A/N: If you haven't read my story 'Light Years From Home', I highly recommend reading it before you read this, but you don't have to. Basically, all you need to know is that Thanos failed to strangle Loki, and Peter failed to hang on to the donut-spaceship. They met, had a space adventure, became friends, and then saved the universe. Now you're all caught up :)
After the 'Infinity War', which was what the world had ended up calling it, things were pretty crazy for a while. The Accords got drastically rewritten into something everyone could agree on, because Thanos had made the world very aware of how much they needed superheroes and vigilantes free to protect it.
However, things were also crazy because half the population had vanished for exactly thirteen and a half minutes. There had been some huge prison break-outs, and some major supervillains had escaped. Peter made some new arch-nemeses (because he totally needed more of those). It was a very busy summer, to say the least. It wasn't until about three months later, when school was nearly about to start, that everything calmed down. (Peter wasn't sure how he would've survived if he'd had school on top of it all.)
It was Friday, at the end of the first week of school, and he had Ned and MJ over. MJ had claimed that she needed to keep an eye on 'you losers', because slacking off at the beginning of the year would get them behind in classes, and she needed a sharp academic decathlon team, but Peter was pretty sure she just meant that they were her friends.
They were in his room, and they'd done the next two weeks homework in about an hour, so Ned and Peter had broken open the Lego Starship Enterprise, and MJ was reading a book, when Peter noticed something odd.
The building was vibrating. It was subtle, and his friends didn't notice, but he frowned, with a glance out his open window, and wondered if he should go check it out.
Before he could decide, it got stronger.
"Do you feel that?" MJ said.
"Yeah," Ned shot a nervous glance at him. Peter looked back, just as nervous, because he didn't know what to do. MJ didn't know-
"Aren't you going to go check it out, Spiderman?"
Peter and Ned stared at her, mouths agape.
"What? I'm observant," she shrugged. "And neither of you are very subtle."
Peter thought he should probably be offended, but he wasn't at all.
"Oh man," Ned was saying enthusiastically, "we need to have a name now. We're a team, we should have a name, like Team Spidey! No, no-Spidey Squad!"
"I refuse to be a part of anything with 'squad' in its title," MJ said dryly. Peter clapped Ned on the back.
"Keep working on it, Ned."
Peter abruptly realized the shaking had stopped. MJ was looking at him expectantly again.
"I don't know, my Spidey sense isn't- ," he cut himself off as his super-hearing heard something from the roof.
"Who're we picking up?" It was a woman.
"A friend," said a smooth, very familiar voice.
Peter turned to his friends with a grin.
"Wanna meet the god of mischief?"
Ned and MJ took literally zero convincing to go on the roof with him. They very willingly followed him up the fire escape. He pretty much sprinted up the steps himself in his eagerness.
And, sure enough, there was the Commodore, parked on his roof.
"Loki!" Peter cried, spotting him standing with two people that he didn't recognize. One girl was engrossed in scribbling something on a notepad, and the other was wearing a distinctive red beanie.
"Little Spider," Loki smiled, and beanie-girl gasped.
"No way," she said excitedly. "Your friend is Spiderman? Awesome!"
"Hi," said Peter, deciding that if they were with Loki they could probably be trusted. "I'm Peter. Sometimes I crawl on ceilings and swing from skyscrapers."
Peter heard Ned and MJ clambering up from the fire escape behind him.
"And these are your friends? Your… web support?" She asked with a wink.
"Huh," said MJ, coming up beside him. "Actually, that's not bad."
"Web Support," Ned gasped. He was still trying to catch his breath from the climb, but it was very clear he liked the name.
"Hi, I'm Darcy," said beanie-girl with a cheerful wave. "And this is Jane-," she nudged the lady next to her, "-say hi Jane."
"Huh? Oh, hello," Jane said, and promptly went back to scribbling. Something about her was nagging at Peter's brain, but he couldn't think what.
Loki was frowning at his friends, and Peter hoped it hadn't been a bad idea to bring them up here.
"Hi, I'm Ned," said Ned, looking like it was the best day of his life.
"MJ," said MJ, and then she glanced at Loki. "And you are?"
"Loki, Prince of Asgard and Jotunheim, god of mischief and lies," Loki said, sounding almost bored.
MJ met Loki's challenging gaze with her own impassive stare. Peter had no clue what MJ was playing at, but the suspense was seriously going to kill him. It was like in the new Star Wars movie when Rey and Kylo battled with just the Force. Peter expected the invisible line between their eyes to spontaneously combust at any moment.
Even Jane had sensed the tension, forcing her attention from her scribbles.
Loki finally broke it off, sliding his eyes over to meet Peter's.
"Your friends can come, too," he said.
"Uh, sorry, Loki, sir," Ned said, awkwardly. "Where are we going?"
"New Asgard, of course," said Jane, like it should have been obvious. Darcy looked like she was trying not to laugh, next to her.
"Dude," said Ned, and Peter literally could not agree more. Dude.
"How're we getting there?" Peter asked. "I mean, it's the weekend, but I've got school on Monday."
Loki smirked. "That won't be a problem, little Spider," he said, and he lifted his hand, revealing the Space Stone, held between two of his fingers.
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