SOOO, I was just chilling, reading some Tony/Loki slashes, while listening to Bjork's Homogenic album, more specifically the song "5 Years" when this idea just popped in my head! I know I should be working on XENO, and I am, very slowly, but I just love Tony/Loki. OH, and just a heads up, I'm basing PART of this story around the Norse/European descriptions of Loki, more specifically about him having ginger hair instead of black hair. :3 You'll see. And this WILL be an Tony/Loki slash, with sex! Eventually. ENJOY! Read and review? DANKE!
DISCLAIMER: All characters belong to Marvel.
T'was a day like any other, or close enough to it when you're the God of Mischief. Loki hadn't busied himself with anything in particular, instead decided on a simple walk through Central Park. Of course, mischief and mayhem follow him at all times, so who's to say he wasn't responsible for the occasional ant ruined picnic or rabid squirrel attack. He just smirked to himself. He had donned a simple outfit of black jeans and a forest green sweater, instead of the usual armor, in an effort to be inconspicuous among the populace at the park. He wasn't in a world dominating mood. One could say he was just having a nice day. But as everyone knows, those never last. As always, it was sudden screaming and running that caught his attention, and he could admit he was a little let down that he wasn't the cause. While others ran away from the chaos, Loki casually walked toward it. He came to see some sort of giant lizard beast running about, causing plenty of collateral damages. He rolled his eyes at the Avengers and their attempts to calm the creature down. There was another man with them that he hadn't seen before, and BOY was he strange looking. He floated about, dressed in gold and blue with a big red and gold cape billowing behind him. He made signs with his hands and caused things here and there to happen. Magic? Well now, that's interesting, another mortal who learned to wield magic. Before now, Victor was the only one Loki had known of. So who was this guy? It appeared that the Avengers were trying to use magic to stop this beast. Well it wasn't really working. Big surprise. A flick of Loki's wrist and he was back in his armor, helmet and all. He wanted to see what this strange, old man could do, so he stepped out into the open, letting them all see him.
"WELL, look at THIS. Why am I *NOT* surprised?" Iron Man called out, voice laced with aggravated sarcasm, and gestured at Loki.
Loki only smirked. Of course, now they would think he's responsible for the lizard-thing, unless they already knew where it came from. Thor landed on the ground in front of him, going completely oblivious to everything else happening around him. Typical.
"Brother." His voice was soft, but obviously annoyed. "What are you doing here?"
Loki rolled his eyes again, sighing heavily. "Whatever. I. Want. Thor." He defiantly tired of these confrontations, so he simply teleported past Thor to stand in front of the strange, old man and smiled at him, feigning innocence.
"And WHO might you be?" Loki chided, pointing at him. The man smiled in return,
"Why, I am Doctor Strange! Sorcerer extraordinaire!" He answered, FAR too enthusiastically.
Dr. Strange? Loki chuckled to himself. Well THAT was a well-placed name.
"Sorcerer you say? So am I." He grinned wickedly and took a step back, pulling magic into his hands.
Dr. Strange saw this and jumped away, into the air, floating effortlessly. Green fire pooled in Loki's hands, and he glared at the other man. He did not intend to let this man escape him and he wanted to be the ONLY sorcerer on this planet. Not including Victor of course, since he was a villainy ally. Dr. Strange doesn't seem at all frightened of Loki, and that was infuriating, he'll defiantly have to change that. Loki threw the spell at him with all the force of Thor's flying hammer. But despite his best efforts, did not see coming what happened next. Strange created a magical mirror in front of him that deflected Loki's spell, and sent it hurling back at him; it happened so fast Loki didn't have the chance to react; he just clenched his eyes shut in surprise. He felt the green magic hit him and disperse. After a minute he let out a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding; nothing seemed to have happened. He looked at his hands and around himself, but everything looked the same. He then glared fiercely at Strange, he might have even growled. Loki attempted to pull another spell into his hands, something far worse, but it didn't feel right. That's when his previous spell started taking effect. He felt his power fading away, and watched as his skin turned icy blue for a moment, then back to pale porcelain. He heard a few gasps, and looked up to see all the Avengers looking rather shocked at him. Loki had to wonder why, because they all already knew he was a Jotun. His helmet suddenly slid down his face, and all his armor felt FAR too heavy. He pulled the helmet off and looked at himself in the polished metal. If he had any color in his face, it drained away then. His eyes were still green; although now a very dull green, but what frightened him was that his once beautiful, raven black hair was now bright orange, frizzy curls. The godly glow that normally lingered on his and Thor's skin was now gone from him, leaving his skin pale AND dull.
"Oh no…" He whispered to no one in particular. Tony Stark let out a loud cackle, clutching his sides.
"You turned your hair orange?" He continued to laugh. Loki glared at him. Thor looked thoroughly confused,
"Brother, if that was your intentions, I think you've lost your touch." He said. Dr. Strange came to stand beside Thor,
"I'm pretty sure that was *not* his intentions, my friend. He was trying to take my power from me, but as you saw it back fired unto him, and now he is mortal. Am I right, Loki?"
Loki refused to acknowledge any of them. He had removed all his armor, because he could hardly move in the weight, and now only wore his black pants, under tunic, and boots. Thor approached him,
"Is that what has happened?" Loki thought he heard genuine concern in Thor's voice, but chose to ignore it.
Thor reached out and brushed some fiery curls from Loki's brow. Loki threw his fist out, and it connected with Thor's jaw. Thor didn't even flinch, and everyone heard the tell-tale snap of the bones in Loki's hand. He screamed, yanking his hand from Thor and cradling it in his uninjured hand. Thor looked horrified.
"WELL, that answers THAT question." Iron Man stated, nonchalantly.
Loki was trying as hard as he could not to cry, but it'd been a long time since he'd felt pain like that. Thor was trying to comfort him and look at his damaged hand, that was now dripping blood unto the grass, but Loki continued to shove him away. Although his shoving didn't actually MOVE Thor, Thor got the hint and stopped trying to help. Dr. Strange stepped forward,
"Here. Let me." He offered his hand, a sweet smile on his face. Loki glared for quite a while, but when it seemed the other man wasn't going to back off he reluctantly put out his bleeding hand. Strange lightly touched Loki's hand, a soft glow emitted from the Dr.'s fingertips, a second later all the pain was gone and Loki could move his hand again. Instead of thanking the man, Loki attacked him, throwing his whole body upon him.
"This is YOUR fault!" He screamed, all self-control gone, and began punching Strange in a rage.
"I might not be able to hit Thor, but I can certainly hit YOU!" He continued, but by now Thor had grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him off the ground.
"Brother, please." Thor was saying, as he placed Loki down very gently, "Can't you just…turn it off?" He asked. Loki scoffed,
"I am MORTAL, Thor! I have NOTHING! NO MAGIC! It's all gone! I cannot undo this because HE", Loki thrust a finger at Dr. Strange, "has rid me of my OWN POWER!"
"Well," Steve finally spoke, "Can you undo it with your magic?" He was addressing Dr. Strange. Strange only shrugged,
"It was done with Loki's magic, not my own. And if I understand correctly, Asgardian magic is far different then my own. I don't know if I can do anything."
Loki looked like he'd just sucked on a very bitter lemon,
"Well aren't *you* helpful?" he snarled. Tony was looking at Loki like he was a new, shiny car,
"Ya know, I never imagined you were a carrot top in your mortal life." He was now smirking.
Nick Fury chose that moment to show up with his troupe of agents.
"Where is it?" he asked the group. Tony was the first to look at the one-eyed man,
"Where's what?" he said, and Steve gave out a gasp, slapping himself in the face,
"The Lizard!" he groaned, "We got so preoccupied by Loki here that we forgot about The Lizard, and now he's gone."
"Oh." Was Tony's bored response. Fury didn't seem to care much, but he cocked an eyebrow,
"Loki?"
"Yeah," Steve pointed at Loki, "He tried to fight Dr. Strange, but got his spell thrown back at him, and now he's human." Steve shrugged, with a rather confused look on his face, obviously not know what to do with this whole situation. Fury was scrutinizing Loki now,
"Really?" He glanced at his agents, then back at Loki, "Arrest him." He ordered.
Loki flinched, completely ready to bolt into the forest, but not sure just how far his now human endurance would take him. To his surprised gratitude, Thor stepped in front of him, blocking the S.H.I.E.L.D agents.
"I do not think so." He bellowed, "In feel that in his weakened state Loki should be left to my care. At least till we find a way to reverse this accident." Thor was all authority now.
"Weakened…state….?" Loki mumbled angrily to himself. Did he just call me weak?
"And I feel that I don't care." Nick said casually, "This looks like an opportune time to rid the world of a pest, and I'm gonna seize that opportunity."
"Pest?" Loki snarled,incredulous, eyebrows twitching. He hadn't realized how nonthreatening Midgard had come to see him as. He planned to change that as soon as he got his powers back.
"I don't know, Nick. Loki's pretty harmless now. Why not just let him chill with us? We'll keep a good eye on him, and it'll make Thor happy." Tony offered with a shrug.
Thor gave a huge smile and Nick sighed, looking especially uninterested.
"Fine. But you'll all be held responsible for him." Nick turned and left with all his agents.
Thor spun around to smile grandly at Loki and was about to sweep him into a crushing hug when he remembered how he'd hurt Loki's hand earlier. He just dropped his arms awkwardly and gave Loki a sad look. Loki rolled his eyes.
"Well I guess you can shack up with Thor, since you guys are all brotherly and stuff." Tony waved his hand around in the air, like the topic was completely unimportant. Loki laughed humorlessly,
"What in Helheim makes you think I'm staying with any of you?" He began attempting to collect his armor and walk away. Thor frowned deeply.
"UM, the fact that I just told Fury that that's what you're gonna do AND because you don't have a choice. Who else is gonna help you? Dr. Doom? I don't think so." Tony smirked again.
Loki really hated this whole situation; first because he was mortal, and second because that arrogant ass Tony Stark was actually right. He sighed, defeated, and then shoved his armor into Thor's arms.
"Carry this." He ordered and walked toward the Quinjet that was park on the grass, a few feet behind the Avengers. Thor's victorious grin returned as he followed Loki.