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Loki coughed again, Thor reached down to try to help him to his feet, but the wounded trickster shook his head. Thor watched the muscle in his right arm twitch. Then he released his blackened left hand from the wound on his side. Groaning he rolled onto his stomach and pushed himself up off the ground teetering dangerously as he got to his feet. Thor reached out again, "Loki, let me help you."

"No." Loki halfheartedly swatted Thor's hand aside, then walked over to the nearby rock face leaning his weight against it.

"Where on Midgard are we?" Thor said.

Loki rolled his eyes at him, "Use your eyes Thor."

Thor looked around him. They were on top of a mountain; he looked down and saw part of the forest below them had been flattened. Looking behind him where he landed, it was the same place he had thrown Loki down to confront him after taking him from the Quinjet, hardly a week ago.

He looked back to Loki, "Why did you bring us here?"

"I did not think you would appreciate landing in a populated area, on the off chance the Chitauri following us survived. But the humans are likely aware of our presence here anyway.

Thor limped toward him, "I mean, why have you brought us back to Midgard? Asgard is in trouble, father was in trouble, and we just ran away?

Loki sneered at him, "Look at yourself, do you truly believe that you or even I could have done anything more than hinder them at this point? If I had not moved us, we would have been either dead or drooling on the floor as they fought on."

"But we could have stayed, we could have-"

Loki cut him off, "Done nothing. Thor, the Chitauri were there for the soul purpose of killing us, Thanos wanted the Tesseract. Now that I have the Tesseract, and we are gone, they have no reason to linger there."

Thor was now in front of Loki, "What about Father?"

Loki wrinkled his nose in distaste, but answered anyway, "The most accomplished warriors in Asgard besides ourselves, had just walked in the door, if they cannot help Odin then he is as good as dead." He bowed his head and clutched at his side again.

"Why Midgard then?", Thor asked again.

Loki looked back at Thor and closed his eyes and took another breath through his teeth. "They did this to me and I was on their side, don't you think you should warn your friends?"

Thor frowned confused, "Why do you care?" He rubbed the large bump on his head from the Chitauri gun. "I don't understand, you tried to kill me twice during the invasion, but you nearly died defending me just now. "

Loki stared at him, saying nothing for a moment. "I wasn't trying to kill you."

Thor leaned over Loki, angry, clenching his fists, he raised his voice, "You threw me, from the moral flying fortress; you had no way to know I would escape the mortal cage." He slammed his fist against the rock face sending small pebbles raining down his head. "You plunged one of your knives into my gut. How is that not trying to kill me?"

Loki looked down. "The fall wouldn't have killed you."

Thor stepped closer, his hands trembling, thunder rolled overhead. "How do you know?" He ground his teeth. "You said the mortals think us immortal, should we test that? Then you stabbed Son of Coul, when he tried to defend me!"

Loki's voice lashed out like that of a wounded dog, "I killed those who opposed me Thor! I was trying to conquer the planet, what did you expect? But then you had to interfere as you always do, I had to take you out before the battle somehow. I've survived worse falls in the past; I knew that had I succeeded, you would have been rendered out of commission during the battle." He took in a shuddering breath. "But then you came to the battle anyway. So I tried again, I hardly expected a knife wound to kill you, but I should have known it wasn't going to be enough to take you out of the battle."

Thor had calmed slightly, and was now watching his brother carefully.

Loki frowned and closed his eyes leaning his head against the rock face. "I had expected the green beast to slink away after his mortal side came to his senses and saw the destruction he had caused. The Chitauri barely listened to me during the battle, going off and fighting their own way, doing what they thought was best. Every once in a while they might listen to me, but the best I could do was go out and fight myself. With all of the Avenger's focused on me, and the Chitauri hardly defending me, it was not long until you defeated me."

Loki's eyes glazed over and he stared past Thor looking out into the sky above. "Thanos wanted the Tesseract, he offered me a way out, dangled what I wanted most right in front of me. It was too good to be true; I wonder now if, had I been successful, would he have left the earth in my possession?"

Thor stood not knowing how to answer, and then Loki's withered hand shot to his right arm.

Thor spoke, "What is that device?" He pointed to the strange metal disc imbedded into Loki's arm.

Loki looked down at his right arm and frowned, "I do not know, it's… doing something to me."

"What do you mean?"

"It's-" Loki's whole frame shivered. "It's burning me."

Thor looked around, "We should leave and find help." He looked at Loki, "Couldn't you just take us to them?"

Loki shook his head, "I am spent. And I already told you Thor, the humans likely already know we are here. If you want them to come sooner, perhaps you should make your presence a bit more obvious."

Thor's hand tightened on Mjolnir and he looked to the sky.

"Directior Fury, energy around the small anomaly we picked up earlier has spiked. It's giving off the same energy signature as Thor's hammer."

Fury frowned down at the swirling data on the screen. He spoke under his breath "But Thor just went home not too long ago…"

The agent looked at him, "What do you want to do, Sir?"

"Ready a jet, and get Captain Rogers down here."

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