Loki

Chapter 1B

(Disclaimer: The following work is a written transcription of the Marvel show Loki and is not my original work. The settings, characters and plot developments do not belong to me.)

Aix-En- Provence, France

1549

The floors of the monastary were lined with the bodies of Minutemen. A man in a suit looked down at the fallen corpses littered across it with the other team of Minutemen following close behind him.

"The Hunter and his Minutemen responded to the routine Nexus Event." One of the officers stated. "It appears that when they arrived, somebody got the jump on 'em."

"You think." The man in the suit said.

"It's him." Hunter U-92 stated.

The suited man squatted down, staring inquisitively at the bodies. "Yeah, stab wounds look consistent with the others. Positioning of the bodies indicates they didn't know what the hell hit 'em. And reset charge is...gone."

"That's the sixth attack in the last week." Hunter U-92 said.

"That we know of." The suited man added.

The doors at the entrance of the monastary suddenly cracked open and the loud clatter of feet banged echoed across the hall as a figure ran across.

"Hey!" Hunter U-92 shouted, reacting to the sound immediately by activating his Timestick.

"Wait, stand down! Stand down!" The man in the suit said, placing a hand on the Hunter's weapon. "It's just a kid."

The suited man strolled down the aisle. "I'm sorry." He stated in French. "My friend is an imbecile."

"Hey!" Hunter U-92 shouted back in French. "I speak every language on the Timeline too." and then deactivated his Timestick. "Jackass."

The suited man approached the girl at the end of the naves and produced a small device from his pocket, activating it before drawing an image of a yellow stick figure on its screen and offering it to the girl.

When she accepted it, the suited man tapped his wrist at her, whispering. "Tap it."

When she tapped on the device the figure on the screen came to life, hovering above the screen in a walking animation. The girl smiled at it in glee.

"Do you know who did this?" The man asked her in French.

The girl produced a ginger nod and then pointed over at the window to a coloured window painting of a horned devil in a golden robe sitting on a gilded throne suspended over flames.

The suited man looked back at her with a concerned look that soon shifted to reassurance. "Don't worry that devil's afraid of us. We're going to take care of you..." Then gently poked her on the collar before taking back the stick figure device. "We're going to take care of you and put you back where you belong."

The girl smiled, revealing a set of blue coated teeth.

The suited man gestured towards his own teeth then in French. "That blue? What is that?"

The girl reached into her pockets to pull out an object, giving it to the suited man.

"KABLOOIE" The words printed on the package of gum read.

"Devil bearing gifts." The suited man commented upon accepting the gum package. He then handed the object over to Hunter U-92 as he approached down the aisle. "Go ahead and run this for sequence period and any hints of temporal aura."

"You know we won't get anything." U-92 said.

"Yeah, just give it a shot." The suited man said.

A beeping sound emulated from U-92's tempad. The Hunter checked it to reveal a screen with a variant slope rapidly forming across it. "The branch is nearing red line. We need to go."