I do not own the Avengers, Marvel or anything else in story just the plot idea. No yaoi is in this story but there might be mild swearing, pranks and murderous thoughts from everyone's favorite trickster.
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Energizer Loki
Chapter 12 – Game Over
*Steve 9 Hours Left In Game*
Captain America was currently chasing Loki over some rooftops. The villain had seen him and started running at the sight of his raised shield. 'This has to be the real one why else would he run.' Steve thought as he jumped over a cheap plastic chair.
"Guys I think I have the real Loki," Steve said over the communicator. "He ran from me when I raised my shield."
"Capsicle if you manage to catch him I'm buying you dinner." Tony responded back.
Loki jumped onto the next building and started weaving through some sheets that a resident must have hung on the top of the building to dry trying to lose the captain. He would have succeeded to if it wasn't for the ledge that some of the sheets had been hiding at the other end of the building.
Falling foreword over the edge of the building Loki put his arms out to try and grab something anything that would stop his current decent. Seeing the god about to plummet over the edge Steve ran faster to try and catch him before he got injured or was able to escape again.
"Loki." He yelled reaching for the falling god grabbing one of the man's arms.
Poof.
Loki's body disappeared in a puff of smoke the moment that Steve hand came to grasp his arm. Leaning over the ledge of the building that the clone had just fallen over Steve just watched the sheet fall into the alley below him trying to make sense of what just happened.
Turning around and sitting on the roof Steve leaned against the ledge of the building taking a small break to collect his thoughts and report in on what just happened.
"Guys it was a clone," He said over the communicator to everyone. "Disappeared the moment I touched it."
"Tough break there Cap," Clint said over the communicator. "Wonder why it ran though?"
Steve didn't answer because he couldn't come up with a reasonable answer for the archer.
*Tasha 8 Hours Left In Game*
Tasha shot another Loki in the knee and watched it disappear before her, cursing in Russian she contacted Clint.
"Hawkeye got another one this makes my score 7 now." She said over her communicator to her partner.
"Great I have 6, the Cap has 3 now, Thor and Stark all tied at 2 each and Banner has nothing making the clone total 20." Clint
"Hey Bruce and I caught a criminal we should get a point for that." Tony whined to assassin's trying to boost his score in an attempt to outdo Thor.
"We're hunting Loki's here Stark not criminals." Tasha said ending the conversation and taking off for another building to continue her search.
*Fury 7 Hours Left In Game*
Only 7 hours left in hide and seek and there was still no sign of Loki. The Avengers continued to chase his clones throughout the city and presently only Widow and Hawkeye seemed to enjoy shooting trickster's duplicates.
'We will never win at this rate.' Fury thought before calling up Stark.
"Stark can your AI give the energy readouts you did of Loki's to our spy satellite and give us an idea of where he might be in the city?" Fury said to the superhero trying to see if the tests Stark had done on Loki before this mess had started could help them track the trickster down.
"Sure that could work but JARVIS would need complete access to SHIELD's computers for this to work right." Tony answered the Director.
"I'll contact Hill on the Hellicarrier you call your computer." Fury stated to the billionaire disconnecting his call with Iron Man before quickly calling up Agent Hill on the Hellicarrier.
'I don't like losing.'
*Bruce 6 Hours Left In Game*
Bruce had woken up from Hulk induced nap in front of the police station with Agent Colt. The man had explained what had happened in the alleyway and the current whereabouts of his partner before laughing and saying that Bruce should think of becoming a parole officer.
When Zoom had returned a few minutes later and they started the search again driving around the city looking for any sign of the god and just talking. When Bruce asked Agent Zoom about how she calmed the Hulk down this time she explained to him about Fury threatening Ross.
Even though Bruce agreed with Tony about not trusting Fury he couldn't help but feel touched by what the director had done. After driving around for four hours they had all agreed to take a small break and get some food to recharge their batteries.
"Banner you there?" Agent Hill's voice broke over the SHIELD radio that was in the SUV.
"Yes Agent Hill what can I do for you." Bruce said putting down his hotdog and leaning forward to pick up the radio to talk to the woman.
"Director Fury wants to use the readouts from Stark's test on Loki and combine them with our satellite to search for Loki's energy signature," Hill explained to the scientist. "But were getting interference with the electricity in the city do you think you can you use the computer you have in the car to help us with the search?"
"Sure I can combine the readouts Tony took and the energy that was around his tower as a source to try and pinpoint Loki's location," Bruce explained to the woman on the Hellicarrier before delivering the bad news of this idea. "But there's a chance that his energy signature will match the clones."
"Contact Director Fury as soon as you have something." Hill said ending the conversation.
*Tony 5 Hour Left In Game*
Bruce's program had worked great it was able to pick up 11 more energy signatures matching Loki's around the city, one of them was around currently around his tower.
'Must be residual energy from the barrier Reindeer Games set up when he decided to prank us.' Tony thought going after the energy signature closest to him. Landing on the high building Tony saw Loki sitting at the edge of the building just looking out into the city.
"Loki if that's you and not a clone give yourself up." Iron Man ordered to the god.
"Mr. Stark you should know that I never give up," Loki said disappearing from the edge of the roof and reappearing in front of Tony. "Boo."
Acting on instinct Tony brought his hand up and shot his repulse ray at the trickster. Loki being a god like Thor was tougher than most people he shot and didn't fly backwards like a human would have. Loki just stood his ground and sliding backwards a couple feet before falling to one knee.
"I thought that you wanted us humans to kneel to you not the other way around." Tony said reaching to grab the man's shoulder.
Poof.
"Dammit." Tony cursed.
*Maria Hill 4 Hours Left In Game*
Maria watched 2 more blips disappear from the monitor in front of her aside from stArk Tower Loki only had 7 more clones out there and Tasha was closing in on another one. When Fury had contacted her about the situation asking for backup she'd immediately sent everyone that she could to hunt the trickster down.
So far even with Stark's AI and the SHIELD spy satellite looking for the God of Mischief they were having no luck and time was running out.
'Sometimes being in command really sucks.' She thought watching a watching another blip run over the city wishing that she could be out in the field helping her Director hunt down this maniac instead of left behind.
*Fury 3 Hours Left In Game*
"Fury I got another Loki here fake but that means we only have 6 Loki's left right." Widow's voice came over the communicator to Fury
"Yeah Stark is heading towards number 5 as we speak." Fury explained to the Russian hoping a little that the billionaire would bring him good news at last.
"Bad news Fury I had another clone." Iron Man said simply over the communicator dashing Fury's hope of ending this game.
"Director where are the others?" Widow questioned.
"Two are heading east together," Fury said to the woman. "Barton is currently following them if we're lucky one of them is our prisoner."
"And the last two are where?" Widow asked knowing that Hawkeye might need backup if one of his Loki's turned out to be the real one.
"Grouped together and heading away from Thor as we speak." Fury explained.
"Director I'll head towards Thor's location I suggest Iron Man do the same for Hawkeye." Widow stated to the Director knowing that grouping together might be in their best interest right now.
"I'll have Rogers join you." Fury said before getting into contact to the other Avengers.
*Clint 2 Hours Left In Game*
Clint watched through his scope as two clones stood together talking, he couldn't see what they were saying he just hoped that his arrows would stick to one of them. Letting two arrows fly simultaneously Hawkeye watched through his scope as they both flew through the clones making them disappear in a puff of smoke.
"Fury neither of my Loki's panned out looks like it's up to Thor." Hawkeye relayed to the Director.
"Rogers and Widow are heading south to help Thor with his pair I would suggest you and Stark join them." Fury stated simply to the archer.
"Hope Thor keeps his mouth shut this time." Tony grumbled over the communicator causing Hawkeye to nod his head silently in agreement.
*Thor 1 Hours Left In Game*
"Brother." Thor cried chasing after the twins.
"We are not your brother." The Loki's yelled back together before splitting up and going in opposite directions.
"Director Fury my brother and his clone have split up I will pursue one going left the others can go after the one heading right." Thor said to the SHIELD Director taking off in the direction one of the Loki's had gone.
"Understood," Fury answered the thunderer. "Roger and Widow are in that area I'll have them meet up with Stark and Hawkeye to continue the hunt."
Giving chase to his brother Thor couldn't help but think that if not for recent events it would almost be like when they were children again playing tag with Sif and the Warrior's Three. Loki ran across rooftops and diving through open windows in an attempt to avoid his adoptive brother.
'This must be the real Loki why else would he avoid me so much.' Thor thought sadly watching his adoptive brother jump onto a latter attached to the side of a building. Watching Loki climb to the top of a latter Thor quickly flew up to get ahead of Loki. Landing in the center of the roof and pointing his hammer at Loki's chest before he could take another step forward in his escape.
"No more games brother you have lost." Thor stated to his fellow god.
"Only if you're able to catch me Thor will I have lost." Loki said with a slight smirk before ducking under Thor's hammer and trying to go through the blonde god. Thor had been expecting his brother to try and escape in another direction not attempt to go through his personal space. Turning his body quickly Thor grabbed Loki by his collar as soon as he stood up straight.
"Caught you brother." Thor said keeping a firm grip on the collar to prevent Loki from escaping.
"Are you sure about that?" Loki said poofing out of existence.
*Loki 1 Minute Left In Game*
Loki dodged another of Barton's arrows teleporting to the roof a building a few blocks left of where he was before. Ever since he and his counterpart had split up and Thor had chased after the other Loki the rest of the Avengers had all converged together to after him. Currently the assassins were hunting him.
A bullet went by his ear alerting Loki to the woman's presence quickly crouched down behind an air duct he waited; it wasn't long before female Avenger was pointing her gun at his head. Smirking up at her Loki put his hands up in surrender.
"Nice to see you again Agent Romanoff how are you enjoying this romp through the city." Loki asked smugly.
"Not especially Loki." Romanoff said frowning down further at the man.
"Pity." The trickster said.
"The game is over Loki you lose again." Romanoff said making a jab at his failure with the Chitauri.
"Widow you ok." Barton's voice called.
"Over here Hawkeye." Romanoff called back to her partner never taking her eyes off the man in front of her. Hawkeye entered Loki's line of vision a few moments later following his partner's lead and pointing his weapon at the god's head.
"Is this really necessary?" Loki questioned the agents.
"Given everything that's happened do you really expect anything less?" Romanoff asked back to the god.
"We want payback Loki so losing isn't really an option." Barton said as a smirk came to his face.
"You see that's where you're wrong." Loki said as the bracelets on his wrists started to glow brightly before disappearing. The Black Widow and Hawkeye didn't hesitate they lowered their weapons slightly making sure not to shot the god anywhere lethal. Widow shot at Loki's shoulder well Hawkeye let one of his nonlethal arrows loose at the trickster stomach.
Loki disappeared in a puff of smoke much like the other clones before him, his disembodied voice saying to the assassin's. "You lost the moment we started this game."
Game Over.
In case anyone is wondering Thor just took off in no particular direction he just wanted to hunt his brother down as soon as possible.
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