Chapter 2

"Hello Eleanore, my name is Natasha Romanoff," Natasha said coming into the room with an extra chair and files. She placed the chair in front of her and dropped the files loudly on top of the table and sat down. She rested her elbows on the table and clasped her hands together.

"Hello Natasha," Eleanore said gently giving her a tight smile.

"What's your full name?" Natasha asked listening through the ear piece where Fury was talking.

"Eleanore Adham and I am from Vashta, Galaxy 354," Eleanore said.

"What is your reason of being here? You landed in the North Pole where you literally ran away in two days to London," Natasha said opening the files and glancing at it.

"I specifically crash landed. I was planning on going to one of the Nine Realms as a traveling trip, but I am not that skilled in direction or driving a spaceship," Eleanore said. "I also am fast compared to humans; my siblings are faster though, if you were wondering"

"What powers do you have as an alien?" Natasha asked.

"I can control or manipulate nature. I work at the greenhouses taking care of the herbs and plants, or I go to the forests taking care of the animals. That is my job to taking care of our home. Other people in my planet have different specific skills. My father is a worker; he takes care of the buildings and works with construction of the rocks and different types of wood. My mother is one for taking care of the ponds and lake and making sure that we have fresh water. These skills are not passed down genetically, but rather given to us through the Wise. Their job is to give people these special skills. I was given nature," Eleanore said explaining everything like she was told to do by her mother and father when other planets did not know of their kind.

"Have others of your kind come to Earth before?" Natasha asked very curious about the Vashta.

"Of course, my whole family has been the Earth, yet I am the only one to not have come here since I didn't want to go on such vacation," Eleanore said remembering staying at home by herself while her family was on vacation going on adventures.

"How have they been able to come in and out of Earth without any notice?"

"Well, it's just all about the art of disguise which all Vashta are taught about when they are in school, however, I cannot tell you since my family had never told me how they did it, nor did anyone else since I was young when they went,"

"You do not seem to be a threat as you are willingly telling us information. However I have one more question to make sure you are not completely a threat to Earth. Have your people been in any wars or are the Vashta considered peaceful people,"

"We have been in wars as allies, not a huge part of a war. We do have allies like any other planet, however we do not start wars since we mind our own business. We may supply with weapons from out very skilled blacksmiths, but nothing else. We are however taught how to defend ourselves since we do love to travel since it can be a bit boring living in Vashta for a while,"

Natasha looked at her examining her properly. She noticed that she had a kind face, however she could easily harden her face and become a warrior. Her eyes were what intrigued her, the different colors, but how they represented the ocean and the forest.

The door suddenly opened to show Fury. He nodded at Natasha to let her take her leave and then stood in front of Eleanore. "We have declared that you are not a threat. However, until you make your leave, you will stay with S.H.E.I.L.D just to make sure you are no threat. I have already called someone to make a place where you can stay until your leave. We are taking you to New York City, where you will stay at a place near the S.H.E.I.L.D and someone will check up on you once a week. When you arrive in New York City, we will give you a day of rest, and then send you there to test your skills that an agent is preparing right now. Any questions?" Fury said.

Eleanore was annoyed and knew that this would happen. "Will I be able to explore New York City without any limitations?"

"Yes, as long as you don't cause any trouble, there will be nothing against your freedom. We might ask you to check in once in a while, and have someone help you adjust, but other than that there is nothing else. You have been not been declared as a threat so do not do anything that will make you one," Fury said almost threatening her.

"I'm okay with that, just don't make me a caged animal," Eleanore said threatening him. Fury still kept his serious face and didn't say anything.

"Agent Coulson will talk to you more in depth of your situation," Fury said leaving the room.

Agent Coulson came in shortly afterward and before he said anything unlocked her and told her to follow him.

"We are returning your satchel that seems to be bigger on the inside," Agent Coulson said leading her into a separate room where Natasha was looking at her bag.

"We have found weapons and other things that we do not understand, but we will leave them to you and see how you use them in the test run the day after tomorrow," Coulson said as Natasha gave her, her satchel.

"Thank you," Eleanore said a little mad at Coulson for not telling her the entire truth that they would just experiment with her a little bit, but she was not completely mad with him knowing that he would not probably know himself what held her fate. "Are we leaving right now?" she asked softly.

"Yes we are," Coulson said leading her out. Natasha was walking behind them not saying anything, but kept her hand on her gun. When they went outside, they went into one of the bigger helicopters that would take them to the New York City base, apparently they were actually close by since they have been moving this whole time.

When they arrived at the roof of the New York City base, she was led down the staircase. They quietly went down the stairs until they reached the lobby where is was swarming with people in the suits. "Eleanore, Natasha will lead you to your temporary home where you will have a chance to rest. I will see you the day after tomorrow then," Agent Coulson said giving me a small smile walking away. She smiled back at him as Natasha started to walk to their destination.

It was stunning to Eleanore, the streets of. New York City. It was full of energy and so many different people and different sounds of the city and the people with their languages and accents. Natasha suddenly stopped letting Eleanore bump into her. Natasha looked behind her and gave her a look. "Sorry," she mumbled refusing to look at her almost annoyed voice.

"This is the building. Your number is 1604, here's your key. Everything that you would need will be there. I'll be back here tomorrow at 8 AM, be ready by then," Natasha said handing her, her key. "I won't be needed to walk you up the stairs then?"

"No, I'm fine by myself Natasha, thank you," Eleanore said with a smile as the doorman opened the door for her who was probably an agent. She turned around and asked her, "Is it alright that I call you that. Agent Romanoff sounds so formal."

Natasha didn't say anything. Eleanore just took that as a yes and waved at her and walked inside the building to go to her new home.

Eleanore fumbled with the key a bit, but she was finally able to open the door. When she opened the door, she knew that this places was expensive and that this was usually meant for rich people. She took off her bag and placed it on the coffee table in the living room. She sat down on the couch in front of it and started to take out her things one by one.

When she was finished, she admired her neat work. There were weapons, books, clothes and trinkets that she brought with her on her trip. She took the knives that had a symbol on each. Each knife that she had was given by each of her family members that has her names engraved with their own handwriting, with their name on the handle. It was a tradition where a family member would buy or make a knife or any weapon on a birthday. It was an unspoken tradition, but it still is something that some families did, her family decided the knifes were just a better option. She smiled as she ran her fingers over her older brother's name. Eleanore knew at he would be worried sick about her while on her little trip and to find out that she crash landed on Earth. She couldn't even communicate with them because her ship is froze and beyond repair and Agent Coulson explained to her earlier, but they were still trying to repair it.

She sighed and took her cloak off and untied her skirt so that at she was in long pants and her shirt with a jacket. She took off her shoes and went to the room she assumed that is was her bedroom and laid down letting sleep catch up to her.

Eleanore woke up slowly when the sun was starting to shine brighter. She looked at the time and noticed that it was 7:00. She got up slowly and sat at the edge of her bed letting her legs hang and rubbed her eyes and slapped both sides of her face softly trying to wake herself up. She stretched her spine twisting letting it crack and pop. When she was well awake, she decided that it was a change of clothes for the test to see how talented she was a warrior. She knew that she wasn't the best warrior compared to her family as she was still young and didn't know that much and her father tried to shelter her, but with three older brothers, it was a bit difficult for her father.

After going to the bathroom to clean up, she went into the living room to wear a much lighter skirt and was short to stop her from tripping or getting caught on anything. She wore a tighter blouse, but still put on her dark blue cloak that she received as a gift from her mother for first venture on her own.

She grabbed her sword and hung it on her belt, which was wrapped in a rag to keep it from cutting her clothes or her bag. She grabbed her knives put some on her thighs and in her boots that she chose to wear instead of her moccasins. After she was dressed and ready, she decided to then finally tour her temporary home that she was given. She knew that it would have been an expensive home since it looked so since it had a nice view.

Eleanore looked in the kitchen and realized that it was not fully stocked and they had just prepared her a home. She knew that she had to eat soon since she had not eaten in a while. She grabbed the box of cereal and milk and started to eat it until Natasha came to pick her up.

After three bowls of cereal, she heard the door knock. She shoved the last spoonful into her mouth and placed it in the sink and went to door to open it. She didn't see Natasha, but rather saw a man that was dressed in jeans and a tight shirt that looked like it was used to workout in. The tight shirt showed that he did work out, but the muscles and the good looks didn't faze her. "Hello, I am Agent Clint Barton. Agent Romanoff was suddenly called into a mission, so I was called in instead. I was told that you needed to bring everything that you brought with you to Earth and are weapons," Agent Barton told her.

"Oh yes, alright. Please come in for a minute. I'll just put everything into a bag," Eleanore said leaving the door open to let him in. She grabbed everything that was laid out on the coffee table and put everything in her satchel. Eleanore still didn't trust S.H.I.E.L.D enough to leave all her belongings there. When she hoisted her bag cross her body and looked behind her to see that he was standing there very still. When he realized that she was done he nodded at her and then walked away from her to the front door and waited in the hallway. She quickly followed him and closed the door behind her and locked the door.

"Follow me," he said as he started walking to the elevators. Eleanore quickly followed to make sure that she didn't lose him.

When they arrived at the same building that she was at yesterday, she dreaded it. She knew that she would have been treated as an experiment; she didn't know why she trusted Agent Coulson. All she wanted to do was to go home and embrace her family, but she knew that was near impossible since her ship was taken away.

Agent Barton led her to the elevator that would lead her to the floor where she would be tested. While in the elevator, it was silent and very awkward, well only for Eleanore. She wanted to start a conversation with Agent Barton, but she knew that he would probably ignore her, so she didn't say anything, but the tension was growing in between them as she tried opening her mouth to say something, but she didn't know how to start a conversation with a stiff man.

"You don't have to act like I'm going to kill you if you want to ask me something," he said as if he was reading her mind. Eleanore was shocked, but she still didn't say something to him all the way to the room that she assigned to stay in for the test of her abilities. Agent Barton stopped by the door and told her to go in. He went to go stand by the large window that showed the inside of the room.

When she entered the room she saw that it was just a training room for the agents. Fury was standing in the middle waiting for her with Agent Coulson. "Hello Miss Eleanore. Are you ready?" Fury asked when I finally stood in front of him. Eleanore just nodded and started to untie her skirt and cloak and folded them neatly and put them in her bag. She walked to the walls and then placed her bag there but took out all her weapons. When she came back Agent Coulson looked surprised that I had a sword at my waist and some knifes in my hands that were wrapped with cloth. I sat on the ground cross legged and opened each of the cloths to show the knives.

"What should I do first?" Eleanore asked looking up at the agents who were perplexed by her actions.

"Do you not have guns in your planet?" Agent Coulson asked marveling at the knives which were beautiful with the design.

"We believe that guns are not proper weapons of war. We consider them a sport more than a weapon of war," Eleanore said. "However, archery is more acceptable as it takes much skill to be able to shoot well."

"Have you ever fought or been in war?" Fury asked.

"I have never been in a war as our planet is very peaceful but my father and oldest brother has. I have been in duels with the other students and my siblings if that is what you mean," Eleanore said.

"You're going to have to fight a couple of highly trained agents with hand to hand combat," Agent Coulson said as four agents came out of the door, along with Agent Barton. I put the remaining knifes on my belt.

Right when Agent Coulson and Fury were out of the room, the agents attacked. She fought the agents, but before she had even beat five agents, she was down. Eleanore groaned as she felt sore from the beatings she had from the agents. Agent Coulson came back into the room and helped her up. "I expected you to be much more skilled Eleanore," he said giving her a look.

"I wasn't trained as much as other students in fighting. I am rather better at my gift and knife throwing," she said dusting herself and putting her skirt back on.

"We'll test you on your knife skills tomorrow. You can hang out in this building and then go back home. Would you like to go anywhere in particular?" he asked as Eleanore saw the agents and Agent Fury leave.

"Could you take me to the dining area?"

"Of course," he said leading her after she cleaned up and put on her cloak.

Eleanore sat down at a table with some food on her tray. She saw the other agents who gave her curious looks, but didn't say anything to her. While she was playing with her apple, a man came up to her and sat across from her. She looked up and saw a blonde haired man who was giving her a smile.

"Hello, my name is Steve Rogers. What's yours?" he asked giving his hand for her to shake.

"Hello, my name is Eleanore Adham," she said shaking his hand slowly. He's blue eyes were soft and kind. He was built and radiated leadership. He was also considerably handsome.

"Would you like me to keep you some company?" he asked politely.

"That would be nice, thank you," she answered finally giving her a smile.