"I am Loki of Asgard and I am here to recruit you into my service."

"Loki? The Norse God?" Doom asked.

"Yes." Loki wasn't feeling patient.

Doom moved closer to the panel. "And what's in it for me?"

"I will give you power and rule over your enemies." Loki answered.

"Power?" Doom chuckled.

"Whom do you hate?" Loki asked seeing where this was going.

Doom really laughed now.

"A lot of people."


Janna walked into her apartment and yelled. "Loki you owe me! Get your godly ass out here!"

Loki left the other two to meet Janna in the living room.

"Where have you been?" Loki asked.

"Returning that goddamn plane." Janna said closing the gap between them.

She punched him in the stomach, which only hurt her because of the armor. She knew that before she punched him. Then her head fell against his chest.

Loki didn't really feel the punch and stared at her as she laid her head on his chest.

"Did you damage their trust?" Loki asked.

He allowed her a moment.

"They caught me on tape." She left her head there. "It was all I could do to fool them long enough to get back here."

She needed to tell Loki about Tony's tracking ability, but that wasn't on her mind at the moment.

"We were seen? Then time is limited." Loki said.

His mind was processing all the things he would need to change.

Janna lifted her head off Loki and looked at him. Her eyes were moist.

"Uh, yeah we were seen, but we still got away with Doom. They knew you were after him anyway."

Janna mind came back to her. "Oh...time is short. Stark's got a trace on your scepter. They almost had you, but I knocked them out and sent them back..."

"A trace? And you sent them back?" Loki asked.

He was a little peeved, but at least she was telling him about the trace.

"The scepter gives off radiation they can track. That's how they were locating you with the Tesseract before." Janna said.

"And yes I sent them back. I wasn't going to leave them defenseless against you three." She glanced past Loki towards the kitchen.

"Am I to guess that you have a plan to stop their tracking ability?" Loki asked.

Janna just shook her head. "But I have another idea. What was your plan?"

"The plan is endangered if they are able to track us." Loki moved away in frustration.

Osborn walked into the room.

"What's this we hear? The plan is endangered?"

Doom followed.

"What do we do now?"

Janna caught Loki's jacket. "And guess what. According to my plan. It doesn't even matter."


Janna woke up to her stomach growling. She didn't want to wake the god, so she tried to get up without moving him much.

She went to the kitchen hoping that the villains hadn't eaten everything.

Janna searched the kitchen but didn't know what to make. She finally reached into the cabinet for some bread to make a sandwich.

Once she had it prepared she sat down at the kitchen table and started slowly munching on it.

Loki blinked awake to see the lights on in the kitchen.

He didn't really hear much, so he stood and looked into the next room.

Janna noticed Loki move, but she ignored him. Loki felt a bit snubbed, so he walked into the kitchen and sat in front of her.

He held the scepter in front of her, but felt it was a waste of time to threaten her.

Janna only moved her eyes to look up at him from her sandwich. It was a look of "really?" since Loki was holding his scepter.

She took another small bite of her sandwich.

Loki gave her a look that said 'really'.

He gave her a sandwich a hungry look and then made eye contact with Janna.

If she was going to lay on him, she was at least going to make him food.

"Hey now. You're not a king, a prince, or anything of the like right now. So go make your own damn sandwich." Janna nodded towards the fridge and cabinets.

Loki gave her an annoyed look and did something he wasn't proud of.

"Please?"

Janna tapped a finger to her chin. "Only if you can do something. Explain to me, in one sentence, why you hate Thor."

Janna smiled at him. She figured he could do it, but she didn't think his answer would satisfy her.

Loki was hungry, but he wouldn't submit.

"A shade in Thor's greatness."

That was all he was giving her.

"Mhm." She stood up and grabbed all the necessary ingredients for a sandwich and set them on the table with a knife and plate.

"There."

Loki glanced at the food and then at Janna.

"Fine." he grumbled.

He picked up a slice of bread and began to fix it up.

Janna smiled then finished her sandwich.

When she did finish she grabbed some more bread and made another sandwich. She plopped it on a plate and stood up. As she left the kitchen she looked at Loki like, "yeah, I just did that" and headed to her room.

She knocked on the door before walking in.

Doom was laying on the bed when he heard the knock.

"What are you doing?"

"Giving you a sandwich." Janna said stating the obvious and putting the plate on a side table.

She stepped back against the while and leaned on it. "So...what exactly are your powers?"

Janna had an idea, but she sucked at remembering details.

Doom looked at the sandwich and started eating it.

The lights in the room turned on and began to flicker. The flicker started out slowly and then began to speed up until the light bulb exploded.

"Thanks."

Janna nodded.

"I would have preferred words you know. Now I have to get a new light bulb in addition to everything else Loki destroyed." She sighed and left the room.

Doom smiled and laid back down; he hadn't had a nice bed in years.

Janna sat down on the couch and called to Loki. "They loved you, you know. Still do."

"They?" Loki asked finishing his sandwich.

"Odin. Thor."

"They do not love me. I was forced upon Odin and Thor sees me as below him."

Thinking about his 'family' made him a bit angry.

"How were you 'forced' upon Odin?" Janna asked with her usual attitude. "He could have left you in the snow to die. Instead he took you in and raised you as a king to be."

"But his precious Thor ruined my king to be status." Loki didn't understand Janna's insistence on his childhood.

"No shit." Janna looked at Loki like he was stupid. "Thor was blood. And older than you. So even if you were blood you still wouldn't have been made king."

"But I am the rightful king of Asgard." Loki would never admit otherwise.

"But there can only be one King. And of two sons, the oldest is the rightful heir." Janna spoke as if she knew this stuff.

"And regarding Odin's love; he never loved me."

Janna gave him a look. "And how are you so certain of this?"

"It was known by all the Asgardians." Loki said. "My brother was just to foolish to realize it."

"Sure..." Janna didn't believe him.

She turned her nose up to him. "I still think you secretly love them."

"I do not love them." Loki growled.

He didn't want to talk about Asgard any longer.

Janna giggled. She was amazed he wasn't questioning her about her knowledge, how she knew all this. She decided to make it interesting.

"Your expression when Odin collapsed. It gave it away. Feelings like those don't just suddenly disappear."

Loki looked up at her quickly with wide eyes.

"How...where did...when..." Loki wasn't one to be speechless, but there was no way this mortal girl would know about that.

Janna smiled and leaned back in her seat with her legs crossed.

"See, you know it's true."

Loki scowled.

"You know more than you should."

He reclined in his seat.

Janna's smiled just grew.

"And you know. You're just pathetic. Little brother syndrome. That's the only reason you're doing this."

Loki scowled and leaned forward.

"Do not insult me again."

He was furious and the mention of his past made it worse.

"Seriously. You had, and possibly still have, a family that loved you. Then you turn on them because of imagined slights. You have problems." Janna was proud of herself for using Thor's words.

"Imagined slights?"

Loki wanted to laugh. He didn't like Janna's repeat of Thor's words.

"Slight: An insult by treating or speaking of someone without proper respect or attention." Janna defined the word for him. "Thor felt he treated you as his equal. I can't say about the others. You were always 'Thor's little brother'."

Janna wished she could get something more from Loki. But she didn't see that happening. She could see where Loki got his ideas, and she felt bad about it.

Loki set the scepter across his lap.

"What are you trying to accomplish?"

He was suspicious of the girl, but assuming she ditched her friend, he assumed she was attempting to relate to him. Janna looked at him and shrugged. She might as well just tell him. It would be nice to see his reaction.

"I want you and Thor to kiss and make up."

Loki gave her a horrified look; mostly because he didn't understand the saying.

"You want me to kiss my brother?"

He didn't understand what she was asking him to do; to kiss Thor or to grovel for forgiveness.

Janna looked at Loki and almost burst out laughing.

"You need to learn earth lingo." Janna did laugh now. "Not literally kiss him! Maybe a hug if that's something you would do."

"Hug? Thor? Never."

Loki crossed his arms and pouted like a child.

"I'm sure you did when you two were kids. Maybe you had just done something crazy and were glad you were okay." Janna shrugged. "Bet you thought you'd never hug a human either."

"I've done many things I regret."

Loki was feeling tired again, and he'd barely done anything.

Janna pouted. "Mhm."


Loki and Doom looked at one another.

"What did you do to me?" Doom hissed.

He was a leader of a country; he didn't deserve this.

"Not much actually." Janna said to Doom. Then she turned to Loki and just shrugged.

"This is how you spend your free time?"

Loki wasn't happy.

"You weren't giving me anything to work with."

Janna had gotten bored. Loki had stopped reacting to her random hugs, so she had to up her game. Putting them in women's clothing and make-up had done the trick.

"So you painted me like a woman?" Loki said that in blunt monotone.

"Well I had this feeling you would be reborn as one, one day." Janna tried to imitate his monotoned voice.

Victor wiped his face against his sleeve, smearing the makeup.

"So, do you like it? Or do you plan on changing?" Janna put her arms behind her back and smiled.

"Where did you put our clothes?" Doom demanded.

He stood and attempted to be dignified.

"Around." Janna waved and went to sit on her bed.

Doom and Loki searched the apartment for their clothes.

They found nothing.

Doom returned to the room where Janna was abiding.

"I plan to threaten you, but I'm assuming you won't listen, so I'm going to command you instead."

"I don't do very well being commanded either." Janna shrugged. "Bribes work though. I like hugs. And a kiss from you wouldn't be so bad either."

"A kiss?"

Victor wasn't sure if the girl was serious.

"I said I liked hugs too." Janna said quietly and shrugged.

"What's the catch?"

He moved closer, but was not attempting to be seductive.

"No catch." Janna said. "Why do people always think there's a catch?"

Doom leaned close.

"There's always a catch. That's the difference between good and evil; a catch."

"Well if you want a catch so bad, give me one. Because I got nothin'." Janna said not moving an inch.

Her heart was speeding up a bit but she told it to shut up and go away. She never thought he'd actually do it...and she still didn't.

Doom loved playing this game, more so to say he lived for this game.

He leaned close to kiss the edge of her lips.

"There's your catch."

Janna was stunned and her heart was galloping.

"There...they're over there..." She pointed and the clothes seemed to appear out of nowhere.

Janna was speechless...she never expected him to do it. Even if it was but a taunt.

"Thank you."

After picking up his clothing, Doom made his way to the bathroom to change into his proper clothing and to wash the mess off his face.

Victor splashed water onto his face and smirked; he liked having a catch.

Janna sat there waiting for whatever came next. She was still a little shocked that Doom gave in to her and kissed her so easily...

Loki knocked on the door, and Doom didn't reply.

Walking into Janna's room, he noticed her daze.

"Where's my clothes?"

Janna didn't look at him. She just pointed.

Loki was confused about Janna's change in personality, but said nothing as Doom exited the bathroom.

He took his clothes and went into the bathroom.

Doom smirked when he saw the God of Mischief's look.