Doctor Bruce Banner opened his eyes, no longer green from his monstrous transformation. Last he knew, he was transforming into his monstrous alter ego, the Incredible Hulk, about to save Manhattan from an alien invasion, and now he was sitting in a very comfy chair, in what looked to be a deluxe suite.

"Uh… guys?" Bruce called, looking around the room for his friends. "Did we win? Where am I? Where are the aliens? …where's Loki?"

"Funny you should ask…" Loki himself answered from behind him, sitting in a chair, sipping a cup of tea.

"Loki! I… hi. I feel like I should be afraid of you, but... I'm not? This is so weird."

"There's no need for alarm, Bruce. We are quite safe and comfortable here." Loki took a long sip of his tea. "Do you drink tea? It's a nice green mint."

"And poisoned?"

Loki smirked. "Please. We both know, even if I wanted you dead, poison wouldn't kill you. No, you, my good doctor, are much more valuable as an ally than as an enemy."

Bruce chuckled. "Yeah, that was a joke. It just seems like your style. Nice little place you've set up here. Let me guess: some shady underground base dressed up to look pretty?

Pretty obvious you're trying to keep me calm, not get me angry. Did I really scare you that bad during the invasion, or is this your way of apologizing?"

Loki put his cup down. "You garnered my attention, to say the least. You opened my eyes, I should say, and I do realize my mistake: a brilliant scientist and an unstoppable force, two opposite sides of the same coin: I took two men for the job when I only needed one."

"But I'm never this calm, especially around people that try to take over the planet, so I'm guessing you already…"

Loki raised his eyebrows, looking Doctor Banner in his unusually bright blue eyes. "Good guess."

"But you're still taking precautions?"

"Actually, I'm just being polite: it's how I was raised. I could have you punch yourself in the face over and over if I wanted to… and I'll admit it's tempting. I'll start you off with something small." Loki walked up to Bruce, whispering something in his ear.

"I understand: you do still want revenge for the smashing, huh, Loki?"

Loki nodded. "Oh yes!"

The next day, at Stark Tower, Bruce Banner joined his allies, who just wanted to relax after the battle in Manhattan. They were also stressed out when Loki escaped from them before his brother Thor could send him home with the Tesseract, so Bruce knew this would help take their minds off things, despite the humiliation it might cause himself. "Guys, how about a fun team activity to cheer us up a bit?" He suggested.

"Do we look to be in a fun-loving mood, Banner?" Thor asked threateningly.

"Oh, lighten up, Thunderstruck, he's trying to let off some steam here!" Tony Stark teased. "Unless you prefer he'd relax by punching you out of a building again. Either way, we get some entertainment! Have something in mind, Doctor B?"

Bruce nodded. "Thor, do you know what karaoke is?" Thor scrunched his nose, his confusion answering for him. But Thor was always a fast learner.

"JEG ER THOR, OG JEG ER VELDIG, VELDIG STOR-!" Thor belted in Asgardian, after they agreed to the karaoke fest.

Bruce nodded to himself, faking a nervous smile. "He sent me here to torture me." Bruce thought silently. Loki had cast an illusion to make Bruce's eyes their regular color, so no one would suspect him. As Thor continued to bellow his song, Bruce braced himself for what he had to do. He made his song request to the gang, who were surprised at first, but after a few drinks, most of the group was on board.

They all belted out a chorus of, "Don't bring us dowWwWn, BrRrUcE!" while Bruce himself sat embarrassed. "This would be such a convenient time to Hulk out, I'm almost hoping for him to come out right now." He said, but he knew that wasn't part of Loki's plan yet, so he just tried to withstand his acquaintances' caterwauling.

The morning after that, Bruce returned to meet back with Loki, his ears still ringing. "Alright, I listened to your brother 'sing' for 4 hours straight, just like you asked: you've gotten enough revenge, right?"

"On you. It was also a test of your obedience. Next you're going to pay back my oaf of a brother, and after your recent ideal, I'm sure you wouldn't object." Loki grinned.

"You want the other guy to take care of him, right?"

"Wrong. I have something far worse in mind for Thor." Loki explained the next phase of his plan. "And then, after that is when you'll lure the Avengers into my trap, do you understand?"

"Yeah, I can do that."

So Bruce went to visit Thor. "Hey Thor, Stark told me to give this you, as a gift, and to sort of apologize for calling you names." He gave Thor a bottle of Stark-brand conditioner.

"Oh, thank you, Bruce. And give my kind regards to the man of iron as well!" Bruce nodded.

Later that night, as Bruce was at Stark Tower, pretending to help him search for Loki's whereabouts, there was a sudden roaring of thunder and flashing of lightning.

"STARK!" Thor's thunderous voice shouted from the patio. "COME OUT HERE! I'LL TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB!"

"Well, that sounds inviting." Stark joked.

"What'd you do this time?" Banner asked, playing innocent.

"Well, it's me, so the jury's ou-" Tony Stark almost choked on his sentence as he looked out the window at the enraged demigod with bright pink hair. "Odin's beard! Does he think I did that to him?!" Tony started laughing uncontrollably while Bruce Banner just stared with his mouth open, not responding.

Thor growled and smashed his way through the window, stomping up to Tony and grabbing him by the neck. "You think yourself humorous, do you?!"

"Well, yeah, technically I do, but this wasn't-"

"Then perhaps the first thing I break in your body shall be your funny bone!"

"I didn't dye your hair, Blondie! It wasn't me!"

"Do not lie to me: I hold the evidence in the palm of my hand!" Thor held the Stark-brand conditioner inches from Stark's eyes.

"My conditioner?! Who gave you my conditioner? And why would it give you pink hair?!" Tony didn't get an answer this time before Thor tossed him into the wall. "JARVIS!" Stark's faithful computerized butler brought out the Iron Man suit: that was Bruce's cue! While JARVIS was distracted with helping his creator, Bruce quickly hacked into the computer system.

Thor swung his hammer at Iron Man, who flew out of its path and blasted back with repulsors.

Suddenly, the computer began to beep urgently. "Guys! I've found Loki! He's all the way in Antarctica!" Bruce exclaimed.

They stopped and turned to him. "What, is he recruiting an army of penguins?" Stark snarked.

"I am sure he means to use the element of cold against us: my brother is adopted from the race of Frost Giants." Thor explained.

"Let's call the team!" Iron Man suggested. "Assemble the Avengers."

As the Avengers are about to be lead by Bruce straight into Loki's trap, the next chapter will have more action and less pranks from Loki and Bruce, so stay tuned to find out Loki's master plan!

And Thor's song in English just translates to "I am Thor, and I'm very very big!" Ehehehe!