ok so first things first ... this fic takes place in a slightly different universe. Loki isn't Thor's brother or adoptive brother. The action in avengers still took place just with someone different as the villain (just imagine someone of your choice :D )We are now at the point where the dark elves are attacking and while on earth the avengers are helping Thor and the Convergence leads one thing to another...
Enjoy.
The last thing Tony remembers is dodging a blast from one of these damn elf-weapons, before flying backwards and straight into one of the wormholes. His suit shut down for a second and as the HUD and Jarvis came back to life he found himself lying on the ground. Slowly standing up, shivering from the sudden cold not even his suit could protect him from, he asked, "Jarvis, where are we?"
"Location unknown, sir. Outside temperature minus 60 degrees Celsius, wind speed 90 km/h, no heat signatures in close distance." "What? Sooo... are we still on earth? Please tell me we´re still on earth."
"I fear I have to disappoint you, sir. I´m not getting any satellite or funk signals," Jarvis answered. "My scans say the air is safe to be inhaled but weather and magnetic fields make it very unlikely that your current location is earth."
"Great, where are we then? Wonderland?
Before Jarvis could reply that he didn´t know either, Tony heard a dark voice yelling something against the storm.
"Hei, fru yna oui ? Yht fryd yna oui tuehk rana?"
Not sure whether it was because of the snowstorm raging around him or if it actually was another language, he turned around a few times until he could make out two shapes in the distance. Or at least he guessed that there were two shapes. He couldn´t really see much but white. As they came nearer with every second and got bigger and bigger and dangerous looking Tony´s thoughts began to race.
Ok, think Tony. You came here (wherever here is) through one of these damn wormholes so …you will just go back through one of the damn wormholes! But maybe you want to make it quick...
With one last glance towards the approaching figures he flew to the air in search of a way back home. Or at least he tried... "Jarvis? Why the hell am I not in the air right know?", the engineer asked, trying desperately to lift into the air. "It seems the suit is more or less frozen, sir."
Oh great... with another glance towards the figures he could now identify as two very big and very blue men he started to walk: slowly but steady, back turned towards the men.
Come on... there has to be a way…
Suddenly Ironman was pulled backwards and pushed to the ground. His mask still on, the HUD showed him two men at least twice his size standing above him. Bald, with blue skin and piercing red eyes. They looked at him pressing him down with some kind of spears. The cold seemed not to bother them even a tiny bit for they were only dressed in loincloths and some metal breast armor.
"Hey."
" Fru yna oui ?", one of them yelled at him pressing his spear harder down Tony´s suit.
"Woah, easy there. I have no idea what you are saying ok."
Pressing himself further into the snow underneath his back Tony raised his hands in a peaceful gesture.
" Fryd ec dryd?", the other one said glancing towards his companion
" E ryja hu etay pid e drehg ed fuimt pa pacd du pnehk ed du dra gehk. Lusa uh cdyht ib!", smurf A yelled at Tony and grabbed his arm pulling him back on his feet.
"Hey! I just want to go back home ok? I don´t want to harm anyone so you could be a little bit more gentle, ok? Ow! What the...?"
I seemed Tony was walking too slowly in the eyes of smurf A and B so they just grabbed him by the arms and dragged him along.
"Well, I don´t think you can understand me. That´s ok I don´t understand you either but I need to find one of the wormholes before it´s over ok!? I´m from earth... I mean Midgard. I´m... I´m a friend of Thor maybe you know him."
As he mentioned the thunder god the two men looked at him even angrier than before. Ok obviously they know him...
Thor had told them about the nine worlds some time ago and that Asgard wasn't really on a friendly term with the world of the frost giants. Jot-something... and of all places that's the one I land after being sucked in by a wormhole. Of course.
Tony wanted to lift his mask to get a better view of what laid ahead but besides his masked being frozen, too he guessed the storm would just freeze his face of as well and still deny him a good view. After a few minutes he saw two other figures standing beside what looked like a big gate made of ice and steel. The four giants spoke some words with another and then the two guards opened the gate for smurf A and B and himself.
Standing on his own feet again he watched the gate being closed again over his shoulder, before turning around. Tony now stood in a semi dark tunnel with walls made of ice, illuminated by soft glowing, blue orbs hovering at the ceiling.
"Jarvis, scan everything you can for later.", he whispered.
As he was pushed forward he noticed the tunnel being big and everything... but not that big.
How do these guys fit in here?
Looking to his right and then to his left he noticed that the two frost giants had somehow shrunk, now being just two heads larger as Tony instead of twice his size. Odd... maybe I grew…
Unfortunately he didn't.
After walking for what felt like hours (because walking in this damn frozen suit was exhausting as hell) they came to another big gate with guards. The four talked and one of the men disappeared through the gate only to come back after some minutes pushing the gate open for them to enter. Tony decided to keep quiet for the time being. They didn´t understand him anyway so why bother. He would just wait for what was to come, even if the thought of the possibilities made his heart race a bit with fear.
Maybe they would kill him and then eat him or torture him or something... worse…
Behind the gate lay a hall as big as a football field and at least as high as wide. The walls and floor were made of ice like the tunnels before and on the left and right side each stood five big marble columns traversedby fine veins of gold. The floor was patterned with ancient looking symbols and lines which were carved into it and at the other end of the hall icy spikes stood high out of the floor and with some stairs leading to a little flat area in the middle it looked like some kind of throne.
There were some other men standing in the hall, stares boring into Tony and as they made their way to the middle of the room Tony looked up to find another of these blue glowing orbs at the ceiling, bigger than the others before.
Yep. Definitely landed in wonderland. Next up: me being beheaded by the queen of hearts.
After a while a door in the far left corner opened and after two very tall guards, another man entered the hall. He made his way to the throne, head held high with a golden crown placed on his black hair that reached to his shoulders. Blue skin and a black leather loincloth like the other giants but decorated with golden chains.
After the king (or tony at least suspected that it was the king and not the queen of hearts thank god) sat down on his throne and the guards had positioned themselves at his side, red eyes stared at Tony.
Then, after he bowed to his king, smurf A spoke, "So gehk Laufey, fa vuiht drec lnaydina fyhtanehk uidceta uin syeh kyda. Ra tuac hud cbayg uin myhkiyka pid ra cyet cusadrehk ypuid Thor."
Some of the others began to growl at the god's name. "Nacd!", the king said in a dark voice, calming the others again, eyes never leaving Tony.
Not understanding a damn thing Tony´s inner idiot declared this moment to be the right one to announce himself as he lifted his mask (which was finally not that frozen anymore) and began to speak, "OK, like I said before to these two here:", he pointed his thumps at the two frost giants who found him outside, " I don´t understand a single word you guys are saying but there has to be someone here understanding me right?" Tony's eyes shot to the far left column absolutely sure he saw a movement even with seemingly nobody there. For a short second the king's eyes flickered there as well, what verified Tony's presumption that there must be someone.
Then the engineers eyes shot back to the front.
"Ra muugc mega yh Æsir pid ra´c du fayg yht deho. E drehg ra'c uha uv setkynt. Dyga res du dra tihkauh ihdem fa bnabynat dra ymm-cbayg. Yht kad res uid uv drec netelimuic ynsuin.", the king spoke before Smurf A and B bowed began dragging Tony back to the hall entrance.
"What now?", Tony asked not really expecting an answer.
"Cuh!", he heard the king speak quietly and as Tony glanced back over his shoulder he looked into a pair of red, mysterious glowing eyes, so very different from the cold stares of the other frost giants, alive and curious.
They seemed to stare into his soul like shining rubies and for a short moment he forgot how to breathe before being pulled back to reality by the closing door and the harsh push of the guard.
After the guards led him through some tunnels (again) and up some stairs he was being pushed into some kind of prison cell. It was really just a small room with stone walls and a door made of steel bars. One of his guards entered the cell with him and said something. Tony guessed it was some kind of command judging by the waiting look on the smurf´s face but he had no idea what the man wanted from him. Then he began to yell at Tony again and tried ripping the suits mask of. "HEY!", Tony shouted back, dodging the large blue hand. He couldn´t move as fast as he wanted to, but the suit wasn´t that frozen anymore so he could take it off if he wanted. That would leave him without protection though.
"Jarvis, how´s our energy level going?" "18%, sir."
Fuck. That´s not really much...
The way the man still yelled something at Tony while trying to rip his suit of, Tony suspected he wanted him to take his suit of. Normally he would say no way. That would leave him very vulnerable, without any protection neither against enemies nor the cold but this whole situation was far from normal. With just 18% power and becoming less with each minute of trying to heat the suit a little and at the same time getting it to move while still frozen his chances against the frost giants just ripping him out of the suit were very bad. So Tony decided to cooperate and get out of the suit. Maybe they would give him a blanket or a fire or something to keep him warm... maybe...
"Jarvis, send signals of our location every half an hour or so. Maybe some satellite picks it up. Oh and remind me again how cold is it here?" "Understood, sir. The temperature is minus 32 degrees Celsius."
After that he instructed Jarvis to let him out of the suit and not attack somebody but safe every bit of energy for distress signals.
"Oh man. It is FRICKING cold here." Tony shivered at the first contacted with the air and wrapped his arms around himself. With every breath he could see the air dancing like fog in front of his face while he watched the guards grabbing his suit and leaving Tony all alone in the locked cell.
"Yeah, thanks for the hospitality. Really nice of you...fuck it´s cold...", Tony's voice trailed off. He decided to save some body heat by curling into a ball in one corner shivering and he was very sure he would freeze to death in here. To dress in some light trousers and a t-shirt really wasn´t the best idea of the day.
While he sat there his own shivered breathing was the only thing he heard. Surely the others were already searching for him. Or maybe they were still fighting... or dead...No!
They are looking for me. Definitely! I hope...
The engineer sat on the cold stone floor for what felt like days but really were just a hour at least. Otherwise he would be dead by now, Tony was sure. Squeezing his eyes shut an image of two glowing red orbs came back to his mind. Red, alien and strange but beautiful eyes staring at him, into him. As Tony thought to hear footsteps his eyes opened slowly. The steps came closer and slowly he lifted his head the image of red eyes still lingering in his head and as his gaze fell on the door he saw them again.
Red orbs staring at him curious and powerful but somehow shy and wary at the same time.
And he couldn´t do anything but stare back.
I´m sorry if my english isn´t that good but just let me know if you find big mistakes. Also let me know if someone of you want´s to beta read. (you also can find this story on a3o)
Next chapter is already done and will be up next weekend and the third the one after ( I hope) and so on…
The language of the frost giants does not belong to me. It´s Al Bhed from final fantasy and you can translate it here if you want (like i did)
so I hope you liked the first chaper, let me know what you think :)
