We all pretty much ate dinner in silence, mainly because everyone was really hungry and food is good. After dinner Fury decided to really question me. Which by all means was not a good idea because I had been awake for around 20 hours at this point because I had spent an entire school day in my universe before being transported to the morning in this universe and spending the entire day here. The whole day had been a lot. Like a lot a lot. I woke up worried about my chemistry test and now I had just helped take hydra out of S.H.I.E.L.D. My brian, not doing so hot at the moment.
"I think I speak for many of the people here when I say I want to hear more from you. How much do you know about our past and what do you know about the future" Fury started at me, arms crossed from the other side of the table.
"Well, sir I know a lot, like not everything cus like I know you from movies and there are gaps between them and stuff, also my memory is not the greatest so the details I know really well are from my best friend who is a much bigger fan than me. She goes on rants a lot and tells me stuff. So yeah I know things." hehe tired Ali was a fun Ali. I don't think everyone else agreed cus Nat was looking at me like I was drunk or something. I don't think I'm drunk.
"That doesn't really tell us much. What are the movies about, what events do they cover" Damn I think Fury really wanted actual answers right now, like bro read the room I'm clearly not going to give you great answers.
"Well, so like in chronological order I think we're a little less than the halfway point of all the movies I think. But like I don't include some of the earlier movies cus I don't think they're great, like who liked the incredible hulk, nothing against Bruce the directors did him dirty also like you can't go to avengers with Ruffalo then go back to Norton Hulk like that shit aint right. But like so far all the iron mans' have happened I think and I really don't remember much from 2 or 3 cus like they were sad and like overall sure they count but as movies they don't play into the whole thing much. Like if you go to the beginning though it starts off with Cap of course cus he's old then it jumps to the 90s cus like sure why not. Captain Marvel just came out recently and it's kinda great, I wonder what she's doing right now, lots of people don't like her but they just don't like Brie Larson so that's not fair and like screw them Carol is OP and amazing. I don't know if this makes a lot of sense, I'm kinda tired if you can't tell. But like anyway The First Avenger is just like a great movie cus like who doesn't like the 40s aesthetic, I'm telling you that movie has aesthetic. Also like Haley Atwell is really pretty, but like it makes sense and it's so pure and good, also like it's just really cool like behind the scenes of the small steve scenes are hilarious, cus like in the movie he's tiny and like Chris Evans is huge and they did a great job on the CGI to make him tiny I don't know how they did it but to be fair they also made whatshisface, not that's just prosthesis, well they did like Hulk and stuff so I guess they're pretty good at it, like I don't know how they did the Thanos scenes with a straight face I have so much respect for Josh Brolin like the dude was scary wearing glorified dot pajamas." shit how long was I talking, why didn't anyone interrupt me. God I probably looked like an idiot. Yup, everyone is staring at me, great.
"I did not understand most of that" said Steve,
"Yeah I'm going to second Steve on that, also Allison I think it's time you got some sleep." Nat stood up and I was very thankful for the no more questions.
"Hold on, I'm not done yet." Fury whyyyy.
"Ok, but like can you make it an easy question." I really want to go to bed.
Fury gave me a look like I was supposed to know what it meant. "In the normal timeline, in your movies, how bad does it get"
Oh shit. Well that woke me up real quick I thought I said an easy question, I was not prepared for this. Like how am I supposed to tell them that the first time they lose and half the world instantly dies. Like they come back after five years but like still, also Tony and Nat, and Vision and, I can't tell them this right now.
"Hey Ali.." Sam waved a hand in front of my face.
"Oh, sorry, just I'm not in the position to talk about that right now, there will be a time most likely in the near future where I'll go through everything and make sense of it all with you guys but I, I can't right now, not when your real people, I'm sorry, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that all of this is real and that you are real and that it's not just a story and that when someone dies its real."
"That's ok, you need some sleep right now" Thank goodness for Natasha Romanoff to have sanity. I don't think Fury was satisfied with my answer but it made Steve go all concentrated thinking so who knows.
I think I half expected to wake back up in my bed at home. At least when I opened my eyes and I wasn't in bedroom I freaked out for a second until I remebmbered the chaos that was what ever the fuck had happened to me yesterday. Ah yes, avengers are real, good morning.
I didn't really have any other clothes, and I slept in the clothes I wore yesterday so there really wasn't much for me to do to get ready. My bedroom of sorts seemed to just be a room with some army looking cots in it, my phone was still in my pocket. Ok it's 9:33, that's not bad. Everyone else is probably going to be awake but I really don't care. I left my room and very quickly discovered that I didn't know how to get back to the common area. Fuck. Well I'll just go in one direction until I find it. Turns out this place was actually pretty small and it only took me two turns until I was in the common area where we ate dinner last night. Fury was somewhere else but Nat, Steve, and Sam were all up.
"Looks like someone finally woke up," came Sam's voice from the corner of the room.
"Hey I already get this kinda shit from my mom, I don't need it from you" ok, thinking about my family, not good. Not good, don't cry don't cry don't cry. Ok we good.
Sam put his hands up in surrender, "we all got up two hours ago is all I'm saying"
"That's your problem, I value sleep" I went to sit down at the table.
The morning was pretty uneventful, me and Sam made some food again while Nat looked at her phone and Steve just kinda stared off into space. He somehow didn't look bored. A little while later Fury returned and we started to plan the day.
"I don't think we should return to S.H.I.E.L.D even though we've taken out most of Hydra, we just don't know who can be trusted right now." Steve was arguing with Fury on the nature of S.H.I.E.L.D continuing forward. Personally I agreed with Steve and like in the movie, S.H.I.E.L.D needed to be destroyed and completely rebuilt, if at all.
"Hey, can I interrupt for a second.." Yes, I have my own agenda.
"Yes, please" came an answer from Steve.
"Ok, so there are a lot of things that you guys should probably know but I really don't want to have to explain everything over multiple times. Also there's a lot and it's complicated and it includes more people than are here. I need to talk to Tony Stark. If possible could we gather together all of the avengers and some other people because the future gets stupid complicated and really the next huge conflict is something that we have a bit of control over but also may or may not need to happen. Anyway that will all hopefully make sense later. Also there's the Bucky situation because what he really needs is time before we can really start helping him recover."
"Who do you need to talk to," sometimes it really is convenient how to the point Fury is.
"Including the people that are here, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Bruce Banner, Thor if possible, Clint Barton, James Rhodes, and this is going to sound really weird but T'Challa Prince of Wakanda."
"I can't promise all of these people will come but I can contact them"
"Wow, that was a lot easier than I thought" I don't know why Fury is just going along with everything I say, it's kinda out of character for him. "The really big talk I think can wait until we have everyone but I do need to talk to Tony soon, and in person." Revealing the truth around Tony's parents death was not something I wanted to do over the phone.
"I'll call Tony and see if we can come up to New York," Steve offered.
The next hour passed with Maria and Fury talking about something on one side of the room and Steve and Sam talking about something on the other side. It was kinda nice to just sit down and not think about anything.
"Hey, have you checked on Bucky today" I wandered over to Steve and Sam because after a while sitting and doing nothing had gotten boring.
"Not yet, I've been meaning to but I don't know what will happen if he's awake"
"Well there's only one way to find out, come on" I don't think Sam cared as much so he stayed behind as me and Steve walked down to Bucky's room. My hope with the whole Bucky situation is that when Nat, Steve, and Sam collected him he hadn't been given a mission and therefore just really lost and unresponsive but not super violent or directed to do something because once that happens the winter soldier would take over and be unrelenting.
Steve listened at the door to try and hear if Bucky was moving around. There was no sound. With that as the go ahead he slowly opened the window at the top of the door and looked in.
"The plate's been moved and it looks like he ate some of it. I don't know if he's awake or asleep, but he's not moving right now"
"Ok, that's better than I expected, I think we should just leave him alone for now but, actually can you help me bring him some breakfast"
"Yeah, I'll help you get some food for him"
Who knew that the way I would bond with Steve Rogers was over feeding Bucky Barnes.
After Steve and I delivered breakfast to Bucky, the rest of the morning passed with me playing games on my phone with Nat until Maria addressed us all.
"I have some cars out front that will bring everyone to Stark Tower, Tony says he's very excited to have guests and meet Allison"
As much as I found it nice that Tony wanted to meet me, I was a little concerned that he might go all science on me and try to figure out how I got here. Like yeah I wanted to know also but like, don't really want to be treated like a science fair project.
"If we're going up to New York, is Bucky coming with us, or how is that working out," I looked at both Maria and Steve for a response.
"The plan is for the moment to bring in a separate vehicle, we will have the necessary precautions in place and Steve has offered to go along in that car."
Ok, if Steve is there then that might actually work. If there's anything I've learned marvel it's that only named characters can ever stop a bad guy. The unnamed agents no matter the amount never stand a chance. It's like the stormtrooper effect.
