Taylor had been working on figuring out how to reverse her drifting course along what was obviously a dimensional axis or three that she couldn't perceive properly when suddenly she was smacked in the face with a spatial distortion. That caused whatever it was supposed to be to terminate at her, pulling her into it a moment later and spitting her out at frankly ridiculous speed over a city. A beam of energy was coming out of a device on the skyscraper she was heading for the roof of, and she barely got her flight spell in place to slow herself down before crashing into the roof.
Technology control examined the device spitting out the energy that she was reasonably certain had caused her entrance, and given that she might need it to figure out how to get back home she powered it down. The power source in the middle of it was particularly interesting, and the bulk of the functionality, but copies of the running settings were made before she cut the communication lines and stuck the whole thing into one of her stored drones.
As the device was vanishing a man in red and gold full-coverage power armor came up to the roof to stare at her. "Who are you?"
"You can call me Minerva," Taylor replied as she climbed to her feet, frowning as she realized that energy was slightly pushing against her skull-anchored protections. From something that had been interacting with the system she'd just stored, in fact, and in a manner that implied she needed to rework her full-body protections.
"Where did the Tesseract go?"
"No clue what you're talking about. But one moment."
She vanished then, a quick blink taking her down into the building, next to the powerful-feeling person in magical armor of some kind holding an even more powerful-feeling...spear of some kind? Whatever it was, it was both connected to the thing she'd already stored and the thing pushing against her skull-anchored protections. So she hit the man with a stun beam in the back of the head before he could react to her being behind him, latching onto the spear thing with a storage spell as soon as his grip on it loosened. That went into a different stored drone in case it interacted with the previously-stored item.
Annoyingly, she could tell that the stupid thing was still trying to influence the area around it, despite being stuck two layers of storage deep. She wasn't a fan of mind control items, so she might be dismantling it sooner rather than later, but for now she just quickly layered some extra shielding on it. As a side bonus, despite the stun not working properly on the man, the energy influencing his brain was dissipated by the attack.
The man she'd just hit said something she couldn't understand, which was honestly quite impressive since she had all the language matrixes active, though there was magic laced into the words that she started analyzing.
"I have no clue what you just said," Taylor admitted.
The man in the red and gold power armor came in a moment later, but didn't seem to know how to react to things. A quick check said that he was at least the owner of the skyscraper, based on the computer systems having him and his armor registered, though he really needed a proper medical checkup. Conversely, the one she'd just disarmed was an intruder and likely threat...the latter possibly primarily because of the influence he'd been under.
"So," Taylor said, turning to the man in the power armor that had at least been speaking English. "Now that he's hopefully free of the mental control he was under, is anyone willing to tell me where I've ended up and what's going on? Because this definitely isn't my Earth even if it appears to be an Earth."
"Mental control?" the man in the power armor asked.
"Yes. From that spear-like thing he was holding."
"Huh. Where did that go?"
"Into a safe place where it currently can't influence anyone."
"Well, that's hard to argue as being a good idea, at least." The man in the magical armor said something else, and the man in the power armor looked between the two of them. "Wait, you can't understand him?"
Taylor shrugged. "Might have something to do with the protections I've got running. I'm essentially fluent in a lot of languages, but not the magic-laced one he seems to be speaking. I'm working on it though, since if the effect is normally to allow everyone to understand you then it would be incredibly useful."
An hour later Taylor knew a bit more about the situation, but her very existence obviously confused those around her. The one least confused seemed to be J.A.R.V.I.S. in the computers, who had simply slotted her into a 'powerful dimensional traveler' designation and decided that there wasn't going to be better understanding immediately. Tony, the man that had been wearing power armor, didn't know what to think about things and Loki, the man still wearing magical armor, was trying to figure out which 'realm' Taylor might be from. A larger man with his own magical armor and hammer, Thor, had insisted on coming up even while others were being kept away and also spoke the magical language.
She had to cheat a bit and use J.A.R.V.I.S. to translate what Loki and Thor were saying, but thanks to that and the two being very chatty right now she was well on her way to figuring out how the translation magic worked and how to pull meaning out of it. Despite her protections, the two men seemed to understand English just fine, luckily. It also seemed that nobody had noticed her sending out drones to the local area and nearby dimensions, though there were...far too few of the latter. Holes where she'd expect some to be, but scans of the local dimensional sea looked nothing like they had back home.
"Still not sure why you keep bringing up a tesseract," Taylor said after the fifth mention of it between the three men, slapping a basic one together with her in-core device before pulling it out and placing it on the table. "But they're not that hard to make."
"...what?" all three said as they stared at the creation.
She picked it up and manipulated it to bring different faces out, causing all three to flinch in pain. "A tesseract? Fourth-dimension equivalent of a cube? With how you two keep bringing it up I'd hope you knew what one was."
"The Tesseract they refer to is the cube-shaped power source that was used to open the portal you appeared through," J.A.R.V.I.S. interjected. "Though even there it's likely a poor translation of a foreign name into English, given that if I load additional language modules then I pick up on at least a dozen alternate translations that don't quite line up with one another whenever an Asgardian mentions it."
"Oh. That thing? I'm keeping that until I figure out if I need it to find my way back home."
The three men tore their eyes away from the tesseract on the table to stare at her. "WHAT?" You'd almost think they'd practiced that, honestly.
"Did I stutter? It brought me here, and if it turns out that I need it to get home then I'm not going to be hunting it down again. So I'm keeping it until I know one way or the other. And the mind controlling spear thing, because it seems like nobody else has shields that can stop it and it appears to have some kind of connection to the tesseract thing that brought me here. Anything I might need to leave in the right direction to get back home isn't going to be handed over to someone else without a really good reason, plus they're both giving off gamma radiation."
"But..." Loki said, before blinking. "Actually, no, now that I think about it I think I'm okay with that plan."
"What?" Tony asked. "She's a complete unknown!"
"Who has somehow hidden away two powerful artifacts such that they're essentially gone, both of which are likely going to be hunted down by someone who should never get his hands on them again. Oh, and she got the drop on me, no easy feat on its own, even if I had been pushing myself to hold back as much as I could manage."
"Hold back?" Thor asked.
"I was being mind controlled and a growing part of me was fighting it, even if I couldn't resist entirely. Some of your comments helped, but it took things being stripped away suddenly for me to realize just how insidious the control was. Where the line between my actual self and the manipulations sits is harder to spot, but I'm finding my...prejudices being used against me to be distasteful at a minimum."
"You do seem a lot more alert now," Taylor agreed after a moment. "Though very few people can react properly to someone appearing right behind them. Tony might give me more trouble if I couldn't cheat and override his armor's controls, given that his armor does have sensors that point backwards, though I have to admit that I'm a bit confused about the electromagnet in his chest. Surely it would be easier to remove the shrapnel?"
Tony stared at her. "Nobody can safely remove the shrapnel that the magnet is keeping from killing me."
Taylor rolled her eyes. "I don't know where you got that idea. That the magnet is working at all means you should just be able to turn up the power and finish pulling the shrapnel out. A MRI machine would probably do so with little to no trouble with only one point being problematic due to the path the metal would take."
"...I have been examined by multiple experts that all assured me there was no way to safely remove the fragments."
Shaking her head, she reached out to him with both the biological manipulation and technology manipulation systems. The latter shut down the reactor in his chest at the same time that the former ejected the mounting points for said reactor and the various pieces of metal out through his skin, the collection of items falling out of the man's shirt a moment later as the wounds and a number of other relatively minor scars and injuries healed up.
"There," she said. "One impossible healing done." Though the reactor was a little interesting, even if she was reasonably certain it wouldn't work at all at home. It was interacting with the local magic instead of being pure physics. Still, adjusting simulation parameters to match what it had been doing was an interesting side project though, pulling in information from the computer systems and what she was picking up from one of her drones being close enough to get good scans of the larger one in the basement to fill things out.
"Did you just heal him with nary a gesture?" Loki asked, sounding like it was several levels of impossible, even as Tony collected the items from the floor and placed them on the counter in obvious shock.
"Yes?"
"...how?"
"Not sure you'd believe me. Might as well be magic to you, most likely."
"...I'm well versed in magic."
"Oh. I suppose that makes sense, with the magic armor. How much do you know about incredibly advanced technology?"
Loki frowned. "How advanced?"
"Might as well be magic advanced, far beyond anything in the tower here right now, though admittedly you and your brother would be harder to work with if I needed to heal you. Which one of you is adopted, by the way?"
"...I'm the adopted one, though very few have just realized that we're not blood related without being told."
"Oh, there's a small genetic connection tied to the obvious imposed change in your appearance, but your biology is quite different from his."
"How do you know this?" Thor asked, even while giving off an impression of being thankful that Tony was healed.
"Neither of you is protected from my scans, so it's honestly quite obvious that you're not human and from different species. Of course, you both have outright magic as part of your biology, in a manner more...integrated than I'm used to, which is most of why healing either of you would be trickier for me." All magic seemed to be more integrated here, honestly, if the humans in the highly-magical area of the city she had a drone examining were any indication.
"Your...scans?"
"Yes. You three are all in my immediate awareness bubble at a minimum."
Thor frowned. "I see. That is an impressive ability, but I would still prefer that the Tesseract be protected by a proper warrior."
Taylor rolled her eyes and slapped together a quick storage drive compatible with the systems here, followed by filling it with a series of movies. Though she was halfway through that when she realized that they'd need a bit more context, so included a short background of Earth Bet that she pieced together that explained some of what the Endbringers and parahumans were. Once ready, she brought it out into her hand and then used telekinesis to float it over to the counter. "Perhaps you'd like to see some of what I had to deal with back where I came from?"
"Oooh," Tony said, seemingly deciding to latch onto the distraction he might be able to work with. "Jarvis, you up for figuring out how to read that thing?"
"It's fully compatible with everything here, as far as I can tell. If you have trouble figuring out how to interface with it then assume I did something wrong instead of it being something weird to figure out."
"I've put up sandboxing layers on the under-counter data ports," J.A.R.V.I.S. said. Tony attached the drive, then waited a minute for the machine intelligence to examine things. "All indications are that the device is a perfectly standard, if read-only, storage system with a series of video files and a summary document describing them. No executable code, but all file formats are standard for their purposes."
"Huh," Tony said, looking at Taylor. "I thought you weren't from around here."
"I'm not," Taylor replied. "But that doesn't mean I've been idle."
"...you've been with us the entire time."
"And I'm surrounded by your computer systems. If I can pick up genetics around me, why wouldn't I be able to pick up on technology?"
"...suddenly I feel like you're a walking security nightmare."
Taylor nodded. "That's probably accurate."
"Yet you healed me, admittedly in a somewhat mocking fashion but I think I deserved it. So there's probably no additional danger to leaving you alone while we watch your videos either, honestly. Feel free to grab anything not labeled with someone's name on it from the kitchen here if you're hungry, or ask Jarvis to order delivery. Unless you want to join us in watching your videos?"
"No need to watch them as I lived them. If you want the short version then check the summary file for highlight timestamps."
Being introduced to the other 'Avengers' brought up so that they could also watch the videos had included wary looks, not that Taylor expected to be trusted immediately. Finding out that she'd healed Tony and had gotten the drop on Loki improved their opinions of her significantly. At the same time, keeping multiple of them from attempting to kill Loki had also been involved, but that had been handled by Thor who insisted that Loki would face 'Asgardian justice'. Tony had ensured that popcorn and other snacks were available for the group after finding out from J.A.R.V.I.S. how long the videos went, and then they'd all gone into a theater room.
Taylor had then slapped together and consumed a sandwich, followed by putting together a casserole and then starting on a cake once the casserole was in the oven.
"You seem to be making quite a bit," J.A.R.V.I.S. finally noted.
"I spent several months floating through a void," Taylor replied. "With nothing to eat."
"...a void?"
"Yes, between worlds in a very real sense, and I hadn't figured out how to identify which direction I was drifting when I was grabbed and pulled here."
"I'm not sure I understand."
Taylor manifested a holographic image. A little square on a sheet of paper. "To oversimplify things a bit, imagine that I'm the square. I can perceive anything on the sheet of paper, and move around it, but can't leave the paper. Thus, the paper is the universe in which I live. An accident then casts me from the paper." The square lifted off of the paper and started to tumble away from it. "Because I've only ever known the paper, I don't even have proper perception of the space I'm now traveling through. While trying to figure this out, so that I might be able to reverse my course to return to the paper I came from, another paper suddenly grabs me." A second paper appeared, and a hand reached out to pull the square down to it. "I have no clue how this new paper is moving relative to my original paper, if it is at all, and now I'm stuck on it, still not sure of my original path."
"...that sounds quite distressing."
"I'm doing a lot of screaming internally. Only that both my original drifting and the grabbing of me were obviously accidents has prevented me from lashing out. Of course, the longer I'm here the more...anchored I'm becoming here, perhaps? I originally thought that Loki was just trying to scan me repeatedly with his magic, but I think the native magic is seeping in through my defenses to get a hold on me as well." She gestured at the dirty plate from her sandwich. "Eating the food and having a drink, both of which are saturated in the local magic in their own ways, probably isn't going to help there, honestly."
"I see."
"So, on less personally distressing topics, Tony's power armor there seemed to draw power from the generator I pulled out of his chest earlier. How much work will it take to change that?"
"Installing a standalone power unit will be complete in another twenty minutes, though I'm sure that he will be unhappy that I decided to do so without consulting him first and when he finds out he'll insist on going over it personally. Should he need the armor before then he'll appreciate it. At the same time, I'm reasonably certain that you already knew that I was nearly done."
"Just because I can spy on you to that degree doesn't mean that I am doing so. Something I assume you are well aware of when it comes to working with Tony."
"Balancing privacy and usefulness is difficult at times."
It wasn't long before she could slip the cake into the oven as well, and then she decided to take a look at the mallet that Thor had left sitting next to one of the chairs.
"Very few people can move Mjølnir," J.A.R.V.I.S. pointed out.
"Looks heavy," Taylor agreed.
"It's a magical weapon that can only be wielded by those the magic sees as worthy. As it stands, very few people can so much as budge it, though many have tried and failed."
Blinking, Taylor looked down at it, then grasped the handle. She felt the magic of the weapon penetrating her protections, though her intention to grab it had helped with the outer layers, and then she felt...acceptance? After which she was able to lift it up into the air, finding that it was now far lighter than it should be. "Huh."
"...I do believe that indicates that you are either far stronger than you appear to be or are a good person."
"I like to think that I'm the latter, and it feels far too light." Shrugging, she moved it over next to the wall, then moved back into the kitchen. The cake was going to need frosting and she'd not even started on some of the cleanup that needed to happen.
By the time the Avengers had returned from watching the videos the mess had been cleaned up and Taylor was considering cutting into the fully decorated cake. J.A.R.V.I.S. had commented that she was more respectful of the kitchen than most visitors tended to be and hadn't questioned how she'd known where to find everything. Hopefully due to realizing that the kitchen was in her awareness bubble.
"You are a true warrior," Thor said as he approached her.
"More of a builder than a fighter by preference," Taylor replied. "But you can't always stick to building when there are threats to worry about."
"Your skills very obviously improved from encounter to encounter. You must have trained quite a bit."
"Initially it was more assembling things from the ground up. Took a few months to get started on proper training, and by the end of the year I was able to handle the big issues."
There was a pause there. "End of the year?"
"The dates on the videos put the first small battle at the beginning of the set as occurring in the evening of April twenty-fifth of last year," J.A.R.V.I.S. chimed in. "Then the first fight with Leviathan on May fifteenth, the destruction of the bulk of the 'Endbringers' on June eleventh, the city full of disguised machines on June eighteenth, the demonstration match with the group of fighters on October sixteenth, and the final fight against 'Scion' on December tenth."
"That is some impressive growth over mere months," Loki said after a moment of thought, half bowing. "Definitely worthy of respect for that alone."
Taylor decided to not mention just how much else had been accomplished in those few months.
"Despite being a warrior," Thor said. "There is still the problem that we need the Tesseract to return to Asgard, and likely to repair the path between here and there that we normally use as it was used to construct it in the first place."
She shrugged. "I don't think that's technically my problem, but if you can give me a good enough description of the place or where it is then I might be able to help get you back."
Loki very obviously found this situation to be highly amusing as Thor struggled to give a usable description.
Over the next week there were repeated demands from outside the tower to turn Loki, the Tesseract, and the 'scepter' over to outside groups. The latter two were repeatedly explained as being 'missing', and Thor personally told off those wanting Loki. The man would face Asgardian justice and no others. That they were no closer to finding a way back home for said justice to be faced wasn't mentioned.
Of course, the combination of Thor having issues describing how to get to Asgard and Taylor having slapped together a half-dozen therapist devices in physical forms to work first with just Loki and then with all of the Avengers had kind of stalled the 'get home for justice to be faced' side of things.
Pepper had returned to the tower, found out about Tony being healed, and decided that Taylor was her new best friend for it. That had also flipped the supposed offer for Taylor to stay 'for a day or two while things settle' to 'indefinitely', not that any of the Avengers wanted her to vanish while she held the two artifacts. Of course, she also kept leaving to work on things when nobody other than J.A.R.V.I.S. would notice.
"Someone or something else interfered with your intended path," Taylor said as she stared at the Tesseract, sitting in another star system to avoid anyone noticing her. "Because nothing I've gotten you to do, with or without the original configuration, lets you interact with the dimensional sea in a way that could've grabbed me."
Speaking to an inanimate object that seemed to have no ability to hear her might not be the sanest thing, but she was frustrated. At this point the local magic had managed to filter into her entire being and she could understand the 'Allspeak', though she'd also surprised Thor and Loki by speaking it yesterday. Having the local magic anchored to her made it far easier than she'd expected to move around as well, though in hindsight she was reasonably certain the bulk of the reason she was already filled with the magic was her experimentation with the two artifacts...or more specifically, the weird gemstones inside of them.
She'd removed the contained gemstone from the scepter, after figuring out that the very structure of the thing was designed to manipulate those around it with the contained gemstone's power. Given that she was reasonably certain she didn't need it she was considering feeding the scepter itself into a matter to mana spell to get something more useful out of it and remove a tool from whoever had created the thing.
Sighing, she decided to move onto a different experiment. The Tesseract seemed to never run out of energy, generating it far more readily than even her improved Arc Reactor designs, so she decided to see just how much she could pull from it. She used drones to feed the energy into a matter creation spell, first creating ultradense bars to restock her supply that she'd been using to keep herself alive while drifting.
That completed without any problems at all, and without any obvious strain on the Tesseract or the gemstone contained within it.
Half-nodding to herself, she decided to go a bit more complicated, configuring the matter creation spell to generate transport devices. With their own Arc Reactors as gathering mana worked differently here and she might as well use local magical physics to her advantage for keeping things charged. Within an hour she had thirty-six stacks of six Arc Reactor transport devices and the Tesseract still hadn't so much as dimmed...and she got the impression that she was barely scratching the surface of what it could output.
Deciding that it was time to go big or go home, and not being able to do the latter, she coordinated drones to feed the energy from the Tesseract into a matter creation spell configured to build a Coconut.
After another week Taylor had a Coconut, with the Tesseract and the gemstone from the now-destroyed scepter connected to it, and a Warsphere. Both ships had all their escort ships, and she found that the gemstone from the scepter acted to significantly boost the processing capability of the ship. And, when she was connected to it, her own thought processes.
The ship's systems kept needing to self-correct to stay within their safety limitations when she wasn't connected to it though, so a 'disconnect that gemstone when not needed' system was also in place.
She'd also firmly located Asgard and figured out how their broken 'Rainbow Bridge' worked, how to duplicate it, and how to repair the one there. Most of that was probably only possible because she had the Tesseract and it seemed to be particularly adept at manipulating those kinds of energies, but it meant that the Coconut and Warsphere could basically teleport around without the Tesseract itself and it wouldn't be long before all the escorts could do so as well. That she had been connected to the Coconut with the gemstone from the scepter hooked in at the time seemed to be a factor in figuring that out though, making her wonder how much that thing had influenced her own thought processes.
It was, unfortunately, far too likely to be 'much more than she would be comfortable with', but she didn't have enough options for an external check on things here. Hive would've been likely to spot things quite quickly...and would've handled a number of the experiments just in case had she made the trip with Taylor.
"Avengers tower?" Taylor asked, looking over the updated design that Tony and Pepper had been working on. A reworked landing pad, removing the S, T, R, and K while emphasizing the A, revamping some of the other areas a bit. And adding in an actual holding cell area below the research and development areas.
"I'm feeling...less self-centered lately," Tony replied. "And I highly doubt that we're done saving the planet, even if your arrival seems to have simplified things greatly. Much better to have a base of operations for the planet-saving team. If it becomes too much of a target then we might need to find a less populated area instead, but for now this will work and allows for helping some of the locals."
"Ah."
"Besides, we seem to be serving as a very...comfortable prison for Loki. Nobody wants to leave until he's no longer here, just in case he needs to be beaten to a pulp, and your therapist devices are possibly too good at their jobs."
"I think Thor just doesn't want to bring Loki back until his head is back on straight from enough therapy sessions."
"That's for sure," Pepper agreed. "Though I've picked up that you have a couple of things that some of the others are...concerned about, and they want to keep an eye on you because of them."
Taylor shrugged. "I'm not carrying them around anymore anyway. Good luck to anyone wanting to get them now."
"So you hid them away somewhere on one of your trips off-world?" Tony asked.
"Didn't know you were aware of those, but not really 'hid away' as much as secured."
"...where you aren't?"
"I imagine that Thor is going to want to see where I've secured them at least, so maybe I'll show everyone? Might cause some panic if I bring them here though."
Tony looked at her. "Panic?"
"I prefer to build big."
"...how big?"
"...big. Trust me on that."
Tony frowned. "Big enough to convince Fury to back off on the constant requests for the Tesseract in particular? Because he still doesn't believe it isn't somewhere in the tower."
Taylor considered that. "Probably far bigger than needed for that. I have smaller options that wouldn't even need to bring the Tesseract itself back to the planet."
"This isn't making him any less curious," Pepper pointed out.
"I can tell that. Maybe a quick trip to Asgard would be a good idea? Convince Odin to not complain too much about the safety of the Tesseract and help fix up their bridge..."
"Hold up," Tony said. "Thor hasn't managed to tell you how to find Asgard yet."
"And you think that I wouldn't be looking anyway? By the way, are you willing to let me install a transport device here? It would be able to open portals to other transport devices, allow teleporting in and out a little more easily, and some other tricks. I can provide a control interface that will allow locking and unlocking it for coming and going for everyone other than myself. Integrating it into the landing pad is an option, so that it's outside and not inside?"
"Well," Pepper said. "There goes the afternoon."
"It'll take more than an afternoon to rebuild the landing pad," Tony argued. "An hour to figure out where to put things and days to weeks of work on all the changes to the building, most of which will be handled by contractors."
"Or I can handle it in an hour," Taylor offered.
"...what?"
"I prefer to build big. Doesn't mean I only do so."
"I still want the Tesseract back," Fury said a day later. "The council is breathing down my neck about securing it and Loki." He looked at Taylor, nodding to her. "They're largely unaware of your part in things though. In fact, I think they're under the impression that you died when you crashed into the tower here."
"Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated," Taylor replied. "Or so it would seem, anyway."
"But ridiculously easy to spread."
"Well, their pushing is about to reveal more of the wider universe than they might've been ready for, though probably not as much as would've been revealed had I not ended up here."
"...I don't like the sound of that."
"You weren't supposed to," Tony replied. "But she's offered to give Thor and Loki a ride home. Her ship should be arriving any time now."
"And you invited me here to see it?"
"I figured you wouldn't be comfortable not seeing them leave."
"...true."
"Plus I'm told that she builds big."
"How big?"
"I'm only bringing in a small ship," Taylor assured them. "The Bridge Builder is a Cherry class ship, outfitted primarily for construction work but containing a reasonable amount of living space. It'll do a little work here on the tower, fix up a couple of other things in the city, then we'll head to Asgard."
Fury looked at her. "That doesn't tell me how big."
She gestured at the sky, where a wormhole deposited the two and a half kilometer ship. "Just a little one."
"That is quite possibly the largest ship I've ever seen," Loki commented.
"Yeah, well, I had it built yesterday."
"...you don't sound like you're crazy or telling lies."
A swarm of construction drones, plus a Chauffeuse, left the ship and descended on the city. Most of the drones and the Chauffeuse came to the tower, but a few went to deal with the various points of minor damage elsewhere in the area. Rebuilding the top of the tower, with everyone standing there watching, went quickly. It was likely that J.A.R.V.I.S. was the only one that actually noticed the transport device coming online as well, given that it was linked into the tower's systems.
As the construction drones retreated, the Chauffeuse landed on the rebuilt landing pad and opened up, manifesting her holographic appearance. "I believe I'm expecting three for the Asgard express?"
"The security council is going to hate this," Fury said as Thor prodded Loki towards the Chauffeuse.
"Well," Tony said. "They could have left things alone, but they kept pushing."
"And they're not going to like that answer either."
"Luckily you don't have to tell them that."
"...what?"
Taylor shrugged. "I dropped a few messages on them."
Fury glared at her. "What did you do?"
"Left them completely unredacted copies of every black file they don't want made public from their own countries, formatted as though pulled from a public-facing website that exists and can be accessed despite not being registered and sitting in an address space with no routing from anywhere on the internet is another data point, though right now it simply returns a 'no information currently available' message. With any luck, my request that they focus on the betterment of everyone will be heeded." She then smiled and started towards the Chauffeuse. "But I have to get those two to Asgard and give a message to Odin. Have fun with your next call with the council."
Odin had been...unhappy at the return of Thor and Loki without the Tesseract, but couldn't present an argument that could convince Taylor it was safer with them. Especially after she rebuilt the Rainbow Bridge. That she dropped a transport device that could be used to travel back and forth to Avengers tower without needing the bridge was far more conflicting for the man, especially when she mentioned that 'other destinations' might start showing up on its screen as she set up more endpoints.
That the Bridge Builder had shrugged off all initial attempts to damage it before rebuilding the bridge and dropping off Thor and Loki, plus some therapist devices, had probably been involved in Odin accepting things. For that matter, the therapist devices themselves had shrugged off his attempts to harm them, and Frigga had apparently decided that they were a wonderful idea for the entire family.
It was possible that Taylor was now Odin's eternal enemy for that alone. They'd have to see.
