𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲

4) Glorious Purpose

The two arrived in a new hallway that neither recognized, so they stayed close as they walked down, trying not to look suspicious but probably out of place with their uniforms being the variant uniforms.

"Loki is that the man from earlier?" Wanda pointed out, stopping him in his walk.

Loki glanced to him, then to Wanda. The man was pushing a small cart down the hallway which seemed to be quite slow. He entered a door and Loki gestured for Wanda to follow him.

The two hurried to the door and Loki opened it and snuck in, Wanda following.

The room was a simple work place with a few corner desks aligned to be a square. The man from before stood at the closest table to them which was incredibly helpful.

Loki hurried over to him.

"Hey." He whispered.

"Hey!" The man did not whisper. "I know you. You're that criminal with the blue-"

Loki shushed him and pushed him down so that no one could see the two. Wanda joined them but went to the other side of the man so that he was surrounded. That might make him more willing to give up the tesseract.

"Ow." The man frowned at Loki's shoving.

"What's your name?" Loki asked.

"Casey." The man said with an annoyed and confused attitude.

Loki looked off for a moment before staring daggers at Casey.

"Give me the tesseract or I'll gut you like a fish Casey." He said aggressively.

Wanda raised an eyebrow, wondering how he would do this without his amplified strength or magic.

"What's a fish??" Casey asked loudly.

Loki shushed him again.

"What's a fish?" He re-whispered

"How do you not know what a fish is?" Loki asked, annoyed that the tactic didn't work immediately.

"I've lived my entire life behind a desk..."

"Well what difference does it make!?"

"I wanna know exactly what I'm being threatened with before I comply." Casey said with a shrug.

"Death. Casey." Wanda cut in before Loki could give any more ridiculous metaphors.

"Violent, painful death." Loki added.

"Okay! Okay, I comply, I comply." Casey said, raising his hands in defeat. "I comply jeez."

Casey stood up and opened his cabinet drawer. He then opened up a lid on the drawer and picked up the tesseract.

"This it?" He asked.

He handed the thing to Loki and Wanda stood up on the other side of him to see what else was in the drawer since Casey blocked her view.

Wanda's eyes widened at the view.

"What?" Loki said for her.

"Are these infinity stones?" Wanda asked. "How do you have these?"

"Oh we actually got a lot of those. Yeah, some of the guys use them as paperweights. Some of 'em." Casey replied cheerfully.

Wanda picked up an orange stone, the soul stone, and examined it for a moment before slipping it into the uniform pocket. Literally the only good thing about these uniforms.

She then stared at a yellow one for a moment. The mind stone.

The one ripped out of her previous lovers head.