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Chapter 25
Edlyn stood next to Loki, as they watched Tony land down and JARVIS taking off the pieces of armor. Loki and Tony begun to walk back inside as Edlyn quietly trailed behind. "Please tell me you're going to appeal my humanity." Said Loki.
Tony had his hands behind his back as he looked at Loki from the steps, "Actually," he said, "I'm planning to threaten you."
"You should have left your armour on for that." Said Loki as Tony made his way to the bar.
"Yeah. It's seen a bit of mileage and you've got the glow stick of destiny." Said the billionaire as Loki looked at the scepter with an amused look. Edlyn chuckled as she had her arms crossed over her chest. "Would you like a drink?" asked Tony.
"Stalling me won't change anything." Said Loki.
"No, no. Threatening." Corrected Tony, "No drink? Are you sure? I'm having one" he asked.
Edlyn glanced at the God whose face twitched with annoyance as Edlyn spoke up, "Tony, when are you not having a drink? You might as well known for always have a glass of alcohol with you." She said.
Toyn smirked and shrugged as Loki went to the window. "The Chitauri are coming. Nothing will change that." He said, turning to look at Tony. "What have I to fear?"
"The Avengers." Said Tony who opened the lid and begun to pour himself some whiskey. Loki looked at him oddly as Tony made a face. "That's what we call ourselves. We're sort of like a team. 'Earth's mightiest heroes' type thing."
"Yes, I've met them." Said Loki with a smile.
"Yeah." Smiled back Tony before sobering up. "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 made annoyed face, "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 assassians, and you, big fella, you managed to piss of every single one of them."
"That was the plan." Said Loki.
Tony took a sip of his drink, "Not a great plan. When they come, and they will, they'll come for you."
"I have an army." Said Loki, as Edlyn could see the army of EDEN members gathering and could sense the Tesseract building up.
"We have a Hulk." Said Tony.
"I thought the beast had wandered off." Said Loki. Edlyn saw Tony's eyes twinkle as she made an Ah sound, not best known to Loki however.
"You're missing the point, there is no throne." Said Tony as he got closer and closer to Tony. "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 well sure we'll avenge it. " Tony took a sip of his drink as Loki stalked forward. Edlyn sighed and walked forward, giving a signal to Jason and the others, ready to do their roles.
"Get ready." Said Jason as he got the electrical signal from Edlyn. The others nodded as they begun to set their positions while he, as the leader, went to lead the army. He could see the army of OLYMPUS, with Hunter and Jayden ready to fight at the front. He stared at them as he nodded, holding his hands in front. He showed three fingers as Jayden and Hunter saw it before doing the same.
Shadow disappeared and travelled to Edlyn's shadow, ready to move. Edlyn had her hands behind her back as she smirked, feeling the Mark 7 getting ready.
"How will your friends have time for me, when they are so busy fighting you?" said Loki. Tony widened his eyes a bit as the scepter was brought to Tony's chest.
As obvious, it didn't work. Both parties were also confused as Loki tried again. "This usually works." Said Loki. Edlyn's face remained blank but inside she was laughing at the whole scene.
"Well, performance issues, it's not uncommon, one out of five-" Tony was interrupted as Loki gripped his chin and threw him onto the floor. He slid as Loki got closer as he picked up Tony again. "You'll all fall before me."
"DEPLOY!" yelled Tony as Loki threw Tony out of the window. Edlyn sent a burst of energy which sent the Mark 7 bursting out faster as she pulled Loki back. The Mark 7 flew past them as Loki and Edlyn looked over to see Tony in his Iron Man suit again. "And there's one other person you pissed off. His name is Phil." Tony blasted Loki before he could attack and he sent him flying.
At that moment, The Tesseract let out a blast of light upwards, creating the portal. Edlyn got Loki up and she could feel the Tesseract losing one hold off her. Tony flew upwards as the fight begun.
"Forward!" yelled Jason as the Chitauri begun to attack. The army of EDEN rushed forward, attacking and harming the citizens of New York, causing as much mayhem as possible. Loki and Edlyn walked forward to the circular platform as they saw destruction unfold. Loki begun to wear his armor as Edlyn tapped his ram horn like helmet.
Loki glanced at her, without any emotion. "I was wondering when I would see that again." She commented, tapping the helmet again.
Edlyn saw a certain god of Thunder drop down as he yelled, "Loki! Adrianna!" yelled Thor. Loki looked as Thor held up his hammer. "Turn off the Tesseract, or I'll destroy it."
"You can't." spat out Loki. "There is no stopping it," as he positioned his sceptre at Thor. "There is only the war."
"so be it." said Thor, starting the fight.
Loki let out a rage as he jumped attack Thor. The two immediately fought, destroying the sign a bit. She watched as it fell down and winced before witnessing citizens run around in panic with police cars covering the streets. She rested on the back of her legs as she watched both OLYMPUS and EDEN fight against each other and begun to pass the time by picking out every single one of them and naming who they were.
OLYMPUS begun to help getting the citizens to safety while fighting EDEN and the Chitauri; which were flooding in like rats. She saw Tony being chased by a couple of Chiaturi as she saw Clara burst herself into flames, Kalonice riding the winds and using her ice powers to create platforms like Bobby to take care of the aliens. More and more ESPERS begun to follow their lead, launching upwards to the air. From afar, it would've looked like an intense aerial battle, with explosions everywhere and of course the flying.
She merely tilted her head to the side as she stood up before she turned around, to see her ex-best friend. "Jasmine." She greeted blankly.
"Adrianna." She said sharply.
"What brought you here?" asked the electric wielder, as she went behind her back before bringing out her two katanas again, their ends gleaming. Jasmine's blue eyes stared at her friend as her long black hair flapped in the wind. If she didn't have darker skin colour, wore glasses, and was shorter than Edlyn, they would've looked the same.
"To stop you." She said after a few moments.
Loki and Thor fighting off the side could be heard evidently as Jasmine snuck a glance. Adrianna charged as Jasmine widened her eyes, cursing to herself what a stupid move she did. She tripped and create a barrier of water and hardened into ice. However, Adrianna cut it easily as the two fought.
Jasmine looked at her weapon and kicked herself. She brought out her whip as it turned into water, as she tried to solidify it into a sword. The two clashed but Adrianna being more expert in combat than her, she wouldn't stand long. Adrianna tried to humor her by putting less strength and the two were in a stand still. "If you were going to stop me," she said, tilting her head to the side. "you should've been more prepared. " She could hear bullets being shot rapidly at the Chitauri as Natasha and Clint positioned themselves at Loki to fire. Edlyn saw this as Loki shot at them. At the same time, she removed her strength on her swords, causing Jasmine to topple over before she head butted her, sending electricity throughout her body.
Jasminte let out a scream before Adrianna grabbed her and swung her in the open compartment of the ship, Alex catching her. Edlyn and Alex made eye contact as Thor tackled Loki.
The ship was going down as Edlyn used her eletrokinesis to steer them safely before other members of OLYMPUS gathered their strength together to slow them down. Bruce and the others landed without much damage before they all ran out, to get to the building.
"You okay?" asked Alex to Jasmine and Bruce.
"Y-yeah." Said Jasmine as she held her head and Bruce nodded, "Yeah."
"Good." Nodded Alex to Bruce before looking at Jasmine. He pulled her ear as he got angry, yelling at her causing everyone to look at him. "What are you thinking!? You're not supposed to be here!" yelled Alex as the members of OLYMPUS gathered around.
A figure appeared out of nowhere as a girl with Asian features ran over, "Jasmine?" she asked in disbelief.
"Sabrina." Said Jasmine, greeting the girl.
"What are even doing here?" she asked, separating Alex and Jasmine away from each other.
"I thought… I thought I could get Adrianna to-" stuttered the girl, as she rubbed her arm and avoided the stares.
"The rules changed." Hissed Alex as he glared at her. The Avengers rose an eyebrow at him in surprise, not aware what could make the stoic healer turn angry at her. "besides, we wouldn't be even in this whole entire mess if you didn't try to go solo and be utterly selfish." He spat before leaving the ship.
Everyone followed suit as Steve and the others witnessed the battle. "Are those-"
"EDEN members?" said Hunter, molding spare metal together into a sword. "Yeah. We're doing our best to take care of the Chitauri, getting citizens off the street, and taking care of them. All at the same time."
"Right now, our problem is Edlyn and there's the portal." Said Jayden.
Edlyn looked up as she saw the portal widening and massive beasts started dropping in. shots started to fire as more Chitauri came out as she saw Alex and the others group.
Jason saw them as he ran forward, with several EDEN members.
Hunter and the others got ready to fight but they all had a smirk on their faces. Jason smirked and some of the Renegades did the same as they turned on their Allies, sending them unconscious or unable to fight. Bruce and the others rose an eyebrow as Steve spoke up, "Wait, aren't you our enemies?" he asked.
Jason shrugged, "We're Renegades." He said, "and I'm not going to be at the hand of EDEN with all of this." He said, gesturing to the area around them.
Edlyn dropped down as Thor yelled at Loki, "Look at this!" he said, making Loki witness the destruction. "Look around you! You think this madness will end with your rule?""
"It's too late. It's too late to stop this." Said Loki.
"No. We can, together." Said Thor.
Before Loki could stab Thor, Edlyn deflected the tiny blade off to the side as both gods looked at her. They all widened their eyes as they saw her eyes turning brown as she smiled. "Together." She said. She flung herself and tackled Loki to the ground as she yelled, "Thor! Hold him!"
Thor immediately rushed over and placed Mjolnir on Loki's chest as he took off Loki's helmet. Edlyn placed her hands over Loki's temple as she smiled wearily, the god making eye contact with her. He saw tears brimming at the edge of her eyes as she spoke. "Loki." She leaned forward and placed her forehead onto his. She closed her eyes as both could feel their breaths against each other.
Taking a deep breath, Edlyn used her telepathy and went into Loki's mind. The god gasped as his hands flew to her thin shoulders and gripped it, trying to push the intruder away. Thor held him down as Edlyn remained still as a statue.
'Loki…Loki…'thought Edlyn, the sounds of the battle around her dying into nothingness as the Tesseract tried to fight against her.
Edlyn opened her mind's eye as she found herself in a dark and broken version of Asgard. She glanced around as she floated around, finding the god of Mischief in his psych. She could hear laughter and looked to see a child version of Loki and a child version of Thor playing together. Frigga and Odin watched from afar with smiles but it was very choppy like bad television.
Her eyes turned sad and resumed looking for the god. She knew where she could find him and floated around, dodging broken pieces of architecture and seeing memory plays.
What were memory plays, you may ask? Edlyn decided to amuse herself now she was remembering everything and that meant, she knew of the fourth dimension dear reader. Although you may or may not realize, you tend to remember snippets of your past- whether they are happy memories or bad memories. Those memory plays contain and play memories that ones you wish to forget, the most happiest ones, recent memories before they are sorted into your brain and so forth. In other words, they're scenes of moments in your life and there is a likely chance-
"-that you dear dear reader, that you'll witness it again like a movie marathon before you die." Said Edlyn, before she looked at the writer. "Yeah, yeah, can you hurry up and get me to Loki?" she said impatiently and annoyance was clear on her face
"Fine, fine. Don't' be in such a hurry, Edlyn. I'm the author right now so you have plenty of time. Besides, I have a fanfiction to write and I have to give these readers something to go on-"
"Just get to it!" yelled Edlyn.
The writer rose an eyebrow at her own character but nonetheless, complied with her request.
Edlyn rolled her eyes and pushed the text away as she (finally) reached the throne room. The doors opened as she swam forward and saw a very tired and thin Loki on the throne. His eyes were dead as he looked at her. Edlyn's chest clenched as she could feel the negative emotions that Loki was feeling and being an telepath, it was 2x the bummer.
Edlyn smiled and flew over, her arms touching his shoulders. "Loki!" she piped.
Loki gave her a strained smile and looked up at her. "Adrianna." He whispered, before he brought his own hands to her shoulders, to bring her closer.
Edlyn smiled as she could feel her other self-returning. She gasped and threw her head back before her eyes glowed electric blue as Loki's psych pulsed.
Adrianna noticed it was the colour of the Tesseract and narrowed her eyes. She returned to Loki and smiled. Loki placed a hand on her cheek as she buried her face into his hand, feeling his cold yet warm hand. She reached upwards and held his hand close to her face. She closed her eyes in content before opening them, her eyes soft.
Loki smiled softly as Adrianna spoke. "Come on, Loki." She said as she pulled Loki off the throne. "Let's go."
Loki's eyes dimmed a bit. "No, I cannot."
"Yes, you can." She spoke, confidently. "Loki, Thor is waiting for you. Frigga, your mother is waiting for you. Odin, your father is waiting for you. I've seen your memories Loki when I made my way here, I know you want to accept them as your family but you can't get past the fact that you're not from their blood. Have you not heard the quote 'Water is thicker than Blood'?"
Loki rose an eyebrow, "Is it not the other way around?"
Adrianna scrunched her face up, "Really? Huh. You know, things like that never really bothered me." She said, as she floated down with Loki. "But, who cares?" she grinned.
Loki smiled and chuckled, before laughing. Adrianna beamed as his psych was brightening up and the Tesseracts's hold was loosening. He placed a hand on his forehead before smiling at Adrianna, "Indeed." He merely said. Adrianna grinned as she pulled Loki's arms as the doors of the throne room opened and bright light shone. "Come on, you're not going to lose are yeah?"
Loki shook his head, amused. "I will not."
The two went through as they saw the Tesseract floating. It pulsed darkly and rapidly as Adrianna could make out Thantos presence. She threaded her fingers with Loki's, as the god held tight.
"Well…ready to say goodbye?" she asked, poking fun at him. Loki smirked as he saw Adrianna's arms glow with electricity. It was like a thick log with a handle sticking at the side and he realized it was another form of a hammer.
Loki's long scepter appeared in his hand before he nodded, "Indeed. I'm getting rather tired of this." He said, smiling.
Adrianna smirked and looked at the Tesseract, as she saw its branches creeping outwards to them; intending to trap them.
"You hear that, Thantos!" yelled Adrianna, holding her own version of Mjolnir for him to see. "We're getting tired of this and we quit! And you can't stop us!"
The two charged, Thantos growing annoyed. The Tesseract charged as Adrianna spun in a circle, creating an orb of electricity, breaking the branches into ashes and disappeared into nothingness. She threw Loki to the Tesseract as he swung his weapon at the Tesseract, breaking the control link.
They heard a roar as a bright light consumed them, but it was rather warm and comforting like relief.
Adrianna closed her eyes as Loki brought her to his chest, the two basking in relief. The two opened their eyes, revealing their respective colours as the two leaned closer-
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Well that's it for now, folks!- PinkSakuraFlower1
"Hey!" yelled Adrianna, glaring at the writer. Her face was red as Loki stood there, staring at the writer and Adrianna. "You can't just end it there!" she yelled, marching to the writer. Her hands twitched at the anticipation of choking her.
If I didn't end it there, there wouldn't be much suspense and the readers wouldn't have anything to look forward to!- PSF1 as she pouted and poked at Adrianna.
"B-But we were- I mean I didn't mind being, I mean-" blushed Adrianna, stuttering as she threw hands in the air. "Oh come on!"
Loki held her back but he thought for a moment. What good would it do if he did let Adrianna rampage? She couldn't exactly come over to the writer's side anyway.
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