Chapter 7
The team helped their leader out of the water and it stuck to her like black oil.
"You are under arrest!" the stout agent repeated. "You have to come with us or we will have to use force."
"Good luck with that," Idunn mocked. Loki grinned and took her hand, feeling quite proud to be with her.
"We haven't done any crimes," Loki bawled, ignored his own escape from custody with the tesseract.
"You have committed crimes against the sacred timeline," she countered. "You existing is the crime."
"The sacred timeline?" Loki scoffed, "are you on something? Is it some new age religion? You realize how ridiculous you sound?"
The agent sighed and gestured to a teammate who raised a rather strange-looking weapon and shot a large web towards Loki and Idunn.
Idunn waved her hand and the netting disintegrated before it could even reach them.
"That's rude," Idunn pointed a finger as if scolding a child.
"Listen Infinity," the agent spoke fast, "I'm not leaving here without you, so just yield before this gets ugly."
"What did you call her?" Loki asked quickly.
The agent sighed again and looked at Loki, "This applies to you too, Variant, you are in actual fact guilty of your crime."
"Infinity?" Loki whispered and Idunn frowned at him.
"What's wrong?" she whispered back.
"On Asgard, they talked about the Infinity Singularities and I've heard of the Infinity stones too."
The web gun fired off another giant net and Loki moved his hand and disintegrated it without taking his eyes off Idunn.
He then held his hand up to the agents and addressed them hurriedly. "Just give us a moment," he spat in their direction.
"Why is it significant?" Idunn asked, keeping an eye on the troop but keeping her voice low so only he can hear her.
"Last chance, Infinity," the agent warned them.
"What does this mean?" Idunn asked, ignoring the warning.
But before Loki could reply the team leader set off a cannon and a cloud of black smoke shot out over Idunn and Loki, they jerked and tried to step out but Loki felt himself sink into the water. He reached for Idunn but she was gone. He spattered and struggled in the water as he sunk deeper and deeper. He attempted to use magic to move the water away but nothing worked.
The mist cleared up a bit and he saw Idunn sink into the water, eyes closed. He thrashed over to her and pulled her up.
"Help her!" he screamed at the watching troops as he fought to stay above water. They threw a rope out to Loki and he grabbed it; feeling them pull him and Idunn through the thick water.
By the time they reached the shore, Loki was exhausted. As if something had completely drained him. He pulled Idunn out and checked on her breathing. She appeared to be alive, but he didn't know why she was out cold.
"What did you do to her?" Loki confronted the agent.
"It's a void mist, it cancels out her powers," the agent said as she swiftly wrapped a metal band around Loki's wrist before he had time to pull away. Another agent put a similar band on Idunn and picked her up, carrying her through a portal.
"Let's go, Variant," two agents grabbed Loki by the arms and walked him through the portal. He looked back at the lake and saw the house was gone, and the old shack stood in its place.