Chapter 3
ooO NASA & SHIELD Joint Dark Energy Mission. Ooo
Loki stood up from where he was kneeling on one knee and looked at the humans around him. He could tell that they were going to fight him, but he didn't want that. But something in his mind made it harder to think. So he gave up and went along with what the presence in his mind was ordering.
"Sir Please Put down the spear." Loki looked towards the man with a eye patch and shot an Stream of blue light his way from his scepter. Armed men started shooting Loki but the bullets were doing nothing to harm him. Loki sent two daggers towards the men and they went through their neck and killed them instantly. Loki fired another energy blast and killed the man who came from behind him.
Clint Barton, Hawkeye, started to shoot Loki with some agents but they were also shot down by Loki with his scepter. Clint jumped to the side but the others were not so lucky. Loki kicked a man and he went flying towards a wall before collapsing to the floor. Loki paused for a moment and looked around to see the damage he had done. He saw that Hawkeye was standing and went quickly to stop him.
"You have a heart." Loki pointed the scepter to Clint's chest. Fury slowly got up and watched as Clint put away his gun. He quietly took out the Tessaract from where it was and put it in the case and stood up to move.
"Please don't, I still need that." Loki said as he turned towards Fury.
"This doesn't have to get any messier." Fury answered, his back towards Loki.
"Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else. I am Loki, of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose." Loki repeated what The Other told him before he was sent.
"Loki, Brother of Thor." Loki turned towards the scientist, who was starting to stand up.
"We have no quarrel with your people." Fury said while holding a hand up.
"An ant has no quarrel with a Boot."
"Are you planning to step on us?" Fury asked looking incredulous at Loki. at that moment Fury was accessing the situation. He saw that the energy released from the Tessaract was acting up.
"I come with glad tidings of a world made free."
"Free from what?" Fury asked trying to make the conversation longer to stall him enough to get away.
"Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart..." Loki turned towards Dr. Selvig and took him under his control. "you will know peace" Meanwhile Clint looked up to see the energy that was sending pulses.
"Yeah, you say "peace," I kind of think you mean the other thing."
"Sir, Director Fury is stalling. This place is about to blow and drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us." Clint said walking towards Loki.
"Like the pharaohs of old." Fury said as he looked at Clint.
"He's right, The portal in collapsing in on itself. We've got maybe two minutes before this goes critical." Dr. Selvig confirmed looking at a screen to his left. Loki Looked at Clint,
"well then." Clint took out his gun and shot Fury. Clint took the case with the Tessaract and followed Loki with Dr. Selvig and another compromised agent. They went to where the vehicles were parked.
"I need these vehicles." Clint said to Agent Hill as Loki got in to one of the jeeps back.
"Who's that." Hill asked looking at Loki.
"they didn't tell me." Just as he said that, Hill's handheld transceiver turned on.
"Hill! Do you copy? Barton has turned..." Hill had to dive out of the way when Clint started to shoot her. Clint quickly got in to the jeep and started to drive away. Meanwhile the portal that was opened before was starting to collapse in on itself.
"They have the Tessaract! Shut them down!" Fury ordered Hill through the handheld transceiver.
Agent hill quickly got in to a another jeep and started to follow the Loki and crew. Loki fired a energy blast towards the vehicles that was following them Agent Hill came from another side and intercepted the Jeep's way. The two jeeps were face to face while the jeep Hill was driving was going backwards. Hill started shoot at them, and Clint started to return fire. Hill turned the jeep around and started to follow the other jeep from behind, but the tunnel started to collapse as the portal release a energy blast taking down the entire base. Agent Hill was unable to continue as the tunnel came down on her jeep. Loki and the others got out of the base as Fury came from air in the Chopper and started to follow them. Chopper chased them from the front and Fury started to shoot. However Loki blasts the chopper down, but before it could hit the ground Fury jumped out of it. Fury quickly stood up and continue to shoot but Loki an the others got away.
ooOOoo
Tony was siting in the living room with Pepper playfully arguing about the percentages of credit given to each other. Tony and pepper had just finished getting the Newly finished Stark Tower off the electricity grid making it a beacon of self-sustaining clean energy.
"I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages in some subtle way later, aren't I?"
"It's not going to be that subtle." Pepper hand over a champagne glass to Tony with a smirk.
"I'll tell you what, The next building is gonna say "Potts" on the tower."
"On the lease." Pepper try to clink her glass with Tony, but he pulls away.
"Call you Mom, Can you bunk over?" Pepper let out little laugh and JARVIS interrupt them telling that Agent Coulson is on the line overriding his protocols. Tony try to get rid of the Agent by trying to act as a life model decoy of Tony Stark when Phil comes out of the Elevator.
"Security breach, that's on you."
"Phil! Come in" Pepper stand up to greet him as Tony complain about his name not being Phil and the first name being 'Agent'. Phil Hands over a laptop to Tony.
"We need you to look this over as soon as possible." Tony stares at the laptop.
"I don't like being handed things." Tony said as Pepper exchanged the champagne glass to the laptop with Phil and then doing it again with Tony.
"Is this about Avengers? Which I know nothing about." Pepper ask but back paddles knowing it was classified information.
"The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify" Tony answers while he takes the laptop and go over to his holo screen table.
"I didn't know that either."
"Apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed, don't play well with others" Tony sets up the laptop and turn it on.
"That I did know." Pepper look at Tony as she said that.
"This isn't about personality profiles anymore." Phil reply looking at Tony. Tony call for Pepper to join him and Pepper move to stand next to Tony. Tony enters the security cord and the file open to show profiles of people.
"What is all this?" Pepper asks as Tony spread the files. Holographic screens appear around them, each containing information about people chosen for the Avengers Initiative. Tony stares at them and furrowed his eye brows as he sees Thor in the list. Pepper comments about Tony having homework seeing the screens and leaves with Phil leaving Tony alone to deal with the files. Tony goes through the screens. He stared at the picture of a cube and takes the 3D holographic cube to his hand and examine it. He do a quick look over on the info, but his attention is taken away from the picture of the man on the file. He stared at the picture for a long time. He wasn't sure what he was seeing and started to read the about how the Tesseract -apparently the cube's name-got stolen by a Asgardian named Loki, His Mother.
ooOOoo
Loki came back form his visit to the Chitauri leader. He stared at the men working on the portal machine. Suddenly a wave of some kind of feeling washed over him, He looked around confused as to why he felt that. It was foreign yet familiar. Loki stood up from where he was sitting on the ground go to Dr. Selvig.
"How is the process of this machine?"
"It's going good, We will need some more things in the future but for now, it's all good." Loki nods, pleased with answer and leave the place to find more information about the people who will be fighting him in the future.
Loki stared at the amber eyed mortal. There was something about the this mortal that made Loki feel some kind of a feeling inside of him. But as soon as it appeared the presence in his mind crushed it down. He shook himself from the feeling and continued through the files and started to read about the green rage monster. A cruel smile came to his face as he read through it.
ooOOoo
Tony hacked into the SHIELD Helicarrier and listened to Fury talk with Captain America, Steve Rogers. He felt a little mad about him being on board for this, but knew they had to find all the people for this mission. He looked at the screen which were running a facial recognition system to find him mother. He saw that there was a match and by the audio feed coming from the SHIELD, they also had gotten a match. Tony traced the match to Stuttgart, Germany.
"JARVIS, Get Mark VI out, we are going mother hunting."
"Right away sir." Tony went to the landing pad and the mechanical arms came out with Iron Man pieces and started the reconstructing process around Tony suiting him up. Tony turn the thrusters on and left the Stark Tower heading towards Germany. It took him a good while to reach there. On his way he watched the video feed from different CCTV cameras around the place that Loki was attacking. He watched as Loki took a man's eye and smile evilly at people who was screaming and running. Tony was sure that him mother was not in his right mind. Loki was destructive, yes. He caused chaos, yes. But he was not evil. He's the God of Mischief and Lies, not God of Evil. Tony saw the arrival of Captain America just as Loki was about to shoot a old man. Tony increased the power input to his thrusters and sped knowing Captain will not be able to hold against a God.
"Agent Romanoff, you miss me?" He override the PA system of the quinjet and plays AC/DC "Shoot to thrill" through it. Tony fired a repulsor blast at Loki knocking him down. He felt a little guilty about shooting his mother down, but in this situation, it's needed. Tony point the repulsors at Loki with a few other weapons in his suit.
"Make a move reindeer games" Tony watched as Loki removed his amour and held his hands up.
"Good move." Tony's heart was beating a mile a minute. His mother was alive and he was standing right in front of him. Tony and Captain America took Loki to the quinjet. Tony removed his helmet inside the quinjet and stared at his mother to see any reaction from him. Tony didn't see recognition or anything and had to turn away not to let his tears be seen by Cap or the others. Once he had control over his emotions again, he turned towards Steve to see he had removed his cowl too.
"I don't like it." Steve said looking at Loki.
"What? Rock of ages giving up so easily?" Now he really felt bad for calling names at his mother but if he didn't it would make everyone suspicious, since he gave every one names. Tony and Steve continues to talk and suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roar of thunder. Tony immediately knew who was going to follow. Steve looked at Loki and saw that he looked a little scared.
"What's the matter? scared of a little lightning?" Steve asked Loki and he looked at him.
"I'm not overly fond of what follows." Loki answered. Loki knew what was coming. Thor, his brother. Loki looked at the man in a metal suit to see that he also looked like he knew what was going to come. Loki wondered why this mortal always made his mind a little fuzzy. Loki's mind was quickly snapped out of the thoughts off of the mortal as someone landed on top of the quinjet. Tony and Steve put on their helmet and cowl respectively. Tony open the ramp of the quinjet and someone comes in, grab Loki and fly out.
ooOOoo
Thor took Loki out of the Midgardian flying machine and flew out. He landed on the ground and threw Loki away.
"Brother! what is the meaning of this?" Thor asked Loki. He was confused about what had happened. One minute Loki was out of Asgard searching for his son and the other he was attacking the very planet his son resides.
"Oh-ho I missed you too."
"Don't play games brother, Why are you attacking Midgard, and where is the Tessaract?"
"You should thank me! Without me you will not be here. I'm the one who reconstructed the Bi-frost." Thor looked at his brother more closely. Loki was not someone to just attack a planet without reason. And by how Loki left, he was not in the mood for fights, he was all too concentrated about his son.
"Our father-"
"Your father! Did he not tell you about my true parentage?" Now Thor was 100% sure that something had happened to Loki while he was on his way to Midgard. Suddenly the man who was wearing a metal suit landed next to him. Thor raised his hammer getting into a fighting pose, but the man held his hands up and the face plate of the man's suit lifted up. The man looked familiar to Thor, but he wasn't able to figure out why.
"Hey! Thor? right?" Thor nodded his head. This mortal man seem to know who he was.
"Yeah, so we need Loki here so we can get this Tessaract before he destroy our teeny little planet. And you can come with us of course." Tony felt really awkward talking to his uncle like this. But he hide it well like usual and waited for Thor to answer.
"When we find it, Tessaract goes to Asgard with me."
"Of course. Sure." Tony nodded his head and looked towards Loki. Loki was listening to the conversation but it didn't register in his mind. It was all muddled and the sound was muffled around him.
"And another thing, My brother here seems to be not in his right mind, and I would require assistance in helping him. I would like you mortals help in that." Thor wanted his brother to come back, this was not his brother.
"I'm sure we can arrange that." Tony replied just as Steve came running towards them.
"Hey Capsicle! No need to worry. Everything is good, let's get going. We have work to do." With that Tony started to lead the way to the quinjet again. He hoped that others at the hellicarrier would believe Thor and agree to help Loki.