Avengers Watch Loki

A picture of New York is constructed.

Loki: What is this?

Mobius: A sampling of your greatest hits, if I may.The Avengers pointing their weapons at Loki is shown.

“You guys look so badass,” Ned said.

“Thanks but how do they have footage of us?” Steve asked.

“They can see all of time, of course they have footage of us,” Clint said.

Recording: If it's all the same to you... I'll have that drink now. Mobius offers Loki a soda.

This caused some more laughs.

Loki: No. And I remember. I was there. Anything else?

Mobius: It's funny, for someone born to rule, you sure do lose a lot. You might even say it's in your nature.

Loki: You know, things didn't turn out so well for the last person who said that to me.

“Wait, who said that to him?” Peter asked.

Mobius: Oh, yeah, Phil Coulson. Coulson’s death is shown.

The 4 original Avengers looked away.

Mobius: Didn't the Avengers come together to literally avenge him by defeating you?

Loki: Little solace to a dead man.

Clint was just about ready to launch himself at the screen.

Mobius: Do you enjoy hurting people? Making them feel small? Making them feel afraid?

Loki: Your games don't frighten me.

Mobius: Making them feel little?

“He seems pretty good at this,” Wanda said.

Loki: I know what I am.

Mobius: A murderer?

Loki: A liberator.

Mobius: Of eyeballs, maybe. Loki’s attack on Stuttgart is shown.

Mobius: Look at that smile. You are enjoying that. Did you enjoy hurting them?

Loki: I don't have to play this game. I'm a god.

The original Avengers were confused on why Loki looked uncomfortable.

Mobius: Of what, again? Mischief, right? Yeah. I don't see anything very mischievous about this.

Loki: No, I don't suppose you do.

Mobius: Let's talk about your escapes. You're really good at doing awful things, and then just getting away.

Loki: What can I say? I'm a mischievous scamp.

Mobius: This is one of my favorites.

“How can you have a favorite ‘awful thing’?” Sam questioned.

Recording: From the flight deck, Captain William A. Scott, Northwest Orient Airlines 305, on schedule to land in Seattle. Flight time today, approximately...

Flight Attendant: Bourbon and soda? Loki is on the plane with short hair.

“The God of Mischief, on a plane,” Sam said.

“Drinking soda,” Peter pointed out while giggling.Loki: Thank you.

Flight Attendant: Absolutely. Is there anything else I can do for you, sir?

Loki: I suppose we'll find out, won't we? Loki takes out a note and gives it to the attendant.

“And apparently Loki flirts with us ‘mortals’ now,” Tony said.

“Well this could have happened quite a while before the Battle of New York,” Vision pointed out.

Loki: Uh, Miss?

Flight Attendant: Yes, Mr. Cooper?

“Wait Cooper, AS IN DB COOPER?!?” Peter asked excitingly.

Loki: You might want to take a look at that note. I have a bomb.

“Nice to know that the God of Mischief woke up one day and decided to hijack a plane for no reason,” Tony deadpanned. Peter and Ned snickered.

Loki: I fail to see how this has any relevance or bearing on…

Mobius: No. This is the good part.

Loki is given a bag of money. He winks at the attendant.

Loki: See you again someday. Brother, Heimdall, you better be ready.

“Thor was in on this too?!?” Clint said.

He jumps out of the plane and is caught by the bifrost.

Mobius: I can't believe you were D.B. Cooper. Come on!

Loki: I was young, and I lost a bet to Thor.

“Gee thanks Thor,” Clint deadpanned. Peter and Ned were still laughing.

Loki: Where was the TVA when I was meddling with these affairs of men?

Mobius: We were right there with you, just surfing that Sacred Timeline.

Loki: So that had the Time-Keepers' seal of approval, did it?

Mobius: Well, I wouldn't think of it in terms of approval and disapproval. That's sort of a... Let's get back to escapes... and a little psychobabble. What is it that you think that you're really running from?

Loki: Enough. Loki tries to stand up, Mobius uses the time twister to make him sit down.

Mobius: Back in your cage. See, I can play the heavy keys, too.

Loki: I was just standing up to make a point.

Mobius: I'm sorry, go ahead.

Loki: It won't be as meaningful now.

Mobius: Okay, well, stay seated.

Loki: I'll do what I want to do!

“He’s gone back to sounding like a 2 year old,” Tony joked.

Mobius: Sure. Loki stands up and walks away from the table before turning back.

Loki: What exactly is it that you want?

Mobius: I want you to be honest about why you do what you do.

Loki: Liar.

Mobius: I'm serious. All I seek is a deeper understanding of the fearsome God of Mischief. What makes Loki tick?

Loki: I know what this place is.

Mobius: What is it?

Loki: It's an illusion. It's a cruel, elaborate trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear. A desperate attempt at control. Now, you all parade about as if you're the divine arbiters of power in the universe.

Mobius: We are.

Loki: You're not. My choices are my own.

Mobius: Your choice is your own. Good, let's go with that. I think this one's gonna fire you up.

Recording: The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power...

Loki: Precisely. I was... I am on the verge of acquiring everything I am owed, and when I do, it'll be because I did it. Not because it was supposed to happen. Or because you or the Time Variance Authority, or whatever it is you call yourselves, allowed me to. Honestly, you're pathetic. You're an irrelevance. A detour. A footnote to my ascent.

Mobius: You finished? You're gonna start taking things seriously. If you hadn't picked up the Tesseract, you would have been taken to a cell on Asgard.

Recording Frigga: Loki

Loki: Hello, Mother. Have I made you proud?

Frigga: Please don't make this worse.

Loki: What is this? This is nonsense, more tricks. This never even happened.

Mobius: Not to you. Not yet. Look, the TVA doesn't just know your whole past, we know your whole life, how it's all meant to be. Think of it as comforting.

“That’s the farthest thing from comforting,” Sam said.

Loki: This is absurd.

Recording Frigga: And am I not your mother?

Recording Loki: You're not. Loki walks towards the screen.
Frigga: Hmm. Always so perceptive about everyone but yourself.

Mobius: And then the Dark Elves attack the palace, and you think you send them to Thor.

Recording Loki: You might wanna take the stairs to the left.

Mobius: But instead, you send them...

Recording Frigga: I'll never tell. Frigga is killed. Loki is shocked by her death.

Everyone winced at her death.

Loki: Where do you have her? Where is she?

Mobius: You lead them right to her.

Loki: I don't believe you. You're lying. It's not true.

“So he does care about some people,” Nat whispered to herself.

Mobius: It is true. That's the proper flow of time, and it happens again and again and again because it's supposed to, because it has to. The TVA makes sure of it.

Loki: Where is she?

Mobius: Now why don't you tell me, do you enjoy hurting people?

Loki: I don't believe you.

Mobius: Do you enjoy killing?

Loki: I'll kill you.

Mobius: Like you did your mother?

That caused everyone to wince again.

Loki throws the chair at Mobius and tries to attack him. Mobius loops him back

Mobius: Sorry, the Time Twister just loops you, not the furniture. You weren't born to be king, Loki. You were born to cause pain and suffering and death. That's how it is, that's how it was, that's how it will be. All so that others can achieve their best versions of themselves. The Avengers are shown, Loki looks away.

Loki: What is this place?

Mobius: Come on. Mobius pulls Loki to his feet.

Hunter B-15: What are you doing?

Mobius: My job. Is it yours to interrupt?

The gloomy feeling in the room was lifted.

Hunter B-15: We have a situation.

Mobius: There's always a situation. Don't go anywhere.

“Because he’s totally going to listen to you after what you just pulled,” Steve said quietly.

Mobius: It was just getting good. Spirited.

“This isn’t going to end well,” Wanda said.

“You think,” Clint answered.

Hunter B-15: Talking to that Variant is a mistake.

Mobius: That's your position.

Hunter B-15: He should be reset!

Mobius: You think everyone should be reset. I'm getting good stuff!

Hunter B-15: We lost another unit.

Mobius: Okay, Loki, I think we can finish up tomorrow and just pick it... Mobius checks his pockets and finds the remote to the time twister gone. Mischievous scamp.

“Wow what a surprise,” Clint said sarcastically.

Loki teleports to a hallway. He sees Casey and chases after him.

Hunter B-15: Wish I could say I was surprised.

Mobius: Yeah, I wish you hadn't interrupted us.

Hunter B-15: Me? It's my fault?

Mobius: Look, he can't have gotten very far.

Hunter B-15: Split up. Prune on sight.

“What does pruning even mean?” Peter asked.

Mobius: No, no pruning, no resetting. He can still help us!

Loki: Hey.

Casey: Hey. I know you. You're that criminal with the blue box. Ow.

Loki: What's your name?

Casey: Casey.

Loki: Give me the Tesseract, or I'll gut you like a fish, Casey.

Casey: What's a fish?

“What?” Tony said while starting to laugh.

Casey: What's a fish?

Loki: How do you not know what a fish is?

Casey: I've lived my entire life behind a desk.

“Talk about boring,” Peter whispered to Ned.

Loki: Well, what difference does it make?

Casey: I wanna know exactly what I'm being threatened with before I comply.

Loki: Death, Casey. Violent, painful death.

Casey: Okay, okay. I comply, I comply. I comply. Jeez! Um... Oh. This it? Loki is handed the Tesseract. He sees that the drawer is filled with Infinity Stones.

Loki: What? Infinity Stones? How... How do you have these?

The Avengers that know what Infinity Stones are were shocked at seeing them on screen.

Casey: Oh, We actually get a lot of those. Yeah. Some of the guys use them as paperweights. Some of 'em.

“What else do they use them for?” Clint questioned.

Loki: Is this the greatest power in the universe?

“Please don’t start getting ideas,” Nat said.

The agents burst into the room. Hunter B-15 tries to prune Loki but he teleports away. The cart gets pruned instead.

“So pruning is just a fancy word for disintegrate, good to know,” Clint said.

Casey: Oh, you almost hit me! That's so messed up.

Hunter B-15: Split up. Check the lower concourse.

Casey: I do not forgive you.

Loki lands back in the Time Theatre. He watches the recording and cries over his mother’s death.

The room went back to being gloomy.

He starts to watch other moments of his future.

Odin: I love you, my sons. Remember this place. Home. Loki is happy to hear Odn say he loves him.

Thor: Loki, I thought the world of you. I thought we were gonna fight side by side forever.

Thor: Maybe you're not so bad after all, brother.

Loki: Maybe not.

Thor: Thank you. If you were here, I might even give you a hug. Loki chuckles.

The Avengers chuckled at the thought of Loki getting a bear hug.

Loki: I'm here.

Thanos: Undying? You should choose your words more carefully.

“Is he…?” Peter started to ask before stopping himself.

Loki: You... will never be... a god. Loki watches his death and then turns away.

Everyone was looking away from the screen. Some of the Avengers might hate Loki, but watching your own death wasn’t something anyone should experience.

Loki starts to laugh.

Hunter B-15: What's so funny?

Loki: Glorious purpose. Loki tries to attack Hunter B-15 but she pins him against the table. He grabs the remote to the time twister and puts the collar on Hunter B-15 and presses the button. He starts spamming the button.

Hunter B-15: Stop... It. Stop it! St... Stop it... It... Stop it... Stop... I... St... Sto... St…

“God of Mischief,” Clint said while laughing.

He sends Hunter B-15 away.

Casey: And this guy kept saying he was gonna turn me into a fish, whatever that is, and then they show up and just prune my cart, so there was nothing I could have done. Hunter B-15 appears in front of him.

Casey: Hey, there you are. You know, that Variant you had got away. Hunter B-15 storms off angrily.

Loki sits on the floor and ignores the door opening.

Mobius: Loki? Nowhere left to run.

“Great, him again,” Tony said.

Loki: I can't go back, can I? Back to my timeline.

“I kinda feel bad for him,” Wanda said.

Loki: I don't enjoy hurting people.

That certainly caught the Avengers’ attention.

Loki: I... I don't enjoy it. I do it because I have to, because I've had to.

Mobius: Okay, explain that to me.

Loki: Because it's part of the illusion. It's the cruel, elaborate trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear.

Mobius: A desperate play for control. You do know yourself.

Loki: A villain.

Mobius: That's not how I see it. You try to use that?

Loki: Oh, several times. Even an Infinity Stone is useless here. The TVA is formidable.

Mobius: That's been my experience. Listen, I can't offer you salvation, but maybe I can offer you something better. Loki gets up and walks towards Mobius. A fugitive Variant's been killing our Minutemen.

Loki: And you need the God of Mischief to help you stop him?

Mobius: That's right.

Loki: Why me?

Mobius: The Variant we're hunting is... you.

“What?” everyone was confused yet again.

Loki: I beg your pardon?

“There are 2 Loki variants,” Vision answered.
“and the other Loki is the one who was attacking the TVA,” Nat realized.

Salina, Oklahoma 1858

4 agents step out of the portal. One of them scans a shovel.

Time signature is early third millennium. Definitely anachronistic.
Oil. I think some jackass found himself a time machine, came back here to get rich.

Should we fan out and look for him, sir?

Nah. It's not worth the paperwork. Just prune it. Let's bail. Set a charge. A hooded figure is seen in the distance.

Wait. Someone's out there.

“The other Loki?” Peter asked.

Check it out. The agents move towards the figure. The hooded person drops a lamp on the oil and burns the agents. Get down!

Everyone was shocked by the brutality.

The hooded figure takes the reset charge.

“Please tell me we never have to come face to face with that devil,” Tony said.