Äsgard was dull. There was no nicer way to put it. Lady Sif liked her work as a warrior and could spend most of her time training but even so, time in Äsgard had become boring. Usually something would have happened and Loki would have at the center of it, smirking at his latest doing.

She did not like what he did but she had to admit his presence added a certain je ne sais quoi to the realm. The adventures she went with her friends were harder than she remembered and they did not dare to take some without a healer with them. This was never a problem before.

How many times had Loki saved them with his trick as they called them? His presence was missed and it surprised her. The same could be said about the warrior three but the most affected by the situation was Thor, she know he used those adventures to search for his brother.

Most of the time, when they had a new quest, there was rumor of a man looking like Loki in the area and Thor would accept the moment he heard it. She even saw the Allfather listen with interest when they mentioned Loki. Apparently, no one knew where he went after he was sent on Midgard.

The elves denied having him, the dwarves also did not know anything and they could not contact the giants.

With the queen new laws, more women joined the warriors, not just the Valkyrie. More young took to Seidr and now that more information were passed about it, she understood how difficult and time consuming it was.

Some of the old guard did not like those changes as it gave women and magic user more opportunity. They missed the "old days" and if they had the chance, would change everything back to their beliefs.

It came as a shock to Äsgard when they learnt of Loki exile, a good half of the Aesir did not know of this and they did not know what to think of it. Loki had a bad reputation as a trickster and liar but the merchant from other realms described him as an intellectual and humorous man.

Seeing how his disappearance had influenced their lives in a bad way, they put more belief in the later. If Loki was indeed such a bad man, why was he respected through Yggdrasil?

As for her, she found his missing presence disturbing; he would usually taunt her or sarcastically praise her. Everything was not bad thought, she had spent more time with Thor and while he was with his mortal lover now, she still hoped for him to come to her once she died. They were long lived if not immortal, what was a century for her?

She had learnt that the royal family had sent scoot around Yggdrasil to find the missing prince and bring him back. They missed him immensely, the queen even more. She had hear her cry one night when she passed by the royal garden. It was a secret she never told to anyone. While not a mother herself, she could understand how horrible it would feel to have her children taken far from her without knowing what was happening to them.

She hoped they would find him soon; she did not want to see so much sadness in the royal family anymore.

XoX Earth PoV XoX

They did not know what was happening but they did not like it. It was difficult to maintain the status co on earth, a lot of nation tried to take more power and they had to move in the shadow to quell those flames.

Recently, the problem had been the mutants. While they did not care of the racial ideology used in most of the country they directed, the power those people showed was a problem for their rule. They had first tried to push them into hiding, as they did for the magical community but some, too powerful to silence or pressure, had publically presented their kind.

Seeing that the military had project for them, they decided to see what would happen. Through time, scientist developed a cyborg able to adapt to those mutants and used them to "pacify" them. Seeing that the problem was solving itself without having to intervene had been a god send.

While they did not agree with the genocide of a new species, they did not want the fragile peace to break. They closed their eyes on the subject and washed their hand of what would happen.

Until now, this stance had been good for them but a recent event had proved that they had not kept enough information on what was happening around the world. Somehow, a general hell bent on mutants slaving or extermination had managed to create more of those robots and sent them to the only place where they were at peace.

It would have been a blood bath had nothing happened and the result would have started a racial war that could have been disastrous to the human kind. Luckily, for the mutants and more importantly for them, they had been protected by what most people would call a legend.

From the data they acquired, they had determined that Loki personally intervened and destroyed every attacker, killing the soldier and destroying the machines. They could not even use this information, as it would raise more question if used against the "god".

They had Fury already working on contacting him but he proved to be very illusive and they did not want to anger him. If he could transform object in leaving animals without problem, he could wage war on earth alone and come out victorious. They did not want that. As long as they did not have more data on him, they would wait for Fury reports.

XoX Magneto PoV XoX

More and more mutants had joined him. Someone had diffused the images of what happened to the manor and the unfortunate mutants came at him in hope for protection. The rumor of his will to contact such a powerful man had been heard by most of the underground mutant and they could accept such decision.

Now that they knew how far the "human" would go in order to get rid of them, they understood how powerless they were. More than half of the mutant population had power that were only useful in a day-to-day life and had no use in fight. Against those machines, they had no chance.

Magneto also knew that fighting them would be difficult. As the most dangerous mutants known, he had no doubt those robots were designed to counter him. Human were fools but in the art of killing, they had no master.

He hopped Xavier would not close the doors when he decided to go and meet the god. In the current situation, mutants needed to stay with each other if they wanted to live.