Phil led me through the maze of halls to a large room with a high ceiling full of people typing at computers. The back wall was made entirely out of windows. I was awestruck at what I saw outside the glass. An entire ocean of cool blue water beckoned me. "Wow..." I said under my breath as I slowly walked up to get a better look at what I was seeing. But what I failed to notice was the dark-skinned man dressed in a leather trench coat with an eye patch over one of his eyes. "Excuse me, Miss," he said in a deep, athoritave voice, which startled me back to reality. I spun around and faced him, startled. He continued without waiting for a reply, "I'm Director Fury," he continued, "and I would like to ask you a few questions." He continued while walking towards a door. "Follow me." He stated simply, but also like a harsh command he was expecting me to follow. I paused for a moment, and then replied a little cautiously, "Sure, ok."
I followed behind him struggling a little to keep up with his brisk pace. I noticed Phil trailing behind me along with a few armed people in jumpsuits. "In here," the director said after the few minuets of silent walking. I stepped in after him and noticed a few people even stranger then the ones I had already seen since my arrival.
The chattiest one in the room seemed to be a few inches taller then me. He had dark brown hair, brown eyes. He was dressed in a black, short sleve cloth shirt that said 'Black Sabbath', what ever that was, and bluish pants. What I noticed most was his short, neatly trimmed beard Tom wanted a beard, I thought, he had started growing one too. The 'Black Sabbath' man was conversing with a man in a purple, long-sleeve shirt with tan slacks. He was a quiet man, bit seemed to know what he was talking about.
The next two people I noticed were the blonds. One had neatly combed short hair and the other, hair down to his shoulder accompanied by a short beard. The one with the sorter hair had on a blue, long-sleeve shirt and tan pants, the other in battle armor with a flowing red cape.
The only woman I saw in the room had firey red hair and a hard expression on her face. She wore a black jumpsuit with one of the weapons I saw earlier today at her waist. She seemed like a woman not to be messed with. She sat next to the last person in the room. The man with blond hair and a similar expression as the woman's on his face. He wore a black suit similar to the others except his had some dark purple on it. He was armed with a recurve folding bow and an advanced quiver full of arrows. Finally a weapon I recognized.
Director Fury then told me to take a seat so I sat in the closest chair which just happened to me next to the blond haired man in the blue shirt. "As you know, Avengers, this girl just recently landed in New York. You are here to find out why." Fury started. He then looked at me along with everyone else in the room. I felt my shyness quickly growing. "Who are you?" he asked in an almost threatening kind of voice. I decided to go with the truthful approach, because I could think of nothing else. "Kenzie," I then said softly. "We can' find any records of you in any database, why?" He asks in the same tone. "I'm not from this planet, its different from all the others I've been on. What planet is this? And the Galaxy?" I ask, a little desperate for an answer so I could plan a way back to find Tom. "Earth, Milky Way, and what do you mean 'not from this planet?" asked the 'Black Sabbath' man. "I'm from the Zone galaxy." I replied softly. "Where's that?" inquired the man in the purple shirt. "Three to the Left" I said, informing him like it was very obvious.
"Why are you here?" Fury asked breaking off our conversation, "What were you planning to do?" "I don't know why, I just escaped and crashed here." "Escaped from who?" the blond man next to me asked. "From the Dark Lord, who else." I replied confused at why he didn't know. "Who's that?" asked the 'Black Sabbath' man. "The evil-dictator-mad-man who can control the shadows and has been after me all my life!" I said harshly, all my shyness completely leaving me. "How could you people not know that!"
"Calm down," Director Fury said, "We have never heard of him." "What did you mean by 'control the shadows'?" asked the man with the bow. "He can manipulate them to hold you in place, take them so that your feet will no longer stay on the ground and you'll float into space, or use them to take over your body and mind by encasing you in shadows." I said, frustrated.
"How do you know that?" Asked the woman with red hair. "From experience," I said solemnly. "I just watched it happen to my best friend just a few hours ago. He sacrificed himself for me." "Tis' a mighty friend you had, a noble sacrifice" Boomed the large man with the red cape. I flinched slightly at his loud voice then nodded in agreement with him. "He was my best friend, and now he's gone" I whispered, it finally sinking in and my eyes tearing up, but I wasn't about to cry in front if these strange people. "Is there anything else you want to ask me?" I said, looking up at Director Fury. "Nothing right now, but we will ask you some more questions later, for now, you will be under the watch of The Avengers. You must be with one of them at all times, is that understood?" he said firmly. I nodded quietly in reply. "Good, Avengers, take her back to Stark's Tower and keep a close eye on her" he said, and swiftly left the room, Phil trailing.
Once we got to the place Director Fury called Starks Tower, everyone disbanded. "Well, back to the lab," the 'Black Sabbath' man said quickly. He then left with his purple shirted friend. "I'm off to the gym, anyone want to come?" asked the shorthaired blond politely. "I shall accompany you, friend Steve!" boomed the man in the red cape. The red haired woman left silently so I was left with the bowman.
"Well, I guess you're stuck with me." He said. "I don't have anything to do right now, and I don think your too dangerous, is there anything you want to do?" he asked me, clearly out of any ideas. "Do you guys swim here?" I asked
-Line break-
Clint, I learned that was his name, led me to a large room with a section cut out of the floor filled with clear blue water. "Well, this is the pool" he said. "So, can we swim I it?" I asked intently, ready to swim. Swimming helps me clear my head, it relaxes me; and is my favorite pastime for apparent reasons. "First, I want to see if anyone else wants too, and we need to get you a suit." Clint said. He then shouted "Jarvis" at no one, at least no one I saw. Then a voice out of nowhere and yet all over said "Yes, Master Barton?" I spun around trying to find where the voice came from. "Could you tell everyone to come here please?" Clint asked the voice, chuckling at my reaction. "Indeed, Master Barton" the mysterious voice said again.
~Line break for no good reason :)~
A minuet later, the one I heard called Steve by the cape wearing blond showed up, along with the 'Black Sabbath' man and everyone else I had previously met. "You wanted to see us, Clint." The red haired woman asked questioningly. "Yeah guys, you want to go swimming?" Clint asked happily. "I don't see why not, but doesn't one of us have to watch Kenzie? Steve asked gesturing towards me as he said it. "Yes, but she was the one who suggested swimming in the first place." Clint protested, "Ok then, lets all of us and her go swimming." The 'Black Sabbath' shirted man said. "Yes friends, let us enjoy this watery recreation together!" boomed the caped man. "Are we sure she's not a threat yet, like Fury said?" asked the red haired woman. "She hasn't done anything yet." Pointed out the purple shirt man. "But dose she eve have a bathing suit?" asked the blue shirted man. "I don't need one," I pointed out, wondering what a bathing suit was. "Can we just go swimming now?" questioned the 'Black Sabbath' man, which made me like him a little bit more. Getting impatient from waiting, I nodded in agreement with him. "Okay then, meet back here in five" commanded the blue shirted man, then everyone disappeared to go get ready.
-Lime break! (I know it's supposed to be line! Hahaha!)-
Then everyone started showed up in their 'bathing suits', which turned out to be just clothes for swimming. Weird I thought to myself. The 'Black Sabbath' man came first, wearing red and gold colored shorts, jumping up and down like an impatient little child. Second came Steve, wearing shorts that had blue stars and red stripes. Next came the red haired woman and the bowman, Clint, came. The woman wearing black, and the man in dark purple shorts. Then came the extremely loud man, wearing plain red shorts and finally the purple shirted man came in, wearing purple shorts. Surprising, right.
I had never seen a group of adult men act so strange. They played like the children did in at my home before it was attacked. They splashed each other, wrestled each other, and seemed like they were having fun all around. They were a noisy group of people, so to get away from it all I dove in, while no one was looking, and sat at the bottom of what they called 'the Olympic sized pool'. My powers enabled me to breathe, and hear, normally in water, but the water felt cool agenized my skin. It was fun to watch everyone move about on the surface looking up at them. Watching them kick their legs to keep up at the surface and move around. I thought it was rather funny.
Twenty minuets later, while I was lying flat on the ground almost dozing while watching the strange men play, I heard someone call out "Hay, where's the girl? I haven't seen her in a wile." Then everyone started spinning around trying t find me. Clint dove under and started looking on the floor along with Steve and Tony. Then Tony spotted me at the same time lying on the floor and started towards me. He was holding his breath and swimming towards me. Tony was obviously not a good swimmer, because when got close he seemed like he was practically out of air and his face was bright red. Then I saw him let his breath go and the last of his air bubbled to the surface. In a panic I made a large pocket of air form around us, at least six feet tall , and Tony fell to the ground coughing up the water in his lungs. I ran to his side, shouting "Tony! Are you ok?!" Then I realized my mistake, I hadn't told anyone here about my abilities.
"W-What the...?" He sputtered as he coughed. I felt myself blushing for no reason . "Yeah..." I started, "I can control water. Surprise! But don't tell anyone, please." "Why didn't you tell anyone?" asked Tony. "I didn't want anyone to know" I replied honestly. "I didn't know if I could trust anyone here, so I kept it to myself"
"Now where Tony?" I heard from above, cutting us off. Tony looked up with an awestruck expression on his face. He then reached out, running his hand through the edge of the dome and into the water. "Now this is cool," he said softly. From outside the sphere I saw Hawkeye and Steve dive down, looking for both of us. When they spotted us with shock clear on their faces and gasped, little bubbles rising to the surface, then hurried back up for more air. "Guys! Follow me!" I heard one of them yell from above. Then everyone dove under again they headed strait for us. I let them pass into my little bubbled sanctuary (I could have kept them out easily) and landed with a soft the on the now dry pool floor of my sphere. All of them just stared at me. I was at a loss for words to explain, but thankfully Tony cut in.
"Guys! Check it out! The girl can control water!" he said enthusiastically. "I ran out of breath swimming to the bottom, and then poof! She made a bubble of air for me!" Then everyone turned towards me and I smiled sheepishly and nodded. "Yeah, Surprise!" I said a little sarcastic. "So much for a secret" I mumbled at Tony angrily. "Why did you keep it a secret?" questioned the fiery haired woman with a hard expression. "I didn't know if I could trust anyone here, so I wanted an advantage in case anything happened." I clarified. The woman nodded, seeming to except my logic, or even agree with me. "What do we do now?" I asked, puzzled. "Swim some more?" suggested Clint, getting a nod from everyone. "I'll race you to the diving boards!" shouted Tony, eagerly. "Your on!" I said, excited to have some possibilities of new friends, even if they were a lot older than me. I used my powers as soon as I passed through the edge of the dome to shoot off like a spinning rocket towards the diving boards, reaching them in a mater of seconds. "No fair!" shouted Tony still in the bubble, and acting like a little kid. I saw Steve smiling brightly at Tony's action, almost laughing. I liked these people, they were unlike any friends I'd had before. Well, the only friends I'd ever hade were now dead or missing. Megan died years before, and now Tom was captured. I had to go rescue him. Maybe when I got to know these people better, I'd ask them to help.
