Such Great Heights - Chapter One

'Such Great Heights'

*Disclaimer: All rights belong to Marvel. No profit is being made.

Author's Note:
This story takes place in a Marvel Movieverse and after the incident in Thor.

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'Memories. A fragment of your inner mind both bitter and sweet. A fragment that could trigger a certain emotion of an inner being. A true self. And for that, we will need to wipe them off.'

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-Chapter One-

"I'm soooooooooooooo hungry!!" a brunette landed her chin onto the table right in front of her. Her arms spread wide and she was kicking her legs out under the table like a child. "And I'm bored." She sighed and lift her head back, way back, so she could see her world upside down. Seeing her friend, who's looking rather busy with her work, she whined "Can we, like, take this thing called a 'break'?"

Her friend only sighed, gave a slight smile and shook her head. She was hurrying over one table to another, placing papers, graphs, typing things down onto her laptop, jotting down on her notebook, and stacking papers. The brunette thought 'The Bumble Bee' song in her head as she watch her friend working in such a fast pace would fit perfectly.

"Jane?" the brunette asked, her head still upside down. "Have you eaten?" she asked.

"I can't recall." Jane replied, almost a mumble as she flip through pages and pages of notes.

"Well," the brunette got up from her chair, stumbled a bit due to head rush (also from the upside down head action), she balanced herself while she walk her way to the kitchen nearby the lab. "let me check the fridge." Jane could hear heavy footsteps, almost a shuffle from her hungry friend. She swung the fridge door open and Jane heard, "We've been robbed by food monsters!!"

"I see." Jane replied, now typing things down in her computer, her voice filled with disinterests.

The hungry young lady appeared by the kitchen door, frowning as she walked to Jane with the same heavy, almost lazy, footsteps. "Jane, we're out of food." she said and stood next to Jane. From the corner of her eyes, Jane could tell she was slouching.

Jane, still busy as ever, simply nodded and was just typing away. "Uh huh." she said as her eyes fixed onto the screen and typing continuously.

"Jane." the brunette called.

No reply.

"Hey, Jane?" she called again.

No response.

"Jaaaaaaaannnneeeeee~~~~" she called, almost singing in a tune.

Nothing.

The brunette rolled her eyes, placed her hands on her hips and took a quiet deep breath, " You know, as a child, I always wanted to ride a robot unicorn and possibly riding it over the rainbow and since you know, the 'Rainbow Bridge' exist, I would be able to make that dream a reality!"

Still no reply from Jane.

She let out a sharp sigh, feeling a little irritated, she said calmly, "I also wanted to make out with Thor."

"YOU WHAT?!" Jane shot up from her laptop, staring wildly at her friend only to find out that she was smiling sheepishly.

"I'm only kidding." her friend said, her eyes half-lidded and thick lips in a smirk.

"My God, Darcy!" Jane began, her voice stern and serious. "There's no time to fool around! The scanners were acting up just hours ago and we need to find out why and search for its location for further investigations."

Darcy stood there in silence, almost looking apologetic. "But..." she frowned, pouted her lips like a child, "I'm hungry" she whimpered.

Jane could do nothing but scoffed, shook her head slightly and let out an exasperated sigh. "Then go to the kitchen and make us a sandwich or something." she returned to her laptop and typing away.

"Ok, that sounds a bit sexist." Darcy said while she approached Jane and lean on the table where she worked. "Plus, I mentioned about Monsters?"

Jane turned to look at her friend and Darcy could tell how tired and worn out Jane looked. "First of all," Jane leaned back to her chair, "I'm a female specimen. How could that possibly be sexist? Second, don't we have take outs?"

"What part you don't understand when I said there's NO FOOD??" Darcy said, feeling a little annoyed. "We got nothing! We haven't gone grocery shopping this month! Budget's cut short 'cos SHIELD is busy building... whatever they're building." she pull out the chair next to her and sat opposite Jane. "I thought we're suppose to get more moolahs now that we're working under SHIELD."

Jane returned to her laptop once more, "We would've." she said, "Look, since that incident weeks ago, they can't help but prepare for the worst. You know what Loki did to New Mexico. It was a disaster!"

"I know..." Darcy hugged her knees while she sat on the chair.

"Aren't you suppose to work?" Jane raised an eyebrow.

Darcy glared at Jane, "Aren't you suppose to take a break and--" a sudden growl heard. Darcy's face reddened. Jane looked at Darcy's tummy and then looked at her assistant.

"What? I said I was hungry!"

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Punching the numbers on the ATM machine, Darcy could not help but frowned as she saw the numbers popping out on the screen. Its white font screaming at her, reminding her that she only got $50.00 in her account.

"Great." she murmured, "Now I can't get that new iPod I've been eyeing on for a while." Annoyed, she punched the amount and took her withdrawal and card. Almost angrily place the card into her purse. 'I have a love/hate relationship with money.' she thought. Darcy walked out from the quiet ATM booth and looked at her quiet and isolated surroundings. She took out her phone and saw the time, it was 1:54AM.

Jane and Darcy had been working alone for quite some time now since Erik was summoned to work for SHIELD. Man power at their head quarters are running short. It's pretty obvious since the maximum workers at the lab were three people; Jane Foster, Erik Selvig, and their assistant, Darcy Lewis. Since Erik left for a SHIELD project, having only Jane and Darcy to work on the lab was hard enough. Let alone knowing Darcy doesn't know much about Astrophysics. She admit, stars can be pretty neat but she had no clue about them. Darcy could tell Jane was struggling and wrecking her brains out to solve some stuff what she's suppose to solve. Darcy felt pretty useless at times.

'Ok, no negative thinking.' she shook her head and putting her phone back into her pocket, she proceed into the 7/11 Store right next to the booth.

After purchasing some cookies, milk, cereals, eggs and instant noodles, Darcy stepped out from the store after waving goodbye to Lee the Counter Man. Her SUV is right in front of her, all she need was her car keys located in a cluttered tote bag.

Reaching out for her keys, from the corner of Darcy's eye, she saw someone walking towards her. Followed by shuffling steps. Almost Zombie-like.

The woman turned to look, almost dropping the groceries she'd been carrying, when she saw a tall and lean man, it was too dark to see the details. By instinct, Darcy pulled out her infamous God-Tasered-Taser-Gun she named Pikachu. "Dude!" she cried out. "You scared the Gajeebus out of me!"

The tall man didn't stop. He's still walking towards her, slouching and legs dragging the sandy floor. The sight freaked her out. It's 2AM and it's dark. Who wouldn't be!?

"Oh wow, you must be really wasted." she let out a nervous laughter but the man didn't react. He was still approaching her. 'Ok.' she thought, now pointing Pikachu at him. 'Code Red! CODE RED!'

"Stay back! I got a Taser and I'm not scared of using this!" she yelled, dropping the groceries by her side. "I've once knocked out a God with this!" her voice breaking. She winced, realizing no one will believe what she had said. 'That was lame, Darcy.' she thought angrily.

The scary figure still walked towards her, no sign of stopping anytime soon and for that Darcy took a few steps back, distancing herself from the zombie drunkard. "I'm warning you!! I'll tase you if you get any closer!!"

No response. Darcy began to think he really IS a zombie. She blamed watching 'The Walking Dead' for this! "I'll count to three!!" now holding Pikachu with both hands.
The man wasn't listening to her orders at all.

"One!"

No response and he stepped closer and closer to her. Her hands began to shake.

"Two!!"

He was already in the light, a few feet away from Darcy and she could finally see his face. He was pale, sweaty, and looked extremely exhausted. His thin lips are chapped and his green eyes shallow and half-lidded. His cheek bones unnaturally sticking out of his face and looked rather bony.

He looked like a drug addict.

Darcy slowly lower down her taser gun when she realize he was panting deeply. "H-hey." she broke the silence, "You alright, buddy?"

The man finally looked at her, and despite the sick look, he smiled at her. "It's good to know someone's worried." he chuckled. Then everything blacked out.

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