you don’t know how wrong you are
Ikol stumbles back a bit “you’re not even trying” she declares “is it because I’m appearing as a woman?”
“I am trying. maybe you’re stronger because I’m just a human” Bucky replies as he walks up to Ikol and pats her arm “I tap out” he announces
“you’re an enhanced human” Ikol states as Bucky walks to the edge of the ring “with a metal arm and brainwashing…” Ikol smirks as she gets an idea. “zhelaniye” with that one word the whole room freezes, so Ikol continues “rzhavyy, semnadtsat’”
Bucky lets out a pained groan, shaking his head “stop” he grips the ropes to keep himself up
“rassvet”
Bucky falls to his knees, his hands flying to his head as his groan slowly turns into a yell
“Kol stop” Sam begs.
“pech’, devy-“ Ikol has no choice but to shut up because her brother grabs her from behind, a hand over her mouth while his other arm keeps her own pinned to her body.
“stop it-ah!” Thor yells in pain as Ikol sinks her teeth into his hand. He lets go, setting her free as he winces in pain and looks at his palm to find a perfect bite mark, oozing blood.
she points at Bucky now out of the ring and kneeling on all foors “He killed anthony’s parents” she declares, both men frown at her. Why would she care about that?
“the winter soldier did” Thor retorts “not James”
“exactly why I was trying to get him to come out” She explains before turning away, heading for Bucky again.
Thor grabs her arm and she spins around; using her other hand to hit him right in the face. He stumbles back a bit and she tries to go again. Thor grabs the back of her shirt and pulls her down to the floor.
She groans in pain, allowing Thor to rest his foot on her stomach, using some of his weight to keep her in place “stop it!”
“okay” she agrees, “I’ll focus on you” she emphasizes her words by stabbing a dagger into his calf. As he winces, reaching down to pull the dagger out she kicks him in the face and he falls onto his back.
He quickly gets up before Ikol could do anything “I don’t want to fight you”
She scoffs “of course you don’t, because you’re a coward” Thor tries not to take that to heart but for some reason he has this feeling that she means it “daddy’s little bitch and now that he’s gone you don’t know who you are-“
“you don’t know what you’re talking about” Thor hisses, anger boiling up in his chest.
“really? is that why you sat around for two years doing nothing?” she asks, not noticing the floor beneath her freezing over “because daddy was gone and you could do what you want?” Ikol scoffs, the ice spreading to the ropes and the padded corners “no you sat around because he wasn’t there to tell you what to do-“
She’s cut off by the blue sparks suddenly lighting up the room, it quickly fades all except from the source. She smirks as Thor stares at her with neon blue eyes.
“You don’t know what you’re talking about” he repeats in a growl.
Tony admits “I wanna stop them but I’m scared” as he watches the ice spread up the walls and the windows. The lights flickering from Thor and all the racks containing weights start rattling.
He snaps out of his fear seeing how bad it’s getting “okay you guys stop” he commands loudly. Thor does the opposite though, he throws a punch at Ikol, missing since she somehow got by him. She was too fast for him to see.
Fast enough that she gets behind Thor, her hand around his throat and the other twisting his arm so he can’t use it “I’ll drop the glamour” she threatens.
Thor, repeats her earlier actions and bits into her hand, allowing him to get loose. He spins around, lifting his leg and kicking her across the boxing ring, the force amplified by his lightning.
“stop it now!”
She pushes herself up onto all fours, Thor sits her up the rest of the way. She pants as she raises her hands in defeat “okay” is all she breathes out and Thor lets go.
She didn’t tap out though.
She throws Thor over her shoulder slamming him into the ground, not hearing anyone yelling at them to stop, she doesn’t even feel them trying to pull her off of Thor.
“don’t do this shit now!”
Thor hits her back so hard that it makes her vision blurs from the lightning. She quickly snaps out of it and retaliated by shoving her thumb into Thor’s eye.
She yells as her face lights up in pain, Thor not giving her a break because once Loki reacts he starts hitting her.
“Stop it!”
Thor gets a few more punches in before she is pulled off of him and someone pulls her up so that she’s sitting as well.
“I thought you agreed not to fight!” Tony yells from beside Thor, who doesn’t hear a word he said because Thor kicks Ikol in the face, he falls into Nebula so hard that he hears a crack.
“Thor-“ Tony stops midway through his sentence.
Ikol focuses on Thor again, she sees the latter shoving Tony away and she loses it.
Tony yells “Nebula, come here!” and she immediately jumps out of the ring seeing that everyone else has.
Ikol gets up and She kicks Thor in the face, the latter falls back to the floor and Ikol hovers over him.
“stop it, this isn’t fucking fun anymore!” Natasha begs
She grabs a fistful of Thor's hair, using it as a grip to slam Thor’s head into the floor repeatedly, the sound of bones crushing doesn’t even bring her back to reality. Not even the blood splattering.
“Stop!” Bucky roars
She slams Thor’s head into the floor one more time before Tony says “Kol you’re scaring me” shakily and it’s like a spell was broken.
She lets go, falling back onto her ass as she pants harshly, the blood is warm on her face and hands. It doesn’t beat the stillness of the room as they all stare at Thor, his face swollen, skull nearly smashed in and covered in blood.
But he’s still awake, he groans and rolls onto his back, Bruce is beside him in seconds. “Hey Thor? can you hear me?” he asks softly and Thor just keeps looking at the ceiling, his eyes blank as he doesn’t respond “Thor, look at me” He doesn’t, he tries to look at Ikol.
Bruce doesn’t let him, he forces Thor to keep his neck straight. Thor then tries to touch his wound but Bruce moves his hands away “Thor!” he yells desperately.
Thor blinks a couple times before he seems to focus on Bruce a bit “mhmm?”
Bruce sighs, all he needed was a sign that Thor didn’t have permanent damage or something. He peeks over his shoulder at Bucky, frozen in shock beside the others. “pick him up” Bruce demands as he stands up.
“what?”
“you’re the only one that could lift him”
Ikol inhales, her chest shaking as she says “I can do-“
“you’ve done enough” Bruce snaps at her and leaves the room without Thor or Bucky. The latter doesn’t say anything as he carries the former to the elevator and takes him to the MedBay.
Ikol closes her eyes, the guilt in her stomach making bile rise up her throat, she swallows it back but it just keeps coming up as she forces herself to breathe.
“what was that?” Sam asks
Ikol shakes her head and that’s when she can’t hold it back anymore, she sprints to the bathroom and only makes it as far as the sink.
In the middle of her head ringing and gasping for air, she hears the door open so she turns on the tap and shoves her face farther into the sink, not allowing them to see the dark red blood she’s producing.
“what was that?” Tony repeats Sam’s words.
“the real you”a new voice hisses
Ikol groans as she finally stops, now panting harshly for air “shut up please” she moans, “I don’t need a life lesson right now”
“his skull is fractured” Tony suddenly says, making her feel nauseous again “broken cheek and jaw, his eye is probably ruptured from bone fragments”
“Thor will never forgive you”
“shut up!” Ikol screams half at him, more at the voices “I don’t need to know what I did”
“I just wanted to see if you feel bad”
Ikol sits down on the floor, her back against the sink cupboards. “of course I feel bad” she mumbles “I didn’t mean to do it” It was just- she doesn’t really know what it was. It was like her mind control, like she couldn’t tell which version was herself, like the evil and the good were trying to merge.
“you don’t feel bad, you’ve been wanting thor dead for years”
“that’s not true” she whispers quiet enough that Tony doesn’t hear
Thor asks “keep Ikol away from me please” nicely, but that’s not what bothers him, what bothers him is how easily Thor slipped into calling him Ikol. Like he gave up on Loki.
Tony feels eyes on him and peeks at the door to see Ikol standing out of Thor’s view. They share a look and Tony reminds Thor “they’re your sister”
Thor shakes his head but quickly stops when it starts throbbing “not anymore” he mumbles “Loki’s gone”
“you don’t know how wrong you are”