Mobius and Sylvie sat down with Jörmungandr as the two male Lokis took fighting positions, readying their arsenals of Asgardian magic and staring each other down. Jokey Loki gestured to Detective Loki to make the first move, since he had previously ambushed him with a speeding monorail train.

The detective nodded in appreciation and gathered green energy into his palms, firing a huge blast at his adversary. Jokey Loki steered his mobile merry-go-round horse to stand upright and pulled the reins. The creature whinnied, then the magical bolt went straight into the ceramic horse's mouth, vaporized harmlessly inside.

"Ah, a distraction." Jokey Loki noticed his opponent disappeared. He looked behind him for his variant, the most logical place for a Loki to strike, but to his astonishment, Detective Loki charged in from the front and knocked him off his horse. He then magically enhanced the equestrian animal, giving it a total of eight legs.

"I knew your horse was missing something!" The detective remarked. "Your move."

"A Loki attacking with a frontal assault… I must admit, I'd have never expected that. Well played." Jokey Loki commended. "I'll have to up my game a smidge." He looked around, sizing up the different rides in his mind, and then he smirked when he chose his target. "Perfect. Since you've turned my riding animal against me, I think it's only fair that I should do the same with yours."

He strutted over to a long, golden-colored roller coaster and flowed his magic through it until it glowed and began to come to life. As it wriggled and displaced itself from the tracks, its shape morphed until it resembled that of Jörmungandr, even down to its forked tongue. Jokey Loki then mounted the newly-formed serpent and pointed it to slither in his opponent's direction.

"Right, and I'm not allowed to have the real Jörmungandr aid me?" Detective Loki reviewed.

"Correct, only non-living objects controlled with our magic."

"Fair enough." Detective Loki spurred on his steed, and it took a running leap over the snake, narrowly avoiding getting struck by its tail. Detective Loki cast the serpentine ride on fire, but the opposing Loki promptly used his Jotun cryokinesis to freeze the flames and extinguish them. Jokey Loki then froze the legs on the animated horse and pushed Detective Loki off, from the momentum of his horse suddenly stopping and his telekinesis. Detective Loki rolled into a somersault and turned towards his adversary. He cast multiple duplicates of himself, buying himself enough time to thaw the horse's legs. A fake Detective Loki then remounted the ceramic steed, occupying his foes' attention while the original flung a pair of ice daggers into the great snake's makeshift eyes, while Jokey Loki knocked out the horse again with a surge of green energy.

From the sideline seats, Sylvie cocked her head. "For such an embarrassing clown, he's putting up a decent fight."

Mobius nodded. "They seem pretty evenly matched, but as far as I know, our Loki can't bring inanimate objects to life."

"Not yet."

"Yeah, he can't yet. But he can enchant the rides the other Loki animated, can't he?"

Sylvie shook her head. "Without a mind or any memories to access, enchantment won't work. He'd have better luck trying to enchant the other Loki, if he can."

The two Lokis fired their most powerful beams of magic, and they collided together, neither side having a clear advantage. Seeing this, each Loki teleported, leaving the magical energy to cause an explosion. Jokey Loki reappeared on top of the ferris wheel, and Detective Loki appeared in the same passenger car, aiming a kick at the prankster, but he passed right through him. A flurry of icy daggers flew at Detective Loki from one of the seats below, yet they passed through him as well.

The two Jotun tricksters disappeared and reappeared around the spinning ferris wheel in turn, going back and forth between attacking and evading the other. After they tired of the height and the scenery, they teleported into the bumper cars.

"How about we try, as the Midgardians like to call it, a game of chicken?" Jokey Loki proposed. They used their telekinetic powers, and even their pyrokinetic ones, to give their cars a speed boost, leaving a trail of flames as they sped past each other. They turned their vehicles around and faced each other, headed toward a full-speed collision, but they each simultaneously teleported into another car just before they crashed into each other. They repeated this plan of action until there were only two unwrecked bumper cars left.

"Make your move, chicken." Detective Loki dared his variant. The Lokis drove towards each other one more time, yet this time Jokey Loki teleported both himself and his car together while Detective Loki continued straight into the path of a wall. Jokey Loki and his ride reappeared as the other car crashed into the wall, and he scanned the area for his pale variant.

"Hmm… let's see how long it takes me to find you, detective." However, it was the detective that found him instead as his brake shapeshifted into Detective Loki, who blasted Jokey Loki out of the building, and he teleported himself out after him before the final bumper car exploded.

"Well, do you yield, or have you thought of a new game for me to outsmart you at?" Detective Loki taunted.

"Oh, I do have at least one more trick up my sleeve, detective." Jokey Loki led his variant into a haunted house attraction, the title 'Hallowed House' in decrepit capital letters above the doors. He flashed a mischievous grin as they beheld all the spooky props and rides he planned to bring to life. Detective Loki studied his counterpart closely as he channeled magic into a row of false graves, and a horde of skeletons sprang forth from them, mindlessly surrounding him.

"I do believe I've got it down now." Detective Loki mumbled to himself. "Now I only require a knight in shining armor to come to my rescue." He turned to an empty suit of armor on display and flowed his own magic into it, learning the spell his doppelgänger used by imitation, and it tossed its prop javelin down the line of skeletons, handily beheading them.

"Oh how cliché, you're going to play the hero." Jokey Loki slowly clapped for him. "Then let's give you a real crucible!" He began to animate the ghosts, and as an added challenge, he shared his power of illusion and teleportation with them, allowing them to seemingly phase through the building like poltergeists in the movies. "And as long as outside weapons are now permitted…" He channeled his magic into the walls, causing the prop axes to come hurtling dangerously close to the other Loki's head.

"Alright, I can figure this out." Detective Loki told himself before ducking a few more axes, and subsequently a fiery blast from Jokey Loki, hidden behind the weapons. The sudden rush of blazing heat made Grievance panic, and the other Loki noticed him squirm away, revealing his Loki's full face for a moment.

"RRRAGH, that was close! We could end this quickly if you let me take control of us and just bite off his head." Grievance offered.

"No thanks, we're not going to kill this Loki just for prank calling us, and I'd much rather outsmart him like a true detective than merely plowing through his challenges with sheer brutality, like someone else I know. It's much more fun that way, anyhow."

"Oh, you didn't think I was done already, did you?" Jokey Loki asked. He cast transmogrification magic beneath him and teleported to the chandelier, hanging from it as the floor turned to ice cream with hot fudge where the rugs once were.

"Did he really just turn the floor into ice cream!?" Detective Loki tried to move, but he was stuck in the hot fudge up to his knees.

Grievance licked his lips. "I hate to say this, but I'm beginninggg to wonder if I chose the right Loki to host me. This guy is awesome!" His Loki tried to free himself by turning the floor back to normal, but he couldn't undo this spell. "Still having fun, Gumshoes Loki?"

"Most certainly, though I didn't expect things to get this… messy."

"Need me to help you with that? And help myself while I'mmm at it?" Grievance licked up some of the frozen floor.

"Wait, what if he's poisoned it?" Detective Loki pondered.

"Doesn't mmmatter: I can filter out any poison or harmful substance. If I couldn't, those demon peppers from Muspelheim you ate would have killed youuu. We are immune!"

"Ah, well, in that case, thank you, and be my guest." Loki joined his Symbiote in eating the delicious dessert that enveloped them, as Jokey Loki stared in confusion at the creepy, goopy creature attached to his variant. Soon, they freed themselves, and Detective Loki froze the remaining ice cream floor completely to avoid getting stuck again. "Now, I'll handle things from here."

"Suit yourself."

"Ah, there's an idea, Grievance!" Detective Loki dodged an axe, a ghost, and another axe. "I think I'll do just that!" Detective Loki extended his arm, and the empty suit of armor began to dismantle and reform together around him until Loki was covered head to toe as a shining silver knight.

"Wow. The other Loki was right, you arrrre cliché."

"You've truly been quite helpful in this case already, Grievance, but it's my turn. Now, I'm certain the other me can't completely control both the ghosts and the axes at once, so based on their movements, I'd say he's aiming the axes while allowing the animatronics to act as the controls for the ghosts. Their attacks are less frequent and more random, probably to keep a sense of unpredictability-"

"Wow, that brain is cooking!"

"-and with that, he'd figure keeping their pattern of illusions random would hinder me from seeing through my variant's strategy of attack, but not this Loki! I still know my own powers well enough to tell between illusionary projections and solid objects. Now… just to wait for an opportune moment…" He watched the possessed weapons flying around him, most bouncing off his armor or disappearing now, and as the next solid ghostly figured approached, he sliced into its electronics. The detective grinned and willed the freed electricity around the handle, and he tossed it through the other electronic props, the charge shorting them out and shocking the newly-given life out of them. He then sets the sparks ablaze, and they exploded in a breathtaking display of destruction.

"I believe this is yours!" Detective Loki quipped as he telekinetically displaced an L from the 'Hallowed House' sign and flung it at Jokey Loki, knocking him down from the chandelier.

The prankster swiftly rose to his feet, and both sorcerers extended their hands to stop the other with more magic, but Jokey Loki soon discovered he was facing an illusion as Detective Loki teleported to the prankster's side, cuffing his hands in restraints before he could cast a spell!

"No, not yet! I still have more games we can play!" Jokey Loki protested. "We haven't even tried the fun house yet!"

"Sorry, but I've had enough fun for now. I win, and you're going on a one-way trip back to Asgard."

"Nicely done, though we may have some explaining to do about the ruined amusement park rides." Mobius complimented. He offered his Loki a snack from the stands. "Elephant ear?" Detective Loki made a slightly disgusted face until Mobius explained. "It's not what it sounds, just a pastry shaped like an elephant's ear."

"Oh, then yes please."

"With chocolate sauce?"

"Yes please!"

The detectives opened a door to Asgard and led the prankster through as his variant read him his rights. As they arrived, Heimdall announced their arrival to Odin and Thor, but just before they reached them, the bound Loki cast one more fire at Grievance, causing the Symbiote to retreat into his host's body, revealing his face. The prankster had meanwhile shapeshifted into a small child and pointed at his variant.

"This is the real Loki, see? He kidnapped me and brought me here to take his place in prison!" The pranking shapeshifter lied.

"Is this true?" Odin asked.

"No- well, I am a Loki, but he's the Loki from your timeline. He obviously just shapeshifted to escape punishment." Detective Loki argued.

"Please take me back to Earth, I miss my mommy!" The disguised boy pleaded. "I- I wanna go home-"

"Oh please, not even Thor is thick enough to believe this farce!"

"Worry not, child, you are safe now." Thor uncuffed Jokey Loki and turned him over to Heimdall, ignoring the detectives' protestations.

The disguised Jokey Loki smirked at the detectives just before the Bifrost activated. "Enjoy it while you can, Loki." He was then whisked away back to Earth.

"This one, he admitted he's Loki." Thor summarized, pointing at Detective Loki. "He must be punished."

Detective Loki facepalmed.