[As Odin screams, lightning bolts flash and a giant thunderstorm rages over Asgard. Stephen and Steve are flying down to Earth, carrying Baby Loki.]
Stephen: Now, we did it! Odin is gonna use us for target practice!
Steve: Just hang onto the kid, Stephen!
[They fall, and Loki starts crying.]
Steve: Hurry! Let's just kill the kid and get it over with, okay?
Stephen: (opening the vial) Here you go, kid. A little Nordic formula.
Steve: Look at that! He's.. changing. [Baby Loki stops glowing as he drinks the potion] Can we do it now?
Stephen: No, no, no, he has to drink the whole potion! Every last drop.
Vision: (offscreen) Who's there? [Stephen and Steve run away, dropping the empty vial. It breaks and one last drop falls into the ground.] Wanda, over here.
Wanda: Oh, you poor thing! Oh, don't cry.
Vision: Is anybody there?
[Stephen and Steve look from the bushes.]
Steve: Now?
Stephen: Now. [Their shadows are shown as they walk and transform into snakes]
Wanda: Oh well, he must have been abandoned. For so many years we've prayed to the gods to bless us with a child. [Vision reads Loki's name from a medallion on his neck.] Perhaps, they've answered our prayers.
Vision: Perhaps they have... Loki?
[Stephen and Steve, as snakes, attack, but Baby Loki catches them, and giggling happily, hits them several times against the ground, ties into a knot and throws far away. Vision and Wanda stare with their jaws dropped]
Stephen and Steve: Help, help, help! [they turn to their normal forms]
Steve: Laufey is gonna kill us when he finds out what happened.
Stephen: You mean, *if* he finds out!
Steve: Of course he's gonna f-- If.. if is good.
[Pan to Asgard in dark clouds and then resolve to the Muses]
Sylvie: It was tragic. Odin led all the gods on a frantic search.
Yelena: But by the time they found the baby, it was too late.
Pepper: Young Lokes was mortal now, but since he did not drink the last drop. He still retained his godlike strength-so thank his lucky star! But Odin and Frigga wept, because their son could never come home. They'd have to watch their precious baby, grow up from afar. Though Laufey's horrid plan, was hatched before Lokes cut his first tooth, the boy grew stronger ev'ry day, and that's the gospel truth!
[Resolve to country with sheeps baaing. A carriage with a lot of hay moves along the road unnaturally fast, then we see Vision and his horse sitting before it.]
Vision: Loki, slow down!
[We now see it's young Loki who is moving the carriage. They enter a country fair, hitting a pair of workers on the top of the gate]
Vision: Look out! [workers fall]
Young Loki: Oops! S-s-sorry guys!
Worker 1: (falling down) Hey, watch where you're goin'!
Worker 2: Sunday driver!
[Loki enters the middle of the square and stops, burying himself into the ground shoulders-deep.]
Vision: Thanks, son. When old Penelope twisted her ankle back there, I thought we were done for.
Loki: No problem, Pop.
Vision: Uh, don't-don't-don't unload just yet. First I have to finagle with Phideas.
Loki: Okay. [he drops the hay on the cart which makes their horse, Penelope, fly up into the sky] Oops, sorry, Penelope.
Vision: Now, Loki, this time, please just—
Loki: I know, I know. [he catches falling Penelope] Stay by the cart.
Vision: That's my boy. [Loki stays until he sees a man losing balance with a big clay pot]
Man: Oh, my goodness. Whoa! [Loki catches him just in time]
Loki: Careful!
Man: Why ,thank you.
Loki: No problem
Man (sees Loki and looks frightened): Why, Loki! It's you!
Loki: Let me, let me help you with that
Man: No, no, no, no, no, I got it. [He almost falls under the giant pot.] I'm fine, you just run along.
Loki: Are you sure?
Man: Oh, yes. Absolutely.
[He leaves Loki outside in the street. A freesbee falls to his feet. He picks it up and sees three boys about his age]
Boy 1: Yo! Give it here!
Loki: Hey, you need an extra guy?
Boy 1: Uh.. sorry, Lokes. We already got.. five. And we want to keep it an even number.
Loki: Hey, wait a second. Five isn't an even—
Boy 1: (snatching the freesbee): See ya, Lokes.
Boy 2: What a geek!
Boy 3: Destructo boy.
Boy 1: Maybe we should call him "Monster". [Loki sits alone in the center of a square untill the freesbee appears above his head]
Boy 1: Heads up!
Loki: I-I got it!
Boy 1: No! Stop! [Loki hits a pillar, which starts falling]
Loki: Uh-oh.. Oh no!.. It's okay..
[He holds the pillar he has hit, but others start falling one by one, like domino. He sees that and throws the pillar he was holding away, but it hits another standing pillar and another domino wave starts going around the square.]
Loki: Hey! Whoa!
Vision: Son!
Loki: Hang on, Pop! Be right back! [The two domino waves seem to be aiming at the shop with clay pots]
Man: Oh my! Oh no! Don't! Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
[The last two pillars stop above the man's head. He sighs, relaxed, but Loki, who was running to save him, slips and slides to him fast]
Loki: Watch out!
[The town square is now destroyed. Loki stands in the rubble, feeling ashamed of himself, as the citizens leave the area.]
Boy 1: Nice catch, Monster.
Vision: Son-
Man: This is the last straw, Vision!
Voice: That boy is a menace!
Voice 2: He's too dangerous to be around normal people!
Vision: He didn't mean any harm, he's just a kid. He-he just can't control his strength.
Man: I am warning you. You keep that-that-that.. freak away from here!
Boy: Freak! Yeah, go away!
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Loki
FanfictionLoki, a son of gods, was snatched as a baby by Laufey and forced to live among mortals as a half-man, half-god. Now a teenager, Loki needs to perform a rite of passage on Earth to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus. With h...
