Chapter 11: Revelations and Invasion

I post this chapter today because I want to pack my laptop, which is why you get it now instead of tomorrow and it also means less stress for me! :D

Really you guys should be worshipping the ground I walk upon for all the chapter updates I gave you in the last few days. ;)
But joke aside, it's again short but I hope you still like it. :)

"Tony!" Tony turned around at the familiar sound of his twins voice and smiled at the other boy, having felt him before he had called. "Hey Loki!" Loki stopped beside his other half and asked: "Do you want to prank Thor with me?" Tony looked slightly disapproving at Loki and the other looked sheepishly at him. "What did I tell you about that?" "'Not to prank our brother even if he is a… uhm'" "Neanderthal" "Right! 'Even if he is a Neanderthal'." "…How about we prank his friends instead? I have the perfect idea for Fandral." Loki's face brightened immediately. "Okay!" They ran to their shared room to plan their prank.

Tony was practicing his magic in the garden together with Loki while their mother watched over them. Loki was extremely well with fire spell and duplicating himself while Tony could command the wind brilliantly and had an affinity for everything to do with metal as well as things he could learn out of books. They were trying to combine their magic spells to give them an advantage later when they would have to fight for real and it was going pretty well so far.

Once finished their mother clapped delighted. "You were wonderful. You two look really as if you were one when working together."
"Thank you mother." They chorused and smiled at each other. If they couldn't get their father's approval then they would get their mother's at least.

Tony held out his hand towards his new Frost Giant friend, forgetting the consequences this could have for him and the blue giant reached for it, forgetting too. Their hands touch and his armour begins to crumble, they hastily let go. "I'm so-" The apology stuck in the giants throat as they both saw the exposed flesh turn blue before return back to it original colour.

He gave the giant a panicked look, not wanting to comprehend what just happened but his brain giving him the answer nonetheless. The giant just stared back at him. "I won't tell as long as you don't want me to little magician."

He let out a pitiful sounding "Thank you my friend." and vanished in a puff of red smoke…

"I will tell him. He deserves to learn it from someone and not like I did!" Tony was standing on the Bifrost, not wanting to have this conversation in the castle where someone could overhear it.

"You will do no such thing Tony. When the time comes I will tell him myself."

"Oh and when?! When he stumbled across it and will think himself as some kind of monster?! Why? Why didn't you tell us? Were you so disgusted with what we truly were that you kept it from us too? Tell me father, why you did that to my brother and I! You took us for a purpose, what was it? Tell me!"

"I will tell him when the time is right and you have no right to question your king. But I will tell you why I took you; I thought we could unite our kingdoms-" Tony began to laugh, bitter tears running down his face. "We weren't more than trophies then! By the nine, …I have to get to my brother."

Tony took a step forwards but was blasted back. "You will do no such thing!" Tony jumped up, tears still running down his face and he screamed in anger as he ran towards the man he once called father.

He's falling; Odin had really hit him with his magic, thrown him of the Bifrost with an angry and disappointed look… Darkness was everywhere, surrounding him and threatening to suffocate him. Tears ran down his face at the knowledge that his other half would have to live without him now in a place where they both had only been trophies in their "father's" eyes… He let out a scream in pain as the darkness continues to consume him and his own core tore at him… Where is he? …Who is he?

Blinding light… disorientation… A woman kneeled before him… "I am Maria and who are you?"

"Tony!"

Green eyes slowly opened, their owner slowly sitting up. 'What had happened?' And then everything came back to him. 'Oh… Oh by the Nine, what have I done?' Loki quickly stood back up, slightly swaying before getting his body back under control and his gaze landed on the still knocked out Tony.

He ran towards him and realized that the man looked different then before; the beard was gone, his face looked a bit younger and less angular and his hair had darkened slightly so that it almost appeared black. The sight took Loki's breath away, he realised that he finally felt whole again something he hadn't for years and he finally got out a strangled, "Bràthair…"

Loki touched the other man's face gently and almost pulled back in shock when brown with a green rim eyes snapped open. They landed on Loki and after a short puzzled look, understanding and recognition flooded into them. "Loki." The name out of Tony's mouth made a warm feeling spread out in the black haired god and he gave a soft smile. "Tony."

An explosion outside reminded them of what was happening and Tony shakily stood back up – his magic was still settling after being suppressed by whatever Odin had done to him when throwing him of the Bifrost. He scrambled to a table where the bracelets for the Mark VII where lying – he may now remember everything but at the moment he felt more comfortable with the armour than anything else, especially after a few certain memories that had come back to him with which he could have lived without. Loki grabbed his arm before he could head outside, giving him a pleading look to stay with him and not leave him alone again. Tony gave his brother a gentle look and laid a hand on the one that was grabbing his arm. "I will explain everything but now I have to protect my home. Will you help me? I'm sure once we explain everything to the others, they will welcome you here." 'It could be your home too if you want it to' was left unsaid. "I will help you Tony. This chaos was only made possible through me after all." 'Anywhere where you are, is my home' hung in the air between them and together they went outside to take an alien army out.

"Guys, Loki is on our side now! He was being controlled too." The protests that had been beginning to form died down and Tony could make out Clint's "Damn, now I can't even shot the guy an arrow in the eye!"

The fight was hard, Tony tried his best to help his teammates when they needed him and when he couldn't his brother would step in. Tony, Loki and Thor even fought once together. "Just like old times brothers!" Thor boomed happily and Tony only grinned behind his mask while Loki rolled his eyes – some things never changed.

Bruce joined them when the Leviathan things came more and more out of the portal and for the first time the Avengers Assembled completely (plus Loki but you could argue that he was already part of the team).

Later in the fight Tony saw Clint falling from a building but was too far away as well as preoccupied with some Chitauri to help him, holding his breath as he saw the building crumble and then letting it out when he heard Clint grudgingly thanking Loki. The trickster god had saved the archer from what would have been a painful landing even with the grabbling arrow.

And shortly after that came Nick's call, "Iron Man! There is a nuke heading in your direction and it will level Manhattan if we don't do anything about it!"

"Understood Nick, I will do what I can."
"…Don't do anything stupid or Coulson will have my head."

"I'm sure he wouldn't be the only one Nick."

He heard Nick let out a huff of a laugh and ended the call with a, "I'm sure."

While they had exchanged these words Tony had gotten to the nuke and started to direct it towards the portal.

Natasha told them that she could close the portal and stop the flow of Chitauri and Leviathans coming through. Cap just wanted to give her the okay when Tony interrupted them. "Wait a moment! I've got a nuke heading towards Manhattan and I just know where to put it."

"Iron Man, you know that it will be a one way trip."

"…Not with Loki's help. Loki."

"Yes brother?"
"I will direct this bomb into the portal and I will need your help that it stays on course as well as that I get back out again. Can you do that?"

"Of course!"

Tony smiled at the hidden promise Loki made with these two words, not to lose his brother so soon again and then he went through the portal…