A/N: HOLY SHIT I'M BACK, WHAT UP? Sometimes you just gotta go on an almost 3-year hiatus for absolutely no reason other than I have a lovely thing called depression that makes me not do things I enjoy. But, uh, life finds a way!

Steve bolted from the main living room and all but threw himself into the elevator.

"The Winter Soldier appears to have recovered from the rainbow mantis shrimp quite well," Loki said as he moved closer to JARVIS's display of the tower lobby.

"Should we go downstairs and see what this is all about?" Bruce asked.

"On it," both Clint in Natasha said at the same time as they approached the elevator.

"Nuh-uh, Bird-Brain stays up here and helps Reindeer Games clean up the mess they caused. I'll go down with Romanov. Point Break and Bruce, make sure these two don't break anything else," Tony ordered, making sure his Iron Man bracelets were secure on his wrists in case he needed to summon a suit. Loki and Clint rolled their eyes and glared at each other. The Trickster's hair was still bright red and articulated his anger with every move he made.

Down in the lobby, Steve bolted from the elevator and stopped himself before he ran straight up into Fury.

"Cap-,"

"Bucky…?" Steve interrupted Fury.

"Who the hell is Bucky?" the Winter Soldier asked. His facial expression was menacing yet his eyes fearful – like he was expecting pain.

The elevator dinged, and Natasha and Tony calmly entered the lobby.

"Wassup Boss?" Natasha asked. Tony gave her a confused glare.

"Agent Coulson and his team found this man trying to escape from his holding cell back at base. We figured it would be best to move him here, under the care of Earth's Mightiest Heroes," Fury explained.

Tony approached the two men.

"Does he have all his shots?" The Man of Iron stepped too close, and Bucky grabbed a gun from one of Fury's holsters, aiming it at the Avenger. Natasha and Steve immediately reacted and tackled Bucky. "Tsk tsk, he's not even house trained."

"Tony this is serious," Steve grumbled from his position atop the Winter Soldier.

"He's all yours Cap, and don't call if you need anything," Fury quipped as he turned and exited the lobby with a flourish of his leather coat.

Back in the main living room, Clint had successfully hidden again in the air ducts, Bruce was meditating in the corner so as to not Hulk out, and Thor and Loki were wrestling in the kitchen.

"I think the color looks nice on you, Brother."

"Thor, I swear on your poptarts, if you do not let me near Barton I can only promise that this will get worse," Loki spat vehemently, gesturing to his red hair.

The door leading from the elevator opened and Tony, Natasha, and Steve escorted Bucky into the living room. Tony stopped in his tracks as he took in the chaos in the penthouse. He picked the squirt bottle back up and threw it as hard as he could at the wrestling gods. Loki saw him throw it and managed to pull Thor over him as a shield. Tony gulped as the bottle connected with the back of Thor's head. The Thunderer slowly turned to face the billionaire. His eyes promised much pain.

"…sorry," Tony said quietly, a bit afraid. "But you guys are going to destroy this place, again, so stop."

"Geez Stark you're such a buzzkill," Loki said with a smirk as he took the opportunity of Thor being distracted to slide out from under him. Thor half-heartedly glared at him as he slithered out of reach. Tony expertly repositioned himself closer to Bruce to feel more protected.

"Anyway," the billionaire started with a sigh, "looks like we have a new prisoner, I mean, gues-roomate…person? Whatever, the Winter Soldier lives here now I guess because nobody has their own place and sure Tony will do and provide everything it doesn't matter how many poptarts a god can eat in a day yeah party hard whoo—"

Tony's rant was cut off by Bruce gently shushing him. Without moving or opening his eyes Bruce attempted to comfort him.

"Breathe Tony," he urged. "We all just need to breathe."

Steve awkwardly shuffled in place and Bucky took the opportunity to wiggle out of his grasp. All Avengers quickly tried to stop him before he could do anything dangerous. In the literal kerfuffle of the heroes' bodies Bucky managed to escape to the other side of the room, armed.

"No one move," he ordered holding out the object that he had yanked from Clint's back pocket. "I want, wait…what," he actually looked at the object in his hand, "what the fuck is this thing?" He stared incredulously at the wand in his hand.

"That'd be mine, thank you," Loki said smoothly as he whisked it from Bucky's hand.

"Loki," Thor said warningly. Loki didn't even dignify the thunder god with a response as he carefully combed over his hair with the wand. The red locks shifted back to their normal jet black, and Loki sighed contently.

"What a cheap party trick," the trickster muttered as he simply broke the wand in half and incinerated it with his own magic. Clint looked disappointed.

"Ah man, you suck," the assassin said.

"Buck, it's okay, it's me Steve," Steve was attempting to approach the metal armed assassin, but Bucky quickly grabbed Loki and held him in front of him like a shield.

"Rude," the god scoffed not at all even feeling threatened.

"I said, no one move. I don't know who the hell this 'Buck' is but it ain't me," he sounded like he was going to continue, but Loki interrupted him.

"Oh yeah, this man has torture induced amnesia right?" Steve nodded. "Let's hope the real him is less annoying." There was a flash of green light and Loki broke from Bucky's grip, placing a hand on the soldier's forehead. The god muttered something in Asgardian and there was an audible pop. Bucky fell to his knees. Steve bolted over to him.

"Loki! What did you-," Loki interrupted the super soldier.

"Chill out Captain, I have merely undone what Hydra did to your boyfriend's mind," the God of Mischief said smugly.

"Steve, when did we start dating?" a very bemused Bucky asked, eyes unfocused and staring down at the floor.

"B-Bucky?" Steve asked, placing a hand on each of Bucky's shoulders. The latter closed his eyes and looked like he was about to wretch horribly. Steve glared up at Loki who held his hands up in defense.

After a long moment of tension, Bucky sneezed intensely and looked up at Steve, smiling.

"You're welcome," Loki said in a sing-song voice that earned him pointed looks from the Avengers.

A/N: I'm not going to promise a quick update, let's be real, but I should have more up before 2021 lol. I have all the previous requests lined out, but if you have an idea/request for this series (I WILL be adding more from the expanded MCU don't worry) let me know! Stay awesome out there!