Twenty Three
January 6, 2017 – Science with Tony! Ft. Peter Parker Episode One
"Hello everyone and welcome back to my YouTube channel! I hope you had a good New Years! I have a couple announcements and projects that I am very excited to announce! I'm Tony and I'm an engineer." He cleared his throat, Peter fidgeting next to him. "First of all, I will be uploading every other week from now on. I have a lot of things going on at SI and other projects and mentoring a couple rascals." He rustled Peter's hair to his protesting. "We have some new people that you will see on this channel, they will be a surprise but I can tell you that there will be three people that you haven't met yet – at least. We will be doing some challenges that have been kind of viral on YouTube – which I am pretty excited about."
"Yeah! And Trivia Nights!"
"Yes!" Tony reiterated. "It has been discovered that Peter and I both love trivia so we are making a competition of it. First one will be in April, I'm swamped until then."
"April 21st!" Peter cheered.
"Let's see what else…FRIDAY will return to answer your questions soon, so leave them in the comments down below! Let's get started. Peter and I are going to be repairing one of my gauntlets that was damaged."
"Yes. It was stomped on by one of Doom's robots."
"He tried to take over the world."
"Again?" Peter asked incredulous.
"These villains need a new script."
"What about Loki? Was he a different villain?"
"You rang?" Loki's melodic voice went through the room and Tony whipped around and an Iron Man suit materialized over his skin effortlessly. "That's new." He commented.
"Needs must."
Loki looked to the side and concentrated and then looked back.
"Ah." He looked regretful. "You looked up to him and he stabbed you in the back. I know all about that."
"Don't try and spin this into me feeling bad for you or anything. I'm still angry you brought that army here. Also, how are you not in prison?"
"I'm very good at faking my death. Asgard has no idea."
"Too bad I don't have a way to tell Thor." Tony's voice had an edge. Loki looked terribly amused.
"Yes, too bad." He said sarcastically. "It really is too bad, Stark."
"What's too bad?" He asked hesitantly, Peter looking between the two of them.
"If we didn't get off on a bad start, we might even have some things in common."
"Like what?" Tony asked, not believing him for a second.
"Like torture." Loki said bluntly.
"Torture?!" Peter looked sick. "Mr. Stark! You were tortured?" He looked stricken. The Iron Man helmet disappeared, the nanobots sinking into his neckplate at his mental command. Tony looked gutted and glared briefly at Loki, who held up his hands.
"I'm alright, Peter."
"But torture!" He cried out.
"I know. It was part of how I became Iron Man. It was in Afghanistan."
"Are you okay?"
"I'm…alive. Still have some after effects."
"Like what?" Peter pressed.
"Like…" Tony remembered Loki was here and cleared his throat. "We can talk about this later."
"Oh, but Stark. I am so interested…"
"That's why I am not revealing my weaknesses."
"Well, that's disappointing."
"Why is it that you talk so proper when Thor slammed glasses around?" Peter asked, curiously.
"Well, my brother is a brute, I am not."
"I can agree with you on that." Tony said.
"Ah, yes. He lived with you for a time."
"Yes. I went through a lot of Pop-Tarts and lots of money spent on long distance calls to Jane Foster."
"Right…She is the girl that my brother is infatuated with."
"Yes. That is the word I'd use."
"So, Mr. Stark. You were saying about Loki as a villain."
"He didn't have the same script, no." Tony's voice was even.
"Because I was tortured by the purple raisin – I'm glad you guys were able to stop him."
"Purple raisin?" Tony raised an eyebrow.
"Obviously I can't say his name." He said in a voice that said duh. Tony frowned.
"Hm. Who else knows about the purple raisin?"
"I don't know." Loki rubbed his chin.
"Well, what use are you?" Tony snapped.
"I'm the God of Mischief. I live for Chaos. Ciao!" Loki smirked and snapped his fingers and disappeared.
Tony and Peter were silent for a minute.
"Did that just happen?" Peter asked.
"Apparently. So, gauntlet?" Tony turned back to the gauntlet.
"I troubleshooted it before and it seems it needs a new backup power unit and new thruster system installed."
"Let's do it then!" Tony smiled as they dove back into sciencing together, which is their favorite thing to do.
HOLD UP! Loki! Said he was tortured and he clearly had green eyes – didn't Hawkeye have blue eyes like Loki during this whole invasion?
-Reply: Whoa. Like he was being controlled?
-Reply: Is he innocent? I mean, I'm sure not innocent of everything but of the invasion?
-Reply: I can't believe this…
-Reply: WE TOLD YOU #JusticeForLoki
-Reply: If this Loki is anything like the Loki of Nordic legends, then he definitely needs a break.
-Reply: What do you mean?
-Reply: Well, according to legend, all his kids were taken away, he was tortured for years, had his tongue removed, wrapped his child's intestines around his throat for months, suffocating him. Like pretty bad shit.
-Reply: History major here. This user is not exaggerating – that is legit what their legends say. Wonder if they're true?
-Reply: If true, the invasion seems totally different.
-Reply: Yes! What if someone got their hands on Loki and forced him to do this?
-Reply: What if he didn't have anything else to lose?
-Reply: What if his brother, Thor, was the main antagonist?
-Reply: Wow, this comment thread is giving me a headache from all the thinking this is making me have. I think we really need answers. #JusticeForLoki!
I just looked back and Loki definitely had blue eyes then and green eyes now.
-Reply: Definitely brain washed, then.
-Reply: Knew it.
-Reply: Cements #JusticeForLoki
-Reply: We freed FRIDAY, let's free Loki!
-Reply: YES!
