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sorry, Ms. Foster, but we’re the good guys.”
    â€œSo are we ,” Jane said passionately. “I’m on the verge of understanding something extraordinary, and everything I know about this phenomenon is either in this lab or in this book in my hand, and you can’t just take it away.…”
    Before Jane could complete her thought, another S.H.I.E.L.D. agent stepped up from behind and grabbed the journal from her hand.
    â€œHey!” Jane protested.
    With that, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents brushed Jane aside and locked her research in their van.
    â€œThank you for your cooperation,” said Agent Coulson. Then he jumped in the van and drove off.
    â€œWho are these people?” Jane asked as the van pulled away.
    â€œI knew this scientist—a pioneer in gamma radiation. S.H.I.E.L.D. showed up and—well—he wasn’t heard from again.”
    Jane looked stunned for a moment, then defiantly declared, “They’re not going to do that to us. I’m going to get everything back.”
    â€œCome on, please,” Erik said. “Let me contact one of my colleagues. He’s had some dealings with these people before. I’ll e-mail him, and maybe he can help.…”
    â€œThey took your laptop, too,” Darcy reminded him.
    Jane had other, more practical solutions. She was going to find Thor, and they’d travel to the site together. He would help her retrieve her data. And, if he really was who he said he was and not some crazy lunatic, she’d help him get back what he was looking for.
    She drove around the town until she found him—which wasn’t too difficult given his height and heft.
    â€œStill need a lift?” she asked him.
    Thor hopped in without hesitation.
    By the time they arrived at the site, night had fallen. Jane pulled up to a dark area at the rim of the crater, and she and Thor jumped out of the truck and looked down at the scene. S.H.I.E.L.D. had built an incredibly elaborate structure within the crater’s pit. It was brightly lit, with high-tech tubing creating passageways to and from the center, which was sectioned off in a huge glass-walled cube.
    â€œThat’s no satellite crash,” Jane observed. “They would have hauled the wreckage away. They wouldn’t have built a city around it.”
    â€œYou’re going to need this,” Thor said, wrapping a jacket around Jane.
    â€œHuh? Wait, why?”
    Thor smiled broadly and laughed.
    â€œStay here,” he said. “Once I have Mjolnir, I will return the items they stole from you.”
    â€œLook what’s down there. You think you’re just going to walk in, grab our stuff, and walk out?”
    â€œNo. I’m going to fly out.”
    And with that, Thor headed toward the encampment.
    As he approached Mjolnir, clouds rolled in and lightning flashed all over the area, interfering with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s equipment. Thor took advantage of this, and sneaked past some guards, easily taking out those that he could not get by. Slipping in and out of shadows, Thor made his way toward his hammer. The lightning and thunder intensified. Soon, rain poured down on the site, muddying the desert sands and pounding on everyone from Thor to Jane, who finally understood why Thor had given her the coat.
    Thor soon arrived near Mjolnir, which was heavily guarded. S.H.I.E.L.D. had its top agents keeping watch over the hammer, including its ace archer, Clint Barton, whose aim was so accurate he’d earned the codename Hawkeye. Clint was trained on Thor and waiting for orders to shoot, but Coulson—who was calling the shots—asked him to hold off. He wanted to see if Thor could lift the hammer.
    Thor looked down at his old friend, Mjolnir. He smiled and reached down in triumph. He and his hammer were reunited. He would now reclaim it and then get Jane’s data back. He reached down and gripped Mjolnir by the handle, enjoying the comfort of its