Avengers in Quarantine

Salt is not Sugar

A/N: Happy Father's Day!

"Brother!"

"What is it Loki?"

"Did you know your mortal friends are in the midst of pandemic and are playing games?"

"What? They are playing with a deadly virus?!"

"No, they are inside. We should go!"

"No."

"Yes, it'll be fun."

"Fine."

Tony had just gotten out of the lab and was on the living room couch scrolling through tv channels, when a huge beam light appeared in front of him.

"Shit!" Tony yelled, leaping backwards off of the couch.

"Greetings Man of Iron!" Thor greeted him.

"You broke my living room again." Tony deadpanned.

"It's good to see you too!"

Tony looked over to see that Loki was standing at his brother's side, and trying to appear bored.

"Ah, sorry to tell you this, but you can't mess up Earth anymore! It's reached it's limit! We're all going to die!!!!! And there's nothing you can do to make it worse!" Tony started laughing hysterically.

Thor turned towards Loki, "What did you do to him?!"

"Nothing, I swear. I think all Mid-guardians are this unstable, which is why my plan of taking over was going to be so effective..."

"Shut up Loki. Lady of Ceiling! Is Tony ok?"

"Mr. Stark has not had any sleep in the last 72 hours." FRIDAY replied.

"Oh, is that unhealthy for Mid-guardians?"

"Yes."

"I see, Loki can you make him fall asleep?"

Loki took a step back and looked at Thor with an incredulous expression on his face. "Ok so first you want to make sure I haven't used magic on this man and now you want me to purposefully make him fall asleep?"

"Yes."

"Ok, just wanted to make sure you realized your train of thought." Loki said, beginning to cast his magic.

"Oh! And no nightmares and only in a reasonable 8-10 hour window in which the effects gradually wear off within a 10-minute window."

"You really want to take all the fun out of this don't you?"

"Yes."

"Fine. Your mortal friend will have a peaceful slumber and will not wake for the next 8-10 hours."

"Thank you."

"Can we shove him in a closet?" Loki asked excitedly.

"NO!"

Loki sighed. He really should have just to come to Midguard without his brother, but then everyone might try to kill him again...hmm, though it might be kinda fun. Well, he could still at least have some fun. With a flash of light he made himself identical to Tony and made Tony disappear, well, somewhere, and went off to begin pranking people.

Wandering around the tower Loki/Tony made his way to the 90th floor and entered the nearest bedroom.

"Hi Mr. Stark! Omg, you look terrible, you should really get some sleep! Are you ok? Do you want me to get Ms. Potts or something? Is there a mission? Should I suit up? Are we having another Nerf gun battle?"

Ah, he had stumbled across the kid sticking to the ceiling. He didn't seem to be too bad, what was his name again, Peter? He quickly made Tony's/his appearance more presentable.

"What?! What just happened?!"

"It's Loki."

"Oh, cool! Where's Mr. Stark?"

"Sleeping."

"I can't believe you came back! Is Thor here?"

"Yeah, but do you want to help me prank some people?"

"I GET TO PRANK PEOPLE WITH THE LITERAL GOD OF MISCHIEF?!"

Loki was regretting this. "Sure."

"OMG YES!!!"

"Do you have any ideas?"

"Yes!" He lead Loki/Tony to the kitchen where Steve had just started baking a huge amount of cookies. "Ok, so Mr. Rogers is baking a bunch of cookies, which I guess are for everyone in the tower, and we could switch the sugar out for salt!"

"That's not a bad idea." The god of mischief mused. "And it doesn't seem too fatal, so the odds of people trying to kill over this are pretty low..."

"I know right?! It's a great idea! You go distract Steve as Tony, but make sure you look really tired, and I'll switch the ingredients."

It wasn't the normal prank Loki pulled, which usually ended up with him stabbing someone (usually Thor), but it wasn't too bad either. A bit childish, but effective nonetheless. He made Tony/himself look how Tony was when Loki arrived, and entered the kitchen.

He debated what to say to get Steve's attention, but it turned out he didn't have to. As soon as he stepped foot in the kitchen Steve turned around and spotted him, allowing Peter to slip by unnoticed.

"Tony, you look horrible! When was the last time you slept?!"

"I don't know, a few days?"

"You know that's not healthy, FRIDAY make sure he gets some sleep within the next hour."

While Steve was busy scolding Tony/Loki Peter successfully swapped the sugar out for salt and exited the kitchen.

A few hours later Peter and Loki, who had transformed back into himself and transported Tony to his room, were sitting in front of the TV. The cookies had been done for a while but no one had been notified and the pair assumed Steve was just waiting until after dinner.

"In other news today, Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America, has just begun giving out homemade cookies to our heroes on the front lines." The footage flipped to Steve in a N95 mask giving a cookie to a worker in a doctor's uniform. She bit into the cookie and one could tell from her face that she was trying her best not to spit it out.

Loki started laughing, this was going much better than he had planned, while Peter on the other hand looked horrified, which only made Loki laugh harder. Their small scale prank had evolved into a city-wide prank and Steve had no idea!