The Marvelous World: World of Disney 2

Chapter Five: Project Geo Base - 2012

            With her hands in pockets located on opposite sides of her red robe, Gigi stared long and hard at the sphere from Bruce Banner and Erik Selvig's open laboratory. The sight of it was bittersweet for the sorceress; she truly believed to have been rid of it after the nightmare it put her and her family through during her previous venture with it. Although it was the sphere that granted her with the powers she continued to possess in her new body, she knew it was a danger to all realities and had to be disposed of. She altered time and space to be rid of the troublesome mechanism, leaving only her memories and those of her mother and friends from the Muppet Theater in the year 1977 intact, as well as her connections to the Disneyverse. Neither her son nor anyone from the year 2010 would recall those events, which was how she intended it to be to keep them and the new timeline to come out of it all safe.

            But the nightmare was far from over with S.H.I.E.L.D. harboring the sphere within the top secret base. She felt furious whilst glaring at its structure, wondering what would drive S.H.I.E.L.D. into tampering with it so much that it had left a man – or an "Iron Man" as they referred to him – trapped somewhere in the Disneyverse. Now it was up to her to literally bring him back to reality with help from Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, and the young man she continued to believe was her son. While she waited for the men to ready themselves for the rescue mission, Gigi continued staring upon the sphere with agents moving about around her. Nearby, Fury observed her curiously with Maria Hill, Natasha Romanoff, and Clint Barton standing beside and watching along with the S.H.I.E.L.D. director.

            "What the hell is she doing?" Barton inquired after some time of observation.

            "She claims to have a connection with the sphere." Fury answered. "My guess is that she's 'communicating' with it."

            "Looks more like she's giving it the 'evil eye' to me." Natasha sarcastically deduced.

            Fury almost chuckled from Romanoff's comment. "Whatever it is, let's hope it'll take us directly to Stark."

            "You think we should really trust her with Banner, Cap, and one of our own?" Barton asked Fury.

            "If she values her own life, she wouldn't think twice of turning on us...especially when Banner is near." A smug expression masked Fury's face as he mentioned Bruce Banner in his answer; neither he nor anyone else, including Sean, had told Gigi the truth about why Banner was allowed on the rescue mission; they merely told her that his "scientific expertise" could be of some value to them.

            Of course, what none of them realized was that Gigi was already aware of Banner's "condition" – the powerful green monster that lied within him; and if Fury really thought that "The Hulk," as she heard one agent in the base call the beast, could somehow stop her, then he was certainly mistaken. Gigi had faced worse monsters when she was still known as Joanie Navarro, working as protector of the Disneyverse, from Maleficent in dragon form to the Hydra in Hercules. She kept her awareness of the "secret" to herself in order to allow Fury to continue letting her be trusted in finding Tony Stark.

            For the first time in the hour she spent gazing at the sphere, she finally turned to Fury and made a strict request. "I'll take my hat now." She extended her right arm towards him and opened her hand for emphasis. Fury remained hesitant in acknowledging her request until she exclaimed to him, "I'm serious, man. I'm gonna need it to find your guy."