"Loki Odinson, I know you are here," said a monotone voice. Dr. Strange was getting tired of looking for him. He needed to save the universe for goodness sake. "Thor's damn brother. I know you faked your death, again."

"I resent that. How did you know?" Loki said shimmering into focus.

"Ah, there you are. I need to take you to earth," Dr. Strange said done with Loki's theatrics. Loki stared at Dr. Strange.

"Why on earth would I go there?" He smiled at his own pun. "I just got out of the fight."

"To save the universe? To let you brother know you aren't dead?"

"Tempting. Really it is. But I'm going to pass," Loki said with a lazy smile.

"You'd be a hero. The universe would be in your debt. That sound good to you?" Dr. Strange said. You could see Loki mentally weigh his options.

"How do you propose we get there?" Loki finally answered. Dr. Strange began moving his hands to open a portal. He had finally found Loki. 6 planets and a horrifying bus stop in Pittsburgh later. Loki eyed the portal suspiciously before stepping through it.

The New York institute came into focus. Wong starred open mouthed at the 2 men standing unceremoniously on the second floor landing. "I guess they couldn't get rid of you," Wong commented dryly.

"Do you know where the avengers are?" Dr. Strange asked, clearly on a mission. Dr. Strange walked to map that had many enhanced persons labeled on it, his own invention. A few dots were in New York but were not the avengers.

"They are in Africa. Country called Wakanda," Wong commented. "Isn't this Thor's brother?"

"I am Loki. Not just Thor's brother," Loki said rolling his eyes. "Do we really need the avengers?"

"Wong are you coming?" Dr. Strange asked ignoring Loki.

Wong shook his head. "I must protect the institute."

"Come on Odinson," Dr. Strange said making another portal. After inspecting an interesting artifact, Loki walked through the portal and into a courtyard at the palace in Wakanda. Dr. Strange followed. Dr. Strange nodded towards to main building.

"How do you know what to do? How did you know I was alive? I'm fairly sure I had an excellent death," Loki said.

"The time stone. Also, you need to stop faking your death. How many times have you done that? I'm pretty sure it'll break your brother one day," Dr. Strange said as they walked.

A flurry of movement propelled Loki to the wall across from Dr. Strange and he landed in a huff.

"I thought you were dead!" Roared Thor. "I mourned you. AGAIN!" He slapped Loki on the top of his head.

"Dear brother," Loki said scrambling to get up and out of Thor's range. "I did what I must. To save you. You are welcome."

"You destroyed half the galaxy by giving up the tesseract! You should have let me die. What were you thinking?" Thor said pacing dangerously.

"The best plan at the time. He would have killed us both and taken it anyways," Loki countered.

"Thor, what is going on? Stop breaking things. They cost more than you," Came the voice of Tony Stark around the corner. "I thought they were dead. You were dead," he pointed at Strange. "Again, what the hell is going on?" He said.

Shuri and Bruce followed the noise. "He's alive?" Bruce asked in shock. "Thanos killed you."

"Not quite," Loki admitted.

"Bigger question is why are you alive?" Tony asked pointedly to Strange clearly upset. "I watched you turn to dust."

"I had to fake dying. 1 in 14 million, Tony. It was the only way," Dr. Strange said remorsefully. "I'm sorry but I couldn't tell you anything."

"What about Peter?" Tony asked with a heartbreaking amount of hope in his voice. Strange shook his head. Tony clenched his jaw.

"I looked to save him. So many times," Strange said sadly. "I couldn't. I'm sorry. I wanted to save your son."

"What son?" Steve said as he walked towards them. "Strange, Loki," he nodded at the two. It would take more than coming back to life to shock Steve.

"He's not my son," Tony said in monotone.

"Did you take the spider kid to space?" Steve said horrified.

"He stowed away, Rogers. I wouldn't bring him to space," Tony said angrily. "Its still my fault," he murmured. Steve heard and his featured softened to pity.

"Back to point," Tony snarled turning towards Strange. "How do you fake your own death? Don't bother to tell us that we lose anyways? Happily sign Peter's death certificate?"

"I tried many times to warn everyone. And in every single one we lose. Thanos wins."

"I'm pretty sure he's already won. Kill half the universe? Check," Tony said aggressively using his hand to make a check mark in the air.

"This isn't over. We still need to fight. Believe when I say it could be much worse. There is a woman we need to find. She is the key to killing Thanos."

By that time a crowd has congregated around the group. Wakandans looked shocked that a man could let Thanos destroy half the universe. M'baku stood with both arms crossed, glaring at Steve. Another group of trouble in Wakanda.

"We need to move this meeting inside. I don't think all of Wakanda should know this," M'baku said with a hint of anger.