No beta

This chapter isn't as humorous as previous ones but I needed to get the plot moving.

There are mentions of torture but none of it is in detail and it is more suggestive than anything.

There is a start of more Darcy/Loki things at the end of the chapter.

It was de-ja-vu only instead of green pajama pants it was his leathers and instead of the Avenger Tower's it was SHIELD's office.

Loki came walking in, Darcy in toe carrying his notepad and they took seats across from Steve who looked like he wasn't sure if he wanted to be annoyed or amused. Loki's presence around their tower was one thing but this was work and if Loki was here, he must have had something to do with the problems they were facing.

Steve looked at Coulson, who looked at Fury who glared at Loki. "What are you doing? How did you get in here?" Fury asked.

"I was invited, via text message from Steve. And I got in here by walking. It's the same way I get to everywhere." Loki conjured a cup of coffee and handed it to Darcy who took it gratefully. He really was getting better at the coffee thing. The only problem was she was the only person he'd make coffee for. When Thor asked, Loki blasted him through the wall.

They were working on him not responding to everything so negatively.

Fury looked at Coulson, who looked at Steve who glared at Loki. "I sent a text message for the Avengers to Assemble." Steve answered before repeating. "The Avengers."

"Yes I know." Loki replied with a roll of his eyes. "Darcy showed me."

Steve looked at Darcy who looked at Steve. "I told you guys he had access to your messages." Darcy put her arms up in defense. "You guys never changed the numbers."

Tired of his antics, Fury pointed to the door. "You're not an Avenger Loki. Get out."

"Darcy take a note." Loki points a long finger at her.

She picked up the green pen, Loki only allowed green pens, and put it to the pad. "I'm ready."

"Men with eye patches like to kick me out of places."

He didn't mean to, but Thor laughed hard and out loud. It was a loud boisterous sound that echoed throughout the room.

Steve did not approve. "Don't laugh at his antics Thor, it will only encourage him."

"Don't talk to my brother like that." Loki came to the defense of his brother without thinking. It was a knee-jerk reaction. "He does what he wants."

Steve turned his attention to Loki. "Oh yeah, well maybe I should have let him do what he wanted when he wanted to pummel you to the ground."

Loki was not one to back down especially not to Captain America. "Yeah, well maybe I'll call Bucky and tell him what a jerk you're being."

The outrage rippled over Steve's face in a wave before he jumped out of his chair, knocking it over. "Don't you speak his name!"

Loki liked dramatics, so he knocked over his chair too and the empty one next to him. "Bucky! Bucky, Bucky, Bucky, Bucky, Bucky!

Steve would have responded, but Fury started to laugh which took everyone by surprise. There was something ridiculous about a god sounding like a seven year old little brother. "It's hard to believe you almost took over the world."

Loki took a breath to calm himself as he righted the chairs and sat back down. "Yeah, well it's hard to believe that you give yourself the credit to creating the Avengers when it was totally me."

That wiped the smile on Fury's face but added one to Darcy's. It seemed he was picking up some of her slang as she was the only one to use 'totally' so casually.

"Loki." Thor said ready to put an end to Loki's clowning around as Steve returned to his own seat. "We have very important business to attend to."

"Yes I know." Loki smiled. "A silver suffer is causing weather related anomalies."

Steve knew it! "Do you have anything to do with it?"

"Not at all." Loki mocked outrage. "Except that Doom wants his surf board. He's downstairs now, I told him he wasn't an Avenger so he couldn't come in."

"You aren't an Avenger either." Widow commented.

Loki turned to Barton. "Barton, control your woman."

Barton turned to Natasha. "Nat…"

The look she returned told him he'd die if he thought for one moment that he could "control" her. Wisely, he decided to stay quiet.

Loki shook his head. "That's a shame Barton. She doesn't even need a mind controlling stick to make you do what she wants." Loki laughed at Barton until his cell phone rang. "Doom! Yeah. He is. OK." He hung up and looked at Fury. "So, Silver Surfer is coming. Doom can see him."

In a panic, the Avengers rushed out to see The Surfer was indeed coming towards New York and he was moving fast.

"Darcy," Loki turned to his assistant. "Why don't you go back inside?"

"Why Will that stop the silver dude from killing me?"

"Possibly." Loki answered. "At the very least it would cause some delay."

Darcy turned on her heals and Loki was happy that for a change the Little Mortal listened to him.

"So what's this guy's deal?" Loki questioned a little surprised to see that he was actually silver. What was it with New York villains that they felt the need to name themselves after colors? "Like, what's his thing?"

It was Tony that answered in his full Iron Man suit. "His board seems to be where his power comes from. The problem is there is no way to get him off the board."

"Really?" Loki strained to look closer at the board which was also silver. "I don't see any straps."

"It's not by straps that he is held brother." Thor answered. "It is through some magical power."

"Oh." Loki moaned. "I love magical power. Ok so, I'm going to blast him from his board."

Tony scoffed. "You are not listening. He can't be blasted off the board."

"Did any one you try?"

"We all tried." Tony continued. "He can withstand a great deal of energy."

Loki sensed the Surfer's power, but it wasn't as strong as what The Avengers seemed to think. What was it about these mortals that they under estimated him so? "So… I'm going to blast him."

"He absorbs power Loki." Thor told him. "An enemy with your powers can be devastating."

Loki took a moment to wonder when he stopped being an enemy but soon responded. "Well we have to do something because he is coming straight at us and his emotionless face is freaking me out."

"We need a plan." Captain said. "We should think of a plan."

"We don't have time for a plan." Loki pointed at the silver man now only yards away. "He is looking right at us." Becoming annoyed and bored with this Loki extended an arm. "I'm going to blast him."

"Loki no!" They called out to him.

"Loki, no!" He mimicked as he sized up Silver Surfer. "Don't save our lives no!" Loki released a blast of energy that to everyone's surprise, knocked the Surfer off his board and onto the ground before Loki. Loki teleported the board to him. "It's not that powerful." Came his disappointed reply while he examined the board. Why would Doom want such a weak thing? He handed the board to Fury.

The Silver Surfer looked up at Loki clearly shocked. "What are you?"

Loki smiled. "Well that depends really. I can be so many things."

The Surfer jumped up and grabbed Loki's arm before anyone could stop him trying to suck Loki's power but Loki only giggled as small tremors passed through his body. "That tickles."

Realizing his attempt to drain Loki of his powers were useless, Surfer frowned and released him looking even more confused.

"My turn!" Loki grabbed Surfer's arm sucking in everything that made him powerful. His usually pale skin turned silver-ish as Loki's eyes turned a milky white. Quickly he summoned the board and jumped on it.

Tony went to blast Loki with a missile, thinking Loki meant to take the board for Doom but realized quickly he wasn't actually going anywhere. He was doing flips on the board that was hovering about 10 feet off the ground as Doom kept trying to jump for it.

"Give me the board Loki!" Doom was screaming. "I want it, give it to me!"

"If you can catch it you can keep it!" Loki yelled back deliberately coming closer to Doom and then dancing away before Doom could reach him. It was a bizarre site really. It was like a magical game of keep away between an alien and warlock.

Tony turned to make a comment to Thor about how grateful he was to be an only child when he realized Thor was looking fondly at his brother. Tony wondered if Thor was actually proud of his little brother for being stronger than all of them and knocked the Surfer down. He wondered if this Loki was the Loki that Thor knew before his temper tantrum that almost destroyed the world.

As for Loki, he was having fun. Granted when Doom told him about the board and what it could do, Loki was a bit torn. On one hand, he understood Doom's desire for power, he still craved it himself but then on the other hand, he could understand why the board, in the wrong hands could do major destruction. So he agreed to call in The Avengers, as Doom requested, to help get the board, but he really had no intention of giving the board to his friend. He had enough problems with intergalactic entities.

During one of his flips, Loki noticed they were taking Silver Surfer back into SHIELD headquarters. It reminded him of when he was marched into his own cell. It didn't sit well with him in fact, it was better to say it was out right bothered him.

Loki stopped flying abruptly, hitting Doom in the face and knocking him out, before jumping off the board, giving it back to Fury and walking up to wrap an arm around Surfer's long, silver, neck.

"Hey?" He asked one of the guards trying to take him away. "Where are you taking my new friend?"

"Level 3." The guard told him.

Level 3 isn't a nice place to be, Loki knows. He had never seen it, but he'd heard talk about it. He was threatened with it before Natasha came with her fake tears. It was something he was willing to take because the threat of Thanos was worse than anything Fury could have dished out.

"Well hold on there." Loki requested as he stopped the guard's decent to level 3. "I'd prefer to talk to my new friend myself."

The guard went to grab Loki to physically remove him from the Surfer's side but that only landed the guard on the floor holding his dislocated arm.

The sound caught the attention of Thor who screamed out "Loki!" while summoning his mighty hammer. "What are you doing?"

With guns pointed in his face, Loki created a barrier to protect both him and his friend. "He's going to be tortured, Thor."

"We need information Loki." Fury explained trying to defuse the situation. "If he doesn't cooperate, then we will make him."

Loki snorted. "Have you ever been tortured? It's not fun. Let me talk to my new friend here first. I'm sure he'll cooperate after a nice cup of coffee." He looked at his silver friend. "Right Surfer? You just want a cup of coffee?"

Silver Surfer looked at Loki as if he was out of his mind but coffee sounded better than torture. "Of course. A cup of coffee."

It took Fury a moment to think through his options. The last time Loki was in a SHIELD facility, he managed to take down some of his best men under a minute and while sick. The Surfer with Loki, and possibly Doom when he woke up, would likely be catastrophic. Eventually, Fury nodded. "Alright."

The guns lowered and Loki lowered the protective covering over them. He looked at the officer on the floor, holding his arm, and frowned. He bent down and touched the dislocated arm healing it.

"Come Silver friend." He said as he led him to a break room. "Let us drink some coffee and you can tell me why you are destroying the planet I am meant to rule."

The Avenger's followed behind him keeping a close eye on the pair as the entered the room where Darcy was.

"Are we still going to die?" She asked. "Because there are still a lot of things I want to do first."

"Fear not Little Mortal, for I am Loki of Asgard." He said it as if where he was from would protect her at all.

"I thought you were Loki of Yogurts."

"It's Joutenhiem, and I thought you said you wanted to live?" It was an empty threat, Darcy knew but she surrendered anyway. "Please pour a cup of coffee for my new friend. He needs the caffeine boost."

The Surfer took a seat and accepted the coffee Darcy offered him. "It is not that I want to destroy your world. I am sent to start the destruction of mankind for my master, who wishes to inhabit this realm."

"Who is this master?" Loki asked. "Thanos? Because if it's Thanos I should probably leave."

"Thanos? You know him?" The Surfer questioned. "I thought he was only a problem on my world."

"Sadly I have made his acquaintance. He kind of wants to kill me slowly."

"He wants to kill everyone slowly. But no, it is not him."

Loki arched a brow. "Are the people who wish to live on this world open to subjugation? Because if they are more grateful than humans I'm sure we can make a deal."

"LOKI!" Thor thundered.

"Fine, I won't assist in the destruction of humans." Thor was such a kill joy some times. "Look, Surfer, this is my planet…"

"LOKI!" Thor roared again.

"I mean Thor's planet and once I kill him my planet. You can't have it."

Surfer placed his cup on the table. "It is not that simple."

"It never is, is it?" Loki sighed. "How long do we have before your master comes?"

As if on cue, a roar of thunder shook the building and the sky darkened.

Darcy jumped up with a girlish yelp. "Crap we're going to die."

"Stay here Little Mortal," Loki told her as the Avengers went out to fight the latest threat to the world. "If the world will end I will teleport us to some other, livelier, realm."

Loki left his assistant in the hands of Coulson, who he could have sworn he killed before, and went to join the Avengers.

There were two threats it seemed, one from a metallic worm swallowing people and one from a twenty foot tidal wave that threatened to kill the other humans the worm wasn't eating.

"Oh dear." Loki frowned. "Little Mortal was right, we might just die. Alright then, I'll handle the wave, you guys go handle the worm."

"How do you handle a wave Loki?" Steve yelled to Loki but he had already started moving towards the wall of water.

Having no choice but to trust Loki to do what he told them he'd do, Steve and his team focused on the worm with metal armor eating people.

After the Chitauri though, the metal worm really wasn't all the hard to destroy. A little lightening from Thor and well placed missiles from Tony took the monster down without much fuss but all of that seemed insignificant when they remembered about the twenty foot wave.

But Steve soon realized that people weren't running away any more. Instead they were standing slack jawed and amazed. He followed their gaze to see the wave still towering over Manhattan only it wasn't moving. It seemed as if it was stuck, unable to move against an unmovable force except that unmovable force with a six foot two man that held it away with nothing more than his hands.

Loki, himself, looked as if he was in a trance until he flicked his wrist and the silver surf board flew out of SHIELD, picked up Surfer and slid under Loki's feet.

Steve wouldn't have believed it except he saw it with his own eyes. Loki, along with Surfer, rode the wave back away from Manhattan.

"It appears he has mastered a new element." Thor brought Steve out of his state of disbelief.

"I thought Loki needed the scepter for power." He commented. "I thought…"

"Loki is a wizard. He didn't need the scepter for power."

Steve watched Loki and Surfer's retreating forms and watched as the waters receded. "Then what did he need it for?"

Thor turned to face Steve. "I really don't know."

000

Doom was sulking. That was the best way to put it really. Darcy tried not to laugh at the villain sitting in the corner with his arms folded across his chest and a pouty lower lip. Not only did he miss all the action, but there was no way he was going to get the board now that Surfer helped them against the metallic worm.

The Avengers had returned, battered a bit, but otherwise ok studying the sky to see if Loki would run away with the Silver Surfer's board. She knew he wouldn't. Loki had no interest in the board when Doom first mentioned it. It seemed her boss was not one for accessories.

In truth, she really just wanted to see Loki for herself. They had said he was fine, Thor wasn't the least bit worried about him, but she wanted to see him for herself. She was coming to realize that Loki always seemed fine, especially when he wasn't.

When he walked in with Surfer, it took everything she had to not run over to him and wrap her arms around him. Much to her surprise however, the first words out of his mouth were, "Where is my Little Mortal?"

Since when did she become his? And why was she not completely losing it over his possessiveness? When Ian called her his girlfriend she freaked out, not ready to commit to anything and yet here was this alien god called her his Little Mortal and she was perfectly fine being paired with a known villain. If she could still call him that.

When he spotted her, his eyes lit up and a genuine smile covered his face. She felt so very stupid that she found herself grinning like a fool upon his return. "Loki! You live."

"Oh Darcy it was horrible!" He yelled as he threw himself in her arms. "I feared for my life. There was fire to the left of me. Fire to the right of me!"

"You tell lies." The Surfer started. "There was water, not fire."

"Seriously Silvery friend. If we are going to have adventures together you must learn to lie."

Darcy barked out a laugh as Loki walked over to the depressed Doom in the corner.

Thor came over to them. "So is there no more quarrel with Earth?"

"No, no quarrels. I will leave this place and return in a month to watch a fighting match with Loki." Surfer studied Thor for a moment. "Am I right to believe that you are the fool's brother?"

Thor nodded.

"Keep him close. You are lucky he has chosen to use his powers for mischief. If he felt so inclined, he could destroy worlds." He turned to leave. "Or if someone wished to use him for such."

There was a warning there Darcy was sure.

"Did you have fun with your new friend?" Doom was getting up from his seat in the corner.

Loki frowned. "Don't be mad Doom. You're still my very best friend."

Doom scoffed. "Yeah right. You didn't take me surfing."

Loki rolled his eye and Darcy smiled. They were like an old married couple really. They had these little spats often which is what would logically happen when two possessive people become friends. "Doom, you don't know how to surf. I mean if I was going to fly a kite or blow up a building I would totally have taken you."

The look of pure unhappiness shouldn't have been so comical and yet Darcy was trying not to laugh as Doom said, "You're just saying that."

"Come now," Loki walked Doom towards the door grabbing Darcy by the waist to take her with them. "I'll let you buy Darcy and I some ice cream."

Ice cream actually sounded good. "I bet coffee ice cream is your favorite." Darcy teased.

Loki stopped. "There is coffee ice cream? Doom you've been keeping secrets from me."

Doom shrugged. "Sucks doesn't it!"