Sometimes I don't understand why they send me to do these types of things. I'm at the gala waiting for Loki to make his entrance, which I don't believe will be subtle.
As I'm scanning the room, I see a figure standing on the balcony. When he starts walking down the stairs, I recognize him at once. It's Loki. I almost didn't think that it was actually him. He was wearing a suit, and I couldn't help but think that he looked good in it. Guess I better make sure I don't tell anyone I thought that.
"Target spotted," I whispered into the earpiece I'm wearing.
"Lay low," Director Fury ordered me. "We don't want him to spot you."
I know that he probably spotted me in the car chase, but I don't think he would recognize me. I didn't have time to tell that information to Director Fury before everyone started gasping. Curious as to why I looked up.
Loki had swung at grabbed Dr. Heinrich Schӓfer and thrown him on a decoration table thing. He held the man down as he pulled something out of his pocket. Once Loki stabbed the Dr. in the eye with the device, everyone started running out and crying out.
I ran with everyone, trying to blend in, but I kept looking back to see what Loki was up to. As the device he had was doing, whatever it was doing, Loki was looking around. While I appreciated how nice the suit was on him, I didn't like the fact that he had an evil glint in his eyes.
Loki stopped holding down Dr. Heinrich Schӓfer and started walking towards the exit. The same direction everyone was running to. Great.
Looking back again, I saw a sort of glimmer surround Loki as his amour appeared.
I heard police sirens, and when they turned onto the street and started heading this way, Loki blasted one of them with his scepter. What did I get myself into?
When I felt the people in front of me stop and back up a little bit, I looked up. A clone of Loki had appeared and was standing in front of everyone.
"Kneel before me."
More clones of Loki appeared around the crowd of people, closing us in.
"I said," Loki started again, banging his scepter in the ground. "Kneel!" he yelled at everyone.
I kneeled along with everyone else, not wanting to give myself away.
"Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state?"
"It's not," I whispered to myself.
"It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity."
During his speech, Loki was walking through everyone, and as he was passing by me, I held my breath, hoping that he wouldn't see me or recognize me either.
"You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel."
Just after Loki's speech was finished, an old man stood up and looked at Loki.
"Not to men like you."
"There are no men like me."
"Come on Cap." I whispered to myself.
"There are always men like you."
Loki lifted up his scepter and make a statement to everyone. "Look to your elder, people." He pointed his scepter at the old man, and I watched as it glowed blue. "Let him be an example." Loki sent a blast towards the old man, but before it hit him, Captain Rogers finally dropped down, holding his shield in front of him.
The blast ricocheted off of his shield and hit Loki, knocking him to the ground.
"You know," Captain Rogers started, "the last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing."
"The soldier," Loki stood up, laughing a little. "The man out of time."
"I'm not the one who's out of time."
On cue, the quinjet flew into view and a gun emerged below the quinjet.
"Loki," I heard Agent Romanoff's voice on speaker, "drop the weapon and stand down."
Doing exactly what I thought he would, Loki aimed towards the quinjet and blasted. Before the blast hit its mark, the quinjet swerved out of the way.
Captain Rogers threw his shield at Loki, which resulted in the crowd getting up and fleeing the scene. I don't blame them.
I, however, ran to the shadows and stayed there, watching the fight between Captain Rogers and Loki. Both were getting some good hits to each other.
At one point the Captain was on one knee about to stand up when Loki stuck the end of his scepter on Captain Rogers' head.
"Kneel," Loki practically growled at Captain Rogers.
Captain Rogers just grabbed the scepter, taking it off of his head.
"Not today," he stated, going after Loki once more.
A couple of seconds later I heard music coming from the quinjet, only to be followed by Mr. Stark flying in wearing his Iron Man suit. He hit Loki with a blast of energy, who was sent flying to the ground.
Mr. Stark landed, then walked almost up to Loki and aimed his weapons at him.
"Make your move, Reindeer Games."
Captain Rogers walked up to where Mr. Stark was.
At the same time, a glimmer surrounded Loki again. This time, though, his battle armor disappeared and he was left in what I had seen him in the first time I ever saw him. He raised his hands up in defeat.
Mr. Stark made all his weapons disappear.
"Good move," he stated.
"Mr. Stark."
"Captain."
I watched as Captain Rogers and Mr. Stark loaded Loki onto the quinjet.
Once it was in the air and flying away, I decided to give Director Fury an update.
"Target is on the quinjet and headed your way."
"Thank you, Agent Olsen," Director Fury told me. "Follow the quinjet."
"Yes, sir."
After that order, I transfigured into an owl. No, I'm not an animagus, but I have been trained to turn into a dozen different animals. (I think this can happen in the wizarding world, which I read on Pottermore, but I'm not 100% sure.) I spread my wings and flew after the quinjet.
***
While I was following the quinjet, there was a sudden strike of thunder and lighting. Based on who we have in the quinjet, that can only mean one thing. Thor. A few moments later my guess was confirmed when Thor landed on the top of the quinjet.
I watched the hanger door opened, and Mr. Stark stepped near the opening. Before he could fly out, however, Thor moved onto the hanger door and hit Mr. Stark with his hammer, causing him to go flying backward.
A minute later, I saw Thor holding Loki by the neck and jump out of the quinjet using his hammer to help. Immediately, I dove down to follow them.
***
Several hundred feet later, Thor lands on the side of a cliff and throws Loki on the ground in front of him. I just landed on a nearby tree and tried to hide in the branches.
Loki lets out a grunt of pain, followed by some laughter.
"Where is the Tesseract?" Thor asks him.
"I missed you, too."
"Do I look to be in a gaming mood?"
"You should thank me. With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you have, to your precious Earth?"
Loki started to stand, and at the same time, I watched as Thor dropped his hammer before going over to Loki and pull him up to his feet.
"I thought you dead," Thor told Loki.
"Did you mourn?"
"We all did. Our father..."
Loki held up a finger. "You father."
Thor brought his hand down from where it was resting on Loki's neck. Loki turned and started to walk away when he spoke again.
"He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?"
"We were raised together. We played together, we fought together," Thor was saying as he walked towards Loki. "Do you remember none of that?"
Loki turned around.
"I remember a shadow. Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I, who was, and should be, king!"
"So you take the world I love as a recompense for your imagined slights? No. The Earth is under my protection, Loki."
Loki only laughs at his statement before giving Thor a reply.
"And you're doing a marvelous job with that. The humans slaughter each other in droves while you idly fret. I mean to rule them, as why should I not?"
"You think yourself above them?"
"Well, yes."
"Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. A throne would suit you ill."
Loki growls and Thor and pushes him out of the way before walking away.
"I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile. I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it..."
"Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be king?"
"I am a king!" Loki yells at Thor.
"Not here!" Thor grabs Loki by the front of his clothes. "You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream!" He moves one of his hands to Loki's neck. "You come home."
There was a pause between the two brothers before Loki shook his head.
"I don't have it."
Thor stepped back and summoned his hammer. Loki just continued talking.
"You need the Cube to bring me home. But I've sent it off, I know not where."
Thor raised his hammer and pointed it at Loki.
"You listen well, brother. I-"
Before he could finish, Mr. Stark flew into him.
"I'm listening," Loki said to Thor, even though he was no longer there.
This isn't what I originally had planned for this chapter. I really just wanted to include Loki's speech in Germany, and the dialogue between Thor and Loki on the cliffside, or it could be a mountainside, I guess.
Probably see you next week!