Chapter 2
#2035
The Tesseract started spinning. Everyone looked at it with alarm. It spinned faster and faster, until it let out a blue beam of energy, opening a Portal, which kept getting bigger. Suddenly it collapsed and a bright, blue shockwave was sent out. Fury used his arm to cover his eyes from the brightness while his other hand slid to his weapon.
Where the Portal was just seconds ago, was now standing a cat. Correction, an army of black, fluffy cats. It we‘re so many that the entire room was flooded with black fur balls that kept on meowing. On top of a big pile of cats, exactly where the portal had been seconds before, sat a cat with a white spot on one of the piercing blue eyes.
Fury lowered his weapon in confusion and shock.
„What the hell?“, asked Barton behind him.
Suddenly the cat with a white spot started glowing greenly and everyone pulled their weapons again. Seconds later they looked at a person instead of a cat. He wore a green and black outfit and on his head was a golden helmet with cat ears. It shined brightly. The person looked at them with an eerie smile. Then he opened his mouth to speak.
„I am Loki, God of Cats.“, he spoke. „And I‘m here to take over this planet that slaved Cats.“
As if on cue, all cats stopped meowing and snapped their necks with a crunch. The group was getting starred at by thousands of cats, that looked at them like they wanted to gush out their eyes. Fury was about to answer something, but the Man turned into a Cat again and meowed loudly before he could.
The Cats attacked immediately.
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Fury stared at what used to be the research centre of the Tesseract. The Helicopter he was in moved away further by the second. Still Fury did not take his eyes of the Research centre.
It had been completely taken over by the cats. Somehow they knew how to use WEAPONS and could do MAGIC.
S.H.I.E.L.D had never stood a chance.
Luckily Fury knew just the right team to take care of this…
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#760
Loki grabbed Coulson from behind, pressing a dagger to his neck. Coulson immediately dropped his weapon.
„Move and I‘ll kill you“, Loki hissed into his ear. Then he turned to Thor, who watched them out of the cell with an horrified look.
„Loki, let go Coulson!“, he commanded. Loki looked at Thor, then back to Coulson and back to Thor.
„Say, Brother, should I kill this man?“, he then asked with a smirk on his face.
„Of course NOT, Loki!“, Thor towered. Loki stared at him for a moment, then he shrugged.
„Okay“ with those words he let go of Coulson and instead used his magic to make him freeze in place. Coulson struggled against his spell, while Thor looked at him with surprise. Then Loki summoned two Chairs and a small Table. With a movement of his hand he shoved Coulson on one of the Chairs and then sat down on the other. He snapped his fingers and a cup of Coffee appeared in front of Coulson, then he snapped again and Coulson could move again.
„Here take that as an Apology.“, Loki said with a smile. Coulson shoot him a confused glare and turned to Thor while grabbing the Cup of Coffee.
„Is he always like this?“, he asked Thor. Thor looked as surprised as Coulson sounded.
„N-No, normally he would‘ve just killed you“, Thor stuttered out. Loki shot him a smile.
„I can be nice, Brother. And this is also an apology for killing him all the other times.“ Both of them looked at him with the most dumbfounded expression.
„What do you mean you killed me the other times!“, Coulson blurted out. Loki just looked at a Clock hanging in a Room and stood up.
„Ah, look at the time. I‘ve got to go. Things to do, you know it. Worlds to take over, Machines to finish, Avengers to kill, etc…! Enjoy your Coffee, Agent Coulson! And You can drink it, it‘s not poisoned !“ He said while leaving the room with a wave.
„Also this is Karma, Brother!“, he shouted from around the Corner.
Thor and Coulson looked after him with faces of pure confusion.
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#063
Loki aggressively slammed down another book on Time travel he had on his list on the table. He stared at the big table full of books and ancient writings. He had read all of them TWICE, and still not a single one had written anything useful about Time-loops. For some Nords saken reason the only thing about Time loops he had found in books is that it rarely happened and that they were really difficult magic. Not in a single book was mentioned how to break one. (Or if it was even possible.)
He turned over to his pile he still had to read and grabbed the next book. „Time Magic“, was it’s title. For Nords sake this was the fifth book called „Time Magic“ he was reading. Next loop he would take a fucking break. He sighed once again and opened the book.
The first few pages we‘re all about how Time worked. The Book stated that Time was flying in a line, that everything was destined to happen the way it did. And that this right timeline was written by some guy called „he who remains“, which sounded even more stupid than the mad titan. Apparently „he who remains“ made something called the TVA, which deleted all Alternative Universes that happen out of the right timeline.
A bunch of fucking Bullshit. This was probably the worst book he had read in the last 30 Loops, but he still continued. Maybe there was something useful in here. After all shouldn’t you judge a book by its Cover. He turned to the next page. It was titled: Time Pockets. Loki raised an eyebrow and read through it.
‚Time Pockets are Pocket Dimensions one can create to keep things through TimeTravel.‘
Lokis eyes widened. Finally something useful. And if that worked with Time loops too, it would be extremely useful. It would also save him the time of searching for the books he wants to read every fucking loop. Looks like this Book had been useful after all.
Then he looked at the needed things and physically recoiled. Because all of these we‘re found on Midgard.
Fucking great, Because He did definitely NOT have Access to Midgard this loop.
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#69
Loki wheezed out in pain.
Really everything had gone great this loop. He had escaped Thor and his hero friends and also managed to survive said escape. Then he had had enough time to find everything he needed for the creation of a time pocket and had found a semi-safe place to go through it. And it had worked out better than the last few times he had tried, meaning he actually got to start instead of everything exploding.
Now he was laying in a puddle of his own blood and gory looking stuff waiting for his demise. Actually he was pretty sure some of his insides we‘re laying around him. He didn’t even know how that happened and he for sure did not want to find out.
So he instead mentally prepared himself for having to gather everything for the fifth time. Great.
He then briefly wondered if there was any way to speed bleeding out up, because he was in a shit ton of pain right now. He looked around a bit, searching for anything to end his life faster. His eyes landed on a „gun“, as the Midgardians called it. He had taken that one with him this loop, because he had lost his other weapons this time around.
A gun could not harm him, usually at least. Right now he was dying, so it might work. Well he could just try out, it’s not like there were any Consequences.
He reached for it and pointedly ignored the pain that shot through his body because of the movement. Then he pulled it up to his head and pulled the trigger.
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#203 (Haunting the Tower: Part 1) (Unintentional Suicide) (mentioned past Suicide attempt)
Loki stared at his body with a mixture of horror, confusion and shame. Mostly shame. How the fuck did he mess up the Spell this badly?
The loop had started the exact moment the avengers had stepped into the room after the hulk-smash. Already off to a bad start, but it hadn’t really mattered. He casted a spell to teleport him away while the avengers were discussing something. To his utter shame, THOR, of all people had noticed him using a spell and tried to stop him by putting on that fucking Muzzle.
Because Loki did not like that Muzzle, the many times he had already worn it were enough ,thank you very much, he had gotten a bit panicked. Which was just embarrassing. Either way, he had said one word wrong. That would normally cancel the spell. But to his luck, or rather non existent luck, there was a spell exactly like the wrong one he said. There had been an bright light and he had closed his eyes.
When he opened them again he was starring at his own fucking Corpse.
And that stupid spell had somehow turned him into a fucking ghost, which should NOT be possible. Especially since loops always restarted when he died.
Anyways, he looked around the room. All the Avengers were staring at his Corpse, which mind you, was really rude. None of them looked like they could see him. But he better checked.
He walked over to Stark and waved his halfway transparent hand in front of him. Tony looked through it. That basically answered his question. Hopefully this loop would restart soon. For now he would just watch the Avengers, because from their side, he just committed suicide.
Woops?
„What just happened?“ Captain America asked after the moments of silence. Thor, who was hovering over Loki‘s Corpse did not answer. After a few more seconds Natascha walked next to him and checked for a pulse on his corpse. Her eyes widened in horror when she, unsurprisingly, didn’t find one.
„No pulse“, she said. „He‘s Dead.“
„What do you mean, he‘s dead?! He was just happily casting a spell and being very much alive!“, Tony asked with a bewildered expression.
„And nothing in here could have killed him, especially with that beam of energy.“ The Captain added. „The only one who could have done it is-“
„-himself.“, Natascha finished for him. Loki applauded them for figuring out the obvious, pf course no one could hear him.
There was complete silence in the room.
„Why would he do that?“, Tony asked slowly, as if not sure what to make of the situation. Loki did not blame him, if his enemy just suddenly killed himself he would have the same reaction. Thor, who hadn’t moved since the start of the Conversation, stirred.
„H-He did before-tried to-kill, himself“, Thor stuttered out. „I don’t-“ Thor chocked on nothing and began sobbing. Loki was no fool. He knew how much Loki‘s Death affected Thor, even if he had tried to deny that Thor truly cared about him. But he had eventually grown to accept it, having seen his grief before, all the times he faked his Death.
Natascha layed a hand on his shoulder in comfort, the other Avengers just watched in horror and…guilt? Did they think they drove him to it? Loki couldn’t help but fell a bit guilty.
He sighed sighed. This was gonna be a Loop of a LOT of sadness.
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It had been a week since Loki had ‚killed himself’, and Thor was finally willing to come to a meeting. Loki had watched the Avengers, taking interest in how they would react to his death. He had not been close to them in any matter, if anything they should be glad that he was dead. He killed Coulson and thousand others, mind controlled Barton and tried to take over the World. Not really his best moments, he admitted that much.
And what he had witnessed just left him confused.
Because while none of them, with exception of Thor, we’re really anyone he was nice too, they still drowned in Guilt and did not seem happy about him passing away. They we‘re all tense, awkward around each other and NEVER mentioned his death, even though it was obvious they we‘re DROWNING in guilt. Even Barton. The Barton he had mind controlled, the Barton he had told to kill his friends.
It confused Loki.
Today Tony had has enough and demanded a meeting and To Loki‘s surprise everyone had agreed.
Thor had arrived just now and he looked like shit. He felt more guilty about it than he should. Loki avoided looking at Thor, even though no one could see him, and instead focused on listening to what was going on.
„I‘m sure you know why I have gathered you all here.“, Tony said. „Because god fucking damnit we have to talk about it eventually, even though I do not want to more than any of you.“, Most of them winced at that.
A few moments of silence.
„Not to be rude“, Banner spoke up quietly, „But do we know why he did it? He didn’t seem like the type to…“, he trailed off at the end, but everyone knew what he meant.
Silence again. Loki groaned. This was going to take AGES.
„You said he tried to kill himself before?“,
And wow, that was really blunt.