Sylvie held her casket with her good hand and covered her body in a makeshift suit of ice armor. She subsequently created a blizzard, shrouding herself in the storm. As Fiamma began heat up the air, Sylvie's mind flashed back to her conversation with Loki in the maze. "See the destination in my head…" She focused on the rock as the heat began to dissolve her cover. "And teleport!" The Fire Giantess aimed a huge blast at her opponent just as the blizzard cleared, not seeing the flash of green light from her location. The Frost Giantess stood her ground, though the icy armor around her appeared to be melting. Fiamma continued her fiery assault, engulfing her enemy before she could escape. However, there was another watching from behind them, waiting.

"That's my girl." Loki proudly said as he noticed the real Sylvie behind the rocks.

The Fire Giantess finished her attack, believing she had reduced the Jotuness to the ash littering the ground, but as soon as she ceased fire, the real Sylvie froze her from close behind with her casket. Fiamma struggled against it, but caught completely off guard, she didn't have time to evade or counter, and her body became cold and hard. She shivered violently while Sylvie punched her in the face with her unburned fist and followed with a kick to the gut.

The Frost Giantess stood over her, her foot over her chest. "You give up, or is this going to be a sudden death match?"

Fiamma looked up at her, who stared down with unmatched fury and resolve, glanced back at Loki, who looked happy for his girlfriend, and then to her siblings, who looked concerned for her. She sighed. "Alright. Victory is yours… today."

Gnista sighed. "I really can't believe Fiamma lost a match!"

Logi nodded. "But at least we didn't lose another sister." They approached their sister to comfort her, while Loki and Mobius respectively congratulated Sylvie.

"Your first teleportation, congratulations!"

"And right in the nick of time! Nice!"

"Thanks guys."

"Is your hand alright?" Loki asked, concerned.

"No. It felt like a third degree burn: I can't even feel it anymore." She removed her glove, which revealed a charred, bloody black wound.

Mobius winced. "The nerves must have been burnt off: not even ice or water will heal that."

"We can." Grievance suddenly spoke to his host. "Our healing abilities together."

Loki considered him. "May I try?" Sylvie offered him her hand, and Loki's hands glowed bright green around it, promptly closing the wound. Sylvie's eyes widened as she moved her fingers around, and the blackened parts crumbled away.

"It feels good as new! I didn't know you had such a powerful healing spell!"

"I didn't." Loki's glowed again, and he healed the burns on his girlfriend's sides too. "Thank you, Grievance."

"You're very welcome, Loki."

"So… how exactly do we arrest her?" Sylvie wondered.

"I have an idea." Loki opened a portal back to Ataraxia, explaining his plan to the people. "…and you have the technology to contain stars, yes? So, could you please make us a prison or something to contain her?"

"After she threatened to burn our planet to ash if we didn't make that suit for her? Gladly, but I have a better idea!" Their chief scientist replied before they made a pair of fire-resistant containment cuffs around her hands. "That'll hold her. At least, long enough for them to arrive and take her away!"

"You called for the police?"

"Even better." A few minutes after the containment unit was put on Fiamma, there was a flash of multicolored light, and three young women appeared inside: a blonde with a hammer, a redhead holding a mace, and a pink-haired wielder of a large battle axe. "The goddesses of thunder!" The Ataraxian leader proclaimed.

"Forgive us for our tardiness: we were fighting for our lives against the malevolent creatures of darkness themselves." The long, curly-haired blonde told them. She turned to the detective trio. "Are you the ones who stopped the Fire Giantess?"

"We are." Sylvie responded.

"Thank you. You're a mighty warrior to best the daughter of Surtur."

"'Goddesses of thunder?' Are you descendants of Thor, perchance?" Loki inquired.

"We are. I am Frigg, and these are my sisters, Ellisiv and Atli."

"Frigg, that's… a lovely name." Loki smiled, remembering his mother.

"So, where are you ladies planning on taking her?" Mobius asked.

"We have an intergalactic prison in the depths of Niflheim for very powerful, dangerous criminals like her." The redhead answered.

The short pink-haired woman grabbed Fiamma by the makeshift cuffs. "We hear you like visiting cold planets, huh? Well, you're gonna love the ice-cold cell we picked out, just for you!" As the thunderous triplicity held hands to take their prisoner away, Loki called.

"Wait! Just curious, who was your grandmother, Thor's wife?"

The ladies paused, until Frigg answered. "A remarkable woman." She summoned the Bifrost, and they disappeared in another rainbow-colored flash.

"Tch, typical."

"If they had told you, they'd probably have to kill you." Mobius joked.

"What? Why?"

"It's- never mind, just a reference. You wouldn't get it."

"I know that reference: it is from Top Gun, 1986!"

"Top Gun?" Loki echoed out loud.

Mobius did a double take. "Uh… yeah. Wow, he knows his movies!"

Loki thought for a moment. "How do you know a quote from a film of the 20th century?"

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."

"Of course, why did I bother?"

Next, the trio returned to Contraxia, telling the inhabitants the story of who the culprit was and how they caught her, and the Contraxians would spread the good news to the other affected planets.

Loki reverted back to his Asgardian form upon taking in the brisk climate and took one last look around the snowy planet. "Well, Grievance, now that this planet is safe and continually cold, it's time for us to part ways."

"What? Explain yourself."

"You yourself said this planet was paradise, all the snow and chocolate you can eat. I appreciate what you did for Sylvie, but I'm a detective of many times and universes: who knows how many heat-infested places I'll visit or enemies I'll face?"

"I told you, chocolate is not my favorite food. I want to eat-"

"Brains, yes, you made that abundantly clear! I, on the other hand, do not eat brains, and I quite liked having a mind and body all to myself! There must be someone on this planet who's a better host than I am!"

"You don't understand. Your job is to help people, to protect them, right? The boy I inhabited here was the only one who was close enough of a match with me. What do you think happened to the others, the ones who were not compatible?"

As Loki was about to mentally respond, the mother from the temple fire came to greet him. "Mr. Ouroboros, we can't thank you enough for all you've done for us!" She joyfully shook his hand.

"I'm glad I could help! How is your little boy doing?"

"He's never been better! I don't know how, but since you rescued him, he's been cured from the demon too!"

"The… demon?" Loki uneasily repeated, as if he needed clarification.

"A few years ago, he said he's been hearing this voice in his head. He's just a kid, so naturally, I think it's his imaginary friend, but not long before the fires started, he said the voice wanted him to, you won't believe this, eat human brains!"

"You don't say…" Loki's eyes shifted coyly to Mobius and Sylvie as they overheard the story.

"Now, I never let my little Rilly watch any zombie movies, so I took him to our temple the day you detectives visited, to get him looked at, and they said he had a demon in him! The priest told me to wait outside the temple while he performed a special ceremony, before the building was set on fire, but when I asked him afterward, he said he didn't even get the chance to perform the ritual! My son hasn't heard any voices in his head since!"

"That… is wild."

"Thanks to you, my son is the happy, carefree boy he used to be! Bless you!"

Loki smiled. "Anytime." As she returned home, he spoke to his friends. "Still think I'm suffering from heat-induced hallucinations?"

"Alright, alright, you may have contracted a demon." Mobius admitted.

"Symbiote. Alien symbiote." Loki corrected him.

"See? The child doesn't want me anymore, he wanted to be rid of me too, and I worried his family. But you… we could make a great crime-solving team! I just have this odd feeling, that you are going to need me very soon!"

"…you'd have to promise you won't hurt Mobius or Sylvie."

"Cross my heart and hope to starve. I'm getting fond of them too."

"And I'm not biting off any heads!"

"Fine, I'll bite off the heads for you. Deal?"

"How about a trial basis, until you find a more suitable host. For now. We'll see."

"Ready to go home?" Sylvie asked.

Loki nodded before she led him through the time door home, but he scrunched his eyebrows as he realized which home they had entered.

"Syl, why are we on Asgard?"

She and Mobius looked around. "That's odd. This is the Rainbow Bridge, isn't it?"

"Yeah, must be from before Thor destroyed it."

"No, I think it's after; you see that crack?"

"What crack?"

"There, in the center!" Sylvie pointed, and they walked to the center of the bridge.

Loki peered down. "I don't see anything."

Sylvie knelt down. "Keep looking." Loki gaped in astonishment as she made a ring appear, with a sparkling cubic blue gem that resembled the Tesseract, held out before his eyes. "Lo, the way I feel about you… I've never been close with anyone before I met you. Despite being born under the same identity, we've had our differences, loads of them, but you've more than earned my trust, and now I'm ready for us to become truly united. Loki Friggason, will you marry me?"

Loki sniffled, touched at Sylvie's unexpected sentimental speech. "Sylvie… you know I have something to say too."

"No surprise there, Sherlock."

They both smiled, and the Jotun-Asgardian prince spoke. "Syl, you never fail to amaze me. The things you've accomplished shape milestones most Lokis, most people scarcely even dream of, especially myself. You're my inspiration, my true glorious purpose, my superior Loki." He got down on one knee and conjured a green and gold ring to match her. "You are the only person in this multiverse I would gladly kneel before. You've enchanted me with a magic far more wonderful and profound than anything I've ever known. Sylvie… Lushton, I absolutely will marry you!"

Mobius clapped from the distance, while Grievance cheered from Loki's head. After a passionate kiss, they left the rainbow bridge for their more permanent residence, the Null-Time Zone. They all plopped themselves onto the furniture, particularly exhausted from this case.

"So, about that therapy session…" Mobius started. "I know the monster is real now, but I'll be right here if you need to talk… right after a quick nap."

"Sounds good to me." Sylvie concurred.

"Me three." Loki added. "Though… I suddenly feel as if I'm forgetting something." Loki shrugged, yet as he closed his eyes, they opened to find Casey, in full tourist attire, walking up to him. "Ah, right, SeaWorld. Want to join us? Sylvie?" Sylvie was silent, having already fallen fast asleep. "Mobius?"

"Do they allow jet skis?"

"I don't think so." Casey replied.

"Have fun. I heard the SeaWorld in San Antonio is pretty cool."

Loki took out his TemPad one more time. "Alright Casey, let's go see some fish!"

The black-haired pair explored the San Antonio park, recommended by their Texan friend. Casey excitedly pointed out many rare and exotic fish in a large aquarium, while Loki was the more eager spectator at the alligator exhibit. They both enjoyed watching the sea turtles, the whales, and even the sharks.

Despite Grievance pointing out to Loki which aquatic animals looked tastiest, he ignored the voracious Symbiote. He and Casey got to playfully interact with the dolphins and whales and feed the sea lions, who clapped their paws in delight. Loki, amused by the adorable majesty of the emperor and rockhopper penguins, conjured a light snowy flurry over them, causing them to dance a happy waddle, and he gave one a gentle high-five/fin. After a few rides at the amusement park, they returned to the Null-Time Zone.

"That was so fun! Thanks, Loki!"

"I had a lot of fun as well! I was tempted to take that penguin home with us, but alas." Loki sank into his bed, instantly falling asleep.