"Right… well… this is a predicament." Loki shook his head as he looked around. He was in a dark blue room, he was on his knees and his hands chained to a wall behind him. Next to him was Korg, a surprisingly soft and gentle Kronan (rock people for those who don't know), on his other side was Miek, a purple creature that was pretty much just a massive insect that was about the size of a small human child. Loki knew that it was only a matter of time before all three of them were either tortured, killed, or both. "Though to be honest, not the worst situation I have ever been in."
"Oh really?" Korg asked in an interesteded voice. "What was the worst?"
"Hard to choose. There was a situation involving some mistletoe that really didn't go well, there was that thing with the horse…" Loki trailed off before shaking his head. "Anyway, that's not important."
"Sounds interesting though." Korg pointed out.
"Either way, we have to work on escaping," Loki replied. Miek let out several long chirping sounds in response.
"Miek's right," Korg nodded in agreement. "what do you want to do after we escape?" He asked.
"We need to get to Earth," Loki responded.
"Why Earth?"
"Because it's closer than Asgard and there are a few people there, including but not limited to a very crazy wizard, who can help us. Plus we can find a way to contact Asgard from there." Loki took a deep breath before he began planning a way to escape.
He couldn't believe that his ship had been ambushed by Thanos of all people, to make things worse, the big-chinned purple maniac had taken the tesseract and had removed the infinity stone from it. Loki knew that one day his kleptomania would get him into trouble, his mother had predicted it. So had Odin, to make things worse, even Thor had, if Thor could see it then that meant it had to be very obvious as far as Loki was concerned.
'I should have listened to Mother,' Loki thought to himself. 'actually, why didn't I? She's undoubtedly the sanest of all of us, not that that's a difficult thing to achieve.'
"We need to escape this room and get to one of the smaller ships," Loki spoke up.
"Why?" Korg asked.
"Because this ship, as impressive as it is, is not designed to be as fast as possible, rather for mass transport." Loki began patiently explaining. "The smaller ships, are designed for speed and can get us to Earth before Thanos."
"Ooh, that's clever." Korg complimented.
"Of course it is," Loki smiled. "I came up with it."
"While we escape, maybe we should damage something to slow them down, like the engine room," Korg suggested, causing Loki to stare at him with a surprised look on his face.
"I thought you to be nothing more than a simple-minded pile of rocks, you are clearly not as stupid as you look." Loki nodded to him.
"Aw, thanks." Korg smiled.
"Now, to work on my escape plan." Loki grinned, escaping would be hard, but when you're the god of mischief, it wouldn't ever be impossible.
.....
"I'm hoping this is important," Harry said as he, Padfoot, Sif and Hela walked into Avengers headquarters.
"Harry," Steve greeted him. "where's Natasha?" He asked after greeting Sif.
"She's at home looking after a baby that I currently want to play with," Harry answered honestly. "oh, and this is my new friend, Hela," Harry added, gesturing to Hela who didn't respond beyond a small nod to Steve.
"Ma'am," Steve nodded to her before turning to Harry. "I would ask more questions, but we're running short on time, follow me." Steve turned and walked away, with the others following after him. Steve guided them to a room where the rest of the Avengers were. As soon as they had entered the room, a silver blur zoomed across the room and a second later Pietro was kneeling in front of Padfoot and began stroking him.
"Good boy," Pietro smiled at Padfoot before looking up and noticing Hela. He stood up and offered her a charming smile. "and who are you?" He asked.
"Not interested." Hela dismissed him with a roll of her eyes.
"Pietro," Wanda groaned, pulling Pietro next to her with her powers. "we don't have time for this."
"She's right," Rhodey agreed. "we need to get to work."
"On what?" Sif asked.
"The potential end of the world." A voice replied just as Loki walked into the room, followed by Korg and Miek.
"Hi new guys," Korg smiled at Harry and the rest. "I'm Korg, and this is Miek. And that's our leader, Loki."
"We've met." Sif cut in before more could be said. "What are you doing here, Loki? I thought you had left."
"That was the plan," Loki sighed. "but we were ambushed on the way."
"Ambushed?" Harry frowned.
"Yes, it's a long story but I'll try to be quick," Loki replied before he began explaining. "and that's about it." He finished a minute later.
"So, let me get this straight," Harry spoke up. "Thanos is coming here, to Earth?" He asked.
"Yes."
"Because he wants the stones?" He asked.
"Pretty much."
"And he already has one of them because you're a kleptomaniac and an idiot, correct?"
"Not how I'd phrase it, but yeah."
"Right, I've decided then, I'm going to kill you." Harry calmly informed Loki.
"As entertaining as that'll be to watch," Tony interrupted. "perhaps we should deal with the aliens first." Harry blinked and stared at Tony as if he had just given him the answer to the most difficult question in the universe.
"Yes, yes, you're right," Harry said thoughtfully. "and after I'll bind him and make him my daughter's slave."
"What?" Sif stared at Harry, joined by the rest of the room including a gaping Loki.
"I'd like to see any other father give their daughter an actual god," Harry muttered under his breath. "I'll be the best."
"I'm not going to lie, I would've loved that when I was younger," Hela commented.
"Okay, back to the invasion," Sif spoke up, deciding to get this meeting back on track. "how long do we have?" She asked Loki. Loki opened his mouth to respond but was cut off as another voice spoke up.
"About two hours or so, give a take half an hour." Everyone in the room turned to the source of the voice and found a man standing in the corner of the room. The well-dressed man was supporting a wide smile as he stared back at everyone. His silver-grey hair was combed back, he had on a pair of sunglasses and supported an eye-catching white moustache that rested comfortably above his upper lip. "Hello everyone." He smiled.
"Stan?" Harry blurted out. "What the heck are you doing here?"
"Oh my…" Hela sucked in a deep breath and stared at Stan with wide eyes.