Sorry for the really late update guys, next two weeks are testing and then finals :P. Anyways, here's the next chapter!
Tony landed and slowly walked across the platform, the spinning rims taking his armor off.
Loki mirrored Tony and started walking.
"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity," Loki said as they both entered.
"Uh, actually, I'm planning to threaten you," Tony said as he was looking around until he spotted me on the couch.
Loki noticed Tony and looked back at me, smiling. He then turned his direction back to Tony.
"You should have left your armor on for that."
"Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage, and you've got the glow stick of destiny," Tony pointed out.
Loki smiled at his scepter as Tony walked to the counter of his bar.
"Would you like a drink?" Tony asked.
"Stalling me won't change anything."
"No, no, no. Threatening," Tony corrected. "No drink? Are you sure? I'm having one."
Loki walked to the window.
"The Chitauri are coming. Nothing will change that. What have I to fear?"
"The Avengers," I imputed. Loki looked at me, confused.
"That's what we call ourselves. We're sort of like a team," Tony explained while pouring himself a drink. "Earth's mightiest heroes-type thing."
"Yes, I've met them."
"Yeah," Tony smiled. "It takes us a while to get any traction; I'll give you that one. But let's do a head count, here. Your brother, the demigod…"
Loki sneered.
"A super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend. A man with breathtaking anger-management issues…"
"A couple of master assassins, and you," Tony pointed to Loki. "Big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them."
"That was the plan," Loki said.
"Not a great plan," Tony said as he walked towards Loki. "When they come, and they will, they'll come for you."
"I have an army."
"We have a Hulk," Tony said proudly.
"I thought the beast had wandered off."
"You're missing the point. There's no throne. There is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn sure we'll avenge it," Tony explained as he took a sip of his drink.
Loki started walking toward Tony. "How will your friends have time for me when they are so busy fighting you?"
Tony looked over at me in fear. I gave him a thumbs up and mouthed, "Don't worry."
Loki raised his scepter to Tony's chest with a clink. Loki was confused and tried it a second time, again with no success.
"This usually works," Loki said confused.
"Well, performance issues, it's not uncommon. One out of five-" Tony said before Loki grabbed his throat and threw him across the floor.
Loki grabbed him by the throat again and lifted him up.
"You will all fall before me," Loki said through gritted teeth.
"Tony!" I yelled.
He was about to throw Tony out the window when I got off the couch and ran towards Tony, only to be pushed to the ground by Loki. He dropped Tony and walked towards me.
"The Tesseract may have not worked once, but let's see if it will this time."
I felt the tip of Loki's scepter touch my chest and the energy move to my mind. All of a sudden, the energy went away. I was just as confused as Loki and he tried a second time. Just as the first try, I felt the energy go through my body and all of a sudden it went away.
"Now this normally doesn't happen," Loki said.
"I guess being from a universe can have its perks," Tony said.
I shrugged in agreement.
"Make that two out of five," Tony added as Loki grabbed him by the throat yet again.
"Jarvis, anytime now," Tony said through gasps of air.
"Deploy!" Tony yelled as Loki lifted him up.
"Deploy!" Tony yelled one last time before Loki threw him out the window.
"Tony!" I yelled again when Loki grabbed my throat.
I gasped for air as Loki held me just outside the broken window.
"Now I assume that you do not want to end up like him?" Loki asked.
I looked down and saw Tony falling waiting for his suit to come.
I shook my head and Loki laughed, "That's what I thought."
He started pulling me back into the tower and my feet almost touched the floor when the Mark VII finally deployed.
It struck Loki and he let me go. The force of the Mark VII caused me to fall backwards and fall out the window.
I was able to grab on the edge of the floor with one hand and swung myself so that I could have both hands holding on.
My arms finally gave up and the next thing I knew I was falling down sixty stories of Stark Towers.
