"LOKI!" Tony shouted in the robotic Iron man voice "Stop this right now, we beat you once with an entire army, we can beat you again alone."

Loki looked at the Avengers in battle positions ready to fight then he glanced at the brunette reporter and her camera man filming the whole thing, Steve/Captain America caught his gaze and moved in front of them with his shield sending a silent message. Loki smirked "Well you may have beat me when I worked with those imbeciles but now I have a plan and no ones breathing down my neck forcing me to speed up the process."

Natasha questioned "and what would be the brilliant plan that could take down the Avengers?"

Loki smirked evilly and tapped his noise thrice "Ah but that would be telling I'd much rather let you figure it out, I mean Natasha isn't reading people your specialty? Well read me."

Loki again looked at the Reporter again and Tony yelled at him "Hey your fights with us, she's just here to show The Avengers' awesomeness to the world, so how about you step into these especially made handcuffs and save yourself the embarrassment of losing twice."

Loki smiled "Well I guess I could tell you what I hope my plan will achieve. My plan is to break Tony Stark, the Iron Man and in doing so I will break the Avengers," He grinned menacingly and looked right at the camera "And when I break the Avengers the World will be defenceless, you will fall to your knees and beg me for mercy, I will rule Midgard and you will bow before me!"

The Avengers stared at him in silence and then Tony started laughing "Oh yeah It's going to be so easy to break me, it's not like I survived torture in Afghanistan or flew into an unknown black hole-y thing and almost died multiple time, but you know what I'm sure it will be super easy. Listen Loki firstly you can't break me, secondly the Avengers are professionals they aren't going to let me stop them from stopping you so that's a cute plan Reindeer Games but no."

Thor warned "Tony do not underestimate my brother I have no doubt we can beat him, but if he puts his mind to it he could crush you like a fly."

Natasha narrowed her eyes "no Thor he said he wants to 'break' Tony and us he means mentally not physically, he plans to drive Tony insane."

Clint snorted "Not on my watch he won't."

Bruce said "You know Tony being crazy probably wouldn't make that much of a difference, I'm one of the few people who can see what he gets up to in his lab and let me tell you he is the very definition of Stark Raving Mad."

Steve rolled his eyes "You remember I'm a soldier and the reason none of us got along in the first place was because I was always comparing them to soldiers, we lose soldiers on the daily... not that we'll lose you Stark."

Tony hadn't even looked at them, his eyes trained on loki "And tell me how do you plan on driving me insane, what do you plan on doing?"

"THIS!" Loki yelled and suddenly he was black and forest green smoke.

He flew straight into Tony's mask and there was a muffled yelp as Tony struggled to get out, suddenly The suit flashed and said in a monotone voice "Emergency protocol Alpha red" and Tony Stark came tumbling out of his suit. He stumbled but didn't fall he looked at the other Avenger who looked concerned and said "I'm fi-AAH WHAT!" He was cut off by the dark Loki smoke rushing into his mouth, his veins all glowed Black for a second and Tony fell to his knees, cluthing his throat as if unable to breath.

"TONY!" Everyone yelled

Tony got up slowly, he was shaking noticeably and was deathly pale " What just... what just happened?" he was stunned and in shock

Clint replied "You just ate Loki."

Steve snorted "Tony didn't eat Loki."

Thor bellowed in his thundering voice (NO PUN INTENDED) "Indeed, Loki used a technique lost to the Asgardians as we... they thought that the Mortals were not worthy, blah, blah, blah, anyway if a god is in peril danger or in hiding, they can reside inside a mortal body, they can remain undetected for years."

Natasha interrupted "Seeing as that was just broadcasted across the whole world that's not his motive."

"Right," Thor continued "Although Tony cannot be controlled directly he can influence his thoughts and see every single thing that has ever happened to him, any pain Tony feels Loki will feel also, I was never taught how to reverse this but it should be in the Asgardian library at home."

Tony looked at Thor "Wait! Loki my- our number one enemy, arch nemesis, is reading my mind and know all my secrets AND ALL THE STUFF I KNOW ABOUT S.H.I.E.L.D.! And on top of that he can INFLUENCE MY DISCICIONS AND CLOUD MY JUDGEMENT! This is not cool... and Fury's going to kill me even if this isn't my fault."

Bruce sighed "Thor if you leave now how long will it be until you can come back?"

Thor beamed "You are in Luck my fellow Avenger, I have been storing the energy for two travels so I can go there and back no problem the only thing is finding the right books, it's a large library."

Tony looked relieved "good go! Cure me!"

Thor nodded and shouted at the sky "MJÖLNIR PORTAL!" Then he disappeared in a flash of lightning and a rumble of thunder.
Suddenly Natasha and Clint had Tony pinned to the ground Tony yelped "WHAT NOW!" Clint looked bashful "Sorry but while Loki is in your head you're a liability."
Tony blanched "You're kidding right. YOU'RE FREAKING KIDDING ME!" Natasha looked grim "'fraid not Tony." Tony sighed and shook his head but he didn't say anything more on the matter