Chapter 2

The planet he was supposed to be meeting his teammates on was cold and desolate as he exited the portal. What he assumed was blood and something else was dripping from the walls and broken armor and debris were scattered around the huge room of an abandoned castle. He looked around his surroundings some more, seeing Ronan the Accuser, the Other, and a creature he had not seen before were sitting around a huge table near some windows that showed the ruins of this small, pitiful plant he didn't particularly care for. Thanos was seen through some sort of magical device that created a visual rift above it to show a hologram of the warlord sitting on his throne.

"Loki, I assume you completed your task."

"Yes, Thanos. All is ready for the invasion."

"Good. Good. Take Dark Knightmon with you to retrieve the Tesseract. He will be working with you for now on." Loki glanced at the creature that had to be ten times his size. He was a knight clad in black armor with a white skull on his chest. He wore a black cape and wielded a black spear. Out of all the worlds he traveled to and seen, he had not seen anything like this creature before. Hmm, there was much he could learn if they were going to be working together.

"Do we know where this Tesseract is?" Dark Knightmon asked, not all too interested in his new partner. "It was last seen on Earth with Captain Marvel," Ronan the Accuser said. "But the hero is nowhere on Earth last I remember."

"She gave it to S.H.I.E.L.D.," Loki said, knowingly. He had been doing a bit of spying around before coming to the meeting.

"Then that is where you must go," Thanos said before turning to Ronan. Dark Knightmon stood from his seat as he and Loki were dismissed. Dark Knightmon made his way over to him, looking at him with a gaze even the God of Mischief could not read.

"Where is this S.H.E.L.D.?" the creature asked as Loki opened a portal to the snowy regions of Earth. "The main base is constantly moving and very hard to find without alerting Fury that we are nearby. There are agents around the world that go to and from the main base, however."

"Hmm… so we find these agents, we can find this base." The creature didn't form it as a question as he entered the huge cavern within one of the many mountains in this snowy region that Loki had taken up as his base of operations.

"Exactly, finding these agents might be a bit harder to find. But with some time I can locate one and bring them under my control."

Dark Knightmon nodded as Loki talked a little bit more about his plan. As the two talked, discussions of their lives came forth and Loki learned about a world called the Digital World.

What an intriguing world? he thought as he listened to the Digimon talk about his own older brother and the war that had been foiled by a bunch of children. Loki understood the need for vengeance, to be in one's shadow for so long. He had been in his brother's shadow for so long that he had craved attention, the wrong attention he must admit, but attention nonetheless.

"How did you survive?" The Digimon was not a god, he couldn't survive a blast that was meant to kill his brother.

"I separated before he was hit by the blast. I'm not sure how I ended up in space though."

"Hmm, interesting. Are you still able to return to that world or open portals at least?" He could certainly work with this, these children could be a huge asset to them, rather they know this or not.

"Yes and no. I'm still not strong enough to open a portal big enough to return to my world, but I can open smaller ones to allow small Child or Adult Digimon to pass through. Why?"

Loki sat on the sofa across from the Digimon with a wicked smile on his features. "I have an idea on how to draw out these children. I am certain S.H.I.E.L.D. is keeping a very close eye on them after that battle in Japan."

Yes. This could work. This could work very nicely.