Loki

Chapter 10

Loki: ...Thor?

Tony: You should stop comparing me to Thor. (Tony chucks the copper dome at Loki, who barely manages to escape down a subway tunnel) You can run, Loki, but you can't hide!

(The citizens start crowding around Tony, praising him)

Mayor: We're saved! We're saved! What's your name, new hero?

Tony: It's Iron Man.

Mayor: Thank you. Thank you! Iron Man has freed us.

Tony: Oh, I wouldn't say free. More like, under new management.

(He flicks the Mayor, sending him rolling down the street. Cut to Loki, ringing the doorbell to Maddie's apartment)

Maddie: (groans) What do you want?

Loki: Iron Man's turned evil.

Maddie: Congratulations, another one of your genius plans has backfired on you. And why did my doorman let you up? [Loki gives her a dehydrated cube] (gasps) Carlos!

[Maddie tries to shut the door on him]

Loki: Please Maddie, no! No! I need your help.

Maddie: Why do you need my help?

Loki: (sighs) Because you're the smartest person I know.

Maddie: (sighs) But you can't hide here. (She lets him in)

Loki: The copper should have worked. Why didn't the copper work? The copper worked perfectly well last time.

Maddie: Copper? You're not making any sense.

Loki: Look, if we don't find Iron Man's weakness, he'll destroy the whole city.

Maddie: Okay, how can I help?

Loki: We need to find answers. You knew Thor best, did he have a hideout? A cave? A solitary fortress of some kind? Anything that would give us clues?

Maddie: Well, there is one place I know. (Cut to them driving in a somewhat abandoned field) You gave him these powers, can't you just take them away?

Loki: I can't. I lost my diffuser gun when I misplaced the invisible car. The night you dumped me. Alone. In the rain. Did you ever look back?

Maddie: No!

[she breaks hard causing Loki's head to hit the windshield]

Loki: Ow! My blue head!

Maddie: Whoops. I guess we're here.

Loki: (grunts) So, this is where he hid it. After all these years. My old shoolhouse.

(Cut to them inside the abandoned schoolhouse)

Maddie: You know, I think there's an apology in order for the other night.

Loki: Okay, that would be nice, but make it quick. We have much more pressing matters to deal with.

Maddie: (frustrated groan)

(He opens the door to a large Thor themed lounging area, with many different relics from his glory days)

Loki: Wow! I can't believe he kept all this stuff. (He sees a cape with a neck rest attached) (sighs) I remember when he wore that.

Maddie: Shouldn't we try to stay focused here?

Loki: Yes, of course, right, focused.

Maddie: Hey! Come over and look at this. 

(Loki stumbles over, wearing the neck rest cape)

Loki: What is it? What did you find?

Maddie: Um. Look. This glass has ice cubes in it.

Loki: Yes, that's what happens when water gets cold.

(Thor with a robe and beard walks behind them, shocked to see them, and tries to quietly walk away)

Maddie: No. What I'm saying is don't you think it's a little odd that the ice hasn't melted yet?

Loki: One of life's great mysteries.

(Thor's step creaks a floorboard, causing Maddie and Loki to both slowly turn and make eye contact with Thor)

Thor: Hey.

[Loki and Maddie both scream. Cut to a news report of Iron Man destroying New York City]

News Reporter: We now have confirmed reports. Iron Man, first thought to be the city's new hero, has turned evil. The city has never seen this level of destruction. If only Thor were still alive.

Maddie: You're alive?

Loki: You're alive?

Thor: I'm alive.

Maddie: But...but...but we...we saw your skeleton. You were dead.

Loki: Are you a ghost?

Maddie: There had better be an amazing explanation for this.

Loki: Speak, apparition.

Thor: (after a long pause) Okay. Okay, okay, okay. You both deserve the truth. It all started back at the observatory.

(flashback)

Thor: [voice over] Maddie was kidnapped, I was gonna stop you. My head wasn't in the game that day. We were kind of goin' through the motions. So, using my super speed, I decided to go clear my head. Then I realized, we had done this same silly charade our entire lives. I tried to get my mind off how I was feeling, but I just felt stuck. And I began to realize, despite all my powers, each and every citizen of New York had something I didn't. A choice. Ever since I can remember,  I've always had to be what this city wanted me to be. But what about what I wanted to do? Then it suddenly hit me. I do have a choice! I can be whatever I wanna be! No one said that this hero thing had to be a lifetime gig. You can't just quit either. That's when I got the brilliant idea... to fake my death.

Thor: Copper drains my powers!

Loki: Your weakness is copper?

Thor: Once your death ray hit, I've never felt so alive. So I borrowed a prop from a nearby nursing school. Thor was finally dead! And God of Thunder was born!

Maddie: God of Thunder?

Thor: That way I can keep my logo.

Loki: Cause of what?

Maddie: Come again?

Thor: I was finally free to get in touch with my true power. Weaving lyrical magic. Check this out. [he starts to play the guitar] [singing] I have eyes, that can see, right through lead...

Maddie: You're horrible!

Loki: Granted, you have talent! But there's a madman out there destroying our... your city!

[Maddie starts to throw things on to Thor's head]

Maddie: How could you do this? The people of the city relied on you and you deserted them. You left us in the hands of...HIM! [to Loki] No offense.

Loki: No, I'm with you! Look, we need your help.

Thor: I'm sorry. I really am. Um, I'm...I'm done. You know, little buddy, there's a yin for every yang. If there's bad, good will rise up against it. It's taken me a long time to find my calling. Now it's about time you find yours.

(outside)