A/N: I think this is coming to an end soonish. I think, not sure. Sorry for the long delay but here's a longer chapter for you! :)
The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head, and Kaia, Gabby, and Nathan. And taking some personal freedoms with mythology and lore.
Tony was snapping his fingers and flexing his hands in a serious of claps in his nervous habit, blue sparks appearing every time his hand connected in come way. "Just because I found the power doesn't mean I can control it," Tony muttered to Loki who was standing across from him in the room.
"That much is obvious," Loki watched the blue spark, his own green sparks traveling around his hands. "I believe that the power is still too much, even after a week."
"You think?" Tony snorted a little and Loki raised an eyebrow at him. "Sorry, it's just a little frustrating."
"Yes, I-" The building shook a little and there was a crackle of red light in the room. Tony and Loki instinctively moved closer together and Tony reached for the power in his reactor, even if it was still reckless.
"I am surprised that I have not seen either one of you in my realm yet," Hela's voice called out as she appeared in the room started to circle the two men. "More surprised that your mortal is still alive, Loki."
Tony watched her and tried to keep his breathing even. "You have your hand in just about everything, don't you?"
"Hmmm," she hummed a little. "I like to be involved, I need to make sure that they follow some kind of plan. Although you, always seem to through a kink in the system." She glared at Tony, her eyes glowing a little. Tony took a sharp breath and grabbed at his chest. "You weren't supposed to adapt to those powers."
Loki had grabbed Tony's shoulder and could see that the arc reactor was glowing a little brighter. "When I told the Chitauri where you where they were supposed to kill your mortal," she watched them grapple with the pain she was causing. "If given the right motivation you could still bring about my Ragnarok!" She looked over at Tony. "Since I sent this little present to you, I know how to control it, even if it is inside of you."
Hela walked over and Loki stood in front of Tony, his hands glowing with wisps of green magic. Hela glared and they both shot a blast at each other, the magic meeting in the middle and throwing them both back. Tony groaned a little and started to pushed himself up when a hand suddenly grabbed his arm and pulled him up.
"I know all about you Anthony Edward Stark," Hela hissed. "I know what keeps you alive." Her hand hovered his arc reactor and he kept eye contact with her. His muscles tensed under the pain and her threat. "I'll take this power from you, and then I'll take everything else. I'll leave you as defenseless, and useless as your supposed to be." Tony grunted and grabbed her arm and glared at her. "I can take you to your parents, Stark."
"I think it would be better, if we saw yours," Tony grunted out as his hands started to glow blue. Loki had pushed himself up and blinked when he saw strands of blue and red power whipping around Tony an Hela.
"Daddy!" Loki looked over as Kaia came running up the stairs. He ran over and grabbed her around the waist quickly when he felt the magic building up in the room. He could feel two different transport spells working against each other, but had no way to stop it. "What's gonna happen?" Kaia looked up at Loki.
"I'm not really sure, but I think we might be taking a trip to Heimdall soon," Loki muttered as the lights started to get brighter. Suddenly Tony and Hela disappeared and Kaia's eyes widened a little. Loki pat her shoulder before letting go of her. "Quickly now, get prepared." Loki started towards the main entrance. "We're going to travel through the hidden paths, we need to get to Asgard." Kaia blinked but nodded and ran upstairs towards her room. Even an unexpected visit would need Kaia in the Asgardian clothing she had.
She pulled on her jacket as she ran down the stairs and saw Loki talking with Clint, Steve, Nathan and Gabby. "You're gonna go by yourself?" Nathan looked skeptical.
"I'm going with him," she adjusted her clothes as walked up next to Loki, who had already used his magic to conjure up his green and black clothing.
"We're going to pay Heimdall a visit, then return with information," Loki explained.
"While you're gone we'll search for any clues," Steve said, taking natural command. "We'll keep an eye for anything and run some traces."
"I'll send a message when I can," Loki told him, then looked at Kaia. "Ready?" She nodded and he took her hand as his started to glow a faint green. Kaia smiled at Nathan before they disappeared.
Kaia kept close to Loki as they stepped out of a portal and found footing on the rainbow bridge. Loki ran towards the bi-frost quickly. "Heimdall!" As he got closer he noticed that the Guardian was not outside the structure.
"Stop!" Loki stopped before entering the bi-frost and could see Heimdall inside. "Hela has spelled the entrance, I can not leave."
"She's here?" Loki asked, eyes wide as he started to run fingers over the entrance, feeling the power of the spell. Kaia came up next to him, listening.
"She has come with Anthony, but he was unable to keep her subdued. She is in the golden hall as we speak." Loki nodded and took Kaia's hand and started running towards the Great Hall of Odin.
"Let me help," Kaia huffed a little and squeezed Loki's hand, a soft blue glow appearing on her fingers. They suddenly jumped ahead on the bridge, still in motion. Loki raised an eyebrow briefly. "I've been practicing some stuff lately."
"I can see," Loki murmured. As they approached the saw no guards, and the doors were wide open. Loki slowed them and spelled their steps into silence. As the deftly made their way through the rooms Loki could hear voices coming from the throne room.
"Come now, Anthony," Loki poked his head around the corner of the door and saw Hela pacing back and forth on the first platform of steps. "What good are those powers you have if you don't know how to use them? You can't be a mortal, and a mage." Loki saw Frigga standing between Hela and Tony, who was on one knee. She held up a sword, but Loki could feel the spell of protection between them.
"What can I say," Tony coughed a little, holding a hand up to his arc reactor. "I've always been a little selfish, can't settle on just one thing. From what I can gather though, you're just the same."
Hela let out a laugh and stopped moving. "Yes, I suppose I am. That is no matter," she waved a hand and looked down at the two of them. "It is a pity that Odin has entered the Odinsleep, I had really hoped that I could surprise him with this." Tony pushed himself up, his hands starting to glow.
"Dad," Kaia whispered suddenly. Loki looked down at her. "Those powers are becoming reckless, untamed." Loki nodded and put a hand on her shoulder, looking back out.
"Because we are such close proximity to the tesseract," Loki finished. It would become too much for Tony, and for the arc reactor. "You remember the way to the weapons vault?" he looked back at Kaia and she nodded. "Good, you are to run there and stay there until either I or your father come and get you. Is that understood?" Kaia bit her lip a little. "I want you near the Destroyer, it will protect you. I can not predict what will happen, and I would rather not have you in harms way." Kaia let out a breath and took off running down the hall.
Loki watched her until she turned the corner then took a breath. He and Thor had known of course when Odin entered into Odinsleep, but Tony didn't know. His plan had probably been to take her to Asgard, where she could have been apprehended. It was a decent plan, but it had backfired. Loki hoped that enough time had passed that Odin would be able to feel the disturbance in Asgard.
Loki walked into the hall from the side casually, his hands behind his back and glanced between Hela, and Frigga and Tony. "My, what a surprise you have this time, dear sister." Loki called out. She raised an eyebrow and watched Loki approach them. "If I didn't know any better I would have commended you on your bravery to stepping foot in Asgard again. But now, I have to wonder how you let yourself become overpowered so easily, by my mortal no less."
"I did not become overpowered," Hela tried to correct. She held out a hand to stop him when he started getting too close to the trio.
"That's not what it felt like back at the house," Tony quipped. "That was a power struggle, and I feel very confident that I won." If Frigga hadn't of been keeping her eyes on Hela, she would have rolled her eyes and shushed Tony, much like Loki would.
"You must not have come here through Heimdall's powers," Hela commented, attention back on Loki. "Or else you would have been caught in my spell."
"I know all the paths through Yggdrasil," Loki said casually. "I know ones that you are not familiar with. I must think quick, always prepared." Hela narrowed her eyes and Loki's hands started to glow behind his back. Loki started to conjure illusions of himself around the room. Hela growled and threw out a burst of power at the original, but he faded into wisps of power. "I actually expected better of you," one of the Loki's further away tutted. "To think that I would stay in one spot, that would be a foolish tactic on my part."
"I knew there was a reason I liked him," Tony gave a pained smile to Frigga. She could the power as it ran through his reactor and his eyes. Frigga jumped when something brushed past her dress and towards Tony. Kaia keeled in front of Tony and took his hands. "What are you doing here?"
"Not listening to Dad, and he's going to kill me," Kaia whispered, trying not to draw Hela's attention. "I couldn't just leave you two, not when I've got a couple of spells that could help."
"It's clear she's been learning magic from her father," Frigga smiled gently. Loki's illusions continued to distract Hela.
Tony laughed a little and nodded. "She gets her genius from me though."
"Tony!" Loki yelled out and Tony instinctively threw himself over Kaia. Frigga turned to renew the spell but was thrown backwards by Hela. Tony pulled Kaia over behind him and stood up to face Hela. All the Loki look a likes were gone and the real one was pushing himself up from across the room.
Tony took a breath and pulled on more of the power. "You're becoming outnumbered, Hela." Hela smirked then suddenly threw something at Tony, instinct causing him to catch the physical item and stumble back.
There was a bright flash of blue and white and Tony yelled out. Frigga pulled Kaia back and Loki suddenly jumped and landed on Tony, pushing him to the ground. The tesseract tumbled from Tony's hands and Loki threw a cloaking spell over it to keep Hela from claiming it again.
"Oops, did I forget that mortals shouldn't touch it for very long?" Hela chuckled. Loki stood up and glared at Hela, then suddenly stopped. "Come now, my dear trickster-" Hela stopped when she felt a weight on her shoulder. Turning her head she snarled when she saw Odin with his staff leaning against her.
"You step too far, Hela, and you do it in the realm of Asgard," Odin's voice boomed.
"I'm not nearly through with this," Hela growled. Kaia blinked looking around Frigga and saw red electricity jumping along Hela's fingertips. She raised an eyebrow as random spells started to combine in her head and she suddenly hefted an orb of ice in her hand a little like a ball. Kais threw it as soon as Hela started talking again. "You could not think of containing me!" Hela released a spell as soon as the orb hit her chest. She yelped but disappeared, only to reappear several feet away on the stairs, closer to Loki, and the orb hit the ground, cracking.
Loki smirked and leaned down as Hela looked up. She saw that Tony had pushed himself up into a sitting position, leaning against Loki's legs. "Didn't, I tell you, not to, underestimate, a mortal," Tony smirked, even if he was having trouble catching his breath. "I. Win." Hela growled and disappeared.
"I do not think that she will be causing much trouble soon," Frigga said. Tony started to cough and put all his weight against Loki. Loki turned and caught him in his arms, gently laying him down on his back. Kaia ran over to Odin and took his hand.
"Please help him," her eyes were big and becoming wet. She knew when Tony had caught the tesseract its power had overflowed into his arc reactor.
Tony tensed a little and held onto Loki's hand, then opened his eyes. "Hey, there green eyes." Loki could see right through him and how much pain he was in. "Fancy seeing you in a place like this."
"I followed this crazy mortal here, you haven't seen him have you?" Loki brushed the hair off of Tony's forehead. "He's cocky, has an ego large than the bi-frost, and is rather eccentric."
"Sounds like my kind of man," Tony tensed and groaned. "As long as he's rich, no one should put up with that kind of attitude unless he's loaded."
"He has many things going for him," Loki smiled gently at him. Loki looked over when he saw Odin walked over to them. He knelt down, holding onto the tesseract that Loki just noticed was not shining anymore. Loki frowned. "Father?"
"It seems that the tesseract has passed its power on," Odin said slowly, looking at Tony's brightly glowing chest.
"This arc reactor," Tony took a deep breath, "has a lot to do already. I don't think it can handle that kind of power."
"Neither can your body, I think," Odin nodded. Frigga stood to the side with her arms wrapped around Kaia's shoulders as they watched. "This power was not even meant for the Gods, Anthony Stark, but you have gone and proven your worth, again."
"Worth?" Tony frowned a little and squeezed Loki's hands when a spike of pain ran through his body. "I'm just a crazy man, with an apparent magic magnet in my chest."
"The power of the tesseract would have killed anyone else by now," Odin said.
"I feel like the prettiest girl at the prom," Tony bit out. "Can't you get this power out of me?"
"I can not do it now," Odin shook his head. "If I did then it would surely claim you here." Tony groaned. "We will take you to the Healers, and they will help to dull the pain, and then I will be able to heal you."
"Please, tell me that they're going to use alcohol?" Tony looked up at Loki who tried to frown at him, but couldn't hide the twitch in his lips.