Psych the Avengers Out

Last Puzzle Piece

With a shove, Barton pushes Jay behind Steve and fires into the crowd of soldiers bearing down on them. Steve pushes her backwards towards Thor with a yell of, "Thor, keep her safe!" and Jay feels like she's being pushed through the blades of a windmill as she changes hands and spins, being smashed back into Thor. Once her head stops spinning, she pushes off Thor violently with a scowl.

"I'm not a doll, you oaf!" She hollers at Steve's back. Tony claps a hand down on her shoulder.

"No worries kid." He pulls out a slim metal briefcase from seemingly nowhere and Jay looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "Hey, Fury said to pack light so I did," he jokes and Jay watches as the briefcase morphs into a full light-weight set of Iron Man. Jealous, she scowls at him. "Don't do that, Xena, it'll give you wrinkles." He charges into the fray as Thor grabs her arm and drags her back. A blur of green streaks by and Jay watches in wonder as Bruce flies by her, his shirt ripping to shreds and his muscles swelling. With a roar, the Hulk arrives into the battle.

"Come on, Jay, we need to get you out of here!" Thor roars over the chaos of battle as Natasha jumps over her to land on the shoulders of a goblin. She sinks an electronic pulse into its neck and the creature spasms and crashes to the ground and Natasha flips off of it and nails another goblin with a flying kick. Jay digs her heels in and pulls against Thor but it doesn't do any good. It's like fighting an out-off control freight train.

"NO!" She yells at Thor and tries to pull her arm out of his massive fingers. Thor registers her feeble attempts to break his grasp and stops for a moment. "No more running, and being protected and being treated like a fragile doll. I'm fighting this one." Something in her tone makes him look deep into her eyes and he sees a challenge there and something more. A glimmer of the warrior Vanir that runs in her blood. While he's still puzzling over this, Jay rips her arm from his grasp and bolts away.

Jay runs towards the cell. She knows what she has to do because they aren't going to make it out of this without him. She doesn't even stop to think. Anytime a soldier or goblin tries to intercept her, she pushes outwards with her mind and sends the creature flying backwards into the walls and pillars around her. She opens her mind and lets the power come instead of fighting it. She moves with the motion of the people around her, using their momentum against them and for her benefit as she dodges and turns away from attacks. It becomes a dance, this battle. Her steps are sure and she can almost feel the warrior in Sigyn here with her.

Then she is at the edge of the cell and Loki is standing in front of her, rage and vengeance in his eyes. Look at me. She pushes the thought at him and his eyes snap to hers. She stares deep and sees what she was hoping for. She pulls her hand back to level with her shoulder and then slams it forward with a yell, putting everything she has into a telekinetic push.

The bang that follows is deafening as the cell wall explodes outwards, golden enchanted glass flying past her head, shards nicking her skin. She feels splinters of glass enter her arms and embed in her hair but even as she falls backwards from the shock wave that resonates outwards, she feels someone catch her.

"I thought you didn't trust me," Loki says. Jay levers herself up out of his grasp.

"I don't," she says and picks up two discarded daggers off the floor from a nearby downed goblin. She offers the hilt of one to him. "More are on their way," she says and pushes the dagger hilt towards him. "I have a feeling you have plans that don't involve dying today, right?" He takes the daggers with a considering smile under dark brows.

"You're pretty trusting for someone who says she doesn't trust me," he says as they move back to back. A group of soldiers spots her and charges towards them. "Here I am at your back with a dagger and you somehow know that I'm not going to slip it in between your ribs?"