A couple of years after the battle of New York, Loki has, ultimately, by the Allfather's decision, been banished to earth. Tired, annoyed, and unwilling to be taken into custody again, the Avengers (with much of Thor's persistent persuasion) reluctantly decide to bring him on a recon mission with them to an old HYDRA base, where it was rumoured to hold many classified files and failed husks of experiments of theirs. During the mission, however, they find signs of a life still holding on in one of the glass containments. The recon mission is turned into an extraction mission, and they soon find that the experiment isn't really an "experiment", per say. It's a child.

It all started when me and my Dad had to move from Toronto to Manhattan, to the city that never sleeps... - - - "LIEZEL! GET AWAY FROM HIM!" I stood, frozen, caught between two sides as Mikey yelled a warning to me with a harsh voice I never would have thought could come out of his mouth. On one hand, I knew the turtles had good intentions. They were terrified for me- rightly so- as I stood between them, and what they believed were horrific monsters. Shredder's minions; his goons; his henchmen... And the Shredder himself. They stood, menacingly, mercifully allowing me to hesitate enough to choose for myself for once. The turtles' faces were riddled through with anxiety, fearing, perhaps, what had been done to my mind via Baxter to make me hesitate going towards what, to them, was the blatantly correct choice. On the other hand, however, despite the Shredder's harrowing stance, and his growing impatience, and his little "pack" behind him... I could see their faces. They hid their fears exceptionally. I faltered. They were afraid? I hesitated. My feet shuffled cautiously on the thin beam threatening to drop me into a vat of mutagen; subjecting me to a fate similar to that of Miwa's. I dared another glance at the Shredder. His eyes narrowed and he huffed through his helmet in a warning. I was losing time. And they were all afraid, I finally realized. Afraid... For... Me.