Loki

Chapter 5B

Sylvie woke up on a bed of twigs and branches. She looked around her and realized she was inside of an old, hollowed out, school bus. She looked around inquisitively. When she heard a crash of thunder and wind around her, she got to her feet immediately. Kicking out the front window of the bus, she escaped to see a menacing cloud of purple mist headed her way.

She leaped off of the bus as it was being devoured and bolted for it. Slowly the mist began to catch up to her. As she vaulted over another broken down car she reached out and touched a tendril of the purple smoke. A flash of green energy glimmered in her eyes as a series of images flashed through her mind. A giant carved out asteroid floating through space, and on it an enormous tower, a citadel at the center of it.

The images died away an reality came rushing back to Sylvie. The honk of a horn beeped. She looked ahead to see a car with a giant pizza on a spring attached to its roof heading her way. The car stopped in front of her and the back door opened up.

She got in and the car drove off. Sylvie looked to the driver.

"You!?" She questioned.

"Can you shut the door." Mobius said. "We still got a bit of a situation here."

Sylvie shut the door.

"By the way, you should be careful just jumping into a stranger's car like that." Mobius remarked.

A tendril of the cloud creature came rushing in front of the car.

"Watch out!" Sylvie pointed to it.

"I see it, I see it." Mobius said.

"Really, cause your driving right towards it." Sylvie said.

"God, you really are one of you." Mobius said. "Hang on!"

Mobius took a sharp turn to the left towards a set of Egyptian pyramids as he pumped the gas in a desperate attempt to outrun the horror that was behind them.

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President Loki smiled malevolently as he stood with his gang in front of the other Lokis.

"You bastard!" Classic Loki spat at Loki. "You led the wolves to our door."

"We prefer snakes to wolves." President Loki remarked.

"I've eaten both." Kid Loki said, stepping forward defiantly. "They die just the same."

Boastful Loki stepped forward and grabbed him from behind, holding the hammer up to his neck. "Apologies, my liege. I betrayed you." He said proudly. "And now...I'm king."

President Loki stepped forward. "About that..."

The gang of Lokis brandished their weapons behind him.

"You can't be serious." Boastful Loki said.

"Come on." President Loki said slyly. "What did you expect?"

"That was not the bargain." Boastful Loki stated. "I gave you our location. In exchange for shelter and supplies, you give me your army and I take the throne."

"Ah, yes." President Loki mused. "Not so good a bargain. How about this one: my army, my throne."

"About that..." One of the Lokis behind him said and a moment later all of the weapons were suddenly pointed at him.

President Loki stared in disbelief. "Oh you beef-witted, half-faced scrubs! We had a deal!"

In background Loki rolled his eyes in bewilderment at the display before him.