"I hate you." Loki could only chuckle as he and Rose tugged through several feet of snow. "I really, really, REALLY hate you." Rose growled. "It's not that bad." Loki mocked. "Said the frost giant." Loki stopped dead before whipping around. "What?" He asked. "I know things about you and the others from that universe. Why are you surprised by this?" Loki ignored the question and walked up to her. "You've know all this time about that yet you've do not seem to mind being around me. You are not afraid of me?" Rose blinked a few times before giving him a disbelieving look. "I'm scared of you yes. I just don't care that your a frost giant. I couldn't care less about you being a frost giant and the same can be said about all your fans. Hell, some of them even fantasize about you bedding them in that form." Loki stared at her for a moment with an unreadable expression. "Loki I'm freezing! Let's get some where warm and I'll show you the wonders of fan fiction!" Rose growled.
"So you can talk your way into anything." Rose was happily drink hot chocolate in a comfy chair while Loki gazed out the penthouse window. He had convinced the people of the building that he had always lived in it and they had been given the keys and free everything for the misunderstanding. "It does have it's advantages." He sighed. "Something wrong?" Rose couldn't understand Loki's sudden low mood. "How much do you know?" He asked. "Just what I saw in the movies and comics. Though the comics can't really be trusted." Rose answered. Loki stayed silent. "What's really bothering you Loki?" Loki turned to her and smiled. "Now now Rosetta. We've no time for heart to hearts. Stark is still out there some where and in need of us. Now then. I best get back to tracking him." Loki walked over to the bed and made himself comfy. Rose let out a sigh and started up Angry Birds on her phone. Muted so as not to bother Loki.
Tony had taken apart the bed and was attempting to break up the bricks covering what looked like a window. "Rose I don't know if you're paying attention to me but I could really use Big Green and Angry right about now." Tony sighed. His headset had been dead for a while and it troubled him a little. She had said she would keep an eye on him but he couldn't but wonder if she really did. Part of him still couldn't wrap his head around how she could see him when the only piece of tech in the room was the arc reactor in his chest. "Rose, find me quickly. I don't want to be in here much longer." Tony sighed before going back to breaking bricks.
Loki sighed as he sat up. "Any luck?" Rose asked as she closed her game. "I can't say for sure yet." He answered. "I don't often track mortals and this world is so different from what I am use to." Rose could understand that. He was from Asgard after all, and though he'd been to Midgard this wasn't the one he had grown to know. A thought slowly hit her. "Maybe that's a good thing." She said softly. "What?" Loki asked. "You are focusing on finding one person among countless people. Maybe what you should be looking for is what doesn't belong in this world. Something that don't feel right." Loki seem to think this over before shrugging. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try." He then laid back down and shut his eyes. "Please let this work." Rose begged anyone who was listening.
Tony let out a groan. He had finally pried enough bricks away only to find himself facing a sheet of metal. "Really?" He asked as he banged his head against the metal sheet. "I told you you wouldn't be getting out of there Stark. I took great care with each cell. Taking in to account each of your skills and strengths. You waste your time trying to get out." The captor chuckled through the cell. "What do you intend to do with us? Got a lab somewhere?" Tony asked. "Oh I would never let a lab get a hold of all of you. Would damage all of you too much. I want all of you to remain perfect." That confused Tony. It made no sense to him why someone would go through the trouble of kidnapping the team just to keep them locked up when they could easy make use of them. "What?" Tony asked. "I don't expect you to understand my motives Stark. Too much going on in your head to understand a person like me. But oh well. That matters little to me. I have you. Next, I think I'll go after Thor. Perhaps I'll build more cells and take Spiderman and War Machine too. Wouldn't want you to miss your friend after all." Tony could hear his captor walking off. "Cocky bastard." Tony growled.
Loki sat up. "Found him?" Rose asked. "No, I'm hungry." Rose rolled her eyes and picked up the phone. "Should I order up half the kitchen?" She asked. Loki glared at her. With a sigh Rose asked for a menu. The menu arrived after 5 minutes and the two ordered what they wanted. Turned out Loki only ate half as much as Thor is stated to each in the Thor movie. "Midgardian food might not be as plentiful as Adgardian but it does has a decent taste." Loki comment as he finished his last plate. "We like our food flavored." Rose smirked. "Clearly. Everything has a unique taste and yet blends well together. I guess you mortals have more usages then I thought." Loki chuckled as Rose rolled her eyes. "I don't know about you some times." Rose set her plate aside and answered her phone. "Hello?" "Rose we have a problem." It was her friend. "You're right we have a problem. Tony Stark was kidnapped and brought to this world." There was a pause on their end. "You already know?" "I've known for a while now! I thought you guys were watching that world or something." There was a sigh from their end. "So did I. We don't know how this person got connected to that world nor how they were able to remove him from there. It takes great energy to bring one person into this world." "Well then shouldn't it be easier to track them?" Rose asked. "I wish it was. We have no idea where they are getting their power from but they opened a portal with out so much as a blip. We've gone over almost all the power grids and yet there is nothing out of the ordinary on any of them." Loki, who had been listening in on the conversation spoke up. "We are close to finding him. However what we don't know is how to get him back." The two heard typing on a keyboard and a muffled conversation. "Sending him back might be a problem." They sighed. "What?" Rose asked. "We used up a lot of energy to bring Loki to you. And we are still using a fair amount to keep the connection between worlds. Even if we served the connection there still wouldn't be enough power to send anyone to that world." Rose let out a groan. "So what are we suppose to do?" Rose asked. "That's for you to decide I'm afraid." The line then went dead. "Well, your friend proved helpful." Loki grumbled as he moved back to the bed. "Yeah. Don't I know it." Rose sighed.