10. We're Not in Asgard Anymore
Hey readers, ok so I'm gonna say this before the chapter begins. You guys kind of have to flow with me a little on this one. I based these following chapters on the idea that the avengers have already met, and are aboard the helicarrier when Daya arrives. I know these chapters are pre avengers but just go with it, if you want. It just made it a lot easier, and we all love the way the avengers talk with each other, so I didn't want to mess that up. Also, Steve is in this chapter and all of you should know, Steve is going to be a pretty big part of this story, for several reasons that you shall see as the story progresses. So with that said, sorry for the slight delay in the updating, I hope you guys enjoy it, and I own nothing but Daya.
As Daya's unconscious form tumbled through a night sky, a group of Midgardians, strange and different they may have been, stood arguing in the S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier that flew over New York, stood at a halt in mid-air, held up by technology a young Goddess like Daya would never have understood.
"Look Popsicle seeing as you just woke up from a pretty extensive slumber party, maybe you are not the best one to coach us in current affairs". It was the famous Tony Stark, AKA, the Iron man that had spoken such words to the old in mind and tradition, yet young bodied Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America.
"You know just because you live in the city in current time doesn't mean you know every goddamn thing in the world" Rogers answered back.
"You guys are ridiculous. This is why I choose to work with either Barton, or alone" Natasha Romanov frowned, rolling her eyes at the two heroes, realising this habit of the daily superhero face off was quickly becoming a rather tiresome tradition. Romanov sighed at the concept of spending even more time with all of the "Avengers" in the same room. It was only the third day after their first meeting and already they were all working worse together than a dysfunctional family on Maury.
The verbal wars were interrupted by a loud sound hitting the roof of the helicarrier.
"What the hell was that?" Bruce Banner, the humble scientist asked.
"I don't know" Agent Fury replied. "It sounded like something hit our roof pretty hard. Stark, would you do the honours of checking it out?"
Tony rolled his head over to one shoulder dramatically. "Sure, seeing as I have nothing better to do, and I'm the only one here with technology that enables them to breathe outside at this altitude. Hey Popsicle, I don't see you with these kinds of gadgets in the forties, must have sucked to live in a time where anything useful wasn't yet discovered right?" Stark smiled as he passed Rogers.
"I can think of one positive of living in the forties, the company I kept was much better" Steve nodded as he looked Stark over in distaste.
Tony suited up and flew to the roof, where the noise had come from. He saw an unconscious woman sprawled out on the roof, the impact of her landing had left a large dent in the metal, yet there she was, perfectly unharmed. Alive and visibly perfect, unconscious and in the middle of nowhere, but still alive at least.
"Whoa! Guys you are not going to believe what I just found" he smirked, hoisting Daya up in his arms and took her back inside the helicarrier. Inside he placed her on the bed in the cell originally designed for the hulk and the avengers all gathered around to see exactly what it was Stark had brought in.
Steve moved the blonde hair covering her face behind her ear, staring at her face, her sweet full pink lips parted slightly, revealing a few perfectly white teeth. "Do you think she's ok?" He asked.
"Well, her pulse is ok, no visible injuries, looks clear of internal bleeding, maybe a little dehydrated but that looks like that's all that's up" Bruce said quietly as he checked her pulse.
Stark crossed his arms, looking at the fallen woman from a distance, hovering above Steve. "How in the world could a human just fall from the sky for and on top of that, even survive?"
"Well, she does seem a little different" Natasha frowned. "I mean, those clothes don't exactly look like they're hot of the rails of Dolce and Gobbana's spring range" she continued, staring at the woman's unusual and rather revealing robes.
Fury stepped forward, raising an eyebrow as he regarded the passed out woman.
"Well, you all may not be familiar with this but we had a little run in with some folks last year that weren't exactly human. They were what we would call God's, Norse ones. One called Thor, the God of thunder to be exact. Something tells me, this woman may be one of them?"
Stark let out a small sarcastic laugh. "A Goddess huh? Well, she's pretty enough. I better go and scrub up on my Norse mythology" he said.
"We better leave her to rest. She will wake up soon enough, then we can ask our questions" Bruce told the others as he wiped his glasses clean.
As the others moved to leave the woman alone in the cell, Steve cleared his throat. "I'm gonna just wait outside the cell, to watch over her. In case she wakes up overnight" he said.
The others all raised their eyebrows teasingly at him before all moving off to their own rooms. From just outside the cell Steve watched the woman sleep. She seemed fairly peaceful, a slight frown sat on her brow gently, like despite all her beauty, she had a dark secret to hide, one that had led her to be so lost, out here on earth. "A goddess?" He thought. "I wake up seventy years later and there are goddesses in this new world?" It was going to bring up a few questions on his religious background, everything he seemed to know once, was rapidly slipping away. He wondered what had been so big to make her fall from her home "planet?" In all the books on mythology he had read, the gods had only left their homes if they had been either banished or punished. This woman looked too innocent to be subjected to either of those things. Steve sat down as he continued to think about the possibilities that could arise from meeting a real genuine goddess. Until finally, he gave into sleep.
Daya's eyes fluttered open. She did not recognise her surroundings at all. The colours that filled the room were all greys and blacks and whites. Not at all like Asgard. Then she remembered about the jump she had made, she wasn't in Asgard anymore. She then started to panic about where exactly she had ended up.
She jolted upright, looking around her, seeing she was in a small room made of glass. She stood up slowly, her legs felt weak from the fall.
"H, hello, is anyone there?" she asked, her voice seemed so small in the room she doubted if anybody had heard her.
"Hello Ma'am, I am Steve Rogers, pleased to meet you".
Daya turned around to see a young man with short blonde hair and blue eyes with the longest eyelashes she had seen before. He was dressed strangely, definitely not Asgardian attire.
"Hello, Steve? But my name is not Ma'am, its Daya" she answered to him. Steve chuckled gently and kept his arms neatly behind his back, remaining calm and a gentleman at all times.
"Sorry, Daya. Pleased to meet you. May I enquire as to who you are exactly?" Steve's voice was gentle, his accent unlike anything she had heard before.
"I am Daya, goddess of compassion, and the wife of Loki, God of mischief, from Asgard. Where am I?" Daya still allowed her eyes to roam around the room frantically as she tried to process all the strange interior that seemed to fill the new, odd realm.
"You are on a helicarrier, flying over New York, earth to be exact" Steve smiled back at her.
"Earth? Oh Midgard. What is a helicarrier?"
"It's a flying machine, a vessel of sorts I guess you could say" Steve said as he continued to look on at the Goddess.
"A flying machine? We are flying? So a machine that is like a bird?" she asked slowly.
"Yeah, you catch on quick, a bird like machine" Steve smiled widely, showing off to Daya, exceedingly straight, white teeth.
"Why are we flying? Midgardians do not fly?"
"No, we don't, we just make machines that do. We are in the air because it is safer for our location, In case there are people that try to hurt us, we need to stay hidden" Steve told Daya. He was proud of himself being able to communicate with her so well.
"I see. I digress really. Tell me, Steve, do you know where my husband Loki is? That is why I fell from my home in Asgard, to find Loki" she said.
"Well, I have never heard of him before but then, I'm not the best guy to ask about current affairs right now. I can go and get the others. If anyone knows where your husband may be, it's them. First, you have to drink this, it's just water, but it would be dangerous if you didn't drink some water" Steve smiled to her as he unlocked the cell slowly. He walked in with a bottle of water, holding it out to Daya who flinched away as he got closer.
"Oh its ok Miss Daya, I mean, Daya. I won't hurt you, I promise you" he said quietly as he handed her the water. Daya was reminded of Loki, and the promise he had made her, to never let go, but he had broken that promise to her. She stopped herself from crying in-front of Steve and drank some water before Steve walked off to bring the avengers over.
Fury was the first to walk in, and wasted no time with questioning Daya as the other avengers stood watch as well.
"Miss Daya good morning. Do you Know Thor?" He asked. Daya's face fell at the sound of Thor's name.
"Yes I know him. I am not here for him, I am here for Loki, my husband. He is the only one I want, the only reason I am here" she replied.
"Do you know where Thor is Daya? We have been meaning to get in contact with him for quite some time" Fury asked, unwilling to give Daya the answers she wanted.
"Yes, Thor is back on Asgard. Where I just came from, but please, is my husband Loki here? On Midgard?" Her pleas seemed to become more desperate by the minute. She just wanted to know if she had fallen where Loki had, to know if he was nearby.
"Miss Daya, I am sorry to inform you that Loki is not here on Midgard. We would have gotten some kind of record of him on this planet by now if he was, at least, we should have" Fury said. Daya's heart sank once and she held back tears with much more difficulty.
"Yeah, besides if your husband was here, being a god and all he would probably be out causing some trouble, and we would be the first one's there to knock him down a peg or two" Stark told her smugly.
She looked up and went to the glass, banging on it forcefully as she glared at Tony Stark. "You don't know my husband, you don't know what he has been through. What we have been through together. Now please" Daya frowned, turning her gaze to Fury once more. "Let me out so I can find my husband, please".
Fury shook his head and shot Daya an apologetic look. "I am sorry Daya but we can't do that just yet. It is our job here at Shield to keep any new possible threat under inspection until we know we can trust them".
Steve frowned at Fury's words. Daya didn't seem like a threat, just a woman searching for her husband. Daya began to cry and fell to the floor, her body suddenly feeling very heavy and tired once more. All she wanted was Loki. She had been so sure that her fall from Asgard would lead her closer to Loki. Away from her imprisonment at Asgard, but she had just fallen into another prison. One in a strange realm with people she had never met before, and the people didn't seem very friendly.
"Come on guys, give her a break. She lost her husband, she just wants him back, she isn't going to hurt anyone" Steve frowned.
"Mr Rogers, my orders stand. Daya is not to leave her cell unless I give permission. I know this isn't an ideal situation for anyone but it's not forever, and we can't just let a goddess run free in the streets of Manhattan. Feel free to keep her company if you want? Nobody will stop you" Fury smirked before walking off, Tony and Bruce followed soon after.
Leaving Steve with Daya alone.
So a brief chapter ten. Just introducing Daya to the avengers. I know this just a tad rushed,. I didn't want to leave you guys with nothing tonight. I promise tomorrow's chapter will be more substantial, it will feature more conversation between Daya and Steve, plus Loki will also sneak a cheeky appearance. Again, sorry this chapter is a bit late guys, until tomorrow :D