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The light breeze swept through the sand and the sparse plants of the distant desert, all was quiet in the small New Mexico town that Darcy was starting to call her home. She was sitting on top of Smith's, watching as the small population of the town busied themselves with their usual day to day activities while she sipped at her third coffee that morning.
Jane was in the lab working on one of her science toys while Dr. Selvig went through some of the other data they had collected recently. She could almost hear the clicks and clangs of Jane's homemade contraptions.
They had been working even more feverently sense Thor made his little visit to earth. Every second counted in their search for whatever it was; despite working with them for months she still hadn't pick up any understanding of their work.
She just sort of vaguely nodded at them when they started ranting at her about the latest thing.
She tended to revel in the few breaks she was allowed and would sit back and watch the 'normal' people walk around and make little stories for them in her head.
A girl that ran through the small town nearly every day had just overcome a fight with cancer and wanted to get as healthy as possible to return home a fiancé that had come back from Iraq for her.
A man with a few too many dogs for him to handle was a government agent that had been in need of a quick cover desperately and thought dog walker was the quickest and easiest thing that he could find. Sad to say, he was completely unprepared for the job.
Okay, so some of her theories were a little farfetched but Darcy enjoyed thinking outside the box on some things, it was something to make her life a little more entertaining.
The only really entertaining thing that had happened recently was Selvig forgetting to put on a pair of pants when he rushed over one night when Jane had thought that she had made a crazy big breakthrough. Unfortunately, it was a glitch in the data from a recent weather phenomenon that had blown several of her other homemade devices out of whack.
Jane’s face, when she figured it out, was one of a kicked puppy; Darcy ended up having to go out and bring back everyone ice cream to get them excited and back into their research. Though, Darcy didn’t actually mind half as much as she made out.
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Meanwhile Loki and Thor were battling it out on the rainbow bridge; Loki had the overwhelming sense of victory until Thor slammed the mighty mjolnir down. Spider web cracks spread across the brightly colored bridge but it did not break, so he did it again and again. Each time he brought his hammer down more cracks splitting across.
Then the bridge broke.
Lucky for both Thor and Loki the All-Father was there to catch them.
But things were said. Things that the All-Father could never take back and yet amounted to all the horrible things that had been told to him throughout his childhood.
And he let go.
Next thing Loki knew he was falling into a new world.
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Darcy could only watch as something fell from the sky a couple of miles away, right over the sandy dunes she had spent so long watching. The clouds swiftly changed all manner of colors as the mysterious thing crashed into the sands warmed by the summer sun.
Moments later her phone blew up with text after text as the machines from the lab started beeping and bopping like crazy.
“Darcy get down here the machines are going crazy.” Was repeated as all of Jane and Erik’s texts.
Darcy let out a heavy sigh before quickly making her way off the roof and back to the engrossed occupants of the lab. She let the door slam behind her to get their attention, both of them jumped at the loud noise.
“Oh good, you’re back.” Jane said. “Gather the standard equipment and get the car started, quick we don’t know how long this will last.” She was gathering papers and her journal as well as small pieces of equipment as she spoke. Erik was running around going through the mass output of data from the machines that lined the lab.
After a few moments they gathered everything they could into their arms and the trio quickly ran out to their van.
After carefully bumping her load of equipment and notes into the back, Darcy threw herself into the front seat and turned on the vehicle while the other two started to scribble furiously on stacks of paper and in Jane’s tiny leather bound journal.
She out car into drive and threw the car full speed onto the main road out of the small city, ignoring many a traffic law to get the team to the new formed cloud that was oh so similar to the rainbow of clouds that Thor had dropped out of and disappeared into only days before.
As if on cue Jane seemed to have the same realization.
“Guys, this is almost the exact same readings as the ones from when Thor came down with the Bi-frost.” She flipped through a couple more pages before nodding to herself.
“Yeah, I might have seen something falling from the sky right before you guys texted me.” Darcy tried and failed to play it off as nothing as they spoke.
Jane, of course, immediately threw herself into Darcy’s space. “And you didn’t think that this was something worth mentioning?” She screeched. She was extremely dedicated to her work, Darcy could appreciate that even though she lazed around on a couch and surfed the internet all day, but when Jane was super into her work there was just no way of talking to her.
“Well you guys were all ‘take the equipment and get out to the van as fast as you can, now Darcy go’ and I didn’t have time to get a word in.” Darcy said while flailing her hands about before pushing her thick rimmed glasses up her nose.
Jane just rolled her large brown eyes before turning back to her research and calculations.
Meanwhile, Darcy kept her eyes on the road not wanting to hit who she had assumed to be Thor again.
Against the bright sand she saw a dark silhouette, one far too slim to belong to the beloved buff of a man that Jane was so obsessed with.
The mysterious man turned towards the noise of the older van and Darcy’s mind flashes back to the book that Erik had found in the library.
This definitely wasn’t Thor.
This was Loki.