"That movie was amazing!"
"Yeah! It was so cool!"
"Remember that part when Hawkeye was like, 'I could do it and nobody would know.' That was hilarious!"
This was the average dialogue of me, Ariel, and Lydia right after a movie. The particular movie we had just gotten out of was the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie.
"Hey, Gaby!"
"What's up, Ariel?"
"How mad are you that your amazing Loki wasn't in the movie?" Ariel was happily stating this knowing how I felt about my sweet Tom Hiddleston not playing a key part in the movie. 'You wanna play that game, Ariel?' I think to myself as I narrow my eyes towards her.
"Tom Hiddleston is a great actor and should have been in the movie! And of course Loki was just an amazing character!" I reason, defending my acting idol. "But, this doesn't bother me too much anyways because I have recently learned that Tom shall be playing a leading role in an upcoming movie called 'Crimson Peaks'."
"So?" Ariel says, "He's still not Loki. He may not be as good in the new movie."
I gasp in indignation, "May not be that good!? Do not question the almighty Hiddleston! He can be anyone he wants and rock the role!" 'Don't worry Tom! I shall defend your honor!'
"Guys! How about we get some food at the caf?" Lydia interjects in order to stop our stupid quarrel. Ariel and I's argument finally come to an end as we slowly start heading to the on campus cafeteria. We go up the stairs for some late night snacking and we all end up getting some slices of pizza. We sit down in our usual spot by a window and we begin to talk about the cutest character in the movie.
"It has to be Hawkeye," Ariel states, "He's super cute and funny."
Lydia jumps in saying, "They were all kinda cute."
"But you have to pick one," Ariel persuades.
"Well," I begin, "I think both me and Lydia can agree that Loki is the best character of the movie!"
"What? He wasn't even in this movie!" Ariel yells.
"He was there in spirit," I state holding onto Lydia and stiffly nodding my head. Lydia decides to dampen my spirits by agreeing with Ariel because,
"Ariel's right. He wasn't really in the movie. Why don't you pick someone who was physically in it?"
I cross my arms over my chest, "Fine. Party poopers. I guess my favorite character would have to be… Ultron!"
"Ok! What is your problem with villains?" Ariel pronounces, "In every movie or show, your favorite character is a villain!"
"Bzzz! Wrong! Not true at all! I do not just like villains!"
"Yeah you do!"
"Nope!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I do-"
"Actually, Gaby, you really do," Lydia interrupts, "In the first Avengers it was Loki, this Avengers it was Ultron, in The Dark Knight you liked The Joker, in that Once Upon A Time show you watch you like Rumplestiltskin, and even in High School Musical you liked Sharpay."
"Lydia," I start, "Those characters are just natural kick butts! They are just super cool and smart. They were born with natural awesomeness."
Ariel laughs, "Maybe they were born with it, or maybe it's-"
All of a sudden a bright light flashes in the entire area and it doesn't dissipate for a few seconds. When the light finally dulls, I blink rapidly to try and get rid of the effects of the sudden brightness. I just see some blurs and I hear a ringing in my ears. Once I finally adjust, I find myself staring at a large room filled with hundreds of people in fancy dresses. I hear murmurs and small fragments of conversations around the room. 'That's weird. What in the world just happened? We were just eating some food in the caf,' I think to myself as I slowly start to get up. I turn around and to my surprise, I also see Ariel and Lydia.
"Guys! Are you okay?" I ask quickly.
"Yeah, we're fine," they both say in unison.
"But what happened?" Ariel asks.
"And where exactly are we? We were just eating, right?" Lydia hesitantly says.
"I don't know what happened but it looks like we're at some kind of fancy shmancy party," I say as I slowly start to turn around observing my surroundings, "How in the world did we ge-" I suddenly freeze with my eyes wide open.
"What's wrong Gaby?" Lydia asks in concern. Ariel also looks at my face and she begins to slowly follow my line of sight. Once she does, she also freezes up. Lydia looks between the two of us and decides to see what we were staring at and she too has the same horrified look on her face, because standing on the top of the balcony in all of his glory was the great Loki Laufeyson. He was looking at the crowd for a bit but I guess when you have three pairs of eyes on you, you eventually notice. He slowly looks our way and just smiles as if he wasn't about to gouge someone's eye out. We then watch as he slowly makes his way down the steps. We watch as he walks towards an older looking man. We watch the chaos once he stabs the man in the eye. And when everybody finally starts to move, so do we. We hold no hesitation as we run towards the doors to our freedom. But as we make it outside, we forgot that there was no chance of escaping the God of Lies. Once the mob of people finally got through the double doors into hopeful escape, multiple Lokis appeared surrounding the group. I was so caught up in the chaos and panic I didn't even notice when the true Loki appeared.
"Kneel!" he screams, but we are still lost in the panic of what is happening. "I said KNEEL!"
He slams his staff onto the ground and suddenly everyone decides to listen. Well, almost everyone.
"I am not kneeling on this ground. It's so dirty and these are my favorite pants!" Ariel whispers harshly to me and Lydia.
"Well, why don't you ask the guy who can kill us if you're allowed to stand!?" I whisper back in a more sarcastic tone.
Ariel stares at me and finally gets down and kneels, "Point taken."
"Is not this simpler?" Loki states, "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."
"Oh, Tom. You can rule me anytime," I whisper under my breath. Lydia hits me on the arm saying that this wasn't the time for my inappropriateness and Ariel snickers and gives me a small high five.
Suddenly an old German man slowly rises from his feet, "Not to men like you."
Loki smiles, "There are no men like me."
"There are always men like you," says the German man.
"Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example." Loki raises his scepter towards the old man and shoots a blue blast of power towards him, but just like in the movie Captain America arrives to save the day by using his shield to block the attack.
Captain America stares down Loki, "You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing."
Loki stares back, "The soldier. The man out of time."
"Guys," I whisper, "Cliché hero pun coming up!"
"I'm not the one who's out of time," Captain America says.
And with a flick of the wrist, a patriotic shield is swung and more chaos occurs. The crowd runs away from the battle, including us. Or, well, I thought we were. Ariel grabbed me and Lydia's hands and pulled us behind a tree.
"What in the world are you doing?" I say to Ariel wide eyed.
"Yeah, we should be getting out of here," Lydia states.
"Guys!" Ariel yells, "We are in a freaking movie right in the middle of the plot! Literally! Shouldn't we be having fun with this?"
"No," I state as I try to walk away again but with no avail.
"Ariel," Lydia tries to convince her, "this isn't a movie anymore. It's dangerous and we need to find our way back!"
"I agree with the ginger," I say nodding my head vigorously.
"But Gaby," Ariel says slowly, "This may be the closest you'll ever get to Tom."
I blink, "Ya know what? I think we should stay just a little bit longer. This is a pretty good scene anyways."
Lydia shakes her head, "I just know that this'll be a bad idea…"
"If it turns out bad," I start, "we can blame Ariel."
"Hey!"
And so our adventure finally begins.