Loki's Glorious Purpose

Chapter 3

Loki's pov:

"Who's she? What does she want with Sylvie?" I ask as Mobius and Y/n escort me out before I cause anymore trouble then I've already caused.

"General Dox. Don't worry. Are you okay?" Mobius answers all my questions quickly, as we round a corner.

"What happened with the cloud monster?" Y/n asks, holding my hand.

"Alioth? Alioth was a distraction. He was a guard dog. We found him. A Citadel at the End Of Time." I answer her question, squeezing her hand a little, reassuringly.

"But where's Sylvie?" Mobius asks, changing the subject.

"I don't know, she's still there. I just wanted time to think it was an impossible choice, but she seemed so certain. How could she be given the possible consequences? I just wanted time to think!" I finally take a deep breath as we stop at a hallway, to give me some time to relax a little.

"Okay, slow down, Loki." Y/n tells me.

"You wanted time to think, so let's think." Mobius nods his head, as I'm still catching my breath.

"It's okay." Y/n adds, smiling up at me.

"Mobius, Y/n. We got to the man at The End Of Time, and he made sense. We thought it was about freeing the timeline, but that brings only more malevolence, more violence, more war. More of him, they're coming, they're all coming."

"Who?" Mobius asks.

"You came to kill the devil." I add, scared for my life.

"I don't understand.." she tells me, as she takes her hand off of mine.

"Maybe he was.." I breathed. "But maybe he wasn't. And.. she was convinced he was."

She stands next to Mobius, he looked at her, confused and she mouthed 'Sylvie' to him, getting him caught up on what he was confused about, he nodded his head a few times, understanding now. I turn around pacing a few steps forward, then turn around back to look at Y/n and Mobius.

"We fought, Mobius and Y/n, and she kicked me through a Time Door." I shake my head disapprovingly.

"Well, I'd ask who won, but.." Mobius starts, looking at me, realizing I wasn't playing around.

"It was a draw." I said after a few seconds of silence.

"Yo- you both kicked each other through Time Doors simultaneously?" Mobius furrows his brows, confused.

"No. I was actively trying not to fight her. I was trying to stop her. She was going to kill him!"

"Stop. Relax. Forget about it." Mobius quickly tells me "Look, Renslayer kicked me down some steps, too. Listen, just calm down."

"I just wish I had tried harder. I wish I'd had more time."

"Don't do the coulda woulda shoulda. Focus on what we know." Y/n adds, whispering, as Mobius nods his head, not taking his gaze off of me.

I shift my gaze to a banner on the wall right next to us "That." I point with my finger to the banner of people attacking others "That is what we know. War. And it's on its way. And maybe it's true, everything he was doing, the pruning, the preservation of the Sacred Timeline, it was about preventing more of him. There was no simple choice there was no other way." I take a deep breath, bringing my gaze from time to time to Mobius, the banner, then to Y/n with pleading eyes.

"That's who you showed us in there?" Y/n asks as my eyes land on her once again.

"He Who Remains, this is his kingdom. And he said he keeps us safe, but how can you believe that? He built this place." I look around for a moment, looking at what he created.