Happy Saturday everyone!
First of all, the movie marathon was great. I also realized how in love I am with Tom Hiddleston because my heart wouldn't stop racing every time he was on the screen. He's got such a nice face.
Anyway, Chronicle was very disappointing.
So, just to clear things up about this chapter, let me explain before you read it. Gwen is currently unconscious, but is sort of remembering the "accident." Yes, this is the account of the event which is mentioned so many times. And for those of you who have seen Chronicle, I did not copy that. I wrote this before I watched it and realized that some parts are quite similar.
Also, when it says Agent Maxwell, this is actually Loki, but since Gwen didn't know that then, he is referred to as Agent Maxwell.
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Chapter Thirteen
The day had not been going well. First of all, Gwen dropped the mug she was using for her morning coffee on her new hardwood floors. The drink was everywhere and the mug was broken. Cursing under her breath, she stepped over it in her now coffee soaked slippers and cleaned it up as fast as she could. She wasn't running late, of course. Gwen was never late.
The second thing that happened was she found that one of the tires of her car was leaking because she had apparently driven over a bolt laying in the street and it managed to lodge itself into the tire. So Gwen had to call and set up an appointment to get the tire fixed and try to get as much air as she could back into the tire.
That's when Gwen thought the day wasn't going to get any worse.
Boy was she wrong.
Gwen went through her daily tasks before finally backing out of the driveway of her one story home. She drove the appropriate route to the SHIELD base in Chicago, careful not to draw to much attention to her car as she randomly turned on a dirt road that no one ever went on.
Eventually, after walking through some woods, she approached a bunker that resembled something out of a Star Wars movie. It was covered in moss and leaves as though it had been unattended for years.
After letting the scanner identify her eye, the doors of the bunker slid open and she stepped inside, thankful that it had air conditioning on such a hot summer day. She strode forward and came up to steel doors. She reached her right arm out to press a button on that side of the door. The white button light up and with a ding, the doors slid open, just like the entrance to the bunker.
Gwen stepped inside, her hands grasped together behind her back. The doors slid shut and she felt the elevator begin to descend.
"Good morning, Agent Powers," said a smooth, female robotic voice.
"Same to you, Rosa," answered Gwen.
"Agent Maxwell would like to speak with you, when it is possible."
Gwen sighed and closed her eyes as she leaned against the wall behind her. "Tell him I'll be there in an hour."
"Of course, Agent Powers."
The doors slid open at last and Gwen opened her eyes to see the facility. She stepped out of the lift and onto the white floor. On either side of her were walls made of glass and in each room were different agents working on experiments and computers with touch screens.
She passed several different halls, but continued walking forward. Soon, the walls were no longer made of glass, but of steel. Gwen finally came to the last chance to go a different direction and took a right. After passing two doors on the left, she entered the last one in the hall by opening the white door and closing it behind her after stepping over the threshold.
Gwen's office looked very out of place within the facility. Most areas looked as though they were occupied with germaphobes and were completely white. So white that it hurt Gwen's eyes to look at. So, she had decided to changed things up a bit. The floor of her office was replaced with hardwood floors and her walls were painted a nice light brown. Against the wall to her right was a desk that took up a corner and half of the two walls on either side of it. The top was messy with papers thrown all over and a computer monitor that was barely visible under the massive amount of books, documents and pencils she kept within her office walls.
On the opposite side of the door was a large bookshelf where Gwen kept every book she needed down in the facility and also folders and three-ring binders that contained vital information that she would need to use if she was sent on a mission for SHIELD.
Gwen's job was to investigate minor supernatural disturbances. She was basically second to Agent Phil Couslon who had always been sent for the big ones, like when a god from Asgard came to Earth or when a super soldier had been found, frozen in the Arctic.
However, Gwen still got to see some action and kept everything as neat as she could, just in case she needed it in short notice.
"Agent Powers?" came the voice of Rosa, the computer system that controlled the SHIELD Chicago base.
"Yes, Rosa?" answered Gwen as she took out a certain folder from under her pile on her desk.
"Agent Maxwell says he needs to see you now."
"Can't it wait?" Gwen groaned.
"He says it is important."
"Alright, alright. Where is he?"
"In Sector F-8, Omega Lab."
Gwen paused for a moment, deep in thought, looking up from her now open folder. "Did he tell you why he's in there?"
"No, ma'am."
Sighing, Gwen closed the folder and tossed it back on her desk.
"Thanks, Rosa."
"You are welcome, Agent Powers."
Scowling, Gwen left her office and went back the way she came. However, while still in the steel wall section of the facility, she took a right down a different hallway and approached a steel door with a sign that read:
Section F (1-8)
Energy Experiments
She placed one of her thumbs on a red scanner and heard the door unlock once she was identified. She went inside and the door automatically closed behind her. She continued forward, each step yelling determination. She finally reached a room which read Omega and let her thumb be scanned again to enter. Inside she found Agent Maxwell, his dark hair pulled back in a ponytail and wearing a white lab coat, standing over a few vials sitting on a table.
"What d'you want?" asked Gwen bluntly.
Agent Maxwell smirked. "You get right to the point, don't you, Powers?"
Gwen did not smile as she approached the man. He refused to look up at her so she continued.
"What are you even doing in here, anyway? You work in Section C, not F. And to be in the Omega Lab? Are you joking?"
His smile grew wider. "I do love myself a few jokes."
"This isn't funny! Everything in here is dangerous!"
"Does your statement extend to both you and me?"
Gwen paused for a moment as she watched Agent Maxwell pour some sort of red liquid from one vial into another vial which held a green liquid.
"You're not even a scientist," she stated.
"Yes, and neither are you."
She wasn't quite sure what he meant by this. Unless he knew she had been in the same exact lab only one month prior. She could remember it clearly in her head.
"Agent Powers, Director Fury would like to speak with you," said Rosa.
Gwen paused as she looked at the pill which laid on the counter before her. She had gotten it from Tony Stark who had finally come up with a new formula for medication for her. She was, of course, using SHIELD's advanced technology to try to replicate it in hopes that this one worked much better than the last one.
However, Gwen had told Fury when he called her house the night before, telling her of the situation that was going on in New York, that she was sick and therefore could not speak with him nor travel to New York.
"Rosa, I told you, I'm not supposed to be here," the blonde finally answered at last.
"I will tell him you are not here."
"You do that."
But Gwen figured that Agent Maxwell was just playing with her mind. He had a strange way with words.
"I know that," answered Gwen at last, "which is why we should be leaving."
"Do you not remember that I wanted to speak with you?" asked Agent Maxwell. He set the two vials down in a holder and turned to face her. "Or have your head pains made you forgetful."
That was something Agent Maxwell should have never said.
Gwen could already feel anger bubbling inside of her, but she ignored the tiny voice in her head which said that she needed to calm down. But Agent Maxwell went too far. It was almost as if he was trying to aggravate her on purpose.
"Forgetful?" she asked. Her voice was dangerously quiet. "Forgetful?"
"Well, I do say it runs in your family-"
"How dare you!" she yelled. "You don't think that I still remember having to see my father not know who is wife is because you think he simply forgot?"
Agent Maxwell's smirk appeared on his face. "I never said that, did I?"
"I know what you're thinking!" Gwen's throat started hurting, but she ignored it. "Do you know what my life has been like? Now I don't have parents to talk to about anything if I wished to which includes the head pains!"
The lights above them started flickering. Gwen didn't notice it, but Agent Maxwell did. But he simply glanced up and then looked back at her face as if it were a daily occurance, which it most certainly was not.
"I never got the chance at a normal childhood!" Gwen continued. "I was a freak!"
Lines began appearing on her face as though she was made of glass and she was starting to break. The skin around her eyes turned very dark until it was completely black. Her lips turned very pale until they were almost white.
"I lost the two people I could ever talk to you and make it sound like such a joke!"
The lines on her face were now able to be seen on her hands and neck. Under her clothes, they appeared all around her body. Her skin faded to a very pale color except for the darkness around her eyes.
"Because, dear Gwendolyn," answered Agent Maxwell, "everything is a joke to me. Including your grief."
And that was it. That was what finally sent her over the edge.
There was a moment of silence like the calm before a storm. And then it all happened.
A loud sonic boom was heard and everything exploded. All the vials, beakers, everything in the Omega Lab exploded. The counters and all the other devices used for experiments were shot away from Gwen as the energy explosion she caused hit them. To anyone watching, it was like a superhero movie. For a split second as the boom sounded, a force of energy shot from Gwen's body, which was the reason everything was being destroyed.
In all the other labs, the same thing happened to them. Every worker covered their faces, but it was no use. Many of them got hit by the glass which was being thrown from the broken vials and beakers. A few people were thrown into the walls around them by flying counters. They became pinned where they sat.
In the Omega Lab, Agent Maxwell had been thrown back into a nearby wall. He did not fall unconscious, despite the hit he got on his head, and instead watched with a smile as Gwen fell unconscious before she hit the floor. All the energy she had in her body was used up. And although Agent Maxwell did not understand how she did what she did, he couldn't help but realize how powerful she was. Especially after he called for medical aid and followed the doctors out of the room to see that Gwen's explosion had destroyed nearly the entire facility.
It was an accident Gwen would never forget.