Well I'm happy you guys like the story so far, I'm glad that some still enjoy that I'm rewriting this too.

Now this chapter has Ingrid putting her little escape plot into action. We're gonna start this off with Ingrid going after the cube, then her plan takes action. Shield is about to take on a major storm. The two loves are reunited, but neither are the same as they once were. Towards the end we'll have something on Thor.

I don't own the Marvel characters.

Enjoy!

Roof of Stark Tower:

Ingrid looked around and saw the entire city of New York, or Manhattan she thought, from the roof the building she'd landed on. The star gem took her directly to the tesseract, and she saw it placed in an open silver case next to a man working on a machine…the wormhole for the Chitauri to enter!

'Guess I'll have to work it a little.' Ingrid quickly fixed her outfit to show a little leg and cleavage; after all Midgardian men were easily seduced by strange women. It was the other way too, she remembered the idiot Fandral's filthy tales of his little conquests on other realms including Midgard.

"Excuse me sir?" she put her Aesir skin on, and the man turned around. "You're Erik Selvig aren't you?"

"I am, and I'm currently busy at the moment miss." he turned back to the machine.

"Really? And what are you working on?" her voice was low and seductive, it almost made her laugh. She kept her eyes on the cube, and Selvig edged closer to it.

"I cannot disclose that information, you'd best run along now."

"Are you working for someone of higher status? Is that why you can't tell me?" she was almost a foot away from him.

"I said leave!" Selvig faced her again and this time with a large gun pointing at her. "No one can interfere with Loki's plans."

"Loki…" Ingrid sighed. "Game over." in one swift movement Ingrid knocked the weapon from his hand and pinned the old man down. "Sorry doctor." she punched him across the jaw and he was out like a light. Putting her Jotun skin back on and fixing her outfit she grumbled.

'Should've done that in the first place.' sometimes her own actions annoyed her.

"Now then beautiful…" Ingrid admired the cube, and then she remembered Alva's words. The stones couldn't hurt her, for whatever reason, so why not test the theory?

'Careful.' she let the tip of her finger touch the cube and it didn't burn. Placing two fingers on it still didn't burn, and her whole hand, nothing. Wait, could it be because of her Jotun skin? Letting her hand turn into her white skin, she touched the tesseract and nothing happened.

'Interesting.' pushing her thoughts aside Ingrid covered the cube and locked the case. She still had to find Barton and then go for Loki but first she needed a safe place to hide the cube away from the mortals. She used her ice to freeze the machine, and then crushed it so it couldn't be fixed. Taking the gem from her pocket she envisioned an area far off from the city, easy to hide from the humans and perfect to recover until she could take Loki back to Alfheim with her.

"Hmm." she found herself in a wooded area, hardly any buildings around and she heard running water. It had to be a creek, or a river from the sound of it. Taking a quick glance around she spotted a cave near a huge rock pile. With a quick look around she saw it was big enough for someone to fit in, two or more exactly and good enough to hide away.

'This will do.' she quickly put a shielded spell around the cave and placed the case inside near the back. Now she had to find Barton, so she pulled out her mirror and it revealed Barton on a flying aircraft straight for another, and it changed to show Loki in the middle of the larger one in his glass prison. Using her magic to trace his she could sense it wasn't too far away for her, so getting there was no issue.

"Alright, first stop Barton and next stop lover." Ingrid used her own magic to teleport herself onto the larger aircraft, but right as she did she lost her footing.

BOOM!

"AAH!" she slammed into a metal wall, and then heard the rushing of footsteps all around. The ship had been hit, and with all the red lights and alarms going off it meant Barton wasn't too far behind. With the visions Alva gave her Ingrid sensed Loki just a few levels down, but Thor was close as well. Fights were breaking out already, and more lives would be lost if she didn't act fast.

"Halt!" men in black suits with guns blocked her way.

"Boys, please move I don't feel like playing." she tried, but they didn't budge.

"You're gonna have to come with us lady, whether you want to or not." they started stalking closer to her.

'Dammit.' she wasn't in the mood for this, but there was no time. Taking quick action she froze the men on the spot and spotted an air vent on the wall. She transformed into an icy mist and took her direction downward until she stopped in the vent above Loki's cell.

"Loki…" she saw him about to exit the cell, and she heard Thor's shout of NO! Loki crouched, and Thor charged but went through him; an illusion. Thor was trapped in the cell, and she heard Loki's voice.

"Are you ever not going to fall for that?"

"LOKI!" Ingrid shouted his name and escaped the vent. "Stop this now!" she said to the illusion, yes it was another illusion. The real Loki was still in the room somewhere.

"Who are you?" Thor called out to her; thanks to her Jotun skin he didn't recognize her.

"Silence dog." she growled at the blonde. "Loki, don't make this any worse just come out." the illusion faded, and Ingrid felt someone behind her. "Yah!" she turned and gripped the sharp edge of Loki's spear, holding it firmly in place.

"You…" Loki's blued eyes widened slightly.

"Sorry love." in one flash Ingrid put Loki under a sleeping spell. He collapsed and she was able to lift him up along with the scepter.

"Woman! Who are you?!" Thor tried breaking out of the prison, but the glass was too strong even for him and his hammer.

"No time to chat, if you want us then come get us!" Ingrid pulled out the stone and they were gone immediately. The sun was still out, and soon enough the mortals would likely find them but Ingrid wasn't too worried about that. She took Loki into the cave and set him down, but expanded the shield around the cave to about twenty more feet.

'Oh Loki.' she took one close look at his face and almost wept. Instead of his peaceful look he was anguished, and from the power of his own magic his body was still badly wounded. How he was able to move she didn't understand, but then again Thanos must've done something with the scepter.

Ingrid then remembered the spell of the scepter was still intact, so she placed her hand over Loki's forehead and was almost thrown back when she tried to enter his mind. The spell was powerful; Thanos had done his work well on this, but not enough. Ingrid used the power she'd gained from Alva's magic, and used it to break the barrier clouding Loki's mind. The spell had shattered, but after it had Loki's wounds increased.

"Oh!" Ingrid took out the healing stones she'd carried with her, and began to remove Loki's armor slowly soaking with his blood. His body was a mess, gashes and bruises everywhere, his ribs were broken from the looks of it plus his legs, still so impossible he could move at all.

Ingrid used some water from the nearby creek, purified it, and crushed some of the stones to stir in the liquid. One quick chant of an elvish healing spell on the bowl and it glowed blueish, the stones would enhance the qualities of the potion but on the state of Loki's body it would take a long while before he fully healed. This was the best she had until they could leave for Alfheim, and that wouldn't be until nightfall. The gem needed to recuperate its power, so for the time being Ingrid would watch over Loki and protect him and the stones.

Later that day, SHIELD's Helicarrier conference room:

"Someone wanna tell me what the hell happened back there?" Nicholas Fury, director of SHIELD, was not a happy camper. Not moments ago the ship had been attacked by Barton of all people, and in the rush of everything Loki had escaped with his scepter, or more like he'd been taken by a woman with purple skin and white hair.

"We don't know yet sir, we're rerunning the footage but it's not much to go on."

"How in the hell did she get on the ship? More importantly how did she escape with Loki and who the hell is she?" Fury looked at everyone; all but Banner and Romanoff were there. Banner was still unconscious after they managed to sedate the hulk, and Romanoff was with Barton in the recovery area. Coulson was here too, apparently he'd arrived at the scene just after Loki and the woman vanished.

"I'd also like to know how five men were frozen solid like that." Stark was glancing at Thor.

"I don't know who she is, perhaps an ice mage of Jotunheim Loki met in his exile. If I had I would've stopped her but…"

"But you were trapped in the hulk cage and now the tesseract and Loki are gone again." Rodgers was pissed too. Everyone was but at least they had some luck in finding Selvig. He'd been found on Stark Tower's roof unconscious and a broken machine was near him, but no cube. He was being brought onboard for questioning, and thankfully the Helicarrier was still functioning well enough to fly at lower levels.

"You sure you don't know her?" Fury held up a photo of the girl's face. Thor studied it carefully, but he shook his head.

"I admit she looks familiar, but she's not someone I know." Fury slammed down the picture.

"The council's not gonna be happy about this." Coulson said glancing down at his phone.

"The council will roast us all alive if we don't find the tesseract, and they'll gun us down if we don't stop Loki." Fury rubbed his bald head in frustration.

"Well so far nothing's happened since they vanished, but we'll keep tracing the cube until we find something."

"That's all we can do? Other than just stay here like sitting ducks?" Rodgers glared.

"You got any better ideas?"

"Let Stark fly out and search for something, anything."

"I would Rodgers but where can I look? If SHIELD can't get a lock on Loki's energy or the cube's then how can I? Besides my suit's not working right, I need to fix some wires and THEN I might be able to do more."

"Then get to it."

"Hold it." Coulson held up a hand. "Just go word from our agents, Selvig's onboard now." Fury turned to him.

"Bring him up." Coulson texted someone and sent the message. Right now they could only hope Selvig could give them something more on the woman. Moments later Selvig was brought up on the elevator, and he spotted Thor first.

"Dr. Selvig, you're alright." Thor greeted him with a clap to the shoulder, but Thor also noticed the huge bruise on his jaw.

"Good to see you too Thor, I just wish it were under better circumstances."

"What happened to your face there?" Stark pointed at the bruise.

"A woman attacked me, and she took the tesseract. I don't remember much of the conversation, but she wanted the cube and she mentioned Loki."

"Is this her?" Fury passed him the picture, and Selvig stared at it.

"It…it is her but…her skin and hair are different." all eyes fell on him.

"What're you talking about?" Selvig pointed at the face.

"That's her face but the girl who attacked me had pale skin and golden hair, and blue eyes." Thor stormed over to him and snatched the photo.

"Thor?"

"This…this cannot be…" Thor's eyes were wide with either horror or shock.

"Hey Fury, show me the photo again." Fury handed the picture to Stark and he scanned onto a computer screen. "You said she had golden hair, blue eyes, and pale skin right?"

"Yes." Stark started using the technology of a program to alter the woman's form. Her skin lightened and he found the best colors he could to match the blue and gold hair, and after it was finished Thor gasped.

"It's…it's my sister."

"Your sister? You have another sibling out there?"

"How didn't you recognize her before?"

"Take heed all, I haven't seen my sister in over two centuries and I knew not she could change her appearance." Thor sighed. "This makes sense now, she and Loki have always been close so of course she would come to his aid."

"You said you haven't seen her in two hundred years, why?" Rodgers asked staring at the picture still.

"She was to marry a prince of another realm, and she refused to do so. My father arranged the marriage, but on the eve of her wedding she ran away and no one has seen her since."

"She hated the groom eh?"

"Despised him, and after the wedding was postponed the fool threw a fit like a child. It would seem Ingrid was in her right to hate him, so the marriage was cancelled but the prince's father the king waged no war. Instead he has granted his second born son the throne, for his eldest is not a fit ruler for any."

"Ingrid eh? Not a bad name for a princess." Stark kept staring at the photo too.

"She ran off, couldn't you find her?" Fury asked.

"We tried, and Ingrid disowned herself from the family we were unable to trace her. Even our gatekeeper couldn't see her, so until now I have no idea where she's been." Thor sighed. "Ingrid what have you done?"

"So she's got the cube, the scepter, and Loki. Now how do we find her?"

"She is likely still on your world and not far, so if you try to trace the tesseract we might be able to find them all."

"Wait hold on…Thor you said she disowned herself. Why?"

"I suppose she saw no other way to avoid the marriage, but after my father realized his mistake he tried to locate her himself. Ingrid….whatever she's done my father will see to it she's brought back with me, and Loki as well."

"We'll see about that, alright try finding the tesseract and gear up. Check within a five hundred yard radius to see if we can locate the two before they get away. Move!" everyone immediately began to work, but Thor wouldn't take his eyes away from the picture of his dear baby sister.

'Sister…please don't fight this.' Thor would be sure to take her and Loki back to Asgard, and he was certain Odin would help them both get back to the way things were before.

In the cave:

Ingrid worked on Loki's body for hours and hours, and so far she had done well. His wounds were not fully healed and some of his gashes were infected, but the stones and the magic were preventing them from worse for wear. His cuts had mostly healed and some of his bruises had faded, but his bones would take longer to fix even with the stones. They had been stabilized, but they needed more treatment than she could give.

"Oh my love, fear not I shall keep you safe from all who wish to harm you." she kissed his forehead, and Loki wasn't going to wake anytime soon thanks to her spell.

The mortals would arrive soon to apprehend them both, but Ingrid was not going to allow it. The gem had its power back now, so all she had to do was get them back to Alfheim and for the time being all would be well. The mortals and Thor had no idea what she was capable of, and frankly…she was looking forward to shocking them all.

'They come.' she sensed two mortals coming to them, the metal man with a flying suit and a man in an odd blue, red, and white costume.

"Princess Ingrid! We know you're hiding out here and we ask that you show yourself!" the man in the costume called out, they were close to the shield.

"Just come out and surrender, make this easier for yourself." that was the metal man.

"Mortals dare command a child of the snow? How cute." Ingrid put Loki and the stones in place for their quick getaway, and then she walked out of the cave to make herself known. "Greetings…clowns." she laughed at their appearances.

"A girl with jokes, I like that." the metal man's mask came off. "Listen, if you just hand over the tesseract, the scepter, and Loki we'll go easy on you."

"So it's just you two then? Where's the rest of your little group?" after she spoke a woman with blood red hair came from behind a tree and pointed a gun at her, and Barton from earlier aimed his arrow at her. Of course after they were all in position, this big green man roared and jumped at the shield, but was thrown back.

"Sister!" Thor came flying from the sky. "Please return the tesseract and Loki, let's not make this worse."

"Thor Odinson, my my how long it's been." she folded her arms over her chest. "Pray tell why should I listen to you?"

"Our father has missed you and Loki both, he only wishes for your safe return."

"He's just your father now Thor, he's never been Loki's father and I am disowned or have you forgotten?" Thor's eyes widened slightly.

"You…you know the truth?"

"Of course." she laughed. "Now let's get something straight here, I am not going to give you the tesseract. You mortals have no idea what it's capable of and if you try and create more weapons than you likely have then you will only bring destruction upon this planet."

"You mean like Loki tried?" Barton glared at her.

"Loki is not your concern anymore. Also, the tesseract is staying with me and I will take it to a realm where it shall remain hidden until further notice. The Chitauri shall follow it, and there will be no battle on this fragile place."

"Yeah uh lady we can't let you do that, that cube is our key to protecting our home."

"No that would be your job, instead of relying on relics from other worlds you had best create your own. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go." Ingrid turned around and used her magic to summon the items and Loki from the cave. Loki's body levitated out and onto the ground, but the case containing the cub and the scepter flew into Ingrid's hands.

"Loki…?" Thor stared at Loki's near naked body covered in makeshift bandages.

"As you can see Loki is need of medical attention, so I'm afraid I must cut our time short." Ingrid knelt down and touched his hand, and revealed the stone to them.

"Hey hold it…!" the metal man was ready to blast at her, but Ingrid's shield was strong.

"Good day all, have a nice life."

"Sister!" Thor's words were useless as everyone watched the princess and Loki disappear with the two items.

Ingrid was suddenly back in her room in Alfheim, and right after she placed Loki on her bed Queen Alva came rushing into her room with healers at her feet.

"Oh Ingrid you made it back safely!" she hugged her. "And you have the stones!"

"Yes, but Lady Alva it's not safe to keep these two so close together." Alva took the case from her.

"Which is why this is going back to Asgard, that's the best place for it now." she hadn't spoken of it but Ingrid was suddenly rushed out of the room while the healers started working on Loki. "Sorry child, it's just this is impertinent this particular stone doesn't remain here."

"Because the Chitauri will follow it?" Alva nodded. "So it has to go back to Asgard…"

"Yes but the scepter will remain here with you. Right now I think you need to wait until Hannasiel and her healers are finished, so come with me. There's still much to discuss."

"But milady, I have been waiting for Loki forever I can't just…"

"You must child, he won't wake for some time and the sooner we talk the sooner you can come back to him. Now hurry." Ingrid looked back at the door to her room once more, and followed after Alva. She was right there would be more to come, but at least now she had Loki back.

Well I hope this will hold you until the next one, but I'll try and have it up in a few weeks if I'm lucky.

Next chapter we'll either start off with Thor going back to Asgard somehow, or we'll start it off with Loki waking up and seeing Ingrid again. Thor will explain to Odin what's happened, and the two loves will catch up. Although there will be a fight on Ingrid seeing Loki fall, and something after that but you'll have to wait and see.

R&R

Later!