A Message Sent

Thor jerked awake with a gasp, only barely catching sight of the people who had been gathered around where he'd been laying as he practically jumped off of some sort of examination board onto his feet. He stumbled away, nearly running into the side of what was clearly a spaceship, as he struggled to gather his breath. He was shaking, panting for air, his mind racing as he strained to recall what had just happened...and then hoping it was nothing more than a terrible nightmare when he did.

He saw it in flashes across his mind, standing in the sanctuary ship only for it to be attacked. He remembered Athena rushing in, reassuring him that the Valkyrie and the other Sakaaran Gladiators had gone with the rest of his people in lifeboats to escape. He remembered the blast that jolted them all so badly, damaging the ship, the light that filled the command room as a teleport was activated. He could even remember the battle that followed, the four Children of Thanos and the savage himself cutting through what was left of his people, trapping him in metal, dropping a beam on top of Athena, nearly beating the Hulk to death. He remembered Heimdall giving his life to open the Bifrost and get Athena and the Hulk out of there. He remembered Thanos crushing Loki, dropping his brother's body in front of him, before teleporting off of the ship moments before it exploded in their final attack.

It was a blur after that, he had no memory of what had happened, how he had survived, or how he had come to find himself where he was. For this was clearly not a ship of Asgardian make, nor was it the sanctuary ship he had been on before.

Something niggled in his mind, a realization that he had his back turned to the people who had surrounded him when he had woken, but yet they had not attacked him. He could feel himself hope that it was a sign that these people were not his enemy, but he could also hear Athena's voice in his mind telling him never to make such an assumption. He slowly turned around, taking in the sight of those people.

There was a woman with green skin, a man who who appeared as though made of stone, another woman with antenna dangling from her forehead, and a small furry creature glaring at him. There was some sort of tree creature off to the side who didn't appear to be paying any attention to him at all, fixated on a small box in his hand. There was truly only one humanoid-looking being among them, a man with brown hair and the beginnings of some sort of beard. They were all staring at him just as he was at them.

"Who the hell are you guys?"

"We're the Guardians of the Galaxy," the humanoid man stated, "Who the hell are you?"

"I am Thor, Odinson, God of Thunder and rightful King of the Asgardian people," he stated, drawing himself to his full height for only a moment, before his ribs gave out and he felt himself hunch over once more, feeling uncharacteristically weak. But if he had been dealt as bad a blow as he could imagine an exploding spaceship and being exposed to the space would be, it did make sense.

"I am Groot," the tree creature spoke.

"I am Drax," the stone-man added.

The humanoid man rolled his eyes at that, but began to gesture around in introduction, "Quill, Gamora, Mantis, and that's Rocket."

"How did I get here?" Thor looked between them.

"We found you floating in space," Gamora spoke, stepping closer and offering him a small bowl of some sort of hot liquid, "It appears your ship suffered a fatal attack."

Quill nodded, "There were no other survivors we could find," he told Thor, "I'm sorry."

Mantis moved beside him, draping a thin blanket around Thor's shoulders just after the man had dropped down onto a nearby crate at the news, "You suffer..." she murmured, "A terrible loss...but there is also a fear in your heart," she tilted her head, "You fear for the one you love."

"Aye," Thor nodded, taking a taste of the liquid in the bowl with a spoon, grateful for the sustenance, "My Queen, Athena, was pulled from the ship before it exploded. I know not if she survived."

He swallowed hard at the thought, praying to the Allfather, to his mother, to any power he knew of in the Realms, that she had lived, that she had survived traveling in the Bifrost in such a manner. He had hope that Heimdall had sent her and the Hulk to Earth, that the journey was without peril, that the Bifrost held past Heimdall's demise and landed her safely. His heart clenched painfully in his chest as he realized something...Athena may not know HE survived either. He could understand why, the life-support was failing even if the ship had not exploded. Thanos didn't seem the sort to help his enemies. He closed his eyes as he thought on that, feeling his heart warring with his mind. His heart told him he needed to get to Earth, to find Athena and reassure her that he was alive and well. But his mind reminded him of Thanos and the threat he posed to all the universe...and knew he had to do something to stop the man first.

He knew exactly which option Athena would urge him to follow. One person's life was not more important than the entire universe, though he would always argue her heart was worth more than anything and he would have to continue letting it break, just to ensure Thanos could no longer harm anyone else.

He was going to give her the greatest wedding his people had ever seen to make up for the hurt and pain this must be causing her.

"What happened to your ship?" Rocket asked, sounding almost disappointed.

Quill quickly kicked the raccoon with his foot, giving him a hard look and shaking his head that it was not the time to ask about why the ship had exploded when they had been going there for a chance at stealing it in the first place, "Who attacked you?"

"The transmission said you were a sanctuary vessel," Mantis agreed.

"Thanos," Thor stated, "He and four of his Children teleported onto my ship after they attacked it. He came in search of the Space Stone and he found it...he means to gather all the Infinity Stones."

Gamora let out a startled breath at that, "The entire time I knew Thanos, he only ever had one goal: to bring balance to the Universe by wiping out half of all life. He used to kill people planet by planet, massacre by massacre."

"Including my own," Drax murmured.

"If he gets all six Infinity Stones, he can do it with the snap of his fingers, like this," Gamora snapped her fingers in demonstration.

Thor frowned as he looked at the green woman, "You seem to know a great deal about Thanos."

"Gamora..." Drax began, looking at Gamora, but she did not say anything or make any move to deter him speaking, and so he continued, "Is the daughter of Thanos."

Thor's expression turned hard, "Your father killed my brother..."

"Oh, boy," Rocket muttered under his breath as Thor stood, approaching Gamora almost menacingly.

"Stepfather," Quill offered, clearly trying to keep the Asgardian from attacking, though Gamora didn't back down, knowing her father had harmed so many people, "Technically. She hates him as much as you do!"

Thor stared the woman down for a long moment, before he spoke in a tone that was far from threatening but more understanding, "Families can be tough," he agreed, reaching out to put a hand on Gamora's shoulder, telling her with just the action that he did not hold her responsible for her father's actions. She hadn't been part of the Children who attacked his ship, this was not on HER to suffer for her father's cruel dealings. He knew he had dealt with enough people blaming him for the things Loki had done in the past or holding him responsible for things his father had done. And he knew of stories Athena had told him that her family, at times, could be even worse, "Look, before my father died, he told me that I had a sister...that he imprisoned in Hell. Then she returned home and stabbed me in the eye so...I had to kill her. It's life, there was nothing else. Round and round. But I feel your pain."

Quill moved closer to Gamora's side, almost seeming to try and push Thor back with his mere presence, managing to maneuver his way in between the Asgardian and Gamora as he spoke, "I feel your pain, as well," he said, though his words were clearly directed at Gamora first before he focused on Thor, "Because, I mean it's not a competition, but I've been through a lot. My father killed my mother, and then I had to kill my father. And that was hard. Probably even harder than having to kill a sister. Plus, I, came out with both of my eyes."

Thor didn't seem to be paying any attention at all to what Quill was saying, he merely looked down at the spoon he still held in his hand, "I need a hammer, not a spoon..." he turned and wandered across the ship to some sort of computer, with different data on it, randomly poking at bits of it, "How do I open this thing? Is there some sort of a four-digit code maybe...maybe a birth date or something..."

"What are you doing?" Rocket called as the Guardians stood there, watching Thor with odd expressions, honestly not sure what he was trying to do since he was so unfamiliar with their ship.

"Taking your pod."

Quill scoffed, "No, you're not," the man spoke, though his voice and tone and accent were quite different than how he had been speaking up to that point. It sounded as though he had deepened his voice and adopted Thor's accent, "You'll not, be taking our pod today, sir."

The Guardians all turned to look at him, questions written across their faces, clearly it wasn't just Thor that had noticed this distinct change in his voice.

"Quill..." Rocket began incredulously, "Are you making your voice deeper?"

"No," was Quill's quick response.

"You are," Drax insisted, "You're imitating the god-man. It's weird."

"No, I'm not!"

But then Mantis pointed at him as well, "He just did it again!"

"This is my voice!" Quill continued to insist.

Thor stepped off of a small step in the ship, landing with a harder thump than intended, but silencing the Guardians as he slowly approached Quill, staring him down as he had Gamora earlier, "Are you mocking me?"

"Are you mocking me?" Quill merely repeated.

"You just did it again."

"He's trying to copy me!" Quill accused as he looked at his friends.

"Enough!" Gamora cut into their squabbling, "We need to stop Thanos. Which means we need to find out where he's going next."

"Knowhere," Thor answered.

"He must be going somewhere," Mantis argued.

"No," Quill shook his head, understanding that Thor was not saying Thanos had no plans to go anywhere else, but that Knowhere was, in fact, the location he was traveling to, "No, Knowhere? It's a place. We've been there. It sucks..." he frowned as Thor opened a cabinet and pulled out some of their food to eat, "Excuse me, that's our food."

"Not anymore," Thor mumbled through a mouthful of food.

"Thor..." Gamora cut in once more with a sigh, casting a firm glance at Quill to tell him to shut up as she spoke to the Asgardian, "Why would he go to Knowhere?"

"Because for years, the Reality Stone has been safely stored there with a man we call the Collector..."

Quill scoffed, "If it's with the Collector, then it's not safe. Only an idiot would give that man a stone."

"Or a genius."

"How do you know he's not going for one of the other stones?" Gamora insisted, this was far too important to make guesses at.

Thor sighed and turned to them, not exactly pleased he was being questioned at every turn. They didn't have time to bicker over this, they needed to go and stop Thanos, and that's what he was trying to do. The longer he stood there, the longer Athena would have to go on thinking he died. He never ever wanted to cause her harm or pain, and this was doing both. The sooner he could leave the better, but the Guardians clearly wouldn't let him do that just by taking his word for it.

"There's six stones out there. Thanos already has the Power Stone because he stole it, last week, when he decimated Xandar. He stole the Space Stone from me, when he destroyed my ship and slaughtered the people who stood with me. If it hadn't been for Athena, he would have killed more of my subjects. He sent his Children after the Time and Mind Stones, which are safe on Earth. They're with the Avengers."

"The Avengers?" Quill shook his head.

"They're Earth's Mightiest Heroes."

"Like Kevin Bacon?" Mantis called out, quite excited.

Thor frowned at that, not entirely sure who this Kevin Bacon was, "He may be on the team. I don't know. Haven't been there in a while. But if Athena IS on earth now, if that's where Heimdall sent her, and I can think of no other place he would," or at least no other place he'd be ABLE to send her, Olympus was fortified even against the Bifrost, "Then she will make it her mission to guard both stones with her life. It will buy us more time to find a way to stop Thanos."

He hated to think of it that way, but he just kept reminding himself she was alive and a mighty warrior in her own right. She wouldn't be alone, she'd have the other Avengers. Thanos only had two stones, Athena would keep him getting two more. And if he was going to make his way back to her, he couldn't return empty handed. Thanos WOULD head to Earth eventually, HE would be ready to face the man down. He just needed one thing first.

"That still leaves the Soul Stone..." Gamora reminded him.

"No one's ever seen that. No one even knows where it is. Not even Athena could find it and she's the literal Goddess of Wisdom, she's probably the smartest woman in the universe. If she can't find it neither can Thanos. Therefore, Thanos can't get it. Therefore, he's going to Knowhere. Hence, he'll be getting the Reality Stone. You're welcome."

Athena would smile at how he'd used her so often spoke of logic to work out Thanos's next attack.

"Then we have to go to Knowhere, now."

"Wrong. Where we have to go is Nidavellir."

"That's a made up word," Drax countered.

"All words are made up."

"Nidavellir is real?" Rocket cut in, "Seriously? I mean, that place is a legend. They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the Universe. I would very much like to go there, please."

It was exactly where he knew Athena would have wanted him to go. She was always the one preaching preparedness in battle. He may not have her skills with drawing up a battle strategy based on his opponent's weaknesses, but he knew no battle, no matter how well the strategy was made, would stand much of a chance without weapons to fight it with. Thanos might be near invincible now, but that didn't mean there wasn't a way to defeat him. Athena would want him to get a weapon that could face Thanos down in battle and stand a chance of victory. The man already had two of the Infinity Stones, he was already very powerful, it wouldn't matter whether he got the rest of the stones or not if they didn't have a way to stop him when they faced him. He trusted that the other stones would be safe long enough for him to get that weapon.

He hoped it was a strategy Athena would be proud of.

"The rabbit is correct," Thor remarked, "And clearly the smartest among you."

"Rabbit?"

"Only Eitri the Dwarf can make me the weapon I need. I assume you're the captain, sir?"

Rocket grinned, pleased with the assumption, "You're very perceptive."

"You seem like a noble leader. Will you join me on my quest to Nivadellir?"

"Lemme just ask the captain. Oh, wait a second, it's me! Yeah, I'll go."

"Wonderful."

"Uh except that I'm the captain," Quill reminded the raccoon.

"Quiet!"

"And that's my backpack," Peter lamented as Rocket grab the bag.

"Quill, sit down," Rocket ordered.

"Look, this is my ship. And I'm not going to...wait, what kind of weapon are we talking about here?"

Thor grinned, "The Thanos-killing kind."

"Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?"

Thor actually laughed at that thought, "No. You simply lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies would crumble as you minds collapsed into the madness."

"...is it weird that I wanna do it even more now?" Rocket wondered out loud.

"A little bit. Yeah."

Gamora shook her head however, "If we don't go to Knowhere and Thanos retrieves another stone,-he'll be too powerful to stop."

"He already is."

"I got it figured out," Rocket interrupted, taking charge, "We got two ships, and the largest goes with the morons. Me and Groot will go with the pirate-angel here, and the morons will go to Knowhere to try and stop Thanos. Cool? Cool."

"So cool."

Quill scoffed, "For the record...I know that you're only going with him because it's where Thanos isn't."

"You know, you really shouldn't talk that way to your captain, Quill. Come on, Groot. Put that game down. You'll rot your brain," Rocket turned and opened the door to the pod, allowing Thor and Groot to take a seat.

Thor gave the remaining Guardians a firm nod of solidarity and respect, "I bid you farewell and good luck, morons. Bye."

With that, the doors to the pod shut and disengaged from the main ship, flying them off into space to Nidavellir and moving Thor one step closer to returning to Athena.

~8~

Athena raced through the streets of Scotland, her gaze up on the sky. She had gotten a look at the phone that Banner had shown to Wong, with the hotel that Vision and Wanda were staying in and that was where Wong had deposited her. She had almost entered it, hoping that, perhaps, both were still inside. However there was something in the sky above that caught her eye and had her running in a different direction, away from the hotel. Unlike in New York, the ship that the Children of Thanos had taken was landing there far more gently. Clearly they were intending for this to be something of a sneak attack. Strategically it made sense, it was a good plan. If they intended to launch an attack, night would be the best time, the cover of darkness providing an element of surprise. But they would also need to lower their ship in a manner and way that kept them hidden just as much. Unless someone was looking up at the sky the way she had been, they probably would not have even noticed the giant ship moving there in the darkness. And from what she could tell it was very late at night, the humans were likely all asleep.

But the ship hadn't come down near the hotel, but somewhere a short distance away. She could only assume that was where Wanda and Vision were. She pulled her sword from its sheath, holding it tightly in her other hand as she went, ready for battle.

Soon enough she could hear the sounds of something shattering the distance, just around the next street. She pushed herself to run and nearly skid to a halt when she saw the battle taking place. The shattering noise had been Wanda, being thrown into a shop window, Vision seemingly impaled on a blade of some sort of. Corvus Glaive, with a flick of his arm, threw Vision to the side, causing him to roll away as the creature stalked towards him. But Athena had already taken off once more, hurling herself at the creature and slamming into it, sending him flying away into a pole.

"Get him out of here!" Athena yelled over to Wanda as she put herself in between the woman and Proxima Midnight, blocking a blow with her sword, keeping the Children busy so Wanda would be able to get Vision away, using her magic to launch them both into the air.

While Athena allowed herself only a moment to look over, to make sure Wanda and Vision were nowhere to be seen, Corvus Glaive used her distraction against her, and tackled her to the side this time. The two Children didn't bother continuing their battle with her, she was not their target, they both took off in the direction Wanda and Vision had gone. Athena rolled onto her feet and raced after them, realizing her mistake. Her enemies would not be treating her as though she were an enemy, their target was Vision: it wouldn't be them fighting anyone else as their main focus but as a momentary distraction on their quest to get to him. Attacking the Children would not draw them into attacking her in return, they would not be distracted, they could only be stopped.

There was a crash ahead of her and she didn't hesitate to jump up, over a small building to the other side where the sound came from. And there was Vision, who appeared to be holding his own against Corvus Glaive, Wanda dealing with Proxima Midnight.

Athena reached beside her and grabbed a street sign, yanking it down and snapping the middle in half, before she hurled it at Corvus Glaive, impaling him on his one shoulder, seeing Vision was almost overwhelmed in his fight. A roaring, pain-filled cry he gave off was just enough to distract Proxima Midnight. And Athena ran for her, managing to put her sword around the woman's neck, holding it against her, and yanking her back.

"Go!" she shouted to Wanda, "Run!"

Wanda immediately used her magic to summon Vision to her, the two of them taking off into the sky. Corvus Glaive aimed a weapon up, firing some sort of energy right at them, sending them falling towards a warehouse. Before he spun to face the fighting women, sending another blast at Athena and Proxima Midnight. If the creature thought that she would let go of Proxima Midnight to dive to the side and avoid the blast...he severely underestimated her. She held Proxima Midnight tighter, as a shield, letting her take the full force of the blast, before throwing the woman to the side to run at Corvus Glaive.

She stumbled to the ground when a blast came from behind her, Proxima Midnight having picked herself up enough to fire her own weapon at Athena's back.

But then the Children made the worst mistake they possibly could...they didn't bother to make sure she stayed down. They just ran past her after Vision and Wanda once more.

An old warning she had heard Tony speak once before came to her mind: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

There would be no third time, she swore it.

She let out a grunt as she got to her feet and took off, racing after the two Children, hoping to catch up with them. But they had some sort of grappling hook device that allowed them both to make it to the top of the warehouse the other Avengers had fallen through quicker than she could. She took only a moment to take in her surroundings, trying to find the best way to get into the warehouse. It was just slightly too high up for her to jump up to, but she could always use her sword to hook into the bricks and use it to pull herself up, to scale the wall. But that would take too much time. There were no windows on this side of the building for her to jump through, nor were there any doors carved into the wall.

She paused and looked to her hand, then back to the brick wall right next to her. She grabbed the shield off her back, strapping it onto her arm, gripping the leather band of it tightly as she stared down the wall. She stepped back as far as she could and lifted her shield before her, launching herself at the building, bracing herself as she broke through the wall and into the room beyond.

She couldn't see Wanda or Vision though, but she could hear the sound a train passing, just on the other side of another wall, the sound of something hitting the ground. She braced herself again, gripping her shield and running across the factory to the other wall, bursting through it, to see what was going on. Wanda and Vision were no longer alone, more reinforcements had arrived. Captain America and the Black Widow both facing down Proxima Midnight, taking her two at once, with Corvus Glaive lying on the ground, a wound in his abdomen. The Falcon dove down, heading right for Proxima Midnight and kicking at her, sending her flying back towards Corvus Glaive.

Athena gripped her sword tighter, glaring at the fallen Chlidren, her world narrowing down to just the two enemies on the ground, before she began to stalk towards them...

"Get up," Proxima Midnight spoke, crawling her way over to Corvus Glaive.

"I can't," Corvus Glaive replied.

Neither of them seemed to notice Athena watching them, taking in every injury and wound on their bodies that she could see. In that moment they weren't fallen enemies, they weren't beaten...they were the Children of Thanos, her enemy, the ones who had slaughtered her people and taken Thor from her. That was all she saw, the miserable scum that had ripped her heart out of her chest, who had nearly done the same to Wanda and Vision. With every step she took, her mind raced with the next step of the attack as she began to sheath her sword...

There would be no third time.

"We don't wanna kill you," Natasha told the Children, warning them, "But we will."

Proxima Midnight glared at her and lifted her one wrist to reveal a metal band around it, a teleportation device fixed there, "You'll never get the chance again."

"Think again!" a voice shouted.

Captain America looked over his shoulder to see if Athena storming her way towards them. Within the blink of an eye she had pulled the delicate knife from the bun in her hair and hurled it with all her might with deadly accuracy...and it embedded itself directly into Proxima Midnight's chest. The woman didn't stop in her march, nor did she even seem to notice or care that Captain America, Black Widow, and the Falcon had joined them. She strode right past them and straight over to the two Children of Thanos. She grabbed Proxima Midnight's wrist, twisting it with so much force that they could hear an audible snap. Not only had she broken the creature's wrist, but she'd also torn the metal band off of her arm to drop it on the ground.

She moved onto a knee, just behind Corvus Glaive, grabbing the creature on either side of his head, one arm behind and one in front, before pulling her arms apart, snapping its neck. She didn't even flinch as she let him go, dropping him onto the ground, ignoring the scream Proxima Midnight made at the action. She merely reached out a hand to grab the female's other arm as she swung at Athena, so enraged by the death of Corvus Glaive that she reacted. Athena twisted on her knee, moving closer to Proxima Midnight and throwing the woman's wrist to the side so she could, instead, grab hold of the dagger that was wedged in the woman's heart.

"Right now," she pressed on the dagger, causing the woman to gasp and thrash on the ground but Athena grabbed Proxima Midnight's face with her other hand, forcing the creature to look at her, "This is all that is keeping you alive," she twisted the dagger slightly in emphasis, "The moment I remove it, you'll have seconds left. So you need to listen to me very carefully. I have a message for your beloved father," she spat the last word with venom, "And you're going to deliver it, do you understand me?" she pushed on the dagger more, making the woman scream, but her grip on the woman's face tightened, keeping her attention locked on her, "You tell him: he took the man I love...I won't stop till I've taken everything he loves, starting with his precious children!"

And, with that, Athena yanked her dagger out of the woman and stepped back, purposefully stepping on the band she pulled from the women's arm to activate the teleport, allowing both Children to be picked up and returned to their ship.

Athena stood a moment longer, staring down at the blood that gathered on the ground from where the two creatures had fallen, panting heavily from the last effort she'd put herself through. Her gaze drifted down to her left arm, noting absently the bruises and cuts that marred her skin from where she'd fallen before pulling her shield out, there was one long gash on the side of her arm. But she felt no pain from it, her focus wasn't even on the scrape or other bruises, but more the fact that, in the dim lamplight...her skin looked almost gray up to her elbow.

She heard a shuffle behind her and looked over her shoulder at the remaining Avengers standing there, Vision being held up between the Falcon and Wanda, limping closer to them, all watching her with varying emotions flickering across their faces, as though they didn't know what to say.

It was Natasha who broke the silence, looking Athena up and down, taking in the state of her worn appearance, "You uh...you feeling alright there?"

Athena merely gave a stiff nod, "We are now two enemies down."

Captain America shook himself out of his thoughts at her words, looking at those gathered around him as his gaze strayed, from the ground and up to the sky where the ship was retreating, "Come on," he spoke, "Let's get back to the jet."

A/N: As Mantis would say, Athena is definitely kicking names and taking ass right now lol ;) Strategically, it gives THEM more of an advantage to take out the Children so they can't assist Thanos. Emotionally, Athena is taking them out for a different reason :( But I feel like Natasha would be the one to react to what Athena did least, being an assassin, she knows sometimes you HAVE to take an opponent out, not just injure them :(

Poor Thor, separated from Athena, but knowing she'd want him to get a weapon first :'( He's trying to focus on that, get a weapon and he can go back to Athena, she'll forgive him not returning sooner if he comes back with a way to kill Thanos. He hates himself for doing it, for letting her think him dead, but there's no time, Thanos is only growing stronger :( But poor Athena too, in that moment, all she saw was the death and destruction those two Children helped cause, and she wasn't going to let them get away with it :(

So I can say, yes, Corvus Glaive is 100 percent dead. Athena literally snapped his neck, no coming back from that. And yes, Proxima Midnight did NOT have long to live after Athena pulled the blade from her. She aimed with precision, enough where the woman would live long enough to deliver a message, but not be saved. And yes, that WILL affect the final battle, but I figure Thanos has the largest army they've encountered yet, even without two of his Children there to lead them, they are still formidable :(

Some notes on reviews...

Oh we will certainly see the return of Athena's brown hair in this story, I just can't say when ;) As for the gray stuff (which in this case is sadly not delicious, the servants of the Beast's castle would be disappointed in that), we'll find that out too, but also can't say when ;)

Athena's stress isn't over yet, you'd think there'd be a moment of respite, between this and Wakanda...you'd be wrong, at least...3? At least 3 more stressful moments to come before she even makes it to Wakanda }:)

I can't say if Athena will do anything rash, but it might be one way to describe a moment here or there ;)

Athena definitely did NOT let anything stand in her way to getting to these children :( Natasha won't be the only one to notice how off Athena is, I can say at least one of the ex-Avengers will actually try to talk to her about it though ;)