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Chapter 20

"So are you gonna tell me why you left?" Loki asked while Thor was searching for milk in the enormous fridge. Tony seemed to have everything but milk in there…

"What do you mean?" the God of Thunder asked without looking up.

Loki, who was inspecting the overwhelming offer of fruit, turned around so he could face his brother.

"Call me paranoid, but your sudden departure and quick return haven't gone unnoticed…"

Thor sighed. "I was just making sure Jane and Frigga were fine…"

Loki turned silent. He wasn't quite sure Thor was lying or not, probably because he was telling the truth. But that still didn't mean he couldn't have done something else too…

Loki decided to leave it alone. He was a bit tired of worrying about his bother's boring life. Asgard was a lot more important right now.

The young king turned around after picking an apple and a pear from the bowl and walked over to the window. He didn't notice Thor's sudden change of expression.

The God of Thunder didn't really know what to do. He'd hoped Loki wouldn't ask any questions about his whereabouts, because he was right. He'd been doing something else!

In fact, Thor had left his home when Jane and Frigga had gone to bed, to drive out the city to a deserted field. Even though he knew it was a risk to go out with SHIELD crawling over the place, there was something he had to do. Thor had decided that Loki could go back to Asgard, but just to be sure, he wanted to talk to Heimdall, The Warriors Three and he also wanted to see Asgard. But when he had asked Heimdall to open the Bifröst, nothing had happened. Even after shouting skywards for ten minutes, the guardian still seemed to ignore Thor's command.

There were two options: or there were humans around and Heimdall didn't want to open the rainbow bridge in fear of unwanted intruders, or there was something wrong with the Bifröst or Heimdall himself.

During the drive home, Thor had been growing more and more worried that Loki's fears were coming true. But what could he do? If the Bifröst was closed, nor he or Loki would be able to return. Maybe Loki knew a secret passage? But Thor doubted that, since the young king could have used it already…

And now, he had to tell Loki… Thor swallowed. Honestly, he was a bit scared of Loki's reaction.

Two voices suddenly sounded from the other room.

"… No, I mean it, Pepper! There are too many people in this tower!"

"It's not like we don't have the space, Tony…"

"I didn't build a…."

"We…"

"We didn't build a hotel, Pepper!"

"Jane, Thor and Frigga already left…"

"Yes and that leaves us with grumpy Natasha and mister Reindeer! I want that piece of alien shit out of my hou…"

Tony turned silent when he walked in the kitchen, followed by Pepper, and made eye contact with the two Gods.

Pepper bit her lip and smiled. "Oops…" she said silently, so only Tony could hear it. Thor pulled up his eyebrows and Loki looked at the two humans with a poker face and an apple hallway his mouth.

Pepper decided that she had to break the ice. So she stepped past Tony into the kitchen.

"Thor! You're back already!"

The God of Thunder smiled and looked over at Loki while trying to decipher the young king's silence. His brother was obviously touched by Tony's remark. Not because it actually hurt him, but because it was another one after the hundreds he'd endured over the last days. Without saying a word, Loki threw the core of the pear and half his apple into a bin and left through another door.

"Loki, you have to eat!" Thor said irritated. Loki smiled a sad smile.

"Alien shit is not hungry…" he said just before leaving the room. Thor and Pepper both threw Tony an accusing look.

"What?" the billionaire said innocently. "I'm not going to apologize!"

Thor sighed and decided it was best to ignore the scientist. He didn't even pay attention to Pepper's attempts to break the tension…

-xxx-

Loki stared out of the window. The hours past as if it were years. Even Jarvis' attempts to cheer him up didn't help. On the contrary…

Loki was sure he'd never been this bored in a thousand years! At least on Asgard some guard would come complaining about something, but here…

The young king sighed and closed his eyes. He knew he shouldn't, because he was having trouble fighting of the sleep which tried to overpower his body. The last thing he wanted was Thor – or even worse – that Stark idiot to walk in while he was having a nightmare…

Around two in the afternoon, Thor decided he had to talk to Loki about the Bifröst. The God of Thunder cautiously walked in the living room, while trying to find the best way to tell the already pretty annoyed Loki.

Loki looked up when he heard his brother enter and sighed.

Great… he thought. Don't make this even worse!

"Loki, I…" Thor started when Jarvis suddenly interrupted him.

"Excuse me, sir! But I believe I have some urgent news…"

Thor sighed and looked at the ceiling even though there was nothing to speak to there.

"What?" he asked while he saw Tony and Bruce enter the room. Obviously they'd heard the message too.

"I just received a call from Jane Foster, sir. She and Frigga Foster are in Central Park and think they're being followed…"

"Followed?" Bruce asked before anyone else got the chance.

"Yes, Doctor Banner. I checked some camera images in the area. I believe they are being shadowed by SHIELD, sir." Jarvis voice sounded while some of the screens in the room came to life to show the images Jarvis was talking about. Just like he said, they could see a couple of black cars blocking the entrances of Central Park and numerous Agents in the park. Thor and Loki immediately spotted the frightened Jane, dragging Frigga along, trying to escape the Agents. Within a few minutes they would be surrounded…

A metal sound filled the air when Mjölnir soared over Loki's head into Thor's hand palm. The young king looked up. It had been a while he'd seen his brother this angry…

"What are you going to do?" Bruce asked.

Thor didn't answer. He just looked at the scientist after which he turned around to make his way to the balcony. Loki immediately sprang to his feet.

"What do you think you're doing?" Thor asked standing at the glass door.

"I'm coming with you…" Loki said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Thor clenched his teeth. He clearly had to do his best not to lose his temper.

"When are you going to listen! You stay here!"

Instead of shouting, like Thor had expected, Loki just laughed while making his way to the open door.

"Thor, brother…" he started while putting one hand on his brother's shoulder. "It's time you accept a simple truth…"

Loki past his brother and walked on the balcony. When he reached the edge and had looked down, he turned around again with a big smile playing on his lips.

"I'm the king of Asgard… You don't tell me what to do…"

Before Thor could stop him, Loki jumped over the balustrade.

"Loki!" Thor shouted furiously, while jumping after his brother. He caught the young king in mid-air and let Mjölnir drag them skywards again.

"You are such a…" Thor started angrily.

"Extremely handsome genius?" Loki finished with a grin while trying not to fall.

"Irritating, crazy, troublesome little brother!" Thor corrected.

"It's not like I'm enjoying this, Thor!" Loki said.

"Nobody asked you to jump from one of New York's highest buildings!"

"Exactly!" Loki shouted with a smile just before Thor hit the ground rather hard and the young king smacked on the stone street. He looked up at his brother and grinned.

"Déjà vu…" he said rather amused. Thor sighed and turned around while his brother crawled to his feet. It seemed Thor had landed in tiny street in between two buildings. At the end of the street they could see an entrance of Central park. Loki shivered when he recognized the spot from his ride with Stuart Jhonson. This time though, the entrance was blocked by three black cars. Only a little further they could see two scared people surrounded by a hundred Agents.

Loki and Thor walked until they got to the cars. There Thor stopped Loki.

"That's far enough! You're staying right here, while I fix this!"

Loki couldn't believe his ears. "Don't you speak to me like that! I can help! I can get them out ten times faster than you can!"

"No! You're going to get us in trouble! Stay! Here!"

"I am the King of Asgard!" Loki started, but Thor cut him off.

"Then start acting like one!" he shouted. "You know I'm right! You would tell me the same thing!"

Loki turned quiet. Thor was right indeed. The young king sighed.

"Make sure people don't see you!" Thor said before pushing one of the cars out of the way so he could enter the park. Loki rolled with his eyes and put an illusion around his body, turning himself invisible. Afterwards he followed Thor until he reached the first trees. Thor could say what he wanted. If he couldn't help, Loki wanted a good view.

-xxx-

Jane didn't know where to look or turn. There were Agents everywhere! Frigga was hiding behind her mother's back, peeping scared. This was just too much to bear!

Thor nonchalantly walked onto the scene, straight to his wife.

"Jane…" he said silently. "What are you doing here? I thought you were going to stay inside…"

"Frigga needed to go outside! I asked Jarvis, he'd been scanning all morning. There were no Agents around the house!" the desperate mother said in a whisper.

Thor put a comforting hand on Jane's shoulder.

"It's all right.. it's not your fault. It wouldn't be the first time Jarvis' systems are overwritten by SHIELD…" he said darkly.

"Don't tell Tony I said that…" he added after a couple of seconds. Jane smiled softly. Thor put his hand on Frigga's head until his daughter cautiously smiled back. The God of Thunder didn't really know how to comfort her and the fact that Loki seemed to be rather good at it, made him feel even more embarrassed…

The God of Thunder turned around to face the Agents. He spotted the man he'd seen before the explosion. The man who opened fire on Loki… Thor's expression turned dark.

The SHIELD Agent obviously didn't want Thor to see how scared he was right now, so he decided to speak first.

"I suppose you know why we're here?" he asked, surprised about how steady his voice sounded.

"Enlighten me…" Thor asked without changing his expression.

"We don't want any trouble, Thor. Just deliver your brother to us and no harm will come to anyone."

"You're threatening my family! I suggest you and your men leave at once. Otherwise it will be me who starts hurting people!"

The Agent cleared his throat nervously. Normally Agent Hill was in charge of cases involving the Avengers, but since the incident near Broadway, SHIELD had decided she had grown too friendly with the Avengers.

"Thor, you know Loki belongs to us now. We formed an agreement after the Battle of New York. You would be allowed to take Loki to Asgard to face justice. But if he ever set foot on Earth again, he was our prisoner… Loki belongs to Earth, to SHIELD."

"That was in case Loki was still a prisoner!" Thor shouted. The Agent clearly didn't know what he had to say next. According to his sources, The God of Mischief had died. Now that turned out Loki wasn't dead, he assumed he was still a prisoner…

"Loki was and still is a danger to the people of this planet and any other world for that matter. It seems to me that your Asgardian sense of justice is rather… how would I put it… horrible! Have you forgotten what Loki has done? Or does the human race mean nothing to the Gods?"

Thor didn't want to get any more angry, but this man was not leaving him much choice.

"I will not allow any cruel words about Asgard!" he said while raising his hammer. About every Agent took a step back.

"How dare you scare my family! I give you one more chance to leave!" Thor roared furiously.

-xxx-

Meanwhile Loki watched the scene from his spot behind some trees, just outside the circle of Agents. Genuinely, he rather enjoyed it. These Agents were clearly shitting themselves!

Behind him, people started gathering behind the cars. Suddenly a young, nerdy looking student gasped in surprise and said: "Hey! Isn't that The Mighty Thor!"

Immediately the other people started pushing and pulling each other to get a better look.

Loki shook his head and smirked. "So much for trying to fit in, Thor…" he whispered to himself. Suddenly all the Agents took a step back and Loki only just managed to avoid an Agent who was taking a rather big step, obviously trying to hide between the trees. The young king stumbled backwards until his eye fell on young looking, extremely pale and nervous Agent, who was sneaking back to one of the cars. Instead of getting in, he opened the trunk and lifted a big black box out of it. While opening it by scanning his badge, he said something in his earpiece. A couple of Agents in the circle turned around. When they saw their colleague, they cautiously stepped aside to make place. The young Agent got back to his feet, holding an enormous gun in his arms. He slowly made his way back to the circle while clicking a button on the gun. The weapon zoomed to live.

Loki gasped. He recognized that weapon! This was the gun Agent Coulson had used to blast him through a wall! A weapon based on the Destroyer! And Coulson's gun had been a prototype! Who knew what this one was capable of!

The young king quickly made his way through the trees until he found a spot without any Agents. His eyes searched for the young Agent. Within a second he'd found him, still boggling with the weapon. Thor didn't notice it in the slightest!

Loki felt a wave of panic raging through his body. Who knew what that thing would do to people! Why didn't Thor see it!

The Agent had found the right way to hold the massive thing. He knelled on one knee and started aiming at Thor.

Loki didn't have any control of what he did next. He just did it!
Before he could stop himself Loki started running towards Thor, Jane and Frigga. When he was halfway, the illusion keeping him invisible vanished, making place for one of an ordinary Agent of SHIELD. A couple of the other Agents gasped in surprise, but Loki didn't care.

"THOR!" he shouted in his own voice. The God of Thunder turned around in surprise just as the weapon went off.

Loki pushed Thor and his family aside and formed a shield. When the red Energy ball hit his shield and exploded due the impact, the young king was blasted backwards. He hit the ground painfully and rolled back.

Enough! he thought wrathfully.

During his last roll, Loki dropped the illusion of the Agent, now showing his own, armed appearance. The young king put his hands behind him to break his fall and immediately landed on his feet. With one swift move Loki threw a dagger towards the young Agent with the weapon, and hit him right in the throat. With a horrifying scream and a sickening noise, the young man sank to his knees.

"Loki! Don't!" Thor shouted, but his brother didn't listen anymore.

What happened next, happened so fast that no one had even the time to be surprised. Illusions appeared and disolved behind Agents, daggers hit throats and hearts, necks snapped with a sicking noise, people screamed, guns were shot, … Within seconds the ground was covered with at least twenty bodies of dead Agents.

"Thor! Do something!" Jane called out desperately, while trying to make sure Frigga didn't see or hear anything. The God of Thunder looked around. The scene was covered with Loki's. It was impossible to know which one was the real one.

"Enough!" he roared just before his hammer hit the ground and everyone, except Loki, who was used to earthquakes like this, dropped on the ground. The illusions disappeared and Loki appeared to be standing a few steps away from the family, holding a terrified female Agent in his arms, ready to snap her neck. Thor swallowed. The last time he'd seen Loki this angry and full of hate, was the time they'd fought on the Bifröst. Jane unknowingly took a step back. Loki's expression was freaking her out!

"Let her go, Loki!" Thor said, breathing heavily. Loki didn't react, but just tightened his grip on the woman. His clothes where covered in small specks of blood where the bullets had hit him, but he'd healed fast enough to avoid any damage. His face was covered in sweat and his eyes were filled with pure rage. The woman squeaked in agony.

"Let her go, Loki… You're better than this…" Thor tried again while the remaining Agents slowly organized again. They formed a circle around the four. Guns were loaded and more "Destroyer" – weapons appeared.

"Please, Loki…" Thor said silently, while tightening his grip on his hammer. Behind him he could hear the fast breathing of his wife and the silent cries and sobs of his daughter.

Slowly Loki loosed his grip and let the woman fall before his feet. The fury in his eyes faded slightly as if he awoke from a trance. The young king looked around him, rather surprised about his sudden outburst. He didn't even pay attention to the terrified Agent who tried to crawl towards the others.

Loki and Thor just stared at each other for a couple of seconds. The young kings glanced over at Jane and Frigga and immediately felt bad. Now he'd only added another nightmare to his nieces memory…

Everywhere around him Loki could hear the clicking of guns, ready to shoot. The young king didn't move. He knew he'd fucked up and he realised there was no way out, especially not for Frigga and Jane.

"P..p..Put… y… your hands.. o…on your head… and…d… stand down!" the terrified voice of the leader sounded, but Loki didn't pay attention. He slowly made his way towards his brother. When he was standing next to Thor, covering Jane and Frigga, he looked to the sky. Thor noticed and made eye contact with his brother.

"Loki, we can't…" he started, but Loki quickly interrupted. His voice sounded serious, without any trace of fear. It was the voice of a king.

"It's the only way!"

"Loki, I have to…"

"Shut up, Thor!"

"Step away from … Loki…" the leader shouted again.

"Just listen! I have to tell…"

"W…We will open f.. fire!"

"Just shut it, Thor! There's no other way!"

"But…"

"You have five seconds to step away! We will open fire!"

Loki turned his head to face Jane and Frigga.
"Frigga!" he shouted. The little girl didn't react and Jane pulled her daughter a little further away from Loki.

"FIVE!"

"Jane, there's no time!" the young kings said.

"You don't touch her!" Jane answered, sounding a lot stronger than she felt.

"FOUR!"

"Just trust me on this one, will ye! Grab Thor!"

Jane frowned.

"THREE!"

"Just do it!" Loki hissed. The look in his eyes made Jane shut up. She took hold of her husband's back

"Frigga!" Loki continued a bit more earnest now. Frigga cautiously looked up over her mother's shoulder. Her eyes were filled with tears and she was shaking all over her body.

"You trust me?" Loki whispered. Frigga nodded almost invisible.
"Then take my hand and don't let go of your mother!"

"Loki, I have to tell you something…"

"Thor, I said: SHUT! UP!"

"TWO!"

Loki skywards. "Heimdall… open the Bifröst he said in whisper.

Nothing happened.

"Heimdall!" he said a bit louder.

"One last chance!" the Agent called out.

"Heimdall!" Loki shouted. "Open the Bifröst!"

Thor looked at his brother.

"Heimdall…" Loki repeated, the panic in his voice noticeable.

"ONE!"

"Heimdall! Open the Bifröst!" Loki and Thor shouted at the same time, just as all the guns fired and muted Frigga's terrified scream.

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