A/N : Three chapters in. Disclaimer time!
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"So how did you even get here in the first place?" Tony asked. Loki was currently occupied on the couch reading the graphic novel "Gods of Asgard" by Erik Evensen.
Loki shrugged, not answering immediately as he turned to another page before sitting back up.
"It's a mystery really... Or enigma if you prefer." He muttered, standing up off the couch, and dropping his book on the pillow. "One minute my brother is standing over me in his glory of triumph against his.. silly...little...brother..." Tony noticed that at saying this Loki's face fell and he looked quite depressed but chose not to tell him. He wasn't risking a magical gold scepter to the chest.
"A-and the next moment he strikes me with lightning and now..." He waved his arms up meekly and gave a cheeky smile. "I'm here!" He sat down on the couch once more with a flourish and began to continue reading his book. Tony continued to stand there, waiting for something to engage conversation.
"I'm surprised that book is still intact." Tony remarked, trying to get the alternate to talk about... anything really. "I mean, seeing as Wanda threw you into one I'm surprised you even want to read right now.." Tony, personally, would not try and read a graphic novel from the bookshelf that had been recently destroyed five minutes ago.
The living room was still a relative mess, but considering was it was like a before, it wasn't that bad, still a little beaten up though. The bookshelf at the very least was once again intact. And they had somewhat repaired the roof with some tape until they could actually get a builder in.
"I think it just increased that urge to read something Anthony." Loki said dryly, turning another page. Tony frowned, noticing that Loki had not called him his nickname.
"Tony." Tony corrected. "It's Tony, not Anthony."
"Oh. In my world you prefer no nickname." Loki raised an eyebrow at him before going back to reading. "You know, this book is decently accurate. Unlike that Riordan fellow with his "Gods of Asgard" and "Magnus Chase" descriptions." He complained, turning a page once more.
Tony shrugged. Currently Vision and Wanda were training against each other as they waited for the others to get back. Thor and Bruce weren't going to arrive anytime soon, as Thor was busy in Asgard and Bruce was on vacation, so they were out.
The rest of the Avengers were on three different missions.
Steve and Sam were on a robbery downtown, and they were going to be back in a few minutes.
Clint and Natasha were in Brooklyn dealing with some weird mutant crocodiles (Tony was surprised that was just it) and were going to be back sooner or later depending on how effective arrows and tasers were against reptile skin.
And Rhodey had been outside somewhere dealing with the training course. As it turns out, he had been the first to see Loki flying in from the sky, and he had been the one who alerted Vision, who had actually seen Loki crash into the building.
"Just, try your best to figure it out okay?" Tony shrugged, awkwardly positioning himself on the couch's arm. He needed to get something out of guy to understand what was going on, and considering he still wasn't quite sure he hadn't just passed out on the couch, it was proving very difficult.
"I believe..." Loki got up out of his seat once again. "That the thunder contained in Mjolnir had magical qualities and sent me here." He decided, looking back at Tony for feedback on his theory.
"You sure?" Tony asked, sipping his smoothie once again. "If that was really true then every single Ultron bot Thor hit would be in a different universe. And buildings...and trees... and Thanos..." Tony had a lot more things in his "Thor struck it with lightning" list, but he decided to stop there out of not wanting to bore Loki with stories about various bricks and leaves that had been struck.
Loki sighed. "That's what I don't get! I remember holding up my scepter in defense but then the lightning struck it..and.." His voice trailed as Tony grinned in delight.
"Looks like we found our portal.."
"Hit me harder!"
"I am!"
"No you're not! You're not trying hit me as hard as you can!"
"If I "Tried" my hardest you'd be flung out of the room, smashed through two walls out into the outside, and smash onto the ground likely dead or paralyzed!"
Wanda sighed. Sometimes she enjoyed Vision's company, but when it came to training with him it was just frustrating to work with a guy who was unbearably naïve..huh. She was quoting Ultron...she decided never to do that again.
"Just, okay, practice. Just practice." She repeated, the two beginning to duel again, Wanda knowing fully that he was not going to use much force.
A few moments later grazed her arm with his laser before she recoiled and answered to the blow by sending him flying across the room with telekinesis and he ended up with a hard collision to the wall.
"Sorry!" Wanda squeaked. "Are you okay?" She said worriedly, trying to crane her neck to get a view of where Vision was.
"I'm fine. Not a bad first try." Vision got up, brushing himself off. He didn't seem too annoyed that he had just flung into a brick wall. "Though perhaps you should try and control your reaction time, maybe if you just concentrate a bit further you might not fling people into walls so often." He added dryly, Wanda laughing.
"You're not that bad yoursel-"
"Hey guys! We found a way to-" Tony popped out of the doorway just as Wanda let out a shriek of surprise and shot a ball of crimson energy at him. Tony dodged the magic, and it ended up hitting Loki in the face, who had been waiting just behind him.
"Argh!" Loki covered his face with his hands, trying to block out the burning feeling in his eyes. Wanda felt a bit guilty as he held his head in his hands, crying in agony, too shocked at what just happened to apologize.
"Sorry Mister Laufeyson. We were a bit... unsettled by Mister Stark's sudden appearance." To her relief Vision had decided to talk before Loki got angry and started a magic duel. "Please excuse us for the minor inconvenience."
"It-It's alright Mid-Gardian." Loki sighed, finally letting his arms fall from his face. Wanda had never seen a man cooked before for obvious reasons, but if she had to say what she truly thought Loki looked like right now- It would be a medium-rare human.
"Cap and Sam are coming back any minute now. Meet us in the living room before they get back." Tony went back to doing who-knows-what as he left the holo-area, Loki following him, holding his now slightly-burned face.
Wanda stared. "What just happened?"
"I do not know." Vision shook his head. "I suggest we get to the commons now." He walked out of the room, Wanda following him, going into the living room to find Tony and Loki sitting and chatting on some bar stools.
"Hey, sit. We're going to try and figure out how the heck Loki's going to get back to his universe, or how we're getting to his." Tony patted two nearby seats as he continued to chat with Loki.
"So, what? You er, just wave your hand around a bit and you'll summon the bolt?" Tony guessed, sipping his smoothie he had been holding only to find it empty.
"Not exactly, it's a lot more complicated then that." Loki smiled at Tony as he twisted the scepter around.
"What are you talking about?" Wanda asked, the two ignored her.
"Well, uh, I kinda got a vague kind of grip on your "Incredibly advanced Asgardian technology" when I made Vision." He turned and pointed to the mind gem on Vision's head.
"Very funny Anthony." Loki smirked as he seemed to flick his wrist and the scepter glowed a bit. Wanda did a quick scan of his mind to figure out he said Tony's full name and not nickname on purpose.
"For the second time, it's Tony." Tony looked a bit annoyed at Loki forgetting that detail.
"Ah of course Anthony. Very sorry." Wanda held back laughter as Loki gave Stark a cheeky grin which he returned with a glare. It seemed like Tony was finally getting a taste of his own medicine.
"Alright already le-" The door creaked open and Tony stopped mid-sentence.
"Tony I better not be seeing what I think I'm seeing.."
Sam and Steve had arrived.
"Tony, what's he doing here!?" Steve glared at Tony with a look that could melt solid steel.
"Hey man, it's not what it looks like." Tony threw up his arms in mock surrender. "It's a long story. He fell from the ceiling and well.." He shrugged. It was going to be a lot harder than he had thought it would be to explain this to Cap and Falcon. On second thought, then again this Loki came from an alternate universe where they were all megalomaniacs. Or at least jerks. Of course it would be hard to explain!
"Well then what is it? This guy tried to blow up New York Tony." Sam's wings folded into his little metal box on his back, giving Tony a suspicious look. "I haven't seen him in person though." Falcon examined Loki's wardrobe. "Wow, those bull-horns look just as ridiculous as I thought they would." Tony held back a chuckle as he watched Sam shrink away a bit at the glare Loki gave him.
"Would you believe that this isn't the Loki who tried to blow up New York, but instead he comes from another dimension where we're all evil and they're good and he accidently got transported when the evil Thor from his dimension when he struck him with lightning and the bolt was absorbed on his scepter causing a rift in dimensions and making him teleport come here?" Tony forced a grin. This was going to be awkward, really awkward.
The blank stares Sam and Steve gave him were worthy of Emmy awards for best actor.
"Okay!" Sam stared at Tony, getting up out of his seat. "Everything has gone insane! Loki is suddenly a good guy and now Satan's ruling the Earth! The apocalypse has started!"
"Really Sam?" Tony watched Steve raise an eyebrow at Sam, who had announced the "Apocalypse" while flinging his hands upward and walking around the room.
"Heh, sorry man." Sam went back to sitting on the bar stool.
"Is this true?" Steve turned to ask Vision and Wanda, who were both absentmindedly playing with their powers.
"Apparently." Wanda shrugged.
"Whoa. Uh, this is... awkward." Sam admitted.
"Loki Laufeyson." Loki held out a hand to Steve and Sam. "Prince of Asgard and soon-to-be Highfather."
"Uh, hi. I'm Sam Wilson, but in your world I'm probably not.. so nice to meet you... even though I already know you and um..." Sam was smiling an incredibly forced grin at Loki.
Tony facepalmed.
"So who's going to explain this properly?" Steve picked up a glass of water.
It felt like an eternity, but after a while, Tony, Wanda, Loki, and Vision, after a lot of waving their arms trying to describe what happened, managed to explain to Steve and Sam what in the world was going on.
"How are we gonna break this to Clint and Natasha?" Steve asked laying his forehead down on his fist.
"I dunno. Leave them a sticky note on the fridge that says "Went to another dimension, dinner's in the microwave, and we'll see you next week?" Based on the glares he was getting Tony decided to swipe that idea of out the box.
"When are they getting back?" Wanda asked.
"In a few minutes approximently." Vision answered. "I can see them coming right now."
Everyone stared at Vision.
"What?" He shrugged. "Is looking through the security cameras not welcome?"
A sigh of relief came through, no one wanted to think that Vision was a stalker.
"Great. We have to explain this to even more people!" Sam grumbled. "They're gonna think we're crazy!"
"Let's focus on getting to Loki's dimension for now." Steve got up from his chair. "What's your plan?"
"I'm going to try and replicate Mjolnir's thunder. Since my scepter and Mjolnir are forged in the same way and both have magical qualities, it shouldn't be to hard." Loki picked up the scepter from the bar table and walked over to the far corner. "Thor struck me here, we should be able to replicate it completely.
They all went to the corner of the room.
"Alright, I'm starting." Loki declared, pounding the scepter into the floor, making the tiles crack a bit.
"Hey, that's marble you're breaking! That costs a lot!" Tony exclaimed.
"You're already a billionaire. Why should you care about a hundred dollars?" Wanda rolled her eyes at him. Okay, Tony couldn't really think of a good comeback to that one.
"Charging..." Tony watched as Loki's scepter began to glow a bit.
"Charging..." The scepter was now shining so hard it was tough to look at, a humming sound beginning to surface, Loki beginning to shift it to face the floor for when he was going to summon the bolt.
"We're back!" A familiar archer's voice rang through the tower as Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton (AKA Black Widow and Hawkeye) walked in to see the strange sight.
"Oh god.." Tony muttered silently.
"It's almost charged!" Loki declared as the familiar humming of the scepter began to grow stronger.
"Hey! Wait, what are you doing with him?!" Clint and Natasha began to run over to them, just as the scepter charged up, ready to strike the bolt.
"NO!" Tony yelled, attempting to shove them both away, just as Loki stabbed the staff down on the floor. The thunder struck... jolting his body with pain and agony...and then..
It stopped.
He opened his eyes..
"Loki? How- what-" A gray figure was standing above them.
Ultron.
Wanda opened her eyes, not to find them in a different dimension like they had planned, but instead still in the corner of the tower with a scorched floor beneath them.
"They teleported without us.." Vision stated finally.
"What!?" Wanda stared at him in disbelief as he looked a little disappointed.
"I believe the lightning, while it did strike us, could only transport 5 of us in the room since there were so many people in that area, and instead of us coming it took Mister Barton and Miss Romanoff instead." Vision said as a matter-of-factly as he possibly could.
"Great.." Wanda muttered. "Nothing to do now but wait for them to come back now..."
"We could get another lightning bolt to strike here?!" Vision suggested.
"Lightning never strikes the same place twice Vihz." Wanda spat in a bitter tone.
"Statistically, that is false. Seeing though as how the next few weather reports state that it will be relatively clear skies for the rest of the week, I suggest trying to get our Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, and have either him summon a bolt or me summon it for him if he cannot leave." Vision continued.
Wanda sighed.
"And I'm sure that will INCREDIBLY easy..." Wanda glared at him, making him flinch a bit.
"It's an idea. It could work." Vision awkwardly shrugged.
She rolled her eyes a bit.
"What, do you have an Asgardian Telephone Line?..."
A/N : So, chapter end! I'm writing at 1:00 AM but, hey! I don't have school! F*** sleep!
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