Marvels' rights...
It has been one hell of a wait since I last updated this story. Enjoy this, cuz' I worked my ass off with this, stupid writer's block. Please leave me comments guys, I want to know how you people think about it and what I should work on.
Chapter Nine
"Why now? Can't she have tea with you another time?" complained the Doctor.
"My Mum and Dad separated for a reason and it is unbelievably weird that they are together… in the same house," informed Martha sternly at the Doctor.
The Doctor put his hands up in mock surrender and said, "Fine, whatever you say. But why would they be together now?"
"I don't know, but it's obviously strange for them to be in the same place at the same time. They wouldn't get back in a million years. Plus I'm worried, my mum sounded strange on the phone. As if she were choosing her words a little too carefully," Martha informed, hugging herself in nervousness.
All of a sudden, Loki sniffed the air, a little too loudly at that. He started nosing around, until he got to Martha's TV. He smirked as he looked behind the TV.
"What is it now?" asked Rebecca, getting a little annoyed at Loki's randomness.
I mean, first the awkward conversation in the warehouse, then the awkward conversation back in Greenland, then the awkward conversation with the Doctor about Loki, then the awkward meeting with Jack. Wow, there has been a lot of awkwardness ever since she met him.
Away from her thoughts, Rebecca continued to look at Loki, eyeing him suspiciously.
Loki finally said, "Whoever the Master is, he is one hell of a mastermind."
"What?" asked the Doctor.
Jack Harkness said, "And you're bringing this up now because?"
Loki rolled his eyes and turned the TV around. Martha gasped and Rebecca immediately tried to remember all the things her brother taught her about how to disable a time bomb.
Right in front of all five of them, a bomb was ticking away with only a few more seconds to go until the trigger pulls and the bomb explodes.
After that, the Doctor rushed towards the bomb, took his Sonic Screwdriver out, and lit it up. He tried defusing it, but it didn't work. The Doctor finally looked up from the bomb, a hurried expression on his face.
"Go, now!" commanded the Doctor.
All at once, Loki looked outside and eyed the bottom floor.
"Looks close enough," he muttered.
At that, he took out his hand towards Rebecca.
"There's no time shaking hands at this moment Reindeer Games!" Rebecca cried to Loki.
"Just trust me on this," Loki said as Martha, Jack, and the Doctor ran outside.
Rebecca eyed his hand carefully, but took it anyway. After that, she felt a gush of wind as she closed her eyes shut. When she opened them again, she was a few meters away from Martha's house. They were in time to see the house erupt in flames.
"Where are they?" asked Rebecca worriedly.
But instead of Loki listening to Rebecca, he seemed to be staring into the flames as if they were a vague memory he particularly didn't like remembering. Loki is okay with fire and all, but the way the flames danced around the house was vile. It seemed even viler than him. Plus, the fire was only exquisite arson. How could this be possible, fire actually starting to scare him.
As he continued to stare into the light of the fire, not noticing anything else, he realized another question of his. It was always in the back of his mind, but it didn't truly come to his attention until he saw the flames. It reminded him of the small town in Greenland. The flames on Martha's house were similar of those burning that Midgardian village, which was a little strange, but he didn't notice that fact too much.
But he did remember seeing that village and feeling sad. Sad… for a Midgardian town that is of no use to him whatsoever! How is that even accessible?
And how could it be possible that he is becoming extremely bipolar? Loki had been thinking to himself this particular question for some time now, ever since he boarded the T.A.R.D.I.S. Ever since he met that Stark girl in the warehouse, his feelings have been triggered to the maximum. He's been a little too happy at times, then a little too grumpy and emo.
After that, he's been feeling a little too jumpy about, well, anything in general. What's happening to him, really? All these questions make him feel nauseous, no idea why though. This girl has an aura that triggers his emotions somehow. Rebecca had something to do with it, he was sure of that particular fact-
"Ow! What in the Nine Realms was that for?" grumbled Loki as he rubbed the side of his shoulder only to see that it was Rebecca who punched him.
"That was for not paying attention, Loki. The three of them arrived a few minutes ago while you were off in your own world-"
"Technically I do-"
"That's not my point. I've been trying to get your attention for the last few minutes. We need to go to Martha's mom's place. She's really worried now, having a bomb placed in her home and all. She wants to see if her family is all right and if the Master knows about them. Plus, I don't want to get left behind by Davi- I mean the Doctor," informed Rebecca, catching her words in the nick of time.
Loki sighed and then said, "Then where are they?"
"Martha is calling her mom right now," Rebecca told him as they both walked to where Martha, Jack, and the Doctor were.
When they arrived, they saw the Doctor and Jack looking at Martha worriedly as she talked to her mom and dad on her cell phone.
"Dad? What're you doing there?" asked Martha through the cell.
A couple of minutes later, Martha asked firmly, "Dad, just say yes or no. Is there someone else there?"
Being a god, Loki has keen senses and he was able to here Martha's dad shout, "Yes! Martha, listen to me! Just run!"
After that a bunch of screams and yells were clearly heard from the phone, even without keen senses.
Martha then shut her phone and quickly sprinted towards her mother's house saying, "I've got to go help them!"
"But that's exactly what they want you to do, it's a trap!" the Doctor yelled at her.
"I don't care!" Martha firmly screamed.
Martha then opened her car and sat in the driver's seat. After that, Jack and the Doctor went inside.
"Well come on you two, hop in!" ordered the Doctor.
In a flash, Rebecca took out two hover boards for her and Loki. They got on their own board and started it up.
"Don't worry, we'll follow you," Loki smirked.
Jack's mouth opened a little as if he was going to say something, but he decided not to.
"Okay, let's go," informed Martha as she stomped on the gas pedal.
The car zoomed away as Rebecca and Loki followed quickly behind. After a few dangerous turns following Martha's trail, Rebecca and Loki were able to follow them, unnoticed by most civilians. It was probably because Loki put a disappearing enchantment on both of them, but at that time, it didn't really matter.
"So, is this similar to what I will do in the future as an Avenger?" asked Rebecca as she and Loki followed Martha, who looked like she was getting angrier with the Doctor by the minute.
"Probably, I mean, when you elder brother and his team of flying monkeys were trying to chase me last year, it was sort of like this. There were aliens doing my bidding and flying scooters and what not. So yeah, closely similar," Loki answered as if it were a normal day for him.
Rebecca grumbled at Loki for being, well, him. At that, they continued scooting behind Martha. They were all in such a big hurry, Martha drove through the opposite lane, making her run into many cars. This also made Rebecca and Loki run into other cars as well.
"Why the hell does following someone have to be so hard?" asked Loki.
"I don't know, you tell me," Rebecca replied sarcastically.
In the end, Martha took a sharp turn into one of the neighborhoods. They took the same turn. It was a little obvious to where Martha's mum lived because there was a big police van blocking that neighborhood. There was also a big black van and black cars parked in front of a particular house that had its front door open. There were also many people outside with guns slung from their backs and official security people usually found in a government's office.
Rebecca and Loki stopped their boards next to Martha's car to get a better view of what was going on.
A few moments later, two men were carrying a big man in between them. Loki looked at Martha, whose face was of pure horror.
He leaned towards Rebecca and whispered, "I think that's her father."
Rebecca glared at him, making Loki smirk happily. She rolled her eyes as she continued watching the scene.
The two men carrying the one man brought him to another pair of men wearing heavier and more dangerous looking weapons. There, they brought him into the big black van. There was also another woman on the porch of the Jones' house hold. She looked as if she were the boss of this situation because after speaking a certain command, Martha's mother was taken as well into the van.
Rebecca was lost at words at all the chaos happening around her, but she knew she couldn't have anything to do with what was happening now. She and Loki were originally not supposed to be here, so if she or Loki changes anything in this time period, the future might change.
Rebecca saw Loki's fist clench up, so she put her hand on his.
"Loki, if you do anything now, you might as well have ended the world. Anything we do will change the future of this world; we weren't supposed to be here," Rebecca told him.
Loki yanked his hand away from Rebecca and muttered, "You don't know that."
They stared at each other's eyes until they both agreed to stop fighting at the moment, just for the sake of Martha.
At that, both continued to witness the work of the Master.
After a few seconds, Martha's mother finally saw Martha's car.
"Martha, get out of here! Run!" her mother pleaded.
"Target identified," said the blonde woman in charge.
"Take aim," she commanded.
At her command, the soldiers around her lifted their guns up and pointed them towards Martha's car and the two strangers.
Loki looked at them and turned to Rebecca, "Get on my board, now. It's faster that way."
Rebecca looked at him strangely, but all Loki said was, "Just trust me on this, okay?"
"Fire!" shouted the woman.
Rebecca nodded uncertainly and teleported the board back into her watch and hopped behind Loki as fast as she could. Loki gripped the handles as he and Martha reversed quickly. Bullets started to burst towards them as they zoomed away. At the power of the bullets, Martha's back window was shot into pieces. The whole back of her car was, in fact, basically destroyed.
The weird thing was that Rebecca and Loki weren't hurt at all, and they had no physical protection for them.
As they zoomed off, with multiple bullets flying after them, Rebecca asked Loki through all the noise, "How are we still protected?"
"Did I ever tell you I'm a god?" Loki asked her back.
Rebecca stayed silent as she continued to grab onto his waist for dear life, the board was going extremely fast at the moment, even though no more bullets were shooting at them.
A few moments later, Loki followed Martha's car into a tunnel. When they reached it, Martha, the Doctor, and Jack left the car there and Loki and Rebecca caught up after Rebecca teleported the hover board back into her watch.
Martha was the last to catch up because she was talking to someone on her phone.
"Doctor, who were they?" asked Rebecca as she reached the Doctor.
The Doctor's eyes widened and rushed towards Rebecca, crushing her in a tight but heartwarming hug.
"Thank the galaxies you're safe. I wouldn't really know what to do if I got an innocent girl like you to die that here in this place. You too, Frosty," the Doctor said as he gave a warm big smile on both of them.
Loki nodded and turned around to see Martha still talking.
"Who is she conversing with?" asked Loki in attempt to get the Doctor's arms away from Rebecca, who was smiling the brightest he has ever seen her smile.
"I think it's her brother," the Doctor said as he looked towards Martha.
All of a sudden, Martha starts screaming into her phone, "Let them go Saxon, do you hear me? Let them go!"
Jack, Rebecca, and Loki looked towards the Doctor as he took the phone away from Martha and started talking with the Master. He walked a few feet away, so they wouldn't hear his conversation clearly. But that didn't matter as much because Martha started to tear up. Both Jack and Rebecca felt bad for her because who wouldn't cry for their family after they had just been taken away by a psychopath?
They ran towards Martha, wrapping her in an embrace. Martha accepted their embrace as she leaned her head against Jack's chest. All three of them shut their eyes closed at the chaos and disorder of it all. But Loki stood there, staring at all three humans clinging to the hope that they had left.
He wondered why humans must always be like this. Asgardians in general don't understand the way Midgardians cope with their feelings. But then all of a sudden, he felt a sudden outburst of pain come from his head.
"Loki!" gasped Rebecca as she let go of Martha and Jack and ran towards Loki.
Loki collapsed for a moment, but in a while his eyes opened. He grumbled as he rubbed his head and attempted to sit up. He couldn't, so Rebecca helped him up.
"What happened?" asked Jack as he a Martha came towards the weak Loki.
"My head, it just exploded- it felt like it exploded in a million ways. I feel so weak? How do you humans cope with it?" he muttered as Rebecca looked at him.
"Are you smirking?" Rebecca asked Loki as he was finally able to stand up straight by himself.
"Ow- I was, but I wasn't joking about the pain," Loki said as he leaned against Rebecca for support.
"What happened to cause yourself to do that? I'm a doctor in training so I might be able to help," Martha informed him.
Loki patted her on the head as if she were a cute puppy and said, "Thank you mortal, but I don't take in the medicine of Midgard."
"Sorry Martha, he's just new with this whole 'helping others' thing. But he's learning and one day he'll come up to our level," stated Rebecca as if Loki didn't know any better.
"I'm starting to like you more and more Becky," Jack told her as he playfully punched her on the shoulder.
Rebecca smiled, but it faded quickly. She doesn't let anyone call her Becky except for Tony.
"I think you just made her remember something," Loki told him as if he were a child that had done something wrong.
Jack sighed as Rebecca glared at Loki. But then all of their attention instantly turned to the Doctor's direction after pausing the conversation he was having with the Master. He looked away from the TV store in front of him to face Jack Harkness. Jack started walking towards him. So did the others.
They all stopped as the Doctor turned around, faced a security camera, and said, "They can see us."
He took out his Sonic Screwdriver and destroyed the camera. After that, he turned around to see the rest of the group. He had a solemn expression on his face, like most of the hope left in him just drained out.
"He's got control of everything," the Doctor informed to his fellow companions.
Martha crossed her arms as if it were her only support and asked, "What do we do now?"
Jack Harkness sighed and faced the facts.
"We've got nowhere to go," Jack said firmly as he stood straight in the pose of a true captain.
Martha turned to face the Doctor and said in an angry tone, "Doctor, what do we do?"
"We run," the Doctor said as if that was the only available choice for all of them.
He looked at Martha, Rebecca, Jack, and Loki with the look of hopelessness in his eyes. His frown made everything around them gloomy. He wasn't the hyper and happy Doctor Rebecca expected to get to know. But he was the Doctor, and this was his turf, he was the only way she and Loki could get back to their own time. He was her only hope.
"Come on, I think I know a good hiding place," Rebecca said as she ran away.
The others followed, all assuming that for now, they were just helpless beings in the clutches of the Master.