Unfinished Gems

Iron Maiden - 11

So apparently she was on Asgard. Terrific. At least the suit was easy enough to store, even if it was a hassle. And the damn power unit was damaged to the point it was impossible to fix...she would have to get a new one. Thank the gods (...on second thought, thank magic. Who knew who would hear her on Asgard) that she had designed her suit to run off a back-up of magic instead of just the arc reactor!

Someone clearly had sense, because she definitely heard Nyx say something about 'triangulating' and 'location found' two days after landing here.

Well, if she was stuck here then she was going to make the most of it until she could boost the signal enough to connect to earth and make a call.

Which meant getting into the palace and hopefully finding something to power the suit more than magic could...they could lock onto her signal, but they couldn't connect.

Something she planned to fix the second she got home.

When she walked by the outdoor training area, she briefly toyed with the idea of being a warrior.

That idea died when she saw the arrogance of Thor, and how obvious Loki's resentment of being excluded (rather discreetly mind you) by Thor's friends was to anyone with eyes that bothered to look.

She would give the blond credit...he did genuinely seem to care for Loki. His friends were another story.

It didn't help when she kept hearing how great Thor was, but heard little to no mention of his brother.

Mind made up, she made discreet inquiries about learning from whoever it was that did maintenance of the vehicles she kept seeing around the place.

Once they got over the incredulous disbelief that someone wanted to actually learn something useful as opposed to beating the shit out of people with their weapons and generally getting close to Thor, the engineers happily accepted her as an apprentice.

Which meant she had easy access to several toys and items to boost the signal of her suit enough to reach earth, even if it did cut out a lot for some reason.

She stuck to using morse code...at least that was easy enough for a machine to translate and could be set on a repeat if need be to insure it got through.

Stuck on Asgard. Working on repairing suit. Stick to morse code. Signal cuts out a lot here. Jazz.

Glad you're alive. Will work on a replacement core for suit. Told press you decided to learn more about building things. Tony.

Figures he'd tell the press she was getting a higher education or something, so she could properly take over the business rather than relying on the ready-made toys.

Some people had the knack for creating new things, others didn't.

And she did, which was why she wanted to learn how to do it properly.

Jazz finished up the work that she had for the day, before taking her meager pay and heading to the tavern.

Ordering some mead, she happily sat down, and people watched. Much to her annoyance, Thor came in about an hour after she did, and was already being a braggart.

Well, she had finished her current drink and she could use another.

Ignoring Thor entirely, she stood next to Loki instead and said, "Two meads. One for me and one for the poor fellow who has to listen to the braggart take all the credit."

Loki's eyebrows went up, especially when he realized that a rather attractive young woman had just bought him a drink.

She smiled at him.