Tony marveled at the changes in his life ever since he came to this new world. He had thought being a genius was amazing but there were no words to describe how it felt to have magic and not just any magic but powerful magic. He remembered the shock when he found out he was connected to the very earth he lived on in a way no-one else was, basically the same way Loki was the god of magic, fire and ice, his connection to the earth made him the male version of Gaea, mother earth.

His connection to the earth and his magic gave him an understanding of nature in away that allowed him to combine nature, magic and technology and create things are considered impossible by any standard. His recreation of Jarvis was the happiest he felt since going back to the past. He didn't just stop where he had before and made Jarvis a hologram able to use magic and was capable of doing things physically. Jarvis was powered by both magic and self sustaining power. He could not just recreate Jarvis without Dummy and Butterfingers. He made them more efficient than they were before and gave them speech as well. It was not quite the same as the new Dummy was not as obsessed with fire extinguishers like the last one but it didn't matter to him.

In a way he had them back after losing them to SHIELD, now that was something he felt rage about. His inventions, his home, everything he owned ransacked by the agents of SHIELD. His biggest drive for learning everything he could over time came with the need for vengeance for the loss of his life's work. He had no intention of ever being in such a position ever again.

Tony also recreated his suits although they were not as bulky and were 100 times more durable than he had ever been able to make them when he was human. He was quite proud of the fact that when his suits were not in use he could shrink them into arm bands that were readily available if he needed it. He created several for both himself and Loki despite the latter insisting he did not any. Eventually they agreed to have one always available for Loki in case of a situation where was unable to protect himself.

Tony used his powers to hide their home and make the land bigger than it originally was. It was a few hundred acres of land with a castle both he and Loki restored was built upon it. The castle covered a huge expanse of the land it was built upon and it was even bigger on the inside as changes were made over the years. The surrounding lands were full of nature plants, trees and animals both magical and non magical kept beautiful and healthy by Tony as he learned his powers.

Loki at first waited for the other shoe to drop. He did not quite trust that Tony would not just change his mind at some point and decide that he did not want to spend the rest of his life with him. However as time went by he could not find anything that would tell him that he would lose Tony. Even their arguments were a part of them that he probably feel strange without and the making up later was always more than enough for making it worth it. It was not difficult to teach Tony how to control his magic and his connection to the earth.

He watched as Tony did what he did best and that was creating things previously thought impossible. Loki knew that not even Asgard had the technology created by Tony, their home was a safe haven for endangered creatures they took in over the years and with Tony's ability make their land bigger and manipulate the environment to be comfortable for any creature there was always room for more. The bond between them only grew stronger with time and learned how to be n sync with each other.

Being back to their original time seemed anti climatic for both of them. For tony he was not sure what he had been expecting having made improvements on his former inventions and had since invented new things that were far above what he could have ever done as a human. He still felt like he was out of his time. The only thing they looked forward to was having Hadrian back in their lives. Their family connection made them feel his absence as a parent would for their child. This caused Tony to become overly motherly when they were finally reunited. Their family was complete again and they had no intention of separating ever again.

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Their trip to America was something that Tony looked forward to more so than the rest of his family. He wanted to see the differences in both worlds. Loki was actually surprised he not done it before especially considering how curious Tony was. Tony only replied 'I had other things occupying my minds then.'

They bought a house in Malibu where Tony had a home in his old world. Before they had even finished settling down, Tony began hacking to find out if SHIELD was in this world and if it was he was planning on making things very difficult for them. He knew how to cover the tracks created by his powers and knew more about technology than anyone on the planet and Jarvis could enter any computer on the planet without being tracked or anyone knowing he had been there. He found SHIELD was there and that his counterpart in this world died when he was captured by the ten rings. In this world Obadiah Stane was in control of Stark industries and creating weapons. Fury erupted in Tony and he swore he would get revenge for his counterpart and stop the weapons being created in his name.

He started by finding out where Obadiah was living and as soon as he knew he popped in invisibly to see what kind of person this Obadiah was. Obadiah lived in the mansion Tony grew up in. The changes he made made Tony's skin crawl. It was dark and looked like the home of a pimp. The furniture that had originally had been in there was removed and replaced with furniture from the seventies and eighties. There was the stench of cigar smoke in the place and not much technology and a lot of weapons instead.

Tony set Jarvis to get a layout of the place as he watched Obadiah who was speaking to someone on the phone.

Obadiah "Look, I don't care if you have to sell your mother to get those contracts just do it. I don't have time to hold your hand while you work. So either do your job or you're fired."

He hung up the phone and walked into the next room which was his bathroom. He was talking to himself as he walked 'stupid people who can't get their jobs done. I already did my part getting rid of that brat who was drinking the company into the ground. The least these people can do is stop the company from going under and listening to me.'

Tony was furious, Obadiah's life was about to get uncomfortable and by the time Tony was done with him he would lose whatever sanity he had and then only then would he give him the relief of death. The first thing he was going to do was recreate the circumstances of his capture with ten rings with Obadiah in the middle of it.

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Obadiah received a phone call the next morning telling him he needed to do a weapons demonstration for a really huge contract worth several million with the army. The company had not changed much or had any new weapons since the death of Tony Stark so this was quite a coup. The company was going down with other companies providing what they could not. Their weapons were no longer the best thing on the market and Obadiah was thinking lately he should have probably kept Tony alive if only to keep him inventing. He got ready for his trip not knowing that this was going to be the last time he would see his home.

At the other end of the phone Tony was smirking at how easy it was to lure Obadiah, not that he could escape if Tony decided to grab him, but there was something satisfying about having the man walk into the trap under his own power. Loki just shook his head kissed Tony's cheek and said "Have fun hun, just make sure you're home in time for dinner OK. I am making your favorite home made pizza tonight."

Tony smiled and said "I will hun, don't worry. I have no intention of dragging this I think Obadiah will make a nice dung beetle by the time I am done with him."

With those words he left a gaping Evan who had yet to say a word as he ate his breakfast. His dad told him what was going on the night before and he had no intention of stopping him or persuading him otherwise. After all he had thought about doing the same to the Potters when he first left them. He didn't feel the need anymore and this was due to his new family, the love happiness and contentment he felt with them. Tony was teaching him how to hack into government secret files and he was spending the day seeing if he can keep from being found out. The family outings were planned for when Tony finished with Obadiah.

In his searches Evan found the SHIELD files. Having heard about them from his dad he read through them and found they were making weapons with some alien tech they found as well as the visit of someone from his father's old family, Thor. Apparently he was on the planet to get the alien tech and return it to Asgard. He called for Loki and showed him what he found.

"Daddy!"

Loki upon hearing Evan came into the room and asked "Yes little trickster?"

Evan turned the screen he was looking at with videos of Thor on it into Loki's line of sight and said "Looks like Thor is in town."

Loki froze for a second before he remembered he was not connected to the Asgardians anymore and Harry had said that the Loki in this world died. He did not want anything to do with the Asgardians. He however had not counted on the fact that that Evan was not yet able to hide his tracks properly and SHIELD had found out about the hacking, traced it and were surrounding the house as they spoke.

Loki grabbed Evan and fire flashed out just as an explosion on the south side of the house sounded and the house was overrun by men with guns shouting freeze as they searched for the occupants of the house. Loki and Tony had not discussed what to do if they were discovered either way they were going to be exposed so Loki flashed into his and Tony's room with Evan and put up the wards expelling every intruder who had forced their way in. He then activated the time ward moving their house five minutes into the future, an invention of Tony's to make sure no-one could find them if they did not want to be found. He then repaired the house and sent Tony a message about what happened making him come home immediately.

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Nick Fury hated when things went wrong and today everything seemed to be going wrong. First the Tessaract was stolen, his men killed, he got shot and now there was an Alien claiming the Tessaract belongs to his people and wants to take it wit him as soon as it is found. Now his IT team were telling him someone was hacking into their systems and looking at sensitive information. He sent a team over to the address they traced and now they had come back telling him that they got thrown out of the house by an invisible force just as they got in then the house disappeared. He rubbed his forehead and and sighed to himself 'this is not my day.' He did not need a new threat before he even knew if he could deal with the first one. The only thing his resident alien could say about it was that it sounded like magic and he did not practice it, the only one who did was his brother who was dead.

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Tony arrived home as soon as he got Loki's message, a small cage in his hand with a miniature Obadiah in it looking a little worse for wear. He put the cage down as he checked over his family. "Are you guys okay?!

Loki wrapped his arms around him in a hug and said "We are fine I put up the wards as soon as SHIELD tried to storm in. Although I think we are on their radar now."

Tony sighed in relief. They would not be found if they do not wish to be. "Oh good. You had me worried for a moment there."

Evan who was sat at the table making himself a sandwich said "I'm sorry dad, it was my fault. I led them here when I hacked into SHIELD's database. I know I was supposed to wait until you got back but I got curious."

Pulling out of Loki's arms Tony hugged Evan and said "Hey, no-one blames you okay? Besides even if they did find us there isn't much they can do to us besides knowing we have powers. If they even tried to harm you I will bury this city into the ground and your daddy will burn it down. So don't worry in fact we will go into their database and see whatever it is that they are trying to hide so badly they had to send men with guns for a simple hacking."

Evan smiled at his dad and said "Oh I can tell you that. They have Thor in their home base and they had some alien tech they were using to make weapons stolen. The tech is what brought Thor to this planet. He wants to take it back."

Tony remembered something similar happening before he left when Harry brought Loki and him together except it was Loki who was being accused of stealing it and it turned out it was someone named Thanos who did it. He had read the information on the Tessaract but never got to find out anything else Fury had on it because that was when he left. He turned to face Loki and said "We don't have to get involved. It's up to you, I'll support whatever you want to do."

Loki shook his head and said "We cannot not get involved love. We need to know who wants the tessaract and for what. It can't be Thanos as there was only one like every other titan they are able to traverse through the universes and since we know Harry killed him this is someone else after the tessaract. I believe the Other is the one after the Tessaract and if he gets it he might just have enough power to bring back Thanos. I think it's time to bring out your suits love. We have a war to fight. "

Tony smiled and said "Okay love, let me just transfigure the dung beetle before I release it into the wild."

He turned to Obadiah who had been watching the proceedings and now had a look of terror on his face. Tony pointed a finger at him and a beam of green magic hit him transforming him into a dung beetle. Toni sent him to a habitat he knew of other dung beetles then turned to his family and said "okay ready to start?"