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Chapter Ten

Don't Call Thor Names

Meanwhile, Thor flew Loki to the top of a mountain and slammed him into the ground. "Where is the Tesseract?" Thor asked, his voice calm but a bit on the threatening side.

"I missed you too," Loki said, chuckling.

"Do I look to be in a gaming mood?!" Thor had no time for this.

"You should thank me," Loki said as he worked on getting himself into a sitting position. "With the Bifrost gone, how much Dark Energy did the All-father have to muster to conjure you here? Your precious Earth."

Thor dropped his hammer to the ground with a thud and stepped quickly to Loki, pulling him from the ground and placing his hand behind Loki's neck as he always used to do. Maybe a reminder of how they used to be would being Loki to his senses. "I thought you dead."

"Did you mourn?" Loki asked contemptuously.

"We all did. Our father-"

Loki cut him off with a raised finger, "Your father." He pushed Thor's hand away. "He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?" He walked past Thor holding one hand to his back which must have been sore from landing so hard on the rock.

"We were raised together," Thor reminded him. "We played together; we fought together! Do you remember none of that?"

"I remember a shadow," Loki replied, turning to face him. "Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abbys,"

You LET GO, brother! Thor thought.

"I who was and should be king!"

"So you take the world I love as recompense for your imagined slights. No, the earth is under my protection, Loki."

Loki laughed, "And you're doing a marvelous job with that! The humans slaughter each other in droves while you idly fret. I mean to rule them, as why should I not?"

"You think yourself above them?"

Loki was a little surprised. Was that not obvious? "Well, yes."

"Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. A throne would suit you ill."

Loki snarled, pushed past Thor again and went to stand where he had been thrown. "I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile," Loki spat the name at Thor. "I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I weild it-" Thor cut him off.

"Who showed you this power?" he asked. "Who controls the would-be king?"

"I am a king!"

"Not here!" Thor pushed Loki back as though to try to push his words through Loki's thick skull. "You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream!" He placed his hand behind Loki's head again, silently begging him to listen, to do as he was asking. "You come home."

Loki laughed once, softly, "I don't have it." Thor pushed him away and summoned Mjolnir. "You need the Cube to bring me home. But I've sent it off, I know not where."

"You listen well, brother." Thor was holding Mjolnir out threateningly, when something rocketed out of nowhere and slammed into him, knocking him off the mountain and into the forest below.

"I'm listening," Loki said, smirking inwardly. He settled himself down on the mountain to watch the battle he was sure would be coming.

Meanwhile, Tony had slammed Thor through a tree and sent him sliding across the dirt floor of the forest. As Thor picked himself up, Tony lifted the faceplate of his suit.

"Do not touch me again," Thor said.

"Then don't take my stuff," Tony replied.

"You have no idea what you're dealing with."

Tony glanced around, "Uh, Shakespeare in the Park?" Thor merely stared at him. "Doth Mother know you wear-eth her drapes?" Tony was being his usual, joking self and he could almost see Diana rolling her eyes at him as she did so often.

"This is beyond you, metal man. Loki will face Asgardian justice."

"He gives up the Cube, he's all yours. Until then," Tony lowered his faceplate, "stay out of the way." Thor lowered his head as Tony turned away. "Tourist." That was the last straw. With a grunt, Thor flung Mjolnir at Tony.

Tony turned just in time for the hammer to slam into his chest and send him backwards. For a moment, he just lay there. Now it was Tony's turn to be angry. "Okay."

Thor summoned Mjolnir back into his hand as Tony stood up. Thor started to swing Mjolnir in preparation, but Tony quickly powered up one of his repulsors and launched Thor back into a tree. Just as he was standing up, Tony used a burst from one of his boot rockets and flew forward, slamming his other foot into Thor's chest and bringing the tree crasing down.

Mjolnir tumbled out of Thor's hand, but he quickly pulled it back. Raising it to the sky, a powerful bolt of lightning shot down out of the sky and powered up the hammer. Thor then pointed the hammer directly at Tony, and the lighting fired out of the hammer's head.

Tony reflexively lifted one arm infront of his face to at least try to reduce the brightness. Finally, the lighting stopped, leaving glowing marks on the armor which quickly faded. "Power at 400% capacity," JARVIS informed Tony.

Tony was impressed and surprised. "How 'bout that?" Wasting no time, he used most of his extra power in a powerful beam that shot from his hands and chest. Thor flew back and slammed into another tree, but there wasn't much damage.

Thor swung Mjolnir forward and flew toward Tony. Tony powered up his repulsors and flew to meet Thor in midair. The momentum from Tony's repulsors was greater than Thor's, so Tony was able to send the two of them zooming toward one of the nearby mountains. They had a brief scuffle in midflight before Tony slammed Thor into the side of the mountain. Thor managed to knock one of Tony's hands free of his shoulder and then push himself off the mountain to send them hurtling back toward the forest below.

They knocked down a tree and Mjolnir went flying again. Tony threw a punch at Thor and hit him with little effect. He attempted to swing again, but Thor caught his arm in one hand, and his fist in the other. Thor started squeezing, and an alarm beeped in Tony's ear. The gauntlet beneath Thor's hand was buckling under the strong pressure. In a desperate attempt to get Thor to let go, Tony fired one of his repulsor's at the Asgardian's face. It worked, and Thor let go enough for Tony to grab him by the arms and head-but him. Thor was barely fased and replied with a head-but of his own, sending Tony tumbling backward and leaving a dent in his helmet.

Tony hardly spared a moment, to regain his breath. He rocketed back toward Thor, grabbed him, and flung him against a tree. Thor quickly stood and launched himself back at Tony. He smashed him with several punches before lifting him from the ground, and slamming him back down on his back. Thor called Mjolnir to him, and went to swing down at Tony. However, Tony activated his repulsors and managed to get himself out of the way just in time for Thor to get over balanced by his swing and face-plant on the ground.

Tony turned and used his rocket momentum to land another punch on Thor's face. Thor made to swing Mjolnir at Tony again, but they were interrupted when Captain America's disk-shaped shield rikashayed off their heads. "Hey!" he called, as his shield bounced back and landed back in his hand. Cap caught the shield and slid it back on his arm. "That's enough!" He jumped down from the splintered tree that he had been standing on, and landed on the ground right next to Diana. She had her bow out and an arrow on the string, but it was pointed at the ground.

"Now I want to know what you plan on doing here," Steve said to Thor.

"I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes."

"Then prove it. Put that hammer down."

"Uh, yeah, no! Bad call! He loves his-" Tony was cut off as Thor swung Mjolnir against his chest, sending him flying backwards.

Diana's arrow snapped up to point at Thor, but Steve pushed it back down as Thor cried, "You want me to put the hammer down?" Thor leapt toward Steve and Diana, swinging his hammer down to connect with Captain America's shield.

"Get down!" Steve shouted at Diana. She dove behind him just as Thor's hammer connected with the shield. There was a bright flash where they hit each other, and a huge shockwave set both Thor and Steve flying backward. Not only that, but also flattned about a quarter of the forest.

A few moments later, they all struggled shakily to their feet. They surveyed the smashed battleground as Steve asked, "Are we done here?" No one said anything, and the silence was only broken when the Quinjet landed nearby.

When Thor flew up to retrieve Loki from the mountain top, Diana asked Tony, "What did you do that set him off like that?"

"I just called him 'Tourist.' I thought it was appropriate since he wasn't from here."

Diana shook her head at her brother. "Tony, don't call Thor names. It's hazardous to your health, and the health of everything around you," she gestured to the forest to prove her point.