Five
It was about three hours after she left the avengers common room floor, She continued to write down what she could remember keeping it very very very sparse; only to what she needed to remember nothing that would be too dangerous in the wrong hands.
Right now she needs to focus on Thor and Loki. They are next in line and then it would be Tony, Then Steve, and then there at Age of Ultron.
She looked over to see Thor Lying on a new dog bed that the walker brought up. Her back was killing her. She's been hunched over sitting on the floor at the small coffee table in her room for hours and it was getting late and she probably should get to sleep. She was going to be busy tomorrow.
Getting up she moved over to the backpack putting a couple of things in it and looking around. She’s going to need some clothes and a notebook and guess that’s all she’s gonna need for right now, she's going to London to absorb a very dangerous and potentially deadly infinity stone and then to Asgard to deal with some other shit.
“ what the fuck am I doing.” She said out loud for no one to hear her. Rubbing her face with both of her hands she looks up at the ceiling, She moves over to the bathroom to brush her teeth and grab out a pair of pajamas, gets into bed, and just looks up at the ceiling again.
“ Hey Jarvis, do you think you could turn the lights off for me?”
“ yes ma’am”
The lights went off and she just lay there. Everything was running through her head, how was this going to work, what was going to happen, could she pull it off because she was going to need a lot of help, and everyone was going to have to cooperate with her. She rolled over on her stomach and closed her eyes. She will figure out the rest tomorrow. It's time for bed.
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She woke up with someone knocking at her bedroom door, bolting up straight thinking that it was her landlord. Then she remembered again she wasn’t in her world she was in the MCU. Looked at the door again, laying back down and covering her head with the blankets.
“ Come in!”
As the door opened she looked out from under her blankets, to see that it was Steve. She groaned and moved back under her blankets. She just wanted to sleep.
“ Hey it's noon, you should get up.”
“ Is Tony up?” Knowing that Tony would probably not be up until at least three, she crawls back under her blankets. Before she even could get comfy again the blankets were removed quickly and She sat up with a messy bedhead.
“ Yes, he has been up for 3 hours now and it's just you that is still sleeping.” she yawned, she looked dead, she had an extreme bedhead, and she was not enjoying the fact that she was eating her hair. She starts to pull her hair out of her face and looks over to Steve.
“Ok, I’m up.” she looked around for Thor Remembering that Tony said he had someone to help take care of him. She looked over at Steve and stood up stretching and moving to look for something to wear in the bags that were still lighting the floor.
“Hey Steve, what month is it exactly? Just curious.” She pulls out a pair of pants and a green T-shirt that has a picture of a turtle on it. She chuckles at the T-shirt digging through for a bra and some socks.
“ September it’ll be November in like three days, why?” He said putting her blankets back on her bed and sitting down on her couch.
“ Yeah, I was expecting that.” She moves to the bathroom closing the door leaving Steve in the bedroom by himself changing and brushing her hair. She walks back out looking at Steve. He looks a bit nervous and then she moves to look around in the bags for a toothbrush and ponytails.
“ I know you told us that you weren’t going to tell us anymore of what’s going to happen but I just wanna know if everything works out.”
She stops and looks over at him, taking a deep breath getting up, and walking over to sit next to him on the couch.
“ Steve I am going to try my hardest to get everything right for everyone including you, it’ll take time but I’ll get there eventually.”
“ Now I’m going to put my hair up and then I need to talk to Nat and Clint.” She goes back to the bag digging around and looking for a ponytail. She could see everything in her mind playing through the last thing she wanted was for the timeline to be completely changed. What Steve did to Peggy, in the end, was heartbreaking but so sweet. But Peggy Carter had her life and married and had children. Steve should not and will not change her future for selfish reasons.
Steve looks at her as she walks out of the bathroom again and shakes his head smiling.
“ You know it’s a bit weird, I am used to so many but alternate dimensions.” He looks at her to make sure he said that right. She shakes her head yes. “ It just keeps getting weirder, the world is a strange place, still wishing it was just me that was the weirdest thing that happened.” She laughs a bit at him and smiles.
“ You haven’t seen anything yet.”
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After Steve left her room she proceeded to pack her bag one more time to make sure. She was going to be doing some pretty stupid things so she left some instructions in an envelope on her desk just to be safe. She could die from this. And Thor Love and Thunder there were a couple of theories of how Dr. Jane Foster got cancer. And one of them was from the reality stone or the ether. It was just a theory but she was gonna see if it was true, take ether from Jane no cancer, if she still got cancer well that’s something else that she’ll figure out later on.
“ Hey, Jarvis do you think you could figure out where Dr. Jane Foster is for me.” She has her backpack as she walks down the hallway. As she was packing her bag she found a brand new phone with a case and a wallet with some money in it she threw those into her bag as well.
“ Yes miss, Armani. May I ask why you were looking for Miss Foster?” The AI asks in his As curious as he possibly could be. She smiles up at the ceiling as she walks, finding an elevator and hoping this will take her up to the common room. If Steve’s right then she probably has maybe a week or two left before Jane finds the ether and everything starts. she’s going to prevent that and smack Jane upside the head for being that stupid for touching something.
“ Curiosity that’s all.”
“ I will start looking for her.”
She finally found her way up to the common room where Nat, Clint, and Tony were all sitting in the living room watching the news. She moves over and sits down next to Tony putting her bag down in front of her.
They were just talking about a bombing and her blood went cold. Everything really does happen at the exact same time. she took a breath, she looked a bit annoyed she couldn’t possibly deal with Tony and Thor, and Loki all at the same time.
“ Do you have to be fucking kidding me.”
Tony looked up from what he was doing and then back down to the Tablet in his hands.
“ What’s wrong Elsa?”
“ Nothing I can’t deal with later, hey Natasha, Clint can I talk to you both please.”
They look over at her, She gets up moving to the kitchen hoping that they will follow. “What’s up?” Clint asked her, Nat just looked at her with Suspicion.
“ Well I may need a ride to London, I need to get a jump on things, and London is the next stop.” She looks at them both.
“ Do you know Where in London exactly?” Nat asked looking over at her than Clint.
“No, but I have Jarvis looking in on it. Hopefully, we can find her soon before she does something stupid.”
She looked at them, what she was about to do was not ok, it was going to fuck with Tony and Clint's PTSD about New York. It was going to be hard but maybe telling them what happened to Loki will… no that is for Loki to tell. She knew he was going to despise her completely. She knows so much, and she just hopes she could pull it off.
“ We will be leaving in 20.” Nat moved to head up to her room Clint followed behind her.
“ Miss Armani, I found Miss Foster, she is currently at home.” Tony looked at her with a curious look on his face, getting up and moving over to her.
Tony, one of her heroes, was probably going to hate her and it was going to be hard, but she needed to get things moving.
“ Why do you need to get a hold of Thor's girlfriend, kid?” Tony looked at her like a disappointed father. Well, this was going to be hell to tell him.
“Well, Thor's girlfriend may be a theoretical physicist but she’s fucking stupid.”
Tony had a very shocked expression on his face. I bet Steve didn’t look too thrilled that she swore again.
“Do you want to share with the class why you don’t like Dr. Foster?” Tony asked as he got something green and really Gross looking out of the refrigerator. She gave a grimace at whatever Tony was drinking, moving over to the pantry to grab a couple of different snacks along with some things for Thor.
“ dr. Foster touches something that will most likely kill her if I don’t get to her first. I'm not going to tell you what it is or where it is because the only people that I’m talking with are Nat and Clint, and that’s it and you too need to stay here.”
“If this is a life or death situation that—“ she cut Steve off before he could even finish his sentence.
“ You want answers, you follow my timeline. do not get involved whatsoever do you understand, maybe you can help with cleanup if things go the way that I hope it doesn’t, but still. Don't go near anything, stay here.” She said that’s very sharp and pointedly at both of them, at that moment Natasha and Clint both came back with a small bag each, with the thor trailing behind Clint.. she smiled at her happy puppy hopefully what she had in mind was going to be a good idea. That moment it came to her she looked at Clint and smiled the biggest smile on her face.
“Hey Clint do you think you could take care of Thor maybe for me while I’m gone, I know you will do good.” She hoped that he got the hint that she wanted him to take Thor to stay with his family until she could come and grab them again.
Another 30 minutes later she and Clint, Natasha, and Thor were all sitting on a Quinjet moving towards London. She was reading off the things that Jarvis sent her on her phone, Jane Foster had a date tomorrow. That means everything starts tomorrow she was going to stop the date, and get the ether and head up to Asgard. She needed to stop Fraga from dying, she needed to stop Oden from going insane and she needed to stop Loki from taking the throne.
“You ok?” Clint asked
“ No, I am trying to figure out what to do with Loki after I’m done, if I keep him on Asgard more than likely he will wind up dead. If I bring him to earth a couple of people will wind up having a full-blown PTSD attack, so there’s really no win-win for me here.” She groaned Rubbing her hands with her face as she looked over at Thor and then back to Natasha that was giving her a look.
“ don’t give me that look there’s more important things in everyone’s PTSD on this fucking plane, sorry Clint.” Got up from her seat and moved over to stand in between the pilot chairs.
“I’m going to be completely honest with both of you I have no fucking idea what I’m doing, I’m someone with more knowledge of what’s happening to your guises future than I even know what to do with. Everyone’s fucking emotionally constipated and I don’t know how to handle that. Out of everyone in the MCU Loki‘s probably the worst with the emotional constipation.” She keeps her eyes out the window trying not to look at them.
She knew it was going to be hard but this was just difficult she was already exhausted and nothing has even started yet.
“ If I wind up bringing Loki to earth he might wind up warming up to some of you and open up about the big bad, he probably has more knowledge than I do.”They looked at each other and then back at the front of the window.
“ I don't want to be rude or anything, but why do you need to bring Loki down here? Is it just better to keep him over there?” Clint asked me as his hands tightened a bit more on the steering.
“ I don’t feel like explaining all of it right now. Maybe once I get back from Asgard I can explain it hopefully, Tony doesn’t kick me out, but who the hell knows.”
Armani just looked out the window staring. There was so much that will happen in the next 72 hours.
Sighing, she moved back over to her Seat. Close her eyes she thought of home. What would her family think….. she could deal with just taking it as it goes and she needs to take this one step at a time.
“Hey, what are you thinking about?”
She looked over to see Clint, his face written with concern.
“ I'm just thinking about Home, I'm thinking about how my little sister would definitely kill me for going after Loki.” She chuckled
“ why Loki?”
“ well between him and Spider-Man she’s obsessed.”
“ Who is Spider-Man?”
“You will meet him in the future, cool kid.” She said,“ how mad will you be if Loki comes back to earth?” She closed her eyes.
“I won’t.”
Sitting up fast, she looks over at him. Was he being sarcastic or serious?
“ you won’t?” The concern dripped from her voice
“Look I understand you’re trying to help and if pulling Loki to earth is what you need to do to keep whatever plan you have going on I’ll deal with it,” Clint said putting a hand on her shoulder and giving it a squeeze. She knew this was probably the best moment to ask him, she hoped that either she wasn’t going to die or well who knows.
“Can you take Thor with you when you go back to see your family?” She was trying not to look at him when he just started laughing.
“ ya, I’ll take him home.” Clint just chuckled and got back up “Laura Will not be happy but after I explain, I think she’ll be OK with it and the kids are going to be thrilled, they were asking for a dog. He will be a good test run.” She just smiled at Clint and laid back down on the seats putting her arm over her eyes.
“ All right, kids, we have four hours before we’re in London to get some rest,” Natasha said in her smart-ass way.
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Darcy sat there looking at something she couldn’t remember. The name of it is what is meant by Jane but for the life, she can never remember the name of it. Ian was in the car as she went up to go and grab Jane she found out that she was on a date and she was very proud of Jane. She finally stopped moping around about Thor and it probably didn’t help with the fact that you know New York was a big deal as well.
She spotted Jane in the crowd when a hand landed on her shoulder and she looked to see two avengers and a person with a dog.
“ Clint takes Darcy and her assistant to the Quinjet, they can help us get where we need to go. I'm going to grab Jane Foster and break up whatever is going on over there.”
Darcy looked at them confused when Clint grabbed her upper arm and started dragging her away.
“ Wait hey what’s going on!” She wanted to make a ruckus because he had two Avengers and some random person taking her and what. She was just confused.
“ don’t worry I’ll explain everything we’re on the Quinn jet just go.” Armani moved away from them as they took her out of the building.
Armani walked through the building with confidence she had to walk to the restaurant like that because people kept trying to stop her because of Thor. She ignored them, she needed to go to Jane Foster now and she was not in the mood to deal with people, spotting her when someone stopped right in front of her was giving her an edge that she did not want to deal with Why can’t people just listen and move didn’t they see the two Avengers didn’t they see what was going on in the giant Quinn jet that was outside?
People were literally standing there staring out the window as Jane was talking about fish she thinks. After basically giving the guy that was in front of her I guess look and realizing that there was another Avenger standing behind her he moved. At least Natasha had her back for this maybe. Her heart was racing as fast as it could go. She moved closer. This was the step that was going to start Thor the dark world completely and she was terrified. She could feel the panic rising up in her throat, then she felt fur underneath her hand. Thor was always good at keeping her calm; she knew that even with the panic rising she would have a level head with him by her side.
It was correct the person that she was on a date with was I think Richard something, it didn’t matter he never really showed back up in the movie franchise so. She moved up to them looking at them both pulling up a chair and sitting down as Natasha stood behind her with her arms crossed.
“ hi sorry, to bother you on your date Miss Foster but we need to leave it’s a matter of life and death kind of.” She said they’re grabbing some bread and putting some butter on it and eating. She was hungry and besides Darcy ate some of their bread why couldn’t she? She took a bite as Jane looked from her to Natasha and just had an expression of annoyance.
“ If Thors sent you I am not in the mood.” Before she could finish her sentence Thor the dog put his head on her lap and looked up at her with a lonely look.
“ I don’t think dogs can be in here?” Richerson said Natasha had an expression of annoyance as she grabbed Jane by her arm and started pulling her out of the room.
“ hey, you can’t just do that!”
Natasha started dragging her out of the building as she followed grabbing her jacket in her purse moving behind them. She felt nervous doing this but it had to be done and she wasn’t cooperating so let the super spy take initiative and drag her ass out of the building.
Natasha, Armani, and Jane all got on the Quinn jet and the doors closed as everyone started talking.
“ OK everyone please shut the fuck up you’re giving me a migraine.”Armani sat down pulling out a granola bar out of her purse along with some treats for Thor.
“ Who are you? what’s going on? and why did you pull me out of my date-“Armani gave her a look that stopped her sentence, she was not in the mood to deal with her rambling.
“ Dr. Jane Foster honey, I know you think you are having fun but to be honest you weren’t sitting there and saying Seabass repeatedly kind of gets on someone’s nerves. My name is Armani, I’m someone that’s going to try and Fix a timeline to make sure that no one dies and you don’t get cancer, maybe that’s still up in the air right now, but let me start off by saying I’m not from this world and I’m not from this timeline completely different dimension. dimensional theory checked off your list.” She says without breaking her sentence she looks at her taking a bite of a granola bar and waiting for Dr. Foster to say something.
“ dimensional theory is just that a theory doesn’t exactly exist.”
“The first thing, The first time you met Thor was when you hit him with your car, oh and on top of that Phil Coulson gave you a check for RadioShack, so you can get everything you made back. oh and I know where Dr. Eric Solvent is currently in a psych ward and will have someone pick him up and bring him back to your mom’s apartment.” She looked over at Clint and started petting Thor. She needed to calm down she was physically shaking.
“ OK, fine if I do believe you, why did you pull me out? What do you mean life and death situation?” Jane crossed her arms looking over at you as the Quinjet started to land. They were in the shipping yard and her heart was racing even faster. How is she going to explain? She would explain to Jane that only keeping everyone else on the plane.
“ Jane, look it’s the same readings that we got the first time,” Darcy said as she looks at the machine that was making noise.
“ This is probably the most exciting thing that’s happened to me all week and I’m enjoying myself, Jane. and I want you to know that.” Darcy said I’m buckling and getting up. Jane just gave her a look and rolled her eyes as the Jets doors descended and everyone got off.
“ All right, me and Jane are going to go look for the ether everyone else stays here Natasha I suggest you go and look for the kids that are currently hanging around and take them home. I don't want them to get injured, please, and thank you.” Armani smiled at her as she got off the plane Jane followed behind her. She looked over at Thor giving him a look and he laid down giving her the puppy dog eyes wanting to follow behind.
Armani and James started walking around and Jane was using whatever the hell that thing was to find where they needed to go. She didn’t explain anything yet but Jane was interested. It was the same as when New Mexico happened so she was hopeful.
“ So are you gonna tell me what we’re looking for or are you just gonna be secretive?” Jane asked her as they turned the hallway and they both stopped.
“ I will if you promise not to touch! do not touch it!” She gave Jane an appointment to look. “ It's called the ether or the reality stone, if things work out the way they do I will absorb it and Thor will come down because we are probably going to vanish from Heimdall site for a little bit.” They started forward as Jane followed behind her.
“ What do you mean Heimdall is going to lose sight of us.” They both stopped suddenly and they felt the way the air moved. They were in the hallway with no doors in the windows and had glass panes in them. They looked at each other and they started forward. They could feel the wind move and pull them in and then it happened.
Armani and Jane both stood there looking around, they weren’t back in the warehouse in London they were somewhere else. Armani looked around and saw what she needed and dropped her backpack, Jane looked between her and the weird tower thing and moved towards it.
“ What is it?“ Jane asked
“ I'll explain in a minute but I am probably going to pass out, so you’re gonna need to drag me out of here and go the same way that we came in OK .” She looked at her, Jane just shook her head and responded, understanding that this was something bigger than she could handle.
Armani moved forward, she looked at it. She could hear it speak and in a weird voice, it was more like a whisper to her. She was shaking and at that moment she swallowed deeply and put her hand out and she felt that it latched onto her hand. It was absorbed into her body she felt the surge of power. In that moment she couldn’t breathe, it felt like she was being suffocated from the inside out and then she was fine. She stood there feeling a bit weird. Her skin felt like it was vibrating but it was oddly calming to her.
“ I thought you said you were going to pass out, are you OK?” Jane ran over to her and went to touch her but she stepped back quickly.
“ Probably not a good idea to touch me right now. I don't need you thrown over the edge.” She looked down, to be honest, she felt a little sick like after you had too much chocolate or maybe even after you drink too much water too fast.
“ Maybe you should sit down, you look a bit pale.” Jane looked concerned.
“ No, let's get back, we've probably been gone for at least an hour or two at this point.” She moved to her Backpack picked it up and put it on her back. Jane followed her and they went back through, finding that it was a bit darker out.