The God of Mischief laid on the floor in the middle of creator, his whole body ached, he awoke regaining consciousness. The first thing he saw was his former mind slave holding an arrow to his throat, his vision cleared to see that he was accompanied by the billionaire in a metal suit, the so-called soldier out of time as he'd said earlier, a master assassin, his older brother, and a giant green man panting like he was waiting to smash him into oblivion all over again. He turned his head slightly to Stark saying, "Is it too late to take you up on that drink?"
The Archer continued to stare him down with his arrow still aimed for his neck, clearly ready to take his life if need be, "Don't try any funny business Loki." he said to him. His face etched with anger, not a passionate kind, not a violent, just firm and ready to take aim. kind of like his bow.
"Barton," spoke up Thor, "This is my brother, I shall deal with him according to the customs of Asgard."
"If you insist," he replied, "Natasha, do you have those cuffs still?"
"Right here Clint," awnsered Romanoff, she pulled them from her belt ready to use them.
"Hold it right there ma'am." stated the Captain, "Let me do it, your a bit too close to the project I'd say."
The agent tensed for a moment, as though she were wondering whether or not to simply snap Rogers' neck or comply and him the cuffs. "Your right." she admitted handing him the cuffs.
"Thank you." the Cap placed them on Loki's wrists, the cuffs then spread down and up Loki's humorous' covering his hands.
"Lovely." commented a sarcastic Loki.
"Allow me Captain." said Thor coming through.
"Right ahead Mr. Odinson."
The thunder god took his brother by the scruff his neck and held him up high, "You are going to pay for the damage you did to this planet and all it's citizens you've harmed."
Loki simply rolled his eyes at his adoptive brother's melodramatic.
"Could you just kill me and get it over with." he remarked.
Agent Romanoff clicked her pistol.
"Kidding!" he replied defensively.
"Alright, let's take him to director Fury, then we'll figure out what to do with him." reasoned Captain Rogers.
"I second this, we will discuss whether or not he shall taken back home to Asgard or simply stand trial before your United Nations."
"United Nations," scoffed the god of mischief, "That's a laugh in of itself if I ever heard one."
Hawkeye pulled on his bow string, an arrow in tow.
"Oh c'mon!" pleaded Loki, "Even you all have to admit, that it's a joke! i mean have you seen the world politics of this planet? It's more ridiculous than things are on Asgard, at least with Thor and my people you don't have to pretend you like each other. Poorly I might add."
Iron Man nodded slightly, knowing it was pretty true. Hulk slapped his back for nodding.
"Oh c'mon Bruce, even you have to admit that!" commented an annoyed Tony Stark.
Hulk simply turned his head rolling his eyes.
"And ya know, why leave it to the bureaucrats? I mean they're just gonna let him live to find a way to make new weapons!" quipped Tony.
"Because we have to let democracy take it's course, that's justice Mr. Stark!" replied an aggravated Steve.
"Oh my God," said an irritated Tony, "Listen Steve, I don't mean any disrespect, but the definition of democracy has changed a lot in the last 70 years! Politicians will use that word to justify anything or demonize anything, he's too dangerous to be kept alive. Natasha, Clint, you guys can level with me here?"
Clint nodded his head in agreement as Natasha replied with, "He is making some good points Steve, maybe we should just execute him, we can just tell director Fury that our lives were in danger when we confronted him so we acted violently in defense."
"That wouldn't be right," replied Steve, "And for the record Stark, I know about corruption. I was a little kid during the first red scare and I heard from friends about the Japanese internment camps. I know what corruption is Stark, I simply refuse to let that change my commitment to making justice."
Tony sighed and said, "Fine, you're the vet here. I'll stand down on this one."
"Thank you." replied the Captain.
While on the Quinjet, Loki merely spent his time talking shit with Tony.
"Pamela Anderson finds a Genie's lamp and rubs, the Genie says you can have one wish, what is it? Pamela Anderson says 'can you make VIP the hit it was met to be?'", began an especially cocky Stark, "the Genie says 'I'm sorry but even with all my power i can't do that.' Pamela sits back and thinks for a moment and replies, 'Well, can you make my vagina tight again?' the Genie horrified replies 'Ya know what, I'll see if I can fix VIP!'"
The god of mischief stared at Stark for a moment and finally replied, "Okay, I admit, that was hysterical! You win the joke off."
Listening Cap noted to Thor, "He had some real zingers there, did he ever joke around that much back on Asgard before all this?"
Thor pondered for a moment and said "Yes and no. He did joke around, but it always came off as very restrained and refined, like he was trying not release some demon inside him. Now, his jokes are raw and heated." The god of thunder thought for a moment and noted with a smirk, "It is actually an improvement on his humor I would say."
The Captain and the God shared a laugh for a moment.
"Steve, I think there's something you guys need to see real quick." said a mildly shaky Natasha.
The duo walked into the pilot room where Hawkeye and Black Widow were manning the controls.
"Something, you wanna tell us Thor?" she asked as the four of them looked out on a horrific thunder storm.
"This is not my doing." replied a confused Thor.
"Just a bad storm, right? this thing can take that, right?" asked Steve.
"Usually, but this doesn't look like a normal one." answered Clint.
Meanwhile back in the cargo area Loki began staring at Tony, before anyone knew what was going on Tony had blasted off Loki's restraints. He stood and walked to Dr. Banner as he worked on the tesseract.
"Excuse me," said the god placing his hand on the cube, "I'll be taking this."
Bruce stared at the man who had his hand on the tesseract, "You know I could easily just let the other guy out if you like."
"Why risk it? You could hurt the other passengers." replied Loki with his classic wise-ass smile.
The god tore open the exit door and flew out.
"I hate that guy." noted Bruce as he took off his glasses got up and flew out the exit.
A moment later Loki realized he was in free fall with the Hulk.
Tony sat there a moment before realizing what had happened.
"Oh God! I gotta get going." he said before grabbing his helmet and placing it back on, "Don't worry science buddy, I'm coming for ya!"
He quickly turned to the driver area, to inform the team of what had just occurred.
"Okay, so yeah. you mortals are gonna have to stay up here while Thor and I go after his brother."
"We'll follow you." replied Steve.
"Nonsense, Mr. Stark and I are strong enough to carry to of you at least." remarked Thor.
"Okay, I'll stay, the boys'll go." replied Tasha focusing on piloting the plane.
"Sounds good to me." replied Steve as he grabbed his shield, "You and me rich boy."
"Will do Cap." said Tony turning his back to Steve, "Grab hold."
The captain wrapped his arms around Tony as the duo took off, with Thor holding Hawkeye under arm not far behind.
The duos scanned the area.
"Jarvis, can ya pinpoint Bruce's location?" pleaded the billionaire to his computer program.
"I'm afraid not sir. The tracking device you placed in his glasses won't work as the glasses are still aboard the quinjet!" replied the program.
"Dammit Bruce!"
"No Luck?" asked Steve.
"Nope."
Steve scanned the area underhead, "Drop me." he told Tony.
"What?" replied Tony.
"Those trees weren't knocked an hour ago, something big hit 'em! I think that's our man. Drop me!" explained the captain.
Tony sighed, then turned over as Steve let go and fell to the ground.
"I hope he knows what he's doing." said an exasperated Tony.
Cap followed the mass of Broken to an all out brawl between the Hulk and Loki. Much more evenly matched this time as Loki was prepared to use his fists instead of his words.
"KNEEL!" demanded the god of mischief.
"HULK! SMASH!" replied the Green Goliath as took his fists to the ground causing a tremor.
The god fell to the ground. Natasha's quinjet landed moments later along with Thor, Tony and Clint as they all had Loki surrounded once more.
Loki grasped for the cube and said, "I still have this!"
The god's eyes began to glow as he held the cube in his hands, he was about to throw the Avengers a curve ball for sure.
Next thing they knew they were standing in the middle of a harbor at an early hour witness to a fire fight between WW I era battleships and biplanes marked by Chinese characters.
Loki looked around in horror, chuckled nervously and commented, "Uhm, I believe the expression is... oops?"