They sit in the damp musky cell in the dim light thinking of a plan to escape. Ren is laying on the dirty floor staring at the cracking ceiling.
"Movies make this look so easy, " Ren says out of the blue her eyes fixed on the gray cement. Peter rolls his eyes before going back to thinking.
"Ren. . ." he asks slowly looking over at the girl, "Don't you have powers?" Her eyes slowly go wide and she smacks her forehead and drags her hand down her face.
"Times like these I question if I was really learning anything in school," Ren states getting up from the floor.
"Well you did make an ironman suit." Peter points out.
"Wait. . ." Ren stops at the door, "They'd probably think of me using my powers."
"They can't prevent you from using your powers against themselves," Peter says. Ren looks at him weird.
"What the fu-"
"Long story, don't question it, just work."
Ren just looks back at the lock and mouths 'Okay then' to herself. She let's the metal slowly seep out of her system into her hand and presses her palm to the lock. The silver liquid molds into the shapes of the inside. Ren makes the liquid move the metal pieces to unlock the metal gate. A soft click is heard to know the job is done.
Ren smirks to herself as she opens the door as quietly has possibly. She looks back at Peter only to remember that he is chained to the wall as prisoner. She frowns before staring at the chain on his ankles before it melts on the spot without harming him.
Peter scoots away from the metaled puddle. He looks at the bronze splotch then Ren then back at the puddle. He opens and closes his mouth trying to come up with words.
"Long story, don't question it, just come along peasant," Ren mocks quoting him from a minute ago before rushing out of the cell to the door and works on that lock.
Pete gets up from the floor and steadies himself on the wall as he walks for the first time in months. He laughs a little when he takes a wobbly step, then another, and another. Soon enough he's over by Ren.
Another soft 'click' is heard and Ren pushes the door open quietly and sticks her head out.
"Wait, we need a plan," Peter whispers.
"I prefer to improvise," Ren whispers back looking at him, "Here's the outline we get out through the stairwell and run for it. "
"What about Loki?" Peter says crossing his arms, " With power com-"
"Comes great responsibility. I hate it when you're right," Ren finishes dryly before letting out an annoyed puff of breath, "Fine we'll get the bastard. Wait. . .I thought he was behind this."
"I'll explain when we get there."
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
After sneaking around avoiding HYDRA agents and guards they finally made it to the other cell on the very last floor. Ren and Peter stop in front of the gigantic dirty bronze door with gears covering it. They all connect together and meet at the little key hole in the middle. It reminds Ren of something between the Harry Potter vault and Steampunk.
Ren presses her palm against the keyhole and does the same as she did to the other doors. Soon enough all the gears start to turn; surprisingly no sound comes from them. A small smirk is on Ren's face when both doors swing inward slowly to reveal a dark hallway.
Lightbulbs that hang from the ceiling start to flicker on creating a warm glow to the dark hallway that holds the most trickiest person.
"Well, better now before any guards come," Ren says walking in with Peter behind her. Once they get walk far enough inside the doors slowly close on their own, scaring the crap out of the two.
"I'm waiting for something to pop out," Peter whispers as he looks around at the long hallway.
"To many video games for you Mr. Parker," Ren responds also looking around. Her eyes rest on the single lightbulbs that hang. The orange and warm glow they create. It hardly seems like a place to hide a prisoner.
"I expected like more of a medieval torture theme. . ." Ren admits, "Not. . .steampunk."
"Creative," Peter mumbles.
"Or mad," Ren offers turning to face Peter.
"Or. . .Both," A new voice says. One that makes Ren stop dead in her tracks. Her eye twitches a little. Loki.
Ren turns towards the end of the hall way. A soft yellow glow emitting from the end. She superspeeds over to the cell; landing right in front of it. She sees Loki in an even worse state than in "Thor: the Dark World". His hair is disheveled, hands bound to the walls, and blood runs down from the corner of his lip. But he is in the cell similar to the one on Asgaurd.
"Hello Katherine," he says with his smirk, "So what I owe the pleasure of seeing you after all this time. "
"Loki," Peter says running to the cell. He lands beside Ren panting.
"I'm here to try to not murder you at the moment," Ren hisses, her arms crossed, "Like you did to my parents."
"I killed your parents?" He laughs, but it soon turns to hacking, "You didn't tell her?"
"Tell me what exactly?" Ren asks looking over at Peter. Loki let's out a chuckle and shakes his head.
"Fine, I'll tell you," Loki says, "I didn't do any of that. The murder of your parents, the ruling, though I wish I did, and anything else Discord did."
"Just to clear up we're talking about the My Little Pony Discord 'cause if we're not I have zero clue what we are talking about," Ren says using a little hand motion to show the conversation. Loki rolls his eyes whilst Peter just laughs.
"No, stupid girl, he's using me to frame me," Loki 'explains'. Ren just blinks utterly confused. The 'god' just huffs before continuing. "He's pretending to be me to pin everything on me while he's planning on killing you. He is framing me. He is pretending to be me! And he wants to murder you because of what your kind, or half-kind, did to his. "
"Still very confused," Ren says.
Loki sighs, annoyed with Ren before starting again, "Ren, your alien side is part of a special race. They hurt the other race, Discord's, two thousand years worth of battle over something. . .special. Discord wants revenge by killing the last of your kind. . ."
"Me," Ren finishes finally sorta understanding.
"Yes, I feel like I'm forgetting something, " Loki says, "Oh yes, your 'parents' the ones that I supposedly killed aren't really yours, but your real ones are dead. And that girl, beautiful blonde hair, tall, and has piercing blue eyes-"
"Riley?" Ren asks, slightly disgusted.
"Yes her, she's not her sister," Loki says. Ren nods her head very slowly, her brain not processing what she was just told. "One more thing, you're a princess considering you're the last of your race."
"Kay," Ren responds slowing lower to the ground to sit down on the floor, staring at the ground. "Peter get Loki out imma . . . imma take a minute. "
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
After Peter got Loki out and they walked back down the hallway to the door, Loki explained more about Ren's heritage.
"Soo my 'alien race' are a bunch of dimension traveling crazies. . ." Ren starts to sum up, "Who have a certain, either charm or some shit, that take us to any dimension we want. . .damn my people are frickin geniuses!" Loki rolls his eyes at her words. "I wanna go to Storybrook! No, Port Royal! Or Slendermans Mansion! What about Hogwarts! Or-"
"Shut up!" Peter whisper yells at Ren as they reach the door. Ren mumbles something before going up to the door and filling the hole with metal from her palm to unlock the large door.
Slowly the gigantic doors swing inward. Both Ren, Loki, and Peter step backwards to avoid getting hit by the huge doors. All of them squint at the sudden light change.
"When did Tony have time to build this?" Ren asks quietly.
"He didn't," Loki answers and starts walking down the hall. Ren looks at Peter with a questioning look as if to say 'what the hell is his problem?' Peter just shrugs in respondence and jogs to catch up with Loki.
Ren rolls her eyes and superspeeds and easily catches up.
"Just follow me, we have to get my effects before we leave," Loki orders disappearing behind a corner. Ren and Peter look at each other then follow.
The trio appear at a door similar to a bank vaults. Ren just cocks her head to the side.
To easy, Ren thinks to herself, This is all to easy. My first escape, now this. . . what is their plan. . .
"Wait," she says allowed gripping Loki's shoulder. "Something's off. It's all to easy. Seriously if I were to try and wipe out an entire whatever you wanna call it, I would not make it so easy. Think about it."
Loki starts to smirk, "I see you finally noticed. Well, Discord's is not the brightest of the bunch, but powerful none the less. "
"I feel as if this fight will be uneventful," Ren says, "He seems like he barely has any ideas."
"And you'd be wrong," Loki mumbles going down onto a knee and looks straight into the keyhole in the middle of the big wheel. "Ren. " He says while getting out of the way to signify she needs to open it.
She replaces him and presses her palm flat against the center and does the same trick. The big wheel starts to turn. This time a small squeal is heard from the metal.
"Someone must of heard that," Peter says looking down the hallway, "Work fast, I'll be on look out. "
"Okay, I'll stay with you," Ren says getting up from the floor.
"Actually, you might like to see what's in here Katherine," Loki says to the girl. She winces when she hears her full name. "And there's something your true parents wanted me to give you."
Ren turns and faces Loki who's standing by the open door's entry. She can't see anything inside but darkness. She looks at Loki with an eyebrow raised, "You, knew my parents?"
He rolls his eyes, "Yes I just said that. Now, come with me. "
Ren crosses her arms and looks at him straight in the eyes," I don't trust you Loki."
He sighs annoyed, "We don't have much time, and of I wanted to kill you I'd already have. So come on!"
She gives up and walks in with Loki in front. They both enter the black hole, no light shines on anything.
"Can you give us some light," Loki asks Ren politely.
"How exactly am I supposed to do that," Ren asks.
"You know what I'm talking about," He hisses, "Now we don't have all day to bicker, do we?"
Ren grumbles and lifts her hand so it faces palm up to let the small flame ignite. She tries to remember what she heard/learned from Avatar: the Last Airbender show. Keep your breath under control and something else.
Soon enough the small flame lights up the medium size room. Rows of silver display cases line the walls. Loki's scepter stands off to the side. He walks over and opens the glass case.
Ren just looks around marveling at the strange objects that rest in the cases. Something catches her eye. A necklace.
The necklace' chain is made of black string woven together tightly to create almost a spiral going around the string. The charm is what mostly attracts her. It's a small black cube with chopped off corners. It has designs carved into it with a round square around each one. A few designs she make out with the layer of dust on the faces are a huge spiral on the front face and a weird circle with a extra long line on the face next to it.
Loki walks up behind Ren and whispers in her ear, "It was your mothers."
"Holy-" She jumps and the little flame in her hand grows a bit the shrinks back to normal size. She glares at the Prince then returns her attention to the small cube. "How do you know that it was my 'mother's'."
"She was a nice women, stubborn but nice," He says looking at the cube with an almost regretful face. "She had hair much like yours except a lot longer with a magenta stripe, not red. She would talk of other worlds that were not known to others." A smile smile forms on his face.
"She would, uh she would always try to help anyone she could," He chuckles then looks at Ren, who's looking at him with her mouth slightly open. She connects the way he's speaking and the way he's speaking of her together. They way how he said he knew her. Her eyes wide as she looks at him.
"Holy shit you loved her!" She almost yells but catches herself.
"I was in love with her yes," He says with a sad look, "But, she passed 15 years ago. A year after we had you."
"Wait. . ." Ren looks at him stepping away, "You said we. Why the hell did you say we. You are not my father! My father was a man who worked for S.H.I.E.L.D not a- a god! Holy fudge. . ."
He chuckles, "I expected you to freak out more."
"Oh I'm freaking out don't worry," Ren says looking at the floor. He opens the small case and takes the necklace out. He walks around Ren and clasps it around her neck.
"Never take this off," He whispers to her. She nods her head in return.
"Aw what a nice little cliché family reunion," Asha says from the doorway with her sword around Peter's neck. "Right when you think you were escaping, your father tells the truth. So sweet, so disgusting. To bad you're all going to Daddy for a death sentence."