Chapter 2

"Uh, Nida what now?" Tony asked.

"Nidavellir is one of the Nine Realms that was under Asgard's protection," Thor said. "It's inhabited by the dwarfs. They made my hammer, so, we're going to go there to-"

"Wait, what happened to your hammer?"

"Long story short, my evil sister, who's also the Goddess of Death, destroyed it,"

"Woah, ok, but wait. What I don't get is that if Thanos needs all six, why don't we just stick these two down the garbage disposal?"

"No can do," Doctor Strange said. He glared at Tony.

"If we were to, as you so eloquently put it, 'stick these down the garbage disposal', he would still come. There are three stones currently on Earth: one with me, one around the wizard's neck, and one in my scepter. No matter where they are, they are still here and he knows that, now. If he didn't already know before, that is," Loki said.

"Actually, it's in Vision's forehead, not in your mind-controlling death stick," Tony said. "Anyways, why can't we just do it? He's not gonna come after us if we don't have it."

Loki asked in confusion, "Who's Vision?"

"A robot," was the reply.

"We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone," Wong said.

"And, I swore off dairy, but, then, Ben and Jerry's named a flavor after me, so," Tony replied.

"Ben and Jerry's? You're a flavor of what? I don't understand." Thor interjected.

Loki rolled his eyes.

"Look, whatever, point is, things change," Tony said.

"Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change. And, this stone and the Space Stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos," Doctor Strange said.

"And still conversely, they may also be his best chance against us!"

"Only if we don't do our jobs."

"Yeah, what is your job, exactly, besides making balloon animals?"

Doctor Strange glared at Tony as he smirked and said, "Protecting your reality, douchebag,"

Tony opened his mouth to retort, but Thor said, "Ok, look. We shouldn't be making enemies amongst ourselves."

"Yeah, guys, let's just focus on finding a way to keep the stones that we have safe, because Thanos is coming, he may even be coming right now," Bruce said. "Speaking of stones we have, we need to find Vision. He's out there somewhere with the Mind Stone, and we need to find him,"

"About that. Two weeks ago, Vision turned off his transponder," Tony said. "He's offline."

"What? Tony, you lost another superbot?!"

"I didn't lose him. He's more than that. He's evolving."

"Who could find Vision, then?"

"Probably Steve Rogers."

Doctor Strange scoffed. "Oh, great,"

"Call him." Bruce said.

"It's not that easy. God, we haven't caught up in a spell, have we?

"No,"

"The Avengers broke up. We're toast."

"What? Broke up? Like a band? Like the Beatles?"

Loki, sounding bored, interjected and said sarcastically, "It's not that it isn't extremely interesting to hear about your pitiful group's petty quarrels, it's just that...it isn't. Right now we need to focus on the task at hand. Thor and I need to go to Nidavellir to retrieve a weapon. This weapon is capable of killing Thanos, and-"

Loki broke off as he noticed that a light wind was blowing through his hair. He frowned. They were indoors. Why was there a breeze?

Tony noticed and his eyes narrowed. "Hey, Lokster, you wouldn't happen to be moving your hair, would you?"

"Not at the moment, no."

Thor walked briskly towards the door. He threw it open and walked out of the building. He looked up and saw a circular ship-thing floating above the city.

"Oh, shit,"

Peter Parker looked up as he felt the hairs on his arms raise. He gazed sharply out the window and saw a circular alien ship floating in the sky.

"Ned, hey. I need you to cause a distraction," he said.

Ned nodded. He stood up and happily yelled, "Holy shit! We're all gonna die!"

Everyone jumped up and ran to the windows to get a view of the spaceship, and no one noticed Peter slip out of the bus.

"What's the matter with you kids? You never seen a spaceship before?" the bus driver said as everyone excitedely gathered near the windows.

"Friday, evac anyone south of 43rd Street, notify first responders," Tony said.

"Will do," Friday answered.

Everyone had left the building and were now watching people frantically trying to escape. The ship was blowing strong winds throughout the city.

"Who were you talking to?" Loki asked.

"My AI, Friday. My last superbot kinda went crazy and tried to kill everyone. He destroyed Jarvis, my previous AI, so, I made Friday."

"And AI stands for?"

"Artificial Intellignece. No one fill you in on modern technology while you were here?"

"I'm sorry," Loki said sarcastically. "I was too busy figuring out how to open the portal so I could lay waste to your planet. I believe that learning your 'modern technologies' was a bit past my priorities."

"Look, Rock of Ages-"

"My name is Loki!"

"Whatever. I still don't trust you, so, don't try anything funny."

"Meaning?"

"Just, don't betray us and give up the Stone just to save your own sorry ass."

"I believe I have already made my intentions clear." Loki rounded on Tony. "I have suffered through more things than your puny mortal mind can imagine at the hands of Thanos. So, don't think for a second that I would rather slave away-"

"Brother, look." Thor noticed Ebony Maw, one of Thanos' children, in front of them.

He called out, "Hear me and rejoice! You are about to die at the hands of the Children of Thanos! Be thankful that your meaningless lives are now contributing to-"

"I'm sorry Earth is closed today," Tony called out.

"Is he normally like this?" Loki muttered to Thor.

"Oh, no. He's usually much worse," Thor said.

Tony continued, "You better pack it up and get outta here."

Ebony Maw addresed Loki and Doctor Strange, "Stone keepers, does this chattering animal speak for you?"

"I speak for myself, thank you very much," Loki said indignantly.

"There's no trespassing this city or on this planet," Doctor Strange said.

"Yeah, you need to get lost, Squidward!" Tony called out.

"Uh, what's a Squidward?" Thor asked.

Loki muttered something between the lines of "mindless oaf" and "uneducated brute".

A/N: Ok, wow. 58 follows. Jeez. Thanks to all who are actually reading this. Please review, I would appreciate feedback!