It was a rainy day in New York City. A boom of thunder could be heard from a distance.
"Hey, Thor. Could you keep it down?" asked Stark. He, Thor, Bruce, and Loki were in the living room. Bruce and Tony were collaborating on a science project with one of the Stark Industries tech screens in front of them. They would have been working in the lab had it not been for Tony's latest mishap with an unbalanced dose of rocket fuel. Instead, the two scientists worked on simulations in the living room where Thor and Loki sat watching TV.
"It was not I," said Thor defensively. "As you can see, Mjolnir sits upon your small table. It is purely the work of your Midgardian weather."
"He's right, Tony. Didn't you see the forecast for today?" pointed out Bruce. "Gees it was just a joke," said Tony, holding his hands up in surrender. He looked at Thor's hammer resting upon the coffee table. It brought back memories of the night he and the rest of the Avengers had tried to lift it. It was fun, but the whole worthiness factor still seemed like such a load. "Hey Thor. Have you tried putting your hammer in the elevator yet to see if it's worthy?" Tony asked jokingly.
Thor rolled his eyes. "Must we have this conversation again?"
Tony had found a new distraction from his work. "I'm just sayin' big guy. It seems like the coffee table is worthy too."
"Tis magic that you mortals do not understand," dismissed Thor. "You are merely jealous that you are not worthy."
"I believe in science. Right Brucy?" Tony nudged Bruce playfully.
"We can argue the physics of Thor's hammer after we have finished this Tony," said Bruce in a parental sort of way.
"Aw, you're no fun," wined Tony.
"If I may," Loki spoke up, "I believe I can give an explanation that will satisfy your scientific inquiries on the matter."
"By all means, go ahead," said Tony.
Loki looked up at Tony and Bruce smiling. "The hammer was forged in the heart of dying star. That may very well have supernova that turned into a black hole and thus became a fixed quantum point and the universe moves around it. Thor is the only one with the proper resonance to interact with it on a quantum level. Therefore, he is the only one with the leverage to shift the rest of the universe around the fixed point that is Mjolnir."
Tony and Bruce stared at Loki with their brows furrowed. Thor looked rather confused at this explanation. "That actually makes sense," admitted Bruce.
"When did you become an expert on theoretical physics?" asked Tony.
"Science is just one of the most rudimentary forms of magic. You mortals limit yourselves by only studying that one field," replied Loki.
"Hey, no dissing science in this building," said Stark.
Loki was becoming bored with the show on TV. "Hey, Thor, pass me the remote."
"No brother, they were just getting to the good part of this Ancient Aliens program," argued Thor.
"This show is severely flawed. Now hand it over." Loki reached for the remote but Thor snatched it from his side of the coffee table before Loki could grab it. "Give it!" whined Loki. Thor held the remote out of Loki's reach and the two were suddenly in the midst of a sibling rivalry for control of the remote. Tony and Bruce were suppressing laughter at the sight. Loki climbed atop Thor to reach his outstretched hand. In both their struggles for it's grasp, the cannel changed to a random program.
"Avengers Assemble!" shouted a cartoon version of Captain America on the TV screen. Thor and Loki both stopped their struggle in order to gape at the animated spectacle.
A green cartoon hulk started to smash some cartoon bad guys in a cartoon New York. "Hulk smash!" said the cartoon hulk.
"That's not what I look like is it?" complained Bruce.
A sleek red and gold animated Iron man began blasting robots with his repulsers. "I think they got me down pretty good," admired Tony.
Natasha, Steve, and Clint all walking into the living room, discussing their latest reconnaissance mission they had returned from yesterday. They stopped at the sight of what was on TV.
"Tony, what is this?" asked Steve, watching a cartoon version of Captain America smash a hydra agent with his shield.
"Why do you assume I had something to do with this?" Tony asked innocently. Steve gave him a harsh look. "OK, I may have agreed to a cartoon Avengers show. But seriously, it's very popular with the kids these days."
Natasha caught a glimpse of her in a sleek black jumpsuit with overemphasized cleavage. "Stark," she said threateningly, "You are so dead."
"It's comic book style, Natasha. I'm not the animator," said Tony.
"Hey, I look pretty heroic," admired Clint. His character was shooting multiple arrows at a time from a hover-cycle. "When do I get one of those hover-cycles?"
"For Asgard!" shouted the cartoon version of Thor. His hair flowed in the wind and he wore his winged helm that the real Thor seldom wore into battle. Animated lighting channeled into the hammer cartoon Thor wielded.
"Tis a strange thing to see oneself in this manner," commented Thor. He was not sure what to think. He did look quite heroic on the screen.
All the Avengers watched on as their cartoon selves battled numerous villains. "Who could be behind all this?" wondered cartoon Captain America. In a swirl of green smoke, none other than a cartoon adult Loki appeared, green cape and horn helmed. "Tis I, Loki!" shouted the cartoon villain.
"What the heck!" exclaimed Loki, sitting on the couch.
"Brother, Stop this madness!" shouted cartoon Thor. An animated battle between the cartoon Avengers and the evil forces under Loki's control commenced. There were plenty of cheesy quips throughout the fight but in the end, cartoon Loki was defeated.
"I'm not a super-villain… anymore," complained Loki. "Besides that was just stupid."
"You're just upset because you lost," commented Clint.
"First of all, that was not a real fight. And secondly, that was just bad writing," stated Loki.
"Oh yeah, what would the real Loki have done differently?" asked Clint.
"How about not revealing himself as the mastermind when he had all the evil forces under control," pointed out Loki. "He could have just let the Avengers get beaten without having to reveal himself. I admit it would be nice to let your opponents know you are the one beating them up, but He could have just captured them first and reveled himself more dramatically later. I mean, he already had the means to…" Loki continued to point out all the missteps of his cartoon character. He then went into detailed descriptions of what a real villain Loki could have done had he captured the Avengers rather than obviously killing them in the fist place. Loki pointed out that not disarming them was a huge oversight. All in all, Loki came up with seventeen ways the show could have ended had it been a real scenario. By the end of the speech, all the Avengers were glad this fight hadn't actually happened, or the real Loki would have defiantly won.
"Kid," said Tony, "remind me never to let you write a kids show. Seriously, you would scar them for life."