Chapter Ten - Barbie, Rainbow Dash, and Emi's Appearance!

Today is one of the most exciting I've had so far, I'm in a coffee shop eating a delicious strawberry shortcake with Mom. After having 'won' an essay contest.

It all started a few days ago.

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FLASHBACK

It all started while I was studying my geography book.

Did anyone know that New Mexico is not in Mexico?... Because, obviously, I do.

'CofThat'snottruecof.'

- "Emily! Heck" - I said out loud.

"Miss, you're about to finish high school, and you haven't learned geography yet."

Suddenly, Mom came screaming with joy to my room.- "Martha, I'm so happy for you!" - She hugged me with a letter in hand.

- "Ehh... Thanks?" - I answer, confused.

- "Sweetheart, why didn't you tell me? I would have asked for a vacation from my job." - She let me go, sitting up on the bed.

- "I'd also like you to tell me what you're talking about." - I sat down next to her.

- "Martha, don't pretend, you won an essay contest that had a trip as a prize." - She said, obviously.

- "I don't know what you're talking about..."

"Miss, don't you remember? A few months ago, you entered the contest to win a vacation for you and your mother. - She interrupted.

- "I did?" - I asked on the air.

"Of course, I think the lack of sleep is starting to get to you."

Am I the only one who imagines her staring at me as she held my shoulders? Nobody?

- "True, true! How clumsy." - I hit my head.

- "I don't think we can go on a trip, daughter. I didn't ask for days off."

"Don't worry, Elise, I've already taken care of that myself. Now you just have to pack, the flight leaves tomorrow."

- "Wonderful! Thank you, Emily! Daughter, pack, we'll get up early tomorrow." - She walked to the door.

After a few minutes.

- "Wait, what happened?" - I asked, very confused.

END OF FLASHBACK

Apparently, Emily came up with the magnificent idea of meeting Barbie live and in color, so she invented the supposed contest for us to travel here.

Honestly, I didn't feel like seeing him or meeting him, but during the flight, Emi sounded very excited about 'seeing him' so I decided to go along with it and well also because she said that if I didn't, she would accuse me with Mom about profiling her on a dating site.

I've created a monster!

- "What are we going to do now?" - I asked Mom.

- "I don't know, there aren't many things in this town, we can go to the library or go for a walk." - She shrugged.

- "Let's take a walk, the vacation lasts a week after all."

- "You are right."

"If you'll allow me, I got an idea."

- "What ideas do you have?, Emi?" - Mom asked.

"Well, I've been researching, and it looks like you're going to see an astrological phenomenon very soon."

Isn't it...?

- "When is it going to happen?" - Mom asked interestedly.

"Today."

- "You know, I just changed my mind, why don't we go to the library instead." - I put what was left on my plate in my mouth.

- "Don't be boring, Martha. Today we'll sleep late so we can see it."

"Of course, Elise."

I bang my head on the table, as they both talk about what we're going to do tonight.

The last thing I want now is to meet some Shield agent, and less so the god they based their work on to make Barbie.

I think the joke is worn out...

Anyway, the point is that after leaving the restaurant we were walking around for a while, just as I ran to turn the corner I collided with a person.

- "I'm so sorry, are you okay?" - The person stretched out her hand towards me.

- "Don't worry, I was distracted." - I wiped my clothes and looked up.

- "I'm really sorry, I'm in a hurry." - Said Jane, who had another of my favorite characters next to her, Darcy!

- "Uh... I'm fine..." - I waited for her to say her name as I kept looking at Darcy with a slight nervousness.

- "I'm Jane, and she's Darcy." - She pointed at her while smiling at me, embarrassed.

- "Hello dwarf." - Darcy said.

- "I'm not a dwarf! I'm of average height!" - I pouted in her direction.

She laughed. - "I don't think that exists, little one."

- "Of course, it exists, for example, if we talk about height, your friend is the same as a Hobbit."

If she laughed before, now she chuckles. While Jane was frowning at me. - "I would never have thought of that joke! I like you." - She said, clutching her stomach.

- "That was rude." - Jane told me.

- "Your friend behaves the same way, I am not sure why she finds it amusing..." - I crossed my arms watching her stop laughing, now it was Jane's turn.

- "In fact, I think she's shorter than me." - She said, still laughing.

- "Well, but she's taller than my dad, who is a living umpa lumpa."

Mom arrived.

- "Martha, I'm not in such a condition to keep up with you!" - She leaned to her knees.

- "I am sorry." - I said while laughing softly.

- "Oh hell, it's late! We're leaving, goodbye." - Jane pulled Darcy by her wrist, taking her away.

- "Goodbye girl of normal average height!" - Darcy shouted once away.

- "And who were those?" - Mom asked me.

- "I don't know, let's go, we have to get ready for the night."

I pulled Mum to the inn we were at, and for the rest of the day, we prepared for the 'astrological phenomenon' which by the way was not even visible from where we were.

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Thor's arrival had already happened as well as his scene in the cafeteria, now all that was left was for them to steal his information and artifacts from Jane.

Because Mum hadn't slept very well last night, she fell asleep after breakfast time, so I took the opportunity to sneak out of our inn.

According to Emily, the agents were on their way to Jane's house and as I assumed the Fanboy was going with them, it had been a long time since I had played a prank, so I would seize the moment.

I headed towards Jane's lab, with all the stuff I needed for the prank, as I understood the group wasn't there, so I had no place to hide.

- "Emi, warn me of anyone who comes near our position while I take care of this..." - I climbed up to the roof of the place with a pot of blue paint, mixed with glue and glitter. - "Let's see if they still like to break into other people's property." - I placed the can on top of the front door with a mechanism to activate it, of course without giving away that I was there.

I took advantage of the fact that there were still a few minutes before the agents arrived to access the information on the computers and copy it onto a USB. I took some photos while I was at it.

Emi told me that they were already close so I ran out of the place hiding as close as possible without being discovered and with my phone in hand.

Coulson got out of the car straight towards the entrance and just as he pulled the front door, the can of paint fell on him, bathing him in a fluorescent blue color while everyone else looked on in surprise, I just laughed and took pictures. I walked away from there without being seen, straight to the inn without stopping laughing. Once everything calmed down, I might send the pictures to Darcy anonymously.

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We were on our way back to New York after a very quiet few days, Emily could see the Tortilla very close at the end because just when Loki's little toy attacked we were out for a walk. I met Lady Sify and Volgstaff, I was about to ask for her autographs if it wasn't for a flying laser blast that almost made me bald.

We also got to see the Sailor Moon-like transformation of the Tortilla, Mum took lots of pictures, but we couldn't keep any because Shield kindly told us to give them the phone or else she would be arrested.

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After that the days and soon the months continued to pass with normality, or well the normality I am used to. The company had grown considerably, Emi hid the fact that I was the boss saying she preferred to work from home, anyone who decided to contact me spoke to her pretending to be me, and people were trying to get into our system including Tony Stark and SHIELD. None of them succeeded.

My visits to Ancestral and Beyonce increased as well, thanks to the latter agreeing to teach me magic after I taught Coulson's version of Rainbow Dash. Sometimes fear is the best manipulation. Anie who is what I now call the Sorceress Supreme (unbeknownst to her) couldn't help but laugh after I told her the story about my trip to New Mexico.

Beyonce had been a great teacher and even told me that I had this gift for magic and smiled at me for the first time.

Did you believe it?

Obviously, he never told me that! I suck at magic, as I've said so many times before. This isn't some cliché fanfic where I'm a prodigy and everything works out for me, while I say it's nothing and blush furiously!

The only thing I can do so far, and with a lot of effort, was creating small portals, as well as levitate. I learned that unconsciously after falling asleep in a yoga pose and hitting my head on the ceiling.

I'M A FUCKING PRODIGY!

"Martha, Loki's arrival is only two more months away."

- "I need to keep practicing opening the portals, so I can see Mr. 'I have paternal complexes and genocidal thoughts' on the Helicarrier once he's caught."

"While I'll hack into the cameras so no one will notice your presence."

- "Exactly, I'll have to get in before Romanoff, so I may only have a few minutes before they notice me."

"What are you going to talk to him about?"

- "I'll play a little, just that, and the occasional sultana question." - I smiled, grabbing my backpack and waiting for the boys to play. - "About the rest, I'll stay as far away from the center as I can. So, that day we must take care of taking Mum and the boys and their families out of here."

- "Martha, the boys are already downstairs." - Said Mum, opening my door.

- "Yes, we're having a sleepover today! Petepay, Noah, Harriet, and Elliot are coming. And we'll play video games in the living room." - I ran down the stairs, dashing towards the boys.

- "Shorty, you're almost on top of us." -Elliot said teasingly as he hugged me back.

- "Right, you're getting taller and taller." - Said Harriet, ruffling my hair.

- "We miss you, it's so sad that you don't go to our school...." - Noah said with a pout.

- "But if she went to our school, she would be in my grade." - Said Petepay jumping into the conversation and holding my hand.

- "That's right." - I leaned my head on his shoulder.

- "Just because we know Peter, we don't separate them." - Elliot said, looking at our intertwined hands.

- "You're our little sister, no boy can get close to you, just Peter." - Seconded the formerly shy Harriet.

- "You do know I'm going to have a boyfriend at some point, right?" - I said teasingly to the four of them.

- "You're still a kid, don't think about those devilish things!" - Noah hugged me and hid my head in his neck.

- "But..." - I tried to pull away.

- "But nothing, that's why it's your turn to get the snack." - Elliot said, while Peter just looked at me mocking and covering his mouth to keep from laughing.

I snorted. - "Whatever, God protect any man who comes near me that isn't you two brothers." - I said, walking towards the kitchen and listening to their laughter.

After that fatherly-fraternal talk - warning that if any boy came near me, I would end up with green hair and shaved hair - we started playing in the living room eating our heads off with Mum sitting on the couch and Emily on the phone.

Something I hadn't told you about, is that Emily already has a hologram version. She completely chose her appearance, so she ended up looking like my past self, she decided that over time her appearance would change in age along with mine.

Seeing her brings back so many memories, it makes me nostalgic for her brown hair that reaches her waist and her honey-colored eyes (Which I still have now) her clothes however remind me of my older brothers and her attitude reminds me so much of my parents....

If I were to lose Emily, I don't know what I would do, that's why I try so hard to keep her protected and up to date.

The rest of the evening was spent playing and having fun as a family until it was time for bed which turned into cartoon time, even Emi laughed!

Best night so far.