So new chapter here. Because of one of you lovely reader's input I decided that I should probably not write in never ending paragraphs. Sorry that I've been doing it up until now. I just don't know when a certain paragraph should end. I'm also to lazy to go back through it all and fix it. Anyway thanks so much for reading and reviewing. I did a happy dance when I read the reviews and got some very strange looks from my sister. Also please don't kill me, I don't know how to write a country accent. I tried I really did and I'll never attempt to do it again I promse. Well I'll shut up now. Enjoy!
(Alex)
I walked down the hall and wasn't surprised to find that all the agents were more talkative than usual. The guy agents seemed more excited than the girls but I expected no less when Jane was concerned. I mean it wasn't everyday that the Avengers got a new member. I was about to turn a corner when I heard two agents leaning against a wall saying "Yeah the blond? Hot right? I would spare with her anytime." Blond?! I thought. Jane was a brunet not a blond. "Dude!, how old is she?" The other guy questioned. "Clearly old enough to be a full shield agent, which means fully tap-able." Shield Agent? Suddenly I calmed down. Jane was defiantly not an agent. With her lack of respect she was the last person Shield would hire. I walked into the cafeteria to my usual table with my uncle and the other Avengers. More people were talking about the wild southern blond agent who had arrived last night. Yet I did not hear one word about Jane. Still I didn't let it bother me as I sat down. "Where's Jane?" it was Bruce ever inquisitive. "Still sleeping last time I checked." Widow said calmly through a mouth full of cereal. "Fine by me. It's not like we don't have enough moody teenagers as it is." Tony said shooting me a joking glare. "I'm still fixing my suit and in my opinion she should be on lock down until it's fixed. I mean seriously she is meaner than you are." he said looking at Fury who had just walked in.
Suddenly a glob of mashed potatoes hit Tony square in the face. Surprise overtook his features as a female agent with short dirty blond hair, deep blue eyes, and a patch of freckles marched up. She was wearing a Shield uniform but it hung loosely around her small frame and was unbuttoned so that the white tank top showed clearly. I could see why the guys liked her. "Who do you think your bad mouthing?!" she said with a heavy accent. "Are you always such an ass when you don't have your mourning bottle of booze? Wa-hel sorry!, but you don't need to take it out on someone not even here to defend their lonesome." she was ranting and everyone stared shocked, except Fury who seemed disappointed that one of his agents would go so far out of line as to assault the Avenger and dress so out of code but didn't make a move to stop her. It was about time that Tony got called out for acting like such a pain.
"Quite frankly yes!" Tony interrupted. "Oh" she responded in an understanding tone. "If you go down to the cargo hold there is a secret stash some where. I along with a few others had shots of the stuff last night until the early hours of the day. Mighty fun if I do say so myself." she said winking at Fury. "What is your name agent?" He demanded now quite mad. "Delilah Jones at your service sir." she said with a clumsy salute. By now the whole cafeteria was watching in amusement, admiration, and horror as the rookie made a fool of herself. "Delilah Jones is of Asian decent and won't be coming in until tomorrow." Fury said suddenly calm once more. "Who are you really?" "Awwww! Already discovered and I was having so much fun messing with the gullible Agents." said a voice very different from a moment before and very familiar.
"Jane?" asked Tony in disbelief. "Hello Whiskers, did you really think I would spend any time in that box you call a room?" Very quickly she pulled off her wig revealing long brown hair that didn't look the least bit disheveled. She then took off the Shield jacket and grabbed a napkin which she promptly dunked in my cup of water before taking off the freckles and other make up. In less than 30 seconds Jane had reemerged and was eating softly beside me. "What?" she asked innocently looking at us as we starred at her with different expressions on our faces. Most of theirs was surprise and anger. I myself tried to wipe the look of awe off my own before turning back to eat.
(Jane)
Not an hour after my prank and prompt banishment to my room, the helicarrier started to sway one way than another. I stood up and suddenly the flying army base plummeted if only for a second before it regained power. I quickly pulled myself up off the floor that I was thrown onto and opened the door looking around. "This is definitely not right." I thought as I ran out of my room uncaring about my state of undress wearing only my pajamas.
I hurried over toward the loud crashes. I saw the shield agents running in the opposite direction. Not a good sign, I thought nervously. Those guys were pretty bad ass and it took something very scary or very dangerous to have them retreating. I soon met up with Steve and the others who were trying to form some kind of battle strategy. "What's going on in there?" I asked Alex. He was the only person who wasn't shouting uselessly. He gave me a distracted side glance before explaining "Bruce hulk-ed out when he realized that one on his former colleagues attempted to duplicate the Hulk experiment and died. We don't know how to stop him and the helicarrier's engine won't be able to take much more of this." I nodded at him then quickly became annoyed by my fellow team members constant bickering. "For the love of God will you shut up and let me in there?!" I screamed as the floor shifted again. They did stop talking for about five seconds to give me a glare before yelling again completely ignoring me. A plan came to me and I turned to Alex once more. "How old do you think the Hulk is mentally?" the seriousness in my tone catching him off guard. He pondered it for a minute before responding "Around 7. Why?" I didn't give him an answer.
With a wave of my hand the large steel doors flew off there hinges, revealing a very angry green giant. "Hulk Smash!" he shouted throwing a piece of equipment in our direction. I stopped it midair with some difficultly. Upon seeing the object in one piece and no one injured he yelled madly. The ship was going to crash if I didn't get Mister Grumpy-pants to chill. Over three years of dealing with angry children in a daycare finally paid off. I marched up to him an put my hands on my hips. "Use your inside voice when you are inside or someone is going to get a spanking." I said with my best adult voice. Volunteering at a day care never stopped my from occasionally whacking a deserving child outside the head. A New York 5 year old had an attitude and grammar befitting a convict and I just handled the little monsters like their parents sometimes did. Most times I had them under control in less than 4 minutes, of course then were never green and weighed over three tons. "No! Little lady no boss Hulk around!" he shouted even louder making spittle litter my face.
That was it. For any other kid I would have been nicer but now I was the one getting mad. I levitated myself only inches from his scowling face and slapped him hard enough for it to sting but not cause lasting pain. I thought I had broke my hand on the cinder-block he called a head. His eyes widened in shock and we just stood there face to face for a few seconds not moving until I said, "The big kids use their inside voices and DO NOT destroy things." I strained the words for effect gesturing to the Avengers who just stood there ready to fight. I had his attention now. "Are you ready to be a big Hero or do you need a time out?" I asked patiently. His chin wobbled sadly and he nodded slightly all the anger dissipating. "Hulk not smash. Hulk be good." and with that he plopped down so that he was sitting cross legged. He looked at me hopefully as if the tantrum war was behind him and he was ready to learn. "Good job, but we need you to change back for a while so that we can fix the helicarrier." Upon seeing his mood shifting back I quickly said "But I promise that the next time we see each other we can play tons of games. OK?" He nodded once more and said "Bye Bossy Lady" and shrunk back to Bruce who groaned softly. I smiled at the crisis that was just avoided as I let my feet touch the ground.
Suddenly the helicarrier rocked and after a few long seconds of pure panicked silence the engine shuddered to a stop. We were plummeting out of the sky like an elevator out of hell and I knew I had to stop this. Calling all the power I could muster I jumped into the air in the middle of the engine room and froze, levitating myself so I could keep the gigantic hunk of metal balanced. I concentrated on one thing and one thing only. I am not going to die in my fluffy bunny pants. I repeated this over and over like a mantra the world slowly fading from existence
(Alex)
Everything froze. The ship stopped crashing and even the bolts of the loose engine floated midair. I looked around in surprise only to see Jane meditating 20 feet in the air with a grimace of pain on her face. I ran out to the others who stood in the hallway. "You have to fix the ship quickly!" is was the Captain yelling at Tony who was now decked out in a different suit running toward the exit. "I need a few minutes at least. The engine room is busted. It's controls can be rerouted to the main computer, but the jets need to be reset." with that he grabbed his mini laptop and typed on it almost faster than humanly possible. "Done. It's rerouted" he shouted as he dove onto the landing pad and was gone. "What can we do?" I asked my uncle, wanting to do something, anything at all. "The only thing we can do. We wait and try to not add to the chaos. I'm going to help everyone get outta here. You make sure that when Jane collapses that she doesn't smash her head open. Natasha you're with me."
I walked in the engine room once again and the air felt super charged with energy. Jane still hovering. She was holding up the entire ship by herself. I tried to calculate it's weight but got nowhere, it was definitely over 30 tons. As I walked closer I could hear her voice muttering something over and over but she wasn't speaking clearly. Finally standing under her I could just make out what she was saying. "I don't want to die" Yeah that was perfectly understandable. "With fluffy bunny pants on." she finished. Huh? Those really were her last thoughts. She just repeated it over and over. I felt kinda like laughing with my nerves grinding down to a nub. "Plop...plop...plop." what was that? I looked at my feet and saw blood. Backing up quickly I saw that Jane's nose was bleeding. She wasn't going to last much longer. I'd seen it before. She was going to deteriorate until she died. It happened to telepaths who over strained their powers, their brains soon shut down or overloaded. "Hurry up Tony." I muttered even more pissed off now. I didn't want to lose this person who was sacrificing herself so that we could live. She may be a pain in the ass but she was now one of us. As if answering my previous command the engines suddenly rocketed to life. A millisecond latter Jane collapsed into my out stretched arms. "I really didn't want to die in my ducky pants." she murmured before falling into a exhausted sleep.
I was heading toward the infirmary when the rest of the team came running up to me. "Is she OK?" it was the Captain who looked worriedly at Jane's limp figure. "Of course she is." Tony snapped bitterly. "She just held up 40 barometric tons of steel 15,000 feet in the air WITH HER MIND! For 5 fricken minutes!" " Hey now no need to yell at him. It's not going to change anything. Alex get her to the doctor. The rest of us need to have a talk with Fury." said my uncle grimly. For once I didn't argue about not being included in the meeting. I just turned and entered the clinic and met with a doctor on standby.
Ten long minutes latter and Jane was laying on a metal hospital bed and I was sitting next to her. I didn't think that she should be alone in this state and she did save my life after all. I reasoned to myself. It was an hour before the others dropped by. Thor was kind enough to catch me up while the rest talked to the doctor. The ship wasn't too damaged and there were no deaths, although tons of Agents were injured. It could have been a lot worse. If not for the storm coming many Agents would have been outside and thrown off the side. We're heading inland to avoid the worse of it on coming onslaught. My uncle remained with me while the others exited. "Is she going to be OK?" He asked as he glanced at Jane's slumbering form still in her bunny pajamas. "Yeah the doctor says shes just over exhausted." I commented with relief clear in my voice. She should have gotten serious brain damage after pulling a stunt like that. "How is it even possible for her to be able to do that?" I asked him hoping for answers. "I don't know. Just be glad that she is on our side. If she ever turned on us we would be in deep shit." He theorized. Thunder rumbled I suddenly heard her mumbling something. I gave my uncle a questioning look but he just shrugged. "Run, it's not safe." She said louder this time clearly out of it. "Please they're dangerous. He'll kill you run." I felt the air shift like it was a few hours ago when she used her powers. When I looked around I saw that little things like a pen or stray medical supplies were loosely floating around. "No" she whimpered and I felt a sharp tug. "Please she's just a little kid. No don't. I said Stop!"
I was teleported somewhere dark and it was storming. I saw flames and multiple guns pointed at two little girls sitting in the center of rumble. One had wings that rapped around them both protectively. "I said No!" The girl I assumed was Jane screamed. I saw the men get shoved backward and into the surrounding buildings 50 feet in the air and their necks snapped. The skyscrapers collapsed around the pair. "I tried to warn them." I heard a little Jane sob. Then I was back in the sick bay and my Uncle was looking at me funny.
"Hey Alex? Alex are you listening to me? I said that I think that Jane is scared of the storm and is unconsciously using her powers. Are you OK? You look like you've seen a ghost." "Yeah I just zoned out for a minute." I decided not to tell him about what I saw. I got the felling that Jane didn't want anyone to know about it. Thunder rumbled again and Jane shot up her eyes flashing. Before I could blink I was pinned painfully to the opposite wall right next to my uncle. Jane seemed to realize what she was doing because we were let go a second latter. "Ow" I groaned voicing my discomfort. "I'm sorry I was surprised." She said chuckling nervously. "It's fine I think I'm going to go and help repair the engine room. See you both latter." My uncle said as he looked at the both of us and I could tell that he was plotting something. I was then all alone with Jane. "So you're not a big fan of storms huh?" I asked breaking the tense silence a few seconds latter. "No, I just like being on solid land when they happen." She looked at me pointedly, clearly defensive. She seemed less imitating when it was clear she was tired. If the dark bags under her eyes were any indication. "Well I think it's time I changed." She said changing the subject gesturing to her pajamas with a light blush decorating her face. "Yeah see you around." I said numbly starring at her a little to long as my brain tried to compare her to the screaming little girl from seconds ago. She hopped up and was soon down the hall. I groaned in exasperation. See you around? What kind of idiot was I? I can't believe I said that after I clearly bothered her. Why didn't I ask her about what vision she pulled me into. Was she a murderer? Ugh, stupid awkwardness, always making me avoid important subjects. I too walked out a little while latter when I was sure I was not going to run into Jane. I'm going to the gym. I thought dejectedly.
I'll post the next chapter tomorrow. Peace out!