Skyrim/Avengers AU
Fury was able to stop the nuke from arming and reaching New York, but as Natasha, Clint and Steve are joined by Stark, Bruce, Thor and Loki in chains to stop the portal, they are swept up in it to the land of Skyrim, knocked unconscious and found by the Imperials who planned an ambush for the Stormcloaks.
Tony slowly opened his eyes. His suit was off, the frigid morning cold seeped right through his Metallica and long-sleeved shirt. He noticed his hands tied behind his back with a heavy, thick rope. He felt it humming and determined he was probably on something... Looking around the trees were tall and pine. He was on a wagon beside Thor, across from Loki who then had Natasha, Steve and Bruce sitting besides. Craning his head back a little Tony could see Clint beside Thor.
He noticed Loki was already awake, he looked tired, beat up obviously from his encounter with Hulk in the tower... Tony wondered if he knew what was going on and then cursed their luck for Loki's gag still on.
Natasha opened her eyes and squirmed and muttered a curse, she glanced to Tony, frowned and then tried to take in her surroundings. Steve and Clint came to soon after.
"What the hell." Barton moaned.
"Did we go through the portal?" Natasha frowned, she looked to Loki who was staring angrily at the cart driver as if he were trying to burn a hole through his head.
Steve sighed, "I think we did..." He tried getting out of the restraints and was surprised to find that he couldn't.
Tony groaned, "Super-soldier, super-spies and rage monster can't get out of said rope...perfect." He kicked Thor's shin and Loki's head snapped back to stop him.
"Cut it out reindeer games." Tony scowled.
Loki seemed actually nervous when the guards following the cart on horseback grunted and warned them to keep silent.
Thor woke up at their voices and scowled when he couldn't free himself. "Loki?" Thor asked, "What realm are we in?"
Loki rolled his eyes and tried to say something but his muzzle kept it muffled.
"Are we even in the nine realms?" Thor asked.
Loki shook his head.
"You've been here before?"
A nod.
"Are these men our allies?"
Loki shook his head.
"Why can't we get free of these bonds?"
Loki rolled his eyes.
"Yes or no questions pointbreak." Tony reminded.
"Can we actually get out of these bonds?" Thor rephrased.
Loki frowned and shook his head, he nudged his head towards archers set above a nearing post.
Clint grunted, "Hallelujah."
They crossed under the wall of wood and entered what looked like a fort...or a village. They turned a corner and everyone's stomachs lurched. An executor and several other, blue outfitted prisoners were waiting.
"Are we to be executed?" Thor whispered hoarsely.
Loki shrugged and shook his head and even through the muzzle they could see his grin play up.
"You have a plan?"
Loki gave a single nod as the cart stopped.
"Move Stormcloaks, face you demise with some dignity!" A guard ordered harshly.
"Stormwhat?" Tony frowned.
"Sir, their names aren't on the list..." The imperial explained, he held out the list.
Tony opened his mouth to introduce them but Loki kicked the back of his leg and Tony bit his tongue.
"They go to the block, forget the damn list..." The woman paused as she saw Loki and smirked.
"If it isn't the deity." She mocked.
Loki glared back at her, his eyes held a tint of amusement allowing the woman to believe that she could intimidate him. He was still with his mouthpiece so he had no way of replying to her snort and gesture to send them with the others.
She took Loki's elbow and shoved him forward to the block first.
"As you are not a Stormcloak, nevertheless you are not welcomed here..." She unclasped the mouthpiece and practically ripped it off of Loki's face leaving a large gash down his cheek.
"Any last words?" She asked.
Loki spat a mouthful of blood in her face and it earned him a pair of rough hands shoving him onto the block and holding his head down.
The woman wiped her face and grunted in anger, "Skip the rites, he dies now."
Thor tensed but Loki simply turned his head and winked. As the axe was about to fall a small whisper escaped Loki's lips and following came a large figure that perched on the tower above. Letting out a screeching bellow the soldiers panicked, the beast let a breath of fire engulf a crowd of them and Loki rolled over the block and ran for the closest tower.
Thor nudged a disoriented Clint, Steve and Tony and called for Natasha and Bruce to follow. They were gasping for air once they reached the tower, other blue cloaked soldiers that were once prisoners were taking temporary refuge.
"Never thought we'd see you here." One commented to Loki who just grinned.
"It wasn't on purpose." He replied.
"Where the fuck are we, I swear to god that looked like a fairytale out there!" Tony panicked.
"Dragons don't exist." Natasha reassured flatly.
"Then I guess we didn't just escape." Loki retorted.
"There is no we." Clint barked.
Thor stepped between Loki and Clint, "We need to work together so I am sorry Barton but there is only we. How do we get out of these bonds?"
"Raolf, do you have a tempered blade?" Loki asked to a blond man.
He looked almost like Thor only he had green eyes and was slightly thinner. His accent was definitely another difference. "Aye." He pulled out a black dagger and sliced Loki's bonds before anyone else.
"So this is the thunderer?" He asked with an amused smile.
Thor arched an eyebrow, "What amuses you?"
"Loki told me I resembled you...I didn't believe him." Ralof shrugged, "Suppose I thought he was just trying to convince me he knew others..."
"Other what?" Natasha frowned.
"Gods." Ralof answered, "Forgive me maiden but you and your friends are not from this region...are you?"
"Maiden?" Natasha scoffed.
"Bad move." Clint chuckled.
"Would you prefer shield-sister?" Ralof asked confused as he finished cutting the last of them free.
"Focus." Loki reminded.
"Right." Ralof shook his head, "Follow closely, if we survive I will do my best to see you to your proper home."
He started up the steps of the tower with everyone listening well to his warning. They threw themselves to the wall as the top of the tower broke through and the dragon's head lurched forward to devour the man standing guard. It promptly flew away after breathing a spray of flames.
"Jump!" Ralof ordered.
They all landed and rolled on the second floor of a nearby house and Ralof ducked down to drop to the main floor. He checked behind him and counted quickly and smiled, "Good to know you all can hold your own." He kept pressing on through the confused streets in burning wreck. They slipped against the wall and ran around hoards of soldiers firing arrows hopelessly at the beast in flight above.
Raolf spotted the tower and yelled his discovery to those following. He crashed through the doors and tackled the Imperial inside.
Thor boarded the door behind them and grabbed Loki b the throat. "Now tell me where we are and how we get back!"
Loki rolled his eyes, "We appear to be in Skyrim, a province in Tamriel."
"And it is outside the nine realms?" Thor asked.
"Yes."
"How many times have you been to this place? I've never heard of this province or Tamriel." Thor frowned.
"We're located at the base of the Void." Raolf replied, he was uneasy that Thor was handling Loki so aggressively.
"Only way we see other's is through Void or some direct wormhole stuff. We can't stay here, Helgen will fall to that dragon and I would rather take the tunnels before they collapse." Raolf mentioned.
Thor glanced back to the man, "How did you meet my brother."
"I'm not your-" Loki began but Thor clamped his large hand over his mouth to silence him.
"Shrine to Talos, I saw him in Windhelm, he was pretty battered but he knew enough magicka to save me and my men from the ice wraith we were fighting... He helped me get into the Stormcloaks, he even found Jarl Ulfric get into Solitude to challenge High King Torygg, allowed us to really start the revolution." Raolf explained.
"Someone's coming." Natasha warned.
Everyone fattened again the wall to the gate, "Get this gate open!" A fierce woman scolded.
Natasha whirled around as soon as it did, she sent a strong kick to the other's knee which caused him to fall down with a sickening crack of bone.
Steve in turn rolled behind her and tied the woman's hands behind her back using the rope pieces he was bound with.
"You can't escape this place." The woman coughed.
Tony snorted, "Watch us." He pulled the key from her pocket and unlatched the door on the other side of the tower.
They ran swiftly down the stone staircase and the air grew more humid with each step.
"This should be the weapons vault..." Raolf whispered.
"You think they have my shield?" Steve asked.
Natasha nodded, "We need to grab anything we find at this point."
Thor seemed to realize that his hammer was absent, he made a fist and expected it to come. A few rumbling sounds from the outerwall and it crashed through and flew into Thor's grip.
Raolf checked the coast and waved them over, "We have little time, please hurry." He supervised the exit as everyone spread out.
Thor held onto Loki's shoulder keeping him from going anywhere, much to Loki's irritation.
Tony sighed as he closed the bin, "I guess I might be able to fix this..." He pulled out scraps of his suit, mostly the boots and repulsor gloves. He found the main breastplate but decided everything else was useless.
Banner tossed Tony a burlap bag to which Tony thanked him and began tucking away the precious remains of his suit.
Clint smirked as he pulled out a wooden bow and a quiver of steel arrows.
"That's an imperial style, do you have a good eye and aim?" Raolf asked.
Clint armed himself with the arrows and bow and shrugged, "The best."
Natasha found some steel daggers, she gave one to Stark, another to Clint, Bruce, Steve and when Thor shook his head she sheathed the last one for herself. There was no way she was trusting Loki with a weapon.
It wasn't long after that Steve uncovered his shield at the bottom of a broken chest. He sighed deeply with relief.
Loki pushed off Thor's arm and with one quick sweep came back with tomahawk-like weapons, they were golden colored at least and they heard Ralof note something along the lines of Dwarven metal.
Raolf armed himself with a sword and shield just as everyone was ready to leave, a crumbling thud and everyone was racing to the doors, into the caverns where they heard the Imperials attempting to free themselves.
"We should take them but surprise." Steve suggested quietly.
Raolf glanced back to Loki, "A few canisters of light oil...some aren't aware...they're tracked right through."
Loki smirked, and it earned him a scowl from Clint, "Keep your creepiness to yourself."
Loki rolled his eyes and rolled out of hiding, with a flick of his wrist a flame flew out and hit the lantern-like thing handing above.
Tony caught the tint of the ground and knew before it even hit the ground that those walking around in the immediate area were gonna burn.
It crashed into the shallow pool and took down at least four men all together. Others from below were on alert, Clint whipped around and shot two down, covering everyone as they ran to the next tunnel.
Water droplets echoed through the tunnel, a steady stream washed under their feet and the sticky ground made small noises as they moved on.
Tony froze up at the sight of the large brown spider-looking creature. "No fucking way."
"There is no other way around the Frostspiders." Ralof hushed.
Natasha rolled her eyes as Clint shared Tony's disgust. "I'll stay far range..."
"These things...too many eyes." Thor shuddered.
Bruce shrugged, "I really don't have a problem with spiders...I don't like killing them either though. Since these guys are at least up to my waist in height...I'll make an exception."
Ralof groaned, "There are worse creatures than this scattered across Skyrim, if you cannot defeat these then you will not survive the night."
Loki grinned, "This is not a matter of choice, were you not a team?" He turned to Tony with that shit eating grin. He handed the man one of his two golden weapons.
Tony scowled, "Fuck you." He flexed his fingers on the tomahawk Loki gave him.
Ralof peered from the rock they hid behind. "There looks to be four of em...not to big but we don't want anyone to get bit...they shoot poison."
"Poison?" Clint groaned.
"The other guy won't react well to that," Bruce admitted.
"I think you can call him Hulk now." Tony shrugged.
"Hulk?" Bruce casted him an odd look.
"The poison isn't lethal but it would disorient...maybe you'd be hallucinating for a few minutes and numb all over." Ralof reassured.
"We need to be sharp once we get out of here...Bruce you should stick with Thor or Loki, they'll keep you from getting poisoned...the last thing we need is the Hulk trapped in these caves." Steve suggested.
Thor nodded, "I will protect you, and Romanov, I shall be ready to aid you."
"That leaves me and Tony with Loki, Ralof I am to assume you've encountered these things before and that you can handle yourself?" Steve asked.
The man nodded.
"Even so, I'll watch your back." Clint offered.
Ralof nodded, "On a count?"
Loki shrugged, "What's to count?" He launched himself over the rock and rolled, he came up kneeling and with a swipe cut off two legs of the first spider.
Alright I stopped myself here because as with any new story I post I wanted to know if there was actually a fanbase waiting for this kind of AU or crossover so review plz and let me know if I should add a ship, separate the characters to make it more interesting (it's hard to write a large group conversing) and anything else you have problems with :)
