It was getting chaotic. Until now, heroes worked on their country or cities, not bothering each other. The current situation has them work together more and more. Mystical figures appearing left and right, monster popping out of nowhere, anarchy was a good description.
He has "worked" alone in Gotham for years and, while he tried to extend the help provided by Wayne enterprise around the world, he kept his mask of batman mostly in his city. Some of the heroes he knew and worked with told him jokingly that he has a plan for everything.
He was contacted by many people for help, from the simple ideas on how to deal with a situation to the assistance with powerful criminals. While not gifted, he has worked hard to be at the pic of the body condition and learned as much as he could to stay ahead of his enemies.
He knew he has limit. In a face-to-face fight, a large majority of the dangerous criminals would destroy him, he has no illusion about the result. That is why he used subterfuge and cunning to defeat them.
The appearance of being such at Superman or Doctor strange has been a pain in the ass for him. Those two had too much power. He, somehow, has found a way to deal with superman should he go bad and studying Strange gave him a few possibility to deal with him. While he has incredible power, he was still human and his repertory of spell was still limited.
Zatanna was harder to deal with as they are in the same category. She could not tracked, he has tried, because of the realm she spent her time in when she needed a pause from everything. Stephen could go there but seemed content to stay where he was. He hoped the man would not change his way, it would keep things easier for him.
Now thought, he has to deal with the Norse gods. His satellites had captured images of two of them and recently, a third has made his presence knew.
The first was Thor, not really hard to spot. Golden hair, big armor, hammer and red cap flowing on the wind. He found more information in shield database and the god was more like a glorified warrior than anything else. Stronger and faster than a human, a better healing rate and, if his guess was correct, a longer lifespan.
The third, he has less information. It was a woman if the image was trusted. She seemed to have a regal appearance. He has spotted her not far from the school from gifted and this gave if a few hint on who she could be. Either Sif, as it would be logical with the two that had recently visited earth or were still her, or Sigyn as it would explain why she went to the second alien. She could be someone else but those two were the most logic answer.
The second was the most interesting to him. In the past, human wrote of gods protecting them, nurturing them to be better than they were. It has been seen as fantasy but now, he has doubt about it. It has been a while since he began doubting them, Wonder woman's people had proved him that. He has met with a goddess, it was hard to deny their existence after that.
Loki was real. The god of lie, fire, mischief, and chaos, father of monsters, trickster, silvertongue and prince of Jotunheim was real. Most of the text were proved right. He IS the god of mischief and chaos. He would bet on his implication on most of what was happening around the world.
But, the god did not attack anyone, he did not try to make human fight against each other. The worst he could be doing would be putting mutants against humanity but the process has already started way before he came here. For the part about father of monster, he found the story of Loki saddening, five children, all killed or punished for things they did not do.
He has reservation on Loki but for now, he put him as a neutral. While he killed men and women when he destroyed the robot that sentinels, he did it to protect the children in the manor. He hated the idea of killing but Loki was not human and there law did not apply to him, he learned this the hard way when dealing with Diana. She has made her point and kept from killing to stay within man society as she called it.
Loki did not care. Normally he would put it as a villain but seeing that he did not do anything "dangerous" after that he kept him at neutral. He just hoped he would not have to deal with him personally. The man has showed a few of his skill in his short "fight" but he has no doubt he did not display all he could do. Dealing with an unknown was better left to people like she-hulk or superman; their absurd power would give them an advantage he did not have.
He has news from Zatanna recently. She has managed to get a rendez-vous with the Prince as she called him. Apparently, morgana would go with her. They would eat at his house with him and his family. Apparently, the Norse god of mischief has two child and a wife, something to add on his files.
He also found quite a few people were visiting him when he has started observing his residence. Spiderman seemed to frequently go see them with his aunt and friends.He also saw a family, the Lovegood if the document he traced to England were right, and few individuals such as the fantastic four nanny.
It seemed that Loki was a lot more social than he thought. From his informants, he also learned the emergence of new cult, mostly within the mutant community, based on him. Apparently, they revered him as their savior. It would have been disturbing but said man seemed to be against that if his sources could be trusted. He has apparently asked for the destruction of shrines on his honor.
If Loki stayed on earth, it would change a lot of things and from what he saw, it would be for the better. Humanity has become stagnant, it needed a good punch in the guts to finally advance.
On another unrelated matter, he has detected a large surge of power near Cheyenne Mountain. He has tried to investigate but he found himself confronted to red tape and dead end. Whatever the government was doing, they were hiding quite well. He has found another challenge here and he would see it unraveled.
The power consumption was astounding and there was few people officially here, one of them was an archeologist knew for his theory on the pyramids and the origins of humanity. Most would simply accept the possibility but somehow the scientific community has banded together to have him branded as a fool.
With everything that happened on earth, he has to doubt their abilities to learn and understand. However, the fact that this man has been hired as soon as he has been fired from his university has been strange. It has been even stranger when he learned the implication of the air force. To his knowledge, they had no project that would need his expertise.