CHAPTER TWO:
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CHAPTER TWO:
"Nope, sorry, doesn't ring a bell." Tony said, after considering the name for a moment. The blonde girl-Badwolf-tilted her head. Coulson leaned across the table, and Fury, to talk to her.
"We've got you listed as Agent Badwolf to prevent the expected meddling, and keep your identity a secret." He explained. She smiled.
"I was pretty sure that was a joke when I told you that." She told him, a distinctive British accent lacing the words. She turned, eyeing the superhero team casually.
"My name is Rose Tyler, actually." She told them.
"Nope. Still doesn't ring a bell." Tony echoed.
"It doesn't matter who she is, why are we here?" Natasha said eventually, cutting straight to the point. Fury nodded, and accepted a file from Coulson to slide across to the team.
Steve took it, opening it up to a collection of neatly printed diary pages. He frowned, carefully looking through barely any of the writing before looking back up to the Agents.
"I don't understand…"
"That is all the information we have on these… Angels. It was recovered from a crash site." Fury explained.
"A crash site of what?" Bruce said quietly, an identifiable tone of suspicion in the words. He was pretty sure he was the only one who remembered the terrifying implications of the name of these creatures.
"That's unnecessary information, Banner." Fury replied stiffly. Bruce narrowed his eyes, and Fury leaned back.
Meanwhile, Tony had snatched the pages from Steve, and was wrestling with them, while trying to read it. The others, mainly Natasha and Clint, had leaned out of the way, deciding that they really didn't want to get involved. Thor was making attempts to get involved, but with Bruce between them, and his slight fear of the 'other guy' those attempts were not successful. (And I say slight to be nice)
"This information is very vague." Tony said eventually. "It's all cryptic and boring. And looks hundred of years old."
"That's because it hasn't-technically-been created yet." Rose replied simply, speaking again for the first time in a while.
"I'm sorry?" Steve said, apparently the only one who caught the words.
"It's really old." Rose said lightly, smiling at him. Steve frowned.
"Why are there no pictures? It's stupid to get us to fight something we don't know what they look like." Tony said loudly, stretching up in his seat and fighting Clint away, who had misfortunately gotten involved.
"Just let us all see!"
"Pictures are a bad idea." Rose replied confidently.
Tony stared at her, and in a completely serious tone replied: "Pictures are never a bad idea."
"They are if you don't want to be in the 1930's" Rose snapped back.
Steve opened his mouth, then closed it.
"The point is, you're going to have to trust me. I know a lot more about this sort of thing than you do." Rose insisted. Fury and Coulson seemed to agree, and so by default Natasha and Clint put the bare minimum of trust in them. Which was a small, small amount.
The others reluctantly agreed.
"So, how do we fight them?" Bruce said eventually.
"You don't." Rose replied evenly. "You really, really don't."
"Then-"
"You trick them. You can't kill a statue, can you?" Rose asked.
The superhero's remained silent, until Tony couldn't not speak any longer.
"What?"
"The Weeping Angels are only living if they're unobserved. But if they're seen by any living thing, they turn to stone. They're biologically Quantum Locked. It's unavoidable, and a defense system. Can't kill what's not alive." Rose explained quickly, knowing that they'd learn best from experience. Terrifying, brutal experience. But Fury had insisted they were the best they could offer.
"So… Statues?" Steve said, still fairly uncertain about everything.
"Only when you look at them." She reminded him. "And they're fast. Blink of an eye, and they've got you. Don't blink." She warned them.
"So… What are we actually doing?" Natasha said slowly.
"You're helping me retrieve something I've lost." Rose replied, the first hint of hesitation in her voice.
"What did you lose?" Clint asked, leaning forward.
"It… It won't mean much to you, but it looks like a piece of blue wood." Rose said eventually, waiting for the confusion. Instead all she got was one simply question.
"What shade of blue?" Thor asked.
"TARDIS blue." Rose replied instantly.
"Nope, that's not a colour. Try again." Natasha said, shaking her head.
"A very, very deep blue. The best blue." Rose replied. They nodded.
There was a pause, then Rose opened her mouth to ask one last question before official briefing.
"Why aren't you questioning what's up with the wood?" She asked.
"If it were anyone of us up here, we could be looking for anything from a hammer, to a bow, to a pair of pants. We're really not in the position to be judging." Tony explained with a shrug. "For all we know, you're a vampire hunter and need the stake. Might make sense where you come from."
Rose smiled, these were the best.
"You… You're not a vampire hunter, are you?" Tony added after a moment. Rose laughed.
"No, of course not. I'm so much worse."
If anyone saw/read/heard about the deleted scene from Doomsday where the Doctor gives Rose and TenTwo a piece of the TARDIS so they could grow their own TARDIS and keep travelling, well, you know what's happening. If you haven't… Look it up! The writers say they like to imagine it still happened, and it was only taken out because it broke the emotion of the scene.
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