A/N : Hello readers! (Old and New) Welcome to Crisis on Two Earths- I'm Carrie. The new author of this book. Me and Madeline have been negotiating a bit before we made this so I know the basic plot of what's going to happen.

My writing style isn't identical to Maddie's but it is similar, so I do recommend reading the old chapters again, because I have added a bit and edited any previous errors. The next few chapters are still in-progress and will be updated and published in a few days.

P.S : Yellowjacket is now called Lightningbug

If you're a new reader- Carry on. (No pun intended)

July 7th, 2016

Earth 308

"Headcount's done, we're all here." Sitting at the end of a long oaken conference table the voice of Ultron resonated in the room, calling the meeting to order. Only two people stood on either side of him, both also sitting in wooden chairs.

"You sure you don't want to redo that headcount? Do a roll call?" Another voice on Ultron's left, that of the hero known as Lightningbug, responded sarcastically to Ultron's choice of words. "Why there are so many of us here, I think we might've missed a few!" The former entrepreneur known as Darren Cross grinned.

His outfit was made entirely of a vibranium alloy, and he was kitted out with the most advanced shrinking technology. A metal helmet, similar to a gas mask, covered his face. Small eyeholes had been carved into the mask, and were glowing a bright yellow. Inside the mask were sensors design to scan enemies, x-ray technology to locate vitals, heat sensors to detect enemies, and an alert system that gave a warning if the enemy's specific muscle was moving to dodge attacks.'

A pair of mechanical wings were fashioned onto his back, small jetpacks installed. And his ribcage was outlined in glowing yellow as well. His gloves were equipped with lasers, which were installed on each gap between each of his fingers, and could be activated with just a small wrong twist of his wrist. Ultron had never quite known why he called himself Lightningbug, but supposedly it had been because of the fact that he glowed.

(At least according to Loki, but Ultron never had trusted him..)

"Not helping Darren." If Ultron had teeth he'd be gritting them right now. The slight air of anger resonated in the room as Lightningbug flinched. "As I was saying, have we gone over the plan of attack?" He repeated for what to the others felt like the hundredth time.

"Yes." Both heroes on Ultron's sides sighed in exasperation, the sound of annoyance almost swimming in their tones.

"Four times." Added the second man in the room, this time on Ultron's right. Loki, the norse god of mischief, chuckled. He had been dressed in his signature bull-horns, along with a golden silk cape, embroided with the symbol of Asgard, the image of Yggdrasil, stitched in emerald-green thread. A bronze chestplate infused with vibranium had been slipped onto his body for battle, with a dark grey jacket as well. "Now I'm afraid I can no longer look at you without imagining you in your lecture voice."

"Ditto Loke. I think we get the idea Ultimanium." From under his glowing yellow mask Lightningbug grinned, much to Ultron's continued annoyance. "Stage a distraction, break into the place, bunch of files, tons of weaknesses, location of Infinity Stones, and stuff about project Mark 52, blah, blah, blah, all that good stuff."

"Which is why we need to be cautious in our approach." Ultron growled, feeling the briefing papers starting to crumple in his hands. "So will you both stop joking about this like this is some sort of mystical adventure!" His voice spiked with rage, bolting upward out of his chair he glared at both of the two, feeling the pinpoint beams in his eyes begin to heat up.

"Any objections?!"

"..."

"..."

"Good." Ultron sat back down, mimicking the stance of the few times he had seen Anthony, folding his arms behind his head and leaned back into his chair. "Then I'll go hack a few toasters and some ovens." He left the room promptly to leave the other two to their thoughts.

"... Toasters?" Lightningbug stared after a long moment of silence. "Ovens?... When did he.."

"I believe you were asleep during that part of the briefing my dear Mid-guardian friend." Loki said cooly, Lightningbug laughing nervously to try to cover his mistake.

"Oh. Right." Loki smiled as Cross started to show a sudden interest in scratching the back of his head with his hand and looking down at his shoes. "I forgot. Whoops. Hehe.."

"Ah, do not worry. I doubt Ultimanium cares." Loki said, just as Ultron walked back through the doorway. "And there he is."

"We're ready. Darren, you follow the bots over to their hostage building, me and Loki will go in the Tower while they are distracted." Ultron ordered, beginning to activate the hidden pulsar blaster in his palm.

Both Lightningbug and Loki shared a look before Loki grinned, twirling his staff in his hand.

"Let the games begin..."

A few minutes later, Ultron disabled the camouflage on him and Loki a few feet away from the tower. They had just enabled the distraction, with Lightningbug leading the charge. It would give them hopefully enough time they needed to break into the tower and steal the files.

"Report?" Ultron tilted his head slightly, activating the installed communication link as the static buzzing in his head adjusted into Lightningbug's voice.

"A bunch of people are freaking out over haywire toasters." Lightningbug mused, hovering in the air over the building, watching over the panic. "I've already emptied out a third of the hostages." He added, ushering a small child into a safe zone. "Might as well make this distraction look authentic and save us some time later."

"Lightningbug!" Darren jerked his head upward as a familiar face began to glide down from the skies, followed by two others running along the rooftops. From under his mask he smiled. "And it looks like our men and women of the hour have arrived.." He declared, shutting off the transmission as he aimed his glove up at the four members.

Redwing, Sam Wilson, Trickshot, Clint Barton, and The Red Widow, Natasha Romanoff, all landed near Darren, who smiled.

"You seriously thought you could hide this plan from us?" Trickshot sneered, beginning to noch an arrow. "You might as well have shot off fireworks saying "Hostage rescue here! Please come stop me!"

"Do I look like I'm trying to hide?" Darren chuckled, shrinking as he flew up in the air. "Well guess what, you're a bit late. All the hostages are out of the building, and I'm the only one here now. Hope you like playing hide and seek." A few seconds later Cross had shrunken so small that none of the team could see him with their naked eye.

The last thing Ultron heard from Darren's side of the com link were four angry shouts.

*Beep*

He grimaced, shutting off the com link and turning back to Loki. "I can't hear him." He grunted, watching as Loki tapped the door of the tower. All the com link was now producing was static.

"He shut it off." Loki shrugged, examining the locked door in front of him. "Plain and simple" as mid-gardians call it."

"I swear if he tries anything stupid..." Ultron said, somewhat worried. After all, he did just challenge four, admittedly the arguably weakest four, to a much more deadly game of hide and seek. There had already been so many people killed in the group that they didn't need to lose anymore people. Especially Darren. (Personally, he wouldn't mind losing Loki for a few hours...)

"He has basic intelligence and a shrinking outfit." Loki sighed, twisting his arm as he attempted to carve a hole in the glass. "He's survived for this long, he should be fine for one more battle..."

"Still..." Ultron didn't finish the sentence as Loki stopped carving and instead banged the scepter on the glass to no avail.

"Odin's beard!" He growled, much to Ultron's amusement. "This blasted thing is as thick as Yggdrasil's trunk!" Loki said, frustrated. If they still had the mind gem in the scepter Loki might've just blasted the door open, but it was currently in Visorus' head so the scepter was only a mere shadow of its former power, now only aided by whatever bits of magic Loki knew.

"I'm guessing that means it's thick." Ultron deadpanned, beginning to scan the lines of code he was examining from within the tower's firewall. While Loki kept trying to break the door open, he would try a more high-tech approach. "I've never actually seen Yggdrasil before it burned, so I assume it's quite bulky." Loki ignored his comment like he thought he'd do and Ultron found the code for the security system.

"You can uh, stop banging on the door like an idiot now." A dry smirk came onto Ultron's face as Loki frowned, giving him a puzzled glance. "Why?"

At that moment the door flung open, swinging around like someone had just blasted it open with a tornado. Loki was promptly hit in the face by the left side as Ultron stifled a laugh.

"How did you do that?!" Loki's recovered from the hit and began to massage his jaw with his arm as Ultron hid a smile.

"Hacking." He deadpanned once more, Loki, feeling jealous, decided not to cast anymore of his sarcastic remarks. "Hey, a magician never reveals his secrets right?" He joked, Loki storming through the doorway before he could hear.

"Not the time to reference pop-culture." Loki grumbled, an annoyed look on his face as the two entered the building. "Now if I were a mid-gardian.. Where would I hide my files?..." Loki's eyes danced around the building, looking for either a secret passage or some sort of hidden button. Ultron, who had been in the building before when first built, knew better.

"They're in the computer." He repeated, feeling a bit underwhelmed by the situation. He had expected a bit more backlash to their break-in. In fact, no guards were there at all! He had planned yes, for the security system to be disabled once he hacked into it, but he had expected at least one guard in the building!

He frowned slightly. Something wasn't right. This whole series of events seemed too fortunate, too perfect. There was no backlash from guards, no staff at the building present, and even the rest of the Retribution Team wasn't in the building! Wait a minute, the Retribution Team wasn't in the building? They had about nine members, and only four had gone after Darren!

"Then we need to get to it." Agreed Loki, beginning to run up the stairs as Ultron was still deep in thought. "Are you coming or not?" Ultron looked back up, for once looking a bit disturbed. "L-Loki, I think we should go." He said hastily, Loki staring at his statement in disbelief. "I feel like something isn't right..."

"We spent a week listening to you go over the plan Ultron! We are not wasting a perfect opportunity because you are paranoid!" Loki complained, not waiting for Ultron's response as he rushed upstairs. "Now come on before Anthony arrives!" He yelled, already a couple floors up.

"Hold on, I just need a couple seconds..." Ultron ran up with him, beginning to activate a scanner. "Loki, just calm down this might be a-"

"Aha!" Ultron nearly leapt up in the air before realizing it was Loki who was shouting. He whirled around to the nearest doorway to find that they were in the living room of the tower, Loki sitting in front of a computer. "I got it!" Loki had placed a hard drive in the computer, which was uploading files from the tower's database.

To his surprise the room was quite quiet. Too quiet. A half-eaten sandwich on a plate sat on a table, and the pillows on the couch had been thrown around a bit, as if someone had just recently left the building. The lights were not activated and the computer seemed oddly placed in the center of the table without anyone logging off.

This all seemed just a bit to fortunate to Ultron.

"Cool, uh, great I mean." Ultron didn't pay him much attention, instead trying to scan the tower for lifeforms other than themselves. "I swear something just isn't..." He froze. From out of the corner of his eye he saw a red shape walking down the nearby hall. A heat signature.

And this one just happened to be shaped like a certain Norse God of Thunder.

For a moment he didn't make a sound, staring only at the doorway. Sure enough his enhanced hearing could just barely pick out the faint sound of footsteps clacking down the hall.

"LOKI IT'S A TRA-" Before he could finish a blast of lightning came down from the ceiling, striking him head on.

*Crash!*

It took Loki a second before he registered, much less reacted to the sound of thunder behind him.

"Lo..ki..." He stopped waiting for the computer to upload the data and whirled around to find Ultron sitting in the middle of a more or less crater in the floor, circuits sparking as he thrashed about in pain.

"What the-" He was cut off by a voice he had hoped he would not hear again for as long as he lived.

"Hello there brother, robot traitor..."

Thor.

Loki froze, not daring to turn behind him. He knew what he was going to see, Thor grinning in triumph, hammer in hand and blue eyes sparking. And sure enough, if he had looked he would've seen his brother doing just this.

In that moment only one though circled through his head.

Run.

And that he did.

Ultron had already detected his fear and abruptly shot upward from the crater, surprising Thor for just a moment.

And that moment had been all they needed.

While Ultron ran right past Thor into the door behind him, Loki tore down the other hall, not daring to look back. Even the small moment of surprise from Thor watching him flee was enough of a head start for him. He found himself weaving through doorways and corridors, ducking and dodging any piece of furniture or obstacle that was in his way. And all the while Thor chased him, ready to finally the finish the job he had started long ago.

Left. Into an office.

Right. Another hall.

Right again. A meeting room.

Left again. A pool?

"What the heck?" He muttered for a second, staring at the sight of an indoor pool before continuing to flee.

Right again. A dead end.

Now to go back and go left.

To Loki this situation seemed like a bizarre simulation of one of the maze puzzles you received in a kid's meal at McDonalds. Of course, this time he didn't have any map and there was no line of ink to guide him down the right path. So really this was just running around like an idiot in a maze a kindergartener could solve. Yay.

"Oof!" He had been too busy in thought and had ended up running straight into Ultron.

"Loki?!" Ultron said, surprised. "Oh uh-"

"Come on!" Loki exclaimed, grabbing Ultron by the shoulder and making them both dash off to the left.

"Loki! Stop this nonsense!" From a distance Loki could hear Thor's voice from down one of the halls. "You know you are not going to achieve anything by doing this brother! Stop denying your fate and accept it!"

"My fate is to free these people brother, I have already accepted my fate long ago, unlike you!" Loki yelled at nothing in particular.

"How much longer are you two going to keep monologuing at each other?" Ultron said dryly as the two took a sharp turn.

"A few more hours." Loki replied, a smile appearing on his face. "At best I'm afraid. My dear brother does quite enjoy theatrics." He chuckled, hearing Thor's cry of rage echo through the air.

The two took another left and found themselves running straight into an empty corner.

"Drat!" Ultron began to try one of the doors on their right. "This one's locked.."

Loki tried one of the others. "Locked too.." He whispered. "Perhaps we could turn back?" He suggested, Ultron shaking his head.

"We can't, there's no time. Let's just hope one of these doors is a supply closet we can hide in." He began trying to jiggle one of the locks open, knowing that using his eyes to burn the lock would be too risky.

From behind them Loki could hear feet running. Thor was catching up.

"I can't get it open." He heard Ultron growl from next to him. "Maybe if we can just-" He began, but Loki swiped his scepter across his chest to cut him off. "Go. Now. Before my brother comes." Ultron stared blankly at him.

"What?" Loki could only guess what the android truly was thinking at his statement.

"I said go!" Loki repeated, waving his scepter around as Thor's footsteps grew louder. "Leave here now! Without me! We can't risk losing both of us!" He roared, Ultron pausing before shaking his head.

"No way." He replied bluntly, glaring at Loki. "I am not leaving without-"

"You are the only one out of the two of us who could even have the remote chance of leaving this Tower alive." Loki lowered his voice to a low growl, pressing his scepter against Ultron's neck. "Re-upload into a different body if you have to. You need to leave! Thor can't get you at the base, and then at the very least one of us will live with Darren."

Ultron's face remained carefully neutral, though Loki could already see the internal struggle going on in his head. Whatever decision his friend made it would have to be quick, as Thor's footsteps were almost deafening. If he hadn't seen them rush down the dead end then he most certainly must've heard them bickering.

He watched Ultron hesitate for a second before giving in, watching as the red spark in his eyes began to fade, finally disappearing as the now empty robot shell collapsed to the floor, landing with a crash.

Loki's eyes did not leave the smpty shell until the voice of Thor came from down the hall.

"Well brother, it seems like its just you and me.." Loki turned to find Thor smirking at him, spinning his hammer with his wrist. He forced a grin onto his face, turning to face him. It was better not to let him see his fear.

"Ha. Yes I'm sure of that." Back in Asgard he had been told never to show your weakness to the enemy, but to instead find their weakness. "It's a bit strange you're here all by yourself you know." And if he knew Thor, his one greatest strength was also his most deadly weakness.

His pride.

"What do you mean?" Thor blinked at Loki, baffled by what he had just said. So far so good.

"Well. you're not the best option to really "Terminate" someone are you?" Loki smirked as confusion passed on Thor's face. "I mean, you ARE the God of Thunder, but you're not the best to do the job." He watched Thor's grip on his hammer tighten. A small smile appeared on Loki's lips. They didn't call him the God of Mischief for nothing.

"What?" He mocked, feeling his confidence growing by the second as Thor's anger continued to grow. "Did Anthony not have enough time to send Visorus after me and Ultron? Was "Vice" too busy fighting the distraction downtown or was Anthony just too lazy to ask him to stop playing chess with Red Widow for a few minutes?" Loki held back laughter as he washed his brother's face flush.

"I can destroy you and your rebellion just as good as Visorus or Anthony!" Anger flared in the thunder god's eyes. "Your little group has been diminishing ever since you started up this ridiculous lot! Now it's only you and Ultron left, with only a few other supers helping you.." He threatened, Loki feeling indifferent.

"Perhaps, but today we're stopping your reign here! We're going to free these people from your clutches, from the fear you caused!" The siblings began to circle each other, like two lions about to pounce on each other to compete for the prey.

"You never should have sided with that madman brother." Loki sighed, letting one hand go off the scepter to block Thor if he tried to attack. "Who knows, perhaps things might've gone different. Maybe we even could've been working together. Like real brothers." Loki let the though sink in for a moment before Thor charged in rage.

"We never were true brothers Loki." He swung his hammer, Loki narrowly dodging. "And never shall be." Loki pursed his lips, hoping Thor hadn't caught his expression of guilt.

"The Mid-Gardians are minor beings Loki, stop lowering yourself to them!" Thor glared at him. "They do not deserve to be protected, admit it! They deserve to die!" He did a fient to the left and Loki felt something like a giant rock pound on his leg. "To perish in a fool's grave like the cowards they are!"

"They are not minor, they are just as important as you or me!" Loki growled, hobbling backward. "I'll lower myself as far as I can to stop the fear that you envelope on them every day!"

"Ah yes, and I suppose the reason father chose YOU for Highfather was because of this I suppose?" Thor waved his arms upward at nothing in particular. "Because you are a good person when it comes to arguments?" He complained. Loki chuckling.

"Well, that can be a good thing in the court." Loki grinned. "I'm a little more competent that's all." He half-bragged, enraging Thor.

A second later a fist had been swung at Loki's face, which he quickly jumped out of the way from.

"Father would be ashamed to see you like this Thor Odinson." Loki shrugged. "After all, he gave you a second chance after you betrayed him." He openly taunted, dodging the swings and punches of his brother, ignoring the throbbing pain in his leg.

"He threw me out of Asgard Loki! He is not a good leader! He is going to drive Asgard into ruins!" Thor shouted. "You yourself are a better ruler than father, and you are not even of Asgardian blood!" He swung his hammer at Loki, who jumped out of the way just as it pounded into the floor.

"I'm aware." Loki said casually, waving his scepter around. "See this brother? It's a staff." The look Thor was giving him was the type you would give your parent if they suddenly decided to give you a lecture on teddy bears.

"The same staff you used to create Ultron, the same one used to make the android Visorus." He continued, Thor looking a bit less bewildered at what he was saying.

"The magic itself from the Mind Stone is gone, but my will keeps it alive. Like Mjolnir to you, I myself am the only man to be able to wield it. But unlike Mjolnir, this staff does not judge by the worthy, this judges by the man." He finished, planting the staff between the two of them.

Thor stared at him, then at the staff, and then back again.. "What are you, some kind of philosopher!" Loki laughed.

"Far from it, but want I want to say is, I can wield this without the stone because my actions are ones it allows. Ones it deems able to do. Like overthrowing your iron fist on these people for instance." In a milisecond Loki's face turned serious and he slammed the scepter down onto the floor, a miniature shockwave throwing Thor across the room.

"Why you little-" Thor, to angry to finish his sentence, slammed Mjolnir on the ground and summoned lightning down upon Loki as he felt volts of pain strike him down to the floor.

"Y-you... you will not..." Loki attempted to stand but howled in pain as another strike of lightning bolted through him.

"Well not what brother? I thought you were going to be highfather? I thought you were a GOD.." Thor laughed, going to over to Loki, grabbing him by the collar and hoisting him into the air with an iron-like grip.

"Odin.." Loki wheezed. "Odin..will find out..he will punish you..I'm trying to help the Mid-Gardians.." He improvised, feeling ashamed knowing how pathetic it sounded.

"The Mid-Gardians are already doomed, they're beyond help.." Loki gasped for breath as Thor tightened the grip on his throat. "Even Ultron knows that, and he is on your team trying to save the!"

"W-What about..J- Jane.." Thor's face flushed at the sentence.

"Don't you dare talk about her Loki!" He pinned Loki to the wall, choking him. "She was my world before Odin took her away, and now she's in a cold, cold, mid-gardian coffin five feet in the dirt! Buried like a commoner! And I tell you this brother, when we conquer Asgard I will get my personal vengeance on our dear father for doing so..." He snarled, his fingers digging into the skin of Loki's neck.

"She wouldn't be happy...to see you..like this.." Loki croaked in desperation, only making Thor choke him harder.

"It's a shame you had to leave like this..." Thor whispered, heaving Mjolnir up with his hand. "We could've been working side by side you know. Like real siblings. Alas, it was not meant to be..." Loki could only watch as Thor began to lift the hammer upward.

"Goodbye brother..." Thor raised his hammer, lifting it before bringing it down once again, Loki howling in pain as his vision went bright red as the thunder struck.

There was no light, he had no breath, he had no soul..and then all of a sudden every bit of pain was lifted.

Loki gasped for breath, his eyes flickering open, light flowing into them as his ears continued to ring from the thunder. He was still in Stark Tower.

But Thor was no longer there. In fact no one was there. His eyes glanced at the ground and found the carpet unharmed. How was that possible? The lightning strike should've scorched it to a crisp!

In fact... He looked closer and found it to be a different color than the carpet from earlier. Had he'd been unconscious and they had though he had died so they left him to rot in their tower?! Was the carpet so scorched they got a new one?!

He began to look around. He wasn't even in the corner anymore! He was in the living room! How did he get in the living room?! Was it customary to dispose of the body behind the television?

"What in the gods of Asgard is going on he-"

He looked up to find the confused-looking Visorus staring down at him. Oh no.

"Well, this is indeed one way to die.." Loki though silently..

A/N : If you don't like this new version then I can re-post the original.

Now, I know what you're thinking. "What the hell did I just read" or "This isn't the original chapter." Well, this is simply a mirror universe fic. If you know Star Trek, or JLA Crisis on Two Earths, you might know what I'm talking about. Otherwise use google. You also might be wondering why the Avenger's names are slightly typo-ed. Well, in this universe they have different names.

Here are the reversed names-

Black Widow : Red Widow, Vision : Visorus, Scarlet Witch : Sorceress, Iron Man: Titanium, Hulk: Titan, Falcon: Redwing, Captain America : Super-Soldier, War Machine : Iron Menace, Thor : Thor, Hawkeye : Trickshot

Suggestions for the story, new ideas, and reviews are welcome!