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Chapter 1: Well, It Started Out Normally...

Another day gone. Another night's dawn.

Specifically, another Avengers Movie Night's dawn.

One night a week, everyone who'd helped defeat Thanos in the Endgame would gather at the battlefield - Avengers HQ, which had been rebuilt to accomodate all of the superheroes - and sit down together to binge a movie series. For two months straight it had been Star Wars, taking it trilogy by trilogy and ending with all the TV series (which is why it took two months - Clone Wars was seven seasons, Rebels four, and Mandalorian as yet undetermined) and the standalones. Then they'd moved on to Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, the Harry Potter movies (which they'd divided into sessions of four and four), Pirates of the Carribean, Back to the Future (which had been Scott's choice), the Hunger Games, the Twilight movies (much to Clint's dismay - he'd practically hidden in Phil's arms until the big confrontation with the Volturi in the final movie), the newer Star Trek movies, Avatar, the Princess Bride, the Indiana Jones movies (two weeks), Better Off Dead, Frequency, and the How to Train Your Dragon movies (Loki had cried at the third one - then again, so had almost everyone else, even Clint).

Tonight, it was the Matrix trilogy.

They had all claimed their usual spots. Even the Guardians of the Galaxy had stopped by Earth tonight. Loki wasn't sure if it was just becuase of Matrix or because they happened to be in the area without having to save any planets from certain doom, but when word of the movie night had reached them, they all came down to Earth.

Loki surveyed the room from his comfortable position with his head in Thor's lap:

Tony and Steve were curled up on the main couch directly in front of the TV; Clint and Phil were snuggling on a different couch; Bruce seemed perfectly content to have Natasha curled up on his lap like a cat; Wanda and Vision had claimed a spot to cuddle on the floor, which was littered with blankets, pillows, and beanbags anyway; Peter Parker and Wade Wilson (who had onlly come by because of Peter) were together a little ways away from where Tony and Steve sat; Bucky and Sam had claimed a spot on the floor; Scott and Hope had shrunk and claimed a cabinet to sit on, away from where they could get stepped on but still where they could see the screen; Doctor Strange, Carol, Rhodey, Pietro, and Pepper had gathered together on the floor; T'Challa and Shuri sat together; Quill, Gamora, Nebula, Rocket, Groot, Mantis, and Drax had all gathered and took up the most space in the room (though that could be because of Groot, who was now a fully grown Groot, and Drax taking up so much space).

Yep, this was normal enough.

Loki still couldn't believe he'd been offered a position as an Avenger. After all he'd done...why would they have wanted him? But he had helped to defeat Thanos, so that might have made Fury consider it. Loki hadn't accepted or declined the offer yet; he wasn't sure himself.

Midway through the final Matrix movie (Revolution, Loki thought, but he wasn't entirely sure), Tony paused it and declared that more popcorn was necessary. There was a general murmur of consent among the assembled Avengers and other superheroes, and about half of them got up and followed Tony into the kitchen.

They were going to run out of popcorn fast.

"Are you enjoying the movies, Thor?" Loki asked, looking up at him.

"Verily," Thor said. Then he dropped the older manner of speaking. "They are quite amusing."

"Even though the main female lead died and was brought back to life in the last movie?" Loki quipped.

"Yes," Thor said. "Much like you seem to do, brother."

Loki had always hated that word.

"To be fair, I'm never actually dead," Loki pointed out. "Except when Thanos Snapped, then I was dead until you guys rewrote time."

"Don't remind me," Thor muttered.

"Something else you'd like to say, brother?" Loki asked, hardly daring to hope.

Thor hesitated.

Loki's heart sank.

A portal opened above them.

"What the -?" Thor sounded alarmed. "Loki, what is this?"

"It's not me!" Loki insisted, being just as confused as the rest of them.

"Strange!" Tony called. "Do you know what the hell this shit is?"

"It's not one of mine!" Strange called. He glanced at Loki, who shook his head, bewildered. "And it's not Loki either!" Now he glanced at Wanda, who also shook her head. "Nor Wanda! It's none of us!"

"Then who the fuck -?" Tony started, but was interrupted as the portal started to glow.

"Shit!" Clint cursed loudly. Loki would have found it amusing had the portal not started to pull people through it, however unwillingly.

And then he himself was pulled through, and despite himself, he screamed. So did everyone else, so at least he wasn't alone. Even Natasha was screaming. And that was saying something - Natashsa Romanoff never screamed. She shouted, yes, but that was only when she was pissed at someone. There was a difference between shouting and full-on screaming, and Nat had shifted into screaming mode. That was a problem.

Loki closed his eyes and waited for the world to stop spinning.

"Loki, are you alive over there?"

Loki opened his eyes to find Bruce standing over him, dressed in something completely unusual. It looked like the uniform of an Imperial officer form the Star Wars movies. More importantly, it looked like the uniform of Grand Moff Tarkin.

"Yes, I'm alive, but good gods, what in Helheim are you wearing?" Loki said, sitting up.

Bruce looked down at his outfit, then back up at Loki. "I could say the same about you," he said. "Check out your own outfit."

Loki looked down.

He was wearing what looked like...Sith robes? Yeah, Sith robes, that was it. Sith robes, a black tunic, black gloves...he looked every bit the Sith Lord. And, when he checked his belt, there was a...lightsaber?!

"What the Helheim?" Loki muttered.

"Activate it," Bruce suggested. Loki complied, pulling it out and pressing the button.

It was red. And it was double-sided.

"Damn," Bruce muttered.

"No kidding," Loki breathed. "Am I a Sith?"

"Apparently," Bruce said. "Darth Loki."

Loki snorted. "Yeah, that works."

"Where's Nat and the others?" Bruce asked, looking around.

"I don't know," Loki shook his head, "but this is definitely unusual."

"Yeah," Bruce agreed. "Come on, let's look for others we know."

Using the glow of Loki's new lightsaber, they set off looking for the rest of their friends.

They found Wade first.

"Ah!" Wade jumped as the Trickster-turned-Sith and the Hulk-turned-Imperial officer appeared in front of him. He was dressed in an outfit similar to Bruce's, though less decorated and with gloves. "Don't kill me!"

"Whoa, what happened to being a mercenary?" Loki said. "It's just us! Bruce and Loki!"

Wade relaxed a little. "Where's Peter?"

"We don't know. We're looking for people we know," Bruce explained. "Come with us?"

"Yes!" Wade said immediately. "I want to find Peter..."

"We've got lovers to find, too," Loki said. Bruce gave him a sideways glance, but Loki shot him a look that said, Later.

"Let's go!" Wade insisted.

They kept walking, through darkness mostly, the only light coming from the lightsaber. It didn't look as if they were on a Star Destroyer, but rather on a planet. Possibly the Sith homeworld, whih would explain why it was so dark. The red glow of Loki's double-bladed lightsaber was particularly strong here, casting an eerie glow over everything. Loki's face was highlighted in a kind of creepy way, half of it cast in shadow and half lit up with the red glow of his lightsaber.

They came across familiar faces in the form of stormtroopers, minus the helmets and looking supremely disoriented.

The Grandmaster of Sakaar (ugh, why him?), his faihful and stupid assistant Topaz (she'd make a great stormtrooper), Darcy (Loki felt kind of bad for her), Drax (he was a friend but would make a great stormtrooper, Loki reflected), and...was that Fury? That was Fury!

"Fury?" Loki and Bruce said in stereo, sharing an incredulous look.

"How'd you end up in the Star Wars universe?" asked Bruce. "The portal only opened over us, I thought."

"Well, you thought wrong," Fury growled. "Now I'm stuck as this accursed stormtrooper. Designation..." He looked at something he found on his person, Loki couldn't tell what. "FY-2892."

"FY...Fury," Loki said. "That makes sense. What about the rest of you? What are your designations?

"DC-0563," Darcy said.

"DX-4386," Drax added.

"TP-0102," Topaz drawled.

"GM-1000," the Grandmaster declared, though he was lacking some of his usual flair.

"Darcy, Drax, Topaz, Grandmaster," Bruce muttered. "DC, DX, TP, GM."

"Bingo," Loki said. "Now who are the three of us supposed to be, d'you reckon?"

"You're Vader," Bruce said instantly. "That's obvious, even though it looks like you've stolen Maul's lightsaber."

"Then you're Tarkin," Loki countered. "The uniform makes sense."

"What about me?" asked Wade.

Both god and scientist regarded him. Together, they said, "You're Agent Kallus, from Rebels."

"Which means that Thrawn is around here somewhere..." Loki mused. "I wonder who the Emperor is? We all seem to be characters from the Original Trilogy."

"Aw," Bruce said, "I would've loved to be a Jedi."

Loki pretended to be offended, putting on his best Anakin Skywalker impersonation. "How dare you say such sacrilege? I am -" He deepened his voice to his Vader impression - "Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith, apprentice to the Emperor himself, bringer of Order 66 and master of the Dark Side. I am no Jedi, nor should you wish to be one. The Jedi are dead!" Loki mimed Force-choking Bruce...but to his surprise, Bruce actually started choking. Loki let go immediately.

"What the hell?" Bruce asked once he caught his breath.

"I - I don't know," Loki said, staring at his hand. "I shouldn't have been able to Force-choke you. The Force isn't real."

"Yeah, well, we're here, aren't we?" Fury said. "So presumably the Star Wars universe, and everything in it, is real, just as an alternate dimension."

"Great," Loki muttered. "Let me guess: the rest of our friends are the Rebel Alliance?"

"Alliance?" A new voice, cool and calculating, came from behind them; Loki sensed him before he saw him. "I don't know about Alliance. But the Emperor wishes to see you all on his Star Destroyer. You especially, Lord Vader."

Thrawn.

Loki turned, and Thrawn actually stumbled back in shock.

"Who are you? And what happened to Lord Vader?"

Hahahaha, I really should have warned you about this...

Okay, a few things. This is a post-Endgame AU where:

1. Loki wasn't killed by Thanos at the beginning of Infinity War; rather he died with the Snap

2. Tony and Natasha didn't die during Endgame (don't worry, Thanos is still dead in the alternate MCU I've created)

3. Vision DID NOT DIE because in Infinity War they managed to get the Mind Stone out of his head before Thanos showed up (even though he still got it and Snapped Vision out of existence anyway)

4. Pietro did not die in Ultron and was Snapped with his sister, then brought back with the rest

5. The team still went back in time to get the Infinity Stones, except it wasn't Clint and Tasha who went to Vormir - IDK who it was, maybe they hired some of the X-Men to do it so everyone else is still alive

6. Steve did not go back in time to spend a life with Peggy; after all, this is a Stony universe and therefore he has Tony in the present

Also, regarding the world-switch:

1. The portal was not opened by the Tesseract. We will find out who opened it later, but it was not through use of the Tesseract

2. Thrawn and Pepper are the only two who stayed behind in their respective worlds to be the liaisons and help the characters get home (much to Thrawn's dismay)

Hope you enjoyed! Review, please!