A/N: Another six year time jump. Last one, I swear.

I don't own The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head. And taking some personal freedoms with mythology and lore.

"You can call me Jida." Tony blinked as he heard the woman talk, but their surroundings were different. He felt Sander back up, putting Key behind him, protecting her. Tony stood his ground, facing down the woman.

They didn't appear to be inside of a room, or even a building, but it didn't feel like they were out in the open. There was distinct lack of color where they were, with nothing around them. Jida approached Tony, keeping her eyes on him. "I have to say, I was almost impressed with your little attempt at trying to save your son." Tony tried not to frown at her words. They hadn't been able to discover the path back to Tomas yet, but he knew that Balder and Loki had been working tirelessly at it. "You should know that you weren't my first stop."

She snapped a very confused, and slightly panicked looking Chandra stumbled forward to the side. She was wearing a purple and gold sari, jewels adorning the hems, and her hair had been pulled off of her face, but was resting over her shoulders. They knew that Chandra would be in India with her parents, and it looked like she had been caught in the middle of something rather important, if her clothes were anything to go by.

"Did you actually think that if you just found a princess, it would bring your son back to you?" Tony couldn't help his look of confusion cross his face now. Jida raised an eyebrow, then smirked a little. "You didn't know?" She let out a rich laugh that sent shivers down everyone's back. "You found a princess for your precious prince, and didn't even know."

"What are you talking about?" Sander asked, put his arm out as Chandra had slowly made her way over to him and Key. Key took her hand and Chandra wrapped her other arm around the young girls shoulders.

"I thought that all Starks did their research," Jida taunted. "For the past six years you've been treating Midgardian royalty as one of your own. Even I did my research" Jida gestured back towards Chandra. "Princess Chandra Ranjana Bandhar of Jaipur." Tony couldn't help but turn his head to look back at Chandra this time. She didn't appear to look surprised, in fact she was looking at the ground, cheeks tinted red.

Tony froze when he felt Jida's hand on his back suddenly. "I also know that the Valkyrie was your mother, Anthony Stark. There has never been a living son of a Valkyrie, at least one that hasn't been stripped of the powers that could potentially be gained from their mother." Nails gripped his shoulder and he felt a flash of heat streak through his shoulder blades. "I wonder, what have you gained?" He felt more heat started to pool across his back and he arched a little, trying not to make a noise.

Tony tried to pull away from her, grunting when her nails dug deeper into her hold on him. He sucked in a breath when something seemed to pull at his back. Jida moved then, stepping in front of him, smirking. "This is probably going to hurt. A lot. Excruciating pain actually." Tony frowned at her, feeling the muscles in his arms and shoulder start to tense with pressure. "Your wings are coming out for the first time."

Loki was rubbing his temples with his fingers as Balder and Eir were talking. Melisande was sitting on the couch, watching the three adults react. What she hadn't expected was to see Fay suddenly walk in. Walk was the wrong term, she half jogged, half waddled in. She blinked her eyes open wide. Fay was at least six months pregnant.

Loki stopped when he saw her, surprise even showing on his face. "Where's Sander?" Fay looked at the worried faces, the tension in the room. "He was supposed to meet me at the store."

"You are very pregnant," Melli commented. That seemed to be enough to snap Loki out of the shock. "When did this happen?"

"I just got back from Jotunheim,I'm almost in the eighth month," Fay told her. "Sander and I were visiting Emma and Dani, and he came back early to tell everyone the news." She looked at Loki then over at Eir and Balder. "What's happened?"

"He was taken," Balder told her. "Along with Tony and Key. By the same one who took Tomas." Fay's eyes widened but Balder held up a hand before she could talk. "We think we have a better chance at following her. Eir has a direct link with Tony, because he is half Valkyrie, and the trail is going to fresh to follow them."

"Then we need to move quickly," Fay stressed, putting a hand on her stomach. "I'll not let him miss the birth of this baby."

"Baby?" Eir frowned a little. "Just one?" Fay nodded. "He told us that there were two."

"There are." Now it was Fay's turn to frown a little. "He didn't tell you? He's almost six months pregnant too."

Loki breathed in deeply, his fingers closing into tight fists. He was going to kill this woman when he found her.

Tony had fallen to his knees, hands keeping him up as he fought back the waves of pain. Two golden wings were lying across his back, half folded up, limp with the pain he was feeling from being forcefully pulled out. Tony was taking deep breaths, trying to focus on not hyperventilating, and missed the hand that grabbed his shoulder, causing a fresh wave of pain to shoot through his back. "You are a very interesting creature, something that I don't think they could come up with in tales and legends." Tony looked up, glaring at the Jida. He could see Sander and Chandra still standing in front of Key just behind Jida. They had been forced to watch it all, Tony telling them to stay back with a look in his eyes. He was at least glad that they had blocked Key from seeing it, the screams of pain Jida had pulled from him had to have been bad enough to hear. "A winged Fate. A Male Valkyrie. I don't think even they thought that it could be possible."

Tony huffed out a little laugh as he tried to pull his shoulder away from her arm. "I defy odds, that's for sure. Now how about you let us go before you bring about a winged army of pissed off women? My mother knows who you are, and she has a lot of pull with the army of Valhalla." The woman let out a harsh laugh that made his newly formed wings flutter in discomfort.

"If anything I would welcome them to my land!" She stood up straight and started to walk around him. "I would love to add them to my collection, it would add more flair and excitement." She looked at him as she crossed in front of him again, smirking. "I did tell you I'm a collector, right?" She walked behind him again and Tony couldn't help but tense a little. He felt her hands softly stroke one of his wings at the top and he grit his teeth. "I'd love to add something to my own personal collection, as a trophy."

If they had known what she was going to do, there would have been no time to stop her with how fast she moved. She place a foot in the middle of Tony's back suddenly as one of her hands quickly gripped the base of the wing that met at his back and twisted with an immense force. Tony's eyes widened at first, the shock of what had just happened filling his body before the pain took over. He opened his mouth to let out a scream but her other hand quickly clamped down over it.

"It's a pity that you didn't know that that was coming, but I suppose that would be a little hard when my magic has blocking any visions. It has been for a rather long time now, since one of my servants met you at a wedding." Tony's eyes were shut tightly, hands shaking from the pain, breaths coming in harshly through his nose. Sander was holding on tightly to Key to keep her from running over to Tony, Chandra's hands were pressed up to her mouth in shock. "Shall I gift you with those abilities again?" Tony almost choked on a breath when a short rush of fire flushed through his body. "Did I mention that in this place, there are no boundaries to the hundreds of thousands different realities?" Tony's eyes fluttered open to glare at her. "There's nothing to stop you from seeing the future of each and every one of those realities." She grinned as Tony's eyes widened slightly.

She brushed the feathers of Tony's wing that was held in her hand across his cheeks, then swept them over his hands and feet, chains appearing on his wrists and ankles. "Dad!" She turned to look at the pre-teen, still held in her brothers arms. "Leave him alone!" Key glared at her, eyes narrowed with a fire behind them. "Haven't you done enough?"

"Hmm, now that you remind me, there is one more thing." Jida walked towards them and Sander pushed Key back, Chandra's arms instantly wrapping around the girl to try and protect her. Jida stopped in front of Sander and they stared at each other. "Did you tell the about your own secret?"

"Leave," Sander hissed out in fury at her. "You've caused enough pain, now leave us alone." His hand shot out and wrapped around his wrist before she could touch his stomach. She smirked and let her hand glow yellow briefly. Sander tensed and let out a breath, letting go as Jida backed up a little. He knew they could see his rounded stomach now, his illusion broken.

"I don't even know if I have to keep you displayed in a story," Jida said with a smirk. "You would be-"

"Stop," Tony hissed out as he pushed himself off his knees, sitting on the ground, his knees still bent, but no longer trying to hold him up. "Leave them alone." Tony grit his teeth as he felt the familiar tingle in the back of his eyes of an incoming vision. "You have me, just leave them alone." His head was pulled up by a hand gripping his chin. He knew his eyes must be starting to glow as he saw a light reflected in Jida's own yellow eyes.

"Perhaps, just for you, I'll put them somewhere safe." Her thumb rubbed her cheek a little. "I long to hear about everything that you'll see. Just think of all the near infinite realities to see from. Yes, just for you, I'll let them watch that special boy of yours. A reunion. Such a marvelous man you turned out to be for my collection." She let go of his jaw and a large book appeared in front of him, a pen lying across the open pages. "Now," she opened her hands with a smile, "tell me some stories little fate."