Tony and Loki sat down to talk about how they would go about with their new plans. "Loki, are you sure you want to go through with this? I mean you are going to have to deal with your old family's counterparts. We don't know what they are like here. Remember the reason we chose to come here was to get away from them and SHIELD. Doing this puts not only us but Evan as well smack bang in the middle of it all."

Loki replied "We don't have the same history here with them, there will not be the same reactions here as it would have been in our universe and we did not have the knowledge of how to protect ourselves then as we do now. Tony we have to stop whoever is after the tessaract I really don't want to take the chance that Thanos might return. Harry is not here to get rid of him again. When we are done we can disappear again. We will not have to deal with them if we do not wish it."

Tony sighed and said "Okay, but you better make sure that you are careful."

Loki showed Tony his wrists where he was wearing the bracelets for his suit. In his other hand were Evan's bracelets. Tony kept his on all the time anyway. Loki smiled and said "In the unlikely event that we are knocked out Jarvis will bring us to safety."

Laughing Tony replied "Okay I think it's time to find out what uncle Nicky knows and if he is anything like his counterpart I am releasing our little trickster on him."

Evan's head shot up in excitement. His parents never let him use his pranks on anyone because some of them were a little sadistic. Most of them came from the time he was living alone after he was disowned by the Potters. He already knew which one he would begin if his dad let him. It was a spell he created when he started learning spell creation, inspired by the only horror movie he had ever seen.

Facing his parents he looked at them pleadingly. Loki shuddered knowing that, that innocent look would work on him. If it was not for Tony who seemed immune to it Evan would have gotten away with a lot during the time they had him. He had also seen some of the pranks and he really did not want to know what the child had in mind.

Tony smiled and said "Don't worry kiddo, you will have free reign..." Tony did not manage to finish as Evan squealed hugged him and then shot off toward his room to prepare. The spell he had in mind was a mind spell although it could have physical manifestations if he wished it. He took out some potions and and took them to his parents and said "Okay, do we want him to remember or to think it was a dream or a figment of his imagination?"

Loki looked at Tony and said "Are you sure about this?"

Smiling Tony replied "Of course darling, we might have some fun while we attempt to save the world." Looking at Evan he continued "Have fun son."

Loki spent the next few hours on surveillance with Evan. They were in SHEILD's main base in New York following Nick Fury around. It seemed he was just as much of a jerk here as in their universe. Evan used his time while he was there to pour the potions he wanted to use on Fury in his coffee. He only needed to have him sip it as long as it touches his tongue it was enough to activate the spell. He felt excitement when Fury picked up the cup and sipped it before spitting it out. The magic of the spell activated and Fury's eyes glazed over. They were alone in Fury's office as his eyes closed and he passed out.

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Nick Fury, had just received word that Bruce Banner had managed to track down the tessaract. He was in his office having a cup of coffee, except when he took a sip it tasted like dirty socks. He spat it out and felt himself getting drowsy and the next thing he knew he sat up from his chair after having having fallen asleep. There was a strange feeling in the room as if he wasn't really there. That was when he noticed the little boy sitting on a swing that seemed to have come out of nowhere. The boy smiled at him and said in a childish musical voice tilted his head to the side in a way that belonged in really bad horror movies. "Hello!"

He sat on the swing and began to swing himself back and fourth and began to sing 'one two Evan's coming for you, three four better lock your door, five six grab your crucifix, seven eight gonna stay up late nine ten never sleep again.'

Recognising the song from an old movie he watched Nick felt a little apprehensive. The child's face was changing as he sang, the face shifted and began to look familiar, he now looked like a miniature Freddie Kruger, knives for hands and all. When the child got off the swing Nick managed to rouse himself from his forced slumber. He was breathing heavily when he woke up and soon as he realised he had fallen asleep he assumed he had fallen asleep due to the fact he had been awake for nearly seventy two hours and had yet to rest properly. He frowned however when he saw the five scratches on his desk that looked like they would have come from Freddie's finger knives.

He went on his computer to check the surveillance of the room for the amount of time he was passed out. He did not see anything other than him passing out and then waking up. The scratches were not there one minute and the next they were. Knowing there was not much he could do he decided to wait until later to deal with it as he still had the tessaract to deal with.

Evan was still in the room invisible watching the reaction. He didn't have to do anything as the potion was now in Fury's system. It would begin with harmless hallucinations of Fury going through the things in the movies that the victims went through, which would most likely freak him out and make him afraid to go to sleep. The hallucinations would become real if he tried to harm anyone that Evan cared about. He would begin to have reactions to them while awake making him seem crazy.

Loki and Evan returned home to Tony, having learned that Fury had brought together a few people to fight whoever had stolen the tessaract, who included Thor, Bruce banner, Steve Rogers and two spies Natalia Romanoff, Clint Barton. Evan sat beside Tony on the couch and said "In a few days Fury is going to be a mess, he won't have a chance to try controlling us in any way. He will be too busy trying to figure out why he dreams about Freddie Krueger with himself as the continuous victim eventually he will not be able to tell the difference between reality and fantasy. It will continue for as long as he is cruel and vindictive, if he is truly fair with those under his power the spell will end."

Tony smiled and said "That is quite different than what I had prepared for him. I was planning on destroying his database on his computers and using his own tech against him, at least this way no-one will get caught up in the cross fire with him. He will be the only one to suffer."

Loki sat on Tony other side and said "I looked around the base there are weapons in it that are of foreign origin and a few prisoners who seemed to be in a comma. I could sense magic off of them. He had a conversation while I was there with a group of people online. They seemed to be the ones in charge of everything, which means Fury is not in charge."

Tony was surprised, he always thought Fury was the founder of SHEILD looks like he was wrong. Loki continued speaking "The tessaract is on top of the empire state building, I think whoever is behind this is not far off we should go there and wait."

Turning to Evan Loki said "You are staying here." When Evan was about to protest Tony cut in "It will be safer for all of us if you are here safe away from the inevitable fight. We won't have to split our focus worrying whether you got hurt or not. Please Evan!"

Knowing arguing was fruitless Evan nodded and said "Fine but you better keep in contact with me at all times and if something goes wrong I will make my way to you."

Knowing it was the best they were going to get without Evan sneaking out they accepted his terms. Tony suited up and Loki put on his armor which Tony made for him and the protections on it were much more powerful than the armor he used to wear. They both flashed out to the roof on the empire state building.

On the roof was a machine with the tessaract in the center powering the machine. They watched as the machine fired into the sky creating a portal and some creatures poured in from it. Loki fired at the machine and all he succeeded in doing was getting his own fire power sent back at him missing him by a few inches. Tony decided not to try as he did not want to get blown up by his own powers.

He flew toward the hole in the sky and began to destroy the creatures as they came in and Loki concentrated on the ones that had already entered. People stopped in their tracks to watch as the creatures spontaneously combusted and exploded without being touched. Plants grew from the ground strangling more of the creatures before they could do too much damage.

Taking out a palm sized silver sphere from his pocket he created for this very purpose Tony threw it through the hole in the sky and watched as it grew in size and sped up towards the biggest of the ships he could see. It was the size of a car by the time it reached the ship, Tony pulled out a net created from mythril and covered the hole and used magic to keep it there, just as the sphere exploded.

The creatures that were still on earth's surface fell down like their strings had been cut. He landed back on the roof of the empire state building to find Loki engaged in a fight with a creature that resembled Loki's description of the one he called the Other. Thanos' right hand man. He relaxed as he noticed Loki had the upper hand. He had not realised that how much their experience and powers gave them an advantage on others. He winced as he watched his partner castrate the enemy remove his arm and half of his left leg.

The viciousness of the attack told him how control Loki had lost and the fact that this was one of those who were responsible for torturing him. Tony could tell Loki had no intention of allowing the Other to live. Especially as he was the only one who had the will and the means to bring back Thanos. He looked away when Loki removed the water in the Other's body and he crumbled into dust with a scream of excruciating pain.

He quickly flew to Loki and held him as he broke down. Loki wept as he looked at the remains of the creature that was the source of his nightmares and now he had been able to extract his revenge for what he did to him. He felt like an enormous weight had been removed from his shoulders. He realised just how much he had needed to do this for himself, to not feel the helplessness he felt in his nightmares, to know he was strong enough to protect his loved ones and himself.

His moment was short lived as there was a shout from a helicopter "Please stand up with your hands where we can see them and identify yourselves." Before they reacted Someone landed in front of them holding a massive hammer, it was Thor. He had a look of shock on his face as he stared at Loki and said "Brother?"

Loki stiffened at the word and replied "I am not your Loki. I am his counterpart. I came from a different dimension."

The look of hope in Thor's eyes dimmed confusing Loki. They may have grown up together but Thor had never really shown he cared anything for him. Maybe this Thor treated his counterpart differently and was more of a brother than his Thor.

All Thor could ask was "How?"

Tony replied "It's a long complicated story."

Thor seemed to notice for the first time Tony who was attached to Loki's side in a protective manner. He suddenly realised they might be telling the truth because knowing Loki he would never allow anyone to be protective of him like that in public as if he could not take care of himself. Watching them he noticed Loki had an equally protective arm around the other man he had not yet met. A person would have to be blind not to see the affection the two held for each other. Even the synchronised moves no matter how small were obvious.

Thor's teammates had arrived at the scene. The one named Natasha spoke as soon as they arrived "We need to get them to the base, Fury wants to see them."

Tony whipped round to face her and growled "We are right here you know. I suggest you ask us if you want us to do something."

She replied in a condescending manner "You don't have a choice. If you refuse to come willingly we will be forced to take you by force."

Bruce banner who was standing next to Natasha spoke "Nat, perhaps it is not a good idea to antagonise two guys we just watched destroy an army single handedly."

Instead of listening Natasha waved a finger subtly and a few darts were shot at Loki and Tony. The darts fell shot of their targets and the results were two fuming Gods. The ground began to shake clouds gathered and lightning began to strike randomly just as rain began to fall. Tony's eyes had electrical sparks instead of the usual green iris he had become accustomed to and Loki's had fire instead of his own green eyes. Thor was busy trying to get control of the storm but he was not having much luck. He wasn't connected to Gaia Tony was so he was stronger.

Tony had a smirk on his face as he said "I hear you like to call yourself black widow, how about we make that literal."

He hit her with a burst of green magic transfiguring Natasha into a human sized spider feelers and all. Her scream pierced through the sounds of the storm that was now raging around them. Tony was now fully facing her and said "You should have listened to your friend there. You should learn to know your enemy before attacking them. The rest of her team were not sure what to do. Clearly they were afraid of antagonising the two strangers but they had to sort all this out somehow. releasing them was not an option, Fury would kill them or have them tried for treason.

Thor's voice brought them back to reality as he said "Loki please stop this and let us go and talk about this, even if you are from another world you are still my brother and I would..."

A little voice cut him off making Loki and Tony scowl. "Daddy!"

Loki suddenly had his hands full of an upset eleven year old. His eyes widened as he realised Evan would have sensed the fury in the storm as it was created by their magic and they had not sent reassurances like they told him they would. They just had not had the chance to yet.

Hugging Evan Loki asked "Evan what are you doing here? I thought we agreed you would stay at home until all this was cleared."

Evan shook his head and said "No we agreed I would stay away from the fighting and I have. I sensed your anger, both of you. If the storm goes on for any longer the city will drown."

Looking around Tony and Loki could see what he was talking about. The rain was pouring down in such a way it was beginning to rise and create floods in the short time it rained. They both calmed down immediately and the rain stopped. Tony used his powers to redirect the water and stop any damage. The effects were immediate making those around them even more tense.

Tony smiled at them and said "Well now that is done we are going home, we are supposed to be on holiday after all and I promised my son he could pick out the activities."

Loki chuckled at Tony's blaze attitude just after they had almost flooded the city. He turned to Thor and said "It was nice meeting you Thor. Tell Mr Fury if he wishes to speak to us he can ask nicely. We will not be treated like criminals when we have done nothing wrong."

He took Tony's hand and flashed the three of them home, when they arrived they got the biggest shock of their lives when they found a guy wearing a blue jogging track suit and a mischievous look on his face. He smiled and said "Hello I am Hermes, lord Zeus sent me for you when he saw you fighting on the empire state building. He wants to know how there are two Olympian gods and a godling he did not know about..."