The cat's cat eye green eyes shined in the dark, reflecting off the garbage and tin cans. It arched its back, stretching with its platinum paws out in front of it. The platinum tabby fur was contaminated with medium blue streaks near the cat's eyes. It flicked its tail slowly before resuming its original position and continued to run straight. The cat darted through the street, the dim streetlights casting shadows on the ground. S.H.I.E.L.D agents were scattered around the street, searching for something...or someone. The tabby cat's ears fell back against its head and it meowed softly in worry. A female S.H.I.E.L.D agent with long brown hair that was twisted up in a bun on her head, spun sharply at the noise and upon casting her gaze downwards locked eyes with the cat.

"I FOUND HER!" She yelled back to the men and woman in the area as she pulled out her gun, loading it. The cat, knowing she was spotted, hissed loudly at the woman before darting away into the bushes. The cat heard the woman crash after her, the gun loaded and ready to fire. The cat knew she wasn't fast enough to out run the agent. As she ran she shifted and morphed, with the result being a Cheetah with blue markings instead of black. The cheetah easily picked up speed as she dashed out of the bushes and into the street. Gun fire ensued at her sudden appearance and she weaved and swerved in and out between parked cars, chairs, tables, and poles. The cheetah swiftly turned the corner into an alleyway to find a dead end. She spun around facing the agents that were closing in on her and backed up slowly. Her butt hit the red, dusty brick wall stopping her but the agents continued to advance toward her, their guns drawn and pointed at the cheetah. The cheetah pulled her lips back over her gums in a silent snarl, flashing her white, razor sharp teeth. She could literally smell the fear coming off the agents surrounding her in waves. Suddenly she changed and morphed with startling speed. The one agent from before stared in shock at the empty space where the cheetah once stood. A small, delicate mouse with blue furred ears, scuttled past the agents quietly before changing into a grey hound. The base of her ears a deep and rich blue color while the rest of her slim, aerodynamic body was the same platinum color. The greyhound darted off quickly before the agents could turn around and shoot her. Dashing down the street she turned the corner easily. The greyhound glanced back behind her at the agents yelling and screaming before giving a bark like laugh. That's when she saw blinding lights from her peripheral vision. Turning her head to face the light she realized too late that they were headlights of a car. Abruptly she changed into a giant polar bear with blue streaks down its back and the car's tires screeched as the person slammed onto his breaks. The car spun out of control and slammed headlong into her causing her to give an ear splitting roar of pain before collapsing onto the ground. She slowly changed back into a young human woman. She had short hair with long bangs that swept past her jawline that was a platinum color with streaks of deep, rich blue near her eyes. She wore a black halter top and dark blue jeans that flared at the bottom near her sneakers. The woman got up onto her feet as the car door flew open. She limped away into an abandoned building before collapsing onto the ground, her world going dark.


"Uhhnn." I groaned softly. My body ached everywhere. Slowly opening my eyes and tilting my head around to take in my surroundings through my blurry vision, I sat up and immediately regretted it. Pain shot through my system and I did a mental check of my injuries. A sprained, maybe broken, left wrist. A few cracked ribs, and a large gash in my left leg that would have to have at least ten stitches. I was so damn lucky that was all I had after my little stunt last night. I instantly blushed. I had never been so careless as to get hit by a car before. Guess I deserved to drag my sorry ass somewhere to pass out for my carelessness. As I was feeling sorry for myself I heard voices coming toward the place where I was laying. Panicking I transformed into fawn and curled up in pain. Two normal men walked into the room, one with messy dark brown hair and the other had short blonde hair. I swore I had a temporary heart attack when I saw the two. What in the world was Tony Stark and Steve Rogers doing in my house? Well, my technical house. It didn't take long for them to spot me. They whispered to each other quietly but I heard them clearly, my ears twitching and rotating.

"Why is there a deer here?"Tony asked in confusion motioning to me. Steve casted me a worried glance before turning back to Tony.

"Remember the girl they were chasing last night?" Steve asked Tony. Tony looked back at me with sudden recognition. Steve approached me and I desperately tried to stand up so I could escape. Pain stabbed through my wrist, leg, and chest. Changing backing into a human I collapsed back onto the ground with a gasp of pain escaping my lips. This made Steve rush forward with Tony following closely behind him. He reached me and gently took my wrist in his hand.

"Is it broken?" He asked me steadily and I turned my head to look at my wrist. I made a loose fist before I moved it slightly causing pain to shoot through it again. I shook my head no before talking slowly, carefully choosing my words.

"No but I think I might have sprained it badly." I told him. Tony moved his hand before laying it to rest on my leg, covering the gash I had to prevent me from bleeding any more than I already had.

"DON'T TOUCH ME!" I screamed frantically at Tony. The whole feeling I got was a direct result of being touched by him. Tony removed his hand quickly and Steve looked at me in worry. Part of my ability is being able to tell if someone is not who they say they are by just being touched by that person. So basically I can tell if someone is pretending to be someone else just by touch. And I knew for a fact that the guy pretending to be Tony wasn't Tony at all. Steve looked down at me in confusion.

"Why don't you want Tony helping you, Miss?" He asked me as I took some deep breaths. I knew Steve was Steve so I trusted him. I looked up at him with fear written across my face.

"Because he's not Tony Stark...He's Loki." I whispered into the silence. Steve looked up at the pretender to find Loki, black hair, armor, and all standing within feet of us both. Loki strolled casually forward toward us, his eyes fixed on me. If I wasn't already trembling, I definitely was now. Those deep emerald green eyes were dark and the light I swore I could see faintly was overshadowed. He sneered at me and I flinched away, scared of the God from Norse mythology that was very real.

"Very good Mortal. Rogers you will hand me the girl." Loki said in his evil, silky voice. Steve took a step back from Loki with me still held tightly in his arms.

"And what if I refuse?" Steve asked defiantly and I silently prayed that someone would come to our rescue. Loki's eyes flashed in anger and I cowered behind Steve, silently planning out my final willand testament that no one would ever get to read.

"Listen here Mortals! I..." Loki started when suddenly there was a loud blast and bang. Steve and I went flying backwards toward the wall. Concrete, brick, and metal went flying through the air and I shrieked before landing into the ground hard. I sprouted a few profanities and felt some tears of pain run down my face but otherwise I was generally alright. I couldn't help what came out of my mouth next at that point.

"We're listening!" I yelled loud enough for him to hear. A figure emerged out of the dust, and smoke. He had a cape looking thing but it was all still shadowy so I had no idea if it was Loki or not. It slowly walked toward us and my instinct told me it wasn't friendly so I snarled loudly at it. My lion ears laid back flat on my head and my tail flicked dangerously as it grew closer, clearly not intimidated by my attempts to scare it. It was when Steve's hand touched my shoulder did I give a truly frightening roar. The figure faltered for a moment before stepping out of the heavy dust and into clear view. The man had long blonde hair and deep blue eyes. The newer man, which I knew his name but wasn't going to call him by it just yet, picked me up without hesitation and I relaxed fully. It was Thor and not Loki, but the moment I thought about Loki's name there he was in front of us. He was slightly disheveled and his clothes were slightly torn and ripped, as was his skin, but otherwise he showed no sign of any other injury. My lips drew back revealing my sharp teeth, the teeth of a lion, and I growled deeply at him. A warning for him to not come any closer. He was faster than I had originally thought. He kicked Thor, which sent us flying again and I, yet again, hit the ground. I heard Loki and Steve struggle for a few moments before a loud crash was heard. and it went silent. I didn't look up yet. I didn't want to look up until I felt emotionally composed enough to give Loki a good ass whooping. Fingers gently, but firmly curled around my chin and forced me to look up. Low and behold there was Loki, kneeling down in front of me. His eyes bore holes into mine but I didn't look away.

"Now Mortal you are going to come with me." He said softly as if trying to convince me he was good. My ears shot back against my head again and I growled softly.

"Like hell I will!" I yelled angrily as I jerked my head out of his grip and latched onto his hand, my teeth clamping shut on it. He screamed in fury and slapped me violently across the cheek but other then grunting I gave no other sign that it had actually hurt. I lifted my hand, which by now was a giant lion paw equip with razor sharp claws, and struck his face. The force of the hit was enough to send him flying away from me only because I had let go of his hand. I took my moment of opportunity and completed my transformation into a full lion. My eyes narrowed at the God who lifted himself off the ground. In an instant he himself was a lion. It instantly made me think of the conversation that I had hacked into with Director Nick Fury and Thor about his brothers ability to change himself. Obviously he wanted me badly, for whatever reason because Thor had said, unless completely necessary, Loki wouldn't do it. He was slightly bigger then I was with regular lion fur. The tip of his tail and his mane was pure black like his hair.

"I will rip you to shreds for that Mortal!" Loki snarled at me as we slowly circled each other.

"I'd like to see you try!" I growled back at him and he gave a earsplitting roar before charging at me. I nimbly dodged before turning around to get a swipe to the face, the claws tearing into my flesh. I roared in pain and anger before swiping at him and biting his leg. We were equally matched in the battle. We paused for a moment after I had kicked him off of me for some space. I had various gashes everywhere and was bleeding, but I felt some pride in knowing I had dealt the same if not worse damage to Loki. Thinking fast I morphed into a giant elephant. My tusks were long and sharpened to a point. Loki seemed exhausted, considering his black mane was heating him up considerably. Taking my moment and not wasting any time I charged straight at him, letting loose a loud trumpeting. Loki, through his surprise, jumped high into the air and to the side attempting to avoid my sharp tusks but was too late. My right tusk went straight through his lower abdomen and I pinned him to the wall. He gave some weak growling noises and a few feeble attempts to remove my tusk and I removed my tusk and let Loki drop to the ground. I painfully changed back into a lion and slowly, cautiously circled my way over to Loki's body. The moment I neared his body, he lifted himself up to his feet before lunging at me. This time instead of dodging or running away, I ran toward him, gaining speed as I went. I met him head on and we stood up on our hind legs as we scratched and bit each other in a frenzy. I swiped at his lower chest with my paw as he clawed at my stomach, both of us hitting our mark. We both transformed back into our original god/human forms. Loki clutched his chest in pain and looked at me weakly though he tried to hide it. I stumbled slightly before standing up straight and tall. The hell with Loki and my wounds, I needed to find out what happened to Steve and Thor. They hadn't showed up the whole battle and I was worried out of my mind.

"Steve! Thor! Where are you!?" I yelled frantically as Loki collapsed onto the ground. The worst possible conclusion came to the simple fact that they were dead. A low and loud sound escaped me and I knew what it was from. A mixture of a howl and a roar in utter mourning and grief. Just as the sound finished ringing in the silence I saw a head of blonde hair, a bit bloody but otherwise fine. The face met mine and I gave a huge sigh of relief. Steve slowly stood up and approached me with a worried look on his face. I stumbled toward him before I felt myself falling forward and my world went black.


Ace woke up sometime later, aware of everything happening around her but not opening her eyes just yet. She could hear the voices dicussing the battle that had taken place in the abandoned building.

"That's what all this mess and fuss is about! A girl that's little more than 23!?" A furious voice yelled.

"Yes, she's the one." Another voice answered the first, who just huffed in response.

"Listen guys this one's not like any criminal I have ever seen." A more female voice said.

"Thor and I saw her in action. The fact is, she beat Loki by herself." Steve's voice cut through the others. Ace felt her pride swell ever so slightly at the statement.

"So she's a Shapeshifter, am I correct?" Another voice asked in kind of a low, rough voice.

"I prefer the term Changer, but whatever you people need to identify my abilities." Ace told them conversationally as she cracked open her eyes. As sore and in pain as she was she felt the edges of her mouth; Loki had a gaping hole in his chest to contend with. She quickly looked down at herself and groaned loudly. Her left arm was in a sling while the rest of it, including her wrist, was covered in a bandage. Her abdomen was also covered by the white bandages. Ace's ears twitched in annoyance at the slight pain that was occurring there.

"What in the hell are those?!" The man yelled in mock concern and without looking at him she answered.

"They're lion ears, asshole. Even Thor knew that when he saw them." She responded viciously. Ace didn't like this guy with the 'I'm mightier than thou' attitude. He got on her nerves easily. Steve had a slightly shocked look on his face while Tony, the REAL Tony, smiled at her, clearly indicating that she had impressed him. The asshole to which Ace was talking to grabbed the right ear and tugged on it violently, causing Ace to snarl at him and lunge forward to bite him. He let go quickly and recoiled from her in alarm.

"She's an animal!" He yelped. He turned to Fury with stone cold eyes. "I want her in careful confinement in the same type of prison you have that God in and I want it done now!" He ordered before walking away without another word. But Ace wanted the final word.

"This ain't over by a long shot. Trust me, I'm about to make you wish you hadn't put me in confinement like an animal." She promised and he brushed her off before walking out the door. Ace smiled to herself as Steve and Tony moved her into the room. Oh yes this was going to be living hell.


Ace gave another loud howling meow and noticed that the door to her prison finally opened. The man she had come to know as Dan Drebeck, or as she called him Galloway from that Transformers movie, walked in with a beyond pissed look on his face and she smiled. Gotcha bitch.

"How is the high and mighty Galloway today? Pretty bad when I have to act like an actual animal to get your attention." She said sarcastically.

"We have some of the board members coming today so you best behave, and those ears and that tail have to go no exceptions." He told her coldly before walking out of the room again. She smiled knowing that he would be able to hear her clearly from the observation room.

"Yeah, well suck it up princess!" She yelled at him just to piss him off. The door opened again and this time Steve walked in. Ace puffed out her cheeks before letting her breath go in relief. She had had all contact to Steve, Thor, and Tony cut off once she entered the hellish box of solitude and honestly she missed them even if she had only known them a whole day.


Ace sat there on the couch waiting. Thankfully stupid Drebeck hadn't noticed that she hadn't gotten rid of her cat ears and tail yet. The door to the living room opened and everyone stood up.

"Fuck!" She hissed angrily as she attempted to get up but only fell back down to sit on the couch abruptly. Steve turned to offer her help but she waved him off as she finally managed to stand back up on her own. Steve didn't need to get yelled at by Galloway just because he tried to help her.