'You sure about this, Man of Iron?'

'It came from reliable sources, Goldilocks, trust me.' Tony smiled and patted his own chest.

Thor didn't look convinced at all.

'Loki must not have used the Bifrost. But it would take a lot of time to even attempt to create a portal without any suitable power source.' Elixir said as he fiddled with his shirt.

'But if he had enough time then it could be possible-' Hela started.

'Loki clearly didn't have the time.' Thor interrupted. 'After I am banished. My father went into the Odin Sleep, leaving him to the throne. Then before I came back he attempted to destroy Jotunheim, and then he dropped himself of the Bifrost, presumed to be dead. Then he came back to Midgard to take over, and we defeated him and I carried him back. As punishment he received isolation in the cells. Then we- Thing got complicated and he was presumed to be killed, and then revealed to us he didn't, and so we come to now…'

'Yeah, clearly he couldn't have time then.' Bruce pinched the bridge of his nose.

'Why can't you use the Bifrost, uncle?' Hela asked.

'Well,' Thor scratched his head apologetically. 'I didn't say, but I heard from Heimdall that the scouts sent a few days ago was sent back, dead.'

Tony gulped.

'So Bifrost is not an option anymore.'

'Let's just try the hole in Loki's room, uncle. Its better to do something than just sitting here-'

'Yeah, that's what I am thinking.' Tony suddenly jumped up.

'Wait, who's going?' Steve asked.

Elixir, Hela, Tony, Peter and Thor all stepped out. And everyone started talking at once.

'Peter, you are not going.'

'Tony, you cannot boss me around!'

'Elixir, you stay here.'

'What?'

'Hela, neither are you going.'

'But you will need help uncle! You cannot do this alone!'

'I will not bring you in danger!'

'Why should I listen to you?'

'You father will not be happy!'

'But if I go I know how to deal with Thanos!'

'I am capable of dealing him myself!'

'Like you dated him?'

'Wat-'

'I don't care what you say either Hela, I do what I want.'

'You are not going Elixir!'

'HELA WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DATED THANOS?'

'Ouch uncle my ears are bleeding-'

'Do you know who he is?'

'Yeah?'

'Does you father know of this?'

'No?'

'Wait, hold on, if this Thanos actually liked you, why would he still hurt your father?'

'He didn't know, that's why.'

'Is he that stupid?'

'Yes, he is.'

'Why do you still date him?'

'Something called B-O-R-E-D.'

'Why don't you tell him so Loki wouldn't get hurt?'

'How?'

'Write an e-mail?'

'Stark, even if I did, do you think its going to be any good? Loki had fallen into his hands and failed him. Even if he knew Loki is my dad, will it stop him from punishing him?'

'Threaten to break up!'

'We did.'

'What-'

'Like, a year ago.'

'But you said-'

'We dated. DATED. As in past tense!'

'So the world is a gift to make you love him again.'

'I would rather have the dead flowers…'

'Can't I go?'

'No, Parker.'

'Whatever Stark. I don't listen to you-'

Natasha slammed her hands onto the table.

'All of you stop acting like children!' She screeched.

Everyone froze.

'Elixir, Peter, Tony. You all are staying.'

'Why?' Tony whined.

'You are more useful here than recusing. Besides, the less people, the easier the work.'

'I am still going.' Elixir insisted.

'Elixir, please.' Hela begged. 'I don't want to drag you in. If something bad happens-'

'He would rather have me hurt than you.' Elixir snarled, his eyes suddenly turned to a shade of bright yellow. A snake-like vertical slit dilating like mad.

'Elixir!' Natasha warned him .

He turned and stalked out of the room.

Peter rushed after him.

'Well, that's settled.' Steve turned back to the group. 'Come on then, be quick with it and return as soon as possible.'

OOO

He could hear Peter tailing him.

Annoying Midgardian.

'Ah, what are you?'

A four-legged creature stared up at him with curious eyes.

Elixir lifted him up. It had pointed ears, white fur, blue eyes and a fluffy tail.

'I haven't seen you before.'

'Elixir! Wait!'

Elixir quickly transformed, feeling agile and- short.

Peter ran past without even noticing him.

'Who are you?' The other asked.

'Who are you?'

'The people call me Kitty. I just saw you change, its amazing!'

'Thanks.'

'So who are you?'

'Elixir. I shape-shift.'

'Cool! I haven't had someone to play with for ages. It was quite lonely.'

'Sorry, but I don't really have time to play now. Maybe tomorrow.'

'Great!'

Someone suddenly ran around the corner and tripped over Elixir, sprawling on the floor. Kitty yelped and scampered off.

Elixir licked his hurt paw that the man stepped on. The man scrambled up from the floor and brushed himself off. Then looked down on him. The man had a black eye patch.

'God damn it Rogers!' He cried out. 'You cat is running around again! I told you to keep him from the corridors!'

'Elixir, are you alright?' Kitty cautiously came back to his side.

'Just got stepped on.'

'Rogers!' The eye patch man shouted again. 'When did you get two crappy cats? One is already more than I can handle and you bring in another one?! This is not a zoo! Rogers-'

The man continued to rant and curse as he went off.

'You have to be careful of him.' Kitty whispered and kneaded his shoulder. 'Even though he doesn't own this Stark Tower, he is still sorta in charge.'

'Ok, I will. See you.'

'Bye! Remember to come and play!'

'Elixir!' Peter's cries rang out.

Elixir quickly shifted back into his normal shape and headed for his room.

OOO

Wanda didn't like being sent to Yellow Stone Park along with a bunch of jerk-face agents. Phil coming sort of compensated for it, but still it didn't really make a peasant journey.

When she hoped off the plane all the frustration was washed away. They had landed in a clearing carpeted with long grass next to a river. A herd of brown buffalos somewhere off eyed her suspiciously, but pretended not to notice.

'Why Yellow Stone?' Phil muttered dejectedly as he eyed the surroundings and the buffalos in distaste.

'Don't know, something about a natural random portal…'

A hole appeared in the sky in a flash, dumping something out and then disappeared with another flash.

'Well, that.' Wanda pointed.

Phil led the agents into the forest, leaving Wanda alone with Quinjet and the herd to keep watch.

'Yeah yeah, send me here and leave me out of the fun.' Wanda grumbled and sat down in the long grass, hiding her from view.

Then explosions rocked through the park.

Wanda was stunned by the sudden noise. So were the herd, that snorted in alarm and started galloping in Wanda's direction as a whole.

Great. She thought. Stampede.

She scrambled behind the Quinjet and made herself as tiny as possible. She could feel the ground trembling under the hooves of the animals as they thunder by, some dangerously close.

When Wanda opened her eyes, all the grass around the Quinjet was trampled down into the dirt. Hoof prints littered the area.

'Phil?' She called out to the forest. It sounded like the explosion came from there.

'Coulson!' Wanda ran towards the edge of the forest, fearing something had gone wrong. 'Phil, are you alright?'

Someone grabbed her from behind and threw her to the ground.

'Ah!'

'Shhh!' The agent whispered in her ears.

Wanda strained her ears, trying to make sense of what is happening. Then she heard it. Some sort of machinery whirling.

The agent slowly got off her and dragged Wanda with him into the shadow of a tree. Wanda could make out some other agents as well, hidden in the leaves and shadows.

'What is happening?'

'Shhh!'

'Why don't we have intercom?' Wanda mouthed.

'Because there's no signal.' The agent mouthed back.

'Right.'

A loud drumming noise came from somewhere in front through the tree.

'What's that?'

'Drill.'

'What?'

The noise soon became muffled, but the ground trembled even more. Birds scattered.

'I am going in front.' The agent mouthed. 'Stay here.'

'I am coming with you.'

'But-' The agent was stopped short when he caught the glare in her eyes. 'Fine.'

They crept forwards, slowly and cautiously, as if walking on mines. Past the tree was a crater blasted out with some sort of explosives, littered with dirt and what used to be trees. At the bottom of crater was an tower looking mechanism, which appeared to be made out of black metal and powered by a strange blue glow. It dug down into the ground, expelling rocks and dirt as it sank deeper and deeper into the earth. Chitari soldiers surrounded the area, as if placed to keep things at bay so the thing may do its work.

'Coulson is telling us to fall back.' The agent got her attention and pointed behind them.

Wanda nodded. They need to plan.

They crept carefully back through the forest, the screeching of the drill clawing their eardrums.

OOO

'Elixir?' Peter knocked again, but there's no answer.

'Right Elixir, stop behaving like a kid. Sulking isn't going to get you anywhere.'

There's still nothing from the other side of the door.

'I am coming in!' Peter turned the door nob and peeked inside. Not a living thing was in sight.

'Oh no.' Peter scrambled through the room, checking in the closet and behind doors and under the bed. He checked the window, but it was untouched.

No sight of Elixir.

'Guys,' he tapped on his intercom. 'Elixir is not in his room.'

'He's got to be! The tracking system I set up on his shirt- as a joke Capcicle, seriously- said he's in the room.' Tony's voice crackled through.

'Maybe he changed?'

'Peter, check again-'

'Tony?'

'Shit! I can't find him! I can't find him anywhere in the tower!'

'Hey Tony, I just sent Hela and Thor through.' Steve's voice came by.

'Did you see Elixir with them?'

'No… Why?'

'He must've went with them!' Tony sounded like he's having a total melt down.

OOO

He probably just made the worst choice of his life.

He didn't expect it to work in the first place, didn't expect Hela to put down her guard so much. Ignorable things were easy to break for magic users.

Hela stared up at the golden dome in awe, then suddenly jerked her head in his direction.

I am air. I am nothing of any significance. I am boring. I am just a hallucination.

But then Hela smiled, and Elixir realized she wasn't looking at him. She was looking at someone behind him.

'Good day, Heimdall.'

'And so to you, Lady Hela. And so to you, Prince Thor.' The Gate Keeper's passive voice rang out from behind him. Elixir quickly stepped to the side so Heimdall passed him by mere centimeters. 'What brings you here during this dark hour?'

'Dark hour?' Thor asked anxiously.

'Thanos had just declared war upon Asgard. The city is panicking because they had already heard of the fate of Jotunheim.'

Hela grimmanced.

'So this idiot is serious about destroying the world as a gift for me.' She said flatly.

'Did you tell the All Father of Loki yet?' Thor asked.

'No.'

'Good.' Hela breathed a sigh of relief and pulled her black cloak tighter around her. 'We need to get access to Loki's room. Is it alright if we trespass the palace?'

'Of course, my lady.'

'Thank you.' Hela tugged on Thor's cape and the pair set off out of the doors onto the Bifrost.

Elixir slowly started to sneak out after them.

'Young man.' Heimdall's voice rang out once more, making him freeze. 'I shall not stop you, nor shall I tell the King of your presence, but beware…'

Heimdall laid a heavy hand on Elixir's shoulder.

'Your secret will not remain so much longer, and one day you will have to face the truth of your existence.'

Heimdall withdrew his hand, turned, and gazed off into the unknown only he could see.

Elixir stared at the Gate Keeper's back, puzzled at his cryptic words. But he didn't think of them any longer as he ran off down the breath-taking Bifrost to catch up with Hela and Thor.

Asgard was a huge place. He wouldn't want to get lost.

OOO

Heimdall lowered his head and closed his eyes. Flashes of visions tormented him.

He could only wish for the best for the Extinguisher.

The foretold Extinguisher of the light of the Nine Realms, made for a fate he himself now knew nothing of, in a time not his own.

OOO

'JARVIS, you saw anyone leave the tower?'

'Miss Pepper just went for a press conference-'

'You saw anyone go up to the top floor?'

'Yes, sir.'

'Who?'

'Mr Rogers, Mr Odinson and Miss Hela.'

'No one else?'

'Yes, sir.'

'How is this even possible?' Tony banged his head on the door, not caring a bit what the others think about him or between his head and the door which will breaks first. Someone left his building without his awesome intelligent computer even knowing.

'You are dealing with magic, Tony. Don't blame yourself.' Steve tried to comfort him.

'But what magic can make someone not seen by cameras? Invisibility?'

'That is possible.' Clint muttered. 'Saw Loki practicing when, you know, that time.'

'Invisibility, like, not to be seen?'

'But it only lasted for 10 seconds at most every time.' Clint continued to mutter. 'Elixir couldn't have ran up to the top in 10 seconds.'

'Teleport?' Steve suggested.

'JARVIS will see him at least on the top of the tower.'

'So he got something that made him invisible for long periods of time.' Tony scratched his chin. 'Fine then, another plan. Assassins, if someone is invisible, how do you know they are there?'

'Feel around and try to bump into the other.' Natasha said unenthusiastically from where she laid on the sofa.

'Smell.' Clint said.

'Or footprints.'

Tony's head shot up.

'JARVIS, remember the pressure sensitive flooring tiles we added to the tower a few months ago?'

'Of course, sir.'

'Can you identify Elixir's tracks?'

'I am analyzing the data now, sir.'

'Pressure sensitive what?' Steve sputtered, baffled at the words.

'Sir,' JARVIS's voice rang out from the ceiling. 'Data showed that Mr Elixir went to his room after leaving. Then he used the elevator to go up to the tower, and disappeared along with Mr Odinson and Miss Hela.'

'So he went with them anyways?' Peter gasped.

'Surely they would know by now.' Bruce said. 'Hela has magic powers as well.'

'But wait, JARVIS, I thought I implemented the pressure sensitive tiles into your system ages ago.'

'You asked specifically whether I 'saw', not whether I can 'sense with pressure sensitive flooring tiles'.'

'Very funny, JARVIS.'

'You are welcome.'

OOO

Great.

He's going in circles.

He's checked every room in the palace yet still no sign of Hela or Thor.

Where could they've gone?

A group of troops ran past him.

It seemed like everything was so tense.

War cries and explosions came from outside the palace walls.

He felt like he could help.

But obviously, that would mean him executed for being on Asgard's grounds.

Meaning, instant death with your head blasted off, meaning, magical healing wouldn't work that way, meaning, die.

Then he saw the king. The All Father rushing away through the big doors. His majestic staff banging on the floor in the ghastly rhythmic beat. His gold eye patch glittering angrily in the light of the sun.

And beyond the city walls, were the masses of black, sliver and red. The air swarming with scooters, arrows and blasts of energy. Families screaming.

Before Elixir could fully understand what happened, he was flying over the city. His tail cracked in the wind and his wings bellowed the smoke away.

Both Asgardians and Chitari retreated, but he was only aiming for one.

The Chitari scrambled like ants as he blasted fire at them. The Asgardians pressed onward, shouting and cheering, now knowing that the dragon was on their side.

Elixir quickly overtook the Chitari and landed squarely on the Bifrost, cutting them off.

The Chitari army skidded to a halt in a panic so to avoid his burning breath. And before they could utter a squeak, the entire army was swallowed by their golden pursuers.

He quickly turned his head away from the chaos, not daring to try his dragon nature with fresh blood.