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[vers]

happy international women's day

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breaks this in with some 90s girl grunge.

[evite]

i'm the only one who can walk across the fire for you. — 🎵🎶

i ain't as cool as jenna so you get this garbage

[milano]

what will you give me in exchange for rocket?
i'm in a bartering mood.

[ does rocket know about this? of course not. ]

the only rule i have is no more rodents. hairballs are a bitch.

[vers]

What makes you think I want him?

[milano]

someone has to want him and i don't.
come on, take him off my hands for me.
from one space person to another.

[ for the love of god, carol, take rocket away from him. ]

i'll do your chores for a month.

[ what chores? don't ask. ]

a vague starter? ? ?? to get towards hurt

[vers]

[ The time is Agents of SHIELD s5, but in the past instead of the future.

Daisy arrives on a planet in the Kree system, and she's in hellscape custody of some gladiatorial shit, as I understand it, when Carol Danvers busts through the ceiling like a glowstick. She's all golden and glowing and beautiful and she's here, actually, for a different prisoner.

Surely this will only go well.

She piledrives one of the Kree guards and then carries on with purpose down the hallway right past Daisy, where she is --

Trapped. Stuck with some kind of blue field that paralyzes and stills her. Carol sways, stops, and grits her teeth to fight against it. They don't seem to quite know what to do with her; she's human, but she's not; she's too powerful for them to keep around in the arena. ]

[vers]

I don't know; I think I kind of like watching you drive each other crazy, Quill.

[milano]

that's not very nice.
i'm just trying to do him a favor because if he bitches one more time, i'm going to kill him.
and i bet you're nicer than me.

[vers]

I've had a lot of people telling me who I am lately. I don't think one of them mentioned nice.

[milano]

if i keep saying that, does that mean you'll take this asshole off my hands?

[vers]

No.
:)

[milano]

asshole.
:D

[ affectionately said. ]

bet people haven't used that to tell you who you are either.

[vers]

Bet how much?

slides into ur dms and throws random images around idk what i'm doing.

[purpose]

[milano]

how much you got? i don't have a lot of earth currency anymore.

[magija]

SPOILERS AHOY, LIKE FOR REAL, STAY AWAY

[vdova]

[ They don't know.

Or, rather, they do know, but the words die on Natasha's lips all the same, and she glances back and forth at Steve and Bruce and Rhodey, holds her hand up to tell them to stand down. A fight here won't do any of them any good, and anyway — that emblem on her chest is familiar, if unpixelated. ]

I can show you. But you might not like it.

[ Natasha is shaken, even more so now that there's evidence that their security at the compound is compromised. There'd been no warning, no nothing, that this woman — whomever she may be — had gotten in. Is she scared? Absolutely. But complying (for now) is going to be better in the long run. She can get information of her own, that way. ]

Follow me.

[ She indicates to the three men behind her to not follow, and none of them visibly like it, but they all trust her enough to handle herself if need be. ]

[vers]

[ Good. She found the leader.

Carol regards the men with a look of stony dismissal as she follows after Natasha, her back straight and a ready-to-fight swagger in her step. The facilities of Earth have changed radically since the last time she was here, and as she moves throughout the Avengers base, she takes note of it.

Their technology is still a far cry from anything Kree, but it's ... evolved. And written all over it, she can see extraterrestrial influences. She doesn't particularly like that. Not one bit. One of the displays has a map and a death toll ticking upwards on it, flashing bright red.

She frowns at that. ]

What happened here?

[ She'd come straight to Earth when the beacon sounded. She didn't stop for the intergalactic news broadcasts. ]

[vdova]

[ Natasha's got her own swagger — not ready to fight, but wary, cautious. She's not letting this woman, whoever she is, even if she is someone Fury was trying to contact, get the better of her.

She stops in front of the display, arms crossed, jaw tight. She keeps her body turned towards the woman, but her eyes are on the numbers piling up in bright red, one by one. ]

Thanos. He's... some kind of intergalactic terrorist. He's obsessed with finding balance, and he wanted these things called 'Infinity Stones'.

[ She swallows — this next part is hard, especially so soon. ]

And we failed to stop him. Just like that — [ she snaps her fingers ] — fifty percent of Earth's population, gone. Fifty percent of the galaxy.

fyi s5 finale spoilers for... anyone who cares

[evite]

[ daisy honestly thought she was done with this sort of thing. dealing with the future, with kasius and his wannabe dictator garbage over the remnants of post-destruction earth, with space — but then fitz gets a piledriver to the chest as soon as they get back to their own timeline, just in time to die like an ironic english romantics heroine, and so daisy doesn't get a choice. of course she'll go to space to look for the other version of him that's floating in a cryopod. sure, jemma, of course she'll join you. she's not an astronaut or anything, but what's the worst that could happen?

apparently, "the worst that could happen" is defined by finding yet another planet where kree assholes like to rope powered people into gladiatorial combat and auctions to the highest bidder. just peachy. it may not be the future, but quake is still valuable, still worth clutching onto — only, to daisy's surprise, they don't put an inhibitor in. maybe they don't have the tech yet. maybe they don't realize what she can do. for whatever reason, they don't do it. she's not complaining.

she doesn't expect a glowing blonde goddess of a woman to come slamming her way through the ceiling, though. that surprise puts a wrench in daisy's half-thought-out escape plans, because suddenly, everyone is on high-alert. guards shouting, some weird force field thing going into effect, and daisy's thrown to the side of a wall with enough force to let her see some very pretty stars for a moment or two. ]

Ow.

[ verbose. eloquent. the daisy johnson way. ]

Are you here to kill me?

[ that's the need-to-know info right now. they can cross literally every other bridge when they get to it. ]

i have literally no idea what this even is, but.

[warfares]

i'm gonna get so many details i didn't get out of tumblr gifs and haven't reached yet

[vers]

Yeah, I just thought I'd start with all of them first.

[ Said deadpan, like Carol cannot possibly imagine how Daisy could watch Carol put her fist through the kree guards here, and then assume she was the target. Speaking of the Kree guards, one rises up and tries to get to his feet, and Carol raises her hand without looking to nail him with a photon blast to put him through the window.

She tosses hair out of her face then and advances on Daisy, scrutinizing. ]

You're not Kree. What are you doing here?

[vers]

$12.80 and a copy of Rolling Stone.

[vers]

Fury.

[ It's more looking for confirmation, that bone-deep dread sinking into her voice. Fury was part of that fifty percent. Thanos had eliminated him like he was nothing. She'd heard of him, of course. Everyone had heard of Thanos, the mad titan. Entire star systems had knelt to him, allowed him to take over.

He was worse than Ronan.

Carol hadn't interceded in time. Carol had been occupied with other problems. In that way, it feels like her fault that Fury's gone. She swallows something, keeps her expression stiff. ]

Who are you? SHIELD?

i bet u didn't expect First Order Carol

[vers]

[ The Kree come through Jakku like a whirlwind. It's a junk planet, full of nothing but graveyards, but it has something they need -- a map. A map to a very particular planet. And Vers is nothing if not efficient at getting what she needs, even if it's in the body of a droid.

She tracks it to a fallen AT-AT just south of the Sinking Fields, and this alien woman, this human nuclear bomb, arrives at Rey's door and climbs into an orphan girl's house without knocking because she's here for the droid. ]

This will be easier if you turn it over.

endgame au ? ?? i guess ? ??

[vers]

[ When they return to life, it happens suddenly. They're back where they left them, just as Stark and Banner had predicted they would be, and Carol is in the forest to greet them. At least, almost all of them have come back.

Not all. Not all.

Wanda is gasping on the forest floor, and it's Carol who takes her in her arms, folds her hands around her shoulders firmly and holds her steady because there, suddenly, is Vision's body again, slumped dead, lifeless, cold and gray. The infinity stone that had kept him alive is still gone. It was still taken. Nothing can undo that, only the snap.

So Wanda is back, and Carol can hold her back from going for Vision's body, but Vision will never inhabit it again. She'd seen Thor's face when he'd found out the same would be true of Loki. She knows what to expect for Wanda Maximoff. ]

Wait. Wait, listen to me.