Clint took a long slow drink of his coffee as he leaned back against the counter once more, letting the caffeine wake him up a bit more. "Don't believe everything you hear," he quipped to Bucky before turning to Steve to explain the situation.
"The short version of all of this is that a few months back there was some freaky weather anomalies happening down in New Mexico. There was a SHIELD team sent to investigate it and we found a team of scientists already there looking into it. One of them is a Dr. Jane Foster. She's apparently brilliant, head full of breaking theories about things that I only understand every fifth word of. What I got out of it is she's studying wormholes. Possible portals to other dimensions, or worlds, or just the back-end of space. That's what was causing the anomalies and the next thing we know, there's a hammer falling from outer space that no one can budge and a crazy guy wreaking havoc and claiming he's a Norse god."
"Well," Clint amended himself. "He wasn't claiming to be a god, not really, but he called himself Thor and called his hammer Mjolner and... well, you get the picture. We were tasked to keep an eye on him and what was going on and not a day later, more weirdly-dressed characters show up looking for him, followed by this enormous metal suit of armor that pretty much leveled the entire town by shooting fire out of its eyes."
Which was mostly classified, since SHIELD had covered up that disaster wonderfully. Freak tornado was the official story he'd heard bandied about, although that didn't stop the conspiracy theorists from having a holiday.
"I don't have a lot of the details past what I witnessed - I'm not even sure what level those would be classified under - but basically it wrapped up with Thor and his fellow aliens traveling back to wherever he came from to deal with his brother. Which would be Loki, also of Norse god infamy. That was the last we'd heard of them until a few days ago, when we got word that he was back and I was sent to pick him up on my way home. Only apparently Loki found me first and used me to get whatever research the Doc has on all this portal stuff."
"I have a feeling Coulson and Fury will debrief you on it," he added, taking another large sip of coffee. "Sounds like this guy's planning to be trouble. Also we have a pair of Asgardians now staying at HQ, so I'm sure you'll run into them sooner or later. They're, uh... kinda hard to miss," he concluded, laughing.
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"The short version of all of this is that a few months back there was some freaky weather anomalies happening down in New Mexico. There was a SHIELD team sent to investigate it and we found a team of scientists already there looking into it. One of them is a Dr. Jane Foster. She's apparently brilliant, head full of breaking theories about things that I only understand every fifth word of. What I got out of it is she's studying wormholes. Possible portals to other dimensions, or worlds, or just the back-end of space. That's what was causing the anomalies and the next thing we know, there's a hammer falling from outer space that no one can budge and a crazy guy wreaking havoc and claiming he's a Norse god."
"Well," Clint amended himself. "He wasn't claiming to be a god, not really, but he called himself Thor and called his hammer Mjolner and... well, you get the picture. We were tasked to keep an eye on him and what was going on and not a day later, more weirdly-dressed characters show up looking for him, followed by this enormous metal suit of armor that pretty much leveled the entire town by shooting fire out of its eyes."
Which was mostly classified, since SHIELD had covered up that disaster wonderfully. Freak tornado was the official story he'd heard bandied about, although that didn't stop the conspiracy theorists from having a holiday.
"I don't have a lot of the details past what I witnessed - I'm not even sure what level those would be classified under - but basically it wrapped up with Thor and his fellow aliens traveling back to wherever he came from to deal with his brother. Which would be Loki, also of Norse god infamy. That was the last we'd heard of them until a few days ago, when we got word that he was back and I was sent to pick him up on my way home. Only apparently Loki found me first and used me to get whatever research the Doc has on all this portal stuff."
"I have a feeling Coulson and Fury will debrief you on it," he added, taking another large sip of coffee. "Sounds like this guy's planning to be trouble. Also we have a pair of Asgardians now staying at HQ, so I'm sure you'll run into them sooner or later. They're, uh... kinda hard to miss," he concluded, laughing.