My Mighty Thor

Part 9

The SUV sits parked before the emergency room entrance. 

Selvig watches the unconscious Liam with interest as two Orderlies set the Asgardian onto a gurney. 

Miranda and Maddie stand before a sweet, ditzy admissions nusrse. "Name?" 

"He said it was 'Liam'." Miranda shrugged

The Nurse painstakingly types it into the computer, one key at a time. Miranda watched as Liam is wheeled out of the room. 

"L-I-A-M. And your relationship with him?" The nurse smiled 

"I've never met him before." Miranda shook her head.  

"Until she hit him with the car." Maddie giggled.  

"Grazed him, actually." Miranda paused, "Oh, and we tasered him, too." 

"Must have been quite the spat." The nurse quietly spoke.  

"I told you, I don't know him. I just want to make sure he's okay." Miranda protested.  

"I'm going to need a name and contact number." The nurse smiled. 

"Miranda Foster." 

"Oh, for God's sake..." Erik reached over Miranda's shoulder and hands the Nurse his business card. "Here. Let's go." 

Selvig, Maddie, and Miranda head out. 

Liam, now in a hospital gown, winces in pain as he awakens on a gurney to find a nurse standing over him and a syringe in his arm. 

The nurse smiled "Hi. Just taking a little blood." 

Liam slapped the syringe away angrily and starts to sit up. "How dare you attack the son of Odin!" 

"I need some help!" The nurse shouted.  

Two orderlies race over, try to hold Liam down. "We're trying to help you!" 

"Then bring me a healing stone, you savages!" He hurls one of them off, smashing against a wall. Now a couple security guards and male nurses join the fracas, all struggling to hold Liam down. Medical equipment goes flying, furniture overturned.

"What the hell is this guy on?" Finally, they force him back down onto the gurney. Liam looks shocked and amazed that he's actually being overpowered by this small group. The nurse injects him with a sedative. 

"You're no match for the Mighty--" Liam struggles a beat, then passes out.

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Smoke rises from a fifty-foot wide hole. A townie pulls his pickup to a stop at the crater's edge. He climbs out, peers down below, his curiosity piqued by what he sees. "Huh." The Townie approaches something at the center of the crater. It bathes him in an otherworldly, blue luminous glow. He reaches for the object, tries to lift it, but can't. He redoubles his efforts, strains with all his might, with no luck. He takes off his hat and fans himself and stares at the mysterious object. "Huh." 

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The distant mountains glint snow in the early morning light. Selvig appears with a cup of coffee and surveys the vast desert. He turns back into the lab and sees Miranda, busy at her workstation, soldering a piece of equipment. A printer churns out blown-up screen-cap photos of the Bifrost footage. Maddie hangs them on the wall. Selvig surveys the scene, watches how Miranda works, impressed. He notices a monitor which displays a complex program entitled "M. FOSTER ALGORITHM ANALYSIS". He looked proud. The three of them have been up all night, fueled by caffeine and excitement. 

"Maddie, when you're done, take the soil samples to Professor Meyers in geology. Remind him, he owes me." Miranda handed her the tube.   

"We might want to perform a spectral analysis." Selvig looked at his computer.  

Miranda looked confused. "We?"

"I flew all the way out here -- might as well make myself useful." This is the offer Miranda's been waiting for. 

She gets up and inserts the piece of equipment she's been working on into a rack-mounted server. "You know what would be really useful? Do you still have that friend at Ligo?" 

Selvig shrugged. "She was more than a friend. 

"Could you call in a favor?" Miranda asked.  

"You don't think this was just a magnetic storm?" Selvig questioned. 

"If I'm right, their observatory must have picked up gravitational waves during last night's event." Miranda pinned more photos on the board.  

"Meaning?" Selvig questioned.  

Jane heads over to a computer monitor. Selvig follows. "Meaning these anomalies might signify something bigger." 

"How 'big' are we talking about?" Selvig knotted his brows in confusion.  

Miranda indicates the footage on the monitor. As the last of the Bifrost cloud disappears into the night sky, there appears to be a blister in space, bulging out in convex and covered with stars. "I think the lensing around the edges is characteristic of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge." 

"A what?" Maddie crossed her arms and thought for a minute.  

"I thought you were a science major." He shook his head in disapproval.  

"Political Science." Maddie shrugged.  

Selvig shoots Miranda a confused look. 

Miranda shrugs. "She was the only applicant." 

"An Einstein-Rosen Bridge -- a 'theoretical' connection between two different points of space-time." Maddie stared at him blankly. 

"A wormhole." Miranda chuckled.

Selvig looks skeptical. 

Miranda prints out a frame-grab off the monitor. "Erik, look..." Miranda indicates the print-out showing the constellations seen through the 'bubble' in the clouds. "What do you see here?" 

"Stars." Selvig shrugged.  

"Yes. But not our stars." She spreads out a star chart, barely able to contain her excitement. "This is the star alignment for our quadrant, this time of year. So unless Ursa Minor decided to take the day off... those are someone else's constellations." 

Selvig's intrigued, in spite of himself. 

Maddie pulls another frame-grab of the Bifrost footage from the printer and hangs it on the wall, when something in the image catches her eye. "Hey, check it out." 

Miranda and Selvig examine the photo, amazed. 

Selvig was surprised. "Is that...?" 

"I think I left something at the hospital." Miranda walked away.

Inside the Bifrost, a funnel cloud is a figure -- the vague, but the unmistakable shape of a man.

How is it going? 

Do you like it? 

Who is your favorite character? 

Mine has to be Camila because Loki is just OH MY GOD!!! Or myself Lol

Btw I'm not this smart I'm trying to get some of this from the movie. :P I guess I wanted to be in my fics for a change :)