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Chapter 111

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"I'll get you some coffee. Come on." Natasha took Tony down to the lobby area and they both served themselves some coffee.
"I know you feel helpless, but you have to be strong now Tony."
"It's harder than it looks Nat. Loki and I can't be with Toki all the time, and what happens when we're away?"
"What if he had his own suit?"
"No." Tony didn't even let her finish the question, though honestly, that didn't sound like a bad idea anymore. Clearly the boy knew how to control a suit and he wasn't stupid.
"Tony, how else can you keep him safe? Lock him up in Asgard?"
Loki smiled, pulling the man away. Looking at one of the guards, he told him to get everyone in for a briefing. Everyone filed into the room before Loki dragged the man in.
"Now, it would do well for you to tell the entire truth. I will know if you are lying." Loki said calmly before letting him go and joining the others.
"Really you should work here full time." Fury pressed.
"Then you'd be out of the job." The god chimed.
Fury looked at Loki then at the man. "Well?"
The Hydra agent shook still, watching Loki with fear and dread in his eyes before he spoke.
"They're in a lab in Europe; it's in a secluded town in Corsica. They have some scientists there trying to splice our agents."
"Why?"
"They're trying to make their own super soldier. Since they couldn't get a hold of Captain America's DNA, they went for the boy."
Tony and Natasha had been called to the briefing, and they listened to the man quietly. Tony clenched his fists as he listened to the man.
"What are they planning on doing to him?"
"They need to get a clean match of his code."
Nobody really needed that to be explained. They could tell what it meant. Hydra wanted to cut Toki into little pieces to analyze his DNA.
Loki clenched his fist and his jaw as he listened.
Steve stood on one of the upper levels, listening to what the man told them.
"I'll tell you where it is." He told them. Damn everyone else, he was going to save his own skin.
Loki dropped down to look the man in eye. "If you lie to us, your mind is mine." Loki threatened.
Steve walked over to them. "I'm in." He said.
Several dozen SHIELD agents were put together for this operation, the Avengers included. Tony had made a quick pit-stop at the tower to get his suit, but he was back and ready in no time.
"Loki." Tony walked over to his husband, his face sullen. "I think we need to consider other options." He sighed as he spoke. Toki was too young to have to deal with something like this for the rest of his life. "Even if we take down this sector of Hydra, they'll only be back. What if this isn't enough?"
Steve got ready along with the others then he glanced over to where Loki and Tony were. He couldn't begin to imagine what they were going through, knowing that their child was a target now.
"I'm not going. I'll be the target." Loki explained.
"You're doing what?" Natasha asked.
"They don't know that way. I'm going to turn myself into Toki and wait for them to come again. Two of you will stay with me while the rest of you take him." Loki pointed to the man.
Picking the agent up from his chair, Loki forced him to look him in the eye. "If you mess this up you'll be the first to go."
"Yes Sir." The man nodded.
"I'm not letting you go in there." Tony looked at Loki sternly. It was bad enough they were going to be put in danger; he didn't need Loki's situation to be worse.
"Loki, I think you should listen to Tony on this one. We don't know what they'll do to you."
"Toki's already in enough danger, the last thing I want is for you to be put at risk too." Tony felt his very soul begin to quiver. He didn't want to lose anyone, especially not Loki or his kids. But he could see in the god's eyes that he wasn't changing mind anytime soon.
"Anthony, once I'm inside they will be no match for me." Loki pointed out.
"We can’t go in blind. Loki we really need to sit down and think about this." Steve told him.
"I will play the part until they least expect it. They will not know the difference between Toki and me."
"What do you plan on doing? How do you plan on getting us in as well?" Natasha asked.
"By using my magic to shift you into their agents as well. You'll take on the forms of the ones we've captured and you'll be the ones to take me back in." Loki explained.
He really didn't like the way this was playing out. If anything went wrong...No, he willed himself not to think about that. Loki was way stronger than Tony liked to give him credit for, and this was proof of it. His plan would work. The inventor sighed and nodded his head.
"Fine, we'll give it a try."
Everyone looked at Tony shocked, but didn't say a word. There wasn't much else they could do at this point anyway.
Everyone was quickly prepped for the operation, given hints and key words by the agents they'd taken. Said agents were unusually cooperative, considering each time they tried to back down, they were threatened with Loki.
Loki wrapped his arms around Tony and his whole attitude softened as he smiled at Tony. "We'll be fine." Loki assured. "When this is over and we have the children back, we'll go about things as we planned."
Everyone got set and ready to go. Loki wouldn't change their appearance until just before. Looking at the one agent that had spilled the beans, he made the man look him in the eye.
"If you make this go wrong you're mine."
The agent nodded his head, his eyes full of terror as he looked at Loki. Tony sighed and relaxed slightly, but still couldn't get over this whole idea.
Everyone was soon on planes headed straight for Europe. The trip wasn't all that long, but it seemed to take forever. Tony fidgeted in his seat and couldn't seem to keep still no matter what he tried.
"Tony, you look nervous." Bruce went over to his friend sat across from the man, a little smile on his face.
"Does it show?"
"Relax; everything's going to turn out fine."
When they reached the final stretch, Loki closed his eyes and took a deep breath concentrating as he changed his form.
Besides seeing Loki turn blue, the others had never see him change physically in appearance to look like someone else.
"You really should consider working for us full time." Fury said.
Loki stood, rolling his muscles and twisting until he settled in the smaller form. Loki turned to the captain and Banner as well, changing their forms.
"Ready."
Everyone stared at Loki in complete shock, but all Tony could do was chuckle at their reactions.
"You guys should see him when he turns into a woman. Now that's a trip." Tony got ready and soon he too was cloaked with magic along with the others. Everyone got into position quickly and quietly when the airplane landed.
"Remember: move in and get information. We've got agents ready to take down anything we run into."
Tony nodded and walked down the hall of one area, somewhat nervous when a passing Hydra agent took no notice of him. The other agent simply nodded and kept walking. Hopefully this didn't spontaneously stop working.
Loki put up a fight like he knew Toki would as they were lead down into the labs.
One of the scientists took Loki to have him placed down on a bed to start the examination. Loki had to wait for the right minute to change.
Bruce gave Tony a nod as they stood by. "Little brat didn't make it easy on us either." Bruce said adding to the rouse.
The man started taking down measurement and notes of height and weight before he started getting closer. He took blood samples and hair as well.
"You are something special." The doctor said with a twisted smile. Picking up a scalpel and lifting it to take a skin sample.
"My husband tells me that all the time." Loki said with a smile of his own as the eyes that belonged to Toki turned red then green as Loki took on the form of a wolf the size of Fenrir.
All the men in the room yelped at what they saw before the guards pulled out their weapons. It didn't do much however. Tony and Bruce knocked out the guards around them and shot at the others, knocking the weapons out of their hands. The scientists all held up their hands; they were surrounded on all sides.
"What is this? Where's the boy?!" The lead scientist looked around when his eyes fell on the traitor amongst them.
"You rat!"
The man shook visibly, his skin pale as he looked at Loki then back at the scientist.
Tony and Bruce guided the guards into a smaller room and held them there then stood by the door in case anyone else decided to wander in. So far so good.
Loki put himself between the Hydra agent and the scientist.
"You will never have my son." Loki growled out as the rest of the Avengers came in. Loki pinned the man down under a massive paw snapping his jaws in the man's face.
"Take everyone into custody and in for questioning." Fury ordered.
"I want all the documents and footage rounded up and packed and taken back to headquarters."  
Tony nodded and went straight for the computers, Bruce right behind him.
"This went a lot better than I thought." Bruce chuckled nervously as he began hacking one of the computers and downloading the data stored in it. Tony nodded then sighed.
"I thought we'd be here forever."
"Yeah. Scared me when I saw Loki lying there. He looked exactly like Toki."
"Yeah, scared me too." Tony downloaded files and shook his head. It was terrifying to see Loki there, and even worse seeing him disguised as their son. At least now it was over.
"This is going to take a while to download. We should get to the other machines."
"You're right." Bruce stood and followed Tony into another room. Then someone shot at them. And not only shot, but actually hit him and Tony. Bruce ducked and pulled Tony down with him, but Hulk was having none of this. Bruce turned and went after their aggressors. Tony panicked for a moment then checked himself for wounds. Thankfully, the Hydra armor was thick enough to stop the bullets, though it still hurt.
Loki heard the shots fired and went after when he heard them from. He sniffed his husband out and nosing him to see if he caught the scent of blood. Thank fully he found none.
Steve rushed in, shield in hand to block out the bullets. Steve had to calm Hulk down enough before he did more harm than good.
Bruce was soon enough back to his normal self and he apologized several times over for having lost it.
"I heard the shots and..."
"Hey, it's all right. You're safe, Tony's safe, and no one else seems to be hurt. Fury's getting all the Hydra agents put in custody."
Bruce nodded and took a deep breath, then tried to cover himself with what was left of his pants.
Tony smiled at his husband and groaned a bit as he moved. He was going to have bruises all over his sides and chest in the morning.
"I'm fine. The vests are bulletproof." He put his hand on Loki's head then looked around the room. Something seemed strange about it. Almost familiar. Tony frowned a bit in thought then went over to another door. It was locked.
"Loki, can you get this open?"
"Tony, our main concern right now is the machinery and..." Steve didn't even get to finish when the door was wretched clean off its hinges.
"You can never be too sure Steve." Bruce reminded him, glad that he'd worn the pants Tony made for him.
"We should get it checked out. They might be holding more stuff back there as well." Natasha pointed out.
Loki nodded, turning around so his back was to the door. Loki gave it a good kick with his back paw so the door went in and fell.
Tony peeked into the room then stepped in and looked around at the large tubes and machines. It almost looked like the complex where they had originally found Toki. He felt tense now as he continued then opened the next door he found. His eyes widened and he stepped back.
"Steve! Get Fury!"
"What is it?" He stepped forward, ready for a fight when Tony called out again.
"Get Fury!"
The soldier didn't wait to be told again. He turned his headset on and got in contact with Fury.
"Sir, Stark found something."
They were children, all dead by the looks of it. Some were cut up into pieces and placed into large jars. Others were preserved in containers along the walls, stuck forever as if in sleep. It was horrible to see, and each of them looked slightly deformed. Had they all been spliced? By the looks of it, if they had, the experiments didn't succeed.
"What the hell is this?" Bruce stepped into the room and his eyes widened.
Loki turned away from the room and allowed himself to turn back into his Aesir form.
"I'm going outside. I'll be back." Loki promised disappearing in a cloud of smoke.
Fury frowned at the sight when he reached the room and saw what was in it. Good thing they found it when they did. There was no telling how many children had suffered this fate.
Loki and Hela walked through the halls of the building in the same step, standing tall and proud, the power they possessed almost radiating off of them as they went.
Everyone shrank away from Loki and Hela as they passed by. Their hearts sank and they felt the color drain from their faces.
Tony looked around and felt the blood boil in his veins. Who could do this? He looked at each of the children then stopped when he reached the machines at the end of the room.
"I'll get the information from the computers." Tony spoke quietly, not bothering to turn and look at Bruce.
"I'll help." Both men got to work quietly, hacking the information and sitting there with the bodies around them. It was nightmarish to see.
"Guys, what happened?" Steve walked into the room and felt his heart tighten. He looked around then quickly stepped out of the room.
Loki saw the captain stepping out of the room. "Human beings Captain?" Loki questioned wondering if the captain would take back his earlier statement.
"All the children that are in here are in my kingdom and well looked after. They suffered greatly before passing." Hela said.
"Between the two of you, is there any way you can undo this?" Steve asked.
"Sadly we don't have that power." Loki answered.
"We have that power but they would only come back to these forms and that would only cause their souls more harm. Let them rest." Hela told them.
Steve nodded slowly and looked down. He'd never seen something this horrible, not even when he fought back during the war. This was beyond cruel. This was a monstrosity. Steve took a deep breath, trying to calm himself before he looked at Loki.
"What are you planning?"
Tony looked around at the bodies in the room then forced his eyes away. He looked on the computer screens, going through some of them; he came across a very interesting name: Dr. Andrea Pauler, Toki's mother. This certainly explained where she'd gotten her funding from. Hydra must have hired her to experiment on children for them. By the looks of it, she was in charge of this department.
"I guess it's a good thing we found Toki when we did." Tony finally spoke, though he wasn't sure if he felt any better.
"I can't believe this. Why wasn't there anything on her computers? When we raided the complex, there wasn't anything about communication with Hydra." Bruce looked at his friend perplexed. If she was working for the group, then you'd think Dr. Pauler would have had at least one email from Hydra. Tony thought for a moment then an idea came to him.
"What if she left? What if she found out everything she wanted to know then just went into hiding?"
"That would make se..!?" Both Bruce and Tony turned suddenly when they heard a noise. It was like a cry, but it didn't sound human. They looked around and realized one of the children on the tables wasn't dead yet.
"Get some medics in here!" Tony shouted at the SHIELD agents as he and Bruce rushed over to the child.
"Is it…?"
"No, it's not complete but this kid won't last long like this."
Loki and Hela started speaking Norse so no one could understand them. The two were picking the brains of the scientist that had done this to the children.
Upon hearing that one child was still alive, Loki and Hela went to see what they could do using their magic together. Even if only to ease the child under they could help her further.
Hela was able to get her name and knew exactly what to do for her as she disappeared.
"Where'd she go?" Steve asked looking around.
"She went back to Helheim. If she can turn the clock it will buy us a bit more time to help the girl." Loki explained. Loki eased the child's pain and passed happy images into her mind giving her something better to see.
"Will she be okay?" Tony looked his husband worried, and relaxed only slightly when the girl stopped whimpering. Her eyes closed a bit and she seemed to relax.
Bruce sighed and shook his head.
"Do you still have any of that antidote left?"
Tony felt his heart sink before his eyes widened hopefully.
"There's that small bit that Toki didn't take. We still have that much."
"How fast can you get it here?"
"As fast as my suit can take me."  Tony sped out of the room suddenly and pulled a brief case out of the jet. His suit was on him in no time and Tony took the sky as fast as it would take him.
"JARVIS, how long will it take me to get to the tower and back?"
"At this speed it will take about two hours Sir."
Steve stood outside the room then went back in when he heard there was one survivor. He went to the girl's side and held her small hand, his eyes pained.
"Who could do this to children?" He spoke quietly and tried to give any comfort he could to young girl.
Loki and Hela stood before the men that had caused such pain and suffering. A few of the men started cry and moved away as Hela turned into her natural form. Between the father and daughter every man in the room would talk without much fight. Except the one. Loki wanted him for himself.
He left the man untouched with not a single scratch or bruise. "You are going to rue this day."
Getting out of the plane they were going to use to transport the scientists, Loki looked back at Hela and nodded as her.
"We'll take care of things from here. Thank you. We'll see you soon." Loki told her. Hela nodded.
New chapter~
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Tigeresscrazy's avatar

I feel like cry because of what was done to those poor kids at least they are at peace now