Taser Girl HQ

[Lady Darcy] Are you being sarcastic?

[Lady Darcy] Asgardian Mead ages for one thousand years and has knocked down even the mightiest warriors. It’s not made for mortals.

{Thoreo Badass} Sarcastic…. Moi? You bet your Mew-Mew I am! I’m so proud you got that Buddy! Well done you! :D

“The trip is no longer than any other destination.” But he could fly. He always forgot that not everyone could fly. “The heat! Oh, the heat! It allows you to wear flip flops and short pants and Australian Midgardians not always wear superior body part clothes! Their beasts are nothing compared to those of Asgard.” He sentenced with a small smile. “Darryl gave me a tiny paper with instructions and numbers and directions. I can not remember where I put it. But I shall find it for you.” Thor nodded, he couldn’t see how Jane would find any of Stark’s technology useful for her research but she was the smartest person he knew and if someone could do it that was Jane. “In that case, Stark would be a fool for not hiring her.”

“Dude, remember we talked about this. Not everyone can travel by Mew-Mew.” she told him, “Some of us gotta take the big scary metal birds to get places. Your rode in some a few times with the avengers.” she chuckled, “I’m sure you rocked flip flops and a tank top Buddy.” she frowned, a little curious, “Thor, what kinda beasts are there on Asgard? Cause I’m not gonna lie, totally jealous Janey got to visit and I didn’t, but if a giant monster is gonna try and eat me I’m gonna rethink my plans.” She nodded happily, “That’d be great! I’m sure we’ll have a lot to talk about.” She was glad Thor understood, maybe Stark would listen a little more if Thor but the idea forward, “Oh! Make sure to tell him that you guys are friends and he likes you!”

One of the best things about er new gig, was that Pamela also had a lab, just like when she was a young and promising researcher in Gotham. But she didn’t just have a lab, also a greenhouse. And that’s exactly where she was currently, where it was located on the roof of one of NYU’s many buildings in Manhattan. It hadn’t been as difficult as she thought it would be, adjusting to a new life and a new name. She was humming as she watered each plant, her fingers tracing each one affectionately. She was a little perturbed when Pamela heard the footsteps of whatever stranger decided to join her. “What can I do for you? I’m sure it’s something important seeing as you got passed my security door, walked through my lab and into this greenhouse.”

Desperate financial times called for desperate measures. In this case, playing intern to loads of other professors in the science building. Turns out good ol’Jane had bigged her up to the others in the building and now they were all after her transcribing services. She’d done some work for a biology professor, no idea who he was or what his paper was about, but the guy paid well. And he’d asked the papers be delivered to one Dr. Rose ASAP. So that’s why she was huffing and puffing her way up too many stairs, mainly because she felt she was getting fat and the exercise would be good an arrived panting on the roof in view of the unfairly good looking Doctor. “Wow, Dude you’re hot, respect.” she blurted without thinking, “Anyway, I’m Darcy. Professor Johnson had me transcribe some notes and deliver them to a Dr. Rose who I’m guessing is you?” she asked, holding up her notes. “Those flowers smell awesome.” she added, turning to give them an extra sniff.

“Australia.” He said simply and shrugged one shoulder. “Your words bring me great joy, Lady Darcy,” Thor smiled brightly and engulfed her in a tight hug. “Your words are very true. I did not know Frend Stark was interested in studying the universe.”

“Dude! I have always wanted to go there!” she smiled, “But it’s such a long trip and all the wildlife wants to kill you and eat you… plus I don’t do well in extreme heat-” she would have a carried on rambling but Thor had scooped her into a tight, but welcome hug, “Aww, love you too Big Guy! Gimme Darryl’s number though, I wanna talk to the guy.” he could be interesting. “I don’t think he is Dude, but he has all the money and the best stuff in his labs. Janey could repurpose it for universe studies easy.”  

[Lady Darcy] I trust you.

[Lady Darcy] If you survive I promise to hold your hair back.

{Thoreo Badass} Cause I’m oh-so-trustable Big Guy!

[Lady Darcy] That’s confusing.

[Lady Darcy] Diluting Asgardian mead would be a sacrilege!

{Thoreo Badass} You’ll get it when you see it and it’ll be awesome

“Darryl is my friend. We lived together until I came here,” he simply shrugged. “Am I not allowed to have other friends?” He was confused. He had had other friends before meeting Darryl. “I thought her science equipment was good enough already.” 

“Really? Aww, that’s sweet! So where’s Darryl live?” she wondered where Thor had been, “Pfft! I was joking Dude, you have all the friends you want, you deserve’em and they’d be lucky to have you.” she told him, “Oh it’s pretty good, but ol’Iron Sides has like, the best shit going, and Janey, like you deserves the best.”

The last thing that Bucky expected was someone to yell that in the middle of this chaotic Times Square crowd. And he swore, just for a moment, that there was complete silence as everyone stared at her, then a few seconds later, went back to their own crises. Bucky glanced around, noticing that despite most people decided to ignore the strange young woman in the middle of the square, a few people did take notice of her. Despite his urge to disappear and hide as he’d been doing for the last few years now, Bucky stepped forward before anyone else could get to her. He gripped her arm firmly in his hand. “Cap is my friend,” he said in a low voice. “Now come with me before they decide that you’re actually a problem.” He flicked his gaze back and forth to two people in the crowd whose eyes were glued to them. “We need to go now.”

Bucky pulled her with him as he made his way through the crowd. “I don’t know what made you think that yelling that in the middle of Times Square was the best idea, but now you are definitely on their radar.”

In hindsight Darcy may have jumped the gun a little with her stunt, but really she’d just been overcome by the Cap’s speech, poor poor Trish Walker and the whole damn situation. She needed to do something, and at times the quickest way to get what you needed was to, well… shout for it. Still, after the short pause, during which she looked around to see if anything like the dear old Cap coming at her calls, she figured she’d head on home and try a plan B, maybe she could hack the network he’d used to get on TV? That was a thought, oh! Maybe she could back hack and try and see where the damn syndicate had been broadcasting from! Maybe- Oh! And now a stranger had grabbed her, dammit! Where was her taser, her and her big, oh… “Really? Dude that’s great! Say could you do me a solid and- wow!” And he was pulling her away, “Really? What’s the rush Dude? Cap that desperate for help?”

“Radar? Oh crap.” Of course there were bad guys in the damn square, “Well, y’see Dude, I ain’t the best at planning ahead, I just kinda do stuff. Like the time I jumped off my garage roof cause my big brother told me I could fly. Anyway, if folks are following us I can kick their asses, I have a taser.”

Frank snorted lightly at the statement, giving her a nod. She didn’t seem angry about it. It might’ve been easier if she was; Frank was far more familiar with anger than friendliness, and he was much better at fighting than small talk. Still, he figured it was nice not to be snapped at occasionally. “Shirt’s seen worse.” This was one of the few shirts he still owned without any visible blood stains, though that may have been due to its dark fabric. He chuckled at the slip-up, raising a brow. “Yeah. Hate to feel dick.”

Darcy was inherently nice until threatened. Granted she had a pretty low ‘I’m being threatened’ threshold, hence one tased Asgardian Prince, but other than that she was lovely to people. Her Pa had always said people don’t see enough smiling strangers, a grin and nice personality could do the world some good. “Really? Nice. Gotta say I hit a low when I got Space Elf blood on one mine. Shit would not come out.” she shook her head. Darcy was unable not to laugh at the way he said it, “Hey now! As a red-blooded gal it’s not always bad feeling dick, sometimes it’s very nice. I just assumed you didn’t enjoy it, which may have been a little judgey on my part so soz for that.” Darcy’s lack of filter made for some pretty interesting conversions.

”Most of my other friends are superheroes, it’d be hard to hurt or kidnap them. Except Darryl. Darryl would be easy to kill.” But Darryl lived too far away for either the Syndicate or the Strike Force to hurt him. “Perhaps it’s better if she stays hidden for now. I can’t imagine how being around Friend Tony could help her to be safe.” He shook his head. “That’s a very unfair policy.”

Darcy was about to respond until she heard the name ‘Darryl’ “Wait… Who’s Darryl?” she asked, “Thor Odinson have you been cheating on me with another midgardian buddy?” she asked, playing at being offended, truthfully it was good the big guy was meeting people. “Well, that’s not so much being safe so much as it is having Iron Man nearby and way better science equipment.” She made a face and shrugged, “Sorry Big Guy, but to quote every mother ever, life’s unfair we gotta make do.”

Peter shrugged, “Maybe he sold his soul so he could sing this good.” Honestly, he didn’t really believe in souls, or in God. He’d traveled the length of the galaxy and back and hadn’t found any proof of a power higher than some really fucked up, mega power aliens. “You know a lotta scientists? That’s cool. They know anything ‘bout space travel?” Maybe they could help Rocket and him fix the ship. He watched as she stumbled back, wrinkling his nose. She was more dramatic than the Ravagers, he didn’t think that was possible. “Uh, I don’t know,” he replied. When she grabbed his arm, he looked at her as if to say ‘are you crazy?’ But hey, she’d said something about music, so he wasn’t about to complain. “You planning on showing me Beyonce?”

Darcy was actually brought to a pause with that one, “Huh… Y’know, could be! I’ve seen Supernatural, that shit happens.” On TV anyway, and after being attacked by Space Elves she was much more opened minded. “Sure do! Well, I intern for like the world’s best Astrophysicist, that involves a little of space right?” she asked, “Why? You some kinda astronaut who’s been living under a rock?” He had to be the latter if the didn’t know about the Queen Beyonce. “I’m sorry Dude, but you ain’t really getting a choice in this. I can’t in good conscience let a guy go around not knowing about Beyonce. All women and gay guys wanna be her! And everybody wants to sleep with and be married to her!” Jay-Z was a lucky bastard. “When I show you Beyonce Dude, it’ll be a religious revelation and you’ll thank me.”

[Lady Darcy] Like a portal?

[Lady Darcy] Asgardian mead is not made for mortals but I suppose you can try.

{Thoreo Badass} More like a magic looking glass!

[Lady Darcy] What’s Netflix? And emojis? 

[Lady Darcy] That would be my pleasure!

{Thoroe Badass} Netflix is a gateway to a world of almost unlimited moving picture entertainment. Emojis are tiny portraits expressing varying emotions.

“You’re my friend. They could go after you to cause me pain.” The mention of Jane being a possible target made him shiver. “Jane should be careful. But so do you.” As long as Mjolnir was by his side, he wouldn’t need to worry about his safety. “Why can’t you tell me? She spoke to you about private things between us. I should be part of that bond. Or at least it should be legit to share information with me too.” 

“Pfft! You have way more important friends they could go after Dude.” She'd be at the bottom of the totem pole. “I’ll make sure Janey’s looked after, I’m trying to get her in with Mr Stark, I reckon he'd be up for it. Then Jane would be fine!” She laughed a little bit, “Ah, but you’re one half of the relationship Thor. The Bond’s rules mean that both sides of the same relationship cannot be in the same bond. And different bonds cannot discuss things prohibited by prior bonds, you get me? It’s a tricky thing Thor, I’ll make you a booklet on it.”