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Loki was sitting down eating what the Midgardians called cocoa puffs. They certainly had an interesting flavor and it wasn't something that he had ever tried before. While it wasn't bad it certainly wasn't his favorite Midgardian food, but it also certainly wasn't awful. Another pot banged from the kitchen where Thor was attempting to make something, even though Thor didn't cook and Stark had offered to buy take out but had left when they had declined. He just hoped that Thor would not set something on fire with his desire to cook. He heard footsteps from across the room and looked up to see a man looking at him. Well, that wasn't exactly true the man was glaring at him. He had never seen the man before but that didn't mean that the man didn't know him. The man had what he thought were called glasses over his eyes; a Midgardian way of correcting poor vision. He was also wearing a purple dress shirt and black pants.

"You," the man said his eyes looked as if he was trying to set him on fire. He found himself glad that the man could not just kill him or burn him simply with a glare. Loki pushed aside his half-eaten bowl of cocoa puffs no longer really feeling up to eating them anymore.

"So, I assume you know me?" Loki said dryly. He was really tired of having this conversation over and over again.

"You're damn right I do," the man said not losing his glare.

"Ah, I see," Loki said with a bitter smile only to frown as he noticed that the man's eyes were turning green. He was surely a Midgardian? Loki did a quick magical scan and found that it was not a magical transformation but something else, although he wasn't sure what.

"Thor," he said loudly both a little wary but at the same time fascinated, however, he managed to keep his voice even.

"Yes, brother?" Thor called from the kitchen.

"There's a visitor here and I'm wondering if you might know him," he said like it was everyday during breakfast that a man walked in and his eyes started changing color. His face was starting to get a green tinge to it as well.

Thor walked back from the kitchen looking alarmed but only for a second before Thor relaxed. The raven-haired being gathered that Thor knew the man who was still turning green. Then Thor's eyes flickered over to Loki and The Thunderer's eyes narrowed again in what seemed like alarm, like he was worried about him. What was the man doing there? Why was he turning green? Loki had never seen such a thing before and certainly not with someone who was supposed to be human. Loki was slightly unsettled because Thor looked so alarmed which wasn't like him. The man must be quite formidable if it made his brother so wary.

"Thor?" Loki asked hoping to get some sort of information, but Thor's wary eyes refused to look away from the man who getting even greener.

"Banner, I know you are angry with my brother, but you don't understand." That was when Loki noticed that not only was the man growing greener he was also growing larger much larger.

"Banner, calm down" his brother pleaded

"What is he doing here?"

"Friend, Banner, please calm down."

"Loki is here. Why is he here?"

Loki was quite at a loss since he wasn't really sure what was going on. All he could do was to wait until he could understand and then maybe do something.

"Loki is not the Loki that you remember."

Loki briefly entertained the idea of putting a spell on his skin that would proclaim that to everyone he met, but he was sure it probably wouldn't really help him to get anyone to believe him.

"Hulk smash puny god," the green being said and put his massive fist into the palm of his other massive palm.

"Puny god?" He bristled at that comment. He knew he wasn't as bulky as Thor, but he wasn't puny. Besides, what he lacked in physical strength he made up for in magical strength

"Loki meet the Hulk," Thor introduced him warily. The Hulk? He had been the one that had eventually stopped the other Loki's reign of terror. He supposed he was grateful for that because at least it had stopped Loki from taking any more innocent lives. Still, The Hulk looked like he wanted a repeat performance.

"How does one usually stop him?" Loki asked in the likely event that he would need to know that, Thor shrugged.

"Fantastic," Loki said under his breath. How was he going to avoid being seriously hurt for something that he hadn't even done? Especially since the man/whatever he was, hadn't seemed to have heard Thor at all.

"What causes him to shift form?" Loki asked instead.

"His anger and I believe some sort of radiation."

Loki nodded as Banner seemed to have finished shifting.

"Thor," he said loudly and warily not liking the way the beast was looking at him and also knowing that unlike most mortals the beast could actually cause him harm if he were to try . Loki grabbed Thor's broad shoulders for a moment considering shielding the two of them from the beasts attack. Instead, he surrounded the green beast in a slightly darker green magical shield which only seemed to enrage the beast further. Loki looked at the beast a little wary, but at the same time fascinated since it wasn't exactly something that he had ever come across before.

"You say he transforms because he is angry?" Loki asked and Thor nodded. How could radiation do something like that? How could emotion trigger a change like that even if radiation had a part in it? It had to be something more than the emotion. Something in the emotion that triggered a physical change or altered brain chemistry enough to trigger turning into what he currently was.

The Hulk seemed comparatively simple even to normal Midgardians, and seemed to speak in short, not terribly intelligent ways. Maybe he could confuse it? It might make the beast angrier but even so maybe he should confuse it. Loki closed his eyes and concentrated. He opened them and watched the blue slowly take over his form. He rarely was in his blue form, only with his brothers, but it didn't feel as strange as it used to. He looked at the Hulk who seemed to be looking at him in confusion. Yes, good, he was confusing it.

"Look, Hulk, I am not the person from before who did all those things," he tried to explain yet again. The Hulk stared at him for a moment, then tried to hit them only to be stopped by the magical force field.

"Hulk, Loki is right. He is not the one who did those terrible things," Thor said earnestly. That was when Loki noticed a burning smell in the room likely coming from whatever it was that Thor had been trying to cook. Then an annoying beeping sound started.

"What the hell is going on here?" All three sets of eyes focused on Tony who had just come back into the room. His nostrils were flaring at the smell of burnt food than he took in the standoff that the three of them were currently taking part in.

"The beast is intent on harming me, I decided not to let him," Loki said smoothly, as if magical shields weren't incredibly draining and as if he didn't doubt his ability to keep the magical shield up for more than ten minutes, especially around a beast as strong as the Hulk seemed to be. He had to find some way to change the man back before the shield failed or the beast was probably going to hurt him.

"Look Hulk," Tony said to the Hulk who back at the man. "I'm not a fan of him crashing at my pad either, but if you attack him here you're going to ruin my place again," Hulk merely looked at the Jotun again, still angry. That was when Tony seemed to realize that he was in a different form.

"Wait, Loki are you a smurf?" he asked laughing. Loki frowned, he wasn't sure what a smurf was. He looked at Thor who shrugged. "That's hilarious," he said laughing harder.

"What makes him this way?" Loki asked since their time was running out. Tony sobered up looking at the Hulk.

"Anger and if his pulse goes beyond a certain range," Loki nodded. Pulse, a physical change that triggered an even bigger physical change. If that was what triggered the change than all he had to do was decrease his heart rate. Of course, that would mean lowering the shield and subjecting himself to probably being tossed around a little.

"I'm going to let him out," Loki said. Thor and Tony both looked at him with faces that implied that they thought he was mad.

"If he wrecks my place because of you I don't care what Fury says I'm kicking you out," Tony threatened jabbing a finger in his direction as he spoke. Loki nodded although not really in response to Tony's statement. He let go of the shield and the Hulk lumbered forward. Loki closed his eyes and reached out with his magic into The Hulk's body. This wasn't something he had ever really attempted before. Loki hoped that it worked or he was probably going to end up flat and broken. At least he would probably heal quickly. His magic intuitively sought out the beasts weaknesses. Most of the beast strengths seemed to lie in his size, strength, and skin which kept dangerous things from going into the beast's body. He could atomize man turned beast, but that would be essentially killing him. Loki was not fond of death if he could avoid it. There had to be another way to stop him. He focused his magic on forcing the rate of the beast's heart to slow down a little. The raven-haired being was glad that this morning he had skimmed over a book on Biology. He felt himself being grabbed and Loki forced the heart rate to slow down a little bit more. He felt a large hand closed around him and starting to squeeze him and focused hard on slowing down the heart rate further.

The hand left him and Loki opened his eyes hoping that he had accomplished what he had set out to do. The ex-god of mischief hoped that he hadn't unintentionally harmed the beast even though it had meant to harm him. He watched as the beast shrunk slowly and took in a deep breath of relief. Good, he wasn't going to be flattened; that would have been unwanted and painful. The man version of the Hulk looked bashful and grabbed tightly to the tatters of his pants. The other three occupants of the room were staring at him with a mixture of fascination and suspicion.

"You forced me to change back," the now smaller man spoke astonished. Loki shrugged, it was the only thing that he could think of to avoid being pummeled that hadn't involved killing the man.

"How did you do that?" the no longer green man asked at the moment more fascinated and relieved than suspicious.

"Magic, I forced your heart rate down," he explained. A little more suspicion and uneasiness made it's way back into his face.

"You forced my heart rate down? He can do that?" This was directed at Thor who shrugged.

"As I said, this is not the Loki that you are familiar with. This Loki is far more advanced his magic that my brother was and as such I'm not familiar about the extent of his abilities," Loki found himself grinning at Thor's compliment.

"What's that smell?" the man said sniffing the air that Loki now remembered was full of the scent of burning food. Thor's eyes widened and he ran towards the kitchen.

"My pancakes!"

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