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[Natasha Romanoff]

When you defected, why did you keep your name?

[Natasha Romanoff (AU)]

Hey Princess Anastasia -- do you have any idea what is going on? I mean, not with the whole New Vegas thing. I get that that's pretty up in the air.

But with the Avengers.

And with what you're doing on Saturday night. I mean, that's probably less important, but it's really my top priority.

An entire race arrives at your door, confused, lost, frightened. They, like each of you, were kidnapped and brought here against their will -- like each of you -- but somehow they are different, the Jotuns, and instead of being welcomed -- they are attacked without mercy.

You say you stand for justice, SHIELD, that you wish to protect -- yet you chose as will who deserves it and who should fall to your efforts.









[OOC Note: Loki really, really doesn't give a damn about the Jotuns. Or the fact they're being beaten up, subdued, injured or killed. But you know, rare is it that what he says is what he means or that his motives are as clear as he states them to be.]

FILTERED TO CLINT BARTON (CANON):

You wanna give me a sitrep on what's going on with the other Natasha while we're at it?

Okay, so now that I've got the weird out of the way. Or, I mean, at least better established that what's going on here is weird, and what I'd look like if I were a woman. I guess it's time to figure out what we're going to do about it, so.

Avengers? Assemble.

(I'm Tony Stark. Obviously)

.............I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque.

The people here are useless.

Who's in charge here?

FILTERED TO MCU AVENGERS:

Incendiary device found among the rubble. Hand-made. Soviet era.

I know the handy work.

Nothing to avenge, huh? What the hell do you call an explosion at New York, New York?

FILTERED TO AVENGERS:

Nobody talks here. This might be hell for me.

Hope New Years Eve will be not as hectic as Christmas.


[Private to SHIELD and Avengers members and...Wade]

With Fury not here, I'm going to step in leader position.

I think we should have a meeting tonight and figure this out.

Wade, I would like for just you to join us. Don't make me regret saying that.

Pepper, you are invited as well.

I wish Clint was here.


[Private to Thor]

Thor, is Loki going to be in issue here?


[Private to Tony]

Is there anything you need? Equipment wise?


[Private to Wade]

If you make me look foolish, I'll show you why I'm name Black Widow.


[Private to Dinah]

I've called a meeting of my people, perhaps you should do the same, then we can compare notes?

We're all talking about the people we miss. How it's hard to be away from family, and how important it is to be hopeful about the friends and the bonds we have here but --

Well -- I guess I have a story about it. About how sometimes when the right people aren't there, the world'll stop for you.

When I was finally deemed old enough to be out past midnight by my mom -- I think I was maybe eight or nine -- I used to go to Time Square to see the ball drop on New Years Eve with my best friend. We got older, things changed, my mom died, Bucky started working all the time -- but no matter what, New Years Eve was always our thing.

Bucky signed up to go overseas. I couldn't go with him, I was rejected. By then, I think it was for the fourth time. So a few weeks before New Years, he was off to train for the army and I... wasn't.

And then they announced that because of the blackouts, because of the war. They were going to cancel the ball drop and the celebration. Of course I knew, I knew that it was too risky to light up the city like that. I knew that obviously New York would be stupid to go ahead with it but... I just remember thinking when I heard it on the wireless that of course there could be no ball drop. Bucky wasn't there. It's like the whole city stopped.

Instead, there was a moment of silence, to absent friends. I think that's what I'll be doing, Tuesday at midnight.

I'm not used to all of this free time.

I need something to distract myself from the thought that I might blow up at any moment.

Me and Stark can both rest easy at night knowing that in alternate realities, we're both at least SMOKING HOT as chicks.

I wonder if any of you others have hot female counterparts. I mean... somehow I can't see Cap and his sad puppydog eyes translating into a hot chick very well. Or PHIL! Oh god! Imagine Coulson as a broad. It'd look like Don Knotts dressing up as Rue McClanahan.

Dudes and dudettes. I'm seriously so bored that I'm sitting here typing away on this silly little phone they gave us.

If I knew this was gonna happen, I'd have at least made sure I was holding my 3DS or something. I'd give anything to bust out some Mario Kart right now. Even if it meant having to use Toad. Which shows how desperate I am because everyone knows Toad SUCKS.

I tried figuring out what's going on, or where we are.... but it's a bunch of science stuff. And I'm totes awful at that stuff. Seriously, if I was in a high school science class right now? Gandalf would come running in to yell "YOU... SHALL NOT... PASS!!!" Because I totally wouldn't.

Please. I'm beggin' ya. SOMEONE talk to me. Before I go nuts.

Shut up. I mean MORE nuts than I already am.

So guess who has her own room for right now? This girl right here.

Bye Thor, it was cool being your roommate, though.

Okay, as far as kidnappings go - and really, do they go - can I just say, I wasn't expecting Vegas? Maybe, I'm used to places that are a little more, I dunno. Dark and damp.

Right, I'm going to need a computer that can connect to something other than this network. Like the real internet. Something that can access Netflix or S.H.I.E.L.D. I'm really not picky.

And, a tuna fish sandwich would be nice. I'm a Bellagio sorta guy, by the way. I wouldn't object being booked elsewhere either.

This is Agent Romanoff, any and all S.H.I.E.L.D operative please respond.

Ok, peeps... freaking out here.

A few things are occuring to me now.

What if I'm stuck here? Like... permanently? I mean... are movies here the same? Because if I don't get to see the new Star Wars in 2015 I'm gonna be more pissed than when they cancelled The Golden Girls.

Oh yeah... and.... just took my mask off. Not complaining but... why am I all gorgeous again?

But back to the important stuff. LIKE STAR WARS. Seriously. If I miss Episode VII, people are getting stabbed.

So... this is kinda wacky, huh? I mean, I've been in some messed up shite before: rooming with an old blind woman who tried to kill me later, fighting another version of me made up completely of old severed parts of myself, oh yeah... AND GOING INTO SPACE WITH A POSSE OF ALTERNATE ME'S.

But this? This is the weirdest thing yet. Anyone wanna explain to me WHAT IN THE NAME OF BEA ARTHUR IS GOING ON?!?