Summary: What if Loki had a side kick during 'The Avengers?' Someone powerful enough that he couldn't dominate the normal way but possibly too useful to turn away? Will that make events turn out any different, or will he just have a bunkmate in some prison?

(Author's Note: Chapter one (and a few other chapters), will actually rely heavily on the movie script, but, as that doesn't seem to exist online yet, I'm going to have to go on memory and fill in the more specifics later. Please feel free to Private Message me with possible line corrections, as I've only sadly seen the movie twice. Still, I hope you enjoy it!)

Chapter One: Interesting

Agent Anna Delallo looked around the underground room that they were in at the moment. She was one of the guards assigned to the Tesseract and the scientist, Eric Selvig, who was working on it, supposedly trying to provide the world with a clean, always burning energy. For some reason, she doubted that was the only reason that S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted to play with the little blue box, but they didn't provide that sort of information to a regular agent such as herself.

Not that there was anything terribly regular about her. The long, silky dark brown hair that she had was always tied back for her work, but there was little that she could do to hide her intense blue eyes. Most of her fellow agents complained that her stare was almost too intense to stand for very long. That usually just made her laugh. One of the few other things to make her laugh was beating the ever loving hell out of anyone that she was told to attack. Strong, quick, and resilient, she was. In her last review, it had been noted in her file that she seemed to enjoy her work a little too much. Another thing that caused her coworkers to keep their distance. It wasn't as if she had taken this job to make friends with her coworkers. She was actually the completely silent type with them unless she had to talk. She'd rather listen to what others around here said than to speak and possibly not hear something that was needed.

The word tonight (as if she couldn't see it for herself), was that the Tesseract was acting up. Turning itself on instead of staying quiet like a good little cube. She wasn't aware that cubes could behave or misbehave, but she'd seen many things in her lifetime, so little shocked her anymore.

Icy blue eyes flicked back and forth as she felt almost electrified, like there was even more current in the air than normal. She listened as Selvig and Director Nick Fury talked as the Director came in to chide about the Tesseract.

"Is there anything that we know for certain?" Fury asked Selvig as they walked toward the Tesseract.

"The Tesseract is misbehaving," Selvig replied.

This caused Fury to glare at the man. "Is that supposed to be funny?" he asked with an incredulous look on his face.

Selvig frowned. "No, it's not funny at all. The Tesseract is not only active, she's...misbehaving."

"How soon until you pull the plug?" Fury asked.

Selvig quickly shook his head. "She's an energy source. If we turn off the power, she turns it back on. If she reaches peak level..." He trailed off. There was talk of evacuating, although Anna herself doubted that they could get far enough away if this little cube decided to blow up.

Fury continued. "We've prepared for this, doctor. Harnessing energy from space."

Selvig shook his head, frustrated again that Fury wasn't seemingly getting his point. "We don't have the harness. Our calculations are far from complete. Now she's throwing off interference, radiation. Nothing harmful, low levels of gamma radiation."

Fury sighed. "That can be harmful." He then turned his attention off the Tesseract for the moment. "Where's Agent Barton?"

"The Hawk?" Anna cut off, watching them steadily as both turned toward her. "Up in his nest, as usual." They were talked about Agent Clint Barton, AKA Hawkeye, a man who seemingly had perfect aim with a gun and a bow. The man was almost as quiet as Anna seemed to be on the job, not doing much socializing unless you name was Natasha.

Anna pointed to where Barton was, and Fury headed off in his direction while Selvig went back to working on the little blue box that was causing all of this fuss. She turned her attention away from Barton and Fury as they talked, feeling another electrical spike in the air. She happened to be the first to be looking at the cube directly when a portal started to open on their end. Fury and Barton managed to back away from the growing portal just in enough time to watch as it seemingly exploded, knocking a few of the people that were closer on the ground.

Weapon now drawn from her gun holster, Anna could see a shape in the still bright light as it faded away. As the blue light darkened, she was able to discern what the shape looked like. Male, humanoid, black hair, sharp features, tall, thin but muscular, but it was his eyes that she caught herself staring at. Green eyes that seemed able to pierce into a person's soul, see all of their secrets, and expose them to the world.

Interesting...

She watched as a feral grin appeared on his face as he looked them over. It was then that her own eyes dropped to the weapon that he was carrying, a scepter had had a glowing orb in it, the same color as the Tesseract.

"Sir, please put down the spear!" Fury called out, weapon drawn. Barton and the other agents had their weapons drawn as well.

Instead of answering, the man aimed the scepter at Barton and Fury, letting loose a ball of blue exploding light from it, knocking the both of them back. She watched as he moved faster than human eyes could keep up with, taking down those that came near him.

When he reached Barton, he seemed to have a different reaction. When Barton aimed his gun at him, the other man twisted his arm, looking him over. "You have heart," he said, leaning the scepter forward and tapping it against Barton's chest. Anna then watched as Barton's eyes went black and then blue, arching an eyebrow as Barton then holstered his weapon. This was intriguing.

As the man moved to do the same tap to move agents, Anna simply watched. She heard Fury taking the Tesseract and placing it in a secure briefcase, which also seemed to attract the dark haired one's attention.

"Please don't," he said, turning his attentions to Fury, who had been heading out of the lab. "I still need that."

"This doesn't have to get any messier," Fury kept a gun trained on him with his free hand.

"Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else. I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose." That made a few things click in her head. He had to be from the same place as that other God with the hammer that appeared recently. She remembered the incident in New Mexico last year. She had been in South America during it, which made her a little sad as she had missed seeing the gods walk among men, apparently, but it seemed that now she was getting her second chance.

It seemed that Selvig, who had actually been there, had come to the same conclusion. "Loki? Brother of Thor?"

Loki sneered when Selvig mentioned Thor. Trouble in the family? Either way, it seemed that he wasn't going to disagree.

"We have no quarrel with your people," Fury said, keeping watch on the Asgardian.

"An ant has no quarrel with a boot," Loki sneered at him.

That seemed to anger Fury. "You planning to step on us?"

That didn't quite seem to be Loki's plans. "I come with glad tidings, of a world made free."

"Free from what?" Anna asked. She had stayed quiet and removed until then. It seemed that everyone had forgotten that the quiet agent was in the room. That was usually how she operated: make people forget she existed until she struck. Fury himself gave her a look that seemed to ask why she hadn't fired a single shot so far.

Loki turned to her and smiled. A less secure person might have been frightened by that look. "Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart..." He turned his attention toward Selvig, giving him the same treatment that he had given Barton and the others. She couldn't help but notice that his voice had a melodious quality to it. She wondered if he ever sang. "You will know peace."

"Yeah, you say peace, I kind of think you mean the other piece," Fury said, still glaring at her.

It was odd. They all looked...happy to have this done to them. They really did look free.

Definitely intriguing for Anna. "Then free me," she said, sheathing her own gun, opening her arms, and dropping to her knees, not bothering to look at the surprised and horrified look on Fury's face.

Loki's face broke into a wide grin. "It's nice to see that some of you know your place," he said, strolling over to her and tapping the scepter against her chest. However, other than a light electrical buzz, it didn't seem to do anything.

Loki's head tilted in confusion. "You're not mortal, are you?" he asked.

"Never said I was," Anna replied with a grin. She looked over his shoulder. "Loki...that makes you the God of Mischief, is that right?" When he nodded, she jumped off her knee, pulling out her gun, and shooting over Loki's shoulder, nailing Fury in the chest as he tried to come up behind Loki. "Mischievous enough for you yet?" she asked with a smirk.

Before he had the chance to reply, Barton interrupted. "Sir, this place is about to blow. Drop a hundred feet of raw material, Fury means to bury us."

Selvig nodded. "He's right; the portal is collapsing in on itself. You got maybe two minutes before this goes critical."

She watched as Loki picked up the discarded case that Fury had put the Tesseract in. "Then we should go," the dark haired God said. He started walking toward the hallway that would eventually lead to the surface, with everyone that he had mesmerized with his scepter following. As she had made her stance even without having the blue whammy done to her, Anna followed as well. She knew that Fury would be getting up soon (the bastard wore a bullet proof vest), she at least hoped that he wouldn't do it in time to escape from the collapse of the building. If he did, this would be SO much more of a pain in the ass.