Loki's return

The Avengers always had something on their mind. There was always something, like Doom or Technavore or even Fury when he was annoyed (Those were never enjoyable meetings) But the constant thought that was always going through at least one of the team members minds was whether Loki would return. Where is he now? What is he planning? What if he attacks again? Ahhhhh!

It had been after all, Loki, who had brought the Avengers together and it had been him who had set off all the other villans to start attacking for no apparent reason. There was no way to tell if he had planned this or if it was coincidence. Either way, people were still worried.

It was on a particular day-the 9th of February, that Loki finally appeared though. And he did something unexpected.

"Hey Cap, you coming to get a bite? I'm going out for some more shwarma. The stuff's great!"

"Just wait a minute!"

Cap was taking too long and Tony didn't approve. He paced around outside the Avengers Tower while Steve desperately searched for his jacket. Couldn't he just find another one?

"Alright, i'm here. Now remind me, why Bruce and Thor or the agents aren't coming?"

"Well Bruce is busy working on a healing serum in the lab while Thor said he saw something in the news he had to tend to-I had no idea what he was talking about but he said it was important and flew off. The agents were called in by Fury. Looks like it's you and me Cap"

"Fine. Lead the way"

They walked past the faceless crowds and talked about the strange recent events that had been happening. The new donut store down the road that had been built, the decrease in the number of villains these days, the new green theme going around, no meetings from Fury. It was all quite strange (ok maybe the donut store wasn't, but it was still an interesting event). Steve suddenly stopped.

"What's that over there?" Tony looked over to the general direction Steve was pointing to and noticed people were screaming and running as red and green bursts of light filled the area. What the hell was going on? Wait was that?...

"Do you have your shield?"

"Yeah, but Tony, are you seriously considering going in for the attack? I mean, do you have your suit?"

"Steve Rogers, I am Iron Man, I am always prepared!" And with that said, Tony clicked on his bracelets around his wrists as the mark VII appeared and shifted around Tony. It wasn't long before he was in his suit. Steve just stared.

"What?"

"Do you always have to be such a show off? Its not exactly the best image for the team!"

"Captain, I can't help it if I have the looks, the girls and the suit. Besides, you carry a big round circle type thing. How do you expect to gain any attention if all you carry is an oversized frying pan with no handles. I mean your standing next to a guy in a hot rod red and gold frickin titanium alloy suit. I am gonna get the attention, even without the effort."

Steve tutted and began to run to the scene in front. Tony put all power into his thrusters and flew over past Steve, faster than the cars below. When he reached, he could hardly belive what he was seeing.

Loki, the evil step-brother of Thor, destroyer of Manhattan and magical sorcerer of mayhem and mischief was fighting Doom. He was FIGHTING DOOM!?

"Steve, I think you should get over here, like pronto!" Tony shouted through the speaker.

"Tony, is that Loki!?"

"Yeah, I-I think so. But why is he fighting Doom? Don't villains normally fight together? We should stick around and record this for Fury and the others"

"Alright, Tony. Just be careful."

Tony made his way over. He saw Loki donned in armor, carrying his scepter and pushing back one of Doom's robots. He looked tired. Like he'd been fighting for a while. Doom looked quite angry and kept sending more robots after Loki. It was strange.

"Victor! Enough is enough! Stop this now!"

"Stop getting in my way Laufeyson!" Doom sent a bolt of lightning which Loki easily deflected.

And Tony floated in the air while recording it all. Was Loki by any chance helping them? No, probably another trick or maybe Doom and Loki had a fight. But then Doom threatened again, but this time towards the people.

"Loki! I'l kill every single one of them if you don't get out of the way!"

"Just try it! You think I will allow it!"

As Doom sent a wave of electricity, Tony thought it was over for Loki. But it wasn't heading for Loki. It was for the screaming people. As Tony thought of what he could do he noticed Loki had scrapped punching the robots and was in fact heading for the people. Should I trust him? I would be putting people's lives at risk including Steve if I didn't do anything but what if Loki is trying to help. Tony decided to watch. After all, he wouldn't be able to get there in time and would probably get fried in the process. He didn't have a choice.

Loki however, was standing in front of the crowd. He put his hands up in front of him and turned to face the electric wave. He spoke something softly and braced himself. Steve shouted out desperately at him from the crowd.

"Loki, what are you doing!?"

"Trying to atone for my mistakes!"

"You're gonna get yourself killed!"

Loki just laughed at that. He looked ahead with an expression of determination as he sharply twisted his hands and a giant wave of green flames burst forth and headed straight for the electricity and Doom. Doom screamed in pain while the wave of electricity subsided. Doom vanished. Everyone was safe.

As Loki lowered his hands he turned to see the humans that were staring at him. Steve stepped forward and pointed his shield at him.

"Don't make a single move, Loki"

But Loki didn't respond. He just nodded and walked slowly up to the Captain with a smile on his face. Why was he smiling?

"Alright Loki, stop that or i'll-Loki?!"

Steve rushed forward to catch him as he just dropped to the floor. If it wasn't for Steve, he would have tasted tarmac. Steve looked down at Loki who now lay in his arms. He had multiple cuts on his face and there was a lot of blood mixed into his dark hair. He was also sweating and looked too pale to be healthy. As Tony flew down next to them, he stared at Loki with a look of pleasnt surprise. If it wasn't for Loki, a good hundred people would have died.

Hi everyone:) Now this is one of my first fanfictions and I was wondering whether I should continue this or not. It's up to you guys if you want me to continue though if you do, I do have a story in mind that I would update regularly.

As always, your comments and ideas are most appreciated and I will always consider them. Thank you:)