A/N:

I don't own The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head. And taking some personal freedoms with mythology and lore.


A soft whisper made Chandra slowly open her eyes from sleep. Slowly sitting up a little so she didn't wake up Key or Sander, she looked around, looking for what woke her up. She sat up straight when she saw a woman sitting in front of her. "Lakshmi?" Her eyes widened a little when her twin smiled at her. "I must be dreaming, this place must be starting to get to me."

"Oh no, not dreaming," her sister shook her head, never losing her smile. "I've come to help you, in the small ways that I can. Other help is on the way, but there's something that you have to do before they get here." Chandra followed her gaze over to Tomas. "It's time to get him, it's time he went home."

"You don't think that I don't want that?" She looked back over to Lakshmi. "We've been here for so long trying to figure out how to get to him, but there's no way to get past those vines or thorns."

Lakshmi reached up and her hand started to grip something in the air. When she brought her hand back down and opened it flat there was a jeweled dagger. It looks too dull and like it wouldn't even be able to cut through some cotton thread. "Do not judge the looks, it will work when needed." She pushed the hilt into Chandra's hand. "It can not harm a person but will cut obstacles around you."

Chandra looked down at the dagger. "This is-" she looked up and stopped, no longer seeing her sister in front of her. The dagger was still in her hand, a heavy weight to tell it that it was real. She glanced over to see Key still asleep next to Sander, the older man also asleep with a hand over his stomach. They had to get out of there soon. Jida might have stopped time around Tomas, but she hadn't done so around them and Sander had been getting bigger. "I can't believe I'm doing this."

She pushed herself up quietly and walked over to the edge of their little clearing. Chandra gathered up her skirt and pulled it up, wrapping the ends around her one wrist, hoping that she would have enough room to maneuver without getting caught and held back on the thorns. Stepping over the first of the vines, she carefully started to move through the jungle of vines. Sometimes she swore she saw them move, but tried to keep her mind off of that. Key had been able to crawl through the vines looking for supplies around the room, and nothing had happened to her.

Soon she came to the edge of where not even Key had dared to wander past for fear of getting hurt. It was so close though, two arms lengths away from Tomas. "Alright, a few scratches will mean nothing," she told herself quietly. She gripped some of the bigger vines and tried to push them down and to the side as she stepped over a pile of them, ducking down low to avoid more.

As she put her second foot down she went to walk on, hunched over, but yelped a little when something yanked on the ends of her hair. "Chandra!" She glanced over as far as she could to see that Key and Sander were awake now. "Don't move, they're tangled in your hair." She could hear more of the vines starting to move around her.

Key quickly started to move, crawling through the smaller spaces of the vines, trying to get close to Chandra. "No! Wait!" Chandra called out as she gripped the dull dagger in her hand. She swallowed thickly and closed her eyes before reaching behind her. There was another sharp yank on her hair, trying to pull her back into the vines and what could be deadly thorns if she landed the wrong way on them. She put the dagger up to her pulled out hair and felt a little release when the hair it touched was suddenly cut. Quickly bring the blade all the way through, Chandra caught herself she fell forward into more vines.

"Chandra, what are you doing?" She couldn't look back at Sander as he talked, she had to keep moving before something else reached out for her. "It's too dangerous!"

"I have to do it," she called back, hoping that Key wasn't trying to still follow her. She stopped when several vines crawled up, weaving a small wall that was too tall for her to climb over safely.

"I can't do any proper spells here, much less healing spells," Sander told her, still trying to get her to come back. "I can't help you if you get hurt."

Chandra licked her lips and looked at the vines. If she wanted to she could reach out and tough Tomas, but she still needed to get closer. "I'm not too worried about it, someone's coming."

"But we don't know When they're going to get here." Sander watched her as she started to hack at the vines that were trying to get in her way. He blinked, frowning a little. "Where did you get that dagger?"

"I wish I knew the answer to that, honestly." Chandra watched as the dagger easily sliced through the vines and she started to push them into a pile with her foot.

"Hurry up, more are coming!" Chandra almost jumped at the sound of Key yelling out cues. She chopped off the bigger thorn before quickly hopping up on the pile. She was half a foot from Tomas, she could reach her hands out and touch him, putting her hand on his shoulders. She almost fell when suddenly she started to move backwards. Her eyes widened and she jumped forward, wrapping her arm around his neck. Chandra gasped and closed her eyes when she felt multiple thorns slide into her arms and stomach.

"Chandra!" Sander was watching all the vines move, headed towards her. Not when she was so close, right there.

"I'm going to tell myself this isn't weird, and hope you want to do this again when you wake up," Chandra said mostly to herself as she pressed her lips to Tomas's, ignoring the pain she was in. Chandra groaned when the two of them suddenly dropped to the ground, landing on their sides, the vines around Tomas disappearing.

They didn't disappear around the rest of the room though. Sander saw them start to gather and lift like a wave and his eye widened. "Key! Key come back her, quickly!" Key had already turned and was running back towards her brother. "I'm very thankful that you are very small," her murmured when he wrapped his arms around her, putting his back to the vines and thorns. He tensed, waiting for them to hit, for the pain to lash across his back. He opened his eyes slightly and moved his head to look back, blinking when he saw Eir standing behind them, arms and wings out, stopping the wave of foliage.

"Nana," Sander breathed out, turning with Key still in his arms.

"Where are Chandra and Tomas?" She asked, looking over her shoulder at them. The wave of vines hadn't settled yet, hiding the two from her sight.

"On the other side," Key pointed. "She went to help him, then this happened when she kissed him." Eir nodded and looked back over. She raised her hands up them quickly brought them down, palms to the floor, an unknown force pressing the vines to the ground. She walked over the mess quickly, heading over to the two that were still on the ground.

When she leaned down, she saw that both were still breathing, but their clothes were torn from the thorns, small spots of blood dotting Tomas's pants and shirt. Chandra looking a little worse, taking more damage from her actions to get to him. Tomas had his eyes open a little, hand resting on her cheek. Eir let out a breath and let herself fall to her knees, a small smile on her face. All they had to do was get to Tony and they could get home.