Loki Misses the Asgardian Prison System

Chapter 111

"I'm in a bit of a moral conundrum."

Bucky takes his gaze off of the meal he's cooking – which smells delicious, though Loki has no idea what it is – and looks over his shoulder. "I'm the last person you should be asking for moral advice."

Loki waves that off. "I could hardly ask for help from somebody who's never done any wrong," he says. "That would just be unrealistic." He's almost positive he'd ignore nearly any advice he got from, say, Steve, not that he has the chance to talk to him, anyway. "You're an expert at avoiding people."

Bucky turns his attention back to the meal in front of him. "Well, I have a choice," he says. "I don't think you do."

"I do, actually," Loki tells him. "This time, I do, at least, and it's a choice I don't know how to make."

"How come?"

"It's a long story," Loki says. "Which I say not to avoid telling you the long story, but to warn you that I am about to do just that."

He could be wrong, but he thinks he hears Bucky laugh at that, just a little bit. At least somebody thinks he's funny.

"Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are simultaneously the smartest and dumbest people on this planet," Loki begins. "And, together, they used a power far stronger than any the Earth should possess to create a robot that is now intent on destroying the world."

"Okay..."

"Now, I may have overreacted when I found this out," Loki explains, "but they truly do not understand what they've done. If they'd seen even a fracture of what I have, they'd understand why I did what I did."

"What did you do?" Bucky asks.

"Unimportant," Loki says. Maybe in Asgard, he could get away with strangling someone out of frustration, but it's apparently much less socially acceptable on Earth. "The point is that the Avengers are not very happy with me at the moment, and they've made it very clear that they do not want me involved.

"However, I've been following their adventure from afar, and I've just learned that Ultron – the robot that seeks to annihilate the human race – has taken one of them hostage. She's unconscious now, but she's still breathing; I assume she'll awake soon. A part of me feels I should tell the Avengers where she is, because I know they haven't the slightest idea. But they really do not want me involved, and they doubtlessly wouldn't be happy to learn that I've been following them without their knowledge."

Bucky doesn't answer immediately. He takes a few moments to think about that, until finally, he turns around to look at the god. "Do you think the Avengers can find her without your help?"

"I don't know," Loki says. "They may find a way, but they haven't yet."

"But you know where she is?" Bucky asks.

"I do," Loki says.

"Tell me where she is."

Loki's brows shoot up. "I beg your pardon?"

"Tell me where she is," Bucky says again. "I'll go find her. I won't tell her how I knew where to find her. Nobody has to know you were there."

Loki stares at him in disbelief. "You would do that?"

"I would," Bucky says. "To save one of Steve's friends? Of course I would."

The corners of Loki's lips twitch upwards. "Do you know where Sokovia is?"

"I know it's not exactly close," Bucky says, "but I can make it there soon enough."

"Good," Loki says. "That's where you'll find her – her, and the end of the world."

"I look forward to it."

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