Right, I'm planning on wrapping this story up, either in the next chapter or the one after that. There may be a sequel, I don't know.
AU Marvel Cinematic Universe
History in the Making
Chapter Twelve:
Thomas found himself on the Helicarrier, smirking. He walked onto the bridge, where he found Fury. "I hate it when you put the world in danger." he said, for once getting a scare on the usually calm Fury. "It means I have to help fix it when I told you I wouldn't be cleaning your messes anymore."
"Hello to you too, Mr Potts." said Fury, turning to face him. "Tony and Bruce are in the lab, if you want to go see them."
"No, no." said Thomas, looking at Fury. "I'm gonna go talk to Loki. I know he's here, I can smell the crazy." He walked off again.
He walked into the holding room, his wand now full sized again. Loki was sat in the cell, smirking as Thomas walked up. "Hello Olympian." said Loki, looking Thomas in the eye. Thomas looked him in the eye and conjured a chair that he sat on. "Hello Asgardian." he said, leaning back in the chair. "Having fun playing with my friends?"
"You have no power here, Merlin." said Loki, smirking. "Your power lies in Britain."
"No, I'm more powerful in Scotland, but I still have enough power to take you down." said Thomas, looking Loki in the eye. "But I'm not gonna, I'm gonna let my friends take you down. I've interfered long enough." He stood back up. "I'll see you around." He walked off, nodding to Natasha as she walked in.
If anybody came looking for him, nobody would find him. He was currently sat in the rafters of the Bridge, as a Little Owl. He wasn't even hiding, it was just that nobody needed him here, yet he didn't want to go. He knew something wasn't right, yet couldn't quite place it. It wasn't till the alarms were raised that he realized the place was shaking. One of the engines had gone down. Fury ran in, barking orders. Thomas flew down from the rafters, and out of the bridge.
He got to the detention room just in time to see Coulson sliding to the floor, blood pouring from a wound in his chest, before Loki walked off. Thomas frowned, and looked at the vials on his belt, before rushing over to Coulson. "Coulson..." he said, tears forming. Rowa, you there? he asked, to no answer. He frowned again. Before unhooking one of the vials. "I need you to drink this." he said, placing the vial to Coulson's lips. "It's Calming Drought. I can't have you panicking on me, can I?" Coulson drank the potion, and Thomas smiled. Before taking a purple looking one off his belt and said "Now, this will sting. I've had it used on me, it's not pleasant." Coulson nodded, and Thomas poured a few drops on Coulson's stab wound. Thomas smiled and said "Now, with your permission, I want to put you in living death. It'll basically mean you'll appear dead to Muggle technology, but it'll give you time to heal."
"Are... you... using magic on me?" asked Coulson, his voice strained. Thomas nodded and pulled his wand out of his inside pocket. Before saying "Vulnera Sanentur." three times. The stab wound became a scar, just as Fury ran in. "What are you doing here, Potts?" asked Fury, looking at Thomas. Thomas held up a small vial of black liquid. "Saving your best eye's life. But the only way to do that is make him appear dead. I've already stopped the blood loss, but he needs to rest. For at least two months. Hence the need for this potion. Coulson's already agreed to it." As he said that, he pulled the cork on the vial. He took a drop of it and placed it on Coulson's lips. He instantly fell unconscious. "The medical staff will assume he's dead, this potion is the Draught of Living Death. Don't ask why I'm carrying it, I think I picked up my daughter's potion belt... She liked to carry healing ones."
"He's going to be fine?" asked Fury, looking at Thomas. Thomas nodded and said "Yes, I'll be back in a month to administer the Wiggenweld." before walking away, morphing into a Little Owl and flying down the hole where the cage used to be. Just in time to miss the medical crew.
Thomas perched on the top of Stark Tower, still in Little Owl-form, noticing workers on the balcony. "Man, Loki's just as egotistical as Tony." he said, with a somewhat hoot. "Oh great, I talk with a hoot."
"Could you hear that?" asked one of the workers, looking around. "It sounds like there's some sort of owl around here... Does Stark have owls?"
"Get back to work." said another one, somewhat familiar... Thomas hooted again, standing in front of a device holding the Tesseract was Eric Selvig. Turning into a Golden Eagle, he flew from his perch and attacked one of the workers. One of the others pulled out a gun and started shooting, Thomas swerved away from the bullets. As Eric shouted "Stop it, you can't shoot an Eagle!"
"It attacked us!" shouted the shooter, looking at Eric. Thomas noted they all had completely blue eyes. Even the unconscious guy he was now perched on had had them, till he had closed them to stop himself being blinded by an Eagle. "So, you've both been brainwashed, eh." he said, with a slight squawk. "I hope you can understand this."
"You... you talk?" asked Eric, looking at Eagle-Thomas. "I've gone crazy." Thomas let out a small smile with his beak before flying away. He circled the building, and perched back up on the roof, turning back into the Little Owl.
It didn't long before everything went to hell. A weird portal opened in the sky, revealing a section of space. Out of which flew weird boney creatures. Thomas flew off, to join in the battle, changing into the Golden Eagle again. He managed to knock a few of the creatures out of it's path. Up close, Thomas instantly worked out who they were. "Chitarui." he squawked, as he saw Captain America running to save people, Black Widow and Hawkeye fighting side-by-side, Tony flying by and Thor being thrown off the landing pad of Stark Tower. He landed on the ground near the Black Widow and Hawkeye, transforming back into his normal self. He instantly grabbed his wand, making it expand back into staff mode before firing a beam at the nearest Chitarui. He hit another with the back end of it.
By the time Captain America arrived back, they were beginning to get overwhelmed. That was till Thor arrived, blasting them with lightning. "OK, somebody's a show off." said Thomas, looking at Thor. Captain America ignored him and asked Thor "What's the story upstairs?"
"The powers surrounding the cube is impenetrable."
"Thor's right." came Iron Man's voice, reminding Thomas about his earpiece. "We gotta deal with these guys." Thomas zoned out, watching a small beat up motorbike come close. Thomas smiled to himself, grabbing another vial from his belt. He was down to three potions now, and those were ones he didn't want to use. The one in his hand was something he hoped would work on Hulk, let Banner control the Hulk a bit more. "So, this all seems horrible." said Banner, hopping off the bike. Black Widow looked at him and said "I've seen worse."
"Sorry." said Banner, with a small frown. Black Widow shook her hand as Thomas said "No, we could use a little worse." Everybody turned to look at him, as if noticing him for the first time. Thomas smiled at that and handed the potion to Banner. "I don't know if that'll help, but it's Wolfsbane. Werewolves use it to retain their human side when they transform under a full moon." he said, as Banner studied it. "Don't worry about it, it's perfectly safe. Not the nicest taste but you may be able to keep your human side when you transform." Banner shrugged and pulled the cork out and downed the potion. He handed the vial back to Thomas, who put it back on his belt. "If this works, I'll get you a constant stream."
"Stark? We got him." said Captain America, smiling at Thomas.
The rest of the battle was somewhat of a blur for Thomas. And now he was sat watching Tony fall out of the closing vortex. He had just flown a nuke into it, a nuke which the government had sent. Thomas shook his head, as Hulk jumped up to grab the falling Tony. Thomas shrunk his staff into the wand, aimed it at Tony and said "Rennavate." A red light came out of the end of it. Tony gasped and sat up in his suit. "What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me?" asked Tony, looking around. Steve looked at Thomas with a confused look before saying "We won."
"Alright. Hey. Alright. Good job, guys." said Tony, with a smile. "Let's just not come in tomorrow..." Thomas stopped listening as his gaze moved to Stark Tower. He turned into the Little Owl again and flew towards the landing pad.
He changed back into human form as he surveyed the damage caused to the building. "Oh great, another month before we can move in." he said, mainly to himself, although he did know that Loki had been smashed into the floor. "At least this wasn't one of mine and Leanne's floors." Now he stood in front of Loki and said "Told you I'd leave my friends to deal with ya." before taking a seat over the other end of the room. As his 'friends' arrived.
It didn't take them long before Loki was muzzled and leashed and the Avengers were standing in Central Park, with a stray dog watching. "Take care of that Tesseract, Thor." barked the Dog, looking at Thor. "You shouldn't even be taking that with you, the Asgardians let it get stole in the first place."
"You'd do well to speak less, Dog." said Thor, glaring at the Dog. The Dog let out what could be assumed to be a smirk, as the connection opened and the two Asgardians disappeared. Tony looked at the dog and said "Since when could you become an animal, Thomas."
"Since forever." said Thomas, doing what amounted as a shrug for a dog. "It's an Olympian thing."
"Come on, get into the car." said Bruce, looking at them. "Tony you're gonna look mad for talking to a dog."
"People talk to dogs all the time." said Tony, indigent. "You sound like Pepper right now."
"She'd probably tell you the same." said Thomas, his dog form appearing to smirk, before jumping down from the wall he had been sat on and straight into the back of the car. Tony jumped into the driving seat. "So, where are you going from here?" asked Tony, looking at Bruce. "I'm thinking of making Stark Tower into Avengers Tower. Officially, on the deeds, it'll still be Stark Tower, but I'm thinking I'm just gonna leave the A up. Add a training room, making sure it's Hulk-Proof of course."
"I... I don't know." said Bruce, looking at Tony. "The Other Guy doesn't do good with crowded places... New York may be a bit much for him. And you know Pepper may not approve..."
"Oh please." said Tony, as he drove through the remnants of the Battle. "Gosh, this is gonna take some time to clean up."
Some time later, Thomas walked into the hotel room Dawn had been staying in, in Cleveland. He noted that the news was on, and he could be sure Dawn had been watching. "You're alright." came Willow's voice, from behind him. "Dawn's grabbing some Pizza, she'll be back in half an hour."
"OK, good to know." said Thomas, looking at Willow. "You wanna know about your dreams?"
Half an hour passed, in which Thomas told Willow about the Year That Never Was. "You must be powerful, everybody else has forgotten it." said Thomas, with a small smile. "Well, everybody except Hermione... I had to tell her about it, she doesn't like not having a years worth of memories." As he said that, they heard the door open, and Xander's voice saying "I'm sorry but Iron Man is totally cooler."
"No way, you saw how Tom used Willow-Like magic to tear those creatures apart." said Dawn, looking at Xander. Thomas smiled and said "Oh, Iron Man is totally cooler than me. He took a nuke for the world..." Dawn's eyes went wide when she heard his voice and shoved the pizza box she was holding into Xander's arms before running over to Thomas. She took his hand and led him out of the front room. "OK, I think somebody's happy to see him." said Xander, looking at Willow, with an amused smile. "Do you remember our senior year when she couldn't even say one word to him without blushing?"
They were in there for three hours before they finally emerged. Dawn had a smile on her face as she said "I hope you didn't eat my pizza. I'm starving."
"You're gonna need to warm it up." said Xander, looking at Dawn. "I put it in the kitchen."
"Thanks Xand." said Dawn, walking into the kitchen. Xander looked at her, before turning to look at Thomas. "Don't just stand there, you can sit down." he said, smirking. "We won't bite." Thomas smiled and took a seat on the empty sofa. As Dawn returned with a plate of Pizza. "You hungry Tom?"
"I'm good." said Thomas, as Dawn sat down on his lap. "Although, I don't think Little Owl would say no to a rat or two. And Dog would love a bone..." He frowned. "Damn, I forgot how weird my appetite gets after turning into different animals..."
"Any other family would find you weird." said Willow, shaking her head. "Although, I do find the fact you're craving rat slightly weird, even for you..." Thomas let out a small smile, before nodding. "You're telling me..." he said, with a slight smile. "You don't have to listen to animals arguing in your head. I should go find Little Owl a rat or something... Do you mind opening the window?" Dawn frowned as she had to stand up, to let Thomas stand. He looked at her and said "I'll be back in half an hour, shouldn't take any longer than that to find a rat in Cleveland."
Thomas returned to Stark Tower later that night. He stood on the balcony to the two floors Tony had let Leanne, Sasha and him live in. There were three bedrooms, each with their own en-suite, on the second floor, along with a gym and a home cinema. The first floor had a kitchen in the front room, which had a giant TV screen, there was a small fireplace which made Thomas happy. The whole section was looked over by a separate version of J.A.R.V.I.S to the rest of the tower. And the elevator only allowed Thomas, Leanne, Sasha, Tony and Pepper up. "I see you're back." said Leanne, as Thomas walked through the door. "And from your smile, I take it you've been with Dawn."
"Something like that, yeah." said Thomas, with a smile. "Shouldn't you be in bed? Although, something tells me we won't have school tomorrow... I mean later today..."
"I needed a glass of water." said Leanne, smiling back. "Tomorrow... Later today, we're gonna work out a rotor for this place. Who takes the trash, does the dishes, cooks, shopping... You know, to show Mom and Dad they can trust us."
"We'll do just that." said Thomas, with a smile. "But you should go get some sleep, I'll probably crash as well."
The next morning, Sasha walked downstairs to find Thomas, in dog-form, crashed out in front of the lit fire. He'd dragged a pillow from the sofa in front of it and was curled in front of it. Sasha smiled and grabbed a frying pan from the cupboard, even if it did take her a few minutes to find out which one it was in. She then took some bacon from the fridge, and noted Thomas walking towards her. "You sleep as a dog?" asked Sasha, looking at him as she put a pot of coffee on. He shrugged and said "I've been having some weird nightmares, Dog seems to be the only one who can sleep through them." He frowned. "I've become awfully co-dependent on my old animal buddies... Oh well."
"This should be a surprise for me." said Sasha, looking at Thomas as she started frying the bacon. "All your magic and animal-shape-shifting business. How many animals is it?"
"Er... let me think... Golden Eagle, Wolf, Horse, Bull, Dolphin..." he said, looking to the ceiling. "Cuckoo, Peacock, Crane, Hawk, Cow, Lion... Damn, there's a lot. That's not even half... There's also Serpent, Swine, Gecko, Swan, Raven, Mouse, Deer, Bear, Wild Boar... Man, I think I should stop listing."
"No, no, carry on." said Sasha, with a smile. "It's interesting to learn this."
"On your head be it then." said Thomas, looking at her. "There's the Guinea Fowl, Quail, Little Owl, Crow, Vulture, Woodpecker, Eagle-Owl, Turtle Dove, Sparrow, Goose, Hare... Tortoise, Sheep, Cattle, Donkey, Leopard, Lynx, Tiger, Goat... Screech-Owl, Dog, Weasel and Polecat."
"OK, you weren't kidding when you said there was a lot." said Sasha, shaking her head as she tended to the bacon. "I hope you like Bacon."
"Oh, I'd have grabbed something else by now if I didn't." smirked Thomas, as he opened the fridge and took out a can of Pepsi. "Good to see they stocked up for us."
"This'll only last a few days, at most." said Sasha, looking at him. He seemed to be surprised she knew that. "I had to do a lot around the house..." Thomas frowned, just as Leanne walked down the stairs. "Morning sweetie." said Sasha, pouring a cup of coffee for Leanne. Leanne took it gratefully before noticing the pillow by the fire. "I slept down here last night as Dog." said Thomas, noting Leanne's confused expression. "Memories from the past crept up on me last night." He frowned as Leanne took a seat on the island. "You should have woke me." she said, with a small smile. "I wouldn't have minded."
"I may have though." said Sasha, looking at Thomas. "There is no way I'm letting a dog on my bed." Thomas laughed, as he grabbed three plates from the cupboard. "Dog's not a bad sleeping buddy" he said, placing the plates on the island. "We should sort out the timetable, I need to go talk to Fury. Explain to him what the Tesseract actually is... And how dangerous it was to mess with it." He sighed. "I'm just so glad it was only Loki and a small army of Chitauri. It could have so much worse." Sasha placed a few rashers of Bacon on his plate and said "Sure."
Thomas walked into Fury's office, noting the fact that Tony, Natasha, Clint, Steve and Bruce were there. "Alright, everybody who isn't Fury out." said Thomas, looking at them. "I have something to talk to him about." The Avengers walked out, leaving Thomas with Fury. "Oh good, they listen to me." said Thomas, making himself comfy in Fury's seat. "Now, listen to me, don't talk." Fury nodded, and sat down in one of the other seats. "What you did with the Tesseract, what you planned for it, that was dangerous. More so than everything else I've EVER seen S.H.I.E.L.D do. Be glad it was only Loki and a SMALL army of Chitauri."
"That was small?!" asked Tony, from the doorway. Thomas glared at him and said "Get out Stark! This is not your business!" Tony threw his hands up and walked out. As Fury smirked, before looking at Thomas. "You know, I have to know how you do that." said Fury, looking at Thomas. Thomas just glared at him and said "You're listening, I'm talking. The Tesseract was made by Zeus, Odin and the Other. An Olympian, an Asgardian and a Time Lord, working together to create the Tesseract. Of course it had to be hidden because some guy who commanded a warmongering species called the Chitauri, and Odin had to be the one to hide it." He looked at Fury again. "Look, Fury, we are gonna do two things now. First, you're gonna put the Avengers out of S.H.I.E.L.D..."
"With all due respect, S.H.I.E.L.D can take care of the Avengers Initiative." said Fury, looking at Thomas. Thomas scoffed and said "No you can't. They're gonna be M.I.10 from now on, but I will let you keep Clint and Natasha for missions and all that. Heck, even Steve can work for you every now and again." Thomas stood up. "Second thing, Coulson, when he recovers fully, will act as the liaison between S.H.I.E.L.D and the Avengers. Of course, this conversation never happened and officially, S.H.I.E.L.D still have control over the Avengers." He walked out of the office, a small smirk playing on his lips. Fury shook his head and took a seat in his chair. As the Avengers walked into the room.
Leanne watched from the kitchen island as Thomas walked out the elevator with Dawn. "Hey guys." said Leanne, turning to the TV. As Dawn looked around. "Oh wow, Tony doesn't do things half-way does he?"
"You haven't seen the other floors, yet." said Sasha, as she cooked. "Especially the one Tony wants to be the conference room, it's like there was a battle in there."
"Hulk did pound Loki into the floor on that floor." said Thomas, looking at Sasha. "I didn't see it, but Bruce says Loki annoyed him. Called Hulk beneath him... That's never good for anybody's health when somebody has the strength of the Hulk."
"I certainly wouldn't want to be on the end of one of his punches..." said Leanne, nodding. "Somehow I doubt even you could survive one of those, Thomas." Thomas smiled and led Dawn to the sofa. "So, what are we having for dinner?" asked Thomas, looking at Sasha. Sasha smiled and said "We're having Lasagne. Dawn, you're welcome to stay."
"I think that was already decided the moment she walked in." said Leanne, smiling. Before looking at Dawn. "You staying the night? We could always use the company, and maybe Thomas won't need to sleep by the fire tonight."
"Hey, I thought we agreed not to bring that up." said Thomas, looking at Leanne with a slight glare. Who smiled and said "You and Sasha agreed not to bring it up, I was out of the room at the time."
"I did wonder why there was a dog bed in front of the fireplace." said Dawn, looking at the fireplace. Thomas laughed and looked at it as well. "So there is, I guess somebody went shopping while I was out."
"I had to go buy the ingredients for the Lasagne." said Sasha, with a smile. "Leanne made me buy it." Leanne smirked before leaning over the island and placing a kiss on Sasha's cheek. "Plus two bowls and some bones."
"Brilliant, those will no doubt those will be chewed by the end of the week." said Thomas, smirking. "We need some chew toys as well, Dog likes to play." He winked as Leanne frowned. "Seriously? You're not annoyed?"
"I'm fully confident in my Dog." said Thomas, laughing. "But having dog supplies around may not be a bad idea, I like Dog."
"He is great." said Dawn, with a smile. "I wouldn't say I'd want Dog around all the time, but every now and again he's great." Thomas smiled before changing into Dog right on the sofa. "Alright, if you're gonna be Dog right now, off the sofa." said Leanne, looking at him. Dog-Thomas jumped off the sofa, settling into the dog bed in front of the fire.
A month later, Thomas walked into the private ward at the S.H.I.E.L.D HQ in New York holding the green potion in his hand. "I'm here to see Phil." he said, looking at the receptionist to the closed off ward. "You can tell Fury it's time." The receptionist nodded and pressed a button on the computer, making the door open. Thomas walked into the room with a small smile.
"Hello Coulson." he said, placing the potion on the table and taking his Sonic out of his pocket. He quickly scanned Coulson and smiled. "It's finally time." He placed his hand on Coulson's forehead and closed his eyes.
He found himself in a small field, where he saw Coulson in a Captain America outfit, complete with shield. Weird creatures were attacking him, which he was fighting off with ease. "Hey Coulson." said Thomas, walking over to Coulson. "You ready to leave?"
"Has it been a month already?" he asked, looking at Thomas. "This place was amazing. You know how to make a month pass quickly." Thomas smiled, and nodded. He looked at Coulson and said "You're gonna experience a brief blank space, don't freak out." before disappearing. Along with the field that Coulson had been in.
Thomas reappeared in the ward, a small smile playing on his lips. Before noticing Fury stood there, and he could see most of the Avengers out in the hall. "You think he's ready to be brought back?" asked Fury, looking at Thomas. Thomas nodded and took a drop of the Wiggenweld Potion to Coulson's lips. It took a few moments before Coulson opened his eyes. Thomas smiled, and slipped the potion into his pocket. "He'll need a month or so off work before he regains his full senses again." said Thomas, walking away. Fury nodded before looking at Coulson. "Welcome back, Agent."
In Stark Tower, later that night, Thomas stood on his balcony. He was looking at the stars, with a wistful smile. "Beautiful, aren't they?" asked a female voice, coming from behind him. He turned to see Melody walking towards him, with a smile. "Hello Helle."
"I take it you're married to Dad." said Thomas, returning his gaze to the sky. "Only mothers use pet-names. And do I seriously let you call me Helle? It sounds rather demeaning."
"Spoilers." said Melody, with a smile. "You miss traveling, I take it."
"I've spent over 3000 years on this planet, that's almost half of my total age..." said Thomas, sighing. "Is it wrong I want to travel with Dad again? Even if it is just the once."
"You'll get your chance, Little Owl." said Melody, with a smile. "Bide your time." Thomas however wasn't listening anymore, and he didn't even notice Melody jumping off the edge of the balcony. It was the only familiar noise of the TARDIS engines that jolted him out of his thoughts.
The rest of the year went great, Stark Tower was officially finished and the rest of the Avengers moved in. Dawn also moved in with Thomas, Leanne and Sasha.
Nothing happened till December. When Tony and Pepper had gone to Malibu for important meetings, while Leanne had opted to stay in New York with Sasha and Dawn. It was during that time that Happy ended up in hospital, and Tony had threatened a man calling himself the Mandarin causing the Malibu house to be blown up, with Tony presumed dead. Thomas was stood on the balcony, his gray coat flapping in the wind. As a pop made him look to his left, where a rather weak looking Gupta appeared. "You're dying." was all Thomas managed to say before Gupta blacked out.
