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The Skrull invasion could not have been planned better (well not the invasion itself, Loki thought that THAT could have been planned much better if someone competent was in charge.)
It was a nice surprise to wake up one morning to the shrill screams of running mortals outside his window. Loki allowed himself a moment to revel in the chaos, before teleporting away to play hero.
Later he called the various news stations around the globe and asked for copies of their front page pictures.
He particularly liked the snapshot of himself knocking aside a blast meant for the Statue of Liberty, and though his hair was slightly askew during his jaunt in Russia, he felt it added a tone of ruggedness to his persona.
Or so the various forums on the inter-web assured him.
"Chicks dig the scruffy hair," Peter assured, nursing a bruised rib and broken arm, left over from his own defense of New York. He was stretched out across the couch in the living room of Loki's apartment.
Beside him Guin rolled her eyes and returned to the book in her lap.
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