Hello peeps- I'll keep it brief.

First of all I would like to apologize for the huge gap since last update. My family is doing major changes on the house, and with my limited free time, I haven't given this much thought. Additionally, the guidelines say not to post just an author's note, and I didn't have a chapter written to go with the note to tell you why I wasn't updating. We're pretty much done on the house now, however, so I should have enough time to get back on the schedule.

I have another story out now, I posted the chapter I had pre-written back when we started the house work. It updates Saturdays now, I just updated yesterday. It's kinda like this story except my OC just messed everything up. You might like it.

-Stax

Chapter 18

"Loki, this idea SUCKS!" Dani didn't know why she was still trying, her friend didn't seem to care what she thought anymore.

"Not at all! You know how Thor is, he has it coming" he replied with a jovial smirk. His plan was to smuggle the Yotuns into the weapons vault in the middle of the coronation and interrupt everything. Dani shook her head.

"You're gonna get someone killed if you keep doing these types of pranks, dude! What's wrong with buckets of water above the doors!?"

"Duuuuude" Loki echoed mockingly. "That's barely a prank, I need something that makes an IMPRESSION!" he said flamboyantly as he gestured with hands.

"Then use paint instead of water! Make everyone look pink!" Disdainfully, Loki looked dowm his nose at her.

"Are you going to help me or not?" Sighing, Dani decided she would be better coming along as damage control rather than sit this out and hope for the best.

"...I'm in." She looked around at the cave they were in. "So this is that secret portal you were talking about?" Nodding, Loki stepped forward and disappeared. Following quickly, Dani found herself in a frozen, desolate landscape. "Wait up you stinker!" She yelled at the swift moving figure of her friend. Loki flipped her off. "WHY do you keep doing that?"

"I told you, I'm never stopping until you tell me it's meaning" he smirked. She was getting really, really sick of that smirk.

"Fine, be that way, but it's gonna get you in trouble some day" she bitterly snapped back. The cold seemed to be sapping her patience. Loki looked taken aback slightly.

"I... uh..." for the most part, Dani was good at keeping her cool. So when she got angry, he knew things were very wrong. "Bro, come on, you know this is gonna be frickin' awesome" he said, jokingly imitating her American accent. That always got a smile out of her.

"Let's just get this crap over with" she huffed, plowing ahead with a sudden burst of speed. Loki knew then that something was deffinitely wrong. He figured she would come around once she saw how funny the prank would be.

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Dani stood in a corner while Loki pretended to be a traitor to Asgard, convincing the Frost Giants at a tavern that he needed them to help attack the weapons vault to weaken his "mortal enemies". She eyed him grumpily and rubbed her freezing arms. Loki finished quickly but it wasn't fast enough for the irate blonde.

"You're full of shit, you know that?" She wheezed as the cold air burned her throat. Loki gently tugged her out of the cold building into the even colder tundra. She really hasn't dressed for this.

"Are you ok...?" He questioned, noticing her blue lips and fingers.

"Are you a stupid ass prick who doesn't know what's too far for a prank?" Loki wasn't amused.

"I guess you aren't cold then." Rolling her eyes, she hobbled along as well as she could. Gradually she lagged behind, however, and Loki had to come back for her.

"Do I have to carry you?"

"No." She continued to plod forward on her frozen feet, shivering nearly upsetting her balance. Loki sighed and she found herself off the ground. "Put me down or so help me-"

"I AM helping you" he sighed again. Dani gave up but gave him a death glare the rest of the way home.

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They made her wear a dress for the coronation. Dani was feeling about ready to find Odin and kick him where the sun don't shine, and as she stood waiting for Thor's arrival, she found the need to list the reasons to NOT assault the king.

Thor entered in his typical flamboyant fashion, and Dani tuned out as she pulled on a loose thread halfway down the skirt.

There wasn't ANYTHING she could do to stop events from happening. If she did, the first Avengers movie would never happen, hence the Avengers would never become a team, and baaaad baaaaad things would follow. She wished she didn't have the visions so that she could fix this in good conscience...

A ruckus rose around her. Dani ignored the now two feet of sring in her hand and tuned back into her surroundings. Thor was arguing that this was an act of war. Rolling her eyes, she stepped back into the crowd to head to her room. This would be best waited out.

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Once she got to her room, Dani instantly skipped forward in time and the moon shone through the window.

"That's not good" she observed cynically. She nervously tugged at the thread on her dress and flopped on the bed. Given that she didn't know how long she had been gone, it seemed logical to stay here and not risk getting flung into the middle of things.

Her decision didn't matter, however, because the party came to her.

"Loki?" She asked as a pale face appeared around the door. Creaking heavily, the wooden slab opened further to reveal her sorely dejected looking friend. Blue eye met blue- his held sad accusation.

"You knew." Dani quickly inferred that he meant the whole "secretly a Frost Giant" thing. Drooping ever so slightly, she gestured for him to sit next to her on the unnecessarily cushy duvet.

"I don't expect you to believe or understand why" she began hesitantly, "but there was no way I could tell you that without messing up a lot of things. I hope you can forgive me." He didn't look very forgiving.

"You could earn forgiveness." Dani wrinkled her face suspiciously. Loki was a manipulative son of a gun, this she knew firsthand. She didn't like where this was going.

"That depends entirely upon what you want." He turned to face her seriously, breath cold on her face.

"I want you to help me rule Asgard, I need an advisor. I believe you have prophetic power." Huffing, Dani whipped her head away. That would put her in a front row position when Loki sent the Destroyer after Thor, Sif and the Warriors Four. But she would have to betray him because they had to win.

"I can't do that. I can help you get to a good ending but not the one you want." She could feel his (ironically) heated stare on her neck.

"You feel as they do" he hissed. She spun and raised her eyebrows questioningly. "You think I'm a monster, after all these years-"

"Not freaking true!" She yelled, standing up violently. The last of the thread in her hand came out and she suddenly found herself wearing a miniskirt instead of a floor length one. She cursed her luck; only she could have timing this atrocious.

After a moment where both awkwardly stared at her now bare knees, she looked back up and continued:

"You aren't a monster, Loki, not yet. Uh... it's not who you are, but what you do that defines you." He gave her a look. "And that was a Batman quote. Bat- uh, nevermind. What I'm saying is, you aren't a monster just because you're a Frost Giant. You WILL be a monster if you try to kill everyone." Loki looked shocked.

"I wasn't trying to kill anyone" he said. She realized that he didn't have plans to send the Destroyer yet because he didn't know about Thor's pals going after him.

"Uh... forget that. Just, remember that Thor is your brother even if it's through adoption, okay?" Loki stood, once again towering over her.

"You won't reconsider?"

"No, sorry..." Loki looked pretty put down. He stood in the doorway for a moment before smirking slightly and glancing down at the fabric around her feet he added:

"You still look hella stupid in those threads. They're sooo last season" before closing the door. A lock clicked. Sighing, Dani was grateful that he had at least left with that lighthearted comment. Perhaps there was hope for him yet.

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Dani woke up from a restless slumber to loud sounds outside. She rushed out quickly to find the brothers dueling on the bridge, and arrived just in time for Thor to break off the end with his hammer. Loki was flung off and barely caught himself

"LOKI!" She shrieked, dashing to the edge where he hung on his staff. "Hang on!" Thor too urged him to stay, Odin was quickly approaching from behind, but Loki made eye contact one last time with Dani. He looked so ashamed it hurt. He half mouthed "I'm sorry!" Before letting go. Without another thought, she lept after him.

Everything felt surreal. She could hear Thor's voice fading behind her as the darkness closed around the falling pair. Loki was yelling something at her but the sound wasn't reaching her; he looked panicked that she had jumped.

"What did you want me to do, let you face Thanos alone?" She yelled angrily. He didn't hear her. Flailing frantically, she half swam through the thickening almost-atmosphere closer to her friend. Momentarily their hands brushed.

And then the light surrounded her again.

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"Sorry, just recalibrating some things" the sphere projected into her mind.

"Screw you!"

"Uh... was that a bad time?" It bobbed nervously. White light stretched all around Dani and she was floating. "I'll be quick and then you can move on with your mission."

"I swear, sphere, if you had a neck I'd break it!" She yelled. Her voice sounded weird in the foreign space.

"Calm down, there's some major glitches in our systems and we sent some wrong people to the wrong places-"

"I DON'T CARE! This was the WORST time for you to pull me out, and damnit you've had some really bad times!" The sphere was quiet for a moment. The moment dragged out onto several moments. "WELL?"

"There, done. It pays to be patient."

"Send me back."

"What? No, I can't do that. You have to finish your mission." Sure enough, the room was fading.

"No! NO! I have to go back! I need to-" she stopped yelling. She was in a greasy looking apartment. "Where the hell am I?"

"I was wondering when this would happen." The voice came from a dilapidated La-Z-boy that faced away from her. A small television set lit the dim room with flickering artificial light.

"Uh-" she smelled Mexican food. Why is that familiar? The figure stood up.

"You're uglier than I expected." Dani shook herself.

"Deadpool?" She couldn't believe it.

"No, your mom" he snarked. Dani stepped forward menacingly.

"I'm supposed to be dealing with YOU?" Dani had an aversion to the Antihero simply because several of her friends from the internet thought highly of him, and being Dani, she had to do the exact opposite.

"Huh? No, the author just wanted a cameo of yours truly" he stated, stuffing what appeared to be a chalupa into his half-masked face.

"Author? What the hell are you talking about?"

Deadpool opened his mouth to reply but was suddenly overtaken with a coughing fit, choking on his chalupa.

"I know that's you" he wheezed accusingly at the ceiling.

"Who the hell are you talking to?" Dani wildly looked around. Something was up.

Finally clearing his throat, Deadpool rasped "the writer of this story-" unfortunately, a nearby bookshelf chose that exact moment to tip away from the wall and pin the poor man to the floor.

"Wait... you always are able to break the fourth wall... this is a story?" A fire alarm suddenly rang in the building, beckoning her to leave quickly. "No. Wait. Who's doing that?" Something clicked in her mind. "This is a damn FANFICTION, ISNT it!?" A panel from the ceiling fell towards her head but she noticed and stepped aside. "Holy shit, you mean I could just go home now?" She felt sick to her stomach. "This is one of those 'the OC visits the fandom universe' ones, isn't it!" Another floorboard came loose on one end and swung down, narrowly missing her face. She looked up at the ceiling and yelled "STOP DOING THAT, I KNOW YOU'RE-"

Just then a horde of the most adorable puppies ever lept through the window, surrounding her.

"Oh my gosh- wait, how did they get in here?" The distractions weren't working.

"You should probably run while you can" Deadpool wheezed, pulling himself out from under the bookshelf. A fire started in the microwave suddenly.

"SERIOUSLY, STOP!" Dani yelled upwards.

"No, that was my bad, I forgot to take my danm burrito out of the wrapper-" Deadpool rushed over and started beating the microwave with a very unused broom. It didn't do much. The puppies danced around his feet, oblivious to the danger.

Dani rushed to the window and looked down. They were at least three or four floors up, the fire escape was rusted out but it would be the quickest way to get out. She turned back momentarily; Deadpool was waving around a flaming broom, tripping on the puppies and yelling some very R rated things. She decided not to waste any more time and swung a leg out.

Then the light surrounded her again.

She materialized in a new place and landed on her head.

"OW! DAMNIT!" The sphere was hovering in front of her.

"Sorry, I sent you to the wrong place..."

"What? No, send me back! Loki needs me!" She got the distinct feeling that she had forgotten something important. A bump was rising on her head and her thoughts felt vaguely fuzzy. The sphere hummed confusedly.

"That's not where you just-"

"Just send me BACK!" Damnit, what was it? Something important was tugging at the back of her mind.

"...I can't do that. You're already at the spot for the next part of your mission. I need to go, we have some major issues with the servers here. The wrong people are being sent to the wrong places and timelines are getting messed up-"

"I don't care about your job! Thanos is going to mess with Loki's head and I don't want him to turn into the bad guy!" The sphere hummed judgementally.

"He has to go through that. Otherwise, the events of the first Avengers movie won't happen so they become a team. You have to take care of this as well so those events exist. Good luck."

"No! No, SPHERE, WE ARE NOT DONE HERE!" It was already fading. "SPHERE!" Angrily she stomped around, cussing at the sky. Useless, useless! You couldn't help him before and you couldn't help him now!

She was pulled out of her rage by a ground shaking impact behind her. Dani knew exactly who it was without looking. Gulping nervously, she readied herself to deal with the Hulk.

The Deadpool thing was cheesy as hell, I know, but I've been wanting to do that for a while. If nobody likes it I might edit it out later but yeah... it kinda got away from me XD

Also a shout out to user "CHBNewRomeHogwartsBerk" for totally predicting what I planned on doing... :)