Hope you guys like this one :) I have a real treat coming up for you...which includes the fact that the next chapter will be posted later tonight.
Fury and Coulson stepped out of the elevator to get some breakfast but stopped when they saw the dark haired Asgardian eating Fruit Loops in front of the television which was playing Fairly Oddparents of all things.
"Bit early for you, isn't it?" Fury frowned at the god.
Loki shrugged and continued to eat his cereal which Coulson noted was void of milk. Loki was entranced with the show which had the child wishing to be the strongest on the beach. Apparently the green haired and pink haired 'fairies' just made it happen.
Another ding from the elevator announced both Thor and Jane. As soon as Thor stepped out of the elevator he frowned at Loki and headed to get some food.
Loki raised a brow at Jane who bit her lip.
"You're awake early," she commented.
"He didn't sleep," Thor stated gruffly from the kitchen area.
"I had things to work on," Loki said simply. He decided to ignore his brother's anger. Whatever it was, he didn't care.
"Looking up spells you can't perform?"
Loki clenched his jaw and kept his eyes on the television. Ah, the ass is still mad about me refusing to do the damned spell.
"Thor," Jane frowned at the blond god. Thor shook his head and headed for the elevator. He'd rather eat in his room than stick around Loki. He glanced at Jane but she headed for the kitchen instead. Thor frowned and headed into the elevator.
Just as the doors were shutting Loki called, "maybe if you thought more about the nine realms instead of this one, you'd be king by now."
A loud thunk was heard from inside the elevator and they all turned to see Thor's hand come through the door and rip it open. Loki's hair rose a bit from the static in the air. "You want to see who is better?" Thor yelled as wind gushed and static sparked around him.
"Thor!" Jane called but Thor ignored her. "You're going to blow us out of the tower!" Thor turned to look and saw that the Midgardians were having a hard time keeping their footing with the wind.
Loki was now standing firmly in front of the couch. "Listen to your woman," Loki sneered.
Thor flew at his younger brother, taking him down to the ground. This wasn't tactical by any means, this was wrestling for power. They were on the floor rolling and throwing punches and kicks. Neither Asgardian stayed above the other long. They could hear Jane yelling at the two of them as they landed blows but both of them ignored her.
Suddenly the two were tossed apart. Loki looked up to see the iron man suit standing between the two of them, "quit destroying my tower!"
"He started it," Thor growled as he stood. He wiped his bloody lip.
Loki tilted his head, "I started it? You are being a vitskertr." He stood all the way up.
"Skreyja!"
"Daufi!"
"Oskilgetinn!" Thor roared.
Loki glared and his right hand glowed yellow. He pulled all the way back fully intending to punch the thunder out of Thor. Thor matched his punch, their fists meeting in the air. Tony was pushed back several feet by the force of the impact. He looked up to see both Asgardians staring at each other, their jaws clenched.
A few seconds later both of them began swearing in Norse as they clutched their right hands. Thor began shaking his hand as if to shake of the pain and Loki was cradling his.
"What did you do?!" Thor roared.
"Shut up!" Loki looked down at his hand. He was almost positive it was either jammed or broken. "It was a spell."
"You did it wrong!" Thor tried to wiggle his fingers but it hurt too much.
"Really?" Loki threw his head back as he tried to calm his nerves from the pain.
"You broke my hand!"
"GOOD!" Loki grabbed his index finger and pulled to straighten out his finger. There were several sickening pops and he turned paler.
"Let me guess, it was some technicality," Thor glared at him.
"Shut up!"
"What was it?"
Loki pulled his middle finger into place. "I was to match the strongest person in the tower for strength. Either Bruce is not here or it only counts if he's green."
"You were going to use that strength on me?" Thor frowned at him.
Loki finished popping his fingers out and then his hand glowed a light blue. "Give me your hand."
Thor grabbed his hand and shook his head.
"hrafnasueltir," Loki frowned. He grabbed Thor's hand and jerked all the fingers at once while it glowed blue.
Thor smacked Loki with his left hand, "you did that purposefully!"
Loki rolled his eyes and began wiggling his fingers.
"What are you doing?" Fury eyed the god warily. He had his gun out since Loki's hand began glowing the first time. Coulson was by his side doing the same thing.
"Making sure our fingers work," Thor grumbled and wiggled his.
Loki wiggled his fingers in lewd ways.
"What are you doing," Thor raised a brow.
Loki took a deep breath and looked to Jane, "why are you with him?"
"Is there a particular reason the elevator isn't working?" Darcy came up the stairs followed by Clint and Natasha.
"Sparky broke the elevator," Tony pointed to Thor.
Fury pointed with his gun, "because Chuckles taunted him."
Loki rolled his eyes.
"Did I just miss Loki getting his ass kicked?" Clint frowned.
Loki turned and started heading for the ass. He was in no mood to deal with the archer and he was either going to throw him out of the window or find a way to make it possible to control his mind again. The archer was reaching behind his back, possibly for one of his prized arrows.
Natasha threw something at Loki and the god caught it with his left hand. He looked down to see a red bag that read 'skittles' across it. Meanwhile, Natasha had her hand on Clint's forearm while speaking in his ear.
Loki assumed she was talking the archer out of trying to shoot him. He opened the bag that Natasha had tossed him and found some hard sweet smelling circles. He popped a few in his mouth. As he grinned at the newfound treat, Natasha grabbed Clint by the arm and was trying to lead him away from the god.
"I think we need more Scooby snacks like that," Tony quipped as the god happily munched on the candy.
"Only if it's poisoned," Clint glared at the god. Natasha frowned.
Loki tossed the skittles at Clint, who caught it before it hit his face. "If you wish to fight, then by all means. I won't hold back."
Clint took a step forward and Natasha pulled him back,
Tony, feeling much braver with his suit on again, moved up behind Loki and put his hand on the god's shoulder. "Let's go see Bruce."
Loki continued to stare down the archer and after a moment he headed to the stairs. Tony quickly followed him. Maybe Bruce was right, Loki may deem them 'friends' or at least good enough acquaintances that he'd occasionally listen to them.
Clint glared at the two as they left and jerked his arm out of Natasha's grip. He threw the skittles across the room in anger. "He's ready to attack and you give him skittles?"
Natasha crossed her arms, "he stopped and he would have left you alone if you had left him alone."
Clint made a noise of exasperation.
"Come on, let's go," Natasha went to grab his arm but Clint pulled away.
"I don't need to spar…..I need out of this damned building," Clint headed for the stairs.
Natasha started to follow but Coulson cut in front of her and shook his head, "I'll walk him out."
"Why skittles?" Fury asked as he put away his gun.
Natasha turned and raised a brow, "he has a sweet tooth. Thought I'd give it a try."
Fury turned to Thor, "and what in the hell was that?"
Thor shook his head and headed out of the room.
Bruce looked up from his computer to see Loki, completely disheveled, and Tony in his suit walk in. "Did I miss something?"
"Just some brotherly love," Tony quipped. His faceplate pulled back.
"Huh," Bruce shook his head and went to get the sensors.
"Any chance you can fix my elevator?" Tony asked Loki.
Loki shrugged. "Probably."
Tony nodded. He waited a minute before asking, "do you guys normally try to kill each other?"
"Occasionally." Loki answered.
Bruce came back over with the sensors and motioned for Loki to take his shirt off. Loki obliged and leaned against the table, his hands gripping the edges. Bruce started sticking the adhesives against Loki's chest and arms.
"The magic may be powered by your mind but it seems it emanates from your entire body," Bruce explained as he put two sensors on either side of Loki's belly button.
He paused as he realized that Loki's abdomen had no scars or any indication that he had been run in by a sword recently. He looked up at Loki who winked at him. Bruce blinked and then shook his head as he quickly stood, "I was just-"
Loki gave him an obvious once over and smirked approvingly.
"No. no. no. no," Bruce held up a hand.
"Maybe this day won't be a complete waste," Loki continued to smirk.
"You realize the longer you mess with him the more likely he's going to hulk out, don't you?" Tony took off his helmet.
Loki laughed at the expression on Bruce's face.
"You were kidding?" Bruce asked.
"Was I?" Loki asked seriously.
"Brother?" Thor stepped through the door.
"Oh, joy," Loki muttered.
Bruce pulled out a tablet and began poking at it so that he could watch for Loki's magic.
"Can we speak?" Thor frowned and motioned to the door.
"No," Loki looked at the tablet. The Midgardians technology was quite intriguing.
Thor frowned and took a deep breath. "Father forbade the spell."
Loki glanced at Thor, "good."
Thor gave him a dirty look, "he said that you were more fit to be a king."
Loki looked over to Thor. Ah, someone's ego got squashed. He shook his head and started chuckling. "You are so easy to manipulate, it actually hurts."
Thor gave him a puzzled expression.
"He said that so you would do what he said," Loki smirked. "I assume he said this when telling you not to annoy me with the spell?"
Thor stared at him with indignation and then nodded.
"He holds the king thing over your head, doesn't he?" Tony asked as he removed more of his suit.
"Yes," Loki answered for him.
"What did Father talk to you about?" Thor asked him.
Loki shrugged, "the finery of sweets"
"Loki!" Thor frowned.
"Jane," Loki answered.
Thor blinked, "why?"
"I would think he'd get onto you about the 'Father' thing," Bruce looked at Loki who turned and gave him a malicious glare.
But Thor still took the bait, "why were you talking about Jane?"
"She only lives 100 years," Loki told him.
Thor grimaced, "I don't care, I-"
"Use it!" Loki told him. "She only lives 100 years. It's a minute to us AND to him. What's 100 years of time wasted with her? Why should it matter if you spend a mere 100 years WITH her?"
Thor paused as he thought on it, "exactly why are you helping me?"
"You have acquired a brain since she's come around," Loki pressed the screen and the screen honed in on his stomach. Bruce poked at it and fixed it.
Tony blinked, "You're saying he's smarter now?"
"Welcome to my life," Loki told him.
Vitskertr: Short-wit
Skreyja: incompetent
Daufi: stupid
Oskilgetinn: born out of wedlock
hrafnasueltir: coward
So, as I said before, I am working on fixing my grammatical errors on the other chapter and then I will post it. After that I will get to work on the next chapter. It is done in my head but now I have to translate it to paper.
