In Germany Loki was stood, preaching to a group of people that he had captured, enjoying the looks of fear that they were giving him as he talked. Loki was wearing dressed in black but he had various bits of gold armour on, including a gold helmet with two big horns.
"Not to men like you." An old man said to Loki when Loki told them to kneel, standing up against him, he was the only one as the rest of the crowd had kneeled to Loki, too afraid to do anything.
"There are no men like me." Loki laughed at the very idea.
"There are always men like you." The man glared at him, not backing down.
"Look to your elder people," Loki smiled as he pointed his scepter at the old man. "let him be an example." Loki shot a blue blast at the old man from his scepter, the old man's eyes widened as it shot towards him. He thought it was his end when suddenly Captain America dropped in front of the old man, his shield blocked the blast and sent it back to Loki, knocking him to his feet, Loki looked up to see Captain America standing in front of him. The Captain was wearing a full blue body suit made of Nomex and Kevlar fiber, there was white and red stripes on his midsection, a star on his chest and an 'A' on the blue helmet he wore, the helmet also had white wings drawn on the side. The suit had also came with a red belt plus red gloves and shoes, it was clearly made based off of his old costume from World War 2.
"You know," Cap said as he walked forward as the crowd began running away. "the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everyone else, we ended up disagreeing."
"The soldier, the man out of time." Loki chuckled, speaking in a voice that was somewhere between amused and irritated.
"I'm not the one who is out of time." Cap replied as a jet flew on scene and hovered above them.
"Loki, stand down." Natasha's voice said from the jet's speaker system as a gun came out of the bottom of the jet and threateningly aimed towards Loki. Loki raised his scepter, he was about to fire but somebody took action before he could. That somebody was Grim, who was currently invisible and standing next behind Loki, Grim took his wand into his hand and shot a stunner at Loki's back, but instead of knocking him out it merely pushed him ever so slightly forward.
"Who's there?" Loki said as he turned around, he smirked at the failed attack. "Show yourself coward." A second later Grim became visible, his green eyes locked onto Loki, his cloak ending at the back of his thighs. "Ah, the wizard." Loki's smirk grew bigger. "Yes, Barton's told me about you." Loki said.
"Miss Romanoff?" Cap whispered into the communicator device in his ear. "Who the hell is that?"
"He's a friendly." Natasha answered back.
"What exactly has Barton told you about me?" Grim asked, if he had to guess then he would assume that Loki's skin was simply too thick for his stunner to properly take effect, after all the man was technically an alien. That likely meant that his spells needed more power to be effective, but Grim was not one to risk going full out at the start of a fight. It was a lesson he had learned the hard way.
"Quite a lot," Loki laughed. "how you enjoy the sight of your enemy's blood, how you are nothing more than a weapon that is aimed at whoever Shield decides. Oh, and your name." Loki added, almost as an afterthought. "Harry? Really? Such a boring name."
"Harry?" Cap mouthed as he looked at Grim with narrowed eyes.
"Stand down or I will hurt you." Grim warned Loki, ignoring Cap for the time being.
"I'd like to see you try." Loki said in a challenging voice.
"If that's what you want." Grim replied before he aimed his wand at Loki and fired a red beam at him, Loki dodged before firing a blue blast at Grim. Grim blocked it with a magical shield, when Cap struck Loki in the back by throwing his shield at him. Loki took a step forward but was not bothered beyond that, he turned and threw a knife at Cap who quickly ducked under it.
Grim flicked his wand and a high powered blasting curse charged towards Loki, Loki rolled under it and fired another blast at Grim who teleported away. As soon as Loki had turned around he saw Cap throw his shield at him, Loki batted it away only for Cap to quickly close the distance and hit him with a hard right hook to the face. Loki was unfazed by it and struck Cap away, causing him to fall on the ground.
Loki suddenly found himself hoisted up by his ankles, a second later he was kicked hard in the face and dropped a couple of meters away. Loki stood up only to be blasted back down to the floor.
"Stand down." Grim ordered.
"And if I don't?" Loki sneered, he raised his scepter only for Grim to flick his wand and send it out of his hand.
"I hurt you." Grim answered.
"Because that's what you do, isn't it?" Loki smirked as he raised his hands in a submissive gesture and slowly stood up. "You like it, don't you? It's what you need, and you know it." Loki took a step forward, Grim quickly fired a yellow beam at Loki but the beam passed straight through him. Loki suddenly started disappearing, Harry's eyes widened as he realized that it was an illusion. He quickly turned around and struck Loki who was behind him, only to realize that it was another illusion. Grim turned back around but his wand arm was quickly grabbed by Loki who quickly tapped Grim's chest with the tip of his scepter. "You can kill to your heart's content, by my side." Loki said as the blue orb in his scepter glowed.
Grim's eyes shifted from green to blue as the mind control began taking affect, Loki smiled happily before he let go of Grim, he turned to Captain America who threw his shield at him, Loki easily swatted it away.
"What did you do to him?!" Cap demanded as he looked at Grim who was swaying on his feet.
"I would say I have enhanced his mind." Loki smirked before he looked at Grim, Loki's eyes widened slightly when he still saw a tint of green in Grim's eye. He tapped Grim's chest with the scepter again and the little green left was gone. Loki, seemingly satisfied with his control over Grim, stepped back and look towards Cap. He was about to say something when he heard a gasp from Grim, he looked back at Grim who had fallen down and was now lying face first on the ground. "Huh?" Loki poked him with the blunt end of his scepter. "I think I might have broken him." Loki frowned, he then saw Cap run for his shield, Loki quickly jumped over Grim's body and engaged in combat with Cap.
What Loki hadn't realized was that Grim had defenses in his mind for if he was ever mind controlled, Grim considered it a necessary thing when you're in a world where the imperious curse is a thing, normally he could fight against that but he didn't want to chance what would happen if he couldn't. His defense would have him temporarily shut down his body and mind before he woke up, much like what would happen if you turned off a switch then put it on a second later. Normally it would only take Grim a few seconds to wake up if he was unable to fight off an imperius, though whatever Loki had used in his scepter was considerably more powerful, which meant it was a good thirty seconds before he was able to raise his head.
"Tell me Harry," A female voice whispered in his ear. "how long do you think we can keep this up before you pass out? Let's find out!" The voice cackled in his ear.
Grim shook it off and looked towards Loki as he stood up, Loki hadn't yet seen him as he was throwing Captain America around since the Cap's enhanced strength did not compare to Loki's natural strength. Grim, who had had incredibly bad experiences with the mind arts, did not at all appreciate someone, god or not, trying to take over his mind. A downside to his defense against mind control is that when he wakes up he experiences several of his more negative memories, so Grim was undoubtedly pissed, pissed enough for the suit to believe that he wanted to activate the rage feature.
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