Hello everyone. I hope you will enjoy "Live Tonight - the Avengers!". This is a rock band AU, with some kind of team bonding and different pairings - Clintasha being one, and possibly some others will be introduced later on.

I do not own the characters nor anything else you can somehow trace back to MARVEL or viking myths or something else, but I do think I own this idea and all the alterations I've done to these caharcters.

- Ohdotar

Loki looked around, and checked the address once more, fishing a crumpled paper from the pocket of his black leather jacket. He seemed to be at the right door – he had to be – since this narrow and clean little alley lead straight to it. The door had a wonky letter A plastered on it, similar to the one that had been printed on the paper Loki held. All in all, it seemed like a nice place on the ground floor of a fairly neat tower block. And of course, music was heard from inside, so this was undoubtedly the place he was looking for.

Loki hesitated a little and scratched his snake-tattooed neck anxiously, but decided to knock on the door anyway. After all, being a chicken wouldn't make his life any easier.

"Come in", he heard a male voice say, and with nothing else to do than obey, Loki stepped inside. Music faded away and one by one everyone turned to look at him.

A dark-haired man with a funny goatee, who stood behind the microphone – assumingly being the one who had called him in – quirked an eyebrow at him. The other singer looked at Loki too, but with a much friendlier expression. The redheaded woman even smirked a little, before turning to say something to man behind the synth. The drummer, big and rather thunderous-looking blonde man, stood up and smiled at Loki expectantly, while the guitarist, another blonde, lowered his instrument silently on its stand and frowned.

Goateed man, shorter than Loki himself, stepped forward with a questioning look. Loki dropped his black canvas bag on the floor and gave the note titled "looking for bassist" to this man.

"So you are the bassist who called earlier?" Tony asked, giving a little sneer to his friends – this newcomer seemed to be just another one of those angsty little emo-kids. Well, even though Tony wasn't gay, he had to admit that this emo-kid was ridiculously good-looking. He nonetheless pushed the thought away and looked at the newcomer.

"That's a great deduction, Mr Holmes", emo-kid – what was his name, Luke… Lo… Loki? – said and grinned, then returning to his earlier stoic expression. Tony could hear some of his band mates laughing behind him.

"Okay, smart-ass, that's enough", he said, already getting fed up with this conversation. "What kind of music do you do?"

By now, everyone's attention seemed to turn to their conversation. Loki shrugged nonchalantly.

"Pagan metal", he answered curtly, without any need to explain it further. The room fell silent.

"Well, that was a turn-off", Tony said and made a face. "Anything else?" he asked.

"Rock and dark, indie-kind-of thing every now and then, but I can adjust to new styles rather easily. I can play the bass, the guitar, sing and write lyrics if needed", Loki answered, and if Tony had somehow insulted him, the cool gaze in his pale blue-green eyes gave nothing away.

"I almost wish I met this guy before you", Natasha mumbled to Clint somewhere behind Tony, and the pianist rolled his eyes, but smirked nevertheless.

"Come on, you can't be serious about this! Steve, say something", Tony groaned. All of the band members had huddled together into a small cluster, discussing silently about the situation – it actually didn't matter how loudly they spoke, since they all knew Loki could hear them, but they did so anyway.

"Don't be like that Tony, we could at least give him a chance – you know that Natasha and Clint have done darker emotional indie too", Steve hissed in response, referring to the redhead and her pianist boyfriend.

"I agree. And Stark, you should not forget that my last band used to play pagan metal too", their bearded, long-haired drummer Thor whispered, even though his voice was still rather booming. His metal background was no surprise when one looked at him, but after all he was a really sweet and caring man. "And we do really need a bassist", Thor added, glancing at Loki, who was beginning to look rather tense while standing in the doorway.

"Let's give the poor guy a chance", Clint said and ran a hand through his sandy brown hair. Natasha nodded firmly beside him, her scarlet curls bouncing. Tony pinched the bridge of his nose and muttered something under his breath that sounded like 'I see this but I am still working on believing' but nodded anyway.

"Whatever", he huffed and everyone seemed to sigh with relief. "But I will not be the one to introduce him to Bruce", Tony added afterwards. It wasn't that he didn't like their manger-slash-friend, in fact Bruce and Tony were quite good friends, but that guy had some serious anger management issues.

"Loki, it's okay, you'll be on a trial. Welcome to the Avengers", Natasha called to their new addition, smiling welcomingly. Loki looked a little surprised and rather relieved, and smiled back.

"Great. So yes, I am Loki Laufeyson", he said, introducing himself again, as something else than just 'the bassist'.

"Yes, I am Natasha Romanoff, this is my boyfriend Clint Barton", the only woman in their band said. "That sour-face is Tony Stark and he is a total diva – don't blame yourself. Our guitarist here is Steve Rogers, and this big fellow behind the drums is Thor Odinson. But it's okay if you just call us with our first names, even though our own Shakespeare Thor rarely does", Natasha grinned, enjoying the opportunity to introduce her friends and humiliate them a little.

Remeber to review or alert if you liked the story, I'm already planning the next one. If you notice any spelling/grammar mistakes, please let me know.