3 hours earlier

Steve flinched as the Bifrost landed on the flowerbeds of the park outside the city limits that both Natasha and Clint had secured and guarded.

"We can't tell Fury, you know that right?" Tony had said earlier.

Steve had said nothing, just glared at the grass at his feet. He knew what the consequences of crossing the Director would be and he didn't want to dwell on the subject. The next time he crosses shield would be when his pride shattered, Steve hoped that day wouldn't come.

The rainbow light vanished as quickly as it had come, leaving his good friend and his worst enemy standing in the roses. Loki was looking like his usual pale sneering self if a bit worse for wear, standing there as if he had come of his own accord even though his hands were cuffed in front of him. The sight of the green-clad criminal who was almost the destruction of the whole of New York was enough to make Steve shiver with anger and fear, and a unresistible urge to punch the Asgardian in the face.

Loki's jaw made a comforting cracking sound as Steve's fist collided with it, sending the god of mischief in the the dirt. No-one had come forward to stop him, or to help Loki to his feet as he struggled to get up right with tied hands.

"Good to see you to Captain, though I can see you are still harboring hard feelings from you defeat before." Loki grinned, as he wiped the blood from his cut lip with one of his brasiers.

Steve just glared his answer of pure hatred at the Frost-Giant, Tony came between them before more harm could be done,

"Lets get this over with this. I don't want him on this planet too long." Tony said, talking to Thor, "Get him into the plane."

The blonde took his adopted brother by the back of the neck, pulling him to the loading bay and pushing him in to a seat. The teams two assassin back in to the plane, weapons up, ready to shoot if anyone came close to the entrance. Clint saw his old possessor, turned quickly away to start up the engines, Natasha looked after him, her face as expressionless as always.

Loki followed her gaze, an evil smile playing along his thin lips, "I seem to have touched a nerve with him."

Natasha leveled her gun at him, "He not the only one."

Loki's smile widened, "I thought you didn't have feelings, Romanov."

"I have enough to feel hate for you, which you might regret." she said stonily, moving forward until the barrel of her gun pressed in to his fore head even though Loki pulled back until his head hit the plane wall, fear flicked in the god's eye for the first time. Natasha smiled slightly, "Thor?"

The thunder god gripped Loki's wrists, pulling sharply on the cuffs until his brother looked at him, tearing his gaze away from the weapon, "I will take these off if you promise not to run or try to escape in any way."

Loki raised his eyebrows, "Where on the world could I go on this realm or the next that I could hide from the Allfather who will kill me as soon as look at me."

Thor sagged slightly, dropping his siblings wrists, "He wouldn't kill you with out a trial, Loki. He's your father."

"No. Hes not." Loki turned away, despite the gun at his head. He raised his arms back up to Thor, "I won't run."

Thor turned a cog in the cuffs and they snapped open. Thor turned to Steve, indicating the prisoner. Steve knew what he won't him to do but even touching the criminal was enough to make him feel sick. He pulled the seat straps over Loki's shoulder, clipping it to opposite strap as the god smiled at him, "Is this your whole job?"

Clenching his fists, Steve turned away, "Clint? We're ready to go."

Tony turned the asgardian cuffs in his hands, marveling at the technology, "And these can contain even Loki's power?"

"Yes, they are the best power containers in all the nine realms." Thor said, nodding. He hadn't taken his eyes off Loki since he had sat down as if worried that he would disappear if no one was watching him.

Tony took advantage of his distraction, "Mind if I fiddle with them? Do you need them back?"

Thor only glanced at him, "No, you keep them. I have no use for them now."

Tony frowned, "What about the return journey?"

"Loki knows what will happen if he tries to run." Thor said bluntly and left it a that.

Tony took the magical cuffs over to his work bench in the corner, laying them carefully down before trying to work out what made them tick. They could be useful when slowing down their runaway speedster.

Sir? There is something you might want to see. Jarvis' voice filled the silence about two hours later, startling Clint out of a doze and Tony almost fell out of his chair, so engaged he was in his work. He had just managed to transfer the Asgardian magic from Loki's cuffs in to a smaller, black single circle that glowed blue slightly.

"What is it Jarvis?"

I think I have found him. Jarvis continued, I'll put it on the main screen.

They all turned to the rear of the plane as the great screen fizzed into life, Natasha switching to autopilot, Loki lent forward in interest. The evening news feed flickered in to life, a female report stood in a in an empty supermarket, speaking into an over sized microphone.

"A puzzling event rocked east DC this morning in Target, that left many civilians confused and worried at want could happen in the future. A young man was spotted breaking out of the supermarket...but not breaking in. Most witnesses were convinced that the adolescent ran at the 'speed of light' but only pictures can be shown at this point."

The blonde reporter was replaced by a blurry picture of an unmistakable, silver-haired boy, sprawled on the floor. Another image popped up next to it, it was a artist impression of Maximoff, obviously made from a witnesses description. "If you have seen this boy around, please contact-"

"Where is this?" Tony asked Jarvis, shutting down the stream as the reporter rattled off contact details.

East DC, sir, Jarvis confirmed, I'm sending the coordinates to the plane now.

"Thank you, Jarvis." Tony turned to the rest of the crew, "That was easier then expected."

Loki was staring thoughtfully at the now blank screen, "Thats the person you want me to capture? Hes just a child."

Clint snorted, "You don't say."

"Hes dangerous and we need him in custody. You don't ask questions and you won't be told any lies." Tony said stiffly.

Loki suddenly straightened up in his seat, "No one lies to me! No one would ever dare to again." he spat.

Thor rested a hand on his brothers shoulder, Loki flinched back from his hand but gave up when Thor just followed. "Fine, just get me to the child."

Peter lifted his head at the sound of his sister, pulling his backpack from under his head. What was Wanda doing here? She was in danger if she was near him, she had to get away. He poked his head round the corner, flicking his gaze around the street. She was right there, standing by her car in the middle of the road, calling his name far to loudly. Peter peeked out once more, checking the street for passerby, before shotting to her side with a burst of power.

In the Quinjet, hovering above the street, Tony let out a cheer of success. "Hes here! I've found him!"

Steve hurried over to Tonys laptop. A red blob had appeared on the heat sensitive camera, next to another blob Steve knew to be Wanda."Are you sure?"

Tony rolled his eyes, "No, a random stranger appeared out of nowhere right next to our targets sister."

Steve ignored to tone, turning to speak in to the mic connected to Loki's and Clints earpieces. "He's there. Be ready."

Loki grunted in irritation, "I'm always ready."

"We're all good down here," Clint over-road Loki's response.

"Wanda, what are you doing here?" Peter hissed as fast as he could.

Wanda blinked in surprise but recovered quickly, "Pietro! I've been looking everywhere for you. We need to get out of here!"

Peter frowned, it wasn't like Wanda to panic. She was always the serious one that tried to slow down her speedy brother, "But Wanda! You get away from me or you'll get hurt! Please!"

Wanda shook her head, holding her brothers arm tightly, "I need to protect you, Pietro. Mama made me swear that I would protect all that I love!" That sounded more like Wanda, her Russian heritage pulling at her words.

Peter groped in his back pocket for his trusty running goggles, slipping them over his silver hair and on to his forehead in a blink of an eye. "We can run away. I can take us anywhere in a minute, somewhere they can't find us."

Wanda smiled, "We should leave now! I just need to pick something up as at home first then we can leave."

Peter nodded, "I'll meet you there!" he reached up to fix his goggles over his dark eyes but Wanda caught his hand.

"No!" she said abruptly before softening her voice, "Could you come with me in the car? I want us to stick together." she lowered her voice, "They're here," she whispered, "The people who are after you, they're here."

Peter looked over his shoulder cautiously, now that she said that he did have the feeling he was being watched, "Ok, fine but be quick about it."

They both piled in to the car, Wanda turned the key, starting the old car. They roared down the road, Peter rolled down the window but Wanda shook her head. "You're all over the news, for god sake keep your head down!"

They were driving for only a few minutes before Wanda pulled up by a park.

"What are we doing here?" he said as he slipped his long form out of the cramped car. "I thought we were going back."

"I said I was going back, " Wanda's voice was changing, getting slightly deeper, more masculine. "I didn't say anything about you. And I'm not picking something up but dropping something off."

Peter turned in time to see Wanda starting to fade, sparkling in to nonexistence in a flash of golden light, leaving a tall dark haired man in strange green robes standing directly in front of them.

"You." the man finished, voice alive with mischief.

"Who-" was all Peter could say before cool, hard metal was pressed against his pale wrist and suffocating darkness descended on his vision.

Hey! This one was really fun to write actually! We can finally get down to some action! I will be able to write more frequently as it is the school holidays!

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