Author's Notes: Hello! Welcome to Chapter One! I do not own pop tarts, Loki, the Avengers, or Marvel. I am solely a steward of the things I do own. Have fun reading!

The door to the bridge opened. Agent Hill turned to the new arrival, ready to tell them that the bridge was off-limits—and let out a shout, leveling her gun at the new guy.

The new guy looked slightly confused and very wary. He looked at the ring of agents that had seemingly materialized around him, raised his hands in surrender, and spoke. "I am Prince Loki Laufeyson Odinson of Asgard. Please get those," he paused, searching for a word. He apparently came up blank, as he continued, "things out of my face."

"How did you get out of your cage?" demanded Fury.

Loki looked confused. "I know not of what you speak."

Agent Hill gave a sharp nod, and Loki was suddenly cuffed and had agents surrounding him in prisoner escort formation. "I am personally coming with you to make sure you don't try any funny business."

Loki looked insulted. "Though mischief is my specialty, please give me credit for knowing when it is inappropriate and useless."

Hill simply gestured to the door with her gun.

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Loki stood in his cage, happy. Sure, he was stuck. But he had a brilliant plan in motion and was simply biding his time. The door to the prison room slid open. Loki smirked. Creeping out an agent would make the day just that much more fun. He turned, expecting to see his new quarry. But instead, he came face-to-face with himself. The shocked look on his double's face matched his own. After a split second of stunned surprise, Loki relaxed. Ah. The mortals become clever. They put a mirror in front of me so that I might scare myself. Well played, mortals. He gave a conciliatory wave of his hand and turned away. After about two minutes of staring off into space and dreaming up a retaliation of the mirror trick, it dawned on him. My reflection did not wave his hand. He whirled back around, but the image was gone.

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Footsteps.

Running footsteps.

Running footsteps running here.

Fury turned to the door just as Hill burst in, closely followed by the escort agents and a bewildered Loki. "Sir, there's two of them!"

"Two? Two of what?"

Hill regained her composure. "Two Loki's. There's the one in the cell and the one here."

Fury was unruffled. "Then one of them is obviously a fake." He turned to Loki and delivered a punch to Loki's face. Loki fell to the ground, out like a light. "The one in the cage is a fake, as I thought. Throw this guy in. He'll turn off his double when he realizes his little trick didn't work."

"It's just not right."

Fury raised an eyebrow at Agent Hill.

Hill continued. "Loki. How'd he get out? Especially without any of us noticing? And getting captured again? What's with that?"

Fury went out the door without a word.

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Loki heard the door open. He turned and saw Fury over by the console. "Ah. Here to show me again what will happen if I touch the walls, Mr. Boot?" Loki loudly tapped the glass walls of his cage, just to be annoying. Fury pressed a button, and a dart buried itself in Loki's flesh. Loki fell to the ground, fast asleep.

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"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" The voice on the PA system startled poor Steve so much that he missed his swing and instead fell face-first into his punching bag. He quickly righted himself. Okay, I had better not do that in battle—I need to practice more. And Steve was off to the briefing room.

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"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" Bruce headed toward the door. When he reached it, he turned to Tony.

"Well, come on already!"

"Eh, I'll catch up."

The message on the PA repeated again, this time with slightly different words. "AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! TONY, THIS MEANS YOU!"

Tony pouted and stalked toward the door, muttering dire threats underneath his breath.

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"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" Natasha hurried down the hallway.

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"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" Thor stuck the last of his meal in his mouth and headed towards the briefing room. A few seconds later, he came back into the mess, grabbed a pop tart, and left again.

Author's Notes: So, did you like it? I hope you did. Please leave a review! I accept anon reviews, so not having an account is no excuse! ;)