Then: Momma's boy

The travel with the Bifrost once more left Toni with a nauseous feeling in her stomach and curiosity spiking to unknown heights in her brain. It was simply unfair that Jane got to ask that Heimdall dude all possible questions, at a faster pace than he could actually answer them, while Toni was forced to hold onto Loki to manage standing upright.

Heimdall might've been a bit distracted, though. Not only did he not know how the Bifrost worked, he just knew how to use it. Mostly, it was the red and golden armor, though, that was standing behind the second Prince of Asgard and his spouse that caught his interest. It was closing the distance to Prince Loki and Lady Antonia surprisingly fast, reaching out for the mortal female as she swayed on her feet at the same time as Prince Loki let go of an equally red and golden suitcase to wrap her in his arms.

"I'm telling you Lokes, the thing needs to be calibrated… stomach arriving five seconds after the rest of me…", she breathed out the same second that the armor had wrapped metal fingers around her arm, cold blue eyes fixing on her.

"Madam, I suggest you lay down somewhere to rest." The eyes glowed even more, roaming over the mortal's body while Heimdall was drawing his sword, pointing it at the armor. He could see everything between heaven and earth; he was following humans, Asgardians, Norns, even Jotnar, and Elves of interest with an easy eye. Whoever it was in this armor, he had escaped his gaze so far, and it had been resting upon the Trickster God and his chosen one more often than not in the past few months.

"Reveal yourself to me!" Asgard's watchman yelled, having just as much of an indoor voice as Thor who actually was stepping up behind the Guardian of the gate to the Realm Eternal, and startling the older God when he put his hand on his shoulder.

"Lord Heimdall, I assure you the Lord J.A.R.V.I.S. does not pose any threat. He is here to represent the Lady Antonia's family."

Actually, except for Pepper, Penelope, Phil, and Loki, he was Toni's family. He and her other two bots. Toni was still sad that she could not bring DUM-E and U along. Loki had already been worried about the two suits she wanted to bring, fearing exactly this reaction from the Asgardians. While they claimed to be more advanced than mankind, they would not react favorably of artificial life. Especially if they were as eccentrical as DUM-E.

"No warrior shall enter the Realm Eternal with his face hidden from me!" Heimdall grouched, still not taking his sword down.

"Reveal yourself!" he ordered again, blocking the exit to the rainbow bridge where two carriages were waiting for the two princes of Asgard and their spouses (and Toni's luggage, who, at least this time, was coming prepared for every eventuality - Not being kidnapped helped planning stuff like that tremendously).

The armor stood straight again, facing the God in the golden armor who was still pointing his sword at him, before turning those blue glowing eyes at Thor.

"I assumed Asgard to be more hospitable, Your Highness. After all, it is the wedding of my Mother that we are here to celebrate." The mask turned back to Heimdall. "I assure you, my name is on the guest list."

Heimdall apparently did not care for guest lists, or the fact that not only prince Loki, prince Thor, the Lady Jane, or even Queen Frigga might vouch for whoever was in this armor. They could simply explain the fact that a computer program was running the suit, and that there was no actual person in there.

But where would be the fun in that?

"You will not leave this observatory until you have lifted the faceplate!"

Loki rolled his eyes at that, while Toni could not hide a smile as J.A.R.V.I.S. turned his head towards her, as if asking for permission… or making sure that she was watching. J.A.R.V.I.S. was a sneaky bastard, maybe he was having fun teasing the old God right now.

Scratch that, she was sure that he was having fun, and actually, it made her laugh despite the feeling of wanting to hurl into the next corner (which was actually a challenge in a round observatory…).

Loki frowned at her, before he realized what would happen now, and how maybe he played a role in it. While J.A.R.V.I.S. originated completely from Toni's genius, the past year spent around Loki and his sense for practical jokes, pranks, and his latent ambiguity had definitely formed an aspect of the AI's humor.

Needless to say that J.A.R.V.I.S.'s form of humor was also very British and sometimes bordering on cruel. Toni very rarely (read as: never) had a problem with that.

So while every other artificial intelligence would have lifted the faceplate (haha, good one, DUM-E would have used his fire extinguisher on Heimdall) and would have revealed the tons of cables, processors and storage that was stuffed in there to keep something as elaborate as J.A.R.V.I.S. running, J.A.R.V.I.S. topped it off by answering with a posh "As you wish."

And then he simply removed his head, tucking it under his arm.

"He takes after you, Darling", Toni snorted, clearly alluding to this one incident with the dwarfs that were most probably still debating where the neck ended and the head began.

"I actually never lost my head, Love, so I completely blame this behavior on your marvelous good influences", the dark-haired God whispered, smiling at the proud look his spouse wore.

Heimdall, on the other hand had blanched, was gaping like a fish, and even forgot to wave his sword.

He still stood there, eyes wide open, unmoving, when Loki had guided Toni around him and placed her in the carriage after making sure that she felt up for the drive, and the armor that housed J.A.R.V.I.S. had put his head back on his shoulders before taking off to slowly follow the vehicle. Jane was still silently giggling while Thor patted Heimdall's shoulder again, before collecting his fiancée and headed out of the observatory.

"There… there was nobody… there was…" Heimdall stammered, his sword still pointing into thin air.

Author's note: I think I just broke Heimdall... LOL