We're Not Dead Yet (Split Souls part 2)

40: Powers at Play

Kat turned when she felt a disturbance. She left her book behind, and walked through the halls of the palace, trying to find what felt so off. She turned around a corner, and took a few steps forward before she was sucked into the air.

In the blink of an eye, she was distinctly somewhere else. It was cold, the air stagnant.

"Darcy!" 

Kat turned at the voice, seeing a woman standing at the edge of a cliff. Kat teleported behind her, and pulled her back from the edge. "Careful."

"Gah! Who are-" The woman blinked. "You're the Stark girl, aren't you?"

"Yeah, that's me." Kat let go once she was sure the woman was steady and not going to fall. "You are?" 

"I'm Jane. Foster." Jane said, and looked at Kat's odd clothing, but didn't say anything.

"Oh! Thor's mentioned you. Nice to meet you. Any idea where we are?" Kat asked.

"I was investigating something, and then it was like I got sucked up-" Jane said. "What the hell is that?"

Kat turned, and saw the stone pillar. She could feel the power radiating from the red flowing through the space between. "What the hell?" She whispered.

Jane walked closer, and leaned down to get a better look. 

"Wait, Jane, don't get any closer-"

The red lashed out, wrapping around Jane's extended wrist, and seeping into her skin. The pillar crashed down onto it's lower part. Jane gasped, and tried to pull it off.

"Jane!"

Jane looked to Kat, her eyes wide, before they rolled back. Kat caught her body as she began to fall, and lowered them both to the ground. "Oh, crap." She had no idea what to do when a weird red magic thingy attacked your brother-in-law's mortal crush.

Kat felt another disturbance creeping toward them, and wrapped her arms around Jane protectively. The space swallowed them both and spat them back out somewhere else.

Kat easily recognized it as somewhere in Midgard. Yay, not a crazy weird place. Now, Jane just needed to wake up. Preferably okay.

After a couple minutes, Jane groaned and opened her eyes. "What... You...? Oh!" Jane frantically examined her wrists.

"Oh thank the Norns." Kat said. 

Finding nothing visibly out of the ordinary, Jane looked back to Kat, and sat herself up. "What happened?"

"That thing latched onto you, you passed out, I caught you, we got teleported here." Kat said.

"Oh. Thanks." Jane said, and looked around. "This is where I was before... Oh, Darcy's gotta hear about this." She got to her feet and Kat followed her out of the building.

"Jane!" The woman Kat supposed was Darcy, called out, and ran to meet her. "Where the hell were you?"

"Tell me you didn't call the police." Jane said.

"What was I supposed to do?" Darcy asked.

"Not call the police."

"I was freaking out-"

"You call the cops, they call the feds, next thing you know we have Shield all over, Area-51-ing the place-" Jane said.

"Jane-"

"-We had a stable gravitational anomaly! We had unimpeded access! Our only competition was ten years old!"

"Jane! You were gone for five hours!" Darcy said.