The road so far: Right so a guy named Paradox zaps the Avengers into the past to protect Loki from Thanos because he's all bent on revenge and yeah. And so Bruce and Tony end up protecting kid Loki. Natasha and Clint end up with a teenage Loki and Thor and Steve end up with a young adult version of Loki. They realise Loki was innocent and that Thanos has somehow used the Tesseract to go back through his time line thats why they are there in the first place. But it seems they are too late as Loki becomes 'zombified' and opens the portal for Thanos to come through... They just don't know which one out three he is going to come out of..

'Oh my god..' gawped Natasha as a big red hand emerged from the portal.

'Master' said Loki kneeling to the ground, his head bowed as the giant came through.

'Asgard' Thanos said, the words dripping off his tongue like poison. He surveyed the room. How he had dreamed of this day. His eyes then lay on the two assassins, guns in hands. He chuckled, 'what is this? Food for my pets?' Clint took a slight step in front of Natasha,

'Us? We are your worst nightmare mate' replied Clint his gun still aimed at the Titan.

'You think a mere mortal and his pet female will defeat me?' he laughed. Natasha scowled and tightened her grip on her gun.

'Pet female?' she hissed and pulled the trigger, landing 4 shots in the giants chest. Thanos took a step back, shocked by the bravery of a mere female. He hesitated then burst out laughing. 'I don't see what's funny' she spat.

'You think you can harm me with mortal weapons?'

'Well, one of our 'mortal' weapons blew up a whole army of alien freaks so I wouldn't judge us yet' shrugged Clint, still trained on the beast in front of them.

'Oh yes the Chitauri. They aren't very happy at what you did and… neither am I'

'Do we care?'

'You should do' he smiled. He took another look round the room 'finish them off and I expect you to have succeeded this time, my pet' he waved his hand then scowled. It wasn't here. He gave the two assassins one last look then exited through the portal.

Clint frowned over to Natasha then turned to see Loki stand up, his eyes glowing a Tesseract blue.

'So that's what he meant' he shrugged and pointed his gun to him.

'Clint we need to think about this'

'Think about what? He comes near I'll put a bullet in him. Simple'

'Not simple! We are meant to be protecting the dick not killing him!' Natasha warned, giving a quick glance to the archer.

'Oh relax Tasha! He doesn't have the glow stick of destiny with him!'

'No but he has mag-' Loki put his arms out and sent Natasha and Clint flying into the wall. '-magic' groaned Natasha rolling onto her front.

'Oh yeah forgot about that…' he replied rubbing the back of his neck. Natasha sighed and reached for her gun, she jumped up onto her feet and aimed it at Loki.

'We need to find a way to take him down without killing him' she said.

Clint glanced over to Natasha as he got himself to his feet 'Can we-?'

'Yes. But it can't kill him!'

'Agreed!' Clint smiled, swinging his bow off his shoulder.

'And no eyes!'

'Damn…' he muttered under his breath as he loaded an arrow.

'Why did he leave?' Natasha questioned, her eyes still fixed on the young trickster 'I mean he said he was coming for him and now what, he doesn't want him? It doesn't make any sense"

"Yeah, I was thinking that… Maybe he's looking for something" suggested Clint, bringing his bow up.

'But that's what doesn't make any sense. I thought Paradox said he was after Loki. Well Loki was right in front of him and he completely ignored him'

'Tash I don't know okay, ask Stark or Banner they seem to be the brains around here. Or better yet, why don't you ask Thor? It is his stupid goddamn brother after a-'

'Thor?' Loki interrupted. He turned his attention turned the archer. 'Thor is not here. He cannot save you. He will not come. He will never come. Why do you keep believing he would? Because he's your brother? But he's not your brother. He never was. He was the perfect child. Cast you in the shadow the moment you arrived in Asgard' the words seemed to flow out of the trickster, those horrible, horrible words Thanos had told him over and over. He had wished and prayed and screamed for his brother to come but… he never did. He never came. He never saved him from the nightmare he was living in.

'That's what Thanos told you, wasn't it?' asked Natasha. She observed the boy. He didn't look at all like the mad man who had tried to subjugate her world. He was innocent and pure and well, he was a child. Well he wasn't a child, god knows, he was probably older than her right now.

'Tash, what are you doing?' Clint said, seeing Loki's reaction to the name.

The assassin motioned her hand at him to shut up. 'He told me that Thor would never come. He would never save me…' Loki said, but it came out as more as a whisper.

'From what Thor told us,' she took a step toward him 'He looked everywhere for you. He was in denial that you were dead... Thanos must have shielded you from him' Loki looked down, his expression confused. Natasha looked over to Clint and nodded her head.

'Th-Thor looked for me?' a confused Loki asked. He scrunched his face up in pain as Thanos was shouting orders in his head.

'Yeah. He was heart broken that you had decided to do what you did to Earth' she took another step toward him, watching as Clint walked behind him. Loki's head snapped up. One eye glowing blue whereas the other an emerald green.

'But I didn't-I didn't want to. He made me do it...' he sobbed. He ran a shaky hand through his hair then grabbed his head. 'I can't-I can't'

'I know' she gave a reassuring smile then made eye contact with the archer who gave her a nod. She watched as Clint picked up his gun then struck Loki across the back of the head with it.

'Think that will snap him out of it?' he asked, stepping over his body and making his way over to Natasha.

'Don't know' she answered shrugging. She bent down next to him and moved him onto his side. Her hand hovered over his eye lids then slowly opened them. She sighed and stood up. 'Well, well done Agent Barton. You've officially knocked a God unconscious' He grinned at her comment, sliding his gun back in its holder.

'Just in a days work. So, how is he?' Natasha raised an eyebrow and turned to him.

'I thought you didn't care' she asked, eyebrow still raised.

'Well, I-I don't' he inspected the arrow in his hand. 'But is he still zombified or what?'

'He's fine. Might be suffering from a concussion when he wakes up though but I suppose that will pass. You seemed to snap him right out of it' Clint grinned then placed the arrow back in its quiver and throwing his bow over his shoulder, his eyes trailing to the unconscious God.

'We just gonna leave him?' he asked.

'I'm not moving him' she replied, putting her own gun away and moving over to the now open portal. 'We need a way to communicate with the others again... The portal must have disrupted the communication between us all' Clint frowned and followed her, looking at the swirling pattern the portal made.

'If you're suggesting we follow Thanos then let me point out what a bad idea that is Tash' She sighed and turned her head to him.

'And how do you suggest we get into contact with the others? We need to work out tactics Clint and right now that is our best option' The archer let out a shy and shrugged.

'Fine' Natasha smirked slightly at her breaking him then took a look to Loki. She heard Clint moving on his feet and turned her attention back to the portal.

'Ready?' she asked him, watching as he fidgeted on his feet.

'Lets go' he replied. Natasha closed her eyes for a brief moment then took a step into the swirling portal. She gasped at the sight in front of her. 'Oh my god' breathed Clint who appeared on the other side of Natasha. They seemed to be on some sort of planet. Clint looked down to the floor, it was rock. He took a step forward and looked up to the sky. Sky? It wasn't a sky. It was space. 'We are stood on a rock...in space. How are we not dead?'

'I don't know' Natasha answered, slowly walking next to him. A large growl haunted their ears and they both instinctively went for their gun.

'Tash' whispered Clint, gently tugging on her arm. 'We need to go'

'Yeah' she was hardly paying any attention to him. Her eyes scanning the area.

'Tash'

'Clint, in a minute' she shrugged off his arm and started walking forward. She came across some steps and she followed them down, across onto another rock.

'Tasha!' hissed the archer, taking a step forward. He did not like this. He felt like something was watching them. That something was lurking in the darkness. And he knew. He knew that she felt it too.

She waved off his words and glared into the darkness in front of her. She took another step and metal clanged under neath her. 'дерьмо' she swore. She bent down and picked it up. She frowned. It was a chain. She followed it to a wall. She ran her hand across it and could make out the faintest colour of red plastering the wall and the chain. She took a step back and turned to her partner. 'Clint... We need to go'

The archer nodded and spun his head around trying to find another portal. 'There' he said as she pulled up next to him. 'Are you ready?' he asked. She put her hand on his arm and gave him a nod and they both set off, quickly and stealthily running toward the portal. They didn't even bother hesitating as they both jumped in.

Hi~

I'm sorry. I promised it would be out ages ago but I've been busy with exams (I know shit excuse) and plus I forgot my log in... Which I don't understand because it's so simple. Anyways, I actually wrote this a few months back, I just forgot to post it. But here you go. And I will be updating it. My exams finish on Tuesday then FREEDOM!