Second chapter all ready what up in the club, well I'm on holiday now with limited internet so yeah I have nothing to do.
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Red Skull was the first to awake in the bright plain room he found himself in. He slowly got up blinking in light to adjust his eyes. He straightened his uniform before hearing a small noise of someone exhaling deeply behind him. He slowly turned on his heel to see a slightly disfigured young man behind him and someone else next to him, "what am I witnessing?" He questioned as he looked around the room trying to find an answer to the conundrum he found himself in, "I was somewhere else… No, less than ten seconds ago."
One of the other men slowly started to wake when they looked up they jumped back in surprise before shielding their eyes from the bright lights, "what the hell is this?" He questioned as he stood up stumbling around the place. It was Harry Osborn he looked around the room before the other man who was still resting peacefully next to him, "is he wearing a dress?"
"No it is a trench coat, maybe another world military attire," spoke the low but powerful voice of Red Skull behind him. Harry nearly jumped out of his skin as he whipped around to see him. His eyes widened when he saw his face and took a slight step back, "woah… And I thought my face was bad," he whispered to himself.
"You know this room is silent I can hear what you're saying."
Harry gave a weary smile before turning to the now awake person next to him.
"I don't remember being able to practice magic today," spoke the voice of Loki who slowly stood up. He was faced to face with Harry who just glared at him. Loki raised an eyebrow at the young man in front of him before taking a step back. He turned to face Red Skull who was waiting for something else to said about his features, but Loki didn't deliver he just shrugged and looked around, "I don't know whom any of you are or where I am but if any of you are responsible for this… I don't know whether to thank you or kill you for freeing me from that prison."
Red Skull cleared his throat before extended a hand to Loki who seemed to be more intelligent than the other one in the room.
"My name is Johann Shmidt, also known as the Red Skull."
"Loki of Asgard, God," Loki replied shaking the other man's hand in return. Red Skull's eyes widened he had only read about Norse mythology, but to have been right all along about it being real if only he could show his Führer how wrong he had been.
"I'm the new Green Goblin also known as Harry Osborn… But that was a very long time ago," Harry said glancing between the two men who just looked at him, "now that that's out of the way can any of you tell me what the hell's going on."
"Well, we're on Earth," Loki said as he rolled his eyes at the incompetence of Harry who seemed to be a much lesser life form then him and maybe even the man… Or creature standing next to him.
"Loki, he clearly asked what is going on, not where we are. Maybe if you stopped ridiculing and looking down on us you might actually understand what is going on yourself," Red Skull said plainly with no hint of any emotion, but self-confidence.
Harry grinned at the Skull's comment before folding his arms and spoke with the same but brattier confidence, "look I don't need you to tell me what I already know okay. Now if you sooo clever please explain how we got here," he said raising an eyebrow at Loki.
"I wouldn't ridicule me. I am a God. You'd do well to stay out of my way," Loki said hatefully to the both of them and was about to say something else before Red Skull spoke up again.
"And I am a Nazi, what do titles have to do with the situation we're in and now that we have the hostilities out of the way we should carry on with the task at hand which is finding out why we're here," he said turning away from them walking away before stopping, "and let's do it before we rip each other's throats out."
Loki was about ready to kill him, but he realised that what he said was true he shook his head clenching his fists looking at the Harry who smiled back at him. Harry leaned into Loki before whispering to him, "hey do you think if he gets angry his face goes on fire."
Loki looked at the Red Skull before back at Harry. He smiled not because of the joke Harry made but at the fact he knew that the Skull could hear what he was saying.
"You know Goblin if my face did set on fire that would mean I'd have some sort of fire ability so you want to know what I'd do with that?" He questioned turning around to face Harry with intense anger, "I would burn you slowly so I could see the light leave your eyes as you slowly disintegrated to the ground and then I'd stomp on your ashes to put the rest of the sparks out."
Harry's face dropped as he stared back at the Skull before taking a few steps closer towards him, "so what you're saying is that you do set on fir-"
Red Skull picked Harry up by the throat before grinning and saying, "no," as he through him back to the ground, "now look at what you made me do, you better stop acting like a child or I'll work out a way to burn you."
"You won't have to," spoke a computer-generated voice as a hologram appeared next to them. They all turned to face it as a news broadcast was being shown on the screen, "that's around 20 minutes from now it says here that there were no survivors well, you three are going to change that."
"Oh no, I'm not saving people hell no. Thank you but no thank you." Harry said in disgust as he looked away from the hologram which just answered with.
"If you want to find out what is happening to you all, and why your equipment and most powers are missing you will do what I ask," it said harshly. Loki knew he didn't have much power he could feel it. He felt so empty. "Now here are the directions to the place if you don't save all the citizens you will be made to redo it and maybe not even have a chance to return to your old lives or have your powers/equipment back… Wouldn't that be a shame," and with that, the hologram terminated revealing a hallway behind it that suddenly appeared.
Harry clenched his teeth before snapping, "whoever you are, you do not mess with my equipment and you certainly don't threaten me to help people who have done nothing good for me in the past. If you think that I'm just going to help some stupid humans then you have another thing coming!" He breathed heavily as he glared at the space the hologram once occupied.
Loki rolled his eyes at Harry, "this is not the time to be enraged." He hoped his magic was still somewhat intact, but he'll have to test it out later.
"Yes, what the man in the green dress robes said, let's not lose our heads and deal with these problems like the intelligent being that we are," Red Skull speaking with as much clarity as he could with his accent that he had, "now let's go and do what the voice said before we are stuck in this idiotic purgatory forever." He started walking down the hallway his hands behind his back as he walked with his head held high. Loki scoffed before striding past Red Skull. He was taller than him which made him feel like he should have the authority but no matter how much he tried to threaten Red Skull he never wavered never his emotion never budged. It was like nothing really bothered him.
Harry, on the other hand, was cocky and intelligent when he walked you could see the poshness of a rich person yet the sly eye of a genius. The younger man followed closer behind the other two who had finally reached the end of the hallway. Loki studied the door carefully before finding a key on a small ledge. He unlocked the door and the bright light from the sun almost blinded all of them, "it's like waking up in that damn room again," spoke Harry who shielded his eyes until they finally adjusted to the light of the city that surrounded them.
Loki looked around suspiciously, "we're in New York… I remember this place all to well, maybe I'll have a chance to take over this world," he said placing a hand on his chin. Red Skull looked around surprised at how far this place had advanced since the last time he had seen it.
"Impressive, though it still doesn't make America any better."
"Hey, that's my homeland you're talking about there, but yeah, the United States full of idiots," spoke the Goblin with a sigh, "well, we better go do that thing we've been put here for."
"I'm surprised you'd actually suggest we'd hurry up," Loki said generally surprised at the Goblin's eagerness.
The Goblin just huffed before saying, "maybe along the way we can get you some matching high heels for that dress of yours." The Goblin smirked as he looked away from Loki and towards the sky with a smug expression on his face.
"No thank you, "Loki growled before returning Goblin's comment with a snarky answer of his own, "say, Green Goblin, was it? How does it feel to look like the Hulk ripped and singed a piece of his skin and stuck it to the corpse of an infant?"
"Speaking of infants Loki if I remember correctly you were the black sheep of your family… Or should I say your adopted family considering you're an orphan and not truly of God background, it's just a façade you hide with a bratty attitude but really underneath you're still that child who wants attention… That child that wants to be loved," Red Skull said sick of their bickering, "and I don't know much about you Goblin, but all I know is that I'd rather no skin on my face then a face like that, that not even a mother could love. Now let's move it!" With that the Skull had started walking ahead of them with almost a soldiers march, "now the hologram spoke of the building being down here and to the right."
"Great, if I had my glider it would be so much quicker to get there."
"Mind you two don't stay in the sun too long, wouldn't want any more damages to your features."
"Now tell me Loki what exactly could the sun do to someone who technically has no face, exactly nothing so you don't need to worry your little prince head about it."
After walking a mile or so they had reached their destination. They stood across the street from the building with about ten minutes to waste before the fire started. There was really no point in trying to rescue people if there was no reason to be rescued now is there. While they stood there waiting they hadn't noticed that their appearance had actually gathered quite a crowd. People started recognising Loki and the Goblin and began taking pictures of them. Red Skull turned to face them and some of the females screamed and ran while others just slowly moved away still filming them, "it's amazing how a different appearance can sway someone's perception of a person," Red Skull commented, "shall we get rid of them or-"
Red Skull was cut off by the violent reaction from the Goblin who grabbed one of the men's phones crushing it in his hands, "run along now!" He growled darkly as everyone who had gathered instantly fled.
Loki noticed that some of the pubescent females were gawking at him. He didn't know whether it was love or lust. Loki laughed quietly to himself he understood their awe who wouldn't want to be around a God. Especially one like him completely irresistible. He turned his attention to the Goblin who had just scared off the gawking teenager with a sigh, "was that really necessary, it's not like they could hurt us."
"Yes, those poor people, you scared even more."
"Whatever you two, I just hate a person taking pictures of me that's all." All of a sudden a loud explosion sounded throughout the area as the building they were meant to save the people from, which turned out to be a bank, had erupted in flames, "now what should I cause of action be?"
"Well, considering we are reasonably strong we should just run in there and get the people rather them telling them to run outside. I mean who would listen to us?" Red Skull said looking at his two partners who nodded.
"Well, let's get this over and done with. I want to be free from this world," sighed Loki who straightened his Asgardian leather attire before rushing in after Red Skull. The Goblin followed closely behind bounding through the flames like there was no tomorrow, leading people out and away from the burning building. Loki was much more graceful when it came to manoeuvring the people and himself around the falling debris and hot flames. Red Skull was very blunt in his approach to saving people no one would willingly listen to him so he just picked people up and threw them over his shoulders and carried them out of the building.
He was the only one to go back for a second time. He swore he heard someone else cries for help in the flames. He made his way quickly through the building before finally realising where the last person was, "of course you would hide yourself in the vault," he sighed as he punched the vaults lock with all of his strength leaving a mark on his hand as he managed to open the door swinging it open. A large man was holding to bags of money in his hands as he cowered in the corner, "greed will get you nowhere insolent fool," he said picking him up by the collar carrying him outside. When he reached outside he just dropped him onto the floor not truly caring about what happened to him. The Skull quickly made his way away from the building as it collapsed to the ground.
"Here I was thinking you got burnt again," said the Goblin with a slight smirk. Red Skull returned the comment with a fake smile his eyes shimmering with hatred. Suddenly a white orb appeared before them.
"Follow me," it spoke quietly as it lead them to an alleyway. They followed cautiously around the corner looking at it suspiciously. It changed to a white screen words appearing on it as it spoke.
"Congratulations, you actually managed to complete the first task, even with all your fighting, I'm impressed. Now we now you all have strength I can see that, but can the tough demeanour you all put on have… I don't know… A caring side to it?" The hologram questioned. The three of them looked at each other before back at the screen. "How would you all do if… You had to take care of, let's say some small creatures."
The Goblin took a step back, "Oh no, if it's what I think it is then hell no, equipment or not."
"Funny you should say equipment here," a small black box appeared in front of the Goblin containing a piece of his glider that he attached to his back.
"Now, I hope you all have fun with some small bundles of joy."
