Hey! I'm back, there's an important AN at the bottom but until then, enjoy!
Shout Outs!:
Aloris2.0 the great
Yeah! good to permanently have you! Thanks, hope this doesn't disappoint as it's a bit slow here :|
NovaShifter15
XD :)
BraveSeeker
Yup, uh oh. uh oh, uh oh, uh oh. Loki will have fun ;]
Coolabigirl
Well, i didn't read your comment till at least 7:30 but yes, i can. did you feel mine as i wrote this?
Thank you! the past is always important and i want this story to be as realistic as possible, especially to the marvel cinema so i'm trying really hard.
Yeah, the foreshadowing, i needed some way to get Loki involved and it worked pretty well, so i didn't question it
Thanks for your support!
Cashagon
Did you mean Narf? ;D I love Thor's obliviousness sometimes. No, i totally get it, he's just one of those characters, smirks.
Yeeeaaahhh...i wasn't going for the "let's make Odin likable approach" I highly dislike him, and he's a terrible father.
Oh the terror twins, eventually, that'll be fun!
After chapter 7
Tony sat on his couch contently sipping coffee and reading an article on the StarkPad. Steve walked past him to the fridge to grab a bite to eat and Tony raised an eyebrow, "You're back from Brooklyn early."
Steve looked at him tiredly, like he hadn't slept the past few nights or not well. "I received a text from, Jane isn't it?"
"Thor's girlfriend?"
"Got it too?"
Tony nodded and continued to sip the coffee and read the Pad, "Yup."
"So does that mean he's back?" A new voice asked, Clint walked into the room with Bruce.
"Probably." Tony answered, finally setting the Pad down.
Steve walked over to the group, sandwich in hand, "I take it you all got the same, text?"
They all nodded while and Tony sighed, "It was a group text."
"A group what?" Steve asked.
Tony sighed and Bruce explained to him before Tony cut in, "If you would go to the base more often Miko would be delighted to explain everything of the sort to you, they could really use the company."
Steve smiled sadly when Natasha spoke up, "Well I can imagine that we'll be going there soon anyway so we can explain to Thor what happened."
Tony jumped, spilling a bit of coffee, at her sudden appearance behind him. "Nat! What the heck!? When did you get here? Don't do that to a man with a heart condition!"
She didn't answer, only smiled.
Clint looked unamused and asked, "Well can we get going now? It's quite a flight to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma."
Tony nodded, turning to leave before he turned back around and asked Natasha, "Did Fury provide transportation?"
She nodded, "Commercial flight."
Tony looked horrified, "What is with that man!? This is the second time now! I am not flying commercial again."
He turned to leave down a different hallway.
Natasha frowned slightly, "Fury didn't want us making a big scene."
Tony waved her off, "If Thor's in such a rinky-dink town to be built around a fort then they can use a little excitement. I'm taking my suit, I'll see you guys there."
Clint looked between Tony and the elevator door, slightly pleading, "Can we take your jet, it's a lot nicer and we wouldn't have to worry we wouldn't have to worry about cramming Thor into the commercial seats again."
There were some visible shudders among the group as they remembered the last flight. Tony stopped suddenly and asked, "Wait, if its Thor, why are we flying to him. The guy has flying hammer for Pete's sakes!"
The group fell quite at the question, not having an answer. Clint was the first to speak, "I don't really know. All I do know is that I'm not sitting next to him again in commercial."
"Whatever, I'll call to get the jet warming up." Tony sighed.
"Yes!" Clint quietly cheered, voicing everyone's silent hopes.
Five Hours Earlier
The Bifrost closed, leaving two figures behind. Thor looked around, "This is where Heimdall said Jane was, correct?"
Loki looked around at the flat landscape with a dull and flat look, "I still don't see why we couldn't have just gone to Jemina's home town."
Thor looked at him with an amused frown, "Because you're unannounced presence would no doubt have sent her friends into a panic."
"The Cybertronians, I know Thor. But it would be easy enough to explain things to them. I'm sure Jemina and this, Optimus Prime could keep them calm enough until things were explained."
Thor didn't look quite so sure but shrugged it off, "Well we're here now so let's continue on."
They walked towards the town and a car came out to meet them, stopping several yards short of them. Jane got out and ran over to the two, grinning, "I didn't hit you with the car this time."
"This time?" Loki asked.
"Don't ask." Thor hissed.
"But I already did." Loki smirked.
Jane turned to him suddenly, frowning, "You are…?"
Loki nodded to her, "I'm Loki-"
He'd barely gotten the word out when she slapped him, hard, "That was for New York."
He looked at her for a moment before turning to Thor, "I see now why you like her, she's just like Sif."
Jane glared at him and asked Thor, "Why is he here?"
Thor opened his mouth to speak, pausing for a moment, then closed it again, "Perhaps it would be best to explain things once the Avengers are gathered…would you please call them? I don't know how to work you're calling device."
She looked at him like he was crazy, "I don't have their phone numbers."
Loki sighed, "You have Fury's, he can contact them for you."
Jane glared at him and snapped, "And how would you know that."
Loki's eyes looked up, "I'd rather not say."
Thor understood and moved between his brother and Jane, "Let's just gather the Avengers. The sooner they know about a new development the better."
Jane's face fell and she looked at him with worry, "Is something wrong? Were you not able to stop the aliens?"
Loki walked past them to the car, "No, possibly something worse."
Clint was the first out of the plane, followed closely by Bruce. Steve readjusted his jacket as the cold wind nipped bitterly at him but showed no other sign of discomfort. Tony was the last off, pausing briefly to talk to the pilot. "Alright, where's the ride?"
Natasha started walking to the airport entrance, "There's a rental car waiting."
They met the dealer at the front desk. His feet were up on the table as he read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, clearly they rarely had actual customers. He never budged until Tony finally spoke, growing impatient, "The customer service here is terrible."
He shot up instantly and looked at them with wide eyes, "Wow, just, wow. The Avengers! What are you doing here in this sad excuse for a town?"
"See!" Tony cried, "Even he agrees with me and he lives here."
Steve rolled his eyes and Natasha ignored them all, "Reservation for Romanoff."
The dealer quickly looked down and nodded, "Uh, yup, right here." He turned and grabbed a pair of keys hanging on a nearby hook. "Here ya go, just need a signature."
Steve grabbed the keys and they left, leaving Natasha to deal with the paperwork. Steve looked at the number on the key's tag and walked down the road of cars. None of them were overly impressive, some were nicer than others but most were just average cars. Actually eighty percent of the cars were trucks of varying lengths and masculinity.
"Ah, here we go." Steve turned suddenly and inserted the key in the car's lock.
Tony looked at the vehicle in absolute horror, "A mini-van?! What the actual heck?! This has got to be some joke. Alright, whoever did this, you're real funny, now give us the real keys."
Natasha walked past him and climbed into the van, Steve already in the driver's seat with Clint claiming shot gun. "This is the car, Tony, about the only thing big enough to carry all of us without renting more vehicles."
Tony frowned, "Then I'll pay for the extra car because there's no way on this green, blue and brown Earth that I'm stepping one foot into…into that!"
Steve glared at Tony, "Just, get, in."
Tony crossed his arms like a pouting child, "No."
Clint growled, "Come on Tony. Suck up that ego and get your aft into the van, you can deal with it for a few hours."
Tony glared at Clint and Clint's fist clenched in building frustration. Finally Tony gave, "Fine, but only if I drive."
Steve rolled his eyes and mumbled something but got out of the van and slid into the back seat next to Bruce. Pacified, Tony hopped into the driver's seat and pulled out. "Alright, who has the address?"
Steve sighed, "You don't know where we're going?"
"Well someone can either give me an address so JARVIS can plot a rout or we can wander all over town until we see a hammer wielding, drape wearing god."
"593 Courtyard Road," Clint answered, "now please, let's just go."
Tony smirked victoriously and pulled out. Less than ten minutes later they were on the outreaches of the town and parked in front of a farmhouse. "Well kids, here we are."
They filed out and hurried up to the house, rapping on the door. Bruce hugged his windproof jacket closer to him, I brought the wrong coat for this. A moment later Darcy opened the door, blinked momentarily before yelling into the house, "THEY'RE HERE!"
Tony stuck a figure in his ear, rubbing it, "Trying to announce our presence to the other side of the planet?"
She shrugged and walked back in, leaving the door open. Immediately to their left was a family room were Thor stood at the window, grinning, "Friends! It is nice to see you all again!"
Tony, Bruce and Steve waved, Tony replying, "How's Asgard been Point Break?"
"Ah, interesting you should ask that-"
Clint cut in, "Uh, just a moment but where is the bathroom?"
"Just down the hall and to the left." Jane answered as she came in with Erik, who looked more than slightly nervous, holding a tray of cups full of a dark brown liquid, "Coffee?"
Tony instantly went for a cup, followed closely by Bruce, "Yes please."
Clint disappeared down the hallway and Erik's head suddenly shot up, "Clint, wait! Hold on, don't use that-"
A terrified shriek or yell filled with surprised and colorful words and curses erupted from down the hallway.
"Shoot!" Jane hissed as the Avengers bolted down the hallway and ran into a terrified Clint.
Thor was right behind them but pushed past them to reach someone on the other side. Clint managed to compose himself enough to grab a knife from his boot and growl, "What in the world is he DOING HERE!?"
Jane opened her mouth to answer but nothing came out, Darcy answered for her, barely looking up from her phone, "Don't know, Thor hasn't told us yet."
"What did YOU DO?!" Thor's booming voice echoed around the corner.
A smooth and completely calm, and terrifyingly familiar, voice answered, "I honestly don't know. I opened the door to find Clint on the other side."
"You must have done something." Thor persisted.
The Avengers looked at each other with very worried eyes and slowly walked to the corner and peered around to find Thor and Loki on the other side. Thor looking slightly angry while Loki just stood there with agonizing calm, more than likely because he found it comical at the very least.
"Thor, I did nothing to him. My mere presence is probably what startled him."
"Startled!?" Clint cried, "Try absolutely terrified." He shot a deadly glare at Thor, Jane, Erik and Darcy, "What didn't you tell me he was here!" He then hissed at Jane, "And why did you tell me to use this bathroom? Are you trying to give me a heart attack and kill me earlier in life!?"
"I forgot." She shrugged.
Steve frowned at everything in the situation, "Alright, let's just take a breath and talk about why Loki's here. Though I think it would be a good idea if he stayed on the opposite end of the room."
There was a mutual agreement all round before they made their way back to the family room. The Avengers and Erik, who wanted to keep as much distance between himself and Loki as possible, sat on the couches—which Clint had insisted they push back to the far corner of the room—while Thor and Loki sat in two armchairs in the other corner of the room—again at Clint's persistence.
There were a few long and tense minutes before Thor finally spoke, "Friends, the simple explanation to this is that since the majority of Loki's actions were not of his own but that of someone else controlling his mind, like whoever they were did with you Clint and Erik, that Loki is on a parole, I believe you call it, of sorts."
Clint looked highly skeptical, "Yeah, and what else has he done?"
Loki answered so flippantly that it was as if he didn't really consider what he had done to be anything worse than stealing a cookie or someone's internet. "Tried to destroy Jotunheim." The humans gaped at him in shock and horror. Loki sighed, "Do not fret, it's still in one piece no thanks to Thor."
"See, this is what I mean!" Clint cried.
Loki frowned at him, "I'll have you know that Thor tried the same stunt, although slightly differently, not a month before." He turned to look at Jane, "In fact, that's the very reason he was banished."
Jane gaped and started at Thor, anger burning in her eyes, "Why didn't you tell me that?!"
"It wasn't something that was pleasant to discuss at the time." Thor answered quietly.
Loki continued on with a look of annoyance when it became obvious that Thor had forgotten to continue. "The reason I am here on Midgard-"
"Earth." Tony corrected with a glare.
Loki sighed, "Earth, is to protect Jemina."
There were instantaneous cries of objection, a few swears, and a couple well placed threats from Tony and Steve. It took a full five minutes for the room to grow quiet again, mainly due to Thor's surprisingly loud yell demanding attention, "FRIENDS! LET US EXPLAIN."
Tony absolutely seethed, "You can explain all you want. I'm not letting him anywhere near her."
Clint was bright red as he rebuked Thor and Loki's statement, "I'm sorry, but you want to let a maniac near one of the most powerful humans? Where you not paying attention to the last time they met?"
Thor spoke with a voice that instantly commanded silence and attention, "I know what happened and I know why it happened. Loki was being controlled by the Mind Stone and was in turn being forced to do the will of whoever was in previous possession of it. But that is exactly why Jemina needs the protection."
Clint scoffed, "Uh, have you not seen who she lives with?"
"Have you not seen what the Mind Stone can do?" Asked Loki, becoming slightly irked.
Steve was about to say something when Thor interjected, "Have you ever heard of the Infinity Stones?"
There was a surprised beat throughout the room before Bruce answered for everyone, "No."
Natasha asked, "What do these, Stones, have to do with Loki and Jemina?"
Loki answered her, "Because the Infinity Stones are the left over essence of when the Universe was created. Their power is unrivaled anywhere and can and do kill any normal being, even the strongest Asgardians, if they touch it."
Bruce began to put a few things together, "So this Mind Stone, it was an Infinity Stone?"
"Indeed." Thor answered. "There are six Infinity Stones scattered throughout the universe and lost to time. The Tesseract as you called it was the Space Stone."
"Mind, space? What were these things? Element controllers?" Tony asked, finding all of this hard to believe.
Loki nodded, "In essence, but not the elements you are thinking of. The six Stones are the Mind Stone, Space Stone, the Reality Stone, Power Stone, Time Stone and the Soul Stone."
Thor blinked, "How did you know that? Father refused to tell me."
"Mother has no such issue." Loki answered coldly. "Plus if you invested in a few books they would have told you."
Thor grumbled something but it was lost as Tony asked, "Alright, so these Stones are bad news and apparently you, Jemina, Clint and several others were being controlled by it. So what? It's gone now and Jemina never touched it."
Loki looked at them carefully as he answered, "That, is where you are wrong."
Clint raised an eyebrow, "Maybe you were seeing things, but I had my eyes on her the entire time she held that staff, she never once touched the glowing orb, gem, stone thing."
Loki nodded, "She may not have directly touched it, but she held all of its energy and powers with her own powers. It's the energy within the Stone which is deadly Clint, not its container."
The room was silent again, the realization and implications starting to set in, along with the shock. Steve was the first to ask something, "How do you know she's in danger? The Mind Stone is gone, she destroyed it."
Loki sighed and looked down, glancing nervously at Cling and Erik, before answering—still refusing to make eye contact. "There was a moment when our minds connected under the Mind Stone. I could see something inside of her that is powerful as it is ancient. Not quite as strong as an Infinity Stone itself, but strong enough to hold it…I believe it also might be what gives her powers as they certainly are not from any mortal part of her."
There were a few frowns at Loki's word choice but no one made mention of it as he continued. "Destroying the Mind Stone would already make her revenge target enough as I believe whoever was, was controlling me is after all six. But whatever is inside of her only grows that target. Much like it did for the one extremist group that brought her here to begin with."
Natasha frowned at Thor, "You told him that?"
Thor shrugged and Loki finished, "Even if the Mind Stone is gone, having access to her power, most of which I believe remains untapped, could make anyone rise in power."
The room was deathly quiet again as everyone thought it over. Finally Steve asked in a calm voice, "So why exactly are you supposed to guard her? We're already doing everything we can."
"The more the better I suppose." Thor answered when Loki didn't. "Also Father is probably using this as a punishment for Loki."
Clint frowned, "I don't like this. I don't like him around her."
Natasha shrugged slightly, "It doesn't really matter right now though, she isn't even on Earth."
Loki's eyes widened slightly, "Where is she?"
"Cybertron." Tony answered, turning to Thor, "They actually managed to end the war and restore it while you were gone. Which leads us to the next point of, you can't go there as we can't breathe their atmosphere."
Loki looked down worriedly, "This could be a problem."
Tony leaned back in the chair, smirking slightly in that small victory, "I have to agree with Clint though, I don't trust you in the slightest, especially not around her."
Loki started to become aggravated but hid it well, "I understand that, especially after what I was forced to do to your world, but it is vital that we contact her soon."
"When do you think someone, the person controlling you, would come after her?" Bruce asked.
Loki shook his head, "That is why it's important to contact her, I have no idea as to when—only that it is a matter of time."
Again, silence ruled the room before Steve stood, always the voice of reason. "From what Jemina's said, everything that Loki's said has merit."
Tony frowned at the super soldier, "What are you saying, that we should believe him?"
Steve looked between Tony and Loki before saying, "It at least has merit and shouldn't be taken lightly…not with Jemina's life in potential danger."
Bruce nodded, "It is."
Thor looked at him quickly, "Why are you so quick to say that?"
Bruce sighed heavily before pushing his glasses back into place, "I overheard her talking to Optimus after Loki's last attack on her. He was pretty unhappy that she almost killed herself destroying the Mind Stone but she said that if she didn't, thousands could and would die because of it…she knew that someone would be coming after it."
Both Tony and Clint growled lowly at this new revelation.
Thor looked to be deep in thought and very worried, "Friends, I believe it would be best if we contacted Jemina before we continue this debate any farther. She may know more."
There were nods of agreement all around the room. Tony saying, "Let's get back to the tower," he glared at Loki, "and no destroying the foyer again. I need some sleep after this."
Hey! Hope you like, Jem and Loki will be meeting in the next chapter which will hopefully be out soon!
Also! Haha, i forgot to say this last chapter...but i am planning to go through at least some of the marvel movies because of obvious plot differences. So like the last two Thor movies will defiantly be done because of Loki's role change and Age of Ultron will either be massively redone or not really done at all...which brings me to the point of i need/really want your guy's help in deciding which movies to do (obviously they have to come after the Avengers) but past the Thor movies i really don't know which ones to do. So i would REALLY like some input there:)
And regarding that, I will not do the Gardians of the Galaxy movies because there wouldn't be much difference there (the only differences really aren't worth rewriting the movie and will just be either explained in an AN or in the story-i will lean more to the story explanation) and absolutely no Deadpool movies, i'm sorry but i can't get past the first five minutes. If he has a part in Avengers, Infinity War i will write him in but not otherwise.
Mainly it will be movies affecting the Avengers and Jemina. So, like i'm on the fence for Captain America, Civil War.
Thanks so MUCH you guys!
