Note #3: Eggs, bacon, kale, cat food (kitten), trash bags, instant noodles (a fuck load), them wakey bois, and bread. Don't forget to deliver groceries.
In all of Loki's life, he had experienced a variety of embarrassing events. Recently, he had lost the trust of his brother and was one of the main factors in Asgard's fall. He had been stuck on Sakaar and saw many "group activities" in the grandmaster's ship. His first invasion to Earth failed due to a flying tin man and he was picked up and smashed to the ground by a big green humanoid, low-intellect creation. Recently and worst of all, Loki had to do 'Get Help" with his brother, then was tricked by the one who threw him across the room, and electrocuted only to be saved by a mass of large rocks.
Loki thought he knew humiliation. Apparently, Loki was also wrong.
As a cat, Loki noted three things: simple habits like scratching his back had to be with his tongue, he could not understand the noises that cats made but still understood English, Asgardian, and Groot (that language was a pain to learn), and that the two other cats were very heavy.
Firstly, to scratch his back, he had to curl up and lick it. Occasionally, he wouldn't be able to reach it, so he had to rub his back against the wall. When he first felt the itch, he elected to ignore it. However, it eventually got on his nerves. Humiliating, yes, for those who understood and could see past his fuzzy prison. Although the licking from the other cats helped ease him without the extra embarrassment (cat tongues were surprisingly really rough), they did whatever they wanted whenever they wanted.
The other two cats (assuming from their collars their names were Tofu and Mochi, the former being orange and the latter being speckled with grey), were, well, fat. They spent a majority of their time licking themselves all over, especially in areas where Loki would absolutely refuse to lick. Their laziness was quite astounding, even when the woman, Mina Conan, was around. Simply sitting there, expecting to be fed with cat treats, sleeping on top of their food bowls or their pathetic excuses for beds...
However, they were still quite agile for their size. Which explained why Loki knew exactly how heavy they were, for Tofu was sitting on top of him and licking his back. At least it got rid of the itch, but it still humiliated the King of Jotunheim. Any lower and it would have been very uncomfortable.
The Grandmaster would have loved it.
Tofu's tongue ran over the part where he was stung earlier by the supposed Doctor. At least the doctor that Mina called was not a second-rate wizard who dropped Kings into portals. Or on the other hand, Loki couldn't figure out which one was worse. Being held captive in the arms of a weak human, being told that Buyo was a good boy, and them having several needles sting him in his rear end was probably one of the worst things Loki experienced.
He decided that he hated all doctors and cats. Tofu was making him really uncomfortable.
Another thing he really hated was that he couldn't move under the fat butt of Tofu. He tried, and he tried to use his weight to throw the massive blob of fat off and mustered as much godly strength as possible, but he really couldn't. He was just so damn fat. It didn't look like Mina offered them much food either. They just kept taking things from places that cats are not supposed to be.
Mentioning the absolutely clueless woman, she was crashed on the couch, lights off, pencil balanced on the top of her lip, somehow not affected by her snoring. In opposition to her cats' all-sleep schedule, she rarely got any sleep. In fact, she seemed as if she just fell asleep, papers strewn across her body and cups of brown liquid strewn around the floors. On top of her stomach, Mochi lay, snoring as contentedly as her owner.
Even as a cat, Loki's observational skills were still exceptional. Bareface, messy bun, dirty glasses: she didn't care for her appearance much. Mina was incredibly low maintenance. It wasn't like she needed to be incredibly high maintenance, her skin was already beyond pale. Judging from the several cases on the floor and Mina's muttering (often along the lines of "Fury's an Asshole" and "I can't wait to piss on all of Stark's work", though Loki was hoping he misheard the last one), she worked closely with SHIELD. But the majority of her other cases were not related with SHIELD, rather they were random murders and occurrences that appeared all over the city. Many of the cases seemed to span no more than a week. In fact, many of them were completed within the date of death.
Perhaps Mina Conan was not as stupid as he thought. It wasn't as if she gave the image that she looked stupid either. She looked quite professional, reliable, and overworked. That was exactly what pissed Loki off- a smart, educated person was keeping the King of Asgard as a pet.
Tofu finally got off Loki and he was able to stretch his back before checking that his kidnapper was fully asleep. Despite his abnormal situation, he still remembered exactly why he came here. Once he caught that man-made infinity stone, then he could restore his glory and dignity.
The man-made infinity stone was simply the name that the humans gave it, because of their arrogance and pride. Loki knew it wasn't a real infinity stone and that the humans evidently did not know the power of an infinity stone. The item he came to collect was simply the most powerful man-made substance in the universe. Because it was human, it was obviously going to be weak in comparison to the six stones of creation. However, it would boost Loki's abilities significantly and it could cause a significant uproar in many other parts of the universe.
All in all, Loki wanted that stone. So as cat or human, frost giant or Asgardian, he was going to get it.
The room wasn't closed, nor it was locked. It was still the same in the way that Loki left it after he got turned into a cat. He immediately went to the box. There really was no way that it was not in this box. The amount of power Loki had felt when he was human was undeniable.
But what could happen if Loki touched the box again? Last time he turned into a cat. What was next? A dog? An Ant? Could the magical spell placed on the box simply kill him? A disturbing thought occurred to him: what if Tofu and Mochi were former humans? But the chance of that was slim. They certainly didn't act human and if Tofu was really a human then everything suddenly became too strange. He reached his paw out and touched the box.
The box did not move. Loki didn't either. He was just a black cat touching a bland wooden box filled with the futile efforts of mankind.
So the box was enchanted so that it only human-proof, or perhaps an exception was made simply for cats. Mina really was stupid. As a cat, he would be able to transfer the box out of the building and hopefully to a fellow ally, maybe attempt to communicate, have them try to unlock the magical code and free Loki from being a cat. Of course, it wasn't going to be easy, but it was doable. Desperate but doable. And after being sat on several times, being called Buyo (and being labeled as such), Loki was quite desperate.
He was just about to attempt pushing the box out of the room (it was really small, perhaps the size of little Kitten Buyo himself), when he heard a loud "Fuck!" and a thump! outside, the sound of Mochi falling or Mina falling or both. He nimbly escaped the room and was promptly sat on by Tofu.
Gosh, he really hated that cat.
Mina herself stood over Loki, not really focusing on him, but rushing to put on a white jacket. "Shit, I have to see the cult member." She was muttering angrily. The other cats did not care, except for Mochi, who seemed quite discontent with her cushion suddenly leaving her. Loki considered escaping through the front but realized that if Thor saw him in his current situation, he would never hear the end of it. So he would stay still and turn back into himself first before embracing his sibling.
"Buyo, be a good boy, alright?" She patted Loki's head. Funny, her priorities were only on the fur and not on the fact that he was under an orange blob. He wanted to yell at her, but a) it only came out as a meow and b) Mina was too busy rushing and only paused once to mention how cute Buyo was when annoyed.
Finally, as she opened the door, she turned back to say a final goodbye.
"Don't fuck anything up while I'm at Stephen's. For some reason, you guys always like making my life harder."
-End of Chapter 2-
