I bang in the wooden door and try the large handle to find it locked. I turn to see Sam watching me worried while Steve and Bucky are ahead standing in front of a large statue of one of the cloaked men. I give up on the door and walk up next to Sam trying to look further down the halls on either side. It reminded me of a temple from Indiana Jones with torches lining the walls and corroded mossy stones making up everything I see. Bucky takes one of the torches placing it on a track full of gasoline and the fire spreads through the line illuminating the halls. Strange symbols are scrawled on every column and wall making it look more like a prison cell than an ancient temple.

"Cat time?" Sam begs holding up his disposable camera. I roll my eyes but shift into a tabby cat. Sam instantly scoops me up and stands in front of the statue taking a quick selfie before setting my softly on the ground. I shift into regular form and blink my eyes stumbling around. Steve puts a hand to catch me right as I fall.

"Woah, you ok?"

"Yeah, it's just shifting into certain ones wear me out."

"What do you mean, certain ones?"

"Like I don't know, changing what I look like as a human is easy but when I change something with totally different genetics, like a cat, it wears me out faster." They all nod understating and I get a small sense of guilt which I don't understand why, I don't have to help them.

"I'll have to use my cat card sparingly then." Sam nudges my shoulder and I nudge him right back but we're interrupted by a long low wind coming from one of the halls.

"Let's get the scroll and get out." Bucky mumbles gripping the straps of his backpack and for once I agree with him. I practically hug Sam's side as we venture down the long hallway and turn right at the statue following the track of fire down the corridor.

"So, do we know where we're going or are we just walking around aimlessly in this creepy temple apparently haunted by the ghosts of Gods which doesn't really make sense since their supposedly immortal in all and-"

"Why don't you talk to them since you guys seem to have great conversation that you just happen not to tell us about." Bucky grumbles brushing past me and I push off of Sam clenching my fists as I walk closer to him.

"My mistake next time I'll invite you over and we can all talk about it over tea." I snap my growing voice echoing off the walls. Barnes whips around and our face our only inches apart as we glare at each other ready to rip each other apart... again. I feel my stone sting again as I grow angier and again I feel my body being pumped full of energy. The fire next to me grows its flame flickering against the wall and leaving black burn marks. The wind in the temple begins to pick up whipping our jackets around and causing old dust and dirt to stir up. I feel a hand on my shoulder and I flinch turning around and taking a step away from Bucky, and Steve who is trying to calm him down.

"Both of you quit we don't have time for your childish arguing. You're still healing" Bucky takes a step back looking at his shoes and I give Steve puzzled look. The wind is now gone and the fire has gone back to its tiny flickering leaving me wondering how powerful this stone really is.

"Wait what do you mean-"

"Lets go, this fire won't burn forever." Sam interrupts wrapping his arm around me and leading me further down the hall. I shrug off his arm and turn around stopping in front of Sam.

"What are you guys not telling me?"

"It's nothing important."

"But I want to know." I whine scooting in front of Sam when he tries to go around me.

"Trust goes both ways Echo." He finally gets around me and Steve and Bucky join him leaving me a few paces behind. I touch the stone through the bandage and look back to the men in front of me. I should tell them, not just to find out what wrong with Barnes but they're also probably the only people who understand what's happening to me. If they found this temple and the stone and temple are connected then maybe telling them about the stone is the only way to save everyone. I study the ground as I walk behind them still going back and forth about trusting them with my secret.

"It has to be around here somewhere…" Steve says looking around and finding us back in the main hallway with the statue. Bucky, Sam and I groan in annoyance muttering curses under our breath earning a scolding from Steve.

"What are we even looking for? I ask dragging my feet and laying down on a stone bench looking up at the ceiling.

"It's none of your business-" Bucky starts but Steve is willing to tell anyone about it, it if helps us find it faster.

"It's a scroll."

I see a map of the sky painted up on the ceiling with lines connecting the constellations and waves of white showing other galaxies. I see the rough outline of a tree with glowing lights around it and what looks like nine colorful ornaments hanging in the branches.

"But like a special scroll says some special stuff on it." I roll my eyes at Sam who really narrows it down for me. Looking back up at the ceiling I see a strange black circle at the top of the tree that has six little dots on it. I lean up keeping my eye on the dots trying to see why they seem very familiar.

"Hey, uh, guys what are those little dots up there?" I say pointing to the painting without looking away.

"They are the infinity stones, ancient powers that control the cosmos." One of them says in a stranger much lower voice.

"What's the orange ones name?" I ask and my stone heats up under my bandage probably wanting me to give it some air.

"Echo!" Steve yells my name and I shoot up turning around to find myself alone in the cavern. I scramble up holding the stone close to my chest as I peek around every corner.

"Guys where did you go?" I scream hoping they'll hear me through the many halls.

"Right." They say in that strange voice. I do as they say now running down the hall my footsteps echoing as I go.

"Left." They say and I turn again by this time I slow down trying to listen to where the voices are coming from. The only problem, they're coming from everywhere. I stop at a crossroads catching my breath and listening but only hearing the tiny drip of water leaking through the stones.

"Left." It commands and I finally figure out its not Steve, Bucky or Sam talking to me.

"What if I don't want to?" I say out loud putting my hands on my hips and looking up to the sky. Some of the fire from the track jumps off landing on the floor in front of me and sizzling. The fire grows until it's formed into a small, chubby man.

"Well then I'd say you're a little brat." He mimics me putting his hands on his hips and sticking out his tongue. I roll my eyes letting my arms fall to my sides.

"You're a God?" I ask almost amused at the little man who is a least a foot smaller than me.

"Something funny, Echo?" I freeze at my own name and look at him suspiciously.

"Are you the one who talked to me on the trail?"

"Nope, that was Pan the God of the wild."

"Is he like you, you know, alive?"

"With pollution, deforestation and blah blah blah he can only speak with the wind and he can never have my killer bod."

"Uh sure, then who are you?"

"Aakifah"

"Aquifer?"

"No, A-key-fa. God of Worship and temples."

I think about it for a second before replying.

"But why are you a ghost if people still do that stuff?"

He waves the matter away and floats down one of the halls which I quickly go down too.

"You asked about the infinity stones, yeah?"

"Oh yeah research project. English is really-"

"I know ones stuck to your wrist no need to fib."

I feel my face heat up as it always does when I've been caught. He makes a few sharp turns stopping in front a small shrub. As small as it was it was far from ordinary on the branches were little floating galaxies. Looking through one I could see a beautiful golden city with a rainbow bridge a lot like the one from Mario Kart. In another I see a large black ship with red detailing, the planet look like a barren wasteland with cold white bodies littering the ground. Aakifah places a hand into one of the portals and pulls out a small stone a lot like mine but purple. He holds it out to me and I hesitantly touch it only to find it's only a hologram.

"This is the power stone it's-"

"Let me guess the most powerful."

He smiles like a know-it-all placing the hologram in my hand.

"If you want to be a mass murderer than yeah it's the most powerful."

He walks away and I place the stone into the portal he pulled it out of. I jog to catch up with him as he leads me down the corridors.

"So which stone is the best?"

"It depends."

"That's vague."

He laughs and the sound bounces off the halls making the stones in them shake.

"It depends on how you look at it. If you think power is the most important thing than that stone is powerful to you but if you think the mind is the most important thing then, in your hands, it's the most powerful."

I nod my head matching up all this information to what I already know. He reaches out his hand but I pull my wrist closer to me.

"I'm only ghost it can't hurt me."

He grins as I place my wrist is his hand and begin unwrapping the bandage. This guys seems really interested in the stone and maybe he wants it for himself but I figured if he's a flame than I can just blow him out or something. The last wrap comes off letting my stone light up the cavern and we both have to look away from the blinding light.

"The Soul Stone."

I feel an odd sense of power come over me, like knowing the name somehow made it more connected to me. He places his fiery finger on the stone before I can warn him. His finger goes right into the stone like the portals on the tree.

"Oh my god, what are you doing?" I yell mostly out of fear but a small part of me thinks it's pretty cool. He pull out his finger and I find it fully intact. I pull my wrist from my holding the stone close to my face seeing if there's a little world in there but thankfully it's still just a gem.

"Freaked you out didn't it?" He give a loud laugh dong a flip in the air. "In your hands it's more powerful than it's ever been."

I turn to look at him and then back to the stone who has seemed to calm down.

"Why? I'm nobody special."

"That's where you're wrong." He takes my exposed wrist and leads me further though the maze of halls.

"Since the beginning of time the stones have been causing chaos and people have been trying to control that chaos ultimately failing. Then Gods began to see the stones fate and in that fate they saw the Chaostasis. People like you who the stone could bond with-"

"Like posses me?" I ask frightened as I remember Jane Foster in my dream.

"No, no that's a side effect. Over the years people tried to draw the stones power for their self. Most of the time it killed them but sometimes they could harness energy or even super powers."

I think back to the dream with Agent Blackburn and how he had been doing experiments with one of the stones.

"So I'm a...a"

"Choastasis."

"Right that, so Gods saw me in the future and that why those cloak people had the birth marks on their wrist."

The God nods and sits me down on the bench. We had somehow found our way to the main room.

"You visiting this temple has been prophesied for like three millennia and those men have been chosen since birth to run this temple waiting for you to retrieve the scroll."

"If they've known about me coming for a long time then why did they say I couldn't come in?"

"Well most people would want to… show off the stone so they expected to notice a choastasis immediately but you had it covered. I stepped in and told them who you were, then they let you in."

I slump down against the wall and slap my hand to my forehead.

"This is too much I can't-"

"It's confusing I know and I gotta blast but-"

"No no no, you can't pull a Thor and tell me all this crazy stuff then disappear!"

"But you have the stone." He takes my hand holding the stone and giving me a warm smile, very warm since he was on fire.

"This stone can't tell me what's happening or help me control it's stinging fits!"

"It's helped you so far showing you Thanos and Mr. Abbott. Also about Agent Blackburn and his experiments with the stones."

"Wait the stone was giving me those dreams."

"Yes and no…"

"Great another very clear answer."

"Echo!" I hear Steve yell but his voice seems far away and choppy.

"You gotta go back, listen to the stone."

He is sucked back into the track of fire and I open my eyes to find myself lying on the ground. I hold my head and notice my bandage is still on. Steve rounds the corner and sees me helping me onto the bench.

"Where were you? We went looking everywhere, we yelled your name as loud as we could!" Bucky is looking down at me angry but it soon turn to worry as he sees me not feeling well.

"I was just tired I must've fallen asleep."

"Echo, you just disappeared out of thin air. You've been gone for 4 hours." Sam explains checking my head.

"Tell me you at least found the scroll." I grumble but judging by their annoyed faces I already know the answer. I get up and sway a little but remain on my feet.

"Listen to the stone." I hear Aakifah's voice but it's seems more like a whisper. I turn around hoping he'll be there to give more answers but the hall is empty.

"What is it?" Steve asks looking down the same hall.

"Nothing." I reply slipping my finger under my bandage feeling the cuts, burns and finally the stone. I touch it as it tingles my skin almost making me laugh. I feel a strange pulling sensation to the right of the stone and I take a few wery steps in that direction. The gem shakes in excitement and I feel the strange sensation again like a rope tied to the stone that's being pulled on.

"Follow me."

They look up from their group discussion and hurriedly follow me probably just afraid of losing me again.

"Wait where are we-"

I cut of Barnes by taking a sharp left turn followed by a few other turns that I quickly lose count of.

"Wait just- Wait a second!" Sam steps in front of me grabbing my shoulders.

"Trust me." I say before he can speak, his shoulders sag and he nods stepping out of my way. I surprise him by grabbing his hand and leading him quickly through the maze. After a while of racing around the pulling stops and the stone settles down. I look around the hall we ended up in seeing a few paintings, a fountain, a sword and a bookcase of scrolls. We all rush over to the shelves and poke around looking for the scroll.

"So uh what's it look like again?" Steve gives me an apologetic look scratching the back of his head. I shake my head stepping away for the shelves and thinking about how the hell we are ever going to find it if it looks like the rest? The stone answers that for me but in a way I don't expect. The pulling feeling comes back leading me over to the fountain. I study the designs carved into the pearly white stone and the priceless gems lining the rims of each story. It has three bowls that the water flows through making a beautiful waterfall effect. Looking down in the pool at the bottom I see pictures of families, coins from around the world and even out of this world and under that a shiny silver scroll.

"Guys, it's here! That has to be it!" They all rush over looking down and hugging each other in excitement. Even I get caught in their celebration as Bucky and Steve wrap me in equally strong hugs.

"Let's save the world." Sam smiles about to put his hand in the water. Suddenly the stone stings me again and I can't help but yell out in pain. Sam pulls his hand away and the stinging stops as I catch my breath.

"Are you ok? Echo?" Steve is shaking my shoulders but his face is blurry as sweat rolls down my forehead and I stumble up against the wall.

"You...you can't...touch the water." I say out of breath and they look at confused.

"Long story… tell you… when we… get back."

They seem to understand or they just don't want to question to it.

"So then how do we get the scroll?" Steve asks studying the water and the scroll in it. I look to the sword on the wall and take I off it's frame bringing it over to the fountain. Steve understands my plan and takes the sword from my weak hand easily raising it to just above the water. He slowly sticks it in but about half way he gasps pulling the sword out to reveal its other half has disappeared.

"That could've happened to my hand." Sam whispers not believing what he sees. I stare at the sword now burned down to a dull edge and it remind me of what my stone did to the screwdriver when I tried to take out the gem.

"Hope that wasn't a priceless artifact." Bucky says rubbing his temples in frustration. I turn my back towards them and lift up the bandage seeing the stone flickering like it's trying to speak. I quickly shove my hand in my pocket and turn around to see the men looking angrily at the fountain.

"We came all this way just to not be able to get to it?" Steve asks almost angry at the person who gave him the information.

"Wait who told you it was here, maybe you can ask them or something?"

Steve just shakes his head no and I begin to grow suspicious of who told him all of this.

"We've had a long day, how bout we set up camp here?"

Without any more options we pull out the little gas fire the clocked people gave us and lay out our jackets for makeshift beds. For a long time we say or do nothing besides glare at the fountain. I lay on my back and with the cold atmosphere and hard ground it reminds me of home and I soon feel a lot better about this temple. Even though the peace and quiet is nice soon enough I get really bored. Wandering around isn't the best idea and there's nothing fun to do in this hall. I dig through my backpack looking for anything mildly entertaining and find my small mirror. I smile to myself and lay on my stomach setting the mirror up in front of me. I look at myself in the reflection and close my eyes looking in the mirror again I see the red hair and smirk of Agent Romanoff. Looking back I still have my body but with her head on top which looks very weird. With a whole bunch of energy still left I shift again into the Agent Hill in my dream. She looks stern and straight forward but I can see she has somewhat of a soft side judging by the wrinkles on her cheeks when ever I smile. I do this for awhile shifting into people I've seen in the streets or ones I need to study like Jane Foster. I look like Tony Stark when Steve asks me if I'm hungry pulling out some questionable food the cloaks gave us.

"Nope." I reply in his voice scaring Bucky so bad he jumps up hitting his head of one of the book shelves. I turn my head towards him smiling at his pain before changing back to my regular face.

"Woah, that is so cool!" Sam chimes scooting closer.

"Can you turn into anyone?" I shake my head no.

"I can only mimic things I've seen."

"So, no dragon?"

"Have you ever seen a dragon?"

"Touche"

Sam fangirls about my powers while we eat what I hope is cow. Soon we start talking about all the thing I could do with my powers like breath under water, see in the dark and climb up walls.

"So if you turn into a baby before you die will you live a whole nother life?" Sam asks shoving a big bite of the meat into his mouth.

"I don't think so, I try not to stay in another form for to long because then I feel like...like I'm becoming that person and if I stay for too long I'll start believing it too. Then I'll just forget who I was and I'll be…"

"Just an Echo."

Bucky finishes and I nod staring off into space. We hear the rumble of a truck and the stone above of shakes letting dust fall onto us.

"What is that?" I ask looking down the hall.

"I don't know but it's not good, pack your stuff." Bucky order putting out the fire and shoving it into his bag. I hate when he bosses me around but I'll have to hate him for it later because whatever that is, it's getting closer. With all out stuff packed up we hear the faint yelling of the men outside the temple followed by loud banging.

"Someone else is coming in." I conclude remembering how it sounded when I hit on the door.

"This whole place could collapse, we need to go."

"What no!" I say joining them again the shaking wall, "I've come too far not to get this scroll." Bucky rolls his eyes grabbing my bad hand and dragging me along. I yell at him to stop but he doesn't listen. We turn a corner to find that hall has already caved in blocking our path. Steve leads us another way to find it also blocked, after checking all the other ways we find our way back to the fountain. I rip my hand out of Bucky's grasp and lean over the side of the fountain. The temple shakes again and I jump out of the way just in time to avoid a falling boulder. We all look at each other for answers but know there are none, we're trapped in the crumbing temple.