New Allies
June sat curled up quietly in a corner of a dark room. She wished she had been able to help Peter more; he had seemed nice.
“June? Are you in here?” Loki’s voice called to her through the dark. June got up and ran to him. The shooting and loud noises had scared her. She leapt into his arms. Loki chuckled a little, “You’re okay kiddo. No one here is going to hurt you. I took care of them.”
June shook her head a little.
“Here I’ll introduce them to you. You want to meet my brother?”
“No, they are scary. They wanted to hurt you.”
“They won’t now. I promise. Come on,” Loki coaxed.
“Okay, I guess,” June nodded her head. She didn’t trust these new people. Loki scooped her up into his arms and carried her out the door. Standing facing them were the Avengers.
“See, they aren’t trying to hurt us,” Loki gestured at them calmly. June didn’t understand. They had been very angry and looked like they wanted to kill him when he had sent her out of the room, “That’s Steve aka Captain America, and that's Natasha aka Black Widow, and we also have Carol, Sam, Clint, Bruce, Bucky and Rhodey. They have decided to help us with our little mission.”
June tried to look in their heads, but she was unable to, it seemed like some kind of wall had blocked their minds from her. What had suddenly made them all change their minds?
“Don’t forget your favorite brother!” Thor strode down the hallway toward them. This was strange.
“Ah, yes. Last but not least my good brother Thor.”
June wriggled out of Loki’s arms, what had he done?
“Can we talk in private?” June asked quietly.
“Of course child,” Loki said compliantly and let her lead the way to a quiet empty room.
“What did you do to them?” She asked as soon as they were alone. Loki laughed a little.
“I persuaded them,” Loki explained.
“But how?”
“With this,” Loki replied, a scepter materialized in his hand.
“Oh,” June then understood. He had brainwashed them, “Why didn’t you just do that to Stark instead of sending Niko back in time to kill him?”
“Because I can not brainwash him because of his arc reactor.”
June thought for a minute, she was happy he had found an alternative to killing the Avengers, but she wished he could find a way to not kill Stark. The few seconds that she had seen inside his head, had made her want hug him and protect him and make sure he got home to his pregnant wife.
“Can you call Niko back?” She asked hesitantly.
“No, I’m afraid not. I can’t have Stark messing up my plans a second time. I hope you understand.”
June nodded. She didn’t like it, but she understood.