What's this? A new chapter? Either I'm really excited or just procrastinating. It's probably both...
Since I forgot it in the previous chapter and a paranoid person, I in no way own the avengers or Sailor Moon they belong to Marvel and Naoko Takeuchi respectively.
Don't you think I'd be elsewhere if they were mine, namely defending Tokyo in the name of the moon, while helping destroy New York alongside the most awesome villain ever?
Anywayyy...ON TO CHAPTER TWO!
Natasha Romanov rolled out of bed and had gone out for a jog down at central park, and she was sure that when she left Clint was male, and she did not have a cat.
Yet when she came home she found a sweet little white kitten on her couch. "Aw, hello, little guy," started to pat it. "How did you get in here?" She didn't mind animals, and she did like cats. She looked up. Clint wasn't around. "Clint?" She called. The second time a little louder "Clint?!"
"Alright, alright I'm up…" said some woman who just walked into the living room from her bedroom. "Hey, Tasha…Why are you looking at me that way?"
"Who are you, and where the hell is my boyfriend?!"
"Woah, Tasha. Calm down. Hang on. What do mean?"
"Where is Clint." Natasha said, with growing threat in her voice.
"What do you mean? I'm standing right here in front of you!" That was when Clint realised that his voice did not sound like his own. "Um, Tasha, what's happened to my voice?"
Natasha's eyes were wide. "Look in the mirror." Clint looked confused but did as he told and went into the bathroom, while Natasha stayed in the kitchen.
"What the- Oh my G- Just- WHAT?" Clint poked her head out the bathroom door, "WHY AM I A GIRL?" Then Clint noticed the cat, "AND SINCE WHEN DID YOU OWN A CAT?"
"So if you really are Clint, tell me something only Clint would know," Natasha said with narrowed eyes. Hey. You can never be too careful.
So Clint gave Natasha a brief run down of what happened in Budapest.
"Right. Okay. We are going to go see Tony. I bet Loki's done this."
Though neither assasin saw this, the kitten slipped into Natasha's bag, and caught a ride to the Avengers HQ.
...
Tony sat in the lounge with a phone to his ear. "Hey, Pepper…It's Tony…Yes, I suppose I do have a cold or something, if you want to classify it as that…No…Yes…Uhm…Can you just come over please?...Okay, bye."
"You should've told her to bring clothes," Steve said, holding his pants up on his skinny frame.
"She'll realise that when she gets here." Tony shot back. That's when the door opened, and Tony's favourite assassin came in, with a brunette trailing behind her.
Natasha froze at the sight before her. "Oh, crap. You guys changed too."
"Hey, at least you're not a guy."
"Did it occur to you that this is Loki's fault?"
"Been there, done that. Got the T-Shirt," Tony said sarcastically. How dumb did she think he was?
"It wasn't my brother, he's sitting in his cell."
"He's a chick now, so he's – I mean she is your sister."
"He's been female before. Have you not read the myths?" Steve said dissaprovingly.
"Don't really want to." Just then Pepper walked in. "Woah, Pep. That was quick."
"Hey, Tony. Now whats the- Oh my God! I..uh…Uhm.." Pepper did that thing where she tucked her hair behind her ears even if it didn't need to be tucked back, she did this when she was utterly confused. Tony didn't blame her. Hell, he was confused. He didn't like feeling like this all too much. "Wh- Why are you…uhm…like…that?" She said gesturing to him.
It was refreshing not to have to hear "Who the hell are you?" for the seven hundredth time. It was probably because Thor was there still fully decked out in his armour, or the fact Tony's arc reactor was glowing away in his chest.
"We don't know," Tony admitted, "But we do know it's not Loki's fault."
"H-how can you be so sure?" Pepper asked, still a little freaked out.
"JARVIS, bring up the security feed to Loki's cell." There Loki was. Trying to do magic, trying to turn himself back, Tony presumed, but he was failing, due to the magic dampener Tony had made. It had taken a few months, but it worked, and that was all Tony had needed.
It was all Pepper needed too, it seemed, as she nodded vacantly.
"So um…What do we do now?" Clint asked.
"Well first, we need to get you some clothes, you cannot wonder around with clothes that barely fit you!" A voice said. It wasn't pepper, nor any of the Avengers. They all looked around frantically trying to find the disembodied voice. "I'm in Natasha's bag, you guys!"
They all looked at Natasha's bag seeing a fluffy white kitten poking it's head out of the bag. "Yeah, um, can you put me down?"
"Natasha. That cat. IS TALKING." Clint said her eyes opening wide.
"Of course I talk. I'm a cat. Please can you put me down? It may be a good idea to get Loki up here too." Everyone continued to look at the cat. "Please put me down?"
Natasha was the first to respond, but putting her bag on the floor, allowing the cat to jump out.
"Thank you. It was quite cramped in there." It jumped on the table. He looked around expectantly. "Who's getting Loki?"
"No one is getting Loki. He- She'll blow us all sky high."
"She is as much a part of this as you are, Anthony Stark."
"We are not – Hang on. How do you know my name?"
"If you bring Loki, I'll tell you."
"Team meeting!" Tony called. "And you are not invited kitty. Shoo."
"I will not "shoo" as you say, and how is it a team meeting without Loki?"
"Loki is not an Avenger." Steve replied steadily.
"If you get her I promise to tell you who I am, why I am here, and why I can talk."
"Pinkie swear?"
"What is a pinkie swear?"
"Alright fine, I'll do it, but if she kills us all I'm blaming you, kitty."
"Tony, you cannot just bring Loki up here!"
"Steve, chill. I'll just bring the dampner up with her so she won't kill us with hocus pocus."
"You are responsible."
"OKAY, MUM!" Tony called, already on his way out.
"Someone needs to go with him," Steve said. Thor said nothing and followed Tony. Clearly talking cats weren't all that common on Asgard either.
"Okay. Now we wait," Steve said. The cat licked his paws to pass the time.
They waited roughly fifteen minutes for Tony, Thor and Loki. Though it felt like a lifetime.
When finally, Tony and Thor walked in with Loki between them and the dampener under Tony's arm. Loki's eyebrow arched when he saw the cat, "I didn't know you were partial to cats, Stark."
"I am not just any cat, Loki Odinson." Loki looked indeed surprised at first but then realised what he had been called.
"I am NOT Odinson, you damnable creature!"
The cat seemed unfazed, "I did not think you would have liked to be called Laufeyson-"
"You DARE!"
The cat continued, not really caring, "-either, but we can settle with that if you wish…"
Tony decided he liked this cat.
Loki scowled. "Why not just call him Loki and skip to why you can talk!" Tony said, before Loki tried to strangle the poor creature.
The cat sighed (Can cats sigh? Tony thought to himself).
"My name is Orion, and I'm your guardian."
OMFG! CLIFFIE! I wrote this during my double spare well aware that I have a HUGE MAths C assignment due on Monday, so don't be surprised if you don't get an update for a while, I've got exams next week and I kinda need to do well so...Bye bye till then!
I'll give you guys a small spoiler: Bruce is in the next chapter! YAY!
He just slept through the whole ordeal. I promise.