A Tale of Mischief and Mutants

The Living Colossus

—-Sam—-

Loki and I are out and about in Tønsberg we are walking from one shop to the next. It's a relatively warm day for November. There's some slush on the ground from the downpour of yesterday's massive thunderstorm. I am happy that Loki woke up feeling a bit better today though he's still in a mood.

He's made an effort not to snap at me though. It worries me to see him upset the way he was yesterday. I just hope Thor is also doing better today. Regardless of his mood the next time I see him he's getting a hug. Loki's phone suddenly begins to ring. He looks at the ID.

"It's Fury."

He answers, still looking at me and I whisper.

"Put him on speakerphone."

He looks at me in confusion and I sigh in slight annoyance then tease him.

"Oh you poor old man! Give it here."

I snatch the phone from him and hit the button to put Fury on speakerphone. Loki looks a little embarrassed that he couldn't figure it out himself.

"Hello? Are you still listening to me?"

I respond.

"Yeah we're here."

"Who? ...Samantha Howlett?"

"Yes Sir."

"I don't think I've ever heard you speak."

Loki looks impatient at Fury getting off track. I know he has leftover anger from yesterday he wants to find a way of funneling it into something positive so he doesn't lash out at anyone or destroy anything. A suggestion from our therapist.

"What were you saying about a mission? Usually Tony just texts me."

"You Asgardians really don't watch the news do you? Stark is otherwise occupied at the moment there's been an attack on New York by what could only be properly described as a Kaiju. My sources are calling it The Living Colossus."

Loki is eager for a battle.

"And you want us to come fight the beast?"

"Yes I'm calling everybody in until this thing goes down. It's 100 feet tall, made of stone, and wreaking havok on Times Square as we speak."

I chime in.

"We'll be there with Thor as soon as possible."

"Thank you Miss Howlett."

"Nobody calls me that Director, call me Sam."

"Alright then Sam, I hope to see you on the ground here as soon as possible."

Fury hangs up. I call Mjölnir and we change into our armor with magic right there in the street earning some curious looks from the Asgardians in the vicinity. We rush over to Thor's house he's already been informed by Fury of the mission ahead of us and is in full armor. He's surprised when I give him a hug. He must throw Loki a confused look.

"She was worried about you yesterday."

Thor hugs me back. When I pull away there's a tear in his eye. He smiles. I smile back and we prepare to be transported through the bifrost.

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We arrive in New York and it's utter chaos buildings have been destroyed, there are giant cracks and holes in the pavement, and there are cars smashed and lodged into the sides of buildings seemingly thrown by something. With no instructions we opt to fight the thing head on we run towards the sound of screaming and booming footsteps.

The name was a fitting one. A humanoid statue esque creature looms over a crowd of people. Tony, Rhodey, and Pepper are shooting at it with repulser blasts. Steve is running into a building, carrying a small child in his arms to safety.

Natasha , Bucky, and Clint are trying their best to fight the thing but guns and arrows seem to have no effect on this creature. Peter is trying his best to web the creature up but it keeps breaking free. Bruce is doing his thing as a giant green rage monster and seems to be the only one here that's actually bothering the creature.

Without exchanging words we jump into action I get in front of the people the monster is looming over and put up a magic shield. I'm so glad I continued practicing magic. My shields aren't the most stable and I can't hold them long, they're nowhere near as full proof as Loki's but they will provide much needed protection for these people.

I hope to give them time to escape into the subway station or into the basement of one of the buildings behind me. Loki is attacking the beast head on beside his brother they're working together. They're a force to be reckoned with, when they work side by side they seem unstoppable.

Suddenly it seems the calvary arrives as a helicarrier hovers over the creature, out comes Sam Wilson and King T'Challa Avengers I have yet to meet. Wilson begins shooting the creature and T'Challa lands on top of it actually doing some damage to the creature with his claws. Then suddenly as if out of nowhere rapidly expanding in size is Scott Lang and who I assume to be Hope Pym aka the Wasp both become giant and fight the creature hand to hand.

Vision flies out of the craft along with his fiancée Wanda Magnus Maximoff I haven't met either of them either though I know a bit about Wanda because of her biological father. When they land Vision leaves her and begins shooting the creature with a beam from his forehead.

Wanda lifts some of the abandoned cars with her chaos magic and begins hurling them at the creature, skillfully avoiding hitting her teammates. Finally, the last of the people behind my shield have made their way to some sort of safety. I look at the creature it's gotten closer than it had been before. It's less than 20 feet away. 'I wonder...'

"Guys keep it's focus on you, try and keep it from stomping around!"

I get closer to the creature it's still stomping around randomly. I could be killed. Loki realizes what I'm doing and makes an illusion to catch the beast's attention. I drop the hammer on the creature's foot then touch it attempting to use my abilities on it. Nothing happens.

It's not close enough to a biological life form or if it is biological it's not close enough to Homosapien/Homosuperior biology. No matter, I've immobilized the creature, the Avengers have no problem taking it down now.

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Finally the creature is down, lying 'dead' on the ground.

"Ok. Wow... good job everybody!"

Tony, who was thrown to the ground by the creature, says as he sits up and uncovers his mask from his face. He flashes a smile.

"That was some great quick thinking Sam."

I return the smile. Tony addresses the whole group.

"I want to see you guys for shawarma, all of you. My treat!"

His eyes land on Loki and I as he says all of you. We still hadn't attended a shawarma lunch most times throughout the past months we had been too busy or someone would get seriously injured and shawarma wasn't even brought up. Being a shawarma lunch was a celebration of a mission successfully carried out without hiccups.

I see Loki try to contain his smile and I lean up against him and look up at him with a knowing smile. I know he's wanted to go to this for quite some time he tries to act like he doesn't care, but I know he craves acceptance from the group. Tony looks at me questioningly and I give him a small nod letting him know we'll be in attendance.