It was a peaceful night in the desert, quiet with no noise save the soft wind and crickets. A van was parked on the sand, three people were standing out the top and one inside. They gazed up at the sky, which beheld a smattering of stars.

"Wait for it," Jane Foster said to her colleagues, seeming to try to convince herself as much as them. She held a small device in her hands that she fiddled with.

"Can I turn on the radio?" Asked Darcy Lewis, their intern, from inside the van.

"Nope," Leila Dayne said, popping the 'p.'

Erik Selvig turned to Jane. "Jane, you can't keep doing this."

"The last 17 occurrences have been predictable down to the second." Jane lowered herself back into the van, picking up a laptop and journal, Erik following. Leila stayed gazing at the sky, searching for any difference.

"Jane, you're an astrophysicist, not some storm chaser."

"I'm telling you, there's a connection between these atmospheric disturbances and my research. Erik, I wouldn't have asked you to fly out here if I wasn't absolutely sure."

A storm began forming in the dark sky, blooming with ribbons of light. Leila blinked as her eyes adjusted and her mouth dropped open.

A moment later, she heard Darcy shout from down below "Jane? I think you want to see this."

"What is that?" Leila heard Jane say.

Erik and Jane scrambled back up onto the roof to gaze at the anomaly. Immediately, a look of wonder captured their faces.

Erik turned to Jane." I thought you said it was a subtle Aurora!"

"Go!" Jane said, and all three astrophysicists ducked below as Darcy started driving towards the light storm.

Jane held up a video camera as she sat in the passenger seat, "get closer."

"Right. Good one." Laughed Darcy.

"Go!"

The van got closer and closer to the storm as it began forming a funnel shape. Lightning speared out of the clouds and it touched the ground

Suddenly, Darcy turned the wheel and sent the van swerving away from the storm.

"What are you doing?" Jane yelled.

"I am not dying to get six college credits!" Darcy continued driving, though it was hard to see with the dark clouds surrounding them. Jane put a hand on the wheel, trying to get them closer to the storm.

Thunder boomed as a fork of lightning touched the ground in front of them, illuminating the shape of a man.

The car swerved and slammed into the man. Breathing heavily, everyone sat in shock for a moment then got out of the van.

"I think that was legally Jane's fault." Darcy said as all four got out to look down at the man who they had hit.

"Uh, yeah. Most definitely." Agreed Leila. The wind from the strange storm whipped around her, sending dark hair and sand flying.

"Get the first aid kit. He might be hurt." Said Jane. She kneeled down next to the blonde man, "Come on. Don't be dead. Open your eyes and look at me."

He opened his eyes, a brilliant shade of blue, earning a gasp from Darcy. "Does he need CPR? Cause I totally know CPR."

Leila looked around at the desert, seeing the storm evaporate. "Where did he come from?"

"You okay?" Asked Jane.

The man blinked and looked around, "Hammer," he murmured.

"Yeah, we can tell you're hammered. That's pretty obvious." Said Darcy.

"Hey, look at this." Leila poked Jane's shoulder and gestured to the array of patterns on the ground.

"We've gotta move fast." Jane's eyes widened. She began to jot things down in her notebook. Leila kneeled down next to her and gathered some sand into a vial.

"We need to get him to a hospital," said
Erik, gesturing to the man, who was staring up at the sky.

"He's fine." Said Jane.

The man stomped a heavy foot onto the ground. "Father! Heimdall! Open the bridge! I know you can hear me!" He screamed.

After a moment of silence, Leila sighed and pushed herself off of the ground. She dusted sand off of her pants. "Darcy and I will take him. You two stay here."

"Fine." Said Erik. He reluctantly took the materials that Leila held out to him.

"Come on, big guy. Let's get you some help." Leila stepped closer to the man, holding up her hands as a sign that she meant no harm.

"You are..." He blinked and looked closer at Leila. Large and muscular, he looked almost menacing as he took another step towards her. "What realm is this? Alfheim? Nornheim?"

"New Mexico?" Answered Darcy unsurely. From her position beside Leila, she raised a taser at him.

"You dare threaten me, Thor, with so puny a weapon?—" Darcy fired the taser, hitting him squarely in the chest. Thor convulsed and fell onto the ground.

Leila, Jane, and Erik all turned to look at Darcy. "What? He was freaking me out!"

-

Leila and Darcy were at the hospital, standing at the desk to check Thor in.

"Name?" Asked the nurse.

"Uh, he said it was Thor?" Answered Leila, watching as he was wheeled out of the room on a stretcher.

The nurse raised an eyebrow, then typed into the computer. "T-H-O-R." She spelled out loud. "And your relationship to him?"

"Never met him before."

"Until we hit him with a car," chimed in Darcy.

Leila rolled her eyes. "Technically that was Jane. And you."

"Then I tased him."

"Yep. Let's go," said Leila, ignoring the strange look that the nurse was giving her. The two women walked out of the hospital, hopping into Jane's SUV and driving off to pick up Erik and Jane from the desert.

-

"You don't think this was just a magnetic storm, do you?" Selvig's question was directed at Jane, as all four colleagues sat in their office the next morning.

"Look, the lensing around these edges is characteristic of an Einstein-Rosen bridge," Jane pointed to her computer screen.

"A what?" Asked Darcy, squinting her eyes.

"Aren't you a science major?" Leila responded.

"Political science."

"An Einstein-Rosen bridge is a theoretical connection between two different points in space-time." Explained Erik.

"It's a wormhole, basically." Said Leila.

"Look, what do you see?" Jane asked, holding up a printed photo to Erik and Leila.

"Stars?" Offered Leila.

Jane pulled out another photo. "Yeah, but not our stars. This is the star alignment for our quadrant this time of year, and unless Ursa Minor took a day off, these are someone else's constellations."

"Guys, check this out." Darcy said from where she'd been standing at a board with pictures pinned on it. She pointed to a picture that looked like a cloud with a silhouette of a man in it.

"It can't be," spoke Erik.

Jane turned to walk out of the office. "Think I left something at the hospital."

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A/N: I just want to say I'm sorry for how the dialogue is literally just the Thor movie word for word haha.

Constructive criticism is always welcome!
Thank you for reading!!!