Chapter 6
As men and women stepped out of the cars and trucks with guns aiming at them, woman wearing all black approached them.
"Yep, definitely Asgardian." a man said.
"Stand down," a woman ordered. "They're friendly's."
"You are of S.H.I.E.L.D?" Sif questioned as she approached the woman.
"Yeah." the man said cautiously.
"I am Lady Sif, this is Emma Swan, we are of Asgard." she introduced. "Your world is in grave danger."
The man and the woman looked at each other with worry, and brought them to their plane. Sif was anxious as they rode in one of the trucks, but Emma calmed her down and eased her worry. As they got out, Emma notice that the plane was high-tech, she knew she had to check it out. They were introduced by a smaller man with a Scottish accent.
"This way, please, this is my lab." the small said.
"Thank you." Emma thanked.
"Welcome." the smaller one accepted.
Few minutes passed, they until they met the leader of the group. But Sif drew her sword in disbelief.
"What dark magic is this?" She said. "Thor said, you perished at the hand of Loki."
"And he was right." the leader confirmed. "For a while anyway, but Loki wasn't the only one with some tricks up his sleeves. Turns out S.H.I.E.L.D. had a few of their own. Speaking of Thor, why does she have his hammer?"
"Thor is...not well at the moment, a replacement is needed until he is better or worse." Sif explained.
"Ok, do you know how things work here?" he wondered.
"Yeah, I know." Emma replied. "I born here."
"Yet, you hold Thor's hammer." he said shock.
"Pretty crazy, huh?" Emma joked.
"Yeah, that's pretty badass." he said in return.
Emma smiled at the comment.
"My name is Phil Coulson. This here are Melinda May, Grant Ward, and Leo Fitz."
Sif and Emma nodded their heads in understanding.
"Thor will be pleased to hear that you are fine." Sif assured. "He considers you a friend."
"I feel the same." Phil replied. "Which is why I would prefer he'd hear it from me, if that's ok."
Sif nodded her head once more for acceptance.
"I understand you two are looking for someone." Phil said.
"We are hunting her, Lorelei." Sif explained. "600 hundred years ago, she used her powers to wreck havoc across the nine realms. To Command armies, bring down kings, empires."
"What kind of powers talking about?" Ward wondered. "Strength, speed?"
"Sorcery." Sif answered.
Ward didn't believe in magic, but he had something about to say that to someone who could own him left and right.
"She bends and shapes the will of men to her own purpose." she went into detail.
"Only men?" May wondered. "Her powers doesn't work on women?"
"Why do you it's just us?" Emma joked.
Sif smiled towards Emma's comment, she was beginning to like her each time they were side-by-side.
"No." answering May's question. "Men have inherit a weakness we do not share."
May and Emma smiled at that answer.
"I can't imagine what she's talking about." Fitz said confusingly
"I don't either." Ward whispered.
"The very sound of her voice can ensnare most." Sif continued. "For a rare man who can resist is her voice joined by her touch that would overpower his will."
"So how we do stop her?" Phil questioned.
Emma pulled the collar from her side and showed them and explained.
"With this, it stops her from speaking."
"She wore one like this for centuries while locked in prison." Sif picked up. "She escaped when me and Swan were facing Frost Giants on Jotunheim and used one of Loki's secret pathways to get here."
"Do you know where she is now?" Ward said.
"All we know is that the bi-frost led us to her last known location." Emma said.
"It's mostly small towns out that way." Phil spoke. "Lets start looking for unusual activities within a few hundred miles radius. Burglary, theft, assault, if this woman used ruling over empires, she's gonna be hard to please."
"On it." Ward replied.
"Good. Sif, Emma, the search may take some time. Meanwhile, you can rest in our chamber room."
"Thank you, Coulson." Emma thanked.
"Please, call me Phil." he suggested.
The two exchanged smiles and went to the upper levels along with Sif. Emma was taken back by how nice and laid back the upper levels were compare to the lower levels. She almost felt that she could relax, but Sif, on the other hand, was anxious to get the job over with. Emma could that this was more personal than just a another day of an Asgardian. Emma's train of thought was wreck when started speaking to Sif about their halo-table.
"These are files of every police reports within 100 miles of where you two arrived, everything from the last 48 hours. When you want to sift through the information..." Phil explained but was interrupted.
"I'm familiar." Sif let out as she took control of the table.
"Oh." the agent let out as he was surprised and embarrassed.
"It's acquaintance system that other realms had ages ago." Sif said.
Phil and Emma couldn't help but feel a little insulted to the comment, but didn't say anything and left it alone.
"You've... visted other realms? Seen different species, aliens. Have you ever encountered any that were... blue?" he questioned to Emma and Sif.
"Beside the Frost Giants? No." Emma replied.
"Yes, of course." Sif replied as well.
"Which ones?" Phil said with curiosity.
"Ah... Mintait's, Levyin's, Fairgoes, Kree's, Soug's, Centarain's and, as Emma said, the Frost Giants, as well. But, of course, the Frost Giants tried to conquer your Earth a millennia ago, Asgard drove them away." Sif finished.
"Oh, thanks for that. And the others, have any of them been here recently?" he continued.
"Curious, aren't you?" Emma joked with a hint of caution.
"Rest easy, Phillip son of Coul, none of the others have ever visited Earth." Sif replied with assurance.
Emma could feel a little peace wash over her knowing that they haven't come the Earth...yet.
"There, a robbery of jewels." Sif annouced.
Emma looked up and started to walk towards the two.
"Where?" Emma questioned
"It's not just there. A robbery at a gun store, by guys on Hartly's." Phil said.
"It's happening faster then I feared. She amassing men, gold weaponry...Lorelei's building an army." Sif said with worry.
"Well, we're not gonna be able to stop her just by standing here." Emma said.
"Agree. Let's get going." the agent replied.
As the three headed to the lower levels. Phil gathered his team and briefed them on the mission. They, then, started to mount their equipment headed on out. Sif started to see why Thor had such a fascination with humanity and started to have a sense of humility towards them.
It took 30 minutes for them to arrive at the location, but they were met by some policemen at a local diner waiting for them. Sif and the team exit their vehicles and approached them.
"Lorelei taste run towards palaces and castles. This is far more humble then her usually abode." Sif informed.
"If this is the place, where the manpower?" Ward noticed.
"That's a good question." Emma agreed.
"How many men does she have in there? Have you seen the suspects?" Phil questioned the officer in charge.
"Yes, we have and she's beautiful." the officer replied as he brought up his shotgun.
"Their's your manpower." Emma joked as bullets started to fly.
The team ducked and scrambled for cover from the mind-controlled men. Guns firing on both sides, shouts being sounded, others yelling for assistance. Whatever homesick feeling Emma had was instantly gone. Sif had her shield protecting her while Emma was ducked with the others.
"Emma, do you think you can give us a little more cover?" Phil asked.
Emma nodded and proceed towards a van that was in front of her. She set her hammer down and started to push it toward the officers to give the team their cover for the firefight.
"Thank you." he thanked.
"Sif, I'm heading inside, you wanna join me!?" she shouted.
Sif smiled and nodded as she made her way towards her until she was beside her. Emma opened the door and the two stormed inside only to find Lorelei's men ready to fight but no Lorelei. Emma knew that the hammers power is too much for them so she decided to use her bare hands to fight them. Emma's attention was drawn to two men running towards at full speed, she grabbed one of their arms and swung them to each other dispatching them quickly. Others came in their place and started throwing punches but hitting nothing but air, Emma was surprised at her strength and speed without, but had little to look in amazement, she caught one of the punches and punched in the stomach sending him fly to the other side of the bar into the other men. Sif quickly dispatched hers as well by throwing them behind the bar, knocking them out and swinging them outside. Sif held the collar on her side, but one of the men that they missed shot it off and damaged it. Sif felt rage starting to build up and Emma knew she had to stop her from killing him, so she Emma got to him first and kicked him outside for the team to apprehend. Sif picked up the collar and looked at it with a near defeated look in her eyes, Emma looked back to her and approached.
"How bad is it?" she asked.
"Bad. Nearly beyond repair." Sif replied.
"Maybe they can fix it. There always a chance that they can." Emma said channeling her mother.
Emma and Sif exited the diner to find the men knocked out and tied up, but also, found out that Ward is now mind-controlled by Lorelei. Sif had a disproving look upon her face as she realize that Lorelei escaped with another captive.
"We need to get to get back the plane figure this out." Emma suggested.
"We're already on it." Phil replied.
"Come on, Sif." Emma said.
Sif followed Emma the vehicles and they rode to the plane.
The team exited and began rearmed their weapons. Sif, however, marched to the upper levels and into the chamber room with Emma behind. Emma, clearly, knew Sif was upset meant to calm her. Out of anger, Sif punched the wall in the greatest strength she had, but to Emma's surprise, the wall didn't falter. But quickly came back to calm Sif
"Sif, you need to calm down." Emma suggested.
"Calm, Swan? How can I remain calm knowing that one of the dangerous villain in Asgardian history is now loose upon the your world?" Sif argued.
"Well, find a way because lashing out, isn't going to help." Emma countered. As Phil walked in.
"Lorelei's treachery remains unchanged no matter the world" Sif said in a more calming tone with some anger lingering.
"We'll find them, every agent in the area is looking for them." Phil said.
"To what end, hmm? The collar has been broken." she said slamming the collar on the table.
"I'm hoping you guys can fix it, otherwise, I am not going back to Asgard with an angry Sif." Emma said.
"I'll see what we can do. In the meantime stay here and try not to punch a hole in my plane." Phil replied.
"With Sif angry? No promises." Emma joked lightening Sif's mood.
Phil headed out and left Emma and Sif.
"I thank you, Emma Swan." she thanked.
"Umm... for what." Emma replied confused
"Calming me. Most would stay quiet and let me lash out in anger." Sif explained.
"Hey, we girls gotta stick together. Who else is going to save the world from Lorelei?" Emma said with smile.
"Tis true." Sif answered with a smile. "I also must apologizes from my actions in the dining hall of Asgard. Now I know why the hammer choose you."
"Oh, don't worry about it." Emma said. "Just tell me, why is this so personal between you and Lorelei?"
"Lorelei and I have been rivals for many years, in many things." Sif continued But as time passed on she became more consumed with power and what better way of obtaining power than having a prince fall in love with you."
"That's why you were like this when first met." Emma realizing. "You thought I was taking his place."
"Aye, Thor is..." Sif stopped as she started to blush.
"You love him." Emma finished.
"Lorelei's spell couldn't affect him." Sif started again. "But another has."
"The woman that was beside him, caring for him." Emma said.
"Jane Foster." Sif named.
"Sorry." Emma apologized.
"Tis quite alright." Sif said.
"Wow, you're in love with a god, I'm in love with a pirate who as a hook for hand, what wrong with this picture?" joked Emma.
"A pirate?" Sif replied confused.
"Long story." Emma said. "I'll be outside getting some food, okay."
Sif nodded her head in understanding. As Emma stepped out, she walked passed Melinda May and exchanged smiles and nods. As Emma made her way to the food area, she made herself a sandwich to stop her stomach from growling, she then encountered a woman with a red hair in a ponytail, a black and white shirt and a skirt.
"Oh... hello. You must Emma Swan, the goddess of thunder." the woman spoke in a British accent as she walk toward Emma.
"I am and you are?" Emma questioned.
"Oh, sorry. My name Jema Simmons, I work with Fitz downstairs." Simmons explained.
"Oh... aren't you suppose to be helping Fitz with the collar?" she continued questioning.
"Actually, repairing and making things is Fitz's territory." Simmons further explained. "I'm more of a biologist, I'm currently taking care of a friend who was recently injured."
"That why I haven't seen you around." Emma gathered.
"Excuse me, I came to get this." Simmons said.
"Oh, well, hope your gets better." Emma said.
"Thank you. I hope you find who your looking for." Simmons said back.
Emma saw Simmons disappear to the lower levels and continued to eat.
"Nice kid." she thought
As Emma finished she saw Phil walking toward the chamber room where Sif and May were and spoke.
"Security camera's just caught sight of them. You said, Lorelei want an army of wealthy pliable men, I think she just hit the jackpot."
"This time we bring only female troops so that she can't ensure anyone else." Emma suggested.
"That's the plan." Phil said looking back to Emma.
"Alright, let go." Emma ordered.
Within 40 minutes, an all-female team locked and loaded ready to bring Lorelei in. As they drove into Las Vegas, the team proceed to the hotel where Ward and Lorelei were sighted. They approached the door made ready.
"May I do the honors?" Emma questioningly joked.
Sif nodded in compliance. Emma kicked the door off its hinges and the team, Sif, along with May, scrambled inside; only to find that the two already left. Emma notice that Sif and May were standing in the door way to the bedroom, as she saw the bedroom mess Emma looked upon May's face, even though it was nearly stone, she could tell it was an angry pained feeling. The female team yelled clear for Phil to come in.
"I want this suite turned upside down." he ordered.
"Yes, sir." a troop said.
May got out her phone and called Fitz for assistance.
"Fitz, they're cameras everywhere in this town, track them all." she demened as she hung up.
The team found nothing of the two and headed out back to the plane.
As they proceed to the ramp, they met by Fitz as he walked towards them, telling the results of his search for Ward and Lorelei with the cameras in the city.
"No sign of them in surveillance around the city."
"It was a long shot, Ward knows how we work. Knows to avoid cameras" Phil spoke.
"Well, I expanded my search, got satellite support running, we'll find them. I do have good news, I fixed Lorelei's neck collar." Fitz assured.
Emma, however felt that Fitz was only speaking half of the truth due to her superpower she had as a child, she wanted to investigate further but stopped by Sif as she spoke.
"Let me inspect it to be sure, Asgardian metal is different then the ore of this planet." Sif cautiously said.
"Sure, but I think you find it to your liking. It's in your room." Fitz replied back.
Sif followed Fitz back to the upper levels to their room. Emma stayed down with Phil and May discussing with to do next. Although, something was bothering Emma, something didn't feel quite right.
"You and Ward have the training, cut from the cloth. If it was you where would you run to?" Phil questioning May.
"If it were me," Emma spoke, gaining attention of the two. "I would come back here when my enemy would least expect, and separate the threat that could stop me."
"Funny, that would be my plan too." May said with a serious look.
"If that's the case, I'm check on Simmons and Skye. You two, go upstairs and see if anythings out of order." Phil ordered.
May and Emma nodded in compliance and proceed to the upper levels.
"I really hope I'm wrong." Emma spoke.
"Emma, most of the time, your first guess is usually the right one." May said.
"You sound like my 3rd grade teacher." Emma joked, resulted a smile from May.
But May's smile was quickly reduced to a concerned look, as was Emma's, as they felt the plane was beginning to move and fly; as well, as hearing pounding being sounded as a sign of distress. They looked at each other and obviously knew that they were here. They looked back and that Phil was trying to catch up to them.
"Okay, change of plan. You too go to the cockpit and corner Ward and Lorelei, I'll go and Sif." he said.
"Got it." Emma and May replied.
As the two female heroes made their way to the cockpit, they found Ward and Lorelei waiting for them. Emma, however, set her hammer down. The thought of her using it in a enclosed space while fly was way too much for her process.
"Aren't you two the brave ones?" Lorelei sinisterly taunted.
"You took her plane." Emma said pointing to May.
"I want it back." May said in a grim tone while ready to fight.
"Well, we can't always get what we want. Actually, I can." Lorelei continuing her taunt.
"Ward, we've got us a big problem." Fitz said as he ran chasing Simmons.
Emma saw that Lorelei was preparing to swing her arms at May and intervened. She tackled Lorelei and began fighting her. May, however, had to fight against her counterpart, Ward. Emma and Lorelei threw punches and kicks at each other, only to be stopped blocks. May and Ward encountered the same scenario. Emma grabbed Lorelei and push her off with kick and sent flying to the kitchen counter, and punched Ward in the jaw, stunning him.
"Come on, we got to get Sif!" Emma yelled as she help May to her feet.
The two ran the to Emma and Sif's room with Ward and Lorelei behind them. Emma stayed behind to give May time to retrieve Sif from her room. Emma faced off with Ward and Lorelei and thought.
"Okay, Ward wouldn't be a problem. It's Lorelei I'm worried about."
Emma lunged at Lorelei catching her off guard and started throwing some punches at her, Ward aided Lorelei as much as he could by attacking Emma's sides. Emma elbowed Ward and brought her fist to Lorelei's face only to caught by her opponent, Emma felt worry running down her spine as Lorelei looked on with a devious look and brought her fist to Emma's midsection, knocking the wind out of her. Emma tried to recover, but kept receiving from Lorelei and Ward, unableing her to stand her to stand her ground. Then she noticed Ward being kicked by May and Lorelei being grabbed by Sif. Emma got to her feet and punched Lorelei in the face, Sif looked Emma with pleasuring look and stood with her. Hearing May and Ward fighting in the background made Emma want to fight even more. Lorelei ran to Sif and Emma and did a front flip causing Sif to lose her double edged-sword, Emma helped Sif back to her feet and found that Lorelei was now holding Sif's weapon and sighed.
"Really?" Emma said with a disliking look.
Emma and Sif looked at each other and knew that they'd have to work together to stop her. Emma locked her eyes to Lorelei's figure just as Sif did the same, both walked around her sides got fighting stance, leaving Lorelei to look at both of her sides. Emma went first with a kick, only to have Lorelei dodging it swung the sword at Emma, who barely escaped. Sif then went after her with a punch, only to see that Lorelei was prepared for that and lifted the sword and brought it upon to her face, luckily Sif gauntlet stopped the sword's blow and made opening for Emma to attack. Emma came and struck her sides, allowing Sif to come in and attack as well. Lorelei started to get overwhelmed by Emma and Sif blow to her, as much as she tried to defend herself from them, it was hopeless. Sif grabbed Lorelei's arm and disarmed her of the sword, as Emma put hands on Lorelei's head to bring it down as she brought her knee up to Lorelei's face, disorientating her. With Lorelei disoriented, Emma and Sif came together one last time and punched her in the face resulting in her flying across the room and being knocked out. The two put their hands on their knees as they were out of breath. Asgardian's don't tire out easily, but Lorelei made them work for her capture. Sif walked to the downed Asgardian and put the collar around Lorelei neck, rending her spell over Ward and Fitz to be nullified, not that it was needed since Ward was knocked out by May, who was on one knee breathing heavily. The three were accompanied by Phil and Simmons, who looked onto the tired heroines, and walked to their aid.
"Are you all right?" Phil questioned to Emma and Sif.
The two nodded at the question got to their feet, still trying to catch their breath.
"Phil, I think you can take us back where you found us, so that we can get her back to Asgard." Emma suggested.
"I couldn't agree more. May." Phil said.
May knew what she had to do as she made her way to the cockpit and plotted a course to where they found the two.
As the plane landed, Emma and Sif grabbed their captive and made their way to the vehicles. Sif threw Lorelei, who was still knocked out, in her seat of a truck and got in with. Phil and May got in the front and to personally escort them to their destination. As they were on their way, Sif began to have thought of Emma, she'd never had thoughts of another women much less a mortal, after all the fights they fought alongside in, she couldn't help but have feeling for the temporary thunderer. Sif tried to ignore her thoughts, but she couldn't and Emma being beside her wasn't helping at all. The truck arrived at the destination and the five of them got out with Emma and Sif holding on to Lorelei, the three walked to the circle where they arrived in and looked back to Phil and May.
"Sorry about your plane." Emma joked.
"It can still fly, I'm pretty happy about that." Phil replied back.
"And it seen worse." May said.
"I assure you Lorelei will be punished severely for the crime against your people." Sid said.
"It must have been hard for you, after everything she did, to move past it, to let it go." Phil said.
"Odin ordered her back alive, as one of his warriors, I bow to his will." Sif spoke.
"Regardless of what it cost you." Phil replied.
"Much like your S.H.I.E.L.D, we're bound by our code. We are honored to have fought by your side." Sif said.
"Hope we can do this again, under different circumstances of course." Emma said with a smile.
"Yeah, we hope." Phil replied.
Nodded to Sif as she signaled Heimdell to open the bi-frost. As the blueish energy started to come down, Emma had one thing left to say.
"Farewell and prosper."
Then was swept away back to Asgard.
As they returned, Lorelei had reawakened to see that she in Asgard and was taken away by the guards. Two heroines looked and smiled at each other as walked back to the mess. Sif, however, felt conflicted and decided to sure with Emma.
"Swan, a moment?" Sif asked.
"Sure." Emma replied.
Sif lead Emma outside the mess and spoke.
"It appears that you have cast a spell on me without realizing, Swan?"
"How do you mean?" Emma asked confused.
"It appears that I've develop some feeling for you." Sif answered with sweaty palms.
"Sif...I won't lie, I've had some feelings too." Emma spoke. "Fighting along you the past couple of days has been...out of this world. But I don't want to replace the love you already have. Plus, I have someone too."
"I understand I've been in love with Thor since... I first saw him, but I may not be able to have him." Sif realized.
"Because of Jane." Emma finished.
"But with you," Sif started. "I feel different, like I don't have compete, like I don't have to act invulnerable. With you feel like I can act like myself."
"Sif..." Emma stopped
"Mom!"
Emma was cut off by the sound of a child, she whipped her head around a the saw the child running at her. It was Henry along with David, Mary Margret, Regina, Hook, Belle, and Mr. Gold.
"Emma!" David and Mary Margret let out as they ran to her.
"Henry? Mom, Dad?" she said with disbelief as she hugged Henry. "How did you get here? What am I saying? I've missed you so much."
"I've missed you too, Mom." Henry said back.
"You know our family." David started.
"We always find each other." Mary Margret finished as she hugged her daughter.
That's it. 1 big chapter done thank god. But tell me, how do you feel about Emma and Sif, Yay or Nay, please comment. Also tell me if it was good, I tried to keep it as much like the show as possible.