Little Loki's Big Adventure

The Billionaire and the Captain

Loki walked down the hallway, his dark blue dress shirt hanging over his knees, his sleeves dragging over the floor. He looked outside the large windows, noticing how all the colorful flowers were blooming in the bright sun, bees buzzing around, working hard to collect precious nectar. It must be summer.

The raven then stopped as he heard the muffled sounds of music coming from a staircase leading down. At first, he thought they would probably lead to a basement but as he now heard a man's voice singing along to the loud music, he could not help but wonder what secrets would be down there.

Determent to find out what was downstairs, Loki held on to the handrails and made his way to the lower floor.

The raven laid his eyes on a man who seemed to be fiddling on some sort of red and golden full-body armory, singing loudly to the music that echoed through the air, moving his hips along with the beat. He must be working, or playing, it did look like he had a lot of fun. The raven observed the stranger for a moment, wondering whether he should leave or further investigate. Trusting his brother's words that these people were their friends he ventured further, looking at all the strange technology and weapons which were either carefully displayed or carelessly scattered across the floor. He then turned to the man, who was now writing down some formulas on a large whiteboard, mumbling to himself as he did so.

Loki moved towards the stranger without a sound, standing next to him and trying to understand the man's scribbles and calculations. 'Hi.'

'Holy shit!' Tony shouted as he had not noticed the raven was standing next to him this entire time, causing him to jump back and trip over some failed rocket-boots prototypes.

Loki quickly moved next to Tony, trying to help him up. 'I-I am so sorry, sir!' he said as he gathered some papers which Tony had dragged of a nearby table in his fall. 'Are you alright...?'

The playboy stared at the raven with wide eyes as he caught his breath. 'Friday?'

'Yes, sir?' A mechanical voice sounded, making Loki look up in search of where it came from.

'Why is there a kid in my workshop? Please don't tell me one of my one-night-stands dropped him off.' Tony said as he kept his eyes on the child, breaking out in a sweat as he already tried to think of a way to explain this to the captain.

'This is Loki, sir. A spell failed and backfired, causing his body to degenerate to a child-stage form.'

'... Of course it did,' Tony looked the trickster up and down one more time before jumping back to his feet again.

'You dropped this, sir...?' Loki said as he handed the playboy his papers back.

'Uh, Tony,' he took the papers from the trickster's small hands which were still hidden in his sleeves. 'This is so weird on so many levels...'

The trickster nodded along, not really knowing how else to react. 'Might I ask you for something to eat, sir?' he then asked, his hands now on his stomach as he came to realize he had not yet eaten breakfast.

'Uh, yeah, sure, there's a refrigerator over there, help yourself,' Tony pointed at a small white refrigerator underneath his work desk.

Loki looked inside, hoping to find some fruit or bread but all he saw were sweets and small colorful cans filled with, well, they were filled with something. He took a black can out of the refrigerator and looked at the bright green letter M written on it.

'Monster energy...' he mumbled. He looked at Tony, wanting to ask him if it was okay for him to take this, but as the billionaire was already focused on his project, he decided not to disturb him again.