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“Are we just supposed to stand by and let them suffer?” you asked the Ancient One. You watched as Chitauri soldier descended upon New York City through a portal from within the New York Sanctum. She simply nodded in response. “This is madness,” you whispered.
“All will be fine young master, you needn’t worry,” the Ancient One replied, “I’ve seen this coming, they will be defeated. The avengers will prevail.”
“But people are dying and getting hurt, we could help! We can end this faster if we help the Avengers! We should at least go and help people get out safely! We-” You wanted to say more, but the Ancient One held up a hand. You watched as she went into a trance, you knew she was checking the different outcomes of the scenario.
The Ancient One took a deep breath and looked at you with an unreadable expression on her face. “I cannot interfere at this time. I recommend that you do not as well. I saw multiple futures and few end with you alive y/n.”
“I understand… but my one life is not worth more than all of those in danger in New York,” you said as you hurried out of the New York sanctum and back to Kamar-Taj to your room. You grabbed your sling ring and your weapon, the staff of the living tribunal, before heading back to the door leading to the New York sanctum. You stopped in front of the Ancient One and nodded to her.
“I wish you the best young master y/n. You will always be welcome in Kamar-Taj,” she said as she put your hood up. “And if I were you… I would head to Stark Tower,” She said with a wink as she opened a portal for you to leave through. When you stepped onto the roof top of Stark tower you saw a device that was controlling the portal and a man who was knocked out. You considered stopping him but remembered your purpose was to protect people while the Avengers did what they came to do. You looked down to see a balcony where the two Norse Gods Thor and Loki fought. The moment Thor had come to Earth and landed in New Mexico a while back you had been tasked with keeping tabs on him. When the Warriors Three and Lady Sif appeared, you added them to your list until eventually the Ancient One just assigned you to keep tabs on all Asgardian visitors that may show up.
You watched Loki shoot at quinjet hovering nearby, it was going to crash so you tried to help them make a safe landing by creating a forcefield of sorts around it, but it soon was flown out of site as the pilot tried to find an open place to land.
That’s when you heard the deep grow; coming from the portal. A large Chitauri… space monster? you thought to yourself, unsure of what that… thing was exactly. As it came down towards the buildings it started crashing through windows of tall office skyscraper buildings and you jumped into action, creating a portal to the nearest building. When you appeared in the large open space filled with cubicals it was chaos. People were screaming in panic and fear, and you couldn’t blame them. They were on the twentieth floor and there were aliens attacking, the situation called for madness. And apparently the sudden appearance of a hooded figure holding a staff didn’t do anything to calm anyone.
“Listen, you all need to head down and get underground!” You tried to tell the, but they were all too busy panicking and yelling to listen. You sighed and held the staff of the living tribunal in front of you with one hand, you grabbed it with the other and stretched it out before cracking it like a whip. There were a few screams as people turned, looking for the cause of the sound. “You need to get out of here and get underground. Gather everyone you see and get out of this building!”
Just as people started listening and following your orders Chitauri soldiers burst through the windows. You put the staff into a holster attached to your hip and created your own weapon with your magic to fight them off. Once you had defeated the Chitauri in that building and you saw that the floor had cleared out you moved to the next building, hoping you could trust the people to get themselves out safely.
After helping a few buildings full of people to safety you saw Loki taking a lap around the city on one of those Chitauri chariots. You had to make a move and it had to be a bold one. You decided that Stark tower was the safest building in the city at the moment since even the alien soldiers weren’t dumb enough to destroy the building that was allowing their portal to exist. You sat down behind a wall to hide your body and went into astral form to chase after Loki.
You made it to his chariot, which was quite a feat considering the speed it was flying at. You had to grip onto something to stay on. “Loki,” you started as you revealed yourself to him.
“What the-?” He startled as he looked at your transparent form barely hanging on, “What the hell? What is this magic?” He was too busy shooting at Black Widow to spare you much more than that short glance.
You rolled your eyes and grabbed onto him instead to steady yourself and stand behind him, “I’m a master of the mystic arts. I’ve been watching over you and your brother since you arrived on Earth. This chaos has to end now, you need to stop this!”
“You don’t think I know that? This is a bit much, even for me… but things are too far gone as it is for me to stop. The only way is the scepter…” He replied.
“There is an arrow coming in on your left,” You said as you returned to the roof Stark Tower. Yeah, you knew the chariot was going to blow, but Loki kind of deserved it. He clearly showed some remorse, but he created this mess. It is only fair he get hurt a little too along the way.
You saw the man from before was starting to awaken, you used a spell to help him remember what had happened while he was mind controlled. At this point, you wish you had stepped in when you saw that Loki had arrived when he was escaping the S.H.I.E.L.D facility. Many lives could have been saved, but this was the best you could do now.
You then returned to your body, getting up to see the tail end of Hulk flinging Loki around by the ankle like a rag doll, smashing him into the floor. After Hulk left you came over to sit next to Loki. “So… That was pretty embarrassing,” You said with a laugh.
Loki looked at you, but just continued to moan in pain softly. You rolled your eyes before raising your hand to do a simple healing spell. He finally stopped moaning and gave you a questioning look. Shrugging, you replied, “You’re no good to anyone if your dead”.
“Oh, why thank you Miss…?” He replied sarcastically.
“Y/n,” you replied, “They will be closing the portal soon, thanks for the tip about the scepter. Why did you even do all this Loki? This is not mischief or lies, this is destruction and murder.”
He looked away, deciding how to respond, “Would you believe me if I said it was all a younger sibling complex?”
You laughed as you helped him sit up. You wanted to say more because you knew this wasn’t what he had planned or wanted. You knew there was more to his story. That this was just a start of something bigger and so much worse, but you felt the Avengers heading up to collect Loki. “I have to go now, but I will be in touch soon,” you said, quickly making a portal that would take you back to the New York sanctum and closing it before anyone else besides Loki would notice.