Author's Note: Whelp, after taking a while to relax and enjoy my summer break (and applying for a job that still hasn't even emailed me back yet), I'm finally back to updating fanfics! Kinda a short chapter, but I wanted to at least give you guys something for being so patient with me. Thanks, everyone! You all rock!

Loki was admiring the chaos unfolding below him when suddenly, Thor landed on the lower platform.

"Loki!" Thor shouted. "Turn off the Tesseract, or I'll destroy it."

"You can't." Loki replied assertively. "There is no stopping it. There is only the war."

"So be it."

Loki leaped at Thor and the two begin to fight. The quinjet flew by as they fought.

Loki spotted the jet. He knew that the people inside would just interfere. He threw Thor to the floor, then blasted one of the jet's rotor blades with his scepter. That would keep them away for a while.

Thor saw and angrily charged Loki and tackled him as the quinjet fell to the ground. Loki and Thor completely abandoned their weapons and threw punches at each other for a while before once again retrieving their weapons. Eventually Thor had Loki pinned.

"Look at this!" Thor held Loki in place and gestured to the chaos below them. "Look around you! You think this madness will end with your rule? You think this is what Adelaide would want to see if she were here?"

The mention of Adelaide caught Loki off-guard for a moment, but he quickly recovered.

"It's too late." Loki replied. "It's too late to stop it."

"No. We can, together."

Loki paused for a moment. The thought of surrender crossed his mind for a split second before he slipped a knife into his hand and stabbed Thor in the side.

"Sentiment." Loki whispered loathingly. How dare Thor try to play with Loki's emotions by bringing up Adelaide again!?

Thor got back up. He grabbed Loki, lifted him in the air, and then threw him down onto the floor.

Loki quickly took the opportunity to roll himself off the edge of the building, only to land on one of the Chitauri's crafts. He flew off with a troop of Chitauri following behind him, adding more destruction and chaos as they flew through the city.

From above the city, Loki saw The Avengers regroup. The Hulk had rejoined them. That could possibly be problematic.

"Send the rest." Loki ordered, as he continued to look down from above. In an instant, more Chitauri flew through the portal.

Loki saw Natasha on board a Chitauri craft and began tailing her. He shot at her as he followed. From on top of a building, Hawkeye fired an arrow at Loki, but Loki caught the arrow inches from his face. He looked at the arrow, then at Clint, smirking. Did he really think an arrow would be able to stop him?

Suddenly, the arrow exploded, sending Loki crashing onto the platform on top of Stark Tower. Well, that was something he wasn't expecting to happen. Loki began to get up when suddenly the Hulk leapt up and smashed him through the window of the penthouse.

Loki, now extremely angry, quickly recovered and stood up as the Hulk started towards him again.

"Enough!" Loki shouted at the Hulk. "You are, all of you, beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature. And I will not be bullied by-"

Before Loki could finish his insult, the Hulk grabbed him by the feet and smashed him into the floor repeatedly.

"Puny god." Hulk growled as he walked away, leaving Loki in a crumpled heap on the floor.

Loki whimpered in pain. There was no denying that he had been beaten into submission.