p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(Series Summary: In an alternate universe, HYDRA has done a lot of personal damage to many of the heroes of Marvel. They truly are the victims of horrible trauma. They were taken as HYDRA agents by force, used as lab rats, abused, damaged, brainwashed, mind controlled, and HURT in ways that can't truly ever be fixed. Then they escaped, or were rescued, and they banded together to form a team. The Avengers are a group of ex child HYDRA agents who's mission is to one day destroy HYDRA for good. Their mission is not easy, and the life they live does not help lightning the load. Living with poverty, constantly being bullied, food insecurity, all different kinds of psychological conditions including PTSD, various disabilities and physical illnesses, and almost no family members to turn while working for cash in any way they can and dumpster diving by day and raiding secret HYDRA bases by night is hard enough, especially since they live together without ANY true adults. Adding in that none of the Avengers are 18 yet (at least in Earth years) just makes it harder. They've really only kept their hope Alive because they have each other for support, occasionally along with their mysterious advocate Mr. Coulson and the generosity of neighbors and strangers. However, the Avengers are survivors. They refuse to give up on the hope that HYDRA won't steal the futures they dream of, so they keep fighting any way they can. /p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Then one spring they start getting new teammates, and they gain more once summer rolls around. They definitely never imagined that they would receive allies from space! To think that everything changed the day the Avengers rescued a couple of new members during a HYDRA base raid, including a newly blinded boy who says his name is Prince Thor Odinson of Asgard. Then over a month later they rescue (and successfully recruit) Thor's brother Prince Loki Odinson, who is QUITE shocked to find out that Thor is not only blind, but is in fact ALIVE, especially considering that Thor was thought to be dead for over two years when his elder brother disappeared without a trace after his banishment ended! Thor meanwhile is shocked to learn that HYDRA had been holding Loki captive almost as long as they had held Thor, and that HYDRA had left Loki with one less leg than he had the last time he had seen him. Two weeks after Loki joins the Avengers, they rescue and recruit even MORE kids and expand the avengers even further! All of these new allies were welcome additions to the Avengers team, but when they realized that getting the Odinson brothers back to Asgard could lead to an interplanetary alliance? Well, that opened up a whole ton of new possibilities for the Avengers that could step up their small scale rebellion against HYDRA up big time! One thing is certain though, these kids are the best chance the world has of beating HYDRA once and for all. /p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"This story will EVENTUALLY focus heavily on Thor and Loki at times so if you like the Brodinsons you're in the right place! You've just got be patient! Warning: In this story I take some creative liberties with science. This story also features characters who have debilitating permanent injuries such as characters with nerve damage, blindness, injury related deafness, or who are amputees, as well as characters with in born conditions like ADHD or learning disabilities. I mean no offense if I portray something incorrectly or something. All of the Avengers will have PTSD in this story. This is not a story for young children due to sensitive topics.)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel or any Marvel Characters in any way, shape, or form)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(What's the difference between form and shape anyway?)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(AN: This Chapter is really short by the way.)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Forged by Lightning, Rescued by Love /p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Chapter 8/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Far away in another part of the universe from where Earth was positioned in the cosmos, Queen Frigga was staring sadly into her tea cup. She was having one of those days where she was consumed by grief for her lost sons. It had been somewhere around two Earth years now, but that didn't lessen her despair. She would never forget the day when Heimdall had asked after all three remaining members of the royal family to come to the Bifrost bridge immediately because he had finally found Thor. Too shocked to second guess anything, Odin had allowed Loki to leave the dungeons and come along. Heimdall had then used his powers to grant the three royals the vision to witness along with him as Midgardians dug up a pun indescribably mutilated corpse in the New Mexico desert and identified it as Thor. The King and Queen had of course cried, but Loki... he EXPLODED. Sobbing wasn't sufficient to describe what Loki did. His heartbroken cry of regret and lament after learning of the loss of his brother was like nothing Asgard had ever heard before. Loki sat in his cell in a practically catatonic state for days afterwards. He didn't eat, drink, sleep, or even speak except to apologize over and over again for partly causing the banishment that lead to Thor's apparent murder whenever anyone so much as approached him. Frigga was also suffering from guilt because she couldn't do anything to stop Loki from slowly wasting away. Moved with compassion and fear for the wellbeing of his adoptive son, Odin had decided that Loki needed to do something other than sit grounded in the dungeon to make up for what he did since right before and while Thor was banished, something that would also allow him to try and come to peace with the death of his brother. Odin offered Loki a deal. Loki would be freed of the dungeons entirely. Really, Loki would never have to go back to the dungeons. He could walk completely free again. All Loki had to do in return was go to Midgard and retrieve Thor's body as well as Mjölnir to bring back to Asgard, as well as attempt to bring Thor's killers to justice. The only additional price would be the temporary removal of Loki's ability to hide himself from the sight of Heimdall. Loki had immediately agreed. A few days later Heimdall had panicked when he had lost track of Loki in New Mexico. The King and Queen sent people to try and retrieve Loki... but all they ever found was Loki's favorite dagger, broken and splattered with Loki's own blood on the hilt. The blood and dagger's former owner had been verified by Frigga's own was absolutely NO way that Loki would abandon his mission to find his brother just to escape Heimdall's sight, especially since he was was already free. The only possible conclusion was that Thor's killers had gotten to Loki too. Sif, Heimdall, and the Warriors Three mourned both princes, abstaining from feasts and wearing all black for weeks on end. Frigga and Odin just cried and cried for their children for months. All of them blamed many of their own actions for contributing to Thor and Loki's murders. None of them ever fully forgave themselves for what happened./p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Frigga thought back to about two or maybe three Midgardian months ago. It was reported that Heimdall had received a vision in his sleep claiming to have seen an image of a figure that looked like Thor seemingly located on the opposite side of the North American continent from New Mexico. Frigga wondered if it was a sign that something related to the death of her sons was about to be revealed. Frigga put down her tea cup down on the table to the side of the couch before standing up and walking over to the balcony, folding her hands over her chest. Frigga let a tear roll down her face as she looked at the stars./p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;""Oh my sons, how I wish you were still here with me. You didn't deserve to die like you did. I hope that if nothing else, you at least knew how loved you were."/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Back on Earth in an apartment bedroom in New York City, the Odinson Brothers smiled while safely asleep in their beds as happy memories of their family and friends played out in their dreams./p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(AN: Ok ok I just kinda felt like the story needed this bitter sweet blurb. Sorry if it made people too sad. Oh by the way my first excerpt for Sparks In The Forge is out on Archive Of Our Own ONLY. Sparks in the Forge is a conglomeration of mini shorts spattered throughout the timeline of this fic as well as future fits in hay I have dined "The Forge Fire" series! Hope you all like it! Anyway, onward with the story!)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Then one spring they start getting new teammates, and they gain more once summer rolls around. They definitely never imagined that they would receive allies from space! To think that everything changed the day the Avengers rescued a couple of new members during a HYDRA base raid, including a newly blinded boy who says his name is Prince Thor Odinson of Asgard. Then over a month later they rescue (and successfully recruit) Thor's brother Prince Loki Odinson, who is QUITE shocked to find out that Thor is not only blind, but is in fact ALIVE, especially considering that Thor was thought to be dead for over two years when his elder brother disappeared without a trace after his banishment ended! Thor meanwhile is shocked to learn that HYDRA had been holding Loki captive almost as long as they had held Thor, and that HYDRA had left Loki with one less leg than he had the last time he had seen him. Two weeks after Loki joins the Avengers, they rescue and recruit even MORE kids and expand the avengers even further! All of these new allies were welcome additions to the Avengers team, but when they realized that getting the Odinson brothers back to Asgard could lead to an interplanetary alliance? Well, that opened up a whole ton of new possibilities for the Avengers that could step up their small scale rebellion against HYDRA up big time! One thing is certain though, these kids are the best chance the world has of beating HYDRA once and for all. /p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"This story will EVENTUALLY focus heavily on Thor and Loki at times so if you like the Brodinsons you're in the right place! You've just got be patient! Warning: In this story I take some creative liberties with science. This story also features characters who have debilitating permanent injuries such as characters with nerve damage, blindness, injury related deafness, or who are amputees, as well as characters with in born conditions like ADHD or learning disabilities. I mean no offense if I portray something incorrectly or something. All of the Avengers will have PTSD in this story. This is not a story for young children due to sensitive topics.)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel or any Marvel Characters in any way, shape, or form)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(What's the difference between form and shape anyway?)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(AN: This Chapter is really short by the way.)/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Forged by Lightning, Rescued by Love /p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Chapter 8/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Far away in another part of the universe from where Earth was positioned in the cosmos, Queen Frigga was staring sadly into her tea cup. She was having one of those days where she was consumed by grief for her lost sons. It had been somewhere around two Earth years now, but that didn't lessen her despair. She would never forget the day when Heimdall had asked after all three remaining members of the royal family to come to the Bifrost bridge immediately because he had finally found Thor. Too shocked to second guess anything, Odin had allowed Loki to leave the dungeons and come along. Heimdall had then used his powers to grant the three royals the vision to witness along with him as Midgardians dug up a pun indescribably mutilated corpse in the New Mexico desert and identified it as Thor. The King and Queen had of course cried, but Loki... he EXPLODED. Sobbing wasn't sufficient to describe what Loki did. His heartbroken cry of regret and lament after learning of the loss of his brother was like nothing Asgard had ever heard before. Loki sat in his cell in a practically catatonic state for days afterwards. He didn't eat, drink, sleep, or even speak except to apologize over and over again for partly causing the banishment that lead to Thor's apparent murder whenever anyone so much as approached him. Frigga was also suffering from guilt because she couldn't do anything to stop Loki from slowly wasting away. Moved with compassion and fear for the wellbeing of his adoptive son, Odin had decided that Loki needed to do something other than sit grounded in the dungeon to make up for what he did since right before and while Thor was banished, something that would also allow him to try and come to peace with the death of his brother. Odin offered Loki a deal. Loki would be freed of the dungeons entirely. Really, Loki would never have to go back to the dungeons. He could walk completely free again. All Loki had to do in return was go to Midgard and retrieve Thor's body as well as Mjölnir to bring back to Asgard, as well as attempt to bring Thor's killers to justice. The only additional price would be the temporary removal of Loki's ability to hide himself from the sight of Heimdall. Loki had immediately agreed. A few days later Heimdall had panicked when he had lost track of Loki in New Mexico. The King and Queen sent people to try and retrieve Loki... but all they ever found was Loki's favorite dagger, broken and splattered with Loki's own blood on the hilt. The blood and dagger's former owner had been verified by Frigga's own was absolutely NO way that Loki would abandon his mission to find his brother just to escape Heimdall's sight, especially since he was was already free. The only possible conclusion was that Thor's killers had gotten to Loki too. Sif, Heimdall, and the Warriors Three mourned both princes, abstaining from feasts and wearing all black for weeks on end. Frigga and Odin just cried and cried for their children for months. All of them blamed many of their own actions for contributing to Thor and Loki's murders. None of them ever fully forgave themselves for what happened./p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Frigga thought back to about two or maybe three Midgardian months ago. It was reported that Heimdall had received a vision in his sleep claiming to have seen an image of a figure that looked like Thor seemingly located on the opposite side of the North American continent from New Mexico. Frigga wondered if it was a sign that something related to the death of her sons was about to be revealed. Frigga put down her tea cup down on the table to the side of the couch before standing up and walking over to the balcony, folding her hands over her chest. Frigga let a tear roll down her face as she looked at the stars./p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;""Oh my sons, how I wish you were still here with me. You didn't deserve to die like you did. I hope that if nothing else, you at least knew how loved you were."/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Back on Earth in an apartment bedroom in New York City, the Odinson Brothers smiled while safely asleep in their beds as happy memories of their family and friends played out in their dreams./p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"(AN: Ok ok I just kinda felt like the story needed this bitter sweet blurb. Sorry if it made people too sad. Oh by the way my first excerpt for Sparks In The Forge is out on Archive Of Our Own ONLY. Sparks in the Forge is a conglomeration of mini shorts spattered throughout the timeline of this fic as well as future fits in hay I have dined "The Forge Fire" series! Hope you all like it! Anyway, onward with the story!)/p
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