Convincing Thor that non-humanoid species could be intelligent proved difficult. Koko the gorilla didn't do the trick. („But Jane, she is humanoid! Hardly different form your own ancestors a little while ago.")
Dolphins didn't. („They are not speaking. If they were, I could understand them through the Alltongue. Stop jesting, Jane; that is my brother's part, and he's a nuisance.")
Finally, Alex the grey parrot managed. After those videos, the thunderer looked deeply troubled.
„But then – but then – we made a grave mistake, sending my brother to that place. Whatever will he do to those innocent Hvalstjörnlings? All our father intended was for Loki to spend some time away in some uninhabited place, to calm down and forget about his grudges. We never knew there was civilization there."
With quite some effort, they managed to convince him not to return to Asgard and not to tell Odin. At least not right away. Sure, should there be indications that Loki was planning something particularly heinous – but unsure as they were about the situation, they'd rather not give the old man the idea that another planet needed a reset.
Two days later, the Gliesenians called again. There was a new octopus now besides Spotty: somewhat smaller, blue, with very different patterns of ridges all over the body, and green-eyed.
The other octopuses present all curled in and bleached reverently around him(?). A few flashes of green magic, and they had a translation program going.
Gliese wished to initiate a planet federation and a star fleet to explore, but decided to postpone that, now that their culture-bringer was with them, who had been myth for ages. Celebrations first.
Earth was fine with that. If they had to wait until Loki would be back in Asgard, they wouldn't mind. Some scientists took to checking how to communicate with Spotty or someone else directly without Loki overhearing, to warn them of what the god had done to Earth with the Chitauri, but that would take a while before they could be sure.
Thor got bored quickly when there was nothing to fight, and Jane had little time beside her work, and accompanied Clint and Natasha on a mission against 'the doctor of doom'.
Later the same year, Jane and Tony were awarded the Loki Prize in Engineering, together with Spotty. For the first time in the history of Gliese, Loki himself handed out the prizes, and they had live feed.
Some other Gliesenian, flushing orange, received the prize in medicine (for improved cold water ventilation around eggs), another that in magic (something basic about holograms), and two more that in flyting, after something like an epic rap battle in colour flashes.
A small parcel was dropped out of the wormhole, containing two mother-of-pearl statuettes of a green-eyed octopus. They finally cheered with clams and champagne.
„So, it all comes down to daddy giving the older son a pet universe, and telling the younger son he may play with his brother's toys if he asks really nicely?" Bruce asked, dejectedly, polishing his glasses.
„I ask you not to tell anyone." Agent Coulson replied. „There's no reason to distress people."
„How do you feel all about this then, Red Sonya?" Stark chipped in.
„I'll go with the scientific method." she replied. „Check whether all he told us really is the truth. Let's not act on hypotheses when there seems to be no hurry. Let's get the core facts first."
Tony Stark was fairly sure he and 'Janeway' would get the Nobel Prize in Physics also – and what a satisfaction that would be after they had cheated him out of his own new element he'd wished to name 'Antonium'. But that committee was so slow, it might take some decades yet. No matter. In the meantime, he could work out his own regulations for a Stark Prize trust fund to award a prize in aviation engineering. Or defeating supervillains.