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War makes killers

Loki felt the sickeningly familiar pull of Thanos dragging him away from his consciousness. In his mind he was no longer sitting in the darkness of his cell. Instead, he saw himself standing next to Thanos looking down on a visage of Asgard.

"We are here." Thanos said grinning. Loki turned his pale face to gaze upon him. They were alone.

"We?" Loki dared to ask. Thanos' stark white grin widened.

"My new army," he said turning with his arm spread wide. Loki followed his gaze and saw the legions of soldiers standing in formation behind them in a world Thanos had shown him before.

"The Dark Elves?" Loki whispered, aghast. "What of the Chitauri?"

A smirk pulled at Thanos' lips. "The Chitauri were decimated after you failed to lead them." Loki swallowed hard. "Yes, I see you know what fortune is about to befall you, Loki of Asgard. Though after the Elves are through, there will not be an Asgard to belong to."

Loki tried to steady his shaking limbs. He knew what the Dark Elves could do, what they were capable of. They were far more efficient than the Chitauri. Loki had no doubt that with an ambush like this Asgard would be brought to its knees.

"You brought this upon them," Thanos hissed in his ear. Loki shifted away from and turned on him.

"No," Loki said, his voice so hard it cracked. "If you would have given me an army as worthy as the Dark Elves, I would have succeeded. You set me up for failure!" Thanos smiled wickedly and it donned on Loki then. He was right. Thanos had set him up.

"The Tesseract…" Loki realized. It was a portal. And the other end of the portal was here, in Asgard. Thanos had planned this all along.

Rage burned like ice inside his chest. He had been played, tricked into thinking the Tesseract was the only thing he was after. But Thanos had been out for Asgard since the beginning and had used him to get there.

But Loki was no longer the willing pawn. He would not give Thanos what he wanted so easily. Asgard was no longer what it used to mean to him, but that didn't mean he was going to let Thanos have it so easily.

An ice dagger formed in his hand. The ice was so cold it was like it was burning in his palm. With a shout, Loki lunged himself at Thanos though Loki knew that he could not really hurt him on his plane since he was not physically there. He was just hoping to break Thanos' concentration so Loki's mind would be set free from his clutches.

That was why Loki was so surprised when his blade sank into flesh.

Thanos didn't even raise a hand to protect himself. Blood poured from his wound in his chest. Laughing, Thanos grabbed him by his shoulders and slammed his head into Loki's nose. Loki staggered back and hit his side against something that was not there. Disoriented and angry, Loki attacked again. This time Thanos brought down his meaty fist on his head. Loki stumbled, but his dagger found a home in Thanos' side. Loki let go, not daring to take the time to pull it out, lest he be struck again.

Thanos laughed again, that horrible laugh. Loki looked up at him in confusion. While they had been fighting, the portal had opened up and Dark Elves were pouring into it. Thanos' wounds had disappeared and the dagger was also gone. Slowly Thanos walked up to Loki.

"I told you I'd make use of you yet."

A loud boom echoed somewhere in the distance and Loki was suddenly no longer standing before Thanos.

Loki was not even inside his cell. He was standing outside of it. There was blood on his hands and when he looked down, he saw the bodies of the guards around his feet. That was why Thanos had laughed. Loki had thought he was fighting Thanos, but in reality he had murdered these soldiers.

Another boom filled the air and Loki knew…

War had descended upon Asgard.