Korea

I yawned. I had fallen asleep an hour ago, while we were flying over Japan. We were at the place Helen Cho worked. I remembered Ultron saying she would help our pl- his plan to destroy the Avengers.

I cleared my head of thoughts of the past couple of days, and thought about the task at hand.

'I'm going in.' Steve's voice crackles over the earpieces. He jumps out of the Quinjet. I connect myself to his mind.

I was vaguely aware of my body falling against the wall of the Quinjet.

Bodies of workers in lab coats, medical wear, and causal wear are stacked against the walls. In crimson writing, words are scrawled on the far wall of the lab.

You're too late.

A single body is against the wall. I only recognize it as Cho only because Steve breaths her name. I burst out of the trance and run towards the back of the Quinjet- still open, due to Steve leaving moments ago. The archer stops me, and I shake my head.

"Listen, I know I'm a 'kid' to you, but I've seen worse than you. You need to let me go." I desperately try to explain. I don't want to hurt him.

He sighs and pushes me back. He lets Natasha leave, then closes the door.

I blink.

Use the civilians.. A voice in my head states. Shado?

I think, and suddenly I'm on the ground. I'm in unfamiliar clothes, and I'm somewhere new.

Did I just take control of someone else's body?

That's new... I think, and put an illusion of the cloak on myself.

I realize I'm on a train, and the train is not on a track. Something comes speeding past me. I sidestep, and put an illusion up of myself. I put my hands up, ready to be ambushed by Ultron, but I'm instead tackled into a hug.

White hair gets in my eyes, and I choke back a sob.

"Pietro!" I'm overjoyed to see him.

"Where were you?" He seems to realize that I'm wearing something new, and that I have a mask on, because he says, "are you with the Avengers?"

I not my head, and say, "I am, and I'll tell you everything, but you need to know the truth about Ultron."

"I know already."

This shocks me, and I blink for a moment, before realizing that I need to go help Steve. I ask him to bring me inside the train, then to move all of the civilians. He agrees, and I soon find myself inside of the train.

I drop the illusion, and unfamiliar face coming over me. I smirk. Perfect.

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3rd person POV

"This... Is it." Erik Selvig waves a hand at a small pool of water.

"The Water of Sight..." Thor walks toward it, about to touch it, when Erik chimes in.

"The, er, legends about the men who enter that water- they don't end well. They end with the man going mad about shadows and other evil things."

"It doesn't matter. In every world, there's a reflection. If- if the water spirits accept me, then I can return to my dream and find what I missed." He enters the water, and is met with something that is not his dream.

"Hello Thor" A medium sized Midgardian stood in front of him. His skin was a cocoa color that looked so soft, the man looked as though he had not worked a day in his life. "Oh, I'm not from Midgard. My name is Shado. I am the embodiment of the Shadow Stone, one of the eig- seven infinity stones. The infinity stones, they're power beyond control. To understand what I'm about to tell you, you must understand what I'm doing is prohibited."

Thor was confused, to say the least.

"My current master, Kristal Maximoff, is about to take a turn. Very soon. You will think you know when. It can go well, or it can go horribly. Listen, she will be faced with-"

"Move over Shado. My turn. Rea. The reality stone. This is my brother. This is my sister, Tessa, the space stone, my brother Poe, the power stone, Tia, my sister, the time stone, Su, my other sister, Mina, the mine stone, and Eg- uhh, I meant, eggs are great, right? We're not actually related, but we were created at the same time."

Thor blinked. To much information was being processed.

"Sister... He was not to know of anybody but Shado. We must erase his memory and set time on its proper course." Tia, the time stone, turned to her sister. The girl- stone- thing was obviously shy.

"Correct." Mina, the mine stone reached towards the Asgardian. A mischievous smirk played in her eyes. She knew that it would screw over the future, but surprises are fun, right?

She didn't erase his memories. 

The sleeping Asgardian lay, as the siblings talked. One of them, invisible but not forgotten, tilted their head. 

The path of time is shifting. You may think you know what will happen, but you do not. I am but a myth in your universe, yet here I control the fates. You do not know who I am, but you will. The multiverse will. I see all, know all. Even you, tucked away in your own universe, safe of  aliens, and monsters. The man, hidden from the rest, smiled an evil smile, and disappeared.

Thor's dream...

A man stood in an endless galaxy. He smiled, and said only four words.

"They will be his."

Kristal POV

1st Person POV

To say that The Archer was mad was an understatement.

He was furious.

I understood. It was his order not to go into the fight, but I did anyway. And with Natasha gone- I felt bad for him. I knew how close they were- not because I looked into their minds or anything! -but because it was one of those things that you could just understand.

Hello! Phase here! I'm back from the dead! (Jk, but I will be posting a lot more!)

Hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Byeeee~

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