"Mom, when you gave birth to a girl who would one day, without warning, accidentally steal the weapon of a god and be forced to go on the run, you knew what the deal eventually would be." 15-year-old Ashley Cromwell is an outcast living in an old new york apartment with a busy single mom. Every day she and her best friend Carter go to school, deal with bullies, and do their homework at the library together. It's a pretty normal life - Until one day, while at the library, a strange sequence of events leaves Ashley in possession of a scepter belonging to none other than the god of mischief himself, Loki Odinson. And it doesn't help that the avengers are all taking a vacation... AU. Takes place right before The Avengers would have taken place.