A/N: so this one was very long and I have some pointless fan service at the beginning. I just felt like doing a kitty thing alright. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this next one, the truth is about to come out and I hope I don't disappoint.
Gwen had asked the boys to come over to her house because she needed help with something after school. What she needed she would not say. The boys took the bus over to her apartment building, Peter knows the way by heart and Loki teases him about the hot and cold relationship they have. Peter would blush and start rambling in an attempt to speak and explain it away. When they got off Loki looked up sensing he is still there. He had been with them since school started. He groans and Peter asks what's wrong.
"Do you not sense anything strange like we are being followed by a mammoth of sorts?" Peter shrugged smirking.
"I didn't think Thor following us was strange." Loki gaps at him.
"Of course it is, I specifically told him to stay out of my life." Peter shakes his head as they go up the stairs to Gwen's place.
"He is your brother, he loves you and I still can't believe your pushing him away." Loki is taken aback.
"Were you not listening the other day?"
"I was, but Loki, you can start new with him you know. You can be whoever you want with him now and I think he would love it too."
"But what if I remember and everything I am afraid of comes back? What if he hurts me what if-" Peter puts his hand over Loki's rambling mouth. He doesn't ramble often but when he does, it goes on forever.
"Aunt May once told me that if we all worried about 'what if's' then no one would live a life worth living. I thought you loved adventure and the unknown." Peter knocks on the door and lets Loki go. He was about to say something when Gwen pops up.
"Hey guys um so I guess I should explain this favor…" she steps out and leaves the door cracked. She takes a deep breath and lets the word flow like a tidal wave. "My friend, Isabella, needs to handsome boys to take photos of for her project. She is a photography major and her only guideline is that they have to have animal qualities." She shrinks back with her left eye squeezed shut. Loki grasped it quickly and is keeping his mouth from making and O. Peter takes a few more seconds to grasp and speaks not too smartly.
"What?" She sighs.
"You and Loki are going to be wearing cat ears and cat tails and acting sexy." She then grabs the boys and drags them inside. Her friend was a dark tan with a huge braid down to her back. Loki thought she looked younger than a college student but paid no mind to it.
"Wow, they are hot." Was her greeting and Loki snickers at her dorkiness. Peter shakes her hand and Loki decides to be mischievous.
"Hello darling," he kisses the back of her hand gently and she squeals. Loki keeps himself calm and not laughing. Peter face palms knowing what he is doing. Gwen ushers them over to the white backdrop and hands them the outfit she wants them in. They then walk into a curtained off section and change quickly.
"Well this is odd." Peter mumbles as he puts on his tight white pants. Loki is putting on the leather jacket without a shirt.
"I think Gwen might need a release later so it's working for you." He exits quickly. Peter gets really warm in the face and exits soon after. He glares at Loki but the effect was lost with the red cheeks.
"Ok, I just need you guys to act like sexy cats." Is all she said and Gwen has an are-you-kidding-me look. Loki easily shifts into what she wants and Peter looks at him awkwardly. Isabella takes the picture. "Could you try again Peter? I am just not feeling it." Peter gets a confused look on his face and Loki pulls him close. She takes the picture. "That was so cute!" She coos. Loki, now with a plan, uses Peter in the shots. Peter on top of him, Peter hugging him, Peter blushing and Loki petting his head. "Peter, could you bite Loki's cat ear?" Loki leans his head toward him to make easy access. Peter groans at the ridiculousness and looks at Gwen. She mouths a thank you and he takes the ear in his mouth. Loki pretends it hurt a little and the picture was taken. Isabella squeals again. "I am so getting an A, thank you so much!" She hugs both of them from where they sit and gets to packing her stuff. Loki looks out the window to see that it has started storming.
"Didn't the weather man say it was supposed to be sunny today?" Gwen asks. Loki groans and looks to Peter. He gives him a look that says don't-leave-him-to-mope. Loki throws his hands in the air and stomps out. "What was that all about?" Peter takes hold of Gwen.
"Nothing." He dips her and kisses her. Loki walks out into the rain not really prepared for the cold since he has no shirt under his jacket. Thor flies down instantly.
"Quit following me around you big lout." He growls. Thor says nothing. He instead takes off his jacket and puts it over Loki. "Just make the rain stop." He tells him. Thor shakes his head.
"My mood is not one of sun and cloudless skies." Loki looks at him as if he just grew two heads.
"Why?" Is all he says.
"Because my brother is taken from me by another." Loki's eyebrows raise. He turns away and just looks at the street. Cars pass them by spraying water up but not enough to hit them. He feels bad all of a sudden. He doesn't want to feel bad for him though. Why should he? He doesn't care about him like he does Peter, like he does Aunt May. He looks at the big behemoth who is looking down with slopping wet hair. He side steps closer to him looking the other way. Thor notices the slight movement.
"I'm cold; you look like a wet bear." Loki sighs. "Come inside." Loki walks off into the building. Thor looks after him in surprise but then changes to one of genuine joy. He bounds after him and keeps close to his side like a guard dog. Loki knocks on the door and Isabella steps out.
"Oh, Loki," She looks to Thor "Boyfriend?" A disgusted look crosses Loki's face and Thor laughs boisterously.
"No way in hell." She looks from him then to Thor again. She shrugs and walks off with her stuff in tow. Loki exhales loudly and strolls into the apartment. He immediately feels sick from romance. Peter and Gwen are sitting on the couch, almost on top of each other looking at each other as if they were life itself.
"Young love." Thor states. Peter and Gwen snap out of it and Gwen is making a great impression of a fish as she looks between the two boys in the doorway.
"Who is that?" Peter gets up quickly.
"A friend." He says hurriedly.
"May he freshen up? He will be on his way shortly."
"My parents are coming home from my brothers' school concert. He better be gone in ten minutes or I am dead." Peter tries to calm her knowing very well the wrath of her family.
"We will just put his clothes in the dryer and give him some coffee." Peter says leading Thor to the bathroom. Gwen looks flabbergasted but goes to the kitchen for the instant coffee. Loki goes to get a robe from the hall closet, Gwen told him it was on the door. Peter goes to Gwen and Loki stands outside the bathroom door having an inner battle. Why the hell am I doing this? I don't even like the guy or know him! Why does he try so hard? Should I just go now? I should run and avoid him. Run. Run. Run! Loki shakes away his irrational self. He will not run. This guy, no matter how much he tries, Loki can't push him away and can't seem to truly hate him. Make him mad? In an instant but hate the blonde? He can't, a light shines from him and Loki just wants to bathe in it, love, and cherish it. He knocks on the door.
"I have a robe for you." Thor opens the door a crack, takes the robe and closes the door. A few second pass and he steps out with the robe firmly secured.
"Thank you brother." Loki frowns and Thor knows why. "My apologies." His cherishing gaze turns to one of remorse and guilt. Loki punches his arm
"If there is one thing I hate more than anything, is depressed people. I let you in today, be happy." He stalks off fuming and Thor watches for a few stunned seconds and follows quickly with a loud smile. He turns into the dining area never once losing sight of Loki. He sees cups of coffee, muffins set out, and he takes a seat at the left of the table.
"Thank you Lady Gwen for your hospitality." She blows out in embarrassment.
"Well, you know, it fine." She tucks hair behind her ear. Peter takes a seat beside Gwen and Loki beside Thor, though, slowly. Thor drinks the coffee with fervor and eats the muffins happily. Loki looks at his eating habits repulsed. Thor glances, sees the face, and stops mid grab of a muffin.
"My apologies Loki, I know my eating habits sicken you." Loki jumps a little at the sudden comment. He looks at Gwen and Peter and they give him the same look. Loki wants to face palm at his situation but restrains himself.
"Just… eat a little slower; you act as if the food will disappear." Loki takes a muffin gingerly and eats it. Thor follows his lead and finishes the small meal. Suddenly, Peter jerks out of his seat.
"Your parents are home." She slides out quickly.
"Oh no, you guys need to leave. Go out by a window and take the fire escape." She shows them to a window and Thor with Loki in tow exits. Gwen stops Peter mid climb out the window. "I had a great time by the way." Peter gives her a goofy grin.
"I did too, we should do this again sometime." She nods.
"Y-yea, we should you know so um…" Loki calls out.
"For the love of , would you two swap spit already and leave!"
"Come now Loki, it is only right that they leave in such a loving manner." Loki face palms this time and kicks Thor in motion. Peter kisses Gwen quickly and heads down the fire escape. Once down with Thor and Loki, Peter checks the time.
"It is almost dinner; we should probably head back to eat with Aunt May."
"Wait, not with him." Loki flicks his thumb at said man. Peter give Thor an apologetic grin.
"I am afraid he is right. You are a god and part of the Avengers; we can't explain how we met you too well, and telling her you are his long lost brother is a lot to swallow in one night." Loki nods.
"Yes, we have secrets to keep." Thor nods in understanding.
"I will watch over you from afar." With that, he flies to a building in the distance and like he says, he watches.
"He is annoying." Loki states blandly, turning to go home.
"You still like him." Loki gives no response.
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Peter had left Loki at home tonight, He had tricked him into going downstairs to get his web shooter but was stopped by Aunt May who needed to go to work and wanted someone to walk with her. It was really hard to get him to fall for it but when he did, he knew he had won and would pay for it later. Peter was swinging around the city when Thor confronted him. Curious, Peter stopped on a building. He sat on a gargoyle as Thor spoke.
"The Avengers need me to help them with a mission." He starts fidgeting as if uncomfortable.
"I'm sure Loki won't mind you taking the night off." He says half teasing half to keep Thor from stressing. Thor gives him a half smile.
"Thank you sir Peter, I have to say, you are a good and trustworthy man." Peter stands, sensing the end to the conversation.
"No problem. Go do your mission alright." They take off in opposite directions. Peter then hears a woman's screams coming from a few blocks over. He heads over quickly. Upon landing, his spidey senses go crazy. The woman was in a corner with minimal light. He cautiously goes over. "Hey miss, are you ok?" He bends down and reaches for her fallen form. He turns her over. "The heck? It's a doll." A net flies over top of him and he is shocked for a good thirty seconds. His head is dizzy and he is in a lot of pain. He looks up to see a huge figure walk over heavily in combat boots. He is shocked again and he falls unconscious from the volts.
Loki had walked Aunt May to her job and she said she would be home to cook breakfast tomorrow morning. H ran to his bike knowing full well that Peter is already swinging around and getting in trouble. He takes out his smart phone and checks where Peter is. He kicks his motorcycle into gear and speeds off to the location. The ride there he was thinking of pranks he could pull to get back at him for his trick. Though he has to hand it to Peter. He is hard to trick so he did pretty good. His phone beeps signaling he has moved on. He takes out the phone and looks at his heading. Peter had stopped not too far away. He was about to put it away when without warning, the dot disappears. The tracker just, vanished. Loki shakes his phone hoping it was a mistake. Something was really wrong. Loki speeds down the road taking short cuts and alleyways that even the best trick rider would be cautious of. Once he reaches the spot, he last saw the dot he heard a scream. He jumps off his bike and takes out his throwing needles. He walks toward the shadow on the ground. When he gets close, enough he sees it is a doll. He knows what happened. Peter came here thinking someone was in trouble and he got jumped. But who did it was the question. He then remembers that they have been tracking The Hunter for the past few days. They had found sightings and chased after some police calls who said they had found him to no avail of finding him. He guesses it has to be him since Peter isn't that easily taken out. Since the tracker was a bust, he thinks of a new plan of finding him. He then remembers that the Avengers had talked about a "toy" they had made to find him. It tracked energy. Well from what he learned in science class, a theory said that everything has a unique energy. Loki gets back on his bike and drives to Avengers Tower. He had fixed up his bike with a new ability. He presses a red button on the handle bar and wings pop out of the side. He zooms over a big wood plank and blasts into the air. He then turns the key in the ignition and gets a rocket-powered explosion from the motor that makes him fly over the city. He knows he is going about one hundred thirty miles an hour. He screams in exhilaration, liking the feeling of flying. He had cut off about thirty minutes from that stunt and got to the Tower by eleven. He parks the bike among some cars and heads in. a rather big man comes over to him. The nametag said Happy.
"Isn't it a little late for you to be out kid?" He asks blocking his path on edge because of the mask. He didn't have time for this. Loki pulls out a deck of cards. "Are you a street performer or something?" he elegantly swipes over the cards and then flicks his wrist to shoot one at Happy. It caught on fire and Happy covers his face. Loki flicks his wrist again and again until he falls on the ground. He then takes off toward the elevator shutting the doors just before Happy got in. He gets up about half the floors till the power is cut. He holds tight to the rails as it jerks to a stop. Loki growls at the inconvenience and looks around for a way out. He sees a small panel that he can squeeze through on top of the elevator. He takes out a pen and presses the top it beeps and he then throws it at the panel. A tiny explosion erupts and he jumps up and out. Looking at the never-ending blackness before above him he whistles. Loki jumps onto the ladder built into the wall and starts climbing. About five minutes pass and he is tired.
"There has to be a better way." He says to himself. A sound comes from below him. Then a spark. The elevator is coming to meet him. He lets go as it comes up and rides it the rest of the way up. When it stops, he listens to the people below him. They seem to think he already made it in there. Apparently, Happy watches too much action movies. Once they leave, Loki comes out like a cat. The boys have already started searching the rooms. He just needs to get into the lab. He sneaks around the lobby and down the hall to the lab.
"Excuse me master Loki, but you are making a lot of mischief right now." An invisible voice says.
"Mischief for a good cause." He gets to the lab door and is stumped by the hand recognition and eye sensor. "Listen robot, a friend of mine is in danger, might be a life or death situation. Your creator is a hero right? Well I just need the most recent toy he made so I can find him. Please help me, I have no evil intentions."
"Presently you don't but you once destroyed this tower and city. Why should I help you when you were once an enemy?" Loki is confused by what the machine has said.
"Wait, what? I never I mean…" So that's some of the baggage he was running from. He shakes his head, getting desperate and scared. "That's not me ok, not any more. I don't even remember this place. I just want to save my family ok." He almost yells. He hears the men from earlier coming his way. He waits for the voice to answer. The voices are getting louder. Finally, the door opens and Loki rushes inside. The door shuts just as the guards turn the corner. He looks around the lab.
"The machine you are looking for is on the desk in front of you. I will have to tell Master Stark of your intrusion. He and the others will be here shortly." Loki grabs the camera thing and runs toward the other door. It opens and he slides out running to the elevator. Guards come out of the opening doors and he slides to a stop running the opposite way. He gets into the center of the lobby and the others come in as well trapping him in the room. Loki backs to the ceiling to floor windows. The guards come toward him with guns trained on him. He bends down, picks up the throw rug and breaks the window.
"He jumped out the window." Happy yells. They all gather around the window and see nothing. Loki made his way to the elevator and once they realized the trick, they were too late. He was in single digits when the power was cut again. Groaning he opens the same hatch as before but cuts the cords instead. The elevator free falls for five floors when it had emergency airbags blow up to catch the fall. Loki pops out of the elevator's hatch, climbs into an air vent and crawls out into an alley. Happy never had a chance. He sprints to his bike and makes his way back across the city to where his night began.
"Peter, you are such a pain in my ass." He growls.
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Loki takes out the camera and trains it on the burn marks on the ground. Exhaling the breath he had no idea he was holding, Loki follows the trail on his bike. The trail was silver and translucent like a spider's web.
"Appropriate." Loki jokes to himself. The place Peter was taken was a chemical factory. Loki parks his bike and sneaks into the building by scaling the room with his hook shot and entering through an air vent. It was big to say the least and Loki had a hard time finding Peter. Entering the main room of the chemical plant Loki finds Peter. He is tied up in a glass case as if he were a trophy. Loki walks with deliberate and slow steps to Peter looking everywhere. When he gets there, he searches for a way to open it. He finds a latch. Upon opening it he is shocked from behind. He screams in pain.
"What do you think you are doing with my trophy? It took me a long time to catch him." Came a gruff voice. Loki staggers back to his feet and turns to see a man covered in fur pelts. He was towering and strong. Loki takes a few paces back.
"The Hunter correct? Why are you hunting Spiderman?"
"You are called Trickster then. You helped him save the people in the riot." Loki shivers from the memory.
"What was the point of all that?" He sneers.
"Remember a man with a gas mask on a horse? It was good sport." Loki's eyes widen. He almost got caught by this man. Loki takes out his throwing needles. With a flick of his wrist, they fly straight towards him. He doges swiftly. Loki keeps taking out his needles and aims flawlessly jumping away from him if he got too close. A few struck home but he acted as if he didn't feel them. Loki, once out of his needles, takes out the deck of cards and throws them. They catch on fire midair. Hunter lifts his thick arm and takes the blow. Loki keeps throwing them until he is out. The man never put his arm down. Once the smoke clears, Loki sees he singed him but still not much damage. "Are you done with your parlor tricks?" He takes off and punches Loki in the gut. Loki coughs and is sent flying back. He can't breath for a few seconds but gets up with gasping breaths. He runs quickly. He loses Hunter in the maze like factory. Leaning against the wall, he thinks of a plan.
"Super strength and defense. Fighting head on won't help; I need a strong defensive move but what?" he thinks back to chemistry and remembers his teacher reprimanding a student for almost putting two chemicals together that would have cause and acidic explosion of gas. If he were to do that, he would have to get Peter out of here first. He looks over to see a small vehicle with a trunk. He goes over and sees it just needs to flip a switch to start. He runs over to the chemicals that were in the vats and sees that they would create a nonlethal smog. He grabs an emty container and pulls it into the trunk, pours the chemicals inside and flips the switch of the vehicle. Smog erupts from the basin. Flooring the pedal, he speeds back into the main room and right over to Peter. He smashes the glass and takes Peter out, puts him o the passenger seat and reverses out at top speed. He leaves a trail of smog in his wake as he drives around facility and out into the open. He hears someone running after him. He parks the vehicle take Peter's body and hides him between other vats of chemicals that are outside. Loki then runs back inside and to the chemicals.
"If you think you can beat me, you are wrong. I hide in the shadows until I have a clear shot. How do you hurt something you can't see? " Loki takes the chemicals he needs and runs over to the air vents. He hears a crash and then feels a punch in his back. He drops the chemicals and they spill out in the floor. Immediately, they explode into the acidic gas. Loki screams and gasps. He hears Hunter doing the same. He feels his heart beat quickening. He tries to stand to get out of the cloud but fails. "That was a good trick," He wheezes "but looks like you just killed yourself." He feels his skin melting as he tries to stand again. He should have known better. Tears sting his eyes and he feels himself falling unconscious. He fights the darkness with all his remaining strength.
"Please," He whispers, "One more chance to protect-" His heart stops. The Hunter hears this happen and he laughs.
"What a waste, Spiderman was a better hunt."
"No!" He heard Spiderman cry out. He turns to face the swinger. Peter shoots webs and starts to cocoon him but he rips it off easily. He grabs the next web and pulls Spiderman to him.
"Your friend was useless to you. You can't escape your fate." Then a light explodes from the cloud. They both turn to see Loki walking out of the smoke unharmed his eyes glowing with some sort of power. Words of a language they don't know escape his mouth and balls of energy fly out to hit The Hunter. He flies back and hits the wall making a crater from the impact. Loki jums all the way to him. His skin turns blue and an ice spear forms in his hand. He spears The Hunter in the gut. He screams from the attack. Loki pulls it out to do the ending blow but The Hunter stabs him with a tranquilizer. Loki falls off him and wobbles a bit. His eyes lose their glow and his skin turns back to normal. Strong arms encompass him as he falls back. The Hunter then throws a smoke bomb that quickly engulfs the entire building. Loki falls unconscious to the sound of Peter yelling his name and a strong but soft voice telling him everything was going to be ok.
