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PRIVATE OFFICE SPACE, HELICARRIER – It had been an hour since Natasha gave Draco a pocket watch that belonged to Clint. Draco had a large map of the world on the long black table a crystal quartz on a silver chain which he held with the watch. As he concentrated the chain, holding the crystal, began to spin around and the map lit up. After an hour and a half Harry walked in with Fury and Natasha and Agent Hill. Hermione was in Dr. Banners lab. "Anything?" asked Natasha.
Draco was sweating. "No…"
"Sit down Drake." said Harry. He brought over a chair and Draco took a seat to catch his breath. Natasha brought the elf some ice water. "You've been at it for an hour and a half. You must rest."
"I tried to break through…" said Draco, gulping up the water. "I don't know if it's the Tesseract or the spell Agent Barton is under from Lokis scepter or the combination of both. But my elf magic isn't strong enough to break through the barriers…"
"How did it feel?" asked Fury.
"Like a impenetrable wall of energy." said Draco. "Raw energy." He looked at Harry. "It's like the strongest mix of occlumency and imperius curse I've ever felt."
"Do you think we can break it?" asked Harry.
"I imagine so, we'll have to study it thoroughly before we try, magic this strong requires it." said Draco. "But, from what I felt, it…it seems to linker and hover around the person, in this case Agent Barton, like an aura…I imagine a hard knock to the head could break through…A really hard knock."
"Did you get anything?" asked Agent Hill.
"Yes." said Draco, taking a smaller sip of water. "I couldn't break through it, but I did track the energy source and they are in Europe…"
"Where?" asked Fury.
Draco took another sip of water. "They're in Germany…" Fury and HIll gave a sharp nod and quickly walked out of the room.
CENTRAL CONTROL HALL, HELICARRIER – Dr. Banner was working alone in his lab. Fury was monitoring the computers while Harry and Hermione sat at the table with their noses in some books Hermione brought in her purse, thanks to the non detectable extension charms, looking for some spells that can break through the imperious–like curse Agent Barton was under. They wanted to see if they could break him out of it without resorting to knocking him out hard. Steve stood up on the landing, with Agent Coulson, looking out at the agents working on the computers, scanning every corner of Germany. Draco was walking down the aisles looking at each computer screen looking for clues.
"I mean, if it's not too much trouble." said Coulson.
"No, no it's fine." said Steve.
"It's a vintage set." said Coulson. "It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint…" Draco looked at them and rolled their eyes before getting back to work. Steve understood the elfs reaction, they were trying to concentrate on the operation and Coulson was going on about some trading cards. "Slight foxing around the edges but…"
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP went a computer. "We got a hit." called out an Agent. "A 67% match." BEEP BEEP BEEP. "Wait, crossmatch, 79%." Hermione and Draco walked onto the circular elevated floor area and over to Fury who brought it up on his central computer screen.
"Location…" called Fury.
"Stuttgart, Germany." said the Agent. "28 Konigstrasse." said the Agent. Fury, Draco and Hermione saw it on the computer screen, zooming in on Loki. "He's not exactly hiding.
"Right on the money Mr. Malfoy." Fury complemented. He walked down to the computer aisles to talk to an agent.
"Well done Draco." said Hermione. Harry walked over.
"Loki…" said Harry. Draco and Hermione looked at him.
"Is this him Harry?" asked Hermione.
"Yes." said Harry. "That's Thors brother…I thought he was dead."
"We're dealing with a god?!" asked Draco. "That's different, but I'm up for it."
"I'll work on magical binding charms and incarceration spells." said Hermione.
Natasha walked over. "How will that help us?"
"Gods have strong magic, far stronger than us." said Hermione. "We're gonna need something strong to hold him down. Mixing three to maybe four spells into one might do the trick…I hope." She rushed off.
"Captain…" called Fury. The Harry and Draco looked up at Fury and Captain Rogers. "…you're up."
"Lets suit up guys!" called Steve.
SYMPHONY GALA, OPERA HOUSE IN STUTTGART, GERMANY – Chaos was everywhere, people were running out the door of the Opera House, running in fear from Loki. As the god stepped out of the building he magically changed his black and white tuxedo into his emerald caped gold armor suit complete with gold horn helmet. He walked across the street towards the crowd in the central plaza, two police cars came but he blasted them off with his staff. "Keel before me." He called out. The crowd tried to run the opposite directions but multiple Lokies shimmered to live in every exit of the plaza. "I said…" He banged the staff on the floor making the glowing blue jewel light up. "…kneel!" he yelled. The crowd did so and the his multiple Lokies vanished leaving the real him alone to address the crowd. "Is not this simple?" He smiled. "Is this not your natural state? …" He walked through the kneeled crowd of people. "It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel."
A man in his 60s got up. "Not to men like you."
"There are no men like me." smiled Loki.
"There are always men like you." said the old man.
"Look to your elder people." said Loki pointing the staff at the old man. "Let him be an example." He fired a blue energy ball at the old man, but it was reflected back at him by Captain America's shield, knocking him to the ground.
"You know, the last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." said Captain America.
Loki got up. "The soldier…." He laughed. "The man out of time."
"I'm not the one who's out of time." said Captain America.
A black jet swooped down, Black Widow clicked a button and a machine gun popped out aimed at Loki. "Loki, drop the weapon and stand down." she called on PA. Loki used his scepter and fired at the jet, but Widow steered it aside safely missing the hit.
Captain America threw his shield hitting Loki, but the god didn't even flinch. He punched Loki, and Loki attacked with his scepter, Steve blocked the hit with the shield but Loki knocked him into the fountain, cracking the marble.
Loki went towards the soldier but old man got in between them. In a shimmer of white light the old man turned into Harry. "Harry Potter…" he smiled. "We meet again."
"Unfortunately…" said Harry. He summoned the Elder Wand, knowing he needed the strongest magical wand to deal with the God of Mischief, from the wand holder under his right arm sleeve and chanted a explosion charm. "BOMBARDA!" A beam of white light hit Loki knocking him a few feet back and to his knees.
Loki fired an energy blast to Harry. Hermione jumped in and pointed her wand and chanted. "REFLEXIMA!" magical sending the blast back to Loki who rolled out of the way. He fired at Hermione who jumped out of the way, hitting Harry who fell back. He appeared in front of Harry and pointed his staff at Harrys head. Harry muttered a protection spell around himself. "Kneel wizard."
Harry looked up. "Not today." He pointed his wand and chanted. "REDUCTO!" blasting Loki away. Loki got up and began fighting with Captain America.
Draco flew in on his broom, a Firebolt 3000. Pointed his wand and fired a torture curse. "CRUCIO!" The god saw it and raised a protective shield, it took him a minute given the strength of the crucio, but managed to extinguish it. Hermione flew down firing another explosion charm. "BOMBARDA" at Loki. The god was seriously multi tasking fighting Captain America while blocking all the magical attacks from Harry Draco and Hermione.
Black Widow watched from the jet. "This guy is all over the place."
"Agent Romanoff…" said Ironman through the jet speakers. "Did you miss me?" Suddenly the PA system was overridden and began blasting rock music, Black Widow gave a small smile to herself, Music so loud and potent that stopped the fighting.
Ironman flew in from the sky and fired a repulsor beam from his palm, blasting Loki off his feet. He landed as the song ended and all his torpedos and ammo get ready to fire. "Make a move Reindeer Games." Draco swooped in, took his crossbow and shot a judo hook arrow at the scepter. The arrow hit the scepter perfectly, the four metal hooks clasped onto the scepter, grabbing it tight and with a flick of Dracos bow it flew up into the safety of Slytherins hand. Loki raised his hands, magically removing most of his armor and helmet. "Good move." He said as his suit put his ammo away.
Captain America breathed heavily, he was sweating. "Mr. Stark…"
"Captain." greeted Ironman.
Hermione walked over, pointed her wand at Loki and chanted. "INCARCROUS MAXIMA BOUNDUS TOTALUS" silver ropes shot out of her want wrapping around Lokis wrists. He tried to get out of it using his powers but when he did the ropes glowed white, absorbing his magic, weakening him. "It's clear."
BLACK JET OVER MOUNTAINS, HEADING UP TOWARDS THE HELICARRIER –Everyone was quiet. Fury was on the radio. "Is he saying anything?"
"Not a word." Widow reported.
"Just get him here." said Fury. "We're low on time."
Hermione and Draco sat near the cockpit, Harry was pacing near the back trying to get something out of Loki. "So…How have you been since Asgard." asked Loki.
"Why do you ask?" asked Loki. "Do you miss anyone in particular?" He gave Harry a charming smile.
"Certainly not you." Harry confirmed.
"Ooh…" said Loki in a smooth debonair tone. "That hurt. I've…" He checked Harry out from top to bottom. "…certainly missed you."
"Me?" asked Harry. "Last time I saw you, you tried to murder your father, blow up your home and kill your own brother, not to mention you later fell into a black hole in space…" His kitsune had an idea to seduce the answers from the god. "So, have you missed me?"
"You made quite an impression." said Loki. "On everyone, including myself. The world may fall apart around us, and even in those circumstances people will be thinking of you. I'm one of them."
"Let me guess…you want to show me the world, show me all the worlds, all the realms…You want to teach me magic, magic beyond my wildest dreams…You want to put the universe at my feet and…" hissed Harry.
"…and we can rule together. Side by side…" said Loki. "With time you'll see. You'll be mine."
Harry leaned in and sniffed Lokis face, Loki moaned with lust and leaned towards Harry expecting a kiss. His voice hardened. "Keep dreaming love." He patted Lokis head like a dog and walked off, leaving Loki growling. He took a seat next to Hermione.
"Anther hopeless, love struck, fan Potter?" asked Draco.
"Shut up Malfoy." said Harry. They saw Loki struggle with the ropes, which absorbed his power when he tried to break them. "The man is delusional…"
Hermione sighed. "Good thing the ropes are holding up…"
"You are brilliant Hermione." said Harry.
"Lets hope they hold until we get back to the hellcarrier." said Hermione.
Silence took over the jet. Steve was looking at Loki. "I don't like it."
"What, Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" asked Tony.
"I don't remember it being that easy." said Steve. "This guy packs a wallop."
"Still, you are pretty spry for an older fellow." said Tony. "An immortal older fellow." Steve looked at him. "Fury gave me the heads up on you and Barton." Steve sighed and nodded his head. "What's your thing, Pilates?"
"What?" asked Steve.
"It's like calisthenics." Tony explained. "You might have missed a couple of things doing time as a Capsicle."
"Fury never told me he was calling you in." Steve mentioned.
"Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you." said Tony. "Or us…" The dark night sky outside rumbled and boomed with thunder through the clouds.
"Where is this coming from?" asked Natasha as lighting lit up the sky, crashing close to the jet. The energy shook the jet as it flew.
The Avengers turned to the wizards. Draco and Hermione turned to Harry. "Harry…?" asked Hermione.
"It's not me." said Harry.
Steve and Tony saw Loki retracting in his seat. "What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?"
"I'm not overly fond of what follows." said Loki
With another strong thunderous boom, that shook the jet. They felt something hard and strong land on the roof outside. Immediately the sky was lit up with lightning bolts. Tony put on his helmet which hooked and snapped securely in place and, while Steve put on his soldier helmet, he pushed the button to open the rear hatch.
"What are you doing?" asked Captain America.
They all looked on as Thor flew in landing on the open hatch floor and stepping further into the jet. Ironman was gonna fire but grunted as he was knocked back by Mjolnir and onto Captain America, knocking them both down.
Thor ripped off Lokis seatbelt, grabbed him by the throat and flew out of the jet into the night without looking around to notice the witches.
"And now there's that guy." argued Ironman.
"Anther Asgardian?" asked Widow.
"Thor…" muttered Harry, too low for any muggle ears to hear. His eyes glowed green and his inner Kitsune purred feeling the last trace of Thors power. Hermione put her arms on his shoulders.
"That guys a friendly?" asked Captain America.
"Doesn't matter." said Ironman. "If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract is lost."
"I'm on it!" said Draco. He grabbed his broom and headed to the open hatch.
"Guys, we need a plan." said Captain America.
"I have a plan Captain." said Draco in his Slytherin Ice Prince tone. "Attack." He jumped on his broom and flew out the open hatch and into the thundering night.
"What he said." said Ironman, blasting off after Draco. Captain America sighed with frustration and grabbed a parachute.
"I'd sit this one out, Cap." said Widow.
"I don't see how I can." said Captain America, strapping on the parachute.
"These guys come from legend." said Widow. "They're basically gods."
"There's only one God, ma'am…" said Captain America. "…and I'm pretty sure he does not dress like that."
MOUNTAIN PEAK SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE – Loki crashed onto a mountain peak, overlooking a wooded forest below. "Ow…" grunted Loki through laughs.
Thor landed on his feet, looking down at Loki. "Where is the Tesseract?"
"Oh, I've missed you too." laughed Loki.
Thor was pissed off. "Do I look to be in a gaming mood?" he asked.
"You should thank me." said Loki. "With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you here? To your precious Earth?" He got up and dusted himself off.
Thor dropped Mjolnir, it could be heard for miles. He took Lokis face in his hands. "I thought you dead."
"Did you mourn?" asked Loki, in a cold tone.
"We all did. Our father…" started Thor.
"Your father." Loki corrected. He shook himself free from Thors grasp. "He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?"
"We were raised together, we played together we fought together, do you remember none of that?" asked Thor.
"I remember a shadow." said Loki. "Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I, who was, and should be king!"
"So you take the world I love as a recompense for your imagined slights?" asked Thor. "No. The Earth is under my protection, Loki."
Loki laughed. "And you've done a marvelous job brother. The humans slaughter themselves in droves while you idly fret. I mean to rule them."
"You think yourself above them?" asked Thor.
"Of course." said Loki.
"Then you missed the truth of ruling brother." said Thor. His mind flashed back to all of Harrys lessons and wise words of wisdom during their time in Puente Antiguo, New Mexico. "You need understanding, patience, compassion, empathy, kindness and love…This imaginary throne you desire would suit you ill."
"I have seen worlds you have dreamed about." Said Loki, pushing past him and up the edge of the mountain. "I have grown, Odinson, in my exile." Thor followed him. "I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it…"
"Who showed you this power?" asked Thor. He walked up to Lokis face. "Who controls the would be king?"
"I am a king!" yelled Loki.
"Not here!" yelled Thor. "You give up the Tesseract, you give up this poisonous dream!" His voice turned desperate. "You come home."
Loki smiled. "I don't have it." Thor summoned Mjolnir. "You need the cube bring me home, but I sent it off I know not where. But I did find something far more interesting, or should I say someone…" He looked at Thor in they eyes. "…Harry."
Thor growled as lighting lit up the sky. "Do not touch Harry."
"Why not?" asked Loki. Thor growled. "Mmm…You like him don't you." Thor gripped Mjolnir tight. "Oh, yes. You want him, you want his affection, you want his body to take and make yours night and day, you want his love…Well, I've decided to keep him for myself. I will rule the cosmos, with him by my side…" He stepped into Thors personal space. "…and in my bed. He's grown strong brother. Mmmm…." He licked his upper lip, mocking Thor. "I can just taste his soft firm flesh already…" A bolt of lightning hit the ground, just a foot away from him.
"You listen well brother…" started Thor before he was pushed off the mountain by a missile fast Ironman.
"I'm listening…" after a moment he chuckled and started to leave, before Draco swooped down on his broom.
"Not so fast." said Draco. Loki started towards him, but when he flashed blue eyes the god stopped.
FOREST FLOOR, BELOW THE MOUNTAIN – Thor landed face down. He got up and looked at Ironman. "Do not touch me again." he warned.
Ironmans face piece slid back to reveal Tonys face. "Then don't take my stuff."
"You have no idea what you're dealing with." said Thor.
"Uh…" Ironman looked around. "Shakespeare in the park? Doth mother know you wear–eth her drapes?" he mocked.
"This is beyond you, metal man." said Thor. "Loki will face Asgardian justice."
"He gives up the cube, he's all yours. Until then…" said Ironman. His metal mask slid back over his face. "…stay out of the way." As he turned, Thor threw Mjolnir at him nocking him away like a canon ball. "Okay…" He flew back and sent a blaster missle to Thor knocking him back.
Thor raised Mjolnir into the air, a bolt of lightning crashed down into it, electricity cracked building up inside it. He pointed the hammer at Ironman sending the high voltage lightning straight into Ironman. The red armor cracked on impact. "Power 400% capacity." Informed Jarvis.
"How about that." said Tony with admiration. He powers he repulsor beams, on both his palms and fired at Thor sending him back.
MOUNTAIN PEAK – Hermiones spell was broken and the ropes vanished, pleasing Loki very much. "Lets play." He sent a green energy blast at Draco.
Draco did a backflip 10 feet into the air and landing perfectly on his feet. "Bring it greenie." He challeneged. His eyes flashed blue sending nasty stinging jinxes at Loki who ducked them and fired another energy blast back at him. He did a front flip in the air and was met halfway by Loki, they crashed onto the mountain and started a physical fight, they BIFFED BAMED and POWED, both blocking and docking like two season experts.
Loki grabbed Draco by the throat and raised him up off his feat, the wizard grunted. "It's over wizard!"
Dracos dark side kicked in, his eyes flashed flashed blue red, he summoned his wand to his hand and chanted the fire curse. "FIENDFYRE" the a burst of orange fire erupted from his want circling them and taking the shape of two giant fire snakes. Lokis smug face faded, releasing him and he started laughing wickedly as Loki backed away.
Loki summoned his powers and magically conjured two equally giant fenrir wolves, or monster wolves of Norway, made of water. As the water wolves and the fire snakes battled it out while Loki and Caleb faced off again.
***I'm glad Draco was able to find Lokis location! I loved that Harry used a glamour to become the old man and fool Loki. The fight was instense. Thor is BAAACK! And Harrys kitsune knows it! He is sceaming MATE! Loved the fight between Loki and Draco! Remember I'm uploading chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 up next back to back so reviews will be answered on Chapter 5! REVIEW! ***