Mischief on Midgard

Avengers Assemble

After spending so much time on Midgard, Loki had come to several conclusions. The most important one? Humans made little to no sense. Especially the Avengers!

Loki had been spending the day doing his usual routine, work with Bruce to pinpoint strange energy readings across the planet, and see if they were a significant source of Gamma Radiation like the Tesseract or the Staff. It looked like they might have been getting somewhere on one particular reading, and then Tony burst into the room like a Human tornado. He'd rushed around the place to grab a few things, shouting over his shoulder.

"No time to waste, guys!" Tony yelled. "We gotta go go go!"

"Wha-" Bruce tried to ask, only to be cut off.

"I said no time!" Tony snapped back as he bee-lined toward the door. "We're going to Canada. Now! Suit up!"

Bruce had sighed in exasperation and started after the other man. Loki had found himself following along as he'd wanted to understand the why behind Tony's outburst.

Turned out, there was some guy wreaking havoc on a city by turning into a monster made of sand. Loki frowned as he watched the group get ready. This attack had absolutely nothing to do with them. Nor did it affect their current project. When Loki carefully asked why the Avengers were getting involved, he was told that S.H.I.E.L.D., who would generally make arrangements to handle such an incident, was currently not equipped to handle things. Given that they were stuck trying to purge their ranks of hidden Hydra agents, they couldn't trust that they were sending people who would actually help with the issue. And since there was no one else around with the power and knowledge needed to fight such a foe, it fell to the Avengers to help take down the threat.

Loki had a hard time seeing how that was in any way their responsibility. It wasn't their fault that this 'Canada' had failed to properly prepare for such an attack.

Thankfully as Loki wasn't considered a fighter. As such, he wasn't asked to join the rest of the group as they jumped onto Tony's 'borrowed' Quinjet and flew off to save the day. That suited him just fine. If the Avengers wanted to waste time playing the hero, who was he to stop them?

While they were stuck dealing with that mess, Loki found that he could work without interruption. Without anyone looking over his shoulder, he found that he could relax as he worked. Though he did keep a couple of screens up. The feed would him what the others were up to. Eventually, Pepper joined him in the room, though her focus was more on the screens than his work.

When the fight started, they would both be able to observe the visuals from Tony's current suit on the screen and talk to the group as needed.

Loki glanced at the woman and saw that her attention was focused on the screen. A crease marred her forehead as she spoke with the team, worry evident in her expression. Again, Loki had a hard time figuring out why she was so concerned. The group had elected to go on their little mission of their own free will after all.

The call of 'Glory' and 'Adventure,' he thought to himself with a mental sneer. Fools.

"I still don't understand Tony," Pepper repeated for the nth time. "Why you?"

"Who else is there?" Tony asked in a dumbfounded tone as if it was obvious. The tone made Pepper sigh.

"You're an inventor, Tony. Not a soldier. Your inventions can and have done so much good. More so than..." she halted and let out another sigh.

"More than 'Iron Man?'" Tony said in a questioning tone. "That is what you were going to say, right?"

"Well... yes," Pepper admitted with a frown.