Your name is Maite Hirsch and today is not going how you want it to.
Ah, crap, you mutter, looking after the two brothers.
Tony grumbles, annoyed about the interruption. Steve and Natasha are simply confused about what just happened.
Just as Tony is preparing to go after the two, a sharp humming sound draws everyone's attention.
You look down at Amy. Well... I suppose this is goodbye for now, you wave halfheartedly and vanish.
You stumble forwards as the ground abruptly shifts underneath your feet.
Two Captain Americas are staring at you. Ah, so that's what's happening.
"Hullo."
"It's you... The girl from Germany," present day blinks, confused.
"You knew about the joke Scott made before he made it?" Future Steve asks.
You shrug a bit sheepishly. "Just slipped out."
Future Steve looks, if possible, even more annoyed.
Present Day asks what's actually going on. You explain you're not the only one who gets to time travel, and that Loki's glowstick of destiny is a bit more important than he thinks it is.
He looks a bit uncertain, but hands Future Steve the scepter. Said Captain America nods a thanks and runs off.
As soon as he vanished, a more battered version appears again, thrusts the Mind Stone in a new scepter into Steve's hand and vanishes as abruptly as he turned up.
What just happened, Steve asks.
You shrug blithely. "Well, we can't actually steal the things and keep then, the timeline would split. It's complicated," you sigh.
Suddenly, from behind, a man in SHIELD uniform approaches. "Captain- sorry, Agent Rumlow, I'm supposed to take the scepter into custody..." He pants.
Steve, clearly still a bit overwhelmed, looks from the scepter to the Agent and hands it over. "... Yeah."
Agent Rumlow jogs off again, muttering into his comlink.
Was that a good idea, he asks.
It preserved the timeline, you answer.
He remarks that that doesn't exactly fill him with confidence. You smile and tell him that that was the point.
Amy suddenly hums, sharp and shrill. You look down questioningly.
The resulting storm of noise gets only one point across clearly- the timeline has split anyway.
Your name is Maite Hirsch and you forgot about Loki escaping with the Tesseract.
A/N:And this, everyone, is where the real fun begins.
