CHAPTER 7

MIDGARD (SAME DAY)

Tony Stark walked into the lab where Jane and her assistant, Darcy, worked only to find the room empty of its occupants. Wondering where they could have gone to, he
left to search out the rest of the building asking several of his comrades if they had seen the two women anytime that morning. When the answer was negative he
began to worry. It wasn't like either woman to just up and disappear. He called both of their phones and both went to voicemail. Figuring that they had left early, he
went to check up on each of them at their apartments only to have neither woman answer their door. 'Strange' he thought to himself and then headed back to HQ to
talk to Fury about their disappearance to see if he had any light to shed on the subject.

Meanwhile Natasha Romanoff walked into their lab to see if she could figure out what had happened to two of her friends and coworkers. Finding nothing out of the
ordinary, she was about to leave when she spotted a piece of paper laying on the floor. Walking over to it, she picked it up and read it. Upon finishing the last sentence
she sprinted out of the lab and toward Director Fury's office as fast as she could.

Steve Rogers, Dr. Banner and Clint Barton saw Tony and Natasha making their way quickly to Fury's office and decided to follow, all wondering what was wrong.

Fury looked up from a paper he was going over to see the entire Avenger's Team sans Thor standing in his doorway.

"What is going on here?" he demanded.

"Director Fury, Sir, Miss Foster and Miss Lewis have gone missing. I have tried calling and going to their apartments but neither is answering. I am afraid that
something has happened to them," Tony stated worriedly.

Natasha held up the paper she had found on the floor and said, "I found this in their lab. It seems to be a letter addressed to all of us."

Nick Fury raised an eyebrow at that. "Natasha, read it out loud please. I want to know what it says."

She nodded and began to read

To whom this may concern (or rightly the Avenger's team):

Darcy and I have finished working on the machine that we have been working on for these past few years. Today, we are going to test it out. The information is in
Darcy's computer and in my black notebook. If our disappearance is noted then our experiment worked and we have gone home. Though not the home you are
probably thinking of. It may make better since to start mine and Darcy's story from the beginning.

Darcy and I are not from Earth but the realm Alfheim. We are not human but of Elven descent. We are also twin sisters though neither of us knew this till a few weeks
ago. Ten years ago she and I woke up in a hospital in the same room with no memory of our past life. Our memories had been suppressed or blocked, we are not
really sure which. Anyway, we both learned upon waking that we were suffering for an unexplained case of amnesia and that we had both miscarried our child.
Neither one of us was sure what they had been talking about since that memory was also blocked from our minds. Now I am positive that it was to keep us from
mourning our loss too deeply. We were released from the hospital and both found work but I became obsessed with teleportation science and researched everything I
could on the subject. Darcy says that it's because I never truly forgot the way we traveled between the realms and I am inclined to believe her.

We worked hard to begin building our machine and that is when S.H.I.E.L.D took notice and basically drafted us into their service. Not that I am complaining. The
funding was everything and more to Darcy and I but we were both at that point becoming very obsessed with the project.

Anyway, about six weeks ago, she and I began having some very vivid dreams and we now know that they were our suppressed memories that were slowing
resurfacing. Four weeks ago we found an Old Norse scroll among some paperwork Agent Coulson had left on Darcy's desk though neither of is sure on how it got
there. We both understood the old Norse language like it was an everyday thing for us and we deciphered the scroll which is still in the lab but in the bottom drawer of
Darcy's desk. It is underneath some papers if you want to look at it. We wrote down the scrolls content to make it easier for you to read and we also included the
deciphered explanation as well.

A week later, Darcy had recovered all of her memories and work on the machine was redoubled. With the information we now had about how the Bifrost worked. Both
of us wanted to return to our real home and to the men that held our hearts. You see we are engaged and have been for the past ten years. You already know the two
men rather well. My betrothed is none other than the god of Thunder, Thor Odinson. Darcy's is the one that will shock you since it is his brother Loki that she is
engaged to. But what will also come as a shock is that we are also goddesses and princesses as well. My real name is Princess Jarissa Ashiersdottir, goddess of Reason
and Intellect and Darcy's is Princess Darissa Ashiersdottir, goddess of Truth and Compassion. It is explained in the scroll. Our Elven names are Nessa (me) and Gilraen
(Darcy). Not even Thor or Loki know our true Elven names but you all do now. Jarissa and Darissa are our Asgardian name equivalents. Steve may have the hardest time
believing this as he believes there is only one God but it is true.

We hope we will one day return to earth (hopefully with our husbands in tow) and if everything went as planned we are most likely on Asgard and have been reunited
with our lost loves. If not then it was nice meeting and working with you all.

Sincerely,

Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis

Natasha lowered the letter and looked around the room. Sure enough as Jane had predicted Steve was having a hard time believing what he had just heard, she
couldn't blame him; it was a lot to take in. The first thing she wanted to do was raid Darcy's desk for the scroll that was mentioned several times in the letter so she
could see for herself why they had left. But the other thing she was having a hard time believing was that Darcy was engaged to the very man who had tried to take
over their planet. She wasn't sure if that was a good sign or not.

Tony, too, was thinking about raiding the lab for the scroll and his thoughts mirrored everyone else's in the room. It was unanimously decided (silently) that they would
search the lab for the scroll to get to the bottom of their friends disappearance.