Christie landed on the floor with a thud. The first thing she noticed was that the ground was rubbly and dusty, which meant that she was definitely on Earth. She opened her eyes and the glare of the sun took over her vision. Once her eyes could focus, she looked around and saw a dark, desert plain landing. She heaved herself up slowly stood to her feet. The ground began to spin a little because she was dizzy. "Careful!" came Jen's voice. Christie looked behind her and saw Jen standing there, dirty and with a giant open bleeding cut on her swollen lip. She held out her hands to try and steady Christie. "Is this Midgard?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah," Christie blinked. "Where's everyone else?"
"There's a collection of bushes down south and Delilah and Ren have set up camp. You landed further away than we did and so I went out to look for you," Jen explained, taking Christie's arm and gently but firmly pulling her toward where there was a glow in the sky.
"Oh there you are!" Delilah exclaimed, helping Christie to their camp. By 'camp', it was a collection of bushes and sticks and logs set around in a circle with a burning fire in the middle. Ren was around the fire cooking something on a stick. When she saw Christie she sighed in relief.
"You're okay!" she exclaimed.
"I'm fine," Christie dismissed, as Jen and Delilah sat her down on a log.
"I'll just dish up dinner and then we can discuss what to do next," Ren nodded, deciding it was time to take charge.
"Great what are we eating?" Jen asked, glancing at the fire.
"Well it turns out that I had some spare packets of pepper and salt in my pocket so I've seasoned some bush leaves," Ren beamed. Delilah, Christie and Jen all blinked at each other and even in their current situation burst out laughing.
"Surprisingly, that was not that bad," Delilah grinned, finishing her seasoned bush leaves.
"I know right?" Jen giggled.
"So what do we do now? Ann- actually, what's your Midgardian name?" Ren asked.
"Christie," Christie sniffed, still a little dazed.
"Oh, that's pretty," Jen smiled comfortingly. "So, what do we do?" Christie reached into her pocket and took out a small little smooth black device which she placed on the ground.
"What's that?" Delilah asked, edging closer and pushing her mid length black hair out of her eyes.
"It's a device so I can contact my boss. He'll sort us out," Christie muttered. She pressed a button and a bright blue laser burst out of it and turned into a huge screen. Christie went up to it and touched it.
"Welcome, Christie. Who would you like to contact?" came a robotic woman's voice.
"Agent Coulson," Christie told it. The girls watched on in wonder as the screen dialled a number and Coulson's face appeared on the screen.
"Christie! You're back!" he exclaimed. "Is everything alright?"
"No. We were sent back down and we need a place to stay," Christie told him, rubbing her eyes.
"What's the threat?"
"Coulson I'm not going to explain this right now. So can you go to New Mexico and pick us up?"
"Who's us?" Coulson blinked.
"Three girls, I took them down with me. They're like my sisters. They could be useful to SHIELD," Christie answered, running her fingers through her hair.
"Fine. We have your location," Coulson agreed grimly. "Fury might not like it."
"I don't care what Fury says. Just pick us up," Christie snapped, before shutting down the system. It popped back up immediately and Coulson's face reappeared.
"Wait. What about Loki?" he asked. At his name, Christie burst into heart wrenching tears and buried her face into her hands.
"Too soon," Jen muttered sympathetically, getting up with the other girls and comforting Christie.
