Nat snuggled up under his arm and chuckled to herself
"What?" He asked
"I've just realised a bonus to this I've never really had before"
"what's that?"
"Pillow talk. You know, talking after. Usually I'm pumping someone for information, i rarely get to enjoy the post orgasmic relaxation when you can just hug and talk and let your mind wander. You've a high security clearance as well, so I don't have to keep censoring myself. It's nice to relax and know you won't freak out if I say that I once had to blow up a school infected by alien mind spiders, or used to work with a man who turns into a bear."
"Really? A bear? Mind spiders?"
"Both a real, I don't have to lie. Mikhail could be a grumpy old man but he was a good friend. I've needed that over the years"
"Years? How long does a bear live?"
"They freeze them, you know? The enhanced or talented ones. When they're not needed for missions or training exercises they're on ice, as it's hard to find or make reliable agents. They have pretty reliable Cryogenic technologies, it was developed it for the space program. They intended to spread humanity across the stars in a spirit of enlightened Communism."
"I thought America got to the moon first?"
"Yes, there was political trouble. You see, Communist doctrine was that Communism was the superior social system, so all advanced civilisations in space would have to be Communist and happy to share with their space brothers"
"That doesn't sound right" Steve mused, remembering the Chitari attack on New York.
"It's not. Someone had to explain to the Doctrine department about the Kree. The Skrulls. The Asgardians. All the other crazy alien factions, from items or records or some we've only heard of. It took a long of time for it to sink in that Space is not communist and that the Earth is just an intergalactic backwater. Heads rolled, people vanished and policies were changed. They started collecting and experimenting with Alien technology"
"Seems everyone was secretly using Alien tech to try and get ahead"
"It was the smart option. Say, Could we ask Heimdall to find your friend Bucky? He's meant to be all seeing, after all"
"I thought of that, I personally can't as he's oath sworn to defend Asgard and its people, he can't meddle. But Thor could ask Odin to have Heimdall look for him, so i plan on asking Thor when he returns.
"Smart move Sir. Using the Alien Gods."
Steve Huffs "Powerful aliens, hardly gods"
She shrugs "Big G gods or little G gods they're still powerful. Thor explained it once, He may act like a jock at times but he is also a prince of a very advanced race. He was playing with the fundamentals of reality when we were learning to walk. According to him reality is a four dimensional hologram generated from a two dimensional layer of information." Lying on her back, she describes a flat line in the air then a loop over it.
"The lesser races like us humans live in reality, the gods and more powerful beings are written down into the information layer, part of the fundamentals of the universe."
"The Asgardians may be why the human race evolved the way it did - They seeded the Earth and shaped us in their image. Maybe Loki wasn't just being an egotistical maniac. Maybe we were made to be ruled, so many of us have the programmed obedience of a slave race. Girl talk with Jane Foster is that Asgardians are sexually compatable at least physically."
"As your favourite stoics said, does it matter? Its ancient history, out of your control"
"Leviathan had a deep history department to look for this sort of thing. Aliens have been coming here forever, even before humans evolved. We know the Asgardians influenced the Norse religions, and a lot of the other Religions may well have similar roots."
"Are you trying to say Jesus was an Alien?"
"No, we checked. Yeshua ben Yosef was a real Jewish radical according to surviving Roman records but his teachings were partly based on Egyptian radical ideas and we know the Egyptian and Olympian gods were based on something other worldly."
"The Romans kept meticulous records, just most were lost in the years between, the Vatican has the last few known. That's been a source of a lot of infighting, do they reveal them or not? The current idea is that proof would undermine faith"
"SHIELD policy is that there have always been unusual individuals and items, but when populations were low, life spans were short and no records were kept they just became myths. The turn of the last century was the start of the new age. Lots of records were being kept. Photographs, cinefilm, newspapers and telegrams. Populations grew and more people saw when unusual things happened. It caused King Tut mania in the 1920s, the rise of mysticism and the Nazi obsession with the occult. WE know the Nazi's collected a lot and managed to use some of it. When Obergruppenführer Werner Reinhardt aka Dr Daniel Whitehall was eliminated by a SHEILD operation in 2015 he was one hundred and eleven years old but physically in his 30s and had been in his 30s since 1990 "