"When you are moving at the speed of light, you are bound to crash into eachother."


Rose's hands were almost numb, thanks to the alien metal fastening them together. She had previously to squirm out of her bonds, but no luck. The assholes around her-all a part of Loki's little posse- were mumbling incoherently while tinkering with whatever the hell was on the plane. Torunn was already at Loki's base, and Ikol was nowhere to be seen. Loki, however, had decided to keep Rose on the plane. He made his goons create a little makeshift pen in the corner of the room, made up of a sofa and the mini bar.

I'm trapped.

Like a rabbit

And I hate rabbits, dammit.

"Comfortable?" Loki laughed as he gazed down upon Rose. Though her mouth was covered by a strip of cloth, Rose thought that she made a pretty decent hissing noise back towards the man.

"I had it made it out of a special metal. Blocks telekinetic energy."

"Fmuchk youw."

"Sir!" A man who Rose once sort of trusted appeared behind Loki. "We've got the other one."

"Then where is she?"

"Behind the door."

As he said those words, Rose could hear a muffled 'oh cOME ON' before Callie was dragged into the room. The two guards threw the brunette roughly to the floor and stalked back to their positions.

"So this is it? Two little girls, barely able to fight for themselves?" Loki scoffed. "I expected more. You two agents were on a disguised SHIELD jet, no?"

"Agents?" Callie asked. "We're not-OW!" Callie yelped as Rose kicked her in the shin. Without warning, Loki grabbed the cloth from Rose's mouth and flung it to the side. She watched as he crossed his arms and cocked his head,as if waiting for an explanation as to why she stopped her friend-mid sentence.

"Thank you," Rose said. "As my friend was saying, we are low-level SHIELD agents going to a disclosed tropical island."

"Umm, yeah!" Callie choked out, struggling to keep a mask on. "Just… Normal, low-level people!"

"Really." Clint raised an eyebrow. "Then what are your names?"

Shit. Thought Rose. He knows who we are.

He trained with us.

Shitshitshit-

I wonder if Loki knows too…

Though I doubt it.

Callie went first. "I'm… Allie? Yeah, I'm Allie, motherfuckers." Callie turned her head to look expectantly at Rose.

"Ivy." Rose blurted. "Ivy Montgomery." To both girl's surprise, Loki nodded and turned away, followed by a very confused bird man. Once the two had their backs turned, Callie scooted over to Rose.

"Ok." Callie huffed. "What. The Fuck. Is going. On."

"They loaded me with their evil plans before you burst in." Rose whispered. "In short, The guy in leather wants to take over the world."

"Didn't Fury say something about this?"

"I don't know. I wasn't listening."

"Yeah, me either."

Callie swiveled her head to each side, before leaning into Rose's ear. "Get the pocket knife. Left pocket. Hurry."

"It won't cut through metal." Rose sighed, rolling her violet eyes.

"Well, it'll cut through rope," Callie scooted around so she was facing away from Rose. "Hurry, dammit!" With some reluctance, Rose used her fingers to reach into Callie's back pocket, fumbling with her wallet and keys before grasping the cool, sleek shape of a pocketknife. Carefully, Rose slid it out of her friend's pocket. Flicking open one of the knives, Rose started to cut at the rope on Callie's wrists.

"What are you doing?" Loki said, turning to the girls suspiciously.

"Hurry up," Callie hissed. One of the ropes snapped. Loki started stalking towards them, and Rose hurried her efforts, trying desperately to cut the last two ropes.

"Hands up," Clint growled, an arrow pointed at her face. The second rope snapped. Rose raised her hands, a bit afraid. Loki was right in front of Callie, trying to see her binds.

With a quick swish of Callie's legs, Loki fell face first to the ground, groaning. She broke the last rope, standing with her hands in fists. "Run, Rose," she said urgently, "go and land the plane, I'll hold them off until we're on the ground."

Rose hesitated. Normally, Callie couldn't even be in the same room as a knife (she was a big spork fan). Now she's talking about holding everyone off?

"Dammit, Rose! Just go!" Callie hissed, shoving her friend over the turned sofa. All the soldiers were focused on Callie, giving Rose an open trail to the door. Jumping to her feet, Rose sprinted towards the door, not bothering to look behind. Turning to her side, the girl slammed her body against the door, pushing it open. As the strode into the cockpit, Rose realized that she had no idea what she was doing.

Why am I even here?

Why are you anywhere? Just go with it. Rose carefully laid her binds on the buttons.

Three

Two

One-

Rose pushed her cuffs down on the buttons, dragging them along the board. She actually had no idea what she was doing. All she needed was to land the plane, but it didn't seem to be going that way. In about five seconds, the board was sparking and whirring. Suddenly, the ground beneath her feet and the lights above her flickered and went out, along with the rest of the lights on the plane. The plane itself was stuck in a freefall. She was falling and surrounded by darkness.

Just like the dream.

To prevent herself from crashing through the window, Rose used the space in between her arms to wrap around the pilot's chair. She could hear the rush of air as the emergency exit doors were opened.

Loki and his goons must be escaping.

Dammit!

She couldn't do anything, which frustrated her even more. If she tried to move, she would be thrown into the window. Now all she could do was wait until the plane crashed, and see if she and Callie survived.

My dad did it. Rose thought. How hard could it be?

Ugh, what-

Is that light?

Rose's limbs ached, and she could feel bruises everywhere on her body. With a huff, she pushed the metal laying on top of her. The daylight burned her eyes, but Rose kept crawling forward. When her eyes finally adjusted to the light, all she could see was burning wreckage and scattered debris. They were in a meadow, surrounded by tropical forest.

"Callie?" Rose called. Pushing herself to her feet, Rose started to blindly stumble around the strewn metal, careful not to step in any of the mini-fires as she made her way around the wreckage.

"Callie! CALLIE!" She cried, but there was no response.

She couldn't be dead.

Right?

Pushing back tears, Rose fell to her knees. Her friends were lost, and she was alone in the middle of nowhere. Her hands were still bound with the telekinesis-blocking technology, making her useless. Rose knew that she wasn't strong physically, and barely knew any martial art moves. She was going to die here-

"Rose?"