Protector (EN)

Chapter 32

Loki's view

I was still sitting in Stark Tower. In the meantime I made myself very comfortable. I sat on the couch, had an ice cream sundae in my hand and was still watching TV. The Hobbit. If I were to be sent on such a journey, I would be there without a second thought. Just like with the Lord of the Rings. I love these films.

Nevertheless, I had to think of July. She was in danger and I had a terrible feeling about it. Is that what you call a guilty conscience? If so, that's what I had. All the time I was thinking about Tony's words. But I also had to think about July herself. I know I'm the last thing Juli wants to see, like Tony said. But I couldn't sit here idly watching anymore.

So I decided to put the sundae away and get ready to go to Juli's rescue. I put on my armor and took two daggers. Now I made my way back to the area I had found.

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Once there, I immediately went into the big building, through the small open window where the bars were jumbled. Inside the building I could see a fight going on. 1 against 1. At the same time I heard a third person. I ran in the direction where the fight was taking place and found out who was fighting whom. Gamora and a strange man were engaged in a fight, while Petr Qiull held Juli in his arms. The strange man was superior to Gamora. She was clearly losing the fight. I wrapped myself in the action. The stranger wanted to hit Gomora in the face with his fist, but I quickly grabbed his hand so that it did not come to that. He looked at me, startled, and then tried to fight me. I took a dagger in my hand and poked him in the side belly. He doubled over in pain, but that bought us more time.

"Loki, what are you doing here?" asked Peter in shock.

"What he's doing here isn't that important. The main thing is that he's been there and helped us along. One of us should take her to safety" Gamora spoke and pointed to Juli, who was still in Peter's arms. She looked pretty beat up. She was stained with blood everywhere. That bastard has tortured her enough. We fled outside of this big building.

"Loki?" then Peter began uncertainly. "I think you'd better get Juli to safety. The others need us and I don't think Tony would be thrilled about you suddenly showing up." When he was right, he was right. Besides, someone had to do it. I took Juli then and was about to leave the scene when a suit from Tony rammed into me from the side. I fell to the ground with Juli. I still tried to hold her up so she wouldn't hit the ground too hard. The hall, behind the big building, collapsed. Everything flew into the air. Especially the unusable scrap metal. From behind came the asshole in person. We all quickly scrambled to our feet.

"I suppose you thought you could escape? Especially without giving me what I need?" the bastard laughed evilly. While he was talking to us, something big grew behind him. Whatever it was, no matter how stubborn Tony Stark was in accepting my help, he would definitely need my help here.

"Whatever you thought you were going to gain by Juli's imprisonment, you're not succeeding. You know who you're dealing with, don't you?" shouted Peter Quill. In the aftermath, a fight could be seen that seemed to have been going on for some time, but was only now gaining his attention. Iron Man was fighting in the air against one of those old metal machines. Cap was swinging his shield against one of those things. Clint and Natasha were a little less lucky, as the bow and pistol they had didn't get them anywhere, but only into more trouble. Hulk took on three of these parts and the rest fought these things together.

Iron Man caught a glimpse of us and froze when he saw Juli in my arms. As he was also distracted from the fight, his opponent hit his mask. Tony flew very far away and slammed into another building. It was pure chaos to see. Unfortunately, I couldn't react quickly as the same previous suit hit me again and Juli fell out of my arms. I held a hand to my eye, which again burst open even more extremely. The suit went towards Juli and grabbed her. I immediately got back up and took up the fight against him. My daggers would be no help to me here, but my powers would be. If only I had them now. I picked up one of the nearby metal rods and struck at Tony's invention. Dents formed on the outside, but it was not enough to disable it. I struck it several times and there came the expected result. Sparks flew into the air from the suit. But unfortunately it was not enough. The suit grabbed the staff at the other end and flung me a few feet away.

Peter Quill and Gamora also got wrapped up in the action long ago.

I stood up again. Only to protect Juli. I limped in her direction. Unfortunately, I couldn't outrun the suit. He grabbed Juli by the upper arm and the suit opened up and completely engulfed Juli inside.

"Aaaaaahhhhh" I screamed and hit the metal piece with my bare hands. I was afraid I might hurt Juli, so I then used other ways to open the suit to get Juli out of there safely.

The suit hit my face one last time before flying away from my location. With Juli. I lay motionless on the floor. Not because I was knocked out. Simply because I was disappointed more and more by myself. My hope to still make everything good was as deep as I was on the ground.

"Loki? Is everything all right with you?" I heard Thor's voice. It was so gentle. If I had heard that gentle voice from Thor before, I might never have hated him. He knelt down to me and held out his hand for me to stand up. After a few seconds, I also grabbed his hand and he then pulled me up.

"I failed. You were right from the beginning brother. I am a failure" I started hating myself.

"No, bro. You are not a failure. The will that you wanted to save Juli counts. And we haven't lost the battle yet. We will save her together. You with by our side. We need your help. If you weren't there, Juli would still be in the buildings and maybe she would be dead if you hadn't come to Peter and Gamora's rescue. I know what Juli means to you. And if the others could see that, maybe they would understand your fear for her. The others only think that you want to kill her. But I see something else. Believe me, Loki," Thor continued to speak softly to me. I was just torn by his niceness, but what was Juli supposed to mean to me. In one way, she actually began to mean something to me, and I certainly didn't want anything to happen to her. In the other respect, Juli would on the one hand never return my feelings and on the other hand I would be a dead man, if only because of her father.

"What does July mean to me?" I asked, pretending not to know. Thor laughed at me a little and pushed me aside playfully. "Loki, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You tease her. You like being around her and honestly? You think I didn't notice your jealousy when you saw me talking to Juli?" he laughed a bit, thus prompting me to focus on the next step. The fight against those old metals and, above all, the rescue of Juli Stark.