HAPPY ONE YEAR EVERYONE! When I first started Everything Left Unfulfilled, I honestly didn't expect this much support. I'm honored that people review each chapter, leaving their feelings and thoughts; it makes me want to cry happy tears every time I get an email saying someone left a review.
So, thank you everyone who's read the story. Thank you for following and favoriting, and thank you for putting this story in not one or two, but four communities. Thank you for the almost 23,000 views, the 262 follows and 207 favorites.
Sadly, this chapter isn't really something special, but we are working up to the next break off point for Our World in This Mad World, and honestly, internet cookies to you if you can guess what's going to cause some more Toni/Loki bonding. And now, to the reviews!
DheeDixon said: I want to believe peter is not dead. thank you for your hard work~
Don't worry, Peter isn't dead... yet ;) Thanks for the review!
MysticWolf71891 said: Gasp, not Peter!
Yep, Peter got taken hostage! There are repercussions for messing with the Timeline, especially with a major point like this.
I do not own The Avengers, I am merely writing this fix-it fic because Infinity War and Endgame were bullshit and could've been so much more.
Toni looked at the path ahead of her, glancing at the sky with a frown. Time didn't seem or feel like it was passing, and guessing from the sad ticking of her watch, it had been roughly ten minutes since she first arrived.
"Magic is some weird ass shit," she mumbled, moving forward only to immediately to stop as something leaped from an upper branch and landed on the path beside her. "A… cat," looking around, she went back to looking at the black kitten with a frown. "How the hell did a cat get here?" She took a step forward and the cat let out a warning growl, ear flicking as it's green eyes watched her. "Look, I need to get to Asgard. Is this the right path?" there was a beat and she shook her head. "I'm talking to a cat. A cat,"
Moving forward, she walked past the hissing kitten and continued climbing, hearing the creature run after her once it seemed to realize she wasn't backing down.
"God my life is weird," she grumbled, her chest already feeling tight.
Loki let out a calm noise as he ran a hand down his youngest's muzzle, feeling himself relax as Sleipnir moved into his touch. "A dear friend of mine will be here to collect you in a few days," he murmured, making the horse's ears twitch. "Her name is Antonia, and her and her own children are taking care of Fenrir. She is trustworthy, even if she cannot wield Mjolnir." His son looked at him carefully before nodding.
"Loki," Thor's voice had him glancing up sharply, but the blonde's eyes were just… sad. They had been like that since he came back, and it was concerning to see the one he'd come to see as his older brother in such a state, even if they had to pretend they hated one another. "We do not have to do this; Toni is differing from her initial path as well."
"Thor, what do you expect will happen when a fixed point doesn't go right?" he countered (because, contrary to what the others believed, the Princes had the same amazing training, though they had put their skills to different uses) and they both knew the answer.
"Her's isn't fixed, and neither is you falling," he said, moving forward to clasp his shoulder. "We know what Thanos plans to do; even if what Toni has Seen comes true, he will not know that we differed, or he cannot risk differing."
The black-haired god let out a concerned noise at the reminder of the mystery that was Antonia Stark. For a while, her and Thor had simply believed that she was extremely good at guessing, but when he went to place protection wards on her, he found a magical core belonging to her, and he could instantly see what magic she had once the connections were made.
"I still do not understand how someone of Midgard could have Mage Sight so readily at their call and not know it," he grumbled, making the blonde bark out a laugh.
"Toni is truly a special case," he admitted. "Even in the original timeline she was Seeing what was to come, we just didn't listen until it was too late." He looked at his brother curiously.
"When did you start listening?" he asked, and the soon to be Crowned Prince paused.
"After the Vision came to be, I believe," he answered. "She was the only one who knew of the dangers Space holds, and she was the only one able to talk about the Infinity Stones, however limited her knowledge at the time had been."
Loki frowned thoughtfully as he said his goodbye to Sleipnir and made his way into the palace behind Thor, grimacing as he saw Lady Sif and Warriors Three waiting for the elder Prince. "Silvertongue," Volstagg growled out, and he barely noticed how Thor had tensed up.
"Volstagg," he returned in a slightly icy tone before turning to Thor. "I shall be in the library if you need me, brother."
Toni felt like gritting her teeth as she hauled herself up onto one of the smaller branches, the reactor pressing against her lungs painfully as her chest heaved for air. A few seconds later, the furious kitten appeared a few yards away, green eyes still set deep into a glare.
"I might not make it," she mumbled, gazing up to where green leaves turned gold; where Asgard's path laid. "You're really going to hiss at a dying woman?" The cat paused at this and seemed to give her a once over glance. She let out a groan and closed her eyes, moving her head back to rest it on the trunk. "The rest of this is going to fucking suck…"
"Vanko, let him go," Rhodes growled out, his voice metallic as the two men looked between Whiplash and the Hammer Drones.
:Iron Legion, four hostiles holding a priority hostage at my current location.: JARVIS saw Rhodes jump as his message pinged on his HUD, but he didn't seem all that jostled as he signed ok in response. Switching to his bodiless, AI form, he quickly pinged 15 of the Legion that were hovering, sending them to other points of interest around them.
Fortunately, he was able to get one of the medical drones, though the Hammer Drone was dampening the boy's vitals somehow. As he returned to the golem Prince Loki had made, Vanko spoke.
"Where is Antonia Stark?" he growled out. "I want Stane to hurt like I did when my son died in my arms." For a second, panic flashed between Rhodes and JARVIS before realization hit them both: Anton Vanko did not know Toni Stark was Peter Parker's mother, which meant him grabbing the boy had just been coincidence…
"The boy is innocent," JARVIS spoke up. "There is no need to bring him into this." Vanko's face grew sour and he scowled.
"Isn't there? Stark has already proven herself a coward by you being in there," he snarled before grinning sadistically. "Perhaps a little more blood is needed to lure her out." With that, the man lashed out, forcing the two in the Iron suits to dodge in separate directions while the Hammer Drones shot up.
Thankfully, the Legion was able to act and disable two of the three drones.
The third simply exploded, still holding the boy to it.
Please leave a comment telling me what you think so far or what you think will happen!
Because lord knows I deserve hell for what I'm doing to Peter XD