AN: Big time skip guys, sorry I haven't updated in a while! Been writing a Lab Report, and it turns out they suck! Anyway, had this idea and it panned out! Hooray! More updates coming soon on both of these stories - hopefully not too long a wait - but it turns out IW 1 and 2 are 364 days apart - May 4 this year for IW1 and May 3 next for IW2. BOOO! So please expect a long wait in that gap, unfortunately enough, and possibly a new story and many more chapters on this story. Sorry, but I kind of have to have something to work off of - like when GotG meets Avengers and how. Enjoy, not giving up on either story! Review please, if you have ideas or comments.

Sky can't believe it, one of the guards told him that Diaspro had been recently sighted in Eraklyon but managed to avoid the guards.

To make things worse, one of the servants in the palace said he thought he saw her inside, but he's not sure - likely because of the spell that was on him when he was found by a guard. Bloom's text came a little too late, she was already in the palace.

The guards are trying to find her, but Sky's more worried about why Bloom would think she was helping the Trix to escape Lightrock. Their powers have been taken away from them again, and they're not going anywhere - all the more reason why they'd need someone to help them escape, but still - but there's no reason why they'd go to Diaspro for help. The thought that they have Valtor and Bloom in common, Valtor aided them in one way or another and they all hate Bloom, is a pretty good reason why they'd get help from her, but how they managed to coordinate this, if it's really Diaspro, is another mystery altogether.

Knew I should have had Diaspro locked away instead of just banished, old friends or not.

Sky's still furious at her about Bloom's poisoning, any chance that they could put the past behind them died at that. He had thought maybe, after a few years for Diaspro to cool off and get over herself, they could still be friends - not so much after she put a spell she got from Valtor on him - but trying to kill Bloom was the final straw.

Maybe, just maybe, she could have been ignorant of the magic in the drink she gave him, or had no idea about Valtor's plans that were only possible because Bloom was weakened by her heartache, but trying to kill Bloom is like confessing to knowing about everything.

Bloom says she's psychotic and obsessed, and Sky couldn't agree more - trying to kill the person he loves because it isn't her definitely counts as obsession. Bloom's even taken to calling her the stalker-ex - not an unfitting name, all things considering. And given the way Bloom's been nervous and cagey lately, ever since coming back to Alfea, he's halfway certain she's just going to die from Bloom's knife buried in her chest one day.

He's pulled out of his thoughts when the captain of the Guard marches up to him and says "Your Highness, we've cornered ex-princess Diaspro in the library. We haven't gotten close enough to capture her, but she's trapped with no exits."

Sky nods, but knows Diaspro knows how to teleport - she did it to him a number of times when she was feeling bored or decided she wanted to talk with him.

Glad Bloom's never done something like that to me, it was getting really annoying.

When he gets to the library with the guards, but finds only an open book on the table with some pages torn out of it. Sky takes one look at it and nearly lets out a series of curses - she's gone, likely off to Lightrock and the Trix if Bloom's right.

Suddenly, his phone rings with the caller ID saying it's Bloom on the other end. "Bloom, what did they say?" He called her shortly after seeing her text, and she said she was with her brothers but couldn't just leave them. He hears a resigned sigh from the other end of the phone, and can guess how it went down.

What I knew they would say. How fast can you come to Earth?

"Fast enough. I can be there in a few hours if I gun it."

Gun it, as hard and as long as you can. I'll be in a college in Greenwich. My brothers will be there to, along with some scientists, including Jane Foster.

Sky feels a jolt of shock run through him at the name, Timmy hasn't stopped talking about her since she came out with one very improbable theory - especially one from Earth. "The scientist Timmy has been talking about recently? He says she came up with some wild theory about-"

The theory's true, and yes, that's the scientist.

She sounds way too sure about that for her not to have some insider information on it, but Sky has bigger things to worry about than Bloom's connections to a woman on Earth. "Bloom, you were right about Diaspro. Maybe an hour after you called last night, the guard cornered her in the library. She took some pages from an ancient spellbook, then vanished."

Bloom sounds worried and tired as they keep talking, something really bad must have happened. Which book? Maybe we can narrow down what they are planning.

Sky looks at the book she left and says "The cover says Restoration Spells."

Crud, that's a pretty big field on its own. There are dozens of different Restoration spells. There are spells to restore the mind, spells to restore the body, spells to restore the… Bloom trails off, she must know what Diaspro's game is.

"Bloom? What's wrong?"

Sky, get here as fast as you can, I know what they are planning.

When Sky meets her in the college she told him about, he can immediately tell something is very wrong - he can read her like a book, and what he's reading is grief and frustration. "Bloom? What happened?"

Bloom looks like she's about to cry, so Sky doesn't wait for an answer and just wraps her in a hug. His shoulder feels wet after a moment, and her whole frame starts shaking from the sobs racking her.

He tries to comfort her, but figures that's not happening when she says something about her mother and breaks down completely. Something drops into the pit of Sky's stomach, Bloom never had a bad word to say about her adoptive mother - she was caring, she always had time for her young daughter, she always knew how to make something better. Bloom isn't much of a crier anymore, not without a reason to cry that's not minor anyway, so something really bad must have happened.

Sky doesn't say he understands, because he doesn't; he doesn't say he's sorry for her loss or anything, even though he is; he holds Bloom even tighter and starts murmuring to her comfortingly.

She cries herself out eventually, her sobs ending in small growls dying down to hiccupping gasps for breath. Sky kisses her hair, which she responds to by tightening her arms around him - up to the point of crushing him a little. "Mm, Bloom, you're a little tight…" Her arms loosen, and he says "Alright, it'll probably take your brothers and whoever else is coming time to get here. What happened?" Bloom looks up at him, then hugs him and buries her face in his shoulder again. "Shh, it's okay, I'm not going anywhere. It's alright, Bloom."

Sky leads her away from the invisible ship, and they eventually end up sitting on the ground. He can tell she's been 'convincing' everyone to go inside - mainly by absorbing the heat from the air, not that there was a whole lot of it to begin with. It's not warm here this time of year, so there wasn't a whole lot of heat to try and absorb into herself - and everyone quickly went inside to escape the dropping temperatures before long.

Bloom tells him everything that happened, nearly breaking down into tears again more than once, and Sky patiently listens to the whole explanation. Now he gets why she never went into specifics about her family or childhood before - the girls said she deliriously told them she was raised on Asgard, a place of Norse legends and myths here on Earth, now it's looking like it was true and she wasn't delirious. And the time she thought he was Thor, apparently they look similar.

He also knows nobody in Magix or anywhere else in the entire dimension would have believed her if she just came out and said she grew up in a place that even people in the closest known world or realm over didn't think was real - which is why she never gave anything more specific than 'this universe' - smart on her part. She never actually lied, just gave answers vague enough to be the truth - she was raised in this universe, everyone thought she was talking about this planet because that's the only place people there knew of.

She also gives him the details about her latest adventure, and a possible explanation for why Diaspro and the Trix are planning all this now - she destroyed something powerful called the Aether two days ago, it's apparently on the same level as the Dragon Flame in power. Understandably, she's very drained from that - and from the fight that happened a day ago, she was passed out for a few hours from that.

Oh, and Bloom completely blames herself for her adoptive mother, Frigga, dying - she was destroying the Aether while Frigga was distracting the Dark Elf who was after it to return this universe to one of darkness.

Sky would try to say she had to destroy it, because it was using a human for a host and was rapidly killing her according to Bloom's description, except he knows it won't do any good - she seems set on thinking she's too dangerous to be around, Sky doesn't care about the dangers though and knows her brothers won't care either. She sounded so worried about what they would think if they learned about the source of her powers, Sky can't believe that her family would reject her like she was fearing - she was thinking they'd be afraid of her, or worse.

Twenty minutes later, they're sitting on the ground and Bloom's got her hood pulled up when Sky spots a group of people walking through the campus carrying some really weird equipment. And two of them can only be her brothers - they're wearing armor, and the guy with the black hair is heading right for them despite the fact that Sky's never seen him before and Bloom's got her hood pulled up.

Jeez, the blonde guy really does look a lot like me. Must be Thor.