Loki were on his knees, with both of his hands on either side of him, both of them covered in his brothers blood that was still gushing out of him. Loki stared at his brother with almost dull eyes, and he could feel a tsunami of utter and complete rage wash over him, and he turned his gaze from his brother and towards the people responsible for causing his death. He rose from his knees and was but a second from releasing hell upon those who had attacked them, when a rumbling in the sky interrupted his thoughts and broke his trance of anger. He turned his attention upwards, and he could now see dark clouds gathering, as well as the roaring of thunder, lighting up the entire sky.

An immense thunderbolt struck down, and Loki nearly didn't have enough time to use his magic to send Jane away before the bolt struck Thor, even though he had foreseen it. Another one struck down, this time at the truck the hammer was in. The whole truck went up in flames, and from it Mjölnir came, swooshing towards Thor, who miraculously managed to catch it. He slowly stood up, his bleeding coming to an end, and for a brief moment he was engulfed in what appeared to be a small tornado, circling around him. When the dirt that hung around him cleared, when the tornado and clouds had somewhat settled, Loki saw his brother, this time wearing his Asgardian garments, accompanied with his red cape. Thor looked over at Loki who stood a far bit from him with a dumbstruck expression, most likely because he hadn't seen something like that in all of his years. Thor gave him a serious look and a small smile, before looking back to check that the others were okay. When he had confirmed that they had but a few bruises he turned around and walked towards the Hydra soldiers. They raised their weapons, with the leader screaming at them, but it was to no avail. Thor swung his mighty hammer, sending half of them away, and Loki created numerous duplicates among the midst of them, tricking the soldiers to fire at themselves. When everything settled there was many of them running back to whence they came, as well as a few on the ground, trying to tend to their wounds.

Jane ran towards Thor, hugging him tightly, while Selvig and Darcy looked around the area. Loki watched the hug from afar, and his previous smirk dropped. Loki looked around himself, knowing that there would soon come even more soldiers from Hydra, and probably S.H.I.E.L.D. too. He let out a little sigh and ran a hand through his messy hair, trying to get it in some form of order. He turned his attention back to the other truck, the one with the frozen soldier in it. Loki quickly walked over, wanting to know if he was still in there. When he came close enough he saw to his horror that the tube was gone. The soldiers had taken it while they were fighting. Loki swore and hit the side of the truck, creating a hole in the metal. He had to get that man back.

Loki turned around seeing the others walking towards him, all of them smiling, though he knew himself that they were all scared underneath.

"Are you alright?" Darcy asked, looking over him.

"Yes I am fine, but we have to get out of here, there will be more soldiers coming, and none of them will be friendly I suspect." Loki said, looking out at the company who nodded.

"Heimdall could take us home." Thor said, looking at Loki.

"No, not me. He can take you, but not me. I still have something to do."

Thor looked at him with a confused look.

"What do you have to do? I have my strength and hammer back, and we are all gathered here, what do you have to do that is so important?"

Loki breathed a bit before answering;

"There was a man… I found him inside the base. He was trapped and frozen inside a tube, and I want to help him. The soldiers took him and I need to go after them and get him."

Loki looked at Thor who was looking at him in silence, with Jane and Darcy looking at each other and Selvig scratching his face.

"Why do you want to help him so?" Thor asked him, looking at him with an unwavering gaze.

"Because…" Loki said, trying not to reveal that the man had so much in common with him.

"He is trapped against his will, and that isn't right. He deserves to be free like us." Loki said, stretching his spine and standing tall with a firm look on his eyes. The company was silent for a few moments, before Thor gave him a nod and put his hammer at his hip, while walking towards him.

"Alright. I will help you find this man and free him." Thor said, putting his giant left hand on Loki's shoulder and shaking him a bit while flashing him a warm smile. Loki smiled and put his own hand on Thor's while smiling himself. Thor put down his hand after a short while and turned around, being met with the others looking at him like he just agreed to do something incredibly stupid, which was actually not far from what it actually was.

"Will you come with us?" Thor said, looking at the others who seemed a bit terrified at the suggestion.

Jane looked at the both of them before nodding.

"Okay."

Selvig looked around a bit before also nodding.

"Well it is certainly a better option than standing around here, that's for sure."

Everybody was now staring at Darcy, who let out a loud sigh.

"Aaah crap… We just survived all this crap! Do you guys have some sort of death wish?"

"You don't have to come with us." Loki said, looking at her with a small smile.

"Yeah right, and be called a chicken for the rest of my life? I don't think so fancy pants." And with that the company quickly strode over to one of the abandoned Hydra trucks, Jane and Darcy sitting in the passenger seat while the others sat in the back. Jane saw two trucks drive away in the distance, and Thor, Loki and Selvig almost hit the back of the truck wall when she stepped on the pedal. They drove fast, and Loki walked to the front of the truck where there was a small window that you could see through, into the passenger seat. Jane turned her head to her side and when she saw it was him she spoke, though the rocky road made it a little bit hard for her to speak properly;

"Do you by any luck know which one of them has your pal?

Loki looked ahead, and he could now see the two trucks in front of them, not too far ahead. Loki closed his eyes and reached out with his mind, trying to detect the same signal that the man had when he were in the base. After a few minutes he locked onto his position, and he opened his eyes and pointed his finger on the truck on the left.

"That one! That is the truck with him."

"Alright, then I will smash it and get him out." Thor said who was getting a bit restless, still having the anger and adrenaline running through him from the fight earlier.

"No!" Loki shouted, putting a hand against Thor's chest.

"That could kill him. We need to stop the truck and get him out safely, otherwise he might die."

Thor's mouth was by now a thin line, and Loki could tell that he was really eager to fight, but nonetheless he nodded in an understanding matter.

They drove faster than ever, but the trucks in front of them had a head start, and it seemed unlikely that they would catch up at the moment.

Loki looked around, trying to figure out something or something that he had that could help, and it was in that moment that he felt his device, still lying securely in his inner pocket. He took it out and held it in his palm, trying to think of what he could do with it.

"What is that, some kind of laser pointer?" Selvig asked who seemed pretty intrigued about his screwdriver. Loki stared at him for a moment, before a big smile showed on his face.

"Something like that." He said, and pointed it at the ceiling and activating it which created a green laser that cut through the roof. He created a small opening that he could climb out of, and the plate fell to the floor. Loki put his screwdriver back in his pocket and gave it a light pat, as if he was thanking it for aiding him, before climbing up and through the hole. He now had half his body above the truck, with the rest inside, dangling a bit. He looked ahead and saw the two trucks. Loki opened his left hand but didn't move his arm, since he used it as leverage to hold himself up.

"What are you doing?!" Thor shouted from the inside, poking him in his side, just in case he didn't hear him.

"I am trying to slow the truck down so we can catch up, and it would help me if you didn't poke me!" Loki shouted back, trying to concentrate, though with the wind blowing in his face and the dust getting in his eyes, concentrating proved a very difficult task. Loki closed his eyes and tried his best to focus, to use the magic that his mother had taught him, since she was the one who had tutored him in his training. He reached out with his extended arm of magic, and tried to grab hold of the truck. He calmed himself, shutting out everything; the truck going up and down, his beating heart, the wind that blew, the sand that got on him. Everything was gone except him, isolated in his own bubble, reaching out to take hold of the truck that was in front of them.

Loki felt his hand moving along the road, and finally he managed to take hold of the truck, not stopping it, since it could crash then, but holding it back so it slowed down somewhat. Jane was now gaining speed and shortening out the distance between them, and soon they were alongside each other.

"Why hello there!" Darcy shouted, effectively catching the other man driving the Hydra trucks attention

"Lovely day to drive at insane speed in the outlands, isn't? How about you slow down for a bit so we can talk more about the weather?"

The other man didn't seem too affected, but to Darcy and the others dismay he turned slightly to his right, and Loki knew that he was planning to ram right into them. However, before anyone could do anything that involved possibly killing each other, there was a loud noise, like a giant ship above them…

Loki looked up, and noticed a massive ship hovering over them, and by the looks of it descending towards them. The others had noticed too, and Loki could hear Darcy shout;

"No freaking way! A helicarrier? Seriously? Are the Avengers coming too?"

Loki looked down at the side Darcy was on and hit the trucks side with his hand while shouting her name, gaining her attention.

"What is that ship? Who does it belong to?"

Darcy turned her head around the best she could and looked up at him before shouting;

"It's S.H.I.E.L.D.: s ship! They are probably after Hydra, and… We are driving in a Hydra truck…" Darcy quickly returned inside the passenger seat and looked at Jane with wide eyes.

"We have to get out of this car right now! God knows what they are planning to do if they brought a freaking Helicarrier, they might try to blow us up!"

Jane looked at her, and she had the same idea of what might happen, but before she could slow down or react her attention was brought to the road ahead of them, which was now occupied by the Helicarrier, who seemed to be hovering just above the ground, with a giant landing platform brought out in front of them. The ship slowed down, and all the trucks didn't have time to move out of the way, leading to them effectively driving onto the Helicarrier, which quickly closed the platform behind them and drove upwards to the sky.

Jane had now hit the brakes and they were standing completely still, with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surrounding them everywhere, everyone with weapons pointing at them. Loki looked out and saw a man in a black coat with an eye patch standing in front of them, with a megaphone in his hands.

"Hydra agents! Come out of your trucks with your hands above your heads! You are completely surrounded, and any attempt to resist will be pointless, so I suggest for your own safety that you cooperate with us."

The man shouted, and his voice echoed through the gigantic room filled with people. It was then that Darcy burst out of her seat and out into the open, drawing everyone's attention and weapons to her.

"Don't shoot! We aren't Hydra, we are just a couple of people who got caught in the crossfire, and we have nothing to do with this!"

She shouted, and the soldiers seemed to believe her, seeing as she was wearing her ordinary clothes, and that she was unarmed with a small army surrounding her. Jane and the others also walked out, and when Thor walked out there was a murmur around the circle of soldiers. One man walked forth, and Thor knew who it was, the man who had interrogated him, the son of Coul.

"We mean you no harm." Thor said, and he held his hands up to prove that he meant no harm indeed.

"Well it just so happens that we do."

Thor and the others turned around, and Loki only had a second to register the Hydra agent that had walked out of his truck with a giant weapon, of which he fired at the crowd surrounding them. That was when all hell broke out, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents shooting at Hydra who shot back, and Jane, Darcy, Selvig and Thor running away from the truck, trying to get away from the shooting, all except Loki, who still intended to get that man out of his frozen prison before leaving.

Loki quickly made his way out of the truck, running towards the other truck that had the frozen man inside, but before he could reach it a machine on the ceiling of the Helicarrier shot at it, and the truck received a giant blow, knocking it to its side and bursting it into flames.

"NO!" Loki screamed, running faster than he thought possible towards the truck, and when he reached it he went inside, only to find that the tube was smashed, with the man lying unconscious on the floor, flames licking him.

Loki quickly made his way over to him and picked him up bridal style, before going out of the truck and making his way away from it. He was only a few feet from it when it exploded, and Loki shielded the man with his body from the parts of the truck that flew over the place. He managed to get to a wall with a staircase, but before he could catch his breath there was another explosion, this time somewhere above the Helicarrier.

"Attention everyone! There has been a security breach; Hydra is attacking us from above, all available forces report immediately!" A female voice spoke, and Loki could feel the panic rising. Loki ran with the man upwards, trying to get away from the shooting, and though he looked everywhere he couldn't see Thor or the others.

Loki came to an empty room and put the man down on the floor to see if he was okay. He seemed alright except for a few bruises on his head and chest, which Loki tended to. The man had currently his head resting in Loki's lap as he sat on the floor with his hands on his chest, healing his wounds. It was at that moment that the man opened his eyes, slowly blinking and adjusting to the light before looking at Loki.

"Who… Are you?" He asked, looking at Loki who now was in a small chock since the man had suddenly woken up.

"Oh… I… Well I am Loki. I found you frozen in a base underground, so I thought I woul-"

"Where am I?" The man asked as he turned his head around, trying to see where he was.

"You are currently at what I was told was a Helicarrier, a big ship that S.H.I.E.L.D. owns, an-"

"S.H.I.E.L.D.?! The man shouted, and suddenly he flung up, walking backwards and away from Loki as he stared at him with wide eyes that now seemed to have a darker undertone then when he had first seen Loki.

"Are you one of them?" He asked, and Loki could see that "yes" was probably not the right answer.

"No, I am not. I just happened to be here, and I have been trying to save you."

The other man stared at him for a moment before seemingly lowering his guard, accepting his answer as truthful.

Their attention was however brought away from each other as a man burst in with a gun pointing at the man he had just saved. But before he could shoot Loki hit him square in the head, making him unconscious. The man nodded at him, but just as he was about to make his first step to the entrance another blast came, this time hitting the wall behind and sucking him out into the sky. Loki quickly grabbed his metallic arm with his right hand, and held tightly onto the door handle with the other. The entire room was now tilting to the side, and Loki held onto him with all his strength.

Thankfully the ship returned to its normal state, though so quickly that the other man fell on top of Loki, who flushed a bit having the man so close and lying on top of him. The man stayed still for a moment, and both of them were staring into each other's eyes for a brief moment. Loki could feel the man's breath tickling his skin, as well as his own cheeks heating up, and Loki shuddered at how close the man's face was to his. Then it was over, with the man quickly rising to his feet and running out the door.

Loki took a moment to get to his feet, partially because he was still in a bit of a daze from the previous moment, though he would deny anything supporting that it was true, like how red his cheeks were or how flustered he was. When Loki came out of the door he was met with utter chaos; there had been more Hydra agents pouring in from above, and they were all fighting each other. As Loki ran after the man he saw quite a few odd people participating in the fight, for instance there was a man with a bow, a women with red hair who kicked down a considerate amount of people, a man with iron wings attached to his back flying around, and what appeared to Loki's horror as a giant green monster practically tossing away anyone who dared go near him.

"I have to find the others." Loki thought to himself as he ran, but he was still thinking about the man. Why was that? He had freed the man, and if he was who he was Loki had no doubt that he could take care of himself. But still… He had been manipulated, something Loki was very familiar with, and he really wanted to help him with that, then the man could do what he wanted, without people steering him and telling him where to go and do. Loki nodded to himself, making a silent promise. He would help the man, find the others and get out of this place alive, and then he would… Leave. That's it.

Loki came around a corner and saw something very familiar to him; Thor was fighting, swinging his hammer, smashing and electrocuting people, though it seemed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had realized that he was on their side, because he was fighting alongside them. Loki looked out; trying to spot where Darcy, Selvig and Jane were, but he couldn't spot them anywhere. Loki ran towards Thor, using his magic to get by all the irritating insects firing at him and trying to punch him. Loki just snored and shoved them away, since even though he may not be as strong as Thor he was still considerably stronger than these weaklings of Earth. When he finally reached Thor he had to duck as his brother almost took his head off; that was how emerged he was in the battle, struck first and thought later.

"Where is the others?!" Loki shouted over the general noise of screaming and gunshots that filled up the room.

Thor turned his head to where Loki was and gave him one of his usual cocky and flashy smiles before turning back to fighting the Hydra agents.

"Hello Loki! Where did you run off to? I was getting worried that you might've lost your way!" He said, clearly enjoying swinging his precious hammer again, and since there was almost an infinite amount of Dumbo's trying to take him down he always got to use it.

"Where are the others?!" Loki shouted again, hoping that Thor would hear him between his constant swinging and flinging of his hammer. Thankfully Thor seemed to hear him, because he was now looking at Loki when he spoke.

"They were taken to a secure room by one of these agents of the shield, and they are guarded, so there is nothing to worry about! We only need to defeat these people and we can be on our way back to Asgard!"

Thor said before turning his full attention towards the enemies. Loki looked around a bit; now unsure of what he was going to do, seeing as he still wanted to find the now un-frozen man. He looked around and just caught a glimpse of him going to the next floor, before disappearing.

"I am going after him!" Loki shouted before running off, though he doubted that Thor heard or were even listening, since he now had reverted back to the maniac with the hammer as one of the Hydra agents had called him. Loki ran up and up all the stairs, trying to go the same way up as the un-frozen man, and after a few minutes he found the right path and sprinted up to the second floor.

The same thing escalated on the second floor; various dead bodies lying around the floor with blood pooling out of them, as well as those who were still alive, and those who stood and fought. Loki made his way past them, running through the halls trying to find the one person he cared for.

After running around for a good half hour Loki realized that he must've moved up another floor, and he quickly made his way to the stairs.

Loki reached the stairs and went up. When he got up this time however he wasn't met with another regular floor, but on with no roof, just the sky.

Loki looked around at the mayhem, seeing soldiers fighting, and he had almost given up hope of finding him when he finally saw him hiding behind a plane for shelter. Loki ran towards him, with full intent to not let him slip away this time.

He made his way to him and saw him holding one of the guns that the Hydra soldiers used, and seemed to be engaged in re-loading it.

"Hey!" Loki said, and the man quickly put his gun against him, staring at him.

Loki stopped abruptly and put his hands slightly above his head before speaking.

"Calm down… It's just me, remember? The guy who saved you earlier?"

That seemed to calm him down a bit, and he gave a short grunt before putting the gun back in his lap and continued to re-load it.

Loki sat down beside him, and when he didn't seem to mind Loki relaxed a bit, though being relaxed when people are shooting at you is perhaps not the most logical thing to do.

Loki fidgeted slightly with his hands, not really sure for once what he was supposed to say, seeing as he never really had offered his help to someone, mostly because no one except Thor had wanted it, but also since he didn't really know how to. Loki looked at him; they were right now sitting together, with Loki on the other man's left side, both of them leaning back on the plane.

"So…" Loki began, with a slightly unsure voice and smile which didn't seem to affect the other man since he didn't look up from the weapon he was holding.

"Why is it exactly that you fight?" Loki said, and he didn't actually expect an answer, perhaps a grunt? But to his surprise the other man answered.

"Because they are my enemies." He said, still not looking up.

"And why is that?" Loki said, coming over the small chock of getting an answer and immediately trying to dig up more from the man.

"Because…" He said, and stood up quickly and shot over the side of the plane, most likely hitting a lot of not every target that he aimed at. When he was out of bullets he sat down again and repeated the same thing, but this time he looked at Loki for a brief moment.

"They are my boss's enemies, and I follow order." Loki stared at him for a few moments.

"Why are they your bosses?" He said, still looking at him.

The man sighed and looked at Loki now.

"You ask a lot of questions. What does any of this matter to you?"

Loki met his gaze.

"Because I am trying to help you. Those people that you work for… They manipulated you, erased your memories, look-"

Loki tried to put out his words in a way that would make sense, which proved a very difficult task.

"Manipulated me? What are you talking about?" He said, and he had now put the gun down and stared at Loki.

"When I found you… Down there in the building, there was a man, a scientist that said that you had been another man, before all of this. Do you remember that? You weren't always a killer, you were once a good man, do you recall that?"

The man stared at him wide-eyed now, and Loki could see that there was confusion and fear inside the man's eyes now, and it almost looked like he had a mental war inside his head.

"What, I… I don't…" he said, and dropped his gun and held both of his hands against his head.

"It hurts!" He said, and Loki quickly brought the man's hands down from his face and put his own there instead.

"Look at me." Loki said, and the man looked at him now, his eyes slightly red.

"Good. Now calm down so I can help you, alright?"

He got a silent nod, and the man put his own hands on Loki's arms for support.

Loki closed his eyes and put his forehead against the other man's head, trying to go in and repair the damage that the people of Hydra had done to him. He was shocked and angry when he saw how much damage they had done; they had suppressed and mostly destroyed all of the man's previous memories, and Loki already knew that there were some memories that he would never be able to save. Loki had just began to heal his mind when they were interrupted by a big explosion, and Loki separated the link between them, making sure that he did it safely as to not hurt the other man.

Loki quickly stood up and held his arm out towards the other man who was now lying on the ground with his good arm rubbing his head slightly.

"Thanks…" He grunted as he took the arm and hoisted himself up. When Loki looked out over the giant floor on the Helicarrier he saw a particular person walking towards them, wearing a blue suit and a round shield, which he threw straight at Loki.

He would probably have hit him, if it hadn't been for a metallic arm catching it right in front of him. The man who threw the shield walked closer now, as well as the un-frozen soldier.

When the man in the blue suit saw him he stopped walking and stood completely still, as if Loki had frozen him in his place. The other man with the shield on his left arm walked towards the man and stood now in front of him, both in silence. A silence that was broken by one word;

"Bucky?" The man said, and Loki could see the man's eyes welling up slightly with tears.

The other man cocked his head slightly to his left side in response before answering with a mildly confused voice;

"Who the hell is Bucky?"