'Mr Stark, we have visitors on the roof top.'

Tony dropped his glass. He had been waiting for this update for so long he didn't register it at first.

'Who?'

'A group of people, including Hela, Thor, Loki-'

'Right right!' Tony ran over to the elevator and pressed the button multiple times. Then he remembered he hadn't got it fixed yet.

Without hesitating, he turned and charged up the stairs.

OOO

'So,' Peter said quietly. 'You killed Elixir.'

Loki brought his glass of milk to his lips, but didn't drink it.

'It was not his fault.' Thor said before stuffing another pop tart in his mouth.

'It is his fault.' Sif said. 'If he hadn't got caught in the first place-'

'It's not like I have a choice.' Loki said sourly.

'Don't argue. Not now.' Natasha said.

The dining table was quiet except for the savage noises made as the Asgardians devoured one pizza after another.

Hela coughed.

'Does Elixir go to Hel at all like mortals?' She asked Loki.

He frowned. That was a strange question coming from the Queen of Hel herself, but it was also interesting that he hadn't thought about it before. Sure, Elixir was no Asgardian or any other being within the World Tree, and certainly not a mortal, but he just assumed that was the only place to go.

'Why do you ask that? Has he not reached there?'

'No. Either it takes a long time, or maybe he just…' Hela looked like she would regret what she was about to say. "…Ceases to exist?'

'Wait,' Tony put his glass on the table. 'You guys are saying, you don't even know for sure that he's dead?'

'He had no pulse and his breathing stopped. So for your information, Stark, he's dead. And we didn't say he's not dead, we are saying he's not in Hel yet.'

'I am just guessing maybe he's still alive. That's why he's not in Hel.'

'He is dead, Stark.'

'Why didn't you guys bring his body back?' Bruce asked.

Loki was about to explain when Hela came to his defense.

'Other than Thor carrying Sif and Loki carrying me, we also have to fight our way out of around a thousand armed Chitari soldiers and a mad titan sitting on his stupid chair shooting lasers at us. You go and try to carry a dead body then.'

'Didn't you guys meet up?' Tony gestured at the other Asgardians.

'We met outside of the palace grounds, and we are still terribly out numbered, if you can do the maths.'

'But then what if he's in hibernation or whatever like Loki did when he died?'

'Parker, father died and went to Hel- where we had a lovely chat and some tea and biscuits and you get the gist of it. I sent him back soon after. And even if Elixir arrives at Hel someone will have to somehow get his body back.'

'Just like that?'

'I am a frickin' Queen of your-worst-nightmare, mortal.' Hela rested her feet on the table. 'I can return souls and have no one give a damn about that.'

'Wait, does that mean-'

'Your girl Gwen? I will consider it.'

'I believe the poison still has an effect on you, daughter, maybe you should go and rest.'

'No dad, I am just grumpy. Someone fetch me more of this drink.'

'Clint, coffee~~'

'Yeah yeah I HEARD THAT!'

'What's wrong with Man of Hawk?' Thor sputtered through his full mouth.

'He traded the Tesseract and the Chitari Sceptre over for me.' Natasha said grumpily.

Loki choked on his milk. Hela sighed and patted on his back.

'It's because the Sceptre went over to their hands that Elixir died.' He breathed.

'How?' Tony was confused.

'It's because of the Septre Elixir is controlled. There are other ways of mind control, but the Sceptre has the strongest so far. It held a stronger connection than it usually does, too. We can't break it, and he's killing uncle and Sif, plus I am dy- sorry, poisoned, so-'

'So Loki stabbed him?'

'Didn't we go over this twice already?'

'You will still have to go over it again with Furious Fury.' Tony noted.

'Tell him I have a contagious disease that will make him fart glitter.'

'Daughter-'

'Yah whatever, dad.'

'But Fury will want proof, wouldn't he? He wouldn't trust anything without proof.'

'Beam him over to Jotunheim and let him go check the body.'

'You go and tell him that without getting bullets in you.'

'This is no time for sass, guys'

'Sass? What's this sass?'

'Is it a type of food? Can we eat it?'

'Volstagg no.'

'Thor, can I have another pop tart?'

'No, they are mine!'

'Clint-'

'I want your pop tart!'

'Never in the nine realms will I give it up!'

'POP 'ART!'

'NEVER!'

'Daughter let's get out of here-'

'Meh, I want to watch-'

'CLINT BARTON!'

'SHUT UP I AM COMING!'

OOO

'Two black birds?'

'Yes, my lord.'

'You mean ravens.'

'Y-yes, my lord.'

Thanos shrugged. What news could the two find anyway?

OOO

'Stark might have a point.' Hela said in a hushed voice. She didn't know how Loki would react. The racket from the dining area was still going on, some corridors away.

'Everything is a possibility right now, but Hela, now that we are alone,' Loki turned to face her. 'I would like to go over some details that may have been hidden from me.'

Hela was screaming internally. So he knew now. Damned Thanos probably spat everything to him in his constant rants.

'I didn't have a choice.' She may as well have squeaked.

'I know.' Her father embraced her.

Hela wasn't expecting this. She expected a lecture on what she should have done, or how stupid her decision is. Then she felt Loki was shaking.

'Are you alright?'

'I might need to sit down.' He muttered weakly. Hela realized he must be very depleted.

'I will go and ask Stark if there's a room available.'

'Then you will tell me everything.'

'Yes, of course I will.' Hela broke the embrace and headed back to the dining room.

OOO

'So, are the troubles over?' Coulson sounded shaken from his side of the call.

'It doesn't look like it~' Tony yawned.

'Mr Stark, I need your full attention now.'

'You will have one quarter, no more.'

'The Tesseract and the Chitari Sceptre disappeared merely minutes after being taken from your facility. According to your story, it is now with this Titan-'

'Thanos.' Goldilocks interrupted and returned to his food.

'-Thanos. It makes me wonder, is there any other use for them other than creating portals and controlling minds?'

'Uhh…' Tony looked back at Goldilocks. He didn't seem to be in the mood to do explaining. Loki and Hela were not available, and he doubted whether the other Asgadians know anything.

'I will get back to you on that.'

And the connection closed.

OOO

A lone Chitari soldier made its way to join the lines filing into the gigantic ships. Its breath formed puffs of mist in the chilling air. Hoisting its heavy weapon, it squeezed through the jabbering crowd, looking for something.

'Here!'

It turned around to find another Chitari waving.

'Why are you so late? I thought you got lost.'

'I kinda did.'

'If you didn't manage to get on the ship, you'll be ditched in this freezing place forever!'

'I got ice stuck in my armour and when I looked up, everyone was gone.'

'That ice isn't going to prevent you from getting on the ship, you can deal with it later! By the stars, grow a brain!'

The first Chitari didn't respond. It looked up at the colossal vessels being gradually filled up with soldiers, weapons, and equipment, as if wondering.

'They don't care for our wellbeing, do they?'

'Huh?'

'Even if we all died, they wouldn't care.'

'Probably. I'm going doing this for the fun.'

'You will die.'

'Why do you say so? Why are you acting so funny?'

The first Chitari's face twisted and scrunched up together. It was their version of a sneer.

'Oh I don't know, maybe because there's something among us, waiting.'

'Huh?'

'Kidding.'

'Oh.'

OOO

'You want to what?' Bruce stammered.

'It's not such a big deal!

'Yeah but certainly we can't do it unless we have an ex-'

'We do.'

'From what I heard, Dr Selvic is currently in Hawaii.'

'Not that expert! The other one!'

'Yeah but how does what he know apply what we are suppose to do?'

'How does what apply to what?' Hela asked.

Both Tony and Bruce jumped at the sight of her standing in the middle of their supposedly password-protected-heavy-security lab.

'How did you get in here?'

'I am going to be frank and say it's because the door was forcefully removed.' Hela said as she sat herself on a counter.

'Right, forgot about that.' Tony's eyes flitted over to where the Tesseract and the Sceptre used to be on display.

'How's Loks?'

'Loks?'

'Loki.'

'Resting. Best not to bother him.'

'Shame. Wanted to ask him about something.'

'Tony-'

'So, Hell, is it?' Tony elbowed Bruce in the stomach, smiling.

'Hela.'

'Right. Hela, how much do you know about energy signals and intergalactic traveling?'

'I'm not as interested in them as scholars, but I do know a bit from reading.'

'Do you get the idea of tracking energy signals?'

'It's like tracking a person with a magical trace, right?'

'Well-'

'Uhhhh, sure!' Tony elbowed Bruce again. 'But a lot more complicated with our stuff- Just, do you think it's possible to track signals, intergalatically?' He looked at Bruce. 'Is that even a word?'

'Like, long-distance?'

'It will be too far -'

'Yeah!' Tony gave Bruce a look. 'Long distance.'

'I guess if you tap in some intergalactic traveling into your normal…' She indicated the computers. '…equipment, and get the tuning right and all-'

'Sure! Let's try that!'

'I'm leaving.' Bruce muttered as he hurried out of the lab.

OOO

'Hello?'

'Yeah Clint? How's grounded?'

'Shut up. Where are you?'

'Oh I don't know, under discipline at Shield base 'cause of disobeying orders…'

'Ha!'

'At least I'm not tending to the kitchen.'

'Hmph.'

'Anyway, I heard they are back?'

'Yep.'

'Oh right Clint, you better warn them.'

'For what?'

Wanda dropped her voice to a whisper.

'Fury sent people over. He's got a mic in the compound.'

'Oh.'

'Get them out of there-'

'Hello?'

'…'

'Damn it.' Clint cursed under his breath.

'What is it?' Natasha called. 'Coffee maker broke down again?'

'Um, Natasha… Yep, Natasha, I found this funny video. Bet you wouldn't be able to go through it without laughing.'

It was a good thing that the entire room was empty except for them. It wouldn't help if everyone else came crowding over.

Natasha sauntered over and leaned over the kitchen counter.

'I'll take the challenge.'

'Right.' Clint clicked into a note-taking app on his phone.

There's a mic/mics in the facility. Fury sent people. Wanda thinks he's going for those ass grad people.

He handed his phone to Natasha. She cracked a smile and typed:

Why? What have they done wrong?

A ^&%$ load, Clint wanted to type. But instead:

I hve a feeling we'll find out.

I warn those upstairs. You warn those down.

'You will have to try harder to get me to laugh, Clint.' Natasha's eyes glittered like black gems.

'A smile counts.'

As Clint trudged off to the elevators (fixed with one simple wave by Loki), he thought about who might be downstairs. Tony and Bruce were definitely in their labs, but he wasn't sure about the others.

'Bruce? Stark?'

'Give us a minute.' Tony waved him off without even looking around. 'We're busy.'

'I can see that, but-'

'Hawkeye, right? Or do you prefer Clint?' The Queen of Death slid silently out of the shadows.

Clint caught himself before he yelped out loud.

'Just… Just Clint is fine.'

'I heard you never miss. Is that true?'

'Even if he does, he can probably count them off on one hand, and he shoots people for a living.' Tony backed up from his desk. 'It's done, Hel. Ready to try it out?'

'Sure.'

'Uh, Stark?'

'Mhmm?'

'Can you ask Jarvis to check for-'

'That can wait. Hel?'

'On it.' Hela put on a helmet of some sort with wires and blinking lights coming out of it. 'Is it working?'

'Hold on, I need to tune it-'

'Stark, this is really important-'

'Ah ha! Easier than I expected. You can do your magic wobbly-doo now.'

Hela conjured up a massive projection of a galaxy, she swiped it and it spun around. She looked very bored. Clint and Tony both stared at the magnificent display, at a complete lost of words. Sure, Tony had his holograms, but none of them were ever so breath taking.

'This might take a while.' She admitted.

'Jarvis, record this.'

'Already am, sir.'

'Right,' Clint rubbed his eyes. He forgot to blink. 'Tony, I have something really important to tell you-'

Hela gasped. Tony whirled around to his screens.

'Where?' Clint asked. 'Where?'

Hela took of the helmet, but looked too shocked to answer. When Tony turned back around, his face had paled at least five shades.

'Here.' He said quietly.

This is the last chapter from what I wrote a long time ago. Things aren't going great. I wasn't happy with the plot before, so I would admit to tweaking some things. In fact, I think my writing before was terrible. Re-reading them gave me a headache and a heart attack (sooooo many grammar mistakes D : ). But at least that means I have gotten better, and getting better is always good. Thank you again for all the support. Wouldn't have gotten here without you all.