TFLN with asgard_trickster

[iwasrussian]

[ Continued from here. ]

We work together. And given what's happened in the past, I find that hard to believe. Just like I find it hard to believe that making sure I got home, or close to it, is an attempt on staying on Thor's good side. You could have done that with any one of the others.

[ ... ]

I can figure your angle on my own like I did before, or you can tell me now.

Comments

[asgard_trickster]

You mean you can figure my angle and then I can still get my way, do you not? Like before?

[iwasrussian]

So you do have another motive besides remaining in your brother's good graces.

Like before.

[asgard_trickster]

My brother's good graces had nothing to do with before. I rather thought at the time that I might kill him.

I've had a change of heart since then. I've since made more dangerous enemies. You may think what you like, but the good graces of the King of Asgard do serve me right now. And this one is slightly more amenable to my lifestyle than the last.

[iwasrussian]

Of course, you did. But you're essentially telling me that you're biding your time. So nothing has changed.

[ Second verse, same as the first. ]

What did you do to make more dangerous enemies?

[asgard_trickster]

I didn't bring them the Tesseract.

[iwasrussian]

You didn't bring them the Tesseract..

[ Goddamnit, Loki ]

Who are they?

[asgard_trickster]

Some soul stone worshipping sect.

(Sort of the truth.)

They come from beyond the nine realms. They needed the power of the Tesseract to open a portal to your world, if you recall. And, as I said, they don't have it.

But we're all biding our time in one way or another. What are you waiting for, Agent Romanov?

[iwasrussian]

The war you're going to end up bringing here once they figure out you lied.

[ She is aware of how powerful the Tesseract is, so without a doubt, there's someone bigger and badder than him looking for it. ]

You didn't take over Earth, so what are you going to bargain for now?

[asgard_trickster]

Your people have nothing I want, if that's what you're asking. If you're afraid I'll attract a higher form of war to your world, it's too late for that and you needed no help from me to achieve it.

[iwasrussian]

No further help, you mean. We had no problems with multiversal threats before you came.

It's called cause and effect.

[asgard_trickster]

That's what you think. But the multiversal threat is what sent me and it was your work - SHIELD's work - with the Terreract that drew the attention. I was a pawn as much as you are, Agent Romanoff. The effect, if you will. Not the cause.