Wrong Place, Right Time

You're a what?!

Summary:

Lyric tries to explain her very existence to the doubtful Avengers

May 4, 2012, 1:15am

Steve's POV

We were all on the Helicarrier, talking about Loki and what is plans were. Fury had just made a comment about flying monkeys and I was proud of actually knowing that reference. Stark and Dr. Banner were making to leave the room when I heard a woman scream, looking up I saw a woman falling from the roof, clutching a duffle bag and swearing loudly as she fell, I quickly shot up and caught her before she hit the glass table, moving to the side to avoid being hit by a pair of boots that fell down after her.

She was a tiny little thing with long black hair and stunning purple eyes. She had long silvery slightly indented scars that ran along the right side of her face, from her temple to chin that looked suspiciously like claw marks. Her clothes were dusty and she looked rather rumpled, and she had bits of straw in her hair, but she was still beautiful. She looked into my eyes and froze, dozens of emotions were running through her eyes from fear to recognition. She quickly glanced up and swore softly under her breath. It was silent as we all stared at her, until Stark began spouting off something about it raining beautiful woman but I wasn't really listening, I was trying to figure out how this stunning girl ended up in my arms.

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Lyric's POV

There was stunned silence all around me, and I could sense numerous eyes on me. I glanced up at the roof quickly to see that the portal had already closed. Damn there goes my quick exit! And I still don't know how that portal opened! What did I do differently this time!?

All of a sudden I heard an excited yet sexy sounding voice pipe up "geez Fury, this ship rains beautiful women?! please tell me that you have enough to go around for everyone!"

I quickly glanced over to see who was speaking and saw none other than Tony Stark himself! Seeing him broke me out of my little trance and I started squirming in Captain America's arms, trying to get down, he quickly put me down but kept one hand on my wrist as if he wasn't sure if I was a threat or not.

I took a look around and saw (to my utter disbelief): Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Bruce Banner, Thor, and Natasha Romanoff staring at me trying to figure out where I came from. A quick glance around indicated that I was on the Helicarrier or the movie set. I wasn't quite sure yet, but from the way Tony Stark talked to Nick Fury I was guessing that this was indeed the real deal. Stark was circling the table, looking up above Captain America trying to figure out how I came to be here, as was I..... on top of internally fangirling inside over the fact that Iron Man called me beautiful!!! and that Captain America was touching me.

"Who the hell are you?! And how the hell did you get on my ship?" boomed Fury.

"Umm Hi?" I quickly squeaked out "I'm Lyric Le Rouge, and I am just trying to get home, I just took a wrong turn somewhere along the line.. so uhh, I hope you don't mind me uh dropping in?" I finished lamely.

I heard a snort of laughter at my intentional pun, glancing over I saw that it was Tony Stark.

"And where exactly is home?" asked Fury.

"Oh the million dollar question!" I thought to myself... "I don't know, the portal was supposed to take me there but I ended up here instead" I answered truthfully.

"Portal?" said a quiet voice, I looked over and saw The Hulk, well Bruce Banner, looking at me "Are you working with Loki?"

At that name everyone became instantly wary of me and the grip on my wrist tightened. "No!" I gulped out "I am not working with Loki, I don't even know him. I am not from here, I am from a different version of Earth, one of many actually. My parents had to hide me so I was sent through a portal to an Earth with no magic, where you, The Avengers, only exist in comic books and movies, that's how I know all your names"