Thor stood up and looked at the familiar yet strange figure deep in the alley. The anger he had prepared involuntarily faltered when he saw Loki's miserable state.
"Loki..." Thor's voice was low, his eyes shimmering with tears, carrying a complex emotion that was hard to hide. "I thought you were dead."
Loki didn't run. Instead, he leaned weakly against the cold brick wall, his lips curling into a self-deprecating arc.
"Then... did you mourn for me?"
Loki's voice was terrifyingly raspy.
"We all mourned for you! Our father..."
"That is your father," Loki interrupted him abruptly, followed immediately by a fit of violent coughing.
Clutching his chest, he slid weakly down the wall to sit on the ground, gasping for breath as if he might faint at any moment.
How was this Loki...
He was clearly acting like Lin Daiyu...
But Thor, the ultimate brother-con, fell for it completely.
Loki's broken appearance made his heart ache, and his full-blown anger and resentment were instantly forgotten.
Thor's grip on Mjolnir loosened involuntarily.
He strode over to Loki and looked down at him, his voice filled with even more heartache: "What on Earth did you go through? Why are you doing this? What exactly do you want with the Tesseract?!"
"I..." Loki looked up, his green eyes even welling with tears. "Thor... I saw monsters you can't even imagine..."
He grabbed the hem of Thor's cape, his knuckles turning white from the force.
"That monster sitting on the floating throne... and the Chitauri... they tortured me every day..."
"If I didn't take back the Tesseract... they would kill me, and even burn Asgard to ashes..." Loki's voice grew smaller and smaller, finally carrying a hint of a plea, "I had no choice, brother... I really had no choice..."
Thor was completely stunned.
Even though Heimdall had warned him that Loki's heart was not in the right place, as a total "brother-con," seeing the brother he grew up with pleading for help so humbly before him caused Thor's inner defenses to crumble instantly.
"So that's how it is... damn monsters..." Thor gritted his teeth, anger burning in his eyes, and then abruptly hung Mjolnir back on his waist.
He opened his arms defenselessly and tightly hugged his weak brother.
"It's alright now, Loki."
Thor's broad palm patted Loki's back. "I'm taking you home. With me here, no one can force you to do anything ever again."
"Thank you... brother... you..."
Loki rested his chin on Thor's shoulder, his voice muffled and sounding incredibly moved.
Yet, amidst this deep brotherly affection, behind Thor's back where he couldn't see, the pitiful look in Loki's eyes instantly vanished. All that remained was a heart-stopping coldness and cruel mockery; his mouth twitched repeatedly, gradually curling upwards.
"Always so easy to fool."
Accompanied by this whisper so soft only the two of them could hear, a hidden weapon suddenly materialized in Loki's hand.
However, this time was different from the thousands of previous sneak attacks.
It wasn't a dagger, but the Mind Stone scepter.
Without a moment's hesitation!
The sharp tip of the scepter pressed right into the center of the chest Thor had completely opened to him!
Ding—
A crisp sound of energy surging rang out.
The gem at the tip of the Mind Stone scepter suddenly erupted with a dazzling light. Violent mental energy, like a flood bursting through a dam, didn't give the God of Thunder any time to react as it poured frantically into his body through the scepter's tip.
"Ugh, ahhh—!!!"
Thor let out a pained groan, his burly frame convulsing violently.
He wanted to push Loki away, wanted to reach for his hammer, but that blue light striking directly at his soul instantly severed his will to resist.
Deep within his azure eyes, an inky darkness spread rapidly.
After just a few short seconds, the struggling stopped.
When Thor looked up again, his eyes were emitting the same eerie blue light as the Mind Stone scepter.
Loki stood up unhurriedly and reached out to straighten the collar that had been messed up just now.
He looked down at the God of Thunder kneeling on one knee before him, the smile on his lips gradually widening until he finally couldn't help but let out a villainous laugh.
"Hahahahaha, brother, you still never learn~"
The mind-controlled Thor allowed his brother to mock him. This was because he, and even Odin, only knew that Loki had gone to Midgard with ill intentions to steal the Tesseract, but they knew nothing about the Mind Stone scepter gifted by Thanos.
The lack of intelligence and his constant soft-heartedness toward his brother ultimately led Thor to fall for his brother's tricks yet again.
If Su Modie knew about this, besides lamenting that this Loki was even more cunning and cruel than in her memory...
She would also have to complain that while others might have some exaggeration, this pair...
Were truly a genuine pair of ill-fated lovers.
Returning to the present, in the Helicarrier laboratory.
In this narrow room, the situation had completely spiraled out of control.
As the illusionary disguise was torn away, Thor's originally azure eyes had been completely replaced by an eerie blue.
Although Loki was observing from somewhere afar, the first command he gave had a very clear objective—capture the leader to catch the bandits!
Clearly, the humiliation of being rubbed into the ground by Makima and Abomination right after arriving on Earth had left Loki with a severe psychological shadow regarding that red-haired woman. So much so that he didn't even care about dealing with the Avengers in the lab or Nick Fury first, but instead had Thor point his spear directly at Makima!
"Boom—!!!"
Thor, like a violent bolt of silver lightning, bypassed the crowd and charged directly toward Makima standing in the corner!
His speed was outrageously fast as he clamped a hand around Makima's slender neck.
Accompanied by a deafening roar, Thor, like a wild bull, dragged Makima and smashed straight through the laboratory's special alloy wall, rampaging deeper into the mothership, clearly intending to kill her outright!
Loki sneered inwardly. This time there's no Abomination, let's see who can save you now!
This sudden, horrifying turn of events caused Steve and Tony, who had been arguing until they were red in the face and ready to trade blows, to snap back to their senses.
Seeing Makima taken away by that crazed alien god with her life hanging in the balance, both of them immediately grew anxious.
"Stark! Go get your armor!" Steve roared, no longer having any of his previous bickering demeanor.
This time, the rebellious Tony also rarely refrained from talking back.
His face was grim, teeth clenched, and without a word, he turned and sprinted toward the bay where the Iron Man Suits were stored.
Faced with a true matter of right and wrong and the mortal peril of a teammate, the two cores of the original Avengers finally set aside their prejudices.
But at this moment, an even bigger trouble remained in the laboratory.
Banner's reason had already been shredded by the Mind Stone.
Natasha and Barton could only look up as the figure rapidly expanded, transforming into the massive Hulk.
Feeling that terrifying, overwhelming pressure, the two battle-hardened top Agents looked solemn and retreated repeatedly.
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