A few hours later, Aaron and Bruce were set up in the lab. Aaron began working working on the algorithm to track down the Tesseract.

Bruce: You're pretty smart for your age.

Aaron: Well, not as smart as you or Tony Stark, but I try.

Bruce: (chuckles) So, struck by lighting, huh?

Aaron: (nods) Yeah, that's...that's the abridged version. And you...?

Bruce: Experiment gone wrong. Too much gamma exposure went in, the other guy came out.

Aaron knows that Bruce was talking about the Hulk.

Aaron: So...we're the...we're the accidents, in a way.

Bruce: (smiles) Yeah, I guess we are.

They heard the door open, and they looked to see Bobbi.

Bobbi: We found Loki. He's in Stuttgart. You're up, Aaron.

Aaron: (confused) The hell's he doing in Germany?

Bobbi: I don't know, but it can't be good.

Aaron reached for his backpack and pulled out his suit, but Bobbi stopped him.

Bobbi: You don't need that. We already got a suit waiting for you.

Aaron: (confused) Okay? (turns to Bruce)

Bruce: Don't worry about that right now. I'll pick up where you left off.

Aaron nods before following Bobbi into another room with a new suit on display.

(A/N: Love the suit, fuck Ezra)

Aaron: Whoa. Silica-based quartz and fabric. Abrasion and heat resistant. That's what they use in space shuttles to keep them from burning up on re-entry.

Bobbi: (chuckles) Suit up, gawk at it later, okay?

Aaron nods before putting on the suit.

Stuttgart, Germany

Outside of the opera house, the crowd ran away from Loki, who put a projection of himself in front of them.

Loki: Kneel before me.

The crowd ran in another direction before Loki cast another projection of himself in front of them, then casting another one, cornering them. They began to panic even more.

Loki: I said...(stomps his scepter on the ground loudly) KNEEL!

The crowd went quiet before kneeling. Loki began walking among the kneeling crowd.

Loki: Is it not simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble of power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

An old man got up to his and faced Loki.

Old Man: Not to men like you.

Loki: (chuckles) There are no men like me.

Old Man: There are always men like you.

Loki: Look to your elder, people. (points his scepter at the old man) Let him be an example.

Loki fires the scepter, but Steve, in his new Captain America uniform, blocks the shot and sends it back to Loki with his shield, knocking the god down.

Steve: You know, the last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing.

Loki: (gets up) The soldier. (laughs) The man out of time.

Steve: I'm not the one who's out of time.

Behind him, a quintjet, piloted by Natasha and Bobbi, hovered above, aiming its minigun at Loki.

Natasha: (through the PA system) Loki, drop the weapon and stand down.

Loki was about to fire at the quinjet, but Aaron speeds in and shoulder-tackles him off, sending him flying a few feet.

Loki: (gets up) Ah, the speedster. You are really wasting your talents.

Aaron: Yeah, and you're abusing them.

Using this as a distraction, Steve throws his shield at Loki, which hits him in the chest. Steve catches the shield, then punches Loki in the face. Loki retaliates by swinging his scepter at Steve, knocking him away.

Aaron speeds in and throws a flurry of punches at Loki at supersonic speeds. Loki managed to catch one of his fists before swatting him away.

Steve throws his shield at Loki, but he knocks it away. Steve runs in and throws a punch, but Loki dodges.

Loki swings his scepter at Steve twice, but he evades both swings before delivering a punch to Loki's ribs. Loki hits Steve's back with his scepter, sending him to the ground.

Loki walks to the downed Steve and rests the blunt end of the scepter at his head.

Loki: Kneel.

Aaron uses his speed to push Loki off of the Captain, who delivers a flying spinning kick to Loki's face.

Steve: Not today.

Aaron, Steve, and Loki continued fighting until they suddenly heard AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill playing loudly through the quinjet's PA system, which confuses them.

They heard the sound of thrusters getting closer to them. They look up to see Tony Stark in his Mk VI Iron Man suit flying towards them.

Tony fires his repulsors at Loki's chest, knocking him down. He lands and points EVERY weapon in his suit at Loki.

Tony: Make your move, Reindeer Games.

Aaron and Steve walk up to Tony and stand next to him, staring at Loki.

His helmet and cape disappeared as he puts his hands up in surrender.

Tony: (deactivates his weapons) Good move.

Steve: Mr. Stark.

Tony: Captain. (turns to Aaron) Flash.

Aaron: Hell of an entrance.

Tony: Well, that's kind of my thing.

Timeskip

After apprehending Loki, Tony (with his helmet off), Steve, Aaron, Natasha, Bobbi, and Loki were in the quintjet flying back to the Helicarrier.

Fury: (on comms) Is he saying anything?

Bobbi: Nope, he's been really quiet.

Aaron looked behind him to see Loki staring at him.

Fury: (on comms) Just get him here. We're low on time.

Aaron: (to Loki) If you got something to say, just say it.

Loki: As I've said earlier, you're wasting your talents.

Aaron: (sighs) Well, better to waste them than to use them selfishly like you were.

Loki: (scoffs)

Steve: (looks at Loki, then at Tony and Aaron) I don't like it.

Aaron: Me neither.

Tony: What, Rock of Ages giving up so easily?

Steve: Don't remember it being that easy. This guys packs a wallop, and he kept up with O'Connor.

Tony: Still, you were pretty spry for an older fellow. (turns to Steve) What's your thing, Pilates?

Steve: (confused) What?

Aaron: It's like calisthenics.

Tony: You might have missed a couple things, y'know, doing time as a Capsicle.

Steve: Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in.

Tony: Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you.

Aaron looked at Bobbi, who overheard the exchange. She looked back at him and nodded.

Suddenly, a clap of thunder was heard as a bolt of lighting flashes, causing Aaron to flinch a little bit and Loki's head to perk up and look around.

Steve, Tony, and Aaron noticed Loki's reaction.

Aaron: What's wrong, greasehead? Scared of a little lightning?

Loki: I'm not overly fond of what follows.

That response confused Aaron until he gave it some thought.

Aaron: (in his head) If Loki's the Norse god of mischief, and a lightning storm just came out of nowhere, then that means...

He was interrupted when a loud thud came from the roof of the quintjet.

Steve grabbed his shield and put on his helmet, Aaron put on his cowl, while Tony put on his helmet and opened the rear ramp.

Aaron: Tony, what the hell are you doing?!

Suddenly, a blonde man wearing medieval armor and a red cape and holding a hammer landed on the open ramp.

Aaron put two and two together and figured out that it was Thor, the god of thunder.

Tony charged up his repulsor, but Thor knocks him back with his hammer, Mjölnir, then grabs Loki. He spun the hammer around then flew out of the jet.

Aaron & Bobbi: Shit!

Tony: (gets up and sighs) And now there's that guy.

Natasha: Another Asgardian?

Aaron: Yep. Thor.

Steve: He a friendly?

Tony: Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost. (walks to the ramp)

Steve: Stark, we need a plan of attack!

Tony: I have a plan. Attack.

He flies out of the jet.

Steve and Aaron sigh as they grab a parachute each.

Natasha: I'd sit this one out, boys.

Steve: (prepping the straps) I don't see how we can.

Natasha: These guys come from legend. They're basically gods.

Steve: There's only one God, ma'am. (grabs his shield) And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that.

He jumps out.

Aaron: That was so corny.

Bobbi: Don't even think about it, O'Connor!

Aaron: I never do.

He jumps out of the jet and pulls his parachute.

When he lands on the ground, he catches up to Steve. They heard loud crashing and clanging from afar, so they ran towards it.

When they arrived, they saw Tony and Thor trading blows. Steve ran to a broken tree log.

Steve: Hey!

He threw his shield at Thor, which ricocheted off his head and hits Tony's chest before flying back to Steve's hand.

Steve: That's enough!

He jumps off the logs and Aaron speeds to him.

Aaron: Now, we don't know what you plan on doing here.

Thor: I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes.

Steve: Then prove it. Put that hammer down.

Tony: Yeah...no. Bad call. He loves his ha-

Thor smack Tony away with his hammer.

Thor: You want me to put the hammer down?!

Thor jumped towards Steve, who put his shield over his head.

Thor's hammer and Steve's shield collided, causing a massive shockwave that sent all four of them flying.

The four groaned as they got us and stared each other down.

Steve: (breathing heavily) Are we done here?

Thor: Where will you be taking Loki?

Aaron: We have a base of operations not that far from here. He'll be held there until we find the Cube. After that, we can decide what we'll do with it. So I say we call a truce until then, Agreed?

Tony: (sighs) Fine.

Steve: Agreed.

Thor: Aye. You seem young.

Aaron: Okay, I'm not that young, but yeah.

The four pick up Loki and board the quinjet as they fly back to the Helicarrier.

Bobbi: You're insane, Aaron.

Aaron: (chuckles) Yeah, I'm aware.