*AN*

It's my birthday today! Woohoo! So here's an update for you all. :D

*previously*

"Is not this simpler?" Loki began his speech, walking towards and into the crowd slowly. "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." He smirked. "You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel."

He smiled as the crowd appears terrified by his ability to appear and disappear, but Mr. Granger, accustomed to seeing out of the ordinary things because of having a witch for a daughter decided to stand his ground for his family and for the people before him... or was it the adrenaline coursing on his veins at the moment... hmm.

"Not to men like you." Richard said, blocking his wife and daughter from view.

Loki chuckled. "There are no men like me."

"There are always men like you." Mr. Granger continued.

"Look at this human, people. Let him be an example to you all."

Loki points his scepter at Mr. Granger and fires.

"Nooooo!" Hermione screams.

Chapter 3-

Hermione jumped forward as the blue light shot from Loki's scepter towards her father and instantly an invisible barrier blocked the light from killing her father. It bounced back and hit Loki straight in the chest. He fell face first onto the ground.

"Leave them alone! They have done nothing to you!" Hermione growled in anger, spreading her arms out in order to block her parents from harm.

"The Midgardian with the peculiar aura." Loki spit out, stomping his scepter on the ground below him to brace himself as he stood back up. "I see that there are more than meets the eyes with you child."

A frown appeared on Hermione's face at the word 'child'. She scoffs. "I am not a child..." and thrusts her hands in front of her to send a powerful silent 'stupefy' his way.

Loki dodges it as the crowd scatters away from them.

"Dad... you and mum get out of here!" Hermione yells over her shoulder.

"I am not going to leave you here Mia!" Mr. Granger moves to her side.

"Dad! No heroics. I'm okay! Protect mum!" her shield flickers into view as Loki appears in front of her. "Now!" She screamed.

Loki's scepter glowed brightly as he made ready to strike again. "You cannot beat me human." his voice dripped with malice and growing anger.

"Human?" Hermione laughed. "I've been called so many things throughout the years, and 'human' was what you picked as an insult?" she blocks his assault with another shield with just a wave of her wand. "Is that all you've got?"

Loki manifests a copy of himself to appear behind her, ready to strike.

"HERMIONE!" her mother screamed from where she was hiding with her husband.

With quick thinking Hermione ducked and twirled as she dropped on her back, yelling loudly, "Impedimenta!" slowing the clone down. A second later, she threw a 'avis oppugno' as well; birds appearing and attacking the clone.

In all the commotion Hermione almost forgot about the actual god she was fighting with when a shield in distinct colors of red, silver and blue flew out of nowhere and slammed into Loki's chest, knocking him down to the ground. The clone disappears.

Steven Rogers, also known as Captain America jumped in front of Hermione as his shield returned to his hand. Standing up to his full height proudly dressed in his uniform, he spoke to the fallen god. "You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing.

Loki scoffed, picking himself off the ground again and addressed Captain America. "The soldier..." he paused. "A man out of time."

Captain America chuckled lightly, ready to strike the god if need be. "I'm not the one who's out of time."

Curiosity overcame her and with a cough and a tap on the shoulder of the [cough] man in a unitard, she waited until she had is attention.

"Miss...?" Captain America looked at her.

"Excuse me... but who are you, and what are you wearing?" Hermione's brow arched up in confusion the more she studied the captain.

Behind them Loki laughed, holding his scepter against his stomach as he shoulders shook from the movements.

Both Captain and Hermione turned to stare at the god in disbelief. Was the god really laughing at her confused curiosity?

The roar of a S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft could now be heard as Mr. and Mrs. Granger ducked to the side away from two strangers and their daughter. Hermione moved to help get her parents to safety.

All of a sudden a loud speaker turned on and Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow's voice could be heard as she points a machine gun towards Loki.

"Loki, drop the weapon and stand down." Natasha spoke.

Suddenly Loki attacks the Captain and they fight, dodging each other as they tried to take one another out. Loki then blasts him with his scepter, knocking him down to the ground on his knees.

"Kneel!" Loki snarled, jamming the edge of his scepter on his head.

"Not today!" Captain bit back, flipping over and knocking Loki down with his leg.

Natasha watches the god and hero fight. "The guy's all over the place." she says, having trouble locking the machine gun at Loki's direction. She looks down and finally notices someone creeping into the battle.

Hermione reached close enough to the two men and pointed her wand at Loki and called out the body binding curse, "Petrificus totalus!" taking Loki and the captain by surprise making the god fall to the ground.

Next thing we know, music and Tony Stark's voice could be heard inside the aircraft Natasha was currently still in.

"Agent Romanoff, did you miss me?" Tony asked as he flew towards them in his 'Iron Man' suit. He lands next to the still surprised captain and a aloof Hermione.

"Someone stopped the fun before I got here." you could hear the disappointment in Tony's voice.

Captain America pointed to Hermione. "It was her... not me."

Hermione shrugged. "And who are you supposed to be? The 'Tin Man'?" her brow arched at Tony.

Tony called in to Natasha. "We have a situation..." he paused as he watched two other people run towards the girl.

"Prepare for immediate pickup." Natasha replied back.

-20 minutes later-

"I don't understand why we had to come with you." Hermione huffed in her place between her parents. "I didn't do anything wrong."

"Mia... don't antagonize these people." her father whispered to her.

"What I'm curious to know is... what was that thing you did to this here Loki?" Captain asked pointing to Loki who was sitting with his hands cuffed together in the corner.

Hermione sighed. "I could always obliviate you all. That would be so much better than being here."

"O-bliv-iate? What is that?" Tony asked confusingly.

"Nothing." Hermione said in a deadpanned voice.

Thunder and lightning began to shake and rattle the aircraft.

"What was that?" Hermione's mother asked.

Loki looked up and suddenly looked a bit frazzled.

"Where's this coming from?" Natasha asked.

Captain spoke up, noticing Loki's discomfort. "What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?"

"I'm not overly fond of what follows." Loki responded.

Hermione laughed lightly. "I thought you were supposed to be a god of goats or something?"

Tony laughed and Captain looked confused. Loki scowled, glaring daggers at Hermione.

"What? It's because of your helmet." she shrugged.

Thor; another god and Loki's step-brother dropped from the sky and landed on top of the aircraft. Crouched on his knee, a hand braced below him as his other arm was held behind him holding tightly to his mjölnir (hammer). His red cape blew roughly with the wind.

Hermione sat straighten in her seat as Tony places his helmet back on, walking over to the end of the compartment, knocking on a button with his fist, opening the hanger. Thor dropped on the opened door and walked in. Tony powers up his weapon on his hand when Thor moved forward and knocked his hammer into Tony's chest, causing him to fly back. He then grabbed Loki before throwing themselves out and into the open sky.

"..." Diane blinked repeatedly.

"Ugghh..." Richard was dumb-folded.

Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Now there's that guy." Iron Man moved to follow.

"Another Asgardian?" Natasha asked from the cockpit.

"Think the guy's a friendly?" Captain asked.

"Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost." Tony turns and moves closer towards the exit.

"Stark... we need a plan of attack!" Captain moves towards Tony.

"I have a plan... attack." Tony jumps out of the aircraft and chases the two gods.

Captain America grabs himself a parachute intending to follow them.

"I'd sit this one out, Cap." Natasha suggests to him.

"I don't see how I can."

"These guys come from legends... they're basically Gods." Natasha tries to convince him.

"There's only one God ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." Captain jumps out in search of the others.

Richard coughs. "Well... you don't see that everyday." he chuckles softly.

Diane looks at her husband and glares at him.

Hermione sighs. "This wasn't what I was thinking of when we left for our vacation." she said more to herself.

-sometime later-

Twelve men surrounded the god of mischief, six flanking each sides as they moved along the hallways of the airship in the direction of where Fury wanted to keep Loki locked up. As they walked on, they passed a window that coincidentally Dr. Bruce Banner (aka) the Hulk's lab room where he was currently in. As Dr. Banner watched on, Loki turned his head towards him putting a smile on his face. Dr. Banner looked back in confusion.

Hermione and her parents sat in their own chairs that surrounded the table where the team would get together and talk. Captain-Steve was seated next to her with Natasha next to her mother. Bruce leaned against an empty chair while Thor was nearby. Her parents looked around in wonder as Hermione frowned with growing agitation. A part of her was frustrated at being placed in a situation like this, but the other part of her... the curious part; wanted to know more on what she had witnessed from the moment she noticed Loki back at the party he crashed. She looked down at a monitor built into the table and watched a guy who was earlier called Nick Fury talking to Loki who was now locked in a chamber.

"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Bruce lightly says.

"Loki's gonna drag this out." Steve looks up at Thor. "So, Thor... what's his play?"

"He has an army called the Chitauri, that none of Asgard nor any world know of. He means to lead them against your people." he paused. "They will win him the earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract." Thor sighed.

"An army from outer space?" Steve looked shocked.

"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Bruce came to conclusion on what was going on.

"Selvig?" Thor asked.

"He's an astrophysicist."

"He's a friend." Thor remembers Selvig from his first time on Earth.

Natasha cuts in. "Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours."

"A spell?" Hermione cut in herself. "Would you be able to clarify that?" she looked at Natasha.

"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here." Steve looked around at everyone in the room.

"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You could smell crazy on him." Bruce replied, thinking on what he knew so far of the god of mischief.

"Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard... and he's my brother." Thor took offence on his brothers behalf.

Natasha added in, "He killed eighty people in two days."

"He's adopted." Thor simply said.

"Excuse me... but why are we here?" Richard asked, interrupting the conversation.

"Your daughter is something we'd like to call... extravagant. And we have a team of extravagant people." Nick Fury interrupted, entering the room.

*AN*

Ive been a bit carried away these past few days reading Tomione fics and catching up on new movies and tv that I was sidetracked from "AGAaW". Sorry about that. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. :)

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Also, some quotes added into the fic were borrowed from the movie to help fit Hermione into the storyline I've been imagining in my head.

www . moviequotesandmore the-avengers-quotes . html# . UPcocG_7KSo

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"GhostHunters" premiere's tonight on Syfy and "The Vampire Diaries" premiere's tomorrow. I'm really excited again. Oh, and "Mama" comes to theaters Friday. I want to see that scary movie. Lol

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Once I've gotten them settled in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s airship, everything will be different. This was just something I've pictured in my mind to fully place Hermione and her parents in the world of the "Avengers".