Lokius C12

Sylvie sighed, "I was hoping to spare you the pain of that realisation."

"So she has?"

"Yes Mobius, she even erased you knowing who I am" Sylvie paused, "Twice."

"I am going to kill her."

"Of that, I have no doubt, but timing Mobius. We need Loki and we need him allied with us." She warned, "We can't take out the entire TVA with just three people."

"What if there were more?"

He asked.

"More?"

"More Loki variants? Loki's may betray, but they are good in a fight. If we can unite them in a common goal?" He suggested.

"Even if we found enough variants of me, finding a common goal would be nearly impossible."

Mobius sighed heavily, "Then what do you suggest?"

"We tell the entire TVA what they truely are and in the chaos we take what we want.'

"How could we prove the truth to the entire TVA? The only real evidence we have is if you enchant everyone here. You don't have that kind of power."

"Renslayers tempad, we need to steal it."

Mobius pulled it from his pocket, "I already did, however I can't crack the pincode."

Sylvie grabbed the device, "I can handle that part, you go make nicely with 'your varient'.

"No."

"Mobius, you have to. At least try talking to him. He cares for you."

"No, Loki's only care for themselves."

"Yes, we do. Until now."

"Fine. I'll talk to him."

Mobius stormed out of the room, heading to Loki's cell. He stood there watching a few rotations of Sif's attack before pausing the loop. "Ok Loki, are you ready to talk?" Mobius lead the captive back to his office where they stood by the table glaring at each other. Weighing up how this fight would end.

Loki gave Mobius a look that could wither plants. "Fancy technology, threatening interrogation tactics. Seems you and I are in a loop of our own.' He grudgingly sat down.

"A lot of water under the bridge since then." Mobius answered, opening the file in front of him.

"Certainly has."

"So, you said the TVA is lying to me. Care to tell me what about? Go ahead. Or is that just a cockroaches instinct to survive kicking in?"

"Let me out of this place, stop beating me up and I'll tell you."

"Cockroach, got it." Mobius crossed out parts of the file. "How long have you been working fir the variant?"

"Me? Working for her? Please."

"So, if you are not working for the variant? What is it? Partners?" Mobius pressed.

"Absolutely not. She's difficult and irritating. She tries to hit me all the time." Loki spluttered." No, not partners, no."

"Yeah, I guess you just don't do partners." Mobius snapped, "Unless of course, it bennifets you and you plan to betray them at some point." He couldn't hide the pain in his voice.

"We were a means to an end Mobius, welcome to the real world. Down there, we are horrible to each other to get what we want. We use, we abuse, we do what is right for us. Not everyone else. At the end of the day. I am all that matters to me." Loki flumed.

"Like I need a prince to tell me how life is! How the real world works. I doubt you can even make a simple meal or your own bed in the mornings. Can you even dress yourself without magic or maids? Why don't you stop your preening and tell me what really caused the nexus event on Lamentis?" Mobius demanded.

"Let me see. Why would I tell you just so you can prune me as soon as you have all the information you need?"

"I guess we reached a dead end then."

"Okay, fine, as you wish, it's over."

"I will miss these little tete a tetes."

"Me also."

"One guy playing checkers and Mobius here playing chess." Mobius commented. "Give my regards to Lady Sif." He stood collecting his files.

"WhAt, no, wait, you can't, no, no." Loki complained. "Wait, please, no, just listen."

"Yes?"

"Of course it was me pulling the strings all along, she came to me on Asgard long ago. Then she took me into Ragnarok to explain how things worked. Between us we hatched a plan to take over the TVA. Have it for ourselves. An unlimited source of infinity stones we could take with us where ever we went in the multi verse. We would be Kings and Queens of the Cosmos. Nothing could stop us."

"And how is that going for you?"

"Very nicely thank you very much."

"And the variant?"

"Doesn't matter, just a pawn in my game. I'll dispose of her when the time is right and it is close. Something very very big is going to happen. Soon."

"Well I saved you the trouble there, she's already been pruned." Mobius took a breathe, "So, if I was to set you free?"

Loki interrupted, "Wait, what? What did you just say?"

"Assuming I let you free?"

"The variant, she is gone?"

"Not before she took two of ours with her. She was going to her time cell, broke free of the guards. Ran, without rescuing you I might add. We caught her and pruned her on the spot."

"Good riddance." Loki said quietly. A strange look on his face.

Mobius studied his face intently for long moments before chuckling to himself.

"Whats so funny?"

"Come on!"

"Whats so funny!"

"You like her. Look at your eyes!"

"WHAT!!"

"Does she like you?"

"Was she pruned?"

"No wonder you have no clue what happened on Lametis. Both of you were just swooning after each other. "

"Tell me the truth."

"It is Ragnarok. Two variants of the same person falling in love. You of all people forming this sick, twisted, psychopathic little romantic relationship. That is pure chaos. It could break reality. It is breaking my reality right now just thinking about it. You really took 'self love' to a whole new level of crazy. What an incredible seismic narcissistic. You fell for yourself Loki! How would the wedding work? Are you with the bride or groom? Both? Any side will do!"

"Her name was Sylvie."

"Wonderful, let me write that down. Is that IE or just I?"

"Is she alive?" Loki exploded.

Mobius looked at him across the table indifferently, "For now."

Loki sighed in relief fighting back tears he wasn't sure why were forcing their way out.

"So, taking over the TVA, ruling the multi verse, is that it for your grand plan?"

"Our interests are alined."

"Overthrowing the timekeepers?"

"Maybe they need to be overthrown?"

"I should box your ears."

"Mobius listen, if what Sylvie told me is true. It affects all of us, every single person in the TVA. "

"Here we go. You already told me about fifty lies in the last ten minutes."

"I am not lying."

"Now Im meant to believe the word of your girlfriend?"

"I'm telling you."

Their voices merge as they both try to argue their points across not caring what the other is saying.

"She's not my girlfriend."

"Whatever, the female version of yourself. The sister you have a demented relationship with. Rather than with someone who l…."

"You are all variants!!!"

Loki shouted. "Everyone you works at the TVA. They didn't create you. They kidnapped you. You are just like me. You had a life once. Perhaps even a family and a jet ski. Don't you want that back?"

Mobius paused for a while trying to work out what to say given they were under a camera. He shoved a firm mask into place, "Nice try, what a pair. You two do work well together, probably because you are literally the same person. Gosh. Wherever you both go, death, chaos, destruction. Is it incest or simply masterbation when you two have sex? Does reality break as you come? Or is it a slow melting away as you two get through foreplay? The literal ends of worlds."

Loki didn't answer.

Mobius slammed the file shut, "Well that seems to be everything, I can close this case now. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. I have no further need for you. Or as you might say, our interests are no longer aligned."

Hunters came to take Loki away. "You know out of all the liars here and there are a great many. You are the biggest."

"Why? Because I lied about your girlfriend?"

"No that I can respect. I mean the lies you tell yourself. I hope you can live with the weight if them." Loki commented.

Mobius starred after him long after the hunters threw loki back in his cell and left the man alone with nothing but his thoughts and the left over whisky in his drawer.