2 Interlude Tony
Tony stared at the maniac who destroyed New York. Mrs. Loki was asleep. Tony stared at her. It's a little strange to sleep at a time like this. Loki's attitude was ready for direct attack. Tony didn't have had time for this now. He wanted information. Anything possible. About Loki's plans. About the differences in mind control. About Loki's rights to the tesseract. About his relationship with Mrs. Loki.
"Sleeping Beauty, right? You just need dress up her in royal gown and it will be like a fairy tale," Tony quipped.
"I always preferred the fairy tale about Cinderella. Because I knew that I would be better than a fairy who can conjure things up for only a few hours. The fairy not only was an amateur, she was also completely without talent" answered Loki. He had bad smile on his face.
"Yeah, it's a pity it all disappears at midnight. Wait! You know human fairy tales? You, an alien? I had to explain Thor basic politics rules, even though he is the Prince of an alien world, and you tell me you know the stories we tell the kids?" Tony asked.
It turned out that their hostile alien knew more than they thought. Tony thought back to the invasion. He thought Loki knew nothing about Earth. How would his reign work if the world is divided into so many countries? If Loki knew about fairy tales, he must have known about culture, and therefore politics.
"The fact that you had to explain something to Thor does not surprise me. He was never very smart "Loki replied.
Loki verbally attacked Thor. Typical provocation for Tony to defend his colleague. Well, Thor has already taken a special place in Tony's heart. He saved him when Tony had a heart attack. This put Thor in the same place as Bruce in his personal ranking. Thor was in first place with Bruce. The rest of the Avengers were relegated to the last places. Tony still didn't trust Rushaman. Barton was unknown and Rogers was complicated.
"You're not the first time on Earth, are you?" Tony asked.
Loki smirked and spread his hands.
"I see you're not as dumb as the rest of your species," Loki replied.
The implications of this were huge. Loki has been to Earth before. What did he know? Where was he? Thousands of questions swirled in Tony's mind.
"When was the last time you were on Earth before your invasion?" Tony asked.
"Just a year ago. At a different Shield base. Visited my brother," Loki said.
"Shield has no photos of you before invasion!" Tony said. Besides, why does Loki tell about brotherly affection?
"I would be a poor magician if I couldn't hide my presence from unwanted eyes," Loki said.
Can it be invisible?
Why is he saying this? What this is about? Reindeer is lying or is more powerful than it seems. Perhaps he should leave the gathering of information to experienced spies. Eventually Rushman got something out of him. The question is whether he wanted to gave her information. After all, he was the God of Lies.
"It was a nice chat, but I have to go. Sylvie needs a more comfortable bed," Loki said.
"Point Break said that you wouldn't move this hammer," Tony said.
"I'm a god, Stark, and I can handle my brother's blunt toys," Loki said.
Gods, indeed. Except Loki wasn't worthy as Thor put it. So the hammer was not supposed to move. They had no other way to stop Loki or Mrs. Loki. They had to wait for another shipment of magic shackles from All-Daddy. He wonder if he had any fetish about it?
"Thor said you have to be worthy or something? I can't imagine you being worthy of the hammer, Reindeer," said Tony.
Suddenly Thor burst into the room.
Fine. Tony knew one thing. He wasn't going to let those gods beat themselves up again in his house!