Hel's story:

You can almost see it from earth; deep beyond the stars, thousands upon thousands of miles away: a planet so great and with inhabitants so evolved that humans once worshipped them as gods. This planet is a realm, with one king to rule all who live there. A king with a wife and three sons, three sons who have friends, and friends who have family. This realm has always been mysterious to us humans, and we have made legend upon legend about these people: The Asgardians, but are they true? One of the most interesting legends is about the kings adopted son: Loke or Loki if you will. Legend has it, that he has a daughter; a daughter so evil that Hell itself was named after her; the goddess of death, but is this the real story? Legends never tell why she is so evil, and I have made it my mission to come up with a valid theory to why the legends of Hel came to be. Let's start at the very beginning, shall we?

Once upon a starry night, the king of Asgard threw a party where he had invited the kings, queens, princes, and princesses from all over the nine realms. Every single guest enjoyed the party except for one. The king's own son: Loki did not enjoy parties. They were noisy, social, and oh so complicated. The only reason for his arrival at the party was of obligation to his father.

Loki had nothing to do, and was just about to leave when he saw her; a creature so fair that he could have sworn that he had died and gone to Valhalla. Her long golden hair swung playfully back and forth in the warm evening breeze, and her gentle green eyes had the same shade as freshly sprouted leaves on an oak tree. Her lips were such a gentle light pink; like the cherry blossoms that bloom on earth in the spring. In Loki's eyes; she was perfection itself, and she was making her way towards him.

"forgive me for intruding your majesty, for it is not so often you get the chance of meeting the son of Odin" Her voice was a sweet, silky velvet one; one which captured the young prince's heart like one might capture a lost bird in the wilderness.

"I see that you know who I am, fair lady, which puts me in a rather difficult place since I do not know who you are" Loki tried to keep his usual indifferent posture, but found it rather difficult with her around.

"I am terribly sorry your majesty, my name is Sigyn of kindness and devotion" She said; Loki offered no response, but this.

"Sigyn of kindness and devotion, you may know me as Loki of trickery and mischief; prince of Asgard, but you may call me Loki" Sigyn smiled, and so did Loki; you didn't need to be Freya to know that these two Asgardians had been struck with the spell of love.

"Come on! Seriously?" Hel exclaimed as she closed the book shut; Hel wasn't much for love stories, and an Asgardian one was no exception.

"Bucky must be crazy if he thinks that I'm actually gonna read this" She continued to herself as she threw the book in the bottom drawer of her nightstand. She missed the book she had found in the museum when she was seventeen; see THAT was prober Asgardian reading. Not stuffed with love at first sight, and pink lips the same color as cherry blossoms on earth in the spring, or what the hell that was. She really didn't feel like reading anything else than that book, but it was in Germany, and she couldn't go there, not now, not ever.

When she looked at the clock, she saw that it was way past late, so she turned out the lights and went to bed.

Steve's reading was interrupted by a violent knocking on his front door.

"Steve! I know you're in there, so open the door!" It was Tony; his voice sounded panicked though he had no idea why.

"It's open!" Steve answered, too lazy to get off the couch where he had been resting for two weeks or so.

Less than five seconds later; Tony barged in, and sat next to Steve; he seemed worried, and troubled; very troubled.

"Stark? What's wrong?" Steve sat up, and Stark sat down next to him.

"You… You don't know? It's all over every news channel" Tony asked confused.

"I haven't used my TV in two weeks, and I have hardly left my apartment, so unless you have called and told me, I have no idea what you're talking about." Steve sensed that something was terribly wrong, and he was usually right with his assumptions.

"I blew up all my Iron man suits" Tony said to Steve's big surprise.

"WHAT!? WHY?" Steve was utterly confused, and it didn't help that he was confused in the first place because of the whole Hel thing.

"It was in the heat of the moment; a romantic gesture to Pepper" Tony still looked worried and panicked, but he never could resist bragging to Steve that he had a girlfriend.

"Why the hell did you do that?" Steve couldn't help asking.

"They kidnapped her, and it was my fault Steve. I got her in danger, and it was all because of those stupid suits; so I promised her that I would change for her" Steve couldn't believe it; did those words really just come out of Tony Stark's mouth?

"So you're no longer one of the Avengers?" Steve actually found it difficult to say that sentence; he cared for Stark, even though he WAS a pain in the…

"What? No… I've already built a new one, and Pepper knows that, but… I don't know what to do about her safety" It was nice to hear that Tony actually cared so much for another person, and Steve could see the problem.

"I mean; I'm perfectly safe because of my suits, but SHE? She is SO vulnerable, and fragile; if anyone finds out that she is my soft spot, the enemy will come after her again Steve, and I can't stand the thought" Tony buried his face in his hands as he said this; he really didn't see the obvious solution. Steve cleared his throat before asking quietly.

"Then why don't you build one for her?" Tony turned his head to look confused at Steve when he had said that.

"What do you mean, Steve?" He asked with a hopeful, but confused look on his face.

"You said that you're completely safe because you have your Iron man suit to protect you, so why don't you just build an Iron WO-man suit for her to wear when things aren't safe?" That was Steve's solution, and Tony's eyes DID seem to light up at his words.

"You want me to turn her in to an Iron lady?" Tony smiled again.

"Not one to help us fight crimes; just one who could protect her from bad guys" Steve treaded carefully; if he had offended Tony, it really hadn't been on purpose.

"Steve… You… Are… A GENIUS!" Tony laughed now as he surprised Steve by hugging him.

"THANK YOU Steve! Now I can sleep again" Tony laughed.

"Glad I could help, Stark; now let go of me" Steve said with a friendly tone.

"I think I'll go home, and work on it right now; thank you" Tony exclaimed as he ran out of Steve's door and disappeared.

Steve was confused by Tony's visit; who had kidnapped Pepper? What exactly had happened? It was all so very confusing, and Steve was really lost in thought; so lost in thought that he hadn't even noticed that Tony's chest hadn't lit up with a round blue light.

Authors note:

Just a short chapterso I didn't keep you waiting for too long. I hope that it was visible that the "Steve" part of the chapter was just after the plot of "Iron man 3" I just thought that it fit perfectly in the plot I have planned for this story. As always remember to review as it makes me SO happy to get them; whatever it says, I get happy. The next few chapters with Hel are going to be very interesting (Or that's what I think) so keep following, and review if there is ANYTHING you want me to change, or include. :3