Network: Nico Minoru
Buckle in, folks, this is going to be a long one. I'll try to tl;dr where I can.
There are a couple of books in the Mortuary that I borrowed from Stephen (Strange) the last time he was here. Weirdly, they didn't actually disappear when he did, even though that was well over a year ago. Anyway, enough with the background. I was flipping through one of them this morning and an envelope fell out.
Really old. You can tell. Yellowing paper kind of stuff. And it's addressed to me.
From Jemma. (Don't worry, I've already given the original to Fitz, but I took scans and can give copies of the whole thing on request. It's a lot. She wrote SO tiny.)
She has some notes you're going to want to know:
Infinity StonesInfinity Stones
She has one, the Time Stone—as if that wasn't clear enough. Here's the thing, though: she said Alice had one too, before she got pulled through. The Space Stone. There's a whole story about how Jemma found out, which is a common theme for this letter. (Ask me for details.)
Also, the Mind Stone may or may not be on Earth. Remember the weird monsters last year that disappeared on touch? Seriously, these stones are more trouble than they're worth. She wasn't sure where either stones might be now, but "their confluence in one place can't be a coincidence."
Red Portals [magic-types here!]Red Portals
Who wants an info-dump?
The portals are created by demons from Edom, the hell dimension adjacent to Isabelle and Simon's world. We can blame HYDRA for this.
No, really.
According to Jemma, HYDRA has been attempting to find this one specific dimension so they can pull something out of it. It's still not clear if they're the reason why all this normal-portal business stuff started up first, or if the portal energy predated HYDRA's machinations. Regardless, they screwed the pooch big time in all their experiments.
Without meaning to, they found Edom and pulled through a demon they thought they could control. LOL She said the first was an outpost in the Antarctic about a year ago from now. (Reading something from a time traveler is a special kind of weird.) The second was when they took Cisco. (Sorry, Cisco.) And then it became demon-palooza, but their way home was gone and no one could see them. (Something-Something portal energy something.)
Anyway! All those red portals all over the world have been the demons trying to find their way back to Edom. Good times.
We're in luck, though, because she said there are two spell scrolls in Kamar-Taj we can use to bring all the demons to a central place and then banish them back to their home-sweet-hell. Who's up for a trip to Nepal, followed by abject begging, and tons of library time?
Jemma's Time Adventures [calling Team Science]Jemma's Time Adventures
I won't get too much into this, because a lot of it was personal to Fitz, but I have a rough, kind of fun timeline of where she's been. I can't imagine some of the things she's been able to see.
She mentions a device she needs to stabilize her time skipping, but the details are so far beyond me. If you're Team Science, I'm sending you the scan of the sketch she sent me. Apparently Fitz is on the right track. Or will be? Was in her past/his future? Idk, regardless, any eyes on this would probably be helpful.
If you have questions, I'll do my best to answer, but a lot of this is in technical-ese and I didn't take that elective in high school. Sorry! (not sorry)