Collaboration with Fandral
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Fandral wakes with a sheet over himself, still mostly out of it "You look almost as good undressed as I do !"
Jessica's eyes narrow -
"That was the shapeshifter. Keep making that kind of comment and I'll knock you out again." But... there was a slight smile on her face just the same.
"You're feisty for a guy who just took the stabs you did. The way you were wheezing when I first brought you in sounds like you might have a punctured lung. Or had. Not sure how insane Asgardian healing is."
Fandral coughs lightly, a little blood in the spittle. " Sadly my lady, not as good as the troll bloods in our company, but this should be fully healed in a day or two I think. If by the way, you ever find yourself fighting any of the trollbloods, particularly her, pull off her arms."
"I'm not looking to do that any time soon, and secondly... ew. No. It'd be knee to the solar plexus and fists to her temples to daze her, then grab her arms to cross them across her chest, maybe dislocate a shoulder. I'm not a murderer, and I'm pretty sure even if she survived me doing that I wouldn't be able to live with myself afterward - she's a kid." Jessica shook her head, truly repulsed by the plan of action proposed by Fandral.
" I understand, I consider her my friend... but the state she was in...Yes, you could do that, but then you'd have to keep doing it. She would survive my way any how, but it would give you time to restrain her properly while everything grew back."
"I could live with doing it my way. We need to invest in an electromagnet. That worked well for the geezer in purple. Just put her in a room with a magnetized floor til her mad wore off." Jessica quipped as Fandral laughed and coughed.
Jessica shrugged.
"I dressed the wounds, used some of that spray liquid bandage crap they have in the SHIELD lab. You need anything else? Water or food? Because you're staying put til you won't burst open all over the floor of my room. Yes, mine, because I didn't remember where the fuck yours was."
Fandral laughed and coughed a little. "Oh the scandal, worse, without any truth to it ! No milady, I shall be right as rain, or much closer to that with some sleep. Though I wouldn't object to a cuddle" He laughs. "My room is three down on the opposite side. All of my stuff is packed and the bed made ! As comfy as you could wish for ! "
"Because of my mixing Jose Cuervo with whatever Asgadian legend that mead is named after, I'm going with Fenris because of how it bit my ass the next day - I just got up a few minutes ago and my hangover is nearly unrivaled, despite my still carrying a slight buzz right now. I'll just... sit here and wait for Captain Morality to call a debriefing while I babysit you." She grabbed a chair, flipped it around and straddled it, crossing her arms over the chair back, looking over at him.
Fandral would note that there were a few books on the bookshelf - a couple of which were specifically about Norse and Asgardian legends. "You'll need a new set of books my Lady, I am Elven on my mother's side!"
She looked over then back to him.
"What, that? I was just... researching Asgard, since you said you wanted to give me the dime tour someday. Besides, the only books on Elves I could possibly get are probably fiction or comic books- not that I've looked."
After a moment, Jessica shrugged.
"Okay maybe I have. All I can say is there are some insanely bizarre people out there, especially when you mention shit like that on the internet."
Fandral laughs harder now, gradually convulsing until he can neither breath or laugh for a moment, tears in his eyes.
"Shit. Maybe I should go. Much more of this and you'll pass out again. Anyway, I've researched all of you, as much as I could. Cap was easy as was Hill, but Hill's not Hill. Though... I'm really not sure which side she was on. If she were a bad guy there's no way she'd set herself up to get a belly full of metal from our little rage monster. Not after working and training with us all this time. She'd be smarter than that, and set it up so only those she wanted dead were around when Laura went apeshit." She stared at the ceiling, pondering the situation.
"Even after capture, or so I thought? addled as I was with her wearing your naked legs... She seemed very confident didn't she ?"
"Pragmatic. She knew she couldn't get past me and Cap, I saw it in her eyes. She turned herself in. Though a shapeshifter and handcuffs is sort of like holstering your weapon, to her. She could just shift out of them, presumably. Naw, I don't think she's HYDRA. I think Fury knows who she is and assigned her here. It didn't make sense to have normals, even trained ones, alongside people like Wanda, Sparky, You, and the rest. Hell, even Cap is well above a regular person."She shook her head.
"And face it, a government agent keeping shit from even his own team, pretty believable."
" Indeed so, Fury is an excellent spy, as a general I remain unconvinced. Perhaps young Wanda can ferret out the truth. " Fandral replied.
"Sure. The mind witch probably can get it out of her. I'll let Rogers and the others figure out what they want to do, I'm just here to punch things and notice shit." She stood and went over to a cabinet, grabbing a Red Bull, thinking about it, and grabbing a bottle of water too.
Jessica walked back over to Fandral and extended the water bottle to him.
"Can you sit up or do I need to help you? I'm pretty sure even Asgadians would heal better if they replace fluids they lost."
He props himself up slowly, leaning on the unwounded side, slowly using the arm on the wounded side to take the water. " Now what is that word you people use ? Smart ass I think Darcy used alot ." The Asgardian replied, grinning. Yes, that's it " He drinks the water.
"Now my Lady, why strike at us now ? "
"My guess, something happened on that trip we made. Something on that old base before we met Magneto, or maybe when we got back. Laura's volatile, but she's not randomly psychotic. This was triggered. Hypnotism, mind control, drugs. I've seen way too many people under the influence of mind control for one lifetime." She popped open the Red Bull and chugged half of it down.
" Indeed so my lady... She was perhaps known to our enemies... Who thought they could trigger her, as you say... into killing some of us. Lucky for us, her first intended victim was the shifter, who seems... tough ?"
"I'd imagine shapeshifting gives you a hell of a healing factor. And, if that was the first intended victim - that further cements in my mind that this blue smurf woman is on our side." She finished the energy drink with another gulp and tossed it over to a trash can, where it clanked on top of other cans of various types inside it.
"She was the first on the scene with Laura, whose claws were buried in the blue woman. I leapt over them, grabbing Not Hill and tossing her to the far side of the room." Fandral recounted.
"Seems not the smart thing to do if you're setting off a killer rage in someone, being the first there. Unless there was a control word that backfired. Somehow I doubt that. I'm still going with Hill having to reveal herself because she got skewered, rather than her working with the bad guy."
" I cannot argue against that my lady. But I think me now I must seek slumber, I thank you kindly for the use of your bed and watching out for me. " He smiles at her, as a friend might.
She flew over to the young lady and said, "Thanks for being willing to help me out, but it turns out that it wasn't needed." Just then she noticed the blue pin and her blood ran cold as she flew to it and picked it up. It was a symbol she was hoping she would never see again, but Wasp knew that sooner or later she would see them again. She flew over and picked it up. Wasp said, "Hydra. Should've known they would be behind this." Wasp rubbed her forehead and said, "Oh mom said that there would be days like this." She picked the pin and said to the young lady, "By the way my name is Hope, but when I'm like this I'm known as the Wasp." She motioned to the young lady and said, "Come on there isn't much more up here that we can do."
Wasp began to fly down through the vents and back into the main part of the base with the Hydra pin. When she saw everyone going on their ways Wasp flew into the security room where Sue was. Wasp dropped the pin in front of her and said, "Found this in one of the drones." Wasp landed next to Sue and changed back into Hope and said, "This was meant to send us a message. If they wanted to they could've killed us all."
Jubilee tagged along as best she could, nodding to Wasp.
"Jubilee. I was just walking in when you showed off your stuff earlier.", what with Hope being able to take a more direct path, even at her best pace, Jubilee arrived just as Hope was explaining the bit about the pin.
"Naw, I don't agree, Wasp. Generally if HYDRA wants you dead they make you dead, and they're not in the habit of sending resources out to 'almost' do the job. Either they genuinely wanted us dead and got their scaly butts handed to them, or they had another goal. My bet is on another goal. I'd check to see if anything is missing or if they accessed any of our data files while they were here."
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