CH 15: Golden retriever AKA Thor

As they got on the quinjet and flew again, Ali decided to sit next to Thor and talk with the golden retriever of a god so he could calm down and prepare for the long ass lecture he would be getting.

Thor raised an eyebrow at Ali who smiled at him :"So I guess you're Loki's brother, Thor? The god of lightning of Asgard and the son of the Allfather, Odin, right?"

"Y-yes." Thor answered, a little surprised that such a young human knew about him :"So you perhaps know of me, young one?"

Ali nodded a few times with a smile :"Yup! Humans have quite a few legends about Asgard, they're called Northern mythologies. Tell me, is it true that your hammer, Mjölnir, was forged from the heart of a dying star?"

Thor nodded with a smile, getting interested and excited at the conversation :"Yes, that is correct! Do you perhaps have any other legends about me?"

Ali chuckled at the childish god as he nodded :"Yup, I know a few. But it seems like not all of the mythologies are right. That was the case for Loki, and it seems like it's the same for you.

In Northern mythologies, you're said to have red hair, red beard, magic iron gloves, magic belt, and a helmet. But clearly you don't have any of them."

Thor's smile grew bigger with excitement :"Really? But why would I need to wear gloves and those other equipments? Is there a specific reason?"

Ali nodded with a smile, clearly having fun with the god of thunder and lightning :"Yes, there is. It's said that your hammer is extremely heavy, so your magic gloves and magic belt help you use it more easily."

Thor glanced down at his hammer with interest and a smile :"Is that so? Seems like you are correct, not everything is right in your mythologies. Mjölnir isn't heavy, but only those who are worthy to wield it can lift it and use it."

Ali put his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands as he looked at Thor's hammer with interest :"Oh really? By the way, it's said in Northern mythologies that you have children and you're married.

The same is said about Loki, but he said that he doesn't have any children and neither does he have a lover. Is that true for you too? I think her name was... Sif!"

Thor looked at Ali with interest before he shook his head :"No, I do not have any children nor am I married. But Lady Sif does exist and is on Asgard."

Ali raised an eyebrow as he continued the conversation :"Oh really now? What kind of person is she? She's described to be very beautiful." Thor nodded with a chuckle :"Yes, lady Sif is very beautiful and a fearsome warrior. She is a dear friend of mine and the Warriors Three."

Ali tilted his head in interest as he stared at Thor :"Warriors Three? Who are they? I know a few things about Northern mythology, but not everything."

And well, the rest of the ride was spent like that. With Thor and Ali talking while ignoring the others like they don't exist.

"In case it's unclear," Fury trailed of as the door of the glass prison that Loki was in closed :"If you try to escape, if you so much as a scratch that glass," Fury pressed a few keys on the holographic keyboard and a ground below the glass cell opened up :"It's 30,000 feet straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?"

"Ant," he pointed at Loki before pointing at the button that opened the hole and then closed it :"Boot."

Loki :"*Chuckling* It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me."

Fury :"Built for things a lot stronger than you."

"Oh, I've heard." He looked straight into the camera that was in the room and the one that Ali, Natasha and the others were using to see the interaction :"A mindless beast, and a freak child not better than the beast. Make plays they're still man."

Natasha moved her hand and gently held Ali's in reassurance, causing him to look at her and smile as he nodded. He didn't need to be comforted since he didn't care about Loki's nor any other person's opinion, but the fact that Natasha cared so much about him warmed up his icy, cruel and cold heart.

He turned his hand around and gently squeezed her hand, letting her know that he's alright as Loki continued :"I understand the beast, but I thought that you would at least trust the boy, considering he's one of you."

"We do. I do." Fury let out :"This cage is a failsafe in case shit hits the fan. I trust the kid that my agent trusts, so I had said agent ask for his consent to make this. And guess what, that kid trusts me back, knowing that I wouldn't act out of line if he doesn't."

Loki snorted with a smirk on his face as he tried to provoke :"How desperate are you, that you call on such lost creatures to defend you?"

Fury :"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace, and you kill because it's fun. You have made me VERY desperate. You might not be glad that you did."

Loki :"Oooh, it burns you to have come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, UNLIMITED power. And for what? A warm light for All mankind to share. And then to be reminded what real power is."

Fury smirked before walking away :"Well, let me know if "real power" wants a magazine or something."

As the holograms in front of everyone sitting disappeared, Banner tried to joke with a smile :"he really grows on you, doesn't he?"

"Yeah, he does." Ali chuckled as he interlocked his fingers behind his head and leaned back as Steve spoke :"Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?"

Thor :"He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard, nor any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth, in return, I suspect, for the Tesseract."

"An army..." Steve let's out, unsure of whatever he was wearing :"From outer space..." Ali made himself even more comfortable as he put his feet on the round table :"Not if I have anything to say about it. Army or an entire race, I will wreck them if they mess with me or my loved ones."

Thor glanced at him as he shook his head :"Don't underestimate the enemy, young Ali..." But Ali just snorted with a smirk :"I'm not underestimating anyone, in fact, I overestimate people most of the time. And besides, I am my own army."

Banner took off his glasses as he pointed at the screen that showed Loki :"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for."

Thor :"Selvig?"

Banner :"He's an astrophysicist."

Thor :"He's a friend."

Natasha :"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours."

Steve :"I want to know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here."

Bruce <fuck it, I feel bad for keeping him out> :"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You could smell crazy on him."

Ali chuckled as he pulled out an orange flavored lollipop from his pocket before unwrapping it and putting it in his mouth :"Hey, give him a break. He's the god of mischief, he's supposed to be like that, he can't help it."

Thor took a step forward to the table as he looked at Bruce :"Have care for how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard. And he is my brother."

Natasha :"He killed 80 people in two days."

Thor :"... He's adopted."

Ali tilted his head in confusion as he furrowed his eyebrows at Natasha :"Wait... seriously? 80 people? Only 80? I expected a lot considering that he's a god, the god of mischief at that. Seriously, I lost some respect for him. Those are rookie numbers."

The others looked at him with weird expressions, but he just shrugged :"What? I'm telling the truth. You think killing 80 people is something big, you heard of that time the army tried to capture me and experiment on me?" Natasha furrowed her eyebrows as she looked at him with confusion :"What? W-why don't I know about that?"

Ali raised a genuinely confused eyebrow at her :"What? You seriously don't know? I thought I told you about it." But Natasha shook her head in denial :"No, you haven't. I'm pretty sure that I would definitely remember something like that."

Ali was silent for a moment before he shrugged :"Then I may have forgotten about it... But I seriously thought I had told you... Didn't Fury tell you then? I don't think he would hide something like that." Natasha frowned and turned towards agent Hill with a questioning gaze :"Maria, you know anything about this?"

And Maria nodded :"Yeah, but director Fury didn't tell you because he thought that you would be alert around the kid, so he kept it a secret. And besides, it was Lieutenant General Thaddeus Ross' fault, the kid can't be blamed for defending himself."

Bruce twitched for a second when he heard the name of the father of his previous lover from a few years ago, Betty Ross.

Natasha was silent for a moment before she nodded and then turned to Ali again :"Fine, whatever, so what happened then? You didn't do anything over exaggerated... right?"

Ali smiled smugly as he shrugged :"Natasha, you should know me by now. If someone tries to provoke, I'll completely wreck them. Obviously, I killed every single guy that attacked me until Fury stepped in and forced them to back off.

He wasn't there himself, but he did give the order. And even if he hadn't, they would have to retreat since I killed at least a few hundred in less than an hour." That seemed to annoy Steve as he frowned at Ali :"You're proud that you killed so many people? Soldiers at that?"

Ali snorted in annoyance as his smirk disappeared and looked at Steve with absolutely no fear :"Yes, I do. Not just because I was able to kill so many people in so little time, but also because I was able to protect myself. Do you have a problem with that?"

The room was silent as Steve's gaze hardened :"When I hear someone not feeling guilty and even being happy about killing innocent soldiers, yes, I do tend to have a problem."

Ali put his feet on the ground, put his hands on the table and tilted his head with a raised eyebrow and a nonchalant look :"Oh? And what are you gonna do about it?

Innocent? Big guy, please, soldiers are those who protect their country, people and all that bullshit. Not those that try to either kill said people or experiment on them.

And believe me, even if they were innocent, I wouldn't care. As long as someone attacks and provokes me first, I have no problem in even killing a goddamn saint. It's called self defense."

Steve kept his gaze on Ali with the entire room silent :"So you're a murderer?" And Ali snorted with a smirk :"Call it whatever you want, I honestly can't bring myself to care. I don't kill at random, but if someone tries to come to take my life, I take that as a sign that they are ready to have their lives taken as well."

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