"Going for a walk JJ?" The old man asked, his brown eyes watching the young woman as she moved toward the door that sat just past his station.

A smile with teeth that weren't perfect was sent his way, dimples flashing, dark brown eyes sparkling as she stopped at his small counter. "It's the only time of day I can and the weather is nice."

He frowned. "They haven't changed your medicine yet?"

She shook her head, her brown hair shaking slightly in her ponytail. "You know how they are. They want to do more tests so they know for certain."

He scoffed. "They ain't ever gonna know for certain."

This time her smile was small and slightly sad. "Probably not."

He winced slightly. Talk about sticking one's foot in their mouth. His mind scrambled for something to distract her from the very reason she was in New York to begin with. "Well make sure you watch out for that Loki fella when you're out on your walk, wouldn't want you to get hurt."

She cocked her head to the side. "I thought he was still in jail."

"Naw," he shook his head. "They just can't seem to keep him in for very long. Though most of the stuff he's doing know is more prank like then anything else. Not that I'm complainin'. Never want to see another incident like that last one." He shuddered. "Now, that there, was terrifien."

JJ nodded in sympathy. "I can believe it. Almost didn't come out here because of that. Well," she smacked her hands against the counter, "I'd rather not be out too late, so I'm going to take off now. I'll be headed for Central Park. The only place around here I can find any trees."

The smile was back and with a wave she was out the door.

JJ took a deep breath. She loved nights like this one.

Where everything was quite and calm, a slight breeze blowing through the trees and as long as she didn't look up and discover not a single star in the night sky, she could almost believe she was home again. She did miss her small town, especially on nights like this one.

As she walked she noticed strange sounds. Metal hitting metal, voices yelling, something that sounded like a roar…Curious she ventured closer. The sounds got louder.

Leaves rustled harshly against each other, moving where the breeze was not strong enough to do so. Her eyes narrowed and she moved closer.

JJ this has got to be one of the stupidest ideas you have ever had. Sure move toward the loud noises and the things that are making the ground shake hard enough to be felt back here. Great idea. Lord please don't let me turn into the idiot who gets killed cause they were too stupid to know when not to walk away. Cautiously she moved forward.

Someone shouted loudly, the words too garbled for her to hear at that distance. Moments later a bright light filled her vision turning the night white. As suddenly as it had come it was gone leaving only silence in its wake.

JJ blinked several times trying to clear her vision. A slow, slithering fear slid around her as the silence grew steadily thicker. What had happened? Was someone hurt? Dying? She had to find out. Had to help.

Still blinking away the spots from her vision she began to run as fast as she could toward the direction the light had come from, her fear turning arctic cold and driving her ever forward. Abruptly she found herself in a very large, very destroyed clearing.

Trees and rocks littered the area, roots pulled half way out of the ground, large spots of charred ground mingled with arrows, and knives, and in the middle lay five small figures and Iron Man. No one was moving.

Heart racing she rushed to the first small body and checked for life signs, finding everything normal she moved to the next, and then the next until she had checked all but Iron Man.

"Iron Man, can you hear me? Iron Man, are you alright?" JJ gently shook the suite as she called out, praying for some sort of response. A hiss of steam and the whirring of gears was not what she had expected. Seconds later her phone rang. Eyes never leaving the suite she answered it. "Hello?"

"Greetings," the voice was male with a British accent, and, for some reason, didn't sound quite right. "I am aware that the situation you have currently found yourself in is highly unusual. I am JARVIS an IA system built by Tony Stark or Iron Man. I have used tracing techniques to locate your phone so that you may assist me in my endeavor of helping the Avengers."

JJ's mind went blank.

Then she blinked once, then twice. Very slowly she took a deep breath and slowly released it. "Alright…. JARVIS….. it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm JJ. Now what do we do first."

"I believe it is imperative that we first remove the suite from Sir. My readings assure me that he is not in any physical distress, and that he is still within the suite, however, there does appear to be something vital wrong with Sir."

"Well, if what affected him affected the rest of the Avengers then, he's really small, as in turned into a child small. "

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone. "That is indeed plausible as they were fighting Loki before I lost contact with Sir."

"Which means that he got hit with it as well, because I'm already looking at five kids."

"That would indeed seem likely. Now, I shall direct you in the removal of Sir's suite." JJ took a deep breath then proceeded to fallow JARVIS's instructions to the letter. Several minutes later, enough of the suite had been removed for her to pull a still sleeping Tony Stark from his suite.

"Now what JARVIS?"

"I am unsure at this present moment Miss. Though it would be best if all of the present children could be transported to the Avenger's Tower for safety proposes."

JJ stilled as she thought about this. "Do you think that they might be attacked?" Her arms tightened around the sleeping child.

"Anything is possible Miss, especially if news of what has occurred where to spread. May I say that you are taking all of this rather well."

"Oh no I'm not. A part of me is in major panic mode, a very large part in fact. At this point though everything is going fairly smoothly, no one's trying to kill anyone, and there are children to deal with. In all honesty though, things have been going way too smoothly, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop."

"What is going on here? Are those the Avengers?"

"Would that by chance be the other shoe?"

"Yes," JJ nodded, knowing he couldn't see. "Yes it would be."

So there you have it. Avenger's and Loki turned small, and a strange new women. So what's the other shoe, and how does all of this fit together? Let me know what you think, and any thoughts and ideas you have. Thanks for reading.