A big thank you to all of you that are following my story! I didn't like the way this was going so it has been rewritten to make a tighter plot hope you enjoy the change!
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Nick Fury stood on the bridge of the Helicarrier staring at the night sky. Two years ago Thor had returned from Asgard to inform them that Loki had somehow escaped his imprisonment. They had been on alert waiting for any sign of his return but nothing, not a whisper, not a glimpse. Maybe he's not coming back. Maybe he's found somewhere else, were the whispers among the SHIELD agents, Fury did not buy it. Loki was not going to let his defeat remain unchallenged.
Suddenly alarms began ringing on the bridge. "Sir, we have anomalous readings. It's...it's very faint, sir." One of the crew called out, mildly confused by the readings. This could be what they were waiting for.
"Where are the readings coming from?" demanded Maria Hill coming up beside Fury.
"Um...Paris...narrowing down...It appears the readings are coming from the Palais Garnier opera house." The tech responded.
"Sir, facial recognition hit. Confirm Loki has been spotted at the opera house in Paris." Another tech called out from a computer terminal further down.
"Contact the Avengers and send them the coordinates then contact Asgard and let Thor know we have found Loki." Fury ordered.
"We have visual coming in now sir. Uh, you're going to want to see this..."
Tony Stark, known to many as Iron Man, arced over the Seine heading towards the opera house. Captain America, Steve Rodgers, Clint "Hawkeye" Barton and Natasha "Black Widow" Romanoff were following behind in a Quinjet. He was interested to find out what the squirrelly demigod was doing in Paris. The building was surrounded by police when Tony arrived. Once he got inside and past the police cordon he could see exactly why the Avengers had been called in, and he could not have been more surprised. The place was a disaster. A tornado would have done less damage. In the centre of the room stood Loki breathing heavily.
Loki rounded on the approaching Avengers "Where is she?!" he yelled, his eyes wide and wild. He grabbed the front Captain America's costumes. "I will rip out your spleen and wear it as a hat if you have hurt her." He hissed.
The other Avengers pulled out their weapons. Iron Man stepped forward "Hey Bag of Cats! What the hell are you talking about?" he grabbed Loki by the shoulder to pull him but Loki instead rounded on him hitting the armour in the face with an intense ball of flame.
"You pitiful little mortals, you think me stupid? We have been unchallenged everywhere we have gone until we came back to this pathetic little backwater realm." He was clearly beyond rational thought right now due to rage.
Before Loki could do more damage to the Avengers he was pulled away. Loki turned to attack the interloper. "Stop this! We are not going to get Reagan back if you go all half cocked against everyone." The other man said. Loki collapsed to the ground, the will to fight leaving him. Hawkeye continued to aim his bow at Loki but others tried to train their weapons on both.
"You are coming with us, both of you." Captain America said slightly confused.
The other man looked up "We'll come quietly. There is much we'll need to talk about."
Iron Man tilted his head quizzically "Sean?" recognizing the other man.
Once their prisoners were seated in the Quinjet the whole situation got weirder. "Sean Rushkin? Tell me I'm seeing this correctly. Your Sean Rushkin, head of Media RedSand Enterprises!" Tony exclaimed.
"Maybe it's the new thing for billionaire playboys to take on demi-gods." Clint quipped from the pilot's seat.
Sean just looked horribly embarrassed to have been caught. You so owe me big for this Reagan. He had made the choice to keep Loki out of trouble with the authorities but with all the bad blood between him and SHIELD it was going to be like tap dancing on quicksand.
The Avengers were still trying to make sense of the situation into which they had stumbled by finding and arresting Loki. Loki fighting the turmoil of emotions Reagan was missing, the Avengers had captured him and his only ally at this time was Sean. He was not sure how much help he was going to be. He had only agreed to this silly night out that Reagan and Sean had planed because his wife had explained it be the height of rudeness to visit Midgard but not visit Sean, who had set up a bit of a court in exile on the mortal world. He had been shocked to see him arrive at the opera house with a lady who was clearly not his wife, especially since back in the Kingdom Sean and his wife were considered the paragon of marriage. Shows how much you can trust appearances , he snorted. As long as he helps me get Reagan and-. He shook his head it do dwell on what could go wrong.
Clint radioing the Helicarrier was the only thing to break the heavy silence in the jet "This is Avengers Quinjet approximately thirty minutes out."
The officer on the other end responded almost immediately. "Roger, Quinjet. Thor and Banner will be meeting you when you arrive. Will you be needing any further assistance with the prisoners?" the voice crackled over the radio.
Clint looked back at the two unhappy passengers. "We should be fine but just in case send a few extra guards."
The Avengers escorted their prisoners into a conference room. "We're not sure yet what if anything they've done," Captain America reminded them. The two men were unsettling quiet.
"Brother!" Thor rushed over to grab his brother on a bone crushing embrace. Loki squirmed frantically to escape Thor's grasp. "I am glad we have found you before you could cause more trouble. We had worried that you had been gravely hurt or killed in the escape but you must return, whatever punishment Father devised you should not have run away. My banishment taught me much, it would have done the same for you. Come home and end this now."
Fury stomped into the room, "Someone tell me what is going on!" yelled Fury.
"Honestly sir, I'm not all that sure myself." Captain Rodgers piped up, rubbing the back of his head. "They haven't said anything relating to the events in Paris. They... haven't spoken one word since we picked them up. We don't know what happened."
"Where is my wife? You must have done something with her. We were enjoying a nice, quiet night out when suddenly chaos breaks out and lo and behold who appears, none other but the mighty Avengers. Were you so frightened about facing me that you decided to punish me through her?" Loki ranted.
"What?" Tony uttered flatly.
"You have a wife? How do you have a wife? When did this happen?" Clint asked in confusion.
"Brother is this true?" Thor asked in confusion.
Loki looked a little affronted by the question "I am perfectly capable of attracting a mate." He huffed.
All Clint could think to respond to that was "How?"
"That is not important right now. We were attacked at the opera house." Sean cut in trying to focus the conversation back towards the problem at hand "The attackers seemed to know that we would be there tonight and who exactly to look for."
"Wait I want to go back to the part where Reindeer games has a wife. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that." Tony added to no one in particular.
"What do you mean knew who to look for?" Captain Rogers asked his military mind trying to gather the important information and Loki's marital status was not.
"The opera was attacked by tall, gangly creatures. You know they kinda looked like those creatures that attacked New York." Sean gestured, everyone else in the room tensed up a little at the mention of the Chitauri. "Anyways, they're the ones who grabbed Reagan."
Before anyone could ask the Helicarrier was rock by a large explosion.
The Avengers face off against the Helicarrier's attackers and more is revealed about Reagan's kidnapping.