Chapter 2
Loki had barely gotten away from spider-man. His transformation into a dragon, however, got him more attention than he realized. He didn't know it yet. After stomping down New York City about a dozen city blocks or so, he finally realized that people were staring at him and he quickly turned into a crow and began to fly towards the outskirts of the city. It would take a while for him to get there and he didn't know how much trouble he really was at that moment.
While Loki flew to the outskirts of the city the powerful Thunder flew about with his hammer Mjölnir. His thunderous powers brought rain clouds behind him. The lightening lit up the skies as Thor flew from building top to building top. His trickster of a brother could not have gotten far. He knew his brother would try to be stealthy and sneaking to not alarm him of his treachery. Thor looked down and noticed the rubble of a destroyed roof top. Thor land placing his Mjölnir onto the roof top while examining the rubble he noticed webbing and scorch marks from Loki's magic. Thor kneeled down and touched the cold surface of the rooftop. It was slightly warm. "Brother what are you up to. It seems the Spider was here, too," he said in a booming voice to himself. "Hmmm.." he pondering trying to see he could get any clues from the bricks that laid on the rooftop. Thor looked up and turned about on the roof to see where his brother might have gone. He spotted something red blowing in the wind. The blonde hair Asgardian picked up his mighty hammer and swung it with all his might. He lifted off the ground and headed to the read item floating in the wind. He grabbed it in midair, and then quickly examined it in his left hand. It was Spider-Man's mask. "What have you done brother?" he said looking at the mask and distending to the human side walk leaving cracks in the concrete. 'Did he kill the Spider?' Thor thought to himself, 'he was a brave man to try and take on my brother; a noble warrior indeed.' Thor placed the Spider-Man mask in his pocket then took off with the power of his Mjölnir hammer.
'I need to find someplace to hide,' Loki thought to himself. He hated hiding. He wanted to be free and roam wherever he wanted to but it seems that wasn't something he would be able to do often with his brother hunting for him. 'Brother,' he sneered to himself. 'What a joke. He isn't my brother.' He shook his head as he swooped down a nearby alley way and turned into a blond-haired woman. 'Maybe he won't notice me in this disguise.' Carefully, he walked out of the alleyway and blended in with the crowd as he continued to head westward.
Thor landed on the nearby jumbo T.V. that the Daily Bugle used to defame Spider-Man. He looked about to see if he could spot Loki from way up high. "My brother must be in hiding but where?" he said to himself. The blonde hair god kept looking. Then he spotted something strange with a woman. He couldn't put his finger on it. Thor jumped down from the jumbo television and walked over to see if he could get a closer look. He placed his hammer on his left hip side so the woman wouldn't think he was going to harm her. Even as a warrior of Asgard he had his honor of not hitting a woman unless she was a warrior herself.
Meanwhile across New York in hidden alley ways Spider-Man kept wondering around trying hard not to be seen. He had managed to find a trench coat to hide his extra appendages. Though it was hard to keep them from doing what his main arms would normally do. "Really why do these things always happen to me," said Spider-Man to himself. His voice still made him shuttered. He had to get to the helicarrier. Maybe he could get Fury or his team to help him out that is if they don't have a giant can of raid of them.
Thor on the other hand was doing his best to follow the woman he spotted from the jumbo television. It didn't help that most women he passed buy swooned at just the mere presence of him. Some even had tried to stop the blond hair god for a picture with him. He politely declined them and kept up his pursuit of the woman.
Loki heard a loud thump from above him yet he continued to walk. He knew who it was and he didn't want to draw any more attention to himself than he already was. He had seen a few men wink at her but he ignored them. In her eyes they were pigs and didn't deserve his attention. Shaking his head, he picked up his pace a little bit but not too much to make Thor notice.
There was another thump and he knew that Thor had landed on the sidewalk behind him. 'Keep calm, Loki,' he thought to himself. 'He will leave you alone sooner or later. Hopefully sooner because I really don't want him following me all over this forsaken city.' He glanced slightly behind him to see women practically running over each other to get to him. He smirked a bit and came up with a brilliant plan.
He wandered over to a small group of women who were whispering about the strange blond haired man. He stopped beside them and nodded his head in their direction. "I hear he got cast as the main role in the new Fifty Shades of Grey movie," he said in a slightly soft tone of voice. The woman leaned around Loki to look at Thor before practically running at him. 'Dear brother, try to shake them off of you,' he thought to himself as he walked to the curb of the sidewalk to try and hail a cab.
Thor heard a squeal of women look right at him. He raised his eyebrow and was not expecting them all to rush at him trying to ask him something about a shade of grey or something to that matter. He could feel the crowding of the women around him backing him into a wall. The mighty Thunder God was trapped like rat by cat hunting his prey. He didn't have time for this; he had to find Loki before he could cause any more harm to anyone. Thor had a bad feeling that Loki had done away with the Spider-Man.
"Ladies, ladies," started Thor, "I do not know of this Shade of Grey but I am afraid I do not have the time to be cornered here." He then noticed the women he was following trying to hail a cab. Thor gently as he could push passed all the squealing women around him and swung his mighty hammer having him get some lift in the air. The Thunder God waited in the air to see what the woman's next move would be.
Loki nearly growled in frustration when his distraction didn't work the way that he had hoped. He clasped his hands together and looked around for a cab. There were none in sight. Sighing, he figured he had to do things the old fashioned way. He stepped off of the curb and walked down the middle of the street, ignoring the honking horns as cars had to stop to avoid hitting him.
Thor watched the mortal trying to end her existences. 'Is she mad?' thought Thor to himself. He could see this mortal nearly getting miss by other cars and trucks. The Thunder God swung his hammer again and few to the mortal woman. The blonde hair god picked her up as a truck nearly didn't see the petite women in the street.
"I know you mortal like to live on the dangerous side but trying to get to the other side doesn't mean walking through a river of mechanical vehicles," stated Thor as if he were reprimanding her. "There are safer ways through those crosswalks." The Thunder God landed gently on the other side of the street letting the woman down.
Loki let out a yelp as he was suddenly lifted off of the ground by his oh so loving brother. He gritted his teeth and resisted the urge to yell at the blond haired demigod. He dug his nails into his arm as he stared down at the ground. He was really starting to hate leaving his cozy lair behind all because he was bored.
"I am late for an appointment and there were no taxis around," he said in a womanly voice…well, as close to one as he could get. "I didn't ask for your help."
The blond hair demigod rubbed his arm where the woman had dug her fingernails into it. The woman had a strange voice for a woman but it was New York and he knew mortal all had different kinds of voices. "Well you almost met your end at the hands of that large truck that just went by. Also if you are running late for an appointment it might be quicker to travel by Mjölnir," said Thor as he held up his hammer. "It will be safer that way as well. Just tell me where your appointment is and Mjölnir will take us there," continued Thor. He laid his hammer on his shoulder waiting on the woman's reply. Many of the people around them had stopped to see the conversation between the woman and the Thunder God.
"I would have been fine," Loki protested. He had timed it perfectly so that he would disappear when that truck passed by him. It just looked like he was going to get hit by the truck. With Thor spoiling his quick getaway, he shoved the other man's arm away from him. "No thank you. I can get there myself," he said in a stern voice.
Thor just sighed for a moment. "Well you should be safer when crossing the street," said Thor getting ready to swing his hammer. He noticed her very green eyes. It reminded him of his half-brother of a trickster Loki. He knew his brother like to disguise himself as women when he didn't want to be seen. Mjölnir slowed down in pace from his swinging. "Hmmm," he pondered to himself scratching his chin while still in front of the woman. "Well then I shall let you be on your way. I don't want to keep you any longer and make you extremely late for your appointment." He then shrugged it off the feeling and let the woman pass by him. He then heard his Avenger card go off in his pocket. He walked away from the shape shifted step brother to take the call.
"Thor here," said Thor pushing on the communication on his card.
"Thor its Tony," started Stark, "We are getting reading of Loki's magic in the area you are patrolling be careful."
"I will be. Also I have some dreadful news. It seems the Spider-Man has fallen to Loki possibly," stated Thor pulling out Spider-Man's mask from his pocket. "Though Loki will pay for it on my honor as an Odison."
"Well that is bad. Though if you just found the mask there might be a small chance the webhead is still alive," continued Stark, "Anyway keep a look out for your clown of a brother. He is probably on the hunt to cause some chaos."
"Will do Stark and I will keep an eye out for the Spider-Man to make sure he is alive," said Thor, "My brother failed at finishing what he start." He then stopped the communication on his card.
Loki had a bad feeling about how easily he managed to get away from Thor. It was way too easy. He hesitated slightly before turning to have his back face his brother before he started to walk away. After a few steps he looked back to see Thor talking into a card. Red flags began to flash in front of him. Okay, now he was in trouble. Deep, deep trouble and there was no way he was getting out of it very easily.
He looked around for a few moments before he raised a hand at Thor. Making the demigod unconscious for a few hours seemed like a good idea. He would hide him somewhere. His hand began to glow a faint green and before he could cast the spell someone bumped into him. A flash of green engulfed both him and Thor and before he could do something about the person who had interrupted the spell, he passed out on the sidewalk.
Thor felt his body go numb from the spell Loki had cast. His eyes felt heavy and his whole body had gone limb. He knew who was doing this but his body was unable to react to the spell but before he let anything happen to him Thor hurl his Mjölnir away from him landing into a sewer vent. Everything went black in a matter of moments. The blond demigod fell to his knees and then to the cold concrete ground.
As Loki's spell was disrupted both the two demigods laid on the ground unconscious. They were both surround by a large crowd in the area. Some of the people started to take video of the two demigods laying on the ground and uploading the video feed to YouTube. Thor slowly started to regain his consciousness. His vision was blurry but he did start to get up and groaned as his head pounded. He sat on his knees and held his throat. The groan was not of his voice. Thor's vision started to clear even more and he looked around to see the crowd looking at him and video him. Thor looked across from him to see his familiar red cape. 'What is going on?' he thought to himself. 'What did my brother do to me?' He looked down at his hands and his, no, Loki's body. Thor nearly lost his balance and shifted to his backside on his butt for balance. He pushed himself away from his own body. 'I am Loki?' Thor thought to himself panicking a bit in his own mind. The crowds around them continue to film the freak out of Loki.
Loki woke up not too long after Thor had wandered away. His head was throbbing with pain and when he opened his eyes to see where he was at, he could see police heading his way. 'Great,' he thought to himself. 'This day just turned sourer. All I want to do is to go home right now.' When the police got to him, they didn't get out their handcuffs. Instead one of them offered him his hand to help him up. 'This is interesting,' he thought to himself.
"Mr. Thor, sir?" one of them said to him. "The station got a call stating that you were involved with a blond haired witch?" That shocked Loki. He looked down at his arms and found them to be thicker than his normal arms. 'Great, I switched bodies with my brother which means that Thor is walking around in my body. Wait…this might actually be good.´ He almost smirked but remembered that he was in Thor's body and Thor would never do that.
"Ah, great protectors of this city, I require thine help. That woman was Amora the Enchantress. She is a powerful sorceress who put a curse on me. I need your help in finding her. If you cannot find her, then search for my brother, Loki. If he is nearby then she might be as well." The police nodded their heads and began talking into a small box that was on their shoulders. He searched around for Mjölnir but found it missing. 'Oh, well, it isn't as if I could use that hammer anyways. Now to find my dear brother so that I can undo what I did to us.' With a sweep of his cape, he started off in the direction that he thought that Thor went in.
Thor continued to wonder the street sidewalks and bumming into people. He was still suffering from a bad headache. It was unbelievably bad to where he was in need of a Tylenol the size of Asgard to make the throbbing go away. Thor stumbled into an empty alley way by a convenient store and a deli shop. He crawled over to a large dumpster can. It reeked badly of urine and garbage but it wasn't as bad as his headache. 'This throbbing is unbearable. It makes it hard to focus.' The demigod laid his head back onto the cold brick wall. The smell of the air changed as well to the smell of salt water. 'Rain is coming.' He thought to himself. The rain started off as sprinkles and then got heavier. Thor looked down at himself or at least his brother's body. He still dawn Loki's armor and clothes. "This is a nightmare," he said to himself. "I wonder what Loki plan on doing. It can't be any good. I will need to stop my brother before he does anything that will ruin my name," continued Thor talking to himself. Thor then found a piece of cardboard and dragged it over himself. He then proceeded to fall asleep to hopefully make his headache go away.
Four hours later Thor awoke again. His head had stopped aching but it was still raining. He was completely soaked from the rain down pour. He stood up while moving the cardboard off of him. Thor then heard the familiar sound of sirens. 'I can't be found by the protectors of this city while trapped as Loki,' thought Thor to himself. He then thought about calling his hammer. Thor held out his hand and called, "Mjölnir, come to me." Nothing happen. He tried again. "Mjölnir." Again nothing, Thor was puzzled why his hammer didn't come to him. Was it because he wasn't in his body? "Loki you will pay for this if it isn't the last thing I don't do," vowed Thor who had become frustrated at being stuck in a body without his powers. He had punched a wall out of frustration which caused some of the bricks to crack and leaving his knuckles bloody.
Thor began to move again trying to make his way to the helicarrier. He knew if he could sneak on board and get in contact with Tony Stark it might give him a chance to get his body back. Thankfully Loki didn't wear his helmet any more. Thor proceeds to pull Loki's coat over his head to keep him from getting anymore wet then he already was. Thor then sneezed, "Aaachoo." He whipped his nose and thought to himself, 'When do demigods catch colds.' Thor had never gotten sick until now. He could feel more sneezes coming along but he shook his head trying to ignore it.
When Loki thought that the day couldn't get any worse Mother Nature decided to make that statement a lie. 'Great, this is turning out to be a wonderful day,' he thought to himself. So far the police hadn't reported in to state whether or not they had located Loki's body which was being controlled by Thor. It had been four hours since the light rain started and it didn't look like it was going to stop at any point. Gritting his teeth, he started to head towards the one place he had wanted to avoid while he was in Thor's body-Avenger Mansion. Maybe the other Avengers could help him track down his body.
Thor walked down the street but avoid any busy sections with police. He didn't want to end up with them because it would mean lock down with the S.H.I.E.L.D and he had to get to Tony Stark first. He did stop a few times at any place he could get out of the rain. It wasn't letting up any time soon. Today just wasn't Thor's day. Thor knew that if he wanted to get to the helicarrier he would have to get to the Avengers' mansion. It had a small jet in the basement that will allow him to fly there. Though getting there without being seen would be the tricky part.
It had been several hours since Loki made the decision to go to the Avengers tower but it seems in those few hours he had gotten himself painfully lost. He had stopped in an alleyway and was now banging his head on the wall of a building. 'Why do I have the worst luck today?' he thought to himself. He was about to lose faith in ever finding his body again when something began to beep annoyingly in Thor's pocket.
He rummaged around in it before he pulled out the card that he had seen Thor talk into earlier that day. "How do I turn this bloody.." he stared to say as he pocked at the card. A face appeared in a corner and Loki recognized it as Tony Stark's face. "Hey, Thor buddy, we have a situation downtown. Do you think you can help us out?"
Loki hesitated for a moment before answering Tony's request. "Nay, friend. It seems that my brother has put me under some sort of spell. I cannot use Mjölnir at all nor can I find it. In fact, I cannot find my brother at all. Is this situation so dire that you require my presence?" Tony hesitated as he looked behind him at something that Loki couldn't see on the tiny screen.
"Well, it is only HYDRA trying to take down the downtown Manhattan area but once we are done we can come down to where you are and help look for your brother. I am sure he hasn't gotten too far," Tony explained.
"Thank you, friend. I shall look for your arrival soon," Loki said. Tony nodded once and the connection between the two cards was terminated. Loki banged his head against the wall again. Acting like his brother was tiring but it came with positive results. Now all he had to do was to wait for the rest of the Avengers to find him and then they could go out searching for his body.
Thor felt the rumbling of the city as if an explosion was happening. Thor looked about to see where it might be coming. He spotted smoke coming from downtown Manhattan. "My friends might need my help. Though trap in this body I don't think I can do much but I must help them out. Nay it is my duty," said Thor changing direction and running toward the downtown. "For Asgard!" he yelled but the felt a forceful tackle to the ground.
"Thought you can get away Loki," said a male voice. Thor face had said hello to the ground and he tried to turn his head to see who was on top of him. He saw the shape of male police officer. Thor knew he didn't have any powers but he did have some Asgardian strength but didn't want to harm the officer even if he was in Loki's body. The clicking of handcuffs sounded as Thor was cuffed and then lifted off the ground. "You are making a mistake. I am Thor of Asgard and the Avengers are in trouble. I must help," said Thor. "Yeah right and I am Santa Claus," replied the officer. Thor then was forcefully pushed into a police car. As Thor was locked up in the car and the police officer got in to drive him to the police station where they could temporarily hold them till the higher power of S.H.I.E.L.D could be called in. Thor felt embarrassed and frustrated that he couldn't help his teammates.
Meanwhile Spider-Man had been wondering around downtown Manhattan through alley ways. He had spent the night in the sewers to keep out of sight. Though, that new day he was still a nightmare of a creature. It was late afternoon and he could hear sirens go off and explosions. The rain had finally stopped but smoke took its place. Spider-Man crawled up a wall to see if he could get a better view when he spotted not only Iron Man but a Hydra machine destroying downtown Manhattan. He knew he had to help but keep himself from being seen by anyone.
Thor tapped his foot in the police car with his dilemma on his hands. Escape and try to get down town while harming the innocent police officer or wait till he exits the car and then escape. It was a lose-lose situation for the police office. Thor scratched his head trying to figure out what to do until a strange explosion cause the police officer's vehicle to fly into the air. The car landed upside and spun around a bit.
The vehicle finally stopped spinning and rocked a bit on the concrete paved road. Thor looked about to see the police officer was unconscious and bleeding from his head. The officer's hat had gotten fallen off and he had cuts and bruses on both his hands and face. Thor pulled his hands apart to break the cuffs. They were tough. It took a few tries till they finally broke in the middle. Thor was not buckled in so his position was that of the ceiling of the car. Glass and metal pieces were everywhere inside the car. Thor used his feet to kick the window open of the car like a donkey to get out. Loki's body didn't have the same strength as his own body. It took several tries but he was able to get out. He began to smell fuel leak out of the car. As Thor crawled out the car the sound of explosions rocked the downtown area. Today just wasn't a good day. The glass could be heard crunching under his weight. Thor stood up and pulled on the door handle. The door creaked as it opened. Thor bent down and undid the police officer's seat belt and pulled his out. Thor dragged him passed any harm into a building that seemed to be a good place to put him. "Stay here protector and you shall be safe. I got to go reclaim my body and say my companions," said Thor to the knocked out officer laying him away from any door or window. He then exited the building and continude to head toward the chaos of the fight.