Loki didn't want to follow the orders of this madman. He didn't want the spear they gave him, with the power to control people. But he knew, in his heart, that he must. They had his son. If Loki did not do what those people asked, if he did not lay siege to Midgard, his son would die (or worse). And Loki would not ever let that happen. All his other children were safe (if still trapped).

Loki had come through the portal, and saw mortals surrounding him with their weapons. One of them asked him to put down the spear. Instead, he did his job, and attacked. One of them stood up after the assault.

When Loki saw the man, he realized something. "You have heart." He pushed the tip of his spear against the man's chest, and his minion put down his gun.

After Loki had turned a few others, he saw a man attempt to escape with the Tesseract. "Please don't. I still need that."

The man with the eyepatch - Loki was calling him Pirate-Man in his head - spoke. "This doesn't have to get any messier."

"Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else. I am Loki, of Asgard, and I am burdened with a glorious purpose." The very words he spoke sounded bad, acidic, wrong. It sickened him to even have to say it.

"Loki, brother of Thor!" One scientist spoke up. Loki immediately hated that scientist.

Pirate-Man tried to pacify him. "We have no quarrel with your people."

Loki scoffed. "An ant has no quarrel with a boot."

"Are you planning on stepping on us?" The Pirate-Man had confusion in his one eye.

Loki converted the scientist who knew of him when his first minion, Barton, spoke to him. "Sir, Director Fury is stalling. This place is about to blow and drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us."

One of Loki's scientists called out his own findings. "He's right, the portal's collapsing in on itself. We've got maybe two minutes before this goes critical."

Loki gave the command to Barton, who shot Pirate-Man. When they left, Barton grabbed the Tesseract.

Their next move was to steal vehicles, which ended in them being chased by a fierce woman agent. Both Loki's group and the agent Barton mentally identified as Hill were hurrying to get out of the underground tunnels before they collapsed. Suddenly, there was the rumbling of the complex collapsing, and Loki felt Barton speed up. Suddenly Pirate-Man (Barton communicated to him the man's name was Fury, but that wasn't nearly as fun) lowered in a helicopter, shooting at them. Seriously? Couldn't Loki just steal an incredibly powerful artifact from a secret agency without being shot at? These mortals had no idea what was at stake.

Suddenly, Loki heard Barton's thoughts drifting through the connection. 'What's so important? What's at stake?'

Loki sighed to himself before responding to the agent. 'If I do not bring the Tesseract to my… employer, and do not cause a distraction… My son. He'll be further tortured, possibly killed.' Loki could practically feel the other man's surprise. 'My son has already been through so much at the hands of Odin, I could not stand him being hurt further.' Loki sent everything he knew to Barton, who had already become his second-in-command.

Another shot rang out, reminding him of Pirate-Man and his helicopter. Loki sent a blast of magic in that direction, and the vehicle crashed. Dread Pirate Fury was already up again and shooting, but the crash had sent him out of range.