Mischief || The Avengers: Loki X OC Fanfic

Prologue || The Tesseract

Loki smirked. "You have heart, " he told Clint Barton, one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best agents who just tried to disarm him, when he placed the tip of his spear against Clint's chest. His eyes turned black, then glowed blue, and he stopped resisting. From that moment, he was under Loki's control.

When Loki began to do the same to other agents, Nick Fury, who ran S.H.I.E.L.D., sneaked up, grabbed the Tesseract, put it in a briefcase, and wanted to leave, but unfortunately, Loki spoke: "Please don't. I still need that."

Fury sighed. "This doesn't have to get any messier."

Loki raised his eyebrows slightly. "Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else." A small grin appeared on his face. "I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose, " he solemnly added.

When Loki spilled his name, Dr. Erik Selvig, who sat on the ground, looked up. "Loki?" he echoed. "Brother of Thor?"

Loki gave him a small look before he looked back at Fury, who held up his hand. "We have no quarrel with your people, " he assured.

"An ant had no quarrel with a boot, " Loki reasoned back.

Fury raised an eyebrow. "You planning to step on us?"

Loki stepped closer and looked at Dr. Selvig while saying: "I come with glad tidings..." His glance landed back on Fury with a little grin. "...of a world made free."

Fury now gained a look with a bit of compassion for Loki's insanity. "Free from what?" he wanted to know.

Loki's grin faded. "Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart..." And then, like a gunslinger, Loki turned to face Selvig, who stood behind him and placed his spear against the scientist's heart. The same happened with him as with Clint. Loki's look softened. "...you will know peace, " he continued in a whisper.

Fury nodded, getting a bit annoyed by the weird explanation. "Yeah, you say peace, I kind of think you mean the other thing."

From the vacuum chamber ceiling above Fury's head, the Tesseract's energy cloud rapidly built into what looked like an implosion.

Clint, AKA Hawkeye, approached Loki. "Sir, Director Fury is stalling." He gestured to the black man with the eye patch and the ceiling above him. "This place is about to blow. Drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us, " he explained.

Fury tilted his head. "Like the Pharaohs of Odin, " he cunningly answered.

Dr. Selvig, who took a look at his several devices, commented: "He's right. The portal is collapsing in on itself. You got maybe two minutes before this goes critical."

Loki raised his eyebrows and looked at Hawkeye. "Well then."

Without hesitation, Hawkeye shot Fury, who, of course, fell to the ground. He grabbed the case containing the Tesseract and left the lab with Loki, Selvig, and the other spelled members of the S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel.