Violet Barnes

The Strange Bird

Violet woke up, and it was for real this time. She saw Bucky looking down at her with Peter and some of her sisters peeking in through the door.

"Are you alright?" Bucky asked with concern in his voice.

"What do you mean?" Violet wondered.

"We heard you scream," He told her.

"I screamed?"

Bucky nodded. "No, I didn't," Violet shook her head.

They all suddenly heard a scream come from in the main area. It made them all jump. "That wasn't me," Violet said.

Violet got out of her bed, and followed everyone over to the sitting area. Standing there on the table was a parrot. It looked at them, and screamed again.

Violet recognized the scream. It was Katrina's! "Peter," She said. "Change your course right now!"

"Why?" Peter asked.

"Why?" Violet said, looking at him. "There's a random parrot in your ship, and it's screaming like Katrina. Turn your ship around right now."

Peter did as he was told, and turned the ship around. They all suddenly heard a huge explosion behind them. "What was that?" Katie screamed, clinging to Steve's arm.

"It was a missile," Peter said. "Someone shot at us!"

He turned to Violet. "How did you know?"

"Just drive," Violet said. "We have to land somewhere far away from this place. Go!"

Peter did. He pushed the lever all the way forward, and floored it far away from that place. They ended up landing in a big green field somewhere in Canada.

"Violet, what's going on?" Freya asked.

"I don't know," Violet said. "But my dream was more of a vision of some kind."

"What kind of vision?" Michelle wondered, still a little shocked from the explosion.

"The first part of it, I was in my old room again," Violet explained. "Aunt Betty was cooking her stew, you girls were playing poker in the living room and Bucky came over just like he used to when he came to visit before we got the letter that he had fallen off of the train.

"I thought it was real, and I had thought that everything else that had happened had just been a dream. It felt so real, but when Bucky went into the kitchen, everything faded out, and it became blurry.

"I felt like I was falling backwards, but then I stopped suddenly. I couldn't move or talk, but I was in a lab where I saw Tony and a few other people that I don't know, working on a big machine. Clint was just looking at his arrows, and Black Widow was cleaning her gun.

"When I looked to my right, I saw Katrina in some sort of cage. She wasn't moving, she was just lying there, all stiff. Loki came into the room with Banner, and started telling him about the machine.

"He said that it was a death machine, that would help them take over this world, and that they could take over any other planet after they conquered Earth, but Tony said it would take another two months before it was finished. Loki didn't seem to mind, and he said that he was going to have a little fun. He looked at Katrina and said that he would set her loose."

"Goodness," Michelle exclaimed. "What a dream!"

"It's not done yet," Violet said. "I felt like I was falling again, but forward this time. I landed on a concrete floor, and for a few seconds I couldn't see anything around me, but then there was a small light. I could see you guys in it. You were all talking to each other..."