Chapter 1

Thor groaned as he sat up. He looked around as his vision cleared. He checked out his surroundings. On his right he saw the Hulk, panting heavily, slowly transform back into Bruce, and on his left he saw Loki wince as he slowly sat up. Apparently they had smashed into a building of some sort. He then noticed two people peering down at them, with their hands drawn back. There were strange gold rings around their hands. He recognized one of them as Doctor Strange, the wizard-or whatever-who helped him find Odin.

As they recognized who had crashed into their building, Doctor Strange and Wong slowly lowered their arms.

"Thanos is coming," Bruce said breathily.

"Who?" Doctor Strange asked.

"Look, wizard, you are extremely dull for someone who holds himself in such a high regard," Loki said while slowly getting to his feet.

Doctor Strange's eyes narrowed.

"Could you help us out of here, please?" Thor asked.

Doctor Strange and Wong helped them out of the small crater they had made in the staircase. Wong warily stared at Loki as he climbed out of the hole.

"I thought that you would return Loki to Asgard, and yet, here he is," Doctor Strange said.

"All I am asking is that we are able to stay here if only for a little while in order to find a way to get off this planet. Loki won't do anything. I believe that world domination is not his main priority as of the moment, right, Loki?" Thor said.

Loki gave him a withering look. "Well, brother-"

Bruce interjected and said, "Guys, Thanos is coming, he's coming to Earth. He is this crazy powerful being-and, oh, God. He killed him, didn't he?"

Thor knew Bruce was talking about Heimdall. Thanos has most likely killed by now. His eyes lowered as he said softly, "Probably, but Heimdall's death was not in vain. We're here, aren't we? If he didn't send us here, we all would have been dead."

"Woah, hold on, he sent Loki didn't he? The Chitauri, that was him, wasn't it?" Bruce asked.

"You are correct in assuming that he sent me with the Chitauri, however it wasn't of my own volition," Loki said.

"Wait, who is he exactly?" Doctor Strange asked, "I still don't understand."

"Well, Doctor, he is basically a madman with genocidal thoughts. He is after the Infinity Stones, one of which is around your neck," Thor pointed at Doctor Strange. "He will stop at nothing to get what he wants. I advise you to destroy it. If you don't, he will come for you and destroy everything in the process,"

"No one has ever been able to break into the Sanctum and steal the Eye," Wong said.

"I wouldn't call him a normal person," Bruce said. "He managed to kill an entire ship of Asgardians and take out me and Thor easily,"

"Wait, Loki, you still have the Tesseract?" Thor asked.

"Oh, brother, do you need to ask? It's as if you doubt my abilities," Loki said as he held out his palm and the Tesseract materialized.

"Woah, woah, woah, woah, no, no, no," Bruce said, "Last time that thing was in your possession, you almost took over the Earth,"

"I agree," Doctor Strange said while advancing towards Loki. "It would be safer with me,"

Loki snapped his fingers and the Tesseract disappeared. "I disagree. If Thanos does come here, and manage to defeat you, which he will, he will gain both stones. But he won't if I am in possession of it."

"Tell me his name again," Tony Stark said after Thor, Loki, and Bruce finished their story. Doctor Strange and Bruce had used a portal conjured by Strange to go and retrieve him. The second he had seen Loki, he had fired a blast of energy at him. But Loki dodged the blast and Thor had to go up to Tony and explain everything before he blew up the building. It took awhile for him to understand that Loki wasn't going to try to take over the world again, but eventually he calmed down. He still didn't really trust him, though.

"Thanos," Bruce said. "He's a plague, Tony. He invades planets, he takes what he wants, he wipes out half the population. He sent Loki,"

Loki looked at Tony, with an unreadable expression in his eyes.

"The attack on New York, that's him!"

"So, this Thanos dude sent you to do his dirty work here?" Tony asked while pointing at Loki.

"No one sends me anywhere. If you are implying that I willingly wanted to help him, I can assure you that I did not. After my fight with Thor on the Bifrost, when I fell, I fell into a void. He caught me, tortured me, and used me to get what he desires," Loki said.

"The stones," Thor said suddenly.

"Yes, brother, the stones,"

"Unfortunately, three of those six stones are on Earth, or Midgard, as you call it," Doctor Strange said while looking at Loki and Thor. "That means that we have to protect them at all costs, otherwise the consequences include him being able to destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of."

Tony moved over to lean on a vase to stretch his legs.

"Wait, did you seriously just say hitherto undreamt of?" he asked.

"Are you seriously leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos?" Doctor Strange asked as his cloak slapped Tony on the arm.

"I'm going to allow that," he said while staring at Doctor Strange. "You know, Reindeer Games, I still don't trust you. I have a hard time trusting people who threw me out of a window. How do we know that everything that is coming out of his mouth is the truth?"

"Normally, I would agree with you," Thor stated.

"Hey-" Loki said indignantly.

"But, our situation as of the moment is far from normal. All of Asgard is gone, finished. The place the people, all of it. Truthfully, Loki and I are the last of our kind."

"I am not-"

"Loki, you are an Asgardian, if not by blood. Anyways, in order to defeat him we would have to travel to Nidavellir."

A/N: I kind of had a writer's block writing this chapter, so it may be a little awkward. I'm kinda shocked my story has any followers/favorites, so, thanks, everyone! Don't forget to review!