"What do you mean you are not our Loki?" Fury asks.

I glance up from my wrapped leg.

"Technically I am," I said. "But I am not."

"Start from the beginning," Fury said.

"That I cannot do, Fury," I said. "I am from the future and I cannot tell spoilers."

"So...are we talking time-travel?" Fury asks.

"In a way, yes," I said. "There are two versions of me in this timeline. One is in Asgard and the one you are speaking to is here."

"I get it," Fury said.  "Tell me how you ended up in the past. That is not spoiling, like you said, our Loki is in Asgard."

I sigh.

"I had a little...conflict with a woman named Clarise Stottlehammer," I explain. "She had the power to make doubles. She went ahead and made a double for someone I knew. Then she did it to her sister. Clarise can only get rid of the doubles by making them see who they are based on."

"And the double vanish?" Fury asks.

"No," I said, shaking my head. "The double and their original model die. Sadly her sister had passed prior to the double being made. I took away that power and gave Clarise a curse to never really die and be ageless. I gave her power to someone I trusted. But two thousand years later she used that person to make a double for someone very dear to me. I took the power away from him and it is mine...well...I will have it when I am back to being a god."

"Two thousand years," Fury said.

"Yes," I said, with a nod.

"You have not aged," Fury said.

"Fury," I said, leaning forwards with my hands on the table. "I am an old man. My memory is failing. And I made a dumb move making a placed timeline where we can fight fairly as young mortals only able to die by if one of us makes the move. It is fit to our specifications. We cannot return to the future until one of us is dead."

"I cannot picture you as an old man," Fury said.

I had a short smile.

"Fury," I said. "I may need a little of your help finding Clarise. And once she is dead; I will be going home."

"You mean 'a lot of help'," Fury said. "I have seen the tape."

I sigh.

"Right," I said. "I only need to get Clarise out of the suit so the fight is fair." I look towards the mirror behind Fury with a little sigh. "So far my plan is not brilliant as I want it to be..." I fiddle with my fingers. "But I want you not to ask for Thor's help."

"Why?" Fury asks.

"I have already met two Thor's in my lifetime," I said. "Two is enough."