Chapter I: Bury all the Memories

A/N: And here comes Go For Broke. Reading Skyfall first is highly recommended before reading this one to avoid confusion. Pairings will be decided as things go along, even if they don't happen right away. Rating will be subject to change at a later date. Thanks go to theicemenace for her beta work. Enjoy the chapter! Sparky She-Demon

"Bury all the memories, cover them with dirt…" Fire and Ice, Within Temptation

"What is this blasted place?" Hanna thought angrily as she took in her surroundings at the end of the inter-realm passageway. They were unlike anything she had ever seen.

Though she did see that the clothes were very different from what she was wearing, and those were already attracting odd looks from the locals. Hanna ducked behind a building, summoned some clothing so that she could blend in.

Her pants were of a tough, blue material, the shirt short-sleeved, black, and of a soft material, Hanna could not name.

At least the outer coat was of a recognizable material: leather. It was long, and came to her ankles. Hanna had kept her boots, as they were the only article that would not attract the wrong kind of attention.

After sending the rest of her Asgardian attire to that interdimensional storage space of hers, Hanna decided to take a look around thinking,

"Now to find out where I am. Thank the Norns for the fact that Allspeak sounds like whatever the local language is."

Hanna joined the throng of people. Whatever Realm she was in, it sure had a lot of people.

Noticing a man that seemed to be wearing a uniform of some sort, Hanna went over to him and asked,

"Excuse me, I got lost. What place is this?"

With a helpful smile, he replied, "You are in Stuttgart, Germany. How far are you from your group miss?"

Summoning a smile, Hanna replied smoothly, "Not very far. Thank you." With that, she walked away quickly, not wanting to attract any kind of unnecessary attention.

With a discreet wave, Hanna wiped the man's memory of seeing her.

She was still close enough to hear when a friend of his came up and said, "So did you get a date out of that gorgeous brunette?"

The man she had spoken to replied, "What brunette?"

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While walking around this city, Hanna had been thinking of how thrilled Thor would be when she told him about the new passage to Midgard.

Suddenly, she felt a skull splitting pain. Hanna staggered towards a bench to sit down. It was pain unlike any she'd felt before. As the pain cleared, Hanna sensed the presence of another sorcerer.

And not just any sorcerer.

The sorcerer that had caused her no end of trouble for the past two years, Prince of Lies and Mischief: Loki.

Hanna's anger burnt through her. Without even trying, her hands became alight with blue flames.

Thankfully, no one was paying any attention to her; all attention was focused on her old teacher, who was in the midst of causing no shortage of chaos. He had a strange looking spear that emanated pure power. She wondered where he had gotten it from.

Loki had obviously been wearing some local clothes as his armor shimmered into view. That was a comparatively easy trick to pull off. It took little concentration for any truly competent magic user.

Hanna watched as he threw up several illusions of himself to corral the crowd of people. Then he yelled, "I *said* KNEEL!"

At that moment, Loki seemed to lose control of the glamour that hid the blue skin that marked him as a Frost Giant.

Hanna immediately took the precaution of concealing her presence. Even though she doubted that Loki was even looking of other magic signatures, she could not be too careful.

Sure enough the mortals knelt, some of them looking around at the illusions trying to figure out which one was the real one. Hanna's eyes were straight forward. No one was likely watching her, as Loki had all of the attention he could possibly want.

And no one, other than Loki himself would know who she was. Hanna was going to watch, to see what he was up to.

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Once the humans were finished kneeling, Loki began speaking while walking through the crowd, "Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled, in the end you will always kneel." He had an evil grin on his face.

Hanna was frowning. Even though Loki had always possessed a dim viewpoint in regards to the humans, he had never really taken this tact towards them.

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As she came out of those thoughts, Hanna noticed that an old man was standing up from his kneeling position and said, "Not to men like you!"

She was impressed, a human with no powers that could possibly even hope to match Loki. Hanna hoped he kept on going.

Grinning, Loki replied, "There are no men like me."

Ignoring him, the old man shot back, "There are always men like you."

Hanna could tell that Loki was angered by this, but he only grinned saying, "Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example."

The spear was powering up, then Loki fired a blast at the old man. Before Hanna could even think about throwing up a magical shield in front of him, out of nowhere came what looked like a man, and used a shield to deflect the blast back towards Loki, knocking him to the ground.

As the man who held the shield stood up, Hanna finally got a good look at him. He was wearing a uniform of red, white, and blue with a star on his chest. The shield had the same color scheme, with a star in the middle.

"How does he move in that?" Hanna thought to herself. He was a soldier that much Hanna could tell as he walked slowly towards Loki saying,

"You know the last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing."

"The soldier," Loki sneered as he stood up, "The man out of time."

"I'm not the one who's out of time," the other man said as a flying craft of some sort came into view, with someone aboard ordering, "Loki, drop the weapon and stand down."

"Oh like that's going to happen" Hanna scoffed. Her former instructor was on a roll, and she was going to stay and watch and see how this played out. She had a feeling that it would be quite the fight, despite the man in stripes being a mere human.

Sure enough, Loki fired a blast off at the flying craft, and the man in red, white, blue managed to throw his shield at Loki, hitting him in the shoulder and managing to get a punch in.

Loki, instead of using his magic, used the staff. His opponent managed to block him a few times, before Loki got him in the gut. The other man took a deep breath, before trying to throw the shield, which Loki blocked away with ease.

Loki's opponent missed a few more punches before getting knocked in the shoulders, to the steps leading up to a fountain.

"Kneel." Loki growled as he put the butt of the spear to his opponent's head. Hanna still hadn't caught his name yet.

"Not today!" the other man replied as he grabbed the spear and kicked Loki in the chest.

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Little did Hanna realize that as she was watching the fight, the old man from earlier was watching her. Why wasn't she running like everybody else? She was watching the fight, her eyes moving to keep up with the fighters.

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The fight was not going so well for the soldier as Loki had called him. Loki was throwing him all over the place.

Hanna had cover her ears all of the sudden to block out the blast of noise that poisoned her ears.

"Is this what the mortals call *music*?"

Amidst that, Hanna opened her eyes to see a suit of red and gold armor shoot through, and hit Loki in the chest with some sort of energy blasts, knocking him into the stairs.

The suit seemed to be a weapon in of itself, when the man inside the suit growled,

"Make your move Reindeer Games."

Loki illusioned his cape, helmet, and armor away. He raised his hands in the universal sign of surrender.

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As the humans led Loki onto the flying craft (they had no idea that he was just toying with them), Hanna turned around and left. There was nothing left for her to see here, she had to get back to the forest.

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Shortly before he got on the plane, Steve heard a throat being cleared. Turning around, Steve saw the man that he'd deflected the blast away from.

Seeing that he'd gotten Steve's attention, "Thank you for saving my life, Captain," he said. "You're welcome…" Steve didn't know the man's name.

"Karl." The man turned away, then paused, and said, "One more thing Captain Rodgers, there was another one. Like Loki."

That got Steve's attention, "What did he look like?"

"She was a young woman with dark hair and blue eyes. Even though she was wearing local clothing, she had the same decidedly otherworldly presence that he has. Best of luck Captain."

A/N 2: And…. We're off. Sorry for the lack of activity for Hanna in this chapter, it will be made up for in the next ones. Please tell me what you all think!