You had absolutely no clue as to how long you were passed out, but when your sense of hearing started to come back you concluded that you must have been coming to. You first heard the crickets that were in the grass as they chirped. Then you heard other sounds: the wind blowing through the trees, rumbles of thunder still in the sky that seemed to be farther away then before, and lasty; you heard voices. There were two of them. You easily recognized one of them to be Loki, but you did not know to whom the second voiced belonged. You could hear them speaking to each other, but you could not make out much of what was being said. You were drifting in and out of consciousness sometimes tuning in to the conversation and then back out again. You tried to awaken yourself fully, but you were not able to do so.
"I could ask the same question to you!" Thor replied, "Why did you come here? How did you get past Hemidall?" "Did the Allfather not inform you?" The God of Mischief said in a bit of a sarcastic tone. "Inform me of what?" "Something got into Asgard and released Sleipnir. He ran off and somehow ended up on Midgard. I'm simply here to retrieve him." Loki explained to the ill-informed God of Thunder. "Why would Father not tell me this?" Thor questioned. "Why does it matter? He trusted me to come and find him, not you." Thor looked over slightly and noticed a girl lying on the ground. "Who is this midgardian? Have you resorted to mind control tricks again, brother?" "No, I have not." Loki answered him. Thor walked over to the girl, and continued to accuse Loki of other misdeeds. "She is unconscious What have you done to her?" "I have done nothing. 'Twas your lightning and thunder that scared her." Loki replied. He looked over at the vehical. It was flipped on it side, the passenger side windows shattered to pieces the glass sitting scattered on the ground. "You're lucky that you didn't kill either of us." "I wasn't trying to hurt anyone." Thor said. "Why are you traveling with this girl anyways?" "Sleipnir found his way to a ranch and she was the one in charge of caring for him." Loki began to explain. "But, sadly, he was taken by some people, and now we have to go an get him back. She vollenteered to help." "Sleipnir was taken?" Thor repeated. "Why did you not simply stop them?" Loki sighed, and then laughed. "I tried, but some mortals are stronger then they at first appear." "But, you could have easily taken them. How did they best you in combat?" Thor asked in confusion. "Is it not obvious?" Loki didn't wait for Thor to reply. "Odin allowed me to leave Asgard in search for Sleipnir, but not without certain hindering circumstances." "What do you mean, Brother?" "He is still a bit untrusting of me and only let me come here if I agreed to him... stripping my powers." Loki explained. "So You're - " "Yes... For the time span that I am on Midgard... I am a Mortal." "I see. Then I must stay and assist you in your search." Thor said. Loki quickly replied. "No! This is nothing of concern to you." "But, Loki. Without your powers you will be unable to call on Hemidell." Thor told him. "You wouldn't be able to return to Asgard." "That is where you are wrong. This is slightly different from from when you were banished here." Loki said. Thor's expressions changed a bit at the mention of his previous exile. "Hemidall sees all, and he and Odin have an agreement that when I am to return, Hemidall will open the Bifrost." For a few moments, Thor was silent. "Well... It seems as though you have everything planned out." "Indeed, I do. If I needed your assistance I would have asked."
"Thor!" Loki yelled as he got up from the ground, "What are you doing here?!"
You eyes fluttered open as you awoke from your lightning induced slumber. You quickly realized that you were not in your car, but you were on the ground laying face down in the grass. You moved and pushed your self up off of the ground. You were a bit shaky getting to your feet, and you almost feel down, but you managed to stay upright. You had a small headache, and you rubbed the back of your head. You then heard a voice from behind you.
"So, you're finally awake."
You turned around and saw that Loki was sitting on the ground next to a tree. You waled towards him.
"What happened?" You asked. Your eyes wondered around and you then spotted your overturned car and nearly screamed. "Oh My God!"
"The Lightning came really close to your vehicle." Loki told you. "Far too close."
"Thank goodness we're still alive." You replied. Even being a bit in shock from the car accident, your mind wouldn't let you forget about why you were on the road in the first place: Spike. "Come on, the building where those scientists are isn't too far from here. We can still get there and save Spike if we hurry."
Night had fallen, and you had no idea how may hours had past since you were knocked out, but you knew that every second was going to count.
You and Loki took to running down the road and you neared the west side of the city, the factory within your sights.
"Over there." You said, as you pointed at it. "That's the building."
You both continued running to the building, but, as you got closer to it, you stopped in your tracks, just barely avoiding running into the electrical fence around the perimeter Out of reflex you held your hand out, and stopped Loki from running into it.
"Of course they'd have an electrical fence." You said.
"Well there certainly must be a way in."
"Right." You agreed, "Let's keep looking."
You followed the fence around the building, and you found the entrance on the north-east corner. From afar, you watched a scientist type a code into a keypad next to the gate. A light on top of the fence turned green, and then allowed the scientist inside the premises Once she was inside the fence, she closed the gate, and the light then turned red again. You amused that the keypad on the gate is what de-activated the electric fence.
You and Loki both made your way over to it. You examined the keypad and saw that it required a 4 digit number code.
You took a few moments to think. What could the code be? What would scientists place as their entry password? It had to be something that was easily remembered by everyone with access to the building. Scientists are smart so they wouldn't make it anything obvious like 1234 or 4321.
Your thinking was interrupted by a loud alarm noise. You looked at Loki, and noticed that he had broke the keypad, and tripped the alarm system.
"Are you nuts?!"
"We're breaking into a private laboratory in attempts to re-steal a stolen horse, how much more trouble could be get into?"
"... You're right, let's go."
You both swiftly opened the gate and then crossed the yard, and into the entrance to the building.
Once inside you knew that it wouldn't be long before someone would be chasing you. The alarm was still going and there were many voice in the distance that overlapped each other. You looked around a bit, and spotted a pile of long, thin pipes on the floor. You grabbed one, and then tossed one to Loki. "We can use these to defend ourselves. Who knows what sort of weaponry they have in here."
"I guess I'll have to resort back to my hand to hand combat training." Loki thought. Without his powers, which he was so dependent on for combat, he knew that he'd have to remember the basic fighting skills he was taught.
"Where do you think they'd be keeping him at?" You asked.
"Oh... Ha. I don't know." Loki replied sarcastically. "But I think that door that says 'Testing lab' would be a good place to start."
"This is no time for sarcasm." You rushed off towards the door that he had mentioned and tried to open the door. Alas, it was locked. You took a step back and then kicked the door, but it did not budge. You tried again, and got better results. The door opened, and you and Loki went inside. The room was very large and circular shaped. What caught you eye the most was that the whole room was a giant maze. And not an easily cheated maze. The wall of this maze were made of metal, and went all the way to the ceiling, so there was no chance of being able to climb over them.
From out of nowhere, you heard the cry of a horse from the distance. You knew for certain that it was Spike. There was something in the sound of the cry that told you that it was him. "He's in the middle!" You said, "We have to get through this maze!"
You both continued on, and then encountered a group of three scientists rounding the corner. They spotted you and ran your way. You didn't have much fighting experience but you were able to use the pipe to your advantage and hit the scientists over the head and knock them out. You noticed that Loki didn't have any trouble at all defending himself. He used the pipe effectively and he obviously had some background in self defense.
You came to a part of the maze that split off into two directions.
"Do we stick together, or split up into different directions?" You asked.
"Split up. If one of us gets lost then the other can go on."
"Alright." You took off the left, while Loki went right.
You went through the maze, but encountered more and more problems as you went on. You kept running into dead ends, and one scientist snuck up on you, and knocked you to the ground. You got back up, and use the pipe to swipe his feet out from under him.
In the other half of the maze, Loki was having the same amount of problems. Running into dead ends was increasingly frustrating to the God of Mischief. He wished that he had his powers of duplication or spell casting right now. They would help out immensely, but he had to do without them.
You rounded another corner, and were confronted with another two scientists, a guy and a girl. Both of them were holding some sort of large gun, and you automatically turned around, bolting away from them. They chased you, and they the guy pulled the trigger on his gun. Flames came out of the gun, and nearly burned you. You picked up your pace, but the scientists were quickly gaining on you. You turned more and more corners, in efforts to confuse them and, in turn, you increased the distance in between you and them. As you continued running, you went past one turn, and felt a pair of arms grab you. You were about to yell, but a hand held your mouth shut, as the figure pulled you into a small hidden dead-end. It was only then did you notice that it was Loki.
"Shhh." He said quietly, still holding his hand over your mouth. "Stay quiet. I've found the way to the center."
You both listened closely, and after a few moments you hear the voices of two male scientists.
"Grahh! They got away!"
"They can't be far, let's check the rest of the building!"
"Radio the others, and tell them that everyone is to drop what they're doing and search for the intruders!"
After a few moments the voices could no longer be heard. Loki let go of you, and motioned for you to follow him. He led you out of the maze and into the center.
"Spike!" You shouted. You dropped the pipe you had been carrying on the ground, and ran over to the horse, kneeling down by his side. He was on the floor, laying on his side. He was hooked up to many monitors that you couldn't even begin to guess what they were doing to him. He had an IV in his leg, and other things that you couldn't even recognize. What worried you most was that he was laying down. If these machines were not what was killing him, it was certainly the excess weight on his heart. "No, No, No. Come on boy, Get up." You said to the horse. His nay was soft, and he turned his head to look at you. "Please? Come on, Spike, Please get up!"
One of the machines was a heart monitor, and it showed that Spikes heart rate was lowering drastically. You could hear it beeping behind you, and each time it beeped you could tell that each beat was getting father and father apart.
"No. Please ...No." You said in a whisper, as tears started to form in your eyes.
Spikes looked over at Loki who was standing a few feet away. He gave another low, weak nay. You watched his eyes lids close over his emerald green eyes.
And then he stopped making sounds at all.
In all your effort to get here, to fight your way through the scientists that stood in your way, to have come so close to where you could taste victory, it meant nothing. You heard the monitor behind you, flatline, while you felt Spike's head go limp in your arms.
You were too late.
I'M ATTACKING YOU ALL WITH SLEIPNIR FEELS!
(Lol, I nearly started crying while writing that last part)
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