Loki groaned as he rubbed his temples, he was starting to develop a head ache. A head ache he feared would become the greatest head ache known to Aisir, Jotunn and man.

Truthfully, Loki had speculated something like this would happen. It seemed to incredible to be true though, yet on the same time. When all the infinity stones are gathered and used, and they were indeed used. Anything is possible.

The destruction and recreation of the universe… Or just melting two entire god damn universes together.

Which also meant that Loki had two sets of memory to sort through and comprehend, but on the same time there had been no time for that.

Everyone had been beyond confused, Thor had been the greatest mess of all, there was no way Thor could stand up and lead right now. Which meant it was up to Loki, and thus he had to suppress all of his own emotions and confusion to at least appear stoic and in control to the people who desperately needed to feel like someone had a handle on this.

And this someone just had to be Loki… great.

"It's all right!" Loki spoke for time number hundred. "You can all be proud, you owe your life to Thor our king! The time line you remember, where Hela attacked an unprepared Asgard and so many of you lost your life. Where Thanos snapped away half of all life in the universe! That was the original occurrence of events! It was Thor, who traveled back and created an alternative time then used the infinity stones to melt the two together to safe both! Be proud in your king!"

People were wide-eyed looking at him but then nodded.

Valkyrie was standing behind Loki looking with crossed arms. "Man, you sure weren't this praising of Thor before. Huh Lackey." she commented.

"When Thor is unavailable I am now the leader." Loki muttered. "What the people need is to feel like their leaders has a united front and actually have a handle of what is going on!"

"Do you have a handle on what is going on?" Valkyrie asked.

Loki glared at her. "What do you think?" he asked.

Valkyrie smirked. "I have to hand it to you though, you're a pretty good speaker."

"Silver Tongue." Loki snorted lightly. And then ones again, the cell phone in Lokis pocket was ringing… It wasn't his own cell phone though. It was Thors. He had made sure to relieve Thor of the object when he had brought Thor to his house so no one could disturb him.

Loki didn't even look at the name on the screen as he declined the call. Who-ever it was, they could wait!

"Bjorgen listen to me!" A woman suddenly shouted loudly at a man standing right in front of her. "You died by Helas hand in the reality where Prince Loki was a traitor, you didn't see! He came to our aid in our time of need! He rushed into the flames of surtur to safe us from Helas wrath! And then he confronted the great Titan Thanos himself trying to protect us! He gave his life to protect us and our king! And then in our other reality where you lived, he also faced Hela! He has aided us. It doesn't matter which reality we are in, you shall treat our prince with respect!"

The man actually looked embarrassed, red creeping over his head and he bowed down.

"You faced Hela in the second time line?" Valkyrie asked.

"Because Thor already knew it was going to happen we had time to prepare." Loki informed. "We evacuated all Asgardian civilians before Odins death. Hela arrived at empty halls and we fought her there. We had removed the flame she used to call upon her army, she was alone. We fought her head on there, I was the one delivering the killing blow."

Valkyrie sucked in a breath, then nodded.

"Urghh." Loki groaned again leaning over as he rubbed his head.

"Are you okay?" Valkyrie asked.

"I'm fine." Loki muttered.

Valkyrie was quiet for a while, then she sighed. "Loki, you have been taking care of everyone else all day! You need to take care of yourself now."

Loki groaned. "I can't just.."

"No objections!" Valkyrie demanded. "People need to figure this out among themselves, they all heard your speeches now. You done enough for today, go rest!"

Loki opened his mouth to object.

"Now!" Valkyrie demanded.

Finally Loki groaned as he leaned back his neck. "Fine!" he muttered. "If anyone needs me I'll be at the beach!" he stated as he turned around waving his hand.

"If anyone needs you they can wait till tomorrow!" Valkyrie shouted after him.

Loki couldn't help but smirk as he walked… huh, this was actually kind of nice. Someone taking care of him for a change.


Loki held true to his worth and went to the beach where he sat down on one of the stones and groaned as he allowed the ocean wind to hit his face.

And just then… Of course… Thors cell was ringing again. Loki was really happy he had remembered to take it away from Thor.

With a lazy hand did Loki pull it up and looked at the display seeing the name… Tony Stark

Oh norns, of course Tony would have questions! Loki had been invading earth! … Well one version of him. Urrgh. Loki didn't want to deal with this.

It was almost like a morbid urge as Loki, to his own surprise, took the call.. Barely did he manage to press the accept button as Tony's voice hallowed towards him.

"What the shit Thor!" The man exclaimed in a loud voice.. "Loki is… He's… AND YOU NEVER EVEN TOLD ME!"

Loki frowned annoyed. But didn't reply.

"You just let me prance around with him and..." Tony began.

"Yes hello Tony. This is your favorite alien speaking." Loki replied dryly.

"Loki!" Tony shouted in surprise.

There was stunned silence, then Tony finally spoke.

"This is Thors number." Tony commented.

"Yes it is. But Thor is not taking any calls right now. He needs rest." Loki replied. "If you have any issues, you will be taking them up with me."

Tony cleared his throat. "Right, so Loki." he spoke. "You invaded New York."

"One version of me did." Loki said. "Now we merged together as one. Like I imagine you just experienced a similar merge. Do you wish to avenge New York now?" he asked. "If you desire to do so, you know where I live."

Tony huffed. "Thor could have told me." he finally muttered.

"Yes he acted selfishly, he desired for the two of us to get along." Loki admitted. "As it happens though, this entire thing happened because Thor jumped between time lines and actually stretched himself to the limit to safe you and your world! He is the divergence catalyst and the bridge! That also means the melt has been incredible rough on him. If you ask me, we owe him our best cooperation. I am so happy I took this call and not him. If you have any issues with me now, even though you didn't before. Take them up with me and not him! Thor has enough to handle, leave my brother be unless you intend to give him an encouraging word and nothing else!"

There was stunned silence as Loki huffed.

"You..." Tony halted. "Sure wasn't this protective of him before. I mean, in New York you kind of stabbed him."

"I am not the same Loki as the one in New York!" Loki exclaimed annoyed. "I understand if you have issues with me, one version of me invaded your realm. But again, that has none to do with Thor. From what I remember he acted to stop me! And I don't know what to tell you Tony, or even do. I am a combined version of the two, one who did it and another who didn't. What will you have me do about that huh?!"

Again there was slight silence. "I'm… Sorry. I was just a bit shocked." Tony admitted. "But also… I really did wanted to thank him. Peter… Peter is." he swallowed. "That dumb kid."

"Someone who didn't make it in the first time line?" Loki asked.

"Yeah." Tony admitted. "He's back… Everyone. They are back… I can't even." he gasped. "And Morgan is okay. And Pepper is okay." he sniffed.

"Are you all holding up fine?" Loki asked.

"Yeah." Tony replied. "Things are kind of confusing, but we're fine. You said it was rough on Thor. Is he going to be all right?"

"I think he will be… But he needs rest." Loki replied. "He pulled his injuries from both timelines so his arm is still a mess and his eye is missing."

"Oh.. I hope he'll be okay." Tony said. "Can you.. At least say hello from me? And thank you?"

"Sure." Loki replied.

"Is Bruce at your place or is he at New York?" Tony asked.

"Our place." Loki replied. "And very human looking."

"Oh thank god." Tony sighed. "I hated that hybrid thing he had turned himself to."

"I keep hearing horror stories about it." Loki admitted.

"Right, you never saw him right?" Tony asked.

"Tony, I died in the first time line. Thanos chocked me to death." Loki answered.

"Oh." Tony halted. Ones again there was silence. "Okay, I got a few questions." he at last stated.

"Good for you, some day someone might want to bother listen to them." Loki snorted. "If that is all, I think I shall hang up now."

"HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" Tony shouted. "You can't just..."

"You think this is confusing for you?!" Loki asked. "I am the combination of two different people, who made very different life choices, and we just merged together! One who went through horrible ordeals and did horrible things, then finally put it all behind him. Another who has yet to even grasp any of these things! You think you're confused?! Do you really?!"

Tony halted. "Lokes, you all right?"

"I'm fine!" Loki bit him off.

"Oh I know that tone. No you're not." Tony replied then sighed. "I'm sorry, I guess I was just confused and needed a target. To be honest, now that we are talking… I don't want to loose our friendship over this. Even if a part of me… Heh I guess one half, I am two people to right now. He is kind of put off. The other part of me though, he is like. Well that's only one version of you! And we're friends!"

"Huh friends?" Loki asked. "Well… Yeah I suppose. That does cover it after all."

"Look, if you don't want to talk about it. I wont ask anymore." Tony assured. "New York though, what happened really?" he asked.

"What happened?" Loki asked then he looked up at the sky. "Thanos Tony… Thanos happened. I remember now, I was his prisoner. Kept in his cell… He did things to me, things I don't want to describe. Finally one day he came to me, offered me a mission…. The Tesserect in exchange for my freedom."

"My god." Tony breathed.

"I… I actually refused. Spat him in the face." Loki swallowed. "I am Loki, I am a god… I am no ones servant.. Then he took his staff. The one with the blue tip and rested it towards my head." he halted.

"Your scepter thing… That thing you used at the battle?" Tony asked.

Loki quieted.

"Gods." Tony breathed.

"I did horrible things Tony." Loki spoke sadly. "Not just the battle at New York, others things to. Things where Thanos weren't involved at all. I have to make up for that now… Thor gave me a chance, a real chance. Now is the time."

"Loki, listen." Tony tried. "I erhm… I also did… horrible things. Unforgivable things, long before the battle of New York. I shouldn't be mad at you… I really shouldn't. I'm sorry." he said. "And… I hope we can still be friends."

Loki smiled lightly. "I do appreciate that Tony." he informed. "Please, say Hello to Pepper and Morgan for me. Let them know, that even though I am now a combined version of the two. You are still dear to me, all three of you."

"They will be glad to hear that." Tony replied with genuine warmth in his voice. "And… I am honestly very glad you're the one who picked up the phone and not Thor. So we could speak like this. You know. Listen, if you need anything. Either of you over there."

"Thank you Tony, we'll call." Loki assured. "Look, if it's fine by you. I need to rest a bit I… have a lot to process."

"Sure." Tony replied. "Well, we'll talk later I suppose."

"Yeah." Loki nodded.

"Well, we'll be seeing you then." Tony stated.

"Indeed." Loki replied and finally hung up as he sighed deeply, feeling really exhausted. After all of this, the melt… Taking care of Thor. Talking to Valkyrie… Then Bruce and now Tony. He really wanted to just curl up in bed and sleep.

"There you are."

Loki looked up to see a dark haired warrior woman, Sif.

"Hey Sif." Loki sighed exhausted.

"Need a venting session?" Sif asked.

"Not right now… I am surprised you're offering honestly." Loki commented now remembered, oh he remembered. He had disguised himself as Odin. Sif had figured it out, she had confronted him.

"You treacherous snake! Everyone shall know of your trickery I swear!"

Loki remembered, he had laughed at her. He had had Gungnir in his hands, and all the powers that came with the tool. Then he had banished her to a different realm, send her away.

"I willingly swore my loyalty to you." Sif replied. "It is true, part of me feel anger. But… Then I saw you. Heard you talks, you only defended Thor and I realized. All those evenings we spend. Talking… Venting. All of that is real. And all the things you have done for Asgard and its people. Is real. I even heard you also did some amazing things for them in the timeline you were a traitor..." she halted. "I feel like I owe it to you, that acknowledge that you have a choice now. You choose which path you will walk. And today you showed what path you chose, you chosen Asgard. In this moment, in this instant. And thus, I shall serve you. Always." she bowed for him.

Loki swallowed, his throat in a knot.

"My Prince?" Sif asked.

"Sorry I just..." Loki sniffed, then pressed a hand towards his forehead. "I have a lot to process right now." he informed.

"It's okay. We're here for you my prince." Sif informed and Loki nodded.

"Thank you." he breathed. "Thank you."