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Chapter 1: New Avenger
The Avengers each sat themselves around the round table waiting for Director Fury. He was barely ever late, only if he was in a meeting with The Council. The team had grown since the New York attack which was almost two years ago. The Avengers had gained Loki as their new member. It was his punishment to stay on Earth and try and redeem himself. Once the All Father decided Loki had redeemed himself he was free to do whatever he wanted. However instead of Loki going his own way he decided he wanted to stay and help The Avengers.
Fury entered the room with a folder underneath his arm, his face remained expressionless but you can tell he was frustrated, just by the way he walked. He went to the front of round table and looked at every one of The Avengers.
“Well guys it looks like we will be gaining another new member.” Fury said. The Avengers all looked at each and then back to Fury. Fury passed the folder to the Captain, who opened it warily.
“Her name is Dr. Harleen Quinzel she’s from an alternate earth universe…” Fury said before he got cut off by Clint.
“What do you mean an alternate earth universe?”
“Like Loki and Thor, she comes from another universe however the one she comes from is an alternative Earth. Meaning it’s like our Earth only it would be different. The Earth she comes from has superheroes like you guys. They even have a team; they’re called the Justice League. However these superheroes are more powerful and more super in a way sort of like the X-men. Dr. Harleen comes from a city like New York City but its named Gotham City.” Fury explained to the team.
“So why is she here than? Besides wanting to join The Avengers, did the Justice whatever vote her out or something?” Tony asked while snickering.
“Dr. Harleen used to be a villain back in Gotham City. She used to go by the named Harley Quinn. She was an accomplice for a bigger villain named The Joker. Eventually she and the Joker supposably fell in love and they married. She and the Joker continued to cause havoc in Gotham when one of the Jokers experiments went wrong he sent them to another alternative universe like theirs. Some of the Justice League team were the villains in this world which Harley Quinn decided to join up with the rest of the good Justice League team to take them down. After everything eventually returned back to normal, Harley Quinn couldn’t get the thought out of her head about how good it was to be a hero for once. She tried to convince the Joker on many occasions to turn good and join the Justice League. However he always refused her. It was eating at Harley’s insanity; she could feel the hate for herself and the joker build up. She decided to have one final attempt to convince the Joker to join her or she would leave him. However when she asked, the Joker loss his cool and told her he never loved her and didn’t care if she left. But if she did leave, he would track her down and murder her. Harley reacted badly to that and ended up slitting the Jokers throat and then being placed in an asylum. During her time in the asylum, Harley starts fading away from that alter ego and starts referring herself to Dr. Harleen. Using all her time in the asylum to try and recreate a portal to an alternate universe. After six years of intense studying and testing, she manages to recreate a temporary portal to our world. The portal she created had an anomaly like when Thor came and since about this time we had already met Thor, we were on the look for more anomalies. So when she arrived we found her straight away and locked her up for questioning.” Fury had explained most of Harleen’s story to them. Hoping to give them an idea of why she would soon join The Avengers.
“So not only are we going to recruit another villain but we’re recruiting one that used to be insane?” Tony asked awed.
“How do we know we can trust her?” Clint asked warily.
“Yes she used to be a villain but she’s looking for redemption. We’ve granted villain redemption before and looked how that turned out, pretty good if you ask me. We can trust her because she’s been working for Shield for the past year and a half.” Fury replied to Tony and Clint.
“So what’s her skill set?” Natasha asked curiously because now she wouldn’t be the only female on the team.
“Well as you know she’s a doctor, she specialises in psychiatry. She’s immune to poisons and toxins. She has superhuman agility and enhanced strength. She specialises in martial arts and she’s a talented gymnast, as well as having a very high intelligence and being able to never grow old.” Fury replied.
“Ha, a doctor that specialise in psychiatry went insane. How ironic.” Tony exclaimed.