answered with. It was Thor's, but with an American accent. She crossed her fingers and prayed that Agent Hicks didn't know Agent Sawyer by his voice.
"About time, Sawyer. What took you so long?"
Oh thank goodness!
"We ran into one of Stark's employees and she tried to be a hero." Again, she answered with her Americanized Thor voice, making a point of not looking at Thor. The last thing she needed was to see his look of disgust.
"And you dealt with her, I assume."
"Emphasis on she tried, sir."
"Good, keep searching for Stark. Rendezvous at the rooftop for pickup in 0100 hours."
"Yes sir."
There was the fluttering of a cape and Jenny was instinctually aware of that Thor had moved closer, "That was quite impressive. How were you able to accomplish that?"
Jenny looked up, visibly surprised at the compliment and Thor's earnest face. He wasn't making fun of her. He was the first non-mutant that she knew of who hadn't ridiculed her abilities and that literally threw her.
She nervously cleared her throat, "It's uh... One of my gifts." Her hand was shaking, the radio rattling in her grip. She tightened her grip, hoping he hadn't seen that.
His eyes told her that he had. Thor stepped out of her personal space, "Well, thanks to your gift, we now know that they haven't found Stark yet." His brow furrowed in confusion, "What did he mean, oh-one-hundred-hours? They surely can't be planning to search the tower for one hundred hours?"
Jenny bit back a giggle despite herself, "It's a military term. It means one hour."
"Then we have one hour to stop them."
Jenny easily kept up with Thor despite his long strides as they quickly went from room to room on each floor. She was still jumpy around him like she was with all strangers, but at least she no longer had to crawl through vents to get past security doors. Thanks to Mjolnir.
Speaking of which... They were now five floors up from where they'd started and Thor had just taken down one of those doors. Another group of soldiers, actually agents, had mistakenly believed that reinforced steel would protect them from the wrath of a demi-god. As if. Gunfire blazed through the now ruined door and Jenny dodged while Thor simply blocked with Mjolnir. She slid into one man's personal space and hit his wrist hard, making him drop the gun before flipping him. He lay still and she moved swiftly on to the next man, cringing as Mjolnir flew past her. Her current foe took advantage of her hesitation and brought the butt of his gun up into her jaw. Jenny used the momentum from the hit to propel herself into a backflip, kicking him in the chin in the process. He hit the floor senseless just a moment after she landed in a crouch.
She looked up, but all of the so-called agents were laid out on the floor. One was still groaning and Thor strode towards him. Jenny decided to leave the interrogation to him and went about making sure that the other agents were properly tied up and relieved of all their weapons, trying her best to ignore the sounds of Thor questioning the man. Apparently Asgardian interrogation tactics were none too gentle and Jenny just knew that the sounds of pain coming from across the room would trigger her flashbacks. If not now, then definitely later.
"Hail Hydra!" came a strangled cry and Jenny's gaze whipped over to see the man start to go into convulsions. He was foaming at the mouth and that was never a good sign. In fact, he was dead before she could make it across the room.
"I do not understand..."
"Suicide, Thor. Hydra was basically a cult, the followers were obsessively loyal. Emphasis on was. I wrote a paper on them for a History class once. Captain Rogers fought and beat 'em back during World War II."
"And yet, here they are."
She nodded, just as confused as he was. But there would be time for speculation later, "C'mon, we've only got less than twenty minutes left." Jenny turned on her heel to leave. She was fully aware that the so-called Hydra soldiers that she'd just tied up might also have suicide pills on them too, but they didn't have time to check each and every man.
"Lady-"
"Mock."
"I'm sorry?"
"Mock," she answered, leaning on the doorway. "That's what they call me."
"Mock, then. I believe you need to see this."
"See what?" He didn't move towards her, but instead crouched by the dead man.
"I'm not overly found of dead bodies, Thor," she whispered, coming to stand behind him so that she could look over his shoulder.
"Neither am I." He lifted said corpse's left arm, "What does that look like to you?"
"An eagle, why?"
"It is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s symbol. Or it was."
And kaylinthehuman guessed correctly! The prize is your very own tailor-made X-man suit! ;) (In all honesty, it would be cool to really have one of those...)
Please R&R.
