"So what is it exactly that you do?" Steve asks as Hestia grabs a parachute and hands him the gear.
"Not much. Bit of gardening, sometimes helping stray animals." She replies with a smile and Steve rolls his eyes. "I guess you just have to trust me." He raises an eyebrow as the ramp opens and she walks towards it. He places down his own parachute and walks towards her. "See you down there." She winks and jumps down, landing on her feet only to see that Steve did the same thing. She raises an eyebrow at him and he narrows his eyes, both of them showing that they did not expect that from the other.
They sneak towards the crowd, Natasha as their back-up flying towards them slowly.
"KNEEL!" Everyone becomes quiet and kneels in front of Loki as he stands before them with his arms out, smiling devilishly. "Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? 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. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel." As the words resonate to the kneeling crowd, an elder man refuses to kneel and stands up.
"Not to men like you."
"There are no men like me."
"There are always men like you." The elder man spits.
"Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example." Loki is about to execute him with his scepter as the light glows blue. Just as the energy beam shoots out, Steve jumps in. He dives in just in time and blocks the blast with his shield, knocking down Loki.
"You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." Hestia stays low as she creeps closer.
Loki stands up. "The soldier. A man out of time."
"I'm not the one who's out of time." From above Cap, the Quinjet arrives. A machine gun is pointed towards Loki.
"Loki," Natasha voice sounds. "Drop the weapon and stand down." Like lighting, Loki sends a blast of blue energy at the Quinjet. Natasha maneuvers it just in time, giving Cap the time to throw his shield at Loki. They both begin to fight and Hestia narrows her eyes. Loki flings Cap to the ground. Cap then throws his shield, but Loki swats it away as if it were nothing. Cap is knocked down by Loki, the latter standing over him, he points the scepter's tip on his helmet.
"Kneel." Loki demands with a smirk and Hestia walks up to the two. Loki narrows his eyes and Steve sees the aportunity to flip him over, using his legs. Loki grabs him and FLIPS him over.
Music resounds through the sky and it makes Steve, Loki and Hestia look up.
Tony flies over in his Ironman suit and blasts Loki right back to the ground. Tony touches down and as he stands up, every piece of weaponry the suit has pulls out.
"Make your move, Reindeer Games." Hestia holds back a chuckle and Loki quickly glares at her. This moment not going unnoticed by Steve.
Loki puts up his hands and surrenders and his armor materializes away.
"Good move."
"Mr. Stark." Steve says a little out of breath.
"Captain." Tony acknowledges. "Hestia." She places her hand to her head, saluting him and walks over to the Quinjet, leaving the two men to get Loki on board.
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Natasha watches the skies. Thunder was coming out of nowhere. Fury speaks over her headset.
"Said anything?"
"Not a word." Natasha replies and Nick sighs.
"Just get him here. We're low on time."
With Loki tied up and cuffed to his seat, Tony and Steve watch from a distance, whispering.
"I don't like it." Steve looks over towards Loki who was doing his best to avoid Hestia's glare.
"What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?"
"I don't remember it being ever that easy. This guy packs a wallop."
"Still, you are pretty spry, for an older fellow. What's your thing? Pilates?"
"What?" Steve asks confused.
"It's like calisthenics. You might have missed a couple things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle." Steve looks at Tony and shakes his head.
"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in."
"Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you." Tony says as he looks at Hestia and Loki. They were sitting in front of each other and having what seemed to be a stare off.
Thunder and lightning nearly hit the jet, making it shake violently.
"Where's this coming from?" Natasha asks out loud. Thunder rumbles overhead. Loki stares out the window intently and Hestia narrows her eyes at him.
"What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?" Steve chuckles.
"I'm not overly fond of what follows." Realisation dawns on Hestia as she gets up and walks towards the ramp.
A blinding light hits the jet and the ramp in front of her opens. Tony puts his helmet on and wants to strike the man that grabs Loki but the two are already gone by the time the Avengers have processed what happened.
"Now there's that guy." Tony sighs and walks past Hestia who was debating on what to do.
"Another Asgardian?" Natasha asks.
"Think the guy's friendly?" Hestia smirks at Steve's question. He could be.
"Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost." Tony turns and gets ready to jump off the jet to chase after Thor.
"Stark, we need a plan of attack!" Steve says to him and Tony looks at him.
"I have a plan. Attack." Ironman jumps out of the jet and chases after the two. Cap grabs a parachute to follow.
Natasha looks back at Steve. "I'd sit this one out, Cap."
"I don't see how I can."
"These guys come from legends, they're basically gods."
"There's only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." Hestia chuckles as Cap jumps out of the jet.
"Yes yes," Hestia sighs as Natasha looks back at her. "I'll go."
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