A/N : New-Old Chapter, the chapter is Maddy's old one so it may sound a bit different from my re-written version.
Vision had been relatively used to strange occurrences.
Seeing as how he was friends with gods, sorcerers, billionaire eccentrics, and rich people who just had way too much time on their hands. Not including the fact that he was a robot made from Thor lightning, an evil robot wanting to make perfection, and a mythical stone that came from outer space.
Yes indeed, saying Vision was used to strangeness was a tad bit of an understatement.
But if there was anything Vision had never though he would see in his lifetime, it was the Norse god of Mischief falling straight through the roof and plummeting directly into Avengers Tower roughly three feet away from his face.
This was the start of a train wreck of (as Mister Stark Called it) what-the-actual-flaring-heck situations where Vision could now safely say he had seen everything.
He decided not to say anything to the god as he slowly got up and spotted him, instantaneously swiping a gold scepter from the floor and pointing it at his chest.
"Visorus! If you move a muscle I will shock you like you will never know! I have a fully charged scepter right here and I'm not afraid to use it." Vision frowned, not moving an inch from where he stood. One look at the fallen god's nervous face and the dull gold scepter he was holding and he knew for a fact that the god was lying.
Unfortunately when Wanda Maximoff came in the room she did not know this.
One look at the fallen god with his gold scepter pointed to Vision's chest and then well...there was 4 things that might've happened.
Either :
A. A Very Angry Scarlet Witch
B. A Bunch of Broken Furniture
C. A Bleeding Loki with a few Broken Bones
or
D. All of the Above
And for Vision it was a big, fat "D".
"Ugh..." Currently the fallen god was smashed into the now broken bookshelf with his head imbedded in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." As if his injuries from the falling from apparent clouds weren't bad enough.
Vision turned to Wanda to find her eyes a bright crimson and her hands shaking as she pinned them to her sides. He shook his head for a moment before letting out a tiny sigh.
"Miss Maximoff I did not require any assistance.." Vision shrugged a bit, making Wanda flush with embarrassment. The red in her eyes began to die down as she sighed.
"I'm sorry, okay? I thought he was going to attack you." She walked over to Loki, a peeved expression on her face. she quickly used her magic to pull away the book and tug him out of the shelf, resulting in quite a few books flying out of the bookshelf and the book "Of Scarlet Minds and Scarlet Hearts" suddenly lying at Vison's feet.
"Ironic.." Vision muttered as he picked up the gold scepter Loki had been using and walked over to the god. He might as well do him a favor after the... inconvenience.. and help him pick up the weapon.
"Here, you seemed to drop this when Miss Maximoff...attacked..." The god craned his neck a bit to look up at him as Vision waved the scepter a bit in front of his face. Loki blinked and looked up at Vision, his expression both amused and enraged.
"You two aren't not going to try and kill me? Blast me? Torture or try and interrogate? Or are you fooling me to try and trust you." Vision couldn't help but flinch a little at the man's icy glare as a sneer formed on his face.
"Maybe. I'd like to, but I don't have to." Wanda crossed her arms across her chest, looking annoyed at Loki. "And believe me, if I had a reason I would do it without hesitating."
"Of course not." Vision ignored Wanda's statement and waved the scepter in front of Loki a bit more. "Take it. I'm very sorry for scaring you. Perhaps you would like to visit the ah... medical bay?" The god's eyes were as wide as saucepans.
"What in Heimdall's hairy chest is going on! Is this a trick!" Loki leapt up and snatched the scepter from Vision's hand, annoyance and rage highlighted in his features.
Vision took a second pondering over what "Hiemdall's hairy chest" meant but quickly shoved the thought out of his mind.
Wanda on the other hand, looked somewhat alarmed. "To be honest, you just fell from the ceiling with a loud clap of lightning. Vision came to investigate the noise and you awoke from your... sleep and threatened to try and kill him." Based on the look on her face, Vision could safely say she was contemplating the idea of calling an insane asylum.
"And then Miss Maximoff walked in, got angry and... caused about $3,000 dollars in property damage." Vision continued with a slight bit of amusement in his tone. It was of course an estimation, the real cost that he had scanned was about a mere $1,000 in property damage.
"Vision!" Wanda complained, though still smiling.
"Wait..." Loki paused as the two stared. "You're...Vision?" He said, confused. To Vision's surprise he seemed quite baffled by his name, despite the fact that he had now been a "hero" for almost a decade. Though he somewhat doubted they had news channels in Asgardian dungeons, he would've though this man would've heard of him by now.
"That's the name I received..." Vision said quietly, puzzled by why the god seemed so concerned about his name.
"Wait, wait, how can you be called Vi-" Loki was cut off by the creaking of the open door.
"Loki..." The trio turned to the doorway to find Anthony Edward Stark standing in the doorway, staring at Loki with his hazel eyes.
"Hello Mister Stark. Do you know this man?" Vision asked innocently, gesturing over to Loki as Tony looked back and forth between the three, seemingly baffled.
"You guys don't know this guy?!" He exclaimed, looking at them both in disbelief as Vision shook his head and Wanda rolled her eyes.
"Do we act like we do?" She muttered, crossing her arms and whispering something inaudible.
"I forgot. You two don't know this asshole." Tony shrugged, walking over to them. "Alright man, what'cha here for? Gonna try and blow up the world again?!" He said sarcastically, holding a smoothie in his hand.
"Blow up the world?" Vision and Wanda simultaneously asked.
"Long story." Tony answered. "Involved a lot of property damage, aliens raining from the sky, and an exhausted snack of shawarma." Both Vision and Wanda were giving Tony questioning looks about the last part of what he had just said.
"I'm not here to blow up the world Anthony. Unlike you." Loki gritted his teeth at Tony.
"Er, I do have some nukes in my arsenal in my company, but I'm pretty sure I'm not trying to blow up the Earth anytime soon." Tony adjusted the sunglasses he had been wearing. "Come to think of it..hey, when'd you change your outfit?" He blinked, noticing a few minor changes in Loki's outfit from the last time he had seen him.
Vision frowned then scanned the memory of Jarvis, looking specifically for a documented photo of Loki.
Sure enough Loki's attire looked a little...different then when the attack on New York had begun. The bull-horns, while there, were shortened, and were bronze instead of gold. And the robes he had been wearing were longer, now made of a gold-colored silk. Yggdrasil was also stitched onto the cape, and the gold borders of his horns seemed to have Asgardian symbols carved onto the bronze.
"What's going on with your team Anthony! Suffered memory loss after getting hit by Ultron's distractions downtown?" Loki chuckled darkly. "I've worn this since I started fighting your team years ago." He opened his coat revealing a gray t-shirt as he closed it once more, looking annoyed.
"Um, yeah, pretty darn sure you weren't wearing that when the Chitauri attacked." Tony repeated, sipping the smoothie he had been holding. "How'd you even get out of Asgard?" He wondered aloud, glancing back at Loki for an answer.
Loki stared at him. Currently they didn't know who was more confused. Tony, Vision and Wanda, or Loki. Either way it was a four-way tie.
"Excuse me?" Loki asked. "Asgard has practically fallen since my brother and your team led an attack against it." Tony and the others looked at each other. Something was not right.
"Thor has never attacked Asgard before." Vision remarked. "Neither have we..." He added reluctantly.
A silence fell across the room.
"Wanda. Check his mind." Tony said a few minutes later, breaking the silence.
"What?!" Wanda glared at him. "Why should I do that?" She grumbled, Tomy throwing up his hands in surrender.
"We don't really have any other ways to find out what's going on with his mind." Tony shrugged, sipping the smoothie once more.
"Please Miss Maximoff?" Vision added, giving her begging eyes.
Wanda cursed silently in Sokovian.
"Fine, but Stark I'm not doing it for you." Her eyes started to glow red as Loki felt fear jolt in his stomach.
Wait wha-" Loki's eyes went wide, just before Wanda dove into his mind...
A maze. A fancy labyrinth of memories, some painful, some tragic, and others joyus and gleeful, with the occasional thought and dream here and there. That was the thing Wanda used to describe most minds.
Loki's though was...different. To say the least.
Wanda had never examined a god's mind before. At least, not in detail. She did look in Thor's mind once, but only for a few seconds to bring his nightmare to life in The Age (Well, more like The Minor-Set Back) of Ultron, and Vision didn't really count, as even though he could lift Mjolnir he wasn't technically a god.
And now here she was, expected to find what was going on right now and to clear the confusion about what was happening in the God of Mischief's mind...sometimes she really hated being the only mind-reader in the team. She looked around.
The god's mind was immense. Layers of memories and thoughts surrounded her, bathing in a golden light. It wasn't surprising.
"It makes sense.." She said softly. "He is immortal, he would have a lot of memories to go through..."
Wanda started to walk down the immense layers of memories, each one as clear and intact as day. Yet as she kept walking, the memories were getting darker...edgier...more horrifying, and Wanda shivered a little as a feeling of creepiness began to press down her back.
As she kept going the feeling increased to a point where she could barely move, staying right in one of the darker parts of Loki's mind. Wanda scanned the memories, horrified at what she saw.
People dead. The world on fire. A woman being struck by lightning, New York, in ruins, flames rising from the Empire State, the city crumbling and civilians running, being caught by... Ultron?
She stared at the image as it replayed over and over. Ultron had never attacked New York, much less saved civilians!
She scanned the next few, more confusing scenes replayed in his head. Him saving a child from a falling ceiling, a group of men and woman with helicopters and ground vehicles with a strange squid-like creatures as the logos on them helping people to safety. None of them were anything Wanda had seen, much less were anything in character.
"Strange.." She muttered.
Then the final image she looked at caught her eye.
It showed Tony, and the rest of the Avengers, along with...someone who looked somewhat like her, standing in front of a map. The strange thing was, they didn't look like the Avengers Wanda knew. They looked similar, sure, but not exactly like the ones she had been a part of for the past few years.
Vison, for instance, in the memory, looked substantially less gold then the one she knew, instead having a blue-ish mind gem and a dark, lapis-blue cape. And his eyes had no pupils, instead just two yellow spaces shaped like eyes.
And herself... she leaned in closer to get a better look. Her hair, still brown, had a significant white highlight running through it. Her clothing seemed more like that of some sort of robes than normal attire. They were also white, but had a strap running diagonally across her chest to store supplies.
She frowned, pulling away from the memory. Something about this felt just a bit... strange.
In fact, how was this even possible! She and Vision had never met Loki or even really saw him in person since a few seconds ago! The next thing in the memory answered this.
The map was not of the continents or stars, but instead of different Earths. And the one they were pointing at to be their own was labeled "EARTH 308"...
"He's from a different dimension" Wanda said finally, snapping out of her trance-like state, nearly causing the others to jump in surprise.
"What?" Loki, Tony, and Vision said in unison, all with an identical expression of shock on their faces.
"He's from a different universe. A "Parallel" one as you Americans call it." Wanda explained, the others staring in awe. Loki in particular looked shocked.
"How do you know?" Loki spat bitterly, crossing his arms. "I could be faking for all you care." He snapped, much to Wanda's frustration.
"You said it yourself, we don't act like the Avengers you know and you don't act like the... "Loki" I believe, we know." Wanda explained. "Your mind and the memories in it only prove this further. And no matter how deep you can bury your mind it can never be altered.." Tony appeared to be in deep thought about what she said.
"I don't get it.." Tony muttered. "How the heck..." He began before a crimson tint shaded his eye.
Wanda showed Tony and Vision what she had seen in his mind, the same scenes of Ultron saving people and New York on fire replaying over and over in their hands.
"Whoa.." Tony gaped, his grip on his smoothie slipping and he nearly let it fall onto the floor.
"Are you saying that where you are from we are the... "bad guys"..." Vision asked, pondering over what he just seen.
"Yes. You rule in tyranny, as the rest of Mid-Gard lives in fear every day." Loki responded cooley, waving his scepter.
Wanda looked over at both Tony and Vision, Tony sipping his smoothie and Vision twiddling his fingers in thought. The thought of those two, especially Vision, even being even REMOTELY "Tyrannical" made her burst out into laughter.
"Umm..." At the trio's confused glance she quickly stopped laughing.
"What was that all about." Loki huffed. "Do you like people suffering?" He grunted, Wanda suppressing a smile.
"Possibly." She said innocently, making Tony and Vision stare. "But mostly because I can't see Vision or Tony acting tyrannical. You can't really make a person who tells you it is "currently not raining any organic life forms" when you say it's raining cats and dogs outside into a blood-hungry pyschopath." She snickered, Loki shrugging.
"Perhaps." He said plainly, glancing back at Vision. "But he's more of a passive one compared to the others." He noted, Vision looking a bit concerned.
"So let me get this straight, we're meet a villain from a different dimension where he's the hero and we're the evil guys?" Tony repeated once more. "And we're SURE I didn't just get high and am currently stuck in a drug-endured coma? Because, seriously, it would make a heck of a lot more sense if I just am dreaming this while I'm passed out on the couch."
"It seems like it..." Wanda replied. "For the other part, I can't really answer that.." She suppressed another smile as a worried looked came onto Vision's face. "It's a joke." She added, trying to reassure the android.
"Welp check that off the bucket list, now all I have left is to find Jupiter (This is the Roman form of Zeus if you don't know) and zap him with my pulsar beams!." Tony laughed, slapping his knee.
"I do not see a bucket of lists anywhere Mister Stark." Vision remarked innocently. "Nor do I believe you will survive long enough in an outer-space environment to shoot the planet of Jupiter. After all, it is a gas giant, which means there is no solid surface to shoot it on. Both Tony and Wanda facepalmed as Loki chuckled.
"Your friend here is unbearably naïve, even more than my Visorus..." Loki grinned, looking delighted.
"Oh, you have nooooo idea..." Tony shook his head a bit in pity,
"It's Vision." Wanda repeated. "Not...Visor." She said slowly, trying to figure out why he would ever be called that. What did a visor have to do with a robot? In fact, remembering Loki's memory, the alternate vision didn't even have pupils! So what was the point of naming him after a piece of fashion that you wore over your eyes?!
"Visorus." Vision corrected, snapping her back into reality. "That is how you pronounce it correct?"
"I believe so." Loki nodded.
"Well then Loki.. of an alternate universe..." Tony paused, considering his options for the choice of what to say.
"Welcome to the Avengers Tower of..." Tony turned to Vision. "What Earth is this?"
"I..." Vision took a few minutes seemingly searching on the internet. "I don't know." He said finally. "They do not exactly mention what Earth we are in on the cloud. Nor does the multi-universe theory show a way to detect which one is yours."
Tony sighed.
"Well, welcome to the Avengers." Tony held out a hand to the alternate Loki. "We'll try and help with your dimension's problem as much as we can.."
"As soon as we figure out how to get to your dimension that is." Wanda added.
Tony and Loki glared at her with steel-like gazes as Vison chuckled at her statement, Wanda just giving them her most innocent smile.
Though no one realized that Wanda has just ruined a perfectly good ending to a chapter...
A/N : Chapter End! Re-edit done, not nearly as much as last time.
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