A Tale of Mischief and Mutants

The Collector's Vault

—-Loki—-

Sam seems a bit intimidated by our new surroundings and stays close to me as we walk. We eventually come across where the Collector resides. We force our way through the Collector's security without much issue. We're looking for the man himself when I hear a familiar laugh echo through the Collector's vault. 'Oh shit, anyone but him.' We round the corner and sure enough En Dwi Gast, the Grandmaster, is seated beside who I presume to be the Collector. He immediately recognizes Thor who's at the head of the group.

"Tivan look it's that contender I told you about the one that ruined me, Sparkles."

His eyes land on me and I roll my eyes at the way his eyes light up upon seeing me.

"Oh and my oh my his brother is here too..."

He does that stupid thing he always does with his eyes when he's trying to flirt. It's like a wink if someone never figured out how to do it with only one eye.

"...it's been too long."

Sam gives me a confused look and I look at the floor in embarrassment. Gast and I had been involved but it was purely out of necessity he thought I was good looking so I used it to my advantage. Thor looks at me in a similar confusion he still has no idea. He speaks in his booming voice at the Grandmaster holding his axe threateningly.

"Leave now we're here for Tivan."

The Collector rolls his eyes looking at the Grandmaster.

"Go on brother I'll be but a moment."

The Grandmaster huffs then gets up and leaves making his way through the crowd of Avengers. As he passes me I feel his hand slap my ass. I freeze now completely embarrassed in front of the entire team. I don't think a good amount of them actually caught on to what just happened but Sam definitely did and she wasn't having it. She takes out Mjölnir and backs him against the wall.

"What the FUCK was that?!"

He smiles looking smug.

"Just saying goodbye to my- ."

She cuts him off slamming him angrily against the wall again.

"Let's get one thing straight he's not anyone's but mine! You don't touch him! EVER!"

He looks slightly scared but still looks a bit smug.

"I think you need to calm down. You know he likes it."

That's not going to go over well. Her expression shifts to one of pure rage.

"You are going to leave right now and you're never going to touch him again otherwise next time it'll be worse."

"I'm sorry what will be worse?"

She smirks slightly and proceeds to punch him in his face twice then kick him in his groin once, hard. He's on the ground doubled over in pain. She returns to my side as the team looks at her in shock they've never seen her angry like that before. She mumbles to herself in anger.

"Jeff Goldblum lookin ass motherfucker embarrassing you like that. I swear to god."

I smile slightly at her display of aggression for my sake it actually overrides my embarrassment. I lower my voice so the others won't hear. I have a reputation to keep after all.

"Thank you love."

She stops fuming and smiles keeping her voice low as well.

"My pleasure trouble. He won't try that shit again."

The Collector having seen what just Sam alone could do to his brother decides he'd rather not receive similar treatment from the entire team and hands the stone over to us without incident. He also willingly tells us that the Power Stone is on a planet called Xandar. He explains everything he knows about those guarding it to us. We then commandeer one of his ships and put in the coordinates he gave us to the planet.